Chapter 100 - Golden Hawk (1/2)
The White Fairy wakes Lin Luoran up with a handful of water and tells her that they must get out of the valley today. Lin Luoran is frightened that something has happened, so she is wide awake immediately.
Seeing that the fairy looks serious, Lin Luoran knows that she is not joking. However, Lin is not nosy, so she doesn’t ask anything more. After filling her belly, she starts to practice the Sword-riding Spell.
The White Fairy holds nothing back while teaching Lin Luoran, and she almost wishes that she could do the flying for Lin. By afternoon, Lin Luoran can finally ride on the sword unstably at the expense of falling down on the ground a dozen of times, which makes her entire body hurt.
The sun is going down. The White Fairy has nothing to do with Lin Luoran’s progress on sword-riding, so she urges Lin to go and dig out that big round stone.
Digging out a stone is effortless, but Lin Luoran a.s.sumes at first that she has to take it with her, which may be difficult in the context of not exposing the s.p.a.ce in her bead. Luckily, the fairy only tells Lin Luoran to cut off the surface of the stone. With the sharp Snow Sword, Lin Luoran cuts the stone like she is cutting a melon. Lin reaches to the inside of the stone under 15 minutes and she sees a prismatic black spar. This is the Soul Stone the White Fairy talks about, which is where her essence has been hiding.
The White Fairy breathes a sigh of relief after making sure that the Soul Stone is safe and sound. She says, “on the basis of my observation for years, the wind in the valley will be the weakest today. You hide it close to your skin and I can get out of here unscathed under the protection of your liveliness.
Lin Luoran nods. She does have to help the fairy out because the Sword-riding Spell she receives from the fairy is so valuable.
Unlike normal spells, the Sword-riding Spell needs to be casted with both hands. After putting the Soul Stone in the Universal Sack, Lin Luoran starts to make the gestures. The Snow Sword becomes bigger against the wind, just like Wen Guanjing’s sword did. What is different is that the Snow Sword is slim and smoothly shaped, and it gives out a sense of arrogance!
Lin Luoran is certainly glad. The Snow Sword is like a sport car with an aerodynamic body, which is so much better than Wen Guanjing’s “bus”…
Lin looks back at those deer-horses who are staring at her with wet eyes. She draws back her attachment, steps on the sword and rushes to the sky…
This valley is a perfect place to live for seclusion, but Lin Luoran can’t abandon her family and friends in the mortal world. Farewell, deer-horses!
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The sun is going down. For Li Xi’er, who is on a terrace of the cliff, sunlight always pours directly on her no matter it is going up or down. She has been stuck on the terrace for three days.
Food is not a problem for the time being. There is enough food for a month in the Universal Sack.
The problem is water. How can she get more water to drink?
Li Xi’er has made a little bowl out of the leaves of the vines, and she has been gathering dews in the valley with the bowl to drink. However, she feels sticky because of her sweat, and every time she thinks about this, the crying-baby feels like crying again.
Different from her soft character, Li Xi’er has an extremely good quality — her Taoist root is in the single nature of gold. She would be a precious one in millions of talented cultivators even in a thousand years ago when spells were popular.
Li Xi’er is so well-protected that even Wen Guanjing and others have no idea that this cute little girl has already reached the medium stage of Training Qi in her early twenties. In this age of agitated Reiki and declined spells, Li’s achievement is really enviable!
The Night of Bermuda is dangerous. Li’s master lets her come because she may have a chance of entering the level of Laying Foundation here, also, her master wants Li Xi’er to grow up during the hards.h.i.+p — it is so shameful that Li is a cultivator who dares not to kill chickens.