[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-borrowing-the-sword":3,"chapter-borrowing-the-sword-borrowing-the-sword-chapter-93":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},2214658,3888,"Chapter 93: Phoenix Flying","borrowing-the-sword-chapter-93",93,"\u003Cp>Phoenix Flying\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Nascent Soul realm is already like this, who can support the Cave Heaven realm?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci couldn't help but be shocked in her heart. Li Pingyan and Junior Brother Fan couldn't even stay for a moment, which surprised her, but Shen Qi couldn't stay either, which made her feel a trace of ominousness in her heart: for Ruan Ci, if everyone retreated in the face of difficulties here, then her trip was equivalent to failure. She could live and get out, but Li Pingyan and Junior Brother Fan would undoubtedly die in Hengze Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Xiao Su's expression was uncertain, but after a while, his face gradually stabilized. Ruan Ci breathed a sigh of relief and turned to ask. \"Senior Sister Mu, how are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention the Nascent Soul and Cave Heaven realms, even the omnipotent perception of the Dao Ancestor realm, Ruan Ci had not experienced it. This trace of illusion in front of her was actually very easy to see through, and she didn't even need to use the Donghua Sword to suppress it, she could handle it herself. Probably because she knew the true essence of this world, so this place was always mostly empty to her, and it was entirely relying on the silver hairpin to force a connection to walk to such a depth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The inner-scene heaven and earth is like this, between true and false. She knew it was illusory, so there was no real danger, and therefore she gained nothing. Others were more affected, not because their temperament was not as good as Ruan Ci's, but even so, Ruan Ci felt that Senior Sister Mu had some difficulty walking to now. Her strength was similar to Li Pingyan's. Li Pingyan couldn't even persist for an instant, but Senior Sister Mu vomited three mouthfuls of blood, forcibly stabilized, and could move forward. Her face was pale, and she smiled with effort, \"Let the Junior Brother worry, I have some insights into illusion techniques, even if I can't help much, but going forward is death, and going back is death, I would rather move forward.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci didn't ask anymore and stood up, \"Go!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had learned the rules. The longer they stayed here, the more the illusion array would gradually deduce the Dao contention battlefield of the past. In the Golden Core realm, everyone had no guard, and after adjusting their breathing for a long time, the battlefield deduced was extremely real, almost costing a few lives. In this Nascent Soul battlefield, not to mention a fierce wind flying towards them, even the aftermath of a fight a thousand miles away could cost their lives. Therefore, the three of them did not dare to delay for too long, and did not dare to open their hearts and talk loudly. They all restrained their thoughts, not a single thought arose, and ran forward along the refined gold road under their feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world around them gradually evolved. From both sides of the refined gold road, the ground expanded bit by bit. The three of them were scalp-numb, and Xiao Su urged repeatedly, \"Fast, fast!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three of them changed from running fast to flying. They finally reached the Nascent Soul realm. The Dao City seemed to be smaller than before. Soon they came to the high platform again and climbed up. The heavy pressure borne this time was the same as before, but the three of them were already dealing with it with ease. It seemed that after several experiences just now, their strength had increased unknowingly. After another two hours, the cliff face appeared again on the endless high platform. Ruan Ci glanced at Senior Sister Mu, hesitated for a moment, but did not speak to persuade her again. She kicked her feet and flew onto the fifth level of the high platform.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place was the real Dao foundation damage sensed by Monk Xiu. Hengze True Person's original twelve-level Dao foundation was cut off by seven levels, and only five levels remained in the remnants of the inner-scene heaven and earth. And the Dao Ancestor realm, once fallen, could never manifest power again. In the end, the inner-scene heaven and earth could only correspond to a great realm with one level to simulate the illusion array. Logically speaking, this place should be the end of the illusion. The final goal of Ruan Ci and the others was to find the Dew-Bearing Plate on this high platform. The bright pearl in the Dew-Bearing Plate represented the core of the illusion. Only then could they truly master the illusion array, allow themselves to move freely on the five-level high platform, switch worlds, and find the battle opportunity as a controller to reverse it. The moment True Person Hengze fell, it was the moment the Hengze Jade Dew was born. At that time, even if the aftermath of the battle collapsed the heaven and earth, it would not hurt the controller hiding in the illusion array to observe. Otherwise, if they waited for a while in the Golden Core battlefield, they might be killed, and the Nascent Soul and Cave Heaven battlefields would not be able to survive, and there was no possibility of waiting for the Jade Dew to be born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Dew-Bearing Plate, as the core of the illusion array, could not be hidden. Just like the exchange of strength in the momentum field during the battle, the chess players must have strengths and weaknesses. The illusion array was the same, there must be truth in the illusion, and it must also make an exchange with the array breaker. As soon as Ruan Ci's feet stepped on the ground, the Cave Heaven illusion permeated from her consciousness. She moved her heart and suppressed the illusion—compared with the five senses of the Nascent Soul, the Cave Heaven five senses had completely different changes. If the five senses of the Foundation Establishment stage were like words on paper, the Golden Core stage five senses were like a thick book, and the Nascent Soul stage five senses were like a real scene in the heart, then the five senses of the Cave Heaven stage seemed to return to fragments, each of which was a detailed real scene of a certain period, which could be infinitely indulged with enough spiritual sense. For cultivators who were not familiar with it, this change in five senses was the most powerful weapon, but for Ruan Ci, it was not worth mentioning. In the illusion, she even transformed into a Dao Ancestor, and the five senses of the Dao Ancestor looking at all things were very different from the Cave Heaven. At this time, such a change was just a laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She seized the time to look around, looking for the trace of the Dew-Bearing Plate in a piece of pure white. Senior Sister Mu and Xiao Su also climbed up behind her. Both were struck by lightning. Senior Sister Mu immediately hugged her head and screamed, \"Ah——————\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her sharp voice echoed in this blank pure-colored heaven and earth, just like the howling of a monster. Blood was flowing from her mouth, and more visceral fragments emerged. Soon, jade fragments fell from between the visceral fragments, fell to the ground and turned into spiritual energy, and in an instant, her Dao foundation was shattered by the Cave Heaven illusion, and she died without even leaving a last word!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci knew she couldn't be saved with just one look. This woman relied on her deep attainments in illusion techniques and could control the illusion, but she didn't expect that her own courage could not support her ambition. In the end, she had only climbed to the Cave Heaven level for an instant before her body was exploded by that trace of Cave Heaven perception!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, sentimentality was useless, and she didn't have time to think carefully. She used two things at once, searching for the Dew-Bearing Plate while reaching out to hold Xiao Su who was about to jump off the high platform, and shouted, \"Give me the scroll, hold on!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Su's body kept trembling, black blood overflowed from his lips, his eyes were godless, and he looked like he was already finished. He made a hoarse sound, and he didn't even seem to understand Ruan Ci's words. Ruan Ci held him in her hand and shouted in his ear, \"Hey! You don't want to sell it to me yet! Give me a scroll quickly! I want to draw a black and white bear!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This remark seemed to touch the memory. Xiao Su gathered his spirit with effort and took out a Qiankun bag from his arms, but he had no strength to hand it to Ruan Ci. The Qiankun bag fell on his belly. Ruan Ci took it, turned it over and poured out a pile of scrolls, picked one at random, and injected the memory of her first meeting with Qing Jun, just like praying to the scroll, letting the scroll simulate the charm of Qing Jun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This prayer turned into wisps of black energy, floating towards Xiao Su's nose. As soon as it entered his nose, Xiao Su's body shook, and the uncontrollable trembling eased a lot. But the scroll obviously couldn't support the Dao Ancestor-level charm, and it just burned sparks from somewhere on the edge in an instant. Ruan Ci hurriedly carried Xiao Su on her back, put away the scroll, ran forward while shouting, \"Don't stop your magic, I have more if the scroll burns out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Su's head slipped in front of Ruan Ci's shoulder, his black hair lightly scratching her face, his breathing was thick and turbid, and there was still a thick smell of blood, but since he started absorbing the black energy, he had stabilized a lot. After a while, he sprayed a mouthful of blood, finally stopped the trembling trend, and breathed a long, rough breath from his chest, making a clucking sound, just like waking up from drowning, coughing and saying, \"So, so it's you, so it's Junior Sister Ci.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't know why, being called out, Ruan Ci's figure became much smaller, only the appearance on her face was covered by a mask, and it remained unchanged. However, at this time, there were only two people, and they knew each other's identity, so this mask actually lost its meaning, so she took it off at will and put it into the Qiankun bag, saying, \"Yes, I recognized you, you didn't recognize me, I won.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said this just to ease the atmosphere, and Xiao Su was also very supportive, laughing while panting, and saying in her ear, \"You really—really are a sword envoy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The secret of the Cave Heaven, just a trace, made Senior Sister Mu explode, Xiao Su was seriously injured, but Ruan Ci was still fine. This was naturally because she had the Donghua Sword to cover her, and she had long experienced higher-level illusions, so she would be indifferent to this. Ruan Ci said, \"Humph, why, do you have suspicions early on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Su had long hands and long feet, and it was inconvenient to hang down. Ruan Ci was talking while wrapping him on her body. He coughed and said, \"Shen, that big fool Shen Qi, wants to fight with you so much, and, and has deep affection for you. His sword heart is pure, will be, will be affected...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci knew what he meant, \"Don't talk too much, spend more energy maintaining magic power, we must find the Dew-Bearing Plate first, otherwise it's useless for you to go down.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, if Xiao Su hadn't taken out the Qiankun bag just now, he would have died long ago. Ruan Ci didn't let him escape, wanting him to stay and find the Dew-Bearing Plate. This approach might kill him a few months early, but Xiao Su didn't seem to care, but smiled and said, \"You, you are not afraid that I won't keep the secret for you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci said casually, \"I am afraid, so don't talk nonsense.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, she had another choice, and that was to kill Xiao Su here after getting the Dew-Bearing Plate. However, this kind of thing was easy to do but hard to say, and Ruan Ci would definitely not say it like this. Xiao Su seemed to see through her thoughts. He had no strength to mobilize his limbs at this time, turned his head and bit her earlobe with effort, panting and warning, \"Don't think about killing me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruan Ci said stubbornly, \"If you didn't say it, I wouldn't have thought about it—found it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dew-Bearing Plate appeared in the distance in a piece of pure color. Ruan Ci ran towards the Dew-Bearing Plate and soon reached it. It turned out that this Dew-Bearing Plate was placed on the other side of the high platform, almost the farthest distance from them. This Dew-Bearing Plate was majestic in the illusion, with a bright pearl spinning in the plate, which was as dazzling as the sun, but at this time it was just a basin, all three feet were cut off, and it was half-tilted on the ground. In a pill of spiritual liquid, there was half a dim residual pearl. Ruan Ci was also tongue-tied when she saw it. It turned out that all the illusion arrays in Hengze Heaven only relied on this half a pearl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scroll in her hand had burned more than half, and the black energy dissipated was becoming thinner and thinner, and Xiao Su's breathing gradually became urgent again. Ruan Ci didn't dare to delay, first reached out to catch it, and sure enough, she couldn't touch the Dew-Bearing Plate, so she hurriedly put him down, \"Fast! Take the pearl and give it to me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Su looked at her and didn't move. Ruan Ci said helplessly, \"Okay, okay, you don't sell me out first, I won't kill you, don't bargain anymore, go get the pearl quickly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Su raised a tiny arc at the corner of his lips, and his voice was extremely light, \"I... have no spiritual power... can't move...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turned out not to be bargaining, but powerlessness. Ruan Ci didn't know if what he said was true or false, so she had to press her finger against her brow to inject a trace of spiritual power into him. Xiao Su closed his eyes slightly, as if squeezing out the last bit of strength, and his fingers trembled and lifted up, bent over, and picked up the residual pearl. This touch was another trembling. Ruan Ci couldn't wait, took the residual pearl from his hand, spit out palm power, and sent Xiao Su out of the cliff face, falling down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost at the same time, the black energy lingering on the scroll flourished, burning all the remaining scrolls. The black smoke flew towards Xiao Su like a thread. Ruan Ci was slightly relieved to see this, and felt a little regretful. In this way, Xiao Su should not die. Once he left the entanglement of the Cave Heaven illusion, he could control the mental method and collect the black smoke. He wouldn't leak any benefits. The magic sect disciples were really as smart as ghosts—he didn't die, she was still quite happy, after all, they had cooperated for so long, but it meant that before the Hengze Heaven matter was finished, she had another trouble to deal with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know if it's from Yanshan or whose family... I haven't asked yet...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She muttered a word and stopped thinking about it. She stared at the residual pearl for a while, rubbed it a few times, took a breath, and injected spiritual energy into it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, there was no feeling, only feeling that the residual pearl was constantly devouring spiritual energy, just like a bottomless pit. But when the spiritual energy was injected to a certain extent, Ruan Ci only felt her heart beating wildly, and even her sea of consciousness and Dao foundation were vibrating faintly. If it weren't for the Donghua Sword's suppression, she would have been injured in her meridians. This vibration was very regular, as if a giant thing was swallowing and spitting, bringing heaven and earth tides. Unknowingly, she had been breathing and exhaling with this rhythm. The next moment, she only heard a loud bang, and the tidal wave rolled over. She seemed to be brought into the deep sea by the spiritual energy tide of the Baoyun Sea again, falling into the deep sea, with silence in her ears, only her heartbeat like a drum. In the thumping sound, the heaven and earth were upside down. With every blink of an eye, it darkened and brightened, but every blink was a brand new heaven and earth. In the opening of her eyes, the sun and moon changed, thousands of years passed in an instant, and countless infinite memories came one after another, as if to fill the sea of consciousness, but upon closer inspection, it was a piece of nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a pair of eyes, only countless worlds were seen, but the clearest one was the infinite battlefield. Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Cave Heaven, all were full of war. Ruan Ci knew the general idea at a glance, but could not pay attention to the details. The Foundation Establishment battlefield was indeed determined, and it was much better than the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Ancestor. However, in the Golden Core battlefield, the war was stalemate, and in the Nascent Soul and Cave Heaven disputes, the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Ancestor had been constantly gaining the upper hand, and the winning momentum was gradually formed, which was difficult to reverse. The reason was as simple as what Ruan Ci had thought before: the high-level combat power of a lineage like True Person Hengze must be rare. After all, every time a cultivator reincarnates, they cannot guarantee to return to the original realm, and the higher the realm, the longer the cultivation time required. Under the situation of constant loss of lower-level elites in the Dao contention, the brave fighting style brought by the reincarnation of the Hengze lineage will inevitably cause high-level elites to gradually lose. Over time, it will cause a gap in numbers. Even if the numbers are equal, individual combat power and temperament cannot be compared with that of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Ancestor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The last point, Ruan Ci had no real evidence, but she felt in her heart that it was so. Being able to reincarnate constantly means there is always a way out. In the Foundation Establishment cultivator stage, maybe it couldn't be felt, but in the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages, the courage and spirit of these cultivators simply couldn't be compared with those great cultivators who only had one life and couldn't come back, but relied on themselves to climb to this point in thousands of dangers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it seems that in the Nascent Soul realm, the difference is already obvious, and in the Cave Heaven, the victory or defeat is clear. However, both places might be the turning point of the war. Ruan Ci thought about it for a while, but suddenly remembered the strange encounter in Huangshoushan, and couldn't help but smile slightly, sighing, \"It turns out that it was all destined by fate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without hesitation, in the spinning heaven and earth, she chose the Cave Heaven battlefield and sank her mind into it. The countless other worlds faded away instantly. Ruan Ci blinked her eyes and felt a burst of strong wind blowing on her face, but it didn't blow her sleeves. She looked up at the sky and saw giant wings hanging in the clouds, five-colored, and the strong wind rose when flapping. Even the spiritual energy in the sky fluctuated like a tide, but it was an innate phoenix circling and soaring in the sky, and the momentum of spreading its wings was beautiful and fascinating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The phoenix wandered and circled, looking up to the sky and crying, its voice clear like the moon falling on the plane tree, echoing in the nine heavens, turning into dots of spiritual light. Countless feather creatures were born from the spiritual light, flapping their wings and falling into the clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't know how long it took, the phoenix seemed to be exhausted, slowly landed on the clouds, and turned into a human form. It was a tall woman who walked straight towards Ruan Ci and said, \"The defeat of my clan is already set, and there is no turning back. Are you ready to welcome the last battle?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Updated, sorry for the wait, everyone, Xiao Su's true identity is revealed~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I don't know what to eat for lunch today, but I can already smell the fragrance. I started watching \"Shengfang\" yesterday. The writing is really good, but I don't know why the plot progress feels very slow to people. It's really a bit slow, but the writing is good, and the human nature is reasonable. Those who have time can take a look\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angels who cast overlord votes or irrigated nutrient solution for me from 2020-09-21 12:02:12 to 2020-09-22 11:58:21~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angels who cast shallow water bombs: 20021990, Yuanyingruci 1;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angels who cast landmines: SweetLuna 4; Yu Wanyao, Yeserumo, Wu Mingya, Long Qian, Shijueming Sancian, Zhuang Sheng Xiaomeng, Chaosheng Wu Guyou 1;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to the little angels who irrigated nutrient solution: Keruoweifeng, Cong Haidi Yangwang Tiankong 100 bottles; Ziye 2002 60 bottles; Super Nongcha 30 bottles; Mibaise de Shafa, viinoo, Yuyu Duxing 20 bottles; Yubaoyu bao, Jutitaxue, Dilei, 18222310, Fencheng, zjsxysj, akilayue, Xiangjiashe, Beidaoguode Lizhi, creepinuponyou, Istari, ruby 10 bottles; Chaosheng Wu Guyou, Fengguang, sidewalker, Suiyue Chang, Changchangchang?, Dawangpai Zanzhang, Jianxingbinggan, Moyujunzizhou 5 bottles; Sa-sa Su-gui 3 bottles; Chengbi, 18205385, Ni Yisheng de Gushi~, Binglanse de Yu, Lilyko, Quanshui Dingdong, baby Leyao 1 bottle;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!\u003C\u002Fp>",3689,"2026-06-17T08:48:53.797Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","df5b67111795ca8d0d283ace0cb8a566c2b64ecbba9eb248e3b35936f26e9f78","borrowing-the-sword-chapter-94","borrowing-the-sword-chapter-92",286,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fborrowing-the-sword-cover.jpg"]