Grandpa, times have changed.

Chapter 676 Please have Senior Huo appear before me

Besides the Annihilation Sword, there's another sword?
Is it possible...

Has it already been mastered into the 'Sword of Severance'?

But that shouldn't be the case; that sword strike couldn't possibly be something a Nascent Soul cultivator could learn.

Thinking of this, a sense of curiosity arose in her heart.

But then Chi Jiuyu twirled his sword and emptied his mind.

With a light tap of his foot, he instantly appeared beside Mengxuan as if he had shifted horizontally.

"Sword of Dao! Slash!"

Buzz~!

It seemed as if the sounds of countless swords clashing converged, forming a long, deep sound.

Like the sword of annihilation, the overwhelming sword light spread out, revealing countless sword cultivators, yet in a fraction of a second they merged into a single, blazing line.

The once bright space became dim as the sword light subsided.

Perhaps the light had been drawn away, or perhaps the sword light was too intense, making the surrounding space appear dim and lifeless.

It was learned from Gu Xingyun's sword avatar's 'sword characteristics' that he glimpsed the sword lineage of all sword cultivators in the Spirit Cloud Realm throughout history, and then integrated his own understanding to create the 'Spirit Cloud Sword Dao'!
'Not the 'Broken Sword'?'

Feeling the approaching sword light, Mengxuan felt both regret and amazement.

Unfortunately, Chi Jiuyu did not create a 'miracle'.

As for the amazing...

Naturally, it is this Spirit Cloud Sword; the potential of this divine power is extraordinary.

Although there are still many 'impurities', the 'Dao Sword' as a whole is not yet fully perfect.

But judging from the talent she has shown so far, Mengxuan believes that Chi Jiuyu will definitely be able to perfect this sword technique in the future.

The younger generation these days is really impressive.

"A very good sword strike," Mengxuan commented.

Then, just like with the 'Sword of Annihilation' before, she raised her hand and made a light slash!
Silently, yet a slender, strange sword light quietly emerged, like billions of tiny hairs neatly arranged together, each tremor causing billions of tiny hairs to resonate.

Ding!
A very faint sound.

As if a silver needle had fallen to the ground, the entire sword light immediately spread out, penetrating the blazing line of the 'Spirit Cloud Dao Sword' like mercury spilling onto the ground.

Every ray of light precisely pierced the weak points, or rather, the shortcomings, of the 'Lingyun Dao Sword'.

It was as if a precise operation was being performed, forcibly 'severing' a single sword strike that was the culmination of countless sword cultivators' sword dao inheritances.

boom!
The line that had been condensed instantly dissipated, and one after another, the shadows of sword cultivators appeared, surging in all directions, and disappearing after drifting a certain distance.

Ok? !

Chi Jiuyu was stunned. She felt the 'Lingyun Dao Sword' she had just unleashed collapsing uncontrollably, severing her connection with the 'Dao Sword', herself, and the world.

In the end, even the perception of time becomes blurred.

The Broken Sword!
Strangely, in this state, she could clearly feel the process of her 'Dao Sword' being 'disassembled'.

A fleeting moment or eternity?

Only after the last sword cultivator's shadow of the Lingyun Dao Sword was completely dismantled did Chi Jiuyu finally recover from that 'isolated' state.

The last glimmer of light transformed into an ordinary wisp of sword energy, which swept across her neck, extinguishing all her life force.

Chi Jiuyu's eyes lost their luster, and he fell backward, his head and body rolling to the side, turning into wisps of gray mist and disappearing.

Half a minute later.

As wisps of gray mist gathered...

"Holy crap! That was an awesome sword strike, senior! What's its name?!"

The person hadn't even fully formed yet, but the voice had already rang out.

"By the way, senior, are you a sword cultivator?"

Chi Jiuyu, now fully recovered, was filled with amazement.

That sword strike was so brilliant, so brilliant that she still couldn't understand it...

"..." Mengxuan was silent for a while, "No."

"Then why do you always use a sword?"

"Because you are a sword cultivator, and you have a great talent for the 'way of the sword'."

“Emm…” Chi Jiuyu scratched her head, “Would this be helpful to you, senior?”

Although I didn't understand the sword strike just now, I still learned a lot from it.

Therefore, she hopes that her seniors can also gain something from it.

She didn't want to be a freeloader!
“Yes,” Mengxuan said with a smile. “Some of your ideas are very helpful for the path I’m taking.”

Retracing her spiritual path and observing practitioners of her time from different perspectives, she increasingly understands the meaning of "new talents emerge in every generation."

Many novel viewpoints were not visible at her previous level.

"That's good!" Chi Jiuyu was relieved. "By the way, senior, you still haven't answered me what that sword strike was."

"That is the Broken Sword."

The Broken Sword?
Is it my martial uncle's sword again?

Chi Jiuyu: "..."

I said, senior, it's really hard for me to believe that you and your uncle are not related.

……

……

Half an hour later, Chi Jiuyu ended his sparring match with Mengxuan at the cost of dying seven times.

He is the one who has died the most times among all the geniuses of the immortal sects.

However, compared to the confusion of others, she remained cheerful and showed no sign of disappointment.

When you're sparring with your seniors, as long as you learn something, it doesn't really matter how many times you die.

When she went to Xuanjian City to pick up her martial aunt from seclusion, she died hundreds of times in one night. What's seven times compared to that?

"Hey senior, let's add each other as friends, you probably use Lingwang too, right?"

Chi Jiuyu held up her phone and leaned closer.

Du Ruoheng, standing to the side, remained expressionless.

He knew that his junior uncle and senior Mengxuan had met back in the Three Heavens Realm.

I just didn't expect that things would be so unpredictable...

emm...

It doesn't seem that bad. Although he's a bit eccentric, Junior Uncle is still quite law-abiding.

He just didn't expect that his junior uncle, who was usually too eccentric, would recognize him as a 'senior' on their first meeting.

Instead of addressing Senior Mengxuan as 'Xiao Meng' as usual, she did not do so.

soon.

With the halo of 'senior's favorability +10', Chi Jiuyu successfully became friends with Mengxuan thanks to her outgoing personality.

Seeing this, Du Ruoheng couldn't help but feel melancholy.

If only Junior Uncle didn't covet the position of sect leader all day long, and didn't claim to be the next sect leader of the Sword Sect.

Unfortunately, this is no ordinary difficulty...

He simply couldn't understand when his junior uncle had become interested in the position of sect leader.

Just as Du Ruoheng was feeling lost and dejected.

Having successfully added Mengxuan as a friend, Chi Jiuyu has moved her to a special group – the Senior No. 1 group.

Mengxuan, who was standing next to her, glanced at the group and saw several names in the group—

Senior Spirit Ancestor, Senior Demon Ancestor, Senior Primordial Sovereign...

Mengxuan: "..."

Putting aside why you added them as friends, it seems you didn't believe my explanation at all?
"I don't think I'm a good fit for this group."

"You've misunderstood." Chi Jiuyu looked innocent. "I only have a few senior friends on my WeChat, and they're all here."

Upon hearing this, Mengxuan glanced at the 'Senior Group 2' located below Group 1.

"Oh! You mean this?"

Chi Jiuyu opened the second group, only to find two names inside.

Senior Min, Senior Huo.

Ok?
“Senior Min is so good to us, he gave me two phoenixes!” she explained. “Senior Huo is also quite interesting, but I still don’t know which character is ‘Huo’ in Senior Huo’s name.”

Fellow Daoist Huo, that's interesting... You're probably the only person in the entire Tai Xuan Realm who thinks that way.

"Alright, this is none of your business," Xu Xing said from the side.

Chi Jiuyu shrank back, recalling the incident where she had 'cricketed' her uncle, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

"Then, Uncle-Master, Senior, I'll be going now!"

Those who can recognize red envelopes are truly outstanding.

She liked the red envelopes given by her uncle, and considered herself a hero.

After saying that, he turned around and took a few steps toward the door, but then seemed to remember something.

"Oh, right! And the sect leader too!"

Du Ruoheng: "..."

Thank you for mentioning me.

His eye twitched, and he forced a smile:

"Take care, Junior Uncle."

"Uh-huh!"

She then ran out quickly and disappeared in a flash.

The room was quiet for a while.

Du Ruoheng bowed and said, "Then, Ancestor, Senior Mengxuan, this disciple will also take his leave."

"Yes." Xu Xing nodded slightly. "I'm grateful for the trouble this time, Sect Master."

"It is my duty as a disciple. Master, you are too kind."

After saying that, he turned and left.

For a moment, only Xu Xing and Meng Xuan remained in the room.

"Sword Venerable's disciple is quite interesting. Although she has a somewhat unconventional personality, her talent and temperament are indeed excellent. No wonder Sword Venerable took her as his first disciple."

emm...

Jiu Yu's talent and temperament are indeed beyond reproach.

Especially after he and his senior sister fell out of the Tai Xuan Realm, and after advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, she was able to see the world in her own way.

but!

Xu Xing remembered his senior sister saying that she took Jiu Yu as her disciple purely on a whim, and it had nothing to do with talent or temperament...

"Jiuyu's cultivation has progressed quite well, if only his temperament were a little more composed..."

He smiled and shook his head as he said this.

"Never mind, then it's not her."

……

……

Two days later.

Yuanjun and Mengxuan left the Sword Sect.

However, the two did not travel together this time. After leaving Jianzhou, Mengxuan returned to the Righteous Path Alliance to prepare for her advancement to the Dao Integration Realm.

Yuanjun, on the other hand, planned to return to the Supreme Dao Sect and find a place to go into seclusion for a short period of time.

The fact that both Meizu and Bie Xuening had made progress in their cultivation eventually made her feel some pressure.

On the other hand, Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu, who had rested in the Tai Xuan Realm for a period of time, set off again to continue the work of building the 'Immortal Network Connection Node' in the unknown realm between the [Xun Yuan Realm] and the [Tai Yi Realm].

The main reason is that the Tai Xuan Realm is too powerful.

The light of the world shines over the chaotic sea, encompassing everything and isolating everything.

Even with weaknesses like the 'Qingxu', beings below the True Immortal level still find it difficult to influence extremely distant parts of the Chaos Sea through their own power.

While remaining in the Tai Xuan Realm, their 'Incarnations of Doubt' can only operate within the Tai Xuan Realm with minimal mobility.

As for the fact that Huo is also a true immortal...

Didn't I promise before that I would only help them form 'incarnations of doubt' and not do anything else unnecessary?

If they can still perfectly control the 'Doubt Avatar' after returning to the Tai Xuan Realm, wouldn't that expose their fact that they have a backup plan?

That would really damage my image.

……

……

The realm of Taiyi.

The Taiyi Realm is surrounded by countless worlds and enveloped by a radiant layer constructed from the brightest rays of light from many worlds.

Within this realm lies the 'Taiyi Continent,' situated atop the 108th Heaven.

The 'Void Sacred Domain' is hidden outside the mortal world and is difficult to detect by ordinary means.

The sacred and majestic Sky City stands amidst the raging wind and snow, with a solemn black tower rising at its very center.

The interior of the tower at this moment.

Inside two crystals, each the size of an ordinary person and pale gold in color, two figures sitting quietly are slowly opening their eyes.

There are many more crystals like this, densely packed, stretching as far as the eye can see.

In the very center of the countless crystals, near a jade disc, a tall and stunningly beautiful figure seemed to sense something and turned to look back.

Her crystal-clear eyes contained pure white prisms, a white vertical mark was between her brows, the ends of her hair shone with pure white light, and an eight-fold divine halo rotated behind her head.

It was none other than the Holy Lord of Emptiness.

Her gaze easily pierced through the dense crystals and landed on Ning Wanzhu and Ming Yu, who were waking up.

Soon, as the two moved their bodies, the pale golden crystals that enveloped them turned into tiny pale golden specks of light and gradually dissipated.

A hint of a smile appeared in the eyes of the Void Saint Lord.

"Welcome back, fellow Daoists."

Ever since she learned about the term 'fellow Daoist', she has grown to like it more and more.

For her, it would be wonderful if everyone in the world were a "friend who walks the same path".

"It's been a long time, Holy Lord," Ning Wanzhu said softly.

Mingyu didn't speak, but nodded slightly.

Since returning to the Tai Xuan Realm, the 'Incarnation of Doubt' can only operate at a minimal level...

At least that's what they thought at the time.

So they thought that instead of engaging in activities at the bare minimum, it would be better to have the Holy Lord of Emptiness preserve their 'Incarnation of Doubt'.

An extremely virtuous person...

This is quite credible.

The facts have proven that the Holy Lord of Emptiness did not betray their trust.

"Have the hidden dangers on you two been resolved?" the Holy Lord of the Void asked.

The reason the two gave her before was—

Because of the special methods they used to cross over into this world, their activities in this world are restricted when they make certain choices.

In a sense, this is not a lie.

"No, but we've already found a solution," Ning Wanzhu said.

"Can you tell me? You don't have to if it's inconvenient," the Holy Lord of the Void asked curiously.

This was the first time she had encountered individuals with such mature 'cross-disciplinary' abilities as them.

“There’s nothing I can’t say.” Ning Wanzhu thought about her words. “The reason we were able to come into this world is entirely because of the help of a senior.”

"Dongzhen?"

During this time together, she has come to understand the realm divisions of the 'cultivation' system.

They also learned that the so-called 'Dongzhen' was the limit that ordinary living beings could reach.

Mingyu shook her head slightly: "No, it needs to be one level higher."

A higher level?
"So, as long as we get his permission, the 'hidden danger' on us will disappear."

After saying this, Mingyu and Ning Wanzhu exchanged a glance and bowed in unison in one direction:
"Junior Ning Wanzhu/Mingyu humbly request Senior Huo to appear before me!"

At the highest point in the world, someone paused.

　Finally finished.

　　I'll add two more chapters tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)