My Sexy CEO Wife

Chapter 324 - 321 Legendary Figures

Dongfang Jian curled his lip: "You keep claiming you're a Spiritual Treasure, then prove it."

"How should I prove it?"

"I've heard that Spiritual Treasures have the power to move mountains and overturn seas, being treasures of a Defying Heavenly Level. Show me by flipping over a mountain or perhaps overturning a sea. Just do either, and I'll acknowledge you as a Spiritual Treasure."

"In the past, I could have done it easily, but now... it's a bit difficult."

"See, I knew it, you're exposed; I told you that you're fake, you're not really a Spiritual Treasure."

"I'm not fake, I'm real! A genuine, bona fide Spiritual Treasure!"

"Then prove it."

"I'm injured, severely injured; I can't wield any of my abilities."

"Injured? You look completely intact, where do you seem to be injured? You're fooling me!"

"Believe it or not, I'm telling the truth."

"How did you get injured?" Dongfang Jian had been fishing for information all along: "Aren't you a Spiritual Treasure? How can you be injured?"

After a long silence, the Black Fiend Gourd sent out a thought: "Spiritual Treasures are not all-powerful, nor are they invincible."

Dongfang Jian blinked: "What do you mean?"

"Enough, stop asking. I don't want to talk about the past."

"You can't answer, can you? You're not really a Spiritual Treasure, and you haven't been injured. You're just a counterfeit, afraid to reveal more the more you talk, that's why you dare not say more to me." Dongfang Jian was quite scathing in his words.

"Nonsense!" The Black Fiend Gourd got agitated: "I was wounded by a person."

"A person?" Dongfang Jian laughed: "Are you joking with me? You're a Spiritual Treasure, the most cherished object in the world; how could a human possibly harm you?"

"He's not an ordinary human."

"Oh?"

"With the body of a mortal, he possesses the strength of an immortal; do you think he's ordinary?"

"What?" Dongfang Jian's eyes widened: "The body of a mortal with the strength of an immortal? That's impossible! Absolutely impossible! It completely defies reason!"

"Indeed it defies reason, but... what I'm saying is the truth. That person truly had the strength of an immortal. With just one move, he inflicted severe injuries on me, nearly causing me to dissipate into nothing."

"Fine, tell me, how did you escape in the end? Since that person had the strength of an immortal, how could you have escaped?"

"...Since the conversation has reached this point, I won't hide it from you any longer. After being wounded, I began to beg for mercy, desperately... Eventually, that person spared me..."

"That person has quite a soft heart, then."

"For tens of thousands of years, I've been hiding here, recovering from my injuries, slightly better than before, but far from healed."

"Tens of thousands of years?" Dongfang Jian's mouth twitched sharply: "You've been here for tens of thousands of years?"

"From the outside, I look completely intact, not at all like I'm injured. If you had clairvoyant eyes, you would be able to see the great trauma within me. Frankly speaking, it's a miracle that I've survived until now."

"A person with the strength of an immortal is truly unbelievable."

"That guy is an anomaly; to this day, I can't understand how he cultivated such power, how he came to possess the strength of an immortal."

"What's his name, and is he still alive?"

"It seems his name was Murong... Defying Heaven, yes, that's it, Murong Defying Heaven. With his strength, I bet he's long since ascended to the Immortal Realm."

"The man is impressive, and so is the name he chose," Dongfang Jian admired.

"Brat, I've told you the true story now, do you believe I'm a Spiritual Treasure?"

"I still have some doubts."

"What doubts do you have?"

"Tell me about your origin. What era's Spiritual Treasure are you? What materials were used to refine you? Who refined you?"

"You sure have a lot of questions…"

"What? Can't answer?" Dongfang Jian began to use reverse psychology again. Although the Black Fiend Gourd had awakened its intelligence, it wasn't very smart. It definitely couldn't outwit Dongfang Jian. Right from the start, the Black Fiend Gourd was being played by him.

"Who says I can't answer!"

"Then answer."

"I'll answer, who's afraid of who! Listen up, you little punk, my ears are perked. My name is Black Fiend Gourd, I've existed for almost a hundred thousand years. A highly respectable predecessor created me, using a multitude of precious materials, like millennia-old cold iron, millennia-old bamboo shoots, millennia-old black soil… There are too many materials to recount them all."

"Existed for a hundred thousand years?" Dongfang Jian quietly clicked his tongue. "Do you Spiritual Treasures have no lifespan limit? Can you live forever?"

"Theoretically, that's how it is."

"I'm really envious of you, being able to live so long with ease. We humans can't manage that, we can at most live a few thousand years, nothing compared to you."

"Humans have their advantages, and Spiritual Treasures have theirs. Humans are born with intelligence, which grows more mature with age. We Spiritual Treasures, however, start off as inanimate objects. It's incredibly difficult to awaken intelligence. Taking myself as an example, it took tens of thousands of years just to awaken my intelligence, and it's still not very mature.

I'm one of the lucky ones; many other Spiritual Treasures can't awaken their intelligence at all."

"If you ask me, you Spiritual Treasures shouldn't have awakened intelligence," Dongfang Jian said. "With intelligence comes worries, and that makes life unhappy."

"Nonsense." The Black Fiend Gourd didn't like what it heard: "Even with worries, I'd still want to awaken my intelligence. Now scram, stop bothering me and let me heal my injuries. Chattering on and on, what a nuisance. I must have been dumb to talk so much with you."

"We got to know each other through bickering, so from now on, let's be friends."

"Bullshit, I don't want to be friends with you at all. You're not worthy of being my friend."

"What's with your language? Am I really that dreadful?"

"That's just how I talk. If you don't like it, beat it."

"…Considering you're injured, I won't squabble with you. I'll wait for you to heal, then we can have a proper debate."

"That's enough. Get going."

"I'm off then. I'll come back when I have time to chat with you." Dongfang Jian took a long look at the Black Fiend Gourd, then turned and walked out.

The wooden man followed him out as well.

"You're amazing!"

The wooden man gave Dongfang Jian a thumbs-up: "Incredible! You got the Black Fiend Gourd's story out of it with just a few words. Respect."

"Just a simple ruse," Dongfang Jian smiled. "The Black Fiend Gourd said it's called Black Fiend Gourd and it's been around for almost a hundred thousand years. But… it seems to be injured and still hasn't recovered. The gourd says the person who injured it had the strength of an immortal."

"Unbelievable," the wooden man marveled. "To have the strength of an immortal while in a mortal's body is truly incredulous."

"I really want to meet this predecessor and ask about cultivation insights," Dongfang Jian said. "Thousands of years have passed. Either that predecessor has ascended to the Immortal Realm by now or has long since died; we can't possibly meet him."

"Wrong timing," the wooden man said. "If we were born thousands of years earlier, perhaps we could have met that predecessor."