Chapter 148 : Is There a Possibility That She's My Junior Sister
Chapter 148 : Is There a Possibility That She's My Junior Sister
Under the eager and curious gaze of the large group of sect members.
The Tai'e sword transformed into a sword spirit.
Like Big Senior Brother, it appeared to be a very aloof young man, with black hair tied high, wearing a silver-gray robe with intricate golden patterns etched along the edges of the sleeves and collar, matching the patterns on the sword's blade.
As soon as the Tai'e sword spirit opened its eyes, it met the blazing gazes of several people. The handsome face of the sword spirit youth instantly turned bright red, and with a "pop!", it frightfully shrank back.
Retreating into the sword.
Its figure disappeared.
Chu Sang clicked her tongue. So it was socially anxious.
It looked quite aloof, but who would have thought it was so shy?
Big Senior Brother took the sword back in his hand and turned to address his Junior Brothers and Sisters, "There are less than six days left before the secret realm closes. We should go down to gain some experience."
He wanted to quickly test the power of his "new sword".
The group had rested for two or three days and was well-rested. Their bones and fists were itching for action, eager to go out and have a good fight with a group of spirit beasts. Chu Sang also clapped her hands and said cheerfully, "Then let's set out!"
Big Senior Brother's realm was different from theirs, so he obviously couldn't go to the same place to train. The two groups decided to split up first and then regroup to leave when the secret realm ended.
Gu Chang'an decided to move towards the inner areas of the secret realm to find some stronger spirit beasts for training.
Chu Sang sat cross-legged on the ground, opened a scroll map and looked at it, planning to go to the southwestern part of the middle region of the secret realm. There was a Clear Moon Lake there, rich in spiritual plants and herbs resources. There must be many good things!
The second small team flew on their swords towards Clear Moon Lake. Before they reached the lake shore, another team came running back the way they came,
Shouting at them as they ran, "Don't go there, absolutely don't go there, it's too terrifying, you'll definitely regret it if you go!!!"
Weren't these the disciples of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect? To be able to scare these usually fearless sword cultivators out of their wits, Chu Sang became even more curious. What terrifying beast was hidden in that lake?
Logically, large numbers of Nascent Soul stage or even Divine Transformation stage spirit beasts would only appear in the inner regions of the secret realm. Clear Moon Lake was only in the middle region, so there shouldn't be particularly powerful spirit beasts. The most powerful beasts in this area should only be at the early Nascent Soul stage at most, not enough to cause such terror, right?
She casually grabbed an old acquaintance, "What happened at Clear Moon Lake? Is there a powerful spirit beast that has appeared?"
Lin Qi was still in shock, his usually smiling face had turned pale with fear. "Terrible, it's too terrible, even more terrible than terrible spirit beasts! In that lake there are... there are merpeople!"
"You absolutely must not go there, or you'll definitely regret it!!!"
"..." If he hadn't said this, Chu Sang might have still considered it carefully. But these two sentences directly provoked the 99 catties of rebelliousness in the young girl.
She let go of the person and turned to look at her Senior Brothers and Sisters, eager to try. "Let's go take a look!"
"Didn't the Ten Thousand Swords Sect disciples say it's dangerous there? There might be powerful spirit beasts guarding it. Big Senior Brother isn't here, can we few handle it?" Mu Chihuai said cautiously.
Chu Sang said, "As the saying goes, the greater the danger, the greater the opportunity. A place that can attract powerful spirit beasts means that the spiritual energy at Clear Moon Lake is very rich and abundant. If we go there to meditate and cultivate for four or five days, it would be equivalent to cultivating outside for four or five months... Not to mention, didn't you hear what they just said? There are merpeople there!"
Those were merpeople! Who would have thought there were mermaids in the cultivation world? They had to go see this!
"I want to see merpeople too, they must be beautiful!"
Tantai Ming agreed with both hands and feet. The others only hesitated for a moment before being successfully persuaded by their Junior Sister's silver tongue, also agreeing to go take a look.
The group immediately set off for Clear Moon Lake. They had expected to encounter fairy tale-like little mermaids, but when they arrived and saw, Chu Sang almost regretted poking out her own eyes.
How could those be merpeople?
They were clearly fish people!
And ugly fish people at that!
Fish heads with human bodies, holding tridents, the most eye-catching feature being their pairs of thighs covered in lush, curly leg hair, absolutely sexy to death, in the literal sense of being able to kill.
Bao Juan, my eyes, my eyes!
The most damned thing was, it wasn't just one.
But a whole group!
When this large group of fish people emerged densely from the water surface, they formed a world-famous dish—Starry Sky.
No wonder the Ten Thousand Swords Sect disciples ran so fast. Chu Sang's hair stood on end. It was too terrifying, absolutely too terrifying.
How could such an ugly species be born in the cultivation world?
This thing seriously violated Chu Sang's eyes. She took a deep breath, "Seventh Senior Brother, go!"
"Huh?"
Tantai Ming vomited once every time he looked over there. He covered his mouth, his sword-holding hand trembling.
This thing was ugly to the extreme, so ugly that he wanted to flee immediately.
Chu Sang firmly held his hand, preventing him from accidentally running away. She earnestly advised, "Seventh Senior Brother, the path of cultivation is long and arduous. We absolutely cannot give up because of this small setback!"
"Appearances are all superficial. Although they look ugly, if you look carefully, they all have Golden Core stage cultivation, and the fish head leading them is even at early Nascent Soul stage, most suitable for your current training... Come on, listen to me, close your eyes and take a deep breath. One slash, one spicy fish head. Eliminate these ugly things from the world and restore a beautiful world for everyone. Seventh Senior Brother, I believe you can take on this important task, right!"
"Junior Sister, you're right!" Tantai Ming was fired up by her words. He took a deep breath, opened his eyes, and was about to charge forward with his sword.
Realizing something was wrong, he looked back and found that everyone else had already run far away, except for him.
Damn it!
Taking advantage of an honest person again!!
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Five days later.
Gu Chang'an had made his way to the innermost region of the secret realm in one go. The renewed Tai'e sword in his hand was like a fish in water. Along the way, he had slain hundreds or even thousands of spirit beasts, including two Divine Transformation stage beast kings, obtaining quite a few spirit beast cores.
He put all these spirit beast cores into his storage bag, planning to give them to his Junior Sister and Third Senior Sister when he returned. They both raised spirit beasts and should be able to use these.
It must be said that Gu Chang'an had also been successfully influenced by Lingqing Sect's current frugal spirit. In the past, after dealing with these spirit beasts, he would simply leave, not even bothering to look back. The spirit beast materials were basically all picked up by cultivators from other nearby sects.
Now he not only dug out the cores, but also kept the beast skins and horns, which were good materials for tool refining. He could give them to Fifth Junior Brother for refining, and any excess could be directly sold at the Treasure Pavilion.
His Junior Sister had even taught him how to identify which spirit beast meats were more tender and delicious. He put all the spirit beasts he saw into his storage bag, not giving any chance for others to pick up leftovers.
If Chu Sang were here, she would certainly feel very gratified.
Just as Gu Chang'an was considering going to the nearby Black Wind Cliff for a look, he suddenly raised his head and caught sight of colorful fireworks exploding in the distant sky.
"Have my Junior Brothers and Sisters encountered trouble?"
This distinctive firework was a kind of signal tool specially refined by Su Chen'an. He had given several to each person in the sect. In times of crisis, they could directly activate the signal flare to help others quickly locate their position and rush over in the shortest time.
The young sword spirit immediately popped out, pushing his arm and urging Gu Chang'an, "Hurry and go, hurry and go! Junior Sister is in danger!!"
This panicked tone was more anxious than if Gu Chang'an himself had died.
Gu Chang'an couldn't help but fall silent for a moment. Was he the master of the Tai'e sword, or was it his Junior Sister?
The Tai'e sword gave him a definitive answer.
"I like Junior Sister~"
As it said this, several pink little flowers seemed to appear around the young sword spirit's body, swaying~
Gu Chang'an: ......
Let's just say, is there a possibility that she was his Junior Sister?
Not the Junior Sister of a sword spirit.
By the time Gu Chang'an rushed over, the spirit beasts had already been mostly eliminated.
He saw the pool of fish heads and was stunned for a moment, thinking he was having a hallucination.
The surrounding spiritual energy seemed to become heavy and oppressive. Dense black clouds gathered in the sky above. Gu Chang'an, who had recently experienced the Divine Transformation lightning tribulation, knew this all too well. He turned to look at Tantai Ming. The young man was struggling to suppress the spiritual energy within his body, and the lingering dark clouds above his head quickly dispersed again, but there was still a tendency to gather once more.
Chu Sang said solemnly, "Seventh Senior Brother is about to break through. Let's leave the secret realm early and return to the sect first!"
That signal flare was actually to call Big Senior Brother over to gather.
They were preparing to leave the secret realm early.
Tantai Ming was already at the peak of late Golden Core stage, just one step away from breaking through to Nascent Soul. After training in the secret realm for over ten days, especially these five days of bloody battle by the spirit lake, fighting without sleep or rest for five days and five nights, single-handedly slaying this large group of Golden Core stage fish people, the spiritual energy within his body was about to break through that paper-thin bottleneck. He could barely suppress it anymore!
Although Big Senior Brother's Divine Transformation stage lightning tribulation seemed simple and effortless, giving people a sense of ease, he was actually a one-in-a-million exception. He was naturally gifted and had an exceptional heavenly thunder spirit root, so the lightning tribulation was less harmful to him.
In fact, any lightning tribulation, whether Divine Transformation stage or Nascent Soul stage, was hundreds or thousands of times more dangerous than the Golden Core stage lightning tribulation. Countless genius cultivators have died under the lightning tribulation.
Tantai Ming had almost lost half his life during his last Golden Core lightning tribulation. This Nascent Soul lightning tribulation would be even more unimaginable.
They couldn't casually undergo the tribulation in the secret realm. The chances of failure were too high. They had to return to the sect and ask the master to provide protection.
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After returning to the sect.
Tantai Ming could no longer suppress it and immediately went into seclusion to undergo the tribulation.
Upon hearing the news, Immortal Chanyu personally came to provide protection.
The lightning tribulation caused quite a commotion, stronger than the Nascent Soul tribulation of ordinary cultivators. It continued for several days without ending. Su Chen'an had specially stuffed quite a few lightning-resistant magical tools to Tantai Ming beforehand, fearing that this junior brother might accidentally perish.
After a full five days.
The lightning clouds dispersed, and golden light broke through the dawn.
The person finally came out.
Tantai Ming's tribulation this time was even more miserable than the last.
Chu Sang almost didn't recognize her Seventh Senior Brother, thinking that the little black person from Detective Conan had come out.
Tantai Ming hurriedly swallowed a bottle of spirit-replenishing pills, quickly cast a cleaning spell and a restoration spell on himself, before finally returning to human form.
Clenching his fist, feeling the spiritual power within his body that had increased nearly tenfold, the young man's face was filled with obvious excitement.
Reaching Nascent Soul at nineteen, this extraordinary talent was rare even in the cultivation world. As far as Chu Sang knew, Seventh Senior Brother's age at forming his Nascent Soul was only second to Big Senior Brother and Mo Qingchen. If he hadn't slept and slacked off in his first few years in the sect, and had cultivated diligently, he might have achieved it even earlier.
"Within three years, successfully forming the Nascent Soul, I did it!" Tantai Ming immediately went to find his Junior Sister.
He hadn't forgotten the goal his Junior Sister had set for him back then—form the Nascent Soul in three years!
What seemed like an impossible joke at the time had actually been achieved by him. He couldn't help but be excited.
Chu Sang smiled sincerely, "Congratulations, Seventh Senior Brother!"
"Junior Sister, I've reached Nascent Soul, why are you still at Golden Core?" This simpleton really knew how to bring up the wrong topic.
The smile on Chu Sang's face instantly cracked. "If you don't want to see me jumping into the river in the middle of the night, don't say such hurtful things."
There's no need for that, really no need.
Tantai Ming gave a dry laugh.
Immortal Chanyu came over and patted both of their heads. "You little ones are quite capable. Tomorrow is the day the Wasteland Relic City opens. It's best if you don't sleep tonight, pack up your things. Tomorrow, there will be a flying ship from the immortal sects coming to pick you up."
"So soon?"
Tantai Ming had just finished his lightning tribulation, and tomorrow they would be setting out again. He felt sorry for himself.
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The next day, early in the morning before dawn, the flying ships from the eight major sects arrived. They were somewhat different in shape from ordinary cloud ships, probably specially designed to suit the journey there.
Several wilted cabbages who had just crawled out of bed boarded the flying ship yawning, wanting to lie down on the deck and take a nap right then and there.
Staying up all night recklessly is one thing, but staying up all night and then getting up early is truly the most deadly.
"Alright, alright, don't be drowsy anymore. Wake up quickly, let's analyze this journey to the Wasteland Immortal Mansion."
Su Chen'an, who refined tools overtime every day, had long since developed the skill of staying up all night. He was the most energetic of them all. He took out a scroll map and showed it to his Junior Brothers and Sisters who were crawling over gloomily.
"The Wasteland Relic City, also known as the Barbarian Relic City, nominally belongs to the cultivation world, but in reality, most cultivators don't even know this place exists. There are no cultivators or humans living there. It's an abandoned ruined city..."
"On our way from the sect to this place, we'll pass through Storm Gorge, Death Desert... especially the Death Desert. There will be sand spirits attacking travelers in this area. If we're unlucky, we might even encounter desert whirlpools..."
"Why does it sound so dangerous?"
Chu Sang lazily yawned, crossing her arms and resting her chin on them, mumbling, "Didn't we win the team competition? Shouldn't this trip be a reward? Why does it sound even more dangerous than the secret realm?"
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