Chapter 546: Miss Chu Chu’s unbelievable expression
Translator: GodBrandy Editor: Kurisu
Even after all the delay, Pavilion Master Chu didn’t come over to the Time City to pick Song Shuhang and Chu Chu up.
Thereupon, Song Shuhang and Chu Chu explored the various passageways in the Time City, as well as the rooms, caves, and halls inside, after their daily training. They wanted to see if they could find a way to leave the Time City.
When Song Shuhang and Chu Chu entered the ‘Time City’, it was Pavilion Master Chu that brought them there. At that time, the restrictions and the maze of passages surrounding the Time City were in an inactive state. As such, it was going to be quite difficult if they wanted to get out of the Lower City of the Time City without Pavilion Master Chu’s help.
In the blink of an eye, another two days passed.
Within these two days, Song Shuhang and Chu Chu explored nearly seventy rooms, halls, and caves… but they were still unable to find a way out of the Time City.
At this time, the duo was in a predicament because not all the halls of the Time City could be regarded as ‘safe’.
Song Shuhang and Chu Chu had entered an underground arena with a lot of bronze statues inside a few minutes ago.
There were 108 bronze statues in the underground arena, and all of them had the strength of the Second Stage rank.
Had it been a one versus one match, Song Shuhang and Chu Chu wouldn’t have been scared of the statues.
But as soon as they entered the underground arena, the 108 bronze statues were activated all together and arranged themselves according to a special formation, completely surrounding Song Shuhang and Chu Chu.
Even by joining their forces, Song Shuhang and Chu Chu were able to barely resist against the attacks of the 108 bronze statues.
Chu Chu’s sword light flashed through the air and got rid of the three bronze statues before her eyes. “Fellow Daoist Shuhang, let’s quickly get out of this place! These bronze statues don’t seem to suffer from fatigue. We won’t have any strength left if we keep fighting them!”
Song Shuhang used his fist of steel and sent flying the bronze statue in front of him, saying, “Miss Chu Chu, try to get me some time, two breaths are enough! I’ll operate the ❮Inverted Scale Saber Technique—Dragon Dance Style❯ at full strength and hold the bronze statues back. We can use the opportunity to get away from here!”
The ❮Inverted Scale Saber Technique❯ didn’t have any attack power, but its defensive abilities were very good!
“Sure, no problem!” Chu Chu replied. At the same time, she reduced the range of her sword qi and formed a circle, encompassing Song Shuhang and protecting him.
Song Shuhang took a deep breath and operated the true qi inside his body. Afterward, he used the ❮Thirty-Three Divine Beasts’ Technique❯ in conjunction with the ❮Inverted Scale Saber Technique❯, bringing his power into full play.
Immediately after, he shouted, “❮Dragon Dance Style❯!”
In the next moment, the true qi turned into a lifelike dragon made of saber light that wrapped Song Shuhang’s body, forming a tight defense around him that repelled the bronze statues trying to come over. Even Chu Chu was forced to take two steps backward due to the saber light of the ❮Dragon Dance Style❯.
Song Shuhang immediately controlled the defensive ring of the ❮Dragon Dance Style❯ and temporarily opened a gap in the place Chu Chu was standing.
The dragon-shaped true qi continuously danced in the air as the range of its defense expanded, heading toward the exit!
“Now is the chance! Miss Chu Chu, quickly enter the range of the defense of my ❮Dragon Dance Style❯ and let’s get out of here together!” Song Shuhang called out.
Chu Chu immediately took back her ring of sword qi and jumped toward the gap Song Shuhang had opened inside the ❮Dragon Dance Style❯, getting inside the defensive barrier.
“Success, let’s get going! Ahahah!” Song Shuhang laughed out loud.
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But right at this time, a wooden box automatically drilled out of Song Shuhang’s size-reducing purse, starting to float next to him.
In the next moment, the wooden box opened on its own and revealed a magical rune inside… it was precisely Venerable White’s Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique!
Song Shuhang had already stayed inside the lower portion of the Time City for 26 days.
In addition, he had already spent another four days visiting Venerable Seventh Cultivator of True Virtue’s immortal cave, exploring the grave of Venerable Sixth Cultivator of True Virtue and visiting the Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion.
Therefore, it had been 30 days in total since he had come to space.
Venerable White’s Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique was supposed to automatically activate after 30 days; the countdown started as soon as Song Shuhang was launched into space.
Now that the time was over, the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique that Venerable White had prepared finally activated!
The runes turned into a ring of light particles that surrounded Song Shuhang.
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Not even 0.01 seconds passed since the time the wooden box came out of the size-reducing purse to when the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique was activated.
Neither Song Shuhang nor Chu Chu had the time to react.
The light of the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique shrouded Song Shuhang and made him fly upward!
“No! This is too sudden~” Song Shuhang called out. It wasn’t only him… even the saber qi of the ❮Dragon Dance Style❯ was picked up and brought upward! Afterward, Song Shuhang whizzed out of the underground arena with the 108 bronze statues inside.
Song Shuhang suddenly left—just like that. Everything had been so sudden that Miss Chu Chu was still standing in her original position with a dumbfounded look on her face.
She was looking at Shuhang ‘pewing~’ away with an unbelievable expression on her face.
Chu Chu had just taken back her ring of sword qi and was preparing to rely on the defense provided by Song Shuhang’s ❮Dragon Dance Style❯ to run away from the encirclement of those 108 bronze statues…
But now, Song Shuhang had suddenly flown away together with the saber qi of the ❮Dragon Dance Style❯, leaving Chu Chu without defenses and completely exposed to the attacks of the bronze statues.
“Isn’t that the same as backstabbing your teammate?!” Chu Chu wanted to cry but had no tears.
At this time, tens of bronze statues had formed a circle around her, attacking her simultaneously. In the meantime, the remaining ninety or so statues formed a big battle formation and surrounded Chu Chu to stop her from escaping.
The 108 bronze statues versus Chu Chu, second round, start!
Even with Song Shuhang’s help, Chu Chu could barely hold on against the formation of the 108 bronze statues!
Now that she was alone, she really had no hope of resisting them!
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Song Shuhang could only helplessly wave at the distant Chu Chu. As soon as the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique activated, he entered the ‘spectator mode’ and was unable to control the flying technique.
He had no alternative but to send a message to Chu Chu via secret sound transmission. “Chu Chu, try to follow behind me once you manage to break through the formation of the bronze statues.”
There was the possibility that the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique could allow him to leave the lower portion of the Time City.
Then, just in this fashion, Song Shuhang was shrouded in a layer of light and forced to shuttle back and forth at high speed within the passageways of the Lower City.
Nevertheless, the current version of the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique seemed to have been improved.
Song Shuhang remembered that he bumped into all kinds of obstacles back when Venerable White gave him that tattoo of the Calabash Brothers with the ‘Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique’ engraved on it.
Back then, he bumped into the back of ‘Cold Flame Sword’, a member of the Penniless Thief Sect, and was forced to travel alongside him for a long time.
But now, it felt as though the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique had a certain intelligence. Whenever something appeared in front of it, it would quickly dodge it.
As long as nothing unexpected happened, he should be able to leave the Time City.
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The layer of light was like an experienced driver and would timely turn left and right whenever there was a need to. In the end, it thrust into a jet-black passageway.
All the passageways in the lower portion of the Time City were brightly illuminated, but this jet-black tunnel seemed different from the others… was it possible that it was the exit?
Song Shuhang’s mood got much better.
The jet-black passageway was very long, and even after flying inside for more than ten minutes with the incredibly high speed of the layer of light, he was still unable to see the end.
Afterward, as the layer of light traveled for around half an hour, a bright light suddenly appeared before Shuhang’s eyes.
He was about to get out!
Since the end coordinates of Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique were set on Venerable White’s body, it was very likely that Song Shuhang would directly leave the Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion and return to Earth.
Such being the case, he wouldn’t have the opportunity to say goodbye to Pavilion Master Chu. Actually, it was pretty embarrassing for a guest to sneakily leave without even saying goodbye.
There was also Li Yinzhu. Song Shuhang was likewise unable to pick her up. Therefore, he could only hope that Chu Chu would take care of her after she managed to get out of the Time City.
Although Li Yinzhu wasn’t his daughter, Song Shuhang had been deeply influenced by the memories of the loose cultivator Li Tiansu he’d experienced back then. For this reason, he felt very close to Li Yinzhu and really cared about her.
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Just as he was in deep thoughts, the layer of light had already barged into that ‘light’ ahead of them.
Immediately after, Song Shuhang felt as though he had bumped into a soft barrier.
Then, his whole body was forcefully thrust into the barrier due to the strength of the impact caused by the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique!
“I’m finally out… Huh? Wait a moment, what the hell is this place?!” Song Shuhang stared at the space before his eyes.
What appeared before his eyes wasn’t the scenery outside the Time City or the Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion… it was instead a huge hollow tree.
Inside the tree hollow was a huge jellyfish with a luminous body.
There were tens of thousands of tentacles made of light linked to its luminous body, spreading out and covering the whole tree hollow.
“If it’s not the exit… what is this place?” Just as Song Shuhang saw the big, dazzling jellyfish, his hair stood on end.
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As though it had reacted to the presence of the intruder, the countless tentacles of the luminous jellyfish rushed toward Song Shuhang.
Even the agile Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique was unable to dodge this attack that literally filled all the surrounding space! Even if it was ten times more agile, it wouldn’t stand a chance against this AOE attack that covered all the space within the tree hollow.
However, the tentacles of the jellyfish didn’t directly attack Song Shuhang’s body.
They arranged themselves in a radius of two meters with Song Shuhang as the center, tightly wrapping him up. It was the same as a silkworm spinning a cocoon. At this time, the tentacles had formed a thick cocoon around Song Shuhang.
After the cocoon was spun, something akin to suckers appeared on each tentacle.
The suckers contracted and pasted themselves onto the layer of light generated from the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique.
In the next moment, the layer of light that the ‘Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique’ had generated was transformed into pure spiritual energy and absorbed by the tentacles…
It unexpectedly ate the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique?
Song Shuhang sighed faintly… such bad luck!
It seemed he had used up all the luck he had saved up during the past few days. Now, it was time for his unlucky life to begin!
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As soon as the layer of light of the ‘Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique’ disappeared, Song Shuhang felt like suffocating… because there was unexpectedly no air within the tree hollow!
There wasn’t any gravity, either. Therefore, Song Shuhang was floating in midair while entrapped by the cocoon made of tentacles.
After swallowing down the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique, the countless tentacles of light started to wriggle. In the next moment, the tips of the tentacle headed toward Song Shuhang.
“❮Inverted Scale Saber Technique—Dragon Dance Style❯!” Song Shuhang wielded the treasured saber Broken Tyrant and his true qi burst forth, changing into a true dragon dancing in the air.
The saber qi had transformed into a lifelike dragon.
But just as the ❮Dragon Dance Style❯ took shape and transformed into a dragon, the suckers on the various tentacles quickly pasted on it. Then, the suckers contracted, and the dragon-shaped saber qi of the ❮Dragon Dance Style❯ was completely absorbed.
It was swallowed down by the suckers just like the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique earlier.
It can absorb true qi and spiritual energy even if they are not in their pure energy form… Just what is this jellyfish! Song Shuhang had a very bad premonition.
Whether it was the layer of light of Venerable White’s Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique or the saber qi of his own ❮Dragon Dance Style❯, they were easily transformed into pure energy and absorbed by the jellyfish.
The luminous jellyfish seemed to be the natural enemy of cultivators!
Song Shuhang grabbed the treasured saber Broken Tyrant.
After eating the true qi of the ❮Dragon Dance Style❯, the luminous jellyfish seemed to have eaten its fill.
It didn’t try to invade Song Shuhang with its tentacles, but still maintained the cocoon around his body, keeping him trapped inside.
Is it not planning to attack me on its own volition?
Song Shuhang operated his true qi and drew the rune of the Turtle Breathing Technique in the center of each palm. Afterward, he joined his palms together and activated the runes of the technique with his mental energy, displaying the Turtle Breathing Technique.
The most important thing to do inside the tree hollow devoid of air was to find a way not to suffocate.
But just as Song Shuhang joined his palms together and activated the runes of the technique, one of the tentacles forming the cocoon stretched out at lightning speed and bumped into his palm.
In the next moment, the runes of the Turtle Breathing Technique were transformed into pure energy and absorbed by the tentacles of the luminous jellyfish.
“…” Song Shuhang.
It seemed that the luminous jellyfish didn’t attack him, because it was waiting for him to use his true qi to display magical or saber techniques so that it could absorb it!
But if this keeps going on, I’ll die due to the lack of air!
Song Shuhang grabbed the treasured saber Broken Tyrant and put his strength in both hands. If true qi and spiritual energy were useless… he could only rely on pure, physical strength.
Shuhang started to ruthlessly slash after grabbing the saber. He didn’t use any true qi, just pure physical strength.
“Ding, ding, ding~”
A series of sparks flew out.
But each and every one of those soft-looking tentacles was harder than a godly weapon.
Although the treasured saber Broken Tyrant could cut the physical body of a cultivator of the Fourth Stage, it didn’t leave so much as a scratch on the tentacles.
As expected, physical attacks were also useless. After all, the jellyfish had easily taken care of the Ten Thousand Mile Flying Escape Technique that Venerable White had prepared. Even if it wasn’t an existence of the Venerable rank, it was surely an existence of the Sixth Stage True Monarch rank!
Song Shuhang couldn’t use saber qi, and magical techniques were likewise useless…
Such being the case, he could only give that a try!
Song Shuhang put away the treasured saber Broken Tyrant and took out a huge two-handed sword.
❮Holy Light Sword Technique❯— Evil Slashing Holy Light Sword!
The raw power of this sword technique was pretty good, but it was nowhere near enough to break the tentacles of the jellyfish.
Song Shuhang’s true aim was to summon the holy flames that appeared whenever the sword technique was used.
Although the power of the holy flames wasn’t that high, they were ravenous, sticky, and very difficult to extinguish. Moreover, could the jellyfish eat this stuff imported from the West as well?
The Evil Slashing Holy Light Sword bumped into the tentacles of the jellyfish.
Another jingling sound was heard, but the tentacles of the jellyfish were still undamaged.
But the holy flames were now stuck to the tentacles of the jellyfish and had started to burn them up.
The holy flames had very low lethality, and they wouldn’t be able to harm the jellyfish even if they kept burning for another hundred years.
The suckers on the tentacles of the jellyfish activated once more and transformed a large amount of the holy flames into pure energy, starting to absorb it.
It’s not over yet! Song Shuhang displayed another small magical technique… the ‘fire controlling art’!
The ‘fire controlling art’ could manipulate the holy flames as well. Song Shuhang had confirmed this point 14 days ago when he was practicing together with Chu Chu.
Right at this time, the holy flames happened to be attached to the tentacles of the jellyfish.
Under the effects of the ‘fire controlling art’, the holy flames started to burn frantically… the aim wasn’t to injure the opposite party, but to increase the area where the flames were ‘burning’.
The bigger the area where the holy flames were burning, the bigger the probability that the jellyfish would move its tentacles away to put out the fire, giving Song Shuhang a small opportunity to escape.
In the end… the tentacles indeed moved.
Thirty or so tentacles behind Song Shuhang twisted and combined into a large stick that headed toward him…
Chapter 545: Did Pavilion Master Chu forget about us?
Translator: GodBrandy Editor: Kurisu
Of course, Chu Chu wouldn’t refuse the help of a cultivator that had reached the ‘master level’ in the field of saber techniques. Although he had cheated to increase his skills, Song Shuhang’s comprehension of saber techniques had indeed reached the master level!
Thereupon, Song Shuhang began to teach Chu Chu about the foundations of saber techniques.
The methods he used were the same as that young man wearing green clothes he met in Venerable White’s illusory reality—simple and crude.
At first, he explained to Chu Chu how to use all sorts of saber techniques. Then, he picked up his treasured saber Broken Tyrant and decided to let Chu Chu experience the charm of saber technique with her body.
The only problem was that Chu Chu didn’t have a saber with her at this time. Therefore, she had no choice but to use her sword to execute saber techniques, increasing the difficulty of the training.
However, Chu Chu’s comprehension abilities were very strong, and she could easily learn after following the examples.
This was what it meant to have true talent. Miss Chu Chu wasn’t just limited to swords or sabers.
The first day in the Lower City passed with Song Shuhang and Chu Chu practicing.
In the evening, the two of them separately sat in meditation.
The duo had enough fasting pills and didn’t need to worry about food.
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During the second day in the Lower City.
Song Shuhang and Chu Chu tried to leave the wide hall by traveling through the passageways of the Lower City.
After traveling for half an hour, they arrived in a new, wide hall.
In the wide hall, there were more than thirty huge copper tubs with black crystals below in there.
The copper tubs were something that cultivators could use to take medicinal baths. In the nearby area were also placed several weapons such as sabers, spears, staffs, and so on.
It was the same as timely getting what one needed because everything the two of them required had suddenly come their way. Song Shuhang just lacked a tub to take the medicinal bath, while Miss Chu Chu lacked a saber for her training.
Thereupon, Song Shuhang decided to happily take a bath.
The black crystals below the copper tubs were something akin to firewood. A small spark was enough to ignite them.
After correctly allocating the raw materials and throwing them into the copper tub, Song Shuhang filled the tub with water.
Afterward, he comfortably sighed while bathing inside the medicinal liquid.
Unfortunately, the effects of the medicinal bath weren’t as awesome as the ones Song Shuhang experienced in Miss Sixth Cultivator of True Virtue’s golden coffin. While he was taking the medicinal bath inside the golden coffin, the strength of his constitution was increasing by 0.1 points every three minutes.
But now, it was increasing by 0.1 points every ten minutes. After two hours, the strength of his constitution had increased by only 1.2 points…
Well… still better than nothing, right?
Moreover, he could bathe in the medicinal liquid two times in a day for a total increase of constitution by 2.4 points.
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In the meantime, Miss Chu Chu casually picked up a saber and started to practice saber techniques.
After she was done practicing saber techniques, she chose a copper tub far away from Song Shuhang’s and arranged a curtain before filling it with water.
When she entered the medicinal tub, she lowered her head and looked at her chest.
After she was almost hugged to death the last time, she was lucky to get help from that skilled doctor friend of Song Shuhang. Thanks to him, her wounds had already recovered.
However, her chest had yet to recover its original shape. She didn’t even know if it would ever return to how it was before.
But even if it could recover its previous shape, would it be still as bouncy and elastic as it once was?
After all, breasts were like a second face for girls. She couldn’t neglect this aspect.
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During the third day in the Lower City.
Upon waking up, Miss Chu Chu sat cross-legged and started her practice.
Then, she started breaking through a small realm.
After seeing that Chu Chu had started breaking through, Song Shuhang moved closer and acted as her protector.
The job of a protector wasn’t only to stop the outside world from influencing the person that was breaking through, but also to give them a hand if something unexpected happened during the breaking through process, such as feeding them a medicinal pill to increase their true qi when needed and prevent them from succumbing to their Inner Demon.
Two hours later.
Chu Chu opened her eyes. She had successfully managed to open her Fifth Dantian, the Dragon Palm Dantian!
At this time, an almost complete true dragon had condensed behind her back, only the neck and head were missing.
“Huff~” Chu Chu spat out a mouthful of bad air.
This time, it took her less time to advance in realm than the past. She felt that the entire process had been very natural and smooth.
After all, she had been almost killed not too long ago. The benefits she had obtained from that experience between life and death were enormous.
Besides, she followed Song Shuhang to space a few days ago and was suppressed by the ‘Mount Tai Seal’. Afterward, she practiced inside Venerable Seventh Cultivator of True Virtue’s underground room with increased gravity, obtained a reward inside the grave of Venerable Sixth Cultivator of True Virtue, and also managed to practice inside the Time City. In the past, she experienced only one fortuitous encounter within several years. But now, fortuitous encounters had come her way like a flowing river and she was basically experiencing a new fortuitous encounter every day…
Therefore, it wasn’t unexpected that her strength increased so quickly.
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After Chu Chu managed to break through, Song Shuhang started his own practice.
When he operated the ❮Steel Hands Technique❯ at this time, both palms of his hands were covered by a metallic color, just as though he was wearing a pair of iron gloves.
Practicing the ❮Steel Hands Technique❯ could also increase the strength of Song Shuhang’s constitution. Today, he had already successfully increased the strength of his constitution until reaching 250 points. Therefore, he could already try to break through to the Third Dantian, the Dragon Claw Dantian!
But Song Shuhang wasn’t in a hurry and didn’t plan to break through today.
He was planning to use today’s day to nourish and warm up the true qi inside his dantian as well as adjust his mental energy to reach an optimal condition.
“I’ll try to break through tomorrow!” Song Shuhang said softly.
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During the fourth day in the Lower City.
Song Shuhang adjusted his state and was now in optimal condition. Afterward, he asked Chu Chu to tell him about her own experience while she broke through the Dragon Claw Dantian.
The last time, he almost failed to break through to the Dragon Tail Dantian due to being inexperienced. Luckily, there was a good-hearted anonymous senior that helped him while he was breaking through and guided him step by step during the whole process.
Speaking of which, who was that kind senior that helped him the last time?
Apparently it wasn’t one of the seniors of the Nine Provinces Number One Group that helped him back then!
After Chu Chu told him about her own experience, Song Shuhang started to break through to the Dragon Claw Dantian. At the same time, Chu Chu sat next to him and acted as a protector.
The Dragon Claw Dantian also didn’t stop at only one layer. One had to break through the several checkpoints in order to complete the breakthrough process.
Anyway, it didn’t take Song Shuhang much effort to break through to this small realm. At this time, he had a huge quantity of true qi inside his body. He, who was at the Second Stage Second Dantian Realm, had a quantity of true qi that wasn’t inferior to that of a cultivator of the Second Stage Fourth Dantian Realm.
The checkpoints of the Dragon Claw Dantian were like mud walls and were destroyed layer after layer under the strength of Song Shuhang’s raging true qi.
Around half an hour later.
Song Shuhang had successfully broken through the Dragon Claw Dantian and entered the nourishing stage that came after the opening of the dantian.
In the rear, for some unknown reason, Chu Chu felt a little bit depressed…
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Time flew by.
Very soon, the twelve days they had to stay in the Lower City had come to an end.
During these twelve days, Song Shuhang had already used all the raw materials he bought from Miss Sixth Cultivator of True Virtue back then.
At this time, even his realm after breaking through to the Third Dantian, the Dragon Claw Dantian, had thoroughly consolidated. Now that he had an additional dantian to bear the pressure of his true qi, Song Shuhang didn’t have to worry about suddenly exploding.
Technically speaking, Song Shuhang could already start eating spirit beast crystals again. However, he decided to wait a bit and strengthen his constitution some more so as to avoid ending up in a state where his body could explode once more.
At the same time, he had practiced the ❮Steel Hands Technique❯ until making it reach the ‘beginner level’.
With that, the strength of Song Shuhang’s constitution increased again, reaching 265 points. If he could increase the strength of his constitution a bit more, he would end up having a constitution of the Third Stage rank while being in the Second Stage Realm, a case similar to that of Dharma King Creation’s.
After a cultivator reached the Third Stage Battle King Realm, their true qi would liquefy. Moreover, its quality was much superior when compared to the true qi of a cultivator of the Second Stage Realm.
In addition, cultivators of the Third Stage had another special characteristic. They could burn the ‘liquid true qi’ inside their bodies and bring forth the ‘Body of the Battle King’, obtaining a large increase in fighting power within a short period of time.
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“The twelve days are almost over!” Chu Chu held a sword in her left hand and a saber in the right one. She was truly a talented cultivator. She had completely mastered the foundations of saber techniques within these twelve days.
In the future, she would perhaps become an outstanding cultivator specialized both in the way of the sword and the saber.
Chu Chu was somewhat unwilling to leave this place. While training in the lower portion of the Time City, the practicing speed was from five to six times faster than the outside world. In there, she was obtaining the same effects she would if she was continually taking valuable medicinal pills to aid her training!
Therefore, she was a bit unwilling to leave this wondrous place.
Not too far away from her, Song Shuhang was grasping with both hands a large sword.
In the next moment, he jumped up and a blinding light was emitted from the strange sword.
At the same time, Song Shuhang recited a strange incantation. “Holy light, that wicked one seems worth fighting!”
Evil Slashing Holy Light Sword!
It was that technique that had been adapted from a western-style sword technique. Although its raw power wasn’t bad, the ‘chant’ of the technique was just too embarrassing.
However, Song Shuhang was still very happy.
After all, it was a sword technique! A real sword technique!
Although the sword was somewhat big and could be wielded only with two hands, it was still a sword, right?
At last, he, too, could practice a sword technique. Beyond that, the ‘Evil Slashing Holy Light Sword’ seemed to have a pretty good raw power.
Earlier, Chu Chu tried to cross swords with him.
When she faced head-on the ‘Evil Slashing Holy Light Sword’, Chu Chu had to burst forth with twenty-one ordinary swords attacks in one go to ward off the attack of Song Shuhang’s sword.
Moreover, when Song Shuhang used the sword technique, the sword light released holy flames too. The holy flames were rather interesting. Although they didn’t cause much damage, they would stick to the enemy.
In addition, if one was hungry, they could use them to cook as well!
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Since their days in the ‘Lower City’ of the Time City were almost over, Song Shuhang and Chu Chu didn’t waste their time and practiced until the early hours of the morning.
“Now, we only need to wait for Pavilion Master Chu to bring us out,” Song Shuhang said while holding the large sword with both hands. He looked incredibly tired at this time.
Chu Chu was sitting cross-legged next to him while wearing women’s clothing made from a curtain stitched together. She looked at the Time City behind them, somewhat unwilling to part with it.
It was such a good place! How wonderful would it be if she could stay here for a few more days!
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However, the two of them waited for a long time—they waited for more than half a day—but Pavilion Master Chu, who should have come to pick them up, never came.
Chu Chu furrowed her brows and said, “What happened? It should be already time for us to leave the Time City.”
Song Shuhang pondered for a moment and said, “Perhaps… Pavilion Master Chu is still sleeping? She was in a strange state the last time, and seemed very tired. Perhaps she just overslept? After all, the flow of time in this place is different than the outside world. One day in the outside world is equivalent to twelve days in the Lower City. If she oversleeps for just a few hours in the outside world, several days will pass in this place.”
A happy expression flashed through Chu Chu’s eyes as she said, “In that case, shouldn’t we keep practicing for a few more days?”
Song Shuhang was somewhat worried about Li Yinzhu. However, they couldn’t get out of the Time City without Pavilion Master Chu’s help.
Since they couldn’t do anything about the matter, the best course of action was to follow Chu Chu’s advice and keep practicing.
After all, practicing in the lower portion of the Time City was very effective.
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Therefore, the duo returned to the Time City and kept practicing.
One day, two days, three days…
Very soon, another twelve days passed… however, Pavilion Master Chu didn’t come to find them.
Song Shuhang had started to wonder whether Fairy Chu had actually forgotten about them…
Chu Chu was very happy to be able to practice in the Time City every day. She felt that she was getting stronger and stronger with each day of practice, and was extremely pleased about it. Chu Chu was a simple girl, and it was rather easy to satisfy her.
Song Shuhang had practiced the ❮Steel Hands Technique❯ until reaching the intermediate level, and even the whole set of the ❮Holy Light Sword Technique❯ had reached the beginner level.
Although he had already finished the raw materials necessary for the medicinal bath, Song Shuhang had managed to increase the strength of his constitution until reaching 275 points by relying on the continuous use of the ❮Steel Hands Technique❯ within these twelve days.
In addition, he finally found the time to research a certain thing within these days… the human puppet inside his size-reducing purse!
Then he discovered that the damnable thing could eat spirit stones!
The previous time, when he bought the medicinal materials from Miss Sixth Cultivator of True Virtue and received those three spirit stones of the Third Stage back, he put them in the size-reducing purse… but now, those spirit stones had disappeared without traces!
Song Shuhang felt his heart twitching in pain. After all, those were three spirit stones of the Third Stage! It was something he would obtain after working for more than half a day in the mines!
Why did those spirit stones he put in the size-reducing purse suddenly disappear?
Song Shuhang got curious and picked the last two spirit stones of the Fourth Stage he had left. Then, he threw that half-used spirit stone into the size-reducing purse.
Next, he shook the purse a bit and finally discovered the culprit… it was that human puppet! That thing could eat spirit stones!
“My heart is truly in pain at this time…” During the experiment, Song Shuhang even lost that half-used spirit stone of the Fourth Stage.
With how things were, Song Shuhang didn’t dare to place any other spirit stone in the size-reducing purse.
In addition, he studied the small human puppet every day after practice.
Unfortunately, without enough energy to power it up, the human puppet wasn’t any different from an ordinary little toy. Besides, Song Shuhang wasn’t an expert when it came to puppets. Therefore, he didn’t obtain any useful information after studying the puppet.
“Maybe I should wait until I return to Venerable White’s side and give him the puppet so that he can study it?” Song Shuhang muttered to himself.
After all, Senior White was extremely adept at disassembling things.
It was regrettable that he wasn’t as much adept at assembling them back, and even if he could assemble them back, those things could explode at any time.
“Whatever… it’s not like this thing belongs to me. I don’t really care even if Senior White ruins it. It’s settled then. I’ll give it to Senior White the next time I see him so that he can disassemble it.” Song Shuhang had made up his mind.
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“Even today, Pavilion Master Chu didn’t come to pick us up,” Chu Chu said.
She and Song Shuhang had stayed in the ‘Lower City’ of the Time City of 24 days already.
But Fairy Chu still hadn’t come to look for them.
“Yeah, and it has already been two days in the outside world,” Song Shuhang replied.
It would be wonderful if the phone had a signal at this time. In that case, they could simply call Fairy Chu and tell her to come to the Time City to pick them up.
Chu Chu pondered for a moment and said, “Fellow Daoist Shuhang, should we return to the ‘Lower City’ of the Time City and explore its depths? Perhaps we will find a way out.”
Even if she wanted to stay in this place and keep practicing, looking for an exit wasn’t a bad idea. With that, they would have a way out in case there was an emergency.