"I just said, would you come over to me for a drink when you have nothing to do? A businessman is a businessman!"
A loud, penetrating voice came, and then the box door was opened.
Xu Xian and several people looked towards the door one after another.
Qin Hao stood up first and greeted the burly middle-aged man next to Qin Baiqiang at the door: "Hello, Uncle Qiao."
"Xiao Hao, I haven't seen you for a while. I didn't expect that you are actually a second-generation cultivator, hahaha."
Qiao Xiangrong smiled and slapped Qin Baiqiang on the shoulder. He was obviously very amused that Qin Baiqiang had hidden the situation at home from Qin Hao for more than ten years.
Qin Baiqiang glared at Qiao Xiangrong and said, "It's not like you don't know the virtues of this boy of mine. If you really tell him in advance, you won't know what the second generation will become!"
"Have you ever said that about your son?" Qin Hao felt extremely aggrieved.
While the three of them were chatting, Xu Xian kept looking at Qiao Xiangrong.
Qiao Xiangrong looks a little less shrewd than Qin Baiqiang, but more rough. However, for such a middle-aged man, he actually holds a pure black cat in his arms, which is quite cute in contrast.
After a brief greeting, Qin Baiqiang introduced Xu Xian and others to Qiao Xiangrong, and Xu Xian and others greeted Qiao Xiangrong one after another.
Immediately afterwards, Qin Baiqiang arranged a seat for Qiao Xiangrong on his right side.
After sitting down, Qiao Xiangrong's eyes looked at Xu Xian and Xiaofeng from time to time, and the cat in his arms began to become restless, staring at Xiaofeng on the dining table, as if looking at...prey?
Xiaofeng naturally noticed the black cat's gaze, but after glancing at the black cat, it did not look scared, but fluttered its feathers provocatively.
Just when Xu Xian was thinking about how to get to the point, Xiaofeng tilted his head and said, "Brother Xian, have you ever eaten cat meat? Is cat meat delicious?"
"Be polite!" Xu Xian quickly glared at Xiaofeng, but because of Xiaofeng's previous actions, he did not attack Xiaofeng this time.
"Are you provoking me?" Unexpectedly, the black cat in Qiao Xiangrong's arms suddenly spoke, looking at Xiaofeng with a fierce look in his eyes.
Qiao Xiangrong quickly stroked the black cat's head and said with a smile: "Don't be so cruel when I bring you out as a guest."
Hearing this, the black cat became quieter, buried his head in Qiao Xiangrong's arms, and stopped looking at Xiaofeng.
Xiaofeng looked eager to give it a try, perhaps thinking that she would help Xu Xian 'cheat' the baby, so she resisted the urge to speak and did not continue to provoke.
Qiao Xianghua's eyes fell on Xiaofeng, he looked at it twice and said to Qin Baiqiang: "It seems that it is indeed a spiritual beast."
Qin Baiqiang rolled his eyes at him and said angrily: "Do you think you are the only one who can have a spiritual beast?"
"Hahaha, of course not." Qiao Xiangrong looked at Xu Xian and said, "Xiao Xu, when I just came here, I heard Bai Qiang talking about you. Not only are you a spirit animal affinity body, but you are also a spirit-possessed material metabolizer. No wonder you arrived so quickly.
He’s already at level C, he’s young and promising!”
Xu Xian smiled modestly: "Uncle Qiao is overly praised. I'm just a little lucky."
Qiao Xiangrong stroked the black cat and said with a smile: "I heard that you practice the Four Elephants Stick Technique?"
"Yes." Xu Xian's heart moved and he finally got to the point.
Qiao Xiangrong nodded: "I do have a stick-type practice method in my hand. Speaking of which, it has some connections with the Four-Elephant Stick Technique you practiced."
"Xiao Xu and I have already said this, stop talking nonsense and show us your stick skills quickly." Qin Baiqiang urged with dissatisfaction.
Xu Xian could tell that the relationship between Qin Baiqiang and Qiao Xiangrong was indeed very good. The expressions and tones of the two of them talking were extremely relaxed and there was no airs at all.
"They say I am impatient, why are you more impatient than me, Lao Qin?"
Qiao Xiangrong also rolled his eyes at Qin Baiqiang, then reached into his arms and took out a simple book: "This exercise is called the Four Spirit Stick Technique. The Four Elephant Stick Technique in Xiao Xu's hand is actually this set
The simplified version of the stick method not only simplifies the stick method moves, but also removes the corresponding mental techniques."
Xu Xian was startled and asked quickly: "So Uncle Qiao, your book on the Four Spirit Stick Technique is actually the complete version of the Four Elephant Stick Technique?"
"That's not entirely true."
Qiao Xiangrong pondered: "The Four Spirit Stick Method has certain drawbacks. At a certain period, it almost lost its use value. Only then did someone make changes to the Four Spirit Stick Method and create one that is more suitable for actual use.
It’s also the simpler Four Elephant Stick method.”
Hearing this, Qin Baiqiang glanced at him suspiciously: "So you leave this stick method at home to gather dust, not because you don't want to practice, but because you can't practice?"
Xu Xian also looked at Qiao Xiangrong nervously. Qin Baiqiang didn't tell him the specific quality of the stick technique in Qiao Xiangrong's hand, but now that Qiao Xiangrong said it, it didn't seem to be a particularly good technique.
"It's not that you can't practice."
Qiao Xiangrong looked at Qin Baiqiang and said: "You also know how much effort it takes to practice a skill well. I can only say that it is not worthwhile to spend the energy on practicing the Four Spirit Stick Technique."
"Why can't you get it?" Qin Baiqiang asked with a frown.
After hearing what Qiao Xiangrong said, he also felt that the Four Spirit Stick Technique seemed to be not very good. If this was true, wouldn't what he said to Xu Xian earlier be a slap in the face?
"Actually, this is both the advantage and disadvantage of the Four Spirit Stick Method."
Qiao Xiangrong rubbed the Four Spirit Stick Technique and sighed: "I also tried to practice the Four Spirit Stick Technique at the beginning, but the spiritual power was extremely consumed when practicing it. It would take at least a week to recover the spiritual power in the body after practicing it for one day.
Knowing that the spiritual energy back then was much thinner than it is now, I guess I may not be able to achieve very good results even if I practice it for several years."
"So that's it." Qin Baiqiang breathed a sigh of relief: "Now that the spiritual energy is much stronger, can I practice the Four Spirit Stick Technique?"
Qiao Xiangrong pondered for two seconds and then said: "It is possible, but it is estimated that the cultivation progress will not be fast. After all, the current level of spiritual energy recovery is not high, and it will still take a lot of time to recover after the spiritual energy is consumed."
Then he added: "Not only for practice, the Four Spirit Stick Technique also consumes a lot of spiritual energy when used. Once used, one can clearly feel the spiritual energy in the body being continuously drained and consumed."
Regarding cultivation, Qin Baiqiang has a deeper understanding than Xu Xian. Qiao Xiangrong's words immediately gave him a clear understanding of the Four Spirit Stick Technique.
This technique consumes a lot of spiritual energy during the cultivation process, and the same applies when using it. Generally speaking, unless you have a steady stream of spiritual energy, the progress of practicing it will be very slow, which is far inferior to other techniques.
Moreover, the endurance in actual combat is much worse than practicing other exercises.
Thinking of this, Qin Baiqiang frowned again: "So its disadvantages are obvious, so why do you still keep it as a treasure?"
Qiao Xiangrong smiled bitterly and said: "Of course it has its advantages. This technique is very powerful. I estimate that it will be much stronger than the sword technique I am practicing now. In short, it is not worthwhile to practice it, and it would be even more of a pity to lose it."
Sighing, he continued: "If the spiritual energy were ten times stronger, maybe I would take it out and practice again."
"So this is the situation..." Qin Baiqiang looked at Xu Xian in embarrassment: "Xiao Xu, you also understand the situation of this exercise. What should I say? Do you have any ideas?"
Xu Xian pondered for a moment and asked, "Does this stick method have a way to quickly convert spiritual energy into spiritual power?"
After speaking, he looked at Qiao Xiangrong expectantly, waiting for the other party's answer.
He thought of his own Golden Pearl Space, where the spiritual energy was extremely rich.
If there is a method to convert spiritual energy into spiritual power in the exercise, then he will not have the disadvantages of the training period mentioned by Qiao Xiangrong when he practices this exercise in the Golden Pearl Space.
As for the extremely high consumption of spiritual energy when using it, Xu Xian also thought of a rough solution for the time being - cultivating a large number of spiritual nourishing fruits. If the spiritual energy is depleted in actual combat, he can use the spiritual nourishing fruits to make up for it.
