Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 297: Chapter 14 Eastern Emperor Realm Boundary Gate, Various Attempts
 

Ling Yunpo stood on the riverbank, feeling more terrified the more he looked.

To tell the truth, when he fought with Senior Sister An, he just thought she was very strong and impressive.

Only now, seeing the corpses piled up everywhere, did he realize the title “Weed-Cutting Sword Immortal” associated with Senior Sister An was not earned through victory in battle.

It was carved out through killing!

Thinking back on the times he occasionally teased Senior Sister An on purpose, relying on her indulgence as a sister for his safety, he otherwise would have been killed by her a long time ago.

Ling Yunpo silently contemplated, when suddenly, he saw a figure rushing over from the opposite bank.

“Junior brother!”

An Zhisu called out with joy, not caring about the swift current before her, she stepped into the water with a splash and quickly rushed up the bank, hugging her junior brother tightly.

Ling Yunpo was hugged so tightly he couldn’t breathe, wanting to struggle, but then he remembered the condition of those corpses… Precisely, it was the panic and helplessness reflected in the corpses that showed Senior Sister An could not find him, and he obediently let her embrace him.

“It’s good that you’re alright, it’s good that you’re alright.” An Zhisu held him close, patting and checking over and over until she was sure he was unhurt, then slowly let him go, wiping the tears from her eyes.

“What trouble did you think I could get into, Senior Sister?” Ling Yunpo asked with a smile.

“With the condition of your body, what can’t happen?” An Zhisu sternly rebuked him, “Even a Marrow Cleansing Rank Demon Cult Cultivator could possibly kidnap you!”

“Senior Sister, the poison in my body is already gone,” Ling Yunpo said with a grin.

“Gone?” An Zhisu grabbed his right hand and probed with her divine sense, “How is it all gone?”

“I don’t know.” Ling Yunpo employed the great tactic of scratching his head, “When I woke up in the Misty Forest, I found that all the impurity in my body had disappeared.”

No one would believe such a far-fetched story, but An Zhisu did not doubt him for three reasons:

The first was the doting and trust a senior sister had for her junior brother; the second was Ling Yunpo’s unyielding character and resilience; and the third was the mutual affinity between an Innate Sword Heart and an Innate Sword Bone.

With these three factors combined, even if Ling Yunpo pointed to a deer demon and said, “This is a horse demon,” Senior Sister An would probably just nod and say, “Ah, right, right, right.”

Whatever the junior brother said must be true, and if it was wrong… What if it was wrong? At all costs, she could not let her junior brother be disillusioned.

The two of them chatted for a while before An Zhisu took out a sand pen to communicate with Guan Shanyue.

Soon after, everyone regrouped in Lixi Town.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Duan Fenhai and Lin Duanshan both looked somewhat gloomy, as everyone had spent half a day searching the Hundred Thousand Mountains with not much to show for it, and here Ling Yunpo turned up on his own… Their frustration was easy to imagine.

Guan Shanyue, who had higher emotional intelligence, took Ling Yunpo aside with great concern, asking about his well-being, the events that had occurred and expressing relief at his safety, which would have driven Senior Sister An to despair, causing An Zhisu’s eyes to twitch and her hand to involuntarily reach for the hilt of the Flying Smoke Sword.

Getting back to the main topic, this southern expedition to the Hundred Thousand Mountains had now come to an eighty percent conclusion.

The milk of the stone teats in Langgan Cave had been drunk, and the Misty Forest had been visited once, but no one asked each other whether they had gained in cultivation level.

What did it matter if they had gained? And what if they hadn’t? After all, it was someone else’s cultivation.

More importantly, the upcoming mission was the sword search led by the ancient ancestor of the Guan Family to the Eastern Emperor Boundary Gate!

If one could obtain the Sun True Obscure Sword, the rewards from both the Shushan Shangqing Temple and the Longyou Guan Family would assuredly be no less than thirty years of Purple Mansion Power.

Of course, hope was slim… but they still had to give it their all.

After resting for a while in Lixi Town, the group finally received the summon from the Guan Family’s ancient ancestor.

Because they had to venture deep into the Hundred Thousand Mountains and make the difficult journey to the Eastern Emperor Boundary Gate, none of the Shushan Sword Immortals participating in this action had a low cultivation realm.

Lin, Ling, Duan, Guan, An, representing the top five seats of the Immortal Sword Ranking, belonged to the Foundation Establishment Realm; there were also several Golden Core True Persons and Nascent Soul Elders, with a major portion of them being Sword Immortals from the Longxi Guan Family.

The Jade Capital Sect Leader did not come, probably because he realized that the Demon Path Cultivators in the Hundred Thousand Mountains were just trivial fish, not knowing where their high-rank forces had disappeared to, so he stayed in Shushan on guard against sneak attacks.

Even though the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains were dangerous, with the Guan Family’s ancient ancestor, an Immortal, firmly in place, the journey was filled with shock but no peril.

Most of the Demonic Beasts, sensing the unrestrained aura released by this Immortal, consciously kept their distance far away.

After several days of trekking, the group finally arrived at the Eastern Emperor Boundary Gate.

The Eastern Emperor Boundary Gate was set in an extremely wide valley, nearly a thousand feet tall and a hundred feet wide, constructed of some kind of white stone-like material. From a distance and over the mountaintops, everyone could see the top of the Boundary Gate, almost piercing into the sea of clouds and the heavenly dome.

Nobody knew who had built this thing, but it was estimated that its history was even older than known by the Cultivation Realm, probably not later than the time of Nüwa mending the heavens.

Ling Yunpo asked the Kunlun Mirror and the Green Duckweed Sword, but neither the mirror nor the sword could clarify its origins, which attests to its mysterious provenance.

Passing through a mountain pass and entering the valley, from afar, there came a wave of hot and toxic air rushing towards their faces.

“That would be the Sun True Fire triggered by the Sun True Obscure Sword,” the Guan family ancestor said, looking at the endless blaze in the distance with a sigh, “Even immortals dare not venture deep into it, otherwise there is a danger of falling.”

“Continue along the mountain road ahead of you, and you will see a stele with the words ‘Eastern Emperor’ engraved on it.”

“Cross the stele and keep moving straight towards the Boundary Gate until you see a boiling spring.”

“Stop beside the spring eye, and talk to Ouyang Zhao in the distance. Cozy up to him, set conditions, talk about emotions… try any methods you can, as long as you can get him to agree to hand over the Sun True Obscure Sword.”

“Who among you plans to go first?”

“How about I go first,” Guan Shanyue said with a beaming smile.

“Good,” the Guan family ancestor said, waving a big hand to give the go-ahead.

And so, Guan Shanyue began to advance, gradually disappearing from everyone else’s sight.

In less than an hour, Guan Shanyue returned, naturally empty-handed.

“How did it go?” the Guan family ancestor asked calmly.

“I told him that I understood his feelings for Yin Xiaojing,” Guan Shanyue answered, “He asked me a question.”

“What question?”

“Have you ever liked someone?”

“How did you respond?” the Guan family ancestor asked, frowning.

“I answered yes, made up a name, and then he ignored me.” Guan Shanyue’s face showed no disappointment, rather a thoughtful expression.

The second one to go and try was a Golden Core True Person from the Guan family, before whom the Guan family ancestor especially instructed to “stick to the prepared script.”

Soon, the Golden Core True Person came back, shaking his head from a distance to the Guan family ancestor:

“He ignored me the whole time.”

Hearing this, the Guan family ancestor nodded, showing no sign of disappointment on his face.

After all, they had to try every few years, and he had already gotten used to failure.

“An Zhisu,” suddenly said the Guan family ancestor, “why don’t you give it a try?”

“Me?” An Zhisu asked in surprise.

“That’s right,” the Guan family ancestor said, “You’re a woman, and you practice the Sentiment Inquiry Path. See if you can evoke his memories of Yin Xiaojing.”

“What do I need to say?” An Zhisu was somewhat lost.

“You… forget it, you wouldn’t perform well even if you tried,” the Guan family ancestor sighed deeply, his impression of the Weed-Cutting Sword Immortal’s low emotional intelligence was particularly deep, “Just be yourself, chat about whatever you want, and then let him set the conditions.”

About an hour later, An Zhisu came back from the distance, her hands still empty.

“How did it go?” the Guan family ancestor inquired, “Did he agree?”

“No,” An Zhisu shook her head.

“What did you say?” the Guan family ancestor continued to ask.

“I gave him a piece of my mind,” An Zhisu replied.