Chapter 344: Chapter 344: The Sword Saint Wants to Turn into a Cultivating Demon
Lady Zi Ji casually picked the Creation Green Lotus and was about to feed it to the old yellow ox, Lao Huang.
A group of onlookers was stunned.
Bai Yisheng couldn’t help but say, "Little sister, what are you doing?"
"I’m feeding Lao Huang," Zi Ji replied with confusion. "What’s wrong?"
"You, how can you feed a Creation Green Lotus to an ox?" Bai Yisheng stared, his eyes wide. "The Creation Green Lotus is, uh..."
As he spoke, Lao Huang took a bite and then shook his head, as if to tell Zi Ji that it tasted average.
The group was petrified.
Only now did they realize that Lao Huang, the ox Zi Ji had been leading, seemed quite extraordinary.
Zi Ji said, "It’s at least a Spiritual Medicine; if you don’t like it, spit it out for Hei."
Lao Huang rolled his eyes.
Bai Yisheng’s face was full of black lines. "The Creation Green Lotus is a ninth-grade Spiritual Medicine, equivalent to the Medicine King Level. If used for cultivation, one might even comprehend the legendary ’Creation’ virtue."
Zi Ji said, "Oh," and then remarked, "Creation? That’s useless. Giving it to Lao Huang is just right."
Bai Yisheng: "..."
"By the way, they all ran for their lives. Why didn’t you run?" She looked at Bai Yisheng.
Wu Mo and his group, unable to bear the humiliation, had hurried away. Yet, Bai Yisheng and his companions still followed Zi Ji and Guang Xiaoyu. Could it be they had some scheme?
"I am a disciple of Fairy Valley, Bai Yisheng. May I ask your name, young lady?"
"Zi Ji."
"Does Lady Zi Ji have a sect?" Bai Yisheng asked. "Fairy Valley is a powerful force in the Nine Heavens. During its peak, it once produced a Quasi-Emperor. Even now, we have Saints presiding over us, overlooking the land. Would you be interested?"
Before Zi Ji could speak, he launched into a lengthy, enthusiastic introduction.
His fellow disciples brightened up at his words.
Although Fairy Valley wasn’t lacking in geniuses, they were short of truly phenomenal individuals. Zi Ji, so young yet so powerful, was a peerless prodigy. If they could coax her back, it would be a great merit!
Yuan Qifeng came up grinning. "Exactly! Especially Fairy Valley’s Fifth Court, we have a Sword Saint presiding. If there’s anything you don’t understand about cultivation, you can ask the Sword Saint. Moreover, this person right here is his only direct disciple."
"Sword Saint?" Zi Ji fluttered her curled lashes.
"Yes, the Sword Saint," Yuan Qifeng smiled.
"Very powerful?"
"Of course. In an era where no experts from the Emperor Realm appear, those in the Saint Realm are invincible."
"Oh, then that might not suit me. I don’t cultivate the Sword Dao," she said.
"The Sword Saint also has knowledge of Divine Skills."
"I don’t cultivate Divine Skills either," she said seriously.
"..."
Doesn’t cultivate the Sword Dao, nor Divine Skills? What does she cultivate then?
The young man asked with confusion, "Do you cultivate your physical body?"
Zi Ji smiled and was about to explain, but remembering her senior brother’s admonition, she shook her head and said, "Not suitable!"
"Don’t say that! You can cultivate whatever you want: Alchemy, Artifact Refining, Arrays, sealing, even the legendary talisman crafting... Our Sword Saint also knows a thing or two about those," Yuan Qifeng didn’t want to give up on her.
Zi Ji nodded. "Thank you, but I already have a sect. My senior brother is very powerful, and he can teach me cultivation."
UH!
Yuan Qifeng smiled. "How powerful can your senior brother be? Our Fairy Valley geniuses..." He hadn’t finished speaking when he suddenly stiffened.
A chill descended.
It was Guang Xiaoyu’s gaze.
He shivered and unconsciously swallowed.
HEHE!
With a leisurely tone, Guang Xiaoyu said, "So, what about the geniuses of Fairy Valley?"
Yuan Qifeng: "..."
No one dared to argue. Guang Xiaoyu’s battle record was plain to see; she could effortlessly suppress seven royal path experts. Such a person was not ordinary.
Zi Ji was also a prodigy, even chasing after Ancient Ferocious Beasts.
These two were not to be trifled with!
"If the Fairy Valley Sword Saint is so powerful and understands all cultivation methods, then I’d like to ask, does he also practice Demonic Cultivation?" Guang Xiaoyu said with a smirk.
Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked. They glanced at each other and finally turned their gazes to Bai Yisheng.
Facing everyone’s eyes, Bai Yisheng braced himself and said, "Ten years ago, my master began Cultivating Demon."
Guang Xiaoyu: "???"
Fairy Valley, a power that prided itself on being a prestigious orthodox sect, actually had a Saint Realm expert who chose Cultivating Demon?
Why?
She frowned. "Has your master’s Sword Dao reached its limit?"
Bai Yisheng answered, "It hasn’t."
Guang Xiaoyu asked again, "In that case, having reached the Saint Realm through the Sword Dao, he should have used it for his Tao Verification. Why abandon the Sword Dao and choose Cultivating Demon instead?"
"My master is great. He hasn’t abandoned the Sword Dao. On the contrary... he has always been comprehending the sword, seeking to break through old conventions. Thus, he chose Cultivating Demon," Bai Yisheng explained. "My master believes that behind all cultivation, there lies a demon."
"An inner demon?"
"No, a powerful demon. This is also why my master chose Cultivating Demon. He wants to find that demon which is his own and forge a new, powerful Sword Dao," Bai Yisheng said solemnly.
Not abandoning the Sword Dao, yet choosing to Cultivate Demon.
Such an approach was unprecedented...
It was just hard for outsiders to understand; hence, the Sword Saint had gained another title: the Sword Devil.
The outside world’s opinion became increasingly nasty, including within the sect. Except for those in Fairy Valley’s Fifth Court, almost everyone else in the sect opposed it.
Hearing this, Guang Xiaoyu became curious. Not abandoning the Sword Dao, yet insisting on Cultivating Demon—what kind of cultivation path was this?
She looked up at the sky, suddenly thinking of her own cultivation. If he succeeded, would it mean that she could do the same?
How interesting.
By then, she could suppress the Primitive Demon God at will and also freely engage in Demonic Cultivation, right? Most importantly, she could confess everything to her senior brother without fearing his opinion on her cultivation practices.
So, should she go? For the sake of living a happy and beautiful life with her senior brother.
Guang Xiaoyu smiled. "Is Fairy Valley’s Fifth Court still recruiting?"
AH?
They were all stunned.
Yuan Qifeng was the first to snap back to reality, excitedly saying, "Yes, we are always recruiting! You’re welcome to join Fairy Valley’s Fifth Court."
Zi Ji tilted her head, her face full of confusion.
Guang Xiaoyu pulled her over. "She’s coming too."
Bai Yisheng had never imagined it. He had only made a casual remark, yet Guang Xiaoyu had agreed so readily and even pulled Zi Ji into Fairy Valley’s Fifth Court.
This?
He couldn’t help but smile. "Good!"
"So, let’s set out!" Guang Xiaoyu couldn’t wait any longer. Ascend to the Nine Heavens, meet the Sword Saint, and then begin Cultivating Demon—oh, no, her path was Cultivating the Dao. The opposite of the Sword Saint. When that day came, she could face her senior brother frankly and live a happy and beautiful life with him.
However, upon hearing her words, the group hesitated and muttered.
Guang Xiaoyu furrowed her brows. "What’s wrong?"
Yuan Qifeng sighed. "We can’t return."
"There’s no passage," Bai Yisheng explained. "Although Soup Valley fell from the Nine Heavens, its descent was peculiar and not directly related to any Spatial Barrier."
"So?" she asked, her eyes wide.
"We can only wait for the elders from our sect to come down..." Yuan Qifeng pointed to the sky. "But don’t worry. It’s been a full year since Soup Valley fell to the Heaven Martial Continent. The elders from our sect must have devised a solution by now. Perhaps our elders have already reached the Heaven Martial Continent."
She had been too hasty.
Guang Xiaoyu’s face remained expressionless.
Another reason she had agreed to Bai Yisheng’s offer was her hope that they could take her back to the Nine Heavens.
Bai Yisheng tried to smooth things over. "Let’s keep moving and look for other opportunities. Perhaps the elders will arrive soon!"
"Indeed!" Yuan Qifeng nodded.
"Alright," Guang Xiaoyu sighed. "Also, if your elders come, or when we return to the Nine Heavens, can you not disclose our identities and origins?"
"Why?" Yuan Qifeng tilted his head.
"The name ’Heaven Martial Continent’ doesn’t seem to carry a positive connotation in the Nine Heavens, don’t you agree?" Guang Xiaoyu remarked.
A prison, a declining major world. A place where criminals were exiled.
Thinking about it carefully, it really wasn’t good. If their identities and origins were revealed, it might cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Bai Yisheng nodded. "Okay."
The others didn’t consider the angle from which Guang Xiaoyu spoke. It was as if she spoke from the perspective of someone from the Nine Heavens, despite never having been there.
Just then, Liu Kuangyi, who had been searching for them, spotted Bai Yisheng and Yuan Qifeng from afar. He smiled, "I finally found you!"