Chapter 4: Father and Son

  It was late at night, and the cold wind howled outside, while Qin Yu's entire body was burning with excitement inside.

  "Master Lian, tell me how to cultivate, I want to cultivate, I must cultivate into a superior immortal, even if I can't become a superior immortal, I will still cultivate into a pre-heavenly grandmaster!" Qin Yu's eyes shone with an extremely determined light.

  Qin Yu's mind had already begun to paint a picture of the future scene, and he could even imagine his father king looking at him with an approving gaze.

  All he needs is not anything else, just fatherly love. His father's approval, his father's smile, even his father's criticism or punishment, will make Qin Yu feel the existence of fatherly love in his heart, all he needs is just fatherly love.

  Now, he has found a way to regain his father's love. That is to work hard and cultivate himself, just like his big brother Qin Feng, to become a brave and powerful warrior, an extremely strong warrior, and even... transcend the existence of ordinary people as an immortal.

  Qin Yu looked at Lian Yan expectantly.

  "Xiao Yu." Lian Yan's heart was filled with helplessness, but he had no choice but to speak the truth. "To become a pre-heavenly expert, one must cultivate internal energy, and internal energy is cultivated from breaking through the post-heavenly realm to the pre-heavenly realm. But you were born with a dantian that cannot store internal energy, how can you cultivate internal energy? And how can you become a pre-heavenly expert?"

  "My lower abdomen is problematic, but Uncle Wang and the others have said that there are many terrifying internal skills in the world. Who knows, maybe I can cultivate one of them! Even if I can't cultivate internal skills, isn't there still external skills? I can still become a pre-heavenly expert!" Qin Yu hastily said.

  He absolutely cannot tolerate himself not being an expert.

  Because... in this eight-year-old child's pure heart, this is the only way to regain paternal love.

  "External skills? External skills are just constantly using various methods to temper the body, making the body's strength stronger and the speed faster. This is only a small way, from ancient times to now, even if someone is born with divine power, even if their physical training is extremely fierce, no one has ever been able to reach the innate realm through external skills alone. Cultivating external skills and tempering the body will never make you an innate master." Lian Yan said directly, not wanting Qin Yu to waste his efforts.

  "Is there really none? Is there no hope at all?" Qin Yu's heart skipped a beat, and his face suddenly turned pale.

  Finally hoping everything would disappear, Qin Yu felt a chill in his heart.

  Looking at Qin Yu's pale face, Lian Yan felt a pang of heartache: "He is still a child!"

  Lian Yan hastily said, "Xiao Yu, actually external skills are also very powerful, external skills come from muscle strength and have a long endurance. Unlike internal energy that is quickly consumed. Also..." Lian Yan thought of the benefits of external skills to comfort Qin Yu, and upon hearing what he said, Qin Yu's eyes had a hint of light again.

  "Moreover, although external skills are difficult to cultivate, the body is after all a person's most fundamental aspect. In the Liehuo Army, there was a giant with innate divine strength who could lift an 800-jin stone pedestal with one hand just by practicing external skills."

  "Eight hundred catties? One-handed?" Qin Yu's heart was once again ignited with hope, he could imagine such great strength, wielding a large axe to chop people, it wasn't any more difficult than cutting wheat.

  "Yes, 800 catties, with just one hand he can lift an 800-catty stone roller. His weapon is a single-legged copper man. On the battlefield, even among those who are innately gifted and have trained since childhood, there's no one as fierce as him. With just one swing of that single-legged copper man, a large group of enemies would fall to the ground." Lian Yan continued to speak about the benefits of external skills.

  Finally, Lian Yan concluded: "Although no one can cultivate this external skill to become a congenital master, cultivating it to the extreme of acquired skills, the body reaches its limit, and the power is also terrifying, not weaker than a congenital early-stage master."

  Lian Yan saw that Qin Yu's face looked better again, and he secretly let out a sigh of relief. He had watched Qin Yu grow up and knew his temperament.

  "Can one who has cultivated external skills to the extreme of acquired abilities compare with a top-notch innate expert?" Qin Yu asked once again.

  He nodded repeatedly at this time, how dare he deny it? I guess if he shook his head, Qin Yu's heart would be even more distressed.

  "Even Grandfather, you said that in the past no one has cultivated external skills to the Xiantian realm?" Qin Yu asked. Lian Yan nodded nervously, but Qin Yu became excited and swung his fist, saying "Well, if no one has ever cultivated to the Xiantian realm before, then I must!"

  He was taken aback for a moment.

  "In the past, no one could, doesn't mean I definitely can't. I believe in myself!" Qin Yu's eyes shone with a fierce light.

  He smiled wryly and said no more.

  External labor?

  Cultivating it is countless times more bitter than cultivating internal strength. External strength is to temper the body, and to reach the ultimate physical state, various training methods will make the body undergo countless transformations. The pain is not something that ordinary people can bear.

  How can I bear to let Qin Yu suffer like that?

  "Xiao Yu, external skill practice is tough, but it's even more painful than being whipped a hundred times a day. You're also the son of the Eastern King, someone will protect you, no need to suffer so much." Lian Yan advised, he really couldn't bear to see such a young child suffering.

  Qin Yu slowly shook his head.

  "No!" A single word escaped his lips, leaving no room for discussion.

  Lian said helplessly in her heart, "Why are the people of the Qin family all like this? No matter how they appear on the surface, their fundamental nature is always unyielding. One by one, they have set their sights on a goal and will not turn back. His father was like this, and now he is too."

  Qin Yu suddenly smiled and knew his grandfather was concerned about him.

  "Grandfather Lian, don't worry, maybe there's still an inner skill cultivation method I can practice. You find some more inner skill cultivation methods for me to try, if I really can't cultivate inner skills, it's not too late for me to cultivate outer skills." Qin Yu walked over to Lian Yan's side and put his arm around Lian Yan's shoulder, saying "Grandfather Lian, don't worry anymore. The mountain villa has the best doctors, all sorts of masters, and even magical hot springs. What are you worried about?"

  Lian Yan patted Qin Yu's head, a gentle smile on his face.

  He naturally knew that Qin Yu didn't want him to worry.

  "Alright, Xiao Yu, go back to sleep, I'll take care of this." Lian Yan said.

  Qin Yu suddenly looked up and said: "Lian Grandfather, also help me find some masters who are good at cultivating external skills, it should be better with someone guiding."

  "Don't worry, I know." Lian Yan smiled and said. Qin Yu suddenly laughed and gave a warm kiss on Lian Yan's face, then jumped and ran towards the door, calling out "Lian Grandpa go to sleep, I'm going back to sleep too!"

  No sooner had he finished speaking than he was out of the room.

  He immediately took out his brush and paper and began writing a letter...

  Enjing City, in the study of Prince Qin De's mansion.

  Qin Dezheng stood in the study, looking up at the window outside, and it was already dawn.

  A man in black clothes, Xu Yuan, walked in, holding a letter in his hand. He walked to Qin De's side and said with a smile: "Your Highness, this is a letter sent by Lian Bo through carrier pigeon, it's about the child Xiao Yu, take a look."

  Qin De took over the letter and kept staring at its contents, with complex lights flashing in his eyes, and he didn't put down the letter in his hand for a long time.

  "Prince..." Xu Yuan called out in a low voice, Qin De suddenly came to his senses, and immediately a flame of energy burst forth from his hand, actually burning the letter into ashes. Afterwards, he still had a cold expression, calmly saying: "Xu Yuan, take a copy of all the internal skills and external skill manuals stored within the Wang estate, and send them to Yunwu Mountain Villa."

  Xu Yuan was shocked, he knew that Qin Yu couldn't cultivate internal energy, and he also knew how precious these internal energy secrets were. Even compared to the secrets stored in the Chu Wang Dynasty's imperial palace, the internal energy secrets of Zhen Dong Wang were even more precious.

  Isn't it a waste to give so many secrets to Qin Yu who can't cultivate internal energy?

  "Your Highness, all of them? Including the 'Ancestral Dragon Technique'? Xiao Yu can't even cultivate internal energy..." Xu Yuan asked again.

  "Didn't you hear what I just said?" Qin De asked coldly. Xu Yuan nodded and didn't say anything more, he could tell that Qin De was preoccupied with something and could also guess his current mood.

  "There's more..." Qin De took a light breath, "Isn't Wei Er supposed to be a master of external skills? He took the three great external skill masters from the Lie Hu Military, and also, he went to the three counties in the Eastern Domain to find external skill masters, and brought them all over."

  "Yes!" Xu Yuan responded.

  Qin De paused for a moment, then suddenly said: "Xu Yuan, pass the order to Wu Bian Hong Huang, let Zhao Yun Xing General also go to Yunwu Mountain Villa. If Yu'er chooses him as her teacher, he will stay at Yunwu Mountain Villa for a year."

  "General Zhao Yunxing?" Xu Yuan was taken aback.

  Qin De nodded and was about to leave the study when Xuyuan suddenly spoke up, "Your Highness, this time when we return to Yanjing City, won't you go visit Xiao Yu at Yunwu Mountain Villa? It's been over a year since we last saw her. Can't we squeeze out one day to make a trip there?"

  Qin De's body stiffened, and he calmly said, "No need." Then he directly left the study room. Xu Yuan looked at Qin De's back and shook his head with a sigh: "Are all the people in the Qin family like this? Each one is so stubborn. For the sake of their original oath, they don't even care about father-son relationships?"

  Xu Yuan sighed and also went out of the study room, leaving only the ashes of the burned letters on the floor.