Junior sister, I really need to control you

Li Yinsheng was full of questions.

He believed that something in this world that could deceive the divine sense of a true person must exist.

But how could such a thing appear in the head of a demon with such shallow cultivation?

This isn't cultivating immortality!

Chapter 46 Ancient Cultivator's Sacrifice to the Spirit, Ancient Techniques Inherited

Standing in front of the mountain wall, Mu Xiaoyu examined the strange black stone in her hand.

A silk handkerchief lay beneath the black stone, separating it from her palm, yet she could still feel a cool sensation.

Holding this trophy she had risked her life for, Mu Xiaoyu looked at it with some disdain.

Although the black stone was not stained with a trace of snake blood, nor even with any dust, it was, after all, taken from the body of a large python.

If her Xuan Sha Xiong Xiang Sword attack hadn't completely exhausted her magic power, she would definitely have used her object manipulation technique instead of picking it up herself.

"How strange," Mu Xiaoyu stared at the black stone, her disdain mixed with doubt. "I can clearly see it, and it has weight in my hand, but why can't I sense it with my divine sense?"

"This shows that this item is extraordinary, junior sister. It seems you are really lucky." A familiar voice rang out from not far away.

Mu Xiaoyu turned her head with a look of surprise and looked at the figure wearing a black robe with silver threads.

"Senior brother!"

She was about to run towards Li Yinsheng when she suddenly stopped and rubbed her chest.

Although she had been using her armor-riding technique to dodge the giant black-scaled python's attacks throughout the battle, the final gust of demonic wind still struck her squarely.

Then she was propelled by the evil wind and crashed into the mountain wall behind her.

The combined effect caused some shock to her internal organs. Although the injury was not serious, her qi and blood circulation were inevitably somewhat disordered.

Li Yinsheng stepped forward, placed his palm on her back, and slowly channeled his magic power into her to regulate her qi.

"call……"

A warm, comforting feeling spread through her body, and Mu Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, looking completely relaxed.

After a moment, she finally spoke: "Senior brother, you're back from gathering herbs? I was waiting for you obediently, but suddenly a really big..."

Li Yinsheng smiled and ruffled her hair.

"I saw it, and it was a good performance. Not only did you handle the first battle calmly, but you also comprehended your own Xuan Sha Ferocious Sword."

"Although my junior sister's talent for cultivation is average, she is quite gifted in combat."

Mu Xiaoyu chuckled after being praised.

But I immediately realized something was wrong.

"Senior brother!" Her eyes widened. "You've been watching the whole time?"

Li Yinsheng continued to channel his magic into her, nodding with a smile.

"Senior brother, when did you start watching?" Mu Xiaoyu squinted, looking at Li Yinsheng suspiciously. "Wait, senior brother... are you really here to gather herbs?"

"Huh?" Li Yinsheng was somewhat surprised. "When did Junior Sister become so smart?"

"Senior Brother!"

Mu Xiaoyu's shouts echoed through the mountains and forests.

……

In the end, Li Yinsheng put the matter behind him by giving up the rest of the day and the entire next day.

Mu Xiaoyu was overjoyed, and even the corpse of the giant python on the ground seemed much more pleasing to the eye.

However, Li Yinsheng did not tell her that he had originally planned to give her a day off.

After all, she had been cultivating continuously for a month and a half, and she really deserved a day of rest.

“Senior brother,” Mu Xiaoyu handed the black stone to Li Yinsheng, “do you know the origin of this stone? It’s so strange.”

Li Yinsheng took the black stone and shook his head: "This black stone is very strange. It doesn't seem to have been naturally formed inside this giant python."

How could a demon of this caliber possibly generate a rare treasure that could even deceive his divine sense?

However, even after repeatedly checking it with his magic power and throwing it into the fire ignited by the Burning Wind spell, he still couldn't find anything unusual about it.

He couldn't think of any use for it for the time being.

If we're talking about its ability to be undetectable by divine sense, it could be crafted into a magical artifact for sneak attacks...

However, magical artifacts are controlled by divine sense. This thing cannot be detected by divine sense, nor does it react to divine sense in the slightest. Its main feature is that it cannot be interacted with.

If you add other controllable materials to it and then refine the magical artifact... but those other materials will be detected by divine sense.

Are we supposed to control the attack using object manipulation techniques? How much power would that have?

This thing may be wondrous, but it's somewhat of a useless commodity.

Li Yinsheng returned the black stone to Mu Xiaoyu, racking his brains to come up with some uses or angles to praise it, so that his junior sister wouldn't be too disappointed with this first trophy of her life.

Mu Xiaoyu held the black stone and suddenly frowned.

"Senior brother," Mu Xiaoyu said, "I think I can smell something on it."

"The taste?" Li Yinsheng was taken aback.

Another unusual thing about this black stone is that it is unstained by blood, as clean as if it had been washed with water, and it does not carry a trace of blood or snake odor.

A true human's five senses far surpass those of ordinary people; he couldn't smell anything, but his junior sister could.

Is it a psychological effect caused by disliking its dirtiness?

"If it smells, go back and wash it thoroughly," Li Yinsheng said.

"It's not an unpleasant smell, it's a very faint smell," Mu Xiaoyu shook her head, looking equally puzzled. "I actually find it somewhat pleasant, like..."

"It smells like peach blossoms!" she said.

"The scent of peach blossoms?" Li Yinsheng was taken aback.

If you're worried about it being dirty, can you still smell the fragrance of peach blossoms?

After a moment of hesitation, Mu Xiaoyu suppressed her nausea, brought the black stone to her nose, sniffed it twice, and then looked up at Li Yinsheng.

“That’s right, senior brother, it’s the fragrance of peach blossoms!” Mu Xiaoyu said with certainty.

Li Yinsheng followed Mu Xiaoyu's example and brought the black stone to his nose, but he couldn't smell anything. The stone smelled just like a bowl of water.

"That's strange..."

He suddenly remembered that more than a month ago, when he was cooking the crane egg given to him by Huanghe Temple in his meditation room, his junior sister also said that she smelled the aroma of the egg.

However, because the shell of the spirit beast egg blocked the inside and outside, Li Yinsheng could not smell anything.

The same thing would happen if other real people were in that situation.

Therefore, he naturally assumed that it was just his junior sister's craving that caused her to have a misconception.

But now it seems...

He looked at Mu Xiaoyu suspiciously: "Junior sister, are you sure there really is a peach blossom scent? Or is it just your imagination?"

“Yes! It really is, it’s not an illusion,” Mu Xiaoyu nodded seriously. “From a distance, it’s a little uncertain, but up close, the peach blossom scent is very strong.”

After a moment's thought, Li Yinsheng said, "Then, junior sister, come with me to a place."

……

A moment later, Li Yinsheng descended from the sky with Mu Xiaoyu above a dense forest.

The vegetation here is much more lush than where he took Mu Xiaoyu before; the wild grass is already as tall as Mu Xiaoyu's waist.

This is where the giant python first slept; it was here that Li Yinsheng lured it there using his junior sister's popularity.

As soon as she landed, Mu Xiaoyu twitched her nose.

"Senior brother, there's also the scent of peach blossoms here, the same scent as on the rocks," Mu Xiaoyu said.

"Can you smell where it's coming from?" Li Yinsheng asked.

Mu Xiaoyu turned around a few times and nodded: "The fragrance is very faint, but it should be coming from that direction."

She pointed in a direction deep into the forest.

“You lead the way, and I’ll follow you and clear the path for you,” Li Yinsheng said.

He summoned a brass incense burner, from which a plume of yellow smoke emerged, transforming into swirling blades that circled around Mu Xiaoyu.

She walked in the direction where she smelled the peach blossoms, and the yellow smoke that turned into blades cleared away the weeds and trees in front of and around her.

After a cup of tea, Mu Xiaoyu led Li Yinsheng to a stream.

A thick white mist floated behind the stream, and within a dozen steps beyond the mist, there was only barren land and scattered rocks, devoid of vegetation.

Li Yinsheng probed with his divine sense and then used his magic to summon a wisp of white mist to observe it closely.

"It's poisonous miasma, and a very strong kind of poisonous miasma." He frowned slightly.

The poisonous miasma was not very large, and it even had a slight effect of isolating divine sense, similar to the black stone. Therefore, he had not noticed this place when he searched the mountain with his divine sense.

Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the poisonous miasma was quite potent. Although it couldn't harm a True Immortal, he estimated that without sixty or seventy years of cultivation, it would be difficult to resist its corrosive effects for an extended period.

However, these poisonous miasmas are extremely dense and do not disperse outwards. As long as one does not enter them or get too close, ordinary people will not be in danger.

"The fragrance of peach blossoms is coming from inside, and it's getting stronger and stronger, it smells so good..."

Mu Xiaoyu took two steps forward, already within a zhang of the thick white fog.

Li Yinsheng was about to warn her not to go any further, but he was surprised to find that as she got closer, some of the poisonous miasma in front of her spontaneously separated.

Mu Xiaoyu also noticed this change.

She had originally planned to take two steps closer and then stop, as the area around the white mist was barren and looked very dangerous.

But at this moment, he was also taken aback.

Li Yinsheng's gaze fell on the black stone that Mu Xiaoyu had been holding in her hand.

"Junior sister, try lifting that black stone forward a little," he said.