Chapter 538: Heavenrise Immortal Sword’s Attack

Such maps were held only by powerful factions in the largest cities of the realm. Obtaining one would be extremely difficult, as most transactions were conducted through barter rather than ordinary purchases.

When Tushan Shanhe returned and explained what he had learned, Xiao Shou said, "It looks like if we want to leave, we’ll have to make a trip to one of the major cities in the Mystic Jade Realm first."

"Mm! Master, why not take the opportunity to enjoy the scenery of this realm?" Fu Young suggested.

In fact, when Tushan Shanhe had first mentioned searching for a realm map that morning, Fu Young had already thought of another option. He could contact the Alliance of Myriad Celestia and accept a mission that would allow them to travel out of this Spirit Realm.

However, he remembered what Yu Lin had said and thought about the man in the Alliance of Myriad Celestia who had his eyes on his master.

Not at all!

The thought made Fu Young instinctively resist the idea of contacting the Alliance of Myriad Celestia, so he had kept quiet about it. Now that Tushan Shanhe had proposed their next course of action, Fu Young was the first to agree.

For some inexplicable reason, a voice deep within him urged him not to leave this place too soon. It was as though something important here was holding him back, tugging at his steps whenever he tried to move toward leaving.

The strange feeling made him deeply uneasy.

Seeing his beloved disciple make this suggestion, Xiao Shou nodded indifferently. "Sounds good! We can take the opportunity to see the sights of the Mystic Jade Realm and broaden our horizons."

Sigh! If he had known things would be this troublesome, he should have asked about the current time while gathering information. At least then he would know which part of the novel’s storyline they were in. Even if the story had already begun, it would be fine as long as they were still within the first hundred years or so. After all, during that period, the female protagonist was busy using her mind-reading ability to coax the male protagonist.

What Xiao Shou feared most was that they had arrived during the later stages of the great calamity. If that were the case, the entire Mystic Jade Realm would be doomed.

Although he grumbled inwardly, Xiao Shou had experienced far too many things to let his worries drive him into irrational behavior. Instead, he followed Tushan Shanhe’s arrangements. That afternoon, the three of them began traveling from Grandspire City’s teleportation array, moving step by step toward increasingly larger cities.

Naturally, the expenses were considerable, but none of the three was the sort of person who would fret over such costs.

Even so, they were unable to reach a top-tier city quickly and without incident. When they arrived at the fourth-tier city of Jadeflow City and were preparing to use another teleportation array to travel to its superior city, a massive azure sword aura suddenly descended from the sky.

The sword aura was filled with dense immortal energy, and its power was far beyond anything that could be taken lightly.

Even before it landed, the enormous sword aura tore countless massive cracks into the city’s defensive barrier and the surrounding ground. The defensive barrier collapsed in an instant.

Watching this scene, Xiao Shou felt a faint, peculiar sensation in his heart. Instinctively, he released his newly crafted defensive immortal weapon, the Profound Earth Shield, which was in a sealed state.

Before he could even channel spiritual energy into it to activate the shield, a hand pressed down on his own, stopping him.

An enormous osmanthus tree, so familiar that it almost made Xiao Shou’s heart skip a beat, suddenly grew out of thin air. Its roots and branches lashed wildly into the massive azure sword aura, instantly erasing it without a trace.

At the same time, a slender root shot out at incredible speed and bound a graceful purple-clad figure in the blink of an eye. Two more roots moved simultaneously. One snatched the azure immortal sword from the graceful female cultivator’s hand, while the other pierced a vital point in her body, ending her life instantly.

The entire sequence of events unfolded so quickly that even someone observing with divine sense would have struggled to follow every detail.

Amid the panicked reactions of the surrounding cultivators, Fu Young remained completely calm. He accepted the three foot long azure immortal sword offered by the tree root and examined it briefly. When he noticed the word "Heavenrise" engraved on the hilt, he paused in surprise.

Then, as though nothing had happened, he casually stored the sword in his storage ring and turned to Tushan Shanhe and Xiao Shou.

"It’s fine now. Let’s go!"

"Uh, won’t leaving that behind cause trouble?"

Xiao Shou looked at Fu Young, who had already turned around and stepped into the teleportation array after speaking. The moment he saw the words engraved on the sword’s hilt, his scalp had practically gone numb. Yet at the same time, he felt a great sense of relief.

He finally understood what had caused that strange feeling just moments ago.

Wasn’t Jadeflow City the home of the An family, the family of An Tae, the mission client of Baili Ruoxi, the female protagonist of the system cultivation quick transmigration novel?

According to the original storyline, by the time the female protagonist arrived, Jadeflow City and a vast area of the surrounding territory had already been destroyed. The disaster had been caused by the Heavenrise Immortal Sword’s inheritor losing control of the immortal sword’s power.

But Jadeflow City was still standing now.

That sword light just now must have been the very incident that set this world’s quick transmigration storyline in motion!

Wonderful! Although his beloved disciple had done it unintentionally, he had prevented the An family from suffering its original fate. That meant An Tae would no longer be driven to the point of being willing to let her soul be scattered just to commission someone to avenge her family.