Under the expectant gaze of the little girl.
The six gourds quivered slightly.
Among them, the green wood gourd, the red fire gourd, and the azure water gourd flew lovingly to Zhiwei, as if they had found their destination.
These three attributes correspond exactly to Zhiwei’s water, wood, and fire Spiritual Roots!
"Eh? What about me?!" Qing Jun was anxious, pointing at the remaining hesitant three gourds, "Why don’t you come over? Hurry up and come to me!"
Unfortunately, the remaining gold, wind, and lightning gourds disdainfully shook and quietly vanished into the mist.
"Damn..."
The little girl felt aggrieved, couldn’t help but look around, but how could she see the figure of her mentor?
Without her mentor’s comfort,
Qing Jun’s mood became even lower.
Zhiwei, disregarding the three Gourd Swords surrounding her, first gently patted Qing Jun’s head: "Qing Jun. It’s just that they’re not suitable for you."
The little girl rubbed her toes, pouting: "But... what if the mentor finds out..."
Her senior sister got three Gourd Swords, while she got nothing.
Would the mentor be disappointed in her?
"No, they wouldn’t."
Zhiwei assuredly said, gently wiping away the dampness from her eye corner,
"The mentor cares too much for you to be disappointed. Besides, doesn’t Qing Jun already have the Xu Family True Seal? It’s much more powerful than these Gourd Swords."
"But...but..." Qing Jun still felt aggrieved, her heart hollow.
At that very moment.
The initially dissipating sword Qi trembled simultaneously, falling into complete dormancy.
The two girls’ faces changed slightly.
Suddenly feeling cold at their brows, like a dangling thorn.
A sword, nearly transparent and resembling condensed moonlight, flew swiftly from the mist.
It was the Third Tier Spiritual Artifact, Heart Slaughter Sword!
Unlike the Gourd Swords, once the Heart Slaughter Sword appeared, it focused all its attention on Zhiwei.
An almost crazed jubilant thought surged into Zhiwei’s sea of consciousness!
It’s... trying to communicate with me!
Zhiwei’s heart trembled, she concentrated her mind, attempting to accept and connect with this thought.
The Heart Slaughter Sword emitted a soft hum, transformed into a stream of light, instantly entering Zhiwei’s brow!
However, just a breath later!
"Buzz——!"
The Heart Slaughter Sword actually flew backward out of her sea of consciousness, hovering again in the air, appearing puzzled and confused.
Zhiwei stood motionless, her Divine Soul aching, her face slightly pale.
She could clearly "hear" the Heart Slaughter Sword’s conveyed meaning.
Her path, close to being unfeeling, contradicted the true meaning of the Heart Slaughter Sword: "Slay others, slay oneself, only feelings, only heart."
If there’s no emotion, what’s the use of the Heart Slaughter?
Zhiwei steadied herself, tried to communicate with the Heart Slaughter Sword, delivering a thought: "What about her?"
She pointed at Qing Jun, who was still feeling aggrieved beside her.
The Heart Slaughter Sword trembled slightly, highly rejecting.
"Strange, the flying swords in the Heart Slaughter Cave don’t favor Qing Jun. Logically speaking, only the Heart Slaughter Sword possesses spirituality, thus it has likes and dislikes. Why do other flying swords dislike Qing Jun?"
Zhiwei silently pondered, unless... it’s influenced by the former sword master!
The Heart Slaughter Sword Master was active a thousand years ago.
Back then, Songyang Cave Heaven still existed.
"Wait!"
Zhiwei suddenly realized.
The Heart Slaughter Sword Master perished a thousand years ago.
And Songyang Cave Heaven secretly captured cultivators a thousand years ago, refining the Grand Array.
They captured eight Golden Core True Men!
And the last Tao Stele of Divine Soul even contains the Nascent Soul of the Songyang patriarch!
"But why was the ninth Tao Stele not used to refine a cultivator, even though the Songyang patriarch guarded it? While these nine Tao steles were meant for sacrificing cultivators..."
Quickly, a speculation swept through Zhiwei’s mind.
Back then, the last Tao Stele of Divine Soul should have been overseen by the Heart Slaughter Sword Master, who practiced the Divine Soul path.
But the astonishing Heart Slaughter Sword Master escaped from the Tao Stele, finally perishing in Divine Mist Valley.
Because the Heart Slaughter Sword Master escaped, the Songyang patriarch had to use his own Nascent Soul to guard the array when his grand birthday approached.
"There may indeed be a possibility... Otherwise, why did the Heart Slaughter Sword Master die silently? And the core of that Grand Array involves Qing Jun, which also explains the flying swords in Heart Slaughter Cave’s aversion towards Qing Jun."
As for Xiaohan.
After all, it was merely a Lower Grade Magical Treasure that left the Heart Slaughter Cave early, unaffected by the residual influence of the sword master, naturally showing no aversion to Qing Jun.
Zhiwei roughly guessed and looked towards Heart Slaughter.
At this moment, where was Heart Slaughter’s previous joy?
Almost languidly floating in the air.
Spiritual Artifacts possess spirituality, have likes and dislikes, and also fear.
A thousand years pass, and after suffering centuries of plundering from the Mao Family Grand Array.
The Heart Slaughter Cave had long been unsustainable, struggling to nurture flying swords.
And its grade continuously declined.
Sooner or later, it would fall to a Magical Treasure just like the Seven-Colored Gourd Swords, losing its spirituality from then on!
Losing spirituality means death for Heart Slaughter!
Yet letting it randomly choose an owner, it was even more unwilling.
Zhiwei suddenly had a thought: "I have a mentor, along with my junior sister."
The desolate Heart Slaughter, upon hearing this, suddenly regained its vitality!
That desire even made the entire Heart Slaughter Cave tremble!
With these two disciples, their mentor must be extraordinary!
In an instant.
Heart Slaughter transformed into a stream of light, entering Zhiwei’s brow once more.
The black-haired young girl paled, only feeling intense eye pain.
Despite this, she was incredibly happy in her heart: "Finally, I’ve helped the mentor..."
She endured the discomfort, speaking to Qing Jun, who was still unaware of the situation beside her: "Junior sister, we shouldn’t stay here long, let’s hurry and leave!"
As Heart Slaughter Sword and the three Gourd Swords temporarily found a place, the space in Heart Slaughter Cave became unstable again, those dormant sword Qi reawakened, and the target was Qing Jun!