"What do you want, rebellious disciple?"
Fairy Mengdie's beautiful eyes showed a trace of horror.
She started to panic.
How dare he act like this? How dare he?
Isn't he worried about being held accountable by me afterward?
Chu Xiu stood beside the White Jade Lotus Throne, reached out his right hand to lift Fairy Mengdie's fair chin, and clicked his tongue in wonder.
"Thousands of years old, yet your skin is still so good."
Fairy Mengdie was furious with shame.
Clenching her pearly teeth: "Rebellious disciple, I swear I will kill you, I definitely will."
"Heh, really? Master, why do you only know how to use these two threats?"
Chu Xiu grabbed her hair, a pleasant fragrance wafting into his nose, and sneered: "Master, if I let Liu Xue, the Peak Lord of Heavenly Sword Peak, know that your cultivation has been sealed...
Do you think she would rush up to Cloudmist Peak and skin you alive?
Remember, it was you who killed her father with a single sword strike. How could she not seek revenge?"
Fairy Mengdie's pupils slightly contracted.
A chill spread from her spine to her brain.
Of course, she believed, no, if Liu Xue knew her cultivation was sealed, she would definitely come to kill her. That woman is a madwoman!
"Rebellious disciple, what do you want?
Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, or cultivation resources, I can give them to you."
"Not enough, far from enough." Chu Xiu shook his head, gently stroking her smooth hair.
Qi Mengdie wanted to struggle.
But now she was just a mortal woman, unable to escape Chu Xiu's clutches.
"Speak, do you not want resources? I can give you everything."
"Disciple wants..." Chu Xiu chuckled sinisterly.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible, don't even think about it."
Hearing the rebellious disciple's outrageous words, she was furious beyond measure.
Qi Mengdie bit her pearly teeth tightly, her heart boiling with killing intent, wishing she could immediately tear the rebellious disciple in front of her into pieces.
"I am a dignified Great Saint Expert, how could I... lower myself to someone like you, an ant."
"Hiss~"
Chu Xiu's smile grew gentler.
I have no grudge against your Taisu Holy Land, yet you joined the hunt? Now you're scared?
"Master, please... Disciple has an ancient cultivation technique that would benefit you as well, please take a look..."
His left index finger lightly tapped her forehead.
Qi Mengdie's beautiful eyes trembled, secretly shocked in her heart.
She immediately felt it was extraordinary.
Where did this rebellious disciple get such a miraculous cultivation technique?
This technique seemed vaguely aligned with the Heavenly Dao, definitely not an ordinary item.
"Master... how is it?" Chu Xiu asked with a smile.
"Get out~" Qi Mengdie shouted angrily.
Whoosh!
The candle flames in the hall flickered, the wind howled loudly!
***
A few hours later.
Chu Xiu turned his head to look at the Fairy Master sitting with her arms around her knees under the Lotus Throne, her gaze icy.
"Goodbye, Master."
"You... rebellious disciple."
Old Demon Chu's smile widened, and he turned to leave.
"Wait... can you unseal my cultivation?"
Qi Mengdie's tone no longer held the previous arrogance, instead sounding pitiful.
"I can't..."
"Rebellious disciple, do you want to kill your master?"
"Heh, if Master doesn't want others to know your cultivation is sealed, then hide it well!"
"What are you holding?" Qi Mengdie gritted her teeth, staring intently at the crystal ball Chu Xiu was tossing up and down in his right hand.
"Heh, you mean this? Of course, it's a Memory Crystal."
"What, you actually recorded it?" Fairy Mengdie's stunning face turned even paler.
"Don't get excited, it's just a memento!!"
Chu Xiu waved his sleeve, speaking as he left: "Master, listen to a piece of advice from your disciple, don't think about unsealing it.
No one on the entire Firmament Continent can unseal it, unless an ancient Great Emperor is reborn.
Unfortunately, there are no Great Emperors in the world anymore.
By the way, considering our long-standing friendship, I'll remind you again, only I, your disciple, can unseal it. If I die, you'll remain a mortal for life, until you die of old age.
If you don't believe it, you can try.
Also, if I die, the images in the crystal will not only spread throughout Taisu Holy Land but even across the entire Firmament Continent... you understand, heh heh..."
"You rebellious disciple... you won't die a good death!!"
Watching his back.
Qi Mengdie was angry and resentful.
Hiss....
She got up to take a bath.
She needed to find a way to unseal it, then tear the rebellious disciple who betrayed his master and ancestors into pieces.
Hmph, she didn't believe that the seal placed by an ant not even at the Dao Palace Realm was as strong as he claimed.
However, in the bath, Qi Mengdie ultimately wore a mask of pain.
She tragically discovered that this seal was indeed strong, and with her thousands of years of knowledge, she couldn't even understand it.
[Ding, the host has become a "rebellious disciple," what an amazing feat, truly a fated great villain, rewarded with 1000 Breakthrough Points]
[Ding, the host's injuries have fully recovered]
[Ding, the host's cultivation aptitude has been enhanced]
[Ding, host aptitude +100]
[Ding, host aptitude +100]
[Ding, host aptitude +100]
[Host's aptitude has reached 317 "Heavenly Level," cultivation speed increased twentyfold]
[Host's cultivation base increased, Foundation Establishment Layer Two, Foundation Establishment Layer Three... Foundation Establishment Layer Eight... Foundation Establishment Layer Nine]
On the way down the mountain, system prompts kept ringing in his mind.
As his cultivation base increased, his aura also kept rising.
Chu Xiu remained expressionless.
No joy or sorrow in his heart.
He had known since he left a backup plan in Taisu Holy Land that Qi Mengdie could help him enhance his cultivation aptitude.
As for the realm improvement? It was completely indifferent, since he had to rebuild, this level of realm wasn't worth his happiness.
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The Foundation Establishment Realm was very important for cultivators.
If the Wheel Sea Realm was like a wooden bucket storing water, then the Foundation Establishment Realm was the process of accumulating wood.
The more wood, the larger and sturdier the Wheel Sea opened up would be, the purer and larger the water stored, the stronger the Dao Foundation built, and the farther the cultivation path would go.
Before his rebirth, although Chu Xiu was invincible in the same realm, he couldn't achieve the level of crossing realms to defeat enemies like a novel protagonist. In a direct confrontation, he could at most fight a Great Saint Expert to a draw, and if the fight dragged on, he might even lose.
Why was that?
He was clearly very strong, so why couldn't he, like a novel protagonist, cross realms to defeat opponents?
He often pondered this question.
In the end, he concluded.
After crossing into this world, constantly bullied, he turned dark, began committing evil, rapidly improving his cultivation base, skipping the Foundation Establishment, Wheel Sea, Divine Bridge, and Other Shore, the four foundational realms... resulting in an unstable foundation.
The reason he was cornered at Soul-Returning Cliff by those Great Saints was half because he was tired of being hunted, and the other half because he wanted to die once and rebuild through possession.
He wanted to build an unparalleled foundation, so that even when facing cultivators with higher realms, he could defeat them.
He didn't return directly to his cave dwelling.
Instead, he rented a flying boat from the sect and headed outside Taisu Holy Land.
***
The flying boat flew for half a day.
Arriving at the mountain gate of Taisu Holy Land.
After registering with the disciples guarding the gate.
He left Taisu Holy Land and entered the Hundred-Thousand Mountains.
Night fell, and the full moon hung high.
He arrived at a valley from his memory.
Standing on the flying boat with his hands behind his back, his robe fluttering, black hair dancing.
Chu Xiu's long, deep eyes looked down at the valley, murmuring: "Years ago, I left resources here for Foundation Establishment, I wonder if they're still here."
He controlled the flying boat to descend.
Among the jagged rocks, he found a half-meter-high, seemingly ordinary gray rock.
Biting his finger, he drew a pentagram formation pattern on the rock with his blood.
Buzz~
The formation pattern glowed with a blood-red light.
Crack, crack, crack~
The rock gradually moved aside.
Revealing a dark hole below.
Without hesitation.
Chu Xiu leaped down.
Half an hour later.
Chu Xiu climbed out.
Looking dusty, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up, his mood very good.
The items he had left here years ago had been retrieved, so there was no reason to stay.
He boarded the flying boat and returned.
When he returned to Taisu Holy Land, it was already bright.
"Chu the Waste..."
Just as he was about to return to Cloudmist Peak.
His flying boat was blocked by a larger, fiery red flying boat ahead.
Chu Xiu raised an eyebrow, looking up.
On the deck of the flying boat ahead stood two men and a woman.
The leading man, dressed in a purple robe of a direct disciple, carried a long sword, with a hideous scar at the corner of his left eye.
Zhang Meng sneered: "Chu the Waste, I thought you were dead, but after not seeing you for ten days, you're bouncing around again.
It seems the Peak Lord of Cloudmist Peak treats you, the senior disciple, well.
Actually willing to give you, this waste, the Heavenly and Earthly Treasures to repair your Wheel Sea."
Chu Xiu's long eyes flashed with a hint of blood.
He controlled the flying boat, changed direction, and passed by the other flying boat.
Leaving behind ten plain words: "Ten days later, Life-and-Death Arena, I'll kill you."
Ten days ago, it was this person who humiliated and crippled his tool.
Chu Xiu was very angry.
Zhang Meng and his two fellow disciples looked at each other.
The next moment, they burst into laughter, tears of laughter streaming from their eyes.
"Senior Brother, did I hear wrong?"
"What did I hear? This waste actually dares to challenge Senior Brother Zhang, and even says he wants to kill Senior Brother Zhang."
Zhang Meng sneered, looking in the direction Chu Xiu left, channeling his Wheel Sea Essence Power, his voice carrying for miles: "Chu the Waste, ten days ago, I spared you for the sake of Cloudmist Peak's Peak Lord, but since you insist on seeking death, then ten days later, if you don't dare come to the Life-and-Death Arena, I will definitely find an opportunity to kill you outside the Holy Land."
Disciples from various peaks heard Zhang Meng's voice and immediately started discussing.
"That Chu Xiu, how dare he still go to the Life-and-Death Arena? Does he have a death wish?"
"Who knows, probably has a screw loose."
"I heard ten days ago, his Wheel Sea was crippled, what does he have to fight against Zhang Meng in the late Wheel Sea Realm?"
"Who cares, anyway, there'll be a good show to watch in ten days."
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