Chapter 920: It Seems at the Beginning I Just Wanted to Buy a Sword

When Lu Yang woke up again and saw the familiar canopy of leaves overhead, he knew that his Eldest Senior Sister had already carried him back to Tianmen Peak.

He often lay under the shade of the trees to enjoy a moment of peace whenever he grew tired from cultivation.

Tianmen Peak was comforting, after all.

He had no idea how long he had been unconscious.

Come to think of it, he seemed to have had a strange dream, a dream where his Eldest Senior Sister took him as her master, and he taught her the way of the sword.

Fortunately, it was just a dream.

Thinking of this, Lu Yang breathed a sigh of relief, then turned his head to see his Eldest Senior Sister sitting beside him, quietly peeling an apple for him, expressionless, blending into the background like a painting.

Lu Yang shuddered and sat up abruptly.

"Eldest Senior Sister!"

Yun Zhi lifted her eyelids slightly and casually handed the peeled apple to Lu Yang: "You're awake?"

"When you were at the ruins of the Sword Tower, you suffered a massive mental shock and fell into a coma. I suggest you rest well for a few days."

"Yes, yes!"

Lu Yang carefully took the apple, as if it were not an apple but some kind of dharma treasure that could explode at any moment.

"The ruins of the Sword Tower?" Lu Yang noticed a strange choice of words.

Yun Zhi looked at her junior brother with a bizarre expression, wondering if his brain was malfunctioning from just waking up: "After experiencing two major battles back-to-back, the Sword Tower has been reduced to rubble. You didn't actually think that place could still be called the Sword Tower, did you?"

"More than half of the spiritual swords in the Sword Treasury were also damaged or destroyed in the battle. To repair them all, I'm afraid it will take at least a century."

Lu Yang shrank his neck, feeling somewhat apologetic toward the Sword Tower.

He had visited the Sword Tower once, and now the tower had collapsed and the spiritual swords in the treasury were gone.

"The good news, however, is that the remnant soul of the Sword Tower Supreme survived using the method you taught. Everyone in the Sword Tower is very grateful to you."

For the Sword Tower, as long as the Sword Tower Supreme survived, the collapse of the tower and the loss of the spiritual swords were minor issues.

"The Chengying Sword was obtained by you at the Sword Questioning Ceremony. When I left, the Sword Tower entrusted me to deliver the Chengying Sword into your hands."

Yun Zhi gave the small apple-peeling knife in her hand a flick. The blade was instantly enveloped by a jet-black, slender sword shadow, and then the small knife lengthened, gradually merging with the sword shadow to become a sword as black as a shadow. It was indeed the Chengying Sword.

After Immortal Ying Tian obtained the Chengying Sword, considering that it had not yet reached the level of an Immortal Artifact, he did not use it to fight Hui Doudou. During the battle, the Chengying Sword was thrown far away by Immortal Ying Tian, which allowed it to escape unscathed.

Now that Liu Ningxuan was dead, Lu Yang had finally become the rightful master of the Chengying Sword and the Seven Star Sword Set.

Holding the Chengying Sword, Lu Yang finally remembered that his purpose in participating in the Sword Questioning Ceremony in the first place was simply to buy a suitable sword from the Sword Tower.

Everything that happened afterward was an accident.

Lu Yang put away the Chengying Sword. His current condition was not yet suitable for making the Chengying Sword recognize him as its master.

"Now then, which of you wants to explain what is going on with this corpse?"

From behind her, Yun Zhi hauled out a corpse that had been turned into charcoal, unrecognizable as human.

Hui Doudou had struck too ruthlessly. Immortal Ying Tian's corpse possessed absolutely no value for artifact forging; even refining a single dharma treasure would be pushing it, much to Yun Zhi's regret.

"I heard from the people of the Sword Tower that this corpse belongs to Immortal Ying Tian?"

"Mm. According to the Fairy's analysis, the real Immortal Ying Tian failed when executing the 'Corpse Severing Method' or the 'Corpse Liberation Transcendence Method,' which caused this corpse with its own independent will to separate from him."

"As I thought."

"Both of these methods can make one stronger. Immortal Ying Tian must have used these two methods despite the danger in order to deal with Hui Dou... Senior Fairy Hui."

Yun Zhi nodded. This aligned with her conjecture; this certainly wasn't the real Immortal Ying Tian.

If it had been the real Immortal Ying Tian, he should have been able to hold out until she arrived, rather than dying so quickly. This Immortal Ying Tian sorely lacked experience fighting opponents of the same level and only knew how to crush others with his cultivation base.

"Judging by how the Ying Tian Corpse refined so many Immortal Artifacts, it was likely meant to be used against the real Immortal Ying Tian."

Yun Zhi felt a bit regretful. During the battle, the Immortal Artifacts had all been melted into a jumble of immortal metals by Hui Doudou. If they could not be separated, it was just a lump of scrap metal.

Among the people she knew, there was no one who could separate a jumble of immortal metals.

Yun Zhi saw the underlying problem behind this matter—no one had protected the law for Immortal Ying Tian.

The risk of failure for these two methods was very high. Logically speaking, Immortal Ying Tian would have found someone to guard him, so that even if he failed, the Ying Tian Corpse would not have been able to leave.

Why didn't Immortal Jiu Chong and Immortal Qilin look after Immortal Ying Tian?

However, there was no need to voice such things, lest her junior brother get too involved.

Thinking of this, a sense of powerlessness welled up in Yun Zhi. Although she tried her best to prevent her junior brother from getting involved in ancient immortal events, her junior brother always managed to get closer and closer to them in places she wasn't paying attention to.

The last time she had felt this sense of powerlessness was when she was teaching her junior brother spells.

"Speaking of which, the fact that I returned safely this time is truly thanks to the Qingfeng Sword you gave me, Eldest Senior Sister."

Lu Yang chuckled. The small world within the Qingfeng Sword had saved his life.

"Eldest Senior Sister, I have a hypothesis. Do you think it's possible that in order to evade Hui Doudou's perception, Immortal Ying Tian and the others hid inside some small world just like I did?"

"It is a possibility. It's just that there are too many small worlds, so I'm afraid they won't be easy to find, not to mention that there are still many hidden small worlds that have not been discovered yet."

Mobile small worlds like the Dragon Pearl and the Qingfeng Sword were extremely rare, but small worlds fixed to a specific space were countless.

Small worlds belonged to a type of secret realm, all of which were worlds opened up by cultivators. From ancient times to the present, no one knew how many secret realm small worlds had been opened.

If nothing else, the universe overhead hid a large number of undiscovered small worlds. Those cultivators who had opened up small worlds and left behind legacies intentionally refrained from announcing their locations, leaving later generations of cultivators to find them slowly.

In their words, this was called fate.

"Ah, Lu Yang, you're awake?" A cheerful voice rang out from behind Yun Zhi. Yun Mengmeng stepped around Yun Zhi, holding a freshly woven garland in her hand, looking at Lu Yang in pleasant surprise.

"I didn't expect you to be the junior brother Xiao Zhi always talks about. The two of us really share a fated connection. If I had known you were from the Dao Seeking Sect, I would have asked you how to get to the Dao Seeking Sect when we were eating hotpot."

Lu Yang thought to himself, I also didn't know that the single-minded good sister you spoke of was the Eldest Senior Sister. If I had known earlier that you knew her, I would have eaten hotpot somewhere else.

Yun Mengmeng gently placed the woven garland onto Lu Yang's head: "This is a blessing from our place, wishing you safety and peace."

Lu Yang was slightly moved. Although Yun Mengmeng had played him, it was unintentional, and this girl's nature was ultimately very good.

Then, Yun Mengmeng said with a slight sigh of emotion: "You really can sleep. No wonder you're Xiao Zhi's junior brother. This sleepy appearance is exactly the same as Xiao Zhi; once asleep, you can't be woken up."

"I even suggested that Xiao Zhi take you as her master, but Xiao Zhi was a bit bashful and unwilling. As the saying goes, the master is the one who attains the path first. Although Xiao Zhi is a bit older than you, her swordplay is indeed inferior to yours. Xiao Zhi is just someone who cares a lot about appearances. If you ask me, what's the big deal? When we played house as children, Xiao Zhi used to call me mom all the time..."

Cold sweat poured down Lu Yang's face, and he dared not listen any further.

Yun Zhi stood up silently, pressed down on Yun Mengmeng's shoulder, and looked at her with a smile.

"Mengmeng, we sisters haven't seen each other in a long time. I didn't expect you to have broken through to the Tribulation Transmutation Stage. Come, let's find a place to practice."