[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-borrowing-the-sword":3,"chapter-borrowing-the-sword-borrowing-the-sword-chapter-16":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Borrowing the Sword",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2214581,3888,"Chapter 16: Killing Husband to Bring Good Luck","borrowing-the-sword-chapter-16",16,"\u003Cp>Killing Husband to Bring Good Luck\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sword intent surged, piercing through every inch of flesh and blood in her body in an instant, not even sparing her sea of consciousness. The visualization image that was slowly unfolding was shattered by the sword Qi, and the excruciating pain penetrated her bones and flesh. But in the next second, the visualization image was drawn by Ruan Ci again. In just a few breaths, she 'packed' the surging sword intent into the scabbard, resisting the unruly impact of this sword intent. This time, the scabbard persisted for a cup of tea before being destroyed by the sword intent. Ruan Ci endured the pain of the sword intent penetrating her body and condensed the visualization image again. She practiced the visualization image faster and faster, and the visualization image supported longer and longer, but she felt a bad feeling in her heart—by now, the improvement of the scabbard was getting slower and slower, as if it was about to reach its limit, while the sword Qi surging in her body was more than what the scabbard could accommodate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as there was a trace of sword Qi outside, the visualization image would be shattered. At this moment, she could gradually sense the thousands of pains in her body, but because there was sword Qi, she couldn't control her body. Ruan Ci knew she was in a very dangerous situation: if her spirit was exhausted and she stopped visualizing, she could now feel the pain in her body, but it was fine for a moment. If she stopped, the pain would distract her, and she might not be able to enter meditation again. This state of being neither dead nor alive would continue forever. But if she was always in a state of visualization, the vitality in her body would not be enough to nourish her spirit continuously, and she would eventually die from exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the two children had been replenishing her vitality, but it was hard to imagine this would continue forever. Once the large pot ran out of firewood, Ruan Ci's own physical foundation would be used as food. At that time, if she didn't want to die immediately, she could only give up visualization and stay in extreme pain forever, living neither dead nor alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was too much sword Qi, or perhaps she should find a way to compress the sword Qi in the scabbard to make it purer, so that it could accommodate more sword Qi, or perhaps polish the sword Qi already loaded into the scabbard to make it tighter. However, Ruan Ci had never learned any method of controlling Qi, so she couldn't even draw inferences from other cases, and she didn't have the extra energy to ponder and try. She could only be in a cycle of pain again and again. She could only sense the situation outside during the time when the scabbard had loaded the sword Qi and the sword Qi that had not yet been leaked outside had not yet destroyed it. She also knew about Young Master Yue and their so-called 'worshiping the hall'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was still young and had no desire for men and women. Whether she was betrothed to the Song Crown Prince or worshiping the hall with Young Master Yue, Ruan Ci had no waves in her heart. She liked the betrothal gift given by Young Master Yue very much. The Linghua Jade contained extremely pure spiritual energy. The spiritual power was so thick that it couldn't even be described as spiritual energy, as if it had turned into tangible light. No wonder it was called Linghua Jade. Originally, as soon as she left the large pot, she immediately felt her physical essence begin to be consumed, but after the Linghua Jade fell into her hand, spiritual power surged in frantically, and she immediately felt full of spirit, using this power to visualize the sword scabbard, praying and wishing, only hoping that the scabbard could accommodate more sword Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that her spirit was the most vigorous this time, and the scabbard she visualized was the most complete, even the sun, moon, and stars on the sword body had a trace of divine charm. This time, the scabbard swallowed like a whale, actually absorbing all the sword Qi in her body, scouring her limbs and bones, and it seemed there was no omission. The sword Qi inside and outside the scabbard was kept in a delicate balance. Ruan Ci was overjoyed, and just as she breathed a sigh of relief, her heart sank—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all the sword Qi was absorbed, it didn't know where it emerged from, and in that existence and non-existence, another faint sword Qi emerged, which seemed extremely weak and difficult to grasp, and even the scabbard couldn't absorb it, and it seemed to be everywhere, filling all the space in her body, making her soul unable to completely combine with her body. As the suction of the scabbard gradually weakened, there was no doubt that this trace of sword Qi would tear through the fragile visualization image again, making everything return to the starting point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci had a faint feeling in her heart that this trace of sword Qi, no matter how many times it came back, the scabbard couldn't absorb it. Even though her will was firm, she still couldn't help but feel a trace of despair. Just at this moment, she felt a coolness at her fingertips, as if there was some channel connected to her body, and that trace of sword Qi was attracted and surged out of her body, immediately relieving her crisis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This trace of sword Qi was extremely weak to begin with, as if it existed or not. After most of it surged out, the channel closed suddenly, but there was not much left. Ruan Ci's soul sank, and for the first time in several months, she truly returned to her body, but it seemed that there was still a thin light gauze separated, and she needed to mobilize great spirit to act. Fortunately, her spiritual intent could see the scene in the cave, seeing Xiunu fall to the ground, Linu turning into red mist and entering Young Master Yue's sleeve. She knew in her heart that I'm afraid only Young Master Yue could accommodate this last trace of sword Qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she grew up in a deep boudoir, the wedding customs of the Song people were different from other countries, and she didn't know what the red silk wedding dress meant, but she knew the address between husband and wife, so she couldn't help but call out, \"Hus... band... you... come... over...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She walked staggeringly toward Young Master Yue, but Young Master Yue's figure was much more flexible. He dodged Ruan Ci with a flash, laughing in his mouth, \"Wife, although you and I are already husband and wife, I don't know your fragrant name yet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could clearly escape, but he never left, nor did he open the distance, just staying within reach of Ruan Ci, dodging left and right, just not letting Ruan Ci touch him. Ruan Ci walked hard, swaying, and Young Master Yue would occasionally help her through her clothes so she wouldn't fall. He was not very serious in his mouth, but he was very gentlemanly in his actions. His fingers touched and retracted, and he wouldn't take the opportunity to take advantage of Ruan Ci.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci already felt that the sword Qi in her body gradually had signs of losing control again. She didn't consider it so thoroughly anymore. She only felt that the connection between her soul and body was gradually thinning, and she was about to leave her body again, which made her anxious. If it weren't for the insufficient connection with her body, she would almost shed tears, just begging, \"Hus—band—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Young Master Yue originally looked like a woman, with a gentle expression. He didn't care about how the two children made trouble. At this time, seeing Ruan Ci's situation was very bad, he stood by and watched, his lips showing a joyful smile. He raised a finger against his bright red lips and said gently, \"Shh, if you don't want to say your name, forget it—I'll come to see you later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While speaking, his figure retreated rapidly, withdrawing to the door. Ruan Ci was anxious in her heart, secretly saying, \"This person is so cunning! He didn't leave just now because he wanted to consume my heart power. Now that he knows I can't support it, he is afraid that I will fight hard and bring some variables, so he wants to leave temporarily and come back after my soul leaves my body again. By that time, as long as he takes away the Linghua Jade, I can only be neither dead nor alive and let him manipulate me. Even if I keep the jade, it will only reduce the time I suffer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although she already understood Young Master Yue's strategy, she couldn't control her body at this time, so no matter how anxious she was, it was useless. Watching Young Master Yue's figure flicker, he had already reached the door, when suddenly a light 'meow' sound was heard. Young Master Yue seemed to have been hit by something, flying back like a comet and falling beside Ruan Ci. Ruan Ci couldn't help but be overjoyed, \"Panpan! She really didn't die!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Young Master Yue covered his chest with one hand, his expression suspicious, wanting to climb up, but couldn't help spitting out a mouthful of blood. He coughed a few times before he wanted to speak, but his face changed, as if he had been lifted by someone grabbing his collar. He stood up involuntarily, like a puppet on strings, and opened his arms to Ruan Ci, making a hugging posture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci walked toward him staggeringly. Both of them knew the situation in their hearts. Young Master Yue looked up at the cave ceiling, his breathing calmed down a bit, and he didn't struggle anymore, but looked at Ruan Ci and smiled, \"Wife, so stingy? You took the betrothal gift, and you still won't tell me your fragrant name?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who look good finally take some advantage. Ruan Ci was looked at by him, and her heart softened. She secretly thought: \"He is right. In fact, he had many opportunities to take away the jade just now. If he did that, I would only be able to lie down, and I wouldn't be able to support it until now. This betrothal gift is finally useful to me, and I accepted it. If I don't even say my name, it seems I am very stingy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said softly, \"Ruan... Ci—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she couldn't support it anymore and fell toward Qu Tan Yue. Qu Tan Yue caught her, his eyes brightened, and he smiled, \"Ruan Ci, good name.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised Ruan Ci's hands holding the jade, wrapped them in his palms, looked at Ruan Ci, and gently lowered his head, printing his lips on her fingertips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci looked at him, opened her mouth to shout, but no sound came out. The last trace of sword intent rolled over her whole body, and the visualization image was like a small boat in the rough waves, constantly bumping and shaking, almost being torn by the sword intent. She could only do her best to pour the sword intent into the place where the two were connected, and pour it into the opened channel. The sword intent that seemed to exist or not, really wanted to pour out, but it seemed endless. She really didn't know if Qu Tan Yue could bear it. If he couldn't bear it, how would it end?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the sword intent was endless, but Qu Tan Yue's body also seemed to be a bottomless abyss. No matter how much sword intent, he took it all, and it couldn't be filled. She didn't know how much time had passed before Ruan Ci's legs softened, and she fell into his arms further, finally feeling her limbs flexible, no longer hindered by sword intent, and her soul and body were combined again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a 'ding' sound, the jade rolled to the ground, because Ruan Ci had just returned to her body, her limbs were soft, and she had no strength to hold it, and the magic power supported by Qu Tan Yue was no longer there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci looked up, Qu Tan Yue's eyes were still looking at her, but there was no spirit in his eyes, just like Xiunu just now. Colorless sword brilliance gradually bloomed in his body, illuminating him from head to toe, so bright that it couldn't be looked at directly. Ruan Ci turned her face away, raised her hand to cover it, only feeling that the cave was getting brighter and brighter, like daylight, and finally it suddenly brightened and then suddenly dimmed. Looking back, only a white shirt, a piece of jade, and Qu Tan Yue's faint voice remained on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wife, your husband is called Qu Tan Yue, you owe me a life, don't forget, don't lose the things I gave you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiunu and he should be in the same cultivation realm, but after being poured with sword intent, he couldn't even say a word. Qu Tan Yue could leave such a sentence before he died, which shows his cultivation. Ruan Ci felt lost, fell to the ground, and it took a long time to climb up, pick up the jade, and pick up the white shirt and put it aside. A few insect corpses fell out of the white shirt's sleeve. She said, \"Ah, did Linu die too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Linu and Xiunu brought her here without any good intentions, it was thanks to them steaming and boiling her for three months that Ruan Ci was able to cultivate the visualization image so quickly. She naturally didn't like these two children, but she didn't hate them too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Dead? The blood-line golden insects of the Xuan Po Sect, how can they be so easy to die.\" Wang Panpan appeared at the cave entrance at some point, walked in slowly, and pointed to the ground, \"They escaped long ago.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci looked closely and really saw a hole in the ground, and could still see many faint blood-red silk threads, as if they were traces left by insects crawling. She asked, \"Is this Xuan Po Sect famous? —Panpan, have you always been by my side?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While speaking, she went to check the guests, all of whom were fainted on the ground, and there were red lines extending from their nostrils into the ground. Ruan Ci said, \"Ah, it seems Xiunu really didn't die. Then we have to guard against them finding Qu Tan Yue's true body. Well, the true body can't arrive within a few years, but the Xuan Po Sect may have other sect members here. If they find someone, they might make a comeback.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your brain is getting better and better.\" Wang Panpan walked to her side, jumped onto her lap, and looked at her, \"Not seen for a few months, you have grown taller. It seems the Xuan Po Sect is not bad to the Young Madam, they must have spent a lot of spiritual pills and medicines on you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One person and one cat said goodbye to the situation. Ruan Ci only then knew that Wang Panpan didn't leave her, but that the sword intent in her body was overflowing. The sword intent of the Donghua Sword was harmless to those who couldn't sense it, just like Ruan Ci couldn't feel the weight of the Donghua Sword at first. The more you understand, the more terrifying it is. Wang Panpan couldn't stay around Ruan Ci at all, so she had to hide in the distance and take care of her secretly. As for the one killed by the ancestor of the Chan Guang Sect, as Ruan Ci thought, it was naturally a phantom that Wang Panpan made up at will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Wang Panpan, the Wan Xiong Sect kidnapping Ruan Ci was like a joke, and even Xiunu and Linu were not a match for one blow. However, they were willing to nourish Ruan Ci's foundation, and Wang Panpan was happy to see it, even taking the opportunity to take a nap. She originally thought that the two insects, Xiu and Li, would wait for the great cultivators of the Central Continent to set foot in South Zhuzhou, and then take Ruan Ci to find the Young Master. At that time, if Ruan Ci hadn't passed the hurdle, she would make other plans. But she didn't expect that Qu Tan Yue had hidden an incarnation in South Zhuzhou at some point. By coincidence, it was to bring good luck to Ruan Ci, causing her to leak the sword intent she couldn't control, and instead, by a stroke of luck, she practiced the Donghua Sword to be as big or small as she wanted, and as light or heavy as she wanted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci also wanted to tell Wang Panpan about the changes in her body and the danger of the situation, but she didn't know how. As long as her thoughts moved there, she couldn't speak. Wang Panpan said, \"Precious techniques are not passed on. You can't say it, so you can't tell others. No wonder there have been so many Sword Envoys over the years, and none of them have ever mentioned this hurdle. However, everyone's situation is different. Maybe they are not as dangerous as you, it's hard to say.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She jumped off Ruan Ci, walked a few steps, squatted down and looked into the distance, sighing like an old man, \"You have seen it too, even the Xuan Po Sect has long ago laid pieces in South Zhuzhou. Three years later, when the Heavenly Boat from the Central Continent docks, I'm afraid the weirdness will be even better than today.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci had been curious for a long time, so she hurriedly asked, \"Panpan, is the Xuan Po Sect a major demon sect in the Central Continent? I heard Xiu and Li and Young Master Yue talking, it seems they don't care about the famous righteous sects, they are just afraid of the Yanshan Demon Lord, and they also said that Xie Jie is the Dao companion of the Yanshan Demon Lord. What is going on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Panpan sighed, \"Thanks to you being the Donghua Sword Envoy! Otherwise, can these names be easily mentioned? Whether it is the Xuan Po Sect Master or the Yanshan Demon Lord, they are all big figures who can feel it when their names are called. It is only by relying on the Donghua Sword to suppress the luck that you can call them by their names directly. Forget it, since you have successfully refined the Donghua Sword, you can be considered a proper Donghua Sword Envoy. It is time for you to know these things.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying this, she slowly said a passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Updated, sorry for the wait, I will continue to send a red envelope for this chapter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing everyone say that there is a taste of strange novels, yes, because it is a cultivation novel, it is fun to be different from reality!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also saw in the comments yesterday that some parts of this article reminded her of \"Avenue Contention\". Yes, yes, I have also read this book. I think it is very good until the Mountain and Sea Realm, but the later stage is a bit too boring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition, I ate braised beef for lunch today, which is also very delicious. I'm going to eat, heart!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>. Thanks to the little angels who cast overlord votes or irrigated nutrient solution for me between 2020-07-07 12:05:56 and 2020-07-08 12:07:00~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angels who cast grenades: Yu Wanyao (1 each);\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angels who cast landmines: Fox has no tail, Zhen (2 each); I am your father, Li Heping (1 each);\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angels who irrigated nutrient solution: Cang Yan Xia Bai Ou, Relalin, Super Concentrated Tea, 36354214, Dao Dao (10 bottles each); Ye Meng Jia De (8 bottles); Shoe Heel (7 bottles); Sidewalker (5 bottles); Su Mu Xing (3 bottles); Chang Xi, Cheng Bi, Yzac, Spadezc, 21699986 (1 bottle each);\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you all very much for your support, I will continue to work hard! ===== CHAPTER 18 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",3422,"2026-06-17T08:48:53.797Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","5c77f2c8557a70797837b78953f05aaadae7b0378b3011f2d4ff7846fba9d28e","borrowing-the-sword-chapter-17","borrowing-the-sword-chapter-15",286,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fborrowing-the-sword-cover.jpg"]