Borrowing a sword

Chapter 217 [The Dao Gives Birth to One], are you trying to die?!

Inside the main hall of the Taoist sect, only a group of high-ranking Taoist officials remained.

Han Shuangjiang and Xu Ziqing have both been sent back.

With no younger members present, the gambling addict Li Chunsong immediately became "unscrupulous".

He started standing in the center of the hall, frantically rubbing his hands together.

As a result, before he could even speak, Chu Yinyin had already learned to answer first.

"Li Chunsong, you want to gamble again, don't you?"

The old woman tilted her head, thought for a moment, and then said, "Let me guess, are you betting that Chu Huaixu will break through several realms in a row?"

Upon hearing this, the gambling addict immediately praised, "Junior Sister is indeed exceptionally intelligent; that's exactly what I was thinking!"

"Tonight, Chu Huaixu has made a great breakthrough in the Origin Spirit Realm. Congratulations!"

"Why don't we have some fun too, a little gambling for fun?" he started again.

Next, everyone began to go through the procedures, paying the fines for violating the sect rules to Elder Lu Pan, the law enforcement leader. Everyone was very proficient, including Jiang Zhi.

The next scene, naturally, was a well-reasoned analysis by Xiang Yan and others.

They also cited Cheng Yuyan as an example.

Because he refined the fragments of origin when he was still a low-level cultivator.

“My fifth senior brother also entered the first level of the Origin Spirit Realm back then. He broke through five minor realms in a row.” Jiang Zhi was lost in reminiscence.

The fragment of the Primordial Origin contains a wisp of primordial power.

The surging spiritual energy attached to it was merely something it picked up incidentally within the extremely rich spiritual energy of the original spiritual realm.

Even so, it is still a "great tonic" for low-level cultivators!
But this time, everyone was smarter and knew that Chu Huaixu couldn't be judged by common sense.

Even Jiang Zhi, who revered his fifth senior brother Zhong Ming so much, bet six minor realms, one more than Zhong Ming had back then.

Chu Yinyin went even further, betting on the Seven Heavens.

This left Li Chunsong speechless.

"Why is it like this again? You're not leaving me any room for maneuver." This scene feels so familiar.

The gambling addict gritted his teeth and could only say, "Then I'll bet on him breaking through eight minor realms in a row!"

With a squinty-eyed smile, Zhao Shuqi said from the side, "Sixth Junior Brother, why don't you just bet on him breaking through a major realm directly, leaping from the Great Perfection of the First Realm to the Great Perfection of the Second Realm?"

"Tsk! I, Li Chunsong, have been a gambler all my life, but I never place bets casually. I always think things through carefully. How could I act recklessly as you say?" The former philanthropic gambling king immediately showed displeasure.

People couldn't help but think to themselves, "Deeply considered? You used to lose every time you gambled!"

Everyone focused their attention on that room inside the Gentleman's Temple.

As a result, Chu Huaixu broke through three times in a row shortly after sitting down.

This made Li Chunsong's breathing quicken.

"Haha! Looks like my chances of winning are very high again this time!"

But apart from that, everyone was more concerned about Chu Huaixu's physical condition at the moment.

His continuous breakthroughs are simply too shocking to bear.

Chu Huaixu's skin was cracked all over his body, bleeding profusely, and he was almost unrecognizable as a human being.

Moreover, their spiritual power is so strong that they know exactly what's inside his body.

This kid's internal organs are all in complete chaos right now!
"How could the Daoist Canon left by the Dao Ancestor be so torturous?" everyone wondered.

The booklet introducing the Daoist Canon only contains four characters: "中正平和" (zhongzheng pinghe).

Should we make some changes?
To put it bluntly, it sounds like some kind of evil martial art!

Inside the training room of the Junzi Temple, Chu Huaixu sat upright on a futon, his brows furrowed.

The second layer of this Daoist canon is clearly different from the first volume.

Or rather, it has gained a new ability—to strengthen the internal organs!
"This is somewhat similar to Xiao Xu's 'Ice Skin and Jade Bone Heart Method'," he thought to himself.

The Daoist Canon is different from the Sword Refining Manual.

The former type of pain comes from the inside out, causing the skin and flesh to bulge out in patches, even tearing open, before quickly recovering.

The latter is from the outside in, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth hammers one's own body, forging oneself as a sword embryo in the furnace of heaven and earth.

Now, it's not just limited to the skin and flesh anymore; the internal organs have also become a "disaster area."

What are the five internal organs and six bowels?
The five internal organs refer to: heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys!
These five areas can be incredibly painful when they hurt.

The six viscera refer to: small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, large intestine, triple burner, and bladder.
—The Zang organs belong to Yin and are internal, while the Fu organs belong to Yang and are external!

The internal organs are connected by meridians.

At this moment, through the method of internal vision, he even saw his meridians emitting golden light!

It looks very powerful, but these golden lights bring endless pain.

All of this was beyond Chu Huaixu's expectations, yet inexplicably reasonable.

"Hiss—! Sure enough, each realm brings a completely new kind of pain!"

Even more deadly is that the spiritual power carried by the [Fragment of the Primordial Origin] is also causing trouble within his body.

They almost burst his meridians!

The Chu Huai Preface continues to be upgraded.

Level 20 marks the beginning of the second realm.

He is currently at level 22, which is the second level of the second realm.

He was clearly a ruthless person, striving to achieve his goals in one fell swoop, preferring a short, sharp pain to a long, drawn-out one, and immediately rose two ranks.

He could sense that Level 1 was not enough.

Endless pain swept through the entire body; taking the kidneys, one of the five internal organs, as an example, the pain level far exceeded that of kidney stones.

He was like someone who was constantly suffering internal injuries, and then healed himself with the power of the Daoist Canon.

As for his skin and flesh, let's not even mention it.

"The path of body tempering is truly inhuman."

Chu Huaixu finally understood why those who had mastered body refinement were so rare in the world. "Even those seasoned 'McDonald's', these people with special fetishes, only use it to enjoy themselves occasionally."

"This kind of persistent pain is a completely different matter."

"Moreover, its level isn't just self-torture, it's self-harm!"

One of the goals of cultivators to strengthen themselves is to ensure that no one in the world can harm them at will!

Body Refinement Style: How can that be?
If others can't do it, can't you do it yourself?

In addition, Chu Huaixu also discovered that he had changed.

"I don't seem to faint so easily anymore."

[Heart Sword] has been advancing in level, and his spiritual power has also been increasing recently, making his sea of ​​consciousness extremely stable.

The last time he fainted from the pain of upgrading was a long time ago.

So much so that he hadn't noticed it recently.

"You've even blocked this road for me, huh?"

But now that he needs to refine the fragments of the Xuanhuang Origin, he cannot completely lose consciousness, which has given him an amplification.

However, he had to rely on his own willpower to endure this endless pain.

Fortunately, Dead Fox is a person with a very good attitude.

He even has the leisure to joke about himself: "I told you so! All my achievements are due to my own hard work!"

After leveling up 5 times in a short period of time, the feeling of being about to burst finally began to subside.

This relieved Chu Huaixu.

The spiritual energy wrapped around the outermost layer of the primordial fragment essentially digested most of it.

"Finally, things have calmed down."

"Then we can wait until the aftershocks of the pain have completely subsided before gradually escalating the treatment." Chu Huaixu felt relieved.

The top-ranked members who were watching the "live stream" with their divine sense inside the main hall all breathed a sigh of relief.

They were genuinely worried that Chu Huaixu's unstoppable advance might damage his health.

The torment of practicing the Daoist Canon is actually more exaggerated than that of most body-refining techniques.
However, everyone also realized that Chu Huaixu, like Zhong Ming, was likely to stop at breaking through the fifth realm.

“That means I won.” A smile appeared on Zhao Shuqi’s narrow-eyed face.

He was already famous for his pupil technique, so his observations would be even more meticulous.

When Chu Huaixu's spiritual energy surged within him, he had already made a calculation.

"Luckily! Lucky!" He stood up, cupped his hands in greeting to everyone, and smiled broadly, his eyes narrowed to slits.

However, the next moment, something unexpected happened.

A surge of spiritual energy suddenly rushed into Chu Huaixu's body!

They came from the black bead on the scabbard.

To be precise, it originated from inside the medicine cauldron [Dao Sheng Yi]!
This gluttonous cauldron, which only cries out for hunger, seems to sense that its master is also refining the power of origin within his body.

It immediately came to his aid!
It transfers all the power that it doesn't need into its master's body!
This truly shows Chu Huaixu's filial piety.

You really know how to pick your time to show filial piety to your master!

Moreover, Chu Huaixu did not even feel that he was fulfilling his filial duty.

"Up to now, [Tao Sheng Yi] has only eaten two things."

"It's the same Daoist power within me. It was with it that I activated this black bead, and then I was able to take the sword sheath down from Mount Cangling."

"The second thing is the fragment of the Primordial Chaos Origin that it actively sought!"

Chu Huaixu always felt that when cultivators absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, they were actually purifying it within their bodies.

The higher the grade of the cultivation technique, the better the purification effect, and the higher the quality of the spiritual energy generated within the body.

【Tao gives birth to one】It is obvious that it only consumes purified high-end products. It does not absorb the original spiritual energy of heaven and earth!

Of course, if it could also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on its own, then it would truly grow wildly and automatically, and Chu Huaixu could completely let it roam free.
Regardless of the circumstances, rounding it off is essentially giving Chu Huaixu experience points.

However, this process was undoubtedly not pleasant.

Everyone in the hall was stunned.

"This comes from the Dao Ancestor's sword sheath?"

"Is it feeding its owner in return?"

But for Chu Huaixu's physical body, this was undoubtedly adding insult to injury.

Only the "five-five-six" couple reacted somewhat excessively in the main hall.

Originally, only the Fifth Elder of the Daoist sect, Zhao Shuqi, was standing there smugly. At this moment, the Sixth Elder, Li Chunsong, stood up and pushed the other man back into his chair.

"Fifth Senior Brother is quite impatient. Isn't he getting a little excited too soon?" Li Chunsong, who already considered himself a "gambling genius," glanced at him sideways.

"At this moment, the betting game seems to be still undecided."

Inside the training room, Chu Huaixu could only continue to level up.

The next moment, under the intense pain in his internal organs, his internal injuries became even more severe, and he couldn't help but vomit a mouthful of blood.

Then, everyone witnessed an incredibly absurd scene.

The young man, with his eyes closed, felt only that he had severe internal injuries and felt extremely congested inside his body.

He simply raised his right hand and slapped himself several times to induce vomiting.

This caused Chu Huaixu to vomit another mouthful of blood, but his tightly furrowed brows relaxed a little.

Despite this, he was still breaking through to new realms one after another.

The second realm is the fifth level, and the second realm is the sixth level.
The momentum is overwhelming!

The young and old Chu Yinyin were both dumbfounded, and couldn't help but utter a stunned sound:
"Should we go to the library and retrieve the third volume of the Daoist Canon for him?"

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