Chapter 29

Time passed quietly like a white horse passing a gap.

The slight discomfort caused by the surge in internal energy after Ning Chuan swallowed the three Innate Pills, as well as the feeling of stagnation because his body had not fully adapted, had all disappeared after this period of careful polishing and consolidation.

His Black Water Mysterious Snake Innate true qi had become more refined and rounded, and his control over the two hundred opened snake apertures had become increasingly handy.

He returned to his fulfilling life of hunting in the sea, swallowing and cultivating, and reading scriptures and comprehending in the martial arts building or stone chamber of Taohuadao in his spare time.

His strength was still continuously improving at a steady and rapid speed.

And during this time.

Huang Rong's progress was also remarkably fast.

She was already ice-snow smart and had peerless talent, a martial arts prodigy rarely seen in a hundred years, but she used to be a bit playful and did not put her heart entirely into practicing martial arts.

Now, after experiencing the incident of Chen Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Mei Chaofeng's defection, and seeing Ning Chuan's extraordinary strength, her enthusiasm for practicing martial arts was unprecedentedly high.

Coupled with the help of the Taohuadao heart method tailored for her by Ning Chuan, practicing was like adding wings to a tiger, with half the effort for twice the result.

The improved heart method not only greatly improved her efficiency in absorbing and refining heaven and earth energy, but also effectively nourished her meridians and blood, making up for the deficiency of her slightly delicate body.

In just half a month, she miraculously broke through two grades in a row, leaping from the fifth grade of the acquired realm to the third grade of the acquired realm!

Such progress was enough to make people dumbfounded even in the Wu Lin where geniuses emerged in large numbers.

This day.

Outside the forbidden area of Taohuadao, the Eastern Heretic Huang Huang Yaoshi walked out with a gloomy face.

His expression looked quite ugly, with a trace of unconcealable depression and irritability between his brows.

During these days, he had been entangled with Zhou Zhou Botong, who was imprisoned by him in the forbidden area.

He originally thought that with his strength and means, he would definitely be able to force out the whereabouts of the first volume and the general outline of the Nine Yin Manual from Zhou Zhou Botong's mouth.

But he didn't expect that this old urchin Zhou Zhou Botong, although his Wu Gong was not as good as his, had a personality that was innocent and naive to the extreme, and was also stubborn, impervious to both soft and hard tactics.

No matter how Huang Huang Yaoshi threatened or lured, and even spared no effort to use some "special" means, Zhou Zhou Botong just refused to reveal a single word, and instead often said some crazy things, making Huang Huang Yaoshi so angry that smoke came out of his seven orifices.

It just so happened that this Zhou Zhou Botong was the junior brother of Wang Wang Chongyang of the Quanzhen Sect, and his identity was special, so Huang Huang Yaoshi couldn't really kill him.

After a lot of tossing, he didn't get the first volume and the general outline of the Nine Yin Manual, but instead was angered quite a bit by Zhou Zhou Botong's rogue attitude of not fearing boiling water.

The depressed Huang Huang Yaoshi then thought of his several disciples.

He decided to test their recent practice to see if these useless guys had made any progress.

He summoned Qu Qu Lingfeng, Lu Lu Chengfeng, Wu Wu Mianfeng, and Feng Feng Mofeng to the training ground.

After a round of testing, the depression in Huang Huang Yaoshi's heart not only did not dissipate, but became even thicker.

He was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, pointing at the disciples and cursing: "A bunch of stupid donkeys! Idiots! The Wu Gong of my Taohuadao, passed into your hands, is simply casting pearls before swine!"

"Where have you spent your thoughts on weekdays? Each of you is progressing so slowly, simply unteachable!"

It was no wonder Huang Huang Yaoshi was angry.

Except for the eldest disciple Qu Qu Lingfeng, who had barely broken through to the second stage of the Innate realm thanks to his extraordinary talent and hard cultivation.

The other three, Lu Lu Chengfeng, Wu Wu Mianfeng, and Feng Feng Mofeng, were actually still stuck at the bottleneck of the first grade of the acquired realm, failing to break through to the Innate realm for a long time!

How could Huang Huang Yaoshi, who had always been extremely conceited about his own martial arts talent, not be burning with anger?

Immediately, he saw Huang Rong standing on the side, gloating as she watched her senior brothers being scolded.

Huang Huang Yaoshi became even more angry and glared at her unpleasantly.

He knew his precious daughter's character too well; she was the most playful on weekdays, fishing for three days and drying nets for two, and had never had any patience for boring martial arts cultivation.

He was even too lazy to test Huang Rong's Wu Gong, assuming there wouldn't be any surprises.

Seeing that her father was also venting his anger on her, Huang Rong immediately pouted her little mouth in dissatisfaction.

She gave a delicate snort and said: "Father! Don't look down on me! I have been practicing very hard during this time!"

Hearing this, Huang Huang Yaoshi glanced at her, not believing it at all, and snorted coldly: "Oh? Is that so? I'd like to see how hard you can work."

Seeing that her father didn't believe her, Huang Rong's competitive spirit was aroused even more.

She gave a delicate shout, said nothing more, and directly flickered her figure, unleashing the exquisite palm technique of Taohuadao, and attacked Huang Huang Yaoshi!

Although her palm technique still looked immature in Huang Huang Yaoshi's eyes, the internal energy fluctuations contained within it made Huang Huang Yaoshi slightly startled.

After Huang Rong finished performing a set of palm techniques, she triumphantly withdrew her moves, her little face full of "praise me quickly" expressions, and said: "How about it, Father! I'm amazing, right! I broke through two grades in a row, and now I'm at the third grade of the acquired realm!"

The disdain on Huang Huang Yaoshi's face had long since disappeared, replaced by deep astonishment and disbelief.

He stepped forward, grabbed Huang Rong's wrist, and carefully investigated the internal energy situation in her body.