Xu Ziqing's bloodcurdling screams echoed above the Bamboo House.
Chu Huai Xu found them incredibly pleasing to the ear.
But he'd been perceptive from a young age, and quickly felt sympathy for him instead.
He still didn't want to remember the "hit by a stroke of luck" level of pain he'd suffered when breaking through to nine apertures.
At that moment, Chu Huai Xu sat on his meditation cushion, thinking that Little Xu still wasn't mature enough.
"He actually gritted his teeth and held on for a while, even trying to stay conscious and tough it out?"
"Not like me. If I can pass out, I pass out."
Before long, Xu Ziqing was in so much pain that he lost consciousness completely.
He collapsed onto the cushion, curled up, and would occasionally twitch involuntarily.
The boy had lost all color, but a faint radiance shimmered around him.
It was like a Sword Embryo forged in the Heaven and Earth Cauldron, its profound light just beginning to shine!
"Did I have special effects like this when I broke through to nine apertures?" Chu Huai Xu wondered, observing him closely.
Then he looked out the window.
The entire Mountain Beyond Mountain area remained still.
Clearly, the Bronze Sword on Hidden Spirit Mountain hadn't reacted much.
"We're both cultivating the Sword Refining Art, and Xu Ziqing's even following the normal storyline. He can still obtain that sword."
"So why was the reaction so huge when I broke through?" Chu Huai Xu wondered.
During the Aperture Opening Stage, he and Xu Ziqing had differed in only two ways.
First, his progress had been more solid. Little Xu relied on pills, while he relied on cheats.
Second, his Spirit Fetus was special: there was a Heart Sword in his Sea of Consciousness.
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