Chapter 69: There’s No Problem a Single Strike Can’t Solve

Chapter 69: Chapter 69: There’s No Problem a Single Strike Can’t Solve

Although she didn’t quite understand why she had to go cultivate under that specific tree in the courtyard.

But tempted by a great senior’s promise to guide her breakthrough, the Daoist Nun naturally decided to accept his little quirk.

She obediently walked to the large tree Su Han had indicated. Finding a spot, the Daoist Nun placed the meditation cushion she had brought from the house underneath her.

Sitting cross-legged on the cushion, the Daoist Nun glanced at Su Han.

Seeing Su Han nod in confirmation, the Daoist Nun closed her eyes, calmed her breath, centered her Heart Spirit, and began to operate her primary Cultivation Technique with her full concentration.

Su Han activated his Eye of Truth. As expected, the Cultivation Technique from a top-tier sect like hers was indeed an interpretation of the Dao of Heaven and Earth, and it inherently contained Dao Rhyme.

As the Daoist Nun operated her technique, the Dao Rhyme circulated, which Su Han controlled and guided into the large tree.

After about two hours, just as the Daoist Nun had barely completed one Great Circulation, Su Han’s voice reached her ears.

"Alright, that’s enough."

Hearing this, the Daoist Nun opened her eyes and looked at Su Han with anticipation.

Su Han didn’t rush to burn the tree. Even though he hadn’t yet obtained the skill from within it, the feedback from his Eye of Truth had already revealed the root cause of the Daoist Nun’s inability to break through.

Under the Daoist Nun’s expectant gaze, Su Han spoke slowly. "Before I guide your breakthrough, I need to confirm one thing—you are certain you want to break through your current realm, correct?"

The Daoist Nun gave Su Han a strange look, then nodded. "This junior is certain."

"Very well."

Su Han nodded. "Gather all your Heart Spirit, retract your Divine Thought, seal your five senses and six perceptions, and operate your Cultivation Technique with your entire being."

Hearing Su Han’s request, the Daoist Nun couldn’t help but hesitate.

"If you don’t want to break through, you can leave now."

The Daoist Nun gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, retracted her Divine Sense, and sealed off her five senses and six perceptions, leaving only a thread of her Heart Spirit to control her technique’s operation.

Seeing the Daoist Nun do as he said, Su Han took out his stick and quietly crept up behind her.

He held his breath, watched intently, and waited.

He waited for another two hours.

Two hours later, as the Daoist Nun once again completed a Great Circulation, at the very instant she was about to reach Perfection, the stick in Su Han’s hand came crashing down.

BAM!

With a strike using just thirty percent of his strength, the Daoist Nun’s mind went blank, and her consciousness was instantly plunged into darkness.

The moment the darkness receded and her consciousness returned, the Daoist Nun hastily focused her Heart Spirit to regain control of her Spiritual Power, which had gone wild when her focus broke.

Although she had lost control, her chaotic Spiritual Power had continued to operate on inertia for a brief moment.

An instant later, the Daoist Nun regained control of the Spiritual Power in her body.

And at that very instant she regained control.

An invisible barrier between heaven and earth seemed to shatter, and the world before her eyes appeared to grow wider.

In that fleeting moment, the bottleneck that had held the Daoist Nun back for hundreds of years was silently shattered.

"I..."

Opening her eyes and sensing that she had broken through to the next realm, the Daoist Nun looked at Su Han, her eyes still filled with a trace of bewilderment.

"It seems... you’re afraid of something deep in your heart. It’s a sliver of fear you might not have even noticed yourself. It makes you desire a breakthrough, yet at the very moment you could shatter the bottleneck, you hesitate, unable to take that final small step."

Su Han looked at her, pinpointing the reason she had been unable to break through for centuries.

Hearing this, the Daoist Nun froze for a moment, and a somber look appeared in her eyes...

’So, it left a scar on my heart after all?’

"Care to talk about it?"

The Daoist Nun rose and bowed respectfully to Su Han. "This junior will definitely repay senior for the grace of your guidance."

Su Han nodded, unfazed, and continued to watch her without even blinking.

The Daoist Nun: "..."

’Do you really enjoy hearing stories that much?’

With a sigh, the Daoist Nun began to speak slowly.

"There’s not much to hide. This junior is an orphan, raised by my master since childhood.

"When I was eight years old, my master, who had been at the mid-stage of the Celestial Human Realm for nearly a hundred years, finally sensed an opportunity for a breakthrough.

"However, I don’t know what happened during the process. My master had a solid foundation, and the breakthrough should have been a natural success. But at the critical moment, she was assailed by a Demon Thought, and her centuries of bitter cultivation were destroyed in an instant.

"I... I watched with my own eyes as my master was devoured by that evil demon, leaving behind nothing but a withered skeleton in the blink of an eye.

"That final scene was seared into my mind. Centuries passed, and I thought I had long since forgotten. I never imagined that the events of that day would become a scar on my heart, preventing me from ever making a breakthrough."

Su Han nodded. He had noticed that there were no obvious problems with the Daoist Nun’s cultivation; breaking through to the mid-stage of the Celestial Human Realm should have been a natural progression for her.

But after every Great Circulation, right when she should have been able to break through, she would hesitate for a split second for some unknown reason.

The hesitation was so brief that she might not have even been aware of it herself, but it was precisely this fleeting pause that caused her to miss the optimal moment for a breakthrough.

’It’s a good thing I have the Blunt Stick, a Causality Technique that can make her lose control of her Heart Spirit for a moment. She didn’t have time to hesitate and broke through the barrier directly.’

’Otherwise, even if a true master from the Creation Realm had come, they might not have been able to help her succeed.’

’So... when you put it that way, my Blunt Stick isn’t entirely a cheap trick after all!’

’Indeed, that saying from a certain anonymous senior was right—there are no cheap skills in this world, only cheap people. A skill is righteous if used for righteous ends, and evil if used for evil ones.’

Having successfully broken through and finally understood the reason for her long stagnation, the Daoist Nun thanked Su Han once more.

After a few more words, the Daoist Nun took her leave, eager to consolidate her new realm as quickly as possible.

As he watched the Daoist Nun depart, Su Han couldn’t shake the feeling that he had forgotten something important.

Even after her figure had vanished from sight, he still couldn’t recall what it was.

Turning to look at the shimmering golden Skill Tree beside him, Su Han cast a Rain of Fire on it.

The flames instantly engulfed the entire Skill Tree. Su Han opened his Skill List, where a new selectable skill lay waiting.

Selectable Skill 1: Supreme Forgetting Emotions Technique.

He selected and acquired it, and all the information about the Supreme Forgetting Emotions Technique flooded into his mind.

The Supreme Forgetting Emotions Technique was the core legacy of the Supreme Sect. It was their ultimate technique, one that only cultivators at the Celestial Human Realm were qualified to practice, placing it on the same level as the Celestial Demon Sect’s Heart Sutra of the Free-Transforming Celestial Demon.

The existence of this technique would provide Su Han with more references for his future cultivation of the Heaven and Earth Melting Furnace Technique.

After completely absorbing the skill information for the Supreme Forgetting Emotions Technique, Su Han looked at the Skill Tree being consumed by raging flames and suddenly slapped his forehead.

He had suddenly remembered what he’d forgotten.

’Twice!’

’He’s met her twice now, and he still hasn’t remembered to ask for the middle-aged Daoist Nun’s name.’

’And she’s something else, too. The last time, I cut her clothes, so it’s understandable she was upset and didn’t introduce herself.’

’But this time, I guided her breakthrough!’

’Facing her benefactor, shouldn’t introducing herself be the most basic courtesy?’

’And what was that about repaying this great kindness someday?’

’She didn’t even tell me her name. How does she plan on repaying me?’

Grumbling indignantly to himself, Su Han said a quick word to the old beggar and left the Beggar Gang Lingzhou Sub-Branch directly.

「Prince Jing’s Residence.」

After silently returning to his small courtyard, just as he was about to push open the door, Su Han’s expression suddenly froze.

’Next door... they’ve set up an Array to block outside perception again.’

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