Chapter 654 – She is She

Chapter 654 – She is She
As the bugs retreated back into the pool, everything was calm again.

And the pool water, too, is no longer pure black, but has turned into light black.

Seeing this change, Xu Chuniang where there is not understand, the black shadow lurking in the pool, clearly is those black bugs!

Although the number of these bugs is large, but only Foundation cultivation, how could they escape her divine sense and spiritual exploration?
Xu Chuniang raised her eyes to look at the Earth’s Heart Lotus above the pool, the petals of the Earth’s Heart Lotus, had already opened to the ninth petal.

But wherever there is a spiritual object in heaven and earth, there is often a ferocious object that occupies and guards it.

Could it be that these swarms of insects were the ferocious ones guarding the Earth Heart Lotus?
Xu Chuniang released her divine sense to probe towards the pool, and could clearly see black shadows swaying in the pool, but her divine sense could not capture the presence of the black insects.

These black worms seemed to be integrated with the pool water, as well as the Earth Heart Lotus in the pool.

Unless they took the initiative to leave the pool, there was no way to pull them out individually.

It was reasonable to say that bugs with only Foundation Establishment stage cultivation would never be able to master such amazing concealment techniques.

In this pool, could it be that there were other oddities?
Xu Chuniang’s divine sense swept back and forth in the pool seven or eight times, and apart from those swaying black shadows, there was nothing more to be found.

It seemed that she could only force the swarms to show themselves.

Xu Chuniang urged out several wind blades and chopped towards the Earth Heart Lotus, which had already opened eleven petals.

The swarm of insects were indeed startled, and rushed out of the water in large swathes, wanting to protect the Earth Heart Lotus at the risk of their lives.

It didn’t take long for the black bugs hidden in the pool to die cleanly, and there were no more black shadows.

The pool water became clarified again and looked as if it had returned to normal.

Xu Chuniang, however, didn’t stop, another wind blade, chopping towards the Earth Heart Lotus.

At this moment, the Earth Heart Lotus had already blossomed its twelfth lotus, and was about to mature.

Accompanied by the sound of an angry curse, a ray of black awn erupted from the bottom of the pool, meeting the wind blade and protecting the delicate Earth Heart Lotus.

Immediately afterward, an old figure appeared from the bottom of the pool, steadily blocking in front of the Earth Heart Lotus, pointing at Xu Chuniang and cursing.

“Where did you come from, you god damned girl, do you know what you’re talking about or not? This is the Earth’s Heart Lotus, a fifth-order sacred medicine!”

Looking at the person in front of her storming out, Xu Chuniang smiled faintly.

She knew that things weren’t that simple.

The fact that a swarm of insects at the Foundation Establishment stage cultivation level was able to escape her Divine Sense search was definitely due to someone’s tampering.

“I know ah, it’s the Earth’s Heart Lotus, but I’m more curious about how you and those bugs, managed to hide it from my divine sense.”

Xu Chuniang stroked her chin as her divine sense swept over the old crone in front of her.

Obviously, she was so close to her, but her divine sense couldn’t sense her presence at all, it was really strange.

The old crone snorted coldly and said disdainfully, “This thing called divine sense, it couldn’t be easier to avoid.”

Xu Chuniang’s heart moved slightly, since Foundation Establishment, Divine Sense was like a cultivator’s second pair of eyes, and this was the first time she had heard such a statement.

The old woman’s face revealed a skeptical look, “You couldn’t detect any abnormality with your divine sense, so the move of destroying the Earth Heart Lotus just now was nothing more than a test, how did you discover that something was wrong?”

“Intuition.”

Xu Chuniang spoke faintly, “I traveled all the way along the dark river, the water in the river is crystal clear, the end of the dark river, naturally, can’t be a puddle of black water.”

“Just some intuition, it’s worth risking your life and taking a shot at the Earth’s Heart Lotus?”

The old woman had an incredulous look on her face, this was the Earth’s Heart Lotus, ah, a Fifth Order Sacred Pill, and she wasn’t even a little bit moved?

“If I really picked it in advance, I wouldn’t be at a loss… Anyway, I didn’t think that there would be a fifth rank spirit medicine hidden here.”

Picking it in advance would make the medicinal effect of the Earth’s Heart Lotus diminish, but it would still be equivalent to a fourth-rank spirit medicine, a sort of windfall.

The old woman’s heart was not in the right place when she heard this, she had been guarding this place for more than a hundred years before she waited for the Earth Heart Lotus to mature.

And the person in front of her, even half an hour are not willing to wait, simply angry her also. Between the two speak, the fragrance is more and more dense, the heart of the earth lotus also finally bloomed the thirteenth petal.

The old woman turned back, will go to pick behind the heart of the earth lotus, a tongue of fire faster than her movements, toward the heart of the earth lotus a surge and go.

The old woman was startled, and looked at the petals of the Earth’s Heart Lotus, which were slightly curled due to the high temperature, and was heartbroken.

“Don’t don’t don’t, stop quickly, this Earth Heart Lotus I’ll let you have some of it, isn’t that okay?”

“Yes, but you have to tell me how you hid it from my divine sense.”

The crone was not worried in her heart, “This is my cultivation method, how can I easily inform you?”

Xu Chuniang showed a look of regret, “Then this Earth Heart Lotus, it seems that it is not meant to be with you and me.”

Seeing that the tongue of fire was about to devour the petals of the Earth Heart Lotus, the crone hurriedly drank her down.

“Stop, stop, can’t I just tell you?”

Seeing that the fire did not continue to spread, the old crone sighed in relief and glared fiercely at Xu Chuniang.

“I can only tell you that this is my divine ability to assimilate into my surroundings and conceal the invisible.”

Xu Chuniang’s heart stirred as she carefully felt the aura around the old crone, and indeed found something.

The aura around her body was as if it existed, blending in with the surroundings in a natural way.

It was no wonder that she had probed with her divine sense many times before, but had failed to find anything out of the ordinary.

She had read in the ancient books that there was a kind of spirit butterfly that could change different forms and colors according to the surrounding environment, sometimes resembling a withered leaf, sometimes resembling a delicate flower, making it difficult for people to notice its existence.

This divine ability of the old woman might be similar to the spirit butterfly recorded in the ancient books.

Xu Chuniang was enlightened, removing the sword she had been carrying and looking at it with brighter and brighter eyes.

Over the past three years, the connection between her and this sword had deepened, even reaching the point where her heart was in the right place.

When her mind moved, the sword’s intent followed.

But after reaching this realm, it slowly entered a bottleneck.

No matter how much she deepened the connection with the sword, she could not go any further and enter the realm of human sword unity.

After listening to the crone’s words, Xu Chuniang had a new realization.

Over the past few years, she had been like the crone in front of her who had melted herself into her surroundings, and like the spirit butterfly that mimicked withered leaves and delicate flowers, trying to treat herself as a sword.

The sword was her, and she was the sword.

Walking along this path, perhaps one day, she would really be able to reach the point where the human sword was one.

But the truth was, she was more than just a sword, and the sword could not be her.

That kind of path might be right, but it wasn’t what she wanted.

She was her, so why should Xiao Jian forget herself?
Sword intent, originally can carry the heart of the Dao, heart to heart, and then the person and the sword together, the person’s sword into also.

After figuring this out, Xu Chuniang only felt her mind clear, and the connection with the sword in her hand deepened a lot more.

The old woman looked at the buzzing sword, a look of amazement in her eyes.

With her gaze, she could naturally tell that the person in front of her was extremely similar to the aura of the sword in her hand.

But just now, this similarity disappeared, and the connection between her and the sword deepened instead.

Strange, strange!

(End of chapter)