Chapter 134

Chapter 134: Third Senior Brother Sui Jin

Half a month passed in a flash.

Li Shuang looked at the pile of low grade swords in her storage pouch, and joy touched her eyes. Just now, she had finally mastered that special forging method. Even without a furnace, she could finish the process on her own.

She did not know what this technique was called, so she named it: Rhythm Method.

It used a unique beat and pulse during forging; through rhythm, it stirred the waves of Dao power and let the smith touch the Dao.

Swords made by this method were stronger in every way than blades made by ordinary forging.

On the other hand, all this forging also gave her an extra gain: her Soul Realm had grown a lot.

To advance in cultivation, there are two parts: one is your cultivation base, the other is your Soul Realm. For those ten years, both her cultivation base and her Soul Realm had stopped moving. Later, she dispersed her techniques and started again, building her cultivation from zero. Her Soul Realm did not vanish completely, but it fell to the Golden Core Stage.

After half a month of intense forging, her Soul Realm had returned to the Nascent Soul Stage. This meant that as long as she raised her cultivation back into the Nascent Soul Stage, the breakthrough would come naturally.

It is known that growing the Soul Realm is even harder than growing your cultivation. If you want to grow your cultivation, the method is clear: breathe in the world’s spiritual energy. But how do you grow the Soul Realm? That is vague and hard to explain.

Ancient records once told of a person who was a mortal one day and, the next day, leaped in Soul Realm straight to Divine Transformation. There was also someone born with a Supreme Spiritual Root whose cultivation soared, yet their Soul Realm refused to budge and got stuck at the Golden Core Stage.

These two cases are extreme, but cultivators in the Immortal Realm mostly believe that training out in the mundane world can help the Soul Realm grow. So the great sects set up missions in the Disciples Hall for disciples to choose from and temper themselves.

On one hand, this protects regions and keeps the Mortal Realm stable. On the other hand, it is a process of Mortal-World Heart Tempering.

Now, thanks to the Rhythm Method, Li Shuang had restored her Soul Realm this far. If this method spread outside, it would definitely cause a stir.

However, at its current level, the Rhythm Method could only help her recover to the Nascent Soul Stage in Soul Realm. To go further, she still had to temper herself in the world.

With the spiritual light orbs Ye Zhao Zhao sent back, she would not need to worry about spiritual energy before Peak Golden Core. Besides that, her sword arts had reached a bottleneck. Her Soul Realm had also hit a bottleneck. If she wanted to advance her strength any further, it was time to go out.

Li Shuang left the artifact room calmly. She planned to return to Emotionless Peak to see her Master first, then take a mission and head down the mountain to train.

The Sword Sect was like a greenhouse. Staying there was safer, but a greenhouse only grows delicate flowers, not soaring eagles.

When Li Shuang returned to Emotionless Peak, she ran into a flapping Clockwork Bird flying toward her.

The Clockwork Bird shouted: “Save my life! Save my life!”

A crowd of onlookers followed behind it.

Li Shuang asked with surprise: “What is going on?”

A Sword Sect disciple said with a grin: “This seems to be a puppet made by a disciple, with our sect’s unique Sword Qi inside it. That is why it did not trigger the sect’s wards and could fly straight in. Judging from this, some disciple outside must be asking for help.”

Even though it was yelling for help, the bird looked so crooked, with a bent beak and a tilted head, and its tone was so oddly mocking that no one felt nervous at all.

Someone who knew more said: “This should be Third Senior Brother Sui Jin’s Clockwork Bird. Only Sui Jin could make a bird that looks this twisted.”

The bird had come to ask for help, but when it heard someone call it awkward, it got angry on the spot and pecked straight at that disciple. The disciple yelped and dodged, saying: “Hey! Calm down, calm down!”

The bird screeched while chasing him: “Who are you calling awkward? Who are you calling awkward?”

Li Shuang stared, thinking, [What in the world? Third Senior Brother’s Clockwork Bird?]

She stepped in to stop them and said: “If Third Senior Brother ran into trouble outside, do not bicker. Solving the problem matters more.”

The Clockwork Bird kept shrieking as it chased: “Say it! I am the best looking bird in the world! Say it! I am the best looking bird in the world!”

Driven into a corner, the disciple blurted out: “You are the best looking bird in the world!”

The Clockwork Bird finally let him go. It flapped its wings and turned to fly off to find Lin Qing Ling.

Suddenly, with a click, it squawked and dropped straight to the ground.

Li Shuang was speechless.

Yan Xiao stepped up, checked it, and said: “Senior Sister Li, the spirit stone ran out of energy.”

Li Shuang did not know whether to laugh or cry. Just to force out one sentence, it drained itself dry? This Clockwork Bird was truly unusual.

She picked up the Clockwork Bird and went to see Lin Qing Ling.

Lin Qing Ling looked at the silent bird and had no words. She replaced the bird’s spirit stone.

The bird sprang up at once and shouted again: “Save my life, save my life.”

Lin Qing Ling tapped its head and said: “Enough. You are here. Speak properly.”

The bird’s eyes flashed red, as if it had checked Lin Qing Ling’s identity.

In the next moment, a ghostly wail came from inside the Clockwork Bird: “Master! Save me! If I keep this up, I am going to get killed!”

Lin Qing Ling’s lips twitched. She felt a little lucky. Thankfully, when Little Shuang first joined Emotionless Peak, this troublemaker was not around, or Li Shuang might have been scared off.

Lin Qing Ling tried to reassure her and said: “Little Shuang, do not worry. He is only a little abnormal, but most of the time he is just annoying.”

Li Shuang smiled and said: “Master, let us first hear what trouble Third Senior Brother ran into.”

Holding back her embarrassment, Lin Qing Ling listened on. Soon, her face showed a look that words could not describe. Her third disciple might be a bit of a lunatic.

Half a year ago, Sui Jin took a sect mission to investigate a small town where people suspected Devil Path activity. He went, followed the clues, and truly found traces of the Devil Path. So he hid his strength and slipped into the group. Step by step, he climbed the ranks until he became a small leader. In the end, the whole Devil Path group in that town came under his control.

Now here was the problem. Because of his “excellent work,” the higher ups of the organization were sending someone to reward him.

Once they met him face to face, if his identity got exposed, he would probably die on the spot. That was why Sui Jin was urgently asking the sect for help.