Chapter 96 (2/2)

The trial for the Sky Martial Realm compet.i.tion was right around the corner and Long Chen was well aware he lacked power. Hence, he quietened his mind and began to cultivate, not bothering to deal with his bet with Feng Wutian.

Though Long Chen was impulsive at times, he wasn’t brainless. It was his principle to pretend to be weak and then devour the strong.

“Hey, you’re not actually thinking of going, are you?”

“Only stubborn idiots would go.”

“But…”

Lingxi hovered before Long Chen, furrowing her brows as she gazed at Long Chen, “Aren’t you afraid that you’ll be looked down upon and viewed to be lesser than a man?”

“What do you know? You’ll know whether I’m a man once we get going in bed.”

Long Chen’s words were so direct that even Lingxi found it a little intolerable. She glared at Long Chen and then spoke, “Quick, quick, you idiot! Give me that Spirit Recovery Fruit. I’m hungry!”

Long Chen produced the Spirit Recovery Fruit, as well as the Origin Reverting Fruit that was worth about 200 Spirit Jades. Just seeing this Origin Reverting Fruit made his b.a.l.l.s hurt.

He had spent much effort to kill Proctor Shi and Huang Feiyang and obtained a total of over a hundred Spirit Jades. This stupid fruit alone cost 200 Spirit Jades.

He waited until Lingxi got all excited and completely refined the Spirit Recovery Fruit, before pushing the Origin Reverting Fruit to Lingxi. Impatiently, he asked, “Tell me now. What’s the use of this stupid fruit?”

“You’re the stupid one here!”

Lingxi rolled her eyes at him and her little body landed on the fruit, pretending to be a stern little master as she explained, “The Origin Reverting Fruit is no healing fruit, but a rare item that grew from the heavens and earth. Basically, it cannot be priced.”

“It’s that amazing?”

Looking at this jet-black fruit, it was a huge disparity from what Long Chen had expected.

“What is it actually? Spill everything, don’t keep me waiting.”

“What are you so impatient for? Hasty people don’t get to eat hot tofu.” [2]

Now that Long Chen needed something from her, Lingxi was complacent and deliberately slowed the speed at which she spoke.

Long Chen was dazed for a moment as he looked at this little girl, and then clicked his tongue as he laughed, “If you’re not going to let me eat hot tofu, then I’m going to eat your soft tofu…”

His words resulted in a healthy blush on Lingxi’s face as she scolded him amidst smiles. She then shook the Origin Reverting Fruit, “The flesh of this fruit is indeed useful in healing wounds, but the most important thing is its core. The Origin Reverting Fruit is a rare item, and since it’s rare, it must have something special about it. Within the core of this fruit, there is a battle technique hidden inside!”

“A battle technique? A hidden battle technique in the core? Goodness, Xiao Xi, how is your imagination so wild?”

Long Chen was tongue-tied and could do little but widen his eyes in shock.

Seeing that Long Chen didn’t believe her at all, Lingxi inwardly cursed at him, “Just you wait, and you’ll know how amazing I am!”

At this thought, she spoke with a professional tone, “Whether you believe it or not, I believe it. Remove the flesh of the Origin Reverting Fruit first.”

“Remove it?”

Long Chen’s heart twitched at that. The flesh was worth 20 contribution points, and if Lingxi was wrong and there was nothing inside there…

“Quick!”

“Understood, your humble servant will do so now…”

Splitting open the Origin Reverting Fruit, a surprisingly soft and white flesh was revealed as a sweet smell wafted through the area. Just as Lingxi instructed, Long Chen removed the flesh and left behind a black core.

This core was only the size of a thumb and looked to be nothing special. Long Chen was right about to ask how it was used, and Lingxi was already answering, “Swallow the core and use your real qi to refine it as best as you can. After refining for a day and a night, you’ll probably be able to refine it into powder form. Once that happens, all information about that battle technique will naturally appear in your body.”

“Oh?”

Long Chen attempted to pinch at the core in his hands, only to find it was as hard as steel. Only fools would bother trying to refine this piece of metal.

“Xiao Xi, are you sure?”

Lingxi’s brows furrowed as she gathered that Long Chen still did not believe her and said indifferently, “Swallow it if you want to. It doesn’t matter to me. After all, your 20 contribution points are now wasted!”

Long Chen had no choice but to swallow that piece of metal into his stomach. It was extremely hard and made it quite uncomfortable on his stomach. Long Chen immediately circulated real Qi and worked at wearing down this core!

“Then again, if it’s too simple, everyone would know that the Origin Reverting Fruit is a great item and I wouldn’t even have the chance to obtain it.”

Making his decision, Long Chen then submerged his mind into his dantian and began to refine the steel-like core in his stomach.

This core was abnormally hard and with Long Chen’s current real Qi, at least a full day was required to fully refine it.

With his great efforts, an entire day pa.s.sed and on the second morning, the core had been refined and whittled down to the size of a pinky, using his real Qi. There were even cracks on the surface.

At that moment, the cracks split with a loud bang!

[1] The Initial Returning Fruit from the previous chapter has been changed to the “Origin Reverting Fruit”, and will be referred as such in the following chapters.[2] One should be more patient.[3] Reference to previous note. “Eating tofu” here means to take advantage of someone.