Borrowing a sword

Chapter 19 Peerless Divine Skill
After returning to the bamboo house, Han Shuangjiang and Chu Huaixu parted ways.

The fox-faced man entered the room, sat cross-legged on the bed, and began to try to cultivate the "Sword Refining Technique".

He was a little curious about how many experience points he could gain each time by "idling" like this.
As of now, Chu Huaixu has spent a total of 79 experience points, and has 121 left.

Breaking through the second acupoint requires 140 experience points.

It's worth mentioning that his character panel displays "Experience points can be freely allocated".

The experience points gained from practicing the "Sword Refining Technique" can only be used to upgrade the technique.

It cannot be used to upgrade other cultivation techniques or [skills].

After adjusting his state of mind, Chu Huaixu took a deep breath and mentally prepared himself.

"It must hurt a lot, right?" he thought.

Leveling up with experience points in one click is like compressing the training process, allowing you to reap the rewards in the blink of an eye.

The pain he felt earlier, as if he had been repeatedly run over by a motorcycle, was because he experienced the total pain from each training session in an instant.

Chu Huaixu was simply curious: "What would normal cultivation feel like?"

Well, it's not an addiction.

The Sword Refining Technique began to circulate within his body, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged towards him.

The reason why those in the Qi Refining stage are not considered proper cultivators is because they cannot retain spiritual energy within their bodies and therefore cannot generate spiritual power.

At this moment, the only function of this spiritual energy entering the body is to help open up the acupoints.

Only when all nine orifices of the human body are open can one unlock the profound secrets within and step into the gate of cultivation!

The most significant improvement during the entire Qi Refining stage is in physical fitness, which is why it is called the Qi Refining and Body Tempering stage.

At this moment, as Chu Huaixu began to circulate his cultivation technique, his body trembled slightly.

He started to feel pain.

"How should I put it, it felt like countless hands were twisting my flesh?"

Every single inch of flesh on his body!

Damn it, are you trying to get rid of all the dampness from my body?
As soon as Chu Huaixu began to have random thoughts, he immediately sensed that the spiritual energy that had gathered was beginning to dissipate.

This made him realize why the comments section of "The Sword Refining Manual" had such a bad reputation; it was all either "Don't practice it" or "Listen to advice."

"Does one need to stabilize their mind and spirit throughout the entire cultivation process?"

You have to be patient the whole time, otherwise all your training will be for nothing!

In that case, all the pain I felt before was for nothing.

Chu Huaixu immediately gathered his thoughts and tried his best to adjust them.

As his cultivation progressed, he clearly felt the pain level rising.

This intense, tingling sensation felt like countless invisible hands were not just twisting his flesh.

Even after twisting the meat, it still wriggles from side to side.
Chu Huaixu had thought that he would gradually become numb as time went by.

But strangely, nothing happened!
Just one cycle of internal energy felt like an eternity.

He began to miss the days when he was a gamer.

Damn it, give me back my pain modulation function!
As a result, Chu Huaixu became agitated, and the surrounding spiritual energy began to dissipate again.

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After he successfully completed one cycle of circulation, he suddenly opened his eyes. He could only support himself on the bed with one hand and began to breathe heavily.

"My nickname is really accurate, this 'menstrual cramps' is truly deadly."

"I can't cultivate in bed anymore. I'll just put a futon on the floor and meditate. Damn, I'm all sweaty and I've dirtied the mattress!" This virtual male model is quite clean.

He was even considering the possibility of training naked because he was too lazy to wash his clothes and was afraid that his clothes would smell bad from sweating too much.

Putting aside these distracting thoughts, Chu Huaixu checked the cultivation experience points he had gained.

"9 o'clock?" His lips twitched slightly.

This is even with him having 1 point of [Spiritual Embryo Attribute], otherwise his cultivation speed would be even slower!

"Your 'Sword Refining Technique' is really despicable!" he gritted his teeth.

He calculated that after circulating his energy twice, his total experience points would reach 139.

The skill requires 140 experience points to upgrade.

"That one flaw is the most disgusting! I feel like throwing up!"

Enraged, Chu Huaixu quickly picked up the booklet and began to vent his anger. He opened to the third page and added a large exclamation mark after his comment "peerless divine skill" to emphasize it.

"call--!"

In the bamboo hut next door, Han Shuangjiang, who was also diligently cultivating, opened her beautiful eyes and let out a long sigh.

Her rather large breasts thus undulated slightly.

At this moment, she was sitting cross-legged on the bed, her long, beautiful legs crossed, a sight to behold.

This woman was born with wide hips and a golden ratio waist-to-hip ratio, and her buttocks were perky and full. Now, sitting on the bed, her buttocks were squeezed and spread out slightly, making her clothes bulge, as if her plump flesh was about to overflow.

The female sect leader of the Joyful Sect, who had a large, fat bottom, admired Han Shuangjiang for this very thing, and felt that she had found a successor to carry on her mantle.

—It can grant Guanyin the privilege of sitting on a lotus, thus enabling all sentient beings to attain enlightenment.

At this moment, a hint of joy appeared in Han Shuangjiang's beautiful eyes.

Every time she practiced, she felt completely relaxed and exceptionally comfortable.

More importantly, she broke through the second aperture with ease.

For her, achieving enlightenment was indeed a bit too easy.

"Unfortunately, the body needs time to adapt after each acupoint is opened."

"Perhaps I won't be able to break through to the third aperture until tomorrow," Han Shuangjiang guessed to herself.

Today, she and Chu Huaixu have reached an agreement to live and cultivate together for the time being, striving to break through to the Qi Refining stage as soon as possible and become proper cultivators.

"I thought that with the unreasonable prices outside the sect, one hundred taels of silver wouldn't be enough, and time would be very tight," she thought to herself.

"Now it seems that I was worrying too much."

From beginning to end, she never considered Chu Huaixu's cultivation progress.

In her opinion, since the other party was brought up the mountain by the Sixth Elder along with her, he must be quite good.

"But we still need to be careful with our money."

"Spiritual practice emphasizes wealth, Dharma, companions, and location."

"There will be more ways to make money in the future, but there will only be more places to spend money." Han Shuangjiang has this much common sense.

After much thought, she realized it would be better to start a fire herself, buy groceries, and cook.

"It would take quite a while to walk there to eat. With that time, I could cook a meal myself." That's what she thought anyway.

We should be even more careful with other people's money.

Han Shuangjiang could tell from Chu Huaixu's attire that his family background was probably ordinary; he just had a very refined and otherworldly air.

"This hundred taels of silver must be his parents' savings, right?" That was the only guess she could make.

We should be even more careful with the money that other people's parents work so hard for.

Each penny, however small, represents their earnest expectations for their child.

Upon realizing this, her eyes dimmed slightly, as she had been sold into a brothel by her parents when she was young.

She glanced down at her fair, jade-like ankles, which were completely bare.

Han Shuangjiang knew that some of the women in brothels would tie a red string around their ankles.

Many patrons find the red string extremely beautiful during their pleasures, adding a touch of allure to the jade-like feet.

Only those in the know understand that a red string tied to the ankle signifies that there are still attachments.

Because some of these women were abducted or kidnapped, or their families had committed crimes.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; with a red string tied to your feet, never forget the way home.

But what about her?
They didn't even have such a simple thought.

As noon approached, Han Shuangjiang stepped out of her bamboo hut, determined to have a good chat with Chu Huaixu about the money-saving strategies she had devised.

Chu Huaixu opened the door after hearing the knock.

He glanced at her and felt that something about her seemed different.

Chu Huaixu directly sent an [Information Detection] message, and the system reported that Han Shuangjiang had opened her second acupoint.

"You've broken through?" he asked.

"Hmm." She nodded slightly, wondering how he saw through her, as if she really had no secrets from him.

"What a coincidence, I just got through too." Chu Huaixu leaned against the door, looking completely nonchalant.

(End of this chapter)