Cohabitation with Sword Spirit

Chapter 380 - 115: Wait

The Moon Shadow Array set up by Zhao Jincheng is a Golden Jade Secret Technique that allows Zhao Chenlu, the City Lord, to descend beside him while ignoring distance limitations.

However, this magic that ignores distance limitations has extremely strict usage restrictions.

Even in the Jiuzhou Era, time-space manipulation was a forbidden art of the highest rank in the Immortal Dao, only possibly mastered by cultivators of the Immortal Venerable level. Given the current state of Immortal Dao development on the Xiangzhou Continent, it’s nearly impossible to replicate the miracles of the Jiuzhou Era.

Thus, the Moon Shadow Array cleverly avoids the concept of time and space by utilizing the light and shadow entanglement properties within the Golden Jade Secret Technique, infusing Zhao Jincheng’s Protective Talisman with a moon’s shadow to maintain a connection with the original body, ignoring distance.

When needed, simply activate the Moon Shadow Array and perform the Reversing Yin and Yang technique to swap the original body with the moon’s shadow, achieving a teleportation effect that ignores distance.

But the cost of this move is extremely high, requiring Zhao Jincheng to go all out to maintain the array to instantly teleport the profoundly cultivated City Lord Golden Jade from thousands of miles away.

Any mishap during the process could result in disastrous consequences—such as only a single arm or half a leg being transported over.

Therefore, Zhao Chenlu’s ability to bless her brother Zhao Jincheng with such Immortal Technique is indeed proof of the First Young Master’s status in Golden Jade City. On the other hand, Zhao Jincheng also knows that such trust cannot be betrayed.

But at this moment, as he watched the suddenly out-of-control Moon Shadow Array, Zhao Jincheng knew he had already let down his sister’s expectations, and the catastrophic consequences were about to appear.

With his level of cultivation, mastering the highest middle-rank Moon Shadow Array of the Golden Jade Secret Technique was already forced. Thus, before leaving, Zhao Chenlu herself had an agreement with him that if an accident occurs, either Zhao Chenlu would bring Zhao Jincheng back to Golden Jade City, or Zhao Jincheng would summon Zhao Chenlu’s Shadow Clone—the risk is much smaller than summoning the original body.

But Zhao Chenlu suddenly reneged and forcibly squeezed her original body over, which made Zhao Jincheng somewhat overwhelmed. And the mental force supporting his overloading operation collapsed in an instant...

Tragedy was almost inevitable.

Although Zhao Jincheng, upon realizing the problem, tried his best to suppress the Moon Shadow Array of time-space, the enormous power had already far exceeded his control limits.

In the golden desert, a sudden whirlwind arose, enveloping dense darkness in the wind, instantly plunging the surrounding tens of miles into deep night.

Only the very center of the golden desert retained a bright silver light.

It was a whirlpool-like disc, and in its center, a young woman struggled as if trapped in a quagmire, supporting her upper body out of the whirlpool, only to be sucked back in by the whirlpool’s grip every time she struggled outward.

From an outline, the woman had a perfect face, perfect hair, and a perfect figure, yet within the outline was a chaotic blur of black and white.

Her features were unclear, neither her skin nor her clothes could be seen clearly, only a mixture of black and white, like ink-dyed colors filling it, appearing like the fierce ghost from the most terrifying nightmares, extremely frightening.

As the woman ceaselessly struggled within the disc’s whirlpool, parts of her body began spewing black and white blood, like an unending fountain polluting the golden desert to a dull hue.

This scene was like hell descending, an apocalypse on earth.

For a time, everyone inside and outside the scene was shocked speechless by this horrific sight, even Shen Ruoshi, the City Lord of Shen City, couldn’t help but stand up, his gaze like sharp swords piercing through the projection to see that woman.

"Zhao Chenlu, what are you doing!?"

Others might not be able to see through this hellish scene, but Shen Ruoshi, being a top master on the continent at the Sea Overturning Realm and having interacted with Zhao Chenlu a few times, could immediately tell that Zhao Chenlu was practically committing suicide!

Having the young Zhao Jincheng host the Moon Shadow Array was already a reckless gamble, yet she not only didn’t send down her Shadow Clone but forcibly tried to descend in her original body. And after the Moon Shadow Array collapsed, the correct choice was to immediately withdraw, stabilize her existence, and escape from the entanglement of chaotic light and shadow—even for a common cultivator, this step would be a dead end, but with Zhao Chenlu’s skills, she could easily resolve the crisis.

Yet she kept courting death, not only refusing to withdraw but went further into the quagmire, sinking deeper into the Moon Shadow Array... then turning into this human-ghost form!

In Shen Ruoshi’s view, Zhao Chenlu seemed as if wielding a knife, flaying herself alive with every cut! Every inch of alien color on her body was no different from a sharp dagger piercing into her flesh and bones! And that black and white blood fountain was truly Zhao Chenlu’s real blood!

It’s fortunate that this girl was so strong inside and out at such a young age, with incredible True Essence and physical body... someone else would have already died of excessive blood loss!

But if she keeps torturing herself like this, it ultimately leads to a dead end. A cultivator of the Sea Overturning Realm is also human, not a true immortal, and cannot live forever... And what does that proud, arrogant woman who often doesn’t even pay heed to the Saint Sect want to do?

Is she so eager to rush over? Indeed, Golden Jade City and Shen City are separated by more than thousands of miles, but given her cultivation, if she didn’t count the cost and exerted all efforts to hurry over, half a day would be enough. Does she care so much about those half a day? Care enough to disregard her life!

She’s so young and yet so desperate, insisting on torturing herself to death?

And even if she dies, why not die in Golden Jade City, why come to Shen City to die, and die so tragically? Does she hate Shen City that much?

Just as Shen Ruoshi was somewhat indecisive about whether to personally intervene, the woman struggling at the edge of life and death suddenly raised her head, gritting her teeth against the intense pain, hoarsely said, "Is it... you?"

A moment later, in the sandstorm, a White Sword effortlessly broke free from its bind, standing quietly in front of the woman.

Then, the voice of a young man resonated from the Sword Body.

"Your question lacks the necessary..."

Without finishing the sentence, Zhao Chenlu clapped and said, "Alright, I know it’s you."

Pausing for a moment, the woman’s voice suddenly carried a sobbing tone, "It’s you... it really is you, I knew it... I wouldn’t have come back to life for no reason, we were destined to meet again."

On the other side, after a long silence, Wang Jiu posed a question that had lingered in his heart for a long time, "Did you really mistake the Youth Pill for a Nine Revolutions Pill back then?"

"No!" Zhao Chenlu retorted while spitting out blood on the spot.

It was clear she had countless things to say in her heart, but at this time, she couldn’t utter a single word.

The discordant blood surged up her throat, completely blocking her voice.

Due to excessive recklessness, Zhao Chenlu’s body finally reached the brink of shattering, and that flawless outline also began to collapse and disintegrate.

But she regained clarity at this moment, holding on with her last breath, squeezing out two syllables.

"Wait for me."

Wang Jiu immediately asked, "How long?"

Zhao Chenlu smiled slightly, although her smile appeared grinningly and terrifyingly under the influence of intertwining light and shadow, to Wang Jiu she still seemed as beautiful as always.

The problem is, no matter how beautiful, you can’t use a smile as an answer to brush me off, right?

You say ’wait for you’, alright, but at least give a time frame, am I supposed to wait here for one year, ten years? During this time, how do I deal with food and drink? Survive in the wilderness? Too much, right? Even if it’s an old friend, no need to be this unreasonable.

However, Wang Jiu had known this old friend for not just a year or two—at least four or five years, knowing full well that she sometimes is completely unreasonable and will righteously claim it is the privilege of a beauty, a common sense of human society. Then, while saying that, she would go and steal Shen Kaishan’s snacks, blame it on Li Jiulong after stealing, making Wang Jiu click his tongue in wonder.

In short, Wang Jiu had no great way to deal with this unreasonable old friend. Once she was being headstrong, among the Jiu Immortal Venerables, only Shang Lanfei could somewhat restrain her.

So, if worse comes to worst, just wait here for a while.

A millennium apart from a reunion, indeed, it’s worth waiting a bit longer for her.