TBIP: Chapter 28 Part 1

“Brother Wen?” The sudden action made Lou Xingyao subconsciously cry out.

The relationship between the two of them was close, but they had never been so intimate.

Now that the other person had broken through the boundaries of the past, it was no wonder that Lou Xingyao reacted like this.

Compared with Lou Xingyao’s fuss, Wen Hanshan was very indifferent. “Aren’t you tired?”

The ordinary tone and attitude of taking it for granted obviously showed that he didn’t think there was anything wrong with this move.

Wen Hanshan’s attitude was so bland that it made Lou Xingyao’s cry sound a bit fussy.

Seeing this, Lou Xingyao could only treat this matter as an ordinary thing and didn’t say anything else.

No matter what, the slightly intimate posture of the two of them at this moment wasn’t fake.

Lou Xingyao could feel the other person’s slightly higher body temperature than ordinary people through the heavy clothes, as well as the tight muscles of the other person’s body.

It could be known from Wen Hanshan’s usual amount of training that the other person wasn’t as gentle and elegant as he appeared on the outside. At this moment, feeling the slightly sluggish muscles, Lou Xingyao could be regarded as having a real sense of Wen Hanshan’s physical strength.

If this muscle hardness was placed in modern times, it could kill people directly even without the blessing of spiritual power.

Lou Xingyao couldn’t help thinking in his heart.

Soon, he didn’t have the heart to care about Wen Hanshan’s body temperature and muscles.

It was because he found that the other person actually led him straight in the direction of the bed.

Once the two of them were only a foot away from the big bed in the house, Lou Xingyao finally couldn’t hold back and hurriedly stopped. “Wait… you don’t want to put me on it, do you?”

“Aren’t you tired?” Wen Hanshan wondered. Since Lou Xingyao was tired, he should naturally go to bed to rest.

“…But I’m sweating all over now. I’ve also been lying on the ground for a long time, covered in dirt.” It would be better to kill him directly than to let him lie on the bed like this.

Wen Hanshan originally wanted to say that these things could be solved by cleansing the dust.

Then he thought about how the other person seemed to like bathing more. He could indeed smell the scent of soap beans from the other person from time to time over the years.

In the end, he chose to respect Lou Xingyao’s personal habits. He changed directions and placed Lou Xingyao on the soft couch on the other side of the room.

After getting up, he helped Lou Xingyao cast a spell to cleanse the dust before giving up.

“Thank you, Brother Wen.” Lou Xingyao sighed with relief.

Of course, he knew that the cleansing power of this spell wasn’t weaker than bathing, but the concept of ‘water is clean’ had run through his life for over thirty years.

It really couldn’t be changed for a while.

Fortunately, Wen Hanshan was willing to be considerate of his little habits.

“It’s okay.” Wen Hanshan waved his sleeves, obviously not taking this type of trivial matter to heart. Then he asked, “You were distracted when you practiced the sword just now. What happened?”

“Huh?” When he practiced swordsmanship?

The physical exhaustion made Lou Xingyao’s reaction half a beat slower than usual. After thinking for a while, he realized that Wen Hanshan should be asking about before the training began when he was distracted by the heart refining method.

Lou Xingyao immediately didn’t care about the fatigue in his body and turned over directly on the couch. “Brother Wen, have you ever heard of a natal magic weapon?”

“It is mentioned in the notes left by my mother.’ Wen Hanshan nodded, obviously no stranger to this thing.

“Then Brother Wen, have you ever heard of the heart refining method?” Lou Xingyao asked again.

“Heart refining?” Obviously, Wen Hanshan didn’t know about this method.

“Please listen to the details…” Lou Xingyao told Wen Hanshan all the benefits of a natal magic weapon forged through the heart refining method.

He didn’t forget to talk about the heart refining method in detail with Wen Hanshan. Finally, he didn’t forget to make a summary.

“In this way, Brother Wen just needs to find a refining method that is consistent with your attribute, incorporate it into the dantian, and polish it carefully.”

The first-grade magic sword in Wen Hanshan’s hand could indeed be used by him now.

But Lou Xingyao didn’t forget that Wen Hanshan had already reached the peak of the tenth level of qi condensation, and was only one step away from foundation building.

Wen Hanshan could build his foundation at any time as long as he was willing.

Once he reached the foundation building realm, the first-grade magic sword would no longer be applicable.

The matter of the magic sword still needed to be prepared in advance.

At the same time, Lou Xingyao didn’t forget to search for all types of information from the original novel.

If he could, he still hoped that he could do it in one step and directly find a heavenly treasure for Wen Hanshan to use.

However, in the end, the original novel was written around Ye Hantian. Even if there was a rare opportunity, it was always in line with Ye Hantian’s attributes.

As for other opportunities that didn’t coincide with Ye Hantian, almost all of them were prepared for the heroines in the harem.

However, Wen Hanshan had a mutated thunder spiritual root. His spiritual root attribute was rare. There was no heroine with a thunder spiritual root even in Ye Hantian’s harem.

Therefore, resources with the thunder attribute were really rare in the original novel.

In addition, Wen Hanshan had a single thunder spiritual root. It was best for the refining material to be the single thunder attribute. Heavenly treasures with the wood and earth attribute like the lightning strike wood or lightning strike stone weren’t applicable.

In addition, a sword cultivator’s path was one of killing and thunder repelled evil spirits. The momentum of Wen Hanshan’s followed this path of the great Dao. It must lean more toward the yang attribute, making the yin-attribute treasures unsuitable.

So even in The Dao and Heaven are Equal, there were as many heavenly treasures as stars, but Lou Xingyao wasn’t able to find a suitable choice among them.

Just when Lou Xingyao was feeling distressed, he didn’t notice that Wen Hanshan’s eyes filled with light since hearing the ‘heart refining method.’ Occasionally, there was a mysterious light flashing.

It wasn’t until the end, when Wen Hanshan’s momentum changed suddenly, that Lou Xingyao finally noticed something was wrong. He hurriedly withdrew from his wild imagination and focused on the person in front of him.

It was only at this time that Lou Xingyao suddenly discovered the aura floating around Wen Hanshan’s body had undergone earth-shaking changes at some point.

If the Wen Hanshan in the past was a sword in a sheath, he was hidden inside and never revealed in front of people.

Then the current Wen Hanshan was more like a sharp blade out of the sheath. His momentum was full, and he had sharp edges all over his body, as if a person would get stabbed if they got closer.

Lou Xingyao was so close to him that after feeling the compelling pressure, he couldn’t help taking half a step back.

In addition, he found that Wen Hanshan’s appearance at this moment seemed to have a slight overlap with the villain in the original novel.

Lou Xingyao realized this and couldn’t help frowning slightly.

As early as a few days ago, when the news of Ye Hantian recognizing his ancestors and returning to his ancestors reached the Endless Forest, Lou Xingyao had a guess. Perhaps due to his butterfly wings, the direction of things was now completely different from the original novel.

He originally thought that according to the current development, Wen Hanshan would no longer become how he was depicted in the novel.

This meant that he might never be able to see his white moonlight’s final form, but Lou Xingyao didn’t regret it at all.

After all, compared to the invisible and intangible image in the novel, the real person in front of him was more important.

Who knew that in the blink of an eye, Wen Hanshan would quietly start making trouble?

Lou Xingyao had to think about whether he had said something he shouldn’t have said to cause such a change in the other person.

Before he could think of a clue, a dazzling light erupted from Wen Hanshan’s body.

The light seemed to contain a powerful, earth-shaking power. The power was huge. Even if Lou Xingyao had magic weapons on him, he would be shocked by the thunder contained in this power.

A trace of blood spilled from the corner of his lip, apparently from an internal injury.

Before Lou Xingyao could carefully check the injuries of his body, he looked up and found that the light had changed a bit, flying straight into the sky.

Lou Xingyao’s expression changed dramatically. Xilin County might be a mixed place, and high-level cultivators were rare, but this didn’t mean there were none. They just found it wasn’t cost-effective to fight for control of Xilin County, so they formed a tacit understanding with each other.

Combine this with the intricate network of relationships in the city, and it was simply the perfect hotbed for intelligence organizations.

If this light was really allowed to fly out and people misunderstood that some type of treasure was born, he was afraid that the identity and background of the two of them would be investigated in a short amount of time. This would only bring them endless trouble.

So even if Lou Xingyao understood that he couldn’t do anything to this light even if he tried his best, he didn’t hesitate at all and flew up directly.

Even if there was only a slight hope, he had to stop it.

He had just made a move when Wen Hanshan, whose eyes were closed, suddenly opened his eyes. His sharp gaze went straight to the point of light in the air, and he scolded it sharply.

“Come back!”

There was no need to even observe the other person’s face. Lou Xingyao could tell that Wen Hanshan was angry.

Wen Hanshan was extremely strict with Lou Xingyao in practice, and was stern when teaching swordsmanship.

Nevertheless, there had never been a time when his anger was released as much as it was now.

The point of light seemed to be aware of this. The movement of soaking into the sky suddenly stopped.

However, it didn’t return to Wen Hanshan’s side as he ordered. Instead, it stood firmly in the position of the ceiling of Lou Xingyao’s house, motionless as a mountain.

In this way, Lou Xingyao even suspected that this light had its own consciousness and was confronting Wen Hanshan.

Wen Hanshan stared at the point of light. “I’ll say it again. Come back.”

This time, Wen Hanshan’s tone was already a lot calmer.

Lou Xingyao could hear a sense of tranquility before the storm.

Obviously, Wen Hanshan might seem quiet and easy-going at the moment, but he was extremely angry.

The point of light clearly didn’t notice it and jumped up and down in the air twice. After seeing that Wen Hanshan’s expression didn’t change much, he returned to Wen Hanshan.

The slow and leisurely movements, compared with the aggressive energy of rushing straight into the sky, gave off a feeling of reluctance.

Lou Xingyao felt more and more that this light should have its own consciousness.

Before he could think about it more, Wen Hanshan had already raised his hand toward the light.

His lightning fast movements weren’t seen clearly by Lou Xingyao as well as the point of light. The point of light ended up caught.

Just when the point of light wanted to struggle to the left and right, it wasn’t known what Wen Hanshan did but the point of light was already absorbed back into his body.

Once everything was calm, Wen Hanshan also returned to the appearance that Lou Xingyao was familiar with.

Seeing this situation, Lou Xingyao finally couldn’t help saying, “This is…”

Before he could finish, Wen Hanshan took the lead and asked, “How are your injuries?”

Wen Hanshan was clearly aware that Lou Xingyao was injured by the point of light.

“I am already fine.” The light might’ve contained the power to destroy the world, but it seemed to have some control. Lou Xingyao’s injury wasn’t so serious.

Combine this with his extraordinary recovery ability, and Lou Xingyao was already healed by the time Wen Hanshan confronted the point of light just now.

Wen Hanshan still didn’t seem at ease.

After checking Lou Xingyao’s body and making sure the other person was indeed well, his expression slightly eased, and he softly apologized. “I’m sorry, I didn’t think it through.”

This tone showed he was obviously about to explain the strange point of light.

Lou Xingyao immediately said, “I want to hear it in detail.”