Chapter 21 Yes, I was also worried about Senior Brother Xiao...
Months of training paid off, and Xu Zangyu finally reached the threshold of the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, breaking through in a single day and night.
According to sect custom, when someone breaks through in cultivation, a gift is prepared to send them off. However, seeing that the auspicious clouds and unusual phenomena were not obvious at night, he did not intend to disturb others and went to sleep.
As midnight approached, a faint creaking sound came from the window. There was a breeze at night, and Xu Cangyu remembered closing the window. Could it be that it wasn't closed properly?
He was half asleep and didn't want to get up, but the intermittent noises were really torturous. Finally, with a resentful look on his face, he went to the window.
The window was still closed, and the latches were still tightly sealed. The noise coming from the gleaming saw blade that was seen going in and out of the latches.
The blade was sharp, but the saw was made of ironwood that was difficult to cut with knives and spears, so after working for a long time, only a small crack could be sawed out. Then Xu Zangyu watched helplessly as the other party changed to a more exquisite saw.
His skill level suggests he's done plenty of petty theft.
The other party was unable to do anything for the time being, so Xu Zangyu simply sat down by the window and watched when the other party would succeed.
With the other party's persistent efforts, the precariously fastened bolt finally broke.
The window was pushed open, and a man dressed in black stepped halfway across the room, his eyes meeting those of Xu Zangyu, who was sitting upright in a chair holding a large knife.
The man was so startled that he tried to pull his leg back, but Xu Cangyu, who had been holding back his broadsword, slashed at him.
"Young hero, spare my life!"
The man stumbled in with a thud, saying, "I'm here to deliver medicine."
Xu Zangyu's mind went blank for a moment before he remembered after being reminded by the other party, "Young hero, you haven't forgotten our young master, have you?"
He chuckled twice, "I haven't forgotten, I was just surprised that such a small matter required the young master to personally send someone to deliver the medicine."
He reached out to take the medicine bottle, but the man withdrew his hand. Seeing Xu Zangyu's changed expression, he picked up the knife again and explained with a bitter face, "I'm not playing a trick on you, but our young master has a few questions for you."
Xu Zangyu gestured for him to continue.
"The young master asked you why you didn't return to Anxiang Tower to pay your respects after being gone for several months. You must know that your life is tied to the young master's belt. You must understand the situation in order to survive."
Xu Zangyu almost burst out laughing. Paying respects? Does he really think he's the King of Heaven?
"That's all."
The man in black noticed in the blink of an eye that the medicine in his hand had been handed to Xu Cangyu. Seeing his expressionless face, he was displeased. "The young master personally ordered someone to deliver medicine to you, and you don't even have a little gratitude?"
"Of course I'm grateful. I would be even more grateful if you could give me the antidote all at once."
"Dream on! The young master is only giving you a month's supply of the antidote. If you don't go to the young master to ask for it, you're just waiting to die."
Xu Zangyu tossed the pill into his mouth and casually replied, "My master has been keeping a close eye on me lately. I'll go see the young master as soon as I have a chance."
The sweet taste spreads in your mouth, with a slightly sour taste, and you can also feel the grainy texture of the fruit pulp after chewing.
The last time I tasted it, it was sweet, fragrant, and smooth, but this time it's even more appetizing.
I poured the medicine into the bottle twice, but no more pills came out, which was a pity.
"Has the recipe been improved this time?"
The man in black was taken aback for a moment, then said, "What nonsense are you talking about? This has always been the recipe."
Just as Xu Zangyu was about to tell the person to leave, footsteps gradually approached and headed straight for the window. Both of them were a little nervous, and Xu Zangyu could only stuff him into the wardrobe that could temporarily hide people.
This time, the people who came also climbed through the window in perfect unison.
What Xu Zangyu didn't expect was that it was his junior brother Chen Zhiguang who climbed in. Chen Zhiguang had just set foot when Xu Zangyu bumped into him, and they were embarrassed for a while.
"Why didn't you knock before coming in? Why did you have to climb through the window? It's not like I wouldn't let you in."
Chen Zhiguang scratched his head embarrassedly. His face was still swollen and bruised like it had been a few days ago, and it didn't seem to have gotten any better; in fact, it seemed to have gotten even worse.
"Don't say anymore. These past few days, I've been chased and beaten by my senior and junior brothers. Someone even broke down my door in the middle of the night. I had no choice but to escape through the window. I've gotten used to it."
"Why are these heartless people bullying me?"
Xu Zangyu had been approached before, but when those people came, he first exerted the pressure of a Golden Core cultivator, then casually revealed a few magical treasures that his master had casually tossed to him, and asked, "Junior brothers, would you like to spar with me? I'd like to test how well the knife Master gave me works."
The junior disciples looked pale and all said they were just passing by, and then ran off in a large group.
He didn't know that everyone had gone to find Chen Zhiguang. He couldn't help but laugh at Chen Zhiguang's miserable face. "Junior brother, if you are as strong as me, you won't be afraid of being bullied."
Chen Zhiguang is skilled in medicine, but his research on swordsmanship is somewhat superficial. Even so, his cultivation level, which is about to break through to the Golden Core stage, is not considered too bad in the Tianyi Sect.
Moreover, Xu Zangyu's cultivation level was not as good as his in the past. In just seven years, Chen Zhiguang watched as Xu Zangyu went from lagging behind to catching up, and then suddenly surpassed him in an unexpected way.
Xu Zangyu is getting stronger and stronger.
He has gradually become a completely different person from the shy and silent boy he used to be. He seems much more approachable, and even when he is nasty, it is hard to get angry at him.
"Senior brother, if you keep laughing, I won't give you a congratulatory gift."
“That won’t do.” Xu Cangyu stretched out his hand without ceremony and saw that Chen Zhiguang had placed a jade bottle in his palm. “On this trip, I found some spiritual herbs and refined some Rejuvenation Pills, which are better than ordinary wound medicines.”
How did you know I had broken through?
"I just happened to be awake, and I saw auspicious clouds swirling around my senior brother's residence, so I came over."
Xu Zangyu looked at his face and said, "This medicine is hard to come by, why don't you use it on yourself?"
Chen Zhiguang's eyes were filled with sorrow. "Do you think I don't want to? I just want them to see how miserable I am so that they'll go easy on me."
Xu Zangyu laughed loudly, almost to the point of tears.
"Senior brother!!!"
His puffed-up face looked more like a chubby purple eggplant. Xu Cangyu laughed and tossed him a protective jade pendant. "Take this. Don't just stand there dumbfounded getting beaten up."
Chen Zhiguang's eyes lit up immediately. "This... is the magic weapon that Master gave to Senior Brother? Actually, I wasn't seriously injured. My face only looked like this because I applied medicine. Senior Brother, you should keep this magic weapon for yourself."
"There's no reason to take back what's given away, and besides, your senior brother doesn't need it for the time being."
Chen Zhiguang could no longer refuse and couldn't stop smiling.
Only the man in black, hiding in the closet and not daring to make a sound, with a stern face, took out a small notebook and wrote down the details of Xu Cangyu's failure to cherish the medicine given by the young master and his secret encounter with a man in the middle of the night.
"Junior brother, I recently obtained a bottle of rare elixir, which I heard can alleviate the poison that is causing my intestines to rot."
Chen Zhiguang was startled. "Senior brother, you've been poisoned?!"
He reached out to check his pulse, his brows furrowed. Xu Cangyu felt uneasy at his frozen expression. "What's wrong, Junior Brother?"
Chen Zhiguang sighed, "I'm sorry, senior brother."
"Aside from noticing that my senior brother has been less active lately and is prone to constipation, I haven't detected any toxins."
The pen that had been writing furiously in the wardrobe suddenly stopped.
Xu Zangyu wasn't too surprised to hear this. He handed over the previously empty medicine bottle, saying, "The medicine is all gone, only the bottle remains. Can you figure out anything?"
Chen Zhiguang took it with curiosity, brought it to his nose and smelled it again and again, thinking that Xu Cangyu was teasing him, "Isn't this just a hawthorn pill for digestion?"
Xu Zangyu chuckled, "I knew this medicine tasted wonderful. I wonder who deliberately scared me."
He deliberately raised his voice, as if afraid the person hiding wouldn't hear him.
The sharp-eared and sharp-eyed man in black had long since frozen into a wooden statue, even ceasing to write in his notebook, and nervously clenching his fists.
He was afraid that Xu Zangyu would just chop him down.
That is when the deadlock was broken.
"Third Senior Brother."
"Good junior brother."
Several shouts came from outside, and Chen Zhiguang's expression immediately changed. "Oh no, how did they find us? Senior brother, I'll hide for a while, and whatever you do, don't tell them I was here."
He looked up and saw the wardrobe in the corner. Before Xu Zangyu could stop him, he crawled inside.
Chen Zhiguang almost screamed when he saw the man in black inside. "Senior brother, do you know there's an assassin hiding here?"
The man in black only noticed one person squeezing in, and upon closer inspection, he saw a huge, purple-skinned eggplant-shaped face!
It doesn't look like a living person.
After the two were stunned, the man in black blocked the purple eggplant's attack and explained first, "I also came in to wait, we're all on the same side, little brother."
Chen Zhiguang, wary of the commotion outside, could only let go, gritting his teeth and whispering, "Who says you're one of us? Believe me, if I call out right now, one of my Tianyi Sect members will kill you with a single sword."
"Don't shout, or it will become a big fuss. They'll all know that your senior brother is my young master's man."
Her round eyes widened suddenly. "What? You're working for your young master? How dare you smear my senior brother!"
The fellow disciples who came in were a group of people who had gone out to exorcise demons together some time ago, and they had a bond of fighting side by side.
I hadn't had much contact with Xu Zangyu before, and having heard some rumors about his wicked nature, I had never had any in-depth exchanges with him.
In the last battle, the despicable villains they thought they were were risking their lives to fight the fox demon. And what did they do?
They assumed Xu Zangyu had secretly run away and mocked him dismissively.
I feel ashamed whenever I think about it.
Xu Zangyu accepted the congratulatory gifts from several people. After exchanging a few pleasantries, Liu Yidao suddenly realized something was wrong.
"Junior brother, what's making all this noise in your room?"
"Perhaps a mouse got in by accident."
Xu Cangyu patted the edge of the bed near the wardrobe with the sole of his shoe. "Where did this mouse come from? If it barks again, I'll catch it for you."
Only the two people in the wardrobe understood Xu Zangyu's unspoken meaning, and they stared at each other in a stalemate.
Liu Yidao was puzzled. "If you can't get rid of them, just poison them with rat poison."
The two little mice hiding were terrified by his callous remarks about the lives of mice.
Fortunately, Xu Zangyu seemed to sense the emotions of the two, and opened the cabinet door after coaxing the others away.
The battle inside was fierce; the two men were choking each other, their faces turning red from the effort.
He had to step in and pull them out one by one.
"Go outside to play, I want to sleep."
"Senior brother, he's spreading rumors about your reputation, saying you're one of his young master's people."
Chen Zhiguang then remembered to complain, but the man in black was not afraid and said righteously, "Isn't that right?"
Seeing that Chen Zhiguang's face was turning purplish-black, Xu Cangyu said, "It's just a trick by Anxianglou to undermine Tianyi Sect. Their young master even said he wouldn't give up until he married Chu Shu."
Chen Zhiguang was stunned. "He even dares to covet Senior Sister Chu. He's like a toad trying to eat swan meat."
The man in black instinctively retorted, but suddenly realized he couldn't find an excuse.
"You! Our young master was thinking of you, and you actually turned around and accused him!"
"No need, brother, I cannot accept such kindness. If it weren't for your young master's insatiable appetite, threatening me to help him get Senior Sister Chu and Senior Brother Xiao, I could have pretended to be friendly with your young master."
Chen Zhiguang had a gossipy look on his face, but couldn't help feeling sorry for him. "Senior Brother is being coveted by men again."
Xu Zangyu sighed, "Yes, I'm also worried about Senior Brother Xiao's chrysanthemum."
Xiao Mingxin, standing outside the door: "..."
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