Inside the Daoist Hall, only the high-ranking members of the Daoist Sect remained.

Han Shuangjiang and Xu Ziqing had already been sent back.

Without any juniors present, the gambling addict Li Chunsong immediately became “unrestrained.”

He began standing in the center of the hall, rubbing his hands together crazily.

However, before he could even speak, Chu Yinyin had already learned to interrupt.

“Li Chunsong, are you thinking of gambling again?”

The old girl tilted her head, thought for a moment, and said, “Let me guess, you want to bet on how many realms Chu Huaixu will break through consecutively?”

Upon hearing this, the gambling addict immediately praised her: “Junior sister, you are indeed exceptionally intelligent, that is exactly my thought!”

“Tonight, Chu Huaixu made a major breakthrough in the Origin Spirit Realm, congratulations are in order!”

“Why don’t we have some fun and make a little bet to liven things up?” He started again.

Immediately after, everyone followed the process of handing over fines for violating sect rules to the Law Enforcement Elder Lu Pan, each doing it very skillfully, including Jiang Zhi.

The next scene, naturally, was Xiang Yan and others presenting their analysis logically.

They even used Cheng Yuyan as an example.

Because he also refined an Origin Fragment when he was still a Low Tier Cultivator.

“My Fifth Senior Brother also entered the first layer of the Origin Spirit Realm back then, breaking through five minor realms consecutively,” Jiang Zhi recalled.

The Profound Yellow Origin Fragment contains a trace of the Power of Origin.

The abundant Spiritual Qi attached to it was merely absorbed incidentally in the extremely rich Spiritual Qi environment of the Origin Spirit Realm.

Nonetheless, for a Low Tier Cultivator, it is still a “great tonic”!

But this time, everyone was wise enough to realize that Chu Huaixu couldn’t be judged by common sense.

Even Jiang Zhi, who revered his Fifth Senior Brother Zhong Ming, bet on six minor realms, one more than Zhong Ming back then.

Chu Yinyin went even more outrageous, betting on the Seventh Heaven.

This left Li Chunsong speechless.

“Why is it like this again, leaving me no room?” This scene looked so familiar.

The gambling addict gritted his teeth and could only say, “Then I’ll bet that he’ll break through eight minor realms consecutively!”

Squinty-eyed Zhao Shuqi laughed beside him and said, “Sixth Junior Brother, why don’t you just bet he directly breaks through a major realm, leaping from First Realm Great Perfection to Second Realm Great Perfection?”

“Tsk! I, Li Chunsong, love gambling all my life, but I never bet recklessly, all are well thought out, how could I be so impulsive as you said?” The once Charitable Gambling King immediately looked displeased.

Everyone couldn’t help but think to themselves: “Well thought out? Then why did you always lose every bet before!”

Everyone directed their Divine Sense towards the room in Junzi Temple.

As a result, Chu Huaixu, having just sat down for a short while, broke through three times consecutively.

This made Li Chunsong’s breathing a little heavier.

“Haha! Looks like my odds of winning are huge this time!”

But aside from that, everyone was more concerned about Chu Huaixu’s current physical condition.

The scene of his consecutive breakthroughs was indeed alarming.

Chu Huaixu’s skin all over his body cracked open, oozing blood, almost unrecognizable as a person.

Moreover, with their powerful Power of Divine Sense, they could see clearly the condition inside his body.

This kid’s internal organs were in a total mess!

“How can the Dao Scripture left by the Dao Ancestor be so tormenting?” everyone thought.

The introductory pamphlet of the Dao Scripture only had four words—Central Justice and Peace.

Should it be revised…?

To speak disrespectfully, it’s almost like an Evil Skill!

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In the training room of Junzi Temple, Chu Huaixu was sitting cross-legged on a meditation cushion, his brows tightly furrowed.

The second layer of the Dao Scripture was clearly different from the first volume.

Or rather, a new ability had emerged—tempering the internal organs!

“This shares some similarities with Xiaoxu’s Ice Skin Jade Bone Heart·Method,” he thought.

The Dao Scripture is different from the Refining Sword Formulas.

The pain of the former comes from the inside out, causing his muscles to swell into lumps, even tearing open, then quickly heal.

The latter, on the outside moving inward, uses Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to hammer the body, treating oneself as a sword embryo in the Heaven and Earth Furnace for refinement.

Now, it’s no longer just the muscles, but the internal organs have become the “disaster area.”

And what are the internal organs?

The five viscera refer to: heart, liver, spleen, lungs… and kidneys!

These five areas, when they hurt, can be quite deadly.

The six bowels refer to: small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, large intestine, triple burner, and… bladder!

——The viscera belong to the yin as the inside, the bowels belong to the yang as the exterior!

The exterior and interior of the viscera and bowels are connected by meridians.

At this moment, through the method of inner vision, he could even see his meridians glowing with golden light!

It seemed impressive, but the golden light brought endless pain.

All of this was unexpected for Chu Huaixu, but strangely within reason.

“Hiss——! As expected, each realm has an entirely new method of torture!”

More lethal is that the Spiritual Power carried by the Profound Yellow Origin Fragment was also causing havoc within his body.

They were almost bursting his meridians!

Chu Huaixu began to continue upgrading.

Level 20 marks his entrance into the Second Realm.

Now at Level 22, he is in the Second Realm Second Heaven.

He was clearly a ruthless person, determined to get it all done at once, opting for short-term severe pain over prolonged suffering, and immediately leveled up two more times.

He could feel it, one level probably wasn’t enough.

The endless pain surged through his entire body, just taking his kidney in the five viscera as an example, the pain index definitely far surpassed that of kidney stones.

He was like someone constantly suffering internal injuries, then relying on the Power of Dao Scripture to recover.

As for the muscles all over his body, it was best not to even mention them.

“The path of Body Refining, it’s really not for humans.”

Chu Huaixu finally understood why Body Refining Masters are so rare in the world.

“Even those veteran ‘McDonald’s’, people with special quirks, only enjoy occasionally borrowing this for pleasure.”

“This prolonged pain is an entirely different matter.”

“Moreover, its level is not mere self-torture, but… self-harm!”

One of the purposes of a cultivator’s self-strengthening is to ensure no one in the world can harm them easily anymore!

Body Refining Stream: How can that be?

If others can’t do it, why can’t you do it yourself?

Besides, Chu Huaixu also noticed he had changed.

“I seem to not pass out so easily anymore…”

The Heart Sword has been constantly advancing, and his power of divine sense has soared lately, making his sea of consciousness extremely solid.

The last time he passed out due to an upgrade was quite a while ago.

Therefore, he hadn’t noticed this recently.

“Even this path is blocked for me, huh?”

But now, as he was about to refine the Profound Yellow Origin Fragment, not completely losing consciousness turned out to be beneficial.

This endless agony could only be endured by relying on his own perseverance.

Fortunately, the Dead Fox is someone with quite a good attitude.

He even had the mood to joke with himself: “I always said, all my achievements are because of my efforts!”

After rapidly advancing 5 levels within a short period, the feeling of being on the verge of explosion finally started to ease.

This allowed Chu Huaixu to breathe a sigh of relief.

The spiritual qi wrapped around the outer layer of the Origin Fragment had mostly been digested.

“Finally it stopped.”

“After the wave of pain ends, I can slowly level up.” Chu Huaixu felt relieved.

In the hall where a group of top supporters were watching via divine sense ‘livestream’, everyone also let out a sigh of relief.

They were genuinely worried that Chu Huaixu would physically exhaust himself from rapidly advancing like this.

The torment during Dao Scripture cultivation turned out to be even harsher than most Body Refining Techniques?

But everyone also realized that Chu Huaixu might have come to a halt, like Zhong Ming, stopping after rapidly advancing five minor realms.

“Then that means I won.” The squinty-eyed Zhao Shuqi’s face was suffused with a smile.

Known for his Pupil Technique, he observed more meticulously.

When Chu Huaixu’s spiritual power surged within him, Zhao Shuqi had actually already estimated it.

“Mere luck! Mere luck!” He stood up and cupped his hands for everyone, his face blooming with a smile, and his eyes squinted to a mere slit.

However, in the next instant, an unexpected change suddenly occurred.

A surging spiritual qi suddenly rushed into Chu Huaixu’s body!

It came from the black bead on the sword scabbard.

Specifically, it came from within the Medicine Cauldron Dao Generating One!

This brainless gluttonous cauldron seemed to sense that its master was also refining the power of origin internally.

Immediately, it lent a helping hand!

Transferring all its unnecessary power into its master’s body!

This truly touched Chu Huaixu.

You truly know how to pick a time to show loyalty to your master, huh!

Moreover, Chu Huaixu even doubted it was acting out of loyalty.

“Up to now, Dao Generating One only eats two things.”

“One is the power of Dao Scripture within me, which originally helped activate this black bead and thereby extracted the sword scabbard from Hidden Spirit Mountain.”

“The second is the Profound Yellow Origin Fragment it actively asks for!”

Chu Huaixu always felt that when a cultivator absorbs Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, they are essentially… refining it within their body?

The higher grade of the technique, the better the refinement effect, and the higher quality of spiritual power the body produces.

Dao Generating One obviously only consumes the refined high-grade stuff; it does not absorb the ‘original flavor’ of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi!

Of course, if it could absorb Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi itself, then it’d be growing wild automatically, and Chu Huaixu could just let it grow freely…

However, either way, rounding up, it equates to Chu Huaixu getting experience points stuffed into him.

This process, undoubtedly, was not pleasant.

Everyone in the hall was bewildered.

“Is this from… the Daoist Ancestor Sword Scabbard?”

“Is it nurturing its master in return?”

But for Chu Huaixu’s physical body, it surely was a bit of adding insult to injury.

Only the ‘One Five One Six’ combination in the hall reacted somewhat overly.

Initially, Daoist Five Elder Zhao Shuqi was standing proudly, but now Sixth Elder Li Chunsong stood up, pressing the other back into his seat.

“Brother Five sure gets impatient, celebrating a bit too early, huh?” Li Chunsong, who considers himself the Gambling Immortal, glanced at him sideways.

“From the looks of it, the gamble is yet to be decided.”

In the training room, Chu Huaixu could only keep leveling up.

In the next moment, under the severe pain in his vital organs, his internal injuries worsened, and he couldn’t help but vomit a mouthful of old blood.

Immediately, everyone witnessed an incredibly absurd scene.

The young man with tightly closed eyes only felt his injuries were severe and his body extremely congested.

He simply raised his right hand and gave himself a few hard slaps, starting to induce vomiting.

This caused Chu Huaixu to spew another large mouthful of fresh blood, which relaxed his furrowed eyebrows slightly.

Even in such circumstances, he was still continuously breaking through realms.

Second Realm Fifth Heaven, Second Realm Sixth Heaven…

Sprinting ahead without hesitation!

The old maiden Chu Yinyin was dumbfounded, blurting out:

“Should we go to the Library Pavilion to fetch the third volume of Dao Scripture for him?”

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