I’ve Reloaded the Save File! [Transmigration] 61

61: Disparity

On the other side, Zuo Wuyi’s situation was not as good as Mo Xiao’s. After she entered the passage, sword qis attacked her. If it weren’t for her quick reaction, her body would have had several more cuts.

“System, come out and help me scan this secret realm,” Zuo Wuyi did not rashly move forward, but stayed where she was.

[Host, the system’s energy is limited. It cannot scan the entire area,] The system, which had been silent for a long time, popped up.

“Then what can you do? Don’t you have any information about this secret realm?” Zuo Wuyi looked around. She could feel that the surrounding spiritual energy was much richer. With the naked eye, all she could see was a vast expanse of white, with no clues.

[According to the data collected by the system, this secret realm was originally scheduled to be widely known in forty years. Many people have obtained spirit artifacts and rare spirit herbs and ores in it, but there is no news of any sword Dao inheritance,] The system tried its best to search its database.

“That’s it?” Zuo Wuyi subconsciously frowned. Widely known in forty years? Could it be that the so-called inheritance will be taken away within these forty years? Or am I going to be trapped here for forty years?

[Host, the system can provide a detailed map of the area within one kilometer. Do you need to use it?] the system asked weakly. [If you decide to use it, the system will start to draw spiritual energy from your body?]

“No need. Just stay quiet,” It was only a distance of one thousand meters. Wasn’t it the same if she just covered it with her divine sense? Why did she need to spend extra spiritual energy?

[Alright, Host,] The system wished that Zuo Wuyi would forget about it, preferably for a few hundred years. That way, it could unbind from Zuo Wuyi and find a new host.

Since the system was useless, Zuo Wuyi could only rely on herself. After confirming that no more sword qis were attacking, Zuo Wuyi directly sat down cross-legged on the ground, took out a few dark crystals, and began to absorb the power inside.

Soon, Zuo Wuyi’s cultivation began to rise rapidly. In just an hour, the aura on her body already had a feeling of about to break through.

After absorbing the demonic energy inside, Zuo Wuyi’s originally rosy face became a little pale, almost blending in with the white background.

After her strength had improved, Zuo Wuyi removed the so-called defense, stepped on the original spirit sword, and chose a direction to fly forward on her sword.

Before she had flown for long, no less than twenty sword qis attacked her.

After a moment of hesitation, Zuo Wuyi directly bent her right palm and conjured a spirit sword out of thin air with the demonic energy in her body.

Compared to the previous spirit sword, this sword, which was completely condensed from demonic energy, was much more comfortable for Zuo Wuyi to use, and all the attacks were easily blocked by her.

And so, Zuo Wuyi traveled while taking out black crystals from her storage space to replenish her demonic energy.

As time passed, the number of attacks Zuo Wuyi faced began to decrease, but the intensity of each attack would double. In just one day, the power of the sword qis had already reached the level of the early Nascent Soul stage.

Seeing that her body was about to reach its limit, Zuo Wuyi slowed down her pace and finally stopped near a large rock.

“Cough, cough—” Zuo Wuyi covered her mouth. Soon, she felt a metallic taste in her mouth. She lowered her hand and frowned at the blood in her palm.

“Sure enough, I still can’t use spiritual energy and demonic energy at the same time,” Zuo Wuyi sighed, then wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and took out a pile of black crystals.

Anyway, she would have to switch to demonic cultivation sooner or later. She might as well take this opportunity to break through her realm. As long as she dispersed the demonic energy when she left the secret realm, no one should be able to tell.

After making up her mind, Zuo Wuyi directly dispersed all the remaining spiritual energy in her body, turning the spiritual energy in her meridians into rich demonic energy.

“Sure enough, I’m still cut out to be a villain,” After the familiar power returned, Zuo Wuyi let out a long sigh of relief.

The cultivation method of demonic cultivators was very different from that of ordinary cultivators. In the early stages, it was very simple for them to improve their cultivation. They just needed to keep devouring demonic energy.

Especially for those demons near the center of the Demon Realm. They didn’t need to deliberately cultivate anything. As long as they were willing to stay for a hundred years, they would at least be at the early Golden Core stage.

Of course, there were also risks in the process of absorbing demonic energy. If you were too greedy and absorbed more demonic energy than your body could handle, what awaited you was to explode and die. All the absorbed demonic energy would return to the air and continue to be absorbed by other demons.

After an unknown amount of time, perhaps a month, or perhaps half a year, the aura on Zuo Wuyi’s body finally stabilized.

After she had absorbed almost all the demonic crystals she had hoarded, her aura was infinitely close to the Nascent Soul stage. With just one more opportunity, she could successfully break through.

“If I had known I would be stuck here, I would have hoarded more demonic crystals,” Zuo Wuyi let out a breath of turbid air and held out her hand to look at her palm.

Because she had been absorbing demonic energy at the limit of her spiritual realm, a few black threads had appeared on her palm. This was some of the demonic energy that had overflowed from her meridians.

After improving her cultivation, Zuo Wuyi continued to fly forward on her sword. Relying on the devouring nature of demonic energy, after a lot of effort, Zuo Wuyi finally saw something other than the snowy mountains: a pure black building.

Zuo Wuyi stopped near the black building for a while, then pushed open the only door.

Swish— Countless sword qis flew out from the door. Although Zuo Wuyi was prepared, she didn’t know there would be so many sword qis. She could only block a part of them to avoid her vital points being injured.

The sword qis existed for a very short time, and after about a breath, they all disappeared.

Zuo Wuyi looked at the new wounds on her body, sighed, and after some hesitation, took out a blood-red crystal, thinking about whether she should complete her final awakening now.

[Host, if you swallow a crystal, the demon bloodline in your body will be completely awakened,] the system said weakly. [This way, the demonic energy in your body will easily leak out.]

“Of course I know that, but this secret realm is a little more dangerous than I thought. I don’t want to be trapped here for forty years.”

Awakening her demon bloodline was just a matter of time for Zuo Wuyi. More importantly, she had already told Mo Xiao about her constitution. Even if she became a demon, Mo Xiao would not leave her.

In this case, the only thing she had to worry about was her master and her fellow senior sisters. Mo Xiao could accept it, but that didn’t mean they could.

“The worst that can happen is that I leave the Inquiring Dao Sect and go to live in the Demon Realm,” Zuo Wuyi said, and was about to absorb the blood-red crystal.

[Host, a very powerful force has been detected approaching. Be careful, Host!] The system’s sharp voice sounded in Zuo Wuyi’s sea of consciousness.

Zuo Wuyi clenched the blood-red crystal and directly leaned to the left.

The moment Zuo Wuyi left her original spot, a huge sword qi landed on that spot, creating a very deep mark.

“Who is it?” Zuo Wuyi held her sword and looked around vigilantly.

“Demonic energy?” The one who came was a late Spirit Transformation stage cultivator. He frowned slightly at Zuo Wuyi. “When did even demons dare to covet the inheritance?”

A cultivator? Zuo Wuyi was stunned for a moment. Could other cultivators enter this place? Why hadn’t she found any traces of cultivator activity along the way?

“Senior, you must have misunderstood. I just temporarily borrowed some demonic energy,” Zuo Wuyi began to stall for time, thinking about how to get out of her current predicament.

The other party’s cultivation was clearly above hers, and according to the intensity of this attack, the other party might even be beyond the Nascent Soul stage, very likely at the Spirit Transformation stage.

If she were to fight him head-on, her chances of winning were very low.

“Temporarily borrowed demonic energy?” The Spirit Transformation stage cultivator chuckled lightly. “At your age, it’s very rare to be able to cultivate to the Golden Core stage. You can be called a peerless genius.”

“Unfortunately, you have come here and met me. Whether you are a demon or another cultivator, you are destined to die here,” As he spoke, the Spirit Transformation stage cultivator raised his sword and swung it at Zuo Wuyi.

Damn it, Zuo Wuyi cursed in her heart. The other party could see through her cultivation, so his cultivation was at least on par with her master’s, which was the late Spirit Transformation stage.

It was very difficult to dodge a Spirit Transformation stage attack. Zuo Wuyi could only draw out the only one of the two sword qis her master had left in her body. After dissipating most of the power of the sword move, she barely managed to dodge.

“A Spirit Transformation stage sword qi?” The expression on the Spirit Transformation stage cultivator’s face became a little more serious. “It seems you are a disciple of a major sect. No wonder your talent is so outstanding.”

Zuo Wuyi could clearly feel that the person in front of her had an even stronger killing intent towards her. With no other choice, she could only place her hopes on the blood-red crystal in her hand.

There was still one sword qi left in her body from her master, which could at most block one more attack.

With time running out, Zuo Wuyi did not have time to slowly absorb it. She directly swallowed the blood-red crystal and simply and crudely stuffed it into her dantian.

At the same time, the Spirit Transformation stage cultivator’s second attack also arrived.

Zuo Wuyi used the last of her sword qi, wanting to let the sword qi and the sword move confront each other head-on like before, to buy herself a little breathing time.

But just as the sword qi was about to touch the sword move, the original sword move suddenly changed its attack trajectory and went straight for Zuo Wuyi’s neck.

Boom— A huge wave of air exploded in the air. Zuo Wuyi spat out a large mouthful of blood. Her aura had already changed from the Golden Core stage to the Nascent Soul stage, and it was a late Nascent Soul stage infinitely close to the Spirit Transformation stage.

“You broke through?” The Spirit Transformation stage cultivator was a little surprised. “No, there was no lightning tribulation. Did you take a cultivation-enhancing elixir?”

Zuo Wuyi wiped the blood from her mouth, then wiped it on her half-red outer robe with some disgust and sneered, “Whether I really broke through or not, you’ll know if you try.”

[Host! The system’s energy is running low. It can only be maintained for ten minutes at most!] The system’s warning sounded in Zuo Wuyi’s sea of consciousness.

Zuo Wuyi looked at the sword in her hand. They say that sword cultivators can fight above their level.

Today, she would test if this was true!