Chapter 46: Tianlu Pleads for Mercy

Tianlu Pleads for Mercy

One Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit gave Wang Panpan several days of laughingstock. Ruan Ci only pushed that she dreamed of Xie Yanhuan drawing her sword, and she chased her for a whole night, knocking over the spiritual wine she was about to drink. Wang Panpan also believed it deeply. This Dream-Returning Fruit was originally sometimes effective and sometimes not, otherwise Zhou Yanqing would not casually bestow it on outer sect disciples. It had to be carefully prepared with a variety of spiritual medicines and brewed into spiritual wine before it could be said that it might have some effect, but it was also hard to say what the effect was. Some cultivators used it just to live and die in a dream, while some cultivators could comprehend the power of laws from it and comprehend supernatural powers with great power.

However, even if the effect fluctuated, "Great Dream Three Thousand Fields" was still expensive, and all forces competed to buy it, which was also a considerable source of wealth for Changyao Baoguang Heaven. This was because such spiritual objects that could travel through time and see the previous life were extremely rare and hard to find in the universe. And who knew whether the insights that this bottle of wine failed to induce would be visited by the next bottle of wine?

For Ruan Ci, this unjust money did not need to be spent. After a few days, she ate another Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit, but nothing happened. She also had some realization in her heart. It seems that this spiritual object can only be taken once. The next attempt should be after Foundation Establishment. Drink a sip of spiritual wine and see if "Great Dream Three Thousand Fields," brewed from Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit, can induce a strange dream again.

She was also carefully reflecting and summarizing the laws in the strange dream—the origin of this strange dream was now very clear. That day, Xie Yanhuan held her hand and cut down the sword seeds of the world. Thousands of fireflies came one after another and invested in the sword body. Now it seems that these sword seeds were not really completely killed, but just like what she saw that day, the living souls were absorbed into the East Flower Sword and imprisoned.

Ruan Ci read "Yin Lord Pill Song Annotation" in the Junping Prefecture. In Ruan Ci’s view, this intent cultivation method actually contained the law of time to a certain extent. With her current self, she borrowed the memories held by her past self to change today’s cultivation. This mysterious time Great Dao law seemed to trigger the induction of the East Flower Sword. The strange dream she had that night should be the last few days experienced by a sword seed named Chang Chunfeng before Xie Yanhuan collected all the lives with one sword.

After waking up from the dream, Chang Chunfeng’s soul power was probably exhausted, and she didn't know if the true spirit had left the sword body. But the East Flower Sword carried one less soul power, and it was lighter by a negligible trace, just like after waking up from this dream of Qu Pingting, the East Flower Sword was also lighter by a trace. If Ruan Ci hadn't completely refined the East Flower Sword, she wouldn't have been able to feel such a subtle change.

In the dark, she also had a feeling that no matter where the true spirit went, the memories of these two people, the things that could make them them, should not exist at all. It was said that the true spirit of the Dao seeker could not enter reincarnation, and she didn't know where they went if they really left the East Flower Sword. And were the sword spirit fragments originally born in their true spirits gone with them, or were they left by the East Flower Sword, re-refined into the sword body, and made up for the Great Dao deficit?

The precious method is not passed on, and Ruan Ci was not willing to discuss the East Flower Sword with others. She originally suspected that her temperament was affected by the East Flower Sword—usually, Ruan Ci’s personality was gentle and almost never got angry, but once she fought, no matter who the opponent was, she would feel a sense of violence from the bottom of her heart. It was like this when she compared swords with Shuangcheng that day, and it was like this when she fought for fish with Huang Young Master and others in Ningshan Pond. Later, when she encountered an assassination at Catching the Moon Cliff, although there was an element of pretending to be crazy and stupid, using the Central Continent cultivators’ contempt for the Southern Zhuzhou to pretend to be fierce to protect herself, it could not be denied that when she hung the assassin upside down to bleed and hung him high on the pole, she felt an unspeakable satisfaction in her heart, as if the bloodthirsty and murderous side of her personality was satisfied.

However, before she got the sword, in the earth vein, she heard with her own ears that her foster father was executed, and her heart was full of sadness. When she was determined to avenge her family, she didn't think about how to cruelly torture the enemy, just wanted to kill them all. Even after she got the sword, before she refined it, Ruan Ci discussed the enemy with her brother and sister. Ruan Qian and Ruan Rong hated the culprits they identified in their hearts, but Ruan Ci didn't hate to the point of torture. It was just that after refining the East Flower Sword, a bloodthirsty emotion rose as soon as she fought with people. Now there was finally a clue—the East Flower Sword was a spiritual treasure of the Great Dao of Life. It shouldn't carry any fierce evil spirit. Perhaps it was the resentment generated by these living souls collected into the sword body that vaguely affected her state of mind.

If so, the obstacles she encountered when refining the sword could also be explained. Xie Yanhuan didn't mention the difficulties when refining the sword, not because she had already entered the Dao when she refined the sword and could easily pass through, but because she didn't need to refine these extra living souls when she got the sword. The East Flower Sword carried more soul power, so it was naturally more difficult to refine. Ruan Ci felt that the sword body was heavier and heavier as she refined it, and felt that the sword intent was fierce, all related to these sword seed living souls.

Cutting down the sword seeds of the world with one sword, this sentence was so magnificent, but if you have experienced the thoughts of these sword seeds before death, it was a completely different matter. Ruan Ci recalled the scene of Xie Yanhuan collecting all the fireflies in the universe with one sword. In addition to the magnificent spirit and mysterious supernatural powers, she seemed to have experienced the cruelty of treating all things as straw dogs. Wasn't she the biggest victim in this world where the strong live and the weak die?

These things were also not to be thought about deeply. At least at this moment, thinking too deeply only increased troubles. Ruan Ci sighed, and secretly said in her heart, "No wonder all other sword envoys refined the East Flower Sword peacefully, and I haven't heard of anyone dying at this pass. If it weren't for the coincidence that I got the help of the beautiful two insects and the cheap husband, I would have failed at this pass, and might even have been in such a half-dead state forever, falling into a painful cycle, unable to extricate myself. Sister Xie... Sister Xie is one of the heroes of the Langhuan Universe, but she is indeed worthy of the name of a demon. She, she is good to me... but perhaps at some point in the future, my end will be worse than Chang Chunfeng and Qu Pingting."

These were naturally Ruan Ci’s guesses. Whether the resentment of these sword seed living souls could cause such a great impact required reading ghost cultivation methods and classics, and this was not something she could easily obtain now. If the cultivators of the Langhuan Universe encountered a disaster and damaged their physical bodies, they could turn into ghost cultivators. They also had three disasters and six calamities, several major realms, and also had the saying of yin lifespan, and there were relevant classics. But Ruan Ci could not sense the Dao rhyme, and these things had nothing to do with her. Now she closed her doors in the Observing the Wind Mansion, and the only channel for external communication was Tianlu. Tianlu was simple, but there was True Person Wang above Tianlu. Ten years had passed, and in the next ten years, all her peers were about to reach Foundation Establishment. Ruan Ci was still distracted to look at ghost cultivation classics. Whether it was True Person Wang or Wang Panpan, they would scold her a few words if they knew.

For her, the most important thing was Foundation Establishment. This was also the place where Ruan Ci regretted the most—it was not that she really complained that Xie Yanhuan drew her sword early, but she regretted that she was reckless. This fruit should have been eaten a few years later when her Jade Pool was full. Now it was a waste of medicinal effect. She really didn't know where to find the next time spiritual object.

It was hard to find spiritual objects, and that was it. But every time she sensed it, it meant that the soul power of a living soul was completely dissipated, as if it had sucked away the last bit of life of this person. Although these sword seed living souls were cut down by Xie Yanhuan, even if she didn't consume them, they couldn't be revived, and Ruan Ci had to consume living souls for intent cultivation, but she still wanted to avoid wasting living souls as much as possible, which could be regarded as a comfort to her heart.

Why is it that the Jade Pool is full before taking the Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit? This is also a wisdom gained after eating a loss. Ruan Ci recalled the first strange dream at this time. At that time, her physical body had been tempered and reached the extreme of martial arts cultivation before opening her meridians. Chang Chunfeng could not compare with her in terms of physical body, and even if it was spiritual energy, it was only a shallow layer higher than her at that time—he was a loose sect disciple with Qi Refining fourth-layer cultivation, and the difference from mortals was just such a shallow layer.

And that Qu Pingting, Qi Refining perfection, suppressed the realm and did not reach Foundation Establishment, was also a shallow layer higher than Ruan Ci now. This should be the rule that Ruan Ci sensed the East Flower Sword by using time spiritual objects as a medium in the dark, and could only pry the laws and sense the living souls whose cultivation was slightly higher than her own. If she wanted to sense higher, she could no longer do it.

For Ruan Ci, she didn't think she couldn't bear the soul power of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, but this mysterious induction was not something she could choose. She could only rely on the rules she figured out, and this attempt was also very luxurious. Not to mention the living souls, most of the spiritual objects containing the laws of time were rare and expensive, and they could not be used again after being used once, so one could imagine that the number of attempts was limited. The most economical way was to practice to the perfection of each realm, then use spiritual objects, break through the pass with "Yin Lord Pill Song Annotation," and at the same time practice "Qinghua Secret News" to control the East Flower Sword as soon as possible. If she could pick living souls with higher quality in the sword to sense, that would be the best. According to her current understanding of the Dao of cultivation, this would only require two more uses in the perfection of Foundation Establishment and the perfection of Core Formation. As for the perfection of Nascent Soul, even if she could cultivate to that realm, there would be no living souls in the Cave Heaven realm in the East Flower Sword for her to sense.

However, Ruan Ci’s confidence in controlling the East Flower Sword was not enough. Wang Panpan once said that if she could pull out the East Flower Sword in the Core Formation realm, it was already her extraordinary talent. Most sword envoys could only use the East Flower Sword freely in the Nascent Soul period, but this was only using it. This was why sword seeds could only be called sword envoys after getting the sword. If she really controlled the East Flower Sword, like a cultivator refining a treasure, knowing all the prohibitions and using all kinds of wonderful uses like an arm, then she would no longer be a sword envoy, but an East Flower Sword Master.

However, the East Flower Sword was once a Great Dao spiritual treasure, which was at the Dao Ancestor level. Even if it was damaged now, it was a spiritual treasure at the Cave Heaven level and half a layer higher. Wanting to control the East Flower Sword, she had to enter the Cave Heaven to have a glimmer of hope. However, few of the past sword envoys entered the Cave Heaven, which was also a too distant goal for Ruan Ci.

Unable to control the East Flower Sword, she still had to find some protective cultivation methods and treasures in the short term to get rid of the influence of resentment on her temperament as much as possible. All the needs in front of her were real. At this moment, Ruan Ci realized the truth of what Liu Jizi said, and also understood why Wang Panpan always looked at Qu Tanyue differently and wanted to pull a red thread between them. Cultivators’ cultivation had various needs for external objects. Ruan Ci certainly didn't need Foundation Establishment external medicine, but True Person Wang hoped that she would dominate, and to ensure her cultivation speed, the resources she needed were only more than ordinary cultivators. Moreover, the elders had no intention of helping. How to manage her own forces and exchange for cultivation resources was also a compulsory course for prosperous sect disciples.

The external medicine Tianlu gave her was said to be pulled from the warehouse at will, but it could not escape True Person Wang’s eyes. True Person Wang didn't speak, so it could be seen that these benefits were originally for her to cultivate forces. Ruan Ci gave some to Lin Xianen, and she still held a lot in her hand. If she sold them in the market, it would be enough to exchange for a massive amount of spiritual money. Of course, she could also entrust someone to pass the message to Ruan Rong and Ruan Qian, and let them search for spiritual objects. Just as Liu Jizi said, in the cultivation world, the three of them could take care of each other.

It was just that she felt it was not good to disturb, and she could also entrust Lin Xianen to pay attention, or find Qu Tanyue to come over and let him make up for the betrothal gifts—he had already said that he would make up for the betrothal gifts after returning to the Central Continent. If Ruan Ci was a greedy wife, Qu Tanyue should also accept it happily.

After thinking about it, asking Qu Tanyue to make up for the betrothal gifts was the safest. The Profound Soul Sect was also a prosperous sect in the Central Continent, and Qu Tanyue’s true body was a Nascent Soul True Person. Time spiritual objects were rare for Qi Refining cultivators like Lin Xianen, but it was not difficult for him to search for a few. However, Ruan Ci thought for a long time, but she didn't contact Qu Tanyue first, but found a day when Tianlu came to deliver prison food and asked him, "Tianlu, do you want to eat Dream-Returning Fruit?"

Tianlu smiled, "Is it planted by True Person Yanqing? I don't eat it, it’s useless for me to eat it."

He came to deliver some spiritual food every two or three months. After ten years, Ruan Ci was very familiar with him, so she smiled, "Fool, is everything eaten only if it is useful?"

Tianlu blinked, a bit ignorant, "Otherwise? Why should I eat it if it is useless?"

Ruan Ci said, "Things that are useless but delicious can also be eaten."

She still took one for him. Tianlu held the spiritual fruit in his palm and looked at it, full of freshness, and smiled, "So the Dream-Returning Fruit looks like this. I have only seen the records in books, and I haven't seen it with my own eyes."

Ruan Ci asked him why it was useless to eat it. Tianlu said, "Dream-Returning Spiritual Fruit, as the name suggests, can make people dream back to the previous life, or remember the past events that have been forgotten for a long time. But I have no previous life, and no forgotten past events. I remember them all very clearly."

He straightened his thin chest, and his words were very proud. Ruan Ci couldn't help but laugh again and praised, "Tianlu is really amazing, with such a good memory. No wonder there is nothing you don't know."

Tianlu was indeed knowledgeable. According to the greenness in his words and deeds, Ruan Ci guessed that he had read many books. The two talked about time spiritual objects. Tianlu said, "This Dream-Returning Fruit, Miss Ci should collect it well. It is one of the external medicines for cultivators to form a core. When cultivators condense a core, they must understand the past. If their own memory is missing, then the external medicine for forming a core must be added with time spiritual objects. Dream-Returning Fruit is one of the time spiritual objects that is relatively easy to obtain. But even so, this fruit does not have a few plants in the Central Continent, and the selling price in the outside market is extremely high. It matures once every few thousand years. In the future, you keep it to give to friends who want to form a core, isn't it good?"

He also talked about several well-known time spiritual objects in the Central Continent, which were either the treasure of the prosperous sect or the love object in the prosperous sect Cave Heaven. Ruan Ci said, "In our Profound Heaven Sect, is there only this kind of Dream-Returning Fruit?"

Tianlu shook his head and said, "There are others. True Person Xu of the Pure Yang Performing Positive Heaven has an immortal vine, which bears fruit once every ten thousand years. The fruit is then combined with other treasures to refine magic treasures, which is the substitute-life golden bell worn by Miss Shaowei. This treasure can twist karma and avoid a mortal crisis for the owner, and transfer the true body back to an absolutely safe place. However, this immortal vine only bears one fruit in ten thousand years. The last one was refined into a substitute-life golden bell for Miss Shaowei, and the next one will mature in more than two thousand years. Now, even if you go to the Pure Yang Performing Positive Heaven as a guest, you can only see the flowers bloomed by the immortal vine, and you can't see the fruit yet."

Even if it bore fruit, Ruan Ci didn't feel that she could get it. According to Wang Panpan and Qu Tanyue, Xu Shaowei’s position was suspicious, and it seemed that she had a tacit understanding with Yanshan. If she didn't raise the identity of the sword envoy, how could she covet the immortal fruit? If she pointed out her identity, it was undoubtedly seeking her own death. She sighed and said with a bit of sadness, "Why doesn't True Person Wang’s Cave Heaven produce these? The True Person is so poor."

Tianlu covered his mouth with his sleeves and laughed for a while before saying, "How long has the True Person achieved the Cave Heaven? It’s only one or two thousand years. The family background is naturally not as thick as other Cave Heaven ancestors. However, it will be better slowly."

Ruan Ci said, "Oh? Why?"

Tianlu looked at Ruan Ci with his eyes flashing, and smiled innocently, "Because Miss Ci is here."

Ruan Ci thought of the treasures given by the Sect Master to True Person Wang. Those treasures were probably outside the usual offerings. Her heart moved, and she took out the cloud seed that never left her body from her bosom and asked, "Do you recognize what this is?"

Tianlu recognized it at a glance and smiled, "This is the Heavenly Destiny Cloud Seed of the Great Master. The Great Master went to the Southern Zhuzhou to pick up Miss Ci. I don't know how the incarnation was damaged. I thought the cloud seed was lost there. I didn't expect it to be given to Miss Ci—strange, although the Great Master went as an incarnation, there are not many people who can damage him. I really don't know what happened."

Ruan Ci couldn't help but feel a bit ashamed, coughed a few times, and said with a straight face, "Is that so? It seems that there are many things I don't know in those years."

Her affectation was transparent to Wang Panpan, but Tianlu, being entirely innocent, did not notice anything amiss. He pulled Ruan Ci along with great enthusiasm, saying, "Yes, yes, Miss Ci, you don't know, but with the Great Master gone, the situation is actually quite perilous. Originally, the Great Master had an avatar here; if a crisis arose, he could possess it and manifest. But since the avatar was damaged, we have had to rely on True Person Jun to hold the line. If not for True Person Jun’s profound divine arts and his ability to continuously activate the Wind-Calming Chime, those flourishing sects would have come to cause us trouble long ago."

Tianlu usually called True Person Wang, mostly called True Person, occasionally called Lord, and did not call him Great Master. It sounded like this Great Master’s generation was higher, probably the master of the Sect Master and True Person Wang. I don't know why he didn't come out to see her, but let True Person Wang take her in. Ruan Ci had been closed-door cultivating in the Profound Heaven Sect for ten years. Although she had almost never gone out, she was no longer as ignorant of the sect’s internal affairs as before. Hearing Tianlu talk about the turbulent waves thirteen years ago, she thought to herself, "The Sect Master’s line has been low-key and self-defensive for three thousand years since Xie Yanhuan rebelled against the sect. Even when going to the Southern Zhuzhou, only True Person Chen Jun, a Nascent Soul, was sent. It was not until I was brought back from the Southern Zhuzhou that I began to expand my power again. Then these three thousand years, the days must not be very good. True Person Wang achieved the Cave Heaven not long ago, which is the time when the Sect Master’s line is dark and weak. I think the spiritual cave treasures he obtained are not as thick as other Cave Heaven ancestors. The old man at the chess stall sent me to the Purple Void Heaven, and I am afraid there is also the intention to help him. The faster I improve my cultivation, the faster I show my identity as a sword envoy, the smaller the danger of Rong Jie, and the more benefits True Person Wang can get from me."

She ate True Person Wang’s feeding for ten years. Although it was all sent by the Sect Master, Tianlu sent it once, which was a human favor. Now she had to ask for such a precious time spiritual object. Even if Ruan Ci’s face was thick, she felt that she couldn't open her mouth. Now that she thought through the truth, she felt at ease. But she didn't ask directly. The words had been said enough, so she just cultivated with peace of mind in the cave dwelling and didn't mention it.

However, Tianlu returned to the Purple Void Heaven and went to see True Person Wang to report. In the past, he met in that small pavilion, but today he went straight across the sea and landed on an immortal island deep in the sea, jumped onto a huge rock by the sea, and called out in surprise, "True Person, are you out of closed-door meditation?"

It turned out that True Person Wang had been in closed-door meditation here for more than a hundred years. It was just that the Cave Heaven True Person had complicated affairs, and he practiced "Supreme Induction Chapter," so it was most convenient to simulate the distraction. Now this was the first time Tianlu had seen the true body in hundreds of years, so he acted like a spoiled child for a while, then poured tea for the True Person and smiled, "True Person, Miss Ci seems to really want time spiritual objects."

True Person Wang asked, "Did she say the reason?"

Tianlu shook his head and said, "No, but Miss Ci ate a Dream-Returning Fruit, and it seems that she has made a lot of progress. I see that her momentum is full. If the time comes, maybe she can even fill the water in one go and reach Foundation Establishment immediately. Maybe Miss Ci wants to collect more spiritual objects because of this."

True Person Wang laughed and said, "This is not something you can get if you want it. This is a precious thing, not spiritual beast dried meat."

"Although so, Miss Ci can ask the Young Master of the Profound Soul Sect." Tianlu said innocently, "Miss Ci has a Spirit Flower Jade Disc in her hand, which is recorded in the 9,300th volume of the "Central Continent Base Yuan Magic Treasure Directory." It was born in the North Underworld Continent and made of a piece of Spirit Flower Jade obtained by the Profound Soul Sect. Since Miss Ci has the treasures of the Profound Soul Sect in her hand, it can be seen that her friendship with the Profound Soul Sect is very good. If we don't give it, and she asks the Profound Soul Sect for it, wouldn't our Purple Void Heaven be very faceless?"

True Person Wang didn't speak. Tianlu knelt beside True Person Wang, lay on the small table, and looked up, "I remember that in the True Person’s warehouse, there is a treasure gourd from the Western Desolate Continent, which also has the ability to distort time."

True Person Wang raised his hand and chiseled on his forehead, saying, "This is an external medicine that can be used for advancing to Nascent Soul. Give it to a small disciple in the Qi Refining stage? Then what should she use when she advances to Nascent Soul?"

Tianlu covered his forehead and dared not speak anymore. He lowered his head and tapped his feet alternately, his eyes looking around, as if he wanted to find a gap to escape. True Person Wang saw it and was helpless. He thought about it, drank the tea in the cup slowly, and said, "You let her come to me, and I will see her before talking."

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