Cultivation through Skin Making

Chapter 774: 270. Old Friend (5.1K characters – please subscribe)_3

Jalayosa still appeared as a sword, and the floating golden human face on it was the divine soul of a Sword Dao prodigy from the Emperor’s Heart World. This sword had been sold by Di Cunxin at the star raft marketplace, and later Elder went to investigate but only found traces of past events. Unexpectedly, it was redeemed by a disciple of the Celestial Demon Palace.

Due to the lack of the Netherworld’s Water, this disciple had been unable to refine the Five Spirits, which kept the Po Xu Jade Armor and this golden human-faced sword in their original forms.

As for the Netherworld Fire, it was an “old acquaintance.” This was indeed the Black Lotus flower that Song Yan had seen before, burning the secret realm.

Di Cunxin waited in vain for him to act and curiously opened his eyes, following his gaze to see that sword.

Di Cunxin glanced at Song Yan again, only to see his gaze stern and shadowy.

He knew he couldn’t escape, not even death, because the existence capable of silently luring those demonic disciples and annihilating and controlling them was beyond his imagination.

Song Yan said, “Actually, I’ve had better swords, like a spirit treasure…”

As he spoke, he raised his hand to summon a sword previously seized from the Changfeng Immortal Dynasty.

This sword exuded a powerful aura, capable of slicing through space, far superior to this “Netherworld Gold—Jalayosa.”

“But it lacks a soul…”

“What I need is a sword that can complement mine.”

“After careful consideration, your introduction is very suitable. In fact, this Jalayosa sword holds countless prodigious souls, just lacking a backbone. An ordinary divine soul could never integrate with it, but your divine soul shares significant cause and effect with this sword. If you merge with it, it fits perfectly.

Even after refining, this sword’s level will only reach the Realm Core Realm, but if it’s used as a foundation with other materials fused in, it can naturally grow stronger gradually.”

“Would you be willing to lend me a hand?”

Song Yan was asking, but Di Cunxin had no power to refuse.

…

…

After collecting the spoils, Song Yan glanced at the surviving humans underground and lightly flicked his finger, casting a faint projection of the Solar and Lunar Fire.

This fire had no power but could provide a hundred years of normal sunlight and moonlight cycles, a way of repaying for the opportunity this place afforded him to infiltrate the Five Elements Heaven-Stealing Ship.

…

…

A month later…

Song Yan returned to the Void Ship with his demon disciple incarnation and brought the Po Xu Jade Armor before the Han family sisters.

Ning Yunmiao frowned at the evil tree filled with Netherworld’s Qi and the doll-like human form, listening as Junior Brother introduced, “This is my daughter,” while the evil tree shamelessly echoed, “This is my daddy.”

“Junior Brother!” Ning Yunmiao called Song Yan’s name with slight disapproval, saying nothing more, but her aversion to such an evil thing was evident.

Younger Wei’Er looked at the Po Xu Jade Armor and also felt it was odd.

An evil tree paired with the body of a female cultivator turned puppet just seemed strange no matter how one looked at it.

Po Xu Jade Armor sensed the awkward atmosphere and lowered her head uncomfortably, only to have her hand suddenly grasped.

She looked in surprise to see a mischievous female cultivator smiling at her, saying, “Just like my own daughter!”

Han Lingzi said, “Call me mother.”

Po Xu Jade Armor stared at her in astonishment, then obediently called, “Mother.”

Han Lingzi delightedly said, “Say it again.”

Po Xu Jade Armor happily called, “Mother.”

Han Lingzi embraced Little Jade Armor joyfully, saying, “You are the daughter of me and my husband. In the future, mother will surely care for you. Come, come, mother has lots of things beloved by Wood Spirits for you to see…”

Saying this, she began rummaging through her storage bag.

Having ransacked over half of the Western Nether Realm with Song Yan, she was quite the wealthy woman now, especially in front of Po Xu Jade Armor, a small tree yet to reach the Profound Yellow First Realm, she was a phenomenally rich mother.

Soon, Han Lingzi took out a small green bottle, sniffed it, and handed it to Po Xu Jade Armor, who swallowed it in one go, her eyes sparkling with happiness.

Song Yan watched this harmonious scene, feeling quite pleased.

He looked upwards, recalling the information he’d garnered from the demon disciple’s mind that attacking the Five Elements Heaven-Stealing Ship above was no easy feat.

The Five Elements Heaven-Stealing Ship held many secret realms, resembling a maze, and was massive in itself.

The secret realms were littered with “Spirit Stakes.”

These “Spirit Stakes” were somewhat akin to the Forbidden Stakes of the Western Nether Realm.

However, their function wasn’t to “lock spirits,” but to “enhance Five Elements-type spells.”

The Five Elements Race of the Celestial Demon Palace was weaker physically but strong in spells, so… the Five Elements Race member at the Realm Spirit Late Stage had an extremely absolute long-range advantage on the Five Elements Heaven-Stealing Ship.

“Completely breaking from the outside, destroying the Five Elements Heaven-Stealing Ship” was far easier than “sneaking inside and silently conquering the Dragon Ship.”

Except, if the Five Elements Heaven-Stealing Ship was destroyed, his plan would completely fail.

If they were discovered after boarding the Five Elements Heaven-Stealing Ship, they would… be frenziedly attacked by powerful Five Elements spells without being able to see or strike the enemy.

Song Yan pondered briefly, then looked at his outer body incarnation.

The information provided by Ning Daozhen was indeed accurate.

There was once a powerful Five Elements Race person here in the outer sky, but now the place was empty, leaving only a Five Elements Heaven-Stealing Ship and three Five Elements Race people.

He turned into the outer body incarnation known as Ling 108,321.

The other one in the Profound Yellow First Realm Core Early Stage was called Ling 101,825.

As for the one in the Profound Yellow Three Realms Realm Spirit Late Stage, it was named Ling Qianyi.

This naming by numbers was, to some extent, similar to the “Ghost Cultivator’s Bai Family,” which ranked by power by generations.

Except, a Realm Spirit Late Stage could only rank up to “Qianyi,” making Song Yan marvel at this Five Spirits Celestial Demon Palace worthy of being a rival to the Celestial Wondrous Sword Palace.

Song Yan disliked taking risks.

He disliked delving into the Five Elements Heaven-Stealing Ship and enduring thrilling life-and-death battles just for victory.

He preferred stability.

Along the way, he had supplemented his Divine Forms Demon Body with many things through void creatures, enough to try another “speech into reality.”

Therefore, he pondered, feeling the cause and effect lines on the demon disciple’s outer body incarnation and said word by word, “I… am… the Ling Qianyi you know… the good friend you’ve always wanted to meet at least once.”

At his words, almost all of his Divine Forms Demon Body was stripped away.

But, it worked.

He just needed to wait here, and the terrifying enemy, originally with the home field advantage, would obediently deliver themselves.