On the way, Qin Shaofeng learned why Hu Xiaochuan's father had broken through.
This concerned a secret of the Hu family!
The martial arts technique cultivated by the Hu family was somewhat special. It could perform a kind of empowerment upon direct blood relatives.
Hu Xiaochuan himself had only learned recently that his grandfather was already nearing his end.
Hu Xiaochuan's grandfather was a Xiantian Grandmaster at the peak realm, but he had been stuck at that stage for a very long time—more than a decade.
With no hope of breaking through, Hu Xiaochuan's grandfather began considering other options.
Seeing Hu Xiaochuan's astonishing talent, he had planned to wait until Hu Xiaochuan reached the Xiantian Grandmaster Realm, then pour all the power he had cultivated in his lifetime into him.
If that happened, Hu Xiaochuan's breakthrough into a Xiantian Great Grandmaster would absolutely not have been a problem.
But unfortunately, Hu Xiaochuan had been poisoned and lost all his strength. That had dealt the old man a blow as well.
In the end, Hu Xiaochuan's grandfather settled for the next best thing and decided to empower Hu Xiaochuan's father instead.
Although Hu Xiaochuan's father did not possess Hu Xiaochuan's talent for cultivation,
at this point, Hu Xiaochuan's grandfather could no longer worry about that. Even if he did not empower someone, he only had a few years left to live.
At first, everything went smoothly. Hu Xiaochuan's father successfully advanced into the Xiantian Grandmaster Realm.
But later, when Hu Xiaochuan's grandfather was empowering his father, something went wrong.
It was not exactly a bad thing. While receiving the empowerment, Hu Xiaochuan's father had deliberately stopped the final step—the infusion of vital energy—in order to preserve his elderly father's life and keep him from dying immediately after the empowerment.
The result