Watching his junior brother Si Chong clown around, Zuo Ruotong was utterly speechless.
They were both well past their youth—why had he been letting himself go more and more lately?!
"Don't listen to your martial uncle's nonsense. As for her, Luo'er, just handle it as you see fit."
"Now that you're back, Luo'er, there's something I'd like to discuss with you."
Zuo Ruotong cut off Si Chong's teasing and brought the conversation back on track.
His expression turned solemn and serious. "I hope you can succeed me as the head of the Three One Sect."
Si Chong echoed from the side, "Cheng Zhen and I have already discussed it. Nephew, you're the best candidate to succeed as sect head!"
Faced with their expectant expressions, Indra shook his head and admitted, "Master, Martial Uncle, I'll be leaving this world temporarily in a month. I don't know when I'll return."
The moment he said that, Zuo Ruotong and Si Chong both froze for several seconds.
With uncertainty flickering in his eyes, Zuo Ruotong cautiously asked, "Are you ascending through feathered transformation!?"
"No."
Indra gave Zuo Ruotong no room for wishful thinking.
Upon learning the answer, Zuo Ruotong let out a deep sigh.
He did not think Indra would lie to him, because there was no need to.
But if even the "reincarnated immortal," their most promising hope, could not ascend through feathered transformation, then what exactly could the Dao he had pursued all his life lead him to?
Zuo Ruotong fell into confusion once more, while Si Chong quickly recovered. Right now, he was more concerned about the Three One Sect.
"Since Nephew can't succeed as sect head, let's set this matter aside for now."
"Ah... it can only be that way."
Zuo Ruotong's feelings were complicated. Indra was the most suitable candidate. His inability to serve as head of the Three One Sect was a loss for the sect!
Indra, however, did not feel much about it. After all, it was not as though he would never return.
Still, during this month, he intended to help the Three One Sect one more time.
"Martial Uncle, you and Senior Sister have both comprehended the Reverse Birth Second Layer to grand completion. I want to help you go one step further."
Si Chong's eyes immediately lit up. The skinny old man nearly jumped up in excitement.
"Nephew, I'll go tell Cheng Zhen right away. For the remaining time, we'll enter seclusion and cultivate!!"
The greatest difficulty of the Reverse Birth Triple Layer was that there was no room for trial and error.
But Indra's presence completely made up for that flaw.
Si Chong had been stuck at the Reverse Birth Second Layer for over a decade, mainly because he feared that failure to break through would mean death and annihilation.
Now that he had no lingering worries, Si Chong felt that he would not need long to break through.
Watching Si Chong run off in jubilation, Indra smiled as well.
After bidding farewell to Zuo Ruotong, he headed straight for the inner courtyard residence.
Cheng Zhen, who had just settled Feng Baobao in, came out as well.
"Junior Brother, Feng Baobao is a good girl. Senior Sister will teach her the things she doesn't understand later. You must treat her well."
Cheng Zhen's soft reminder left Indra both amused and exasperated.
You've only known Feng Baobao for how long? You're already calling her a good girl? That demon pill has tricked me more than once!
Indra did not argue with his senior sister. Instead, he teased, "Senior Sister, Martial Uncle is looking for you. He said there's good news."
"What good news?"
Cheng Zhen looked baffled, but she still went out to find Si Chong.
When she learned that Indra had known all along yet still teased her, Cheng Zhen could not help but laugh.
But once she thought about being able to break through to the Reverse Birth Triple Layer, Cheng Zhen's excitement rose as well.
She and Si Chong went to the back mountain to enter seclusion, immediately beginning their forced breakthrough.
With the Rabbit Talisman, Indra kept constant watch over the two of them and checked in from time to time.
In just one week, the two successfully broke through to the Reverse Birth Triple Layer.
Seeing both his junior brother and disciple break through, their faces wearing relaxed and carefree smiles, Zuo Ruotong's brow twitched wildly.
No matter how good his temperament was, he could not take it anymore. It was simply too infuriating!
Zuo Ruotong could only sigh. "When one person attains the Dao, even the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven."
While helping his martial uncle and senior sister break through, Indra made a new discovery.
The Reverse Birth Triple Layer could actually reconstruct an injured part of the body to its state before the injury.
The qi-transformation state of the Reverse Birth Triple Layer essentially first transformed flesh and blood into qi.
That was why, after becoming qi, it could restore itself according to the body's originally recorded state.
If one was injured before undergoing Qi Transformation, the body could not record its state before reconstruction. Any arbitrary alteration to its structure would basically lead to even worse consequences.
As long as he understood his own flesh and blood well enough, it was possible to reconstruct it!
Through repeated Qi Transformation and Reconstruction, Indra once again grasped the core of the Reverse Birth Triple Layer.
Swish!
He swung his sword himself, carving a horrifying wound across his right arm.
"Reverse Birth Triple Layer—Qi Transformation and Reconstruction!"
Indra manipulated his Reverse Birth True Qi, and white Qi flames ignited around the wound.
In only a few seconds, his right arm was smooth and unblemished again!
"It worked!"
Indra was so excited that tears nearly came to his eyes. In order to achieve this result, he had experienced everything from cancerous bones and deformities to festering flesh.
The human body's structure was far too complex. Even the slightest change could cause structural disorder and genetic mutations.
That was why the Reverse Birth Triple Layer could not restore injuries sustained before Qi Transformation.
After all, if one truly tried to do that, there was a 99.9% chance that things would only get worse.
"There's too little time. My knowledge and the number of experiments I've conducted are both insufficient. For now, I've only reached the point of healing flesh and blood."
Indra sighed and looked at Feng Baobao beside him, her features delicate and radiant.
His senior sister had directly arranged for Feng Baobao to stay in his room, saying that the bed was big enough anyway, and having a woman to warm the bed was not a bad thing.
Seeing Indra look at her, Feng Baobao opened her mouth and said, "Baby daddy, why are you staring at me?"
That rustic old woman's tone instantly shattered the beauty filter around her.
"We don't have a child, okay?!"
Indra emphasized it again, but Feng Baobao did not care. "Then, hubby, you called me into the room right after lunch. Are we making a baby?"
Hearing her utterly wild way of speaking, Indra somewhat regretted handing her over to Senior Sister Cheng Zhen for instruction.
No, it seemed Uncle-Master Si Chong had also meddled!
"Enough. I have an experiment that needs your cooperation. Lie down first."
"Oh~"
Feng Baobao answered, then immediately lifted her shirt, revealing her curvaceous figure.
Just as she was about to take off her bellyband, Indra stopped her.
Feng Baobao tilted her head in confusion. "Aren't we making a baby?"
"Forget everything Senior Sister taught you!" Indra glared with dead-fish eyes, lifted one corner of her bellyband, and placed his hand on her fair, smooth lower abdomen.
Lying stiffly on the bed like a salted fish, Feng Baobao stared blankly at Indra. "Is this how babies are made? Why is it different from what Sister Cheng Zhen said?
Your uncle-master said that a woman is supposed to bear children for the baby daddy. Otherwise, she's just eating for free."
Indra took a deep breath and said in a low voice, "Forget what Uncle-Master said too!"
"Oh... what if I can't forget?"
Feng Baobao closed her mouth for several seconds, then opened her eyes again and stared blankly at Indra.
As she watched his face gradually redden, the corners of Feng Baobao's lips curled slightly.
She did not understand what Indra was doing, but seeing him angry made her want to laugh a little.
Was this what Sister Cheng Zhen meant by feelings between a man and a woman?
Just as another question arose in Feng Baobao's heart, Indra's Qi had already entered her lower abdomen, spreading through her internal organs.
When Indra's Qi flowed naturally along with Feng Baobao's Qi, he knew clearly that his hypothesis had been proven!
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