My ordinary path to immortality shouldn't end here.

Chapter 94 The Transformation of the Descended Immortal Sword, Sword Cultivator Becomes Sword Servant
At the bottom of the dark abyss, there was not a ray of light. Although a sliver of light, about the size of a thumb, could be seen looking upwards, it was like a glimmer of hope in a desperate situation—merely visible, but utterly incapable of illuminating the bottom.

However, when this inspired being manifested here, it was only for a moment that countless lights shone forth.

It illuminated every corner of the place, dispelling all darkness.

"Junior sister?"

Bai Chijing looked at the beautiful female corpse in front of him, and a rare ripple appeared in his eyes.

"Congratulations, Senior Brother, on reaching the Upper Realm of External Appearance." The beautiful female corpse spoke, but her voice was no longer the hoarse and cold one before; instead, it had transformed into a clear and bright female voice.

Although the voice is quite different from the girl's voice in Bai Chijing's memory, overall, the difference is not significant.

And she was none other than Huai Qiaoqiao.

"How did you become like this?" Bai Chijing asked, his tone unchanged. However, as soon as he finished speaking, the bottom of the crevice beneath the wilderness suddenly began to crack open from side to side. Then, the space that was originally thousands of feet underground began to rise, showing a tendency to transform into a mountain range.

This is the boundless power of the outer realms.

After all, Shirochi Kei's inspired reflection is actually at the level of the Outer Heaven Realm.

All these changes happened extremely quickly, in just a few breaths, and when everything settled down, a mountain appeared on this desolate land of Ningchao.

What was originally a deep crater has now risen ten thousand feet above the ground. Most of the mountain peak has pierced directly into the clouds.

Huai Qiaoqiao was about to speak, but seeing the dramatic change in the landscape, she was stunned. She was currently at the middle stage of the Outer Appearance realm, and she knew quite a bit about the supernatural abilities of the upper stage of the Outer Appearance realm.

However, even the powerful Outer Appearance Realm expert from the Wuxin Sect that she had encountered was far inferior to Bai Chijing in terms of the methods he displayed.

It should be noted that the powerful Outer Appearance Realm expert from the Wuxin Sect possessed extraordinary abilities. Even in a simple exchange, he put immense pressure on Huai Qiaoqiao. If he hadn't been unwilling to activate the sword energy of the Descending Immortal Sword, Huai Qiaoqiao would never have been able to escape safely, and might even have had her true form discovered.

Huai Qiaoqiao's greatest advantage is that her true body is here, and even if her soul is destroyed, she can reunite her scattered soul in the world through this corpse.

"Senior brother, have you actually returned to the ranks of immortals?" Huai Qiaoqiao couldn't help but ask.

"not yet."

Bai Chijing said that it was inconvenient to reveal everything about this, but since he was facing Huai Qiaoqiao, he could say a few more words: "I have just passed through the eight tribulations."

After saying this, Bai Chijing looked at Huai Qiaoqiao, indicating that she should tell him about her situation.

This was not only because Huai Qiaoqiao was dead, but also because he had clearly seen the centipede demon shadow, yet incredibly, he did not recognize it as Huai Qiaoqiao's soul!
At this moment, in Bai Chijing's inspired vision, what he saw was not a beautiful female corpse, but a centipede demon shadow!
However, with Huai Qiaoqiao caught off guard, Bai Chijing could see that the woman deep within the centipede demon's shadow was none other than Huai Qiaoqiao.

When Huai Qiaoqiao saw Bai Chijing looking at her, she immediately understood what he meant.

So she told Bai Chijing about her experience.

"Senior brother, ever since you disappeared after being struck by the Heavenly Slash, a piece of news suddenly spread throughout the entire cultivation world, saying that your cave dwelling might contain some of your cultivation experience compilations. At first, this news didn't have much of an impact, and I was still able to cultivate peacefully in your cave dwelling, until some unknown source spread the rumor that Senior Brother Su Chengwu only acquired his later Outer Heaven Realm techniques after visiting your cave dwelling..."

"Even though Senior Brother Su Chengwu died in the Wanyin Cave of Suiyun Mountain after his trip to Xiaodao Mountain, it was clear that his method of mastering the outer realm techniques required sacrificing his lifespan, yet it still attracted many people to spy on him. However, Senior Brother, you only disappeared, and I had also reached the initial stage of the outer realm at that time, so the people of Tujian Mountain did not act rashly. After all, killing an initial stage outer realm cultivator silently would be very difficult for those who were secretly watching at the time."

"However, sixty years ago, among the disciples recruited by Tu Jian Mountain, there appeared a disciple whose talent was no less than that of Senior Brother Su Chengwu. This disciple was named Bai Diyuan. He asked me to give up my cave dwelling because he was a member of the Bai family. Since Bai Diyuan was indeed my senior brother's great-nephew, I gave him the cave dwelling."

"But what I didn't expect was that after I gave up my cave, six people attacked me together. My famous sword, Qingling, was suppressed in just one move. However, they didn't expect that this originally ordinary sword had already become connected with my mind and possessed its own divine power! Therefore, when it saw that I was in danger, Qingling Sword directly sacrificed itself to severely injure the six people."

"However, just as I was about to kill those six people, for some unknown reason, dozens of sword energies of immortal swords suddenly appeared on Tujian Mountain, causing great chaos, and I was taken away by one of the sword energies."

"When I woke up again, I found that I was dead, and had merged with that sword energy, becoming a special kind of mortal monster..."

As Huai Qiaoqiao spoke, the centipede demon shadow emerged from the seven orifices of the body, and then returned to the corpse.

Although she demonstrated it very simply, Bai Chijing could naturally understand it.

"Your true form is this corpse now?" Bai Chijing frowned as he asked this question. He could clearly see that Huai Qiaoqiao's body was currently unable to move freely.

The reason for this is that there is a sword aura within her body that has locked her limbs and bones.

It's as if this sword energy is using Huai Qiaoqiao's body as soil, taking root in it, and nurturing itself in the process.

“Yes, senior brother, even though I’ve tried so hard for so long and can only barely move my hands and feet, I’m still content. Just consider it the price I have to pay for my soul being outside and not afraid of being destroyed or killed!” Huai Qiaoqiao could also understand why Bai Chijing was frowning.

After all, when she first discovered this condition in her body, she felt the same aversion as Bai Chijing.

"After your soul was scattered outside, can it be reassembled through this corpse?" Bai Chijing asked thoughtfully. "It was killed twice. The first time was when I revealed my whereabouts and was surrounded and killed. The second time was when I went to take revenge. Although I killed the other party, their sect also sent people." Huai Qiaoqiao said casually.

"Is that so?"

Bai Chijing's inspired reflection nodded slightly, then asked Huai Qiaoqiao to wait for him.

A moment later, the inspired reflection dissipated, and Bai Chijing's true form arrived, standing on a leaf-shaped magical artifact.

This is a magical artifact crafted by Bai Chijing. Don't be fooled by its seemingly ordinary power; the main ingredients used in its construction are anything but simple.

That was a leaf from one of the Seven Fairy Gourd fruits.

Bai Chijing arrived in his true form and began to carefully examine Huai Qiaoqiao, a thoughtful expression on his face. Huai Qiaoqiao, seeing this, naturally dared not disturb him.

In this way, about two or three hours passed.

A large amount of energy began to emerge from Bai Chijing's body, but even though this energy was right under Huai Qiaoqiao's nose, she could neither see nor sense it.

As these energies flowed into the bead in Bai Chijing's right palm like birds returning to their nests, the eye-shaped object within it twitched slightly.

In an instant, words began to appear:
Today, you reunite with an old friend. Although you notice something amiss about them, you can't understand why. However, this is normal, because no one yet knows that the celestial sword about to descend will change all the past impressions of cultivators and immortals regarding such swords.

[Search and obtain the projection of the inexplicable hatred and resentment within the Immortal Sword Qingluo +1]

A strange wisp of mental energy landed on Bai Chijing. It had no effect on him, as it was merely a projection. However, even though it was just a projection, Bai Chijing was fully aware of the information contained within this mental energy.

This is part of the idea for that descending immortal sword.

This Azure Vine Immortal Sword believes that swords should not be controlled by people. Anyone who cultivates the way of the sword should respect the sword. The sword is the life, and the sword dies when the person dies.

If a person dies, then there is no need to destroy the sword along with them.

As for the practice of destroying one's own sword to give the swordsman a chance to escape, that is absolutely unacceptable.

That notion of "riding a sword" is disrespectful to the sword and should be changed to "sword attendant"...

This wasn't the whole idea behind the Azure Vine Immortal Sword, but even this one idea was enough for Bai Chijing to understand what was going on with Huai Qiaoqiao.

The current situation of Qiaoqiao should be a punishment from the Azure Vine Immortal Sword.

Moreover, don't be fooled by Huai Qiaoqiao's current appearance of immortality, relying on her body as a corpse. It's simply a matter of the time not being ripe. When the time is right, she will be doing all the work for someone else, her centuries of arduous cultivation turning into the power of another.

Unconsciously, Bai Chijing recalled the scene when his famous sword abandoned him more than a hundred years ago.

At that time, he thought it might be because his swordsmanship talent was too mediocre, and that the immortal sword that descended to earth was too special.

But now it seems that the problem wasn't with him at all; it was with that famous sword!
"The Legend of Sword and Fairy: Green Lotus..."

Although this immortal sword is only in its initial state since its descent into the world, Bai Chijing has already decided that if he has the strength in the future, he will definitely break this immortal sword!

He then used this immortal sword as material to forge a powerful immortal treasure for himself!
Anyway, he doesn't practice swordsmanship.

Then, Bai Chijing said to Huai Qiaoqiao, "Give me a few more days. Do you have anything to do lately? If so, please take care of it first."

This is because Bai Chijing is afraid that after six hours, he still hasn't found a solution to his problem.

"Senior brother, I'm fine," Huai Qiaoqiao quickly said. Having finally seen Bai Chijing, she wouldn't neglect anything else. Besides, she had already become a demon in the mortal realm; what could possibly be wrong with her?
The cultivation of demons in the mortal realm is vastly different from that of immortal cultivators!

Cultivators in the Outer Realm emphasize the cultivation of Dharma Form, Daoist practice, and internal and external tribulations. Human demons, on the other hand, only need to continuously replenish their deficiencies.

This process of spiritual practice is also known as "repairing the waning moon".

Other human demons who could reach this level would find it easier to mend the waning moon, but it would be much more difficult for Huai Qiaoqiao, because the one most compatible with her was already one of the twelve Heavenly Demon Kings of Yaotian Human World.

How is she supposed to fix this?

Because of her soaring sword energy, her own skills were extraordinary. Her opponent also possessed that soaring sword energy, and in terms of skill, he was far superior to her.

The other Heavenly Demon Kings all received at least two inheritances from the mortal sword energy of the Descending Immortal Sword, but she only had one, and it was incomplete. Her current status is entirely due to the stone left behind by Bai Chijing. Through a hundred years of living together, she has gleaned some techniques from it.

(End of this chapter)