Lin Xueling Breaks Through

No matter what the outside world speculated about the Half-step Invincible King.

Chu He remained unmoved within the Book Repository.

His action that day had purely been because the demonic aura had made his nose uncomfortable, and he had wanted to ease his mood.

To him, those few punches that looked terrifying to outsiders had merely been casually thrown, with great effort spent suppressing their power.

Afterward, he continued cultivating and reading in peace, perfectly at ease.

Spring went and autumn came; time flowed on, and another ten years passed before he knew it.

Chu He was thirty-eight years old, and he had spent more than twenty-four full years in the Book Repository.

By then, his cultivation had reached the Third Rotation Ninth Layer, advancing toward the Fourth Rotation.

He was in no hurry to break through.

Instead, he was slowly building up his foundation.

Over those ten years, the Lin Family had also undergone tremendous changes.

The crisis had passed, and they had regained their vitality, even flourishing more than before.

Having endured a calamity that nearly wiped them out, everyone began cultivating earnestly and diligently.

Five years earlier, the Lin Family Ancestor, Lin Zhennan, had died of old age. Rather than concealing it, the Lin Family held a grand funeral.

Countless forces from across the land came at their invitation to pay their respects.

After the Lin City Defense Battle, Lin Xueling's cultivation had been exposed, leaving the Lin Family both shocked and delighted.

However, because the little girl had remembered Chu He's warning not to reveal him as her teacher, no one in the Lin Family knew why her strength had suddenly become so great. They accepted her explanation that she had encountered an expert who had passed his power on to her.

After all, the Lin Family truly did have a hidden expert!

In recent years, much of the Lin Family's attention had been focused on her.

Wherever she went, she was the center of attention. Whatever she did, there would be people shouting "666!"

Many major factions had heard of her, and the forces seeking a marriage alliance had nearly trampled down the Lin Family's gates.

Yet all of them were rejected!

Lin Xueling looked down on every one of them, and the Lin Family was unwilling as well.

At some unknown time.

A rumor spread through them like wildfire.

Lin Xueling had someone in her heart—a little menial from the Book Repository.

This matter stirred up quite a commotion.

It was eventually settled.

Lin Xueling personally stepped in and brutally taught a lesson to those who openly sought trouble with Chu He.

As for those who had wanted to make a move in secret, the grass on their graves was already three feet high!

During that time, even Chu He could not read in peace, which irritated him greatly.

He was merely a little menial hiding in the Book Repository for some peace and quiet.

Fortunately, as time passed and the uproar gradually died down, the matter eventually returned to calm.

That evening, Lin Xueling came to find Chu He.

"Little Chu Brother, I feel that I've accumulated enough. I can barely hold it back anymore—I can break through!"

"Then break through. I'll watch over you."

Chu He nodded.

The True Qi within Lin Xueling was now extremely active, nearly bursting from her body. Over the past few years, she had also been studying the True Intent Diagram here with Chu He. There was indeed no need to keep suppressing it!

From the Innate Realm to the King Realm was a massive hurdle in martial cultivation, one fraught with extreme danger.

Many people had fallen on this road. Many others had succeeded, only to stray onto the wrong path, turning a perfectly good King Realm into a Half-step King.

They had taken the wrong path without even realizing it. Trying to return to the proper road afterward was even harder than climbing to the heavens.

Normally, breaking through required extensive preparation, as well as experts sent by one's family to stand guard against accidents.

However, Lin Xueling trusted Chu He deeply. Other than him, she had told no one about this.

Chu He brought Lin Xueling to the bedroom and directly took out three Pills for her.

They were King Breakthrough Pills.

They could increase the chances of breaking through to the King Realm, strengthen one's foundation, and protect the dantian and sea of consciousness, reducing the backlash of a failed breakthrough to the lowest possible level.

Chu He had obtained several bottles of these Pills back when he was in the Innate Realm.

However, the Nine Transformations Golden Body Technique he cultivated was special, so such Pills were of little use to him. When he had broken through back then, he had taken a few in advance, but their effects had not been obvious.

He had kept the rest in the system space.

Now that he had reached the Third Rotation Ninth Layer, King Breakthrough Pills were no different from candy to him!

Now, he could use them to nurture the little girl.

Lin Xueling accepted the Pills without asking any questions and obediently swallowed them.

Under Chu He's protection, she began her breakthrough.

Chu He stood with his hands behind his back, watching Lin Xueling. His immense strength allowed him to grasp every detail of her breakthrough even without using his spiritual sense. Should anything go wrong, he could intervene in time.

Lin Xueling's breakthrough went very smoothly.

Accompanied by a deep, thunderous howl, a sharp pressure carrying martial intent appeared within the small bedroom.

The King Realm had been achieved!

Chu He waved his hand, blocking and erasing every phenomenon.

Otherwise, this tiny bedroom would not have withstood the commotion.

After a long while, Lin Xueling opened her eyes. A sharp radiance spilled from her bright gaze.

"So this is the Half-step King Realm? It really is completely different from the Innate Realm!!"

Lin Xueling said softly.

She believed that she had broken through to the Half-step King Realm, never considering that she had already become a true King.

She had no experience in this regard.

Chu He smiled upon hearing this but did not explain.

When this girl faced a true Half-step King, she would probably be in for a tremendous shock.

She would have made every possible preparation, then faced an established Half-step King with nervousness, unease, and little confidence.

She would strike with all her strength.

With one sweep of her sword, the heavens would be startled.

The established King standing proudly before her would instantly shudder from head to toe, unable even to cry for mercy before vanishing without so much as a speck left behind.

She alone would be left standing there in a daze, unable to understand what had happened even if she cracked her head over it.

Thinking of the scene that would unfold then, Chu He could not help but smile.

It was sure to be very interesting.