Chapter 52 Chapter 52 The Wooden Sword Broken
Yun Miao immediately used his spiritual sense to send a message to them to jump onto the flying swords, and then flee, avoiding the earth spikes and diving into the forest. Finally, a giant ochre-colored palm covered the sky and slapped towards them.
Huo Xin and Tan Xiaobai hurriedly activated the defensive formation of the disciple uniform, but they saw that Yun Miao not only did not make any defense, but even took the initiative to put the ladder to heaven deep in his eyebrows, and then controlled the flying sword to turn around and rush towards the terrifying palm print.
"Yun Miao, activate the defense of the robe!"
"Boss, quickly activate the defenses on your disciple uniform, then turn around and run! Ahhhh, I'll never be a traitor again. If Huo Xin hits me next time, I promise I won't say a word. Boss, please spare my life!"
Don't be afraid.
Yun Miao's calm voice rang in their ears: [I will definitely not let you die this time.]
this time?
Just as a trace of doubt flashed through Huo Xin's mind, the huge palm print completely swallowed them, and then... the whole world fell into dead silence.
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The flying sword slowly landed on the ground. Huo Xin and Tan Xiaobai, who had just stepped off the sword, stared in amazement at the terrifying sword mark in front of them, which looked like a chasm.
They thought there would be a life-or-death escape or a thrilling battle, but they didn't expect that the old man who looked so powerful and the Yun brothers would die just like that.
The body cut in half by the sword energy fell into the rift. Apart from the splattered blood, there was no trace of the three people from the Yun family who had ever existed.
This incident happened so quickly and ended so quickly that Huo Xin and Tan Xiaobai almost thought it was a dream.
At that moment, Yun Miao raised his hands, hooked them around his arms, and hugged them tightly. He said triumphantly, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and cheer for your savior!"
Because of her actions, Huo Xin and Tan Xiaobai's foreheads hit each other with a "bang". The blow knocked them back to their senses. The two men with red foreheads had shock and surprise in their eyes.
"Yun Miao, was it you who emitted that sword energy just now?"
"Boss, when did you become so strong? If you're this powerful, then Huo Xin and I will be able to dominate the world of cultivation in the future, right?"
Huo Xin: "The one walking sideways is a crab."
Tan Xiaobai puffed out his chest proudly: "It doesn't matter. We can use our strength to let the entire cultivation world know that it's not just crabs who can walk sideways, but also me, Tan Xiaobai, and you, Huo Daxin!"
"...I don't want the cultivation world to know about this. Also, please don't change my name."
Huo Xin gripped the hilt of the sword at his waist with a fighting spirit: "I just want to know how Yun Miao can emit such a strong sword energy. I also want to emit such a strong sword energy!"
Tan Xiaobai's face was gloomy. "This is not difficult. The boss must be extremely talented. He also has a natural sword bone like Fu Gu. He can even improve his swordsmanship in his dreams."
Huo Xin said that it was impossible. The sect's testing was so strict that if Yun Miao had sword bones, it would have been detected long ago.
She felt that there was no shortcut to sword practice. She thought Yun Miao must have practiced sword day and night, practicing in the coldest days of summer and the hottest days of winter, and only with his strong will and perseverance did he hone out this terrifying sword energy!
Tan Xiaobai pondered for only a second before firmly shaking his head: "Impossible, absolutely impossible. The boss said before that she only practices for half an hour every day, and she has only just started practicing swordsmanship. How can she practice in the hottest days of winter?"
"She's even more playful than I am. She doesn't do anything serious all day, just playing with cats and dogs and flirting with women. If this is called diligence, then there would be no lazy people in the world. You might as well say that she suddenly unearthed a secret manual while farming one day, and then just practiced it and became a peerless master."
Tan Xiaobai quickly opened her folding fan and spoke in a deep voice, "On ordinary days, she seems to be just an ordinary farmer working the land, but when she encounters an enemy, her eyes will gleam and she will shout, 'Whoever invades my vegetable garden will be killed, no matter how far away they are!' Then, a stream of sword energy will shoot out from the hoe in her hand, going straight for the enemy's throat."
"Instantly, a splash of blood flew everywhere, and the enemy fell to the ground with a scream. The old farmer blew the blood off the hoe with a cold expression. Others blew away snow, but she blew away blood, lonely blood."
"At that moment, her hoe was cold, her eyes were cold, and her heart was even colder. She..."
Yun Miao, who was originally waiting to hear praise, had veins throbbing on his forehead and kicked Tan Xiaobai directly on the butt.
"Fuck you! You obviously froze me in the ice cellar in the middle of the night. Otherwise, how could I be so cold? And the storybooks all describe cool and handsome swordsmen blowing the blood off their swords, but here I am just a lonely old farmer blowing the blood off his hoe? Do you think this makes sense?"
Tan Xiaobai covered his butt and cried out in pain, then quickly ran to hide behind Huo Xin: "Boss, don't be angry, I'm just making a reasonable guess."
"Your guess doesn't make sense at all!"
Yun Miao raised his foot to kick Tan Xiaobai again. Tan Xiaobai was so scared that he immediately covered his butt and ran away. The two chased each other around Huo Xin, but in the end, it was Huo Xin who was standing still who got kicked several times.
It didn't hurt, but the originally black hem of the clothes was covered with gray footprints, which looked very conspicuous.
The veins on Huo Xin's forehead, who loved cleanliness, began to twitch. She raised her hands and instantly hugged the shoulders of the two men, then quickly exerted force.
Bang!
Yun Miao and Tan Xiaobai collided hard, and their foreheads turned red.
Tan Xiaobai covered his forehead and cried out again, "Why do you always target my head? I'm going to be hit stupid!"
Yun Miao, who felt no pain at all, snorted complacently: "You are stupid anyway."
Then she walked around Huo Xin and Tan Xiaobai, and while talking about the secret of the wooden sword, she picked up the broken half of the wooden sword on the ground and put it into the storage bag.
The wooden sword seemed to be triggered only when she was about to receive fatal damage. Before, she was too well protected by the ladder and the disciple uniform, so its effect was not triggered immediately, and she got beaten in vain.
Good news: The master was really good to her. He knew that she was a troublemaker, so he secretly left her a life-saving trump card.
Bad news: This life-saving trump card has been used up, and all the enemies are dead, but...how are they going to get out?
Yun Miao looked up at the gray sky above, lost in thought. Before she could figure out what was going on, she suddenly felt an itchy and sweet sensation in her throat, followed by...
“Cough cough cough!”
Huo Xin and Tan Xiaobai only saw Yun Miao suddenly open her mouth and spit out a mouthful of thick blood, then bend down and cough violently, and more blood seeped out of her eyes, ears, mouth and nose.
The young girl in green who had just been laughing and joking with them fell to the ground, and blood soon stained her clothes red. She just looked at them blankly, as if she didn't understand what was going on.
"Yun Miao!"
"Boss?!"
Huo Xin and Tan Xiaobai's pupils shrank, and they hurried forward in panic to check Yun Miao's condition.
If Sect Leader Chang, Old Tian and others saw this scene, their expressions would definitely change drastically, because this not only meant that Yun Miao had another sudden realization, but also meant that her body was spontaneously trying to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
It would be a good thing if she succeeded in breaking through. The life span of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage is more than 200 years. Master Chang naturally wouldn't have to worry about his little disciple turning into dry bones and dust after a hundred years.
But she is now in such a barren secret place, just like the seedlings have reached the important stage of heading, but they have encountered a drought that occurs rarely in a century, and their roots cannot absorb a drop of water.
If there is not enough water when the rice seedlings are in the ear stage, the ears of rice that grow will be empty shells with no rice inside. If a cultivator does not have enough spiritual energy to nourish him when he has a sudden enlightenment breakthrough, not only will he not be able to break through, but his foundation may also be damaged!
Huo Xin and Tan Xiaobai did not have the spiritual sense to detect Yun Miao's body, so they did not know these situations. Huo Xin could only find out through a simple pulse diagnosis that Yun Miao had suffered serious internal injuries for some reason.
Fortunately, Yun Miao was able to see within herself, and her master had previously told her about the precautions for breaking through the foundation-building stage, so she quickly realized the problem.
"I'm fine, I'm just about to break through again."
She managed to say a word of comfort, then began to take out pills from her storage bag. She originally wanted to get a Revival Pill, but when she thought of the preciousness of the sixth-grade pills in this game, she silently put it back and casually poured out a handful of Rejuvenation Pills and Rejuvenation Pills and stuffed them into her mouth.
A flood of gentle spiritual energy, like a gentle rain, instantly moistened her parched veins, eventually flowing into her dantian. Her health bar, which had been constantly decreasing, instantly filled up, and her previously severe internal injuries healed swiftly, leaving no lasting effects. Her body seemed to have been refreshed with the touch of a button, returning to its peak state.
Huo Xin and Tan Xiaobai were first shocked by the fact that Yun Miao was about to break through again, and then they immediately placed all the pills they could use next to Yun Miao.
Tan Xiaobai also put a few low-level spirit-gathering talismans next to Yun Miao. Although the spiritual energy in this secret realm is thin, it is better than nothing.
Then the two of them walked away silently, stopped at a distance where they would not disturb Yun Miao, and began to protect her.
The so-called guardian is, on the one hand, to prevent any external enemies or monsters from suddenly attacking Yun Miao, and on the other hand, to immediately interrupt Yun Miao when something goes wrong in her practice, so as to prevent her from going astray.
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In the main hall of Xuantian Palace, Sect Master Chang was discussing the upcoming sect competition with everyone. However, before he could finish his words, he suddenly stood up, and a trace of pressure belonging to the peak of the Mahayana stage leaked out, which made the peak masters and elders breathless.
Below the Mahayana stage is the Refining Void stage, and below that is the Spirit Transformation stage.
The most advanced of the present peak masters and elders was Meng Shi, the master of the Body Peak, who was at the fifth level of the Mahayana Stage and was recognized as the strongest physical cultivator in the current world of cultivation. The weakest was at the Spiritual Transformation Stage, and was still a well-known figure even when he walked around.
So even though they were almost overcome by the terrifying pressure, they were able to quickly resist it with their spiritual power.
They were either concerned or wary of what had happened to Sect Leader Chang. You have to know that the last time Sect Leader lost his composure so suddenly was a thousand years ago when the Demon Cult suddenly attacked Xuantian Sect.
Sect Leader Chang covered his heart and said, "The wooden sword I gave to Xiao Miao is broken."
Some people were skeptical: "It's just a wooden sword, if it breaks, it breaks."
"no the same."
Sect Leader Chang frowned and said that he had given wooden swords to both of his disciples. Both wooden swords contained his divine consciousness and sword energy, which could automatically sense and help his two disciples resist fatal damage.
When the wooden sword broke, he would sense it in his heart, allowing him to rush over to rescue in time.
Now that Yun Miao's wooden sword was broken, he couldn't sense its exact location. This meant that Yun Miao was not only in mortal danger, but was also very likely trapped in a very special place. Some force had blocked the message that the wooden sword had sent him when it broke!
Everyone frowned when they heard this, and Ge Yan said that they should send someone out to look for him immediately.
Tian Laokou felt that Yun Miao's location could block even the divine messages of a Mahayana cultivator, so how could an ordinary disciple possibly find him? It would be better to find someone who could calculate the exact location first.
Sect Leader Chang thought this made sense and immediately looked at Zuo Beixing, the head of Zhenfeng.
For unknown reasons, very few of the ancient traditions of stargazing, divination, and calculation have been passed down, and this Taoist method is very dependent on talent. Very few can learn it, even fewer can succeed, and even fewer can master it.
It is precisely because of this that the Zhaixing Pavilion, which specializes in stargazing and divination, has such a special status in the world of cultivation.
Although Xuantian Sect's inheritance is broad, it does not include inheritance of divination and calculation. Only Zhenfeng's stargazing technique has some connection with this aspect.
Although it was broad daylight and there was no condition for night-time stargazing, Zuo Beixing was fortunate to have learned the art of divination using yarrow stalks from the people at Zhaixing Pavilion in his early years.
Zuo Beixing did not refuse. He immediately burned incense and washed his hands, then sat cross-legged on the ground and used forty-nine yarrow stalks to tell the hexagram. This step was not difficult; the difficult part was how to interpret the hexagram.
However, just when Zuo Beixing calmed down and tried to interpret the hexagram, a breeze suddenly blew by, scattering the yarrow stalks on the ground in an instant, and the hexagram he had just created was also messed up.
She frowned slightly and glanced at the open palace door in confusion. Seeing this, Sect Master Chang was about to close the palace door, but she stopped him.
Then she burned incense and washed her hands again, and began to tell fortunes.
To avoid making mistakes, she chanted to herself while waving the yarrow this time: "The Great Dao has fifty, the Heavens have forty-nine. Divide it into two to represent two, hang one to represent three, and chop it into four to represent the four seasons..." [Note 1]
However, just as the yarrow was being laid out, another gust of wind blew...
When the third hexagram made with yarrow was blown away by the wind, everyone in the hall fell silent.
Zuo Beixing glanced doubtfully at the cloudless sky outside the palace gate. Then he slowly put away the yarrow and shook his head at Sect Leader Chang.
"The law of divination has always been that the more you calculate the same thing, the more wrong it will be. As the saying goes, things never go wrong more than three times. I am not very knowledgeable, so I am afraid there is nothing I can do to help that child."
Everyone frowned and looked at the sky, feeling heavy in their hearts. It wasn't just that Zuo Beixing was uneducated, it was clearly bad weather!
Three times of divination and three times of wind movement, this phenomenon was so coincidental that it was weird. They knew that the method of divination was mysterious and strange situations often occurred, but this was the first time they had seen such a situation in their thousands of years of life!
They looked at each other and could see that the other had a lot of questions that they wanted to discuss, but the reality was that the Xuantian Palace hall was dead silent and no one directly raised the question.
Zuo Beixing said, "If the Sect Leader is truly anxious...why not ask Elder Yuchen for help?"
Everyone paused, then quickly understood Zuo Beixing's intention. Elder Yuchen had once been a member of the Zhaixing Pavilion, extremely proficient in divination. As a powerful being in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, her perception of the universe was inherently superior to theirs. Perhaps asking her for help would yield a different outcome.
But she is the supreme elder and has been in seclusion in the cave for many years, not caring about worldly affairs. It would not be nice to disturb her rashly.
Sect Leader Chang didn't hesitate at all and immediately suspended the meeting. He would first go and ask Elder Yu Chen to save his poor little disciple.
During this period, Ge Yan first sent people to look for clues along Yun Miao's movements today.
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With the mountain gate in front, the Beast Peak is located behind the Xuantian Sect, and the endless high and dangerous peaks behind the Beast Peak are collectively called the Back Mountain.
So it is called the back mountain. In fact, this area is incredibly large, and few people know that the only supreme elder of their sect and the only powerful person in the Tribulation Crossing Stage lives on an unnamed small peak in the back mountain area.
Sect Master Chang landed on the leeward side of the mountain top. It was a barren place without even a tree, only stones and dead grass all over the ground. It was a wasteland that most Xuantian Sect disciples would not even look down at when passing by from high altitude.
But Sect Leader Chang solemnly straightened his clothes, then bowed to the mottled mountain wall in front of him and loudly explained the purpose of his visit.
The mountain wall didn't respond, and his heart sank. He repeated his purpose loudly twice. Then the mountain wall seemed to crumple, and a hole appeared out of nowhere.
Sect Master Chang was delighted and hurried into the cave.
There was only a bookshelf, a small couch, a desk and a futon in the empty cave, which made people feel a sense of silence and coldness as soon as they entered.
A woman with white hair was sitting on a small couch, holding a storybook, frowning and thinking about something. She gave people the same feeling as this cave, with a sense of emptiness and coldness, without a trace of living people.
Sect Leader Chang asked tentatively, "Uncle Yuchen, are you in a bad mood today?"
The white-haired woman, Elder Yuchen, said calmly, "You don't understand. I'm waiting for time to turn back and for the world to be created."
ah?
Sect Leader Chang subconsciously turned his head to look at the sky outside the cave.
Elder Yuchen placed the notebook on the small couch and said, "Every time you call me Uncle Master in private, something bad is wrong. Now that your own disciple is missing, instead of looking for him, you come to me again."
Sect Leader Chang quickly recounted the story of the broken wooden sword and the yarrow divination, explaining that he had come to his uncle because he was truly in dire straits. His disciple had called Yu Chen "Uncle-Master," meaning, by rounding it off, she was his own disciple-in-law. This was a matter of life and death, so he begged his uncle to save him.
Elder Yuchen looked away and said, "Alright, alright, I didn't say I wouldn't save you. Don't use that old face to show off in front of me. It makes me upset."
Master Chang smiled and did not reply.
Elder Yu Chen closed her eyes and began to calculate, but before she had calculated for long, she let out a light "hmm" and looked at Sect Leader Chang suspiciously.
Sect Leader Chang immediately looked over nervously: "Uncle Master, what's wrong? Can my little disciple be saved?"
Elder Yuchen: "I don't know."
"have no idea?"
Sect Leader Chang's face wrinkled and he slapped his thigh. "It's over, it's over. What kind of horrible place did Xiao Miao end up in? Even you, Uncle Master, can't figure it out. The wooden sword is broken. If there's any more danger, then she's doomed."
"Oh, I told her a long time ago to put down the coffin and stop carrying it around, but she never listened. Now, she finally gets to use it."
"No, if she didn't have time to lie in the coffin before she died, then even though there was a coffin in the storage bag, her bones would be exposed in the wild. This end would be even more miserable."
"No, I want to see her dead or alive. As her master, I can't just leave her alone..."
Sect Leader Chang didn't even bother to say goodbye to Elder Yu Chen, and hurried out to look for clues.
Elder Yuchen stopped him speechlessly, "You're thousands of years old, why are you still so impulsive? No wonder your master said he was worried about you before he died."
She raised her fingers and took a drop of blood from Master Chang's fingertip, then began to calculate again. Although she couldn't predict the girl's current situation, she might be able to indirectly predict her future based on the master-disciple relationship between Chang Suifeng and her.
Her idea was correct. Although the results were vague, she succeeded in the end.
Elder Yuchen opened his eyes and said to Sect Leader Chang, "It's better to be still than to move. You will eventually get what you want."
Sect Leader Chang frowned: "Master, do you mean for me to do nothing?"
Elder Yuchen: "That's what the hexagram says."
Sect Leader Chang frowned and paced around in the cave: "But if I don't do anything, I'll get anxious and angry easily."
Elder Yuchen picked up the storybook again and said, "Then go back to Xuantian Palace to meditate and drink more herbal tea."
Sect Leader Chang began to circle around Elder Yuchen: "But I can't sit still."
Elder Yuchen said calmly, without even looking up, "If your butt itches, go sit on the nail board in the Law Enforcement Hall."
Sect Leader Chang: "But I..."
"That's enough." Elder Yuchen raised his head coldly, his eyes like the endless blizzard in the depths of the North Sea. "If you don't leave, I'll rip out that ugly goatee of yours and use it as a broom."
Master Chang immediately shut up, then quickly left, covering his beard.
"Uncle Master, please take some rest. I will take my leave now."
He walked out of the cave quickly, watching the hole in the mountain wall close impatiently. He couldn't help but stroke his white beard and muttered softly: "How can such a beautiful beard of mine be used as a broom? It's such a waste. It should be used as a whisk... Ouch."
Before he could finish his words, he felt as if his beard was being pulled hard by an invisible big hand, and then several long white strands of beard flew in the wind.
Sect Leader Chang covered his chin in pain, and before he could say anything, he heard a voice ringing in his head.
[I recently accepted a disciple, who is now your close junior apprentice. Please remember to guide him from now on.]
Sect Leader Chang paused. He did not ask Elder Yu Chen, who had been in seclusion in the cave, where she had accepted a disciple, nor did he ask why she suddenly accepted a disciple when she had never accepted a disciple before. He just responded.
[I wonder what your name is, Junior Brother?]
[He said his name was... Chu Beiliang.]
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In the nameless secret realm, a group of people noticed from afar the continuously falling trees in the southeast direction, the huge earth-colored palm print, and the last terrifying sword energy.
"This doesn't seem like something the Yun family could have done."
"Let's go and take a look."
"But that sword energy..."
"No buts. No matter who the enemy is, that thing must be ours."
"The boundary of this ancient secret realm is very fragile, only allowing cultivators below the Jindan stage to enter and exit. Since that cultivator entered and did not burst the secret realm, it means that he must have suppressed his strength to the Jindan stage. We are all at the Jindan stage, so what is there to be afraid of?"
"That's right."
"Now that the young master is still asleep, we will naturally listen to the Poison Lady."
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The author has something to say: Master Chang: My poor disciple! QAQ
Yun Miao, experiencing another sudden enlightenment, asks: Am I pathetic? (Scratching his head in confusion.JPG)
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【Note 1】From the Book of Changes, Xici Shang
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