Chapter 6: Six Cuts
Because of the regulations between the human realm and the demon realm, except for commercial exchanges, human realm sects are not allowed to send more than three high-level cultivators to the demon realm at the same time. Therefore, the cultivators sent by the Yuling Sect to find Wei Qing were recalled, and the task of finding Wei Qing fell to Luo Mingshu and Lu Yaoyao.
It is dangerous for a lone cultivator or demon to fall into the other's territory, because although the demons and humans are currently at peace on the surface, it cannot be ruled out that there may be people in the middle who are extremely hostile to the other.
After all, the feud between the demon race and the human world was only resolved thousands of years ago, and the grudges and conflicts have not been completely erased from history.
Luo Mingshu herself didn't care about such grudges. She treated her mission to find Wei Qing in the Demon Realm as an enjoyable trip. Before setting off, she specially picked up a vehicle that she had previously ordered from the Jin'ao Sect.
While Jin Aozong was waiting for her "Purple Gold Flowing Flower Boat" to arrive, Luo Mingshu had already gone to the depths of the stream, where a different world awaited her behind the waterfall that rippled with seven-colored light.
Luo Mingshu opened the restriction she had personally set up outside the Cold Abyss of the Water Stream. This place was connected to the most special secret realm in the Yu Ling Sect. Because the Water Stream was rich in water spiritual energy, and the cold energy of the earth veins under the Yu Ling Sect rose up, the collision of the two created such a special place as the Cold Abyss.
The temperature in the Frozen Abyss is extremely low, freezing most magical artifacts and rendering them almost unusable as ordinary storage locations. However, it is very useful for preserving a physical body that has lost its primordial spirit—but in the human realm, if a physical body loses its primordial spirit and does not return for three years, it means that the cultivator is dead, the soul has escaped, leaving only a shell. Isn't that death? What's the use of painstakingly preserving a soulless shell?
Luo Mingshu, however, preserved her master Liu Hongying's physical body extremely well, and she stepped into the icy abyss.
Not long after she left, Afa sensed that the restrictions on the stream had been activated. Upon closer inspection, she discovered it was Feng Du, the leader of the Yuling Sect. She had no choice but to invite him in.
"I sensed that the restrictions on Hanyuan were opened. Ming Shu went there to see Hong Ying?" Feng Du was actually very familiar with all the movements within the sect.
“Yes, Sect Leader.” Afa nodded.
Feng Du also entered the Cold Abyss, walked through the corridor built of ice crystals, and saw Luo Mingshu at the end.
Luo Mingshu's slightly wavy long hair fell down. She raised her hand and gently stroked the huge ice body in front of her, only calling out, "Yingniang, I'm about to set off."
Sealed within the ice is a woman dressed in red, with gentle features, a slight curve to her lips, and a serene expression.
Liu Hongying was frozen in this moment, her tightly closed eyes devoid of any soul's radiance. Her primordial spirit had vanished a hundred years ago, its whereabouts unknown.
"Ming Shu." Feng Du's voice rang out behind Luo Ming Shu.
"Sect Leader." Luo Mingshu withdrew her hand, turned around, and glanced at Feng Du.
“Hong Ying’s primordial spirit is lost in the Misty Star Sea. Many other cultivators lost their primordial spirits with her back then, and we have been sending disciples to search for them. But as you know, even if she is a Nascent Soul cultivator with a powerful primordial spirit, without the protection of a physical body, after so much time has passed, her primordial spirit will dissipate,” Feng Du advised.
“I said I could go to the Misty Star Sea to find her primordial spirit myself.” Luo Mingshu tilted her head and said, “Over the years, I have been searching for teammates through the Spirit Network, but almost a hundred years have passed and I still haven’t found a suitable match.”
She clenched her fist, her tone indignant: "I suspect that the cultivators from the Water Mirror Sect deliberately blocked me. I went to the Water Mirror Sect to ask them, but they confirmed with data that they were indeed unable to match me with teammates who could go with me."
“To travel to the Misty Star Sea, you need at least two cultivators of similar cultivation levels to travel together. This is the rule of the Misty Star Sea. You are at the Nascent Soul stage. There are many cultivators of similar cultivation levels in the Human Realm, the Demon Realm, and even the Demon Realm. We are also puzzled as to why we have not been able to find one.” Feng Du sighed.
Luo Mingshu helplessly shrugged. She couldn't ask her about this. Since she had no companions and couldn't enter the Misty Star Sea, her plan to find Liu Hongying's primordial spirit had been put on hold all these years. So she was thinking about whether she could go to the Demon Realm to seek some opportunities to break through. If she reached the Nascent Soul stage, she might be able to find teammates.
"Alright, Sect Leader, I'm setting off now." Luo Mingshu left with Feng Du. She wasn't one to wallow in melancholy. "The cloud boat I ordered from the Golden Turtle Sect is arriving soon. We don't have a direct teleportation array to the Demon Realm, so taking transportation will be more comfortable."
“Okay.” Feng Du didn’t know Luo Mingshu’s true identity, so he couldn’t guess her purpose in going to the Demon Realm. He just assumed she really wanted to go for fun.
Luo Mingshu arrived alone at the gate of the Yu Ling Sect. The Yu Ling Sect occupied a vast area, with a cliff at its border called Ling Cliff. Ling Cliff stretched far and wide, forming a natural defense, and in the distance, mountains embraced the area, shrouded in clouds and mist.
When she arrived at Lingya, a figure in white was already waiting there; it was Lu Yaoyao.
Following Luo Mingshu's reminder, Lu Yaoyao had already wrapped her jade bracelet with silk strips to cover up the special pattern.
She turned around and waved to Luo Mingshu: "Senior Sister Luo, the sect has prepared transportation for us to the Demon Realm."
Behind Lu Yaoyao was a small cloud boat. Once inside, there was a hidden world inside. However, the cloud boat was not well equipped; it was the simplest standard equipment among the major sects.
“I have my own,” Luo Mingshu said, indicating that she would never sit in such a thing.
At this moment, a rosy glow suddenly appeared amidst the distant clouds and mist, and the faint sound of metal and stone clanging could be heard. Soon, an elegant and slender cloud boat, painted in a crystal-clear purple, appeared on the horizon.
The ultra-luxurious purple-gold shimmering boat hovered in front of Luo Mingshu. A disciple dressed in a black robe jumped out and smiled warmly at Luo Mingshu: "Miss Luo, you've finally decided to come out. This cloud boat has been stored here with us for more than ten years."
"Go have some fun." Luo Mingshu took the spirit pearl that controlled the cloud boat from his hand.
"Then I wish Miss Luo a safe journey." The disciple of Jin'ao Sect treated Luo Mingshu, a generous spender, with utmost respect, and left after giving his instructions.
Lu Yaoyao, standing next to her, was completely stunned. Every feature of the Purple Gold Flowing Flower Boat was top-notch. Moreover, unlike ordinary cloud boats, this thing did not require piloting. The cloud boat itself used a special and complex formation and had its own navigation function.
Besides its price, what makes it even more daunting is that achieving autonomous driving functionality on the Purple Gold Flowing Flower Boat requires burning spirit stones, filling it with huge amounts of them.
At this moment, the system's tempting voice rang in Lu Yaoyao's mind: "Host, we also have a way to exchange for the Purple Gold Flowing Flower Boat, which requires 50,000 points. With a little effort, you can get it too."
Lu Yaoyao, tempted by the ultra-luxurious cloud boat, completely ignored the promises made by the system. She would never have been able to save up 50,000 reward points; the boat in front of her was the happiness that was within her reach.
"Senior Sister Luo, you must not want your fellow disciple to ride on the ordinary cloud boat provided by the sect, right?" Lu Yaoyao moved over. The ordinary cloud boat would consume her own magic power to drive, so she didn't want to ride on it either.
"How could I bear it?" Luo Mingshu activated the spirit pearl and opened the cloud boat door. "Don't worry, Junior Sister Lu, I will try to drive slowly and keep in sync with you."
"If you do that, others will say you're mistreating your fellow disciples. Senior Sister Luo, you certainly don't want people to say that about you, do you?" Lu Yaoyao probed indirectly.
"It doesn't matter, I have no shame." Luo Mingshu leaned against the array outside the cloud boat. "Lu Yaoyao, speak like a human being."
"Senior Sister Luo, I'd like to sit too," Lu Yaoyao said directly.
"It costs money, 20,000 spirit stones. I'll give you a ride; I've burned more spirit stones on the way than that." Luo Mingshu quoted her price. It wasn't that she couldn't trade with the female lead of the original book; as long as the other party paid, anything was negotiable.
Luo Mingshu thought Lu Yaoyao was too stingy to spend any money, but to her surprise, Lu Yaoyao readily pulled out a bag of spirit stones from her pocket: "Senior Sister Luo, here are 20,000 spirit stones."
Luo Mingshu: "..." You, Lu Yaoyao, are so generous with money when it comes to spending it on yourself, but when it comes to asking you for 30,000 spirit stones to save your senior brother, it's like asking for your life.
She took the bag of spirit stones and said, "Come in."
Outside the Yuling Sect, the beautiful purple-painted cloud boat soared into the sky and flew at an extremely fast speed towards the border of the human realm. Inside the Yuling Sect, the sect leader, Feng Du, who had been watching the situation closely from the peak, was moved to tears. He said to the elders around him, "I knew Luo Mingshu had grown up. Now she is even willing to take care of her fellow disciples. It is truly touching."
Inside the Purple Gold Flowing Flower Boat, Luo Mingshu threw spirit stones into the cockpit of the cloud boat. The spirit stones, overflowing with spiritual energy, were shattered, and all the spiritual energy contained within them was used as the power of the cloud boat.
The cloud boat flew forward, crossing countless mountains and rivers, passing over numerous sects in the human realm. Because Luo Mingshu's cloud boat was so eye-catching, it attracted the attention of many cultivators along the way.
"I remember that the Golden Turtle Sect has only built one Purple Gold Flowing Flower Boat so far, which was reserved by Luo Mingshu of the Spirit Control Sect. After all these years, she has finally decided to leave the Spirit Control Sect?"
"She's really rich. It's not surprising that the Yu Ling Sect is wealthy, but how does she, a young disciple of the Yu Ling Sect, have such abundant wealth?"
"What a pity, what a pity. She's been stuck at the Nascent Soul stage for a hundred years. Back then, she broke through from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage in a hundred years, which was truly amazing. I never thought she would be so lazy now." Someone looked up at the magnificent cloud boat and said sourly, "What's the use of money? So many spirit stones can't be turned into her own magic power. In this cultivation world, only the strong cultivators are respected."
"Besides, she is arrogant and doesn't accumulate merit, so it seems that her cultivation level will never improve."
Fortunately, Luo Mingshu couldn't hear what they were saying, otherwise she would definitely have thrown stones at them from the cloud boat.
She leaned alone against the window of the cloud boat, watching the scenery outside fly by.
The space on the spirit boat was large, divided into only two rooms. Luo Mingshu sent Lu Yaoyao to the other room. Soon after, she sensed that Lu Yaoyao's aura had calmed down, and there was a faint flow of spiritual energy around her, guessing that Lu Yaoyao must have begun to cultivate.
Luo Mingshu's cultivation was useless; she already had enough magical power to break through, and her body could no longer withstand any more spiritual energy. In fact, when Liu Hongying found her, she was already at the Nascent Soul stage. However, to avoid suspicion, Liu Hongying taught her to slowly reveal her cultivation level, creating the illusion that she had cultivated to that level.
She still hasn't figured out why she can't break through. Bored, Luo Mingshu can only look for a sense of existence on the Spirit Network. The first person she needs to mock is the anonymous cultivator who hasn't been convinced by her yet.
Unable to defeat her opponent in terms of strength, she decided to let him experience her formidable wealth. She planned to take a picture of the anonymous cultivator to flaunt her riches.
Luo Mingshu found an excellent angle to capture the aerial view she saw from her cloud boat. She also "inadvertently" included the ice crystal ornaments she had placed on the table by the window in the frame.
This ice crystal ornament is shaped like a phoenix. The phoenix is one of the four ancient demon gods. The bloodline of the demon gods has long been lost in history, and now, apart from these remaining statues and paintings, no one can catch a glimpse of the demon gods' splendor.
Carved from millennia-old ice, it was carved by a cultivator who had personally witnessed the phoenix and used his exceptional skills to capture the form of the ancient demon god, sculpting it into an ice crystal statue. Perhaps the sculptor knew that this beautiful creature would eventually disappear, so he used easily melting ice crystals to foreshadow the demon god's fate.
Even though it is ten-thousand-year-old ice, it will slowly melt due to the southern temperature. To maintain the integrity of this ice crystal statue, it is necessary to continuously consume spirit stones to supply it with cold energy. Its intrinsic value is extremely high, and the cost of preservation is also exorbitant, making it something that ordinary cultivators cannot possess.
Luo Mingshu sent the other party her photos showing off her wealth.
[A 300-year-old beauty with a water-elemental root is incredibly gullible: Oh dear, I went out for a trip in that little gadget I bought a few years ago. Do you think you can see this scenery in the Demon Realm?]
The accompanying images are of a phoenix ice crystal image that was inadvertently revealed, as well as the view of the sky from the cloud boat.
Luo Mingshu thought the other party would ask where she bought her ice crystal statue or cloud boat, so she could quote a high price and show off her wealth.
However, only three dry sentences appeared on the Lingwang interface.
Sorry, your message could not be delivered.
[The anonymous cultivator has proactively severed his spiritual connection with the 300-year-old beauty with the easily deceived water-elemental root.]
Clicking on the anonymous cultivator's avatar allows you to re-initiate a telepathic communication with them.
Luo Mingshu: "???" He blocked me?!
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