Chapter 46: Chapter 46 – Surprisingly Clear-Browed and Bright-Eyed_1
Chapter 46: Chapter 46 – Surprisingly Clear-Browed and Bright-Eyed_1
Deep in the night, at the Great Hall of Earl Chengyi’s mansion.
“So you’re saying, not only are you at the third house level in terms of cultivation, but you’ve also been promoted to Fumo Youjiao?”
Earl Chengyi, Li Chengji, exchanged a glance with his eldest son. Both of their eyes flashed a hint of surprise: “You got promoted to Fumo Youjiao just yesterday? Why didn’t you ntion it earlier?”
“What’s there to ntion about a minor 7th-rank official?”
At this point, Li Xuan was holding a soup bowl the size of a face basin, pouring the soup from it down his mouth with a “glug glug” sound, while mumbling ambiguously: “Rember when the eldest brother was my age, he was already a respected 5th-rank official, a Qianhu.”
“That’s not the sa thing.” Li Chengji shook his head: “The official positions in the Liudao Division can’t be compared with military positions in the Court.”
“Of course, they can’t be compared – elder brother can control an army, and now I’m just a patroller,”
Li Xuan had only gotten halfway through the soup when he felt like he couldn’t go on. He set the soup bowl down and his face crumpled like a bitter gourd: “Mother, I honestly can’t drink any more. I feel like I am about to burst. How about this – we leave the soup for later, I’ll drink it tomorrow? Or maybe everyone can share a little?”
“No way!”
Mrs. Liu firmly rejected the idea: “I spent a fortune to get this to help nourish your body. Share what? Furthermore, this Qiubian is most effective when consud imdiately. Delaying it will diminish the effects. This is not just a supplent for vitality, it can also enhance your cultivation. How can we waste it?”
“Gurgle~”
That was the sound of Li Yan swallowing. He didn’t even have a little bowl this ti. All he could do was watch on eagerly, his envy off the charts.
Even Earl Chengyi, Li Chengji, couldn’t stay calm. His face gave an appearance of calmness, but he couldn’t help swallowing discreetly. That was Qiubian! A weak, yet ultimately a dragon breed. Once it grows a horn in the future, it would beco a real dragon.
How much silver had this extravagant woman spent on this Qiubian? It must have been at least 3,500 teal.
“But now I truly can’t eat any more, forcing also won’t help.”
Li Xuan speculated that though this Qiubian must have weighed at least five pounds, and he had already eaten three. Coupled with the myriad of dicinal ingredients in the soup, he looked at the bowl with regret in his eyes: “If I continue, I might throw up.”
Mrs.Liu hesitated for a mont, then picked out a few chunks of at from the bowl and scooped out so soup. She was wiping away tears as she did this: “Is this alright? I heard you got hurt again today and almost lost your life to that Demoness Zidie. Can’t you quit your job at Liudao Division? It’s all because your father and elder brother are incapable, leaving you, a youngster, to bear the hardships to provide for the family——”
Although Li Yan had heard all this, he wasn’t moved. He looked pleased as he was about to take the bowl from Mrs. Liu’s hand, but Li Chengji preemptively took it.
Li Yan was not pleased: “Old man, that’s my soup!”
“What do you need it for if your wife isn’t here?” Li Chengji said with a grin, looking at his eldest son, “Yan, if you want so, I’ll ask soone to speak to your wife later.”
Mrs. Liu threw a harsh glance at her husband, but surprisingly, Li Chengji blinked back at her with a teasing grin before quickly gobbling up the Qiubian.
Mrs.Liu’s cheeks blushed, appearing sowhat coquettish.
Li Yan was stunned. Suddenly realizing sothing, he felt extrely awkward. He could only turn to his younger brother in a pleading manner. Unable to bear it, Li Xuan gave him so: “It doesn’t even taste good, seriously! It’s extrely stinky.”
Nevertheless, Li Yan was overjoyed. He didn’t pay any attention to Li Xuan’s words, directly putting a piece of Qiubian in his mouth and savoring it as if it were a delicacy.
“The issue is that, the authority of a Fumo Youjiao in the Liudao Division is quite significant, especially a Fumo Youjiao from the Zhuque Hall. However, the key point is still your position as a 7th-rank official.”
At this mont, Li Chengji steered the conversation back on track with a solemn countenance coupled with imnse gratification. “I honestly didn’t expect, Xuan, that you would make so proud, climbing to such a position so quickly. It must be a blessing from the heavens to our family, a blessing to the Jin Dynasty. Soon, I may have a task for you to assist with.”
“What kind of help?”
Li Xuan raised an eyebrow, showing great interest in Li Chengji.
Having taken over the original host’s body, he was more than willing to repay the latter’s family.
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After drinking more than half a bowl of Qiubian Soup, Li Xuan felt a burning heat throughout his body. At this mont, every woman he looked at seed as beautiful as Diaochan. Even Li Dalu, his personal attendant, seed remarkably handso and adorable at this mont, his blinking eyes incredibly charming.
Looking again at the red-dressed female ghost behind him, he felt even more restless, his soul filled with lust. Her petite face was too cute— he felt an overwhelming urge to leap at her and take a bite.
His turbulent desires terrified Li Xuan and set off alarm bells in his mind. He didn’t dare to delay, quickly returning to his room, where he sat cross-legged on the bed, ready to circulate his energy.
At first, he couldn’t calm his mind, until he visualized liquid nitrogen making three rotations within his body, gradually calming his restless state of mind.
Only then did Li Xuan begin to perceive Shenxiao Juemie Thunder, comncing the cultivation of Ice and Thunder Style together.
Before entering the seventh floor of the Zhuque Hall’s book collection, Li Xuan had done his howork. According to what he understood beforehand, the ‘Shenxiao Juemie Thunder’ was a type of thunder containing the power of ‘Juemie’, or destruction, with incredibly devastating force. Among peers practicing Thunder Style, the demon-slaying power of Shenxiao Juemie Thunder was the most formidable and ferocious. It was pure, strong, and well-suited to his current situation.
Of course, the threshold was considerably high. Among the many Thunder Style visualizations on the seventh floor of Zhuque Hall, it was considered interdiate to high-level difficulty. You had to be at least on the sixth house level to be able to comnce the learning.
Still, this was no setback for Li Xuan. It took him only thirty minutes more to rember the Shenxiao Juemie Thunder patterns compared to the ti he took to rember Binghuo Yanglei. In just about an hour, he had recorded all the characteristics of this thunder.
Afterward, Li Xuan visualized the steps. The process was extrely smooth, except for intense ntal exhaustion. Li Xuan estimated that the voltage of Shenxiao Juemie Thunder was roughly 10,000 volts. The voltage of Binghuo Yanglei, which he had previously practiced, could only be elevated to 3,000 volts at most, hence the ntal drain was significantly different.
After rely ten cycles, Li Xuan felt a sense of fatigue in his Primordial Spirit, even after having consud the Qiubian Soup. On ordinary days, probably three cycles were enough to exhaust his ntal energy.
However, the effects of cultivation were good. Now, each cycle increased his Thunder Style Zhenyuan efficiency by nearly six tis compared to yesterday.
It didn’t affect his Ice Style cultivation either. Li Xuan caused himself to cool down with his own thunder, greatly accelerating the increase in Cold Power within his body. The effect of one cycle was equivalent to the previous four.
– Remarkably, he achieved a complentary effect in practicing the conflicting Ice-Thunder Style.
Of course, Li Xuan was not yet capable of generating electricity through liquid tritium nuclear fusion, he lacked the ntal strength for it.
Li Xuan only envisioned generating electricity using flammable ice and cooling down with thunder and lightning to achieve this complentary cycle. Yet, the speed of the growth of Zhenyuan was alarming.
So when Li Xuan finished his work and went to bed, he felt a tinge of worry.
Given the rate of his current cultivation, it might not be long before his Thunder Style Zhenyuan could be utilized practically.
The problem was that his application software couldn’t keep up. He hadn’t figured out the two Ice Style martial arts yet and now he had to divert his attention to Thunder Style as well.
Moreover, control over Zhenyuan was another issue. Li Xuan discovered that once he engaged physically with others, he was utterlyunable to control the majority of Zhenyuan flow inside his body.
That night, Li Xuan went to sleep with the intention of dividing himself in half, but the next day he woke up to a pleasant surprise from his father.
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