Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect-Chapter 917 - 474: Vitality

Hair hanging down, wide sleeves, ancient clothing, crossed hands, skirt and blouse, shoulder shawl, waist bands, knee covers, crotch guard, cloud shoes, belly wrap, undergarments...

Tie Dan followed the dark and shadowy mountain path, picking up the scattered clothes and shoes all over the ground, with a look of helplessness as he entered the cave.

The Giant Watchtower spoke frankly, saying Jian Jia had originally been meditating in Tie Dan’s cave. Suddenly, two women came with the sect leader’s token to the mountain a month ago, seeking her out and claiming they wanted to teach her the Dual Cultivation Secret Technique, which instantly infuriated Jian Jia. Thus, the three fought all the way to the bottom of Nine Yin Mountain and had hidden in the cave for many days without coming out.

Tsk, the fight’s been pretty intense. But was it necessary to strip so much, and that Eldest Princess is wearing way too much...

Tie Dan arrived at the stone cave where he had previously meditated, looking around and surprisingly not seeing anyone.

Picking up clothing all along the way, they were likely truly bare. If they stripped anymore, they’d be peeling off skin. Yet there are no signs of struggle or tearing on the ground. The footprints ended here, and it’s unclear where they fought afterward.

Could it be they fought so fiercely, lost themselves in passion, first rising to the Peak of Jiuxiao and then rolling down to the depths of Jiuyuan?

Tie Dan peeked into the depths of the abyss below, seeing only pitch-black darkness, fathomlessly deep, scratching his head for a moment. It was truly unexpected, even such an offhand subplot could break the game...

But now the Shen Family is blocking the entrance, demanding to see their daughter. It’s impossible to go out and say I accidentally lost your daughter. How about you go home and make another one...

People must surely be found, but the bottom of Nine Yin Mountain is starless, moonless, windless, breathless, and dark without end. True Qi cannot be used, climbing up and down would take countless days. Tie Dan also has important tasks from the Qingtang Sect to attend to, no time to spend here.

So Tie Dan sat down before the stone wall again, set his Dao Body into meditation, and initiated Primordial Spirit Emergence, transforming into a blood shadow. Riding the gloomy wind from his cranial aperture, he quickly traveled thousands of miles, directly exploring the abyss for people.

Actually, since acquiring the Heavenly Gang Sect Leader’s True Inheritance and Beichen Sword Sect’s Nascent Soul Method, Tie Dan naturally learned all that as well. Yet, he still couldn’t use Nine Yin Mountain’s sword infant method.

After all, the so-called sword infant was to fuse the Golden Core sword embryo with spirit, essence, and soul, refining the Nascent Soul into a flying sword out of the body. This was the famed True Inheritor method of Nine Yin Sword Sect’s Human Sword Unity.

However, Tie Dan’s sword embryo, since the Foundation Establishment stage, was taken up by My Sword for forging until now. The Primordial Spirit Method used so far was cultivated using Blood Jade Divine Skill for the Blood God’s Son.

Yes, My Sword, forged until now, still remains a sword embryo, far from becoming a sword infant. In some sense, you could even say Tie Dan is still in the Foundation Establishment stage.

But Tie Dan was aware that the path of My Sword did not face any bottleneck, as the sword embryo he forged could accommodate Spiritual Qi with a limit of at least a millennium level. With more Qi, he’d just forge a few more swords.

If anything constituted a bottleneck, it would be the inadequacy of Heavenly Breath and Earth Spring, especially the lack of Earth Evil Ghost Spring. Although Heavenly Breath could at least be attained through Nine Luminaries Unification, using Beichen Sword Qi refined into Innate Sword Qi stably acquired. Currently, Tie Dan has plenty of Qi in his belly, sufficient for sustaining.

Yet the Earth Spring, so far, could only be obtained by defeating Heavenly Demons. If he could devour a Heavenly Demon, My Sword would achieve one wave of forging enhancement. But if mishandled and overturned, the situation might flip and My Sword could be consumed by the opponent, leading to Demon God destroying the world, with a single loss costing ten sync points.

Currently, the experience indicates that indeed Chen Xuantian’s side has the easier Heavenly Demons to fight; those descending near Tie Dan are prone to world-ending catastrophes, combined with a whole bunch of Old Xuan Sect lurking to scheme on the side, thus requiring constant cautiousness, upgrading as fate allows, not daring reckless advancement.

However, sometimes even if you don’t advance, the path might advance towards you.

Tie Dan, using Blood Shadow Divine Movement, sped through the abyss and swiftly found the first person.

Iron Sword Divine Nun Ci Yun

Actually, Ci Yun’s appearance couldn’t be discerned now, but Tie Dan remembered seeing the ’Heavenly Bull’ in Huangfu Yi’s dream.

Yes, though it was unclear how, Ci Yun had already become possessed by a demon, transforming into a Heavenly Demon.

No longer any Iron Sword Divine Nun, only a mutated ’Heavenly Bull’ remains, assembled from human organs and limbs, clinging to the Nine Yin Mountain cliff. Two legs swinging like a bull’s whip, as if six bloody arms sprouted from inverted body cavities grasping the cliff, with a suction-like mouth clamped onto a stalactite-like stone horn, sucking noisily, absorbing the stalactites on the cliff.

Tie Dan stood on the cliff researching for a while, coming to a realization.

This is Earth Spring.

Early during his confinement, he noticed the abyss beneath Nine Yin Mountain lacked any Earth Vein Spiritual Qi.

Now it seems due to the mountain’s mineral veins, containing the breath of the Earth Spring, albeit in slight amounts, yet sufficient to satiate the ravenous belly of these demonic creatures.

Now it made sense, so if he indeed cultivated beneath Nine Yin like in the dream, he could also conveniently upgrade My Sword...

Thus, Tie Dan continued descending further into the abyss, swiftly finding the second person.

Eldest Princess Wuyang

In the dream, she was slashed to only an upper body, though now the lower body was present. But how to describe it... An ant queen?

The torso below the waist swelled like a massive balloon, transforming into a cocoon-like, juice-laden huge white mass of flesh. This flesh continually exuded a sticky, oily mucus, firmly adhering to the cliff.

Upon closer inspection, the upper body also had demonized mutations, membranous wings sprouting from the back, eyes already degenerated blind, the chewing mouthparts inserted into the cliff dissolving the rock with some acidic fluid absorbing stalactites.