Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 671: If she can do it, so can we
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Chapter 671: If she can do it, so can we
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This was a turn of events that no one, save for Chen Huaian, could have possibly foreseen.
The moment the Celestial Jade Marrow manifested, the first person to lunge for the prize was neither Hua Jin nor the monks representing the Great Thunder Temple.
Instead, it was a female cultivator only at the mid Nascent Soul stage!
"Vermin, how dare you!" The monk Chen Niu was the first to explode in rage.
Demonic Energy erupted toward the heavens, boiling instantly. A colossal phantom of a demonic claw, armored in scales and braided with black Buddhist scriptures, formed out of thin air. It let out a piercing shriek as it tore through the void, reaching out viciously to crush the white-clad figure.
Even before the wind from the claw could strike, the overwhelming pressure had already caused the space surrounding Li Qingran to solidify.
The pupils of Hua Jin the True One also constricted violently. Her folding fan shimmered with a brilliant light as she flicked it forward.
Whoosh—whoosh—!Two streaks of emerald Sword Qi, so condensed they appeared physical, arrived later but moved faster.
The most potent strand of Sword Qi shredded the atmosphere inch by inch, clashing directly against Chen Niu’s demonic claw.
The second wave of Sword Qi seemed almost meager and weak by comparison, yet it remained incredibly sharp as it sliced toward Li Qingran.
This wasn't an act of mercy from Hua Jin the True One—she had no prior acquaintance with Li Qingran, so why would she hold back?
It was simply the only way she could simultaneously parry Chen Niu’s demonic strike while also intercepting the female cultivator.
She was filled with certainty.
Given her Void Shattering peak cultivation, even a casual flick of Sword Qi was more than enough to lethally wound a mid Nascent Soul stage Ascender!
Nevertheless, she was secretly stunned—who was this woman? How did she have the audacity to snatch food from a tiger’s mouth?
She was clearly just a mid Nascent Soul stage cultivator... this was truly dancing on the edge of a blade!
Deep within the earth veins, Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng both noticed Li Qingran’s charge toward the Celestial Jade Marrow. They knew instantly that this was Chen Huaian’s orchestration.
Though they couldn't fathom why Chen Huaian would let Li Qingran take such a gamble, they immediately triggered the grand formation. They channeled the power of the heaven-and-earth burial sword to lock onto Chen Niu.
Under this sudden suppression, the power of Chen Niu’s demonic claw was visibly dampened.
Around the basin, the eyes of countless onlookers widened in shock, and a wave of disbelief erupted from the crowd:
"Someone actually moved!"
"Nascent Soul?! A mid Nascent Soul stage cultivator actually dares to steal food right in front of two Void Shattering big bosses?!"
"This is more than just seeking death!"
"She’s so fast! Where does she get the nerve?!"
"Look at Master Chen Niu’s claw! That female cultivator is a dead woman for sure!"
In the narrow window between Chen Niu’s enraged demonic strike and Hua Jin the True One’s intercepting Sword Qi, Li Qingran’s slender fingers reached out. Under the gaze of thousands—some shocked, some confused, and some waiting for a bloodbath—she was less than three feet away from the two glowing pieces of Celestial Jade Marrow.
Chen Niu’s demonic claw was successfully parried by Hua Jin the True One’s Sword Qi.
However, the second Sword Qi attack had already closed in on Li Qingran.
If she reached for the treasure, she would be forced to endure the full weight of that Sword Qi strike.
Chen Huaian narrowed his eyes, his fingers holding a melon seed pausing for a moment. Despite his faith in Li Qingran, he was ready to intervene at a heartbeat’s notice.
At that same moment, a faint Sword Intent rose from beneath the ground, locking firmly onto Hua Jin the True One’s Sword Qi.
—It was Lin Fan.
With the help of Zhang Yibai and Gu Changsheng, Lin Fan had used the grand formation to mask his presence and had successfully tunneled beneath the basin without being detected.
He was now in a position to stop Hua Jin the True One’s Sword Qi.
But his help proved unnecessary.
In a flash, Li Qingran suddenly whirled around and unsheathed her blade.
A burst of silvery-white Sword Light exploded in front of her. Simultaneously, she reached out and snatched both pieces of Celestial Jade Marrow that had just fully materialized in the air.
Clang—!
The Sword Light successfully blocked Hua Jin the True One’s Sword Qi, and in that split second of hesitation...
The premium Celestial Jade Marrow was already secured inside Li Qingran’s storage pouch. With a elegant flourish of her sword, her Sword Light bloomed like autumn lotuses, swallowing Hua Jin the True One’s Sword Qi whole.
Crack—!
The dense Sword Light instantly shredded the incoming Sword Qi to pieces.
Li Qingran catapulted backward. Just as Chen Niu’s demonic claw was about to reach her, she performed a graceful roll and vanished into a spatial tunnel.
"Ah! Do not think you can escape!" Chen Niu was so consumed by rage that smoke almost billowed from his seven orifices. His demonic claw lunged into the spatial rift after her, but it was immediately shredded by spatial storms, grasping nothing but air.
Chen Huaian let out a quiet sigh of relief.
This girl was incredibly daring—he had instructed her to take one, yet she grabbed two.
Fortunately, the strategy was a success. Li Qingran had triggered the return function of [Divine Wandering in the Void] and had already retreated to the Cangyun Realm with two pieces of premium Celestial Jade Marrow.
Chen Niu and Hua Jin the True One stood there in a daze, staring at the closing spatial rift. Their Divine Sense swept across the entire region, but they found nothing.
The nimble female cultivator had vanished right before their eyes, as if she had never been on Earth Star at all.
A deathly silence fell over the entire basin.
The expressions of the various sect Ascenders watching from the surrounding peaks became increasingly stunned.
"She... she actually did it?!" An old Taoist with a long beard looked on with bulging eyes, his chin trembling. "She! She took two pieces?! And she got away?!"
"Mid Nascent Soul stage! A mere mid Nascent Soul stage cultivator! Right under the noses of two Void Shattering big bosses and a crowd of greedy experts, she actually had the gall to steal two pieces of premium Celestial Jade Marrow!" A young cultivator’s face was red with excitement, his fists clenched as if he were the one who succeeded. "Did you see that? Did you see?! Fortune truly favors the bold!"
"How did she manage that? That movement! That sword technique! And that final escape into the void... wow, she was perfectly prepared!" Someone else’s eyes shimmered with newfound greed, staring intensely at the earth veins in the center of the basin which continued to spray pillars of purple-gold light. "If she can do it, why can't I?!"
The faces of Chen Niu and Hua Jin the True One were so dark they looked like they might drip ink.
Both had been so fixated on each other’s moves and the treasure itself that they allowed a "little insect" to slip through the gap.
And that insect had actually escaped!
This was a staggering humiliation!
Hua Jin the True One could still keep her composure, though she was baffled as to how a mid Nascent Soul stage cultivator could withstand her Sword Qi.
Furthermore, she possessed skills in divination—the girl might escape the monk, but she couldn't escape the temple.
She could simply calculate the girl's location later; those two pieces of premium Celestial Jade Marrow would eventually return to Kunlun Immortal Palace.
Chen Niu, however, was past the point of reason. Two jets of hot white air steamed from his massive nostrils, his eyes turned bloodshot, and his mixed demonic-Buddhist aura churned in a violent frenzy. He was at the absolute peak of fury.
A variable!
He screamed internally.
That female cultivator just now was undoubtedly another 'variable'!
He felt his demonic claw enter a strange dimension where the laws of heaven and earth were completely disconnected from Earth Star.
Before he could investigate further...
His claw had been consumed and torn apart by that foreign space.
Could there truly be this many 'variables'?
Or was the judgment of the Golden Scale Heaven-Piercing Python flawed?
Chen Niu’s thoughts were a mess. He wanted to leave and report this to his master immediately.
However, the Celestial Jade Marrow was still appearing, with eight pieces left—he couldn't allow himself to be distracted.
Hum—!
At that precise moment, the third piece of premium Celestial Jade Marrow finally broke free from the earth veins. Emitting a purple-gold glow even more radiant than the first two, it shot into the sky with a "whoosh," hovering several zhang up. It rotated slowly, releasing an intoxicating, irresistible aura.
That mesmerizing light, that dense Spiritual Energy...
It completely set fire to the "wishful thinking" burning in the hearts of the surrounding Ascenders!
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