Although he recognized an old subordinate of the first-generation master of the spiritual path and successfully promoted the main plot, this did not seem to be a good thing for Hua Shi.
Before knowing each other's true identities, Xuan Shuzhi and Hua Shi were master and disciple, and Xuan Shuzhi's teaching to his disciples was gradual. Hua Shi originally needed to clean the courtyard for half a year before he could start the next practice.
However, after they clarified their respective identities on the cliff that day, Hua Shi's life never felt easy in the following six months.
Xuan Shuzhi said that he wanted Hua Shi to practice well, and of course it was not just a casual remark. In the past six months, Xuan Shuzhi has taken very thoughtful "care" for this disciple, from spiritual sea practice to spiritual power practice, from the method of spiritual transformation to swordsmanship and body skills, Xuan Shuzhi did not miss any of them.
What made Hua Shi collapse the most was that he did not fall behind in cleaning the eight courtyards every day.
As the eldest son of the Hua family, Hua Shi's life was as comfortable as it was after he traveled to the Xuanqing Continent. Now he is as miserable as he is now. He really misses the days of eating and drinking in the Hua family.
Now, after getting up every morning, Hua Shi only has a few minutes to eat. After eating quickly, he will immediately go to clean the yard with a rag and broom.
Of course, the cleaning time cannot be too long. He must clean all eight courtyards within the morning. Then after lunch, he cannot even take a short rest. He must go to the pavilion on the hill outside Xuanling Pavilion to practice with Xuan Shuzhi.
Xuan Shuzhi would wait for Hua Shi here every day.
Hua Shi didn't understand why he didn't like to stay in the villa and had to choose to practice on such a high mountain. However, Xuan Shuzhi seemed to be smooth and easy to talk to, but when it came to actual training, he really didn't show any mercy at all and was strict to the point of being cruel.
As a result, Hua Shi suffered severe beatings from Xuan Shuzhi during this half year. For a long time, Hua Shi's wounds kept healing and new ones appeared one after another, and bruises could always be seen on his body.
As for the fact that he had Xuan Shuzhi personally beat and trained him on the mountain outside the villa, no other disciple knew about it except himself.
The disciples who were not familiar with Hua Shi just thought that he, the Pavilion Master's disciple, was bullied by someone. They thought that he was cowardly and useless and might damage the Pavilion Master's reputation. The disciples who were closer to him were puzzled by his inexplicable injuries.
Senior Brother Zhou Xun, who was in charge of leading them, even thought that Hua Shi sneaked out every afternoon to go to a nearby town to gamble and lose money, which was why he was beaten every day. So several times he couldn't help but advise Hua Shi earnestly, asking him to practice well and not mess around again.
Hua had no way of speaking out his grievances, so he just dealt with his senior brother Zhou Xun casually, but he was still beaten up afterwards.
However, the six months of being beaten did bring about many changes for Hua Shi.
Hua Shi, who was originally at the fifth level of Spiritual Sea, has reached the seventh level of Spiritual Sea after half a year of cultivation. The cultivation of Spiritual Sea becomes more and more difficult as time goes by. To be able to increase two levels within half a year is already a very incredible thing in the eyes of others.
Even Xuan Shuzhi, who personally trained Hua Shi, was amazed by Hua Shi's talent.
Not only that, Hua Shi's swordsmanship and spiritual power have also reached a new level. Although his realm is still not as good as Zhou Li and Yu Xing, if we talk about real strength, Hua Shi, who has a tenth-level evil spirit as his contracted spirit, is afraid that those two will not be his opponents if he really fights.
It's a pity that Hua Shi is still immersed in the fear of being brutally trained by Xuan Shuzhi every day. He is beaten black and blue every day and has no idea what level of strength he has reached now. He just feels that he is still a poor little guy who gets beaten every day. After practicing hard for a long time, he still can't dodge ten moves from Xuan Shuzhi.
What he didn't know was that among the younger generation of disciples nowadays, few could even last more than three moves at the hands of Xuan Shuzhi.
Of course Xuan Shuzhi would not tell Hua Shi the truth. As early as half a year ago, he had already figured out the temperament of his young disciple. This young master Hua Shi was a very eccentric guy, extremely boastful in some aspects. Although he possessed countless treasures and knew many secrets, he always seemed to have never seen the world. When he saw something new, he would always make a fuss and shout everywhere. If he made progress in his cultivation and was praised a few words, he would be happy for a long time.
In order to prevent Hua Shi from getting too proud, Xuan Shuzhi did not dare to reveal too much, even though Hua Shi's current cultivation results were already excellent. He even had to be careful with the tone of his voice, for fear that Hua Shi would discover his approval.
But Hua Shi didn't know these things, but Fang Wei, who was in Hua Shi's soul, saw them clearly.
The way this master and disciple get along with each other, each with their own thoughts, even makes Fang Wei laugh sometimes.
That day, after cleaning the yard as usual, Rihua Shi rushed to the pavilion on the mountain. The places where he was beaten by Xuan Shuzhi a while ago still had bruises. Although Xuan Shuzhi specially sent someone to send him a whole box of top-grade ointment, his injuries healed very quickly every time and he could move around as usual the next day after a night, but the purple and blue marks on his skin after being beaten were still difficult to remove.
Hua Shi rubbed his arm, and couldn't help but complain quietly to the system in his mind as he walked up the mountain along the path.
"Half a year has passed! Half a year, you know? I dream every night, and in my dreams I am being beaten!"
"I feel like there's no place on my body that hasn't been beaten. Even if there's ointment, it's useless." Hua Shi was acting like a drama queen, tearfully complaining, and the more he spoke, the more exaggerated he became. "Ointment can only heal my body, but it can't heal my heart that was hurt so badly by Master!"
Fang Wei was already used to his way of expressing himself, so she didn't say anything and just let him continue talking.
Perhaps because he felt that it was not enough to just talk about it in his head, Hua Shi took advantage of the fact that no one was around and directly said it out loud: "Where can you find such a master in this world? Other people's masters are all superior to their apprentices. Zhou Li wrote to me last time and said that he was injured because of his training in the mountains. His master let him rest for a whole half month, took care of him day and night, fed him medicine, and bandaged his wounds. What about me! Every time my master beats me up, I still think that my injury is not serious enough, and asks me if I want to practice more. Every time I finally figure out how to dodge his moves, he will torture me in a different way the next day. You don't know that now whenever I see his smile, I feel pain in my waist, legs, and everything else!"
Fang Wei: “…”
He really wanted to cough to remind Hua Shi, but unfortunately the system couldn't cough.
So Hua Shi continued his emotional accusation, like a little kid who had been bullied and was chattering to his elders to complain.
Until a laughing voice suddenly came from the front, interrupting Hua Shi's words: "So you have been so wronged in the past six months, it is really the master's fault. Disciple, come here quickly and let the master torture you again. If you are injured again this time, the master will bandage you with his own hands and take care of you without taking off his clothes. What do you think?"
Hua Shi: “…”
He stopped in his tracks and looked stiffly in the direction of the sound ahead. Only then did he realize that he was too absorbed in the work and had unknowingly arrived outside the pavilion on the mountainside. The person he had just tearfully accused, his devilish master, was sitting against the pavilion pillar in a loose green robe, giving him a meaningful smile.
Hua Shi felt a chill on his back and immediately shook his head as fast as he could, "No need, Master! No need!"
Xuan Shuzhi lowered his eyes and put on a sad expression again: "But I despise you because I am not as gentle and considerate as other masters..."
"No, no, no, Master, this is enough for you." Hua Shi hurriedly stopped him, his expression afraid that it was not sincere enough, "Really."
Xuan Shuzhi smiled. He was scared to the point of this, so he didn't plan to continue pretending. He waved his sleeves and let them enter the pavilion. He used his eyes to tell Hua Shi to pour him a cup of tea. Then he stared at Hua Shi's movements and said slowly, "Who were you talking to just now?"
Hua Shi was stunned for a moment, recalling that he had just spoken to the system and was seen by Xuan Shuzhi. For a moment he didn't know how to explain it.
Hua Shi had been living too casually in Xuanling Pavilion during this period of time. He would tell the system everything. After a long time, he found that the system did not seem so indifferent. Sometimes it could even pick up on some of his words.
This discovery made Hua Shi very happy, so he didn't care whether the system annoyed him or not. Relying on the fact that the other party was just an artificial intelligence and could not block the host, he chatted with it more often, and gradually began to become unrestrained, sharing almost all his worries, troubles, interests and hobbies with the system.
But he didn't expect that his master would hear these words.
Hua Shi knew Xuan Shuzhi was thinking deeply, so he did not hesitate for too long and just said casually: "I was just talking to myself, Master."
Xuan Shuzhi listened to Hua Shi's nonsense without changing his expression, and there was even a teasing smile in his eyes.
Hua Shi felt a little headache: "Master..."
"Well, remember to talk to yourself in places with few people next time." Xuan Shuzhi took the tea from Hua Shi and said calmly, "Don't let anyone see us."
Hua Shi's hands froze in place, and he felt that Xuan Shuzhi seemed to be hinting at something, but when he looked closely, he seemed to be calm and composed, as if he hadn't noticed anything, and was just casually reminding him of something ordinary.
Hua Shi lowered his head and said nothing more. He just responded to Xuan Shuzhi with a soft "hmm".
His mind was in turmoil, almost waking up the "sleeping" evil spirit.
The two talked for a while. Hua Shi saw that Xuan Shuzhi's previous words seemed to be just casual talk and he had no real intention of beating him up. So he finally felt relieved and asked, "Master, why don't you start practicing today?"
Xuan Shuzhi raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "Why, are you anxious?"
Hua Shi was stunned for a moment, and shook his head repeatedly: "No hurry, no hurry, Master, take a good rest, and we will practice again after you have recovered your spirit."
Xuan Shuzhi listened to what he said, knocked on the edge of the table, and then said with a smile: "I have good news for you, do you want to hear it?"
Hua Shi perked up, sat up straight and said quickly: "Master, please speak!"
Xuan Shuzhi said: "Now you have a chance to go down the mountain and gain experience..."
Before he could finish his words, he saw Hua Shi slumped over the table with a bitter face.
Xuan Shuzhi was stunned for a rare moment: "What's wrong with you?"
Hua Shi recalled hundreds of ridiculous plot developments in his mind, feeling distressed that he had finally reached this point. He said, "I don't think this is good news."
In a plot-based story, when a disciple who has been training in the master's sect for a long time goes down the mountain to gain experience, it usually means that a major plot is about to begin.
Maybe this plot is of nightmare difficulty.
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