261 Senior Sword Demon, I Want to Talk to You about a Dream (1/2)
Either Sword God or Sword Demon was essentially a wisp of Zhong Shengming’s remnant soul. It was just that the strength of this Sword God of Bai Li was too powerful that even if it was just a remnant soul, it was seemingly as powerful as other cultivator’s intact primordial spirit.
Of course, a remnant soul was still a remnant soul. Behind its power, there were some limitation and weakness. As for a corporeal body? That was even more an excessive expectation.
However, for Wang Lu’s question, Sword Demon only gave a faint response, ”For cultivators above Unity Stage, mortal body is not important. As long as I can unite with the other, the remnant soul, primordial spirit, magical power, and mortal body can be fully integrated with each other.”
Wang Lu laughed. ”Then that’s good. I was afraid when you go out later, you’d be immediately killed by the sunlight, astral wind, or something like that. Although you’re a born demon, after getting along with you, I feel like there’s still some good in you, so it would be quite a pity if you die just like that.”
”Humph! Why don’t you take care of yourself first!”
Sword Demon didn’t mind about Wang Lu’s disrespect. Perhaps he was quite increasingly fond of Wang Lu’s original magical ability or perhaps Wang Lu’s existence as his trump card was quite meaningful to him.
However, he couldn’t just ignore Wang Lu’s follow up question.
”Then what about the future?”
Sword Demon was stunned for a moment. ”Are you sick?”
”No. I’m just curious.” Wang Lu chuckled. ”Given the fact that we are now in such a good situation, I think we are qualified to think about the future. For example, what are you going to do after we succeed in defeating the Sword God and you manage to become Zhong Shengming?”
Sword Demon didn’t answer but just stared at Wang Lu with very strange eyes.
”This is not a question that you should ask.” Sword Demon lightly said, ”What are you hesitating about? Are you afraid I’m going to eat you?”
Since the other side had come straight to the point, Wang Lu decided that he should be straightforward as well. ”It’s not uncommon to get rid of someone once that someone has served its purpose, but I am not worried about this. If you want to move against me, you have too many opportunities to do that, so worrying about it is useless. What I am really curious about is what you are going to do in the future?”
”Oh?”
Sword Demon didn’t answer, but instead revealed a slight smile on his face; it was just that, it wasn’t the slightest bit friendly.
Wang Lu said, ”When you go out later, what are you going to do? Before you died, you were the best cultivator in the entire Nine Regions, no one can match your achievements in taking the four in nine divine tribulation and other things, so what are your plans after you come out of this tomb? Taking divine tribulation to ascend to the immortal world? Or do you want to rule the Nine Regions?”
Upon hearing this, Sword Demon could not help but chuckle, however, before he could give his response, Wang Lu continued, ”If you want to ascend to the immortal world or rule the Nine Regions, why did you choose to ascend in the Bai Li Region? Why bother challenging the four in nine divine tribulations? The life of Sword God of Bai Li is definitely full of delight, so it’s hard to imagine that his death would be filled with everlasting regret! However, since you don’t have any regret in your life, why bother trying to come back to life even if takes thousands of years?”
As soon as Wang Lu’s voice fell, Sword Demon’s eyes suddenly became incomparably sharp.
This was one really good question!
For the average person, survival was the instinct of all living beings. And for cultivators, ascension was the ultimate dream! Putting these two ideals together, it was easy to assume the reason why Zhong Shengming tried to come back from death; because of the serious injury in taking the divine tribulation, even if it were to take more than ten thousand years, he still wanted to ascend to the world of immortals.
Perhaps some people would say there were numerous cultivators in the world, and based on the fact that each of them was an individual with their own ideals and dreams, how many of them have the longing for ascension? For most of them, even struggling for their entire life couldn’t make them reach the Jindan Stage and thus eventually they would return to ashes. During this period, the convenience of immortal cultivation method gave them far more pleasure than the pursuit of higher stages.
However, there was obviously no comparison between them; they just realized that ascension was a hopeless dream for them. If there was a chance, who would miss it? Rumor has it that the treasure on the higher realms was like things in dream and fantasy. Everything was much better than in the Nine Regions. As long as one could survive the divine tribulation and ascend into the immortal world, one would enjoy endless immortal fortune and happiness… As the saying went, forever enjoying immortal fortune was a fate.
However, with Zhong Shengming’s brilliant ability, as long as he was willing, soaring to immortality was a very probable outcome—even in the history, only a few cultivators managed to ascend to the world of immortals, and Zhong Shengming has been one of the top figures in this long years. Even the three immortals of Bai Li could not conceal the light of Zhong Shengming.
However, even when he had almost a certain chance to immortality, Zhong Shengming actually took the suicide path by challenging the four in nine divine tribulations! This obviously meant that, in his mind, some things were weightier than ascension to immortality! In other words, the ascension to immortality thing was not that important to him. Towards such a character, if one said the reason why he painstakingly tried to resurrect even after his death was that he wanted to break the threshold of immortality, wouldn’t that be a contradiction?
Sword God of Bai Li should belong to a hero who died with no regret!
This was a simple truth. However, perhaps no ordinary person would venture to think to this direction. Only Wang Lu… a person who was similarly lacking in devotion to immortal cultivation and ascension could make this connection.
Unfortunately, while this was a good topic of discussion, this was not really the time to bring it out. Sword Demon remained silent, and his eyes became even sharper. Even if he was just a wisp of remnant soul, he still gave out a strong sense of oppression. However, Wang Lu was without fear; the pressure from his Master in Spirit Sword Mountain was not lesser than this, and in most cases, he was the last one to laugh.
While the two people were still in the silent confrontation, Wang Lu suddenly uttered a ‘huh’ cry, reached into his shirt and touched the booklet in his inner pocket.
That was the team leader handbook of Spirit Sword Sect. At this time, it was burning hot. He didn’t open it in front of the Sword Demon, but reached into its inner page and touched it, and then he immediately understood.
The situation has deteriorated.
In that page, the name of Big Sister Zhu Shiyao has turned from orange to red. Moreover, it was dark red going black!
This meant that the situation of Big Sister has changed from the initial predicament situation to dangerous, or even death! Once the color was completely black, it meant that she was dead.
However, this didn’t make any sense. How did the situation suddenly deteriorate? They just had a fight, and although Zhu Shiyao lost, she wasn’t hurt as bad as him. At most, only several pints of blood came out of her nose… It would be ridiculous to say this loss of blood was the cause of her sudden situation worsening.
Or was it because after the previous lost, eager for victory, she began to cultivate some kind of demonic cultivation method? Or because she lost the melee fight, she wanted to practice long-range attack, and in order to quickly enhance the strength, she cut something of her that shouldn’t be cut? (Reference to Dong Fang Bu Bai)
Unfortunately, these conjectures were a bit absurd.