Starting from the two realms, cultivating immortality by taming beasts

Chapter 22 The True Scripture of Eating the Sun

This is not Chen Beiwu exaggerating; there are precedents to this.

A few years ago, the most dramatic sex-related murder case of the year broke out in the cultivation world of Yuankong County.

A Qi Refining stage genius was caught trying to woo the legitimate daughters of two Golden Core families at the same time, and his rivals exposed him as a "time management master."

Not long after, this person disappeared silently from the world of cultivation.

After this story spread, many cultivators thought it was just a rumor. The eldest daughter of a Golden Core family was a favored daughter of heaven, how could she possibly fall for a mere Qi Refining cultivator? But Chen Beiwu was certain that this was a true story.

Chen Beiwu knew this Qi Refining stage genius and had met him several times.

The man's name was Chen Xiuran. He was extremely handsome and a well-known beauty in Pingchen Township. He was also Chen Xiuran's distant cousin.

Chen Xiuran's handsomeness is hard to describe. Every time he goes out shopping, a large group of women follow him and ask for his contact information.

However, his heart was set on the path of cultivation, and he refused all the temptations of beautiful women who came to him. But he couldn't resist the cultivation resources that were offered to him. In the end, he chose to live off the women, which angered the strict Golden Core family.

The grass on his grave is probably three feet tall by now.

"Hey, what are you thinking about?" Xu Lingling waved her hand in front of Chen Beiwu, her eyes never leaving the jade slip in his palm.

"What do you think? Of course he's looking at pretty girls." Chen Beiwu glanced at her, then turned to leave.

"Wait!" Xu Lingling suddenly jogged over.

Chen Beiwu stopped, his brow furrowing slightly. "Is there something you need?"

"Here, this is a gift to congratulate you on advancing to the seventh level of Qi Refining. Don't misunderstand."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Beiwu felt a tremendous force coming from his right palm, and he almost fell to the ground, while Xu Lingling ran away with her ears slightly red.

Seemingly too shy to give a gift for the first time, she didn't even look where she was going, and didn't even realize that her right elbow had bumped into an old tree by the roadside.

"Crack!" The ancient tree snapped and crashed heavily to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, which made Chen Beiwu's lips twitch.

"This girl is so shy even when I give her a simple gift. What if we take it a step further and hug? She might be so shy that she breaks her boyfriend's bones!"

The thought of that hellish scene made Chen Beiwu shake his head.

Stop!

He shouldn't overthink things just because someone kindly gave him a gift.

Chen Beiwu lowered his head and looked at the jade bottle in his palm, on which were written three large characters: "Frost-Reducing Pill".

"this……"

Upon seeing the name of the pill, Chen Beiwu froze on the spot, his expression quite complex.

On the other side, Xu Ziqing hugged Xu Lingling tightly and teased her, "Lingling, are you that rich?"

She had witnessed everything that had just happened and knew that her best friend liked Chen Beiwu, but she usually pretended not to know to avoid damaging their friendship.

She believed that as long as she constantly expressed her affection for Chen Beiwu in front of her best friend, Lingling, with her shy nature, would definitely not compete with her for him.

But now it seems that even a rabbit will bite when cornered.

Perhaps Xu Lingling was putting too much pressure on herself by giving Chen Beiwu a gift, which backfired.

Upon hearing this, Xu Lingling's cheeks flushed red, and she murmured in defense, "It's not expensive. Teacher Li only sold it to me for four hundred spirit stones, which is half the price of the Frost-Reducing Pill on the market. If you buy three together, you can get a discount and it only costs one thousand spirit stones."

"And I did this to save lives, it has nothing to do with money," she added.

Hearing this, Xu Ziqing smiled meaningfully, "So many cultivators die from severe injuries in Yuankong County every year, why don't you, Lingling, have the heart to save them?"

Xu Lingling was immediately speechless.

"Chen Beiwu is the dream lover of many girls at Shouhe No. 2 Middle School, so it's normal for you to like him, Lingling." Xu Ziqing turned to look at the sky.

"Actually..." Xu Lingling wanted to explain, but couldn't say anything.

Immediately afterwards, she saw her best friend extend her right palm towards her, as if issuing a duel challenge: "Lingling, how about we compete fairly from now on, each relying on our own abilities?"

Looking at Xu Ziqing, who seemed like a goddess in the sunlight, Xu Lingling was completely mesmerized.

What a joke! She has no ladylike manners at all in private and is always breaking things. How can she compete with her broad-minded and gentle best friend?

……

The training room.

"This is tricky!" Chen Beiwu sighed, his gaze shifting back and forth between the magic jade slip and the Frost-Reducing Pill.

Too many suitors can also be a calamity.

Accepting one gift is fine, but the two gifts combined are far too valuable, with a total value exceeding one thousand low-grade spirit stones.

If either of Xu Ziqing's parents dislikes him and wants to get rid of him, they can use these gifts to establish a reputation and send him to work in the mines wearing silver bracelets.

"Thinking so much is useless. To put it bluntly, it's because I'm not capable enough. Otherwise, I could do whatever I want." Chen Beiwu glanced at the messages on his phone.

Unsurprisingly, both Xu Ziqing and the other woman said that once a gift is given, it's like water spilled—there's no way to take it back, so he could accept it without worry.

"There's no other way. It seems I need to find some time to return the favor to Xu Ziqing, Xu Lingling, and Teacher Li Jiacheng to express my gratitude." Chen Beiwu picked up the magic jade slip and looked at Tie Dan.

"Woof?"

Tie Dan tilted his head in confusion.

"Do you want to become stronger?" Chen Beiwu asked seriously.

Tie Dan's eyes lit up, and he barked excitedly, "Woof woof woof!"

"Very good, I have a 'True Scripture of the Heavenly Dog Eating the Sun' that has been passed down from ancient times. Look at the patterns on this jade slip. See that golden pattern? It represents the prototype of a top-grade fire-based magical technique contained within the jade slip," Chen Beiwu boasted.

Iron Egg's eyes widened, and it bit down on the jade slip.

"Be gentle, don't bite the jade slip."

Chen Beiwu patted the dog's head: "Listen to me, the prototype of this divine power is called Blazing Flame Summoning, which can mobilize the fire elemental energy of heaven and earth to form a fire python that can both attack and defend. The fire python has seven forms, and the most powerful form can instantly shatter the defense of a second-realm lesser demon."

Upon hearing this, Tiedan excitedly pawed at the ground, its tail spinning like a whirlwind.

It knows what a second-realm lesser demon is.

The Azure Thunder Tiger, which was so imposing yesterday that it almost peed its pants from a distance, is a second-realm minor demon. It looks incredibly powerful and domineering!

"How about it, do you want to learn?" Chen Beiwu asked.

Tie Dan nodded frantically.

"Should the classification of the Emerald Scales be changed?"

"Woof!"

"Very good." Chen Beiwu nodded slightly. "Considering your unwavering determination to pursue the Dao, I will entrust this rudimentary form of supernatural power to you. Remember, use your demonic energy to envelop your tongue and lick the jade slip to activate the teaching."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tie Dan began frantically licking the jade slip.

Chen Beiwu chuckled inwardly, having successfully ignited Tie Dan's enthusiasm for learning.

He did not deceive Tie Dan. The most powerful form of the Blazing Flame Technique, the Python-to-Dragon Transformation, could instantly shatter the defense of a second-realm lesser demon, but there were two prerequisites: the caster's cultivation level needed to reach the Foundation Establishment stage, and they needed to comprehend the second-tier supreme spiritual technique, Blazing Dragon Break.

(End of this chapter)