Chapter Twelve: The Shocked Butcher Old Man

  Xiao Jinguo, mansion, inside the room.

  Chen Luo was wearing only a pair of pants, with his upper body exposed, leaning against the wall and sitting on the bed, tilting his head back and resting it against the wall, slightly narrowing his eyes, looking at Old Butcher who was pacing back and forth in the room with a bored expression.

  "We thought you'd been locked up in the Penal Tower for over a year, and that your reckless nature would have been tempered somewhat, so we brought you to Xiaojin Gou. Who would have thought, who would have thought, that in the end you'd still cause trouble for us?"

  Tú Kāi Yuān had his hands behind his back, pacing back and forth in the room, with an angry expression blaming Chen Luo for not being right.

  "Everyone has bullied us to the door, what can I do? Should I hide like a turtle with its head shrunk in? Chen Luo yawned and said: "I'm also thinking of you, I'm now considered a disciple of Xiaojingou. If I get bullied, won't it be embarrassing for you too? Not to mention you, Butcher Old Man, as the owner of a tower, you might still pass, but as the dean of an institute... really, it's enough to make one speechless. Before, I didn't know, but after coming here, I realized that Xiaojingou was often bullied in the past. As the dean, you don't even dare to fart, and I'm embarrassed for you."

  "Fart!" Tu Kaiyuan scolded, but later reacted that it wasn't the case, and shouted again: "When did our family let Xiaojingou be bullied by others? Isn't this because our Xiaojingou has no one? Do you think we brought you here for nothing?"

  Huh?

  Chen Luo was somewhat bewildered, what did it mean to bring him over for what? After careful consideration, he opened his eyes and stared at Butcher Old Man, saying: "I'm telling you, Butcher Old Man, what did you say earlier? You brought me here just to have me fight for you?"

  "Cough! Cough!"

  The old butcher cleared his throat twice, pretending to cover up, and said very seriously: "Luo Xiaozai, our family is really worried about your understanding ability. We took you in because we pitied you. Do you think you're the reincarnation of a war god? You even fought for our family? Luo Xiaozai, you're thinking too much."

  "...Chen fell silent, finding that Old Butcher's cunning eyes were staring at her non-stop, and subconsciously pulled the quilt over herself, warning: "You old glass, where are you looking?"

  "Get out!" Tou Kaiyuan cursed with a smile, saying: "Even if our family is old-fashioned, we still look down on your pale face."

  "What's with you staring at me with that flirtatious look?"

  Tu Kaiyuan couldn't help but look at Chen Luo with disdain, saying: "In just four short months, you've actually opened up three spiritual meridians. This is a huge shock to our family!"

  "You're well aware that I've been exceptionally talented since childhood and am known as a genius."

  It's only when he's with this shameless old butcher that Chen Luo becomes so unscrupulous and loses his dignity. As the saying goes, "Those who are close to vermilion become red, those who are close to ink become black." He's been like this since childhood, can't help it, got used to it.

  "Our family acknowledges that you, young one, are indeed talented and can be called a genius. However, this is limited to the field of array techniques only. As for your innate talent in cultivation, our family also acknowledges it's not bad, but merely very good at best. Compared to your talent in array techniques, hehe, it's really nothing special."

  "I'm telling you, Old Butcher, I'm not bragging. You're also aware that in the past few years, most of the time I followed Master to wander and suffer outside, and like this, I easily cultivated to the second realm and opened up the Spiritual Sea. Do you think I'm playing around with you?"

  "Hmph... " Tu Kaiyuan sneered, "Who knows what kind of shady business you and your master are up to when you're always going out? Do you dare let my family investigate?"

  As for Chen Luo's talent in the cultivation domain, Tu Kaiyuan didn't dare to be certain, he just felt that Chen Luo's cultivation talent was not great, purely a feeling.

  "What's there to see? What's so great about it?"

  Chen Luo's current spiritual power is extremely weak, and he doesn't mind being discovered by Tu Lao Touzi, but he's more worried that Tu Lao Touzi will discover the changes in his soul. He knows that Tu Lao Touzi has a habit of studying things, if he lets him know that his soul can now resonate eighteen times, this guy will definitely ask questions nonstop.

  "You let us take a look, and we'll know how your talent is." After that, Tu Kaiyuan stood up straight again and said seriously: "Of course, if you don't want to, we won't force you either."

  If Butcher Old Man's words can be trusted, then there would be no cheaters in this world. Chen Luo knew that his weirdness had already piqued Butcher Old Man's curiosity, and even if he refused this time, he was certain that Butcher Old Man would definitely sneak over after he fell asleep, because he knew him too well, and there were precedents for such things. After thinking for a moment, he sighed and said, "Then you watch."

  "Hmm, this is more like it!" Old Butcher smiled slyly, his eyes gleaming with a sinister light. He reached out and grasped Chen Luo's wrist, probing and searching, all the way to Chen Luo's soul. After a moment of exploration, he seemed to find nothing out of the ordinary and muttered: "The soul seems pretty normal."

  Chen Luo was always nervous and frightened, but when he heard Tú Lǎo Tóu say this, he finally let out a sigh of relief. It seemed that Tú Lǎo Tóu had not discovered the change in his own soul?

  "Soul is normal, let's take a look at your spiritual pulse again."

  This sudden discovery nearly made Old Butcher's eyeballs drop out, staring at Chen Luo as if he had seen a thousand-year-old witch. He exclaimed in shock: "Good heavens! You... you've actually opened all five spiritual meridians!" Perhaps it was too sudden, or perhaps it was too shocking, or perhaps it was simply unacceptable, but Old Butcher's tone became shrill.

  Looking at Tu Lao's appearance, Chen Luo strongly suppressed the urge to burst out laughing, pretending to be profound and disdainful, he glanced at him with a calm tone: "The young master is also a natural talent, what's so strange about opening up the five spiritual veins?"

  "Damn it!"

  Butcher Lao possibly was stimulated, directly exploded foul language, bellowed: "Your damn Spirit Sea has been destroyed!"

  "Your meridians must be in disarray and blocked!"

  "It's twice as hard for me than others!"

  "You've only been out of prison for four months and you've already opened up all five spiritual meridians! And they're all mutated too, are you trying to make it so others can't even live?"

  Envy, jealousy, and hatred!

  These five words can fully express the mood of Butcher Lao at this moment. Now, it's finally certain that Chen Luo, this little kid, not only has an extremely abnormal talent in the field of formation, but also has an abnormal talent in the field of cultivation. He thought of himself back then, also known as a genius, but now compared to Chen Luo, his own talent is simply trash!

  This is what I call innate talent, okay?!

  Cultivation! Array technique double absolute innate talent has wood has!

  Looking up at the vast sky, I suddenly feel that heaven is unfair, and directly scold heaven for being blind.

  After a long, long time, as if he had finally vented his emotions, Old Butcher shook his head, let out a deep sigh, and secretly wiped away the tears of envy, jealousy, and hatred that lingered at the corners of his eyes.

  "How's that? Convinced?" Seeing Butcher Laotou like this, Chen Luole was overjoyed.

  "Unbelievable." Old Butcher looked like a deflated balloon, showing defeat and feeling it was unfair.

  "Let's hear what Young Master has to say." Chen Luo was also somewhat pleased with himself.

  "You stinky brat!" The butcher's face changed, and he bellowed: "You're so smug just because you have the Double Absolute Talents? Humph! If you don't work hard to cultivate, you'll still be a piece of trash."

  Chen Lu pouted and didn't say anything.

  "You stinky little kid, you're quite capable! You've hidden it deep enough, if it wasn't for our family investigating you, we would have been kept in the dark. Old Butcher sat on the edge of the bed, poking his head out and saying: "You little kid, since you've opened up the five spiritual meridians, why are you still hiding and concealing? When Little Luo Tian came here to cause trouble, why didn't you give our family a good lesson? Why did you let them leave? Don't you feel ashamed?"

  "......" Chen Lu fell silent for a moment: "You just said I messed things up for you."

  "That was just a moment ago, our family didn't know your true strength and were worried you'd be at a disadvantage. But you've opened all five spiritual meridians and each one has mutated - what are you afraid of? If we don't beat that guy to death, can you live up to your own natural talent?"

  "Young master, isn't this hiding one's true strength?"

  "What are you hiding? What is there to hide? I've already investigated, you haven't been tainted by darkness, so what's the point of hiding?"

  Chen Luobai gave Lao Tou'er a glance and said, "You can talk while sitting without getting tired, but I've already made many people suspicious by opening three spiritual meridians in four months. If they find out that I've opened five, wouldn't it be like opening Pandora's box? I recall you saying that some old witches and whatnot love to seize the bodies of those with excellent innate talents!"

  As soon as he heard this, Butcher Old Man stretched out his hand and gave Chen Luo a thumbs up, praising: "Kid, I didn't expect it, you not only haven't been blinded by your own talent, but also thought of this point, it's impressive!" Nodding his head again, he said: "What you said is right, with your situation, you should indeed hide your strength, otherwise if you're really targeted by some old witch demons, that would be terrible, let alone..."

  "What's more, what?" Chen Luo was curious and didn't know what he wanted to say.

  "Moreover, your abnormal existence is really a blow to people. You spent four months opening up the five spiritual meridians, what about those apprentices who haven't opened up the five spiritual meridians in seven or eight years? How are they supposed to live?"

  Saying that, Old Butcher very seriously instructed: "From now on, try your best to avoid showing off your abilities in our academy. Did you hear me? Our family doesn't want the apprentices of Xiaojin Gou to feel hopeless about their future."

  "I have my own measure."

  "Oh, right, there's one more thing. Take a look at this." Old Butcher handed over a notice, which Chen Luo opened and glanced at roughly, only to find that it was a declaration of war from Zhuo Weidong of the Little Luo Tian Academy. He laughed and said: "Zhuo Weidong is really not giving up, actually daring to issue me a public challenge. I'm not in the mood to play with him."

  "Should you not fight?"

  "Not interested." Chen Luo liked fighting, but he didn't like being watched by so many people while doing it, it felt like being a monkey in a zoo.

  "No way, you have to accept the challenge. You're now a disciple of Xiaojingou, if you don't accept it, others will think we Xiaojingou are not brave enough."

  "Didn't you just tell me to keep a low profile?"

  "Being low-key is fine, but others have bullied us to the extreme, we can't just admit defeat. Besides, this doesn't conflict with anything, you can just use your Three Pulse Spirit Power."

  "Zhuo Weidong is also the master of Ling Kai Liu Mai, I only use three Mai spiritual power to deal with him, it's a bit difficult."

  "Even if you use the power of the four spiritual veins, what can you do? Anyway, it's a matter of one month later. You opened up three spiritual veins in four months and four spiritual veins in five months, isn't that normal? By then, when you mobilize the power of the four spiritual veins, defeating that trash Zuo Weidong will be as easy as crushing an ant."

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