Chapter 252: Sword spiritTranslated by: La0o9

Edited by: Arya

Gu Qing Shan silently waited for a bit.

After the System announced the Quest’s completion, it went silent again without responding.

What happened?

Is the Thaumaturgy Quest just picking up some random trash?

That can’t be it.

Gu Qing Shan held the sword in hand, felt a bit tempted to try out a few swings.

This is the same for all cultivators, as they pick up a new weapon, their first reaction would be to instinctively try it out to feel the weapon’s power.

A conditional reflex.

But as soon as Gu Qing Shan started swinging it, Gu Qing Shan forced himself to stop.

He suddenly remembered, both the people who fell unconscious only did so after using a weapon they picked up.

Gu Qing Shan looked at the rain of fire outside, seeing that it was already closing in on the outpost.

There’s no time to investigate now.

He has no choice but to put the sword away and flew his airship.

Not too long after, the rain of fire came down like a normal downpour.

The 72 layers of defensive formation didn’t even help a single bit, easily torn apart like paper.

The entire outpost was burning.

The demons that were at least considered a wave were now scattered into smaller groups, still running for their lives.

The rain of fire didn’t mind any of this, only continued forward on its predetermined path, pouring down.

A guerilla military camp.

You Ji General Wang Lie was tied up and forced to kneel.

Most of the generals were here.

Ning Yue Xi wore her Ding Yuan General armor set, stood in front of him and coldly questioned: “Why did you disobey military orders and ran off on your own?”

Wang Lie is a Rejuvenation realm cultivator, of course he couldn’t bear such humiliation and angrily answered: “He’s a mere Foundation Establishment realm, what right does he have to order me around!”

Ning Yue Xi asked: “Then why did you leave the authority to order and command to him when the situation came?”

Wang Lie had no way to respond.

Another Ding Yuan General, Sun Ming monk tried to plead for him: “He’s made quite a few contributions already, his mistake isn’t as serious as his value, let’s just demote him to become a chaplain”

Before he could even finish, a snow white gleam was already swung, the stench of blood filled the room.

Wang Lie was beheaded, his face still showed an expression of disbelief.

Everyone remained silent.

Ning Yue Xi sheathed her Blade, coldly declared: “He got promoted because he made enough contributions, but he disobeyed orders in the time of battle and deserted, he should be executed as per military laws”

“Amitabha, this is an Ascended realm cultivator we were talking about, he still had a lot of uses later on” Sun Ming monk sighed.

“It’s because he’s an Ascended realm that we can’t be lenient. If he acts like that with such a small matter, then he’ll definitely ruin more serious matters later on when we need him” Ning Yue Xi insisted without backing down.

She then ordered: “Hang his head up as an example!”

“Yes!”

“Very well, dismiss”

The generals all quickly retreated, as if someone was hitting them with a whip to urge them.

Wang Lie’s head was taken away to be hung at the military enforcement area.

At this time, the only people left in the tent were the two Ding Yuan Generals and Gu Qing Shan.

Gu Qing Shan asked: “How is General Gong Sun?”

Ning Yue Xi’s eyes softened a bit and said: “A few of our best medics have taken a look at him, they all said he’ll need a few more days to wake up”

“What exactly happened?”

“They said his soul vessel was attacked and wounded”

“I’ll go check on him” Sun Ming monk said and left.

Gu Qing Shan took out his map, looked at it before asking: “Why did you suddenly want to do such a dangerous thing as investigating the ruins at this point in time? Didn’t the three Saints say to leave it to them?”

“They were a bit too busy, so your Shifu handed these missions to me” Ning Yue Xi answered.

Shifu handed them to you? Then what was she doing?

Gu Qing Shan silently contemplated this.

Ning Yue Xi then tapped her Inventory Bag and took out a purple glowing talisman to give to Gu Qing Shan.

“What is this?” Gu Qing Shan was surprised.

“I met your Shifu before all this, she gave me this Universal Talisman to give to you” Ning Yue Xi answered.

Universal Talismans, contrary to their name, is the hardest type of Talisman to create, an exceptionally high-tiered talisman.

The main reason is because it has to do with the Law of space, but it is more advanced than an Inventory Bag. (1)

They’re different from Communication Talismans, where a Communication Talisman can only send voice, the Universal Talisman usually comes in a pair of two, by which the cultivators holding them can send items through.

One person can put something in from one side, the other can pull it out from the other.

Even the space vortex can’t interfere with this process of delivering something.

Such a pair of talisman takes at least 10 years to make, costing innumerable spirit stones and other valuable resources.

Gu Qing Shan hurriedly infused the Universal Talisman with spirit energy to see what Shifu needed to give him that she had to use this.

The Universal Talisman lit up, then a small jade bottle appeared together with a Communication Talisman.

Gu Qing Shan first checked the Communication Talisman.

“I brought Sorrow into the space vortex to heal him, remember to pay attention to safety, if you can’t handle things, run”

“This jade bottle is a Saint Grade Healing item I found in Shen Wu world, they’re much more potent compared to pills of our world, use it”

Holding the jade bottle, Gu Qing Shan felt both warmth and worried inside.

Even the Great Monk of Sorrow was wounded, and Shifu couldn’t help but go into the space vortex. They must be in quite the tough situation right now.

At this time, a report came, saying that Leng Tian Xing had brought a group outside and met with some powerful demons, they’ve already battled for a full day without deciding victory.

Ning Yue Xi quickly left.

Gu Qing Shan followed, but Ning Yue Xi suddenly turned around and stopped him with her hand on his armor.

“Me alone is enough” Ning Yue Xi stared straight at him, but began to blush after a little bit.

“I have nothing to do anyways” Gu Qing Shan insisted.

“It’s fine, your sect doesn’t have many members so it can’t lose any of them. You should just stay here, so that there aren’t any concerns” Ning Yue Xi didn’t say anything else after that and quickly left the tent.

Gu Qing Shan was a bit annoyed.

I understand Shifu’s concerns, but even you act like this, I also participated in the grand war before you know? Do you want me to still call myself a cultivator?

He had no choice but to check the War God UI again. Sadly, the Quest stayed the same without any changes.

Since there wasn’t anyone else in the General’s tent, he just randomly sat down, took out the damaged sword, but couldn’t find anything suspicious or of note.

Then, he recalled the details of the first Quest.

[Quest name: Prove your worth]

[Quest description: Do everything you can to show your talents, only when you appear brilliant enough that you are qualified to complete this task]

[Note: If you’re trash, no one will bother looking at you for a second time]

He looked at the sword, then suddenly thought of an unbelievable possibility.

He then cleared his throat, asking the sword very seriously: “Nice to meet you, pardon me asking but is there anything this humble one can help you with?”

Complete silence.

The sword didn’t respond.

Gu Qing Shan waited for a bit, then burst into laughter.

Sure enough, it’s just my useless thought.

But then, his expression changed.

Because the sword in his hand vibrated just now.

Gu Qing Shan couldn’t help but stand straight up.

This sword has a spirit?

“You ——can understand what I say?” Gu Qing Shan hesitantly asked.

The sword flew out of his hand by itself, hovering in the air, the tip was pointing downward, lightly touching the ground.

“You’re the sword spirit?” Gu Qing Shan’s eyes lit up.

A weapon with a spirit is twice as strong as a normal weapon, practically a treasure of legends.

The sword nodded.

At this point, on the War God UI, the crystal ball suddenly started to let out a dim light as the mist inside escaped and got absorbed into Gu Qing Shan’s pores all over his body.

This is the unique power that the Quest mentioned before.

[Ting]!

The System chimed.

[First Quest: Prove your worth (completed)]

[Reward received: Connected Minds]

[Connected Minds: Mental-type God’s Chosen Skill, the user can naturally understand a weapon spirit’s thoughts]

[Note: This is an extremely awesome Skill that the System paid a great price to get, it will definitely be useful]

Note:

(1) Law of space: I’ve probably explained this before, but “Law” means the natural law of the universe/world. Usually in novels, being able to utilize the Law means you’ve reached a very high level of cultivation, since you’re basically manipulating the world to do your will while still keeping within the realms of the Law. When you surpass the Law, you can control and mold the law itself so that it affects everybody the way you want it to.