novelraw Chapter 206 : Arrogance Is Useless, Begging for a Contract
Chapter 206 : Arrogance Is Useless, Begging for a Contract
Spirit tools are naturally drawn to strength, especially those that have developed sentience and can even materialize spirit forms. These divine artifacts are extremely proud and only recognize strong individuals as their masters.
The low-level figures present were far from meeting its standards. Before it could even sneer coldly, the next moment, the red-robed girl pulled out a fiery red divine bow. It immediately lost its smile, recognizing this bow as the legendary Karma Burns the Three Realms. This was a fellow divine artifact on the ranking of divine tools, extremely proud and aloof. In terms of pure offensive power, it far surpassed the Cold Moon Immortal Zither.
Such a top-tier divine artifact, ranked in the top three, was actually in the hands of a mere Nascent Soul stage youngster? This was far beyond the Cold Moon Immortal Zither's expectations.
"As a top-tier divine artifact, how dare you be so mediocre as to be held by a human child? Don't you feel ashamed?" It looked at the aggressive crowd, retreating slightly while retorting.
If it were just these cultivators, it wouldn't have been concerned. But it hadn't expected them to have a divine artifact assisting them. The Cold Moon Immortal Zither suddenly felt less confident than before and attempted to turn Karma Burns the Three Realms against its wielder.
"Weak human cultivators are not worthy of being our masters. These despicable humans must have used other methods to force you into submission, right? Just like now, ganging up to attack me... If you break your contract with her, we two divine artifacts can join forces and repel these human cultivators!"
"Tch, why so many useless words?" Karma Burns the Three Realms tilted its head impatiently, picking its ear with an arrogant and cold expression. Its personality had become sharp after spending time with Chu Sang. "One sentence: submit or not? If not, I'll beat you until you do!"
Ridiculous, she was Sang Sang's primary consort. How dare this broken zither try to turn her against her master?
Did it know how difficult it was for her to find a once-in-a-millennium prodigy with a Heavenly Fire Spirit Root that was 100% compatible with her? If she left, those two little spirit brats would be overjoyed!
"You—"
The Cold Moon Immortal Zither was stunned, seemingly never imagining that she was willing.
This was an absolute disgrace to the world of divine artifacts! And it wasn't just one disgrace.
Next, Chu Sang pulled out the Primordial Soul-Chaser, the notorious leader of evil weapons... The Cold Moon Immortal Zither's mouth twitched, and it fell silent. It suddenly felt that it had been too hasty earlier. This girl... seemed to have some real ability, having even contracted the leader of evil weapons. What kind of terrifying person was she?
She curved her lips into a smile, "Choose one to fight you. I'm a fair and kind person, I won't bully you with numbers."
When everyone heard Chu Sang describe herself as kind, they all fell silent. How could she say that with a straight face?
"Hmph, if you want to fight, then fight. Don't insult me!" It gritted its teeth. "Even if you have two killing weapons, so what? Their power will be limited by your cultivation level. They can't even exert one-tenth of their original strength. If you want to subdue me, let's see if you have what it takes!"
This was precisely why proud divine artifacts were unwilling to contract with low-level cultivators.
If the cultivator's talent didn't meet their approval, they would be restrained for decades or even centuries, which was an immense insult to them!
The flickering white figure let out a cold laugh, then waved its slender hand. Water flows reversed, covering the sky.
Everyone was immediately surrounded by a passionate and dynamic zither melody, reminiscent of the legendary lost tune "Guang Ling San". The soul-stirring notes involuntarily drilled into their ears and minds, attacking their divine sense.
Cultivators with strong cultivation and divine sense could barely resist for a short while, but those at the Golden Core stage basically all fell, writhing and moaning on the ground.
Chu Sang's divine sense had already reached a level higher than ordinary Divine Transformation stage, possibly even... Unity stage? The zither music couldn't cause her much harm in the short term. She gripped the Primordial Soul-Chaser, gathering spiritual energy in her palm, and slashed at the ethereal figure.
At the same time, Karma Burns the Three Realms floated into the air. The red sword spirit drew the bow, and a fiery light shot out like a falling meteor.
Unfortunately, in the water, fire power was greatly reduced.
Water-attribute weapons naturally countered fire-attribute weapons.
The zither spirit quickly launched an attack to block it. On the left, Chu Sang seized the opportunity to close in. It hastily conjured a water shield for itself, not expecting the girl's attack to be a feint, with the real attack coming from behind. Gu Chang'an's attack was even stronger and fiercer, with lightning sword intent wrapped around the sharp sword qi. The power of lightning was amplified several times in water, and cracks appeared in the sturdy water shield!
The Cold Moon Immortal Zither suddenly panicked. In the next second after the water shield cracked, it hurriedly conjured a stronger attack, forcing them back.
The Big Senior Sister and Shang Ziling followed up.
The four surrounded it from all sides. Two fists were no match for four hands, and attacks came from all directions.
It switched from offense to defense, looking for an opportunity to attack the barrier above.
Strands of zither music materialized into a tangible form, a kind of misty white energy that shot out in all directions. The seemingly gentle music exploded with terrifyingly powerful attacks, repelling their assaults and even causing the barrier Chu Sang had set up earlier to shake and show signs of breaking!
"It's the Heaven-Breaking Melody!" said Karma Burns the Three Realms.
As fellow divine artifacts, they had some understanding of each other. This Heaven-Breaking Melody was the zither's specialty. Even though these divine artifacts had all suffered some loss to their peak strength after thousands of years of dormancy, when the Heaven-Breaking Melody was played, cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage... and even those at the Divine Transformation stage would find it hard to resist.
"I told you, you're too weak. You're no match for me!" it said.
It was right. The power of divine artifacts was limited by their master's cultivation level. Even Karma Burns the Three Realms, which had the highest compatibility with Chu Sang, could only exert at most 30% of its full power. Compared to the uncontracted Cold Moon Immortal Zither, even though her attack power was stronger, it was difficult to win in a one-on-one fight. So Chu Sang's trash talk earlier was good—she never intended to fight alone, and went straight for group combat.
If they couldn't win with group attacks, at least they could hold out for a while.
"Ah, Sang Sang..." Before Karma Burns the Three Realms could stop her, it saw the girl fearlessly charge forward again, and followed suit.
Her fellow disciples also fearlessly followed closely behind.
Seeing the Lingqing Sect disciples being so fierce, disciples from other sects also felt they couldn't sit idle. They forcibly endured the pressure from the divine artifact and went to help.
The Cold Moon Immortal Zither cursed silently that these human cultivators were indeed shameless, and had to divide more of its attention to deal with them.
After several hundred rounds of fighting, to be honest, neither side was in good shape. The sect disciples couldn't gain any advantage against the powerful divine artifact. The Cold Moon Immortal Zither, having lived a carefree life for tens of thousands of years, hadn't fought like this for a long time. If this continued, it would also have trouble holding on. It immediately targeted a few disciples with lower strength, planning to break through unexpectedly.
"Heaven-Breaking Melody, Third Movement!"
"Heaven-Breaking Melody, Fourth Movement!"
"Heaven-Breaking Melody... Fifth Movement!"
By the time the fifth movement came out, everyone really couldn't hold on anymore. Even Chu Sang couldn't withstand it.
At this moment, the zither spirit's power had almost reached the Unity stage, not something small fries at her level could resist.
However.
The time was enough.
She immediately gave everyone a look, wisely retreating just before the zither spirit launched its big move. She turned her head and called out,
"Second Senior Sister, it's your turn!"
...What?
The battle had been too intense earlier, and Chu Sang's group had almost completely drawn its attention. The Cold Moon Immortal Zither only now realized that there was another figure in the back that had been overlooked.
Tang Yanling said, "I've fully analyzed the score. Leave the rest to me, you all step back!"
It finally realized that it had been tricked by these cunning human cultivators?!
Their goal from the beginning was never to defeat it, but to lure it into revealing its trump card, the Heaven-Breaking Melody!
Its zither body had been damaged in an ancient battle, and currently, its power could only reach the fifth movement. The art of zither playing emphasizes both creation and destruction. For any score, there is always a counter-score to break it... But to be able to focus entirely and calmly deduce the breaking array from the score in such a short time, in such an intense battlefield, required an extremely high level of talent and attainment in the art of formations! An ordinary person couldn't do it!
However, the Lingqing Sect was full of extraordinary people, and Tang Yanling had done it!
She quickly broke the musical array, and the Cold Moon Immortal Zither belatedly realized that this person was actually a hidden Water Spirit Root?!!!
It admitted that it had a moment of wavering and regret.
But remembering the humiliation it had suffered at the hands of these despicable human cultivators, it snorted coldly again. So what if she had a Water Spirit Root? If she didn't have enough strength to conquer it, no matter how strong her talent was, it wouldn't be impressed!
A stream of water suddenly rushed towards Tang Yanling. "Second Senior Sister!" Chu Sang's expression tightened, and she was about to step forward to help, but she was a step too late. The water flow enveloped Tang Yanling completely, and her figure disappeared along with the Cold Moon Immortal Zither.
Chu Sang clenched her fists, about to ask where this rebellious broken zither had taken her Second Senior Sister.
Karma Burns the Three Realms held her back, shaking its head, "Don't worry, Sang Sang. They haven't gone far, they're still here." It smiled and explained, "The Cold Moon Immortal Zither has pulled Second Senior Sister into its space. Right now, it's probably... begging to form a contract while strumming its strings."
It said firmly.
"Huh?"
Divine artifacts could hardly hide their thoughts from each other. "It says it's unwilling, but it was actually moved when it saw Tang Yanling's talent."
No water-attribute weapon could resist the charm of a Water Spirit Root.
This was a chance that, if missed, might never come again in a lifetime. And she was the first person able to break its Heaven-Breaking Melody, indicating that she wasn't just a high-talent figurehead, but her talent and attainment in music were also far beyond ordinary music cultivators!
However, the Cold Moon Immortal Zither was too proud and cared too much about its face. It couldn't possibly let these human cultivators who had just fought with it see its pitiful appearance of begging someone to take it in. So it took the person away, under the pretext of testing if she had the ability to contract with it. In reality... well, it had probably already sold itself at a loss.
Sure enough, after a while, that stream of water appeared again, and Tang Yanling reappeared with it. In her palm was an elegant and transparent celestial zither—wasn't it the Cold Moon Immortal Zither that had been yelling and fighting them just now?
Well, well, who was this? What was it saying earlier?
Chu Sang's lips curled into a smirk, quite tempted to trash talk a bit, but her reason quickly pulled her back to avoid getting beaten up.
Tang Yanling lowered her eyes with a smile, stroking the ancient zither. She really liked this water-attribute divine artifact that was so compatible with her, almost unable to let it go. She had collected nearly a hundred spirit zithers, but all of them combined weren't as handy as this divine artifact.
The Cold Moon Immortal Zither was also very satisfied with its new master, a Water Spirit Root and a promising music cultivator!
It had questioned Karma Burns the Three Realms, understood Karma Burns the Three Realms, and now it had become Karma Burns the Three Realms!
Both parties were very happy. Now that they had obtained the item, it was time to hurry to the next location.
As Chu Sang was about to leave, Little White bit her sleeve, pulling her in another direction.
She gave a look to the Big Senior Brother, letting them go ahead, while she retreated to the back of the queue and came to the Beast King's throne.
This throne looked quite ordinary, nothing special.
However, Little White kept anxiously stomping its feet beside it. She suspected there might be something hidden inside.
After sensing with her divine sense for a while, she seemed to detect some mystery. Then Chu Sang searched the throne for a while and finally found an inconspicuous small mechanism.
There were some formations on the mechanism.
But for her, they were as good as non-existent.
She quickly disarmed the mechanism.
If there were important things hidden here, the Beast King would have surely placed his divine sense on the mechanism. Once the mechanism was opened, the Beast King would sense the situation here and rush over immediately.
But no matter how fast he came, it was too late.
Chu Sang had already gotten her hands on the item.
It was a moist, blue pearl that felt like water to the touch... but it was hard and tangible.
Chu Sang sensed the water essence of the entire sea realm in this pearl, the Endless Water. It seemed that the previous dragon beast's rapid cultivation was largely due to this Water Spirit Pearl.
There was no reason not to take such a good thing. After storing it in her storage bag, she also stepped forward to join the team.
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The next location was the Thousand Gold-Devouring Caves. This place was mostly inhabited by metal-attribute beast demons, filled with countless strange rocks and spirit ores, with many precious tool refining materials.
The Metal Refining Sect had their eyes on this treasure land at first sight and volunteered to come.
However, their attack power, while sufficient compared to the Pill Condensation Sect, wasn't much stronger. They were probably being chased and beaten up by those beast demons right now. Chu Sang, being beautiful and kind-hearted, offered to go help, and incidentally extort... er, request some compensation from these wealthy Metal Refining Sect disciples.
"Help!"
A desperate cry came from not far away. A figure ran out from the woods, eyes brightening upon seeing the crowd. "Save me!"
Seeing the enormous beast chasing behind her.
Damn!
Everyone's expressions changed. Don't come over here!