Grandpa, times have changed.

Boom!
A loud bang.

The ground trembled, water splashed in the pool, and fish fled in terror.

Smoke and dust billowed, obscuring everything in sight, and tall, green bamboo stalks were broken under the weight.

After a long while, the dust that had been swirling in the bamboo forest clearing gradually subsided under the pressure of an invisible force.

Xu Xing and Bie Xuening were both covered in dust and looked quite disheveled.

In front of them, three moon crown bamboos, shimmering with a faint silver glow and still bearing a hint of green, were piled together.

Although it was laid flat, its height reached the thighs of both people.

Is that even bamboo?!
Looking at the Moon Crown Bamboo in front of me, so large that one could not even wrap their arms around it, its entire body seemingly cast from pure silver, its surface as if covered with a thin layer of jade, I saw...
A thought flashed through Xu Xing's mind.

'The sap from roasting this kind of bamboo should taste really good, right?' Bie Xuening thought to herself.

Soon, a thin old man dressed in plain clothes descended from the sky and landed beside the Moon Crown Bamboo.

"Master." x2
The two said in unison.

"Ah."

Wu Shi nodded slightly, his gaze sweeping over the two of them.

"Did you slack off during your practice this morning?"

"Don't worry, Master!"

Bie Xuening raised her head and said, her tone tinged with a hint of smugness.

"With me watching over you, Junior Brother won't dare to slack off!"

Xu Xing paused, but said nothing.

"That's good."

Thinking about what he had learned last night, his gaze lingered on Xu Xing for a while longer.

Xiao Xing is a child with strong opinions, exceptional insight, and excellent aptitude.

And its origins are so...

Bizarre.

Perhaps he will be the one to lead humanity and change the status quo in the future?

This unusual behavior puzzled Xu Xing, but since his senior sister was still nearby, he remained silent.

"This is a moon-crowned bamboo."

Wu Shi gave a deep explanation, then pointed to the side.

"Xiao Xing, Xue Ning, go and collect the pieces that were broken."

They're all useful, so it's best not to waste them.

What if the bamboo sap produced by roasting the Moon Crown Bamboo doesn't work well, or doesn't have the effect of aiding cultivation?
"So you're not practicing this morning?" Xu Xing couldn't help but ask.

"Of course we need to practice. Let's get ready before we start."

Wu Shi's words shattered his illusions.

Having placed high hopes on Xu Xing, how could he allow Xu Xing to slack off?

Xu Xing: "..."

……

……

Before we knew it, it was evening.

After a whole afternoon, Wu Shi finally finished cutting the moon-crowned bamboo he had brought back into sections, dividing them into three portions and piling them up next to the bamboo hut.

A bonfire was set up in front of the bamboo house, with two sections of cut moon-crowned bamboo placed on it.

As the flames rose, the leaping flames continuously scorched the bamboo, but left no trace. Instead, they made the silvery glow flowing over the surface of the Moon Crown Bamboo even brighter.

Meanwhile, Xu Xing, who had been practicing all afternoon and was completely exhausted, lay sprawled out beside the fire, motionless.

Perhaps because of the high hopes placed on him, Wu Shi was particularly strict today.

He, who usually manages to slack off, actually finished everything today...

wrong!

There is more homework than usual.

"Junior brother, this is yours."

Bie Xuening, holding two bamboo tubes, ran from the front of the bamboo house to Xu Xing's side and handed him one of them.

"Thank you, senior sister."

Xu Xingqiang struggled to sit up, but the constant aches and pains throughout his body still made him grimace.

"Whoo~"

He took a deep breath, took the bamboo tube, opened it, and took a swig.

The sweet liquid flowed into my throat, turning into a cool sensation that gradually spread throughout my body.

Soon, he felt the soreness all over his body lessen considerably.

But along with it comes an extreme bitterness that almost completely numbs the tongue, bursting forth in the mouth.

"Ugh~"

Xu Xing kept gagging, and it took him a while to finally recover.

The sweet part is bamboo sap, while the bitter part is a medicinal ingredient added later to extend its shelf life.

"Junior brother, drink some water!"

A bamboo tube was handed to him.

"Thank you." Xu Xing subconsciously accepted it.

However, I noticed something was wrong as soon as I got my hands on it.

Ok?
This doesn't look like water!
He looked at Bie Xuening, who looked away guiltily.

"..." Xu Xing handed the bamboo tube back, "Stop messing around, senior sister, you can't not drink it."

With this level of training intensity, if they don't have some kind of magic potion to relieve their physical fatigue, it's questionable whether they'll even be able to get up tomorrow.

"I know, just kidding."

Bie Xuening took the bamboo tube back with a worried look on her face.

She can accept practicing swordsmanship for as long as she wants, but this stuff is just too arduous!

soon.

After another bout of retching, Xu Xing finally managed to finish his portion.

He was practically vomiting bile.

But Bie Xuening, standing to the side, was still hesitating, looking like she wanted to drink but didn't dare to.

Xu Xing, having recovered his composure, saw her like this...

"Master, there should still be some that haven't been treated with the medicine, right?" Xu Xing asked.

Wu Shi was observing the changes in the moon-crowned bamboo when he stopped:
"There are still a few left, what's wrong?"

"Why don't we let Senior Sister drink it?" Bie Xuening's eyes lit up.

"..." Wu Shi pondered for a moment, but did not refuse. "Okay."

"Thank you, junior brother!"

After shoving the bamboo tube in her hand into Xu Xing's hands, she quickly ran towards the bamboo house.

"My master is so good to his master..." Chi Jiuyu muttered softly.

His expression was somewhat complicated.

……

……

night.

The fire was blazing.

However, the moon-crowned bamboo placed on the fire and burning for most of the day remained unchanged.

There wasn't even a trace of smoke or fire; the surface remained as bright and new as ever, radiating a bright and dazzling silver glow.

"Won't ordinary fire work...?" Wu Shi frowned.

"Of course it's useless. This bamboo is almost good enough to be used as material for forging flying swords. Ordinary fire definitely won't hurt it."

Although Wu Shi couldn't hear, Chi Jiuyu, feeling extremely bored, continued to explain to himself.

The past of the master and his uncle.

At first it was fine, it was very novel.

But after a while, she couldn't help but feel a little bored watching them practice swordsmanship and cultivate every day, especially with such simple and crude sword techniques.

"To extract the essence, one must use spiritual fire ignited by spiritual objects or true fire fueled by magical power."

She discovered the Moon Crown Bamboo the moment her master brought it back.

Ordinary fire, no matter how high the temperature, cannot extract the essence contained within!

It must be a spiritual fire or a true fire, a special flame that can scorch and refine spiritual energy.

Hey~
I wonder when I'll be able to get involved in this timeline.

It's so boring to just watch like this!

emm...

But whose power brought me to this point in time?
Is it the legendary Meizu?
Or perhaps it was the Spirit Ancestor?
Or is it Senior Yuanjun?

At least give yourself the option to actively choose 'speed up'.

For example, in situations like this, you should 'speed up' to get there.

He was thinking about it.

What she didn't notice was that a sliver of red light flashed briefly between her eyebrows.

The next second, the familiar feeling returned.

I felt my perspective had risen once again.

Oh? !

It's really here?!
……

……

This 'acceleration' has directly pushed back more than two years from this point in time.

Chi Jiuyu witnessed the changes over the past year from a holistic, overarching perspective.

She saw that during this time, her master had been constantly searching for a way to deal with the Moon Crown Bamboo, but initially there was little progress.

Ultimately, I got the inspiration from a casual remark made by my uncle.

After another month of seclusion, he actually succeeded in creating a method to ignite true fire using magical power.

Honestly, when the grandmaster demonstrated the true fire to the master and uncle, not only was the uncle stunned, but she was also completely bewildered.

She could understand what happened with the swordsmanship before, since she could do it herself.

But to create a method for using magical power to generate true fire based solely on a casual remark from my martial uncle... that's...

This was created from scratch, and it only took a month?

Isn't that a bit perverted?!

Fortunately, his master later explained that when he was captured by the Cang Clan, he had witnessed several Cang Clan members using similar methods, so he remembered them.

Hmm, that explanation makes sense...

That's utterly normal!
How many practitioners in the world can directly learn the techniques and supernatural abilities used by others after seeing them?

For example, Chi Jiuyu!

That's the number one genius in all the heavens and myriad realms, recognized by the Tai Xuan Immortal Network!

It took him an entire night, and he was killed countless times by his martial uncle, before he finally reached the threshold of the 'Sword of Annihilation'.

Tsk tsk~
This really proves that saying true.

There are heavens beyond heavens, and people beyond fishermen.

No wonder he was able to teach his master and uncle.

Chi Jiuyu sighed deeply.

……

……

late at night.

Xu Xing knelt on the ground, leaning on his sword, his clothes soaked with sweat, and he was swaying precariously.

After more than two years of cultivation, his cultivation level has reached the sixth level of Qi Refining, just one step away from reaching the seventh level.

"That's enough for today's training," Wu Shi said.

"Master, you've misjudged me. I'm really not cut out for this." Xu Xing said, sounding utterly hopeless.

Since he confessed his origins that night, his master has suddenly become stricter with him for the past two years.

Not only do we keep a close eye on him to prevent him from slacking off, but we also double the amount of homework he usually has!

From time to time, she would take him out to hunt some ferocious beasts and exotic animals in the surrounding area.

"With my lazy nature, no matter how much you discipline me, I'll never amount to anything. My senior sister has a much better chance than me!"

Compared to Xu Xing's sixth level of Qi Refining, Bie Xuening has reached the ninth level of Qi Refining and is currently preparing for the Fetal Breathing Realm.

However, in this era, there is only one way to break through to the Fetal Breathing Realm, that is, the Foundation Establishment Method—

The foundation of the Way is established by Heaven.

Moreover, the human race of this era did not have any so-called mining or refining methods.

So it's either at the moment when the moon hasn't set, the stars haven't disappeared, and the sun is just rising, or it's at the moment when the sun is setting, the moon has risen, and the stars are just beginning to appear!

At the same time, one must absorb the brilliance of stars, the essence of the moon, and the essence of the sun into the body, and refine the foundation of the Dao in one go, in order to advance to the embryonic breathing stage, which is the foundation building stage in later generations!
The problem is that this method is extremely dangerous; the slightest mistake could result in the complete destruction of one's body and soul.

Therefore, Bie Xuening dares not try it rashly now. (End of this chapter)