Chapter 514 - 455: Snow Venerable Awakens

At this moment, Chu Huaixu felt nothing but a chill running down his spine.

He can... shut down my system!!?

After crossing into "Borrowed Sword," the gaming system had always been Chu Huaixu’s greatest support.

It was his golden finger, his cheat code.

He always knew that without the system, he was merely a Pseudo Spiritual Embryo.

Even though he could grow by knowing part of the game’s plot, the growth speed would definitely not be as fast as now.

He might not have developed the Heart Sword and was unlikely to fuse with the Night Venerable Fruit Position.

Not to mention, just recently, he used Absolute Defense to mend the heavens with a wave of his hand!

Up until now, no one had discovered this greatest secret of his.

He always thought the system was above everything.

After all, "Borrowed Sword" was just a game.

But why could the person in front of him see through the fact that he had a system at a glance and even claim to shut it down?

If the Dao Ancestor merely saw through this, Chu Huaixu would have felt slightly better.

"Could it be some ability similar to a mind reading technique?"

"Or can they extract my memories?"

If someone could indeed read minds or access his memories, then naturally they could know about the system.

But if they could shut down the system, that would be too absurd.

"Doesn’t that mean they’ve transcended the realm of ’Borrowed Sword’?"

Chu Huaixu instantly felt goosebumps all over his body.

He vaguely felt that his hair was really about to stand up.

He even subconsciously took half a step back without realizing it.

Then, Chu Huaixu immediately tried to activate the Heart Sword.

The immense fear in his heart gave birth to a sense of resistance.

He originally bore a grudge against the Old State Preceptor, Ming Xuanji.

He naturally didn’t like this old man who tried to reverse the chaos.

Now, having obtained Ming Xuanji’s relics, he inexplicably entered this realm.

Who knows what kind of place this is?

Who knows whether the person in front of him is really the Dao Ancestor?

What if this is some Illusion Realm, or a Heart Inquiry Formation, or a Heart Demon Formation?

But the Heart Sword showed no response.

The young Daoist sitting cross-legged in front of him lifted his eyes to glance at him.

Even though the face of the Dao Ancestor still seemed shrouded in a thick mist, Chu Huaixu firmly believed he was now wearing a smile, with eyes full of amusement.

"You want to use the Heart Sword to cut through the illusion, thinking this is an Illusion Realm?" he directly pointed it out.

Chu Huaixu couldn’t help but shudder once again in his heart.

Even more troubling was that the Heart Sword showed no response at all.

"So, where exactly am I now?" he looked up and asked.

But the Dao Ancestor’s answer made him feel even more lost in confusion.

"You are in the present, yet also a thousand years ago," the Dao Ancestor said faintly.

....

....

At the Daoist Hall.

Nobody knew why Chu Huaixu suddenly fell into a coma.

Nor did anyone know what power the black bead just emitted was.

"His appearance now looks just like when he was ensnared by a Nightmare back then," Li Chunsong said, frowning.

Xiang Yan turned and looked at Lin Zixuan, saying, "Miss Lin, I think you might need to give us an explanation."

Lin Zixuan’s face was full of shock and some panic: "Sect Leader Xiang, I am not quite sure what happened either."

"When it... when it entered my body, I didn’t feel anything."

"I also don’t know why it would merge into that black bead."

But the girl quickly recalled something, exclaiming: "I remember, my master said before he left, that the greatest fortune he encountered in his life might... might have been left by the Dao Ancestor himself."

"He said that what he thought he divined was actually just what the Dao Ancestor wanted him to discern!"

Upon these words, Xiang Yan and Li Chunsong exchanged a glance.

"Dao Ancestor!?"

Hearing these words, they felt somewhat relieved.

"Let’s just hope Huaixu doesn’t encounter any mishaps."

And at this moment, the crowd was unaware that outside the Mountain Protection Array of the Daoist Sect, a plump black cat had somehow already found its way to a forest at the mountain’s foot.

This Ninth Realm Cat Demon still had several blood streaks on its body.

It would occasionally lick its own wounds.

Then, it would look up at the familiar yet foreign Daoist Sect.

It just quietly crouched atop an ancient tree, seemingly waiting for something.

...

...

In the Daoist Hall, seeing that Chu Huaixu wouldn’t wake up any time soon, Xiang Yan and Li Chunsong planned to send him back to the Junzi Temple first.

On the way, Xiang Yan felt somewhat speechless.

Because among this family of three, he had just sent one.

Xiaoxu had fainted after overusing the Bronze Sword.

Xiang Yan had just returned him to his residence to recuperate, and it’s fortunate if he wakes up tomorrow.

But who would have thought that not long afterward, one who had just woken up briefly has fainted again.

Now, none of this family of three is awake.

Han Shuangjiang was still frozen by a massive ice crystal, still fusing with the Snow Venerable Fruit Position.

She had been in this state for quite some time.

After placing Chu Huaixu on a bed, Xiang Yan used his Divine Sense to carefully examine his situation.

"No major issues with the body."

"The Sea of Consciousness is tightly shut, and I cannot conduct an investigation."

At present, not even he, nor anyone in the Profound Yellow Realm, could force their way into Chu Huaixu’s Sea of Consciousness.

After finding no results from his examination, Xiang Yan then focused his own Sea of Consciousness on the black bead.

Everyone had always thought it was just a part of the Sword Scabbard.

Everyone believed it was one with the Sword Scabbard.

But now it seemed, this was not the case.

However, for some reason, regardless of the method used, neither he nor Li Chunsong could detect any extraordinary aspect with their Divine Sense.

As if it were just an ordinary black pearl.

After a while, the Charitable Gambling King suddenly slapped his thigh with his one arm!

"Sect Leader, I suddenly remembered something!"

"Junior brother, what did you think of?"

"Do you recall the circumstances when Huaixu climbed Hidden Spirit Mountain?"

Xiang Yan answered, "Of course I remember, he clashed with the Bronze Sword, initially took down the Sword Scabbard from the mountain, and later carved the phrase ’A gentleman uses things, not to be used by things’ on the mountain."

Upon hearing this, Li Chunsong nodded: "But there’s actually a detail here."

He continued, "If I’m not mistaken, he first grabbed this black pearl, and then subsequently dragged down the Sword Scabbard from the mountain peak."

Xiang Yan immediately locked eyes with him: "It seems... that’s the case?"

Their gaze once again settled on the black pearl.

This Sect Leader of the Daoist Sect couldn’t help but laugh or cry: "It seems this boy still has many secrets concealed from us."

Just as the two were discussing, an anomaly suddenly occurred.

The surrounding temperature began to plummet, and throughout the Daoist Sect’s area, it suddenly started snowing lightly again.

The Snow Venerable had awakened.