Borrowing a sword

Chapter 50 alarmed the higher-ups
Inside the secluded room, Chu Huaixu's thoughts were racing.

He first made a bold guess, and then tried to verify it carefully later.

At that moment, he had no idea how much of a commotion he had caused.

The number of cultivators gathering outside the cold pool began to increase.

A large number of sword cultivators gathered here, and of the nine deacons of the outer sect, all but the two who had come down the mountain were present.

Female steward Mo Qingmei stood with another outer sect female steward, Tang Qiuyue.

Mo Qingmei still retains her charm, while Tang Qiuyue is rather plump, but still looks quite kind and approachable.

"I don't know what's going on, but I feel like the sword spirit is very excited," Mo Qingmei said to Tang Qiuyue.

"Excited?" Tang Qiuyue found it strange. She wasn't a sword cultivator, so she looked at the other person's sword.

I couldn't see anything.

A large number of sword cultivators gathered by the cold pool.

Like them, everyone was holding their own natal swords and discussing them amongst themselves.

This makes the noise level here just as high as the outer market.

Logically speaking, with such an unusual phenomenon occurring in the outer sect and so many disciples gathered here, the deacons should be in charge of the overall situation.

However, the deacons were also completely baffled and had no idea what it was.

Faced with his colleagues' questions, Liu Tianfeng didn't know how to explain.

"There's no reason for such a grand spectacle to be set up in a secret realm of this level, is there?" said a steward surnamed Wang.

"Brother Liu, are you saying your son Chengqi is still in the secret realm? Could it be that he has obtained some great opportunity?" A steward surnamed Chen said with a smile.

Niu Yuanshan listened from the side, glanced at the cold pool, but did not express his opinion.

He didn't think that all of this was caused by that kid Liu Chengqi.

"A guy who started to give up on himself after his spiritual embryo was damaged, whose mind has been ruined, does he even deserve to be called a hero?" Old Niu scoffed in his heart.

Listening to everyone's words, Liu Tianfeng smiled wryly and said, "This strange phenomenon only affected the spirit sword and did not involve anything else."

"My son has achieved great things, but he's not a sword cultivator!"

Standing on the other side, Mo Qingmei immediately asked, "Of the three people at the bottom of that cold pool, who is a sword cultivator?"

“Junior Sister Mo, you don’t know this, only those without spiritual power can enter this secret realm, so everyone here is a disciple in the Qi Refining stage, there are no sword cultivators here.” Niu Yuanshan, who had been silent, finally spoke up to explain.

He had been pretending to be dead on the side, but he would occasionally glance at Mo Qingmei out of the corner of his eye.

When Mo Qingmei heard him speak to her, she replied in a nonchalant tone, "Oh, I know."

Hearing her tone, Tang Qiuyue, who was standing next to her, couldn't help but nudge her lightly with her elbow.

"It's just that I confessed my feelings and got rejected. It's been so many years, and he still doesn't give Senior Brother Niu a kind look." Tang Qiuyue muttered to herself.

After a few more words of discussion among the deacons, Liu Tianfeng, the eldest and most closely involved in the matter, made the first decision:

"This matter needs to be reported to the inner sect elders. Such an astonishing phenomenon is beyond our ability to handle."

He still had some worries about his son, feeling that if an elder was there to protect him, nothing would go wrong.

No sooner had the words been spoken than a tender female voice echoed from the heavens above.

"No need to announce it, I've already come."

The Tenth Elder, Chu Yinyin, descended from the sky, stood with her hands behind her back, and landed on an ancient tree beside the cold pool.

She had delayed physical development, resulting in her being short. However, her strength and status were above most people, so she disliked looking up at others and often chose to speak from a high position.

"Tenth Elder!" Everyone gathered here bowed respectfully.

As everyone knows, the Tenth Elder has the least power within the inner sect.

But the tenth elder had the worst temper.

Although she never admits it, due to the influence of her cultivation technique, her temperament is sometimes like that of a rebellious little girl.

Chu Yinyin is like a cat that gets easily agitated.

"Tell me, who is inside the secret realm?" She frowned, staring intently at the icy pool.

"Reporting to the elder, there are three other disciples in the secret realm, named Chu Huaixu, Han Shuangjiang, and my son Liu Chengqi," Liu Tianfeng replied immediately.

"A disciple in name only? Doesn't that mean he's in the Qi Refining stage?" Chu Yinyin was taken aback. "Did Shen Man make a mistake?"

When the others heard her mention the Seventh Elder, they couldn't help but exchange bewildered glances.

Since receiving the Dao Ancestor's inheritance, hasn't the Seventh Elder been confined to the Purple Bamboo Forest for a year now?

This extraordinary phenomenon has even alarmed the area around the Purple Bamboo Forest.
Liu Tianfeng and Niu Yuanshan exchanged a quick glance, their hearts pounding with anxiety.

How could such a commotion have occurred in this secret place?

The Seventh Elder has been detached from worldly affairs for a year, yet even she, one of the Four Divine Swords, cares so much?
Most importantly, nobody knows what actually happened inside.

"Is it really my son's destiny that has brought him success? I hope he doesn't encounter any danger." Liu Tianfeng felt like he was going crazy; this sense of uncertainty was too unbearable.

Niu Yuanshan was also a little worried about Chu Huaixu's safety.

Finally, Liu Tianfeng mustered his courage and asked, "Tenth Elder, my son Chengqi is still inside. I dare to ask, what exactly was the strange phenomenon that just happened? Please enlighten me, Elder."

In fact, if Shen Man hadn't explained, Chu Yinyin wouldn't have known that this was caused by the "Sword Heart Clarity".

But now isn't this a chance to show off?

She stood atop the ancient tree, her expression deliberately profound. Her hands remained behind her back, her posture serene, and she didn't look at the others, her gaze fixed intently on the icy pool.
"It's normal for cultivators at your level not to know."

"That mysterious ripple just now was..." Everyone present looked up at Chu Yinyin and noticed that although her mouth was moving the whole time, no one could hear the last few words she said!

Chu Yinyin suddenly looked up, pointed at the sky, and shouted, "Xiang Yan, you actually used a sound-blocking array on me!"

"You won't let me say it, but I'll say it anyway!"

"This ripple is..."

The first few words were audible, but the last few were censored.

"Xiang Yan! You die, you bastard!!" Chu Yinyin grabbed her spirit sword, [Xiang Jian Huan], and soared into the sky.

The remaining members of the outer sect stood by the icy pool, their hearts pounding with fear, and then began to discuss amongst themselves.

"Even the Sect Master has been alerted?"

"This matter seems to be confidential!"

"What on earth happened? Even the sect leader has come in person. Could it be the Dao Ancestor's inheritance down there?"

"Be careful what you say! It could also be the legacy of a powerful sword cultivator!"

A jumble of incoherent noises arose, and Liu Tianfeng's expression shifted between anger and uncertainty.

He suddenly regretted it, feeling that he shouldn't have given the fragments of the Pill King Token to Chu Huaixu and Han Shuangjiang.

"It's alright, it's alright. Until now, no one knows what's inside. My son, there's still a chance, there's still a chance!" he comforted himself.

As for the others standing around, most of them had heard of Liu Chengqi, the son of Steward Liu.

But the names Chu Huaixu and Han Shuangjiang were completely unfamiliar to them.

Everyone silently remembered these two names.

Who was fortunate enough to trigger such a strange phenomenon at the bottom of this cold pool?

High above the nine heavens, Xiang Yan, the leader of the Daoist sect, stood with his hands behind his back, floating among the clouds.

Li Chunsong and several other elders stood beside him, keeping a safe distance.

Chu Yinyin quickly charged forward.

Xiang Yan, at the eighth realm, remained motionless, his aura flowing around him, allowing Chu Yinyin to wield her sword, but the sword could not even get within an inch of him.

Everyone knows that Junior Sister's temper is short-lived.

After venting her emotions, Chu Yinyin sheathed her sword. Since she couldn't hit him anyway, she could only snort coldly, "Hmph! I can't be bothered with you!"

Xiang Yan's bald head was so ugly, it was like drawing an extremely ugly face on a dark, hard-boiled egg.

He smiled ingratiatingly at Chu Yinyin, saying, "Junior Sister, please don't be offended, please don't be offended."

"But this is a very important matter, so please don't let it get out," he said.

The eldest brother, who was also an elder in charge of law enforcement, immediately chimed in, saying, "Junior sister, don't break the rules!"

"I know, I know!" Chu Yinyin waved her hand impatiently.

She secretly pricked up her ears, wanting to hear what her senior brothers and sisters had to say.

“Shen Man said this was a strange phenomenon caused by the clarity of the sword heart, but there are no sword cultivators at the bottom of the cold pool.” She began to have doubts: “Maybe he went crazy from being in seclusion. Anyway, Shen Man was pretty silly to begin with.”

Then, another scene unfolded that infuriated her.

Just like last time in the main hall of Wendao Peak, they actually set up a magic array again, preventing her from hearing what they were saying!
Furious, she could only watch helplessly as the dignified cultivator at the peak of the sixth realm, the tenth elder of the Daoist sect, began to painstakingly read lips.

"Wait a minute? Wasn't that bald guy just saying 'Sword Heart Clarity'? What were the last two words?!"

"Nangong Yue, you shameless woman! What did that gambler say to make you so happy? Your chest is shaking with laughter! I'm getting dizzy from laughing so much!"

"Aaaaaah! Why won't you let me hear it?!"

"Aren't people below the seventh realm human?"

"If you continue to treat me like this, believe me, I'll break through my cultivation level right now and show you!" She was getting anxious.

Soon, Xiang Yan and the others finished their discussion, and with a wave of his hand, he dispelled the formation.

"We should ask Seventh Junior Sister about this. Let's go to the Purple Bamboo Forest together," said Sect Master Xiang Yan.

"I'm not going. You can go if you want. Anyway, you won't let me listen!" Chu Yinyin started to throw a tantrum.

Elder Lu Pan glanced at her and nodded: "It's fine if you don't go, but the rules can't be broken."

After saying that, he waved his hand and cast another sound-silencing spell on Chu Yinyin, silencing her so that she wouldn't fly back and cause trouble, stirring up a storm all over the mountain.

After doing all this, everyone laughed and flew towards the direction of the Purple Bamboo Forest.

Chu Yinyin was left alone in the air, frantic, her voice unable to carry: "No! You really aren't taking me with you?"

"Aaaaah! Undo the sound-blocking spell!" She felt like she was going crazy, looking just like a cat with its fur standing on end.

Elder Lu Pan, the enforcer, is most skilled in the art of formations and is a rare master of formations in this era. His formations are far more powerful than Xiang Yan's.

In the end, Chu Yinyin could only grit her teeth in resentment and chase after the direction of the purple bamboo forest.

By the time she landed, everyone had already arrived and were already chatting.

Xiang Yan seemed to ask something, and everyone looked at Shen Man, waiting for her reply.

The aloof and thin Taoist nun remained seated high on the boulder, facing the stone wall, confined to her own space.

She remained silent for a long time, only a helpless expression appeared on her face, and her eyes were quite gentle, with a hint of doting.

With a flick of her finger, the sound-blocking array that Chu Yinyin had been unable to break shattered instantly.

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