novelraw Chapter 109 : The Sword Got Jealous
Chapter 109 : The Sword Got Jealous
Damn it, the substitute puppet was shattered! Heaven knows how difficult it was to exchange for a puppet from that miser Mu Changqing!
Chu Sang was angry.
It would take at least a million spirit stones to appease her.
Clearly, Ghost Second Senior Brother didn't want to appease her; he even wanted to give her another strike.
Originally, Chu Sang hadn't planned to contract with Karma Burns the Three Realms yet, but now, she had no choice but to do so.
The red-clad young woman's toes lightly touched the ground as she spun, stepping into the void to widen the distance between them. The bow and arrow in her hand moved with grand, sweeping motions. The fiery red flowing light was like a falling meteor, dispersing that dense and terrifying ghost energy attack.
Another arrow was released almost instantly after the previous one, striking Ling Yu's chest.
He staggered back two steps, his narrow purple eyes widening slightly, seemingly surprised that the bow in the young woman's hands was so powerful that it could directly break through his protective ghost energy.
Chu Sang's current strength was still too weak in comparison. After contracting with Karma Burns the Three Realms, to avoid backlash on its master, its power would also be greatly reduced. Even though she could barely break through Ling Yu's protective ghost energy, if he wanted to forcefully intercept, he could have done so.
But he clearly wasn't that cautious.
This also indicated that until he was shot by an arrow, Ling Yu hadn't truly taken her, a mere Golden Core cultivator, seriously.
The flames dispersed the ghost energy everywhere.
The dense, gloomy ghost energy around Ling Yu dissipated at a visible speed, and he fainted again.
Chu Sang sighed. She was now a bit unsure about Second Senior Brother's situation. What exactly caused him to split into two personalities?
Which of these two personalities was the main one?
He wasn't a main character in the original story, so the plot about him wasn't written in much detail. His scenes only appeared in the middle to late stages of the story. It was rumored that he was a spy specifically planted in the cultivation world by the ghost realm. He had been lurking in the cultivation world for years, gathering intelligence, waiting for the right moment to lead the ghost realm's army to attack the cultivation world.
As for whether he was a spy from the beginning or turned traitor halfway... Chu Sang wasn't quite sure.
However, these successive events were enough to show that Ling Yu indeed had an on-again, off-again relationship with the Ghost Xuan Sect. That female ghost from earlier seemed to know Second Senior Brother. The sect master she mentioned, could it be... the sect master of the Ghost Xuan Sect?
During the time Chu Sang was brainstorming, the chaos in the building gradually subsided.
The ghost cultivators and vengeful ghosts in the building had been mostly cleared out.
Before half an incense stick's time had passed, Big Senior Sister had also caught the female ghost who had tried to escape.
Chu Sang originally wanted to extract some information about the Ghost Xuan Sect from the female ghost, but unexpectedly, this female ghost had a fierce temperament and actually self-destructed her Nascent Soul right in front of them. Fortunately, she took out the golden bell to block the attack, or they might have been destroyed together.
It must be said that Seventh Senior Brother was a poor but sociable person who made friends everywhere. After exchanging greetings and adding friends with that team of cultivators, he came over and was a bit stunned, "Why did Second Senior Brother faint? Which evil ghost injured him?! I'll go avenge Second Senior Brother!"
"...I did it," Chu Sang said. "He lost control again earlier."
Chu Sang had Tantai Ming carry the unconscious Ling Yu and found a relatively quiet room to place him.
After most of the ghosts in the city had been eliminated, they completed the mission and received the spirit stone reward. Then, they hurried back to the sect and handed Ling Yu over to the Master.
No one knew Ling Yu better than Immortal Chanyu, after all, she had personally picked him up from outside years ago.
What exactly happened back then, only she knew clearly.
Immortal Chanyu sighed lightly but didn't say anything. She had Tantai Ming take him back to his room to rest and recover.
"Will Second Senior Brother's condition continue like this?" Chu Sang didn't leave after the other senior brothers and sisters had gone. She looked up at Immortal Chanyu.
"Be careful of your Second Senior Brother. I don't dare to make any presumptions about what he will become."
Chu Sang pretty much understood the Master's implied meaning.
Actually, when she learned earlier that Immortal Chanyu had passed the sect leader's seal to Second Senior Sister instead of Second Senior Brother, she had already guessed.
Clearly, Immortal Chanyu did not trust this disciple who appeared to be the most obedient and steady on the surface.
"I understand."
It was getting late, so Chu Sang also left to rest.
Moreover, after beating Second Senior Brother back to his original form, she gained another ten points.
Second Senior Brother's current Corruption Value had been reduced from the initial 99 to 83.
Every time she severely tricked Ghost Second Senior Brother, his Corruption Value would decrease.
If she completely zeroed out Second Senior Brother's Corruption Value, would Ghost Second Senior Brother still appear?
Chu Sang felt she needed to trick him a few more times.
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A month later, Mu Chihuai advanced to late Golden Core stage as promised.
His success rate in refining lower-grade earth-level pills could now be maintained above 80%.
He could even challenge refining a few mid-grade earth-level pills.
It's worth noting that in the outside world, great pill refiners capable of refining earth-level pills are at least at the Nascent Soul stage or above. Sixth Senior Brother's talent, even if placed in the Pill Transformation Sect, which gathers the top pill refining prodigies of the cultivation world, would be among the most outstanding personal disciples.
Good things come in pairs, and blessings don't come alone.
A few days later, after Su Chen'an had been in seclusion for half a year, he finally emerged.
This was also the first time Chu Sang witnessed a Nascent Soul stage lightning tribulation. It was at least ten times stronger than the Golden Core lightning tribulations of Sixth Senior Brother and Seventh Senior Brother from years ago.
She watched from several miles away, but could still feel the aftershocks of the lightning tribulation as if they might harshly slap her face in the next breath. Even the melon seeds in her mouth didn't taste good anymore.
"Will Fifth Senior Brother be scorched?" She was a bit worried and couldn't even crack the melon seeds anymore, so she conjured five spirit fruits in succession.
"Don't worry, Fifth Senior Brother values his life the most. He must have refined several hundred lightning-resistant magical tools for himself. He won't be struck to death." In lightning tribulations, those who truly suffer are ordinary players like Tantai Ming and Chu Sang. The experience of pay-to-win players is vastly different.
"Generally speaking, the higher a cultivator's talent and strength, the stronger the lightning tribulation will be," Immortal Chanyu said, one hand behind her back, gazing at the vast lightning tribulation in the distance that seemed to herald an approaching storm. The sky in this region had darkened like night, and when the heavenly lightning struck, it was as bright as day. "The Nascent Soul stage lightning tribulation is stronger than the Golden Core stage lightning tribulation, and the Divine Transformation stage lightning tribulation is stronger than the Nascent Soul stage lightning tribulation. After that come the Unity stage, Great Perfection stage, Tribulation Transcendence stage..."
"Even for cultivators at the same level undergoing lightning tribulation, due to differences in innate talent, the strength of the lightning tribulation varies," she continued. "The stronger the talent of the cultivator, the stronger the lightning tribulation will be."
"I forget which old fellow from which sect said it, but they said that cultivators with stronger talent, because they cultivate faster than other cultivators and are too blessed by heaven, are more likely to have unstable realms and foundations. Therefore, the lightning tribulation sent down to them is stronger... This is also Heaven's Way of tempering them."
Chu Sang couldn't help but recall her own Golden Core stage lightning tribulation.
To be honest, she felt that her Golden Core lightning tribulation was not much different from Fifth Senior Brother's Nascent Soul lightning tribulation, and might even have been more intense.
She didn't think this was Heaven's Way of tempering her; she felt that Heaven truly wanted to strike her dead.
Chu Sang looked up at the vast, rumbling lightning tribulation and felt a chill in her heart.
After late Golden Core stage comes the Nascent Soul stage.
If she's lucky, she might be able to form her Nascent Soul within a few years.
No joke, she really felt that the Nascent Soul lightning tribulation could strike her dead.
"By the way, Master, what realm are you at now?" She looked up at Immortal Chanyu, her eyes shining. "Divine Transformation stage? Unity stage... or Great Perfection stage??"
Maybe even more powerful??!
Facing her little disciple's admiring and worshipful gaze, Immortal Chanyu coughed lightly behind her hand. She put her hands behind her back, looked up into the distance, and pretended to be profound, "Your Master... your Master is of course very powerful. Even if you brought all those old fellows from the Eight Great Immortal Sects here, they might not be my match!"
"Alright, stop looking at your Master. The lightning tribulation is about to end," Immortal Chanyu said, turning her head back.
After three days and three nights, the lightning tribulation finally came to an end.
Despite how fiercely the lightning tribulation had struck, Su Chen'an looked quite presentable when he emerged from seclusion, maintaining his usual dashing and romantic appearance. Only a few traces of the lightning tribulation remained on his body, forming a stark contrast with the miserable state of other cultivators after their tribulations.
It's just that over a hundred of his lightning-resistant magical tools were destroyed, which was quite heartbreaking.
"I have to thank that life-bound spirit sword of yours for helping me break through the bottleneck in one go. Otherwise, it might have taken another year or more for me to emerge from seclusion," Su Chen'an said, taking out a silver-white long sword and handing it to her with a smile. "See if it feels good to use? I did my best to forge it according to the diagram you drew."
Chu Sang took the long sword, and her first impression was that it was very light, as light as a cicada's wing, almost the opposite extreme of the heavy dark iron swords that Tantai Ming often used.
This spirit sword was more agile and wind-like than ordinary long swords, almost weightless in the hand, but the sword wind it produced was incredibly sharp, able to cut through iron like mud, without any reduction in power!
The silver-white sword body was also engraved with some crimson-gold patterns. These were all tool patterns that Chu Sang had asked Su Chen'an to add during the forging process to maximize the weapon's power.
"It looks good, I like it, I love using it," Chu Sang said, finding it more and more suitable the more she used it.
It was truly a weapon tailor-made for her!
Seeing her like this, Su Chen'an felt relieved.
He had produced quite a few spiritual tools, if not a thousand, at least several hundred.
But this spiritual tool was definitely the one he had crafted with the most care and that had consumed the most mental energy.
Not to mention how precious the materials for this spiritual tool were, basically after forging this one, whether successful or not, there would be no second chance to forge it again.
The sword body was only this long, and Little Junior Sister was extremely demanding, drawing many tool patterns on the blueprint, all of which had to be engraved one by one.
Other spiritual tools usually have one or two tool patterns engraved, and more than three tool patterns are considered a lot, with the difficulty of forging increasing dramatically.
She, on the other hand, drew more than a dozen tool patterns at once, all of which were high-level tool patterns with extreme difficulty.
If it were any other tool refiner, with one unsteady hand, this spirit sword would have been completely ruined.
Of course, the advantage of high forging difficulty was that it directly sent Su Chen'an to an early breakthrough.
"Fifth Senior Brother, what attribute is this spiritual tool?" Chu Sang asked.
Weapons, like human cultivators, also have attributes.
Generally speaking, cultivators and weapons of the same attribute are more compatible, but this doesn't mean that cultivators can only use weapons of the same attribute. Weapons of different attributes focus on different aspects; some excel in attack, some in defense, some in speed... Many cultivators also use weapons with attributes different from their own but more complementary, supplementing each other's strengths and weaknesses, which can actually be more handy and powerful.
"Light attribute."
"A light attribute spirit sword?" This was indeed a rare attribute.
Light is born from fire.
The two attributes are actually quite related.
No wonder she could sense that this sword didn't seem like a fire attribute spirit sword, but was very compatible with her spirit root.
"Didn't you want a multi-form weapon? And light, no one can define its shape."
"How many forms does this sword have?"
Su Chen'an deliberately didn't tell her, keeping it a secret. "You'll know when you try it."
Chu Sang played with her newly acquired beloved sword for a while.
This sword could freely contract and expand in size.
With a thought, the three-foot long sword became only the size of an ordinary silver hairpin.
She untied the band at the back of her head, her five fingers deftly flipping as she easily pinned up her ink-like long hair with the sword hairpin. She walked to the riverside to look at her reflection and was very satisfied.
This was exactly the kind of sword that an old schemer like her had always dreamed of!!
If ordinary people didn't look carefully, they would really think this was just an ordinary hairpin, not realizing that it was actually a lethal weapon for a surprise attack!
She took out the sword hairpin again, restored it to its original state, and wanted to try to see if it could transform into other forms.
At this moment, a fiery red phantom slowly floated out, arms crossed, glancing indifferently at the long sword in her hand. "Is this the sword you plan to form a life-bound contract with?"
"It's just an ordinary spirit sword, nothing compared to me."
The spirit sword that had been lying quietly in Chu Sang's hand suddenly sprang up like a carp jumping over the dragon gate and thrust towards Karma Burns the Three Realms.
A flash of fire rose from her hand, blocking the spirit sword's attack. "Tsk, it even has a spirit? Too bad it's too weak, can't even condense a sword spirit. Still no match for me."
"It has a spirit?"
Chu Sang suddenly remembered that when she first picked up this sword, she seemed to have vaguely seen a phantom.
So it wasn't her imagination; this sword indeed had a spirit, but it was too weak to condense into a physical form.
Although the spirit sword couldn't speak for the moment, Chu Sang strangely felt its sad and dejected emotions. It had been agreed that it would be the master's life-bound spiritual tool, like an arranged marriage, with a prior agreement. Who would have thought that a little hussy would cut in halfway?
The spirit sword was unhappy.
Karma Burns the Three Realms was also unhappy. She, a heaven-born divine artifact, had actually been provoked by a small man-made spiritual tool.
Seeing the increasingly tense atmosphere between the two weapons, with signs of a big fight brewing, Chu Sang stepped forward to balance things out, smiling, "Don't hurt the harmony between family members. I can use both of you."
"You are both my life-bound weapons, both my favorite weapons. Get along and don't fight!"
She was all about equal treatment.
"...Greed knows no bounds," Karma Burns the Three Realms sneered. "Even if I've been asleep for ten thousand years, I know that a cultivator can only contract with one spiritual tool. You want to contract with two? You're too full of yourself."