NOVEL NEXT 58: I Want a Sword That Glows in Five Colors and Goes Biubiu!
“Just make it handy.”
“Anything else?”
“Make it sturdy and durable. No shoddy workmanship.” It’s said that sword cultivators are the poorest because their daily fighting and killing is extremely hard on swords, often requiring expensive repairs.
She didn’t want to be in debt supporting a wife.
“Is that all? No other requirements?”
Chu Sang paused, then said expectantly, “Can you make it glow in five colors and go biubiu?”
Su Chen’an’s lips twitched as he automatically ignored her last sentence. “I’ll forge a growth-type life-bound spirit sword for you. Its quality will be higher than ordinary spirit swords and more precious. After forming a contract with you, it can become stronger as your cultivation advances, becoming more and more compatible with you. Later on, you can also upgrade its quality with sword-forging materials.”
“However, forging a growth-type spirit sword is far more difficult than ordinary spirit swords, and the required materials are extremely demanding.” Su Chen’an spread out a scroll map in front of her and pointed. “Look here. I got information from a friend who’s an equipment refiner that there’s a famous Moon Spring Lake near Yi City in the Southern Province.”
“This is no ordinary lake, but a spirit lake rich in spiritual energy. If your cultivation is limited, you can also stay there for a few days to absorb spiritual energy.”
“Nurtured by ten thousand years of spirit water, there are many Xuan Spirit Iron mines underground near the lake. This is a very precious forging raw iron. Go and mine some.”
Chu Sang nodded, not wasting time. She set off on her flying sword for the Southern Province that very afternoon.
Upon arrival, she discovered that Moon Spring had already been sealed off by several local prominent families, with no outsiders allowed to enter.
She put on a human skin mask, mixed into the crowd, and gathered some information.
She heard that a year ago, something had entered Moon Spring Lake. Since then, the spiritual energy in the spirit lake had been depleting, not even enough for these few families to use.
So the most prestigious local family took the lead in sealing off Moon Spring Lake, not allowing outsiders to use it.
At the same time, they had sent out many people to investigate the situation, but they hadn’t discovered the real reason for the spiritual energy depletion, nor had they caught the rumored monster.
In the deep of night, Chu Sang applied a concealment talisman and hid behind a tree. After staking out for several hours, she had a good grasp of the guard shift patterns.
She casually picked up a pebble and threw it outwards.
The three to five listless guards suddenly became alert and ran over to look. There was nothing there! Then they felt a pain in the back of their necks, and several people fell to the ground silently.
Chu Sang turned to see one straggler trying to run. “Want to go report?”
The guard whimpered, “Be gentle.”
“Alright.”
Chu Sang knocked him out with one punch.
She swaggered to the lakeside, where she saw a girl playing in the water under the moonlight not far away. Her green dress layered like leaves, even dipping into the lake water without her seeming to notice.
Hearing unfamiliar footsteps behind her, the girl was startled and about to run away when a golden net fell over her.
“Where did this little thief come from, daring to sneak into Moon Spring Lake?” Chu Sang approached leisurely.
With this righteous attitude, it was as if she wasn’t the thief.
The girl clearly thought Chu Sang was from a nearby family. She hurriedly said, “I, I didn’t mean to!”
“I just got lost and stumbled upon this place. The water here is good to drink, and the soil is good too. I like it here, so I stayed for a while……”
“Huh?” Chu Sang felt there was something odd about these words. Before she could ponder, a familiar angry shout came from behind, “Where did this little thief come from, daring to sneak into Moon Spring Lake?”
“……”
It was the people from those families coming after her. Chu Sang looked back but found the girl had disappeared.
The net lay empty on the ground.
The pursuers caught up but were stunned. They passed by her one by one, scratching their heads and muttering, “Strange, we clearly saw a figure. How did it suddenly disappear?”
“Those guards were knocked out. There must be a thief who snuck in. Everyone split up and search. We must catch that thief!”
Chu Sang watched as this group of people hurriedly arrived and then hurriedly left. Looking down, she found her shadow had disappeared in the moonlight.
After those people left, her shadow grew back, and the disappeared green-dressed girl happily trotted out from the bushes.
Just as she was about to greet Chu Sang, the next second, a demon-binding rope directly hung her upside down from a tree.
“Wuwuwu, I just helped you. Why are you bullying me again?”
“Tsk, you do have some skills. You don’t seem like an ordinary cultivator. You even know invisibility techniques…… Let’s see if this can control you?” Chu Sang walked to the tree, her eyes inquisitive. This person’s identity was strange in every aspect, definitely not simple.
“Don’t, don’t catch me. You have Little Moon Moon’s aura.”
“Little Moon Moon?”
Chu Sang didn’t know who she was talking about. “Sister is very aloof. Don’t try to get familiar.”
“Wuwuwu.”
“You must be the little thief they were talking about, right? You secretly drained the spiritual energy from the spirit lake?”
The girl nodded dejectedly.
“Since you’ve been here for a year, you must be very familiar with this place. Have you seen any underground passages?” Only after getting her affirmative answer did Chu Sang let her down, indicating for her to lead the way.
The frail girl, bound and powerless to resist, could only resign herself to leading her forward.
In a cave in the nearby woods, sure enough, there was a passage leading underground.
Chu Sang took out a small paper person and sent it flying in. This was also a small gadget refined by Fifth Senior Brother in his spare time.
The paper person flew around the underground passage and came back, not detecting any danger. It should be a tunnel dug by people previously to mine spirit ore.
She tightened the rope, tying the girl to a nearby tree. After entering the tunnel, she indeed found Xuan Spirit ore.
The deeper she went, the higher the quality of the Xuan Spirit ore. She even found a large piece of Xuan Spirit ore that was a full hundred thousand years old.
Her eyes lit up. She summoned a cone-shaped magical tool, crouched down, and dug out the iron stone intact.
Just as she was about to leave, Xiao Bai ran out from her spiritual sea, walked around in circles, and tugged at her pants leg. “Mama, below, there seems to be something else!”
Further down? Chu Sang rubbed her chin, thinking. She took out several explosive talismans, directly opening a hole with brute force, then used a Golden Armor Talisman to shield her head from falling rocks, continuing downwards unobstructed.
She scanned with her spiritual sense. When she reached about the position of the bottom of the spirit lake, not only Xiao Bai sensed it, but even she sensed the spiritual energy that was so dense it felt somewhat terrifying.
She discovered a spirit eye.
A huge supreme-grade spirit stone.
How big? Bigger than her entire person.
She had found the reason why a spirit lake could be born near an obscure, mundane small town.
This was truly an unexpected delight.