Chapter 1 Rebirth

  The soul retreated from the depths, and according to Lao Li's intention, went to prepare things. Lao Li asked Chen Xuan to prepare some sandbags and a small basket, but the basket mouth was only left with an egg-sized hole. Chen Xuan knew that the sandbags were used to increase weight, but what could this small basket do?

  The night slowly retreated, and dawn was about to arrive. Chen Xuan took the things that Lao Li had prepared and headed towards the martial arts arena for practice.

  "Lui Lao, do you have a top-grade technique to give me to practice?"

  Chen Xuan walked while using his divine sense to communicate with Lao Li.

  "You think 'Heavenly Grade Technique' is something that can be easily obtained? It's all over the streets, but even if I gave it to you now, you wouldn't be able to cultivate it. Can your meridians withstand a 'Heavenly Grade Technique'?"

  Lao Li's voice echoed in Chen Xuan's mind, with a tone of striking.

  Chen Xuan himself had introspected his own meridians and found that they were still not fine, soft and flexible enough, which was probably the reason why his cultivation progress was slower than others.

  "Old Lei! Do you have any other skills, even earth-level ones will do!" Chen Xuan lowered his posture.

  "I said you little guy is so impatient, first build a good foundation, I have the skills, but I don't know what kind of cultivation you want to practice."

  "Definitely want the best."

  "I have a set of skills acquired in my later years, you can practice or not!"

  "What a grade!"

  "There's no rank, I don't even know what rank is, I've never practiced it!" Lao Li's voice sounded again.

  "Awesome!"

  Chen Xuan dropped an F-bomb.

  "Old man, you've never practiced calling me to practice, are you in a good mood or not?!"

  Chen Xuan said "heh heh" with a strange smile!

  "You little scoundrel, I'll tell you the truth, I'm now in the Soul Stone. If you die, my soul will also perish. Can I harm you? We're now like two ants on a single string, sharing the same fate, either we rise or fall together." Old Lei said urgently.

  "You'll be stuck in my mind from now on, it's gonna be so awkward!"

  "Wait until you little brat's power has increased, help me find a flesh substitute to seize the old man, and I can be reborn. For a thousand years, I didn't think I could return to the Tianling Continent!" Lí Old said with emotion.

  "We've arrived at the martial arts arena, what's next?"

  "Tie twenty kilograms of sandbags on your legs and run twenty laps around the martial arts training ground, don't use brute force, rely solely on your own body to complete it!"

  Chen Xuan calculated it and thought he could hold on for twenty laps!

  Just as he was thinking about how to complete it, Lao Li's voice sounded again.

  "Run 20 laps and then do 100 push-ups. Stand in a horse stance for an hour without using true strength!"

  Chen Xuan was stunned and his eyes revealed an angry expression.

  "Can such high-intensity training be completed?"

  "If you want to improve your strength, you have to pay the price, go and run quickly!" Old Lei shouted.

  "Hurry up!"

  Lao Li's voice kept urging in Chen Xuan's mind.

  Everyone in the martial arts arena was staring at Chen Xuan.

  After twenty laps, Chen Xuan was already panting with exhaustion.

  "Don't stop! Keep doing push-ups!" Old Lei's voice always appeared at the most critical moment.

  "May I take a rest for a while?" Chen Xuan said weakly.

  "No! Get up quickly for me, continue doing it, don't want to be killed by people again, just stand up!"

  Lao Li said this, Chen Xuan suddenly jumped up, as if something stimulated his nerves.

  The other disciples all gathered around and looked at Chen Xuan.

  "This kid sings as if he's torturing himself."

  "Get out of here and cultivate properly!"

  Suddenly a loud shout came, and the instructor of the martial arts field shouted loudly.

  Everyone scattered in all directions

  Seventy...

  Seventy-five

  Chen Xuan would stop for a while after every move, sweat dripping down his face one drop at a time, his entire body completely soaked in sweat. Persevere! Keep persevering! I must become an unparalleled strongman.

  "Ah!"

  Yi Bai Chen Xuan was lying on the ground like a dead dog, panting heavily.

  "Give you five minutes rest, hurry up and recover your strength!"

  Li Lao reminded Chen Xuan again.

  "I'm telling you, Lao Li, this is abuse, I protest!"

  "The protest is ineffective, time's up, hurry up and get on horseback within an hour!"

  Chen Xuan reluctantly got up from the ground, tied his horse's hooves, and time passed bit by bit. Chen Xuan's two legs kept shaking, and he told himself to hold on for half a time, again and again.

  Lao Li nodded in Chen Xuan's Soul Sea, "The child is teachable!"

  "Time's up! Pick up the small basket I told you to prepare and throw the small stones on the ground into it from a distance of five meters!"

  When Chen Xuan finished his horse steps, Lao Li continued to urge him on.

  "Can it be thrown in with such a small mouth?"

  "Whether you can throw it in is up to you, hurry up and practice!"

  Chen Xuan's two hands and two legs were shaking straight, and after throwing for half a day, not one went in.

  "You foolish kid, you've been standing there till nightfall and still haven't gone in. Focus your spirit, achieve a state of precision, energy, and harmony. Don't be like this, blindly crashing around like a dead cat. You must reach the point where your eyes and hands move as one, so that when facing an opponent in the future, you can spot their weakness at a single glance!"

  Li Lao gave Chen Xuan a reminder.

  The so-called unity of essence, energy and spirit, essence refers to the eyes, energy refers to breathing, and spirit refers to the soul, and one must achieve the unity of these three points.

  At first, Chen Xuan was not used to it, but slowly he found a bit of rhythm, the stones he threw in were getting more and more, his whole temperament was changing, becoming more and more introverted, like a knife, always ready to come out of its sheath and deliver a fatal blow to the enemy.

  All day long, Chen Xuan was under Lao Li's orders and brutally abused himself. Dragging his exhausted body back to the room, he didn't even eat dinner before lying down on the bed.

  "Kid, don't lie down, get up quickly, immediately mobilize energy from the Soul Stone to repair your body!"

  Chen Xuan immediately got to work, sat cross-legged, and then mobilized the energy from the Soul Stone. Green energy flowed from his brow point by point throughout his body.

  Chen Xuan's muscles were like parched earth, and suddenly a small rain shower fell, making Chen Xuan's muscles feel like withered grass, one by one, awakening. Chen Xuan was completely intoxicated in this feeling.

  An hour has passed!

  "How's the little one doing!" Lao Li's voice rang out again.

  "It feels so comfortable, my physical strength has fully recovered and even increased, and the intensity of my body has also improved significantly. The energy of the Soul Stone is really wonderful!"

  "Haha, now you know the wonderful use of Soul Stones, right? The energy from the Soul Stone will expand your meridians and tendons. Let me tell you, kid, this is a hundred times more painful than training during the day. Are you prepared?"

  "Come on, we've all died once already, what's there to be afraid of!"