"This Qingjing Bamboo, where did you find it?"
After a long while, Master Cheng Kong finally spoke up.
"You gifted it to us, Master..."
Master Mingde suddenly turned his head, glaring at Master Cheng Kong, his eyes clearly conveying that he thought he was seeing another traitor.
Master Cheng Kong, feeling unjustly accused, exclaimed, "I don’t even have a complete Qingjing Bamboo in the Supreme Dao! How could I have given it to you?"
"It’s the very piece you lent to me. I, the Jiushan Realm, borrowed it, and seeing that it seems cultivatable, we cultivated a shoot."
Zheng Fa earnestly explained, seemingly oblivious to the utter improbability of his words.
Master Cheng Kong glanced at the back of Zhang, then at the Sun and Moon Clock above, and finally cast a surreptitious glance at the affable Blood River Ancestor and Jiao Wuji beside him.
He showed a considerate smile to Zheng Fa, his face all but saying—whatever you say is true!
At this moment, the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor outside the realm seemed to be hesitating.
He looked at the Qingping Sword, then at the Qingjing Bamboo, seemingly caught in a dilemma.
The Netherworld Immortal was still trying to gauge the mindset of the Demon Ancestor—he had just been reborn and seemingly not fully recovered.
What’s more, it appeared that he had suffered a blow beneath the Qingjing Bamboo just earlier, his strength reduced even below that of the Qingyun Great Saint before his death.
Now faced with the Qingjing Bamboo and Qingping Sword, he was clearly wary; it’s understandable—if the Demon Ancestor died again, they surely wouldn’t have a way out, and those who were drawing them in would be gone!
But... to retreat , not to mention losing face, the problem was—perhaps the Demon Ancestor coveted the Qingjing Bamboo and Qingping Sword, seeming to want to seize these two precious artifacts before the Immortal Sect members arrived.
The Great Freedom Demon Ancestor, looking at the Qingping Sword, obviously felt the greatest threat was the Immortal Sword left by the Tianhe Venerable.
Xie Qingxue’s teeth clenched slowly. Her cultivation had not improved, and her understanding of the Qingping Sword had not undergone a qualitative change. To deal with the Demon Ancestor, she would still... have to risk her life!
She glanced at the Jiushan Realm, and it was as if she took another look at Yan Wushuang, a bit of reassurance in her eyes. She then cast aside all distractions, her face showed no hesitation, pointed at the Qingping Sword in front of her, and slowly floated up, drifting ethereally like an immortal, her aura tightly interconnected with the Qingping Sword.
Inside the Jiushan Realm, Yan Wushuang grasped his sister’s look, lowered his head, and took out a Comprehensive Records.
Zheng Fa’s Creation Jade Disc trembled within him, sparking suspicion in his heart—this was not a common message, but a ciphered missive from an important person within the Sect, the kind that only urgent messages could shake the Creation Jade Disc.
But upon diving into his Divine Soul, the message turned out to be from Yan Wushuang right behind him, with rather strange content:
"Try operating the Nine Mountain Golden Core Method..."
Though puzzled, Zheng Fa followed Yan Wushuang’s trust, and his Golden Core circulated through the nine acupoints.
Outside the Jiushan Realm, the Qingping Sword suddenly trembled and pointed towards the sky.
Heaven unleashed its killing intent, and constellations shifted!
In the sky, the Milky Way reappeared, the Big Dipper pointing directly at the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor, making even the Netherworld Immortal feel a chilling sensation down his spine.
The Great Freedom Demon Ancestor moved swiftly.
The black moon engulfed him, and he disappeared directly above Tongming Mountain, fleeing on the spot!
The scene changed too rapidly for even Master Mingde and the others to understand, mistaking Xie Qingxue’s readiness to fight to the death as what scared off the Great Freedom Demon Ancestor.
Xie Qingxue frowned, unable to explain what happened.
She wanted to say... it seemed as if someone used her Qingping Sword, spent her Spiritual Power, and triggered the heavenly phenomenon, scaring off the Demon Ancestor.
It’s not a matter of whether others would believe it or not.
It’s that... amongst heaven and earth, who else could do this, if not the Ancestral Master?