Chapter 28: Immortal Bone — The Bright Sun Hung High…
The bright sun hung high, and the great grassland was boundless. A gentle breeze brushed over the pale greenery everywhere, revealing dotted flowers of pink, white, blue, and various other colors.
When the wind was calm, it seemed like a peaceful and quiet place.
Su Huan instinctively felt something was strange and couldn’t help looking at the Black Lotus.
Xiao Jianming, however, didn’t look back at him. Instead, he looked at the same-sex couple. “Not leaving yet?”
The two were stunned. The tall man showed reluctance on his face. The shorter youth tugged at his sleeve and shook his head slightly. The tall man paused, then followed behind him indignantly to go elsewhere.
From a distance, some fragmented sounds could still be heard:
“Ah Chao, it’s just a Nascent Soul, why bother…”
“Then will you listen to me or not?”
“Of-of course, but…”
“Then stop talking.”
…
Unexpectedly, despite his fierce and large build, the other party was actually “henpecked.” Su Huan found it somewhat funny.
Xiao Jianming sheathed his sword and walked away.
Su Huan stared blankly for a moment before hurriedly following. However, after walking for a long time, all they saw were ordinary flowers and grass; not a single sprout containing spiritual energy could be found.
Xiao Jianming stopped.
Peeking at his expression, it was as black as mud.
Su Huan struggled hard to suppress his laughter. Suddenly meeting the Black Lotus’s gaze, sharp as an ice blade, he couldn’t help shrinking his neck.
Xiao Jianming gave a fake smile. “…I remember Shixiong is skilled in arrays. Even if your dantian is ruined, you should still remember how to break an array, right?”
Su Huan looked blank. When did I know how to break arrays?
However, just as the thought started, countless memories of arrays surged into his mind like a toppling mountain and overturning sea. A few images of him and the Black Lotus learning swordsmanship in the snow also flashed past. He was stunned for a moment.
Ah this, can things learned in an illusion be taken for real?
Half-doubting, Su Huan extended his divine sense to probe the surroundings. He discovered that the extended divine sense seemed to hit an invisible glass bottle, isolated outside a space of about a hundred miles. It looked extremely like a type of array used to trap and kill demons in his memories.
If a cultivator accidentally entered it, they wouldn’t trigger the array but would be repelled by it. Conversely, demons would trigger layers of karma fire until the last trace of demonic energy in the array vanished completely.
If it were just this, they absolutely wouldn’t encounter the current “ghost hitting the wall” (walking in circles) situation. There should be another array…
At the same time, two figures appeared at the end of the boundless grassland. Bumping into them, they couldn’t help being stunned. Subconsciously turning to leave, they nearly collided with the woman who had left at the very beginning.
The woman barely avoided the two and glared furiously. “Don’t you have eyes!”
The tall youth snorted through his nose, ignored her, and turned to whisper to the youth beside him, “What’s going on? We circled back to the original spot. It seems we can’t get out…”
Deliberately not using sound transmission, he glanced at Su Huan and Xiao Jianming from the corner of his eye from time to time. Clearly, he said it for them to hear, intending to tell the two demon heads: Look, it’s not that we don’t want to leave, we can’t leave.
Su Huan lowered his head in thought and didn’t notice this scene. Xiao Jianming, however, glanced sideways at the two and sneered silently: Trash.
The tall man became angry immediately and wanted to go up to argue with him, but was held down by the youth beside him, who shook his head gently.
The short youth looked at Su Huan, who was squatting on the ground with a frown. He watched as Su Huan tentatively reached out to the ground, his fingertips trembling as he squeezed out a trace of spiritual energy and sank it underground.
The fluctuation of spiritual energy was so faint it was almost inaudible, like someone who had just started cultivating. The youth couldn’t help being startled.
The tall man also felt that weak spiritual energy and couldn’t help frowning at the youth.
The woman snorted coldly and mocked, “What is this? With such low cultivation, did you come to the Secret Realm specifically to court death?”
Su Huan heard it, but before he could speak, the short youth said with some annoyance, “Tao Shouyue, if you can’t speak nicely, then don’t speak. This isn’t the Wangyue Sect (Moon Gazing Sect). If you accidentally annoy someone, the Sect Master isn’t here to protect you.”
The woman named Tao Shouyue became angry immediately and started arguing with the youth. If not for her fear of Xiao Jianming beside Su Huan, she would have drawn her sword to kill someone long ago.
Su Huan smiled at the youth to express his thanks.
Then, multitasking, while recalling information about the Wangyue Sect, he manipulated his spiritual energy to probe deep underground. He really sensed the array patterns buried deep in the earth. Tracing them, they actually matched an array in his mind perfectly.
That array was called “Solid Shadow,” belonging to the illusion arrays taught by the Wanxiang Sect (Myriad Phenomena Sect). If the array eye couldn’t be found, one would be trapped to death in the fixed, unchanging illusion.
Su Huan wasn’t surprised. Thinking that people from the illusion also appeared in reality, his surprise faded, and he felt this was normal instead. Thinking that these two arrays were nested together by someone, he made a rough judgment in his heart.
He stood up and approached Xiao Jianming, reaching out to hold one of his hands and writing on the back of his hand: “There might be a spiritual treasure hidden here.”
Xiao Jianming subconsciously wanted to shake off the warm softness wrapped around his hand. After realizing Su Huan’s meaning, he forcibly endured it, but his movements stirred up a numbness that drilled all the way into his heart, and he abruptly pulled his hand away.
Su Huan looked at him in confusion.
Xiao Jianming’s Adam’s apple rolled. Lowering his eyes to mask the gloom within, he responded, “Understood.”
Annoying spirit, knowing only how to seduce him.
Su Huan didn’t know what he was thinking. Seeing that he understood his meaning, his eyes curved unconsciously. He ate a Spirit Recovering Pill and squatted down again to find the array eye.
He was completely unaware that behind him, Xiao Jianming’s brow darkened, thinking that love was such a troublesome thing.
Maybe find a chance to make Su Huan give up on him.
But Su Huan was the first to… Never mind, Brother is more important.
Must get rid of that group of idiots coveting Su Huan behind the scenes before finding Brother; otherwise, it won’t be good if Brother Buhuan misunderstands that he really likes this idiot.
Su Huan closed his eyes and scanned the array carefully. Following the location of the array eye shown in his memory, he input a large amount of spiritual energy to destroy it.
When the spiritual patterns dissipated, he felt his whole body clear up, and a light breeze brushed his forehead.
Su Huan opened his eyes and saw the surrounding scenery slowly melting. The blue sky and green grass turned into a dim starry night. A few beast cries came from somewhere unknown.
He breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously.
Just then, he suddenly felt an extremely strong spiritual energy rushing towards him rapidly!
Su Huan had lost his Golden Core, and his reaction time had become sluggish compared to before. Before he could react, the short youth rushed toward him, looking anxious: “Careful!”
A powerful spiritual light tore through the dark night and smashed straight into the youth’s body. With a pu sound, it knocked out a mouthful of fresh blood, and the youth stumbled forward.
Su Huan subconsciously reached out to catch him. The youth, ignoring the severe pain in his body, pushed him away nervously to check him all over. Only after confirming he was fine did he smile with relief and faint dead away.
The tall man ran over urgently: “Ah Chao!”
Su Huan’s heart shook: “…What did you call him?”
The tall man hugged the youth in a panic. Hearing this, he looked at Su Huan strangely and frowned. “You don’t remember?”
Su Huan looked confused. What should I remember?
I only remember that the original host and I are both only children… right?
Tao Shouyue watched from the side. Looking at the youth covered in vomited blood, she didn’t dare approach because of her fear of Xiao Jianming. She raised her chin and asked the tall man, “Ning Zhou, what was that just now? What happened to Su Chao?”
Hearing the familiar name, Su Huan was surprised. He couldn’t help looking at the unconscious youth, his heart full of doubts. Could it be the original host really has an unknown younger brother?
Xiao Jianming also looked over.
Hearing this, the tall man named Ning Zhou said angrily, “How would I know!”
He shouted at Su Huan again, “It’s all your fault! If anything happens to Ah Chao, even if you are…” He got stuck for a moment, skipped the unmentionable words, and shouted, “I won’t let you off!”
Xiao Jianming’s eyes suddenly deepened, looking thoughtfully at this same-sex couple.
Su Huan rubbed his nose resentfully. Who knew the released spiritual treasure would be so fierce.
Perhaps the bloodstains on the youth were too shocking, Su Huan shivered unconsciously, thinking, Spiritual treasures… shouldn’t kill people, right?
As if seeking someone’s agreement, Su Huan subconsciously looked at Xiao Jianming.
Xiao Jianming lowered his eyes. “Since you understand medicine, wouldn’t you know if you take a look at him?”
Only then did Su Huan remember his omnipotence in that illusion. He clicked his tongue and sighed secretly at his own awesomeness. While popping a Spirit Recovering Pill, he reached out to feel the youth’s pulse.
Spiritual energy probed into the body, only to find the spiritual energy inside the youth was so abundant it seemed about to overflow. Not only was there no trace of injury, but the hidden injuries he had suffered in the past were also healing and disappearing. There were even faint signs of an imminent breakthrough.
He sighed inwardly. This effect is awesome, comparable to the ten-flavor tonic soup in martial arts novels.
Su Huan withdrew his hand. Ning Zhou asked anxiously, “How is Ah Chao?”
Su Huan gave a calm “Oh” and said, “He’s fine. just over-supplemented and got a bit of internal heat. He’ll be fine after a sleep.”
Hearing this, Tao Shouyue’s eyes rolled, and she asked busily, “Hey, what exactly was that spiritual light just now?”
Su Huan actually knew this. Although it was just a fleeting glance, Su Huan still saw the appearance of the spiritual treasure clearly. It was a white bone the length of an arm, glowing with purple light amidst the snow-white. It matched something called a Xianfan Bone (Immortal Bone/Bone of Transcendance) in the encyclopedia the Black Lotus passed to him.
He said, “It’s a Xianfan Bone.”
Tao Shouyue’s eyes widened in shock. “What?! It’s actually a Xianfan Bone! That is a remnant bone left by a legendary ancient demi-immortal. As long as one obtains a little bit, they can inherit all the cultivation techniques practiced by that demi-immortal during their lifetime, and even allow the host to grow an Immortal Bone, greatly increasing their cultivation!”
She couldn’t help looking jealously at the unconscious Su Chao. “Such a rare thing only exists in large Secret Realms; how could it appear here?” And it was obtained by such a disgusting person!
Although the Xianfan Bone was transformed from the remnant bones of a demi-immortal, it also required the right time and place.
Generally speaking, only a large Secret Realm with extremely abundant spiritual energy could nurture one, and having one the size of a fingernail was already difficult. This Yuejin Secret Realm was a small Secret Realm only opened in recent years; it was far from reaching the structure capable of generating a Xianfan Bone.
Su Huan looked at her as if looking at a fool. “Of course, it’s because many years ago, a demi-immortal fell here.”
Tao Shouyue: “…” Sounds like nonsense, but I actually can’t refute it.
After learning that Su Chao was in no mortal danger, Ning Zhou finally relaxed. He even had the mood to use his brain: “Truly strange. The specifications of this Yuejin Secret Realm are not high, yet it can nurture such a top-tier spiritual treasure.”
Su Huan didn’t find it strange. As the saying goes, nothing is too strange in the vast world. Occasionally having a Secret Realm with a “genetic mutation” is understandable.
Right now, he was more curious about what relationship he had with this youth named Su Chao.
He remembered very clearly that the original host had no siblings.
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