Chapter 640 (1/2)
Translator: G.o.dBrandy Editor: Kurisu
Pavilion Master Chu kept hovering next to the ghost spirit and asked again, “In that case, Fellow Daoist Tyrannical Saber Song One, what business did you have with our Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion since you were headed toward it?”
“Please, call me Song One!” The ghost spirit sighed. Its original plan was to go to the Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion and obtain directions from Pavilion Master Chu or Senior Sister Ye Si to China’s Wenzhou City. Then, it would return to the house of the main body and try to contact Song Shuhang from there.
The ghost spirit had now gotten a gist of what was going on. Even if it could find ‘China’ at this time, it didn’t have many too many possibilities of finding the Wenzhou City where the main body lived!
The young Pavilion Master Chu before its eyes, the rich spiritual qi in this world, that power that surpa.s.sed the concept ‘s.p.a.ce’ that shrouded it back in the s.p.a.ce pa.s.sage…
When all these elements were combined with the knowledge that it had obtained from the memories of the main body before, the ghost spirit immediately thought of a plot device often overused in novels… was it possible that it had transmigrated to another world?
I need to make sure whether I’m still in my original world or not.
After pondering for a moment, the ghost spirit said, “Actually, I approached the Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion because I was looking for you, Pavilion Master Chu.”
“You were looking for me?” Pavilion Master Chu asked in puzzlement.
The ghost spirit asked another question, “Pavilion Master Chu, can I use the Time City of the Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion for a brief period of time?”
“The Time City? What’s that? The Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion doesn’t have any Time City!” Pavilion Master Chu was both curious and confused as she gazed at the ghost spirit.
After hearing these words, the expression of the ghost spirit underwent a myriad of changes.
Actually, it wasn’t really planning to use the ‘Time City’. It only wanted to make sure of something… because from what the ghost spirit remembered, the Time City was something that Pavilion Master Chu would establish sometime in the future thanks to a magical treasure related to ‘time’.
However, the Pavilion Master Chu before its eyes had no idea as to what the ‘Time City’ was. Therefore, this Pavilion Master Chu wasn’t the same as that lazy Pavilion Master Chu that it had met back then.
Such being the case, had it really transmigrated?
What should I do now?
The ghost spirit raised its head and looked at the sky. Should it keep living and form a complete contract with the main body after Song Shuhang was finally born?
No, that won’t work, either. After all, the main body in the future was completely unable to sense the presence of the contract between of the two of us.
Is it possible that I died during the long wait?
F*ck, I got separated from the main body and ended up in another time. Then, I died before the main body was born?
The ghost spirit felt rather depressed at this time.
In the capacity of a ghost spirit, it only had to accompany its master and keep getting stronger alongside him. It didn’t need to rack its brain or do anything special.
Afterward, it would either pa.s.s away together with its master while transcending the heavenly tribulation, dying both in body and mind, or keep marching forward, becoming a Tribulation Transcender or even reaching the Immortal Realm, ultimately fighting for the Will of the Heavens and becoming eternal and everlasting.
In other words, since it was a ghost spirit, it didn’t need to think of problems such as ‘what should I do’, ‘what am I going to do now’, ‘what is my objective’, and so on… because it was the main body’s job to worry about that stuff.
But now that the two of them had separated and ended up in different times, all these worries had s.h.i.+fted onto the body of the ghost spirit.
That’s rather depressing. Perhaps I should look for another person and sign a contract with them? the ghost spirit thought to itself while looking at the ‘incomplete’ contract with the main body.
The contract signed with a ghost spirit was unbreakable. The only reason it had become incomplete at this time was that Song Shuhang had yet to be born!
Let alone Song Shuhang, even the ancestors of Song Shuhang’s ancestors were probably nothing but spermatozoa at this time. Anyway, since the other person that had signed the contract didn’t exist yet, the contract of the ghost spirit, which was supposed to unbreakable, ended up becoming ‘incomplete’.
Such being the case, perhaps it could look for another person and sign a contract with them, getting settled for life?
Pavilion Master Chu found the continuously changing expression of the ghost spirit rather interesting. She didn’t disturb it and kept hovering next to it, carefully sizing it up.
Pavilion Master Chu was very curious as to who this ghost spirit was. The reason was that she found the leftover aura of some magical techniques used on the body of the ghost spirit very familiar… because that aura was her own.
This leftover aura was there due to the ghost spirit frequently getting subjected to the effects of her magical technique, which caused some of the aura of the magical technique to stay behind.
In more concrete terms, if she were to frequently use a healing technique on the body of a disciple, after some time, leftovers of the aura belonging to the magical technique would stay behind on the body of the disciple.
The current state of the ghost spirit was similar to this.
But Pavilion Master Chu was sure that she had never seen this ghost spirit before, let alone used any magical technique on it.
This was the reason Pavilion Master Chu was looking at the ghost spirit curiously.
It was also the reason she didn’t attack it when the latter was stealthily approaching the Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion but greeted it instead, starting a discussion with it. She wanted to know for what reason her aura was present on the body of the ghost spirit.
But right at this time, the ghost spirit seemed to have recovered from its worries and gazed at Pavilion Master Chu. Then, after a short while, it probingly asked, “Pavilion Master Chu, can you temporarily give shelter to this homeless person?”
“Absolutely.” Pavilion Master Chu narrowed her eyes and smiled. This was exactly what she was hoping for!
Thereupon, Pavilion Master Chu happily brought the ghost spirit ‘Song One’ to the Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion.
The ghost spirit secretly heaved a sigh of relief. It was better to stay in the Crystal-Clear Water Pavilion before it had decided what it was going to do!
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At this time, in the Jingang Immortal Cave.
The ancient well, which had turned into a fountain, suddenly stopped spurting out water and calmed down.
Next, the water level of the ancient well quickly dropped, leaving more than half of the well empty.
All the cultivators that were in the middle of their heart-tempering process immediately stopped.
It was due to the experience they had gained from their predecessors.
The water level of the ancient well had a direct impact on the effects of the heart-tempering process. The higher the level of the water, the greater the effects of the heart-tempering.
But if the level of the water was too low, the inner desires and ambitions of cultivators would grow too much during the heart-tempering process and get out of control. At that time, they not only wouldn’t be able to temper their heart, they would even get negatively influenced by their desires.
Actually, only the members of the Faraway Wandering Temple knew that the bottom of the heart-tempering ancient well was connected to a fearsome place… this place was the Netherworld Realm!
The pa.s.sage that connected the two was very, very small and had only the size of the tip of a fingernail.
It was precisely due to the energy transmitted over from the Netherworld Realm—which was full of filth, evil, and chaos—that the inner desires and ambitions of cultivators could be easily aroused while next to the ancient well.
As for the ‘water’ in the ancient well, it was a type of sealing magical treasure that the powerhouses of the Jingang Temple had created back in their days through special techniques after leading over there a small spiritual vein.
Not only could the seal suppress that small crack that connected the ancient well to the Netherworld Realm, it could also use its strength to create that ‘heart-tempering’ effect.
Moreover, whenever a cultivator was making use of the heart-tempering ancient well, they would reinforce the effects of the seal at the same time.
It was truly an ingenious method with a lot of benefits.
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To tell the truth, the reason the ancient well suddenly erupted this time was the fierce battle between the l.u.s.trous scholar that had borrowed Song Shuhang’s ghost spirit and that demon of the Netherworld Realm of the Tribulation Transcender rank.
As coincidence would have it, there wasn’t much distance between the place where those two powerhouses of the Tribulation Transcender rank were fighting and the fingernail tip-sized s.p.a.ce pa.s.sage connected to the bottom of the ancient well.
When the two Tribulation Transcenders started their battle, they ended up causing the eruption of the ancient well.
As a consequence, Song Shuhang didn’t see the manifestation of his inner desires while he was trying to temper his heart but ended up seeing the major battle between the l.u.s.trous scholar and the demon of the Netherworld Realm.