I'm here in the martial arts world just to find love.

"Ah Lang, your sister's back!"

"Come and see what good things your sister brought you!"

Just as Jiang Chao was rendered silent by Chu's incisive words, Jiang Yunyao's voice suddenly rang out from outside the encircling tent.

The girl's tone was full of joy, and as Jiang Chao turned around, a figure rushed in.

"Sister Yao Yao."

Jiang Chao greeted her and noticed that the woman, who was a head and a half shorter than him, was holding a dark, indistinct object. Curious, he asked:

"What is this?"

"It's Tai Sui!"

Jiang Yunyao, who had gone out to discuss matters with two elders of the Moon Goddess Palace and had not returned all night, said happily:

"This is a treasure that your sister had to go through a lot of persuasion to get from those old guys. It's a rare and precious material from the Taibai Mountain lineage, called Sumeru Tai Sui."

"The Grand Duke Jupiter?"

Jiang Chao stared at the dark, unsightly thing in the other person's arms, his brows furrowing slightly: "Is this thing any different from ordinary Tai Sui?"

Tai Sui, also known as meat lingzhi, is a mythical creature that grows underground.

Legend has it that Tai Sui possesses an immortal body, and consuming it can prolong life and increase one's power.

However, in Jiang Chao's view, this thing was just a collection of fungi, nothing special.

Although he had never eaten it, he had seen it in the secret treasure pavilion of the Fengxue Temple.

He was curious and was about to cut off a piece to taste the saltiness when his father, Jiang Buwen, caught him red-handed as soon as he took out the knife.

Jiang Chao swore that he really didn't intend to steal any; he just wanted to taste what the legendary "longevity fruit" tasted like.

However, this was met with a form of passive-aggressive behavior.

His father, Jiang Buwen, locked him up in solitary confinement without saying a word for three whole days.

  

Jiang Chao regretted it terribly for those three days, wishing he hadn't been so greedy.

He wasn't afraid of being beaten, because being beaten could strengthen his physique.

I'm most afraid of being locked up in solitary confinement.

Being in the dark, silent training room that blocked out all noise always brought back some memories he didn't want to recall.

Afterwards, to express his dissatisfaction with being confined, Jiang Chao caused trouble twice. Once, he uprooted a snow pine tree in front of his house that had lived for hundreds or thousands of years, but was only as thick as a person's embrace, and planted it in the backyard.

On another occasion, a fire burned down one of Jiang Buwen's study rooms.

Burning down the study is a minor matter. The Jiang family is a large and powerful family. The entire Fengxue Temple, and even the entire Fengxue City, are the private property of the Jiang family.

There is more than one study.

However, uprooting that snow-capped pine tree was a major undertaking.

Jiang Chao later learned that the snow pine was said to be an ancient tree that existed when the Fengxue Temple was first built, and it was of great significance.

That time, Jiang Chao stayed in bed for more than a month before he could barely recover.

Of course, the improvement in physical fitness is also enormous.

Since that incident, Jiang Chao has no longer been afraid of his father Jiang Buwen's brute force beatings.

It became exceptionally thick-skinned and tough.

However, "thick-skinned" is just an adjective.

In fact, Jiang Chao's skin, judging from the outside, is even whiter and more delicate than some women with supple skin.

The woman is like jade, perfectly formed by nature.

This statement is entirely appropriate when applied to Jiang Chao.

Looking at the so-called "Xumi Tai Sui" in front of him, Jiang Chao put aside his thoughts, lowered his head and sniffed it carefully.

I didn't smell anything.

"Is this something to eat?"

Jiang Chao asked.

Jiang Yunyao glared at him reproachfully and said:

"I know you're greedy, Ah Lang, but don't think about eating everything right away!"

She weighed the Sumeru Tai Sui in her hands, and the black piece of meat that looked like frozen meat trembled slightly.

"This item already possesses a trace of sentience and can be used to aid in cultivation."

"Spirituality?"

Jiang Chao raised an eyebrow, quite surprised.

As far as he knew, things with spirituality were rare in this world.

Spiritual ginseng that can run and make noise and has grown into human form, or spiritual herbs and plants that can hunt and prey on their own, such spirits and monsters that have the conditions to develop spirituality often only exist in legends.

Very few people have actually seen it.

Most of them are just folk tales, fantastical stories used to pique people's curiosity and attract their attention.

But... thinking about recent events, Jiang Chao couldn't help but feel a pang of unease.

What if those rumors are not just rumors?

But what was the world like a thousand years ago, or even ten thousand years ago?

"How do you use it for cultivation? And where did this thing come from?"

Jiang Yunyao did not answer immediately, but instead stuffed the dark, fleshy Ganoderma lucidum into Jiang Chao's mouth.

"They start by asking all sorts of questions, without even asking if their older sister is tired!"

Jiang Yunyao rolled her eyes at the young man, then turned to a female disciple beside her and said:

"Junior sister, please get me a cup of tea first."

The junior sister, who was looking at her holy maiden senior sister with adoration, hurriedly ran to pour tea. After a moment, Jiang Yunyao, having drunk a cup of tea, finally spoke:

"As I said before, this item came from the Taibai Mountains. As for who discovered it first... that is unknown. This item was obtained by your sister from Elder Hou Qingshan of the Yiqi Sect. That old man treasured it very much. If I hadn't mentioned that his disciples had eaten more than a dozen pieces of dragon meat that night, he probably wouldn't have been willing to part with it."

After a long and complicated argument, the other party, out of consideration for their pride, finally relented and gave me the item.

Hou Qingshan... In Jiang Chao's mind, the image of a tall, thin old man with a goatee involuntarily appeared.

As one of the seven great mystical sects, the Yiqi Sect was indeed active near the Taibai Mountains and was the leader of the martial arts world in that region.

The Yi Qi Sect focuses on internal martial arts, not martial arts, and emphasizes the transformation of one Qi into three pure ones. It is one of the representative forces of the orthodox schools of Xuanmen.

As for the opponent's signature skill... it is said that the founder of the One Qi Sect could sever a river with a single finger, and his cultivation level was approaching the mysterious realm of the legendary terrestrial immortals.

Of course, Jiang Chao wasn't entirely sure how much of this "land of immortals" was actually real.

However, he is definitely not the kind of terrestrial immortal who senses the external world and cultivates the internal universe as Jiang Chao understands him, otherwise he wouldn't only be famous in the Taibai Mountain area.

It has long been considered a sacred place of the Xuanmen sect by many martial arts practitioners who seek immortality and the Dao.

Since the Wind and Snow Temple, which specializes in martial arts, is not superior to the other party's ancestral master who is suspected to be a terrestrial immortal, it is clear that he is not as good as the successive temple masters of the Jiang family.

In other words, there is still a considerable gap between him and a grandmaster of martial arts.

"Sister Yao Yao, where did you hear that this thing can help people cultivate?"

Jiang Chao held the chubby Sumeru Tai Sui in his arms. As he spoke, he probed it with a wisp of true energy. The energy surged in, but it was like a mud ox sinking into the sea, making no sound at all.

This gave Jiang Chao a strange feeling.

Could it be that this thing really has some mysterious aspect?

Otherwise, his sister Jiang Yunyao wouldn't have gone to such lengths to bring him back and give him to him.

"Hehe, you noticed, didn't you?"

Seeing Jiang Chao's little tricks, Jiang Yunyao chuckled, her pretty face bearing the same sly smile that Jiang Chao had when he was a child.

"This item can absorb martial arts true energy!"

Sister Yao squinted and smiled, "If you use this to practice your skills, you can circulate your internal energy at the fastest speed and inject it into it. In this way, you can increase the upper limit of your internal energy circulation..."

Jiang Chao listened to Jiang Yunyao's explanation and seemed to be deep in thought.

He understood what his sister meant. To put it bluntly, this thing could devour martial arts true energy, but it might not be of much use to ordinary martial arts practitioners.

Because most martial arts practitioners have never crossed the threshold of the seventh rank, and their martial arts true qi has never been generated in their bodies.

However, this item was of great use to him.

The improvement of martial arts true qi is often related to the cultivation techniques and the degree of tempering of the meridians.

With the understanding of the cultivation technique and the continuous tempering of the meridians in the body, the capacity of the meridians is increased, and naturally more martial arts true qi transformed from the essence and blood in the body can be stored.

With this item, Jiang Chao essentially had a sandbag that he could use to temper his internal meridians at any time, even while sleeping.

Just unleash your inner energy to temper your meridians; there's no need to be afraid of hurting anyone or suffering a backlash.

However, Jiang Chao felt that this thing was probably not as simple as he had imagined.

After all, this thing is a wondrous object that has given birth to a trace of spirituality!