The Birth of Sword God-Chapter 307 - 273: The Secret of the Black Bead

Chu Huaixu stared at the unmoving time on his system interface and felt his scalp tingling.

He knew very well what this represented!

He no longer needed to worry about experience points.

He also didn’t need to worry about too much time passing, thus delaying the East and West Continent Competition.

No need to worry about time constraints in the Inheritance Secret Realm’s trials.

Because time, it was not moving at all!

He felt like he was being "locked in a little black room" by the Dao Ancestor.

Here, time does not pass, nor is it possible to contact the outside world.

The only thing he could do was retrace the "Sword Path" he had walked before, practicing all the swordsmanship he had trained.

Only at this moment did he truly realize the dreadfulness of this Inheritance Secret Realm!

This means that he finished the entire "Sword Path" of the Dao Ancestor, yet only a moment had passed outside.

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Darkness once again engulfed his surroundings.

When an image finally formed, he saw a young daoist in the middle of an auction.

"He seems like a novel’s male protagonist."

"Even such a classic auction scene is appearing..." Chu Huaixu muttered to himself.

Even more iconic is that the daoist was an alchemist, selling his own elixirs at the auction.

What followed was an iconic scene—an opportunity buy.

This daoist bought a cat demon with poor hearing, mixed bloodline, and a piece of black iron sheet.

Demon beasts in the Profound Yellow Realm are quite rare.

The majority are beings with traces of demon beast bloodline, like the Divine Steed.

This fact is related to the environment in which demon beasts grow.

Because demon beasts with purer bloodlines are considered treasures.

Additionally, they cultivate extremely slowly, similar to the cultivators from Kunlun Cave Heaven, making their growth slow, and they’re often defeated before becoming strong.

This led to pure-blooded demon beasts nearly going extinct in the Profound Yellow Realm over time.

This cat demon of the Dao Ancestor is also recorded in the classics.

When playing "Borrowed Sword," Chu Huaixu even saw it once.

Because the cat is now at Spring and Autumn Mountain.

Once demon beasts become powerful, their lifespan increases significantly, yet they do not transform.

This cat only followed the Dao Ancestor for a few years and later stayed with the ancestor at Spring and Autumn Mountain.

Since the tales of the Dao Ancestor and this ancestor’s interactions have been relished over the millennia, the cat demon is seen as the bonding token between them.

This black cat seems to have a very unique bloodline.

But Chu Huaixu’s most significant impression is that the cat is extremely fat.

And its status at Spring and Autumn Mountain is high, treated like an ancestor, living a very pleasant life.

As for the scene at the auction, it’s because the young daoist was seemingly wealthy due to his alchemical skills, acquiring a swordsmanship method of Upper Grade Profound Level.

After the auction, no typical tailing and treasure-stealing scenes occurred.

If such actions were allowed, the auction’s purpose would become quite odd.

The Dao Ancestor went to a courtyard, played with the hard-of-hearing little cat demon, and began to practice swordsmanship.

Chu Huaixu knew in his heart: "Here comes the action!"

The swordsmanship method of Upper Grade Profound Level is genuinely not bad.

His current [Six Out of Seven] has reached Great Success, its power surely surpassing the Great Perfection of Upper Grade Profound Level.

But the latter at least requires no price to pay and doesn’t suffer backlash.

Chu Huaixu indeed has an unnaturally high self-healing ability and doesn’t fear pain.

Sometimes, due to the need to show off, making oneself look neither human nor ghostly isn’t very attractive, is it?

Time passed, and he wasn’t sure how long he spent practicing.

This sword art named [Mystic Divine Sword Formulas] emphasizes unexpected and unpredictable moves.

It’s quite suitable for sneak attacks and sudden killings.

It fits well with the crude body cultivators.

Upon reaching Great Perfection, Chu Huaixu’s [Fearless Sword Intent] progress bar increased by 7%.

"Next should be Earth Level Swordsmanship, right?" Thinking about it made Chu Huaixu excited.

So far, he hasn’t felt tired; not fatigued or mentally worn.

"Seems it’s all thanks to that initial blue energy ball," he speculated to himself.

But as the scene before him shifted, he felt somewhat disappointed.

"It’s just another Profound Level swordsmanship, and only Middle Grade Profound Level."

Chu Huaixu realized the Dao Ancestor seemed not picky at all?

As long as the swordsmanship isn’t too bad, he loves to study it.

This made him increasingly suspect whether the Dao Ancestor really couldn’t perform sword arts?

He was purely researching, purely for personal interest!

So he seemed indifferent to the power or strength of the swordsmanship.

After mastering this Middle Grade Profound Level swordsmanship, the scene shifted to Yellow Level Upper Grade.

This made Chu Huaixu begin to distrust more and more.

He had already learned nine swordsmanship methods within the secret realm.

But the strongest was only Upper Grade Profound Level; Earth Level hasn’t appeared yet.

Nevertheless, the gains were considerable.

Just then, Chu Huaixu suddenly realized something wasn’t right.

"In my impression, Han Shuangjiang from ’Borrowed Sword’ didn’t have all sorts of swordsmanship, and they weren’t all full level."

If everything was truly as Chu Huaixu thought, then the Big Ice Cube from ’Borrowed Sword’ should have comprehended multiple sword arts here and should have had many opportunities to use them later.

But the actual situation wasn’t like this.

Han Shuangjiang mostly stuck to her signature skills.

Her skill bar must be richer than the players’, her skill grades higher, but that was all.

"So, what’s changed?"

"Is the entire Inheritance Secret Realm different now?"

"Or maybe Big Ice Cube’s experience was different from mine; she didn’t have the same journey?"

After thinking for a long time, Chu Huaixu only felt that entering the Inheritance Secret Realm had one thing off!

——[Black Bead]!

He could touch it, poke it.

And whenever he touched the black bead, the young daoist would react.

"In ’Borrowed Sword’, the lifebound object Han Shuangjiang received at Hidden Spirit Mountain was also [Zhegu Heaven], that hadn’t changed."

"Xiaoxu took the Bronze Sword."

"Thus, the Daoist Ancestor Sword Scabbard and the black bead were always sealed at the mountain’s peak at Hidden Spirit Mountain."

"When she entered the Inheritance Land, she must have not had the bead with her."

But this was only Chu Huaixu’s current analysis.

He couldn’t be completely sure if it was related.

"Also, is the issue with the bead itself, or with the [Dao Generating One] inside the bead?"

Chu Huaixu’s previous focus was mainly on the medicine cauldron.

But he knew this black bead must be a remarkable item.

Firstly, it could block Jiang Zhi’s detection!

With Jiang Zhi’s cultivation, he couldn’t sense the bead’s abnormality, nor the medicine cauldron inside.

During the East Continent Competition, he openly used the medicine cauldron’s power inside the black bead to fend off the aggressive Bronze Sword.

Under such circumstances, all the Great Cultivators on the high platform felt it was just the Daoist Ancestor Sword Scabbard’s power.

Secondly, the space inside the bead was amazing.

Previously, he just considered it a place in the bead, not worthy of a fuss.

However, the Evil Pill could be stored inside.

The Evil Pill, refined from Evil Qi, was extremely malevolent and could devour everything.

Logically, it should have consumed the black bead as well.

But the space inside the bead remains stable, it’s as if the Evil Pill lost effect.

"So, could it be..."

Chu Huaixu now understood why he could touch the bead.

Because all else was illusory!

Being illusory, it naturally couldn’t be touched.

But the black bead was real.

"The bead I am seeing is my own bead."

"The bead I am touching is also my own bead."

It’s likely now...

——Already integrated into the secret realm!

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