122 The Sword of Truth (1/2)

“What kind of sword do you want me to give you?” with a solemn complexion, Liu Xian asked in a sinking voice.

Wang Lu replied, “Sword of Truth.”

Liu Xian slightly frowned, sternly gazed at Wang Lu for a long time, and finally nodded slowly. “You want to use this to prove your innocence? Okay, I’ll grant you that.”

Just as soon as Liu Xian nodded, Fang He somewhat hesitatingly said, “Senior Brother, this is rather not in accordance with the rules.”

Liu Xian grunted. “I know. A Qi Cultivating Stage disciple asking a Yuanying Stage Elder to bestow him the Sword of Truth is indeed shocking. However, since he asks it himself, the Sect’s rules stipulate that I can’t refuse it.”

“But Sword of Truth uses the Misty Immortal Heart; even if it’s only a shred, no Qi Cultivating Stage disciple would be able to withstand it.”

In many sects, when a person was unable to debate his innocence, that person might ask the sect’s Elder to bestow him the Sword of Truth. The Elder, using the imperial sword of the Immortal Heart, would then examine the heart of that person. If that person were able to withstand that sword probe, it would be the proof of that person’s innocence.

Of course, this sword was so effective that it was very difficult to withstand it. The effectiveness of this Sword of Truth didn’t lie in the powerful force of the imperial sword or even its sharpness, but rather the Immortal Heart’s force that was accumulated within the sword, which directly interrogated the Primordial Spirit.

It asked a very simple question: does your heart feel guilty or not?

If so, then this sword would directly pierce through your heart and rip one’s Primordial Spirit so that they would die with an intact corpse. If one’s conscience was clear, no matter when the sword interrogated their heart, the heaven and earth greatly changed or all the mountains collapsed, all of them would just feel like a blowing breeze. However, keeping one’s conscience clear was easier said than done. Even if one were innocent, there would always be a little bit of guilt in that person’s life—for example, a little bit of laziness when cultivating or talking about someone behind that person’s back. Even if it were an unrelated matter, if one’s heart felt a little bit of guilt, that person wouldn’t be able to hide it from the Sword of Truth and instead became a huge flaw.

Of course, the Sword of Truth would still leave people with some leeway, causing the disciple to be able to offset several points of the power of that sword; even if there were some slight guilt in that person’s heart, he would still survive. Thus, despite the fact that the Sword of Truth was not one hundred percent accurate, the existence of this method had avoided a lot of wrongful accusation, and consequently, many sects still retained the use of this Sword of Truth. It was just that, in the entire Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, only a few Qi Cultivating Stage disciples dared to ask this Sword of Truth.

Because to the Qi Cultivating Stage disciples, they simply weren’t able to offset the might of this method! In the Qi Cultivating Stage, the disciples mainly cultivated the surrounding spiritual energy and one’s own magical power. Cultivating one’s Primordial Spirit was mainly done at the next stage, the Foundation Establishment Stage. Of course, it didn’t mean that in the Qi Cultivating Stage, a disciple couldn’t cultivate their Primordial Spirit. However, even for someone whose Primordial Spirit cultivation advanced quickly like Yue Xinyao, it didn’t have too many uses unless, in the actual combat, it was used in conjunction with arrays—certainly, Yue Xinyao didn’t pursue the actual combat ability—her cultivation plan was tailor-made for a purpose.

As a Qi Cultivating Stage disciple, Wang Lu asking for the Sword of Truth, to Fang He, was simply asking for trouble.

Fang He asked, “Do you think since your Non-Phase Method renowned for its defense ability you can resist this Sword of Truth?”

Wang Lu replied, “Disciple dared not be so arrogant, so please Uncle bestow the sword three days later.”

“Three days later?”

“Yes. Disciple needs to prepare for three days before disciple can take this sword.”

Liu Xian sneered. “You want to stall time to play tricks?”

Wang Lu said, “Disciple does not dare. Disciple will arrange everything at the Wisdom Sect’s Headquarter and Uncle can see it for yourself.”

“Wisdom Sect’s Headquarter, Wang Family Village? Okay, we’ll go there.”

Liu Xian was half impatient, half curious.

Wang Lu’s display of composure right now was not fake. Liu Xian had a lifetime of experience in reading other people, so how could he not see whether Wang Lu was really confident in himself or just bluffing? A mere Qi Cultivating Stage Disciple, yet daring to ask to be examined with his Sword of Truth? What could possibly a young sect like Wisdom Sect with mortal followers and Six Harmonies Spirit Root cultivators arrange in three days? Let alone three days, even if he gave him three years time, unless Wang Lu could cultivate his Jade Mansion and advanced through the Qi Cultivating Stage to arrive at the Foundation Establishment Stage, otherwise, no matter what kind of arrangement that he had, the Sword of Truth would be like a sky high moat!

In fact, for the majority of the cultivators in the Immortal Cultivation World, even a Xudan Stage Cultivators found that it was very difficult to deal with this Sword of Truth—even if that person was really innocent. Yet Wang Lu, while still in the Qi Cultivating, tried to overcome something that was even difficult for a Xudan Stage Cultivator… Hah! Did he think he cultivated the Brilliant Sword Heart?

After that sneer, Liu Xian waved his hand to pick Wang Lu up and changed into a golden sword light as he flew towards the Wang Family Village.

Fang He shook his head and then, like his Senior Brother, changed into a sword light to fly together with him.

Wen Bao and Yue Xinyao, who were left in the room, looked at each other in dismay, both felt helpless. The fatty couldn’t even deal with his anxiety in front of Junior Sister Yue; he asked, “Junior Sister, what did Senior Brother do in the last few days?”

Yue Xinyao smiled. “You’re asking the wrong person here. In that previous two days, I didn’t follow Senior Brother around. When we left town, he handed me over to his men to bustle about with them. During which, I signed many documents, and saw a lot of people. However, frankly, I was confused on what exactly the specific of what we did. As for Senior Brother himself, that’s needless to say.”

“It’s that mysterious?” Wen Bao was taken aback. It seemed like Senior Brother really did carefully arrange many things. However, against Second Elder and Third Elder, even if he arranged more, could it really save his life?”

“Rather than asking me, I think it’s better if you ask Fifth Elder. She should understand Wang Lu more than anyone.”

Just when Wen Bao stepped down to the first floor of the inn and saw the Fifth Elder drinking and eating, the woman just smiled. “Rest assured, it will be fine.”

Hearing that remark from the Fifth Elder, Wen Bao immediately felt relieved. But then he heard...

“Even if Old Man Fang captured Wang Lu and turn him into a cow or a horse, or put him in solitary confinement for ten thousand years, as long as I claim that this has nothing to do with me, then it’s fine, I will not be implicated.”

Wen Bao was startled. “Fifth Aunt, you said it would be fine, could it be…”

“Of course, I’m the one who will be fine! What do Wang Lu’s life and death have anything to do with me! He had undertaken independent big entrepreneurial profiteering in the Great Ming Country, yet he had never sent me even one spirit stone!”

…

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Using the flying sword technique, a Daoist Master of Yuanying Stage only needed around ten to fifteen minutes to arrive at the remote Wang Family Village on the Dog Ear Mountain from the Capital of the Great Ming Country.

However, when they flew over the Wang Family Village, Liu Xian couldn’t help but be startled.

The things that were reflected in his field of vision was not some barren mountain village, nor a palace as the symbol of a decadent cult, like what he suspected. Centered on the Wang Family Village, the surrounding area of several hundreds of miles were full of spirit field, where all kinds of spirit grass and elixirs grew. Although their grade was not high, they were obviously well-tended, and their growth was gratifying.

Even rarer was that, though the spiritual energy in this area wasn’t particularly strong, it was efficiently used; nearly every point wasn’t wasted. It was evenly and methodically distributed throughout the various places on the mountains. Moreover, in the middle of the Wang Family Village, there was a strange spherical altar that triggered the spiritual energy tide, which provided an endless supply of spiritual energy to the surrounding spirit field.

“Not bad.”