Cohabitation with Sword Spirit-Chapter 171 - 141: The Important Reason for Valuing Height
October 25, 2017
The commotion in Shen Garden continued until dusk. Only when Shen Qingming regained her normal figure through binge eating did it come to a halt.
In fact, the side effects of the Immovable Tyrant Body should be far more severe than this. When Shen Kaishan was developing this set of Bloodline Divine Techniques, to enhance explosive power, he nearly endangered his life countless times during experiments, and in actual combat, he often suffered from the exhaustion of his vital organs due to excessive outbursts.
Forget about the Seventh Heaven of the Immovable Tyrant Body, even at the Tenth Heaven—approximately equivalent to the level of a Cultivator in the Rain Cover Realm—it may not be possible to skillfully control the explosive techniques.
It is indeed because Wang Jiu, as Shen Qingming's master, has such strong control capabilities that he can limit the side effects to simply a reduction in size.
The powerful effect of the Master-Servant Contract means that when needed, the master can entirely manipulate the servant's every move. This was not evident when Wang Jiu first woke up and his power was weak, but after more than five months of reconstruction in the Sword World, the Celestial Divine Sword is not what it used to be.
At least controlling a little girl is easy.
In a single thought, Wang Jiu can drive the Qi Blood within Shen Qingming to move along a specific trajectory, thereby triggering the explosive state of the Immovable Tyrant Body, granting her more than tenfold strength in a short time. Throughout the process, he can also precisely control energy consumption, making her overall size shrink without any local shrinkage...
"So I don't quite understand what you're angry about. Not to mention that the explosive consumption can be replenished through adequate nutrition intake, even if you were permanently reduced in size, trading a few centimeters of height for the championship of the Cyan Cloud Competition at your current level is a great deal."
Shen Qingming slapped the table directly: "Deal my foot! You're someone who doesn't know a thing about human feelings!"
"Yeah, the old companions used to say the same," Wang Jiu said, "That's why I emphasized the effect of soul communication in the Master-Servant Contract, but you were always against it before, so..."
"... So it's my fault again!?" Shen Qingming shook her head, finished the last sip of the soup in her bowl, stretched long, and prepared to rest.
There are only two months left until the official opening of the Cyan Cloud Competition. With her cultivation level, she most likely will participate in the opening match.
Except for a few well-known seed players having exhibition matches, most of the opening matches are exchanges between Wind-Rising Realm rookies. Most Cultivators who have advanced to the Cloud Surge Realm will not appear on the first day.
Of course, with Shen Qingming's identity and status, it wouldn't be hard to get a seed player's identity by greeting Lu Xin and sharing a seed slot from the Li Family Mansion. But the little girl is quite concerned about face and can't stand others' pointing fingers. Currently, she's just in the mid to late stages of the Wind-Rising Realm, still a stretch from the seed player's threshold. In terms of actual combat ability, excluding that Overlord Body state, she barely reaches the lowest level of the seed players, and really receiving the seed player's treatment would definitely invite controversy.
Shen Qingming plans to honestly sign up for the competition according to the general rules. She is a person from the Li Family Mansion — well, theoretically now Miss Shen who has branched out independently, but just based on her Sword Dao Club rating and idol status, getting an official competition slot is easy. Whoever she faces, and what level she can perform at during the match, all will be based on her skills. Until she really meets an opponent she can't rival, then she would seek Wang Jiu for remote control.
In fact, even without remote control, losing would just mean losing. For a 14-year-old girl in the Wind-Rising Realm, winning the Cyan Cloud Competition would be the biggest joke in the history of the competition.
By now, the conflict with Lu Xin has long been out of her mind. Winning the Cyan Cloud Competition is just a childish tantrum, and she is already 14, no longer young, seeing her height surpassing even her foster mother, she can't keep taking such words seriously, right? Doing her best in the competition and accepting whatever place she gets is the attitude a Cultivator should have.
However, if she really could win the championship, the scene would certainly be quite thrilling.
Having Lu Xin bow to her as a mentor, hahaha, just thinking about it is exciting enough to keep one awake at night.
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"So, is this the reason why you lost sleep all night and caused today's entire training plan to fall through? Hmm, I didn't watch over you for just one night, and you couldn't even sleep well?"
Shen Qingming lowered her head, not daring to meet Wang Jiu's eyes.
Wang Jiu, however, wasn't very angry. Having lived with this mount for over five months, he was already accustomed to the little girl's various unreliable aspects.
In fact, for him, humanity as a group has never been worth high expectations. Humans can make mistakes, act foolishly, even despicably, which Wang Jiu had deeply felt during the Jiuzhou Era.
The Jiu Immortal Venerables led the Myriad Immortals Alliance, wielding the Celestial Divine Sword, triumphing in every battle and assault... Before the final showdown, optimistic historians had engraved these decisive words on the Profound Yellow Stele to commemorate the Cultivators' remarkable martial arts.
However, upon closer thought, it is not difficult to find quite unreasonable places here. The Myriad Immortals Alliance is the ultimate power organ formed by Cultivators on the Jiuzhou Continent after thousands of years of civilization development. At its peak, it even had the power of life and death over the Sect Leaders of some top Sects, standing above humans and immortals. Why was such a supreme power organ led by the Jiu Immortal Venerables?
Though the Jiu Immortal Venerables held a revered status, they did not hold any real position within the Myriad Immortals Alliance at the time, so why were they leading the Alliance members in life-threatening matters?
Though naive to worldly affairs, Wang Jiu, an IQ equal to genius Shang Lanfei, seeing the light as the reincarnated Celestial Divine Sword, quickly realized the truth.
Because the Myriad Immortals Alliance had long lost the people's confidence, during the initial years of the Demon Race invasion, it performed terribly, leaving everyone completely disappointed. Even amidst apocalyptic threats, internal strife and infighting for personal gain took precedence, showcasing profound greed and foolishness of character and actions among the Alliance's bigwigs, a far cry from the serene indifference expected from centuries of Immortal Cultivation. Even as the Nameless Sword God at the time, he had been implicated. A bigwig from the Myriad Immortals Alliance, to cover up his cowardice of abandoning the city during a Demon Race invasion, pinned the blame on the passing-by Nameless Sword God, accusing him of colluding with the Demon Race and causing the defenses to fall in disarray, leading to the city's downfall.
Subsequently, Wang Jiu had to eliminate seven successive Law Enforcement Teams sent by the Myriad Immortals Alliance, including two top experts of the Heaven Shattering Realm... During a time when human forces were severely lacking, it simply exacerbated the Myriad Immortals Alliance's plight. Fortunately, the eighth Law Enforcement Team was led by Li Jiulong and Shang Lanfei.
Thus began the path of rectification under the guidance of the Jiu Immortal Venerables.
Troubled times produce heroes. As the Jiuzhou Continent was on the brink of collapse, individuals whose fortune spanned the world emerged to turn the tide.
Li Jiulong, Shen Kaishan, and others, after countless blood battles, accumulated enough prestige to eventually counter the Myriad Immortals Alliance, forcing reforms on a large scale, finally unifying all of Jiuzhou. Only afterward came the story of offering the best of Jiuzhou in a blood sacrifice to the Nameless Sword God.
Looking back, even the self-confident genius Shang Lanfei often lamented that humanity's survival truly depended on a mere thought. While gathering the masses, they had to tackle politicians' hindrances behind the lines while fighting fiercely at the front, finally pressing the Myriad Immortals Alliance — an endeavor almost as perilous as enduring the divine tribulations. It can be said that it was largely due to luck that humanity did not completely collapse.
Thus stands the weight of human ignobility.
Of course, Wang Jiu, as the supreme Celestial Divine Sword, ought to tolerate humanity's various absurdities and incongruities, so...
"I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I was really wrong. I will never stay up late and daydream again, please don't give me another history lesson!"
In the training ground, Shen Qingming clutched her head in agony, pleading for forgiveness, vowing to overcome all obstacles today, pressing through the physical exhaustion to complete the training plan, striving for good results during the Cyan Cloud Competition.
"No need to strive for it; with your current strength combined with my manipulation, barring any unexpected events, the championship of the Cyan Cloud Competition is already in the bag."
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Two weeks after Wang Jiu made his championship declaration at the Shen Garden Training Ground, an unexpected development occurred.
The joint investment project by the Qian Family and the Lu Family, exceeding a million Spirit Stones, finally bore impressive results just before the Cyan Cloud Competition commenced.
