[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness":3,"chapter-cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-chapter-1691":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cultivating In Secret Beside A Demoness",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1124143,1453,"Chapter 1691: Chapter 1398: The Demoness's Knife_2","cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-chapter-1691",1691,"\u003Cp>\"Is that so?\" Heavenly Note Sect looked back at the man behind her, smiling, \"That means no matter who your senior sister introduces to you, you'll reject them?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rejecting is a bit too much.\" Jiang Hao shook his head seriously, \"Such a progression will not occur. Once a stage of acceptance or rejection is reached, it creates a cause and effect connection.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't wish to be entangled in such troubles.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Heavenly Note Sect chuckled, \"Is that so?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course.\" Jiang Hao nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you lie?\" Heavenly Note Sect turned and continued walking forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When speaking with a senior, I always speak from the heart.\" Jiang Hao said earnestly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh-huh.\" Heavenly Note Sect nodded as she walked, \"One who can lie.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she added, \"Your sister and brother-in-law aren't bothering you anymore?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh-huh.\" Jiang Hao nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How did you answer them?\" Heavenly Note Sect asked casually.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao spoke the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Heavenly Note Sect paused, then turned around and said, \"Why wait for a while?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These days, I have sensed something and wish to try for an advancement. Moreover, it's time to head to the North.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It's been two hundred years. It wouldn't be right not to go.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The Holy Thief Seal needs to be strengthened.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I dare not forget a senior's business for a moment.\" Jiang Hao said sincerely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavenly Note Sect chuckled, \"You seem quite enthusiastic at this moment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A senior's business naturally takes precedence. Besides...\" Jiang Hao hesitated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavenly Note Sect took her eyes off him and approached the lakeside, \"Besides what?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao lowered his gaze, maintaining an expression of neither sorrow nor joy, before finally speaking,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I might seek to comprehend the seventh form.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, Heavenly Note Sect was taken aback and then spoke indifferently, \"So you're close to comprehension? Well, go and enhance your cultivation first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao nodded, then with a step, he entered the Hundred Flowers Lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavenly Note Sect watched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waiting for the lake to calm down,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then turned and walked toward the pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon reaching the chair, she sat down slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She poured herself a cup of tea and drank it unhurriedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the wind around her rustled the flowers of Hundred Flowers Lake, and disturbed the tips of her hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She smoothed her hair, set down her teacup, and gazed down at the tea, lost in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed she thought of something, as she slightly turned her head to look somewhere else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, she turned her head back and sighed softly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, she placed her gaze on the surface of the lake, somewhat concerned about when it would show changes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao began his advancement only after sinking to the bottom of the lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This advancement was the same as before; the Tao manifested in the nothingness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything went smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Tao transformed into strength, Jiang Hao emerged from cultivation, and then came the blade intent of the Moon-Slaying saber technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, he also saw a figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was different from before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, the figure was much clearer, no longer blurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a young girl, holding a saber in her hand, starting to learn each move one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She progressed quickly, from ignorance to the basics, to proficiency, to slashing with a moonlight saber intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao could feel her spiritedness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, the spiritual essence of the figure began to change, climbing endlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her saber intent burst forth like the sea's vast waves, and her innate talents seemed boundless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao began to understand her saber, feeling her intent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if unconsciously, he had become that girl.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her heart higher than the heavens, her saber pointing to the void, invincible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao felt as though nothing in the world could stop this saber slash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until that day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao sensed traces of the seventh form of the Heavenly Blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The figure, once a child, had now grown into an adult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She stood in the great heavens, suppressing the eternal firmament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the top of the endless heights, she took another step forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao felt everything about her, clearly sensing her swing of the saber, cutting through the void, splitting heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her saber slashed across the heavens, the space tore open, a vast blade intent emerged, and Jiang Hao clearly understood this was the East Heavenly Pole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the woman's saber did not pause, continuing to cleave through heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then a new saber intent appeared once again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao had felt this blade intent before in the Ruins of Return; it was the Helpless Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The saber did not stop, slashing towards the void, intending to strike her own version of the seventh form of the Heavenly Blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Jiang Hao unexpectedly felt a tinge of nervousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The saber fell into the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was unclear what it struck, as the saber could not advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Jiang Hao sensed her determination. She had used her all for this slash, striking again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The saber cut through the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only the hilt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The blade broke and plummeted into nothingness, as if it had fallen to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, heaven and earth fell silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The saber was broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The seventh form of the Heavenly Blade, an attempt to break through, had failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, he felt that the woman stood there stupefied, seemingly bereft of the ability to think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since her cultivation began, she was spirited and confident, sweeping her peers and crushing her elders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since she had stepped onto this path, she had never tasted defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The saber she took pride in... broke!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A grief beyond words surged from the depths of her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drip, drip!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao felt tears landing on the broken saber at his feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Large teardrops fell one after another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how she wiped them away, the tears just kept coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She remained standing there until her teardrops disappeared, until the void around her dispersed, until everything returned to normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sun and the moon revolved around her in succession, the seasons changed in her presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After countless years, she picked up the saber again and gazed toward the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A voice, as if piercing through endless years, reached Jiang Hao's ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even without the seventh form, I can still shatter your heavens.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that instant, Jiang Hao sensed an unprecedented fighting spirit bursting forth from her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once more, she wielded her saber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, the indescribable sword's intent filled Jiang Hao's gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recognized each move and form, but it was not the sword's intent he understood before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, it was as if a brand-new door had opened, allowing Jiang Hao to feel his own saber rapidly becoming whole again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was ecstatic, astonished that the world could contain such favored and blessed sons of heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She exceeded all his expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When all the blade intent was displayed, Jiang Hao felt that the woman's saber technique had been fully realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realized in an unimaginable way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as her technique reached completion, suddenly a hand rested on the woman's forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You've done well, but the third heaven may never have existed in the first place. Sleep, I... your teacher, have left the future to you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that moment, Jiang Hao opened his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he found himself appearing above the water's surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything that had just happened shook him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those words too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If his guess was correct, that figure must naturally be from Heavenly Note Sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She failed to realize the seventh form but...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What did that person's words mean?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The third heaven may never have existed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The East Heavenly Pole, Helpless Heaven, and the third heaven?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Jiang Hao felt as though he had understood everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does the Heavenly Blade correspond to the Supreme Immortal Court's three heavens?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The appearance of the Great Overarching Heaven in the seventh form of the Heavenly Blade, could it be the possibly nonexistent third heaven?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was Heavenly Note Sect learning the seventh form of the Heavenly Blade to create the third heaven?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao recalled his conversation with Helpless Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that Heavenly Note Sect's teacher might very well be Helpless Heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao was deeply moved, for the era of Helpless Heaven was so distant from the present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How many years had Heavenly Note Sect lived to this day?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without further thought, Jiang Hao turned to look at Heavenly Note Sect in the pavilion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He simply saw her sipping tea, eyes downcast, lost in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the fact that he could sense all this so clearly must be because she allowed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, he would not have felt the sword's intent so vividly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Truly inconceivable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior, your innate talents can shake the heavens and the earth,\" Jiang Hao blurted out subconsciously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Heavenly Note Sect glanced at him, \"You're slightly stronger, being at the sixth stage of the Immortal Ascension Platform at four hundred years.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Jiang Hao curiously asked from within the pavilion, \"At what age did senior ascend?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The times are different, and the ages of ascension cannot be compared,\" Heavenly Note Sect said as she took out a teacup, placed it in front of Jiang Hao, and poured him a cup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then reminded him, \"You are four hundred and eleven years old now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Hao was somewhat surprised, had a year unknowingly passed by?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Senior, when do you plan to venture out?\" Jiang Hao asked as he sat down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavenly Note Sect pondered for a moment before replying:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anytime is possible.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Jiang Hao said, \"After planting the One Heart Palm, shall we depart in a few days?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heavenly Note Sect looked at the man before her, her expression calm, and nodded, \"Alright.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1638,"2026-06-03T11:46:39.407Z","2026-06-03T11:46:42.636Z",1,"novelbin.me","dcde69636327835dfd01bce225fad6ad3936449afe6463cfcc7e9644c895999a","cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-chapter-1692","cultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-chapter-1690",2139,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcultivating-in-secret-beside-a-demoness-cover.jpg"]