Borrowing a sword

Chapter 240 Body Refining Divine Power: Heaven and Earth Furnace!

At the summit of Cangling Mountain, Jiang Zhi saw Xu Ziqing open his eyes and was about to say something when he saw a mysterious light flash in the boy's eyes.

A sudden gust of wind swept through the area.

The wind at the mountaintop was already fiercer and noisier, and now it all converged in Xu Ziqing's direction.

They gradually formed a vortex around him.

This vortex began to sweep over everything around it, drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Jiang Zhi looked at the scene before her and let out a soft exclamation.

"Is this an epiphany?"

"It looks like a body-refining technique!"

As a terrifying being with [Comprehension 10], Xiao Xu once again demonstrated his terrifying nature.

After he had practiced the "Sword Cultivation Technique" to the third level, he suddenly had a sudden realization.

He felt that "The Art of Sword Cultivation" and "The Art of Sword Refining" were actually quite similar.

Could it be considered a sequel to the Sword Refining Technique?

Since one uses oneself as a sword to temper oneself during the Qi Refining stage, why not try to temper oneself further in a way similar to sword nurturing techniques?
As soon as the idea came to him, he subconsciously tried it out.

Immediately afterwards, it was as if a certain "switch" inside my body had been turned on!
The mysterious light in Xu Ziqing's eyes began to grow stronger and stronger!
It was as if this mysterious light was also absorbing everything around it.

It's springtime now, and the temperature at the mountaintop isn't actually that high.

But as the vortex grew larger, for some reason, the surrounding temperature began to rise sharply.

Later on, the temperature even reached an abnormal level, like being inside a furnace.

Jiang Zhi frowned slightly and immediately cast a restriction to prevent Xu Ziqing from causing unnecessary damage on the mountaintop.

As time went by, the boy's skin began to feel hot.

White steam began to rise from his body.

After about an incense stick's time, patches of skin began to appear on his body, as if flames and molten lava were flowing on his skin!
They are not spread all over the body, but scattered in one place after another.

They come in all sizes, some as big as half a palm, others only the size of a fingernail.

Jiang Zhi used his divine sense to check and found that Xu Ziqing was not injured.

"Is this the characteristic of his body-refining technique?"

In the boy's open eyes, the white light began to be gradually spread by the flames.

His pupils seemed to be burning!

This bears a resemblance to the golden flames in Chu Huaixu's eyes.

One is crimson, and the other is dark gold!
A crimson flame mark began to appear between Xu Ziqing's eyebrows.

If Chu Huaixu is to say that he followed the laws of heaven and earth and achieved sainthood in the flesh.

So, Xu Ziqing is somewhat like a fire god being created by using heaven and earth as a furnace!

As Jiang Zhi watched this scene, he couldn't help but glance at the bronze sword.

"In this way, he can swing more swords."

“Every body-refining cultivator will experience a significant increase in physical strength once they awaken their body-refining supernatural abilities; it can even be said that their physical body undergoes a qualitative change.”

"In fact, it was only Xu Ziqing, the sword attendant, who had reached his physical limit and could no longer wield the sword. But the limit of the evil sword may not have been reached yet."

The sudden disturbance brought Xiang Yan and the others to the summit of Cangling Mountain.

"Junior Uncle, Xu Ziqing's body-refining technique is somewhat similar to Chu Huaixu's," Lu Pan said, clicking his tongue in amazement.

"That's understandable, since they all built their foundations on the 'Sword Refining Technique,' so their starting points are similar."

“Xu Ziqing’s body-refining technique looks quite good, probably at least a high-grade technique, but it’s not as impressive as Chu Huaixu’s,” Zhao Shuqi said.

He used his pupil technique and could see the intense heat emanating from him at a glance.

In the first realm, he was cultivating the Ice Skin and Jade Bone Heart internally; now, in the second realm, he is cultivating the Fire God Body externally.

"Chu Huaixu just happened to refine the power of origin, which triggered a resonance between heaven and earth, displayed the power of the Heavenly Dao, and manifested the limit of his body-refining supernatural power, so as to achieve the effect of 'following the heavens and the earth'," Jiang Zhi said.

He pointed at Xu Ziqing: "He doesn't possess the power of origin, so naturally he couldn't possibly trigger such a terrifying phenomenon."

"But because of this, Chu Huaixu's body-refining technique is estimated to be one grade higher than Xu Ziqing's."

Everyone agreed with this.

After all, Chu Huaixu's original power was split in two, with one half merging into the Holy Body and the other half encircling the Heart Sword.

After a while, Xu Ziqing's aura began to gradually subside.

Upon seeing the group of high-ranking Daoist figures before him, he quickly rose and bowed to each of them.

"Not bad, not bad. You've only reached the second realm of cultivation, yet you've already awakened the Body Refining Divine Ability. Your comprehension is probably second only to Chu Huaixu." Xiang Yan couldn't help but praise you.

Upon hearing this, Xu Ziqing naturally had no desire to compete with her senior brother.

On the contrary, he seemed quite pleased with himself.

In terms of comprehension, I am the closest to my senior brother!
But he quickly realized the underlying information.

The boy looked up and asked curiously, "Senior brother, have you also awakened the body-refining divine power?"

The crowd nodded slightly to him.

As the second master, Chu Yinyin immediately took over her disciple's bravado and started to act tough herself.

She puffed out her chest, a proud look on her face, and said with a sense of honor:

"You should have seen a golden phantom that was ten thousand feet tall a while ago, right?" "That was the strange phenomenon that Chu Huaixu triggered when he awakened his supernatural powers."

Upon hearing this, Xu Ziqing's mouth dropped open in astonishment.

He recalled the horrific scene of that day and couldn't help but swallow slightly.

"As expected of my senior brother," Xiao Xu thought to himself.

At the summit of Cangling Mountain, Jiang Zhi sized up the young man before him.

His face was full of reverence; he began to worship Chu Huaixu from afar simply from the mention of him by others.

This made the jealous old man feel somewhat uncomfortable.

But now he has taught Xu Ziqing everything he was supposed to teach, and according to the sect rules, he should be allowed to return to the outer sect.

Once he is promoted to a true disciple, he can naturally return to the Gentleman's Temple.

Moreover, the boy is still young and needs experience; he shouldn't be kept locked up in the courtyard indefinitely.

But this jealous junior grandmaster still couldn't resist comparing them.

He said, "As a sword attendant, I have already taught you everything I should have taught you, and you have learned it very well."

"Now, I'll give you two choices."

"One will return to the outer sect and continue as an outer disciple, while the other will stay at the Gentleman's Temple and continue cultivating with me."

Jiang Zhi started to regret her words halfway through.

Why am I making myself uncomfortable?
Because he noticed that the boy's eyes started to light up after hearing only the first half of the sentence!

The intensity of the light in his eyes was almost as great as the profound light in his eyes when he was comprehending the Dao.

"Fine, go back to your outer sect, go back to your damn senior brother." The old man waved his hand impatiently, a hint of resentment in his heart.

Xu Ziqing was a naive young man with a pure heart; he couldn't understand anything and remained blankly excited and surprised, somewhat lacking in emotional intelligence, saying:

"Thank you for your kindness, Junior Martial Uncle!"

Xiang Yan and the others listened from the side, and smiles couldn't help but appear on their faces, especially after hearing the word "grant".

All of them had a master who died young.

Almost everyone has received special training from Junior Uncle.

The reason why everyone had different attitudes towards him was partly because Jiang Zhi was the only elder in the family who was still conscious.

On the other hand, it's because he can actually be considered half a master.

But is it fair to say that Jiang Zhi taught well or not?
Anyway, back then, my junior sister would often cry and curse, pleading pitifully, "Master, can you come back to life? Waaaaah! Master, please come back to life, please!"

"Jiang Zhi is not human! My junior uncle doesn't treat me like a human being either! Waaaaah—!"

Only the incredibly resilient and somewhat dim-witted seventh junior sister could become the junior uncle's disciple.

At this moment, Xu Ziqing stood on the mountaintop and couldn't help but glance in the direction of Medicine Mountain.

For some reason, he had a vague feeling about a certain location on Medicine Mountain.

Even from such a distance, he could sense an aura that was somewhat similar to his own, yet quite different!
"Is he my senior brother?" This question arose in his mind.

Xiao Xu immediately sought help from the higher-ups in the Taoist sect to verify this.

"Sect Master, Junior Grandmaster, Elders, I don't know why, but I'm able to form a connection with someone in Medicine Mountain and roughly know his location."

“But that location seems to be the bamboo house where the disciple and senior brother live.”

"I wonder if you are inside the house right now, Senior Brother?"

Everyone was slightly taken aback upon hearing this.

Using their divine senses, they were naturally able to detect Chu Huaixu's location.

But Xu Ziqing is only at the second realm, and with such a vast difference in skill level, it's impossible for him to do it.

Xiang Yan casually scanned the room with his divine sense and said, "Chu Huaixu is indeed inside."

"It seems that you two special body refiners have had some kind of unseen connection after awakening your body refinement abilities," he said.

Nangong Yue added from the side, "This phenomenon does occasionally occur. Some practitioners who cultivate the same technique may also do this after their cultivation level reaches a high level, but it is really rare."

"Of course, you don't need to worry about this."

"Even the simplest concealment technique can completely block this kind of sensation, so it won't have much of an impact," Nangong Yue explained.

But how could Xu Ziqing be troubled by this?
He was overjoyed!

Medicine Mountain, Bamboo House.

Chu Huaixu was selecting from the six profound-level techniques to see which ones were more suitable for him.

He suddenly frowned, as if he had a premonition.

He immediately stepped out of the bamboo house and into the courtyard.

Chu Huaixu looked into the distance, towards the direction of Cangling Mountain.

He silently sensed this aura, which was similar to his own yet quite different, and could pinpoint his location.

However, given his temperament and character, a hint of displeasure and disdain immediately appeared on his face.

"Eek! What kind of evil spirit is on Mount Cangling!"

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