What Are You Doing?

"Jiang Chuan, stop running. Be good and let me send you to your next reincarnation."

Hearing the urgent voice behind him, Jiang Chuan desperately urged the precept saber beneath his feet onward, cursing inwardly all the while.

"Damn Love Simulator! Can't you match me with someone normal?"

"Either they're unlucky bastards doomed to die young, or they're lunatics with bizarre fetishes like Ji Xinyu!"

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A chorus of sharp sword cries rang out. Under Ji Xinyu's control, flying swords transformed into streaks of sudden cold light and shot straight at Jiang Chuan's back.

Just as they were about to pierce his back, five pitch-black streaks of Rainbow Light surged out of thin air. Like a giant hand, they seized Ji Xinyu's flying swords in their palm.

"This turtle shell really is troublesome."

Ji Xinyu frowned slightly as she looked at the black Rainbow Light floating behind Jiang Chuan.

"I'd like to see how many flying swords this lousy turtle shell can swallow."

Just as Ji Xinyu prepared to control her flying swords and continue attacking Jiang Chuan, the Blue Giant Snake beneath her feet began to tremble violently.

The corpse of the Blue Giant Snake, refined into a Sword Box, seemed to be afraid, shaking without end.

"What is this? Could it be..."

Ji Xinyu seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly lowered her gaze.

An Emerald Lake came into Ji Xinyu's view.

The Emerald Lake resembled a beautiful jade inlaid among the mountains of Chisha Island, exquisite beyond compare.

Jiang Chuan also noticed that something was wrong and turned back.

"Bloodline Suppression?"

Jiang Chuan looked at the constantly trembling snake corpse, recalling what he had read in ancient records.

Ji Xinyu's face lit up with delight. "It's Bloodline Suppression. Legend says Dragon Transformation Venerable was born from the union of a human and a dragon. This place is very likely where Dragon Transformation Venerable's cave dwelling lies."

Jiang Chuan immediately sent out his Divine Sense, sweeping the area within a hundred meters.

A moment later, within his perception, an almost imperceptible trace of aura drifted out from the emerald lakewater.

That aura was weak, yet upon closer sensing, it gave off a feeling of majesty and nobility that inspired instinctive fear.

"No mistake. This feeling is exactly the same as that old dragon in the palace."

Ji Xinyu said excitedly, "This is most likely Dragon Transformation Venerable's cave dwelling."

"If that's the case, let's go down and take a look."

Jiang Chuan watched Ji Xinyu with extreme vigilance, afraid that she might suddenly strike.

"Fine."

After agreeing, Ji Xinyu used the Water Repelling Art and brought Jiang Chuan into the lake.

Following the aura as they descended, the two soon reached the bottom of the lake.

Several Earth-Yellow Runes covered in cracks floated above the mud at the lakebed.

"Looks like the passage of time eroded the grand formation around Dragon Transformation Venerable's cave dwelling until it shattered, allowing its aura to leak out. No wonder so many cultivators failed to find this cave dwelling before, yet we found it now."

Ji Xinyu's eyes shone brightly with excitement. She then took a Formation Breaking Talisman from her Storage Bag and crushed it.

Jiang Chuan looked at Dragon Transformation Venerable's cave dwelling with anticipation, his heart surging without end.

"Ji Xinyu comes from Nine Heavens Palace and is so wealthy, yet she still can't let go of Dragon Transformation Venerable's cave dwelling. What kind of inheritance and treasures could be inside?"

After the Formation Breaking Talisman was crushed, it transformed into a stream of azure radiance and howled toward the formation before them.

Like a rainbow piercing the sun, it directly punched through the formation protecting the cave dwelling.

In an instant, a barren stretch of land appeared before Jiang Chuan's eyes.

The earth was crimson as blood, without a trace of vegetation, carrying an air of desolation and bleakness.

A vast azure cave dwelling the size of a mountain stood atop that blood-colored earth.

"The Formation Breaking Talisman won't last long. Hurry."

Urged by Ji Xinyu, Jiang Chuan followed her along the rainbow formed by the talisman and descended before the cave dwelling.

Looking at the cave dwelling's gate, and half the cave dwelling itself, stained red with blood, Jiang Chuan could imagine how brutal the great battle of the past had been.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Ji Xinyu directly activated her flying swords. More than ten Treasure Artifact Flying Swords streaked toward the sealed stone gate like more than ten meteors.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The dozen-plus flying swords battered the stone gate again and again, but it did not budge in the slightest.

Jiang Chuan looked at a palm-sized indentation on the gate, shaped like a phoenix spreading its wings.

"This indentation should be the key to opening the cave dwelling. But Dragon Transformation Venerable was descended from dragons, so why use a phoenix as the key?"

Although the Qingyuan Realm had sayings such as dragons and phoenixes singing in harmony, the Dragon Clan and Phoenix Clan were mortal enemies. The two races had fought countless wars since the distant Primordial Era.

For Dragon Transformation Venerable to make a phoenix-shaped key for his cave dwelling was like a sheep using wolf fangs as ornaments. The more Jiang Chuan looked at it, the stranger it seemed.

Having failed after repeated bombardment, Ji Xinyu stopped attacking as well.

"Just as expected. Without a token, I simply can't open Dragon Transformation Venerable's cave dwelling with my strength."

The moment Ji Xinyu finished speaking, the dozen-plus flying swords abruptly changed direction and attacked Jiang Chuan together.

Jiang Chuan was horrified. As he dodged, he roared, "Ji Xinyu! What are you doing?"

"Sending you to your next reincarnation, naturally."

As she controlled the flying swords, Ji Xinyu said, "I can't open Dragon Transformation Venerable's cave dwelling, so I can only return to Nine Heavens Palace and ask the elders to act. If the elders act, I won't get much of the treasure, and your share will be even more negligible."

"With that negligible amount of treasure, you'll never be able to defy fate and change your destiny. Better let me send you to your next reincarnation."

At the thought of raising a sweet, soft child into the perfect Dao companion of her dreams, Ji Xinyu's face flushed crimson, while her flying swords became increasingly fierce.

"Damn it!"

Facing the encirclement of more than ten flying swords, Jiang Chuan retreated again and again.

The Darkness Space evolved from the Void Devouring Scripture could suppress at most ten Treasure Artifact Flying Swords.

Jiang Chuan unleashed the Demon Slaying Saber. The gleaming precept saber in his hand became stained with a layer of blood-red, as though it had been dyed by the blood of demons.

Bang!

A blood-colored saber light surged upward, knocking away two flying swords that had been thrusting straight toward Jiang Chuan's chest.

Splurt!

The next instant, a flying sword struck from behind and pierced through Jiang Chuan's waist.

Bright red blood sprayed forth, and excruciating pain spread throughout his body in an instant.

"I can't get the simulation reward anyway! Ji Xinyu! Go to hell!"

Jiang Chuan roared and charged at Ji Xinyu.

Only one thought remained in his mind.

Kill Ji Xinyu!

Having been targeted for death time and again, even Jiang Chuan—whose mind had become love-struck under the Love Simulator's influence—was filled with pent-up resentment.

Since he was doomed to receive no simulation reward!

Jiang Chuan chose to end this simulation in the way that would make him feel the most satisfied, the most exhilarated!

"Simulation reward? What's that?"

Confusion appeared on Ji Xinyu's face. At the same time, several flying swords shot toward Jiang Chuan like immortal radiance descending from the Ninth Heaven.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Jiang Chuan used the Demon Slaying Saber, continuously batting aside the flying swords coming to kill him.

By the time Jiang Chuan knocked away the last flying sword, he had already reached Ji Xinyu, who stood there holding her sword.

Every exquisite feature of Ji Xinyu's face, every strand of hair behind her ears, entered Jiang Chuan's vision with perfect clarity.

"Fine. Before you die, I'll let you witness Thunderclap Sword, one of the Nine Heavens Palace's nine great divine abilities."