Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 791: Direct Restocking
Previously on Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?...
"Divine Body Tempering Technique has reached the fifth level!"
Chen Huaian slowly opened his eyes, a spark of delight gleaming in their depths.
He had anticipated that absorbing the corpses and demonic souls from those demonic beasts would yield him substantial gains, yet the surge proved far more impressive than imagined.
As the immense, sea-like force churned through his frame, he tightened his grip and slammed his fist into the earth.
Boom—!
The ground trembled fiercely.
The whole surface caved in sharply, carving out a profound, fist-like depression spanning more than a hundred meters across—now, his mere bodily might alone rivaled the Unity Realm. Combined with his True Essence, the result would undoubtedly surpass mere addition.
Precisely how potent it was, Chen Huaian couldn't quite gauge.
Although he lingered at the early Unity stage for now, no one in the Unity Realm could match him."On that note, I actually faced no backlash when straight-up refining those demonic souls?" Chen Huaian reflected now and felt the oddity too. Typical cultivators couldn't process demonic souls in his manner. He ventured it solely thanks to the Divine Body Tempering Technique.
Still, he had braced himself for potential backlash.
But throughout the absorption, these demonic souls behaved remarkably tamely. Maybe his role as the Dragon Soul inheritor kept them from rebelling?
Chen Huaian rose to his feet, scanned the surroundings, and attuned to the vital energy flowing between heaven and earth. Abruptly, his face shifted.
"This isn't right—the spots of the remaining four Demon Sealing Pagodas have shifted!"
With his present cultivation, he could already detect the thick demonic aura pouring from the four Demon Sealing Pagodas.
He recalled that prior to heading back to the Cangyun Realm, the demonic aura from the Demon Sealing Pagodas had stemmed from about three directions. Yet now, the demonic aura from every one of the four Demon Sealing Pagodas surged from just one spot.
"What in the world transpired while This Venerable One absorbed the demonic souls?"
Chen Huaian felt completely perplexed.
He'd never come across tales of Demon Sealing Pagodas relocating themselves.
Judging by the present setup, it was evident the Demon Sealing Pagodas had been shifted to a single site.
What goal lay behind this move?
Was it to confront four Fierce Beasts simultaneously?
That would make for an intense ordeal.
Faced with such an irregular development, Chen Huaian had no plans to head straight to the four Demon Sealing Pagodas' site to uncover the cause. Who could tell what hazards or traps awaited there?
It might even be a ploy from Chen Niu to draw him in.
Even holding the Sect Summoning Token as his ace, he wouldn't charge ahead blindly, since activating the Sect Summoning Token required a casting period, and Chen Niu could exploit that window to strike him down. Summoning Zhang Mengchu and Lin Fan beforehand would squander their presence a tad. Their aid needed reserving for the direst instant.
"If something odd happened to the Demon Sealing Pagodas, who'd grasp the cause most clearly?"
Chen Huaian rubbed his chin, mulling it over briefly, before his gaze brightened.
With that, he soared on his sword toward the Kunlun Immortal Palace.
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"So you're telling me Chen Niu showed up once, and afterward, the Demon Sealing Pagodas shifted their locations?"
Chen Huaian knitted his brows, eyeing Hua Jin the True One seated across from him.
Hua Jin the True One's face bore a sour look, evidently fuming over Chen Niu's strong-arming.
"That's correct." Hua Jin nodded. "All four Demon Sealing Pagodas have now been relocated to Mount Taihua. Beyond that, Chen Niu also extracted the site of the upcoming Celestial Jade Marrow emergence from me. At first, I figured it just aimed to prepare some setup at the Celestial Jade Marrow's birth spot ahead of time. I never foresaw..."
Hua Jin pressed her lips together, her tone quivering. "The sites for the Celestial Jade Marrow outbursts have all been shifted inside Mount Taihua, smack in the middle of the four Demon Sealing Pagodas."
Chen Huaian: "Huh?"
It made sense that Chen Niu could relocate the four Demon Sealing Pagodas.
After all, the Demon Sealing Pagodas were tangible structures, merely extraordinarily massive. Should it wield Great Ascension Stage power on Earth Star, hoisting the Demon Sealing Pagodas would feel no harder than lifting a digit. That said, the Well of Heaven linked to the Earth Veins. Relocating the Demon Sealing Pagodas would leave the Well of Heaven fixed in its original position.
Yet now, learning from Hua Jin the True One that the Celestial Jade Marrow eruption sites had been altered too, it went well beyond simply moving the Demon Sealing Pagodas.
"Are you saying Chen Niu employed some divine ability to reshape the Earth Veins?"
"More than just a divine ability—treasures and even immortal artifacts came into play." Hua Jin the True One saw no point in misleading Chen Huaian. Having endured countless reincarnations and fierce clashes, she knew Chen Niu's might intimately.
"Chen Niu's Demon Immortal avatar typically wields only the divine ability for gravity control, but its true form can reshape Earth Veins. That's the core technique that elevated it to elite Demon Immortal status.
With Chen Niu's avatar now deploying the Earth Veins-altering divine ability, its bond to the true body must be exceptionally tight. It can now draw on the true body's divine abilities and immortal artifacts. This bodes ill for our bid in the coming Celestial Jade Marrow contest."
Hua Jin the True One felt a pounding ache in her head just considering tomorrow's confrontation.
In this reincarnation cycle, thanks to the wildcard's interference, she hadn't claimed much Celestial Jade Marrow.
Later, when the Celestial God Clan's His Lordship demanded answers, punishment awaited, seeing as she'd forfeited vital assets.
And this round, Chen Niu showed zero signs of yielding the Celestial Jade Marrow, clearly plotting to sweep it all in one go.
Chen Huaian mulled over Hua Jin the True One's explanation, a hint of solemnity emerging in his stare.
The authentic might of a Demon Immortal, was it?
He pondered its matchup against the keen edge of Lin Fan's and Zhang Mengchu's Sword Intent.
"That said, if Chen Niu schemes solely for the Celestial Jade Marrow, why cluster the four Demon Sealing Pagodas in one spot?"
"Well..." Hua Jin the True One paused in thought, then ventured uncertainly, "Assuming my guess holds, Chen Niu probably aims to draw out the wildcard this way.
I caught wind yesterday that Chen Niu had planned to hit the Demon Sealing Pagodas for Fierce Beast hunts, only for the wildcard to swoop in first.
Afterward, that wildcard likely slipped away, enraging Chen Niu, who tore through Shenlongjia in a fury, nearly leveling the whole range.
Still, it failed to track down that elusive wildcard, slick as an eel."
Hua Jin the True One flashed an odd grin.
It appeared to deride Chen Niu's fruitless outburst, yet she soon recalled the wildcard had caused all that chaos.
And that wildcard, from another angle, would largely end up as her foe.
After all, those wildcards were the ones pilfering the Celestial Jade Marrow.
With that realization, her amusement faded fast.
Chen Huaian scratched his nose.
If he wasn't wrong, the wildcard Hua Jin the True One called slick as an eel was likely himself.
Chen Niu had grown shrewd, opting to set a trap? And what bait—enormous, bundling four Demon Sealing Pagodas with a Celestial Jade Marrow burst. That was precisely the sort he couldn't ignore.
Still, Chen Niu's setup threw off his initial strategy.
He'd meant to leverage Hua Jin the True One's aid in pinpointing Chen Niu's whereabouts, then bring Zhang Mengchu and Lin Fan for a bold strike.
Now, with Chen Niu's trap laid, blind rushing in was off the table. Full-scale readiness was essential.
Chen Huaian trailed a Kunlun Immortal Palace disciple to a serene guest chamber, then pulled out his phone and launched the Electronic Girlfriend shop.
Considering his top fighting force available was Lin Fan.
Hence, he just needed to boost Lin Fan's offense and resilience without limit.
So, Chen Huaian picked Flying Swords, opting to restock.
He cranked the restock count to its peak.
———999,999 swords!
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