Tumor Sword Immortal

Chapter 237 Opportunity is the key.
Her eyelashes fluttered, and Ji Shaofu slowly opened her eyes.

Outside the wooden-railed window was a long corridor, and hanging wisteria vines clung to the window of her quiet room, having recently blossomed.

Its light fragrance is refreshing and delightful.

Since the incident outside Pei Xia's cave, Ji Shaofu has used the excuse of not wanting to clash with the elder personally appointed by the sect leader to put Chai Yun in solitary confinement.

This son of a high-ranking official couldn't possibly listen to Ji Shaofu completely, but he also couldn't completely ignore her, so such punishments were usually a compromise—he went back to his hometown for a vacation.

This is why Chai Yun hasn't bothered Pei Xia since that day.

Without that bastard's malicious gaze all day long, Ji Shaofu felt that her state of mind during her cultivation had improved recently.

She has been at the peak of the Profound Realm for half a year, and she should be close to breaking through to the Open Mansion Realm. She just needs a little bit of the right opportunity.

But at the same time, she also knew that opportunities cannot be forced.

She brushed off her clothes, took a pair of white socks from the shelf beside her, put on her deerskin boots, and prepared to go to the Hall of Records to see if there were any bounties for those who needed to travel.

To relax and maybe try my luck.

Pushing open the door to the inner chamber of the cave, two young female disciples walked by not far away, whispering to each other. Their cheeks were flushed, and when they saw Ji Shaofu come out, they quickly shut their mouths and bowed respectfully.

Ji Shaofu glanced at them and snorted.

She could hear clearly that the two female disciples were talking about Chai Yun.

He was mostly talking about his family background and appearance, and his words were full of admiration.

In other words, Chai Yun didn't set his sights on them. Only by using his methods to completely exploit them could he truly understand the nature of those scions of noble families.

It was the same outside the outer sect elder's cave last time.

When Chai Yun returned to the mountain, he said that he had gone fishing and was rudely driven away, which led to the argument.

But in reality, he was simply lusting after the female disciple's looks and forcing her to accompany him.

This filthy fellow of noble birth usually acts on his own, always having a thousand reasons to do ten thousand despicable things. If it weren't for the sect leader's orders, regardless of whether he was the Minister of Works, he would have been cleaved into three pieces with a single sword strike!
Sigh... I don't want to think about him, I don't want to think about him, it's making me feel restless.

As she walked to the edge of the mountain path, Ji Shaofu subconsciously looked towards the main mountain of the sect.

Suddenly, on the other side of the clouds, something seemed to be stirring the energy.

Ji Shaofu's brows furrowed, and she focused her gaze to examine the area closely.

The clouds and mist were indeed broken open, the opening was perfectly clean, as if it had been cut... no, severed by something!
She was quick-witted and immediately understood.

With a sword incantation in his hand, the green-sheathed longsword on his back shot out and slashed at the invisible energy that broke through the clouds in a bright sword light!

In the unseen realm, the clash of metal resounds!
The overwhelming force of gravity, transmitted through the longsword, was reflected back onto Ji Shaofu. Her ability to wield the sword in mid-air was clearly insufficient to resist it, so she could only take a step forward and reach out to grasp the hilt.

Only now did the dual pressure of spiritual power and imposing force reach her palm more clearly.

Within her body, the inner cauldron roared, and Ji Shaofu drew out almost all of her spiritual power to fight against the energy that had flown in from who-knows-where.

She could sense that the force had clearly traversed through layers of clouds and was now exhausted.

Even so, the moment she clashed with it, the terrifying sharpness that penetrated her spiritual power and reached her heart and lungs still made her feel extremely frightened and afraid!
Is this... the aftershock of a powerful sword cultivator's sword energy?
On the mountain cliffs, Ji Shaofu's spiritual energy in her inner cauldron gradually ran out, and she was also propelled by the sword energy, carving out two long ravines in the ground.

The disciples who witnessed this scene along the way were all horrified and didn't know what to do.

Ji Shaofu didn't even have a chance to utter a sound. Only after being forced back into the quiet room did the spiritual energy within her inner cauldron finally run out, and the incoming energy invaded her body, instantly shattering the inner cauldron in her dantian!

His internal organs trembled, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

The moment the sword energy dissipated, the intense emptiness from the shattered inner cauldron began to seize the remaining spiritual energy circulating throughout her limbs and bones.

The intense pain continued, but at the same time, Ji Shaofu's mind cleared up.

Isn't this the perfect opportunity to shatter the inner cauldron and rebuild the spiritual palace?
Despite the excruciating pain from her injuries, she sat cross-legged with her eyes tightly closed.

The opportunity has arrived!
……

In Pei Xia's cave, he was both an elder and a gofer; strictly speaking, he couldn't command anyone.

So he had to do the job of fetching the wine himself.

The Changjing Sect's self-operated cultivation market also provides daily necessities for purchase. When they first came to the sect, after passing through that water village, the brothers of the Canal Gang lived there with their families, and drinking was always inevitable.

The cheap drinks aren't expensive either; they're not particularly refreshing, but rather just mindlessly spicy.

It suits Pei Xia's taste perfectly.

On the way back to the sect, Lu Li, with a candied hawthorn in each hand, rode on Pei Xia's shoulders and complained in a low voice, "That last mountain-splitting move of yours scared me half to death. If that had been a burst of Wu Du sword energy, I'm afraid Old Han wouldn't have been able to withstand it."

Pei Xia smacked her lips: "Actually, that attack really was Wu Du's sword energy."

Pear's hand, holding the candied hawthorn, froze: "Huh? Then..."

Pei Xia hasn't truly recovered her martial arts; it's just that her spiritual power has manifested and she didn't intend to activate it. Therefore, she is definitely unable to control the unique sword energy.

If that final burst of energy was truly Wu Du's, Pei Xia shouldn't have been able to control it at all.

Pei Xia sighed, reached down to his waist, and a jade-green light flashed as a rough leather wine sac landed in his hand: "I threw up in here."

The wine sac was quiet and still; you could even hear the sound of water when you shook it.

Pear looked at him as if he had seen a ghost: "Martial arts despise all other methods unless one attains enlightenment in this path."

The wine pouch that Chen Fengcai gave to Pei Xia contained a power similar to sword energy. Judging from Wu Du's performance, this power should have reached the level of the Dao Proving Realm.

“It’s a good thing,” Pei Xia said, shaking the wine in the bottle. “I’m at the Tongxuan Realm. Although I’ve recovered my sword energy, I can’t control Wu Du. With this wine bottle in hand, I can open the stopper and temporarily borrow Wu Du’s sword energy. Under the Heavenly Consciousness, they will have to avoid my edge to some extent.”

Pear cautiously poked the wine sac with her finger: "Now that we have a Transcendent Realm cultivator, are we just waiting for the selection and then going to the Liancheng Fire Vein?"

“My cultivation level is still a bit low, but it’s unrealistic to open a mansion in a short time,” Pei Xia put the wine pouch back into the jade pendant. “Let’s stabilize my cultivation first, and then see if there are any magical artifacts or spiritual treasures that can resist mental interference and block high temperatures.”

He paused again after speaking, "Ideally, we could find someone to be cannon fodder and pawns to enter the Liancheng Illusionary Realm with me... Tsk, shouldn't we also find an opportunity to get to know some talented individuals?"

It's good to have good intentions, but such friendships also depend on fate; it's not something you can simply do by going to a mountain to pay respects and saying, "Let's get to know each other."

It would be great if there were some kind of gathering salon where cultivators from all walks of life could come together.

Pei Xia brought Lu Li back to the cave. When they saw that the door of the wooden house by the stream was open, Han Youzhi was standing at the door.

Old Han waved to him from afar, then darted over and whispered, "That guy surnamed Li from the main peak is here. He says he has a job for you."

(End of this chapter)