Borrowing a sword

Chapter 275 The Secret of the Black Beads

Chu Huaixu stared at the unchanging time on his system interface, feeling a chill run down his spine.

He knew very well what this meant!
He no longer needs to worry about experience points.

He also didn't need to worry about too much time passing and thus delaying the East-West Continent Grand Competition.

There's no need to worry about time limits for the trials in the Inheritance Realm.

Because time, it doesn't move at all!

He feels like he's been locked up in a dark room by the Dao Ancestor.

Time does not pass here, nor can we contact the outside world.

The only thing we can do is to walk the "sword path" he once walked and practice all the sword techniques he practiced.

At this moment, he truly realized how terrifying this secret realm of inheritance was!
This means that he completed the Dao Ancestor's "Sword Path" inside, but only a moment had passed in the outside world.

The surroundings were plunged into darkness once again.

When the image appeared, he saw the young Taoist priest at an auction.

"He seems like a male protagonist in a novel."

"Even such a classic auction segment has appeared," Chu Huaixu muttered to himself.

Even more remarkably, this Taoist priest was also an alchemist, and he sold his own elixirs at auctions.

What followed was the most classic scene ever—finding a bargain.

The Taoist priest bought a small cat demon with a seemingly malfunctioning ear and mixed bloodlines, as well as a piece of black iron.

Monsters in the Xuanhuang Realm are relatively rare.

The vast majority are creatures like the Divine Steed, carrying a little bit of demonic beast blood.

In fact, this is also related to the growth environment of monsters.

Because a pure-blooded demon beast can be said to be a treasure from head to toe.

In addition, their cultivation speed is extremely slow, similar to that of cultivators in Kunlun Grotto-heaven, resulting in slow growth. Before they can become powerful, they are mostly killed.

Over time, this led to the near extinction of pure-blooded demon beasts in the Xuanhuang Realm.

The cat demon that Daozu possessed was indeed recorded in ancient texts.

Chu Huaixu even had the privilege of seeing it once when he played "Borrowing Swords".

Because of this cat, it is now in Chunqiu Mountain.

Once a monster becomes powerful, it will have an extremely long lifespan, but it will not be able to transform into human form.

This cat only followed the Dao Ancestor for a few years, and then followed the patriarch of Chunqiu Mountain.

Because of the scandal between the Taoist Ancestor and this patriarch, it has been a topic of conversation for thousands of years, to the point that this cat demon has been regarded as the love token between the two.

This black cat seems to have a very special bloodline.

But Chu Huaixu's biggest impression of it was that this cat was really super fat.

Moreover, it holds a very high status in Chunqiu Mountain, and everyone treats it like an ancestor, living a very comfortable life.

The reason this scene took place at an auction is because this young Taoist priest, with his exceptional alchemy skills, seemed quite wealthy and had purchased a sword technique, which was also a high-grade Xuan-level technique.

After the auction ended, the classic scene of a robbery and stalking followed the treasure did not occur.

If it's possible to snatch something, then the purpose of the auction becomes quite strange.

The Dao Ancestor arrived at a courtyard, teased the little cat demon whose hearing wasn't working very well, and then began practicing his swordsmanship on his own.

Chu Huaixu knew in his heart: "Work has come!"

A sword technique of the Xuan-level superior grade, that's truly not bad.

His current [Six Out of Horizon] has reached the Great Perfection level, and its power is definitely stronger than the Great Perfection level of the Upper Grade Profound Rank.

But the latter at least doesn't have to pay any price and won't suffer any backlash.

Chu Huaixu indeed possesses an abnormal self-healing ability and is also impervious to pain.

But sometimes, because of the need to show off, making yourself look like this, neither human nor ghost, isn't that not very attractive either, is it?

As time passed, he lost track of how long he had been practicing.

This sword technique, named "The Deceptive God Sword Art," is just as its name suggests, focusing on unpredictable and daring moves.

It's actually quite suitable for ambushing and suddenly killing people.

It is quite compatible with the crude and vulgar physical cultivation.

After reaching the Great Perfection, Chu Huaixu's progress bar for [Fearless Sword Intent] increased by another 7%.

"Next, it should be the Earth-level sword technique, right?" Chu Huaixu felt a surge of excitement at the thought.

Even now, he doesn't feel tired, or even listless.

"It seems we still owe a debt to that initial cyan aura," he thought to himself.

However, when the scene before him changed, he was somewhat disappointed.

"It's another Xuan-level sword technique, and only a mid-grade Xuan-level one at that." Chu Huaixu realized that the Dao Ancestor didn't seem to be picky about this thing at all?

He loves to study any sword technique that isn't too bad.

This made him increasingly wonder if the Dao Ancestor really couldn't use his swordsmanship.
He's purely dedicated to research, purely out of personal interest!

Therefore, he didn't seem to care much about the power or strength of the sword technique.

After learning this mid-grade Xuan-level sword technique, the scene suddenly changed to a high-grade Huang-level technique.

This made Chu Huaixu increasingly suspicious.

In this way, he had already learned a total of nine sword techniques within the secret realm.

However, the strongest is only the upper-grade Xuan level, and the Di level has not yet appeared.

Regardless, the gains were actually quite substantial.

However, Chu Huaixu suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"In my memory, Han Shuangjiang in 'Borrowing the Sword' is not someone who knows all kinds of sword techniques, and not someone who is at the maximum level in all of them."

If everything is as Chu Huaixu thinks, then the big ice block in "Borrowing the Sword" should have mastered a lot of sword techniques here, and there should be many opportunities to use them later.

But this is not the case.

Han Shuangjiang has always used the same few signature techniques she is famous for.

Her skill set is definitely more extensive than the players', and the quality of her skills is also higher, but that's about it.

"So, what exactly has changed?"

"Has the entire Inheritance Realm changed?"

"Or is it that Big Ice's situation is different from mine, and she didn't have the same experience as me?"

Chu Huaixu thought for a long time and felt that there was only one thing that was wrong after entering the inheritance secret realm!

—【Black Beads】!
He can touch it, he can poke it.

And every time he touched the black bead, the young Taoist priest would react.

"In 'Borrowing the Sword,' Han Shuangjiang's natal artifact obtained on Cangling Mountain is also 'Partridge Sky,' and this remains unchanged."

"Xiao Xu is holding a bronze sword."

"Therefore, the Dao Ancestor's sword sheath and the black bead have always been sealed on the summit of Cangling Mountain."

"When she entered the place of inheritance, she definitely didn't have the bead on her."

But this is only Chu Huaixu's current analysis.

He couldn't be 100% sure if all of this was related to it.

"Furthermore, is the problem with the bead itself, or with the 'Tao gives birth to One' within the bead?"

Chu Huaixu's previous focus was mainly on the medicine cauldron.

But he knew in his heart that this black bead must also be something extraordinary.

First, it can prevent Jiang Zhi and others from probing!

Even with Jiang Zhi's cultivation level, he couldn't detect the abnormality of the black bead, let alone the medicine cauldron inside.

During the Eastern Continent Grand Competition, he openly mobilized the power of the medicine cauldron inside the black bead to block the oncoming bronze sword.

Under these circumstances, none of the great cultivators sitting on the high platform felt anything was amiss; they all believed it was the power of the Dao Ancestor's sword sheath.

Secondly, the space inside the pearl is also amazing.

He used to think that there was a space inside the bead, which was nothing to be surprised about.

However, the elixir can be stored inside.

The evil pill is refined from evil energy, and is the most evil thing in the world, capable of devouring everything.

Logically, it should have swallowed the black bead as well.

However, the space inside the pearl was extremely stable, so the elixir seemed to have lost its effectiveness.

So, could it be...?

Chu Huaixu now understood why he was able to touch the bead.

Because everything else is an illusion!

Since it is illusory, it is naturally untouchable.

But the black beads are real.

"The bead I see is my own bead."