Dao Companion Crippled, Coveters Move

Chapter 448 434: Silent Sword Might Be Able to Support Junior Sister Nangong

Pei Yuhang was just about to raise his hand to discipline the impudent and arrogant Sword Spirit, Bai Jingjing, but something suddenly occurred to him. His fingers paused, and he then waved her over.

"Bai Jingjing, come here. I have something to ask you."

Bai Jingjing, who had already floated some distance away, heard him and immediately shrank back. Her lively, almond-shaped eyes went wide with suspicion.

She hugged herself tightly with both arms, looking just like a startled little animal with its fur on end. 'Pei Yuhang, don't even think about tricking me!'

'The moment I go over there, you're definitely going to spank me! Hmph, if you want to spank me, just come over here and do it. I'm not falling for your trap!'

The little Sword Spirit talked tough, but her eyes darted about, clearly showing how nervous she was.

Hearing this, the corner of Pei Yuhang's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

What frustrated him wasn't that Bai Jingjing was disobeying him, but rather—

"Are you an idiot?"

Pei Yuhang shook the Silent Sword in his hand, his long fingers lightly tapping the blade, which let out a crisp ring.

"Your main body is in my hands. Where could you possibly hide?"

With that, he raised his hand and smacked the body of the sword with a loud SLAP. The Sword Body trembled, letting out a clear hum.

At the same time, Bai Jingjing's pretty face flushed red. She let out a soft "Oof—" as her body went limp and she fell straight from mid-air to the ground.

She lay sprawled on the ground, her face buried in her arms, the tips of her ears so red they looked like they might bleed. After a long moment, she slowly flew back up and reluctantly shuffled over to Pei Yuhang's side.

Then... she silently turned around and stuck out her rear.

'Hmph, you win, Pei Yuhang. Go on, spank me!'

Bai Jingjing closed her eyes, looking as if she were facing death with heroic resolve.

Pei Yuhang considered himself a patient man with a stable Dao Heart, but at this moment, he almost couldn't resist the urge to kick this shameless Sword Spirit into the air.

'This masochistic Sword Spirit who likes getting spanked... how can she be such a character...'

'Ah, forget it. She's my Sword Spirit, after all.'

Pei Yuhang took a deep breath, a vein throbbing on his temple. He forcibly suppressed his agitation and said in a cold voice:

"Bai Jingjing, when Jiu was wielding you against the Vortex Daoist, you were extremely effective at suppressing his Demonic Qi. What was that all about?"

If it had been Yueqiu's Luminous, which had an extreme suppressive effect on such foul things, Pei Yuhang could have understood. After all, Moonlight itself is an object of supreme purity and sanctity.

But Pei Yuhang had never practiced any magic for exorcising demons or dispelling filth, so the Silent Sword naturally wouldn't have acquired such properties. Why, then, was Jiu able to repeatedly use the Silent Sword to inflict heavy damage on the Vortex Daoist during their battle?

Pei Yuhang certainly didn't believe it was Bai Jingjing's doing.

'Perhaps there's some mystery to the Silent Sword itself...'

Back then, his Master, the Nameless Daoist, had taken him to an ancient battlefield where they had found this Sword Embryo.

Although it looked battered and ordinary at the time, his Master, the Nameless Daoist, had picked it up and studied it for a long while before entrusting it to Pei Yuhang's hands.

A Sword Embryo that had caught the eye of that old master could be no Mortal Grade item!

Startled by Pei Yuhang's sudden question, Bai Jingjing's face fell with disappointment when she realized she wasn't going to be spanked.

But of course, she would never admit it.

It was a rare occasion for Pei Yuhang to actively "consult" her, so Bai Jingjing hummed in thought and put on a serious expression.

'Back when Jiu was holding me and got close to that Vortex Daoist, who was surrounded by surging Demonic Qi...'

She paused, her gaze wandering as her voice grew softer.

'I actually almost wriggled out of her hand and ran away... You can't blame me for backing down. Those bizarre Vortex Divine Abilities were terrifying! What if that Vortex Daoist had mastered some kind of Space Secret Technique and sucked me into an Alternate Space? What would you have done if you could never see me again?'

Pei Yuhang: "..."

He took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to punish Bai Jingjing and deciding to listen patiently for a bit longer.

Seeing his grim expression, Bai Jingjing quickly sped up:

'However, when I got really close to that surging Demonic Qi, I could feel myself getting strangely excited.

'A very special power awakened from within the sword, driving me to strike at the Demonic Qi... It was like a hawk preying on a viper, an instinctual desire to hunt that foul Demonic Qi.'

'Unfortunately... after I annihilated all of the Vortex Daoist's Demonic Qi, that special power vanished. I couldn't finish him off by destroying his core in one go.'

As she spoke, Bai Jingjing puffed out her small chest and flew up to pat Pei Yuhang on the shoulder.

'Good thing my guardian was on time and got there just in the nick of time!'

"..."

Pei Yuhang looked at the unreliable Bai Jingjing before him and, finally unable to restrain himself, raised his hand.

But when he saw the glint of excitement in the little one's eyes, he quietly lowered it again.

'Forget it. I won't reward her.'

Pei Yuhang recalled Bai Jingjing into the Silent Sword. His long fingers slowly stroked the cool blade, pausing for a moment on its spine as complex ripples spread through his deep eyes.

To think that this Lifebound Spirit Sword, which had been with him for decades, still held secrets unknown to him, a Sword Immortal.

The Silent Sword's power over Demonic Qi went beyond mere suppression. One could even call it its natural enemy.

"If that's the case, then perhaps I can also go to the Endless Sea to find Master."

His Senior Sister had once revealed to him that Junior Sister Nangong had gone to the shores of the Endless Sea to search for their Master.

Although the Ancient Great Powers had joined forces to place a sealing Barrier over the Endless Sea to suppress the Exotic Demons and Monsters, as a former gateway for their invasion, a large amount of Demonic Qi still lingered there—so much that it could not be purified even after ages.

The accumulated Demonic Qi had even formed terrifying Forbidden Lands. It wasn't unheard of in history for Mahayana Realm Cultivators, revered as Immortals, to have fallen there.

As fellow disciples of the same Master, Pei Yuhang didn't want Junior Sister Nangong to bear the risk of rescuing their Master alone. If he went with the Silent Sword, which suppressed Demonic Qi, perhaps the pressure on Junior Sister Nangong would be greatly lessened.

"Once I've handled the Dao Sect's affairs and stabilized my Cultivation, I'll prepare to rendezvous with Junior Sister Nangong..."

Thinking of that aloof young woman who had truly cultivated the Supreme Forgetfulness Dao to great completion, Pei Yuhang's grip on the hilt of the Silent Sword tightened.

'That junior sister of mine, hailed as the Dao Sect's greatest prodigy in millennia, must be close to the Mahayana Realm by now.'

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「In the blink of an eye, three days passed.」

After the failed surprise attack by the Vortex Daoist and Yan Cang, the voyage of Pei Yuhang's Spirit Wheel was smooth. They suffered no more attacks from the Chosen One.

Of course, even if they sent more people to attack, Pei Yuhang wasn't worried.

Because after news spread that the Dragon Corpse was being escorted, the Celestial Secret Pavilion had taken the initiative to send people to welcome Pei Yuhang.

WHOOSH—

A light breeze lifted Pei Yuhang's ink-black hair.

He narrowed his eyes and made out figures shrouded in the distant clouds and mist. It was two old men, and between them sat a game of chess.

"Did the Celestial Secret Pavilion only send two people? This Sect of Divine Calculators is the most mysterious in the world, not even allowing outside Cultivators to know its location.

"So the people from the Celestial Secret Pavilion have to take this Dragon Corpse back themselves... But with only two of them here, how are they going to transport such a massive Dragon Corpse?"

Just then, Chen Xiuxian, who was standing beside Pei Yuhang, patted his shoulder and said with a smile:

"Sword Immortal Pei, why don't you look down?"

With this reminder, Pei Yuhang finally noticed something was wrong.

He looked down at the roiling Cloud Sea beneath the ship and saw that hidden within the mist was an enormous, seemingly endless chessboard. One after another, black and white pieces were concealed within the Cloud Sea.

Pei Yuhang looked up and found that the two old men who had been playing chess in the distance had vanished.

He looked up again, only to discover that the chess-playing old men had now become colossal enough to touch the sky, situated on opposite sides of the world like two Giant Gods playing a game with the heavens and earth as their board.

"Dharma Image of Heaven and Earth? No... It's the Jiezhi Technique! We've been pulled into that tiny chessboard!"