Unfortunately, Chu Chengzhou was soft-hearted after all.
Since he had decided to nurture this adorable rabbit-eared loli, how could he hold anything back?
Teach the apprentice, starve the Master?
That didn’t exist!
This wasn’t manual labor; an apprentice wouldn’t compete with their Master for a living.
However, once the teaching began, Chu Chengzhou realized that using the word ‘stupid’ to describe Xiao Wu wasn’t actually wrong.
The three skills that seemed simple to him hadn’t been fully mastered by Xiao Wu even after a whole week.
Was his teaching level not good enough?
No, no, no, it was just that this Xiao Wu was too stupid!
You say his grandfather and grandmother also hadn’t fully mastered them?
Uh~, the elderly, you know, it’s normal for their minds to turn a bit slower; it definitely wasn’t because Teacher Chu taught poorly.
That’s right, following Xiao Wu, Chu Chengzhou had also taught these three skills to his own grandparents.
Although, to be honest, the talent of the two elders wasn’t great, every little bit of improvement counted; having something was better than having nothing.
As for the origin of these Cultivation Technique skills?
There was no need to explain; as long as there was something to Cultivate, the origin wasn’t important.
After another three days, under his careful guidance, following Body Refining and Spirit Refining, Xiao Wu finally mastered the purple-Rank Meditation.
“Eh?
Is the effect this good?”
As soon as she started to Cultivate, Xiao Wu noticed the extraordinary nature of the Meditation method Chu Chengzhou had taught her.
Compared to her previous Meditation efficiency, it had actually increased by more than seventy percent!
“By the way, with such an amazing Meditation method, why haven’t you become a Spirit Master yet?”
Suddenly, Xiao Wu thought of a question and looked at Chu Chengzhou with a suspicious face.
You have to know, Chu Chengzhou had already had his Spirit Awakening for two years, and with such an amazing Meditation method, why hadn’t he reached Rank 10?
Immediately, Chu Chengzhou’s face darkened.
Xiao Wu’s words were like a sharp dagger, ruthlessly stabbing into his chest; he had truly been poked in a sore spot.
“You little girl, what do you know!”
With his Innate half-Rank Soul Power, being able to Cultivate to over Rank 6 in two years was already quite remarkable, okay?
Think of that Feng Xiaotian with full Innate Soul Power; at 24, he was only a Rank 44 Spirit Ancestor.
Deducting the base 10 Ranks and the roughly 5 Ranks from his four spirit rings, in 18 years, he had only increased his Soul Power by 29 Ranks, an average of only 1.6 Ranks per year.
Although the difficulty of leveling up in the Late Stage was certainly much higher than in the early stages, and Feng Xiaotian was an outlier among those with full Innate Soul Power, fiddling with self-created Spirit Abilities instead of cultivating Soul Power at a young age, it still showed that Chu Chengzhou’s cultivation speed was rare on the continent.
“Yes, yes, yes, I don’t know anything.
So, may I ask, Young Master Chu, what Rank is your Soul Power now?”
Xiao Wu looked at Chu Chengzhou with a playful expression.
“Hmph~, since my Spirit Awakening, I have already increased my Soul Power by 6 Ranks!”
With a cold snort, Chu Chengzhou said proudly.
This was true; with Innate half-Rank Soul Power, and now having over Rank 6 Soul Power, hadn’t he increased by 6 Ranks?
“What?!
You’ve increased 6 Ranks of Soul Power and you still haven’t become a Spirit Master?”
Immediately, Xiao Wu’s eyes widened, her face full of disbelief.
Increasing 6 Ranks in two years, an average of 3 Ranks per year; judging by this speed, Chu Chengzhou’s Innate Soul Power shouldn’t be low.
But the problem was that increasing 6 Ranks still hadn’t reached Rank 10, which meant this guy’s Innate Soul Power was actually below Rank 4?
Just this?
He really is Little Chu Scumbag!
Hearing this, Chu Chengzhou’s face fell.
Yeah, as a ‘Genius’ who increased Soul Power by 3 Ranks a year, to have increased 6 Ranks and still not have reached Rank 10, no one would believe it if he said it out loud!
“Tsk tsk~, Little Chu, it’s nothing to have poor talent.
Don’t be sad, from now on, Sister Xiao Wu will look after you!”
Xiao Wu stepped forward, patted Chu Chengzhou on the shoulder, and consoled him with a face full of smiles.
“Hmph~, your brother doesn’t need you to look after him.
Just you wait!
This time next year, I should be able to become an official Spirit Master!”
“Pfft~!”
It would have been better if he hadn’t said anything; as soon as Chu Chengzhou spoke, Xiao Wu burst into laughter.
This time next year?
Increasing 3 Ranks of Soul Power a year, which means Little Chu Scumbag is only a Rank 6 or 7 Spirit Scholar now?
Goodness~, I couldn’t tell, Little Chu Scumbag’s cultivation talent is really terrible!
Could it be the legendary Innate Soul Power of less than Rank 1?
The bottom-tier existence among the two hundred or so students in the academy?
Immediately, Xiao Wu couldn’t help but look Chu Chengzhou up and down carefully.
“What are you looking at?
If you keep looking, I won’t teach you good things in the future!”
In shame and anger, Chu Chengzhou threatened.
“Alright, alright, alright, Sister Xiao Wu won’t look, won’t look!”
She stopped looking, but Chu Chengzhou could tell from the smile on Xiao Wu’s face that this Xiao Wu was almost rolling with laughter.
“Hmph~!”
With a cold snort, Chu Chengzhou stopped paying attention to Xiao Wu and began to Cultivate on his own.
For the rest of the day, Chu Chengzhou didn’t pay any attention to Xiao Wu.
And Xiao Wu had already learned from Su Nan and Li Wan that Little Chu Scumbag’s Spirit had undergone a malignant mutation, resulting in only half a Rank of Innate Soul Power.
For a moment, Xiao Wu’s thoughts were extremely complicated.
As a 100,000-year-old transformed Spirit Beast, her cultivation talent could rival full Innate Soul Power, and because she was recovering her cultivation, there was basically no Bottleneck below the Titled Douluo level.
In a sense, her cultivation talent was even better than full Innate Soul Power.
But Chu Chengzhou only had Innate half-Rank Soul Power.
With such talent, if it were an ordinary person, they would have basically given up long ago.
Even if they didn’t give up, with Innate half-Rank Soul Power talent, being able to increase 1 Rank of Soul Power with a year of hard cultivation would already be very remarkable.
But Chu Chengzhou was different; through his own efforts, he had created an incredible method of cultivation, forcefully increasing his cultivation speed to 6 Ranks in two years.
A model of a loser making a comeback, such an inspiring Genius, this made Xiao Wu realize that she shouldn’t, and had no right to, mock him.
Although this mockery was just playful and not intended to belittle him, Xiao Wu still felt quite embarrassed.
Chu Chengzhou: That’s right, I have always relied on my own efforts.
Hmm, efforts to use cheats.
In the evening, Chu Chengzhou was practicing Body Refining skills in the courtyard.
“Brother, time to eat~!”
Suddenly, a sweet and soft voice reached Chu Chengzhou’s ears.
“!!!”
The sweet and soft voice entered his ears, and Chu Chengzhou was immediately startled.
Turning his head to look, he saw Xiao Wu standing at the living room door, smiling.
“What did you call me just now?
Is my hearing broken?”
Picking his ear, Chu Chengzhou couldn’t quite believe that it was Xiao Wu, this mischievous rabbit, who had called him just now.
“Hmph~, whether you want to eat or not is up to you; if you don’t want to, then don’t!”
Out of a guilty conscience, Sister Xiao Wu had called someone ‘Brother’ for the first time in her life, but when Chu Chengzhou reacted, Xiao Wu immediately changed her expression.
“Say it again, let me hear it?”
Not to mention, that ‘Brother’ from Xiao Wu just now had almost made his bones melt.
“Then you can just stay hungry!”
Rolling her eyes at Chu Chengzhou, Xiao Wu turned around and walked away without looking back.
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