The next morning, Liu Changxu woke Liu Fuzhu and her two younger brothers, Liu Fupeng and Liu Fufei, who had spent the night in the Ruyi Lotus Palace.
The father and his three children flew to an unnamed hill on Peach Blossom Mountain.
"Father, how are you going to test us?"
His daughter Liu Fuzhu asked him coaxingly.
After reflecting overnight, Liu Fuzhu had realized that her father's questioning the previous evening had been for her own good.
"I'll use a lightning-attribute divine ability to simulate tribulation lightning. As long as you can withstand three attacks, you'll pass."
Liu Changxu spoke sternly.
"Father, that's unfair! This frail little body of mine can't withstand an attack from a Nascent Soul True Lord like you."
Liu Fuzhu immediately protested upon hearing her father's requirements.
"You can rest assured about that. I'll reduce the power of my lightning-attribute divine ability to the early Golden Core stage.
"Of course, if you can't even meet that requirement, you'll have to thoroughly consolidate your cultivation first. Only once your actual combat strength satisfies me can you enter seclusion to break through to the Golden Core stage."
Liu Changxu added.
"Father, can I use talismans and spirit artifacts?"
Still unwilling to give up, Liu Fuzhu asked.
"You may use spirit artifacts and second-tier talismans, but if you use third-tier talismans, you'll have to withstand six consecutive attacks from my lightning-attribute divine ability!"
Liu Changxu really had no good way to deal with his daughter Zhu'er. Her temperament was remarkably like her mother Su Jinxiu's. Since childhood, she had loved bargaining with her father, and now, even in her sixties, that part of her personality had hardly changed.
Although Liu Fuzhu had married an outstanding direct-line descendant of Liu Changxu's friend Zhang Yufeng, and the couple got along