Chapter 84

The Lingju Pill had yet to be improved, and what she had taken was the potent version. With so much processed soul power surging out, it was directly transferred to the Yinxian Sword, leaving Kongxin Cai, who was completely unprepared, unable to bear it.

This feeling of pain mixed with a rise in strength was truly both shocking and delightful. If experienced too many times, one might even grow to like this perverse sensation.

Lu Xiaodeng transferred all the soul power from the Lingju Pill to Kongxin Cai, causing his body to swell as if inflated. Swollen like this, he looked far from good, and he shouted without regard for his dignity. The sword blade had already swung towards the sect leader Zhenjun.

"Get out of the way, no blocking!"

The Yinxian Sword emitted a mournful melody, cold and vast, like the final realization of an old man on his deathbed. The melody echoed throughout the Gui Ling Sect, stirring the hearts of those who heard it, even giving them a sense of seeing through life and death.

The sect leader Zhenjun was both pleased and annoyed. He was pleased that the sword indeed lived up to its legend, capable of disrupting the mind with its music. He was annoyed that the sword was wielded by another spirit, when spirits should obediently remain within their hosts, waiting for their masters. Such a rogue spirit should be given a good lesson, or it would be lawless.

While resisting the attack from the Jade Gourd, the sect leader Zhenjun also had to face Lu Xiaodeng. With no time to use his banner, he threw out a bone spirit at the late Golden Core stage.

The white skeleton with a long knife just jumped out of the spirit beast bag and met the Yinxian Sword. The late Golden Core skeleton was utterly useless, instantly shattering into pieces upon being struck. The sword's momentum did not stop, cutting through the bone spirit and then aiming for the sect leader Zhenjun.

With a loud boom, blood and flesh splattered, and the sect leader Zhenjun was directly slashed away. The Yinxian Sword, with its fishbone-like spines rapidly moving, like a moving saw, actually injured a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.

Lu Xiaodeng was almost exhausted. This body was barely able to unleash the power of the Yinxian Sword. Although she had more Lingju Pills, if she took too many more, her own body would not be able to withstand the explosion. She did not want to be torn apart by her own body.

The Nascent Soul cultivator from Ming Sect was also stunned. He was far away, using his divine sense to determine his targets. He could not see Lu Xiaodeng by the trees, nor could he detect her with his divine sense. He only noticed a broken cauldron being moved around. Now, seeing the Nascent Soul cultivator from the Gui Ling Sect being slashed away, he did not even know who had done it.

But this did not stop him from acting. He roared and the Jade Gourd began to suck forcefully. The sect leader Zhenjun, who was just being thrown away, was immediately sucked in and rapidly flew towards the teleportation array. Regaining his senses, he tried to recall his banner to destroy the gourd.

"Hey, he's being sucked away, we're safe now." Seeing him being sucked away, Lu Xiaodeng immediately felt weak and knelt on one knee, panting heavily. Then she stood up and said to the spirit protection array, "Why are the Gui Ling Sect people so slow? Their leader said they would open the array, but it's been so long and it hasn't opened. If they face a sect-destroying disaster, and the spirit protection array doesn't turn off, no one will be able to escape."

"Now it's a sect-destroying disaster, why are you so calm?" Ge Pi was almost scared out of his wits, thinking he was going to die. Now, seeing Lu Xiaodeng's calmness, he was envious to the extreme.

Lu Xiaodeng and Kongxin Cai looked at him in confusion and said, "What are you afraid of? That's a human emotion, we can't possibly have it."

"But I heard that when you're afraid, your heart beats really fast, and you feel very excited. It seems quite nice." Lu Xiaodeng remembered asking her master about this. Most of what her master said she had forgotten, but she remembered one sentence. It said that fear is a deep concern for something, and if you lose it, you will be very afraid, whether it's your life, a person, or an object. If you care deeply about something, you will eventually be afraid.

Kongxin Cai looked at the sky and said haughtily, "Spirits have no heart, so how can they be afraid? Besides, as an excellent sword spirit like me, how could I have such a thing as fear?"

"Right." Lu Xiaodeng nodded in agreement, he was absolutely right.

Ge Pi looked at Lu Xiaodeng in confusion, "You're not a spirit, why are you following him?"

Lu Xiaodeng shivered, almost forgetting this. She couldn't casually say she was a spirit outside. She casually smoothed her hair and said smugly, "You know, I'm a demon cultivator, different from humans. I naturally won't be afraid of anything. Haven't you heard the saying, 'Eat well, sleep well, and worries and fears will stay away'?"

"There's no such saying, don't make things up," Ge Pi was so distracted by her words that he forgot to be afraid. After scolding her a few times, his mood stabilized a lot.

"Why isn't the array opening? I have urgent matters to leave. There are so many things to deal with." It was already daylight, and Lu Xiaodeng didn't know how long Zhen Ling had been waiting. The evil cultivators had long said the egg would hatch. After so much time, it might have already hatched in the cauldron. She didn't dare to look, afraid that the little bird would recognize her and take a piece of her divine soul.

The sect leader Zhenjun and the Nascent Soul cultivator from Ming Sect were already fighting, unable to focus on the Yinxian Sword. The other disciples were also busy, with many Ming Sect and Yun Dan Zhou cultivators rushing in through the teleportation array, already in a fierce battle. They stood there, suddenly feeling a bit idle.

Taking advantage of the lack of attention, Lu Xiaodeng put down the cauldron, not daring to use her divine soul to listen to the inside, not even a bit of soul power. She pressed her ear to the side of the cauldron, listening carefully. Suddenly, she took a deep breath, shrank her neck, and whispered, "It hatched, the egg inside has hatched. I can hear the chirping of the birds."

"Then let's take it out and eat it." Kongxin Cai felt he should replenish his divine soul. Staying in that black water pond for so long, the egg had just shown a bit of its head, and the dense spiritual energy made one feel refreshed. It should also have a natural divine soul.

"Nice try, this is my food. I already made a deal with someone to exchange for a divine soul." Lu Xiaodeng rolled her eyes. If not for this egg, she wouldn't have met him. In the end, he should thank this egg.

Kongxin Cai turned his face away disdainfully. If he didn't get it, so be it. Once he met his sword master, someone would naturally provide for him, and he wouldn't lack for food.

At this moment, the cultivator sent by the sect leader Zhenjun to close the array finally destroyed it. If it wasn't closed, everyone would be trapped, with toxic gas and righteous cultivators, whether they could escape was purely a matter of luck.

Once the array was closed, the Gui Ling Sect disciples who could still escape immediately scattered, drawing blood-red or black-and-white trails in the air, each using their best escape techniques. The righteous cultivators had already anticipated this, and as soon as they saw them escape, they immediately pursued, determined to eliminate them all.

Seeing the array open, Lu Xiaodeng took the Yinxian Sword and dragged Ge Pi into the forest to help Kongxin Cai deliver it to Yuan Zhi. She calculated that now she didn't need to do any more troublesome things. She just needed to hand over what she had, and the matter would be over. Then she could happily eat the divine soul of one of Zhen Ling's hands.

The red-scaled dragon didn't give her any benefits, but with the chaos here, the Tian Ling Sect should also be in chaos. If she couldn't seize this opportunity, it would only end up as a trophy for the righteous cultivators.

Going to the cave that Yuan Zhi mentioned took a lot of time and was very troublesome. The ghost trees would move when they saw a living person, wrapping around and sucking the blood and flesh. Even Lu Xiaodeng was attacked, trying to eat her blood and flesh.

In the end, it was Kongxin Cai's yin energy that opened a path to the cave. The cave was covered by a large number of ghost trees, and from the outside, it was completely invisible. To enter, one had to take some effort.

Lu Xiaodeng decided to let Kongxin Cai restore the Yinxian Sword to its original form, using the tip of the sword to wrap around Ge Pi's ankle, and then throw him high into the air in front of the ghost trees. Taking advantage of the ghost trees grabbing him, she would rush into the cave and pull him in.

"Damn Lu Xiaodeng, I'll remember this, I'll never forget you." Ge Pi felt he had never been so unlucky in his life, being treated so badly by this hateful demon cultivator. He would definitely find a way to get back at her.

Kongxin Cai, without a physical body, entered the cave without hesitation, leaving Lu Xiaodeng outside, repeatedly trying to throw Ge Pi into the air.

After trying more than ten times, she finally caught the opportunity, rushing into the cave and successfully dragging Ge Pi, who was wrapped by several ghost trees and gasping for breath, inside. As soon as he stood up, he saw three people in the cave.

One was naturally the sword spirit Kongxin Cai, and the other two were a man and a woman, Yuan Zhi and Yuan Zisi. Seeing them enter, Yuan Zisi frowned and shouted, "Ge Pi, what are you doing here?"

"Senior Brother and Senior Sister, I was just going to ask the same thing. What are you doing here?" Ge Pi had no idea what was happening from start to finish, only thinking that Ming Sect had brought people to attack. He was completely unaware of what Lu Xiaodeng had done.

"Junior Brother, I'm sorry." Yuan Zhi was injured and could not move easily. Killing a late-stage Qi Condensation cultivator like Ge Pi did not require his own hands. Yuan Zisi, without a word, attacked him with lightning-fast speed.

Lu Xiaodeng immediately blocked in front of Ge Pi, smiling at her, "You can't kill him. I need to send him back to his mother. We made a deal. He told me where the Lincai Zhen's egg was, and I promised to protect him and send him back to his mother. He is no longer an evil cultivator."

"What?" Yuan Zisi was extremely surprised. Mother?