Invincible Starts From Dao Fruit-Chapter 40 - 23 Unwilling to See!

"Fourth Brother."

"What kind of tree is this? All its leaves have fallen off."

Haitang Mountain.

Not far from their residence, Chen Shaohu looked around, observing his fourth brother planting the tree with great interest.

He had been at Haitang Mountain for a month.

Chen Shaohu enjoyed good food and drink every day, practicing abnormal skills and exercising during the day. At night, when he went to sleep, he would assume the ’True Stretch’ posture taught by Chen Jichuan to correct his bent back.

After these past few days.

Although his waist and back hadn’t fully straightened, his posture and mental outlook were dramatically different from when he was in the Black Prison.

The weather in August and September.

The blazing sun shone high.

His originally pale skin had tanned significantly, looking much more pleasing and not as unpleasant. Standing beside Chen Jichuan, he finally bore some resemblance to a brother.

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In another month or two, when he fully recuperates his body, he could start training in martial arts.

Chen Jichuan was working hard to dig a pit and plant the spiritual jujube tree that he had painstakingly carried from seventy or eighty miles away. Upon hearing Chen Shaohu’s question, he replied without looking up, "A jujube tree."

"Fourth Brother wants to eat jujubes?"

"Then I’ll look for them in the mountains tomorrow. Not sure if they can be found this season."

Chen Shaohu was taken aback, glanced at the bare jujube tree, then at his busy fourth brother, smacking his lips, reminiscing the taste of jujubes and pondering what month one could eat them.

But the last time he ate jujubes was six or seven years ago.

At that time, he was not even ten years old and couldn’t recall the taste or the season.

"It should be sweet."

"Probably during hot weather."

Thinking like this.

Chen Shaohu’s craving was triggered, and he was filled with the desire to find jujube trees and pick some the next day.

"Jujubes don’t taste good."

"Eating too many makes you uneasy."

Chen Jichuan did not like eating jujubes in both his past and present lives.

He was busy working, and without thinking much, he casually replied.

After speaking, he realized he had been led astray by Chen Shaohu, so he explained, "This isn’t an ordinary jujube tree."

While saying this, he looked up.

Upon hearing Chen Shaohu mutter to himself, smacking his lips, and trying to remember the taste of jujubes, he couldn’t help but smile, "There are four or five pounds of jujubes in that bag over there, why don’t you try some to know the taste?"

Chen Jichuan pointed to the side and smiled at Chen Shaohu.

"Jujubes?"

"I want to try them."

Chen Shaohu’s eyes lit up and he quickly went to rummage through.

Instead of finding the jujubes, he first saw four shining steel knives and two iron swords with sharp edges.

He was instantly dazzled.

"Wow!"

"Where did these knives come from?!"

In an instant, Chen Shaohu forgot about the jujubes, picked up a steel knife, and swung it around excitedly.

In his childhood.

While in the Black Prison.

He had no concept of weapons.

But ever since slaying a Black Armor with a knife outside the Wusheng Sect, he has developed a keen interest in blades.

A month ago, to sneak into the territory of Yangshuo County, Chen Shaohu reluctantly discarded his Goose Wing Blade early. These days, he had been thinking about it constantly.

Now, suddenly seeing several steel knives, he couldn’t help but smile brightly.

He brandished them twice.

Fierce and powerful.

Unlike the Goose Wing Blade.

Each of these steel knives is a ’Ghost Head Blade’, with a heavy blade and a hilt carved with a ghost head, extremely sharp, capable of cutting gold and jade. The Ghost Head Blade is long, with a thick back and broad surface, heavy, and suitable for chopping, hence perfect for decapitation.

Even if unused, just lying there, they exude a murderous aura.

"Good knife!"

Chen Shaohu pretended to praise, carefully inspecting the four Ghost Head Blades, reluctant to part with them.

Just as he was about to ask where the knives were bought from, he suddenly paused, noticing one of the Ghost Head Blades had a charred blade, as if stained with dried blood.

Chen Shaohu’s heart skipped a beat. Looking at his fourth brother who was still working hard, he couldn’t resist asking, "Fourth Brother, these knives weren’t bought, were they?"

"No."

"I killed a few thugs from the Lishui Gang today and picked them up from their bodies."

Chen Jichuan didn’t plan to hide it from Chen Shaohu, answering casually.

The pit was already dug.

Quickly, he buried the roots of the spiritual jujube tree, looked around carefully, and nodded repeatedly.

As the saying goes: People thrive when they move, trees die when they move.

But this jujube tree was easy to tend.

Chen Jichuan carried it back and found a slope with deep soil and fertile soil in his usual training spot. This type of soil was most suitable for growing jujube trees. During the first few days, he would water it, and later there was no need to worry about it.

By this time next year, there would be sweet and delicious spiritual dates to eat.

However.

A year is too long.

What Chen Jichuan truly valued was the spiritual jujube tree’s ability to gather spiritual energy. He planned to train with Chen Shaohu under the tree, to personally test if it truly aided cultivation.

"Fourth Brother—"

Chen Shaohu had no interest in the jujube tree. Upon hearing his fourth brother mention killing someone today, and that the victims were from the Lishui Gang, his heart was filled with fear and curiosity.

"Bring the bag along; I’ll tell you on the way."

Chen Jichuan glanced at the sky, realizing it was not early anymore.

This matter needed to be discussed with Chen Shaohu anyway.

Two heads are better than one.

He never believed one person could think of everything thoroughly.

...

"That’s how it is."

"In ten days."

"If Sheng Dayang goes to the chaotic stone forest, I’ll teach him martial arts. If he doesn’t go, then forget it."

On the way back.

Chen Jichuan explained today’s events and his plan to Chen Shaohu.

By the time they reached their residence, he had almost finished explaining.

"Sheng Dayang still has a nine-year-old son to raise, so he might not go."

Chen Shaohu listened and frowned.

Chen Jichuan nodded as well.

If he were in Sheng Dayang’s position, with someone like Chen Shaohu, he wouldn’t trust anyone easily, much less put himself in danger.

But that’s because he has the ’Dao Fruit’, giving him the confidence to elevate himself without relying on anyone, obtaining the power to protect himself and even seek revenge.

But what about Sheng Dayang?

"Maybe he’ll go."

"Maybe he won’t."

Chen Jichuan wasn’t particularly concerned.

Ultimately.

His personal strength mattered most, and everything else was secondary, irrespective of success or failure.

Today’s biggest gains.

Were, first, the spiritual dates.

Secondly, the spiritual jujube tree.

"Lishui Gang captured Sheng Dayang and his son, confirming they were Abnormal People, forcing them to reveal if they had encountered or eaten anything unusual."

"That’s how they found out about the spiritual jujube tree."

"Which means."

"Lishui Gang clearly had experience."

Chen Jichuan pondered a lot on the way back, analyzing many details from Sheng Dayang’s narrative and Lishui Gang’s actions: "Abnormal people and abnormal skills are inseparable from spiritual energy. Lishui Gang surely has more spiritual objects and spirit trees like the spiritual jujube tree; who knows how many Abnormal People they have cultivated."

Chen Jichuan’s face looked a bit serious.

The spiritual jujube tree he carried back can bear spiritual dates and cultivate Abnormal People.

Training under the tree also enhances efficiency.

Fate allowed him to seize it today. But how many others, he wondered, had Lishui Gang obtained before he arrived?

Enemies growing stronger.

Unknown depths.

This was something Chen Jichuan least wanted to see.