Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 756: Repairing the Boundary Gate
Previously on Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?...
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The Electronic Girlfriend Game expected him to assist Li Qingran in entering a miniature world?!
Didn't that seem... overly generous toward him...
If he possessed the knowledge to transport Li Qingran safely to a miniature world for practice, why would he remain seated in meditation without uttering a single word?
Silence from him stemmed from his desire for seasoned experts like Su Qinian and Zhang Mengchu, veterans of miniature worlds, to tackle the issue!
Should those two frequent visitors to miniature worlds fail to resolve it, he himself would be at a loss.
In terms of overall experience and understanding of the Cangyun Realm, he lagged far behind not just Zhang Mengchu but even Su Qinian.
Yet the primary mission demanded completion.
Right as Chen Huaian mulled over his next move...
[Limited Time Special Offer: Miniature World Exploration Mega Pack!]
<1> Gain temporary True Immortal strength to rip apart a passage between realms and dispatch Li Qingran to a miniature world—Price: 888 top-grade spirit jade (Risk Warning: The target miniature world cannot be controlled. Dispatching her to a highly perilous one could lead to Li Qingran's demise! Note: Death of the Electronic Girlfriend cannot be undone, so consider carefully before proceeding!)
<2> Offer up every Demon Race inhabitant in the Hundred Thousand Mountains to forge a pathway to the Ten Thousand Demons Realm Domain. Single-use offering of all demons: 1888 top-grade spirit jade (Risk Warning: The Ten Thousand Demons Realm Domain poses extreme peril! Such a sacrifice will provoke the wrath of every demon in the Ten Thousand Demons Realm Domain!)
<3> Employ unparalleled supreme might to mend the Dimensional Gate. Subsequent supply of three Celestial Jade Marrow fragments required to power the gate—Price: 18888 top-grade spirit jade (Risk Warning: Once repaired, the Dimensional Gate allows Li Qingran access to a more fitting miniature world for cultivation. Yet, without adequate follow-up powering, she cannot return to the Cangyun Realm short of attaining True Immortal cultivation!)
Ah, so it boiled down to him simply spending a fortune to fix things?
He'd imagined it required him to endanger himself in some epic, heroic feat...
Chen Huaian eyed the three choices, his eyebrows knitting together faintly.
What was there even to decide? They could've just forced the third choice down his throat!
Still, the cost was outrageous!
Mending the Dimensional Gate demanded 18888 top-grade spirit jade.
Despite his command over numerous Celestial Jade Marrow deposits yielding a constant flow of top-grade spirit jade each day, the sheer expense stabbed at him like a knife.
Painful as it might be, ensuring Li Qingran's well-being made this hefty outlay of top-grade spirit jade an absolute necessity.
Without hesitation, Chen Huaian selected the third option for purchase.
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Cangyun Realm, Upper Realm.
"I figured you'd go for the third." White Sword glanced at the heap of top-grade spirit jade ejected by the Giant Golden Eyeball, a slight curve forming at his lips.
"That said, this quantity of top-grade spirit jade isn't enough to fix the Dimensional Gate on its own." He swiveled to address the Giant Golden Eyeball. "Summon Tu Shan Yue and Real Person Jade Compassion to lend a hand. This Venerable One shall erect a Grand Formation to draw out the power from the top-grade spirit jade and direct the Dimensional Gate's mending. They won't sit idle; both must pour in energy toward the gate's revival!"
"Moreover, to render it believable, stir up some celestial and terrestrial spectacles amid the repair. Stage a show, understood?"
The Giant Golden Eyeball dipped in affirmation.
Performing? That was second nature to it.
It promptly dispatched a summons to Tu Shan Yue and Real Person Jade Compassion, urging them to rush over and gather.
At the same time, White Sword swept his sleeve.
A miniature model of the Cangyun Realm, alive with illusory visions of peaks, valleys, and waterways, appeared suspended in midair.
His stare keen like a bolt of thunder, he fixed upon the remote northern frozen territories displayed on the model.
Lifting his hands, he grasped and shaped the void.
Suddenly, intricate webs of celestial meridians and earthly longitudes, resembling an enormous chess grid, sprang into existence over the whole model.
Finger extended like a blade, he targeted crucial peaks and waterways in the northern expanse of the model, jabbing at them through the air.
Each jab sent a brilliant spark diving into the model's landscapes.
And in the actual, expansive frozen wastes of the Cangyun Realm's extreme north far below...
BOOM—!
The matching peaks, waterways, and soil quaked fiercely. Vast, arcane, luminous Formation Patterns quietly surfaced from beneath the earth.
These Formation Patterns linked up, crafting a colossal array that stretched across thousands of li. It voraciously pulled in and directed the colossal Spiritual Energy from the Earth Veins and nearby skies and lands, converting it into a tangible flood of spiritual power that roared toward the Dimensional Gate's remnants.
By now, Tu Shan Yue and Real Person Jade Compassion had assumed their spots.
Witnessing White Sword's maneuvers, they stood in complete confusion, and for the first time, they detected a hint of gravity in White Sword's expression.
"Why are you lot just standing there?!" White Sword huffed in disdain. "Have you all lost your minds? Get moving and infuse Immortal Essence into the formation!"
"Got it, White Sword brother!" Tu Shan Yue bobbed her head submissively, displaying zero resentment.
Her fawning demeanor prompted Real Person Jade Compassion to shake her head over and over.
She murmured in a whisper so faint yet deliberately loud enough for White Sword to catch: "Aiyo... We energize the core daily, and now this formation demands our energy too. We get that immortality turns us into workhorses, but surely a bit of rest is in order?"
Before White Sword could respond, Tu Shan Yue erupted first.
"Jade Compassion, if you refuse, others will gladly step up! Quit your idle prattle!"
Real Person Jade Compassion rolled her eyes and shot back with mockery, "Oh, easy for you to say when you're not the one aching. We've only got three folks here. Without me, who do you intend to rope in? You can't possibly mean hauling that Heavenly Dao's Eye into labor too?"
"I..." Tu Shan Yue faltered for a moment, throwing a timid look toward the Heavenly Dao's enormous eyeball.
She had learned that her tribulation's success owed to the Heavenly Dao's giant eyeball showing mercy.
White Sword didn't intimidate her, yet the Heavenly Dao's giant eyeball instilled in her a primal dread.
After all, the Heavenly Dao's giant eyeball's cold, unrelenting stare had made it plain: absent that leniency, death was certain!
"Fine, fine, I'm too generous to squabble with a vixen." Catching White Sword's hostile glare, Real Person Jade Compassion recognized the moment to yield. She pattered over to the model with tiny steps, rested one hand on her chin while pressing the other onto a Formation Pattern there, and started infusing Immortal Essence.
Directed by White Sword, bolstered by the Immortal Essence from Jade Compassion and Tu Shan Yue alongside the vast stockpile of top-grade spirit jade, the formation rooted in heaven and earth swiftly coalesced.
At the same instant, the golden Heavenly Dao's Eye hovering close by abruptly widened. Innumerable law symbols danced and gleamed in its iris.
It commanded the principles governing this swath of heaven and earth, commencing to "craft" omens overhead the Dimensional Gate's ruins.
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In the Cangyun Realm's remote north, the fierce gales continued to rage.
Su Qinian and Zhang Mengchu had already linked up with the leading Li Qingran. Together, the trio pressed onward against the harsh northern winds, following their prior route.
It was then—
HUMMMMMMMM!!!
A profound, echoing vibration, echoing from ancient chaos, abruptly rattled the whole frozen expanse!
The icy terrain underfoot shuddered with intensity!
"What's going on?!" Su Qinian cried out in shock, scanning about wildly.
Zhang Mengchu snapped his gaze skyward and inhaled sharply, drawing in a gulp of frigid air. "The sky... the sky is shifting!"
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