Therefore, Jing Tian did not doubt the value of Chong Lou's "immediately".
In fact, the space where the two are now is separated from the outside world, and the magic of Chong Lou is everywhere.
As long as Jing Tian nods, the two of them will disappear from the mortal realm and appear in the new Immortal Realm in the next moment.
"Although I have regained my divine powers, my Demonic Sword is no match for your [Flame Wave]."
[Flame Wave] is located in the Nine Netherworld, the Nine Springs Spirit Vein, the hottest place in the world, the source of the Earth Vein's true fire, and the place where divine weapons were once forged in the Three Realms.
Chong Lou's weapon, [Flame Wave Blood Blade], is a divine weapon from the Nine Springs, just like [Zhaodan]. It is forged by combining the [Flame Wave] Spring Soul with Crimson Blood Essence Gold. Its blade contains infinite heat, which can turn any enemy it touches into ashes.
"Fei Peng wouldn't say such a thing." Chong Lou raised an eyebrow.
The place where the two had been separated from the world has now become the ordinary world.
"Chong Lou won't be late either. One day," Jing Tian said, his fingers gently tracing the spine of the Demonic Sword. "You're not reforging it either. This sword is at least a thousand years old. Originally, it might not have been inferior to [Zhaodan], but now its power is less than one-tenth of what it used to be."
The Demonic Sword is a game feature that requires Dragon Essence Stone or various weapons as offerings to restore it.
However, its power at its peak was indeed no less than that of [Zhaodan].
In the game's Xue Jian and Long Kui routes, players can choose between the [Zhaodan] or the Demonic Sword. In the former Long Kui sacrifices a thousand years of cultivation to revive Jing Tian and repair the Demon Suppressing Sword; in the latter, Xue Jian, as Divine Tree Fruit, sacrifices herself to revive Jing Tian and repair the Demonic Sword.
"With your spiritual power, you can easily restore it." Chong Lou still didn't give a direct answer. "This is also your weapon from your Previous Life."
"Is that so?" Jing Tian didn't have the memories of Long Yang. He only knew that he had been Long Yang and that Long Kui resided in the sword.
He looked at the dark, heavy sword in front of him; at its widest point, the blade was almost as thick as a man's waist.
The sword is irregularly shaped and has an uneven surface. It has no sharp edge and looks like a sword from a distance, but looks like a giant sword-shaped rock up close.
Upon closer inspection, one can see faint dark purple patterns on the sword's surface. These patterns shimmer under the light, and the light even seems to flow as one moves, like ripples of water hidden within the sword's body.
The blade felt cold to the touch, like iron, like copper, and even a bit like stone.
The patterned areas are not raised or recessed, but strangely, when a hand touches those patterns, they dim faintly, and when the finger is removed, they reappear, as if by magic or illusion.
"You can do it, Chong Lou, I mean the soul in the Resurrection Sword."
"Of course, but you must surpass me." Chong Lou nodded.
Chong Lou possesses the purest bloodline of Shennong, but he is not Blood Relative of Chi You. Instead, he was born from the interaction of Heroic Spirits's essence after Chi You death and the fierce energy of the heroic spirits on the battlefield.
This bizarre rebirth from death not only fueled his passion for battle but also gave him an innate understanding of the essence of life and death.
As long as the deceased has not been reincarnated, and it is not a special case like the Nuwa clan where the soul returns to the [Holy Spirit Pearl] after death, Chong Lou can easily bring them back to life.
The perfect storyline in the game is when Jing Tian defeats Chong Lou.
Chong Lou resurrected the one who died during the Sword Festival, Jing Tian took Xue Jian and Long Kui back to Xin'an Pawnshop to start a new life.
In the Hua Ying route, Chong Lou injured Long Kui. Afterwards, he made amends by not only instantly reviving Long Kui, but also separating Long Kui's human nature (blue Longkui) from her ghostly nature (red Longkui), making the two Longkui truly two different people.
"Where does it come from?" The Demonic Sword was incredibly light and agile in Jing Tian's hands, almost turning into a phantom. The wind that could flatten the entire Yuzhou City was restrained by the sword, forming an extremely thin blade.
The sword seemed to sense its master's impending battle; its deep purple patterns shone brightly, and an eerie power flowed within them.
"Good."
As the "good" was about to end, Chong Lou's wrist blade had already popped out and clashed with the sword.
The shockwave, the heat erupting from the intertwining of wind and fire, and the clash of spiritual energy embodying the fighting spirit of both sides, produced no ripples whatsoever.
In just a moment, the sword and the wrist blade had clashed hundreds of times.
However, the candle flame on the candlestick three feet away was still burning steadily.
The two people's will bound everything to their bodies, bearing the burden themselves.
After a cup of tea.
Click—
A fine mahogany chair was split in two.
It dissipated, leaving only the sharp aura of the blade.
"You've won." For the first time, a wild smile bloomed on Chong Lou's cold face. "Your swordsmanship has become even stronger."
"Then everything is as you wish." He looked at the Demonic Sword and with a wave of his arm, a beam of demonic light was unleashed.
Jing Tian waved his hand as well, and a blue light Accio and disappeared into the demonic light.
It was a light blue court dress.
It is indeed the "Flowing Sleeve Immortal Dress".
Under the light, its surface appears to shimmer with light, making it beautiful and Sage Aura.
Soon, a slender, curvaceous blue-haired girl emerged from the dress.
The blue-haired girl exudes a gentle and serene temperament; even the flowing, Flowing Sleeve Immortal Dress can only accentuate her beauty, not overshadow it.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she looked at Jing Tian with a tender and affectionate gaze and said, "Brother! Xiaokui has finally seen brother again."
She ignored the surrounding Chong Lou and her newly formed body; at this moment, she only had eyes for Jing Tian.
She Accio slowly toward Jing Tian, repeating phrases like "brother" and "we will never be apart again" as if possessed.
"Let's fight again next time." Chong Lou seemed very uncomfortable with this atmosphere. Dotty spread through the space, and he disappeared from the spot.
"Who is that person?" A flash of light surrounded the girl, her hair turned black, and her entire demeanor changed from gentle to cold and stern. "How did I gain a body, kid?"
"Boy?" Jing Tian looked directly into the girl's eyes.
The girl could no longer maintain her aloofness, her eyes beginning to dart away. "Hmph, you're nothing more than my brother from Previous Life. I'm over a thousand years old!"
The girl's hair turned blue again. "Brother, Xiao Kui, I can't go back to the sword."
"Because Xiao Kui, you have been resurrected," Jing Tian said.
"Ha—" Xue Jian jumped into the pawnshop with her back turned, then turned around excitedly, "Jing Tian, I'm here again! Look at me—"
Silence, a long silence.
"Who are you?!"
A small, yellow-furred creature that could fly around Xue Jian squeaked twice, but when she saw Jing Tian clearly, it changed to a coquettish sound.
Xue Jian seemed to be able to understand the little creature's voice.
"Hua Ying, what do you mean he can't be a bad person? He clearly betrayed us—"
She was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly remembered that she and Jing Tian were still friends.
"He is my brother." Long Kui hugged Jing Tian's arm, but her affectionate gaze made it hard to believe her words.
"Lies! Nonsense!" Xue Jian exclaimed angrily. "I've already investigated thoroughly. I even know that Jing Tian's great-grandfather, Jing Huan, served as the Minister of Rites in the imperial court! Jing Tian doesn't have a sister at all!"
"I am Princess Long Kui of the Jiang Kingdom, and he is my brother Long Yang. Although we look a little different, I know it is him. Actually, I am no longer the same little Kui I used to be," Long Kui said.
"What? What Jiang Kingdom?" Xue Jian was so angry she almost fainted. "Do I look stupid? What do you mean by saying you're not the original Xiaokui?"
"You wouldn't be saying that you're actually a wandering ghost residing in this ancient sword, would you?!"
Long Kui nodded.
"You, do you think I'm a fool if I don't lose my temper?!" Xue Jian directly pressed her hand on Long Kui's convex and concave breasts. "You're warm, you have a heartbeat, where did you come from? I'd believe you more if you lied and said you were a sword immortal!"
"Because of Xiaokui, I was resurrected by my brother's red-haired friend," Long Kui said.
Xue Jian:
"Where did these Five-Poison Beast come from?" Jing Tian asked.
He intended to temporarily change the subject, and he didn't want to get involved in Tang Family Fortress's affairs.
Tang Yi's rise to power was mainly due to the Five-Poison Pearl he promised to the Thunderclap Hall. If the Five-Poison Beast disappeared, Tang Yi would have to wait until his Old Man, Tang Kun, died before using his superb poison skills to seize the leadership by force, ultimately resulting in a lose-lose situation with Tang Tai and his Tang family members.
Finally, they were saved by Xue Jian using the Five-Poison Pearl. While everyone was detoxified, they also lost all their poison skills, and Tang Family Fortress declined from then on.
Apart from Tang Yi and Xue Jian, almost everyone in Tang Family Fortress is a villain.
Before Tang Kun's body was even cold, the Tang family, led by Xue Jian's third uncle Tang Tai, wanted to use Tang Kun's body to refine the "Three Corpses Three Insects." The others even wanted to use Xue Jian, who happened to return, as a substitute.
As for the Five-Poison Beast, she wasn't actually imprisoned; it was just that she couldn't bear to part with Tang Yi's superb feeding techniques, which combined the principles of Yin and Yang and the Spiritual Energy of the four seasons.
In fact, Hua Ying could run away at any time, and with Tang Yi's help, she had already refined the Five-Poison Pearl. In the original timeline, she directly broke through the wall and took Xue Jian away from the Chamber of Secrets.
"Her Hua Ying. I heard her voice at Baicaolou, and then she crashed through the wall and flew into my arms." Xue Jian gestured to show the size of the hole. "The wall was so thick, but this little one didn't feel any pain at all."
The little thing squeaked twice Divine Aura.
Xue Jian was unhappy and couldn't stand Hua Ying's smugness. "But she's too stupid. She came to the human world as soon as she transformed into human form and brazenly showed off her ability to hear other people's thoughts. As a result, she was driven away and came to our Tang family to freeload, feeling disheartened."
"Squeak!" Hua Ying's yellow fur seemed to stand on end, as if to say that she was not stupid at all.
"You came to see me not just because of Hua Ying, right?" Jing Tian asked.
"My grandfather." Xue Jian's voice suddenly dropped. "In the entire Tang Sect, only my grandfather cares about me. Everyone else either hates me or doesn't care whether I live or die. But now he's out of his mind."
"I heard from Zhao Wenchang that you have become a sword immortal."
"Can you save my grandfather? I'm willing to sacrifice everything for it, even if..."
The blue-haired Long Kui, who had just been looking at Jing Tian with pity, suddenly turned black and hugged him tightly, exclaiming, "Brother is mine!"
"You can save your grandfather yourself," Jing Tian said. "He's not in his right mind right now. He's seeing how useless the Tang Family Fortress people are, how they don't dare to fight the Demonization Thunderclap Hall members, and how they're making a fool of themselves. He's just angry because of external factors."
"Upon closer examination, the root cause lies in his unparalleled mastery of poisons."
"How can the poison be neutralized?" Xue Jian asked anxiously.
Although she didn't know poison skills because of the sect's rule that poison techniques couldn't be passed on to women, her beloved grandfather taught her all the other literary, martial arts, and medical skills of the Tang Sect.
Therefore, she knew that the poison could not be neutralized.
"The Five-Poison Pearl," Jing Tian said.
"Squeak." Hua Ying's eyes darted around.
Xue Jian immediately saw through it. "Don't worry, Hua Ying, the Five-Poison Pearl is yours. I just asked you to save my grandfather."
"Squeak." Hua Ying nodded.
"Then let's go!" Xue Jian hugged Jing Tian from the other side. "The others in Tang Family Fortress definitely don't want to see me save my grandfather. They just want him to die so they can compete for the leadership! I need your help, Jingtian."
Tang Family Fortress was built within Bishan.
To reach it, one must not only pass through the stilted houses inhabited by the Miao people, but also traverse mountain paths where monsters are said to linger.
But with Jing Tian wielding his sword light, the three arrived in an instant, and also rescued several Miao people who had gone into the mountains to gather herbs from the monsters.
"Sword Immortal!"
"Tang Xuejian!"
"May I ask what brings you, Sword Immortal, to Tang Family Fortress?"
Upon seeing the way the three men made their entrance, the Tang Family Fortress family members who were about to reprimand them instantly became timid and submissive.
"Save my grandfather!" Xue Jian snorted. "When he wakes up, I'll make sure he teaches you a lesson. You can't just call me by my name like that!"
Since her grandfather fell into a coma, her status in the Tang family has declined day by day. When she enters and leaves her own home, the servants start to treat her differently depending on her status, and they become less polite to her.
After all, even his disciples knew poison techniques, and his surname was Tang.
She was just a woman and had not yet gotten close to her elders.
"Open the door! What are you all standing there for!"
"Yes, yes, Miss, we'll open the door right away, right away." The doorman quickly pulled the rope, and the door opened.
The three were about to enter.
From inside came a voice from afar, "Wait!"
"Xue Jian, how could you bring outsiders into Tang Family Fortress so casually?" Tang Tai walked towards her with a group of his personal disciples. He took out the sect leader's token from his pocket. "Now that the sect leader is seriously ill and the Thunderclap Hall is eyeing us covetously, as the acting sect leader, I will not allow any mishaps to occur to the safety of the Tang Sect."
The disciples who had spoken earlier were misunderstood by Tang Tai as pleading for mercy and were stopped with a single glance.
"When did you become the acting sect leader, Third Uncle?" Xue Jian sneered. "He's my fiancé, the one my grandfather arranged for us when he was still lucid! I'm bringing my fiancé to meet my grandfather, so what? Do you have a problem with that?"
"You say so, but to me he's clearly a thief from the Thunderclap Hall, using his good looks to seduce people," Tang Tai, though over eighty years old, couldn't hide his jealousy when he saw Jing Tian's appearance. Suddenly, he looked at the Hua Ying on Xue Jian's shoulder, "Good, he even stole the Five-Poison Beast. This thief must be here to assassinate the sect leader!"
"Take them down!"
"Make a move? You should have said so earlier!" Long Kui with black hair reappeared and waved her hand. A flash of lightning appeared, and several highly skilled second-generation disciples were instantly taken away.
Unlike the TV series where characters immediately use a spirit bow, Hong Kui, also known as the black-haired Long Kui, is more accustomed to starting with a lightning spell.
Their preferred weapons are not only spirit bows, but also long-handled scythe-like melee spirit weapons.
Jing Tian simply kept moving forward, and everyone who tried to block his path was repelled by the invisible qi in front of him, including Tang Tai himself.
"Are we still going to stop them or not?" Xue Jian snatched the sect leader's token with a mocking tone. "Third Uncle, with your senile eyesight failing you, you should just retire and enjoy your old age."