Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 667: Confusing the Audience

Chapter 667: Confusing the Audience

Chapter 667: Creating Confusion

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Three days slipped by.

Chen Huaian instructed Gu Changsheng to maintain a constant watch over Muscle Tyrant.

The parasitic evil entity was behaving with surprising restraint—since its return to the C Province Exorcist Division, it had meticulously performed its role as Muscle Tyrant.

It remained blissfully unaware that despite Zhao Ying, Xiang Xiaoyuan, and a few others being kept in the dark, every resident of Containment Area 0—from the Nine-Turn Spirit Orchid and Little Qing to Strawberry Bear and the Shrimp King—had sensed its true nature.

They only held back from exposing the fraud because of Chen Huaian’s explicit orders.

Nevertheless, they kept Muscle Tyrant at arm's length, no longer treating him with the same warmth as before.

Judging by the internal monologues of the entity possessing Muscle Tyrant, the creature was quite smug, fully convinced that its acting was flawless.

Chen Huaian chose to let the charade continue for now.

Throughout these three days, he spent nearly thirty hours daily within the Cangyun Realm focused on his Cultivation.

He divided his efforts between standard meditation and dual cultivation sessions with Li Qingran.

With Li Qingran receiving such intensive "nourishment," her progress was explosive. Both cultivators had successfully broken through to the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm.

Even Zhang Yibai was secretly stunned by the velocity of their advancement.

With their reach now at the mid-stage Nascent Soul, the most powerful Moon Shadow Sect expert he could summon via the Sect Summoning Token had ascended to the fifth level of Void Shattering.

This fifth-level Void Shattering powerhouse was the ultimate trump card for the upcoming struggle for the Celestial Jade Marrow!

Furthermore, to stir the pot even more, he had organized a little surprise specifically for that demon immortal’s avatar.

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A biting northern gale howled across the terrain, leaving withered plants in its wake.

At the site where the Celestial Jade Marrow was expected to burst forth, Hua Jin the True One had already positioned the Kunlun Immortal Palace disciples in a defensive array.

Abandoning all pretenses of politeness, she had seized every strategic point where the Celestial Jade Marrow might emerge.

By the time the ascenders from rival Sects calculated the coordinates and arrived, they found the eruption zones already fortified by a massive formation.

The disciples of Kunlun Immortal Palace stood defiantly at the heart of the array.

"What... what is the meaning of this, Kunlun Immortal Palace!" a voice hissed in the shadows. "In the past, Hua Jin the True One would share the eruption sites with us. Now she brings her Sect to lock down the area with formations? Such greed!"

"Precisely! And wasn't it said that Hua Jin the True One had been crippled? Why does her aura feel far more potent than before?"

"Heh, you’re behind on the news. A centipede may die, but it does not topple easily—a blow that would kill us is merely a chance for someone like Hua Jin the True One to find new life!

Remember the chaos at Kunlun Immortal Palace recently? Everyone claimed the Sect was ripe for looting, but not a single fellow cultivator who went there has ever returned."

"Do they simply prefer to stay? I suspect they simply aren't able to leave..."

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Hua Jin the True One could hear the faint murmurs of the ascenders gathered on the ridge.

She felt no sympathy for these people. The memory of these Sects trying to kick her while she was down during the palace's crisis was burned into her mind.

The fact that she hadn't already slaughtered them or driven them away was a testament to her restraint.

Furthermore, Kunlun Immortal Palace had lost most of the previous Celestial Jade Marrow harvest to a group of unknown entities.

Today, she was determined to reclaim the Sect's glory.

The second eruption usually produced ten shards of top-tier Celestial Jade Marrow.

Her goal was modest—she would be content with seven or eight. Beyond the marrow, she intended to observe whether Senior Zhang and Senior Gu were linked to those mysterious thieves from the last time.

A nagging suspicion continued to plague her thoughts.

Only with Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng at her side could she feel truly secure today.

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The sun began its descent, casting a bloody crimson glow across the mountain peaks.

Hua Jin the True One sat in solitary meditation upon a boulder, her divine sense merging with the Dao of heaven and earth. Her white robes fluttered in the ripples of an unseen energy field.

Though invisible to the untrained eye, the density of Qi in the atmosphere was rising sharply.

The Purple Star shimmered overhead as a faint violet mist drifted in from the east.

Seasoned cultivators recognized these omens: a great treasure was about to manifest. The intensity of the purple Qi on the horizon suggested this haul would far surpass the first eruption.

"They have arrived."

Hua Jin the True One snapped her eyes open, a freezing light reflecting in her pupils.

It wasn't the marrow that had appeared, but the contingent from Great Thunder Temple!

As she spoke, a crushing pressure, as heavy as the world itself, rolled out in waves from the western mountain pass.

The rogue cultivators who had been whispering among themselves were instantly silenced, like ducks being choked.

Those with lower Cultivation groaned as their complexions turned ghostly pale. They stumbled back, feeling an immense weight crushing their ribs, making every breath a struggle.

The air grew frigid, thick with a terrifying killing intent that made hearts race.

At the western pass, the fabric of space warped as a colossal figure stepped through.

The arrival was a monstrously obese monk.

Standing nearly ten feet tall, he looked like a moving mountain of meat. He wore a massive red kasava embroidered with golden swastikas, though it failed to mask the foul evil Qi radiating from him.

The fabric strained against his massive frame, threatening to burst, while his bloated face was so heavy with flesh that his eyes were reduced to thin cracks.

Yet the light behind those slits was like a frozen abyss—unfeeling, dominant, and filled with the disdain of a god looking at insects.

He held a single hand up in a prayer gesture, his thick fingers clutching a string of beads that were neither wood nor ore, glowing with a sickly, blood-red light.

Boom! Boom! Boom—!

The earth shuddered with every heavy footfall.

Dark golden Sanskrit glyphs swirled around the transformed Chen Niu, painting the sky in a pale, metallic gold.

The surrounding Sect members watched Chen Niu in a daze, their hearts turning to ice.

Though they couldn't gauge his exact realm, the sheer weight of his presence was more than they could endure.

"Hua Jin the True One, we meet again~"

Chen Niu stared her down, completely disregarding the glowing formation arrays surrounding the basin.

So what if they had prepared a formation? He would simply crush it. To him, leaving the formation runes visible was the mark of a rank amateur.

Hua Jin the True One’s face grew grim as she met his gaze. "It's you!"

She knew Chen Niu well—he was the most formidable of the five demon immortals.

She had expected a different avatar to descend. If it was Chen Niu, the situation was far more precarious...

This proved the power behind Great Thunder Temple was obsessed with winning the Celestial Jade Marrow this time.

In the past, she might have shown him respect.

But with Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng backing her, she felt no fear!

At that moment, Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng, hidden at the formation’s core within the earth's meridians, frowned.

They too felt the repulsive mixture of Buddhist light and demonic Qi within Chen Niu.

It caused the sword Qi in their Dantians to pulse with agitation.

However, they had already coordinated with Chen Huaian.

They wouldn't reveal their full power in today's conflict—they would manage the formation from the shadows without showing their hand. Publicly, they would assist Hua Jin in securing the marrow.

The true protagonist of today's events was still sitting dutifully before Chen Huaian in the Cangyun Realm, waiting for his instructions like a disciplined student.

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Burned out.