Chapter 5: Women
The woman in yellow approached the base, but due to the heavy guard, she could not go deep. At this moment, she sensed that someone was coming towards her, and her strength was not weak. So she stopped, attached herself to a tree branch, and emitted the aura of the wood element. If she relied on her senses, she would only find that she was a tree. If she looked with her eyes, she would see that she was at the top of the tree, and it was really not easy to see her because she was wearing yellow clothes. Unfortunately, one of the two people walking over was Sangjie of the Eagle Clan, with his naturally sharp eyes. Coupled with the fact that I had already told them that the woman was hiding in the tree, they had just walked over and found her. The other was Baku of the Lion Clan, who, with his keen sense of smell, also found the woman in yellow after a careful search.
“Since you’re here, why don’t you come down and talk?“ Sangjie said.
The calm and unruffled heart of the woman in yellow was rippled for the first time. She frowned and lightly leapt from the tree.
”Are you from the Winged Clan?“ the woman asked Sangjie, tilting her head.
”My name is Sangjie, an Eagle Clan member,” Sangjie said in a somewhat cold tone. After all, the two clans, the humans and the Eagles, hated each other greatly.
“Hello everyone, I was just curious and came to take a look without any ill intent,“ the woman in yellow said lightly, looking at the weapons in the hands of the two men.
”Since you’re here to take a look, that’s fine. Come with me, I’ll show you around,“ Baku said.
”No, I still have things to do, so I won’t bother.“
”How can this be? If you come here and don’t let us show you around, we’ll be the laughing stock of everyone,“ Baku exclaimed.
”There’s really no need,” the woman in yellow turned around.
“Stop!” Baku flashed to the woman’s front: ‘To be honest, since you’ve come to our place, we must keep you here.’
The woman looked at him quietly and remained silent.
Baku’s gaze sharpened, and after transforming his own Lion King Qigong, he used the unique heart method of the Lion tribe, sending waves of momentum surging towards the woman in yellow.
However, the woman in yellow remained calm and still, like a rock in the middle of the river. The powerful momentum that surged towards her seemed to be split open once it reached her, flowing out to the sides, emptying her clothes and making her look ethereal.
Baku’s face revealed a solemn expression, and with a low growl, he raised the thick-backed knife in his hand. Suddenly, he charged wildly, the light of the knife surging up, like quicksilver spilling onto the ground, surging towards the woman in yellow, penetrating every inch of the way. The eerie sound shook the soul.
With a crack, the sword came out of the sheath. Stepping to a strange rhythm, the woman in yellow did not retreat but advance. The sword unleashed a storm, and her body deftly slipped into the blade’s light. In an instant, the sword and blade light intertwined, and the sound of the swords clashing was mesmerizing.
With a pop, the two parted again. The woman in yellow took three steps back, her sword pointing at the ground. There were beads of sweat on her face, and she looked visibly surprised. Baku’s martial arts cultivation was unexpected.
Baku took seven uneven steps back, beads of sweat appearing on his face, but his hand holding the knife was still firm and powerful. The sleeve of his left hand was gone, and there were two more wounds on his body.
Neither of them had used magic during this encounter. In this kind of close combat, life and death hung in the balance, so who would dare to be distracted and use magic? Of course, if Baku’s technique of dividing his attention into two had been perfected, he could have been distracted and used magic.
“You practice qigong, right? It’s amazing. Of course, you’ve also practiced very well, and you’ve even managed to become invulnerable to swords and spears. I hit you three times, but in vain,” the woman in yellow praised.
“You are even more amazing, you even managed to break through my protective divine power,“ Baku said in a shaky tone, the previous contest having cost him quite a bit of true energy
”Take another strike from me.” Baku raised his sword heroically and charged again. A crescent moon appeared on the sword, and this time he used the Lion King Slash.
The sound of wind and thunder from the yellow-clad woman’s sword suddenly disappeared, and she took three steps forward at an angle, sending three sword lights flying straight at Baku’s chest and stomach. The sword magically moved to the left to make contact with the sword. With a pop, like the sound of hitting a piece of leather, the knife swung upwards to the right, and the sword pierced straight through the middle. Baku retreated crazily, blocking the sword with the knife left and right, but it was useless. As soon as the knife made contact with the sword, it flew to the sides, and the sword’s light kept hovering in front of Baku’s chest and stomach. Baku could only frantically parry and keep retreating, while sweat and blood kept flying.
Sang Jie, who was standing nearby, was shocked. He let out a long shout, which was a greeting to the woman, and with a wave of his left hand, three wind blades appeared out of thin air and rushed straight at the woman in yellow. (Now he was standing to the left of the woman instead of behind her.) The light of the spear in his hand suddenly grew brighter, and it made a squeaking sound as electricity flowed through it. “Straight to the seventh heaven,” he said, and he fired seven consecutive shots at the yellow-clad woman’s side. The woman gave up on Baku and dodged diagonally to the right. She drew in the light of her sword, first transferring the three wind blades to Baku, and then, without swinging the sword violently, she drew a graceful one-sixth circle with it. The sword and spear intersected again, emitting a sound like that of a defeated leather bag. The spear turned towards Baku to the left, and upon contact with the sword, Sang Jie realized just how strange the power on the sword was. His own strength was unable to make any impact, and it slid away. At this moment, the potential energy on the opponent’s sword was released, and it suddenly knocked the spear out. The opponent’s sword followed the momentum and went straight in, slashing towards Sang Jie’s chest. Unfortunately, Baku was blocked by the spear and unable to come forward to assist. The wings behind Sang Jie suddenly unfolded, rolled back forward, and were tied around his chest. There was a faint flow of wind above the wings. This was the eagle clan’s peerless self-defense technique, the Guardian Wings and Wind Wall. With a sharp sound, the sword broke through the wall and entered. At this moment, Baku finally arrived, and the Lion King Slash was used again in conjunction with the secret techniques of the lion clan. The four slashes followed the shortest distance between the two and killed their way through. The sword suddenly retracted from the wings, and without any tricks, it clashed with the knife again, knocking the knife away once more. The owner of the sword took three steps back, and the battle instantly quieted down. Baku and Sangjie gasped for breath. Baku had many wounds, but they were not serious. On the contrary, Sangjie had his wings pierced, and before he could fly, he lost the ability to fly.
“Can I go?“ The woman in yellow smiled, but she seemed to sense something, and her eyebrows tightened.
”No.” While the three were struggling, the leader of the five clans had already arrived. Hearing the woman say she wanted to go, he appeared around the woman in yellow and formed a five-element formation to surround her.
Looking at the five people in front of her, the woman in yellow could not loosen her furrowed brows. The personal cultivation of the five people in front of her was not much worse than her own. If the five people joined forces, she would definitely be defeated. The most terrifying thing was that the five people had formed a five-element array, as if they were one. This time, she was afraid that it would not be easy for her to get away.
“Young lady, please come with us.”
“If I go with you, when will you let me go? You won’t keep me locked up forever, will you?”
The five clan leaders were shaken.
The sword light suddenly intensified, and a harsh sword howling sound sounded. At this critical moment, the secret art of saving one’s life came into play. The mysterious four sword lights pointed directly at Roman Lan in the north, occupying the position of mysterious water. Roman Lan’s heavy sword light in his hand and mouth showed an irregular fluctuation. The sword light flew and scattered, facing the woman in yellow. Arcado on the right had already unleashed his Leopard Slash before Romanlan, while Bach Xiang’s was a Lion King’s Claw. The sword light suddenly veered left towards Arcado before Romanlan’s heavy sword, and Romanlan’s left hand shook strangely. The heavy sword in his hand was drawn by the opponent’s strength and stabbed straight at Bach Xiang. At this point, the five element formation had already been triggered by the woman in yellow.
Paganini’s great axe suddenly fell from the sky, its strength hidden, and the axe blade slashed horizontally at the yellow-robed woman’s neck. Bach Xiang kept advancing, suddenly shortening his body and sweeping with a lion’s tail, sweeping at the yellow-robed woman’s lower body. Roman Lan retreated, trying to regain his position of Xuan Shui, while Schumann accompanied Paganini and set up a layer of knife nets in front of him.
The woman’s long sword and Arcado’s knife collided, sending sparks flying, but her body fell backwards, and the blade of the axe passed in front of her neck. Bachiang’s lion’s tail leg swept up the woman’s leg, but it was not a sweeping motion, but rather had a viscous feeling. Relying on this suction force, Bachiang suddenly sat up and slammed his palm against the woman’s abdomen. Bachiang’s face changed, as if he had hit a balloon.
The woman in yellow let out a muffled grunt, and a mouthful of blood spurted towards Paganini and Arcado. The bloody mist filled the sky and blocked their vision. With Bach’s palm as a boost, they charged straight towards Roman Lan, using the “Flying Star Chasing the Moon” technique. The fierce sword light rushed towards Roman Lan. It turned out that all the woman in yellow’s previous actions were meant to confuse the enemy. In fact, she had chosen Roman Lan as the breakthrough point. Roman Lan had not yet returned to his original position and was unable to be protected by the magic circle. However, he did not panic but kept stepping backwards without panicking. The heavy sword turned a clever move into a clumsy one, and it was simply a horizontal slash. When the two swords met, the yellow-clad woman’s sword generated a suction force, which stuck to the heavy sword and followed Roman Lan as she retreated. Then, a thrust force suddenly exploded from the sword, and her body leaped to the right, about to jump out of the encirclement. “Go,” Shuman, who had never attacked, finally killed the yellow-clad woman when she was about to escape, slashing her back with a sword.
The woman in yellow was hit again, but her posture was not disturbed at all. She had already jumped out of the encirclement. Knowing that this was her only chance to escape, she focused her mind on her sword. “Break!” First came a golden blade-breaking spell, and sixteen golden lights appeared in the air, flashing once to block the way of the five people chasing after her. Even after receiving two heavy blows, her face remained calm as ever. “You don’t need to see me off,” she said, and then her figure disappeared. She performed the Golden Escape and turned into a rainbow and disappeared.
“Bang,” a white light shot from the side and hit the sword that had turned into a rainbow, setting off sparks all over the sky. The yellow-clad woman’s body suddenly appeared as a result of this heavy blow. She let out a ‘whoosh’ and spat out a mouthful of blood, slowly collapsing to the ground. Before she lost consciousness, she saw a strange-looking steel object standing where the white light had come from.
This is naturally me. Using my super brain, I calculated the trajectory of her escape and suddenly fired the flash cannon that I had been accumulating for a long time, knocking her out of the sky.
“That was amazing, she even managed to stop all five of us.”
“If she hadn’t started by confusing the patriarchs with her words, she wouldn’t have been able to escape,” said Baku, a little resentfully.
“This is the way of war, it’s all about the result, not the process or the means,” said Bach, shaking his head.
“Yes, father.“ Baku was quite willing to listen to the teachings.
”Young master, what should we do with this woman? If we don’t give her first aid, I’m afraid…“ Roman Lang examined the woman in yellow clothes.
”You guys give her first aid first, then take her to the second basement. She can’t die yet, we need to find out if anyone else knows about this place.”
In a room on the second basement floor (this room was newly opened, and at the time, a total of six rooms were newly opened), I stood in front of a bed, next to the Yuri siblings and Patriarch Roman Lan.
“We’ve done first aid, the bleeding has stopped, but she’s seriously injured and needs further treatment,” said Romanland.
I took a small pill out of my pocket, a kind of dispersal pill that I had specially formulated from the virus laboratory. Of course, it was limited to medicinal herbs and the effect was not strong. I fed it to her and then took out a talisman and recited a spell: ”Power absorber, present.”
A strange red light flashed on the talisman, and I pressed it against her forehead. It disappeared as if it were melting into the woman’s forehead. This is the spell to seal a fairy in witchcraft. Once the mental power is affected, it will be imprisoned and unable to use magic or martial arts. Moreover, the subject will not know that the problem lies in the mental power. In essence, it cuts off any connection between mental power and energy.
“Yuli, you heal her,” I said to Yuli after casting the spell.
“Eternal Goddess of Life, have mercy on the suffering of the world, show great compassion on the world, and save all living beings from the fire and water.” This is the ‘Mercy of the Goddess of Life’ performed by Sister Yuli with the power of the Blessing Ring. A soft white light surged from Sister Yuli’s hands to the yellow-clad woman’s body. The magic was continuously restoring the yellow-clad woman’s external injuries, and even many of the internal injuries were healed or alleviated.
After taking her hand away from the woman in yellow and taking a step back, Yuli said, “She is no longer in danger. She still has some internal injuries that require proper treatment, and it will probably take about a month for her to recover. The important thing is that her primordial spirit has been damaged too much. Without a good method, I’m afraid her power will significantly diminish. Young master, your final blow was too heavy!”
What’s heavy about it? If it weren’t for me, she would have run a long time ago. So what if her primordial spirit is damaged? Otherwise, would my spell to seal the immortal have been so successful?
“Don’t worry, I just refined a few medicines the other day, I’ll heal her.” The medicine had just been refined and was in need of clinical trials, and here comes a test subject.
I ran into another room, which was my alchemy room. There were quite a few robots inside, which were my alchemy assistants. In fact, they did everything, I just gave them a little guidance. I took a few medicine bottles from the stone cabinet on the wall and returned to the original room.
“This is the internal organ pill, as the name suggests, it treats internal organ injuries.” I held up a small bottle and showed it off to them, ”The efficacy is excellent, it is a must-have medicine for cultivators for life.”
I poured out a pill the size of a soybean from the bottle and put it in the woman’s mouth. The pill melted in her mouth. Looking at her up close, she was in her early thirties, with black hair. Unlike Yuli, who was a blonde, she was really beautiful, a masterpiece of beauty and a gift from heaven to the mortal world. What would happen if such a beautiful woman woke up and realized that her primordial spirit had almost disappeared? I felt a little reluctant.
“Alright, everyone, go outside,“ I said. ‘Yuri and Yuli, you two go outside too.’
”No, young master,“ Yuri said firmly, and there was also a look of refusal on Yuli’s face.
”Do you think I still need protection?“
Thinking about what I had done over the past few months, the extraordinary skills I had passed on, and the magic I had performed, the two of them fell silent.
”But…”
“No buts,“ I said somewhat displeased, ‘I promise you I will take care of myself.’
”Okay, Your Highness, you must take care of yourself.” When he exited, Yuri deliberately emphasized the word ”Your Highness.”
After watching them leave, I turned to the woman in yellow, sat down beside the bed, and my face gradually grew serious. My spiritual energy invaded the woman in yellow’s mind, my hand stroked the woman in yellow’s head at the hundred meeting points, and my mouth murmured to the woman in yellow’s ear. Soon the woman in yellow followed me in speaking.
I used the mysterious heart method of exploring the human mind, stimulating the subject’s brain with some kind of miraculous power to put them in a hazy, easily-guided state. Coupled with hypnotic words from the mouth, the subject can tell the caster everything they want to know. Of course, this method requires extremely high mental strength from the caster, and the lower the mental strength of the subject, the greater the hope of success. The reason I used mental power to invade her mind was just to make the spell faster and reduce the damage to her.
When the spiritual power returned to my body like a tide, I knew everything. She is Xin Qixuan of the Wusong Sword Dao. This time, she came to Changbai Mountain precisely for the legendary Nine Dragon Sword, but she happened to see Zhang Lao trading weapons with some martial arts sects. After recognizing Zhang Lao, Xin Qixuan felt that there was another mystery in this matter, so she secretly followed Zhang Lao and his entourage. Seeing them enter Changbai Mountain, Xin Qixuan became even more curious, and finally chased after them, but she did not expect to be trapped here.
Once again, the spiritual energy entered Xin Qixuan’s brain, slowly surrounding her primordial spirit. Then, using the mysterious cultivation method, I cultivated the other person’s primordial spirit. Three hours after casting the spell, Xin Qixuan’s primordial spirit had recovered half of its strength, but I was exhausted. I climbed into bed, embraced Xin Qixuan, and of course rested my head on her breasts. With a sweet smile on my face, I fell asleep.
Two hours later, Xin Qixuan woke up and silently checked the condition of her body. Most of her injuries had healed, and even the knife wound on her back seemed to have healed. It just felt a little heavy in her internal organs, so she seemed to need to rest for a few days. However, it seemed that his body’s martial arts power had been suppressed by something, and he could only exert at most 20% of his power. The strangest thing was his spiritual power. He had thought that being knocked down by a powerful blow while using his Golden Escape technique would cause irreparable damage to his primordial spirit (the primordial spirit is also spiritual power), but now although his primordial spirit was only half, it was much better than he had expected, and it would be much easier to recover.
After the examination, Xin Qixuan only noticed the little boy on his body, who had fallen asleep on top of him, with a sweet smile on his face. It looked like he was only eight or nine years old, wearing a rough-cloth shirt (which I had specially changed for him). His skin was white and tender, not like someone who had done manual labor. His bone joints were not wide, so if he practiced martial arts, he was not practicing external martial arts. The elasticity of his skin was not strong, so it was obvious that his skills were not strong. Of course, he was just a little kid! Xin Qixuan thought.
Xin Qixuan tried to pull my hand away and move me off her body so that I could stand up. I mumbled something in my mouth, but I just wouldn’t take my hand away and held her tightly. Without wanting to wake me, Xin Qiyuan had no choice but to give up. She began to practice her internal energy, trying to get rid of the foreign body in her body. But although her primordial spirit commanded the true energy to run, the true energy in her body remained as it was, not moving in her dantian. Xin Qiyuan broke into a cold sweat. Was it because her primordial spirit was only half gone, or had her primordial spirit been severely damaged by that last blow? Xin Qiyuan vaguely knew that this situation was not caused by only having half of her primordial spirit. In the past, her primordial spirit had also suffered great losses, but she was still able to mobilize true energy.
The Dao is the goal pursued by the Wuxun Sword Dao. Xin Qixuan chose to enter the Dao with the sword. Her power and mental strength are the greatest guarantee that she can attain the Dao. At this time and place, it is fine that she has lost half of her primordial spirit, but it is unfortunate that she cannot mobilize her true qi. If she cannot mobilize her true qi, the recovery of her primordial spirit will be extremely slow, and so will its growth. It will even regress after a certain period of time. A primordial spirit of this level simply cannot gain insight into the Dao. How could this not deal a severe blow to Xin Qixuan, whose ultimate goal is the Dao? However, Xin Qixuan had after all come from the Wuxun Sword Dao, and after a moment of panic, he settled his mind and pondered how he could mobilize his true energy.
I yawned and woke up from my sleep, at the same time startling Xin Qixuan from his contemplation.
Looking at me as I patted my mouth with my small hand, Xin Qixuan smiled and said, “Little brother, what’s your name?”
I took Xin Qixuan’s hand and said, “Sister, my name is Qiu Lei. You’re so pretty, sister, what’s your name?”
“My name is Xin Qixuan, you can just call me Sister Xuan.“
I nodded understandingly, ‘Sister Xuan, do you want to eat something? I’ll go get it for you, but there’s nothing good here, just meat.’
Xin Qixuan frowned, she was really pretty, and a beautiful woman’s frown had a unique charm.
”If there’s nothing to eat, then let’s eat meat.” It wasn’t that she couldn’t eat meat, it was just that there was too much impurity in the meat, which was bad for someone cultivating.
“Okay, I’ll go now.” I jumped out of bed and dashed out of the house.
When I arrived on the ground, I gave the five patriarchs a few words of explanation, took the food, and went back. However, the Yuri siblings once again told me to be careful. I told them that the woman was Xin Qixuan of the Wuxun Sword Dao, and they finally let their guard down. The Wuxun Sword Dao had an excellent reputation, and they believed that a woman from the Wuxun Sword Dao would not do anything to a young child.
I ran back into the house and shouted, “Sister, Grandpa Zhang said you are a VIP, so I brought you some rice. I also took some vegetables, which Grandpa Zhang just brought back.” I placed the food on the stone table.
“Brother Lei, thank you.” Xin Qixuan stroked my head and said, “Brother Lei, have you eaten?”
How could I eat all this? I patted my chest and said, “I’ve already eaten.” I regretted it as soon as I said it. What a rare opportunity to eat with a beauty, and I just let it slip away!
I could only watch Xuan eat, but even the way the beauty ate was beautiful. After we finished eating, Xuan said that there were some things she wanted me not to disturb her about. There was nothing I could do, so I cleaned up the dishes and went out.
I returned to the capital and went to the Fu family. After giving some advice on everyone’s singing and dancing, I pulled Sister Yufeng aside.
“Sister Yufeng, can you please help me?” I looked at her with big, innocent eyes.
“Little brother, just tell me what you need, I will definitely help,”
“Sister Yu Feng, you know that I also own a Milan City, which makes clothes. I heard that many colleges in the city have school uniforms, and usually the colleges make them themselves without any help from outsiders. I also heard that General Lin is the honorary principal of Wuwei School. Could you please ask General Lin to recommend Milan City to Wuwei School?” I pleaded, taking Yu Feng’s hand. Some of these colleges have money, and the school uniforms are free within the college. If I can get this business, I will be rich.
“That’s not a problem. I can talk to my godfather about it, but your clothes have to be good, otherwise it will reflect badly on my godfather.“
”Don’t worry, the quality and style will be top notch. Didn’t the clothes we made for you last time become popular with everyone? Because of the visible quality of our work?“
”But I can’t leave now, I’ll go again tomorrow morning.“
”Thank you, sister.” I kissed her.
“By the way, sister, I was wondering if you could also talk to General Lin about it. We can supply the food, but it can’t be from Taoranju. They can’t handle the volume. But we can open a mass restaurant on Xueyuan Road. What do you think?“
”Yes, in that case, we should expand the scale of Taoranju. Last time, my mother said that Taoranju’s business was very good and they didn’t have enough staff. It’s great to open another restaurant, but will there be enough staff to handle the workload?”
“Don’t worry, I’ve already asked the three master chefs to help me teach a few people. Of course, they won’t do it for free. As soon as one of them can stand on their own, they’ll pass on a dish.“
”Okay, I’ll go tomorrow.”