Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?

Chapter 885: Disguise

The gourd wasn't particularly special, still the same as before, just the functions originally carried by the system; all these functions could be used.However, this time Chen Huaian looked a bit more carefully and discovered that some of the functions were specially marked for cautious use.

For example, purchasing a Supreme Grade Spiritual Treasure flying sword named [Gentleman's Sword].

If memory serves, wasn't this sword Zhang Mengchu's personal sword?

Purchasing this sword meant stripping its ownership, making it a masterless sword, then performing a Divine Soul blood pact to become the buyer's sword.

One must know that the [Gentleman's Sword] had a Sword Spirit. To be able to erase the heaven-and-earth contract between the Sword Spirit and its master, that must also involve the power of the Heavenly Dao.

The price of this sword was very high, far exceeding the price of those masterless magical artifacts by millions, if not billions, of times.

Perhaps it was precisely because it required breaking the rules, requiring the 'Heavenly Dao' to intervene.

This made Chen Huaian involuntarily think back to when he was dealing with the Jade Pool Holy Land and the Burning Purity Holy Land; he had also done similar things like purchasing his opponents' magical artifacts.

As long as he handed over Spirit Stones, those magical artifacts would become his possessions, and his opponents would lose their corresponding treasures and artifacts.

All of this was the work of the Cangyun Realm's 'Heavenly Dao'.

And the system, or rather, the middle corpse, became the bridge for communicating with the Cangyun Realm's Heavenly Dao.

Back then, he thought the Electronic Girlfriend and the Heavenly Dao were in cahoots, and he really wasn't wrong.

Also marked for cautious use was the [Heaven's Calculation] function.

Now, Chen Huaian completely understood.

Any function linked to the Cangyun Realm's Heavenly Dao must be used cautiously, because the bridge for communicating with the Cangyun Realm's Heavenly Dao had disappeared. Using these functions again, the disappearance of the bridge might be discovered by the Cangyun Realm's Heavenly Dao, and what consequences that would trigger...

The middle corpse hadn't given him any hints.

But this was precisely the best hint.

Chen Huaian shook his head and shifted his gaze away from those tempting 'functions' and 'goods'.

Keeping them was useless, discarding them was a pity.

At his current realm, what power system couldn't he comprehend?

What cultivation technique or pill couldn't he concoct?

He himself was a living 'system', appearing in someone else's ring as a Mysterious Benefactor-level golden finger.

There weren't many functions or goods that could stir his heart, and it just so happened that all of them were linked to the Cangyun Realm's Heavenly Dao and couldn't be used.

"Can only look, can't eat, purely there to make people drool."

Chen Huaian turned his gaze toward that ancient-looking longsword.

Initially, he thought this was a divine weapon left to him by the middle corpse, to give him the power to protect himself.

But when he truly grasped the hilt and his Divine Soul probed into it, he realized he was wrong.

Inside this sword, there was no world-destroying Sword Qi, nor any complex and profound sword techniques.

It only contained one thing—an aura.

*Hum—!*

As Chen Huaian's five fingers tightened.

A mysterious, profound, and utterly indifferent aura instantly enveloped his entire body.

In that moment, he seemed to no longer be Chen Huaian.

He was that aloof, emotionless, rule-abiding only... middle corpse.

"What a clever method."

Chen Huaian stroked the ancient sword body, a flash of admiration in his eyes.

What kind of sword was this?

This was clearly a disguise, a mask sufficient to deceive the heavens.

With it, even if the upper corpse arrived in person, even if the Cangyun Realm's Heavenly Dao truly grew suspicious...

He could still use this disguise to perform a grand act of "borrowing a corpse to return the soul."

The middle corpse had truly calculated everything for the aftermath.

But you can't wrap fire in paper.

Even with this sword, he never thought he could hide forever, because he couldn't simultaneously play the roles of the lower corpse and the middle corpse indefinitely.

Especially after the two worlds completely merged, and even incorporated the Canglan World, it would be even more impossible.

He ultimately was not the middle corpse.

He would definitely reveal flaws.

Once flaws accumulated, and the upper corpse grew suspicious, problems would quickly become apparent.

Therefore, the middle corpse giving him this sword wasn't for him to hide and cling to life indefinitely.

This sword was to buy him time, to buy him time to grow stronger!

Strong enough to contend with the various immortals of Earth Star, strong enough that when facing the upper corpse, he wouldn't be an ant casually wiped out.

"Since I can't return to Earth Star, and the Cangyun Realm is full of dangers..."

Chen Huaian sheathed the sword, his aura instantly retracting, transforming back into the Master familiar to Li Qingran.

"Then I can only be a stubborn holdout in this Canglan Realm for now."

Since I'm here, I might as well make the best of it.

As long as he didn't die, as long as he could still grow stronger, this game of chess wasn't over yet.

However...

Chen Huaian lowered his head and looked at his somewhat illusory hands.

As a Battle Soul, without a physical body, without meridians, the previous methods of absorbing Spiritual Energy and meditating to cultivate were clearly unworkable here.

Moreover, restricted by the rules, the power he could exert in the Canglan Realm was merely one ten-thousandth of his True Body's.

It was like wearing layers of shackles on him. Clearly, he had the power to destroy heaven and earth, but couldn't use a single bit of it.

This made him very unhappy.

Extremely unhappy.

"How should I liberate the power within me?"

Chen Huaian murmured to himself, his gaze sweeping across Li Qingran's Battle Soul space.

Soon, his line of sight fixed on a spot not far away.

There, a sword was suspended—the Su Xian Sword.

That was Li Qingran's first Battle Soul.

At this moment, around that sword, which was entirely like white jade, four World Rings were quietly encircling it.

One purple, three black.

World Rings.

In this world, they were the source of power, the embodiment of rules.

Each World Ring represented a skill, representing a leap in the level of life.

Chen Huaian narrowed his eyes.

He looked down at his own bare feet, then looked at that Su Xian Sword adorned with "medals."

As the saying goes, when in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Arriving in a world means accepting that world's power—at least before possessing power that transcends this world, one must abide by this core rule.

Now, he was also a Battle Soul.

Since the Su Xian Sword could be fitted with World Rings, then why couldn't he?

If a Sword Immortal's Remnant Soul, a cultivator, were fitted with this world's World Rings...

What would happen?

Would it gain a skill like a normal Battle Soul?

Or would it... repair his damaged Divine Soul, even cause his current broken body to undergo some incredible qualitative transformation?

"Interesting."

The corner of Chen Huaian's mouth curled into a playful smile.

This was a path no one had ever walked before.

It was also the only path to break the deadlock that he could currently see.

With this thought, Chen Huaian's mind became clear.

"Disciple~"

He transmitted a trace of thought to Li Qingran.

He couldn't speak outside.

But in this Battle Soul space, he could speak freely.

"What is it, Master?"

Li Qingran was just about to go on stage to receive her award. Hearing Chen Huaian's voice, she couldn't help but pause her steps.

"Your Master... wants World Rings!"

This was the first time Chen Huaian had made a request to Li Qingran, and he felt a bit embarrassed:

"Hmm... it's this world's power system... any kind of World Ring will do.

Let your Master... have a taste first!"

...

Didn't Old Chen descend with his True Body every time before? Even if it was just a hand descending, it was his True Body's hand. Besides, an avatar is just a mass of condensed cultivation, a container.