Chapter 15: The Reason, Broken Sword, Departure
“Do you want to know the real reason Su Family Village was destroyed?”
After Su Yao recovered, you spoke.
“The real reason? Wasn’t it just that the Prince of Qin was arrogant and tyrannical, treating human lives like grass?”
You shook your head and told her what you had seen in the Prince of Qin’s memories.
“Ten years ago, the Prince of Qin received word that an immortal had once died in your Su Family Village, and that a portion of the immortal’s inheritance remained there. The Prince of Qin brought men and searched the entire village, but found nothing.”
“Unwilling to give up, the Prince of Qin turned his eyes to your Su Family Village’s ancestral graves!”
“The meaning of ancestral graves is of the utmost importance in any dynasty. The people of Su Family Village naturally would not agree. In the end, the entire village was slaughtered, and the ancestral graves were dug up.”
At this, you suddenly felt that killing the Prince of Qin just like that seemed a bit too easy on him.
“Heh, heh heh.” Su Yao laughed mockingly at herself. “Just for that illusory immortal inheritance, over a hundred lives in my Su Family Village were lost. What a despairing world!”
“The weak are prey to the strong. That is the only rule of the cultivation world.” In this moment, you felt it deeply.
“Oh right!” Something had occurred to Su Yao. She removed the jade pendant from her chest and handed it to you. “More than ten years ago, my parents once saved a person. This jade pendant was left behind by him before he departed. That person was very likely the immortal the Prince of Qin spoke of.”
“Oh?” You were somewhat surprised. “If this really is something left by that immortal, there may be something extraordinary inside. Aren’t you afraid I’ll take it?”
“Young Master helped me take revenge. Even if this mere immortal inheritance were gifted to you, what would it matter?” As she spoke, Su Yao actually placed the jade pendant directly into your hand.
You said nothing more. You were also somewhat curious about this immortal inheritance. Immediately, you divided off a strand of divine sense, preparing to investigate.
Who would have thought that the moment your strand of divine sense touched the jade pendant, it was immediately repelled!
“The jade pendant has a seal!” You didn’t understand seals very well, so you could only break it with brute force.
Spiritual power within your body gathered toward your right hand and poured into the jade pendant all at once.
Su Yao stood to the side, quietly watching your performance.
Under the impact of a massive amount of spiritual power, the unbreakable seal within the jade pendant gradually revealed a crack.
Seeing this, you quickly increased your spiritual power output. The seal began to split apart piece by piece.
With a bang, the sound of the seal breaking rang out. Your heart rejoiced. Success!
Inside the jade pendant were over a hundred mid-grade spirit stones, several bottles of pills, one Profound-Rank Mid-Grade Technique, two Profound-Rank Low-Grade Techniques, a token, and a broken, battered sword.
You took out the token and discovered that it was actually an inner sect disciple token of the Spirit Sound Sect, one of the five great sects of the northern Heaven Mystery Continent!
You opened the Profound-Rank Mid-Grade Technique and saw that it was actually a water-attribute cultivation technique, completely incompatible with your wood spiritual root.
As for the other two Profound-Rank Low-Grade Techniques, you glanced at them and were not interested.
Within the jade pendant, the only things that interested you were the over hundred mid-grade spirit stones and this broken, battered sword.
You took out the broken sword and also summoned the Profound-Rank Low-Grade artifact, the Azure Luan Sword.
Dong! With a sound, the two swords collided. The broken, battered sword was completely undamaged, while the Azure Luan Sword was instead chipped.
“This sword doesn’t look like much, but I never imagined it was this powerful!” Su Yao said from the side, her face filled with surprise.
You were also greatly surprised by this. You turned to Su Yao and said, “I want this broken sword. As for the other things in the jade pendant, they’re all yours.”
“No no no, I can’t take them.” Su Yao hurriedly refused. “Consider all of these as repayment for Young Master’s help.”
You shook your head with a smile and directly returned the jade pendant to Su Yao. An inner sect disciple of the Spirit Sound Sect was nothing more than a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
With your cultivation at the eighth layer of Foundation Establishment, how could you possibly care about the relics of a Foundation Establishment cultivator?
Only a somewhat special broken sword could attract you.
Walking out of the Entertainment Bureau, you looked at the emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty kneeling on the ground outside the door, and said nothing.
Li Goudan, seeing you come out, hurried forward and asked, “Senior Brother, how should these people be handled?”
“Please forgive us, Immortal Master!” the Great Yan Dynasty emperor shouted loudly, then raised both hands high. A storage bag appeared before you.
You extended your divine sense and saw that inside there were actually a full hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones!
Not a lot, but for a mortal dynasty, it was enough to cause serious damage.
Without changing your expression, you accepted the storage bag, glanced at Li Goudan, and then left with Su Yao on your sword.
“Don’t let it happen again!”
“Farewell, Senior Brother!”
You arrived at an inn and settled down. After these days of trials, the bottleneck of the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment was already as good as nonexistent before you.
You took out low-grade spirit stones, swallowed pills, and began cultivating.
The hundred thousand low-grade spirit stones you had just obtained were instantly absorbed by a tenth. Your dantian began to continuously expand.
As the spiritual power within the last low-grade spirit stone was fully absorbed, your dantian expanded to its limit, finally reaching the dantian standard of the ninth layer of Foundation Establishment.
You broke through.
You became stronger.
Your mood was excellent. It happened to be dawn, and you planned to set out for the Trial Battlefield.
Outside the door, Su Yao, who had risen early, had been waiting for you for a long time. Seeing you come out, she hurriedly tried to persuade you. “Young Master, although that old man isn’t much of a person, his divinations have never been wrong!”
“Certain death! Why not just not go?”
You smiled and shook your head. To go was to die; not to go was also to die!
In that case, why not gamble?
Declining Su Yao’s kindness, you left on your sword, heading straight for the Trial Battlefield.
Su Yao watched your departing figure and for a long time refused to leave.
Seven days later, you arrived at the place where the Trial Battlefield would open. The five great sects had not yet arrived, so you could only stay at a nearby inn, waiting for the Trial Battlefield to open.
Inside the inn, cultivators were everywhere, but most were rogue cultivators.
You did not look down on these rogue cultivators, because among rogue cultivators, powerful experts were more likely to appear!
Every time the Trial Battlefield opened, the five great sects would release ten tokens. Rogue cultivators who obtained these tokens could follow the five great sects and enter together.
Rogue cultivators who ultimately walked out alive could choose one of the great sects to join.
The moment you stepped into the inn, you sensed quite a few gazes sizing you up.
But after seeing the Body-Refining Sect inner sect disciple token hanging at your waist, all the gazes instantly withdrew, not daring to look again.