Chapter 113: Grass Completion

Jiang Yu watched the person on the high stone platform; as his cultivation rose again and again, that man's entire face, without anyone noticing, turned into his own likeness, no longer her big brother.

When his surrounding spiritual pressure matched that of a late Core Formation in the sect, the entire space shook violently with the thunder outside.

She tried again to fly to another small stone platform, still failed, so she simply stayed here and set up a defensive formation for herself and Jiang Tu.

Fortunately, she earned many merit points, bought many formation arrays, and didn't mind if one or two broke.

Jiang Tu transmitted a voice while she was arranging the formation: "Jiang Yu, does he intend to fly out of here and meet the thunder with his mortal body at the mountain top?"

"Aren't you afraid his spirit together with the borrowed mortal body will be seized by the calamity thunder…?"

"Could it be that he's using my big brother's body as an external avatar for refinement? I've heard Transformation Divine cultivators can forge coexisting avatars."

"Look again at his spirit; could it be a split soul." The other party made a deal with the big brother, preserving the last fragment of his lingering soul; Jiang Yu, regretful as she may be, can only watch the other use her big brother's body.

Jiang Tu fell silent for two breaths, then transmitted: "Could it be a Great Vehicle split soul from the spirit realm descending to the mortal world?!"

"I don't know." Jiang Yu shook her head, and with a booming thunder, the sky above split in two, silver arcs of lightning flashing from the outside and striking down instantly.

Moreover, when the lightning struck the man's position, it irrationally also slammed toward her and Jiang Tu's side; even with a defensive formation, she still hastily released two defensive artifacts.

The first layer was a fan, a gift from Senior Sister Wan and her senior brother years ago; the second layer was an old black‑gold shield.

But as soon as those two artifacts rose, they were struck by suddenly dense thunderbolts, shattering into fragments, and even the defensive formation was split open; any additional lightning would surely destroy everything.

"What is this person doing? Use a defensive treasure quickly." The cultivator, already at Core Formation, was hopping among the twelve stone platforms, drawing thunder to chase him; this would only trouble the two Jiangs.

Jiang Tu split the treasure Jiang Yu had bought, placing half into the storage ring that True Immortal De Zhang had given her; she never liked putting things on her claws, so she tossed the rest into the Dragon Pearl space.

Now she wanted to use it, but the Dragon Pearl was inaccessible, so she couldn't retrieve it and had to urge Jiang Yu to quickly top it up.

Jiang Yu handed him a yellow silk umbrella: "I'll set up another layer of formation right away."

"No need!" the man flew outside their formation, prepared to enter through the formation gate, and then summoned even more fierce thunder strikes.

Jiang Tu flew out to the top and shouted: "Yah, yah, yah, you hurry away; the calamity thunder is treating us as you, wanting to strike us together."

The man said: "Little Dragon Turtle, may I borrow your old turtle shell? I can make this heavenly thunder stop immediately."

Jiang Tu, angry, replied: "Liar, you can't control calamity thunder! Get out." In fact it was already too late; another thunder struck.

The man said calmly: "If you look closely, you'll see that of the nine heavenly thunders, only three remain to be unleashed."

"My current body isn't suitable for bearing thunder with my flesh. The final three heavenly thunders demand a cultivator to face them with a mortal body, which doesn't exist for him."

Unless he instantly ascends to the Nascent Soul stage and deems this mortal body capable of bearing his fully restored spirit, he would then refine it into a true external divine avatar.

Jiang Tu asked: "Is that so, Jiang Yu?"

Just then, thunder shattered the entire defensive formation; Jiang Yu quickly drew out the turtle shell a companion had given her and erased the spiritual imprint:

"Please, senior, hurry; I don't want to be cannon fodder."

"Hmm." The man claimed the turtle shell, not to bear thunder, but leapt onto a stone platform and embedded the shell in a special spot.

Then, seven, eight, nine calamity thunders struck simultaneously, their color shifting from silvery white to purplish black.

"Divine‑destruction calamity thunder?!" Jiang Tu shouted in a terrified high pitch, interrupting Jiang Yu as she was setting up the defense again.

But as she looked up, three purple lightning bolts surged toward that man, paying no heed to their side.

Moreover, the calamity thunder didn't hit the man; it struck directly on Jiang Tu's turtle shell.

Jiang Yu hadn't time to feel remorse when the heavenly thunder abruptly ceased; what rushed in was a vortex of heavenly spiritual energy, pouring swiftly toward that man.

"This truly is a one‑day Core Formation; even though it's just grass, it's still envied by everyone," Jiang Tu couldn't help muttering.

"Jiang Tu, quickly absorb some," she hurriedly sat down to circulate her method, gathering a bit of spiritual energy.

However, after only circulating a small micro‑cosmic cycle, the stone platform beneath her began to crack inch by inch.

Jiang Yu woke in time, and as she grabbed Jiang Tu, a flying boat had already been released to catch the two, transmitting: "When the stone platform shatters, the Twelve Capital Heavenly God Demonic Formation is broken, and the Pearl can enter."

"And the turtle shell I gave you will also be incinerated by thunder‑fire. If it doesn't burn, it will itself emit spiritual fire to consume itself."

Jiang Yu quickly retracted the formation banner: "It seems we can leave now."

"Exactly, bring a blank jade slip."

"These three bags of items, in exchange for a storage ring, will you take?" The man took off the storage bag hidden on his body and swiftly tossed them all into Jiang Yu's arms.

"Yes, but I haven't yet asked your esteemed surname, senior. I am junior Jiang Yu." Jiang Yu gave Jiang Tu a glance; his spiritual consciousness entered the Dragon Pearl, emptied the storage ring's contents, and then handed them to Jiang Yu.

"Old man… my surname is Qian," the man declared, took the storage ring and blank jade slip, and quickly replicated the memories of the person whose spirit he had absorbed.

Jiang Yu had only seen it in scriptures: above Transformation Divine are Refining Void, Body Integration, and Great Vehicle. "You, then, are a step higher than Transformation Divine?"

"Old man, I come from the spirit realm, never expected to be betrayed by my own people until only my spirit remained."

"Without a mortal body, I cannot continue; I cannot break this forbidden land." The Qian‑surname cultivator, the moment he tossed the replicated jade slip to Jiang Yu, flew away from the cracked mountaintop.

Jiang Yu's flying boat wasn't as fast; when it emerged from underground, she immediately saw Senior Sister Xia and two others, sword‑wielding, pursuing the Qian‑surname cultivator.

But they returned, only to find Jiang Yu standing here calmly.

"Jiang Yu, the person who just flew away—do you know how to exit this region?" Xia Bing had tried several times, each time failing to find a way.

Jiang Yu: "Senior Sister, hold on." She needed to examine the jade slip's contents.

The first line, written in the voice of a soul‑shattered person, states that he and several others followed Master Nan Su True Immortal, and teamed up with True Immortal Wen, who had discovered an ancient cultivator's hidden abode.

Unexpectedly, the ancient cultivator's lingering soul remained, possessing Wen True Immortal and causing partial backlash; in fury, she fully activated her cave's formation.

Nan Su True Immortal couldn't defeat her, so he cooperated, suppressing her cultivation to the Foundation Establishment stage, breaking the formation and exiting the ancient cultivator's cave.

But once they emerged, the fake Wen True Immortal immediately began killing.

When his party just escaped the cave, they were pursued by "Wen True Immortal," their master was gravely injured, and he himself nearly died.

Their master later captured two youths with spiritual roots on the road, intending to possess them.

Jiang Yu frowned, skipped the man's endless chatter, went straight to the bottom, and saw the formation diagram drawn by the Qian‑surname cultivator, with the exit clearly marked.

She turned worry into joy, about to tell the senior sister, when a line on the diagram shocked her again.

It turned out the Qian cultivator wrote that there is a small spirit‑stone mine here.

Jiang Tu said: "You wouldn't tell Xia Bing, would you? Xue Miao over there would surely snatch it."