Grandpa, times have changed.

Night was falling.

In front of the bamboo house, beside the giant beast.

The firelight danced in the moonlight, flames licked at chunks of meat, and oil sizzled and dripped down.

Without any seasoning, the enticing aroma alone is enough to make one's mouth water.

If it weren't for Wu Shi's magical domain preventing the fragrance from spreading further, the wild beasts in the vicinity would probably have been attracted here.

"Huff... huff..."

Xu Xing was panting heavily, his eyes were bloodshot, and his back was soaked with sweat.

He was using his sword to support himself on the ground, slowly moving towards the campfire.

This was the first time he had completed the lessons Wu Shi had assigned him since he began practicing spiritual cultivation.

In a corner unnoticed by the three of them, Chi Jiuyu's expression was somewhat complicated.

It has stopped.

This time, the jump only lasted a few days, unlike the previous timeframe where several years were jumped at once.

Uncle-Master...

What to say.

At this moment, her martial uncle was completely different from the powerful and invincible Sword Sect True Immortal she remembered.

He might back down because of difficulties, slack off because of hard work, or even be afraid.

Fear……

Should this kind of emotion appear on an all-powerful senior uncle?

She would never have believed it if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes!

No matter how you look at it, the current senior apprentice is just an ordinary person, at most a little more hardworking than the average person because he survived a calamity.

And Master...

Although she pretends to be aloof, she is essentially a little girl who is curious about everything, and her temper is not as volatile as it is in the future.

Finally, there's the grandmaster.

Her master had never mentioned anything about her grandmaster to her.

In her imagination, her grandmaster should have been a gentle, kind, powerful, and wise person.

After all, he taught his master and his uncle!
But not.

My master doesn't know much; in fact, he knows very little.

Aside from an extremely crude cultivation method, he only knew one simple fighting technique that couldn't even be considered a 'sword technique'.

None of the supernatural powers or magical abilities she had expected were present.

Moreover, although he was at the early stage of the Condensation Realm, the strength of the "One" he had cultivated was not even comparable to that of a first-stage Golden Core.

There's no need for either the Creation Foundation Establishment or the Natural Foundation Establishment; any ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator who has received compulsory education in cultivation, successfully entered university, and completed their first year is stronger than the current Grandmaster.

Looking at the somewhat naive master, the uncle who, like ordinary people, would also feel fear and shrink back, and the grandmaster who was not particularly outstanding.

For some reason, Chi Jiuyu felt somewhat heavy-hearted.

In such an environment where there was nothing, did the master and uncle grow into true immortals who surpassed everything?
Thinking about it, she walked over and came to the three of them.

The aroma of meat filled the air, and the firelight illuminated the faces of the three men as the campfire leaped and roared.

Xu Xing was currently holding a bowl of liquid that was shimmering with colorful light, sipping it slowly while circulating his cultivation technique.

A sharp, penetrating pain shot deep into his bones, causing him to grimace and contort his features.

Bie Xuening stared intently at the roasting meat on the fire, her eyes sparkling, with nothing else in sight besides the meat.

He would occasionally swallow.

As for Wu Shi...

He had his eyes closed, and it was unclear what he was thinking.

Chi Jiuyu observed the expressions of the three people for a while.

But as I looked around, my gaze inevitably fell on the sizzling, oily roasting meat beside the fire.

The giant beast that her grandmaster brought back must be extinct; she had never even seen it, let alone eaten it.

"It looks pretty delicious..." she muttered to herself.

But at that moment, Xu Xing, who was drinking his medicine, suddenly stopped, as if he had noticed something, and looked toward where Chi Jiuyu was.

Ok? !

Chi Jiuyu's heart tightened.

No way, could my martial uncle have seen me?!
"What's wrong?" Wu Shi opened his eyes.

However, they noticed Xu Xing's unusual behavior.

"It sounded like someone was talking over there just now..."

Xu Xing hesitated for a moment, then shook his head slightly.

"I must have misheard."

Wu Shi looked in the direction Xu Xing indicated, but found nothing. He then looked away without saying a word.

Bie Xuening glanced at the two of them, then continued staring at the barbecue.

At this moment, Chi Jiuyu was completely dumbfounded.

No!

My martial uncle can really hear me?!
After realizing what she had done, she immediately began to try it.

"Uncle-Master? Uncle-Master!! Can you hear me, Uncle-Master?!"

No matter how much she shouted, Xu Xing didn't react at all, as if he couldn't hear her at all.

"..."

Could it be that it was just a coincidence, and that my martial uncle was just hallucinating because he was practicing swordsmanship too hard?

And so, while Chi Jiuyu pondered, Xu Xing finished drinking the medicine.

Soon, the surface of the roasted meat turned golden brown, with oil sizzling and looking extremely tempting.

Gollum~
Chi Jiuyu, who was a foodie to begin with, couldn't help but swallow hard upon seeing this.

I could even faintly smell a meaty aroma...

Hallucination! Hallucination!

She tried it when she first reached this point in time, and she found that she couldn't do anything to interfere at all. How could she possibly smell the aroma of barbecue?
It must be a hallucination!
So, although she was very hungry for it, there was nothing she could do.

They could only watch helplessly as the three of them finished their barbecue.

After that.

"Get some rest," Wu Shi told the two. "Once you've become a bit more capable, I'll take you out to see the world."

“Okay.” Bie Xuening nodded obediently.

"Mm," Xu Xing replied.

…… ……

after a while.

Xu Xing returned to the bamboo house, a room that was originally used to store firewood.

Wu Shi tidied it up a bit, made a bamboo bed and put it in, and that became Xu Xing's place.

Chi Jiuyu followed them in.

The main reason she hesitated was because of what had just happened by the campfire, so she wanted to confirm again whether her martial uncle could really hear her.

But they found that Xu Xing sat down on the edge of the bed after entering the room.

After stretching my shoulders, I stared blankly at the wall for a while.

o_o
Just as Chi Jiuyu was about to try saying something...

"System?" Xu Xing suddenly whispered.

Ok?
Chi Jiuyu was taken aback.

"A cheat code?" Xu Xing asked again.

Having realized what was going on, Chi Jiuyu's expression became subtle.

With a quick glance, a bold idea suddenly came to mind.

He immediately pinched his throat and spoke in a cold tone:

"Binding to the Taixu Sword Immortal System, system loading..."

Since we're going to try it anyway, it doesn't matter what we say, so we might as well say something interesting.

What if my uncle-master really could hear it, and then actually believed it?
Xu Xing was clearly stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up.

However, due to the fatigue and soreness from practicing swordsmanship, and because he got up too quickly, his legs trembled and he knelt down.

What the hell!

This scene completely terrified Chi Jiuyu, who was standing at the foot of the bed, and she immediately knelt down as well.

She would never dare to make her martial uncle kneel before her, even if you beat her to death!
Uncle-Master, do you know how scary you are?!
If we hadn't reacted quickly enough, we would have definitely been beaten into fish balls by our master when we got back.

The two knelt facing each other like that.

The more Chi Jiuyu looked, the more something seemed off.

No no no!

If you do that, you'll get beaten into fish balls when you get back.

boom!
She kowtowed heavily, her forehead pressed against the ground, not daring to lift it up at all.

It took a while, until Xu Xing recovered and stood up again, before she dared to cautiously raise her head.

Call ~
That really scared the fisherman to death.

Still shaken, she simply stopped standing up and remained kneeling.

Anyway, he's my senior apprentice, so I won't lose out.

Perhaps because nothing had changed in so long, Xu Xing couldn't help but say again:
"There really is a system?"

"No," Chi Jiuyu said honestly, "I was just lying to you."

Xu Xing only heard the words "I was just kidding" intermittently.

Upon hearing this, he paused for a moment, then quickly looked over his entire body before finally fixing his gaze on the rough iron sword leaning against the wall.

"who are you?"

He could accept having an awesome treasure or an old man who was injured and only had a remnant soul, even without a system.

If you transmigrate without having a cheat code, how are you supposed to play the game?!
“I am Chi Jiuyu, from the future, and I am your junior uncle.”

Similarly, all that could be heard were fragmented phrases like "fishing" and "from the future."

"The future..."

Xu Xing paused for a moment and then asked.

"Then why did you come here, and what is your relationship with my future self?"

Could it be the kind of thing where cause and effect are reversed, and the future self gives the past self a cheat code?
When his master said that cultivation could allow one to fly and escape into the earth but not to achieve immortality, he thought this world was a world of martial arts where at most one's fists could shake mountains and rivers.

But now...

Since it involves the concept of 'time', it can be considered a high-martial arts world, right?

"Because the past has become chaotic..."

Chi Jiuyu dared not delay and quickly began to explain.

However, Xu Xing could only hear intermittent voices, and the various unrelated sentences gave him a headache.

But he didn't dare to stop it.

What if the cheat system gets impatient and runs away?!

So, quite a while passed.

Chi Jiuyu finally finished explaining the whole story. She knelt straight down beside Xu Xing, practically wearing the word "honest" on her face.

What just happened really terrified her.

"..."

Xu Xing didn't understand at all, but he pretended to understand and remained silent for a while.

That's when he asked the question that mattered most to him.

"Then can you help me cultivate?"

Could there be a conspiracy?

Only those who have choices have the right to think about these things, and he clearly doesn't.

People have self-knowledge.

Xu Xing was just an ordinary person, without any extraordinary intelligence or perseverance.

Cultivation is too painful, and sword practice is too tiring; he definitely won't be able to keep going.

In that case, accepting the "golden finger" (a special advantage or advantage) is the right thing to do.

Hearing this, Chi Jiuyu was stunned.

Helping my martial uncle cultivate?
She wouldn't even dare to think about such a thing!
but……

She had indeed asked her master if she could interfere in past events, but her master said it was up to her.

The Spirit Ancestor also said that no matter what she did, it would not affect the final outcome.

Can……

How can I help my martial uncle?

Should we pass on the "Tai Xu Sword Manual" to him now?

But how can I teach my uncle when he can't even hear me clearly? (End of Chapter)