Xiuxian, I can travel to another world

Chapter 201 Mission
"Ding……"

"when!"

In front of the fire.

Zhu Ju, shirtless, looked solemn as he wielded a giant hammer and pounded it heavily against the magical artifact in front of him.

Each time the giant hammer fell, sparks flew everywhere.

a long time.

"Zi..."

As the crimson magical artifact plunged into the extremely cold ice crystals, thick white smoke billowed out from the point of contact.

"almost."

Although Ding Gui was a woman, her voice was deep and hoarse. Her gaze fell on the magical artifact, and she nodded in satisfaction.
"In less than two years, you have mastered the art of weapon crafting to this level. You are truly a prodigy in this field."

"If you are not a suitable vessel for a true disciple, I will definitely ask the sect elders to help you change your sect."

"Oh!" Zhu Juzhi stood up:

"Will it work?"

"Of course!" Ding Gui said in a deep voice.
"Weapon refiners are extremely important to sects, second only to formation masters. Your talent in this area goes without saying. If you can refine top-grade magic weapons, your status will be no less than that of a core disciple."

"pity……"

"You are someone else's furnace vessel, and a furnace vessel for the core true teachings."

"Senior Sister," Zhu Ju said casually.

"Is there no other way for a true disciple to become a furnace (or a furnace for a spiritual practitioner)?"

"I've heard of sect disciples falling in love with their cultivation partners, eventually cultivating the Great Dao together and reaching the Foundation Establishment stage together?"

"..." Ding Gui looked at Zhu Ju in front of him, a complex expression flashing in his eyes, then subconsciously glanced at the cave entrance:

"Different."

“Junior brother, each of the core disciples is a seed of the Dao foundation, but their furnace cauldrons are rather special.”

"What's so special about it?" Zhu Ju turned his head slightly.
"I believe Yuan Tong would never kill me."

"Heh..." Ding Gui sneered.
"You actually trust the disciples of the Joyful Union Sect?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she seemed to realize she had spoken out of turn. Her face darkened abruptly, and she swept the person away with a flick of her sleeve.

"roll!"

"leave here!"

Zhu Ju raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything more.

…………

"boom!"

The flames, as viscous as magma, rolled and surged.

The deafening roar echoed in my ears, and the fierce wind howled incessantly.

Zhu Ju sat cross-legged on a rock that seemed to float in mid-air, his eyes fixed intently on the heavenly fire ahead.

The burning flames cast flickering light on his face and made his eyes gleam with an unusual light.

This place is called the 'Heavenly Fire Domain' by the cultivators of the Hehuan Sect.

Because the true fires of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends converge, the five elements' magnetic field in this place becomes chaotic, and very few people come here.

But it was Zhu Ju's favorite.

His left hand possesses all five elements; what appears to be chaotic energy to others, he can perceive clearly.

Any abnormalities in the surroundings can be detected in advance.

and.

This place may seem chaotic, but it is actually governed by certain rules, and it is by no means easy to completely disrupt it.

At least a mere Qi Refining cultivator couldn't do that.

"Master!"

A familiar voice came from below, and Zhou Yuantong floated over on a red ribbon, her face beaming with joy:

"My master has agreed to let me leave the valley to carry out a mission."

"Oh!" Zhu Ju's eyes flickered slightly.
"Good thing, worth celebrating."

"Hehe..." Zhou Yuantong chuckled, and with a gentle wave of her long sleeves, an invisible force enveloped the two of them, ensuring that their conversation would not be overheard.

"My husband is my furnace, and we cannot be separated for long. When the time comes, he will surely leave the valley with me."

"By the time……"

Her beautiful eyes sparkled, and her body trembled slightly with excitement:

"If we find an opportunity to leave quietly, we can completely break free from the constraints of the Hehuan Sect!"

"Yeah." Zhu Ju nodded:
"You haven't left here for ten years, have you?"

"More or less." Zhou Yuantong thought for a moment, then said with a sigh:
"Ten years, time flies."

"Come here." Zhu Ju took her hand, gently beckoned towards the distant skyfire, and said with a faint smile:
I have a gift for you.

"Oh!" Zhou Yuantong exclaimed with delight.

"what gift?"

"Shh!"

With a flick of the incantation, a faint white light flew out from the heavenly fire and landed in Zhu Ju's palm.

"Om..."

The white light seemed alive, pulsating rapidly in my palm.

"It's done!"

Zhu Ju held up a white ray of light and said slowly:

"This is the first high-grade magic weapon I've crafted. It's compatible with your cultivation technique. I've added a drop of your essence blood."

Zhou Yuantong pursed her lips, her beautiful eyes seemingly overflowing with joy. With a flick of her finger, a drop of blood fell into the white light.

"Zheng!"

The sword hummed softly.

The melody was melodious and vast, lingering for a long time before finally ending.

The white light dissipated, and the flying sword revealed its true form: a tiny, crystal-clear sword about three inches long.

The sword is engraved with fine patterns, which, upon closer inspection, resemble the characters "朱" and "周".

"You made this especially for me?"

Feeling the connection between their hearts and souls, Zhou Yuantong gently stroked the sword, her voice tender:

"I love so much."

"I'm glad you like it." Zhu Ju smiled faintly.
Let's give it a name.

"Name?" Zhou Yuantong tilted her head, a glint of light flashing in her beautiful eyes:
"How about we call it the Amorous Sword?"

"Passionate?" Zhu Ju seemed to be deep in thought.
"Let's call it the Sword of Oblivion."

"Forget Love?" Zhou Yuantong pursed her lips, clearly disliking the name, but still shrugged.

"also."

"Let's call it the Sword of Oblivion!"

"The Supreme Being is detached from emotions, yet because he has emotions, he is not bound by them, thus he can move all living beings and unleash the wonders of the human heart."

She silently recited a phrase from the cultivation technique, and lightly waved her long sleeves:

"go with!"

The Sword of Oblivion trembled slightly, flashed out like lightning, and only when it was a hundred meters away did it suddenly bend and quickly circle back.

He manipulated the flying sword, executing several sword techniques with incredible agility and precision, and couldn't help but exclaim in praise:

"What a sword!"

"I'm glad you like it." Zhu Ju pressed down on Zhou Yuantong's shoulder, making her look directly at him, and said seriously:
"Yuan Tong."

"You must remember, if I am not with you after leaving Fengyue Valley, find an opportunity to leave on your own."

"Do not bother me!"

"Huh?" Zhou Yuantong looked bewildered.

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"Bring your toiletries, food, and drinks. You two might not be used to the conditions outside the gate."

Qi Yao examined the Qiankun bag, muttering to herself:

"Check if there's anything we forgot to take?"

"That's all." Zhou Yuantong snatched the Qiankun bag from her hand with amusement, rolling her eyes as she said:
"How come I never noticed before that you were so fussy and indecisive?"

"I...I was just concerned about you all, wasn't I?" Qi Yao forced a smile.
"Take more things with you. Bring everything I've prepared for you. If you miss me, just take it out and look at it."

"It's like we'll never see each other again." Zhou Yuantong sighed softly, her expression subtly changing.
"All right."

"It's almost time, we should go."

"Hmm." Qi Yao's eyes were complicated.
"I'll see you off."

The three of them had just left the cave when a beam of light descended from the sky and blocked their path before they could even activate their flying artifacts. "Master!"

"Master!"

Zhou Yuantong and Qi Yao's expressions changed, and they both knelt down on the ground.

Concubine Yuan?

Zhu Ju had long heard of the other party's great reputation, but this was the first time he had met him in person.

With skin as smooth as jade and a face as beautiful as a fairy, draped in light silk, adorned with pearls, dressed in luxurious clothes, and with graceful bearing, she was like a fairy.

Especially her eyes, which were like a hundred flowers blooming within them, unforgettable once seen.

Qi Yao is very beautiful, as beautiful as a painting.

Zhou Yuantong is even more beautiful; she's like a beauty from a painting brought to life.

The beauty of the concubine before them transcended the realm of ordinary understanding, making her a bewitching enchantress.

The allure she exudes unintentionally is an irresistible aphrodisiac for ordinary people.

"Yuan Tong."

Consort Yuan spoke gently and slowly:

"You have never gone out to carry out sect missions before. Although the target you are targeting is not strong, you must still be careful and cautious, and do not make your master worry."

"Yes." Zhou Yuantong lowered her head.

"Master, rest assured, Yuan Tong will certainly not dare to be careless."

"That's good." Consort Yuan nodded.
"Go ahead."

"Yes." Zhou Yuantong stood up and reached out to pull Zhu Ju.

"He doesn't need it." Consort Yuan chuckled.
"With your current cultivation level, you no longer need to worry about the effects of the Love Curse. You can go alone."

"As for him..."

"I'd like to have a talk with him."

"Master." Zhou Yuantong's expression changed drastically, but under Yuanfei's ambiguous smile, she could only grit her teeth and lower her head.

"Yes, Master."

"Go then." Consort Yuan waved her hand.
"Don't be late."

Watching Zhou Yuantong walk away, turning back every few steps with reluctance, Yuanfei's smile quietly faded.

"Qi Yao, do you know your crime?"

"Pfft!"

Qi Yao's face turned deathly pale, and her knees buckled, causing her to collapse to her knees.
"Master, spare me! Master, spare me!"

"You knew perfectly well that the two of them were going to escape, why didn't you tell your master?" Consort Yuan shook her head and sighed.
"I trusted you so much, and yet you treat me like this?"

"puff!"

Before anyone could see what she was doing, Qi Yao suddenly coughed up blood, her body convulsing as she slowly collapsed to the ground.

"Rare..."

"Spare your life!"

Qi Yao collapsed to the ground, struggling desperately. The veins on her neck bulged, and white foam spilled from her mouth.

"Zhu Ju!"

Consort Yuan ignored her miserable state and turned to look at Zhu Ju:

"What a handsome young man! No wonder he can bewitch my Yuan Tong so much that she would abandon her master to elope with you."

"you say……"

"How should I punish you?"

"Senior." Zhu Ju bowed.
"I had no choice but to do this. After all, everyone cherishes their life, and I am no exception."

"Hmm..." Consort Yuan squinted:
"You think that by becoming Yuan Tong's furnace, you'll inevitably die?"

"Otherwise?" Zhu Ju said.

"Senior, you wouldn't tell me I'm still alive, would you?"

"Hehe..." Consort Yuan chuckled softly.
"You guessed right. If Yuan Tong wants to achieve a state of complete inner peace, you will definitely have to sacrifice yourself to make up for it. There is absolutely no chance of escaping this."

"but……"

"It's not like there's nothing we can do."

"Oh!" Zhu Ju's expression shifted slightly.
"any solution?"

"Throughout the centuries, the Hehuan Sect has always had a few outliers." Consort Yuan didn't answer, but paced back and began to speak:
“I remember more than two hundred years ago, when I had not yet achieved the Dao Foundation, there was a senior sister whose temperament was exactly the same as Yuan Tong's, innocent and naive.”

"She developed genuine feelings and sincerity towards her alchemy vessel, and eventually one of them became a Dao foundation."

"But it wasn't her..."

"It's her furnace!"

Ok?
Zhu Ju suddenly looked up.

Qi Yao, who was lying on the ground convulsing, also stiffened and struggled to look at Zhu Ju.

…………

Within the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Xiao Chengzai, an inner disciple dressed in pristine white, rode behind Zhou Yuantong, his face displaying a fawning expression.

"Senior Sister Zhou, our target for this trip is two outer disciples who have the cultivation level of breaking through the three apertures."

"Don't underestimate them just because their cultivation level isn't high. They are skilled in teamwork and fighting together. Even a cultivator at the Five Apertures Innate Realm might not be confident of defeating them."

"Oh!" Zhou Yuantong asked casually.

"If you are a disciple of our sect, why have you betrayed it and fled?"

"They love each other, but for some reason they can't be together," Xiao Chengzai explained.
"In order to escape the sect, the two deliberately exposed a base that the sect had been operating outside for many years, which provoked the righteous sects to take action and caused the deaths of several inner disciples and more than a dozen outer disciples. Their crimes were heinous."

They love each other, yet they flee the sect?

Zhou Yuantong's heart trembled slightly.

"Heh..." Xiao Chengzai sneered:

"They thought they had covered their tracks perfectly, but little did they know how powerful the sect's methods were; how could they not find out?"

"Humph!"

"They hid in a small village of ordinary people, concealing their identities, and never revealed their cultivation level for many years. Even so, our people still managed to find them. We have come here to kill them."

"Is hiding one's identity and not revealing one's cultivation level useless?" Zhou Yuantong muttered to himself.

"Of course!"

Xiao Chengzai looked completely at ease:

"Anyone who betrays the sect, no matter where they hide, the sect will find and kill them."

"Without exception!"

"arrive!"

He leaped off his horse, pointed towards the small village ahead, and a sinister smile appeared on his face:
"Do it!"

"Kill everyone in this village!"

"Yes!" The Hehuan Sect disciples behind the two responded and rushed towards the village with a loud shout.

"Why kill innocent people indiscriminately?" Zhou Yuantong frowned.

"Just kill those who betrayed the sect. Since they have never revealed their cultivation, the people in the mountain village probably don't know their origins either."

"Senior Sister," Xiao Chengzai began.
"This is our rule; how can punishing only the ringleaders deter the world?"

"Their neighbors, relatives, friends, and children born after marriage must all be killed to demonstrate the power of their sect."

"Senior sister, there's no need to worry. I, Xiao, will handle everything. You can wait patiently for the mission to be completed."

A quarter of an hour later.

A raging fire broke out in the mountain village.

Corpses lay scattered on the ground.

As Zhou Yuantong walked along the dirt road in the mountain village, looking around at the scenery, he felt lost and cold all over.

a long time.

Fang slowly came to his senses.

"Sister."

Xiao Chengzai leaped over and said:
"Our mission is a success, and the traitors have been eliminated. Shall we find a place to celebrate?"

"No." Zhou Yuantong shook her head slightly, her eyes lifeless.
"I want to go back."

"Go back?" Xiao Chengzai was taken aback:
"Where are you going back?"

"Return to my cave," Zhou Yuantong whispered.

"Looking for my husband."

(End of this chapter)