Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 782: I'll Kill You Now
Previously on Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?...
I had anticipated some potential issues, yet things proceeded with unexpected ease.
Existence within this Small Thousand World appeared to be settling into a proper rhythm at last.
Grasping the token for entry into the Battle Soul Hall along with a spark of optimism for what lay ahead, Li Qingran rushed back to the modest courtyard located in the city's northern district.
Yet, prior to stepping through the entrance, she caught the sound of soft weeping emanating from within the yard.
Her heart plummeted like a stone. Thrusting the door aside, she discovered the pair of young maidservants huddled together, their eyes puffy and inflamed from tears.
Having formed a bond with her, these two servants had likewise been expelled by Rong Wuhua.
In the beginning, under those circumstances, neither she nor Yang Fei possessed the means to support the duo, since additional dependents would only increase their burdens.
Nevertheless, Li Qingran remained kind-hearted at her core. She simply couldn't stand by as the two girls who had once attended to her faced the streets without shelter.
Even in a bustling hub like Battle Soul City, a pair of attractive young women lacking any backing would surely meet a grim fate.
She was confident in her capacity to generate income and carve out a place for herself here.
Thus, she decided to retain the two maidservants.
"What happened? Why the tears?!"
"Young Lady! You're back at last!" Spotting her arrival, the maidservants wept as though she'd become their anchor, dashing toward her. "Madam… Madam was seized by the former master's followers!"
"What?!" Li Qingran's expression twisted in shock. "When exactly? Tell me everything!"
"Soon after you departed for the Battle Soul Hall… The master arrived himself with his entourage. He claimed… he claimed Madam had secretly stashed a clan heirloom and must be brought back for interrogation… We were powerless to halt them…" The maidservant wept while hastily describing the events.
A wave of fury surged through Li Qingran, racing to her skull, while her fingers chilled to the bone in a flash.
Li Ji! The audacity of him!
What secret clan heirloom? Upon her and Yang Fei's departure from the Flame Boar Family, they carried off not a single item.
The lone Battle Soul Pill in Yang Fei's possession had been seized by Rong Wuhua as well.
Precisely what scheme was Li Ji pursuing?!
She compelled herself to steady her nerves, her thoughts whirling rapidly.
Rush over and demand her freedom?
Given that Li Ji had the boldness to act, he undoubtedly had backing. How could she, a freshly awakened Soul Master, challenge an entire family in this Small Thousand World?
Ah, yes… the Storage Ring!
The items bestowed upon her by her spouse!
She promptly directed her Divine Sense into the ring, desperately scanning its holdings.
The talismans proved ineffective, the magical artifacts lay inactive… Her spirits dropped progressively.
But then, as her attention passed over those inert Sword Spheres tucked in the corner, an abrupt shift took place—
The fresh energy stirring inside her, tied to the Su Xian Sword Battle Soul, appeared to awaken. A subtle, involuntary strand of Battle Power streamed toward one of the Sword Spheres.
*Hum—!*
That previously dim and inert Sword Sphere abruptly glowed, radiating a sharpness that stirred the soul!
A grand, awe-inspiring, fearsome Sword Intent—as if it could cleave through everything under the heavens—emerged from it. Though it vanished in a blink, reverting to dormancy swiftly, Li Qingran distinctly felt it: that force was her husband's, Chen Huaian's.
This Sword Sphere… it could truly be roused by her Battle Soul energy?!
Even if she managed to awaken just a single strand, that lone wisp of supreme Sword Intent from a Great Ascension Stage Sword Cultivator sufficed to annihilate this trivial Flame Boar Family.
Optimism flared anew, accompanied by a seething murderous urge.
Yang Fei represented the initial kindness this realm had offered her, a kin she truly accepted.
Any who threatened that bond, she would eradicate without mercy.
"You left me no choice…" Li Qingran whispered under her breath.
Her slender hand tightened around the now faintly heated Sword Sphere. The doubt in her gaze had vanished, supplanted by unyielding frost.
She remained oblivious to the shadow cast on the ground behind her, which loomed darker than its surroundings, writhing briefly in silence.
It faintly traced the form of a hunched elder before swiftly normalizing.
Old Fu hadn't meant to expose himself. With his Battle Saint prowess, concealing himself in the shadow of a simple Battle Master ought to have been imperceptible.
It was merely that, in that instant…
What was that horrifying aura that had surged forth?
And why had it burst from Li Qingran, nothing more than a Soul Master?
That aura was overwhelmingly keen, akin to myriad blades bearing down on him, nearly compelling him to flee her shadow.
Luckily, it endured for only a heartbeat.
Li Qingran pivoted and addressed the two frightened maidservants, "Remain here. Do not venture out."
With those words, she seized the Sword Sphere, summoned her recently awakened Su Xian Sword Battle Soul—its sheen muted—and marched resolutely toward the Flame Boar Family's domain.
The shadow trailing her undulated like liquid, shadowing her noiselessly.
At the gateway to the Flame Boar Family grounds.
The sentries noticed Li Qingran's approach and stepped forward to bar her, but the glacial killing aura in her stare made them falter back a pace.
Li Qingran spared them no look. She stormed into the compound, her tone crisp and frigid, laced with an authority beyond her years. "Li Ji! Come out!"
Within the central hall, Li Ji prowled restlessly. At the sound of Li Qingran's call, a brief thrill sparked in him, only to ignite into rage at her command.
He marched forth and beheld Li Qingran in the yard, sword in hand. He chuckled in bitter fury, "You ungrateful rebel! I am your father! How dare you demand I come out?"
"Return my mother." Li Qingran's words carried no emotion, her stare like eternal frost.
Under that look, Li Ji experienced a twinge of disquiet, yet his wrath intensified. "Return her? She is *my* wife! Bringing her home is perfectly justified!
You, a child of dubious birth, what gives you the authority to command me?
If you value your well-being, drop to your knees, confess your errors, and commit to serving the family faithfully henceforth. Perhaps then I'll permit you and your mother to meet again!"
"One final warning," Li Qingran lifted her arm, directing the Su Xian Sword at Li Ji. The Sword Sphere in her grasp quivered faintly, its dread Sword Intent poised for release, as if freezing the atmosphere solid. "Free my mother."
From his shadowed vantage, Old Fu arched a brow.
He detected that fearsome, piercing force descending anew, blanketing the hall in an icy shroud.
The air's chill deepened sharply.
Ice crystals bloomed across every nearby window.
He sensed the moment for action had arrived. Without his interference, dire consequences loomed.
Li Ji, sword-tip trained on him and assailed by that odd suppression, brimmed with astonishment and ire. "This is outright defiance! Pure mutiny! You point a blade at me? You've barely awakened your Battle Soul now; once your power grows, won't you simply slay me? Very well! I'll shatter your insolence today!"
Propelled by humiliation and rage, twin World Rings gleamed on his form. He prepared to deliver a harsh reprimand to Li Qingran.
"In the future?"
Li Qingran's tone turned even icier. "There is no future."
The closing five words escaped her lips with a coldness that sent shivers racing through Old Fu from crown to toe.
—"I'll kill you right now!"
This is bad!
Old Fu's instincts for peril outstripped those of a wastrel like Li Ji, still in his twenties.
He moved to strike first, aiming to bind Li Ji and halt the emergence of that ominous force.
Yet he lagged by a fraction.
He watched the girl in simple white attire advance a step, flinging a luminous orb straight at Li Ji.