The Great Martial Arts World: Hot Topics and Great Heroes

Chapter 353 Night Raid

In the middle of the night, after everyone had gone to sleep, Azi, who had learned the identities of Zhennan Wang, Bei Qiao Feng, Nan Murong, Chu Tai Sui, and others during the day, behaved very "well-behaved," as if she only wanted to "bully others with her power" and no longer coveted the Xingxiu Sect's martial arts...

He turned his clothes inside out, revealing the night clothes underneath, and then quietly sneaked into Chu Luren's room!

Abandon the Divine Wood King Cauldron? Are you kidding me?

Having grown up in the Xingxiu Sect, Azi has always believed in only her own martial arts skills.

If parents and brother-in-law were truly reliable, I wouldn't have only met them when I was sixteen...

Ah Zi skillfully opened the window, blew the sleeping gas that hadn't been taken into the room into the room with a reed pipe, and waited for a while. When there was no movement, she went in with peace of mind.

These bamboo houses were not large. After entering and passing the screen, there was a bamboo bed. When Azi saw Chu Luren, she was also startled—but he was sitting cross-legged on the bed!

Azi was initially worried that he was practicing his internal energy and would easily wake up, but considering that he hadn't reacted to the sleeping incense earlier, she mustered her courage and took two more steps closer.

Azi waved her hand in front of Chu Luren, and seeing that he didn't react, she breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time felt contempt—Chu Taisui, indeed! He doesn't even have this much sense of vigilance.

What are you pretending to be cultivating? You're sitting there sleeping like a pig...

Azi searched around the room but couldn't find her Divine Wood King Cauldron. She then went to the bed and searched under the pillow, but still couldn't find it.

Ah Zi even looked for the salted fish jar—it actually tasted pretty good!

However, the Divine Wood King Cauldron was still nowhere to be found. So, after coughing twice to make sure that Chu Luren was still not awake, A Zi reached into his arms.

However, this touch had no effect. Chu Luren's expression remained unchanged, but A Zi's hand immediately "stuck" to Chu Luren's chest!

Is Chu Luren sleeping soundly?

That's true, the Dao Embryo's sleep quality is really good...

However, it would be a grave mistake to assume that the Chu Lu people were completely unprepared in the Dao Embryo state.

On the contrary, in the Dao Embryo state, although Chu Luren had no logical consciousness, his spiritual sense was greatly enhanced. He was not only sensitive to harmful behavior, but also to malice and killing intent!

This manifests in two ways. First, when Chu Luren is "asleep," the Dao Embryo's warning will wake him up—if he truly harbors murderous intent, he would have already woken up while he was outside.

On the other hand, when the Chu Lu people are awake but unaware of the crisis, they will also have more obvious impulses.

Azi's bewitching smoke dissipated in the blink of an eye for the Chu Lu people, failing to elicit any reaction whatsoever.

Afterwards, Azi searched for something in the house, while Chu Luren remained sound asleep. However, when she actually came into contact with Chu Luren...

Regardless of whether there was any murderous intent, the Dao Embryo's self-protection mechanism has already been triggered!

Azi immediately felt her hand being sucked in, and all her internal energy involuntarily surged out of her hand. Not to mention pulling her hand away, she couldn't even stand up for a breath and knelt down in front of Chu Luren.

Chu Luren also woke up at this moment—someone wanted to harm me? Why did they pour their internal energy into me?

I don't want any external internal energy... I'll just stuff it all into "Return to the Void" and unload it!

As soon as Chu Luren opened his eyes, he saw A Zi kneeling in front of him, looking at him with a face full of panic, and... touching his chest?

Chu Luren: ? ? ?

"Why are you touching me in the middle of the night instead of sleeping, and even channeling your inner energy into me? Do you also have a ring-shaped old man? This won't increase my favorability." Chu Luren said a lot, but A Zi didn't understand much of it.

Fortunately, as Chu Luren woke up, the "sucking" effect had also disappeared. A Zi was directly thrown to the ground by gravity and her hand was taken back.

"Dissolving Power... Great Technique? How do you know the Dissolving Power Great Technique?" Azi asked in surprise and doubt.

"You flatter Ding Chunqiu. I have nothing to do with the 'Dissolving Power Technique'... But in other words, you came here to steal the 'Divine Wood King Cauldron'?" Chu Luren realized this at this moment.

"What steal? It was clearly... mine to begin with!" Azi was still a little weak and lay on the ground talking to Chu Luren. Suddenly her eyes lit up.

"Give me back the Divine Wood King Cauldron right now, or I'll scream for help!" A smug look appeared on A Zi's face.

She even made a gesture as if she was about to tear off her own clothes.

Faced with this level of honey trap, Chu Luren...

"Stop! What are you doing? I won't be tempted!" Chu Luren shouted even louder than Gu Ducheng's hoarse voice.

You think you can outmaneuver me? You're still too green!

Azi was stunned when she saw this, and hadn't yet reacted, wondering how there could be such a person.

Upon hearing Chu Luren's cries for help, Qiao Feng and Chu Wanli rushed over one after another.

Chu Wanli was the one who was supposed to be on guard around, while Qiao Feng was always quick to wake up and always slept fully clothed when traveling the martial arts world.

The women, along with a man surnamed Duan who wished to remain anonymous, had also woken up, but were getting dressed...

Qiao Feng and Chu Wanli were both taken aback by what they saw.

"He...he assaulted me!" Azi said angrily.

"This is my room."

"you……"

"You're wearing night clothes."

"you……"

"You just blew sleeping powder, I can smell it!"

"you……"

Azi pouted, feeling wronged, but couldn't find a word to refute her.

If it were someone else, Chu Luren would worry that if he invited everyone over, they might do something rash because of their reputation.

As for Azi...

Having grown up in the Xingxiu Sect since childhood, this little demoness, who even had her eyes pecked by Ding Chunqiu, naturally doesn't have this problem!

After the commotion, Duan Zhengchun, who arrived late, said with a dark face, "Azi! You... are being ridiculous! Didn't I tell you that you can't practice the 'Dissolving Power Technique' anymore? Why did you come here to your Brother Chu's place?"

"Don't scare the child... Azi, don't be afraid. Your parents and your brother-in-law will protect you in the future. You don't need to practice these evil martial arts." While persuading Azi, Ruan Xingzhu also defined Azi's behavior as a lack of security.

Ah Zi, however, shrugged and said, "Relying on others can only make you a princess, but relying on yourself can make you the Star Ancestor!"

"You still have the nerve to talk back? You... and you too, Lu Ren, what are you doing making such a racket in the middle of the night? A Zi is still so young, can't you just talk to her properly?" Duan Zhengchun complained to Chu Lu Ren again with a dark face.

"Then... I'll speak quietly and properly next time?" Chu Luren was someone who never talked back to his elders.

Duan Zhengchun, thinking about the scenario, immediately corrected him, "You're not allowed to say it at night!"

A'Zhu felt sorry for her younger sister and was helping her up when she advised A'Zi, "If you really want to learn martial arts, you can ask your father, your brother-in-law, or even Young Master Chu for help. Why steal something to practice evil arts?"

"Young Master Chu? Which young master has the surname Chu? Ah... you don't mean Chu Tai Sui, do you?" A Zi kept provoking A Zhu while hiding behind her.

Chapter 354 Hypocritical

The nighttime attack by A Zi last night also served as a reminder to Chu Luren.

In the "Taoist Embryo" state, there is no logical thinking ability; judgment is purely based on spiritual intuition. It can be accurate in some ways, but it can also be truly inaccurate in others!

Last night, Azi sneaked into my room without any murderous intent or even strong malice, so Chu Luren wasn't awakened. But... is Azi really not going to do anything reckless?

Not necessarily!

After all, Azi grew up in the Xingxiu Sect. In her eyes, things like cutting off half of Xiao Er's tongue were just minor punishments and not considered evil deeds at all. Helping someone heat up an iron helmet was considered helping others...

What ordinary people would consider cruel, Azi could do quite normally without needing malice as a basis.

It's like a child pouring boiling water on an ant nest—just playing around for no reason, without any malice, and certainly without feeling like a bad person because of it.

Even last night, if Azi had easily succeeded, she might have given Chu Luren some poison that others would consider anything other than a "joke"!

This kind of "harm" is precisely what the Dao embryo is not good at being alert to, and because it sleeps so soundly, it lacks vigilance.

Fortunately, such situations are rare, and no matter how little intent or malice there is, if the sound is too loud or there is direct contact, there will still be a reaction. Moreover, when in the "Dao Embryo" state, Chu Luren's protective body is at its strongest, so he is not so easily "accidentally injured".

In addition, after Chu Luren absorbed a portion of A Zi's internal energy that night, although Chu Luren promptly threw her into "Gui Xu" to dissipate it, he still managed to sense the "authentic" Wan Hua True Qi.

Ah Zi's internal energy was far from sufficient, but she was undoubtedly practicing the "Dissolving Power Technique"...

To cultivate the "Dissolving Power Technique," one must first dissolve one's internal energy. After all, it is of a completely opposite nature to ordinary internal energy, so the retention rate of the internal energy after cultivation is predictable.

In the morning, Azi was summoned by Duan Zhengchun and Ruan Xingzhu again. While being comforted, they also scolded her. Just as she was thinking, "I'd rather not have these parents," she stepped out of the house and found Chu Luren lighting incense with the Divine Wood Cauldron in the open space outside—this special incense was his own!

Suddenly, Azi's anger surged to the top of her head...

"Hey! Didn't you say this is an evil art and shouldn't be practiced?" Azi looked at Chu Luren angrily.

Does this person have no shame? He keeps talking about some evil or heretical martial art, he stole my little cauldron and won't give it back, and now he's bent over studying it.

"Why did I train even though I told you not to? Good question!" Chu Luren turned and glanced at her.

Azi continued to glare at him, thinking to herself: This shameless guy will definitely say something like "it's for my own good," and then I'll make a huge scene...

"Because I'm a hypocrite!" Chu Luren forced a hypocritical act.

Azi: ……

"Azi, stop fooling around. Second Brother is looking for the weaknesses of the 'Dissolving Power Technique.' Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated." Qiao Feng frowned and scolded him.

Ah Zi clearly didn't like this statement.

Then A'Zhu reminded him from the side, "Brother Qiao said that you know at least half of the most mysterious martial arts in the world. Why don't you ask him for guidance? Why bother practicing the 'Dissolving Power Technique'?"

Upon hearing this, Chu Luren turned to look at A'Zhu. Just as A'Zhu was wondering what was going on, Chu Luren asked, "Why are you calling me Second Brother?"

Azhu knew Chu Luren was joking, but her face still turned red. Qiao Feng also laughed even more foolishly. No one knew what they had said to Duan Zhengchun.

"What does Young Master Chu think?" A'Zhu asked deliberately.

“I think… you shouldn’t disown my third brother as your elder brother.” Chu Luren acted as if to say, “You should call him second brother.”

It would be disrespectful and improper for others to joke with his sister-in-law like that, but he's Chu Tai Sui... Qiao Feng is used to it.

Just as Chu Luren was amusing himself here, two strange insects were attracted by the Divine Wood King Cauldron.

Chu Luren was initially worried that this thing would attract all the poisonous insects within a radius of dozens of miles—how many would that be? If it bites or stings and causes an itchy bump, wouldn't that also count as being poisonous?

However, seeing the two that had been attracted, he breathed a sigh of relief. One was a spider with blood-red markings on its body, about half the size of a palm, and the other was a centipede that was entirely black with more than twenty pairs of snow-white legs.

As for other small insects and gnats, none were seen.

"Wow, this Divine Wood King Cauldron is quite clever; it doesn't attract just any poisonous insects," Chu Luren exclaimed.

“Insects are much smarter than animals. Even animals know that cattle and sheep should avoid places where tigers and leopards roam. But insects don’t have any absolute natural enemies. Whoever is stronger eats whom!” When Azi explained, she always gritted her teeth and said “beast” while staring at Chu Luren.