Chapter 379: I, Xu Xiaoshou, Want to Make a Scene

A-Jiu seemed startled by Xu Xiaoshou’s wild outburst, tilting his head to watch the young man rolling on the ground and pounding the floor.

Xu Xiaoshou went a little crazy for a moment, then swept his hand down from the top of his head.

“Retract.”

All his emotions were gathered up in an instant.

Staring at A-Jiu’s head, he flicked his sleeve and said, “Nothing’s wrong, you keep spacing out!”

Having finally resolved the way of Ling Zhen, Xu Xiaoshou felt as if a massive boulder had been shattered in his heart, bringing immense relief.

“Next, I need to upgrade this ‘Fangzhi Jingtong’ until it reaches the level where I can make Zhen Pan.”

“That way, I can seal the ‘Da Huoqiu Zhi Shu’—well, basically the nested Huozhong—inside it, and then, when I face an enemy, I can just blast them in the face…”

As he thought about it, Xu Xiaoshou couldn’t help but drool again.

He had longed for this kind of lavish fighting style for ages.

The endless treasures from Lei Shuanghang and the defensive Ling Qi from Fu Hang had left him utterly stunned before.

Now, he finally had the chance to become the very type of person he had once despised the most—the most detestable, loathsome, and repulsive kind!

“Oh ho ho.”

He cupped his hand by his mouth and cackled twice, finally calming down completely.

He turned his attention back to Yuan Fu.

To get his ten consecutive draws, he had exchanged for ten keys, but the first one had already yielded “Fangzhi Jingtong.”

The rest seemed a bit redundant now, didn’t they?

A loss? No way!

Maybe these nine keys could still pull out nine more skills?

“Could today be my lucky day, Xu Xiaoshou’s?”

Grinning happily, he fed the remaining keys into the keyhole and glanced at the information panel.

“Nine… nine in a row of crap?”

He staggered on his feet.

“Not even a single ‘Come Again’?”

Feeling a bit heartbroken, Xu Xiaoshou hissed and was at a loss for words.

He knew he had still come out ahead with that one, but these nine straight failures were undeniably frustrating.

“Passive Value: 26,944.”

After the fifty thousand draws and ten thousand upgrades, only this tiny amount of Passive Value was left.

Xu Xiaoshou looked toward “Yuanqi Manman.”

He hadn’t paid attention to this skill in a long time.

But the fact that it went unnoticed was exactly why it had been working all along.

This time, when he activated “Fangzhi Jingtong” and drew the Ling Zhen, it still drained his Ling Yuan dry.

This revealed two problems for him.

His cultivation level wasn’t high enough, and his endurance was starting to fall short!

“Should I upgrade it?”

“No!”

Without much hesitation, Xu Xiaoshou poured all his skill points into “Fangzhi Jingtong.”

This was a no-brainer!

As long as he could create Zhen Pan, he could make a ton of things in advance.

As for the passive skill “Yuanqi Manman,” he could tough it out for now by popping pills.

Right now, Ling Zhen was the priority!

“Fangzhi Jingtong (Xian Tian Lv.1).”

“Fangzhi Jingtong (Xian Tian Lv.6).”

With this change, a flood of experience surged into Xu Xiaoshou’s mind once more.

This time, it wasn’t just simple “textile techniques” that appeared—methods for cultivating calm and focus also flooded in.

“Methods of divided spirit control, multi-needle spirit embroidery, spirit-controlling finger, puppet manipulation strings…”

The more Xu Xiaoshou looked, the more astonished he became.

The scope of “Fangzhi Jingtong” was incredibly broad!

Defining it merely as the way of Ling Zhen was really underselling it.

Don’t let the word “textile” fool you—it might seem unassuming compared to Ling Zhen, but deep down, this field included extremely powerful training for mental focus.

And the newly appeared techniques like “Fenshen Kongzhi” and “Duozhen Xiuling” directly taught him how to multitask.

Following the memories in his mind, Xu Xiaoshou stirred his spiritual thoughts, and hundreds of spirit needles materialized out of thin air.

“Move!”

With a light command, the hundreds of spirit needles flew along different paths, tracing through the sky and instantly sketching out A-Jiu’s form!

“Mama!”

Seeing his own fleeting image in the void, A-Jiu seemed excited, calling out with full emotion.

Xu Xiaoshou was even more thrilled, slapping A-Jiu on the shoulder.

“Look!”

“My hundred-needle spirit embroidery—haha, I could only do ten needles before!”

“This divided spirit technique doesn’t just boost efficiency tenfold—it means in battle, I could form arrays in an instant!”

Xu Xiaoshou’s eyes bulged wide, his lips trembling with excitement.

A-Jiu shifted his gaze back from the sky, his red light glowing even more intensely!

Staring at Xu Xiaoshou’s hand on his shoulder, he seemed to realize that excitement needed to be released just like this…

With the “Fan Zhen” and “Ren Xing” effects, Xu Xiaoshou was still sent flying straight into the depths of the ground by A-Jiu’s counter.

The air fell silent.

The young man crawled out of the pit, coughed twice, took a deep breath, and said,

“Naughty.”

He dusted off his backside, not daring to say more, and with a flash of light, he vanished from the Yuan Fu space.

Damn A-Jiu—let him stay locked up in there for a few hours!

How dare he hit your mama?!

Xu Xiaoshou hissed in pain, watching his shattered shoulder blade regenerate under “Shengshengbuxi,” then returned to the large bed in his room to calm his mind.

“‘Fangzhi Jingtong’ is too powerful!”

“It’s so strong that defining it solely with Ling Zhen no longer fits!”

“If this passive skill reaches Zongshi level, even the bits I’ve seen of ‘Kongling Zhi’ and ‘Kuilei Caoxian’ could shine brightly!”

Xu Xiaoshou thought of the illusory shadow hand that manipulated the great Dao at the end of the illusion—it was undoubtedly the perfected state of “Kongling Zhi.”

And “Kuilei Caoxian”…

“This is terrifying, isn’t it? Just like what I saw back then?”

In the illusion, Xu Xiaoshou remembered seeing through the meridian map of the giant race.

With that life meridian map, he could predict their every move.

If he were the one drawing that map, did that mean he could control the giant like a puppet, directly manipulating its actions?

“Hiss!”

Xu Xiaoshou sucked in a cold breath—it was too frightening!

And if he combined it with the earlier “Duozhen Xiuling”…

That would mean at the start of a fight, he could instantly “textile” on the enemy, turning that person into nothing more than his puppet!

“The Textile Great Dao, manipulating all living beings—everything is but ants?”

Xu Xiaoshou was lost in this shock for a long time, unable to snap out of it.

Was he tempted? Absolutely!

Xu Xiaoshou admitted he was dying to try it!

But with his current Passive Value, he couldn’t even begin to reach that level.

“Time to grind!”

Back to square one, Xu Xiaoshou started feeling a headache.

Gaining Passive Value was easy, but amassing a huge amount quickly was no simple task!

Besides self-torment like at Hei Luoya, the only option was to stir up trouble in crowds, drawing attention and acting outrageously!

“Hei Luoya… Do I have one?”

The answer was clearly no.

Xu Xiaoshou thought about it, pulled out a gold-embossed invitation from his pocket—it was from Chengzhu Fu for the banquet.

As he looked at it, the young man suddenly let out a sinister, eerie chuckle.

“I can’t hold back anymore!”

“I, Xu Xiaoshou, am going to cause chaos!”

“I need to make money!”