Chapter 701: Sword Spirit Acknowledgment

Seeing that Imperial Edge Divine Lord didn't answer, Beheading Cloud True Lord couldn't help but reel off one name after another.

When he mentioned Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu, Imperial Edge Divine Lord finally responded.

Imperial Edge Divine Lord: "Beheading Cloud, I understand your thinking—you still want to struggle—but do you understand their thinking?"

Beheading Cloud True Lord was slightly taken aback, then immediately said, "Is it really Bai Zhenzhen's problem? Is Zhang Yu involved?"

Just then, Beheading Cloud True Lord noticed that the message he had sent kept spinning but never went through.

This was the signal of the Spirit World weakening to a certain point, making it hard to maintain communication between him and Imperial Edge Divine Lord.

"Bai Zhenzhen? Zhang Yu... Zhang Yu... Myriad Methods..."

Beheading Cloud True Lord stared at Zhang Yu's avatar in his contacts. At that moment, he felt that Zhang Yu's hands were so big and so long, while the sky above Heaven Sword University was so dim and so dark.

"Could he really have that kind of influence?"

"If you had that kind of influence, why didn't you say so earlier? Why didn't you say so earlier?!"

Clinging to a last thread of hope, Beheading Cloud True Lord began composing a message to send to Zhang Yu.

Beheading Cloud True Lord: "Candleblaze True Lord, I express my most sincere apologies for what has happened recently..."

His mind whirled at an unprecedented speed, editing a several-hundred-character apology letter faster than he had ever done in his life, including every price he could pay, sending all of himself—just like those swords that had been sold—to Zhang Yu.

When he stared wide-eyed and saw the message go through smoothly, unaffected by the weakening Spirit World signal, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

But the next moment, when he saw the dialogue box pop up with "You are not yet friends with this person," his heart sank again.

"Heh... already deleted me as a friend?"

Beheading Cloud True Lord laughed bitterly. "He never intended to say another word to me."

Immediately after, the Spirit World signal cut off completely. Sword intent swept in from all directions, and Beheading Cloud True Lord felt every connection to his own Law Remnant, his surrounding artifacts, and his flying swords being severed one by one.

Inside the quiet chamber.

Bai Zhenzhen was sitting cross-legged. Before her stood a delicate figure.

This figure appeared as a young girl, dressed like a female swordsman or heroine from ancient times, with sharply defined brows and eyes, carrying a thick aura of ferocity and killing intent.

Bai Zhenzhen knew this was the sword spirit of that Nascent Soul flying sword in the Sword Repository.

Ever since she entered the quiet chamber and lost her Spirit World signal, the sword spirit had passed through countless barriers, arriving before her in a way that was completely undetectable, and communicated with her.

"Hmph, at least you didn't sell the Sword Repository outright," said the sword spirit. "At least Seven Emotions didn't misjudge you."

"Since you persisted in guarding the Sword Repository despite the Nascent Soul's pressure, I'll temporarily acknowledge you."

"From now on, with me around, your life is safe."

Hearing the other party's arrogant tone, Bai Zhenzhen couldn't help but ask about its background.

Especially when it directly called Seven Emotions by name, she grew even more curious about the two's relationship.

The sword spirit said proudly, "I was once called 'Sky Severing,' but later everyone said that title violated the rules, so they changed it to 'Emotion Sky.' Just call me Emotion Sky."

"Back in the day, I was the first successor of the Ultimate Emotion Sword Dao..."

"As for little Seven Emotions, that's my disciple's disciple."

In Emotion Sky Sword Spirit's account, when alive she was the senior disciple of the Ultimate Emotion Sword Dao, wielding her sword with full passion and temperament. While still at the Golden Core realm, she already roamed the world, slaying demons and defending the righteous path.

But...

"Hateful—I was framed by a great villain, accused of learning dual cultivation methods and forcefully taking her cultivation."

"After that, I was denounced as an evil heretic girl, hunted by everyone. That villain, meanwhile, rose steadily and eventually entered the sect."

Upon hearing Emotion Sky Sword Spirit's story, Bai Zhenzhen consoled, "Ancient immortal techniques were too backward, and cultivators too ignorant, to denounce dual cultivation as evil. Ancestor, rest assured—no one in this era discriminates against you."

"Bullshit!" Emotion Sky Sword Spirit snapped angrily. "I never learned any dual cultivation methods—the villain slandered me!"

After saying that, she let out a long sigh. "Heh, back then they all said I secretly practiced dual cultivation and branded me a demonic heretic girl."

"Later, times changed. Even after the truth was discovered, they called me the heretical sword of Ultimate Emotion and sealed me away."

"From beginning to end, my sword heart has never changed. What has changed is only this increasingly mad world."

Shaking her head, Qing said, "Your Extreme Emotion Sword Dao has some level of proficiency. Let me see your sword intent."

Thus, for most of the time Bai Zhenzhen spent in the meditation room, she continuously received guidance from the sword spirit, or chatted with the sword spirit about various matters of the past and present.

Until this moment, the Qingtian Sword Spirit suddenly raised an eyebrow and said, "You're about to go out."

With a somewhat surprised expression, she looked at Bai Zhenzhen: "I thought I would still have to find a chance to kidnap you out, but I didn't expect Heavenly Sword University to actually do something proper this time."

The next moment, the Qingtian Sword Spirit had already vanished without a trace.

Bai Zhenzhen called out, "Ancestor?"

Immediately after, the meditation room door opened, and many cultivators filed in, beginning to express their concern for Bai Zhenzhen.

Soon after, she was taken to the Sword Repository to complete the handover ceremony.

After refusing the invitations and conversations of many cultivators, Bai Zhenzhen looked at the vast Sword Repository before her, still feeling a trace of bewilderment.

"That's it? Done already?"

At that moment, the Qingtian Sword Spirit appeared before her and urged, "Alright, stop sighing. First, take us out of here."

"It's rare that I've woken up; it's time to go out and stretch my legs."

As she spoke, the thousands of swords in the entire Sword Repository all trembled, as if responding to the Qingtian Sword Spirit's call.

Bai Zhenzhen indeed wanted to pack and take away all those swords, but feeling the Extreme Emotion Sword Intent erupting from each sword, she asked with some concern, "Ancestor, will they obey?"

The Qingtian Sword Spirit gave a long laugh and said, "Don't worry. You are already the inheritor of the Extreme Emotion Sword Dao, and with your guarding of the Sword Repository this time, we have all acknowledged you."

Then, Bai Zhenzhen opened her Taixu Cloud Storage and stored the thousands of swords on site one by one into the spatial pouch.

"Also... I should let Yuzi know I'm safe."

……

Kunxu, Third Layer.

Inside the Research Association near the Great Void.

Zhang Yu was cultivating the Immortal Sect Dao Arts as usual.