Chapter Forty-two Leaving

  Half a month later, Xiao Fan sat on the artificial hill in the garden, holding a flying knife and wood, concentrating on carving.

  That night, the Lin family was exterminated, and Xuan Mountain City was shaken. That night, Xiao Fan killed more than a dozen people from the Lin family, although he didn't get hurt, but after returning, he vomited for half a day, and his mind was dazed for half a day.

  In the following days, Xiao Fan closed his door to cultivate 'Intention Sword Body' and 'Six Spirits Imperial Knife', and in his spare time he learned carving.

  "Second Master, there is a young lady looking for you." Just then, a servant came forward to report.

  "Did she say what her name was?" Xiao Fan asked.

  "No, that girl looks like a celestial being, wearing fiery red clothes, just like a fire fairy."

  "It was actually Little Yaotou." Xiao Fang's mouth curled up into a slight smile, and from the servant's description, it wasn't hard to guess that the other person was indeed the little demon queen Wang Yuyan.

  "I'm going right now."

  Xiao Fan jumped down from the fake mountain and quickly came to the door, where he saw the little demon girl wearing a fiery red dress, standing at the door like a fire fairy.

  "Ah..." Xiao Fang burst out laughing, just about to speak, but saw the little witch's face filled with a deep sorrow.

  "Yātóu, what's wrong?" Xiao Fan asked in puzzlement.

  "You're here." The little witch looked at Xiao Fan and said softly: "I'm leaving, today I came to say goodbye to you."

  "Ah... where are you going?" Xiao Fan was startled upon hearing this.

  The little witch sighed softly and said: "My grandfather was originally a person of the Clear Wind Pavilion, today I will return to the sect."

  "Qingfeng Pavilion..." Xiao Fan looked at her with some surprise: "I didn't expect that you are actually from Qingfeng Pavilion, one of the eight major sects in the Eastern Wasteland. It's really unexpected. I don't know when we can meet again after parting today, let's go, come in and sit for a while."

  "No, I'm about to leave." The little demoness slightly shook her head: "This time back at the sect, I will be in closed-door cultivation and won't be leaving the sect for a short while. You must cultivate diligently, when your cultivation reaches above the Transcendent stage, come find me again." At this point, the little demoness's face revealed a hint of shyness.

  "The boundary above the Transcendent State is the Spiritual Realm... Xiaofan felt a wave of dizziness, he had just entered the ranks of spiritual practitioners and didn't know how long it would take to cultivate to the Spiritual Realm."

  "I promise you, I will definitely go find you." Xiao Fan's face showed a determined expression, and at the same time, he handed over a wooden carving to the little witch: "This is what I just finished carving, take it as a keepsake."

  The little witch took the statue and looked at it, couldn't help but pause for a moment, then grasped the statue tightly and said softly: "I'll be waiting for you at Qingfeng Pavilion." After that, her figure turned into a stream of light and disappeared.

  "This little girl, she's actually shy." Xiao Fan chuckled to himself. The statue he had carved for the little witch was indeed of her, although Xiao Fan was only a beginner and his carving skills were not good. However, this statue took him three days to complete, and it was his first finished work.

  The little witch saw the statue and knew it was her, as clever as she was, and naturally understood Xiao Fan's meaning. She felt a mix of shyness and excitement in her heart, and surprisingly didn't say much to Xiao Fan before leaving.

  "It's a daughter's heart, a needle at the bottom of the sea." Xiao Fan smiled softly and said firmly, looking at the horizon where the fire had already disappeared: "Qingfeng Pavilion, Yīng Líng Jìng, I will definitely reach it as soon as possible."

  On this day, everyone in the city master's mansion saw that the second young master of their own family was training crazily in the martial arts arena, sweating like rain, biting his teeth and persisting until he finally stopped when he was exhausted.

  Three months passed again.

  For more than three months, Xiao Fan has been practicing hard every day, not only cultivating 'Intention Sword Body' and 'Six Spirits Imperial Knife', but also constantly transcending the limits to temper his physical body.

  For more than three months, Xiao Fan never left the city master's mansion, and he was in a state of ascetic monk, almost falling into madness for the sake of cultivation.

  More than three months of practice, and the effect is very obvious. Xiao Fan feels like he has been reborn.

  The cultivation of 'Intention Sword Body' has entered the right track. In Xiao Fan's spiritual sea, the dense spiritual power has completely condensed into a spiritual mist, and even in the spiritual mist, droplets of liquid spiritual power have begun to condense.

  At the same time, Xiao Fan's physical body under the tempering of 'Mind Sword Body' had broken through the limit of 10,000 jin of tempered physique and reached a pure physical strength of 30,000 jin.

  The limit of the fleshly strength in the Quenching Body Realm is 10,000 jin. To continue breaking through, one must first break through to the Departure from Mortality Realm and use True Yuan Force to quench and refine the flesh before it can reach a higher level.

  However, Xiao Fan was different from others in that he had not cultivated the True Yuan Force. In terms of realm, he was still at the peak of the Tempering Body Realm, but the 'Mind Sword Body' technique he cultivated was a divine art from ancient times. Not only could it cultivate spiritual power, but it could also mobilize the power of heaven and earth to transform into sword energy and temper his physical body. In other words, although Xiao Fan's cultivation was only at the peak of the Tempering Body Realm without True Yuan Force, his physical body could continue to be strengthened, surpassing its limits, becoming an external cultivator.

  Apart from his achievements in the 'Mind Sword Body', the practice of the 'Six Spirits Overlord Sword' has also made a major breakthrough. After Xiao Fang's arduous cultivation, he has already cultivated the 'Fast' and 'Power' techniques of the 'Six Spirits Overlord Sword' to the Great Completion Realm, allowing him to exert the strongest power he can currently muster.

  On this day, Xiao Fan completed the cultivation of 'Intention Sword Body' and 'Six Spirits Imperial Knife' in the martial arts arena. He held a sword in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, quietly pondering.

  "In fact, knives and swords are essentially the same, knife techniques and sword techniques can be mutually converted..."

  Xiao Fan first threw away the knife and only held the long sword, starting to use a set of sword techniques, followed by using the long sword to make another set of knife moves.

  "The essence of a sword lies in its lightness, while that of a knife is in its force."

  Xiao Fan muttered to himself in a low voice.

  "After learning the simplest sword and knife techniques during this period, in fact, the essence of all knife and sword techniques is just the application of force and speed, which is the same as the two realms in 'Six Spirits Overcoming the Knife'."

  "In the previous martial arts novels, it was written that under the heavens, there is no martial art that cannot be broken by speed, and no martial art that cannot be broken by strength. It's this very principle."

  "If one only pursues speed or power, they will fall into extremes. Now that I have mastered the basic sword techniques, no matter how much I practice, I won't be able to reach a higher level. In other words, what I need to do next is to master the two key elements of 'speed' and 'power'."

  As thoughts surged, Xiao Fan moved with them, the long sword in his hand constantly sweeping through the void, getting faster and more powerful.

  "Second Master, Fu Bo invites you over for a visit." Just then, a servant called out softly from outside the door as Xiao Fan was cultivating.

  "It seems that the refugee area has been renovated." Xiao Fan muttered to himself, and without changing his clothes, he went straight to find Fu Bo with a sweaty body.

  "Uncle Fu, what can I do for you?"

  "Lao Nu has seen Second Young Master." Fu Bo smiled at Xiao Fan: "Today, I came to find Second Young Master mainly to talk about two things with Second Young Master."

  "One is about the renovation of the refugee area has been completed, would the second master like to go take a look?"

  "It's done..." Xiao Fan heard the words and was slightly stunned, then smiled, recently he had clearly felt that the merit bead in his sea of consciousness had absorbed a significantly increased amount of merit energy, it turned out that it was because it had already been built.

  "I won't go then, haha." He is now devoted to his cultivation and doesn't want to go out.

  "The second thing is that Master has sent a letter." Fu Bo said while taking out a jade tablet and pinching it to pieces.

  At the moment when the jade slip shattered, a light screen suddenly appeared, and only a middle-aged man's shadowy figure appeared in the void.

  The middle-aged man had a three-point resemblance to Xiao Fan, with a handsome and elegant face, a sharp jawline, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a slender figure. Unlike Xiao Fan, his face bore an unmistakable air of maturity, and he was none other than Xiao Fan's biological father, Xiao Zhan.

  Xiao Zhan's illusory shadow stood in the void, his entire being seemingly merged with the void, as if he were one with the void.

  "Unexpectedly, this cheap father of mine is actually so formidable." Xiao Fan was shocked and quickly collected his thoughts, afraid that Xiao Zhan would notice something unusual about him.

  "Xiao Fan, it's been years since we last met, you've finally grown up." Xiao Zhan looked at Xiao Fan with a smile and said: "I know everything that has happened to you during this time, you've done very well."

  Xiao Fan quietly watched Xiao Zhan's illusory shadow, not saying a word, because this shadow was just an illusory transmission created by Xiao Zhan using his powers, and not the real Xiao Zhan himself.

  "From now on, you have two paths to choose from. The first one is to follow Uncle Fu back to the Xiao family, where you can have access to abundant resources for cultivation. However, our lineage has never produced a spiritual power cultivator, so there aren't many resources available for that either. The second path is for you to venture out on your own and find your own opportunities. This road is arduous and perilous, and I won't give you any help at all - everything will be up to you to decide. Work hard, and I hope that when we meet again as father and son, your cultivation will have reached a level that satisfies me."

  After saying this, Xiao Zhan's illusory shadow dissipated.

  "Second Master, it's time for us to leave. The old master has given you two paths, you need to make your own choice." Fu Bo said with a loving gaze at Xiao Fan.

  "Uncle Fu, which path do you think I should choose?" Xiao Fan asked.

  "Heh heh, I'm also not sure what to say. The first path is to return to the Xiao family, where you can get enough cultivation resources. However, the Xiao family has never produced a spiritual power cultivator, so they won't be able to provide much help. They can only let you grow up smoothly and safely, without encountering other dangers. As for the second path, it's very dangerous, and you might lose your life if you're not careful. But if you can blaze your own trail, your future achievements will far surpass those of the flowers in a greenhouse." Fu Bo said.

  "The first path allows for smooth growth, but it's just a flower in the greenhouse; The second path is to blaze one's own trail, and if one can have an unexpected encounter, find their own destiny, then it will be the day of soaring to great heights."

  "My own destiny, my destiny is the inheritance of 'Primordial Chaos Holy Body'." Xiao Fan whispered to himself.

  "Father Fu, I choose the second path!"

  If Xiao Fan didn't have the 'Innate Chaos Sacred Body', he would definitely choose the first path back to the Xiao family, because cultivation requires a lot of resources, and accepting the family's nurturing will definitely grow faster. This can be seen from the two girls' cultivation, Little Demon Girl and Liu Su Xin.

  However, the current Xiao Fan is only a spiritual power cultivator. The Xiao family has no precedent for spiritual power cultivation and cannot provide him with sufficient resources. There is also no inheritance of the 'Primordial Chaos Sacred Body', which means that for Xiao Fan, returning to the Xiao family can only guarantee food and clothing, and there is no need to worry about danger to his life, but nothing else is useful.

  "Is Young Master really certain?" asked Fu Bo.

  Xiao Fan said firmly, "I've made up my mind, I won't go back to the Xiao family!" Since going back to the Xiao family is useless, then what's the point of going back? It's better to make a good effort and find one's own opportunities in the outside world.

  "In that case, leave Xuan Shan City three days later!"

  Three days later, the Xiao family completely withdrew from Xuanshan City, and the people and horses belonging to the Xiao family were taken away by Fu Bo. Xiao Fan left alone, starting his own cultivation path.

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