Ugly Cultivation Notes

Chapter 654 She Is Her
As the bug retreated into the pool, everything returned to calm.

And the pool water is no longer pure black, but has turned into light black.

Seeing this change, what Xu Chunniang didn't understand was that the dark shadows lurking in the pool were clearly those black bugs!

Although there are a lot of these bugs, they are only based on foundation building, why can they escape her detection of divine sense and spiritual power?
Xu Chunniang looked up at the geocentric lotus above the pool. The petals of the geocentric lotus had reached the ninth petal.

All spiritual objects in the world are often occupied and guarded by fierce creatures.

Could it be that these insect swarms are the vicious guardians of the Earth's core?
Xu Chunniang released her spiritual sense to probe into the pool, and she could clearly see black shadows moving in the pool, but her spiritual sense could not catch the existence of the black worm.

These black worms seem to be integrated with the pool water and the earth center lotus in the pool.

Unless they voluntarily leave the water, there is no way to single them out.

It stands to reason that it is absolutely impossible for a worm who only has a foundation-building stage to master such an astonishing concealment technique.

Could there be other weirdness in this pool?
Xu Chunniang's consciousness swept back and forth in the pool seven or eight times, but found nothing except those swaying black shadows.

It seems that the only way to force those swarms to show up is to take the initiative.

Xu Chunniang urged several wind blades to slash at the earth core lotus that had opened eleven petals.

As expected, the swarm of insects was startled, large pieces rushed out of the water, and they did not hesitate to die to protect the lotus.

Not long after, the black worm hiding in the pool died completely, without any shadow left.

The water in the pool became clear again and seemed to be back to normal.

But Xu Chunniang didn't stop, and another wind blade slashed towards the earth heart lotus.

At this time, the No.12-petal lotus has already bloomed in the lotus, and it is about to mature.

Accompanied by a sound of cursing, a ray of black light shot out from the bottom of the pool, met the wind blade, and protected the delicate earth core lotus.

Immediately afterwards, an old figure appeared from the bottom of the pool, standing firmly in front of Dixinlian, pointing at Xu Chunniang and yelling.

"Where did you come from the girl who killed you today? Do you know the goods? This is the earth core lotus, the fifth-level holy medicine!"

Seeing the person in front of her be furious, Xu Chunniang smiled slightly.

She knew that things were not that simple.

The swarm of insects who were cultivated in the foundation building period were able to escape her spiritual search, and someone must have tampered with it.

"I know, it's an earth core lotus, but I'm even more curious about how you and those bugs managed to hide from my consciousness."

Xu Chunniang rubbed her chin, her consciousness swept over the old woman in front of her.

Even though she is so close to him, his spiritual sense can't feel her existence at all, it's really strange.

The old woman snorted coldly, and said disdainfully, "Spiritual consciousness is such a thing, it's so easy to avoid it."

Xu Chunniang's heart moved slightly. Since the establishment of the foundation, the spiritual consciousness is like a monk's second pair of eyes. This is the first time she has heard this kind of saying.

The old lady showed suspicion on her face, "You can't detect any abnormalities with your spiritual sense, so the act of destroying the earth core lotus just now was just a test. How did you find out that something was wrong?"

"intuition."

Xu Chunniang said lightly, "I'm walking along the dark river. The water quality in the river is clear. Naturally, the end of the dark river cannot be a pool of black water."

"It's just a little intuition, is it worth your risk to take action against the Earth Heart Lotus?"

The old lady had an unbelievable expression on her face. This is the earth core lotus, the fifth-level holy medicine, so she is not at all moved?

"If it's really picked in advance, I'm not at a loss. Anyway, I never thought that there would be a fifth-order elixir hidden here."

Picking it in advance, although it will reduce the efficacy of the earth core lotus, is equivalent to a fourth-order elixir, which can be regarded as a windfall.

When the old woman heard the words, her heart was not going well. She stayed here for more than 100 years before waiting for the lotus to mature.

And the person in front of her was unwilling to wait even half an hour, which made her very angry.

While the two were talking, the strange fragrance became more and more intense, and the No. 13 petals of the earth core lotus finally bloomed.

The old woman turned around and was about to pick the earth core lotus behind her. A tongue of fire was faster than her and rushed towards the earth core lotus.

The old lady was taken aback, looking at the earth core lotus petals that were slightly curled up due to the high temperature, she felt distressed.

"Don't, don't, stop quickly, I'll let you have some of this Earth Heart Lotus, isn't it okay?"

"Yes, but you have to tell me how you managed to hide it from my spiritual sense."

The old woman was worried, "This is my practice method, how can I tell you so easily?"

Xu Chunniang showed regret, "Then this earth core lotus seems to have no destiny for you and me."

Seeing that the tongue of fire was about to devour the petals of the earth heart lotus, the old woman quickly stopped her.

"Stop, stop, can't I tell you?"

Seeing that the fire did not continue to spread, the old woman was relieved and gave Xu Chunniang a hard look.

"I can only tell you that this is my supernatural power, which can assimilate into the surrounding environment and remain invisible."

Xu Chunniang's heart skipped a beat, and she felt the aura around the old lady carefully, and she found something.

The aura around her is as if alive and dead, blending with the surrounding environment, completely natural.

It's no wonder that she used her spiritual sense to search many times before, but she couldn't find anything unusual.

She had read in ancient books that there was a kind of spirit butterfly that could change into different shapes and colors according to the surrounding environment. Sometimes it looked like a dead leaf, and sometimes it looked like a delicate flower, making it difficult to detect its existence.

This supernatural power of the old lady may be similar to the spirit butterfly recorded in ancient books.

As if Xu Chunniang realized something, she took off the sword she had been carrying, and looked at the sword with brighter eyes.

In the past three years, the connection between her and this sword has continued to deepen, and even reached the point of mutual understanding.

With a thought, the sword intent follows.

But after reaching this level, it slowly entered a bottleneck.

No matter how she deepens her connection with this sword, she will never be able to go any further and enter the realm of the unity of human and sword.

After hearing what the old woman said, Xu Chunniang had a new understanding.

In the past few years, she was like the old woman in front of her who integrated herself into the surrounding environment, and like the butterfly imitating dead leaves and delicate flowers, trying to use herself as a sword.

The sword is her, and she is the sword.

Going down this road, maybe one day, she will really be able to reach the point where human and sword become one.

But in fact, she is not just a sword, and the sword cannot be her.

That way might be right, but it wasn't what she wanted.

She is her, so why should Xiao Jian forget herself?
The intent of the sword can carry the heart of the Dao, and the mind is connected, and then the future generations will unite with the sword, and the sword of the person will become.

After figuring this out, Xu Chunniang only felt that her mind was clear, and her connection with the sword in her hand had deepened a lot.

The old woman looked at the humming sword body with surprise in her eyes.

With her gaze, it is natural to see that the aura of the person in front of her is very similar to the sword in her hand.

But just now, this sense of similarity disappeared, and the connection between her and the sword deepened instead.

Weird, weird!

(End of this chapter)