Lin Ruhu

Not long after Xu Zimo left, an aged voice suddenly gave a soft cry of surprise from the corner.

"Did that little fellow discover me just now? Impossible!"

Xu Zimo arrived at the first floor of the Scripture Repository and casually took a Yellow Tier Meridian Technique.

The cultivation methods and Meridian Techniques of the Yuanyang Continent were all divided into eight ranks.

Yu, Zhou, Xing, Chen, Tian, Di, Xuan, Huang!

The Yu Tier was the highest, while the Yellow Tier was the lowest.

The Meridian Technique Xu Zimo took was called the Drawing Sword Technique.

It was an extremely simple Meridian Technique, with only one move: draw the sword!

The Meridian Technique was simple and brutal—draw the sword, and heads would fall.

As long as your horse was fast enough, even a Great Emperor could not catch up to you!

Emmmm... terrifying indeed!

As long as you drew your sword fast enough, even a Great Emperor's head could be cut off.

After leaving the Scripture Repository, Xu Zimo began communicating with the Round Bead inside his body, using the Divine Meridian Realm power stored within it to temper his body.

His internal organs, extraordinary meridians, and eight channels were all strengthening at a speed visible to the mortal eye.

Cracking sounds rang out from Xu Zimo's body from time to time.

His cultivation also began soaring by leaps and bounds in an instant.

"First level of the Mortal Realm,

Second level of the Mortal Realm,

Ninth level of the Mortal Realm."

His cultivation rose all the way to the ninth level of the Mortal Realm before stopping just as he was about to open his first Meridian Gate.

Xu Zimo was in no hurry to enter the Spirit Vein Realm. This sudden surge had left his foundation somewhat unstable.

One must know that a ten-thousand-foot tower rose from level ground. He decided to temper himself first before advancing into the Spirit Vein Realm.

Within the True Martial Sacred Sect stood a Gravity Tower specifically for disciples to hone their bodies.

The Gravity Tower had ten floors in total, and the gravity on each floor increased nearly tenfold.

Halfway to the Gravity Tower, Xu Zimo was suddenly called out to.

"Brother Zimo, wait for me!" A chubby little boy came panting over from the distance.

The chubby boy wore his hair short, had a piece of candy in his mouth, and a string of snot hanging at the corner of his lips.

"Brother Zimo, why are you here? No wonder I couldn't find you all day." The chubby boy expertly flicked away his snot, contentedly licked his candy, and asked.

"Ruhu, long time no see." Xu Zimo looked at the youth before him and greeted him with nostalgia in his voice.

The chubby boy's full name was Lin Ruhu. He was the grandson of the True Martial Sacred Sect's Third Elder, and one of Xu Zimo's childhood partners in mischief and troublemaking.

Ever since childhood, Lin Ruhu had been Xu Zimo's follower, obeying his every word.

In his Previous Life, he had always played the role of a green leaf, standing beside Xu Zimo to make him shine. In truth, his cultivation talent was not the slightest bit weaker than Xu Zimo's—perhaps it was even stronger.

Back then, Xu Zimo had thought it was his own unrivaled kingly aura, along with his sky-piercing handsomeness and personal charm, that had deeply attracted Lin Ruhu and made him worship him without end.

It was not until that great battle in the later days, when Lin Ruhu stepped forward and used his own body to block Chu Yang's certain-kill sword strike for Xu Zimo at the critical moment.

Holding the Young Man in his arms, already dyed red with blood, Xu Zimo roared, "Why? Why?"

Only then did the dying Young Man reveal the truth of why he had followed Xu Zimo all along.

When the two were ten years old, they had secretly slipped out of the sect to play and suddenly encountered a Slanted-eyed White Tiger along the way.

At the time, Xu Zimo had shielded Lin Ruhu behind him and faced the white tiger alone, telling him to run first.

Lin Ruhu had asked him, "Why did you protect me?"

Because Xu Zimo could have completely abandoned him and escaped alone.

Back then, Xu Zimo had merely answered in a particularly calm voice, "Because we are brothers. I am the elder brother, and you are the younger brother.

Brothers, brothers—the elder brother comes first, the younger brother comes after. Naturally, I have to protect you!"

It was from that moment onward that, unbeknownst even to Xu Zimo himself, this slightly chubby youth had secretly sworn in his heart.

"For this life, I will protect him by his side as his follower. Even if the sun and moon turn, even if seas become mulberry fields, I will protect him."

Hearing Xu Zimo's words, Lin Ruhu looked somewhat confused. "What do you mean, long time no see? Didn't we meet just yesterday?"

"It's nothing, it's nothing." Xu Zimo smiled and shook his head. "I'm going to cultivate in the Gravity Tower. Do you want to come with me?"

Lin Ruhu was about the same age as Xu Zimo. By this point, he had reached the age when he should begin cultivating.

"Sure, sure." Lin Ruhu nodded innocently. It seemed that in his eyes, as long as Xu Zimo asked him to do something, he would hardly ever refuse.

The two headed toward the Gravity Tower together. Xu Zimo looked over Lin Ruhu's appearance.

Snot hung from the corner of his mouth, and he often flung it about recklessly, while he occasionally had a piece of candy in his mouth.

He looked as low as low could be. After giving it some thought, Xu Zimo still reminded him, "Ruhu, could you eat less candy, wipe your snot clean, and pay a little attention to your appearance?"

"What's wrong with my appearance?" Lin Ruhu asked in confusion.

Xu Zimo felt that young people were just beginning to awaken to love at this age, so Lin Ruhu probably cared greatly about what girls his age thought of him.

He tried to persuade him from that angle. "You must have a girl you like, right? How could anyone like you looking like this?

Listen to Brother Zimo. Clean yourself up and make yourself presentable. Maybe then you'll win a girl's heart."

"Why do I need to win her heart?" Lin Ruhu asked again in confusion.

"Feelings are between two people. They have to be mutual. You can't possibly pine for someone alone, can you?" Xu Zimo said.

"No, I can force myself on her like a Hegemon," Lin Ruhu replied.

"A forcibly twisted melon isn't sweet."

"I know, but it quenches thirst."

"Holy shit, are you some kind of genius?" Xu Zimo stopped walking, feeling rather disheveled in the wind.

"Why is it that you're talking such serious nonsense, yet I somehow feel it makes sense and can't refute it?"

The two arrived at the Gravity Tower. Its exterior was oval-shaped, and its design was somewhat similar to a Treasure Pagoda.

When they entered, there were already many disciples cultivating inside.

Of course, cultivation in the Gravity Tower was not free. Disciples had to complete missions to earn Contribution Points, then spend those Contribution Points in exchange for time cultivating within it.

However, given Xu Zimo and Lin Ruhu's status, they certainly did not lack something like Contribution Points.

The first floor of the Gravity Tower doubled gravity, and the floors above increased it by nearly ten times each time.