Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 404 Side Story
"Brother Yi, Brother Yi! Are you alright? You were screaming just now! Did the sword gu fusion fail? Say something, don't scare me!"

The moment he opened his eyes, he saw a gigantic, red-headed, black-backed, four-eyed centipede writhing wildly in front of him. Anyone would probably scream in terror, but that wasn't what Huangfu Yi was looking for.

"No, it's nothing... Damn, a bunch of bastards were electrocuting me in my dream..."

With difficulty, Huangfu Yi got up and looked at the glittering golden sword mark on the centipede's belly and back. He knew that the Five Immortal Sword Gu had been completed. Now, the human and the demon had established a stable primordial spirit link, and the Hundred Yang Centipede had become his second primordial spirit coordinate.

When Huangfu Yixiu reaches the Nascent Soul realm in the future, he can leave his body at any time and travel to the heavens. At that time, he can fly here at will, or in the midst of a battle, he can draw the Hundred Suns to his side to assist in the battle. These are all common operations of the Nascent Soul technique, so there is no need to say more.

The most powerful aspect of the Five Immortals Sword Gu is that not only can Huangfu Yi himself greatly enhance his primordial spirit and experience a surge in cultivation, but the Hundred Yang Centipede also possesses a specialized cultivation method that allows it to refine itself into a flying sword Gu. Even if its Gu body is destroyed in the future, it can disintegrate and leave its body, forging a sword spirit for use. There are many other wonderful methods as well, which will not be fully mentioned here.

As Huangfu Yi's consciousness gradually stabilized, fragmented memories from his dream began to surface. He roused himself, clutching his burning forehead, and tried to piece together the complete picture he had seen in his dream.

Taiji Heaven, Outer Heaven, Earth 60, Insect Race, Demon Spirits, Humans, Divine Cult, Mystic Sect, Immortal Palace...

Well, he couldn't piece it together at all. Countless pieces of information flashed through his mind. His forehead throbbed and his head was splitting. What was going on? Huangfu Yi's mind was also a mess. But here and there, the general outline of the puzzle was gradually taking shape in front of him.

This game of chess seems to be a prehistoric war that has been going on from the distant ancient Earth to the present day in the Taiji world.

Yes, war, beyond the heavens, the three major factions, demons and humans, all living beings, chaotic slaughter, endless killing, war that never stops. In the midst of it all, what is right or wrong? Born into this infernal hell, the only way out is to kill and kill until death...

"Brother Yi".

The centipede suddenly spoke, interrupting Huangfu Yi's chaotic thoughts.

"insect."

Huangfu Yi suddenly snapped out of his daze and saw in the projection, the sea of ​​insects in all directions surged and shimmered like waves! Some individual insects, resembling soldier ants, had even come to life! They seemed to be climbing up the cliff face! Clearly, they were actively searching for the newly descended queen!
"What's going on! Wasn't the queen insect supposed to be fully grown yet?! Wait! I've been asleep for a few days!"

Baiyang counted his feet and calculated.
"It must have been about seven days. It seems the new queen is growing very fast, and the entire swarm is slowly awakening."

Huangfu Yi gritted his teeth and got up.
"There's no time to rest. I have to set off now and kill the Queen immediately."

Baiyang nodded, curled up, and squeezed the queen insect's bones so tightly they cracked.
"Alright, then I'll release a worm out. Follow it, and you should be able to find the queen's trail."

"Once you're out, I'll split the earth open and bury the insect nest hundreds of feet deeper until they quiet down."

Huangfu Yi nodded solemnly.
"Thank you."

"With me here, don't worry!"

Without a word or hesitation, the two made a decision and immediately split up. Huangfu Yi leaped out and, with the help of the imperial guards, charged wildly up the 90-degree cliff, heading towards the abyss.

Behind them, the sea of ​​insects surged and roared, a colossal centipede, its entire form obscured, surging and resurfacing from beneath the insect sea, splitting the earth and splitting rocks, continuing to dig and burrow, like a sudden, enormous vortex, plunging countless insect nests and the sea of ​​insects into the endless spring.

Huangfu Yi, however, did not look back and continued running wildly, grabbing whatever was behind him and throwing the fleeing ants and spiders into the abyss.

As they journeyed back to the ruins of the demon city, Baiyang's voice echoed from the depths of the darkness.
"Exit through the western passage! To prevent any from escaping, I must completely seal off the gate and suppress the demon!"
I'll keep an eye on things here! The one outside is yours!

"it is good!"

"boom!"

With a great leap, Huangfuyi sent the divine weapon soaring high over the demon capital and landing on top of the centipede shell in the west of the city.

At that moment, with a loud "crack!", Huangfu Yi turned his head and saw that the centipedes that had been biting the city walls of the Demon Capital and holding the flying island had all opened their mouths and broken the chains.

Then, with a "whoosh!" sound, the entire Demon Capital Flying Island lost its support and plummeted into the abyss, just like a piston cap, perfectly sealing off the exit of the underground abyss tunnel!
Suddenly, a strong wind swept across the city walls, and stars fell from the sky. Amidst the shrill cries of metal and the deafening roar of lightning, the demon capital descended, crushing the swarms of insects that had been crawling up the rock face into dust. The dust was then smashed into the crevice and disappeared into the endless abyss.

Huangfu Yi glanced at the deep valley below again, then turned back, entered the centipede's mouth, and flew upwards along the insect's shell.

With the Hundred Suns Divine Weapon on his body, Huangfu Yi could directly 'see' the fluorescent footprints of the insect scouts ahead and track them. In addition to the assistance of this superior divine weapon and armor, Huangfu Yi himself had also formed a sword embryo inner core and refined the Five Immortals Sword Gu lineage, which multiplied his power and combat strength.

Even if the queen insect had truly become an adult insect and was protected by a large army, Huangfu Yi was confident that he could single-handedly defeat a thousand insects, slaughter them, kill their heads, and return to turn the tide and save the collapsing empire.

But the problem is... what happens after the pests are removed?

Ultimately, Baiyang has guarded the seal for thousands of years, and there's clearly no problem with it. So why is a new queen being born? Even if we kill this one, will a new queen still be born? What if she's born at the ends of the earth and we can't catch up?
Besides, even if the Zerg don't come to destroy the world, aren't the demons, blood demons, and those human demons also destroying the world? How long will this killing last before we win?

Or is it really as that dignified leader of a religion 'realized'...?

The root of everything lies in the heavens beyond the heavens; we must win there...

Don't overthink it, Huangfu Yi. Since this is a grand game, and you're just a pawn that's crossed the river, just blindly push forward. Charge ahead, fight your way to the end, and you'll eventually carve out a way to survive.

Shaking his head to dispel the distracting thoughts in his mind, Huangfu Yi quickly stabilized his Dao heart and strengthened his fighting spirit!

He charged forward at breakneck speed, then unleashed a thunderous punch! He burst forth from the ground!
"Oh!"

With a deafening roar, armored soldiers burst from the ground, following the tracks of the soldier ants. They looked around and saw a forest scorched by fire, and the ground not far away was charred black, as if a huge crater had been left by a falling meteor. The soldier ants had clearly been heading towards the center of the crater.

Judging from the surrounding ruins, it seemed to have once been a temple. Strangely, most of the surrounding buildings had been swept away by the explosive waves and shockwaves, leaving almost no trace, but in the center of the crater explosion, there was a Buddhist hall that was almost perfectly preserved.

From the outside, the house was completely empty. It was a mystery what kind of divine protection it had that allowed it to withstand the impact of a falling meteor.

Just as the sergeant said, the queen insect descended from the sky.
Before he went down into the cave, there were already so many meteors falling like rain. Now that he has been delayed for seven days, isn't it too late for everything?

"Crack, click, click."

At this moment, his power had greatly increased. Even from a distance, Huangfu Yi could hear rustling sounds coming from the pit. He scanned the area with his divine sense and saw that the soldier ants seemed to still be in the deep crater of the meteorite, rummaging through something in the crater.

It might just be the Queen Insect herself!
Huangfu Yi suppressed his unease, calmed his mind and gathered his energy, took out the iron rod and gathered its sword light, ready to unleash his power, and concentrated all his energy to lock the object in the pit!
"Gang Fist! Forty!"

"boom!"

He went all out from the start! Huangfu Yi unleashed his full power in his very first move! He leaped forward and punched, simultaneously unleashing a sword aura that struck at the same time!
"Yao Guang Slays the Demon!"

"Zhi!"

The result was that this casual sword strike ended all too soon. The sword energy sliced ​​through the crater like a plow, sweeping out more than three zhang away.

The insect writhing in the crater was utterly powerless to resist and was sliced ​​in two. It seems that the newly awakened insectoids are relatively easy to deal with, and their combat strength is only comparable to that of ordinary monsters.

After confirming that the insect was indeed dead, Huangfu Yi came up to see what it was rummaging around in the pit... was it an egg?
It's round and plump, it definitely looks like an egg, huh? It's cracked?
It seemed to have been rummaged around by insects for a while, and with a "crack", the eggshell split open, and then rolled out a head-sized creature... uh, wait, this looks like a head, doesn't it?

Huangfu Yi frowned and carefully examined the thing that had hatched from the egg.

It is indeed a head.

The facial features were vaguely discernible, and the size seemed to be that of a child's head. However, it was charred and burned beyond recognition. Even the severed neck could not be felt unless one touched carefully. It was as if the entire head had been stuffed into that round egg and baked, with the skin and fat melted into a lump, leaving only a round ball of flesh.

The slain insect seemed to have been fiddling with the sphere, trying to use the steel needles in its mouth to insert into the gaps in the human skull and suck out brain fluid.

What the hell...

"Escape...escape...escape..."

"What the hell!"

Huangfu Yi was suddenly startled and turned his head to look. He saw a huge black shadow suddenly crawl out of the previously empty Buddhist hall.

*Splatter, splatter, splatter, splatter*, the puppet's flesh and blood fell all the way as it crawled into the radiant light of the twin moons. What... what the hell is this? The queen insect has matured, and this is what it looks like? Wait, this isn't right? This is completely different from the one the centipede was locking up!

The one underground, supposedly a queen insect, is actually humanoid. But this one before us—hands, feet, torso, head, intestines, heart, liver, lungs—each individual part seems to be human, yet when put together in this strangely assembled form, it is definitely not human. If I had to use a metaphor… a human longhorn beetle?
Well, you probably can't imagine it without a bit of imagination, but if you think of its lower body's limbs as insect tentacles, its two upside-down white legs as longhorn beetle antennae, and its seven or eight heads pieced together, torn and expanded to reveal the slowly writhing cavity of its internal organs, you can see it as the gaping maw of a longhorn beetle monster...

Ugh! This is disgusting! What's the point of watching?! Monsters should die!
"Demons, prepare to die—! Five Immortals Secret Sword! Hundred Suns Divine Light! Break—!"

"escape……"

"Om-!"

He charged up his power and unleashed a devastating blow, leaving no room for retreat, and his sword struck with deadly force.

A sword light burst forth, unleashing a vast and powerful beam of light like a positron cannon! With a single cleavage, it tore the demonic creature in two, body and soul, and then the sword energy erupted, shooting forth like a torrent! A sword strike that pierced the soul and shattered the evil! Destroying the demon and annihilating the spirit! It sent the vile creature flying and exploding! Annihilated it to ashes! Leaving no trace of its remains!
"Boom boom boom——"

After charging for a full ten seconds, exhausting all his vital energy to ensure the target was completely annihilated, Huangfu Yi finally released his strength and stopped, panting and breathing heavily.

Yes, the Five Immortals Sword is indeed awesome. It lives up to the system's evaluation. Although it leads to imprisonment later on, it wins in the early stages by sweeping through enemies. So overall, it's a pretty good unorthodox move.

After all, having refined Baiyang into a sword gu, and with the added power of a great demon thousands or tens of thousands of years old, Huangfu Yi's Dao power and supernatural abilities had been amplified to an earth-shattering level. Even at the Golden Core stage, he could unleash such earth-shattering sword power. Not to mention that this cannon shot, cough cough, this sword strike, was originally a super-ultimate move he had deduced by observing the anti-Earth electron cannon techniques of those orbital weapons in the Outer Heavens, combined with his own Flaming Fist Orthodox Method!

He transformed all his mighty sword power into demon-slaying divine flames, a golden light sweeping across the world! Not only did it instantly annihilate the vile demon, but it also traversed the wilderness, splitting mountains and ridges, even cleaving a mountain stream in two, leaving only a scorching, lava-like sword mark on the earth! It was incredibly powerful, explosive, potent, domineering, and awesome!

But did they really win? This monster probably isn't the Queen of Insects...

Exhausted and powerless, Huangfu Yi looked up at the cold, silent moonlight above him and gazed at the stars that seemed about to fall at any moment, and once again fell into emptiness and confusion.

Ever since crossing the Gen River, he has frequently found himself in this predicament of having a lot of strength but being unable to use it, his punches going in circles and hitting nothing but cotton.

I felt that the world was treacherous, full of hidden traps and schemes, but no matter how I struggled, I could only sink deeper and deeper, step by step into a deeper, darker, and more terrifying abyss...

"Alright, alright, stop feeling sorry for yourself, let's go straight to Jiuyin Mountain."

"System! You're finally online!"

Finally hearing the system's annoying voice again, Huangfu Yi suddenly calmed down and jumped up.

"What on earth is going on! What about the Queen Insect! And what about the Outer Heavens, that sergeant..."

To everyone's surprise, the system simply said...
"These side quests are outdated. If you happen to come across them, just use them to level up. There's no need to do them specifically. Just skip the rest!"

Don't worry, I've planned your upgrade path specifically. Once you get through this hurdle, overcome this tribulation, and level up, you'll have the skills to dominate the world!
I will now teach you a sword escape technique. With the help of that sword strike, you can set off in the morning and arrive in the evening, then go directly to hunt at Nine Yin Mountain!

Huangfu Yi was stunned for a moment, and stood still without saying a word.

The system was quite sensitive and asked immediately.

"What's wrong? What are you up to now?"

Huangfu Yi remained silent for a while, then suddenly said,

"System, I...I don't want to kill the Blood Demon anymore."

The system paused for a moment, then broke into a tirade.

"Hey, what's this? You just started a murderous rampage and suddenly you've had an epiphany! You've let go!"

Who was it that was shouting about exterminating demons back then?! I've prepared a whole plan for you, and you're telling me you don't want it!

"Damn it! You're not going to kill the demons or avenge your grudges, are you?! How about we just shave your head and ordain you as a monk right here?! What the hell!"

Huangfu Yi glanced at the scorched earth and ruins around him, then looked up at the two bright moons shining in the sky, and sighed.

"Of course I can't let go, but so what?"

Everyone dies eventually. Whether or not revenge is achieved, those who remain must continue to live.

Besides, there are some things in the world that are more important than others, more important than my personal grudges and affections.

Because those who are still alive are always more important than those who have passed away.

Therefore, there are some things that someone has to do...

So I've figured it out. In this situation, besides me taking the lead, I'm afraid no one else will bother with it.

I have to go after the insect queen; I can't hand it over to someone else, nor can I postpone it until later.

Right here, in this very moment, we will save all living beings.

and so……

I think I'll skip going to Jiuyin Mountain for now.

The system didn't continue scolding him; it remained silent for a while, then sighed.
"Sigh, I knew it. You were destined for misfortune. Those little bastards live such carefree lives, heartless and ungrateful."

Why are you so frustrated? Are you such a fool who loves to get stuck on trivial matters? What's it to you? Why do you have to argue and fight?

You have to shoulder everything, you have to take on everything. Aren't you tired? Besides, even if you do manage to win her over, what then?

"After killing the bug, they can just throw another one down from above. Can you kill them all?"

Huangfuyi lowered his head and silently looked at the stick in his hand.

"Then I won't kill it... I'll find a place to guard and seal it, and watch over it myself, whether it's a hundred years or a thousand years..."

In short, we must not allow the Zerg to destroy our world. As for the rest, let fate decide.

The system sighed.

"He's incredibly stubborn and stupid. Alright, alright, kids don't need to worry about adults. The trouble has been dealt with."

Huangfu Yi was taken aback.
"What? It's already been...you mean the Queen?"

The system is cold.
"Am I talking about the extra moon in the sky if I'm not talking about the queen insect?"
Huangfu Yi, you've got it wrong. You may have the heart of a hero, but unfortunately, you're not destined to be one.

Besides, in this world, it's not even your turn to save it, you little brat. Those cats and dogs, they can't even do the slightest damage, how many of them have the power to destroy the world? I'd be grateful if it could even take down one of them.

It's irrelevant to the overall situation and a waste of effort, that's why it's called a side quest.

Huangfu Yi was momentarily confused.
"The Queen Insect is a side quest... So what exactly is my main quest...?"

"What else could it be..."

The system seemed to sigh softly.

"Naturally, we'll go to the mountains to retrieve that sword. Counting the days, it'll be done soon."

(End of this chapter)