Chapter 256: Chapter 223: Sword Mark of the Dao Ancestor

Chu Huaixu had no idea what Han Shuangjiang added to the “bath water.”

In short, his meridians were widened significantly, which would increase the efficiency of spiritual qi absorption and energy recovery.

Besides that, for some reason, the total amount of spiritual power didn’t increase, but it seemed to have become more condensed, as if indirectly improving in quality slightly.

Because of this, [Gathering Spirit] indirectly got enhanced as well.

At this moment, there was no doubt it had reached the absorption limit.

The reason Han Shuangjiang left so much medicinal liquid behind after bathing was definitely because she couldn’t absorb it all.

“Eighty percent chance she couldn’t take it away,” thought Chu Huaixu.

Given his understanding of his little housekeeper, she would probably choose… to pack it up.

Within this space, there must be many restrictions and methods; otherwise, his body wouldn’t have been controlled at first.

Chu Huaixu now activated his body refining divine techniques, immediately entering the [Holy Body State].

The next moment, he began to madly absorb the power from the medicinal liquid.

Even the entire wooden tub formed a vortex from his absorption…

“Sure enough, the physical body reached its limit, but the sacred body hasn’t!”

His few meridians began to hurt increasingly.

Strangely, this time even his muscles and bones ached, as if the medicinal power penetrated through them, then widened his meridians.

In some way, wasn’t this a brand new kind of “Dysmenorrhea”?

Chu Huaixu remained expressionless, relaxing in the bath.

He was well aware that the difficulty of increasing special attribute points would get harder later on.

His current [Gathering Spirit] was already at 4 points, and boosting it further wouldn’t be easy.

With his current overall cultivation, the holy body state couldn’t last too long.

But fortunately, Chu Huaixu’s absorption efficiency was ridiculously high right now, with an intent to absorb as much as possible without dying.

This caused the color of the medicinal liquid in the tub to become fainter and fainter.

Once the pain in his meridians completely disappeared, it indicated he was saturated again.

The color of the medicinal liquid had faded to an extreme, with almost all of the medicinal power drained.

“[Ding! Congratulations, your ’Gathering Spirit’ attribute +1!]”

Almost at the same instant, a system prompt sounded in his ear.

Frowning, Chu Huaixu got up from the wooden tub, using the array in his black gold robe to remove the water from his clothes.

He glanced down at the wooden tub, the golden mark on his forehead and the golden flames in his eyes fading back to normal.

“Was it just perfect like this?”

“Just happened to absorb all the medicinal liquid, and just happened to add another point to Gathering Spirit?”

He looked back, through the not-so-long passage, seeing the spacious ground outside again.

His gaze fixed on the large “Dao” symbol on the ground!

“Was it really just a coincidence?” thought Chu Huaixu.

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Inside the stone house, after Chu Huaixu got out of the wooden tub, a new stone gate opened.

He was actually unsure of which level the big ice cube was stuck in within the secret realm.

He only wanted to see her as soon as possible.

What greeted his eyes was another narrow passage.

When Chu Huaixu reached the end, he saw a white membrane of light again.

Having become skilled, he didn’t even test it this time and directly dove in.

As expected, after absorbing a strand of power of Dao Scripture, he successfully entered the third level.

The secret realm seemed to mistake him for the Dao Ancestor himself.

Though this was a single-player instance, could the creator of the instance not come in or out?

To his surprise, he quickly saw a familiar silhouette.

Han Shuangjiang was sitting cross-legged, gazing forward.

This made Chu Huaixu immediately realize something was off.

“She doesn’t seem to have noticed my entrance?” He was a bit puzzled.

He hadn’t concealed his aura or used any stealth techniques.

Given the big ice cube’s cultivation, she should have noticed first thing.

After pondering briefly, he slowed his pace as he walked, trying not to make a sound.

Until Chu Huaixu glanced around and saw another stone wall ahead.

Carved on the stone wall was still a large “Dao” symbol!

The only difference was that this Dao symbol seemed to have been hacked apart by someone!

There was a long fissure on the stone wall, cutting through the entire character!

Upon seeing the fissure, Chu Huaixu was once again “hard-controlled” by something.

“No! Again?” He felt somewhat speechless.

He began to be controlled by a mysterious force, walking toward the exact center, facing the Dao symbol on the stone wall.

However, it’s noteworthy that the [Daoist Ancestor Inheritance Secret Realm] was a single-player instance.

Thus, there was only one seat for enlightenment here!

That seat was where Han Shuangjiang sat in the center, with a cushion underneath.

Chu Huaixu watched himself being drawn in, then walked to her front and then… sat down with a plop!

He ended up sitting directly on his Dao companion.

To be precise, he sat right on her long, crossed jade legs.

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This comical scene left Chu Huaixu somewhat at a loss for words.

How did it become a man sitting in a woman’s lap, a man sitting on a woman’s legs?

The bizarre thing was that this sudden situation didn’t awaken Han Shuangjiang.

She remained focused, as if nothing outside could disturb her.

After sitting down, Chu Huaixu didn’t even have time to savor the feeling of “entering a beauty’s embrace” or “sitting on a beauty’s legs” before his whole world spun, leaving him momentarily disoriented, with his consciousness growing increasingly muddled.

His consciousness gradually entered a realm of indescribable mystery.

An aura enveloped him, making it impossible for him to sense the outside world.

But for some reason, at that instant, he suddenly understood what the crack on the stone wall was.

—It was a sword mark!

He didn’t know why he suddenly understood, but he just had that feeling!

Following that, Chu Huaixu felt he began to fall from a high place.

He appeared among the clouds, then started plummeting from the sky.

As a Second Realm cultivator, he still could not fly through the air.

From such a height, even as a body cultivator, he would likely end up shattered into pieces.

But perhaps because of the Fearless Sword Intent, he dared to turn around in midair.

Originally facing up, he turned to face down, allowing him to see the scene below.

“Eh! These mountains look so familiar; isn’t this Beyond the Mountain!”

Chu Huaixu had been with the Daoist Sect long enough to easily recognize this as the area Beyond the Mountain where the sect was located, with Wumeng Mountain connected outside.

However, the familiarity seemed to carry a hint of unfamiliarity.

He continued descending from high altitudes until, near the ground, a force lifted him up, allowing him to land safely.

Just as he steadied himself, a voice came to his ears.

The voice was gentle and pleasant, giving one a feeling of spring breeze, instinctively making one feel the speaker must be a very gentle person.

“Child, look up.” It was a male voice.

Upon hearing this, Chu Huaixu looked up.

For some reason, he could clearly see the peak of Wenda Peak, as if everything there was right before his eyes.

He could see everything on the mountain, except the features of the person there.

This person wore a Daoist Robe, with a black sword scabbard that Chu Huaixu was all too familiar with on his back.

The scabbard had a bead hanging from it, with tassels fluttering in the wind.

Yet, Chu Huaixu could not see his face clearly.

Or rather, it wasn’t that he couldn’t see it, but he couldn’t… remember it!

Though he clearly saw him, everything would vanish from his mind as if erased by some force.

The man gazed down at him from such heights, but Chu Huaixu did not feel the slightest condescension.

Oddly, he exuded warmth.

A gentleman, gentle and jade-like.

At this moment, even if Chu Huaixu were foolish, he would guess who he was.

He was a little Daoist from Junzi Temple who gradually became the Daoist Master after coming down the mountain and was later revered as Dao Ancestor by the world.

Interestingly, as he entered here, his own “projection” was identical to his external self.

Meaning Chu Huaixu, in his black and gold robe, had on his back a sword scabbard identical to the other’s!

He tried to speak, only to find he couldn’t make a sound.

He could move, do anything, yet couldn’t speak.

“Seems like the Big Ice Cube might be trapped here as well?”

“Just don’t know how long she’s been stuck here?” Chu Huaixu immediately thought of his Dao companion.

For the first two stages, Han Shuangjiang had tackled them alone, while he trailed behind to reap the benefits.

But now, he clearly had to face this stage on his own.

Yet what the Dao Ancestor would test with this stage remained unknown.

Soon, that gentle voice spoke again.

“Child, feel this sword well.”

Chu Huaixu looked up at the person on the peak of Wenda Peak, his mind echoing:

“No way!”

Such a familiar feeling!

It felt like once again he was shrouded in the master’s Sword Domain every night, being killed into oblivion through the night.

Only this time, the “abuser” was different.

From the Seventh Realm Great Perfection Shen Man, it changed to the unimaginably powerful Dao Ancestor!

A fingertip Sword Qi gathered at the fingertips of the man in the Daoist Robe.

He casually slashed downward with it.

In the next moment, a Sword Qi was born.

Wherever it traveled, all things would be obliterated!

Let alone the surrounding mountains, forests, and vegetation.

Yet, for some reason, the sword seemed to come very slowly.

Approaching, Chu Huaixu even felt his breath catch, as if the air had been cleaved away!

It could turn everything to nothingness.

Chu Huaixu suddenly felt darkness fall.

The sensation was peculiar.

Like the sunlight had been cut away by this sword!

This young man in the black robe was already “experienced.”

Wasn’t it just a routine of dying and reviving, then reviving and dying?

Chu Huaixu began to suspect, was the reason the master trained me this way because she experienced the same upon gaining the Dao Ancestor Inheritance?

And then, this stuttering … learned!

At this moment, Chu Huaixu was even a bit eager to taste the flavor of this sword.

So much so, that seeing the leisurely moving Sword Qi, he impulsively charged forward.

Thus, Chu Huaixu was eagerly and completely obliterated by it.

In the moment of dying under the sword, he personally felt the sword’s immense power.

A thought arose in his mind.

“I’m just a Second Realm cultivator, am I worthy of being cut by such a sword?”

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