Chapter 67: Bestowing the Immortal Artifact

  The headquarters of the Xiu Zhen Alliance is located in a remote and secluded area deep within the mountains. Although I could have used magic to bring Wu Qing and Dongfang Xuefei there, considering the possibility that we might need to engage in combat, I vetoed this method which would consume too much spiritual energy.

  Since going directly is not feasible, then we have no choice but to rely on human power.

  He made a few calls without emotion, and then took Dongfang Xue and me to a private airport in the suburbs of the Murong family. An hour later, when we arrived by car, we saw from afar that a helicopter was already quietly waiting on the runway.

  After showing the documents, the heavily armed sentry posts all the way gave a green light, and the driver drove into the airport without emotion, jumped out of the car and pulled me and Dongfang Xue into the helicopter, and the control tower also cooperated to send a signal that it was possible to take off.

  The plane roared and rushed into the blue sky, Wu Qing finally let out a breath of relief, leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to meditate, and Dongfang Xue and I also began to sit cross-legged and enter a state of meditation, so as to adjust our condition to the best.

  After several hours of flight, the plane finally landed at an airport not far from the headquarters of Xiuzhen at dusk. As it was already late, we had to spend a night in the reception house arranged by the organization.

  Of course, Wu Qing didn't waste any time either. Taking advantage of the opportunity, he and Dongfang Xue once again discussed tomorrow's speech.

  The second day, just after dawn, Dongfang Xue brought me and Wuqing to the outer mountainous area where the Cultivation Union headquarters was located. Although the Cultivation Union headquarters was quite far away in the mountains, this naturally didn't pose a problem for us. I simply held one person in each hand and used Instant Movement, and in the blink of an eye we were already standing at the entrance of the Cultivation Union headquarters that Dongfang Xue had mentioned.

  The headquarters of the Xiu Zhen Alliance is quite peculiar, it was originally an abandoned cave dwelling from ancient times, left behind by some immortal cultivator. It was discovered unintentionally by a Xiu Zhen practitioner and after some renovations, it became the current headquarters of the Xiu Zhen Alliance.

  That was a clever use of the primordial energy of heaven and earth to construct a space, it can be said that it is not in the same space as the mortal world. Although the people of the Cultivation Alliance cannot modify the laws within this space at will like in the illusory space, but as long as the entrance is hidden, this is an extremely secretive base, and this is also one of the reasons why so many cultivators gathered together without being discovered.

  "Are you sure you want to go in?" Dongfang Xue stood before a stone wall, turning her head to ask me.

  I walked forward and touched the stone wall. It was hard and cold, just like real stone, but I knew clearly that it was only a spell, not a real stone wall.

  "Of course we have to go in, we've already come all this way, can't just turn back now, can we?"

  I smiled and said.

  "Alright." Dongfang Xue nodded and turned around to call out for the door.

  At this time, I suddenly stretched out my hand to stop her and shouted: "Wait a minute!" Because Xiaojin reminded me that there might be a melee later, and Dongfang Xue's flying sword was already broken, so I decided to give Dongfang Xue a magic sword. Although I didn't have one, Xiaojin had plenty of them. Xiaojin generously gave me a big pile, but I signed N unequal treaties. Alas.

  Dongfang Xue turned around with a puzzled expression, looking at me in confusion. I turned my head back and looked her up and down, making her feel uneasy.

  "Ah, it's already the later stage of my cultivation. I'll give you a magical artifact!" I looked at her for a long time, then suddenly asked Eastern Snow: "What kind of magical artifact do you like? One for defense or offense? Or one for scouting?"

  "I...I..." Dongfang Xue was confused, "Can I ask first, what is a xianqi?" Dongfang Xue seemed to have never heard of the term xianqi before, but judging from Wuqing's envious expression after hearing my question, xianqi should be something good.

  "Are you still a Cultivator? Do you know what kind of artifact Cultivators use?" I asked, and upon seeing Dongfang Xue nodding her head, I continued: "A sacred artifact is a weapon used by the Immortals who are above the Cultivation Realm. Its power is naturally much stronger than that flying sword of yours from before. Of course, what I give you will not be comparable to an Immortal's."

  "Is it the same as the Six Great Masters of the Xiu Zhen Realm's weapons?" Dongfang Xue asked, then exclaimed with a look of eagerness: "I want it! I want it! Such a great thing, of course, I'll take it! Haha!"

  I smiled, patted my waist, and a white light burst out, swirling above her head, turning her hair a snowy white. "This is the Cold Xuan Sword, a divine artifact that can unleash extraordinary power when paired with the Ice Seal Technique. Moreover, it allows for three short-distance teleportations per day."

  I smiled slightly and said, "Last time I saw you use the Ice Seal Technique, so this treasure is more suitable for your current cultivation. Also, something unknown happened at the Xiu Zhen Alliance headquarters, so it can also serve as a self-defense weapon for you. Immortal artifacts all have their own protective consciousness, do you understand?"

  Dongfang Xue and Wuqing raised their heads to look, and it was a long sword with a cold light flashing, looking as if it were made of ice. The sword had countless fine patterns on its body that could be vaguely seen. The small sword spun around my head, emitting white light that swirled around me, making a humming sound.

  "This is exactly what I want!" Dongfang Xueji exclaimed with joy.

  Next, it was relatively simple. I handed the Han Xuan sword to Dongfang Xue. Dongfang Xue released the Yuanying and merged with the immortal artifact. During this process, although the immortal artifact resisted stubbornly, they were all suppressed by me. In an instant, I drew a mouth character on Dongfang Xue's hand, and a drop of fresh blood fell. The small sword emitted a faint white light that shook violently before shrinking back, transforming into an ordinary small sword. If Dongfang Xue hadn't seen the strange phenomenon of this small clock earlier, she might have really treated it as an ordinary craft.

  "With your current abilities, you're not yet qualified to wield a sacred artifact, so you'll need to use some of your vital energy to control the Frost Sword." I let go of Dongfang Xue's hand and explained, at the same time slipping the small bell into her hand.

  As soon as he finished speaking, Dongfang Xue immediately hid to one side and tried to manipulate the Hanxuan Sword with his mind, making it flip in mid-air.

  I shook my head and smiled, just about to turn away from her, when I saw her staring at me with a look of envy on her face.

  My heart skipped a beat as I walked over and said to Wu Qing: "What? Do you want it too?"

  "Boss, I'm afraid it won't be convenient for me to take out the Wu Nu Tian Jian sword later on. After all, that's a divine artifact and will reveal my identity. I was thinking, could you also give me a magical artifact?"

  "It doesn't matter, I have plenty of these things. Tell me, what kind of treasure do you want?" I smiled and said to Wu Qing, because I saw his difficulty.

  "Northern Sword." The emotionless response came without hesitation. Flying swords are the most common magical artifacts among cultivators, and are often used for both domestic and travel purposes, as well as for killing and silencing people.

  After hearing the ruthless words, I didn't say anything else. With a flick of my hand, countless rays of light suddenly flew out from my waist, in all sorts of colors, gathering into a dazzling array above the ruthless one's head. "Choose," I said with a smile, "There are sixty-three holy swords in total, every attribute is available." I casually set up a spell formation to enclose the three of them, so that these flying swords wouldn't attract any unrelated people.

  Emotionless, he stared at me in shock as the flying swords hovering above my head spun out of control. The largest ones were as big as a palm, while the smallest ones were only as long as a thumb, looking exceptionally cute and delicate.

  Dozens of flying swords revolved above my head, with several seemingly wanting to fly away, but were blocked by my spell array, rolling anxiously.

  Wu Qing almost didn't dare to believe his eyes, just now he heard me say that the immortal swords were so numerous that I could pick and choose at will, thinking that it was just my boastful words to make him feel better, but unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, he saw so many immortal swords, for a moment, his eyes were dazzled.

  Meanwhile, Dongfang Xue was also shocked by the many divine swords, and at the same time, she secretly raised her estimation of my strength by a level. Not to mention my profound and mysterious strength, just having so many divine artifacts is enough to make me a person that various forces want to win over.

  Thinking of this, Dongfang Xue made up her mind that even if she had to fall out with the entire Cultivation Alliance today, she couldn't let me and the Cultivation Alliance come to blows, lest we form a grudge.

  "Which one are you preparing?" But I didn't know what Dongfang Xue was thinking at this moment, seeing her staring blankly at herself in a daze, because she was communicating with Han Xuansword. So he turned his head to say to Wuqing.

  "I'll take this one!" Wu Qing finally reacted, somewhat embarrassed, pointing at a small blue sword.

  "Oh, not bad!" I praised emotionlessly: "This is a Thunder-Wood dual-attribute immortal sword. Not only can it attach thunder magic to attack enemies during combat, but it can also absorb the vital energy of nearby plants to heal its master's wounds. It's one of the best among these immortal swords."

  He listened to my words, but his face turned red. In fact, he just thought this sword was more domineering and chose it, without knowing what use it had at all. It's really a blind cat hitting a dead mouse. Of course, he didn't dare say much either, and quickly changed the subject, asking: "Then, boss, do I need to bleed like Dongfang teacher?"

  "It's not necessary to be like her." I waved my hand, pulled down the blue flying sword, and then put away the other flying swords. Only then did I explain: "He didn't have enough power, so he had to rely on refined blood to enhance his control. But you're cultivating the Sword God Decision, which already has the divine sword Wu Wei Tian Jian, so there's no need for bloodshed."

  I handed the Xianjian to Wuqing, indicating that he should put it away, and then told him about how to control the Xianjian and the method of cultivating the flying sword to make it a formal master treasure. Because before, Wuqing only knew how to use the Sword God's Decision to manipulate it.

  The ruthless one is also a wise person, who hears the words and understands them immediately, and starts trying with crossed legs.

  As it was still early and not yet noon, I patiently waited for Wu Qing to wake up from his meditation, finding a clean rock to sit on.

  Dongfang Xue didn't mind my decision either, and was instead focused on familiarizing herself with her own magic treasure.

  It wasn't until after noon that Wu Qing finally woke up from his meditation, to find Dongfang Xue and I sitting beside him waiting for him. He stood up with a rather embarrassed expression, repeatedly apologizing.

  I didn't think much of it and asked with interest about the harvest without emotions, whether I can already control the immortal artifact.

  "Boss, I've been practicing the method you taught me and now I can control the Thunderbolt Sword to perform some simple attacks. However, I still can't bring out the full power of this divine sword, it seems like I'll have to continue cultivating slowly. But boss, this divine sword is too cool! My admiration for you is like a never-ending river, overflowing like the Yellow River... Seeing that Old Mao's illness has relapsed again, I couldn't help but smile. The old ruthless person has returned. And it's clear that he really likes this divine sword, even giving it the name 'Thunderbolt'."

  "That's good, this matter can't be rushed, otherwise it's easy to have the situation of the immortal instrument devouring its master." Because I know that Wu Qing is having an immortal instrument for the first time, his previous divine instruments were all directly implanted into his body by his predecessors. So I told him some things to pay attention to when using magical instruments, Wu Qing and Dongfang Xue listened carefully to my words and tried their best to remember every sentence I said.

  After mentioning some things to pay attention to, it was already around three o'clock in the afternoon. I slowly dispersed the defensive formation that enveloped everyone and looked at the sky before turning around and saying: "It's getting late, let's go handle the main issue at the Cultivation Alliance first, we can research the immortal artifact later, what do you all think?"

  "This is for the best, I'm almost starving to death, hopefully there's something to eat at the Cultivation Alliance"

  Wu Qing didn't eat like me, although he had also reached the Jie Valley realm, but Wu Qing still maintained human habits, so not eating for a day was obviously a bit uncomfortable. Now hearing that we were going to the Xiu Zhen Alliance headquarters, I naturally raised my hands in approval, regardless of the possibility of being eaten myself.

  "It's all because I delayed everyone's time!" Dongfang Xue blamed herself: "I'll go call the people inside to open the passage and let us in."

  After that, Dongfang Xue turned around and walked to the stone wall, standing silently still. I and Wuqing held our breaths, concentrating our spirits to gaze at her, wanting to see what method she would use to notify the people inside to open the passageway.

  The eastern snow was facing us, her hair fluttering in the mountain wind. Her expression was solemn and dignified, then she slowly pulled out a small object from her small bag under my and Wu Qing's expectant gaze.

  A mobile phone.

  Under my and Wu Qing's astonished gaze, Dongfang Xue flipped open her phone cover, dialed a string of numbers, and then started chatting as if nothing was wrong.

  "Hey, it's me! I'm back! Hurry up and open the passage, I have something to see Tian Xingzi senior about! Hmm, got it, got it. Next time I come back, I'll buy you a Chanel handbag, but still won't open the passage? This little thief taking advantage of the situation!"

  Dongfang Xue finally finished chatting, closed her phone and turned around, only to see me and Wuqing with strange expressions on our faces. She couldn't help but ask in surprise: "What's wrong? Your expressions are really weird."

  "Nothing... nothing!" Wu Qing didn't know how to explain the ups and downs of his emotions to her, so he could only stammer out two sentences to change the subject: "Why haven't you opened up the passage yet?"

  "Isn't it going to be that fast?!" Dongfang Xuejiao laughed and said: "Opening the entrance to the headquarters is like opening an entrance to a different space, although we've borrowed the heavenly energy of the earth, but every time we open it's still quite troublesome, probably about half a minute more."

  I nodded in understanding and then walked aside with my eyes closed to meditate.

  Seeing me in this state, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and for a moment, he didn't know whether to sit or stand, pacing back and forth, feeling extremely annoyed.

  At this moment, the stone wall suddenly made a slight sound, and Wu Qing and I looked over there, only to see that the three-person-high stone wall had disappeared, replaced by a five-color screen, which looked like a wall composed of a five-color water surface.

  "This is the gate leading to headquarters, please come in." Dongfang Xue stood beside the colorful screen and made a welcoming gesture.

  I smiled slightly and was the first to walk into that colorful barrier. Unfeeling for a moment, I also hurriedly followed up. Seeing that both of them had already entered, Dongfang Xue only then closely followed them through the barrier, and the colorful barrier twisted again after she entered, turning back into a stone wall.

  After ruthlessly piercing through the five-colored screen, he only felt a blackness in front of his eyes. Countless dark powers swirled around him, as if countless small hands were massaging him, making him involuntarily let out a comfortable moan. Just as he was secretly enjoying it, he suddenly felt that something was off about the atmosphere. He opened his eyes to take a look and the situation in front of him made his face turn bright red.

  I was standing in an exceptionally spacious hall, and I was facing a little girl I had never met before. Both of us had strange expressions on our faces, clearly having heard my groans from earlier. I felt a burning sensation on my face, and I really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

  "What's wrong?" Dongfang Xue emerged from a five-colored barrier behind him, just like the one before, and saw me and the little girl with embarrassed faces, her expressionless face even reddening, and couldn't help but ask in surprise.

  "Snow sister!" The little girl rushed over, grabbed Dongfang Xue's arm and shook it non-stop, sticking to her like an octopus. "Remember the gift you promised me!"

  "Alright, alright, I'll definitely buy it for you next time!" Dongfang Xue looked like she had a huge headache, busy dealing with this sticky little loli, oh, it's the sticky little Xiuzhe.

  "Snow sister, who are these two people?" The little girl landed on the ground from Dongfang Xue's body with a satisfied expression, only then remembering to ask about my and Wuqing's identities.

  Dongfang Xue hesitated for a moment, looking at me before murmuring: "Sister Xing'er has gone missing. This person is here to discuss this matter with the leader of the Tianxing Sect."

  "So you're here to help us find Star's sister!" The little girl exclaimed, her gaze towards me was different now, but the apathetic eyes still held contempt, clearly remembering my earlier loss of composure.

  "Alright, alright!" Dongfang Xue said vaguely: "Go and busy yourself, I'll bring them in." Seeing the little girl pouting with an unwilling expression, Dongfang Xue threatened: "Be good, listen to me, or else next time sister comes back won't bring you gifts!"

  Upon hearing Dongfang Xue's move, the little girl reluctantly walked away.

  As she disappeared into a passageway beside us, Dongfang Xue smiled at me and said indifferently: "This little girl is called Xiaoxia. She's an orphan, so everyone gives in to her, which has made her develop this spoiled and mischievous personality, sorry about that."

  "It's nothing, little girl is lively and lovely, we only have affection, no mocking intention." Wu Qing said hastily, I also nodded in agreement.

  "That's good." Dongfang Xue nodded and continued: "Please follow me this way, I'll take you to meet the leader of the Tianxing Sect."