Shi Shaojian's Special Constitution!

Six days later. The twenty-fifth of the fifth month. Night. The Yizhuang. The bedroom in the west wing. Beside the desk, under a dim lamp. [Name: Liu Xiu] [Age: 18] [Realm: Hundred-Day Foundation Building (78/100)] [Thunder Seed: Gui Water thunder (40%)] [Affiliated Force: Maoshan Sect] [Methods: Shangqing Maoshan Great Cavern True Scripture (Entry), Green Satchel Qi-Observation Art (Major Attainment), Mayi Physiognomy (Major Attainment), Lesser Liuren Palm-Divination Method (Major Attainment), Three Dantian True-Fire Spirit-Nurturing Treasure-Refining Formula (Minor Attainment), Kun-Earth Elixir-Bearing Transformation Method (Entry), Celestial Circuit Mercury-Cooking and Stone-Refining Formula (Entry), Yin-Soul Locking Dream Art (Not Yet Entered), Profound Abyss Weapon-Condensing Water Method (Entry), Golden Light Divine Incantation (Entry)...] Shi Jian was as good as his word. He had said he would stay at the Yizhuang for a few days, and stay a few days he did. Even though he was still learning English, before ten days were up he still took Shi Shaojian and left the Yizhuang to go on slaying demons and eliminating monsters. Honestly, this made Liu Xiu wonder whether the two of them had come back so quickly last time only because they had run out of money. "Hm? Come to think of it, that really is possible!" Liu Xiu thought it over and felt the likelihood was still quite high. After all, Shi Jian and Shaojian were either in the middle of slaying demons or on the road, and the money they spent was considerable. There was no help for it. Slaying demons and eliminating monsters cost money too! Cultivation spoke of wealth, companions, land, method, and heaven. That wealth ranked first was enough to show its place. To say nothing of anything else, the cinnabar, rooster blood, and the like needed for the talisman paper used in slaying demons all cost quite a sum to buy! Besides, reality was not a game. Killing monsters did not drop loot. According to Shi Shaojian, most demons, ghosts, and monsters were very poor. Unless one knew the other's lair, or the demon happened to be carrying something valuable on its person, it was basically a losing deal. At least where mortal wealth was concerned, it was a loss. Ahem. That's getting off the point! Coming back to it, Liu Xiu had discovered that Shi Shaojian's talent for thunder arts truly wasn't solid. Over the past seven days, Shi Shaojian had persisted every day in cultivating the Shangqing Jade Pivot Palm-Thunder Secret Instruction. But right up until he and Shi Jian left to slay demons, he still had not succeeded. Never mind condensing a thunder seed—Shi Shaojian had not even stepped through the gate of the Shangqing Jade Pivot Palm-Thunder Secret Instruction. Let alone condensing a thunder seed! There was one thing worth mentioning, though. Shi Shaojian's electricity-resistant constitution had been further developed and strengthened. So much so that now, when he was shocked, his hairstyle no longer turned quite so trendy. Liu Xiu was not particularly pleased about that! Right—there was something even more worth mentioning. Shi Shaojian's gift for languages was formidable. After these few days of study, he could already read some articles in English at a simple level. As for Shi Jian's talent for languages... put it this way. Anyway, Shi Shaojian had taken quite a few beatings these past few days for showing off! But it wasn't a big problem. Liu Xiu had already translated the principles of electromagnetism from the electromagnetism books and handed them to Shi Jian. Although Shi Jian had not demonstrated the electromagnetic cannon again before he left, Liu Xiu felt Shi Jian's oppressive presence growing ever stronger, giving him the sense that he might get beaten at any moment! As for this, Liu Xiu felt it ought to have nothing to do with learning English. It ought only to be that Shi Jian's strength had grown greater! Shi Jian: ...... Oh. He had nearly forgotten. Shi Shaojian actually had a constitution too! Liu Xiu sank into recollection... Whoosh~ Time returned to last night! The Yizhuang. The bedroom in the east wing. Seated cross-legged on a meditation cushion, gripping the neutral and live wires of a transformer outputting 180V, Shi Shaojian suddenly opened his eyes. "Why is it still not working! Why..." Shi Shaojian muttered to himself. His slightly trendy hairstyle, together with the dark circles from staying up these past few days and studying English, made him look utterly haggard. It was only that his clothes were wrong. If he changed into a set of ragged clothes, anyone who saw him would surely say, where did this madman come from? "Why, why..." Shi Shaojian kept muttering. Those eyes within the dark circles were full of incomprehension. He had cultivated for more than ten whole years, and he could not even gain entry to the simplest palm thunder. But look at that junior brother of his, Liu Xiu, who had only taken a master a short while ago. In a single hour he had cultivated palm thunder to entry. Although Liu Xiu had taken a shortcut, he was taking a shortcut now too! The more he thought, the angrier he grew. The angrier he grew, the more he thought... Like flying into the sky by stepping one's left foot onto the right, the fury in Shi Shaojian's heart surged up in a blowout. In only a few breaths, a film of scarlet blood-color covered his eyes. When both eyes were covered in scarlet, the sound of the "why" from Shi Shaojian's mouth began to grow deeper and deeper. Beneath his clothes, threads of black, line-like qi flickered in and out of sight. Shi Shaojian rose from the meditation cushion, turned, and walked toward the door. Just as he stepped out the doorway, the "why" in his mouth stopped. Eyes covered in scarlet blood-color, his face savage, he spoke. "I'm going to kill..." Shi Shaojian's words cut off short—cut off as he saw Shi Jian in the courtyard beside the stone table, flipping through an electromagnetism book. More precisely, they stopped as the cuff of Shi Jian's sleeve parted slightly, and iron beads radiating a dazzling, glaring thunder-light spun out one after another. At the sight of the thunder-lit iron beads, the savage look on Shi Shaojian's face turned faintly pale. When he saw Shi Jian ringed by thunder iron beads one after another, set off until he seemed like a star, in an instant the blood-color in his eyes faded for the most part. "Senior Brother, what are you going to kill?" Liu Xiu, coming out of the kitchen after washing the bowls and chopsticks, looked in puzzlement at Shi Shaojian, who seemed a bit off. The scarlet blood-color in Shi Shaojian's eyes swiftly faded by more than half again. Gulping, he shook his head. "N-nothing... it's nothing..." Shi Shaojian's face was no longer savage. Pale, he backed away—only he had not yet had time to reach out and close the door. He saw the thunder iron beads circling Shi Jian's body slam to a sudden halt. Bead after bead turned into red-hot molten iron, hit the ground, and went sizzle, sizzle, sizzle. Shi Jian's gaze also slowly turned toward him. "An external demon? Hmph!" The cold snort was like heavenly thunder descending, joined by a sudden glare of thunder and blazing divine might. Shi Shaojian screamed, flew backward, and slammed hard into the wall behind him. Threads of black demonic qi spilled from his body. Then, back against the wall, he began to sob. "Wu-wu-wu, Master, I still haven't succeeded at the thunder arts, I still haven't succeeded at the thunder arts, I still haven't..." "......" ×2 The mouth Liu Xiu had opened closed again. The angry look already on Shi Jian's face turned complicated. He opened his mouth, brows tightly knit, and did not know what to say. "Wu-wu-wu... why am I not an innate thunder-spirit body, why, why... wu-wu-wu-wu-wu-wu-wu-wu..." Shi Shaojian curled up on the ground like a child, clutching his head and wailing. The sight locked Shi Jian's brows tight. Seeing this, Liu Xiu hurried into the room, helped Shi Shaojian up, and said, "No, Senior Brother, you're wrong. It is precisely because you are not an innate thunder-spirit body that your junior brother was able to discover your special constitution!" "I... I have a special constitution?" Shi Shaojian stopped his sobbing. Eyes wide, he looked in disbelief at Liu Xiu, who had helped him up. Shi Jian's brows furrowed even harder, though a trace of curiosity showed, because he did not think Shi Shaojian had any special constitution at all. Because Shi Shaojian could not cultivate the thunder arts, he had examined him no fewer than a hundred times, over and over. In those hundred-plus times, he had never found any special constitution in Shi Shaojian. Let alone a thunder-spirit body—if not for the fact that he could still channel the power of thunder into Shi Shaojian's body, he would have suspected Shi Shaojian was a thunder-severed body. If Shi Shaojian truly had a special constitution, he would probably laugh himself awake even in his dreams. At that thought, Shi Jian grew even more curious, came into the room, and looked at Liu Xiu. "Mm-hm!" Liu Xiu nodded solemnly. Looking at Shi Shaojian, who was standing steady and wiping his tears, with a you're-lying-to-me look, he went on. "Senior Brother, have you ever thought that your being unable to cultivate palm thunder all this time is actually not because your comprehension is poor, or because you have no talent for thunder arts? You should know, your talent for cultivating certain spell arts is even better than your junior brother's!" "That much is true..." Shi Shaojian nodded. These past few days, when Shi Jian taught him spell arts, there were some he truly cultivated faster than Liu Xiu. He suddenly felt he maybe wasn't so lacking after all. But what did that have to do with being unable to cultivate thunder arts? He looked at Liu Xiu suspiciously. It came back to the same thing. He felt his junior brother was lying to him! "Senior Brother, you know, your constitution is actually a one-in-ten-thousand Hegemon Body! It is precisely because you possess the legendary Hegemon Body that you have all this time been unable to succeed at the thunder arts!" Liu Xiu said, his face solemn. "Hegemon Body?" ×2 One was struck by how domineering the name sounded! The other only felt this brat was lying to his own son! Setting aside Shi Jian's knitted brows, pleasant surprise showed on Shi Shaojian's face. Then he looked at Liu Xiu with an even more doubtful gaze. "Junior Brother, you wouldn't be lying to me, would you?" His dad had examined his constitution no fewer than a hundred times and never said he had any constitution, yet Liu Xiu said he had a Hegemon Body. Who was he supposed to believe? He couldn't very well believe Liu Xiu, could he?! "Has Junior Brother ever lied to Senior Brother?" Liu Xiu spoke with a look that said, Senior Brother, you actually don't believe me? Shi Shaojian thought a moment, and said with an awkward expression, "Seems not..." "Then that settles it. Senior Brother, let me ask you. When you were fourteen or fifteen, did you often feel your whole body feverish and desire-fire surging, and every morning your body rising rigid, hard to suppress?" "Th-this... it's true!" Shi Shaojian said, an awkward smile on his face...