novelraw Chapter 215 : 【Dao Birth One】, Are You Trying to Die!?
Chapter 215 : 【Dao Birth One】, Are You Trying to Die!?
Chapter 215: 【Dao Birth One】, Are You Trying to Die!?
Within the Dao Gate Grand Hall, only the upper echelon remained.
Han Shuangjiang and Xu Ziqing had already been sent back.
With no juniors present, the Dead Gambler Li Chunsong immediately became "unrestrained."
He stood at the center of the grand hall, furiously rubbing his hands.
Before he could even speak, Chu Yinyin had already learned to cut in.
"Li Chunsong, you're thinking of betting again, aren't you?"
The Old Girl tilted her head, thought for a moment, and said, "Let me guess—you want to bet how many minor realms Chu Huaixu will break through consecutively?"
Upon hearing that, the Dead Gambler immediately praised, "Little Martial Uncle Junior Sister is truly brilliant! That is exactly my intention!"
"Tonight, Chu Huaixu makes a grand breakthrough into the Origin Spirit Realm. A joyous occasion indeed!"
"Why don't we have some fun ourselves—a little gamble to add some spice?" He started again.
What followed was the usual routine: everyone paying fines to Enforcement Elder Lu Pan for violating sect rules—every single one was very practiced at it, including Jiang Zhi.
Then came Xiang Yan and the others, presenting a wave of well-reasoned analysis.
They even used Cheng Yuyan as an example.
Because he, too, had refined an Origin Fragment when he was still a low-level cultivator.
"My Fifth Senior Brother also entered the first layer of the Origin Spirit Realm back then. He broke through five minor realms in a row." Jiang Zhi fell into reminiscence.
The Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin contained a wisp of origin power.
The surging spiritual energy attached to it was merely due to its immersion in the Origin Spirit Realm, where the aura was immensely dense.
Yet even so, for low-level cultivators, it was a "great tonic."
This time, however, everyone had gotten smarter. They knew Chu Huaixu couldn't be judged by common sense.
Even Jiang Zhi, who revered Fifth Senior Brother Zhong Ming, bet on six consecutive breakthroughs—one more than Zhong Ming had achieved.
Chu Yinyin was even more outrageous; she bet on seven heavens.
Li Chunsong was left speechless.
"Why is it like this again? Not giving me any room to maneuver?" This scene felt so familiar.
The Dead Gambler gritted his teeth. "Then I bet he'll break through eight minor realms consecutively!"
Narrow-eyed Zhao Shuqin laughed from the side. "Sixth Junior Brother, why not bet he directly leaps a major realm, from the First Realm Grand Completion to Second Realm Grand Completion?"
"Tch! I, Li Chunsong, am a lifelong gambler, but never bet recklessly. Every wager is made after thorough consideration—how could I be as absurd as you suggest?" The former Benevolent Gambling King instantly wore a displeased expression.
Everyone couldn't help but complain inwardly: "Thorough consideration? And you still lost every bet before!"
Everyone cast their divine sense toward that room within the Gentleman Temple.
And sure enough, not long after sitting down, Chu Huaixu broke through three times consecutively.
This made Li Chunsong's breathing grow rapid.
"Haha! Looks like I'm going to win this time again!"
But more than that, everyone was concerned about Chu Huaixu's current physical condition.
This consecutive breakthrough scene was truly shocking.
Chu Huaixu's entire body had cracked open, blood oozing out, barely human in appearance.
And with their powerful divine senses, they could clearly perceive the condition inside his body.
The boy's internal organs were utterly wrecked!
"Why does the Dao Canon left behind by the Dao Ancestor torment people like this?" everyone thought.
The booklet introducing the Dao Canon had only four words—*balanced and harmonious*.
Maybe someone should revise that booklet?
To speak sacrilegiously, this seemed more like a demonic technique!
Inside the Gentleman Temple's training room, Chu Huaixu sat cross-legged on the meditation cushion, his brows tightly furrowed.
The second layer of the Dao Canon clearly differed from the first.
Or rather, it had gained a new ability—tempering the five viscera and six bowels!
"This is somewhat similar to Little Xu's Ice-muscle Jade-bone Method," he thought.
The Dao Canon was different from the Sword Refining Art.
The former's pain came from within to without, causing his flesh to swell and even tear open before rapidly healing.
The latter went from outside to inside, with heaven and earth's aura hammering the body, forging it like a sword embryo in the furnace of heaven and earth.
Now, it wasn't limited to flesh—the five viscera and six bowels had become disaster zones.
What were the five viscera?
Heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys!
Each of these, when in pain, felt like life and death.
The six bowels: small intestine, gallbladder, stomach, large intestine, triple burner, and... bladder!
—The viscera are Yin and internal, the bowels are Yang and external!
Viscera and bowels are connected by meridians.
At this moment, using inner vision, he could even see his meridians glowing with golden light!
It looked powerful, but that golden light brought endless pain.
All this was unexpected, yet somehow reasonable to Chu Huaixu.
"Hiss—! As expected, each realm brings a new method of pain!"
Even more fatal was that the spiritual energy carried by the Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin was wreaking havoc inside him.
It was on the verge of bursting his meridians!
Chu Huaixu resumed leveling up.
Level 20 marked the entry into the Second Realm.
He was now Level 22—Second Realm, Second Heaven.
Clearly a ruthless one, he aimed to get it over with in one go. Better short pain than long pain—he immediately advanced two more levels.
He could feel it—one level alone wouldn’t be enough.
Endless pain consumed him. Just the pain from the kidney alone surpassed that of kidney stones.
It was like suffering continuous internal injuries, only to have them healed repeatedly by the Dao Canon.
As for the flesh... even worse.
"The body-training path really isn't one for mortals."
Chu Huaixu finally understood why those who mastered body-training were so rare.
"Even those seasoned 'McDonald's'—the ones with... special tastes—only use this for occasional thrills."
"This kind of sustained pain is a whole different matter."
"And its intensity level isn't masochism—it's self-harm!"
One reason cultivators strengthen their bodies is so no one else can hurt them again!
Body-training path: So what? Can't you do it yourself?
Besides, Chu Huaixu noticed something had changed.
"I don’t seem to faint so easily anymore."
The 【Heart Sword】 had been advancing, and his divine sense was rapidly growing, making his Sea of Consciousness incomparably stable.
Last time he fainted from level-up pain had been long ago.
So long, he hadn’t even noticed.
"You’re even blocking that path for me now, huh?"
But since he was refining a Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin, losing consciousness would have been a problem. So this helped.
Only now, he had to endure all the pain purely with his will.
Thankfully, the Dead Fox had a solid mindset.
He even had the humor to joke to himself, "See? All my achievements come from hard work!"
After gaining five levels in a short time, the feeling of imminent rupture finally subsided.
Chu Huaixu let out a breath of relief.
The spiritual energy wrapped around the fragment’s outer layer had been mostly digested.
"Finally, some peace."
"I can wait until the residual pain fades before leveling up more," Chu Huaixu thought, relieved.
The big shots in the grand hall, watching the "live broadcast" through divine sense, also breathed out.
They had worried that Chu Huaixu’s reckless charge might destroy his body.
That the Dao Canon's torment exceeded most body-training methods?
Still, everyone figured Chu Huaixu, like Zhong Ming, would stop at breaking through five minor realms.
"Then that means I win," Zhao Shuqin said with a smile.
He was famous for his eye techniques and observed everything in fine detail.
When Chu Huaixu's spiritual energy surged, he had already estimated the result.
"Pure luck!" He stood up and bowed to the crowd, eyes squinting into slits from his grin.
Then—suddenly—something changed.
A surge of spiritual energy rushed into Chu Huaixu’s body!
It came from the black bead on the sword scabbard.
To be precise, from within the medicinal cauldron 【Dao Birth One】!
This brain-dead gluttonous cauldron, always yelling it was hungry, seemed to sense its master refining origin power.
Immediately, it lent him strength!
It transferred all of its unneeded energy into Chu Huaixu’s body!
This truly “touched” Chu Huaixu.
Such filial timing!
But he didn’t think it was filial at all.
"So far, 【Dao Birth One】 has only eaten two things."
"One, the Dao Canon power in my body—that was what triggered the black bead and retrieved the sword scabbard from Hidden Spirit Mountain."
"Two, the Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin—it asked for it directly!"
Chu Huaixu believed cultivators refined spiritual energy to purify it.
The higher the technique’s rank, the better the purification, and the purer the internal energy.
【Dao Birth One】 clearly only consumed purified high-grade goods—it refused "raw" spiritual energy.
Had it absorbed spiritual energy on its own, it’d grow like a weed. Chu Huaixu could just let it roam free.
But no matter how you framed it, it was basically feeding him experience points.
Still, the process was anything but pleasant.
Everyone in the grand hall was dumbfounded.
"That came from the Dao Ancestor’s sword scabbard?"
"It’s feeding back to its master?"
But to Chu Huaixu’s body, it was just adding fuel to the fire.
Only the "human-five-human-six" duo reacted explosively in the hall.
Originally, only the Dao Gate’s Fifth Elder Zhao Shuqin was smugly standing there. Suddenly, Sixth Elder Li Chunsong stood up and pressed him back into his seat.
"Fifth Senior Brother’s a bit too eager, eh? Got happy too soon." Considering himself the "Immortal of Betting," Li Chunsong glanced sideways at him.
"Seems the bet’s still undecided."
Inside the training room, Chu Huaixu had no choice but to continue leveling up.
Next moment, under the excruciating pain in his viscera and bowels, his internal injuries worsened, and he couldn’t help but cough up old blood.
What followed was an absurd scene.
The young man, eyes shut tight, feeling clogged and wounded internally—simply raised his right hand and slapped himself a few times to induce vomiting.
He spat out another mouthful of fresh blood, but his furrowed brows relaxed slightly.
Even under these conditions, he was still breaking through.
Second Realm, Fifth Heaven. Second Realm, Sixth Heaven.
Unstoppable!
Even the Old Girl Chu Yinyin was stunned and blurted out:
"Should we fetch the third volume of the Dao Canon from the Scripture Pavilion for him?"