Chapter 206 Doubts
The flower monk touched his bald head, a silly smile on his handsome face, and said, "Isn't this because I don't dare?"
Li Xiu's expression softened. He believed in Hua Monk, but some things had to be made clear: "Why don't you dare?"
He patiently explained, "If the aura of the Heartbeat Stage is leaked, it will not only attract my master and fellow disciples, but also attract the attention of high-level monsters."
Li Xiu nodded and smiled, "I see. I was overthinking it before."
As he spoke, he glanced at Han Yueshan, but found that they were all surrounding Tao Zi and were not paying any attention to the situation here.
Li Xiu: ...So he was worrying for nothing?
At this moment, the Flower Monk said something startling: "Seriously speaking, Daoist Brother Tao's strength far surpasses that of ordinary people reminds me of some people."
He casually replied, "Who?"
"Minglan Sect's Punishment Hall."
Li Xiu coughed violently twice.
Han Yueshan turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay, I just choked on my saliva." He said a few more perfunctory words before looking at the flower monk and continuing, "Why do you have such thoughts?"
"My senior brother once joked that out of ten outstanding physical cultivators, at least six must come from the Minglan Sect's Punishment Hall."
When Han Yueshan heard this, he began to praise his senior sister: "Senior sister must be the strongest among the four."
Li Xiu turned away silently. Yueshan was usually a smart kid, so why did he always seem stupid when it came to Tao Zi's affairs?
The Flower Monk agreed deeply and nodded, saying, "Fellow Daoist Tao is able to kill so many fourth-level blood wolves with the strength of the early stage of flesh forging. He is indeed very powerful. Perhaps even the people in the Punishment Hall cannot compare to him."
Li Xiu looked at them in silence.
In the early morning of the next day, when it was just getting light, Tao Zi finally opened her eyes.
Her entire body was covered in blood scabs, including quite a few on her face, but even so, it couldn't hide her outstanding appearance.
Without waiting for her to speak, Li Xiu said, "Let's go to a place farther away to guard. You can use the stream water to wash. Xi Jing, please help your senior sister."
Xi Jing nodded repeatedly: "I understand."
While cleaning herself, she asked, "Xi Jing, you look a little pale, are you injured?"
She replied obediently: "Senior Sister, I'm fine. Senior Brother Li checked it out and said that I just need some medicine and some rest to be fine."
Tao Zi nodded. After putting on the human skin mask, her fox cousin asked, "You are so beautiful, why do you want to wear a human skin mask?"
She casually replied, "I'm too good-looking, and it's easy for me to get into trouble."
The fox cousin choked and didn't want to answer.
Not long after, Li Xiu and the others also came back.
After checking her internal condition, Li Xiu said, "The spiritual veins seem to be fine, and there are no injuries on the body."
Tao Zi nodded and tried to circulate her spiritual energy. As expected, she didn't feel any pain, but... the spiritual energy still rejected her.
She frowned and asked, "How did I suddenly advance? Is it related to the Soul-Returning Plant?"
Li Xiu looked at her with complicated eyes and said, "I don't know."
Han Yueshan asked, "Will there be any sequelae?"
"have no idea."
Zhao Xue then asked, "Do you have any clues?"
"No."
Xi Jing's face was filled with black lines. Suddenly, something flashed through her mind. She said, "Brother Li, please take a look at this prescription."
She quickly wrote out a prescription that her master had left behind.
Li Xiu took a look and asked in surprise: "This prescription is quite good, where did you get it from?"
"Our master," Xi Jing continued, "this is the prescription that Senior Sister used when she unexpectedly advanced. Can it be used now?"
He said in shock: "Unexpected advancement?"
Tao Zi calmly asked back, "Is there a problem?"
Li Xiu shook her head repeatedly: "No, no, not at all."
Xi Jing pressed on, "Can it be used?"
“It’s fine to use it, but I don’t know if it’s effective.”
When Xi Jing heard this, she began to think about finding time to cook it.
Zhao Xue asked, "We're heading to the central region next, right?"
Li Xiu responded: "Yes, I hope there won't be any more problems."
They discussed what to do next, but Tao Zi remained silent, still thinking about her forced advancement.
The first time could be considered an accident, or even explained by her own physical strength, but what about the second time?
Seeing her lost in thought, the Flower Monk asked, "Fellow Daoist Tao, what are you thinking about?"
She withdrew her thoughts and said, "Think about my sudden advancement again."
Han Yueshan smiled and said, "Senior Sister, you can't figure it out now, so it's better to put it aside and let nature take its course."
Tao Zi smiled helplessly, touched the little fox's head, and did not respond.
The Flower Monk said, "Actually, there is a possible explanation for this phenomenon."
She looked over.
He said, "If you were already in the Flesh Refining Stage before, but your strength was suppressed for various reasons, then this sudden advancement is quite normal."
Tao Zi's mouth twitched, and Xi Jing even complained, "Brother Hua, stop joking. I'm only twenty years old. How could I have reached the Flesh Refining Stage so early?"
She smiled and nodded in agreement.
The Flower Monk looked again and again, and asked in surprise, "Is Daoist Fellow Tao really only twenty years old?"
Without waiting for her to answer, Han Yueshan said, "Of course, how could this be false?"
"Then I can't think of any other possibility." He paused and praised, "To be able to reach the Flesh Refining Stage at the age of twenty, even if it's a physical cultivation, is very strong, at least stronger than me."
Before Tao Zi could say anything, Han Yueshan and the others started praising her one by one, with proud expressions as if she was the one being praised.
Tao Zi looked at them, and before she could smile, a guess appeared in her mind.
It seems that some of her memories are false, and she has forgotten more than one memory.
So, has she really never been a physical practitioner before?
She pursed her lips and fell silent. Li Xiu glanced at her for a few seconds and asked casually, "Speaking of this, I have a question, Senior Brother Hua, what would it be like if your strength was suppressed?"
"There are so many ways to suppress one's strength. Some people suppress themselves like me, some are suppressed by others, and some even have their strength limited by injuries. Different methods reveal different situations."
Li Xiu then asked, "How long does it take for an ordinary physical cultivator to reach the Flesh Refining Stage?"
The Flower Monk thought for a moment and said, "I'm not sure about that. Apart from Fellow Daoist Tao, the most gifted physical cultivator is probably Xing Zhan from the Minglan Sect's Xingtang. It seems he took seventy years to reach the Flesh Refining Stage."
Xi Jing praised without hesitation: "Wow, Senior Sister is so strong!"
The other two echoed and praised him again.
Li Xiu listened to their words and glanced at Tao Zi with a hint of condemnation - how dare you lie to such lovely junior brothers and sisters.
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