Ch 80 Part 3 – The Second Test (III)
July 20, 2021September 19, 2021By koffeam
A sadness flashed through ng Qi’s eyes, but soon was replaced by determination. Of course, she wouldn’t let Ji Wujiong see her weakness. She quickly turned her eyes away toward the horizon, looking at the countless ghost puppets running in all directions, sprinkling the antidote on their ways.
This Grand Tournant barrier was created as an arena to test the ability of dical cultivators, so although it shared the sa characteristics as the real world, they were not exactly the sa. For example, the soil poisoned by Qiwu powder. Although the poison mimicked the real thing, once the antidote was deed to pass the test, its effect worked much faster.
Wherever the ghost puppet passed by, the soil underneath was instantly rejuvenated, as if spring returned. Small buds of greenery began to erge from the ground, and in just a mont, the once barren land was dotted with young grasses. Further away, so of the ghost puppets turned around a group of dead, dying trees. The branches trembled slightly and new leaves grew, slowly regaining their vitality. So half an hour later, the barren and dying land had beco alive again.
ng Qi looked around, full of amazent. The way this barrier worked was truly magical. On top of that, it was still functioning even after thousands of years, which was beyond incredible.
“This place…” As if guessing ng Qi’s mind, Ji Wujiong walked to her and pointed to the ground, “Should be using an array spirit of protection.”
“Eh?” ng Qi raised an eyebrow and looked at Ji Wujiong.
“You don’t know what an array spirit is?” Ji Wujiong snorted. “The per—…” He shut up suddenly. Seeing ng Qi’s sunken face, he slowly said: “The person who was the grand ancestor of array cultivation possessed a great talent that was beyond genius. Anything on earth, from the landscape of mountain and river to the living beings…all could be used for their own use.”
Suddenly, in the middle of grassland that gradually regained its vitality, a vine grew out of nowhere. The vine grew faster and faster before interlacing into a shape of a door, adorned by a few blooming flowers.
“Let’s speak later.” Ji Wujiong said to ng Qi.
When the two reached the vine door, seven flowers of different colors suddenly opened their petals. Each of the flowers held different things inside its petals. There were a bamboo slip, a jade slip, a porcelain bottle, sothing that looked like a small magic weapon, and three different rare dicinal ingredients.
“These should be the reward for passing the first test.” Ji Wujiong said.
“Yeah.” ng Qi nodded. She knew about this, thanks to the bamboo slip Xue Jinwen gave her. It was said that those who could pass the Grand Tournant’s tests would be rewarded by the barrier itself. Even if they failed to gain the invitation from any of the great sects, the rewards were still very impressive.
ng Qi carefully looked over the seven flowers. According to the rules, the seven best examinees could choose one reward every ti they passed a test. This porcelain bottle should contain a very rare dicine, and the magic weapon should also be a divine object. The dicinal ingredients in the other three flowers were also extrely rare treasures that ng Qi had only seen in books. Then, there were these bamboo slip and jade slip…
ng Qi hesitated for a mont, but finally took the jade slip from one of the flowers and imdiately poured a bit of aura into it. “Ah!” She exclaid softly. This jade slip contained a very unusual dical spell. She had once read about this spell in a book, only to find out that the spell had been lost in the catastrophe more than two thousand years ago. Unexpectedly, she would get it in the Grand Tournant’s barrier.
ng Qi happily put the jade slip into her storage space item. Seeing that extinct and forgotten spells could be found here, it seed that this barrier was indeed created by an ancient great power. With this gain, she suddenly felt that it was not a bad thing to be unexpectedly sent into this place.
Even if Ji Wujiong probably would do as he said and would kill her as soon as they left the barrier, but as the great sage once said: if one could find the Dao in the morning, one would die with a smile in the evening!
ng Qi was very satisfied, and her face was flushed with joy. There was an unconcealed smile on the corners of her eyes.
Ji Wujiong snorted softly, then he took out the bamboo slip from another flower. “dicine formula.” He glanced at the bamboo slip and threw it to ng Qi. “Take it. I am too impatient to refine dicine.”
“Huh?” When ng Qi’s reacted, the slightly cool bamboo slip had been stuffed into her hand.
“But…”
“How troubleso!” Ji Wujiong snarled: “If you don’t want it, just throw it away.”
“No…” ng Qi hesitantly took out the jade slip she had just gotten. She didn’t want to share this spell with Ji Wujiong, but since he had generously given her the dicine formula, she had to reciprocate.
“This is a dical spell.” ng Qi put the jade slip into Ji Wujiong’s hands. “This particular spell had its inheritance cut off more than two thousand years ago, and had since been lost. I never expect to find it here. Since you gave the formula, I will show you the spell I got, too.”
Ji Wujiong was about to refuse, saying that he was not interested. But when his eyes t ng Qi’s solemn face, he understood that this girl probably wanted the dicine formula so badly.
“Alright.” He shook his hand casually, pouring a bit of aura into the jade slip. But in just a mont, he returned the jade slip back to ng Qi: “I’ve seen it.”
“Okay.” ng Qi took the jade slip back, together with the bamboo slip Ji Wujiong gave her. Inside her storage space item, she had a special brocade bag to store jade and bamboo slips, different than the one normally used to store spirit stones. ng Qi spent quite a sum when buying this brocade bag at Cloud Immortal Pavilion. The bag was woven from celestial silk mixed with the powder of blazing grass and the fur of two types of celestial demons. It was immune from both water and fire, and had such a high defense that even if the storage space item was destroyed, the bag and its content would remain unscathed.
ng Qi carefully put the two slips back into the brocade bag. She wanted to make sure that even if sothing unexpected happened to her, at least the knowledge she kept with her could be preserved.
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