Zhu Zhu looked up at Li Daoyi sitting on the ox's back, her eyes filled with anticipation, but her heart was filled with unease.
Suddenly, a warm, comforting power appeared on her body, and Zhu Zhu involuntarily stood up.
"Your Excellency..." Zhu Zhu called out softly.
"You just kowtowed nine times, so why are you still calling me Your Excellency?" Li Daoyi said, staring at the little girl with a half-smile.
Zhu Zhu was stunned for a moment, then her eyes lit up with a strange light, her face turned to ecstasy, and she shouted excitedly.
"Master."
Li Daoyi nodded with satisfaction.
"This child is teachable."
"From this day forward, you will be my second disciple," Li Daoyi said slowly.
"Second disciple?" Zhu Zhu asked, somewhat puzzled.
“You also have a senior brother named Yang Guo, who is a bit older than you.”
"Oh, thank you, Master." Zhu Zhu nodded quickly.
Li Daoyi jumped off the ox's back and then walked towards the bamboo forest not far away.
Seeing this, Zhu Zhu did not hesitate and obediently followed.
Li Daoyi stopped at the place where Zhu Zhu had practiced swordsmanship during the day and saw many fallen bamboo trees and sword marks all around.
"Is this where you usually practice your swordsmanship?"
"Yes, it's a sword technique left by my father, called the Fire Sun Sword Technique. I... I only know the sword moves." Zhu Zhu said, lowering her head in disappointment.
"call out…"
Suddenly, a sword flew from a distance and pierced Zhu Zhu's body.
Zhu Zhu inexplicably raised her head and looked at Li Daoyi.
"Practice it once and show me."
"Yes," Zhu Zhu replied, casually picking up the sword from the ground.
At that moment, Zhu Zhu, who was holding the sword, changed her entire demeanor. Although there was no true energy flowing in her body, she was very different from her previous somewhat weak appearance. Her eyes were full of sharpness.
"Ha..." Zhu Zhu raised her sword and let out a soft shout.
In an instant, the entire bamboo forest was filled with flashing sword shadows. Zhu Zhu's figure tumbled and leaped, his sword moves flowing smoothly. Li Dao could tell that this child had put in a lot of effort, and his basic skills even surpassed those of Yang Guo back then.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
As the sword light flashed, another large swathe of bamboo was cut down, and Zhu Zhu finished using the Fire Sun Sword Technique once.
"Huff huff..." Lacking the support of true energy, Zhu Zhu was already panting heavily, but she still maintained the posture of sheathing her sword, her body trembling slightly with excitement, clearly looking forward to her master's comments.
"Slap slap slap..."
A round of applause followed.
"Very good, expansive and powerful, yet exquisite; this is a battlefield swordsmanship," Li Daoyi said.
"Thank you, Master. This Fire Yang Sword Technique is indeed a battlefield sword technique. It's a pity I don't have true qi. Otherwise, the power would be even greater if the Fire Yang True Qi covered the sword. Grandpa said that my father made quite a name for himself with this sword technique back then!" Zhu Zhu said quickly.
"Yes, I believe you." Li Dao nodded and walked towards Zhuzhu.
He then reached out and placed his hand on the little girl's shoulder, and a warm current immediately entered her body, and Zhu Zhu's body quickly recovered.
"Waaah..." Suddenly, the little girl started crying.
"Why are you crying?" Li Daoyi asked, puzzled.
"Every time I finish sword practice, Grandpa helps me recover like this. Waaah..."
After saying that, Zhu Zhu hugged Li Daoyi tightly, as if she were hugging her father whom she hadn't seen for ten years.
Li Daoyi did not refuse, and let the little girl hug him, letting her tears soak his clothes.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhu Zhu actually fell asleep while hugging Li Daoyi's waist.
“This child…” Li Daoyi shook his head helplessly. He reached out and picked up Zhuzhu, then in a flash, the two disappeared into the bamboo forest.
early morning.
Zhu Zhu woke up groggily. The little girl blinked her big eyes as if she was recalling something, and then rolled over and sat up.
"Master? Is this a dream?" Zhu Zhu murmured.
She then peered under the bed and saw a small bamboo leaf stuck to the sole of her boot, and her face immediately lit up with joy.
"It's not a dream, it's real!" Zhu Zhu happily jumped up and down on the bed.
"Squeak..."
The door was pushed open, and a cute little head peeked in.
Zhu Zhu was startled and looked towards the door, where a cute little head was looking at her curiously.
"Oh, Mengmeng, what brings you here?" Zhuzhu said hurriedly.
"Shy... It's so late and you're still not up. Sister Long has already made breakfast." Mengmeng made a face at Zhuzhu, then turned and ran away.
"Damn it, how can he be sleeping so soundly?" Zhu Zhu cursed inwardly.
In the courtyard, a table was already laden with food: fried dough sticks, porridge, and steamed buns. Mengmeng, drooling, lay beside the table, staring intently at the breakfast on it.
"I'm so sorry, you're our guests, why should I trouble you to do this?" said Old Man Lin Xuan.
"You are welcome."
At this moment, Zhu Zhu, who had finished washing up, walked over shyly.
"grandfather…"
"Alright, come and sit down," the old man said with a smile.
However, Zhu Zhu looked at Li Daoyi and opened her mouth.
Finally, he mustered up his courage and shouted.
"Master."
"..."
Apart from Li Daoyi, the others were immediately stunned.
"Zhuzhu, you..." Lin Xuan was even more surprised.
"Alright, come sit down and have something to eat." Li Daoyi nodded with a smile.
"Yes, Master." Zhu Zhu immediately perked up.
"Oh, I'm going to eat now." Upon seeing this, Mengmeng immediately reached out to grab the fried dough sticks.
“Last night, Zhuzhu already became my disciple.” Seeing the three people looking at him, Li Daoyi explained.
"What? This...this is wonderful, wonderful!" Old Man Lin Xuan exclaimed excitedly.
"Hmm..." At this moment, Mengmeng suddenly raised her head, her mouth full of food. The little one looked at Zhuzhu, her eyes darted around, and then she swallowed the food in one gulp.
“I’m your aunt!” Mengmeng said to Zhuzhu.
"Auntie?" Zhu Zhu's eyes widened immediately.
"Mmm!" Mengmeng nodded seriously, her eyes full of anticipation.
“She calls you ‘Master Brother,’ so she’s also your ‘Master Aunt,’ so calling her ‘Aunt’ wouldn’t be wrong either,” Dongfang Bubai said from the side.
"Aunt...Aunt..." Zhu Zhu called out somewhat embarrassedly.
"Giggle giggle...so good..." The little guy immediately beamed with joy.
Li Daoyi shook his head helplessly.
At noon, Li Daoyi brought Zhuzhu to the summit of Cuizhu Mountain.
"Master, will I be able to cultivate soon?" Zhu Zhu asked excitedly.
"Don't panic. Today, I will cleanse your meridians and meridians. Although your meridians are wide, they have atrophied somewhat because you have not been able to absorb true qi for many years."
“What’s coming will be very painful. Are you ready?” Li Daoyi said.
"Yes." Zhu Zhu nodded firmly.
"Sit still."
Zhu Zhu immediately sat obediently cross-legged.
"Relax your body and don't reject the power within you."
"Uh-huh."
Then Li Daoyi placed his hand on Zhuzhu's head, and with a flash of golden light, a surge of energy flowed into Zhuzhu's body.
At first, the little girl just felt something moving around inside her body, and it was a little itchy, which she could bear. Gradually, her limbs began to feel a slight pain.
Zhu Zhu frowned slightly and pursed her lips, trying not to make a sound.
"Ugh..." Suddenly a sharp pain came, and Zhu Zhu couldn't help but groan, but she quickly clenched her teeth and kept quiet, and many beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
"It hurts, it hurts so much," Zhu Zhu kept screaming in her heart.
Looking at Zhu Zhu's trembling body, Li Daoyi channeled the energy from his palm into her body even more rapidly.
Another wave of energy struck, and Zhu Zhu felt as if a thousand knives were scraping inside her body. The excruciating pain made her faint, but she endured it. Her mind was filled with thoughts of cultivation; she had to cultivate no matter what.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhu Zhu's light green clothes were soaked through, as if she had been pulled out of the water, and her pale face was covered with sweat and tears.
Finally, the pain gradually disappeared, and a warm current appeared in my body.
"Alright, that's all." Li Daoyi's voice rang out.
"Master...I...I held on." Zhu Zhu raised her head and said with a slight smile, then fainted.
"What a strong child, Dao Yi, she's even stronger than Guo'er." At this moment, a voice came, it was Dongfang Bubai.
"Yes, I didn't misjudge you. You've come at the right time. Take her back to clean up and let her get some rest."
"Hmm." Dongfang Bubai nodded, reached out and picked up Zhuzhu, then turned into a red shadow and disappeared into the air.
"The system opens the online store."
After Dongfang left, Li Daoyi did not rush down the mountain. Instead, he opened the shop and entered the new world, intending to exchange for some new items.
"Transformation Pill, two million points. I'll exchange it."
This world was already enough for him to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, so he exchanged for it without hesitation.
Looking at the pill in his hand, Li Daoyi was caught in a dilemma.
It took me a year to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, and I don't know how long it will take to reach the Deity Transformation stage.
"System, do you have any items that can shorten time?" Li Daoyi asked.
"No, the breakthrough process is extremely important and cannot be shortened. With the host's aptitude, the required breakthrough time is already extremely short," the system said.
Disappointment immediately appeared on Li Daoyi's face.
"Host, the breakthrough time cannot be shortened, but you can exchange for time-related items," the system said again.
"A time-manipulation device?" Li Daoyi asked, puzzled.
Then the mall screen scrolled backwards and soon stopped, revealing an ordinary little house in front of Li Daoyi.
"The Hyperbolic Time Chamber (an interdimensional time-space item) comes from the Dragon Ball world. One year inside the chamber is equivalent to one day outside. It costs 10 million points to exchange. Opening it once per day requires 10,000 points (based on outside time)."
"So this is what it is," Li Daoyi murmured. He naturally knew about Dragon Balls, and he also remembered the Hyperbolic Time Chamber; it was indeed a good thing.
"It costs 10,000 points per day to activate it once? System, you really know how to do business," Li Daoyi complained.
"Exchange it." Despite his complaints, Li Daoyi didn't hesitate.
"Exchange successful. Host has five million points remaining."
"Spending money is so satisfying, but it hurts a little..."
At this moment, a miniature house appeared in Li Daoyi's inventory. It was very exquisite and had a faint glow around it.
(In the Dragon Ball world, Mr. Popo, his body completely black and his eyes lifeless, stares blankly at the empty temple plaza. The Hyperbolic Time Chamber has vanished...)
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