Body Sect Innate Secret Technique, Swallowing Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue!

The next day, dawn had barely broken.

A ray of sunlight fell across Lu Xiao's face.

He frowned slightly and slowly opened his eyes.

Lu Xiao instinctively shifted, only to feel a heavy, soft warmth in his arms.

His right hand rested on Xiao Wu's waist. He could clearly feel the girl's slender, soft figure against him, the touch delicate and warm, soft in just the right way.

Xiao Wu was curled up in his arms, sleeping soundly with her little face buried against his shoulder, her breathing light and steady.

Looking at Xiao Wu sleeping on top of him, Lu Xiao pinched her rosy cheek and said helplessly, "Wake up. It's time to serve your young master and help him wash up."

At the touch of his fingertip, Xiao Wu's eyelashes trembled. She hazily opened her watery eyes, stared blankly at Lu Xiao for two seconds, then realized she had clung to him all night. Her cheeks instantly flushed crimson.

She hurriedly propped herself up against him to get up, but her legs went weak, and she gently fell back into his arms.

"I-I wasn't leaning on you on purpose..."

Xiao Wu lowered her head, her ears burning red as she explained softly. Lu Xiao's calming, subtle fragrance drifted into her nose again without her realizing it.

After a moment of embarrassment, the mischievous nature innate to a little rabbit once again took over her reason.

"Who wanted to lean on you? You were the one who slept restlessly and wrapped your arm around me so tightly. I couldn't move away even if I wanted to."

Xiao Wu raised her head and glared with her almond-shaped eyes, her little mouth slightly pouting as she put on a perfectly justified expression.

Before Lu Xiao could speak, she briskly pressed against his chest and sprang to her feet. As her long, slender legs landed, she playfully rose onto her toes, her long braid swaying behind her.

"Fine, fine. I'll admit I reluctantly slept against you for one night. This maid is magnanimous, so I won't hold it against you for taking over my sleeping spot!"

Du Busi, who was cooking porridge nearby, glanced over, the corner of his mouth twitching as he secretly lamented how troublesome the Charm aura his disciple carried was.

"Hurry up. After you finish the porridge, I'll officially teach you the Body Sect's Innate Secret Technique."

Du Busi handed over two bowls of porridge and reminded them in a deep voice, his expression stern.

The moment his words fell, Xiao Wu, who had been bouncing around moments ago, instantly reined in her playfulness. Although she knew Du Busi would not kill her, the previous experience had left a shadow over her, and she did not dare act rashly.

She hurried forward, accepted the warm Soul Beast Meat Porridge, and held the bowl in both hands, behaving so obediently it was almost unbelievable.

Lu Xiao watched her switch modes in an instant and shook his head helplessly.

The steaming meat porridge was richly fragrant, soft and smooth on the tongue. Its pure energy slid down his throat and into his body, nourishing him gently without the slightest trace of heat.

Before long, Lu Xiao had cleaned out the entire bowl.

"Master, I'm done eating! I can start cultivating anytime!"

Du Busi's gaze shifted toward Xiao Wu nearby.

Xiao Wu immediately understood and sat beneath a large tree, holding in her frustration.

Fine, I won't watch!

Du Busi tapped the Storage Soul Guidance Device at his waist with a fingertip, and a palm-sized pale gold booklet floated out.

He raised his hand and tossed the booklet to Lu Xiao. "Catch it. Memorize the first chapter."

Lu Xiao caught it and discovered in surprise that the small booklet was astonishingly heavy.

It weighed at least several dozen pounds!

The entire booklet was pale gold.

Four elegant characters were written across its cover: "Innate Secret Technique!"

Lu Xiao opened the manual, sat cross-legged on the grass, and focused his gaze on the pages.

The material of the pages was extraordinary, warm and smooth to the touch like jade.

There was no lengthy preamble at the start, only a few lines of ancient, obscure prose. Every word was concise and difficult to understand, yet contained profound principles of heaven and earth.

"The body is innate; borrow the flesh to condense the soul, carry the Dao with the body, return to simplicity..."

He sat cross-legged on the grass and studied in silence, his eyes growing brighter and brighter. Within half an hour, he had committed the first chapter to memory.

The first stage of the Innate Secret Technique was called Body Piercing!

It required one to use the primal energy of heaven and earth to pierce through the body, completely tear it apart, then use the power of heaven and earth to reshape the tendons, bones, skin, and flesh, tempering every meridian and acupoint to shed the shackles of a mortal body.

This was also the most painful stage of the Innate Secret Technique!

"This disciple is ready," Lu Xiao said in a deep voice.

Du Busi nodded slightly and swept his hand through the air. A Bronze-colored cauldron as tall as a person appeared before Lu Xiao.

Buzz—

The instant the great cauldron hit the ground, there was no earth-shaking crash, only a low, heavy tremor that seemed to echo from the depths of countless ages.

The grass on the ground instantly bowed low, while the morning breeze flowing around them abruptly froze.

This Bronze cauldron was ancient and imposing, its surface covered in countless fine and profound archaic patterns woven together.

The patterns coiled and wound like mountain ranges and river veins, like the paths of stars, and like the myriad forms of all living beings...

When sunlight fell upon the cauldron, it could not reflect even the slightest gleam.

Lu Xiao's relaxed expression tightened slightly, his gaze locking firmly onto the great cauldron before him.

Before he could examine it closely, Du Busi grabbed Lu Xiao and tossed him directly into the cauldron.

"What are you looking at? It'll be yours in the future. You'll have plenty of time to look then!"

As he spoke, Du Busi poured the medicinal liquid prepared the day before into the great cauldron.

"It's just a pity that we're missing a supreme tonic of utmost yang and firmness!"

Du Busi sighed softly. If time had not been so pressing, he would certainly have been able to thoroughly reinforce Lu Xiao's foundation.

However, after the Bronze Body Martial Soul awakened, the window for absorbing medicinal power was urgent and allowed no delay.

Hearing this, Lu Xiao took out the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue from his Soul Tool and held it out before Du Busi. "Master, do you think this can replace it?"

Under the sunlight, the dark gold Whale Glue shimmered with seven-colored radiance.

Du Busi's slightly regretful expression froze. His eyes abruptly lit up with brilliant light as he stared fixedly at the Whale Glue in Lu Xiao's hand.

"Hahaha!"

"It's actually Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue!"

Du Busi's face filled with surprise and wild delight, and all his previous regret vanished!

He took the Whale Glue, gathering pure Soul Power in his palm.

Driven by the Soul Power, a strange fragrance began to emanate from the Whale Glue. The scent was intensely rich, yet remained tightly condensed without dispersing.

A faint golden glow began to emerge from the Whale Glue, and as the heat increased, it gradually softened into a gelatinous substance.

Du Busi nodded repeatedly, his tone growing increasingly solemn. "Swallow it directly, then release your Body Martial Soul and cultivate the Innate Secret Technique!"

Lu Xiao nodded slightly. Without the slightest hesitation, he bit off half the Whale Glue and swallowed it!

A strong fishy smell flooded Lu Xiao's mouth.

But soon, that fishy smell turned into a warm current that flowed into his abdomen. Not only that, after entering his stomach, the Whale Glue instead caused a faint fragrance to waft from his nostrils.

The sensation was truly rather strange.

At first, Lu Xiao only felt his chest and abdomen grow warm.

Taking advantage of the heat, he swallowed the remaining half in one gulp. A vast surge of warmth coursed through his meridians toward his limbs and bones!

The gentle warmth gradually turned scorching. Lu Xiao felt rolling currents of heat constantly flowing through his limbs and bones, and sweat began to seep from his body.

This scorching heat was incredibly comfortable.

It nearly made him cry out!

Lu Xiao's body gradually turned red. Even his sweat was a faint reddish brown, quickly staining his grayish-white clothes dark red.

Seeing this, Du Busi pressed both hands against the great cauldron. In the next instant, the Soul Power around his body surged into it.

In an instant, every ancient pattern lit up with a flowing golden radiance.

The patterns wrapped around the cauldron flowed layer upon layer. A low hum rang out as the warm medicinal power was gathered, refined, and compressed by the cauldron's patterns!

The medicinal liquid inside the cauldron violently boiled. Scalding medicinal power surged madly through every pore of Lu Xiao's body, rushing into him and racing through the meridians of his limbs and bones.

The redness of Lu Xiao's skin surged again, changing from light red to blazing crimson. The sweat steaming from his body mixed with impurities expelled from within, glimmering with a dark, blood-red hue.