Chapter 241: Chapter 240 Midway Assassination (Fourth Update, Please Subscribe)
Seated on the bench, Jin Xi spoke, discussing the Heavenly Demon Dao Body, the Two Rites of Annihilation, the Celestial Demoness, and the Green Lotus Avatar.
Upon hearing this, Lu Xuanji fell silent, and began to delve into the memories of the Pure Yang Sword’s artifact spirit.
This artifact spirit seemed like a living fossil, containing complex memories.
He indeed found some memories of the Celestial Demon.
The Celestial Demon is formed from the aggregation of all beings’ negative emotions, coagulated at will, representing bloodshed, cruelty, malice, treachery, etc., almost embodying the evil of humanity.
The Heavenly Demon Dao Body can perceive various negative emotions like hostility, murderous intent, greed, fear, nervousness, resentment, etc.; it can discern the wickedness in human hearts, unable to sense love, only able to perceive evil, easily falling into distrust, and ultimately becoming obsessed.
"I do know some secrets of the Heavenly Demon Dao Body!"
Lu Xuanji spoke out, revealing some flaws and deficiencies of the Heavenly Demon Dao Body.
"I see, feeling the emotions of evil but not the emotions of good; perceiving the world’s darkness but not its light! Such a world is too dark." Jin Xi expressed relief, "Fortunately, I did not awaken the Heavenly Demon Dao Body, or I would surely fall into the Demon Dao!"
"Judging actions without considering thoughts, crowned hearts are imperfect. Sages all understand, not looking at how a person thinks, but at how a person acts; the human heart cannot withstand tests, as long as actions pass, one can be considered good." Lu Xuanji laughed, "Omniscience is not necessarily happiness. Furthermore, that of the Celestial Demon, is flawed omniscience!"
"Will the Green Lotus have issues?"
Jin Xi worriedly said, "At the time of activating the Two Rites of Annihilation, when slashing out the Green Lotus Avatar, I bore the emotions, the Green Lotus bore the rationality; I bore the kindness of humanity, the Green Lotus bore the evil of humanity; I bore the Immortal Sword Body, the Green Lotus bore the Heavenly Demon Dao Body."
"To some extent, I am not the complete Jin Xi."
"Only when I unite with the Green Lotus, am I truly Jin Xi."
"Back then, I thought, the Pure Lotus as a Seventh-Grade Spiritual Treasure was enough to bear my Heavenly Demon Dao Body. Now it seems... will there be no problems!"
Lu Xuanji reassured, "If you don’t trust anyone, trust yourself. People can deceive and doubt anyone, but never doubt yourself, for doubting yourself can shake your Daoxin."
Jin Xi nodded, such doubt had no meaning.
She still remembered, when she was impacting the Nine Transformation Golden Core, during the moment of severe injury, the Green Lotus assisted her, caring inside and out, seeking ways to aid her.
Such doubt made no sense.
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After resting for a few days, the two left Chaos City, steering the flying ship towards Chu Country.
About three days later, Jin Xi felt a trace of unease, spotting in the distance two sword lights approaching from both sides, swish-swish, the sword lights glittering as they hacked their way over.
With a wave of her hand, Jin Xi stored Lu Xuanji into the Chaos Hall and drew her sword in counterattack.
Boom, boom, boom!
The sword lights flashed, and the flying ship was shattered on the spot.
"The incoming attackers are hostile."
Jin Xi’s eyes turned cold; two Nascent Souls came to assault, and the situation was somewhat difficult.
She advanced instead of retreating, with her treasure sword slashing towards the cultivator in blue.
The blue-dressed Nascent Soul pinched the Heart-piercing Awl with his left hand, transforming into a silver glint, shooting out.
A cold light flashed across the treasure sword, and in a split second, the Heart-piercing Awl was sliced into two pieces.
The residual force of the treasure sword was not weakened at all, continuing to slash downward.
"Not good."
The blue-dressed Nascent Soul immediately cast out a shield, blocking in front.
The next moment, as the sword light flashed, the shield shattered.
The blue-dressed Nascent Soul cast out a long saber again, with white light glinting on it, surging with Geng Metal Qi.
A single slash, severing souls.
Crack!
Yet that sword light continued to chop down.
It severed the long saber.
Mowed down onto the blue-dressed cultivator’s body, a blood line appeared on the body, and the form fractured apart.
Swish!
A Nascent Soul appeared, transforming into a stream of light, escaping away.
But the next moment, a jar appeared, capturing and suppressing this Nascent Soul.
Bang, bang!
At this very moment, a sword light flashed towards Jin Xi’s form.
A set of battle armor appeared on Jin Xi’s body.
The battle armor’s Dao patterns twinkled, transforming into gray, misty rays to block the attack.
The rays continually shattered, with the remaining force finally slashing onto Jin Xi’s form, sending her flying and spitting out a mouthful of blood, and that was it.
"Fight again!"
Jin Xi wielding the treasure sword, came forward slashing.
The black-dressed cultivator, however, was fearful, and transformed into a streak of Escape Light, fleeing for life.
Originally intending to ambush a fat sheep, after all, according to intelligence, she had just progressed to Nascent Soul, lacking in combat experience, magic divine techniques, and secret techniques of magical treasures were all inadequate. Yet, in the actual battle, she fought quickly and efficiently, slaying a teammate within two breaths and capturing its Nascent Soul.
As for her, just spat out a mouthful of blood.
Seeing defeat, the black-dressed cultivator escaped in an Escape Light, fleeing away.
Jin Xi pursued, battling for thirty moves, shattering its flesh, but its Nascent Soul guarded a stream of light, escaping away.
Even Jin Xi couldn’t catch up.
Cough, cough!
After taking the elixir, she extracted another flying ship, maneuvered it, and vanished.
Not long after, a black-clad man appeared, recording the atmosphere here, and then wrote in a booklet: "Chu Country’s Jin Xi, recently entered Fake Nascent Soul, killed Blue True Monarch in three moves, capturing its Nascent Soul; killed Black True Monarch again in twenty moves, its Nascent Soul escaped away. Suspected to have condensed an Eighth Transformation Golden Core, possessing Divinity Transformation potential!"
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As the flying ship advanced, Jin Xi entered the Chaos Hall.
"You’re hurt!"
Lu Xuanji came forward to ask but saw Jin Xi’s white dress stained with blood, her face pale, seemingly seriously injured.
"It’s fake, just a trick!"
At that moment, Jin Xi operated her aura, her complexion immediately returning to normal, and the bloodstains on her white clothes faded, once more immaculate.
"I am rooted in the Nine Transformation Golden Core; if facing Nascent Soul prodigies, I might still be injured; but those two opponents were merely ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators."
"According to my calculations, I could easily kill them; yet during the battle, I deliberately took hits, deliberately being injured, deliberately spat a few mouthfuls of blood, and even intentionally let one enemy’s Nascent Soul escape."
"During the battle, I sensed there were cultivators spying secretly. My displayed combat power, too strong, wouldn’t do; too weak, wouldn’t do either, best to be just right!"
"Too weak, and countless tigers would pounce!"
"But too strong is also not good!"
"Whether a Nascent Soul cultivator achieved Nascent Soul in the Seventh Transformation, Eighth Transformation, or Ninth Transformation, the Nascent Soul cultivator isn’t saying, outsiders can rarely probe into it. But through combat power in the same realm, its general range can be estimated!"
"If I displayed the foundation of Nine Transformation Golden Core, then the next moment, Divinity Transformation cultivators might come to extinguish. The world allows geniuses but doesn’t permit monsters!"
"Being ahead by half a step earns courtesy; being ahead by a step invites suppression!"
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PS: The update has been completed. Once again, the update is late. As the New Year approaches, updates are unstable, apologies.