DDT - Chapter 149
Chapter 149: Immortal Venerable × Meow Meow Cat (4)
In fact, for Chi Junluo, this was the first world she had encountered that had a "male lead."
Although in the previous world, the interstellar one with its incredibly advanced future technology, there had been a male supporting character with ill intentions toward her Lady Heroine.
But since she had no memory of that time, this was, for all intents and purposes, the first time she had ever run into a so-called "male lead" coveting her Lady Heroine. She truly had no experience with this.
After all, she had lived with Yi Shuhan for so long in the last world. Any normal person would find it intolerable to see someone coveting their wife. Absolutely intolerable.
Sensing a person's entry, the Myriad Mirror Array began to glow, and the entire formation slowly activated.
Chi Junluo simply turned around, glaring fiercely at the tall man who had walked in, his head practically radiating a golden light.
Yun Qian had been traveling abroad when he received a message via flying sword from a friend, informing him that his master had picked up another little girl from who-knows-where. Seeing that he had more or less wrapped up his own affairs, he had hurried back to the Xianyuan Sect.
His timing was perfect. Yun Qian arrived just as the Myriad Mirror Array on the main peak was activating.
Yun Qian first bowed to his master before walking slowly to her side. He stopped, and as he looked up, he saw the little girl in the Myriad Mirror Array staring at him with an adorably ferocious glare.
Yun Qian: ???
Had he done something in the last few seconds to upset this little girl? Yun Qian was utterly baffled. He cast a questioning glance at his master.
Immortal Venerable Qingyun sensed her eldest disciple looking at her.
She turned her head and gave a slight nod, signaling that they would discuss everything back on Qingyun Peak. Her eldest disciple, Yun Qian, withdrew his gaze.
But in Chi Junluo's eyes, this entire exchange was a deeply intimate, knowing glance between the two. They didn't even need to speak, didn't need complex words, to understand what the other wanted to say or express. Look at that Yun Qian, that "male lead," completely forgetting his place as a disciple and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with his master.
Pah!
Chi Junluo spat inwardly, giving herself a pep talk. Her Lady Heroine would never fall for scum like Yun Qian. That restless face of his was a clear sign of bad intentions.
Yun Qian continued to observe the little girl in the Myriad Mirror Array. She had a fiercely cute expression, a sharp gaze tinged with hatred. She was clearly not an easy one to deal with—irritable, impatient, and easily agitated. Such a temperament was probably not suited for cultivation. He had no idea what his master saw in this little girl. Why did she even pick up a ferocious little thing like this?
The thought of the Xianyun Pavilion at the foot of the Xianyuan Sect's mountain, which was already raising a whole gang of little kids, made a vein throb on Yun Qian's forehead.
When cultivators went out adventuring for treasures, those treasures were graded. Cultivators generally only sought out mid- to high-grade magical artifacts. But his master, who gave him no peace, picked up children as casually as one might pick wildflowers by the roadside. Every so often, she would bring back some strange kids from her travels, and without exception, she would toss them directly into the Myriad Mirror Array. The aptitude of those children was never very good. This was the Xianyuan Sect, after all. Even children brought back by Nascent Soul elders weren't all guaranteed entry.
He had no idea how many years the Xianyun Pavilion in Xianyuan City had been established. Yun Qian had reason to suspect that the elders there had all aged from children into old men and women. Master had entrusted him with managing the Xianyun Pavilion, which showed her trust in him. But given how often she picked up children, the Xianyun Pavilion was bound to go bankrupt sooner or later.
Inside the gradually brightening Myriad Mirror Array, Chi Junluo watched the man with the title of "male lead" and his shining golden head. His brow furrowed deeper and deeper, his face filled with disdain for her. He really had a punchable face!
Perhaps the Myriad Mirror Array had stirred the spiritual blood of the ancient divine beast within Chi Junluo. Her thoughts were clearly irritable at the moment, and she hadn't noticed that ever since arriving in this world, her emotions had been constantly swayed by this body.
The instant the Myriad Mirror Array completely sealed, Immortal Venerable Qingyun's eldest disciple, Yun Qian, saw the little girl in the center of the formation cross her arms and roll her eyes dramatically at him.
Yun Qian's brow furrowed even deeper, his face a mixture of worry and a headache brought on by his master's willfulness.
Chi Junluo stood inside the Myriad Mirror Array, not the least bit flustered. She was surrounded by a vast expanse of white. When the Heavenly Dao had explained the function of this array to her earlier, Chi Junluo had actually been quite worried. Never mind all the worlds she had been through; even in her original world, she had several lives on her hands. She admitted that her thoughts could be quite dark at times. She was not as pure and innocent as the white-lotus heroines in novels or movies. She had experienced darkness and glimpsed the darkness of different worlds. If the Myriad Mirror Array could truly see a person's essence, then she would surely be pitch-black. But the Heavenly Dao hadn't been worried at all and didn't explain why.
It just told Chi Junluo to put her heart at ease. Was the Heavenly Dao planning to use its power to conceal things and muddle through?
When she asked, the Heavenly Dao didn't answer again.
Although the Heavenly Dao was unreliable most of the time, on a matter of this magnitude, something that concerned the future direction of this world, it probably wouldn't lie to her, right?
The white light within the Myriad Mirror Array wove into net after net. They gradually descended upon Chi Junluo's small body, which stood in the center of the formation. The nets of white light passed through her body, one after another, without causing any discomfort.
Soon, the nets of white light dissolved into specks and scattered into the air.
Chi Junluo: ??
Before Chi Junluo could figure out what was happening, the specks of light transformed into a kaleidoscope of colors. They formed a large, multi-sided, symmetrical symbol that floated behind her.
The Heavenly Dao, huddled in her sea of consciousness, nodded in satisfaction. As expected of that personage from the Upper Realm. It had to be said that this cultivation world was indeed powerful; this Myriad Mirror Array was already comparable to the formations of the Upper Realm.
This array could see through the essence of a person's soul. Those with impure souls would naturally have more black mist around them. But Chi Junluo was that personage; her soul was the purest in all the worlds, the purest in the Upper Realm. How could it possibly detect any black or gray mist?
The Heavenly Dao was very satisfied with this result. Its guess had been correct.
As for that tiny sliver of darkness in Chi Junluo's heart? It was insignificant in the face of infinite light. That darkness was destined only to be devoured by the light.
In less than fifteen minutes, the Myriad Mirror Array released its seal. Strands of white light receded back into the formation-engraved ground. After all the white light in the center of the array had vanished, a small, thin figure with a seven-colored radiance behind her was gradually revealed.
The eldest disciple, Yun Qian, rubbed his eyes in disbelief. He even used a clarity technique on himself twice. He still found the scene before him incredible.
He didn't notice his master let out a faint sigh of relief, her body gradually relaxing.
The aptitude the Myriad Mirror Array could detect was divided into Five Element Spirit Roots and Mutated Spirit Roots. The Five Element Spirit Roots were the commonly known metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Mutated Spirit Roots were those that had mutated from a mixture of the five elements, transcending them.
For example, Immortal Venerable Qingyun possessed a lightning-attribute spirit root, which was a mutated type. Furthermore, her spirit root was a Heavenly Spirit Root, the highest grade, which could be considered the strongest among the mutated spirit roots.
The spirit root in Chi Junluo's body was different from both of these. A spirit root with multiple colors—for example, one with two attributes was called a dual-spirit root, one with three was a tri-spirit root, and so on. If a spirit root possessed all five attributes, it was what people often called a miscellaneous spirit root. To put it nicely, it was a Five Element Spirit Root, but in reality, everyone in the cultivation world knew that this type was the most difficult to cultivate. Because there were too many roots, they would become tangled within the body, making them difficult to separate. Cultivation was almost impossible.
When Yun Qian first saw the spirit root displayed behind Chi Junluo, he almost thought it was a common miscellaneous spirit root. But soon, the multi-colored light flourishing behind her nearly blinded him. A spirit root that possessed such radiance was definitely not some ordinary, simple, so-called miscellaneous spirit root.
Could this be the legendary…
Yun Qian had just turned his head toward his master when he heard Immortal Venerable Qingyun's lips part as she said with satisfaction, "That's right. This child does not possess the common miscellaneous spirit root of the mortal realm. It is the Myriad Spirit Root, something that appears only once in tens of thousands of years!"
Yun Qian's eyes widened slightly, a dark glint flashing through them. His mouth fell open in shock as he turned his head back to look at the small figure in the Myriad Mirror Array and the undeniable radiance behind her. For the first time in his life, he was utterly stunned.
That was the Myriad Spirit Root. A legendary, ancient spirit root that was said to have only existed in antiquity. The Myriad Spirit Root could cultivate all things, completely unaffected by the laws of the world. As long as something could be touched, smelled, or simply existed, it could be cultivated!
The Myriad Spirit Root was the strongest under the heavens. There was no other.
Chi Junluo had no idea what they were so shocked about. All she knew was that she had just seen her Lady Heroine shamelessly making eyes at her eldest disciple, that so-called piece of crap "male lead," right in front of her. She was so angry she clenched her small, cute, and seemingly harmless little fists.
Right now, she just wanted to sing a song at the top of her lungs:
"I hear the raindrops falling on the green, green grass…"
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