Chapter 113 - The Sword Sphere (2/2)

Zhou Donghuang shook his head.

“I can hand over the Lu family to my second brother, Lu Bao… as for me, I would like to follow Young Master Donghuang and experience some of the world out there!” Lu Qinghu said with an earnest look on his face.

Each time he saw the youth before him, he always gave Lu Qinghu a different surprise. How long had it been, and the youth was already a Petty Consummation adept of the Qi-Gathering? And the amount of improvement in everyone with the youth had shocked him and made him extremely envious.

Being the patriarch of the Lu family had its glory, but its appeal to him could not be compared to the appeal of attaining the legendary “Connate stage.” He e still felt that if he followed this youth, he had the chance of attaining the Connate stage in the future!

Zhou Donghuang looked deeply at Lu Qinghu, who was waiting anxiously and said casually, “You’d still better make a trip back to the Lu family. If you don’t change your mind on the way, make all the necessary arrangements in the Lu family, then come and find me in the Chu royal city.”

“Many thanks to Young Master Donghuang.”

Zhou Donghuang’s assent left Lu Qinghu in a state of frenzied joy.

…

“Mother, you return to the Chu royal city first, Xiao Lu, and I will be back in two days,” Zhou Donghuang told Lin Lan with a smile as he personally saw her off onto Little Gold’s back.

“Donghuang, Mother knows your current ability is very great… but be careful nonetheless, don’t be arrogant.”

Lin Lan said this with a serious expression, obviously worried that Zhou Donghuang would swell up with pride because of his great ability and do as he pleased. “You must remember, there’s always a bigger fish.”

But she did not know that Zhou Donghuang had a thousand years of experience and knew these principles better than her. “Mother, don’t worry, I know this.”

“Xiao Lu, keep an eye on your big brother,” Lin Lan said to Yun Lu before leaving, looking at her with a tender expression.

“I will, Mother.”

Yun Lu giggled.

“Go on.”

At Zhou Donghuang’s command, Little Gold took flight with Lin Lan, Freezing Wind, Zhou Feng and Zhou Han on its back, and headed towards the Chu royal city.

Only when they were on their way did Zhou Donghuang gather Yun Lu up in his arms and mount Big Gold’s back, and they flew off in the direction indicated by Yun Lu.

With Big Gold’s speed, it only took them a day and a night to arrive at the place Yun Lu spoke of.

A bamboo forest outside a small town.

“I remember… I think it is here.”

It had been three years ago, and Yun Lu had then been six years old. Although she had matured as a result of the through tough times she had endured, it had been too long, and her memory was still fuzzy. Only after they had combed half the bamboo forest did they find the parcel she had buried years before.

The parcel was not big, only about the size of an adult’s fist. When Yun Lu opened the parcel, a small metal box with rusted frames was revealed.

Yun Lu gazed at the small box with mixed emotions. It was because of this thing that her whole family was destroyed.

“Big Brother.”

Yun Lu passed the box to Zhou Donghuang, forcing out a smile. “Take a look, see if it is any use to you.”

Zhou Donghuang took the box and opened it and saw at once something lying in the box that looked like a metal ball about the size of a baby’s fist. It gave off a piercing sense of chilliness.

“This is… a sword sphere?!”

As he picked up the small metal ball, Zhou Donghuang’s eyes widened involuntarily. “This… how did this appear here?”

In Zhou Donghuang’s view, this should not have even appeared in the Valley of the Medicine Masters, much less in the country of Yunyang.

This was a “sword sphere,” something that only adepts at the Primal Core stage and above could produce using their Samadhi fire. Once it was activated, it could transform into a sword and attack.

Sword spheres were something that adepts of the Primal Core stage and above produced for the personal protection of their juniors who were at a lower level of practice.

Of course, activating the sword sphere took a certain technique. Without that technique, even Connate stage adepts would be unable to activate the sword sphere.

“Big Brother, you recognize this thing?” Yun Lu asked in surprise. “You just said… it’s called a sword sphere?”

“Xiao Lu, watch carefully.”

Zhou Donghuang smiled as he called out to Yun Lu and activated the qi in his body, using a special technique to transfer his qi into the sword sphere.

After his qi had entered the sword sphere, Zhou Donghuang felt a sense of hunger from the sword sphere that swallowed up more of his qi. It was only after half the qi in his body had been swallowed did Zhou Donghuang stop transferring his qi to the sword sphere. The sword sphere immediately flashed in Zhou Donghuang’s hand as it transformed into a small, unremarkable-looking sword, glittering with a visible coldness.

Whizz!

At a flick of Zhou Donghuang’s hand, the small sword shot out and circled the bamboo forest. In a flash, it had sliced all the bamboo in half, then transformed back into a small metal ball and returned to his hand.

“That attack… below the Connate stage, no one can defend against it.”

Zhou Donghuang’s eyes gleamed. “Transferring forty percent of my qi into the sword sphere activated it like this… if I transfer all my qi into the sword sphere, even an ordinary Connate stage adept cannot escape death!”