Chapter 175

"Good guts!" Xing Shifei leapt over to grab the spirit sword, while the other two were going to attack Jiang Yu.

Among them, Cheng Zigu sent a mental transmission to Jiang Yu: "Run to my left." He himself also needed to escape as quickly as possible.

Jiang Yu's previously prepared tear-inducing pill was thrown at them in a handful by Jiang Tu.

Amid the two's coughing, she retreated the way she came, because the path was familiar, and she also didn't trust Cheng Zigu.

After the tear-inducing pill's effect wore off, Senior Brother Xing also retrieved the spirit sword here, and he still wanted to chase after Jiang Yu.

But the already freed Xuantang Xingjun floated over, saying, "No need to mind her; quickly acknowledge the spirit sword as master and help me undo the binding."

"That girl must have done something."

"Yes." Senior Brother Xing, without hesitation, was the direct lineage among the three.

Min Chiyuan was merely the external grandson of the Xu clan, while Cheng Zigu was simply a junior of the Yunwu Sect.

Xuantang Xingjun ignored the three, flashed into the spirit sword alone, and discovered that there was nothing arranged inside the space.

Only on the ground lay two talismans and a letter, inscribed: "Senior, we have met once before, and we have also received your kindness."

I specially left two ancient spirit talismans to aid in unbinding the artifact spirit; believe it or not, it's up to you."

On this side, Jiang Yu kept slapping invisibility talismans on herself; after running several li without seeing pursuers, she still decided to leave the original path.

As long as she remembered the general direction, she could run out of the swamp; if wrong, it would merely be a return to the second layer.

After confirming there was no danger, Jiang Tu couldn't help but complain, "Letting them have the spirit sword's space is already generous; why did you also give him those breaking talismans?"

"In my opinion, you should just blow up the spirit sword, letting that old Xuan ascend together."

Jiang Yu also thought so, but her strength didn't allow it: "He isn't a true artifact spirit, so he can't die."

"This situation was also within my and my master's deductions."

"Leave a line as a person, so we can meet again later; being hated by a Void Refinement cultivator brings no benefit to the sect."

"You see, he already has a backup plan; if he can't return to his original fleshly body, he will seize another."

"In short, Jiang Tu was unhappy: 'Are those three people idiots? Just let him seize a body.'"

"Three, there's plenty of choice; failing that, even if a calamity brings a person, it's the same."

"Focus on the road." Jiang Yu didn't want to discuss this further; she now felt light-bodied without a sword.

She hoped to smoothly exit the swamp, but unexpectedly encountered a green-eyed cloud fox midway; upon first sight, it was frightened by Jiang Tu's dragon might.

Then she was indeed led out of the swamp by the cloud fox, and she saw, in the distance on a high mountain, the pavilions of the Immortal Crane.

Here, it is already far from that thatched hut.

Jiang Yu gave the cloud fox a bottle of pill, preparing to fly on her sword to the mountain to seek treasure, but unexpectedly the cloud fox kept chasing her flying sword and refused to leave.

Jiang Tu said: "Bring it along; later, when we exit the secret realm, it can keep you company."

"At worst, it can also help us show the way, to communicate with the Yao Race on the mountain."

Jiang Yu stopped: "Let's bet, it just wants more pills."

"What's the stake? A top-grade spirit stone!" Jiang Tu said, not lacking.

Jiang Yu laughed: "Ten pieces."

"……" Jiang Tu hesitated for three breaths, then nodded.

On the other side, Xuantang Xingjun discovered that after Senior Brother Xing acknowledged the spirit sword as master, he still couldn't sever his bond with it.

Even using his heart's blood to deeply acknowledge as master, it still didn't work.

Thus, with an attitude of giving it a try, he activated the two talismans left by Jiang Yu.

Unexpectedly, the binding was undone smoothly, allowing him to return to the fleshly body inside the ice coffin.

"I will stay here in seclusion; you go seek your own opportunities." Xuantang Xingjun sighed inwardly repeatedly, realizing his petty mind had misjudged Jiang Yu.

But before his words had finished, the hiltless spirit sword planted in the ground began to hum.

"Fall back, defend!" Xuantang Xingjun only had time to knock the spirit sword flying out of the cave when he heard continuous booming explosion sounds.

The perfectly fine cavern was also blown apart and collapsed.

Cheng Zigu opened his eyes and saw that the original formation was completely destroyed, and the cluster of green calyx flowers was left with nothing at all.

Only fragments of the sword body remained, one piece after another.

Senior Brother Xing crawled out, heartbroken that a spirit sword with space was completely ruined: "Ancestor, it must be Jiang Yu!"

"Shut up, she doesn't yet have that ability to control another artifact that has acknowledged a master."

"Let's change location." Xuantang Xingjun thought, recalling that when the spirit sword suppressed him after being moved from the dragon ginseng fruit tree, the sword body had cracked before.

Thinking back, the space was already unstable then, and Jiang Yu hadn't given any more spiritual materials; today, unbinding it, each factor is enough to cause the sword not to be preserved.

Alas, a half-finished product is just a half-finished product.

"Ancestor, should we go to the second layer or the third?" Among them, Cheng Zigu most wanted to move quickly.

"The second layer." Xuantang Xingjun, having been disembodied for many years, first needed to stabilize his soul and spirit before entering the third layer.

On this side, Jiang Yu still didn't know the spirit sword was destroyed; the cloud fox chasing her indeed left after obtaining five bottles of various pills.

Jiang Tu despised the cloud fox for being useless; the academy didn't know, but it was precisely because it was there that others wanted only to take the ready-made benefits.

Jiang Yu also didn't comfort it, just let it jump around inside the dragon pearl, while she herself accelerated her flight, no longer hiding at all.

The reason for such boldness was also to fly as quickly as possible to the great mountain where the Immortal Crane perches.

Moreover, she noticed that many of the Golden Core and Foundation Establishment cultivators she passed were mostly of the Chuan Tian Yuan Continent style.

Everyone was rushing up the mountain; generally they wouldn't attack her, a low-ranking cultivator flying midway, because her cultivation posed no threat to them.

She was a bit off, like the female cultivator we met that day.

"Why has there never been a Grand Void Sect core formation?" Jiang Tu no longer sulked; now he stared at the dragon stele.

As soon as the words fell, a flash of evasion light that had flown past them sped back instantly.

"Jiang Yu?"

"Elder Qian!"

Elder Qian, an elder of the Inner Affairs Hall, prompted Jiang Yu to bow quickly, and she felt very happy to have a backer now.

Elder Qian let her step onto his light‑dodging and said, "You are the first disciple of our sect I have ever met."

"Did you enter the innermost layer right from the start?"

"No, I came through from the outermost layer; along the way…" Jiang Yu briefly recounted her experience.

When she finished, the two had already arrived at the great mountain where celestial cranes danced.

Below the mountain many cultivators had gathered, yet none flew straight up; not because they didn't want to, but the mountain was protected by a sparkling formation, temporarily impassable.

"Hold on, I'll consult a few fellow cultivators ahead with decent formations," Elder Qian said, no longer seeing his own sect members, and could only seek the core formation of the Tian Yuan gathering.

As soon as Jiang Yu steadied herself, a female cultivator with a sword on her back approached, "Fellow cultivator Jiang, I am Xu Wu of the Sword Sect."

"Fellow cultivator Xu, I previously fought side‑by‑side with your sect's fellow cultivator Xu Hao," Jiang Yu wondered whether the two were related.

But unexpectedly, Xu Wu replied, "You're talking about Senior Brother Xu of Jietian Peak; we may have been from the same family five hundred years ago."

"He's alright, isn't he?" "He didn't fall, leaving only you?"

"He's doing fine, currently teaming up with disciples from several sects of Tian Yuan."

"I left the team with my senior sister to look for someone and accidentally teleported here." When Jiang Yu said that, several Foundation Establishment seekers from the Tian Yuan Continent arrived.

Everyone naturally inquired about members of their own sects, and as they exchanged names with her, she told each of them in turn.

The arrivals were all young disciples from various sects; after a short while they became acquainted.

While Jiang Yu was talking with everyone, a group of Dongzhou cultivators suddenly arrived.

One of the Five Poison Sect cultivators landed and immediately fired a magical artifact at Jiang Yu, shouting, "Give back my senior sister's life!"