As the days went by, Chen Sanruo never stopped working. With the "help" of the Ninghua Sect members and Qingluan Fairy, her mental state became exceptionally beautiful.
With about a month left before the Young Sect Master's competition, Chen Sangruo had only a few days of free time to relax a bit.
Su Xiyu was busy preparing her "delicacies" for Song Weiyan to taste. Song Weiyan didn't sit idly by and started chanting his incantation in response to Su Xiyu.
The two of them mainly torment each other.
Bai Ruoan, with her eyes lightly closed, continued to watch the commotion from the sidelines.
However, Shen Sangruo's attention was focused on Ye Huai, who was quietly wiping his broken sword in the corner.
The sword broke off at half its length, but Ye Huai wiped it until it was spotless, and its fierce aura was still evident.
Ye Huai kept the broken sword very well. Except for the time he used it to dig, he always kept it very carefully.
His gaze toward the broken sword was as calm as his entire demeanor, devoid of any other emotions, whether sadness or pain; he simply continued to wipe it clean.
Ye Huai's situation was different from the other three. The reason he could not cultivate was not because of a problem with his body, but because his natal sword was broken, which caused him to develop a mental demon.
To help Ye Huai recover, we must start with this broken sword.
Shen Sanruo collected her thoughts and walked up to Ye Huai. "Senior Brother Ye, what materials is the Nether Shadow Sword made of? Perhaps I can help you find out."
The Shadow Sword is the name of Ye Huai's natal sword.
With Su Xiyu and Song Weiyan recovering one after another, Ye Huai also realized that his junior sister, who was about to join his sect, was indeed exceptionally capable and genuinely wanted to help him.
However, the situation with his sword is different from other swords; it cannot be solved simply by repairing the blade.
"Thank you, junior sister." Ye Huai was about to refuse.
At this moment, Immortal Lord Changli walked in, picked up where he left off, and continued, "Repairing his Nether Shadow Sword is not as simple as just repairing the blade."
The people inside the room greeted Immortal Lord Changli.
Shen Sanruo also looked at him, waiting for him to continue.
Immortal Lord Changli sat down next to them. “The materials used in the Nether Shadow Sword are not rare, so repairing the sword is not difficult.”
"The difficulty lies in restoring the sword spirit within."
Shen Sanruo had heard before that Ye Huai's sword already contained a sword spirit.
When a sword breaks, it also means that the sword spirit has been damaged.
For a sword cultivator, the sword spirit holds extraordinary significance.
However, it is not uncommon for a sword cultivator's natal sword to break in the cultivation world. During battles, accidents are inevitable, which can damage the sword spirit.
Therefore, several top sword cultivators collaborated to develop a technique that could repair the sword spirit while repairing the sword body, and it has been widely used in the cultivation world.
As long as the sword body can be repaired, the sword spirit can also be repaired; this is considered basic common sense in the cultivation world.
However, Immortal Lord Changli said that even if Ye Huai's sword was repaired, the sword spirit could not be restored.
Shen Sangruo's gaze fell on the Netherworld Shadow Sword. "What's so special about Senior Brother Ye's sword and its spirit?"
"This story begins before Ye Huai forged his natal sword."
Ye Huai was a man of few words, so Immortal Lord Changli simply recounted the events of that year for him.
Years ago, Ye Huai accidentally entered the territory of the legendary Nine-Lives Cat clan during a training exercise.
The spirit cat has nine lives, corresponding to the nine tails behind the nine-lived spirit cat.
The nine-lived spirit cat was originally a symbol of good fortune, and finding its territory was an opportunity that cultivators could only dream of.
Ye Huai was overjoyed, looking forward to seeing the legendary Nine-Lives Spirit Cat.
However, when he entered the territory, he saw countless Nine-Lives Cats being brutally slaughtered by a group of evil cultivators.
His senses were overwhelmed by the civet's piercing screams and the thick smell of blood in the air.
What was once a peaceful and tranquil place has turned into a hellish place where rivers of blood flow.
Ye Huai was only in his early twenties at the time, and this scene undoubtedly had a strong impact on him.
Fortunately, thanks to the magical artifact given to him by Immortal Lord Changli, he was not discovered by the evil cultivators.
Only after the group of evil cultivators left the territory of the Nine-Lives Spirit Cat did Ye Huai numbly emerge from behind his hiding place.
The entire clan of nine-lived spirit cats had been brutally murdered, and broken tails could be seen everywhere. The tragedy was so profound that even Ye Huai, an unrelated person, couldn't help but feel a lump in his throat.
After confirming that the evil cultivators would not return, Ye Huai cleaned up and buried the corpses of the Nine-Lives Spirit Cats one by one.
In the most devastating areas, the nine-lived spirit cats were piled up almost like a small mountain.
Ye Huai suppressed the emotions surging in his heart and remained silent, only repeating the actions of separating and burying the corpses.
When Ye Huai reached the bottom, he discovered a nine-lived spirit cat cub with a faint aura.
They also realized that it was its own kind who had built an impregnable wall with their bodies, risking their lives to protect it.
Ye Huai quickly fed it a few pills, and after a while, the cub finally woke up.
From its mouth, Ye Huai learned that the patriarch of the Nine-Lives Spirit Cat clan had died unexpectedly, and evil cultivators had taken advantage of the situation. It was the patriarch's last bloodline and the new patriarch.
It watched as its kin were slaughtered by evil cultivators, and as the clan leader, it was powerless to do anything about it. It even had to rely on its kin to protect it with their own flesh and blood. Hatred filled its eyes.
Ye Huai wanted to take it back to Ninghua Sect for treatment, but it refused.
It was already seriously injured, and coupled with the grief and anger of its clan's annihilation, it was at its last gasp.
It recognized Ye Huai as a sword cultivator and made a deal with him. It gave up reincarnation and offered its nine-lived spirit cat soul to become his sword spirit, while he would avenge them.
It concentrated its soul into a bone, then forcibly removed the bone and handed it to Ye Huai, every action filled with hatred for the evil cultivator.
Ye Huai vowed to fight those evil cultivators to the death for the rest of his life. He then returned to Ninghua Sect and added the bone to the sword-forging materials to create his natal sword, the Nether Shadow Sword.
That Nine-Lives Cat had a pure bloodline and powerful spiritual energy. It also carried the resentment of the entire Nine-Lives Cat clan being slaughtered. Ye Huai grew stronger rapidly in a very short time and became famous far and wide.
After this incident, Ye Huai's temperament gradually became calmer, and he became less talkative.
The sword spirit that emerged from the sword was none other than the nine-lived spirit cat. Together they searched for the traces of the evil cultivators and killed several of them under the Nether Shadow Sword.
Then came the great upheaval in the Ninghua Sect.
The person who broke the Shadow Sword seemed to have discovered the secret, using special methods to imprison the Nine-Lives Cat's soul and continuously weaken its soul power.
At first, Ye Huai could still sense the presence of the Nine-Lives Spirit Cat, but later, the Nine-Lives Spirit Cat's soul had weakened to the point that it fell into a deep sleep.
"Therefore, the most important thing in repairing the Shadow Sword is to repair the soul of the Nine-Lives Cat." Immortal Lord Changli sighed softly.
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