I'm Not An Immortal (The Adventure of Jian Chou) - Chapter 33
Chapter 33
Pat pat.
Footsteps suddenly echoed in the spacious underground chamber.
It was as if a high platform, like an altar, had risen from the floor of a hollowed out mountain.
Embedded on the very top was a massive bronze mirror.
The mirror’s surface seemed to be covered in countless layers of dust, allowing no light to penetrate.
In the center of the bronze mirror, a skeleton sat cross legged, though the robes draped over it were completely intact.
The moment the footsteps were heard, a faint golden light abruptly radiated from the skeleton.
After the light subsided, the skeleton sitting on the altar’s bronze mirror had transformed into an old man, extremely gaunt but possessing flesh and blood.
His dry and wrinkled skin indicated an age far beyond that of ordinary people.
Raising his eyelids, the old man’s gaze fell upon the source of the sound.
Fudao Shanren was in front, and the Sect Master Zheng Yao was behind, as the two walked toward the altar.
Their steps were not fast, yet in the blink of an eye, they had reached the base of the altar.
Master Fudao’s face was clouded with gloom.
Without speaking, he simply lifted his foot and stepped, ascending as if on a heavenly ladder.
When his foot landed, he was already at the edge of the altar, taking care not to step onto the bronze mirror.
Bending down, he placed the person he was holding in his arms onto the bronze mirror.
“Fudao…”
A hoarse voice, like dry bones grinding against each other, sounded.
The old man slowly began to speak, his cloudy eyes fixed on Fudao Shanren.
It seemed to take him quite a while to recognize him.
Fudao Shanren had not heard that address in a long time.
That was why he disliked these old geezers so much.
Honestly, it made his own seniority seem so small!
However…
He still had to bow.
Master Fudao cupped his hands: “A Disciple of Mount Yashan, Fudao, greets Old Ancestor.”
The “Old Ancestor” smiled faintly: “Unwilling, reluctant. It’s been so many years since I’ve seen you. A few hundred years ago, that young fellow Zheng Yao told me you had gone out to clear your mind. Now you’ve finally returned. Three to five hundred years for a little mind clearing, that’s quite a long time.”
“This master enjoys clearing his mind when he feels like it. Old Ancestor, you must be jealous.”
Fudao Shanren cursed the old geezer again in his heart.
He glanced at the massive bronze mirror beneath him, and then looked at Jian Chou, who was lying on the mirror with blood stains on her lips.
At this moment, Jian Chou’s eyes were tightly shut, just as they had been when she was lying in the coffin at their first meeting.
The image of that initial scene kept replaying in Fudao Shanren’s mind, making that strange feeling even stronger.
He spoke: “Knowing that Old Ancestor is incredibly busy, Fudao will get straight to the point. I have taken in a new disciple, who has extraordinary talent. Her Foundation Establishment is the Heavenly Disk, and she can manipulate the Battle Disk at will. She is likely the Heavenly Void Body. However, I dare not confirm it, and I wish to ask Old Ancestor to take action and use the power of the Heaven Spying Mirror to ascertain the truth.”
“The Heavenly Void Body?”
The old man, whose wrinkled face had previously been expressionless, finally frowned, looking down at the person lying on the bronze mirror.
A young woman.
So Mount Yashan has female cultivators now.
“The Heavenly Disk is already an astonishing genius among geniuses. The Heavenly Void Body is something that might not appear even once in tens of thousands of years across the Nineteen Continents… It’s very peculiar that this girl possesses both the Heavenly Disk and the Heavenly Void Body simultaneously…”
Of course it’s peculiar.
If it wasn’t, why would I come to you?
Fudao Shanren grumbled inwardly, a boundless fire igniting inside him.
“She is either favored by Heaven or envied by Heaven…” the old man murmured, becoming curious about Jian Chou before him.
“The power of the Heaven Spying Mirror is infused into the ground, and I can only use a limited amount. What Heaven has decided, we too are powerless to change. Since you already know she is the Heavenly Disk and the Heavenly Void Body, what else do you want me to check?”
“I want to ask Old Ancestor to observe her three ethereal souls and seven material souls.”
His voice was low, making his whole demeanor seem subdued.
Master Fudao looked as though he had been hit by frost.
The old man found it strange: “What is there to observe about the souls?”
…This old geezer.
If the other party’s cultivation level wasn’t so high, and he wasn’t a Yashan elder with a seniority higher than heaven, Fudao Shanren would have long ago tossed a chicken leg at him.
“This girl was dug up by me from a grave. At the time, she was buried in a place that collected wind and gathered spiritual energy, a true dragon’s lair. Her soul was wandering outside. I used the effect of that dragon’s lair to regather her spirit and soul, so it wasn’t her time to die. I saw that she had an affinity with me, so I took her as a disciple. Now that she has the Heavenly Disk and the Heavenly Void Body, I am only afraid that there might be some unforeseen complication.”
A place that collects wind and gathers spiritual energy inevitably produces spirits and monsters.
As soon as Fudao Shanren mentioned it, the old man immediately understood.
He frowned and said, “You go down first.”
This meant he agreed.
Fudao Shanren wanted to say something, but finally looked at Jian Chou, who lay there unconscious, and then leaped down directly.
The Yashan Sect Master Zheng Yao had been standing below the whole time and had not gone up.
Seeing Fudao Shanren descend, and having heard their previous conversation, he lowered his voice and said, “Every time I come down here, I feel a chill. Alas, the Old Ancestor is only somewhat amiable to you.”
Amiable?
Bullshit!
Fudao Shanren snorted coldly: “He’s just been suppressed down here for too long. He hasn’t seen anyone for hundreds of years, so he’s only slightly better tempered when people suddenly appear.”
Zheng Yao was stumped by his retort.
He rubbed his nose, not daring to press his luck, and only said: “Although the Old Ancestor has lost his flesh and blood and is only a skeleton, he still has a bit of human feeling, doesn’t he? However, I thought you were going to do something to defy heaven and change fate, Master Uncle. I didn’t expect you would only ask the Old Ancestor to observe Senior Sister’s soul. Wouldn’t it be easier to do it yourself? And you wouldn’t have to come here…”
“Observe? What do you think I have to observe with?”
Fudao Shanren was so angry he rolled his eyes.
“I’ve already fallen to the Out of Body stage. What am I going to observe?”
At that moment, Zheng Yao was suddenly stunned.
His eyes flickered as he looked at Fudao Shanren: “I… Master Uncle, I didn’t mean it like that…”
“Alright, I know you didn’t mean it like that. So what if I fell? It’s no big deal.”
Looking up at the high altar, Fudao Shanren knew this wouldn’t be a quick affair, so he sat down heavily.
Cultivation has nine stages and nine heavens in total.
Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Out of Body are the first five stages.
Entering the World, Returning to Void, Possessing a Realm, and Reaching Heaven are the latter four stages.
Three hundred years ago, Fudao Shanren was at the Entering the World stage.
Now he is at the Out of Body stage, having fallen back from the sixth stage to the fifth.
Ordinarily, it looks like he only fell by one realm, but in the eyes of powerful cultivators, this is like falling from heaven to earth.
The reason is none other than the cultivation of the mind.
In the nine heavens of cultivation, the Out of Body stage serves as the dividing line.
Before the Out of Body stage, one cultivates the “body.”
After the Out of Body stage, one cultivates the “mind.”
In the first five heavens, a breakthrough can be achieved when power is sufficient and opportunity arrives.
However, upon breaking through the Out of Body stage and reaching the Entering the World realm, an extremely perilous Dao Tribulation occurs, which cultivators call the “Heart Questioning.”
After the “Heart Questioning” tribulation, the vanquished turn to ash and smoke, while the successful soar straight up.
From then on, power became secondary, while realization and perception became the most important things.
Before the Out of Body stage, it is the cultivator’s “body” leaving the mortal world; after the Out of Body stage, it is the cultivator’s “mind” leaving the mortal world.
Therefore, falling from Entering the World to Out of Body is not merely falling by one realm.
Having finally climbed up, only to fall instead of rise after three hundred years, the problem must lie in his state of mind.
If this matter were revealed, no one in the entire cultivation world would dare to believe it.
Yet, all of this happened right before Zheng Yao’s eyes.
He hesitated, wanting to retract his earlier comment, but Fudao Shanren seemed not to care in the least.
Now that Fudao Shanren’s realm was only the Out of Body stage, his cultivation of the “mind” was insufficient.
How could he observe another person’s “soul and spirit”?
In the end, he could only seek help from the Old Ancestor.
Zheng Yao sighed, walked over, and sat down beside Fudao Shanren, saying, “So, Master Uncle, are you suspecting that something went wrong when you gathered her soul?”
“Not an error, but reincarnation.”
Fudao Shanren took out a chicken leg and slowly gnawed on it.
“The Isolated Island of Mortals is different from our Nineteen Continents land. The Nine Headed Bird is dead, and since then, there has been no reincarnation in the cultivation world. But the Isolated Island of Mortals still has reincarnation… When a person dies, the three ethereal souls and seven material souls return to the cycle of reincarnation. The place where I found the girl Jian Chou collected wind and gathered spiritual energy, so her soul did not scatter. During the Extreme Domain Campaign ten cycles ago, I learned a trick from those ghostly things, so I can gather mortal souls… It’s only a small technique, and the Extreme Domain has always been mysterious. I only know how to do it, but not why.”
The Nine Headed Bird is dead, and since then, there has been no reincarnation in the cultivation world.
Therefore, when cultivators die, it is a true demise of body and Dao.
All of this was related to the campaign ten cycles ago.
Zheng Yao listened without interrupting.
“When I found the girl Jian Chou, she had already been dead for three days…”
That statement sounded a bit strange.
Master Fudao was stunned for a moment after saying it himself.
Then, he stroked his chin with his greasy fingers and suddenly pondered, “Tell me, could this be a great way to create geniuses in large numbers? Kill a person, bury them in a good spot, then wait a while to dig them out, regather their soul to revive them, and then they’ll have the Heavenly Disk and the Heavenly Void Body?”
“…”
Weren’t we just discussing Senior Sister Jian Chou?
How did the conversation suddenly switch to such a brutal topic in the blink of an eye?
Zheng Yao truly couldn’t react for a long time.
He felt that in terms of spiritual practice, he was still far, far behind Master Uncle Fudao!
He certainly didn’t possess the ability to change the subject without batting an eye in an instant.
However…
Zheng Yao stroked his chin in the same posture as Fudao Shanren and also began to contemplate: “Actually, it’s not impossible. A batch of disciples trained this way would be virtually invincible.”
Just think, what was Senior Sister Jian Chou’s speed?
She established her Foundation in thirteen days, and it was the Heavenly Disk at that.
Afterward, she cultivated a mysterious Dao Seal, which she could manipulate freely.
Not only was its power immense, but she could also use it with various parts of her body.
It was truly heaven defying!
If they could get another dozen Senior Sister Jian Chous…
Zheng Yao couldn’t help but let his imagination run wild, his eyes shining.
The two men below were discussing increasingly unreliable things, but the old man above, whom they called the “Old Ancestor,” slowly raised his palm.
The bronze mirror he was sitting on suddenly emitted a long hum, “Om,” and began to vibrate.
The dust covering it was gradually shaken off, forming a mist like cloud.
Golden light spread out like water overflowing from a calm lake.
Jian Chou lay in this lake of golden light.
The old man closed his eyes.
In that instant, his body turned back into a dry skeleton.
His five gray white finger bones of his right arm pressed down toward the surface of the Heaven Spying Mirror.
It seemed to cause ripples to spread out.
The ripples constantly floated, and Jian Chou’s body also glowed with a faint light.
It was hard to describe what kind of light it was, as if it was tangible yet also intangible.
One wisp, and then another, of smoky air drifted out from her brow…
In the entire vast underground chamber, all other areas seemed to be hidden in deep nothingness.
Only this altar was real.
The golden light burst forth, illuminating the surroundings.
Thus, they could finally see that the space had a ceiling.
Winding rocks and dripping stalactites reflected the faint light of the altar below, instantly making them seem real.
On the dome directly in front of the altar, the tip of a large sword was exposed, seemingly having been embedded there for a long time.
The bright blade was covered by rock.
And directly behind the altar, there was a massive prism, also like the body of a sword, plunging straight down from the dome to the floor, piercing the entire underground space!
Fudao Shanren used this burst of golden light to look around.
He knew exactly where he was.
Where the sword tip was revealed, directly above was the location of the Yashan Sword Drawing Platform.
This place was located beneath Yashan’s Lingzhao Peak, and its existence was practically unknown to ordinary disciples.
Gradually, the golden light illuminating the surroundings dimmed and vanished.
Fudao Shanreb suddenly snapped back to attention, looked up, and stood up.
With a flicker of his phantom image, he appeared on the spacious altar.
“Are you done?”
In the center of the Heaven Spying Mirror, the old man slowly withdrew his hand and simultaneously opened his eyes.
His skeletal form gradually became flesh and blood again, and his pale five finger bones turned into five old and wrinkled fingers.
He nodded and said in a deep voice, “This girl’s soul is incomplete.”
“…”
Fudao Shanren was speechless for a moment.
The constant worry in his heart did not subside, but was suddenly pierced by a sword that seemed to come from nowhere.
It really is incomplete.
The old man seemed oblivious to Fudao Shanren’s expression.
Too much complexity and world weariness were mixed in his cloudy eyes.
“I, this old geezer, heard your conversation just now. After a person dies, the soul and spirit leave the body, wandering in the world. The physical body becomes like an empty shell, which gradually decays and disappears, turning into earth and dissipating into the world. This is a kind of ‘dissolution’ a dissolving. Meridians melt into bones and muscles, acupuncture points hide in flesh and blood, eventually becoming one, either eaten by snakes, insects, rats, or ants, or eroded by wind, frost, rain, and snow.”
“A corpse has no meridians and no acupuncture points.”
“But she came back to life…”
Fudao Shanren stared at the lying Jian Chou, struggling to accept this in his heart.
The old man nodded: “It is precisely because you gathered her soul that she came back to life. A living person means the flesh and blood are abundant, meridians are distinct, and acupuncture points emerge. However, her soul and spirit are incomplete…”
“The three ethereal souls can leave the body, and the seven material souls return to the body. If the three ethereal souls and seven material souls are missing, how can a person live?”
So if her soul and spirit are incomplete, how could Jian Chou be resurrected?
Fudao Shanren also had questions.
The old man explained: “Of the three ethereal souls, the Heavenly Soul is missing three parts, the Earth Soul is complete, and the Life Soul is missing one part. Of the seven material souls, the first soul Tianchong, the second soul Linghui, the third soul Qi, the fourth soul Strength, and the fifth soul Zhongshu are all complete. The seventh soul Ying is missing three parts.”
(T/N: Tianchong: Governs Celestial Impulse or the Heavenly Rush and often related to the sense of smell and the cranial nerve. Linghui: Governs Spiritual Intelligence and often related to hearing and mental clarity.Qi: Governs Vital Energy or Breath and related to breathing and basic life force. Zhongshu: Governs the Central Hub or Body Center and related to the spleen, stomach, and central coordination of the body.Ying: Governs Brave Essence or Vitality and related to the heart, blood circulation, and courage. The core idea is that these material souls tied to the physical body’s vitality, senses, and functions.)
He had already observed the state of Jian Chou’s soul and spirit just now, and was immensely surprised at the time.
“Her three ethereal souls and seven material souls are all present, but not whole. It was your good luck that she could be resurrected by gathering her soul and spirit back into her body, as you encountered a cave that collects wind and gathers spiritual energy, and her wandering soul was not carried away.
However, places that collect wind and gather spiritual energy are prone to producing spirits, monsters, and ghosts, and it’s unknown whether they consumed some parts of the living person’s soul and spirit.”
To be accurate, this is the most likely scenario.
“Therefore, although she can live, her soul and spirit are actually incomplete. Although her flesh and blood are abundant, it is an empty shell. Her meridians are not distinct, and her acupuncture points do not emerge. In her body, there are fundamentally no meridians. All so called cultivation is merely wishful thinking, artificially created by spiritual energy. Wherever she thinks, that becomes a meridian, that becomes an acupuncture point.”
If these words were spoken aloud, they would be absolutely terrifying!
Jian Chou, who has cultivated the Heavenly Disk, actually has no meridians in her body, and even fewer acupuncture points!
Zheng Yao, below, was already dumbfounded.
The old man’s ancient gaze fell upon Fudao Shanren.
“Therefore, if your disciple had studied the meridians and acupuncture points of the human body before cultivating, she would assume her body’s meridians and acupuncture points were the same. Thus, she created paths of meridians and points one by one in a body that had already dissolved into a ‘corpse.’ As long as she wills it, they will appear. Therefore, as long as she is reasonably confident in her calculations during divination, she is bound to succeed, which is why she could light up all the Kun lines.”
Fudao Shanren stood there, silent for a long time.
He had cultivated for so long that he could not fail to understand the meaning of these words.
It is precisely because she has no meridians or acupuncture points that everywhere is a meridian or an acupuncture point.
That is why, with that Dao Seal, she only needs to accurately calculate the trajectory to succeed on her very first attempt.
Using her leg or her hand, there only seems to be a slight difference in power.
However…
A bitter taste spread on Fudao Shanren’s tongue.
“But above the Out of Body stage, there is the Heart Questioning tribulation. Once one reaches the Entering the World stage, it is the cultivation of the mind…”
The old man also remained silent for a long time, then slowly nodded.
“Therefore, below the Out of Body stage, your disciple’s cultivation speed is astonishing, and she can cultivate the Dao Seal at will. If she fights others, her attacks will undoubtedly be extremely powerful. Below the Out of Body stage, she will be virtually unmatched. But once she reaches the Heart Questioning tribulation, she will surely die.”
Below the Out of Body stage, she will be virtually unmatched.
Once she reaches the Heart Questioning tribulation, she will surely die.
Simply because Jian Chou’s soul is incomplete, she cannot cultivate the mind and will not be able to withstand the perilous Heart Questioning Dao Tribulation!
Fudao Shanren did not reply further.
He simply bent down, picked up Jian Chou, and stepped out directly, now standing more than ten meter away from the altar.
He walked forward, his steps heavy. His gaunt body was taut like a fully drawn bowstring.
It was as if, if he didn’t hold himself so tightly, he would immediately collapse.
Watching Fudao Shanren gradually disappear into the vast darkness, Zheng Yao remained standing where he was.
He did not leave.
The old man let out a long sigh, looking quite conflicted.
“It’s been six hundred years, and his cultivation is actually regressing… Why torment himself?”
Hearing this, Zheng Yao turned his head and said, “Master Uncle has always had this temperament.”
“Always?” The old man heard this and couldn’t help but laugh aloud, his voice heavy.
“His rotten temper is much better than it used to be.”
Rotten temper…
Only you would dare to say that.
Zheng Yao did not dare to respond.
He simply bowed to the old man: “Old Ancestor, Senior Sister Jian Chou is now the Heavenly Void Body, but her soul is incomplete. Is there truly no way to make it whole?”
“Anything related to the soul and spirit invariably involves the profound mysteries of the Great Dao of Heaven, and cannot be questioned outside of the Extreme Domain. However, in the battle six hundred years ago, Yashan exhausted its elite forces and cannot afford to inquire again…”
The old man slowly closed his eyes.
“Heaven’s favor or Heaven’s envy, there is actually no difference. If this girl wishes to live longer, she might as well cultivate slower.”
As his voice faded, his eyelids were completely shut.
Consequently, the flesh and blood on his body gradually disappeared, leaving only an aged skeleton on the great altar’s Heaven Spying Mirror.
Zheng Yao watched for a long time, and remembering the heaviness in Fudao Shanren’s steps as he left, he also let out a long sigh.
He, too, slowly walked into the darkness and disappeared.
A short time later, a ripple appeared on the floor of the Lanyue Hall.
Zheng Yao’s figure gradually solidified.
He was now standing in the Lanyue Hall. He looked around and saw no one, figuring Fudao shanren must have already taken Jian Chou back.
When she opened her eyes, the surrounding light was somewhat blurred.
Jian Chou took a moment to orient herself.
This was her room.
In that strange jade bowl, a bright flame still burned, unceasingly.
Jian Chou sat up.
She felt completely comfortable, without the slightest discomfort.
She tapped her temple, carefully recalling what happened, and then vaguely remembered passing out from exhaustion while testing the Dao Seal in the Lanyue Hall.
Now that she was in her own room, Fudao Shanren must have brought her back.
Jian Chou was utterly confused by the anomaly that occurred.
It worked with her leg, and it worked with her palm too? That really was a strange Dao Seal.
She got up from the couch and walked to the door.
She found that the place where she had struck and broken the wall had already been repaired.
The huge leg shaped hole had left no trace on the cliff face.
When Jian Chou pulled the door open, she glanced at the wooden plaque hanging next to it.
Elegant patterns spread across it.
The words “Scripture Pavillion” were gone, replaced by the two characters “Jian Chou”.
Presumably, the Scripture Pavillion had been taken back by Fudao Shanren.
She stood outside her door and looked down.
It was now twilight, yet beams of light of various colors continuously flew down the cliff face toward the Lingzhao Peak.
In front of the Guihe Pool, many people were standing. Jian Chou counted roughly twenty or so.
Fudao Sharen was sitting by the Guihe Pool, his feet submerged in the water.
He held a slender bamboo pole, using it to tease the large white goose floating on the water’s surface.
The large white goose twisted its neck, truly too lazy to bother with this fool.
It flapped its webbed feet twice in the water and then turned its rear end away, swimming to the side.
A streak of golden glass like light landed beside him.
Fudao Shanren was extremely impatient.
Without even turning his head, he said, “Really, stop asking me! Those Golden Core stage cultivators who lost their magical artifacts, if they have a legitimate reason, I’ll take them to open the Armory. If not, they can go find them themselves! Aren’t you annoying?!”
“…”
Jian Chou was momentarily stunned.
She looked around and only spotted Qu Zhengfeng in that group of about twenty people.
Qu Zhengfeng also saw Jian Chou, and across the crowd, he nodded slightly toward her.
Jian Chou returned the courtesy with a nod and a smile, then turned back and clapped Fudao Shanren on the shoulder: “Master!”
Fudao Shanren truly wanted to hit her back with the bamboo pole, but when he turned around, he actually saw Jian Chou.
This was a massive surprise!
In that instant, his expression showed even a hint of discomposure.
However, Fudao Shanren quickly adopted a look of gritted teeth and great indignation: “You naughty girl, Jian Chou! You sleep for so long, and then you come to scare your master the moment you wake up! Do you truly enjoy bullying old folks?”
Uh…
Jian Chou really wanted to ask: Do you count as an old person?
She held back, fearing she would be hit.
“I just woke up and saw it was very lively outside, and then I saw you down here, Master, so I came over. I also have a few questions I need to ask you.”
The Dao Seal was no small matter.
Jian Chou needed to know why it behaved as it did.
Fudao Shanren’s eyes darted around, and he sighed weakly.
He propped his elbow on his leg, hunched over, cupped his chin in his hand, and rolled his eyes at Jian Chou: “You’ve been asleep for six days. I, this master, have been busy the whole time, and I’ve finally gotten a moment of leisure. Can’t you give your master a break? How about I find you something to do?”
A sudden idea sprang up.
Jian Chou immediately grew curious: “What is it?”
Seeing an opening, Fudao Shanren quickly turned his head and shouted toward Qu Zhengfeng: “Second one, come here!”
Qu Zhengfeng was talking to the other Yashan disciples.
Hearing the call, he waved his hand at the disciple in front of him and walked toward the Guihe Pool, bowing before Master Fudao: “Master.”
Master Fudao pointed at Jian Chou and said, “We are opening the Armory today. This girl doesn’t have a suitable magical artifact yet. Take her to pick one.”
Armory, magical artifact?
Jian Chou immediately understood.
So all these people were gathered here to choose magical artifacts.
Did Yashan’s magical artifacts not have to be found by the cultivators themselves? Were they provided by the sect?
She turned her head to look at Qu Zhengfeng, momentarily forgetting about the Dao Seal.
Qu Zhengfeng paused.
Following Master Fudao’s gesture, he turned to look at Jian Chou.
Indeed, during the fight against Zhou Baozhu at the Sword Drawing Platform that day, the only thing Jian Chou could produce was an Inner-Outer Mirror.
She didn’t even have a sword, which eventually led to…
…having to draw her leg.
Cough.
The matter of Senior Sister Jian Chou resorting to drawing her leg when disagreeing has become widely known among all Yashan disciples.
In fact, gossips had even given Jian Chou a new title: The Yashan Leg Drawing Sect.
The Sword Drawing Sect’s sword and the Leg Drawing Sect’s leg are both fine titles!
Various rumors from the past few days flashed through his mind, and a light also flickered in Qu Zhengfeng’s eyes.
After a slight moment of thought, he spoke: “That is true. Senior Sister Jian Chou is now considered a notable figure in our Yashan Sword Drawing Sect. It would truly be inappropriate for her not to have a sword. I shall follow Master’s instruction and take Senior Sister Jian Chou with us for this Armory opening.”
How can one resort to drawing a sword without a sword?
Jian Chou looked at the group of disciples standing behind Qu Zhengfeng.
They were all Yashan disciples, mostly with low cultivation, many at the Foundation Establishment stage, and it seemed a few were at the Golden Core stage.
When she turned to look, everyone was watching her, their gazes carrying the feeling of looking at a legendary figure.
Jian Chou felt her scalp tingle slightly, and quickly averted her gaze.
Thinking of the “sword,” an indescribable feeling arose in her heart.
I can have a sword too?
A small smile involuntarily appeared on her lips.
Jian Chou respectfully bowed to Fudao Shanren: “Disciple thanks Master. Then…”
Turning her head to look at Qu Zhengfeng, she smiled and said, “I’ll trouble Junior Brother Qu to look after me.”
Qu Zhengfeng nodded: “Senior Sister, please follow me. We are about to set off now.”
Jian Chou followed him, walking into the group of Yashan disciples.
Fudao Shanren sat beside the Guihe Pool, his feet submerged in the water, feeling cold.
He watched Jian Chou as she stood with the many Yashan disciples, and slowly lowered his gaze.
Unmatched below the Out of Body stage.
How glorious that sounded?
Just like Jian Chou at this moment, she was the focus of all eyes, the admiration of all hearts, and the brilliance of all light…
“Alas…”
Master Fudao sighed deeply, feeling a headache coming on.
Another streak of light descended.
Shen Jiu stood beside Fudao shanren, looked at the group of people who were about to leave Yashan, and couldn’t help but frown.
He spoke: “Master, the news has now spread throughout the Left Three Thousand Regions of the Central Domain. They are all saying that the new female cultivator who joined our Yashan established her Foundation in thirteen days and possesses the Heavenly Disk.”
“It’s spread?”
Upon hearing this, Fudao Shanren felt his scalp about to explode.
How was that possible?
