Demon, come and cultivate for me.

Xie Qi knew that the Dragon Elephant Technique that Zhou Chu practiced was not a profound technique.

This kind of technique is too common. You can even buy the Dragon Elephant Technique booklet at a street stall. Most martial arts schools wouldn't bother teaching their disciples this kind of technique.

Furthermore, this technique is incomplete; reaching its peak is already the limit.

For hundreds of years, few people in the Yan Kingdom have been able to break through to the Innate Martial Artist level using the Dragon Elephant Technique.

Zhou Chu said, "There were originally no cultivation methods in the world; they only came into being when many people practiced them!"

There were originally no martial arts techniques in the world; as more people practiced them, techniques naturally emerged...

That makes perfect sense!

After repeatedly pondering this sentence, Xie Qi couldn't help but secretly admire it.

After listening to Zhou Chu's words, Chen Xiangzi nodded in agreement.

Zhou Chu continued, "A cultivation technique is just a method of cultivation. After someone successfully cultivates a certain technique, they record the cultivation process and pass it down."

Later generations practiced according to his method, and with repeated practice, it naturally became a fixed technique.

Since our predecessors could create cultivation techniques even when there were none, why can't later generations deduce and complete the incomplete techniques?

Just now I tried to deduce the subsequent techniques of the Dragon Elephant Skill, and I did indeed make some progress…”

"Stop!" Chen Xiangzi stopped Zhou Chu: "I believe everything you say, but only half an hour has passed since you were struck by lightning."

In other words, you deduced the subsequent steps of the Dragon Elephant Technique in just half an hour and successfully broke through to the Innate Realm?

"It wasn't half an hour," Zhou Chu shook his head in denial.

Chen Xiangzi said, "I knew it, it takes several years of practice..."

"Fellow Daoist, you've misunderstood." Zhou Chu habitually brushed off imaginary dust from his shoulders.

"What I mean is, did you realize it within half an hour, Brother Xie, when you took my pulse...?"

"..."

"..."

Look, look, does this sound like human speech?

When he took her pulse, it had only been a few breaths since she was struck by lightning.

I admit you're a genius, but this kind of pretentiousness is wrong of you.

Not only Chen Xiangzi, but Xie Qi also found it hard to listen.

He directly pulled Chen Xiangzi aside and changed the subject:

"Is the mountain king your uncle? How did your uncle become the mountain king? Tell me quickly..."

"It's a long story, back then..." Chen Xiangzi said, following Xie Qi upstairs.

Zhou Chu looked at the two figures as they walked away, then shook his head helplessly. "You don't believe that I can deduce an incomplete technique in such a short time, and I don't believe it myself either."

By deducing and practicing the techniques, Zhou Chu had exhausted the centipede demon's lifespan of over three hundred years before finally breaking through to the True Body Realm.

Zhou Chu's consciousness entered the Great Void Formless Diagram.

【Dragon Form Guiding Technique (True Form)】

[Having cultivated for 489 years]

After breaking through to the True Body Realm, the lower dantian and middle dantian merge and connect, forming a sea of ​​true qi.

The true qi within the body in a fully replenished state can be up to a hundred times greater than that at the peak of the state.

To fully channel one's true energy once requires consuming a whole year's lifespan of the mountain demon's soul.

At this moment, only the mountain demon's soul remained in the Voidless Diagram.

Mandrill (Three Realms)

[Talent: (Great Strength) (Climbing)]

Lifespan: 39 years

Yesterday there were still dozens of demon souls with a lifespan of ten thousand years, but now there are only thirty-odd years left. Life is full of ups and downs, nothing more than that.

Zhou Chu spared no expense in dealing with the mountain lord this time.

He realized that his cultivation level was far from being able to dominate the world.

In the words of a past life, it means:

We still need to practice!

There is an urgent need for demon souls; another batch of demons must be slain before cultivation can continue.

When Zhou Chu regained consciousness, the first thing he saw was the yellow weasel around Chen Xiangzi's waist.

This little beast can speak human language, so it seems to be at least at the first level of cultivation, and has a lifespan of at least a hundred years.

Thinking this to himself, a greedy look appeared in his eyes.

The weasel noticed someone staring at it, so it peeked out and saw Zhou Chu staring straight at it.

It recognized that look; it was clearly... looking at its prey!

The weasel shuddered and curled up into a ball again.

"Fellow Daoist, the Spirit Binding Rope should be returned to me." Zhou Chu quickly caught up with the two.

"I almost forgot." Chen Xiangzi untied the rope and handed it to Zhou Chu.

The weasel tied to the spirit-binding rope got restless and grabbed Chen Xiangzi's belt with its claws, refusing to let go.

Chen Xiangzi gently pushed its claws away.

"This little thing is quite intelligent," Zhou Chu said, untying the weasel skin.

With Zhou Chu's current cultivation level, he has no fear of the weasel escaping.

The weasel, clutching its two little paws, cried, "Grandpa, spare me! Grandpa, spare me! I've always done good deeds and accumulated merit since I was a child; I've never harmed anyone..."

Chen Xiangzi said with some reluctance, "Although this beast almost harmed us, it also saved us once. Why don't we let it go this time?"

The weasel grasped at a straw: "This Taoist priest is right, let me go this time..."

Xie Qi scoffed, "Let it go, so it can go out and harm people again?"

Zhou Chu said, "That's right. This thing has amazing illusion magic. Even martial artists at the third realm can be bewitched by it, let alone ordinary people. If we release it, who knows how many people it will kill."

Chen Xiangzi recalled how the weasel had used illusion magic when they first entered the cave, nearly killing him with Xie Qi's sword, and then he said:

"I have a way to stop it from harming people; I'll just spare its life."

"I won't harm anyone, I won't harm anyone. As long as you grandfathers release me, I'll do whatever you want." The weasel kowtowed repeatedly.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Xiangzi had already taken out a talisman from his satchel and slapped it on the weasel's head.

He made a hand seal, pointed at the talisman on the weasel's head, and shouted, "Break!"

The yellow talisman instantly merged into the weasel's body.

"You can go now," Chen Xiangzi said, then turned and left.

The weasel knelt on the ground and bowed again, its mouth opening and closing but unable to utter a word. Its eyes rolled around, and then it turned and ran away.

Xie Qi followed Chen Xiangzi and asked, "Are you sure this beast won't harm anyone else?"

Chen Xiangzi nodded and said, "I just sealed its cultivation and intelligence. Now it is just an ordinary animal."

After letting the weasel go, the three continued on their way.

Chen Xiangzi briefly recounted the deeds of his uncle to Zhou Chu and Xie Qi, and also raised the question of why his uncle had become a mountain lord.

Zhou Chu was naturally completely unaware of this.

Even the well-informed Xie Qi said he didn't know, only saying, "To know the reason, you need to know what's inside that jade box."

Chen Xiangzi took out the jade box from his satchel and examined it again, but still couldn't find any flaws.

To open it, we need to find the apprentice that our clan uncle took in back then.

This scene surprised Zhou Chu.

He hadn't expected that Chen Xiangzi's tattered satchel could hold so much; even with a jade box inside, it remained flat, making it impossible to tell that anything was inside.

What surprised him even more was that the material of this jade box was exactly the same as the jade disc that Xu Kun had given him.

Even the indentation on top is similar in shape to a jade disc.

"Let me try, maybe I can open it," Zhou Chu said, reaching out his hand.

"You're not going to smash it, are you?" Chen Xiangzi pulled back the hand holding the jade box, not because he was worried about the jade, but because he was afraid of damaging what was inside.

Zhou Chu shook his head: "Give it to me if you're comfortable with it, otherwise forget it."