CH 72.1

Chapter 072: Word Spirit

“You want answers, and so do I.” Bai Su makes his way to Su Tingyun. She is sitting by the pond, and Bai Su stands beside her for a moment, then also sits down.

“Tell me first, what is beneath the Sealed Heaven Border, and how did you come out?”

Because Su Tingyun is Wei Yun, Bai Su previously thought that if she has a secret she doesn’t want to share, he wouldn’t force her.  Originally, the reason for trying to break the seal of the Sealed Heaven Border was to see if there was any hope of saving someone. So once he’s figured out her identity, Bai Su didn’t look too much into it.

He thinks that she had a fortuitous meeting down there, which caused her aptitude to change. Her voice sounds younger.  Although he didn’t know what she looked like back then, he also heard from many people that her aptitude was extremely poor, and that she simply couldn’t break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Most people would keep such a fortuitous event a secret.

However, the seal of Sealed Heaven Border is similar to that of the Obliteration Sword Island.

And they spent more than half a month exploring the Cleansing Sword Lake on that Island. Although he couldn’t break the seal at all because he couldn’t use spells that require Spiritual Energy, he felt a trace of sword intent.

That sword intent is a subtly similar to the man who, in the past, wounded his father and stole the guardian spirit.  He wanted to continue searching, but there’s the incident with the orchid tongue grass, and in the past few days, he has also secretly returned to the Obliteration Sword Tower, but he still hasn’t obtained any clues.

He couldn’t pass up even the smallest of clues.

“E Changguang was under the Sealed Heaven Border.” Su Tingyun says.

Bai Su doesn’t look at her, but asks straightforwardly, “What killed her?”

“It’s Big Bai.” She contemplates for a bit, “It’s a big, soft, white ball, with two large leaves on top of its head…”

Su Tingyun thinks that Bai Su would have a hard time believing it. Whose murderer is so cute? Unexpectedly, his eyes turn red, then he grabs her shoulder with one hand, while producing a picture scroll with his other hand, “Does it look like this?”

The round lump in the painting with a small flower pot on its head, isn’t that Big Bai!

Su Tingyun’s eyes go wide, only to see Bai Su suck in a deep breath, “First of all, let me tell you what it is, that which you call ‘Big Bai’.”

“That’s the Word Spirit.” Bai Su takes out his orchid tongue grass, “The orchid tongue grass is its companion spirit plant. And I, I don’t belong to this realm.”

Bai Su came from the upper realm.

What is called the Upper Realm is the place that the Tribulation Transcendent cultivators of this realm enter, after ascending. The realm where Bai Su lives is called the True Spiritual World.

And Su Tingyun is currently in this cultivation realm which remains unnamed, for there has never been a cultivator who ascended.  There are thousands of cultivation realms like theirs, large and small, collectively referred to as the Three Thousand Realms.

The three Ren brothers throw out Immortal Devices and Spirit Pills willy nilly, shocking people in their extravagance, but it turns out that they’re cultivators from the upper realm. No wonder they’re so amazing.  But after hearing him say that this world is not named because there hasn’t been a cultivator who ascended, Su Tingyun asks with suspicion: “Didn’t the Luminous Moon Sect have one?”

“It’s just something they made up themselves.”

In other words, no one from the Luminous Moon Sect has successfully ascended!  Their ascended Old Ancestor is a complete scam.

There are two types of cultivators in the True Spiritual World. Those who ascended from Tribulation Transcendents belong to one type. They are extremely keen on establishing their Sects. The other type are the cultivators born in the True Spiritual World, previously referred to as True Immortals. They all belonged to a small number of ancient clans. True Immortals also need to start training from the Qi-refining stage, but the speed is very fast, and most of their training aptitudes are extremely high, heaven-defying. In addition, the True Spiritual Realm is rich in Spiritual Energy, so their cultivation base could advance to that of a Tribulation Transcendent in just a few hundred years.

Although the native cultivators in the True Spiritual World train very quickly, they are still no match against those cultivators from the Three Thousand Realms who continue on from Tribulation Transcendent. Therefore, the power of the native cultivating families became weaker and weaker. In the end, only the ancient Bai family could compete with those sects.

Because the Bai family is powerful, and because the Bai family has the Word Spirit.

Knowing everything in the world, it doesn’t speak lightly, a word determines the fate of heaven and earth.

However, thirteen thousand years ago, the Bai family split up into two factions: the Secularists and the Reclusionists. At that time, the guardian spirit beast was just undergoing rebirth from the ashes. No one expected that there would appear from within the flames two little spirit beasts, similarly Word Spirits. As one of them appeared, it was snatched away by the Secularist cultivators who had long been disloyal.

At that time, the great masters among the Reclusionists of the Bai family went one after another to retrieve the guardian spirit, but a sword cultivator in black suddenly broke into the forbidden area of the Bai family, injured the patriarch who at that time was staying behind to manage the family, and snatched the other guardian word spirit.

Afterwards, everyone even suspected that the patriarch colluded with the traitorous cultivators. Otherwise, with his strength, how could he lose to the black-clad sword cultivator who doesn’t even have a reputation?

The patriarch blamed himself for not protecting the newborn guardian beast spirit properly, searched for thousands of years without success, and ultimately, along his search of the guardian spirit, he himself fell.

That patriarch was Bai Su’s father.