After Breaking Off the Engagement, I Started Pursuing My Master-Chapter 152 - Choices

Jiang Huai and Wen Wanwan sat down on the bluestone, with Wen Wanwan leaning against the edge of the stone slab to rest while Jiang Huai closed his eyes and began to ponder the next course of action.

If he couldn’t kill Mo Dan, all he could do was to hide in this secret realm inherited from Qingxuan True Person and wait for the secret realm of Daoji Ancestral Land to open, so he could escape. He had already gambled with his life once and had given it his all. Even if he hid this time, he would have no regrets.

The atmosphere inside the cave became somewhat oppressive. At this moment, Jiang Huai quietly began to feel a sense of regret.

If he had completed more system tasks earlier, if he hadn’t used those experience scrolls to save those children... If he had saved everything for this moment facing Mo Dan, he might not have been in such a sorry state, he might have had the strength to fight.

After a moment, he knocked on his head, realizing such thoughts were unhelpful.

The dim cave was slightly cold, and the glow from the flowstone on the walls cast a warm light. Jiang Huai pulled Wen Wanwan into his arms, softly soothing her emotions. She leaned against him, docile as a little rabbit.

Until, within the secret realm, a light flashed, and Qingxuan True Person returned to this place.

“You’re awake,” Qingxuan True Person said to Jiang Huai, her expression somewhat complex.

“Mhm,” Jiang Huai nodded lightly as he stood up.

“Earlier, I had cut Mo Dan’s original body in two, but his bone dust condensed into another body, and his flesh turned into red worms. After climbing onto that skeleton, they came back to life, and his cultivation also stepped into the Void Refining stage.”

“That’s the Blue Bone Gu, a magical creature he refined from the bone dust of those strong beings before their deaths. It’s also his second life. You’ve done exceptionally well to get this far,” Qingxuan True Person said after a moment of silence.

She raised her hand, and a light screen appeared in front of Jiang Huai.

The screen showed the dense forest where the Thundercloud Cauldron still hovered in mid-air, creating a barrier of thunder pools. Inside the barrier, the cultivators who were still alive each had a blood-red thread connecting from their hearts. These threads all converged together, centering on a blood-red fetus that seemed to be slowly growing.

“What is this?” Jiang Huai asked, puzzled.

“He’s refining a new Chaotic Blood Body. You killed his body earlier, and the body attached to the Blue Bone Gu has a cultivation of Void Refining first-level but cannot advance. To continue his cultivation, he naturally needs to use a body capable of cultivation again. He’s slowly devouring the blood, flesh, and souls of the remaining hundred people with his Gu to create a new body for himself.”

“Is there still a chance to save them?”

Xu Qing, who was beside them, saw her Junior Brothers and Sisters in the light screen.

Their bodies had only become slightly emaciated and had not yet turned into mummies.

Qingxuan True Person slowly answered, “If those blood threads can be severed within six hours, there is still hope.”

“But his Blue Bone Gu currently has the cultivation of Void Refining first-level.”

As Qingxuan True Person spoke, the light in Xu Qing’s eyes dimmed immediately.

Void Refining was the sixth realm, and with her Foundation Establishment late-stage strength, the opponent could kill her with just a thought.

“Jiang Huai,” Qingxuan True Person suddenly turned her gaze to Jiang Huai.

“What’s the matter with your sea of qi?”

“Huh?” Jiang Huai was confused and looked up, wondering why she suddenly asked about this.

“If your sea of qi hadn’t shattered, with all the heavenly spiritual energy and spiritual treasures in our old fellows’ secret realms, we could have raised your cultivation to Void Refining third-level. But I see your sea of qi is shattered...”

Jiang Huai gave a wry smile.

“My sea of qi shattered previously while saving a group of children from an evil cultivator. To this day, I haven’t found a way to restore it.”

“How did you manage to kill the original body of the Refining Yin Demon Gu inheritor?”

“Relying on sword momentum and some secret methods that temporarily increased my cultivation, but those methods have already been used up.”

Hearing this, Xu Qing hesitated for a moment before she looked up at Qingxuan True Person.

“Qingxuan True Person... I am willing to fight Mo Dan. Can you give me the inheritance that increases cultivation?”

Xu Qing’s eyes were very serious and pure. Jiang Huai believed she wasn’t coveting the cultivation of Void Refining first-level but genuinely wanted to save her Junior Brothers and Sisters.

However, Qingxuan True Person sighed softly, “Even if you received that inheritance, Refining Yin Demon Gu has many methods. You only have mastered sword intent, not enough to defeat him.”

Xu Qing’s face turned red, but she couldn’t say anything in response.

Jiang Huai stood up.

“How many other immortal inheritances are there in the secret realm?”

“Besides me, there are three others.”

Qingxuan True Person looked at Jiang Huai’s face, and after a moment of silence, she said, “There are two choices in front of you, Jiang Huai.”

“Please tell me.”

“One is to hide in my secret realm. I will do my utmost to keep you safe. After the secret realm ends, you must spread the news of Refining Yin Demon Gu throughout the entire Eastern Region so that the cultivators above the eighth realm can immediately start searching for his whereabouts and kill him. He has Refining Yin Demon Gu and has probably already prepared an escape plan after leaving Daoji Ancestral Land. It will be extremely difficult to find him later.”

“And the second choice?” Jiang Huai continued to ask.

“You’re not choosing the first one?”

“It’s not that. I just want to hear both options...”

Jiang Huai couldn’t quite explain what he was thinking at the moment. Perhaps the first choice was indeed the best.

“I will take you to the remaining two secret realms of inheritance. I want you to obtain their inheritances. Afterward, the four of us will use the last of our waning soul power to draw the spiritual energy within Daoji Ancestral Land to your body, forcibly raising your cultivation and soul to Void Refining first-level.”

As Jiang Huai hesitated, Qingxuan True Person added, “But with your shattered sea of qi, such a forced increase in your cultivation will greatly consume your lifespan. Even if we prepare a spiritual fruit for you that can increase your lifespan by a thousand years, once your cultivation dissipates, your lifespan will be almost exhausted, not exceeding five years.”

“I’ve told you both choices. Whichever you choose, we won’t blame you.”

Qingxuan True Person calmly finished speaking and then quietly waited for Jiang Huai’s answer.

“I’m not too worried about the lifespan issue...” Jiang Huai’s expression showed a hint of hesitation.

He carried the Primordial Life and Death Sword and indeed wasn’t worried about lifespan issues.

Even if he only had five years left in the end, he could go and kill evil cultivators who were beyond redemption to take their lifespan.

What he was worried about was whether, even if his cultivation reached Void Refining first-level, he could truly kill Refining Yin Demon Gu without fail?

Many people in the Eastern Region thought that Tianxuan Sect’s Jiang Huai was a fool, a simpleton filled with naive compassion, but that wasn’t the case.

That time he saved those children because he thought the evil cultivator’s altar only had a Nascent Soul late-stage, which he could easily kill with an experience scroll without any impact... But what he faced was a Divine Transformation tenth-level, and his cultivation was destroyed, which was a lesson for him.

So what about this time?

Should he hide in the cave like a coward, or accept the inheritance and give it his all?

Jiang Huai looked down slightly, glancing at the Ye Ning sword placed beside him. Sensing his gaze, the sword spirit flew out of the sword.

Ye Ning’s sword spirit, Little Ning, looked like a cute fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in a cute black dress, her body ethereal like a ghost. She sat on the floating Ye Ning sword, swinging her soft white legs. Knowing Jiang Huai had something to say, she waited quietly.

“Little Ning, which choice do you think I should make?”

Ye Ning blinked innocently.

“Master, when you asked, didn’t you already have an answer?”

Jiang Huai gave a wry smile.

“Actually, I’m a bit afraid.”

Ye Ning nodded gently. “I know.”

“But if I’m afraid now and act like a coward, then I’m not a disciple of Chu Xianning.”

“I guess it’s not just that, right?”

Ye Ning’s eyes curved, and her lips smiled lightly.

“There’s also hatred.”

Jiang Huai looked at Little Ning’s charming smile and couldn’t help but smile as well.

“Yes, there’s also hatred.”

He never seriously practiced swordsmanship because he knew his sword momentum had reached its limit. Even if he practiced harder, he wouldn’t make any progress, not because he was lazy.

For many years, he seemed indifferent to winning or losing because he was always the winner, or perhaps victory or defeat wasn’t crucial to him and didn’t affect anything.

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But this was truly the first time he had been pushed into such a desperate situation, even causing his sword-holding hand to tremble slightly.

Fear and anger coexisted, and Jiang Huai seemed to hear the thumping of his heartbeat, like flames crackling and burning.

He raised his hand, and the hesitation on his face gradually disappeared, his previously indecisive eyes becoming resolute.

“I choose the second one.”

Jiang Huai looked up, his eyes directly meeting Qingxuan True Person’s.

“I want... to kill him with my own hands!”