The Legendary Master’s Wife - Chap 120

Chapter 120: Unusual Movement of Spiritual Energy

“You-shidi. The nine hundred stalks of magic herbs you took half a month ago, you’ve finished refining them all?”

After quite a while, Zhao DaZhou restrained the shock on his face. But the gaze he used while looking at You XiaoMo was one of disbelief. He would rather believe that someone was helping him out. Or maybe he took his own portion to make up the numbers, the so called slap your own face until it was swollen in order to look imposing.

“Not yet.”

How could You XiaoMo know what he was thinking? He shook his head.

Zhao DaZhou immediately heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. Looked like he was the one that was slapping his own face in order to look imposing. It was just that he didn’t expect You XiaoMo to actually be so concerned about keeping up appearances. He couldn’t help but feel a little disdain in his heart. But he didn’t think that he himself was also especially concerned about keeping up appearances.

Unexpectedly, You XiaoMo continued saying somewhat casually, “I still have half that I haven’t refined.”

Zhao DaZhou’s mouth hung slightly open, looking wide-eyed at him. It was quite a while before he regained his senses. He abruptly stood up from the chair, his face no longer calm as if he was thinking of seizing him for interrogation. Luckily he still remembered that this was the Hall of Magic Herbs and he was currently sitting in his father’s place. He took a deep breath and calmed down the agitation in his heart.

“You-shidi, when you refine magic pills…have you ever failed before?” Zhao DaZhou asked probingly.

Hearing these words, You XiaoMo laughed uncomfortably. He finally understood why Zhao-shixiong suddenly turned so strange. So, he was the one that incited it. Immediately he hesitated between telling the truth or lying.

If he lied, he was afraid that he would be found out by Fifth Shixiong. After all, Zhao-shishu knew that he hadn’t failed before when refining magic pills. And the two of them were father and son. When the time came, he only had to ask his father and the lie would be exposed. When Fifth Shixiong found out that he lied to him, how would he react? So he must absolutely not tell a lie.

But if he told the truth, looking at his expression, he already knew that he made quite an impression. If he gave him another blow, he would keep thinking about it, getting no peace.

With difficult situations on the left and right, it would be better to choose a comparatively lighter outcome.

You XiaoMo said as if looking death in the face, “That…seems like…I…actually…haven’t failed before.”

After saying these words, You XiaoMo found that Fifth Shixiong’s aura was becoming turbulent. Most probably he was over agitated causing his soul force to become unstable. Looked like what he guessed was not wrong. Raising his head, he saw Fifth Shixiong staring straight at him.

“Fifth Shixiong, are…are you ok?” You XiaoMo looked at him, and after a moment’s hesitation, he asked Zhao DaZhou who was still staring at him. He didn’t refute You XiaoMo’s words because he knew that You XiaoMo wouldn’t lie to him. After all, he only had to ask his father to know if he was lying. This point, he could still think of. But this way, it made it even harder for him to accept. You-shidi’s innate talent was clearly not even as good as his…

Both sides didn’t open their mouths again, the atmosphere sinking into silence for quite a while.

“You-shidi, how…how do you do it?” Zhao DaZhou somewhat unwillingly broke the silence. Although he really didn’t want to admit that he was not as good as Seventh Shidi, the truth was already in front of his eyes. His father always taught him that one could be proud but once must also be modest. Only this way could one become even more formidable. He also wished to become as formidable as Da Shixiong and Second Shixiong.

You XiaoMo was stunned. Zhao-shixiong’s response greatly exceeded his expectation.

He thought that Fifth Shixiong would be jealous and hateful after hearing his words. After all, this kind of thing happened quite a lot before. But from Fifth Shixiong’s words, other than the jealousy, he could hear him humbly asking for advice. This was really unexpected!

Since he always thought that Fifth Shixiong loved to show off, he must definitely not like to lose. Now it seemed that he was wrong.

Thinking like this, You XiaoMo smiled and was not stingy with his advice, “Fifth Shixiong. Actually, the most important thing while refining magic pills is concentration. You can imagine that each time you refine a magic pill, you are about to create a child. So you should concentrate all your soul force on the magic pill in your hand. Make sure not to waste even a single bit. This way, the rate of success in refining magic pills would increase considerably.”

He didn’t have anything, but what he didn’t lack, was concentration.

It was because he was especially focused when he refined magic pills, so the number of times he failed was zero. But this was only one of the reasons. Actually there was an even more important reason and that was he wanted to earn money. If he failed, wouldn’t that mean he would lose the money from that magic pill?

Of course, this was not something he would tell Fifth Shixiong.

Zhao DaZhou carefully considered his words. He couldn’t deny that there was some logic in it. Perhaps he could try it out the next time he refined magic pills…

Thinking like this, Zhao DaZhou suddenly came back to his senses. He lowered his head and saw the smile on You XiaoMo’s face that he did not put away in time. He couldn’t help feeling somewhat annoyed. He was the Shixiong. How could he let the Shidi see him like this? He immediately put on a blank face, “Seventh Shidi, if you have nothing else, you can go.”

You XiaoMo smiled until his brows curved, “Then I’m going. See you later, Fifth Shixiong!”

From then on, every time You XiaoMo saw this Fifth Shixiong, he would feel especially delighted. He didn’t expect that the face-loving, and show off Fifth Shixiong was actually such an awkward and interesting person. Clearly he didn’t admit it in his words, yet he was unable to keep it in, so awkward that it became very cute. Just like the awkward Second Shixiong.

After returning to his room, You XiaoMo simply locked the door and placed the books on the bookshelf. He then turned around and headed into the inner room.

He was definitely not anxious to refine magic pills because refining magic pills could be done at any time. Furthermore, he was afraid that someone might come looking for him at this time. After going into the inner room, he sat cross-legged on the bed. Speaking of the Heavenly Soul Scripture, ever since he started training, he very rarely sat cross-legged like this on the bed to train.

Although the time he spent refining magic pills was also considered training, but the result was not as good as training with a heart that was not occupied by anything else.

After preparing himself, You XiaoMo closed his eyes tightly. Silently, he invoked the Heavenly Soul Scripture. A wave of soul force suddenly started to circulate. He felt as if there was a clear spring like soul force in his soul, washing his soul clean. Then it slowly went towards the space between his eyebrows. When that space became flooded with enough soul force, that swelling feeling felt as if it was going to break out from the space between his brows, right until a buzz was heard and that soul force suddenly vanished…

You XiaoMo was completely shocked. He actually couldn’t detect his soul force. His soul seemed as if it was dried up, appearing to be in an empty state. From the depths of his soul, he felt a deep sense of hunger and thirst.

Right at this moment, he felt the space between his brows start to shine and heat up. Then the spiritual energy all around started to move, finally forming a small vortex. The epicenter of the vortex was the space between his brows. An enormous quantity of spiritual energy rushed into the space between his brows, replenishing the empty soul, continuing for a long time right until the depths of his soul started to feel bloated. Only then did it stop sucking up the spiritual energy.

Feeling the depth of his soul humming in satisfaction, You XiaoMo slowly let out a sigh of relief.

This type of feeling was too awesome. Like someone who was starving for seven to eight days suddenly having a huge feast. This type of wild joy was something that was hard to describe with words.

You XiaoMo could clearly feel that his soul seemed to be even more tangible than before. As for the soul force, it also increased considerably. It was much stronger than how it was when he was immersed in the cruel fate of refining magic pills. Even ten or so days couldn’t compare to how strong it was now.

After discovering the benefit of meditative training, You XiaoMo decided that he would carve out time every day to practice the Heavenly Soul Scripture, to let himself get to a level three mage faster.

Right at this moment, a commotion was heard outside.

You XiaoMo immediately opened his eyes and looked to the window in surprise. Multiple shadows could be seen along with the sound of many footsteps and whispering voices. But these people seemed to be standing outside his room.

You XiaoMo put on his boots hastily. Just as he was walking out, he heard a knock at the door accompanied by a familiar voice. He recognized this voice. It’s the Yang-shixiong from next door. This disciples frequently passed on Da Shixiong’s messages to him.

Opening the door, You XiaoMo saw that the few disciples staying nearby were actually all outside. A look of surprise flashed across his eyes. He turned to Yang-shixiong and asked, “Yang-shixiong, did something happen?”

Yang-shixiong first glanced inside his room and then asked doubtfully, “You-shidi, were you training just now?”

You XiaoMo face showed his surprise, “Yang-shixiong…how did you know?”

He clearly shut the windows and door tightly. Other people shouldn’t have been able to see him training inside?

Yang-shixiong looked at his clueless expression and simply explained, “When you were training just now, you seemed to have triggered the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The surrounding spiritual energy was sucked in by you. Everyone jumped in fright so we came over. You didn’t realize it?”

A few of them were refining magic pills so after getting a shock, naturally the magic pill in the cauldrons were rendered useless, causing quite a few people to be quite angry at him. But after thinking about it, he still decided not to tell this matter to You XiaoMo.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t know it could be like this. Giving you guys a scare.” You XiaoMo exclaims ‘ah’. He really didn’t know.

Although he could feel himself drawing in spiritual energy, he had no idea what it was like outside. If they knew that he was practicing the Heavenly Soul Scripture, he was afraid to think of the outcome. Thinking like this, his whole back filled with cold sweat.

You XiaoMo then stole a look at them. A few of them looked angry and some were obviously jealous. It was only normal to be angry after getting a scare. But where did the jealousy come from?

After thinking it over, he finally remembered that not long ago, he received that soul training manual belonging to the Tian Xin Sect from Shifu. Everyone must already know about this. As far as he knew, the number of Capital Peak disciples that managed to get this volume of soul training manual was not more than twenty. No wonder they were jealous of him. It was a pity that that volume of techniques was basically useless to him.

But this was just nice for an excuse. Luckily he already received that volume of techniques. If not, he wouldn’t know how to explain it to them. If Shifu found out, he would be in a lot of trouble.