The Birth of Sword God-Chapter 92 - 89: Leader of the East Continent

Profound Celestial Fetal Breath Pill, Seventh Level Top Grade Spirit Pill, worth a fortune!

But what Chu Huaixu was currently thinking was:

"Tenth Elder, are you sure this thing is really the best fit for my situation?"

"Do you want to take a drop of my essence blood and test it out?"

Me, I’m already a legit Fourth Level Middle Grade Spiritual Embryo!

Even so, when he saw this spirit pill, his mood was still a bit excited.

First off, Seventh Level Spirit Pills are crazy valuable, and they’re basically impossible to buy even if you have the money.

Besides that, the Profound Celestial Fetal Breath Pill is only effective for Lower Grade Spiritual Embryos, with a high chance to boost the Spiritual Embryo Grade, but don’t forget—it also heals any damage to the Spiritual Embryo.

When the Pill King created this pill, their initial goal was to solve problems caused by cultivators’ Spiritual Embryo wounds.

Your Spiritual Embryo is the foundation of everything. If something goes wrong with it, your cultivation journey’s basically over.

One more Profound Celestial Fetal Breath Pill, one more insurance policy.

No one knows what comes first: tomorrow or an accident.

"Having one as backup is actually perfect." Chu Huaixu thought to himself.

"And I can use it as a cover, let people think I broke through to Middle Grade Spiritual Embryo because I took the pill."

Honestly, if you give this spirit pill to Liu Tianfeng, who’s dying to save his son, he’d probably be your loyal dog.

Right now, Chu Huaixu had zero qualms about showing his greedy side.

When he saw the Profound Celestial Fetal Breath Pill, his expression changed immediately, and his attitude got way more enthusiastic.

"Tenth Elder, it’s too precious!" Chu Huaixu said, but held the Spirit Pill Treasure Box super tight.

Chu Yinyin definitely picked up on the signal, and instantly understood: "This disciple is easy to manage, just give him more cool stuff."

As a guy who used to be a companion player, he knew well—if you want to win over a woman, you’ve gotta give her emotional value.

If someone gives you something and you don’t show any reaction, you think they’ll keep giving?

They’ll probably feel a bit awkward about it.

But if you give proper emotional value back, it’s a whole different story—counts as a return gift, right?

Chu Huaixu: This is my way of reciprocation!

Chu Yinyin just waved her hand indifferently, as if in her eyes, a Seventh Level Top Grade Spirit Pill was no big deal.

"Just a small welcome gift, take it."

Chu Huaixu instantly stored it in his Storage Token, and deliberately asked with a probing tone, "So... do I thank you as Second Master?"

That comment really amused the old young lady.

"Kid, you really know how it works! But you don’t even have a First Master yet, calling me Second Master just feels off." She was all smiles.

If she had a tail, Chu Huaixu figured it’d be wagging up to the sky by now.

This Tenth Elder, whose Cultivation Technique kept her childlike, even deliberately mimicked Law Enforcement Elder Lu Pan’s tone.

"The Daoist Sect has its rules. Wait till you get into the Inner Sect before you call me that."

She said that, but inside she was already launching fireworks.

"The savior foretold in the Daoist Ancestor’s Proverbs is gonna be this old lady’s disciple!"

"When the histories of the Cultivation Realm are written, I’ll definitely be remembered!"

Chu Yinyin was just getting more and more pleased with herself!

She didn’t feel the slightest bit of heartache giving away a Profound Celestial Fetal Breath Pill.

In fact, Chu Huaixu was spot on. This Tenth Elder really was the little rich lady of the Daoist Sect.

Simple reason: as a Sect Elder, she had some genuinely scary resources at her disposal.

Sure, cultivation gets more and more resource-intensive the further you go.

But don’t forget—she refuses to break through!

Chu Yinyin deliberately keeps herself stuck at the Peak of the Sixth Realm, hasn’t advanced in years.

So, her treasure consumption is at rock bottom.

Plus, she doesn’t have a single disciple—no one to split her goodies with.

Even Sect Leader Xiang Yan often sighs in private: "Little Junior Sister’s probably got the most hoarded cultivation resources among all of us."

Right now, Chu Yinyin glanced at her future disciple by her side, getting more satisfied every moment.

"He looks decent—just walking out like this, nobody would feel embarrassed."

"Unlike the sect leader—he’s ugly enough, but his disciples are even worse, each one fuglier than the last. And those direct disciples represent our Daoist Sect! Total embarrassment!" Chu Yinyin grumbled to herself.

No way she’d ever take an ugly freak as disciple.

With their bond now set, Chu Huaixu started casually probing for info on their journey.

"Tenth Elder, do you know why the Sect Leader and the elders called me to the Purple Bamboo Forest?"

Chu Yinyin waved her hand, replying, "The matter on Hidden Spirit Mountain has already been discussed internally, I can’t tell you specifics."

"You’re mainly here because your Dao Scripture cultivation is different from others, so they want to ask you some things, maybe study you a bit as support for your cultivation journey."

"Understood." Chu Huaixu nodded.

The Dao Scripture has been researched by the sect for a thousand years, after all.

He mastered the full version of the Dao Scripture—of course the top brass are interested.

As for the sword on the mountain, Chu Huaixu was really curious what the elders were discussing.

But since even bigmouth Chu Yinyin refused to talk, he figured he wouldn’t get anywhere and just dropped it.

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The two landed in the Purple Bamboo Forest; Sect Leader and others were already waiting.

Chu Huaixu went to greet each one, looking totally respectful, eyes full of awe—a complete contrast to his attitude on Hidden Spirit Mountain.

He couldn’t help sneaking a glance at the slender Daoist Nun sitting on the giant rock—his future master, doomed to die in three years.

That reminded him of a post he’d seen on the forum.

Rumor had it, after Elder Qi died, Tenth Elder Chu Yinyin sat on that boulder in the Purple Bamboo Forest for a whole day and night, without joy or sorrow.

When dawn came, she walked out and had entered the Seventh Realm.

And within the year, she reached Seventh Realm Perfection.

Chu Huaixu thought, "Seems like Master No.1 and Master No.2 must be super close?"

The Daoist Sect’s upper echelons currently felt pretty harmonious to him.

But honestly, in most sects, the elders not getting along is normal—open and secret feuds all the time.

The bigger the sect, the knottier the internal factions.

Big sects have so many people, the rabble below will act like petty weasels—it’s inevitable. With a huge forest, you get all kinds of birds.

But if even the top brass are like that, you get rot at the root—there goes your direction.

"Sects like the Daoist Sect, where the elders are actually civil, are pretty rare." Chu Huaixu mused.

"Maybe that’s why in Borrowed Sword, both East Continent protagonists are set in the Daoist Sect."

The elders had no idea this Outer Sect Disciple was rating them in his head.

They started asking him about his first time cultivating the Dao Scripture, what happened.

Chu Huaixu could barely answer—he honestly had no clue.

He just used the system to auto-level, and it all happened by accident, basically.

Xiang Yan and the others glanced at each other, unable to come to a conclusion.

"So, the Dao Ancestor... was actually a Body Cultivator? Body Refining Cultivator?"

Not that they all looked down on rough Body Cultivators... Well, okay, maybe a bit.

The main thing is, there was zero record of this anywhere!

They were the Daoist Sect leadership—thousand-year secrets, they knew them all. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

"Even among the Dao Ancestor’s Ten True Disciples, our founders, no one ever mentioned this."

"Whenever the old guy had or didn’t have a sword, he always insisted he was a Sword Cultivator."

"And in his no-sword days, he mainly used swordsmanship. Later, he created the Celestial Level No.1 Technique—Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Root!"

Xiang Yan looked up at the sky, feeling his head itch again.

"Been happening a lot lately."

These Great Cultivators held a mini-meeting, right in front of Chu Huaixu, constantly transmitting to each other.

After all the discussion, no one dared decide for sure.

The Dao Ancestor was a Body Cultivator?

That’s wilder than wild history...

"But whatever the case, Chu Huaixu has blazed a new trail for the Dao Scripture—just not sure what effect it’ll have on future cultivation." transmitted Great Elder Lu Pan.

Xiang Yan nodded slightly, then said straight to Chu Huaixu: "Close your eyes, settle your mind, and mobilize all your spiritual power inside—let me see."

"Yes." Chu Huaixu followed the instructions.

The Cultivation Realm’s big shots stared at him, and felt that his spiritual power was really nothing special—call it Central Justice and Peace, if you’re being polite.

But if you combine Spiritual Embryo Secret Collection with Shell Spirit, the total spiritual power in his body is absolutely massive, unbelievably impressive.

Lately, he’d broken through Two Heavens, so his total spiritual power compared to other cultivators—the gap just keeps getting wider!

"If he can keep this up until he reaches Realm of the Great Cultivator, that would be insane!"

Everyone probed Chu Huaixu in turn, but found nothing wrong with him.

His cultivation foundation was solid—he was advancing step by step.

Too bad, though, the path of Body Refining is tough—or maybe ’painful’ is a better word.

And the later stages just get harder and harder.

Sect Leader Xiang Yan kept transmitting to the elders: "Luckily, he’s advancing fast right now—maybe he can reach Third Realm by the time Origin Spirit Realm’s second floor opens next year?"

Law Enforcement Elder Lu Pan added, "To be exact, he should cultivate to Third Realm Great Perfection—for safety."

Xiang Yan nodded, then realized he was overthinking: "Better focus on the present. Most important is clearing the first floor of Origin Spirit Realm in three months."

"If he gets first place in the First Realm Tournament, the responsibility falls to him."

Everyone nodded.

Chu Huaixu watched these Daoist elders, having no idea what kind of ’scheming’ they were up to—definitely transmitting in secret.

At last, Xiang Yan’s ugly face showed high hopes, and with a voice he thought earnest but was still totally unpleasant, he said:

"Chu Huaixu, the East Continent First Realm Tournament is about to begin. We hope you’ll represent the Daoist Sect and take first place."

"Then, go fight the champion from the Western Continent."

Because this bald guy looked so ugly and sketchy, and sounded like a villain, Chu Huaixu felt like the Sect Leader was threatening him.

"What’s going on? Just showed up and they’re already piling on the pressure?" He was a bit confused.

If he didn’t know Xiang Yan’s personality, that whole routine just screamed, ’If you don’t win, I’ll kill you!’

Chu Huaixu did remember the East Continent Tournament.

But Borrowed Sword only started its closed beta on Xuan Calendar 1990-11, and open beta on 1991-1-1, so he’d only seen next year’s Third Realm Tournament.

At that time, players were basically just spectators.

With so little time, only a tiny number of closed beta players, who didn’t care about risks or foundation, recklessly leveled up to Third Realm to scout ahead, and got brutally trashed.

And those accounts were basically ruined—what you call burning the fields to catch fish.

Back then, everyone just thought the spectacular East Continent Tournament was Borrowed Sword showing off to the players, telling them that if you kept trying, you could get that strong and flashy too.

Players got fired up—leveling enthusiasm hit the roof! All those cool VFX in Borrowed Sword were irresistible.

"Looking now, seems a lot more complicated?" Chu Huaixu mused.

"I just get the feeling the Sect Leader cares about the Tournament for more than just the sect’s reputation—there’s something else going on." he guessed inside.

Even though Borrowed Sword’s open beta is next year, players had still dug deep into storylines from before Xuan Calendar 1991.

So, Chu Huaixu knew this year’s First Realm East Continent Tournament, and next year’s Third Realm Tournament, following the original plotline, were both won by...

—Xu Ziqing!

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