With Cultivation Simulator in a Chaotic World-Chapter 87: Mr. Zhu, Catch the Blade!
The silhouette within the Phoenix Spirit Pearl twisted and danced wildly.
"Come and entertain me!"
The voice of the Phoenix Spirit Pearl abruptly stopped.
A figure in green appeared behind the Phoenix Spirit Pearl.
His aura was ethereal, his eyes seemingly containing countless mysteries of the world. His green robe fluttered without wind, and the strands of black hair mixed with white at his temples also drifted.
He stretched out a smooth, fair hand and pressed it towards the Phoenix Spirit Pearl.
"Wha..."
The voice from within the Phoenix Spirit Pearl was full of confusion. At the same time, the two Heart Lamp Realm cultivators confronting Jiang Ming decisively abandoned their battle with him and quickly retreated at the cost of injury.
The silhouette standing in midair transformed into a streak of thunder light, plummeting towards the ground, while the man in green remained expressionless.
The golden light card within Jiang Ming’s scroll space dimmed, and the figures on it began to step into reality.
This is... Zhu Chen!
In the next moment, icy blue and fiery red flames roared and erupted from his body.
Extreme cold and extreme heat, Yin and Yang, formed a perfect harmony.
The two late-stage Heart Lamp Realm cultivators were engulfed by the explosive flames at every part of their bodies, and soon their figures dissipated within the flames.
Meanwhile, the thunder light in the sky was intercepted by a black light shooting upwards from the ground.
It was the high-tier magical artifact, the Black Saber, that had followed Zhu Chen for decades.
Zhu Chen formed a spell with one hand, his palm flashing with interwoven red and blue light.
The two opposing flames were compressed to the extreme, then made contact.
A tremendous burst of flames was blown back by the wind pressure from the True Essence, and a beam of light shone dazzlingly from Zhu Chen’s palm.
"Hahaha, is that all?"
"Do you think the power of the Heart Lamp Realm can shatter the Phoenix Spirit Pearl?"
Hearing the taunts from within the Phoenix Spirit Pearl, Zhu Chen’s expression did not change at all, instead, he accelerated the output of True Essence.
Pieces of Spirit Stones shattered, transforming into pure Spiritual Qi that spread out.
Zhu Chen multitasked, using the Artifact Control Skill to combat the Light Saber Man, while bombarding the Phoenix Spirit Pearl with fully mastered mixed magic. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
Fine, nearly imperceptible cracks began appearing on the Phoenix Spirit Pearl, but they were still just cracks.
The entity inside the Phoenix Spirit Pearl finally panicked.
Two figures revived from the edges, none other than the two Immortal Masters who had been consumed.
They controlled the powers of ice and fire, attempting to stop Zhu Chen.
"Showing off in front of an expert."
With a thought, Zhu Chen sent two talismans floating out. The runes on the talismans quickly lit up, and ice-blue flaming phoenixes and fiery red dragons appeared from the sky, engulfing the two once again.
Meanwhile, Li Jin held a long saber. The True Qi and True Essence within him, along with his profound Sword Intent, were all infused into the Black Saber.
The characteristic of the Spiritual Black Saber: Storage Spirit Burst.
"Mr. Zhu! Catch the saber!"
Li Jin laughed heartily, leaped, and threw the Black Saber with force, turning it into a black gleam flying towards Zhu Chen.
Zhu Chen’s Divine Sense surged into the sky, carrying True Essence into the Spiritual Black Saber, a peculiar look flashing in his eyes.
He could feel a trace of his own mark within the Black Saber, not from his past self, but from his future self.
It was for this reason that Zhu Chen could quickly refine the Spiritual Black Saber.
A large amount of True Essence and Divine Sense poured into the Black Saber, making it feel like an extension of his arm.
The Zhu Chen summoned by Jiang Ming was the Zhu Chen at the pinnacle of Qi Refining, someone who had experienced countless battles and lived through two lifetimes of fighting, whose combat skills were already at the peak. Yet at this time, he had not yet obtained the Spiritual Artifact level Black Saber.
Spiritual Artifacts were too burdensome for Qi Refining cultivators, and although Zhu Chen was a top disciple of the Cyan Cloud Sect, the sect would not issue Spiritual Artifacts in advance. But at this moment, the Spiritual Black Saber was the best offensive weapon.
"Mr. Zhu has fought across two lifetimes but never slain demons like you. Today, this is truly an eye-opener."
Zhu Chen withdrew his hands, beginning to form a spell — the spell of the Artifact Control Skill. Any late-stage Qi Refining cultivator could use Unmarked Artifact Control, but forming this spell meant Zhu Chen dedicated all his focus to the Black Saber.
Massive True Essence roared out, and the True Essence of Zhu Chen, who had reached Qi Refining Ninth Layer and practiced the Ice Flame Blazing Fire Technique, was condensed to the extreme. This abundant and concentrated True Essence frantically surged into the Spiritual Black Saber, and with the Saber’s aid, quickly transformed into temporary liquid True Essence.
Liquid True Essence was a characteristic of Foundation Establishment powerhouses.
"Slash!"
Silver-white flashes of True Essence gleamed on the Black Saber, the Sword Intent of a Mortal Martial Arts Grandmaster expanding infinitely.
A flash of black light instantly cut a straight fissure across the Pearl.
Along with this, the Spiritual Black Saber was flung away by a powerful counterforce, and Zhu Chen groaned, his face turning pale as he quickly took a pill to consume.
The Spiritual Artifact was inherently difficult to control, and the tenuous connection Zhu Chen had just established with it broke, leaving him in a state of backlash.
But this was enough.
The Phoenix Spirit Pearl began to fracture with multiple cracks.
"How dare you!"
The entire Evergreen City began to tremble.
Everyone’s eyes turned red as they looked towards the City Lord’s Mansion.
The ground seemed to shake, the people of Evergreen City charging towards the City Lord’s Mansion like beasts.
"No, I don’t, I don’t want to leave!"
The Phoenix Spirit Pearl shattered, and the invisible, unknown presence within it spilled out through the cracks.
The presence within the Phoenix Spirit Pearl seemed to lose its vessel, its voice growing fainter.
Li Jin gasped for breath, devoid of True Qi and True Essence, becoming no different from an ordinary person.
The body he had lent to Li Jin, Jiang Ming, calmly observed everything before him.
If his guess was correct, this voice was the so-called consciousness of Puppet City.
Though the Phoenix Spirit is unique, it appears unable to escape the concept of a living being, gradually assimilated by Puppet City, even becoming the carrier of Puppet City’s consciousness.
It was due to the Phoenix Spirit’s unique nature that the consciousness of Puppet City could transform from a largely selfless proto-consciousness into a new entity with emotions and self-awareness.
It seemed very afraid of reverting to its previous state, unwilling to leave, which is why the entire Evergreen City existed as Puppet City for ten whole years.
The entire city became a special existence as Puppet City.
Bai Liu died, but Puppet City revived her. However, the unresolved obsession of the Bai Liu outside transformed into a ghost, unexpectedly escaping from Puppet City’s control.
Qian Feng, too, was unwilling to no longer be himself due to the Light of Obscurity, and he went mad, while the Gong Family Supreme chose to commit suicide, unwilling to transform into something else.
Jiang Ming now also understood what was hidden in the cultivation realm’s biography on the first floor of Chaofeng Pavilion.
A Heart Lamp Realm cultivator, once the Fire of the Heart Lamp is extinguished, signifies demonic transformation, becoming a demon.
Transforming from the Guardian of the Human Race into one who slaughters humans, from a dragon-slaying youth into an evil dragon.
Yet the Light of Obscurity replaced the Heart Lamp, preventing these Heart Lamp Realm cultivators from becoming demons, but turning them into something even more terrible and hard to accept.
Shadow Lock Chains restrain the malignant spirits, while the Light of Obscurity assimilates the Heart Lamp, making it impossible for mortals to ignore Puppet City’s power.
Although powerful, power has its principles and is not entirely unknown.
Fear comes from the unknown.
