Cultivating In Secret Beside A Demoness

Chapter 1691: Chapter 1398: The Demoness's Knife_2 Chapter 1691: Chapter 1398: The Demoness's Knife_2 “Is that so?” Heavenly Note Sect looked back at the man behind her, smiling, “That means no matter who your senior sister introduces to you, you'll reject them?”

“Rejecting is a bit too much.” Jiang Hao shook his head seriously, “Such a progression will not occur. Once a stage of acceptance or rejection is reached, it creates a cause and effect connection.”

“I don't wish to be entangled in such troubles.”

Hearing this, Heavenly Note Sect chuckled, “Is that so?”

“Of course.” Jiang Hao nodded.

“Do you lie?” Heavenly Note Sect turned and continued walking forward.

“When speaking with a senior, I always speak from the heart.” Jiang Hao said earnestly.

“Uh-huh.” Heavenly Note Sect nodded as she walked, “One who can lie.”

Then she added, “Your sister and brother-in-law aren't bothering you anymore?”

“Uh-huh.” Jiang Hao nodded.

“How did you answer them?” Heavenly Note Sect asked casually.

Jiang Hao spoke the truth.

Upon hearing this, Heavenly Note Sect paused, then turned around and said, “Why wait for a while?”

“These days, I have sensed something and wish to try for an advancement. Moreover, it's time to head to the North.”

“It's been two hundred years. It wouldn't be right not to go.”

“The Holy Thief Seal needs to be strengthened.”

“I dare not forget a senior's business for a moment.” Jiang Hao said sincerely.

Heavenly Note Sect chuckled, “You seem quite enthusiastic at this moment.”

“A senior's business naturally takes precedence. Besides…” Jiang Hao hesitated.

Heavenly Note Sect took her eyes off him and approached the lakeside, “Besides what?”

Jiang Hao lowered his gaze, maintaining an expression of neither sorrow nor joy, before finally speaking,

“I might seek to comprehend the seventh form.”

Upon hearing this, Heavenly Note Sect was taken aback and then spoke indifferently, “So you're close to comprehension? Well, go and enhance your cultivation first.”

Jiang Hao nodded, then with a step, he entered the Hundred Flowers Lake.

Heavenly Note Sect watched.

Waiting for the lake to calm down,

She then turned and walked toward the pavilion.

Upon reaching the chair, she sat down slowly.

She poured herself a cup of tea and drank it unhurriedly.

Only the wind around her rustled the flowers of Hundred Flowers Lake, and disturbed the tips of her hair.

She smoothed her hair, set down her teacup, and gazed down at the tea, lost in thought.

After a moment,

It seemed she thought of something, as she slightly turned her head to look somewhere else.

Soon, she turned her head back and sighed softly.

Afterward, she placed her gaze on the surface of the lake, somewhat concerned about when it would show changes.

Jiang Hao began his advancement only after sinking to the bottom of the lake.

This advancement was the same as before; the Tao manifested in the nothingness.

Everything went smoothly.

When the Tao transformed into strength, Jiang Hao emerged from cultivation, and then came the blade intent of the Moon-Slaying saber technique.

This time, he also saw a figure.

But it was different from before.

This time, the figure was much clearer, no longer blurred.

It was a young girl, holding a saber in her hand, starting to learn each move one by one.

She progressed quickly, from ignorance to the basics, to proficiency, to slashing with a moonlight saber intent.

Jiang Hao could feel her spiritedness.

Afterward, the spiritual essence of the figure began to change, climbing endlessly.

Her saber intent burst forth like the sea's vast waves, and her innate talents seemed boundless.

Jiang Hao began to understand her saber, feeling her intent.

As if unconsciously, he had become that girl.

Her heart higher than the heavens, her saber pointing to the void, invincible.

Jiang Hao felt as though nothing in the world could stop this saber slash.

Until that day.

Jiang Hao sensed traces of the seventh form of the Heavenly Blade.

The figure, once a child, had now grown into an adult.

She stood in the great heavens, suppressing the eternal firmament.

At the top of the endless heights, she took another step forward.

Jiang Hao felt everything about her, clearly sensing her swing of the saber, cutting through the void, splitting heaven and earth.

Her saber slashed across the heavens, the space tore open, a vast blade intent emerged, and Jiang Hao clearly understood this was the East Heavenly Pole.

However, the woman's saber did not pause, continuing to cleave through heaven and earth.

Then a new saber intent appeared once again.

Jiang Hao had felt this blade intent before in the Ruins of Return; it was the Helpless Heaven.

The saber did not stop, slashing towards the void, intending to strike her own version of the seventh form of the Heavenly Blade.

In an instant, Jiang Hao unexpectedly felt a tinge of nervousness.

The saber fell into the void.

Clang!

But it was unclear what it struck, as the saber could not advance.

However, Jiang Hao sensed her determination. She had used her all for this slash, striking again.

Crack!

The saber cut through the void.

But…

It was only the hilt.

Clang!

The blade broke and plummeted into nothingness, as if it had fallen to the ground.

For a moment, heaven and earth fell silent.

The saber was broken.

The seventh form of the Heavenly Blade, an attempt to break through, had failed.

At this time, he felt that the woman stood there stupefied, seemingly bereft of the ability to think.

Since her cultivation began, she was spirited and confident, sweeping her peers and crushing her elders.

Since she had stepped onto this path, she had never tasted defeat.

But now…

The saber she took pride in… broke!

A grief beyond words surged from the depths of her heart.

Drip, drip!

Jiang Hao felt tears landing on the broken saber at his feet.

Large teardrops fell one after another.

No matter how she wiped them away, the tears just kept coming.

She remained standing there until her teardrops disappeared, until the void around her dispersed, until everything returned to normal.

The sun and the moon revolved around her in succession, the seasons changed in her presence.

After countless years, she picked up the saber again and gazed toward the heavens.

A voice, as if piercing through endless years, reached Jiang Hao's ears.

“Even without the seventh form, I can still shatter your heavens.”

At that instant, Jiang Hao sensed an unprecedented fighting spirit bursting forth from her.

Once more, she wielded her saber.

For a moment, the indescribable sword's intent filled Jiang Hao's gaze.

He recognized each move and form, but it was not the sword's intent he understood before.

At this moment, it was as if a brand-new door had opened, allowing Jiang Hao to feel his own saber rapidly becoming whole again.

He was ecstatic, astonished that the world could contain such favored and blessed sons of heaven.

She exceeded all his expectations.

When all the blade intent was displayed, Jiang Hao felt that the woman's saber technique had been fully realized.

Realized in an unimaginable way.

But as her technique reached completion, suddenly a hand rested on the woman's forehead.

“You've done well, but the third heaven may never have existed in the first place. Sleep, I… your teacher, have left the future to you.”

In that moment, Jiang Hao opened his eyes.

At the same time, he found himself appearing above the water's surface.

Everything that had just happened shook him.

And those words too.

If his guess was correct, that figure must naturally be from Heavenly Note Sect.

She failed to realize the seventh form but…

What did that person's words mean?

“The third heaven may never have existed.”

The East Heavenly Pole, Helpless Heaven, and the third heaven?

At that moment, Jiang Hao felt as though he had understood everything.

Does the Heavenly Blade correspond to the Supreme Immortal Court's three heavens?

The appearance of the Great Overarching Heaven in the seventh form of the Heavenly Blade, could it be the possibly nonexistent third heaven?

Was Heavenly Note Sect learning the seventh form of the Heavenly Blade to create the third heaven?

Jiang Hao recalled his conversation with Helpless Heaven.

It seemed that Heavenly Note Sect's teacher might very well be Helpless Heaven.

Jiang Hao was deeply moved, for the era of Helpless Heaven was so distant from the present.

How many years had Heavenly Note Sect lived to this day?

Without further thought, Jiang Hao turned to look at Heavenly Note Sect in the pavilion.

He simply saw her sipping tea, eyes downcast, lost in thought.

Moreover, the fact that he could sense all this so clearly must be because she allowed it.

Otherwise, he would not have felt the sword's intent so vividly.

Truly inconceivable.

“Senior, your innate talents can shake the heavens and the earth,” Jiang Hao blurted out subconsciously.

Hearing this, Heavenly Note Sect glanced at him, “You're slightly stronger, being at the sixth stage of the Immortal Ascension Platform at four hundred years.”

Hearing this, Jiang Hao curiously asked from within the pavilion, “At what age did senior ascend?”

“The times are different, and the ages of ascension cannot be compared,” Heavenly Note Sect said as she took out a teacup, placed it in front of Jiang Hao, and poured him a cup.

She then reminded him, “You are four hundred and eleven years old now.”

Jiang Hao was somewhat surprised, had a year unknowingly passed by?

“Senior, when do you plan to venture out?” Jiang Hao asked as he sat down.

Heavenly Note Sect pondered for a moment before replying:

“Anytime is possible.”

With that, Jiang Hao said, “After planting the One Heart Palm, shall we depart in a few days?”

Heavenly Note Sect looked at the man before her, her expression calm, and nodded, “Alright.”