The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

Chapter 305 : Sacred Void Body

"Anyway, you'll be following me from now on. With me protecting you, you can walk tall in this sect."

The child blinked blankly, feeling that this newly acknowledged master seemed a bit... unreliable?

To uncover the secret the child carried, Chu Sang actively kept her by her side. Of course, she diligently taught what a master should teach. Although she had no experience in educating, she strived to fulfill her duties. A disciple's growth requires not only theoretical cultivation within the sect but also practical experience outside.

The child was now only a little over ten years old. Usually, at this age, disciples are in their period of low-key development. Large sects typically don't send disciples out for tempering. However, this child's situation was somewhat special. After all this time, her cultivation level showed no increase, but she definitely had the aura of a spirit root.

After much consideration, Chu Sang decided to personally take her out for tempering.

At the border between the cultivation world and the beast realm, there was a vast Devouring Forest. This place gathered a large number of beast demons from the beast realm, with levels ranging from Golden Core to Divine Transformation. The outermost areas had some low-level beast demons at Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment stages, but she didn't plan to take the child to those low-level areas. Instead, she directly brought her to the depths of the forest.

"Do you see that nest of Dazzling Fire Poison Bees? Inside that hive is an extremely precious spirit liquid, royal jelly. Get it."

The child looked in the direction she indicated. An ancient tree dozens of meters high was gnarled and intertwined, with various vines as thick as giant snakes coiling upwards. Hanging from the vines was a huge beehive, almost as tall as a person. In the center of the hive was an area of obviously different color, which contained the so-called royal jelly.

Chu Sang gave her a spatial jade bottle for collection. Just by approaching the hive and reciting a spell, the royal jelly could be collected inside. However, many poison bees gathered near the hive. The poison bees' strength was around the Golden Core stage. Thousands of Golden Core stage poison bees gathered together had destructive power no less than a late Nascent Soul stage. Even with concealment talismans and some protective spiritual tools for disguise, once discovered by the swarm, the intruder would either lose half their life or their whole life.

"Will... will I die?"

The little girl shrank back in fear, but Chu Sang held her shoulder and pushed her forward two steps.

"Don't be afraid. I'm your master. How could your master harm you?" Chu Sang patted her shoulder, looking benevolent.

"......"

The little girl believed her words. She swallowed and gripped her sword tightly, gathering her courage to go forward.

"Ah!"

Not long after, as expected, a scream of pain. The child lacked experience and didn't hide well enough. Soon after entering the depths of the bee swarm, she was discovered and chased.

Chu Sang, behind a tree, quickly stepped forward. Her fingertips hanging before her body moved slightly, but she didn't act, quietly observing the situation.

The child's current strength couldn't match this group of murderous poison bees, but she knew how to use her wits. "Splash!" She jumped headlong into the river and didn't come out. After the poison bees gradually dispersed, she crawled out of the river, lay on the bank, and spat out several mouthfuls of water.

Chu Sang walked over. The child took out the jade bottle from her bosom and looked at her pitifully.

Chu Sang didn't soften her heart at all. She took her to snatch herbs from wild boar groups, to steal eggs from evil birds' nests, to pick flowers on cliff edges, basically doing everything that could lead to death. Over a month, the child's cultivation level showed no progress.

She could escape from a Golden Core stage bee swarm, which shouldn't be just the level of an ordinary early Qi Condensation stage...

But the aura on her body had indeed been staying at the early Qi Condensation stage, just after introducing qi into the body.

Chu Sang couldn't help but fall into deep doubt. Logically, with the Spirit Abyss Continent's abundant spiritual energy ten thousand years ago, even someone with the worst Five Element Spirit Root shouldn't progress this slowly.

"Master, what are we going to do next?"

The child, having been trained like this for a month, had become somewhat accustomed to it. Her little face no longer showed the panic and helplessness of the first time, but instead had a hint of unexpected excitement.

Chu Sang's mouth twitched slightly. She hadn't raised this child to be a masochist, had she? She cleared her throat lightly and was about to speak when she suddenly sensed something. Her expression changed slightly, and she lowered her head to say,

"I need to leave for a while. Wait for me here."

She left after saying this.

The spiritual energy fluctuations nearby were unusual. After searching around, she found that the terrain here was good, nurturing an extremely rare spirit jade mine. No wonder so many beast demons had gathered in this deep forest.

She entered the spirit jade mine entrance and found a piece of high-quality spirit jade. This piece of jade would be excellent for making a jade pendant or bracelet. It could nourish a cultivator's physical body and divine sense, and also help accelerators accelerate the absorption and refinement of spiritual energy.

It would be perfect as a gift for the child.

Suddenly, the ground trembled. She hurriedly came out to see a large number of birds and beasts flying out of the forest, heading in the direction she had just left—which was also where the child was staying!

She hadn't expected another beast tide to erupt at this time. She thought to herself, "This is bad." She had just taken the child to pick some rare herb called the Sun and Moon Flower at the foot of a cliff. That child was always obedient and was probably still waiting for her to return near the cliff!

She had no time to think further and quickly rushed back.

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The beast tide pressed towards the cliff. In a short while, the child was surrounded by a group of great beasts. She retreated step by step in fear, slowly moving to the edge of the cliff, just one step away from falling.

"Roar!"

A beast demon let out a low roar and pounced. She stumbled backward in fright, the gravel collapsing. "Ah!" Her whole body fell out of control. Chu Sang, who had rushed back, once again caught that fleeting energy, familiar yet strange.

At the last moment before the person fell, she arrived in time to embrace her back to the top of the cliff. The beast demons, sensing the suddenly surging cold intent, all retreated in fear and trembling.

The sword left its sheath, the wind left its mark. The child's eyes were covered by one of her hands. The scent of blood at the tip of her nose dispersed with the wind.

When the child opened her eyes again, they were back at the sect.

She looked up, intuitively feeling that this mysterious master seemed to have something to say. However, Chu Sang didn't speak, but instead took her to her residence.

Chu Sang had always liked quietness. Usually, there were almost no disciples moving around near her cave dwelling. After making sure there was no one around, she set up a Heaven-grade barrier formation around them. Then, she reached out and touched the child's chest.

A light emerged from her body.

The light gradually transformed into a bead. It seemed that this was the secret hidden in the child.

"What is this?"

She asked.

The child shook her head, "I don't know. This is the treasured heirloom guarded by our family. Before my parents passed away, they only instructed me to keep this object safe and never let others know about it. As for what specific use this object has, I'm not clear either......"

"Is this the reason those people were chasing and trying to kill you back then?"

"...Yes." The child lowered her head, her voice also becoming much lower. "My parents told me from a young age that my constitution was special, that I was the only person in the family in a hundred years who could resonate with this bead. But it was also because of this heirloom that our family incurred a deadly disaster. In the end, my parents exhausted all their efforts and only managed to let me escape alone......"

Chu Sang's heart sank further. "You can tell this to me alone. In the future, don't tell anyone else, understand?"

"Mm, I only trust Master alone." The child smiled at her.

Chu Sang felt a palpitation in her heart. Being looked at with such eyes by a child, her protective instinct simply exploded. After thinking for a moment, she said, "This bead... may I examine it?"

The child had no wariness towards her and directly gave it to her.

Chu Sang raised her hand and took the bead of unknown origin into her palm. After observing it for a moment, she suddenly thought of something and took out another bead.

The two beads intertwined like a yin-yang bagua formation, actually forming a complete whole.

The little girl looked at her with surprise and joy. Chu Sang knew what she wanted to ask and said unhurriedly, "I roughly know the background of your family's heirloom. This bead is called [Past], and the bead in my hand is called [Future]. This is a pair of Tracing Pearls, which can be seen as a kind of innate divine artifact nurtured by heaven and earth, a special divine artifact that can reverse time and space."

It seems it was the power of this Past Pearl that caused time to reverse several times.

Chu Sang returned the bead to the little girl. Compared to the bead in her own hand, the luster of the Past Pearl was clearly very dim. This also indicated that the power in the Past Pearl was almost exhausted. In the previous few reversals, each time could only trace back to an hour ago at most, which also showed that the power left in this bead was very little. Even if it could reverse time and space for a short time, it couldn't change much.

But, if more powerful energy were injected into the bead, could it change the entire world?

Just as her master had said when sending her here, could it be that the key to the crisis of the Spirit Abyss Continent ten thousand years ago was here?

In just a few breaths, thousands of guesses flashed through Chu Sang's mind. She became increasingly certain that this key might be this pair of beads. However, the principle of energy conservation applies in any world. No matter how miraculous the Past Pearl is, it is essentially just an energy converter. To initiate a power that can reverse the fate of the entire time and space, an enormous power comparable to a world must be injected into it.

But now, the power left in the Past Pearl was already very little. Even if the theory could work, where could she find such powerful energy to inject into it?

It was a difficult problem, and Chu Sang had no clue for the moment.

"Master?"

Seeing that she hadn't spoken for a long time, the child blinked and called out softly. Chu Sang came back to her senses and held one of her hands. "You just said your constitution is special. Is there anything unusual compared to others?"

"I only know that since I can remember, this bead has always been nourishing me from within my body. Also... my spirit root is very poor, and my cultivation speed is very slow. I haven't made much progress over the years. Other than that, there's nothing different from others."

Chu Sang gave a faint "mm" and silently entered the other's sea of consciousness with her divine sense to explore her sea of consciousness.

The size of the sea of consciousness is generally proportional to the cultivator's cultivation level. The little girl before her was only at the Qi Condensation stage, but her sea of consciousness was much vaster than she had imagined.

However, unlike others, her sea of consciousness was a chaos of emptiness, completely different from the clearly defined seas of consciousness of other cultivators. She couldn't even find the location of the spirit root.

Even Chu Sang, who prided herself on her extensive knowledge, had never encountered such a situation before. She searched her memory carefully and thought, scraping out a term—Sacred Void Body.

The Sacred Void Body is an extremely rare and special constitution, about the same level as Seventh Senior Brother's Innate Spirit Body. However, while the Innate Spirit Body has a very high upper limit and almost no lower limit—as long as someone has an Innate Spirit Body, their path of cultivation in this life will generally not be too bad—the Sacred Void Body has a high upper limit but also a very low lower limit. If the host doesn't make good use of this special constitution, this special constitution might even bring negative effects, making them worse off than ordinary cultivators. But if used well, the cultivation speed can be comparable to top-tier Heavenly Spirit Roots, and they will also possess some other miraculous abilities.

This explained things. No wonder this child could connect with the space-time bead.

Chu Sang felt some surprise in her heart. She hadn't expected this child to be hiding so much. But similarly, with a high upper limit and low lower limit, the cultivation method of the Sacred Void Body is very special and can't be compared with other spirit roots. There have been too few examples throughout history. Even though she had occasionally come across some records about this in history books before, the records only mentioned it briefly in passing. She wasn't very clear about the specifics and wasn't confident in her ability to guide a disciple with a Sacred Void Body well.

However, from what she could see now, the child's growth was actually quite good. At least her body seemed to have no problems, with no signs of backlash from the Sacred Void Body.

Outwardly only at the Qi Condensation stage, but able to escape from a group of Golden Core stage beast demons. Chu Sang had also seen her spar with Foundation Establishment stage disciples in the sect without falling behind at all. Could it be... that this was the special training method of the Chaos Spirit Root?

It's best not to jump to conclusions about unfamiliar fields. Chu Sang decided to adopt a flexible approach for now. She took out a bottle of pills and handed it over,

"These are gifts for you. Take them and cultivate well."

"These... are all high-grade pills?"

Seeing the child somewhat flattered and surprised, she shook her head and smiled, "I said they're gifts, but they're actually what you deserve. Have you forgotten all the good things you've fought for at the risk of your life during this time? I just refined them into pills that are easier to refine."

Chu Sang's repeated sending of her into dangerous situations to collect medicinal herbs and royal jelly during this period wasn't for nothing. With her current cultivation level, these things weren't of much use to her. Refining these spirit materials into pills could help this child consolidate her divine essence and focus on cultivation.

The child looked moved, realizing that Master had prepared these specially for her.

"By the way, we've known each other for quite some time now. From when I saved you years ago to now when you became my disciple, it's been six or seven years, right? I've always forgotten to ask, what's your name?"

She pulled up a chair and sat down.

When she first came to this world, she had no feelings for it, always observing the world's development as an outsider. Everyone was like an NPC in a game to her, passing travelers coming and going. She wouldn't invest time and emotions in them, naturally not caring about these trivial matters.

But this little girl was special. Perhaps by coincidence, perhaps by fate... she could no longer see her as just an NPC.

The child blinked, smiled with curved eyebrows, and said obediently,

"You can call me Xiao Chun."