After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 154 - Zi Lu

Chapter 154: Zi Lu

“Why do you persist?”

Zi Lu slightly raised her eyes, puzzled as she looked at Wen Wanwan.

Her legacy secret realm had not been challenged by many before, and most could not last a hundred rounds against her. A hundred rounds meant being slain by her sword nearly a hundred times. After several dozen rounds, the initial pride and confidence of most people were shattered. But at this moment, Wen Wanwan had already lasted one hundred and twenty-one rounds against her.

“Because... I also want to be useful.”

“Useful?” Zi Lu didn’t understand.

The figure of Wen Wanwan in front of her had been reconstructed by the rules of the legacy secret realm, as good as new, but the pain and fear of each death still lingered in her memory.

“From a young age... Wanwan has always been useless.”

Wen Wanwan’s eyes stared straight at Zi Lu, her consciousness somewhat blurred, but her hand holding the sword was exceptionally tight.

Wen Wanwan always felt she was useless.

From childhood, she and her sister depended on each other, with her taking care of her sister alone. With all her efforts, she finally entered the inner sect, using most of the cultivation resources to treat her sister’s illness, maintaining her own cultivation with very few resources.

She had always worked hard, never slacking in her sword practice or cultivation. Even so, her life was like stagnant water with no change.

No matter how hard she tried, she could not cure her sister’s illness. No matter how hard she tried, she could only ever be an ordinary inner disciple.

The day she first met Jiang Huai, she was on the verge of collapse... Her sister’s illness had worsened again. If she couldn’t buy the Tianshan Snow Lotus to treat her sister, she would be left alone in this world.

Li Qiusheng of Alchemy Mountain offered her a deal. That night, she cried for a long time, having made up her mind. If Senior Brother Jiang Huai was unwilling to help, she would sell herself for a good price... She didn’t care much about herself, but she worried that if her sister found out, she would be sad, heartbroken, and devastated.

When she met Senior Brother Jiang Huai that day, he was watering the flowers outside the courtyard. With red eyes, she told him her troubles. Jiang Huai hesitated for a moment, then took out a spirit stone ticket worth a thousand spirit stones and handed it to Wen Wanwan, telling her to use it to cure her sister’s illness first. If it wasn’t enough, she could come back to him. As for repaying the money... anytime was fine, he wasn’t in a hurry.

She had many little secrets she hadn’t told Jiang Huai. After receiving the thousand spirit stones, aside from being grateful to Jiang Huai, she was also filled with unease. She always worried that Jiang Huai had ulterior motives, so she tried hard to repay him some every month... Whenever she returned the spirit stones to Jiang Huai each month, he was always so gentle, never making any demands on her.

Later, she gradually believed that Senior Brother Jiang Huai really just helped out of kindness.

That was the darkest moment of her life, so she still remembered Jiang Huai’s gentle and clear eyes at that time. That’s why she was always so compliant with Jiang Huai, always subconsciously thinking about everything about him... As for her own feelings, she never cared, as she said, she wouldn’t feel wronged or sad.

Being by Jiang Huai’s side and having a small place was already all she desired.

Her sister always said she looked too humble, that it wasn’t good... But Wen Wanwan didn’t feel that way. She always had an inherent sense of inferiority and never dared to look Luo Qingyu in the eye.

Seeing Jiang Huai being brought back to the legacy secret realm by Ye Ning’s sword, spitting black blood, her heart sank in an instant. That’s why she hated her own uselessness... She could only stay in this legacy secret realm, unable to do anything, leaving Jiang Huai alone to face everything.

This was her hatred.

“I suggest you give up. I admit your soul is strong enough to withstand many deaths, but your swordsmanship talent is average, and I don’t think you can learn my swordsmanship...” Zi Lu’s voice carried a hint of reluctance.

“Please, True Person... give me a chance,” Wen Wanwan looked up.

“I can still hold on... so... I want to try again.”

“Why even bother?”

“You wouldn’t understand, True Person... I’ve never been afraid of hardship or fatigue, but even with all the hardship and fatigue, I’ve never had the chance to change my fate. Now the opportunity is right in front of me, perhaps the only one in my life. I also want to stand by the side of the person I like one day, and when others see us together, they won’t think I’m a useless vase... but a partner who can support each other. I don’t want to give up... I hate that useless me!”

“These are all my hatreds... I’m not afraid of pain, please, True Person... draw your sword!”

Wen Wanwan’s voice now carried a hint of chill. Zilu True Person was taken aback. In that instant, she truly felt the sword intent from Wen Wanwan’s soul. It was as if she suddenly saw a reflection of her younger self, the one who practiced the Zilu Sword Art, whose parents had died at the hands of evil cultivators. She harbored such hatred and vowed to eliminate all evil cultivators in the world. That hatred in her eyes... it felt so familiar to her.

After a moment, she looked earnestly into Wen Wanwan’s eyes, her voice slightly softer.

“Alright, I’ll teach you.”

...

“Ahhhh!”

The screams of Jiang Huai echoed continuously in the cave. His flesh had been torn and reconstituted, and at this moment, he had cultivated his Overlord Art to the early stages of the fifth level. Just one more medicinal pill, and he could reach the great perfection of the fifth level, which was his current limit. After all, there was only so much inheritance left in the secret realm of Bahuang True Person and only so many spiritual medicines.

Jiang Huai had already picked up the medicinal pill and brought it to his lips. Bahuang True Person, who had been watching the fun for a long time, suddenly couldn’t help but ask out of curiosity.

“Speaking of which, why did you choose the second option?”

“Huh?” Jiang Huai was startled.

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“You could have chosen the first option, to just stay in the cave and wait for the secret realm to end, to leave safely, right?”

Jiang Huai smiled helplessly, “Two reasons.”

“I’m very curious,” Bahuang True Person said with a smile.

“The first is because of my master, Chu Xianning. She detests evil and takes it upon herself to protect the people of the world, even at the cost of her own well-being. Having learned her Way of the Sword, facing this situation, if I didn’t try to fight, I would feel as if I didn’t deserve to be her only direct disciple.”

“And the second?”

Actually, Jiang Huai’s mental state was a bit manic at this point. The previous pain made him particularly delirious as if he was in a big dream, and all of it was a nightmare.

“I’ve never been pushed to such a wretched state before. I hate that son of a bitch who almost killed me! I can’t sleep at night without killing him with my own hands! Once I get out, I’m going to peel his flesh off piece by piece! Make him kneel and beg for mercy while crying! Then let him die in despair!”

Jiang Huai’s face was particularly ferocious at this moment. After a while, he rubbed his face and replied.

“That’s probably it.”

After saying that, he gritted his teeth and swallowed the last medicinal pill.

Bahuang True Person looked at his ferocious expression and was somewhat amused. Soon, Jiang Huai began to roll on the ground in agony again, but this time he restrained all the smiles on his face. Looking at Jiang Huai rolling on the ground, he suddenly remembered his younger self and chuckled.

So... to entrust hope to him, to let him go and kill the Refining Yin Demon Gu, it seemed not a waste of life.

After countless screams and throes of pain, Jiang Huai finally slowly got up from the ground. He gathered his scattered hair and tied it up. The pain in his body had completely faded. He raised his hand and looked at his skin, which now seemed to shimmer with a faint jade-like luster. Jiang Huai tried to lightly scratch it with the Ye Ning sword.

Just a light scratch left only a shallow white mark.

This meant that his physical strength was now comparable to that of a Divine Transformation tenth-level cultivator.

“Thank you, senior,” Jiang Huai bowed respectfully to Bahuang True Person in front of him.

“No need to be polite, it’s all what you deserve. Now, I’ll take you to Linglu True Person. Once you’ve obtained her inheritance, we will channel the heavenly spiritual energy of the secret realm into your body, allowing you to fight against the inheritor of the Refining Yin Demon Gu.”

Jiang Huai nodded, then asked after a moment, “What will Linglu True Person’s inheritance teach me?”

“Linglu True Person specializes in talisman arrays and is among us the one who can touch the most heavenly rules. She will teach you how to use your body as a talisman and your body as an array. Only she can mobilize the rules of this secret realm and turn our soul fire seeds into the wick of the lamp within your sea of qi.”

“Understood,” Jiang Huai nodded lightly, then followed Bahuang True Person into the vortex in front of him.

...

The inheritance secret realm of Linglu True Person.

The phantom of Linglu True Person was actually a deer. Jiang Huai was stunned for a moment, and Linglu True Person spoke in human language.

“Don’t be surprised. Let me ask you, do you have any understanding of the way of talisman arrays?”

“I have some knowledge.”

“Good, the first challenge of my secret realm inheritance is the inheritance of talisman paper.”

...

“I take back those harsh words I said before,” Zilu True Person lowered her head, gazing at the spirit sword that had pierced her chest, with Wen Wanwan in front of her, panting heavily, her soul already somewhat shattered.

But she had really done it.

After three thousand six hundred and forty-two rounds, she had grasped Zilu True Person’s sword momentum and personally stabbed the spirit sword into her chest.

“There’s not much I can give you from my inheritance. This soul power is my final gift to you... it should be enough to raise your soul cultivation to the third level of Void Refining. From now on, you’ll have to rely on yourself to move forward. Here are nine strands of heavenly spiritual energy and my Nascent Soul Dao Fruit, which are also gifts I leave to you.”

“I believe... someone as tenacious as you will surely go very far.”

Zilu True Person closed her eyes, and her body completely dissolved at that moment, turning into a bright stream of light that merged into Wen Wanwan’s body.

“Zilu True Person... what about you...”

“My remnant soul should have dissipated into the world long ago. Even if you hadn’t appeared, I would have only lasted another hundred years. Now, to be able to contribute to the killing of the Refining Yin Demon Gu, I am fully satisfied with no regrets in this life.”

These were Zilu True Person’s parting words.