Gifted Talent

Although Gu Yuyue had gained a preliminary understanding of her younger brother's monstrous talent from what had happened before, she still had no clear idea of just how extraordinary it was. She needed to see it with her own eyes.

"Alright."

Chen Wu took the great halberd from his sister's hands.

This halberd had clearly been forged from ore found within the secret realm, and it was no lightweight.

Even gripping the shaft with both hands, Chen Wu felt its heavy weight.

Gu Yuyue introduced it to him. "This great halberd and the saber in my hand were both forged from minerals produced in the West Origin Secret Realm. They are not meant for battlefields, but to help martial artists temper their muscles and bones and strengthen their physiques. They weigh roughly thirty kilograms and twenty kilograms respectively. Paired with the basic halberd techniques, they are most suitable for you at your current stage."

"When practicing with this weapon, remember one thing: do not use true qi. Only then can the results be maximized."

"When you can fully perform the halberd technique I demonstrated earlier, you'll have graduated."

"Mm."

Chen Wu immediately began practicing the halberd technique according to what he had memorized.

"Raise the shaft a little higher... The halberd tip needs to point downward... Yes, good... Strike faster... Coordinate your waist with your hands and the halberd shaft..."

As Chen Wu chained one move after another together, Gu Yuyue continuously encouraged him and corrected him from the side.

At first, Gu Yuyue felt gratified that Chen Wu could immediately correct his mistakes under her guidance.

But as time ticked away, second by second.

Three minutes, nine minutes, fifteen minutes, half an hour...

Before long, Gu Yuyue's exquisitely beautiful face held nothing but disbelief.

From then until now, Chen Wu had not rested once.

Other than some delays at the start due to his movements being imprecise, from the second set onward, he maintained a pace of completing one full halberd routine every three to four minutes.

And as time passed, that pace began to quicken.

When their mother had taught her personally, she had used a great halberd weighing only twenty kilograms.

After completing two sets, she had already been exhausted to the point of nearly collapsing.

Yet Chen Wu, even now, showed no sign of fatigue. Instead, the halberd blade danced faster and faster, as though he truly possessed endless stamina.

At this point, Gu Yuyue wanted to see where her younger brother's limits lay, so she did not call for him to stop.

As Chen Wu practiced, aside from being somewhat sluggish during the first set, the more he trained, the smoother everything felt. He did not feel tired in the slightest.

While repeatedly practicing the halberd technique, Chen Wu's three souls came into play. He split his mind in two, automatically comparing his own movements with the way his sister had wielded the halberd.

Through that comparison, his halberd skills rapidly improved, and his movements became increasingly precise.

Not only that, as he recalled Gu Yuyue wielding the halberd, Chen Wu used his powerful senses to perceive the subtle differences between their movements, allowing his strength to be brought out more effectively.

Gradually, Chen Wu lost track of how many times he had practiced the halberd technique. Then, his entire body suddenly exerted force.

In a flash of inspiration, he unleashed the halberd strike his sister had performed in his mind.

"Ha!"

"Whoosh!"

The sound of exertion and the sound of air being torn apart rang out almost simultaneously.

Gu Yuyue stared blankly at everything before her. Only after a long while did she emerge from her shock.

"So that counts as success?"

Gu Yuyue's tone was filled with unreality, as though none of this could possibly be true.

"Since childhood, I was praised as a martial arts prodigy. Even after entering a university that selected students from all over, I was still no worse than anyone else."

"Even so, it took me more than two months to reach this level."

"And that was with Mother, a sixth-rank halberd expert, personally guiding me at my side."

"Mother even praised my talent for it, saying that she herself had needed a full half year to succeed back then."

Yet when it came to Chen Wu, he had shattered the record she had been so proud of in less than an hour.

"Whoosh!"

Just as Gu Yuyue was feeling wistful, the sound of the halberd blade splitting the air rang out again.

The perfect coordination of power and speed caused Chen Wu's halberd-wielding skill to surge, his speed abruptly rising.

A basic halberd routine that had originally required more than three minutes was drastically compressed to just over a minute.

Each swing of the thirty-kilogram great halberd in Chen Wu's hands carried the sound of breaking air.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Gu Yuyue forgot all restraint and cried out "good" three times in a row.

Her eyes brimming with tears, she shouted in wild joy, "Mother, did you see that? Little brother did it! Little brother did it! Your legacy finally has an heir!"

After entering university, although Gu Yuyue had chosen the weapons specialization, the entrance tests revealed that she possessed greater talent in saber techniques.

In the end, under the joint recommendation of the examiners and instructors, she majored in saber techniques and minored in halberd techniques.

The facts proved that her instructors' judgment had been correct.

One year of saber training brought as much improvement as three years of halberd training.

Because of this, Mother had specially comforted her, saying that saber techniques were excellent too. She could inherit the legacy of her biological parents, while that brat Chen Wu could inherit her halberd techniques.

But only Gu Yuyue herself knew what kind of regret that was.

"Mother, your wish is finally about to come true. I..."

Having witnessed Chen Wu's monstrous talent with her own eyes, the knot that Gu Yuyue had kept buried in her heart for so long suddenly dissolved, and she felt as though the skies had cleared.

The instant the knot in her heart was undone, true qi surged within her body. It began flowing through her meridians, climbing up from her spine and charging through the barrier.

"Little Wu, my realm is about to break through. Take good care of yourself these next few days."

Knowing this was a sign of an imminent breakthrough, Gu Yuyue left those words behind and hurried to the seclusion chamber beside the training room to enter seclusion.

Seeing that his sister Gu Yuyue had untied the knot in her heart and showed signs of a breakthrough, Chen Wu was happy, but he also felt the weight of responsibility settle onto his shoulders.

The training rooms within the government compound were watched over by dedicated personnel. So long as they discovered someone in seclusion, they would deliver food and water at regular times every day.

Thus, Chen Wu did not need to worry about his sister's meals or living arrangements.

Over the following days, he woke early each morning and went to the training room in the government compound to cultivate.

Ever since coming here, he no longer went to the martial arts gym near his residential complex.

It was not as spacious as this place, and it was not free either.

However, the one drawback was the lack of privacy. Government employees would occasionally pass outside, making Chen Wu afraid to release his secondary body, Zhu Wu, to assist with his cultivation.

During this time, Chen Wu repeatedly practiced the moves his sister had taught him with the great halberd and saber in the training room, tempering his body.

Relying on his powerful recovery ability, after so many days of training, the great halberd and saber that had once felt somewhat heavy could now be wielded with great ease in his hands.

Both his physique and physical strength improved greatly.

After this period of cultivation, not only did Chen Wu return to the fifth transformation of the Essence Tempering Realm, he went a step further and reached the sixth transformation.

Thanks to the foundation laid earlier by the Profound Origin Art, the true qi source seed at this stage had already completely surpassed that of an ordinary seventh transformation Essence Tempering Realm cultivator, capable of contending with an eighth transformation cultivator.

Moreover, Chen Wu also found time to fulfill his agreement with President Lu, refining thirty bottles of top-grade Qi-Accumulating Pills in one go.