Chapter 72 - Holy Shit the Yuanjie God Ineffable

“Are you kidding me?

Skipping the Sword Spirit rank and sending a Sword King to assassinate me directly?

Even the antagonists are being meticulous now, not giving away free kills, right?”

Seeing such an unexpected development, Xu Shu, though angry, still maintained a calm facade.

There was nothing left to fear.

Just a mere two Sword Kings who could level Wutan City?

Just the mere backlash of their fight capable of killing a mortal like himself?

“Fine then, your Sword King Power is quite impressive.”

“But it’s about to be mine.”

“Watch as I invoke the heaven’s mandate—”

Xu Shu’s twilight gaze compared the two Soul Hall elders on the screen, eventually settling on Yuan Zhou.

Because he didn’t know the name of the other elder.

“Ah!

The two Sword Kings have joined forces, wiping out all the experts from the three major families present.

You can’t escape; after finishing off the small fry, they’re preparing to target you.”

“Steward Yuan, you’re actually a spy!” Nolan Qiushui’s expression changed and she stepped in front of you, but she was choked from a distance and began to gasp for air.

With her formidable strength, capable of casually slaying swordsman of her rank, she was still powerless against a Sword King.

The gap was too large.

You saw through the true name of the Soul Hall Elder Yuan Zhou and prepared to activate Saying and Following.

Just as you were about to do so, something unexpected happened, causing everyone to stop, including you…

you also paused, waiting calmly for what was to follow.

Suddenly, the identity of the mysterious maid Naxida caught everyone’s eye, including yours, as she became enveloped in golden flames.

“Get out of Brother Tianyuan’s body!” she screamed angrily, reborn from flames.

Her golden hair turned to white as the filth on her body was cleansed—key areas covered by crystal-clear jade leaves that formed wings of Sword Qi behind her.

“Another Sword King?” You stepped back, shielding your sisters in front of you, because if you didn’t, the residual force from Naxida’s advancement would kill you.

The Soul Hall elders, despite their wickedness, loyally stepped forward to meet the challenge, launching into a war of kings.

“This girl has been by my side every day, and yet I failed to realize she was one of that race!”

“You and I, brothers, if we capture her and take her back, this will count as a great achievement!”

The swordsmanship of the two Soul Hall elders was eerie, with a chilling wind and wails like countless lost souls roaring, creating a tornado of Sword Qi that surrounded Naxida, who fought back fiercely inside.

You pulled your sisters, who were mesmerized by the fight, to their senses, saying, “What the hell are you still watching?

When trouble hits, you run like hell.”

You really were the perfect villain, making decisive, ruthless decisions, but still a step too slow.

From within the tornado, the agonized screams of the two Soul Hall elders could be heard:

“Ah, what kind of fire is this?

The Annihilating Karma Flame, heh heh heh—”

“To die under Maya’s Sword without regrets, heh heh heh—”

With a thud, a corpse was thrown out, and Naxi Tianyuan, with the help of the golden flames, burned the Soul Hall elder inside him to death and regained his senses.

Naxida approached, her powerful aura making your thirteen sisters and Nolan Qiushui tremble, the Annihilating Karma Fire having burned away all the Sword Qi within them.

“Kneel,” Naxida’s gaze was like that of a Divine being looking down on all creatures, and your sisters, unable to withstand such pressure, fell down.

But you, being an ordinary person without Sword Qi cultivation, were unaffected.

This surprised Naxida momentarily, but it didn’t stop her from killing you.

“Hold on, I want to be the one to kill him!” Naxi Tianyuan stopped her, walking up to you, his eyes roaming over your unique looking sisters.

Your defeat was certain; Naxi Tianyuan leaned close to your ear, whispering with a malicious chuckle, “You lowly insect, you don’t deserve them.

I want you to watch as I take them from you, right in front of your eyes, hahaha.”

Hearing this, you shouted, “Naxi Tianyuan!

I get it, so you’re one of those sleazy types, aren’t you?

Are you thinking of committing that which must not be done in front of the husband?”

Upon hearing this, Naxida’s face tensed, “Brother Tianyuan, you can’t possibly mean to…”

“Don’t listen to his nonsense!” Caught in his intentions, Naxi Tianyuan furiously prepared to stomp you, the insignificant insect, to death.

The power of the Third Rank of Sword Qi was enough to kill you.

At this point, you finally revealed yourself.

“Naxi Tianyuan, if our roles were switched, you’d realize what real cruelty is.”

You saw through his true name: Naxi Tianyuan.

You successfully activated the Fate of the Saying and Following: Causality.

“Now you can choose a causality to plunder…”

Before Xu Shu’s eyes, scenes from Naxi Tianyuan’s life unfolded, with countless fragments of cosmic light scattering like cherry blossoms, seemingly ripe for the taking.

Seeing Tianyuan’s youthful talent, full of vigor, making rapid advances in cultivation, and deeply loved,

Seeing him often run to help Naxida nurture her body with Sword Qi, and thus Naxida’s unswerving devotion to him,

Seeing his self-destruction and despair after falling from grace, relieving stress by secretly entering the homes of respectable families to commit rape and murder; after being discovered, he killed the entire family of his accusers, and a demon took root in his heart,

Seeing him generously care for the orphans and widows of his servants who died in battle for him,

Seeing him deliberately add an amorous drug to his stepmother’s tea, disrupting the moral order of human relationships, his father almost completely estranged from him, but keeping the family scandal hidden…

And so on, a life of mixed good and evil deeds, various causes leading to various effects, too numerous to mention.

“Goodness, truly a scourge, this fellow’s perversion even outdoes mine.

“So, this is the concept of karma, indeed a cycle of cause and effect, the retribution is unequivocal…”

As Xu Shu gained this insight, he felt as if some shackles inside him “snap”, as if being unlocked.

But at this moment, he can’t be concerned with that.

“The current deadlock is because the powerfully capable Naxida is helping him; to break through, naturally, I must start with her.”

Xu Shu reached out and touched, transferring the karma between the six- to fourteen-year-old Naxida and the effects of Tianyuan’s nurturing with Sword Qi, which won her heart over, onto his alter ego “Xiao Han.”

At the same time, Xu Shu felt he had no karma to bestow in return, and with no other choice, he believed he had done enough.

Taking as he wished, bestowing as he pleased, he could naturally choose not to bestow.

[Naxida cried and rushed into your arms, tears streaming down her face, “Ah, Brother Xiao Han, I’ve finally remembered.

It was you who was there for me as a child!

I mistakenly thought it was him, Da’er was wrong, and I caused Brother Xiao Han to suffer.”]

[“What are you talking about, Da’er?

I am your Brother Tianyuan!” The bruised and battered Tianyuan watched the scene in disbelief.]

[“Shut your mouth!” Naxida scolded him, then turned to you, pleading, “Brother Xiao Han, I’ve made such a big mistake, you…

will you not want me anymore?”]

[You became completely at ease.

Due to karmic effects, as much as Naxida was infatuated with Tianyuan, she is now loyal to you, having completely taken your form in her heart.]

[“Ah, ah, ah!

Beast!

Beast!

Stop, I have never even kissed her…

please stop〜” Tianyuan was on the brink of madness and fainted on the spot.]

[You’re now a First Rank·Doctor.

Converted to prowess, it’s comparable to going from Swordsman to Sword Master, already surpassing many peers – including him, Tianyuan, thanks to the confidence the Grass God Soul Ring gave you.]

Ah??

Doctor?

Unexpectedly, not only did I obtain the Grass God, but I also brought the transcendent system from the real world to this continent.

“Doctor path, isn’t that one of the three paths of life?”

“I remember this is the only one among the life’s three paths that can have male practitioners, phew, lucky.

If I had awakened as a nun or witch, wouldn’t I have turned into a woman?”

Xu Shu stroked his chin and began to examine his abilities; he was a bit curious what abilities this profession, often seen on the cultivation network, possessed.

[You applied the Qi Healing Technique on your sisters, and they found the dried Qi Sea within them starting to warm up.

After meditating on the spot, what normally would take hours to recover their Sword Qi took only a short ten minutes to fully restore.]

[You realized, thinking about the big sister style path you’ve chosen, you believe your profession might be called—