Haha, I've Finally Broken Free!

Song Shuhang silently watched as Senior Yellow Mountain suddenly ran to within three meters of him, his mind racing with thoughts of "Senior Yellow Mountain, why did you suddenly move so far away from me?"

"..." True Lord Yellow Mountain.

Song Shuhang: "Senior Yellow Mountain, are you thinking about something very impolite?"

True Lord Yellow Mountain chuckled dryly, "No, that's not true. I just farted, so I felt it would be better to keep some distance."

Senior, are you kidding me? With your level of skill, you wouldn't be farting!

Besides, even though I don't have an open Nose Aperture, my sense of smell is several times better than the average person's. If you farted, I would have smelled it long ago.

Senior, you must correct my distorted perception! Song Shuhang is going to have a good talk with True Lord Yellow Mountain!

At this moment... Venerable White arrived in front of Liu Tianzong, the Cold Flame Sword.

Liu Tianzong was still in a daze, his eyes glazed over, as if his thoughts had gotten stuck in a dead end, causing his brain to completely shut down.

Suddenly, he shook his head violently. "Impossible, what I saw back then was clearly an illusion."

Back then, he found the monk's cave dwelling, moved the statue out, and thought it was also a treasure.

But later on, the statue exuded endless charm, and even while carrying it, the image of a handsome man would appear in his eyes whenever he opened or closed them... He was terrified.

So the statue was buried back in the ground.

Even so, the image of this handsome man lingered in his mind, haunting him for a whole year before he was finally freed from it—a truly nightmarish experience.

He initially thought the statue was cursed, after all, he had robbed many ancient immortal caves and even tombs, and had come into contact with all sorts of curses.

But what's going on now—the illusion that has haunted him for a whole year is actually standing right in front of him?

"Hello." Venerable White waved towards the Cold Flame Sword.

"Greetings, senior." Cold Flame Sword's mental energy was highly concentrated, and every pore on his body remained on high alert.

"Hmm, you don't need to be so serious. I didn't mean to hurt you. I just wanted to say that the 'Meteor Sword' in your hand is mine. You took it with you when I was in seclusion. Now that I've finally come out of seclusion, it's time to take back the Meteor Sword," Venerable White said softly.

"During your seclusion?" Cold Flame Sword froze, then seemed to realize something!

"Hmm, it seems you guessed it. Yes, I was transformed into a statue by a secret technique. I also remember you moving me out of the cave and then burying me back in the ground," Venerable White said calmly.

Cold Flame Sword's cold sweat poured down like a waterfall, unstoppable.

A moment later, Cold Flame Sword gritted his teeth, raised the 'Meteor Sword' in his hand, and slowly handed it to Venerable White. Regardless of whether the Meteor Sword belonged to this senior cultivator, given the other party's strength as a 'Seventh-Grade Venerable,' even if he wanted to forcibly seize the 'Meteor Sword,' Cold Flame Sword knew he would have to obediently hand it over.

Moreover, this Meteor Sword truly belongs to the other party?

Before Liu Tianzong over the Meteor Sword, Meteor Sword had already joyfully returned to Venerable White's side with a chime, and quickly circled around him like a fish.

The divine sword possesses a spirit; this Meteor Sword is clearly a divine sword that has long since given birth to a 'sword spirit'.

The Venerable White smiled and gently stroked the Meteor Sword. The Meteor Sword vibrated joyfully and fell to the Venerable White's waist.

At this moment, Song Shuhang suddenly asked, "Eh, senior, is it the Meteor Sword, and not the Immortal-Staying Sword?"

He had just noticed the inscription on the sword; it read "Meteor Sword."

"It's always been the Meteor Sword." Venerable White turned around and smiled, then added, "Shuhang, the sword has been retrieved. Do you have anything else to do? If not, let's go back!"

Song Shuhang replied, "If we're not in a hurry, shall we wait for Senior Su Clan’s Seven to arrive?"

"Alright." Venerable White nodded.

At this moment... Liu Tianzong, the Cold Flame Sword, who looked conflicted, suddenly spoke up, "Senior, may I ask you a question?"

Although he looked conflicted, his eyes were filled with unwavering determination.

"Ask me?" Senior White turned his head in confusion, then nodded and said, "Go ahead and ask."

"Senior, you're a woman disguised as a man, right?" Liu Tianzong, the Cold Flame Sword, asked with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

True Lord Yellow Mountain secretly rubbed his forehead—because Liu Tianzong wasn't the first person to ask this question, and probably wouldn't be the last.

"Well, if thinking that way makes you feel better, then I can say I'm a woman disguised as a man. But do you believe me?" Venerable White scratched his head and asked.

"... It was my rudeness, junior." Liu Tianzong, the Cold Flame Sword, bowed respectfully to Venerable White, then soared into the air, laughing wildly as he disappeared into the distance.

As for Tangtang, the junior from the Empty Thieves' Sect, she was unfortunately ignored by Cold Flame Sword and abandoned in place.

Song Shuhang blinked, feeling like he was watching a third-rate, melodramatic soap opera.

At this moment, True Lord Yellow Mountain quietly tugged at Song Shuhang and Secret Voice Transmission, "See? If you don't want to end up like him, think more about Su Household's Sixteen, or Soft Feather is fine too, and look at Fairy Lychee's photos more often. Then stop daydreaming, Senior White can't possibly be a woman disguised as a man, give up on that idea!"

"Senior." Song Shuhang smiled wryly. He couldn't use Secret Voice Transmission, so he couldn't explain at all. But when he said that Venerable White was 'handsome,' he was just looking at it purely from an appreciative perspective! He had never thought that Senior White was a woman disguised as a man.

"Keep it up!" True Lord Yellow Mountain gave Song Shuhang a thumbs up, then retreated to the side again to watch the actions of Daoist Cloudmist, who was sealed by the 'Five-Finger Mountain Sealing Art'.

To prevent the Daoist Cloudmist from being affected by the outside world, the True Lord Yellow Mountain had secretly strengthened the dense fog around him, creating an effect that blocked sound, sight, and senses.

Therefore, Daoist Cloudmist was still playing a single-player game, completely unaware of what had just happened outside, and was still trying to break the seal of True Lord Yellow Mountain.

Let's see how he breaks the seal! The True Lord Yellow Mountain has been waiting for this show for a long time.

At this moment, Senior White waved to Song Shuhang and asked, "Shuhang, how was your trip to J City? And how did you end up encountering the disciples of the Limitless Demon Sect?"

"If you're talking about what went smoothly, it really went quite smoothly," Song Shuhang chuckled, then began to recount his experiences that morning.

From encountering the Resentful Ghost, to accidentally killing the Ghost General, to his Three Days brother traveling a long distance to help him... then, he discovered a pile of ingredients for refining 'Blood Qi Pill' among the old subordinates of the Altar Master. Finally, he encountered the pursuit of Helm Master Jing Mo the branch, and a Half-Gourd Daoist.

At this point, Song Shuhang couldn't help but glance at Helm Master Jing Mo. He had thought that the only regret of his trip to J City was that he hadn't managed to extract information about the Limitless Demon Sect branch where the 'Sunflower Cultivator' was from the Altar Master's subordinates.

But now it seems that with Jing Mo around, there's no need to worry about not being able to provide information about the branches.

In other words, the blessing that Senior White left on the materials list for him has been perfectly fulfilled!

It sounds amazing!

"Haha, not bad luck at all, we even got our hands on the ingredients for the Blood Qi Pill." Venerable White laughed.

True Lord Yellow Mountain glanced at Song Shuhang —could it be that young friend Shuhang really benefited from following Senior White's Fortune? His trip to J City was unbelievably lucky, very much like Venerable White!

"Shuhang, you're already opening your Nose Aperture. Although the Blood Qi Pill can greatly enhance your Nose Aperture cultivation speed, it will still take about a year at the fastest," Venerable White said, stroking his chin. "Actually, if you're even luckier..."

Upon hearing this, Song Shuhang immediately jumped up, wanting to stop Senior White from saying the next half of his sentence.

He had come to a profound understanding of what a devastating weapon 'Senior White's blessing' truly was. The blessing written on paper could bring him smooth sailing, but it also put him in the face of an ambush by two Fourth-Grade Cultivators, nearly costing him his life.

What would happen if Senior White were to offer his blessings in person?

Unfortunately, just as he jumped up, Senior White blurted out the rest of his sentence: "Hmm, I remember a few hundred years ago, a Cultivator World obtained a strange stone, right? It should be a cosmic object, quite miraculous. It possessed a special power, not spiritual power, not energy that cultivators could utilize. But the energy from that strange stone could greatly accelerate the 'Aperture Opening' speed of First-Grade Cultivator. I remember that strange stone caused quite a stir in the Cultivator World back then?"

"Yes, I remember that too," True Lord Yellow Mountain interjected. "That strange stone is called the 'Enlightenment Stone' by Cultivator World. Just sitting next to it allows one to comprehend the wonders of the Great Dao. When First-Grade Cultivator stays near the stone, breaking through the bottlenecks in their internal acupoints becomes much smoother, and failure is almost impossible. But unfortunately, it eventually fell into the hands of some powerful force or great being."

"If you, Shuhang, could obtain such a rare stone, perhaps four years would be enough for you to break through the Third Aperture the nose, ears, and mouth, directly Dragon Gate Leap, and advance to the Second-Grade Realm," Venerable White exclaimed.

"Impossible, I'm not that lucky." Song Shuhang waved his hands repeatedly—just now Senior White said that the strange stone didn't seem to be a treasure produced by Earth Mother, but rather came from the mysterious universe.

In other words, that thing could very well fall from the sky like a meteorite?

I hope Senior White's blessing didn't work.

Otherwise, for some time to come, he'll have to constantly worry about meteorites or something similar hitting him. And then, if he's not careful, he might just get crushed to death?

Just as the three were exchanging words, the seal of the Daoist Cloudmist finally changed.

The Five-Finger Mountain Sealing Art of True Lord Yellow Mountain trembled violently.

Then, a figure broke free from the seal.

"Haha, I've finally broken free!" The figure stretched out its hands to the sky and laughed joyfully.

Then he sang. "Once the seal is broken, freedom is gained; stealing everything from the Yellow Mountain Big Fool. Oh dear, no, it doesn't rhyme."

True Lord Yellow Mountain's face darkened, and he gave a dry laugh.