Ah Yin: Husband, My Dear Husband. Chu Xiu Set Out to Create His Own Immortal Cultivation Method

Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er's stares made Chu Xiu a little uneasy.

Of course, he had not gone to Ah Yin for anything romantic. He simply wanted to rely on her Blue Silver Grass sap to cultivate magic power.

After all, the life energy contained in Blue Silver Grass sap was far stronger and more efficient than the faint traces of energy in spirit rice.

The problem was that he could not say that outright.

Although Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er knew about the changes in Ah Yin's body and understood that Chu Xiu must have had something to do with them, they did not know that Ah Yin was the Blue Silver Emperor.

If Chu Xiu explained everything, he would be exposing Ah Yin's identity.

"Ahem, what are you staring at?"

Chu Xiu cleared his throat twice, then simply passed falsehood off as truth and declared domineeringly, "Didn't you already guess what was going on between Ah Yin and me? As a man, I can't keep my woman hidden in the shadows forever."

"Isn't that right, Ah Yin?"

Chu Xiu pulled Ah Yin into his arms and said with a wicked grin, "Call me husband so they can hear."

"N-no, I can't."

Ah Yin's face flushed crimson.

Although Chu Xiu had bullied her plenty lately, she still fiercely guarded the most crucial boundary.

Especially in her heart, where she had always regarded Chu Xiu as nothing more than a child.

"Hmm?"

Chu Xiu had rarely seen her so disobedient lately. Right in front of Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er, he brazenly slipped his large hand beneath the leaves around her waist.

"You dare disobey me? Are you asking for Q Coins?"

Ah Yin had long since witnessed Chu Xiu's wickedness.

But this was the first time he had acted so domineeringly in front of others.

Her face turned blood-red, and she was overcome with bashfulness, but she still refused to yield.

"No, I really can't. I have a husband. I can't betray him."

"Is that so?"

Chu Xiu changed tack, leaning toward her ear with a wicked grin. "Call me husband, and I'll tell you about your son."

The moment those words left his mouth, Ah Yin's heart began to race.

If there was anyone in this world who mattered most to her besides Tang Hao, it was undoubtedly Tang San.

With a bond value of only 60, Chu Xiu could not compare to Tang Hao or Tang San in Ah Yin's heart.

"H-husband."

After agonizing for a long while, Ah Yin finally chose to learn how her son was doing.

Compared to her own flesh and blood, even Tang Hao had to take a slight step back.

"Ah! That sounds lovely."

Chu Xiu smiled smugly, his gaze sweeping over Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er.

Seeing that Ah Yin had admitted it too, Ning Rongrong gave an angry snort and turned to leave.

Shui Bing'er shook her head helplessly and advised him, "Chu Xiu, you'd better go soothe Rongrong later. She's not really that unreasonable. This just happened so suddenly that she might find it hard to accept right away."

"No need."

Chu Xiu smiled. "Don't you know Rongrong's temper by now? She'll be fine after a night's sleep."

Shui Bing'er burst out laughing.

Covering her mouth, she said with a laugh, "That's true. Carry on, then. I'll head back to sleep too."

Shui Bing'er waved at the two of them, then turned and left, her figure swaying.

Only Chu Xiu and Ah Yin remained outside the cave. Ah Yin asked impatiently, "Chu Xiu, how is Xiao San doing now? Is he all right?"

"You were calling me husband just a moment ago, and now you've already changed your tune?"

"Husband, my dear husband, hurry up and tell me."

It had been a long time since Ah Yin had heard anything about her family.

To learn about Tang San's current circumstances from Chu Xiu, she threw caution to the wind, calling him husband again and again in a voice sweet enough to melt him.

That night, Chu Xiu told Ah Yin about Tang San.

That included the grievances between the two of them.

As well as Tang San's current achievements.

Ah Yin had never imagined that her son would be so accomplished. At such a young age, he had already won the All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Tournament and captured the heart of a girl who, like her, was a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.

Though his methods had been rather sordid.

"That bastard Tang San practices a technique called Purple Demon Eyes. It lets him see through other people's martial souls, just like I can. He deliberately approached Xiao Wu even though he knew she was a spirit beast. In my opinion, he's just like his father. They both wanted the other person to sacrifice herself and become a spirit ring."

Everything Chu Xiu said was true.

Of course, he could not resist adding a little interpretation of his own.

Ah Yin simply ignored his "slander" and said gently, "Chu Xiu, don't blame Xiao San. That child lost his mother as soon as he was born, and his father is a rough man who knows nothing but fighting. As his mother, I'll make up for the wrongs he's done to you."

"How will you make it up to me?"

Chu Xiu looked at her with interest.

Ah Yin averted her eyes. Despite her obvious embarrassment, she summoned her courage and said, "As long as we don't do that, you can do anything else you want."

What man could resist those words?

Especially when they came from a peerless beauty like Ah Yin.

Chu Xiu stood up on the spot, and what followed was half a night of outrageous indulgence.

The next day.

Only when the sun was well up in the sky did Chu Xiu emerge from the cave, feeling thoroughly refreshed.

"Where's Ah Yin?"

Qian Renxue suddenly asked.

Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er were nearby too, preparing lunch.

"She hasn't woken up yet. Did you need her for something?"

Chu Xiu was a little surprised.

Although there was no conflict between Qian Renxue and Ah Yin, Qian Renxue never took the initiative to talk to anyone unless she had serious business.

Qian Renxue nodded.

"Last night, I thought of a possibility. If the spirit beasts here cultivate magic power instead of soul power, why do all the powerful ones gather toward the summit?"

"Could there be something up there that attracts them, something only the strong are worthy of occupying?"

Qian Renxue's words made Chu Xiu's eyes light up.

That was right.

It was not just the spirit beasts. The mutated plants also grew higher in level the farther up the mountain they went.

Could it be because the spiritual energy was denser at the summit?

"Ah Yin can sense danger. I want her to take me higher up to test it. If the energy really is denser at the summit, perhaps there are foods growing there that contain more energy than spirit rice."

Qian Renxue explained her purpose.

At some point, Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er had also drawn closer.

They had both secretly tried eating spirit rice the night before. Although they could sense the changes it brought to their bodies, they could not sense the actual presence of that energy at all.

If there were better cultivation ingredients than spirit rice, perhaps they could take their first steps into immortal cultivation sooner.

"No."

Chu Xiu shook his head. "The spirit beasts at the summit aren't just powerful. They're also more densely packed. Avoiding all of them would be as hard as climbing to heaven."

"Don't get yourselves killed before you even find any spirit plants."

Chu Xiu had previously considered having Ah Yin lead him higher up to search for mutated plants.

But spirit beasts had discovered them very quickly.

Had he not used Concealment in time, their wide-ranging attacks might have left him on that mountain for good.

Ever since then, Chu Xiu had not dared venture farther up.

After all, he moved too slowly while concealed. If he happened upon two spirit beasts fighting, even a little stray damage could expose him.

Then he might die without even knowing what had killed him.

"But don't lose heart. I'll work out a method for circulating spiritual energy as soon as I can. Once we have a cultivation method, even if you can't sense the spiritual energy, you should still be able to keep it inside your bodies by copying the gourd to draw the ladle."

Chu Xiu was not being blindly arrogant.

Rather, different paths of the Great Dao all led to the same destination, and ten thousand schools returned to one source.

All cultivation methods merely differed in how energy circulated through the body.

In essence, magic power and soul power were not really that different.

It was just that on the Douluo Continent, soul power was passively absorbed during meditation, using the martial soul as a medium.

Soul power was stored within the martial soul. Without a martial soul, it could not be released.

What Chu Xiu wanted to study was how to actively draw spiritual energy through the meridians and into the dantian vortex.

There was also the question of which meridians soul power passed through when a soul skill was unleashed.

If he replaced it with magic power and sent it through those same meridians, would releasing it produce the same effect?

Chu Xiu would have to make another trip to the Douluo Continent to find out.