Otherworldly Desert Dust

The spiritual charm of the barren Red Port was thin.

But after reaching the Third Rank of taste, Wu Hen's body had become an efficient collector of Spiritual Energy, able to perceive and collect the more subtle spiritual charm elements that he previously couldn't — all through the open pores across his body!

Wu Hen finally understood why some Fairies could remain eternally youthful just by drinking dew.

They had mastered the cultivation method of continuously collecting the spiritual dew and fairy dew from the air into their bodies, which naturally contained the nutrients of heaven and earth, and then expelled the residues from their bodies by exhaling turbid air.

For some reason, Wu Hen suddenly thought of a controversial comment from a short video, "Realizing that Fairies also need to use the restroom somehow makes them less enchanting."

In fact, Fairies did not need to!

Not only did Fairies not need to, but gods like him also no longer need to, as all the impurities, toxins, and residues inside their bodies could be expelled just like exhaling carbon dioxide.

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His flesh had changed; with his physique transcended, Holy Golden Blood now ran through his veins; he absorbed the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth and exhaled colorless and odorless turbid air…

"I finally understand why those upper-class people felt so superior," Wu Hen stroked his chin.

The carbon dioxide he exhaled was laden with the foul scents of impurities within the body; vegetarians might still be okay, but those who consumed a lot of meat would have heavy body odor and breath, which are exactly what those upper-class people despised the most.

Being in such a clean environment for long, it was natural to view people who burped, farted, vomited, or excreted as low-class people, categorizing them as different species.

However, in Wu Hen's view, there fundamentally was no difference; it was simply evolution towards more refined respiratory and digestive organs.

"Let's try the Giant Spirit Method."

After advancing to the Third Rank of taste, Wu Hen felt his capacity for Spiritual Energy had increased, his cruising and charging speeds had also become several times faster than before.

Previously, he couldn't execute the Giant Spirit Method effectively because he couldn't link up with the supply of Holy Breath.

"Giant Spirit!"

Wu Hen uttered these two words, then quickly connected all the meridians in his body with Holy Breath!

After circulating the Holy Breath through all the meridians, Wu Hen gathered a denser Holy Breath at several acupoints within his body!

There were thirteen acupoints in total; if he could condense all thirteen, he could transform into the Giant Spirit General!

Golden radiance appeared, and following the circulation of Holy Breath, mysterious blood threads emerged along the meridians, acting like shackles sealing the forbidden power of each being of the Human Clan. As Wu Hen activated all thirteen acupoints located on his forehead, chin, neck, shoulders, limbs, abdomen, and chest, the shackles-like blood threads suddenly burst!

"Gah!"

As if unlocking the sealed bloodlines, Wu Hen's body burst into a radiance of gold and green, instantly transforming into a sacred body and rapidly assuming the form of a giant elephant!

At the Observing Heart Pavilion, a young girl was heating up tea.

Her father was not around, and it was rare for her to sit here quietly stargazing…

The girl sipped the tea, relaxing her delicate body, her cheeks turned toward the outside of the pavilion, her eyes filled with a hint of anticipation for the external world.

Suddenly, a huge and majestic face appeared in her line of sight!

That face shimmered with gold and green radiance, and although it was only formed by golden Spiritual Lines, it was rendered as vibrant as a Vajra by the dense Holy Breath, like a giant godly statue of Buddha standing right in front of her.

So close yet without any prior indication!

Alarmed, Cai Ni leapt up like a squirrel, curling up tightly.

All the tea implements around her shattered, and her delightful and melodious scream echoed throughout the Maple Forest Courtyard!

"Girl, call me brother!"

Wu Hen had a mischievous smile, gazing down at the young girl Cai Ni as a giant would at a diminutive human.

Cai Ni finally came to her senses, staring incredulously at the giant golden Wu Hen, who was as tall as the pavilion, momentarily at a loss for words!

When she had bet with Wu Hen, she herself found it absurd.

How could anyone master the Advanced Saint Technique that even the Masters had only grasped?

And the Masters typically mastered only a few Advanced Saint Techniques; they didn't know all of them…

If Wu Hen could execute it, wasn't he stepping into the threshold of becoming a Master himself?

"Stunned, aren't you?" Wu Hen's smile remained, even stretching out a huge finger to poke Cai Ni.

Now Cai Ni was like the Barbie dolls his sister used to keep; Wu Hen even had to be extra careful not to break her with his controlled strength.

Cai Ni, pressed against the wooden floor by Wu Hen's finger, was rubbed back and forth like a small dough.

Cai Ni was both angry and annoyed, yet helpless.

"What did we say before? Are you convinced?" Wu Hen questioned.

"Big brother! I… I'm convinced, from now on you are Cai Ni's big brother, I'll do whatever you say!" Cai Ni could no longer endure such torment from the giant finger and pleaded for mercy.

Seeing Cai Ni submit beneath his finger, Wu Hen nodded in satisfaction.

His body flickered, and the golden light began to fade.

Wu Hen reverted to his original form, looking refreshed and clear-headed.

With this skill, even facing the Purple Robed Master directly, he could now compete against him!

"You... you really mastered it??" Cai Ni ran down from the attic, her face full of astonishment.

"You said it yourself, unless I was a genius of the Holy Sect like my older sister. But have you ever thought that she and I are siblings? If she is a genius, why can't I be one too?" Wu Hen unconsciously lifted his chin.

Hearing this, the young girl Cai Ni couldn't help but mutter, "Then why can't I learn it? Could it be..."

She dared not continue her sentence.

Her older sister Cai Lan was a genius, and so was Qi Lang Cai Yan.

All being children of the same father, the question must lie with the different mothers.

This showed that the bloodline on their mother's side was more powerful!

But wasn't the bloodline from their Holy Mother mixed with low-class people? Otherwise, why from birth was Qi Lang Cai Yan ridiculed as a mongrel?

Or could it be that her older sister and Qi Lang were not their father's children at all, since their father's abilities were mediocre among his peers? If it wasn't for the formidable strength of their grandfather's generation, he could never have attained the position of Master!

Could it be... could it be... that she actually had no blood relation to the man in front of her?

Young girls tend to overthink.

Today, Wu Hen had mastered an Advanced Saint Technique, which shocked her immensely.

Thinking back to her genius sister Cai Lan, and also to how their father Cai Huang treated her and Qi Lang in the past.

For a moment, Cai Ni inadvertently covered her mouth as if she had stumbled upon some enormous secret, afraid she might accidentally exclaim.

It was very likely!

Of the father's eight children, the others were all of mediocre talent and had nothing special in their cultivation.

Yet, the ones their father most despised, her older sister and Qi Lang, were exceptionally talented and perceptive, and time had already proven that they would be outstanding in the future...

What to do now?

If this was true, how would she deal with the man in front of her in the future?

Thinking about how she had been pinned down by him a moment ago, she hadn't felt anything strange about it because they were siblings, but recalling that layer of thought, she suddenly blushed all over, feeling unbearably hot even just standing there!

Meanwhile, Wu Hen was still savoring the extraordinary changes brought about by Third Rank Perception.

The girl next to him, flushed like a cooked crab, only made Wu Hen laugh even more unreservedly.

A rightful disciple of the Holy Sect, easily surpassed by himself, should be ashamed and turn into a red crab. Go find a hole to crawl into, girl, my legend has only just begun to unfold a small corner. Wait till the day I become a Holy Child, I'll shock you, you pretentious little maid!

"After practicing all day, I feel sticky all over. Go get some hot water, and help me scrub my back later!" Wu Hen immediately started giving orders.

"Me?"

"Scrub your back?"

Cai Ni thought she had heard wrong.

"Yes, didn't you say it yourself? Do whatever you're told," Wu Hen said.

"But that's too... we... we..." Cai Ni's eyes filled with embarrassed anger.

Such a task, couldn't he find some maid to do it? Why make her do it?

"Between siblings, what's wrong with scrubbing a back?" Wu Hen said this brashly, as if this sort of thing had been common before, then his gaze became intentionally complex and bitter, "Indeed, you still don't truly regard me as your brother, do you? Understandable, since there's a difference in status; your mother was the legitimate wife, and I... alas, forget it, forget it. I thought we could make up for the familial love we didn't get when we were young, but I overstepped my bounds."

"No, no, I... I..." Cai Ni was confounded by Wu Hen's words, her mind going blank.

Lately, Cai Ni indeed had completely changed her view of this 'useless' brother, realizing he was not as unbearable as others had said, particularly his manly courage in fighting Jiao Liecheng over a maid, something she had never felt before.

In the past, when she was bullied within the Holy Sect Inner Country, her older brothers upstairs never dared stand up for her, and she also suffered because of their father Cai Huang's decline, even getting demoted to this Outer Country, a place where even birds wouldn't defecate, to endure bitter cultivation.

"Actually, I've only ever heard about you from others; Father hardly ever let me have any contact with you," Cai Ni quietly said.

"Ah, you don't understand. In the past, no one cared for me or protected me. Had I been arrogant and presumptuous, wouldn't I have been killed long ago?" Wu Hen said.

"You mean to say, you've always been enduring, disguising yourself as a good-for-nothing??" Cai Ni's eyes widened in astonishment.

Wu Hen didn't answer but smiled profoundly.

In Cai Ni's eyes, the more he refused to admit it, the more it confirmed her suspicions!

Yes, a weak yet clever person's only way to survive is to disguise themselves well enough to avoid notice. So, he had always been formidable, simply concealing his edge to prevent attracting attention.

Otherwise, how had he managed to emerge from amongst two brutal siblings like Gu Yue and Qing Meng?

Such extraordinary endurance, possessing such great wisdom even at a young age, and now showing exceptional cultivation talents—could it be that he too might achieve accomplishments like his sister, eventually taking charge of the Holy Sect Inner Country?