Chapter 47 (Part 1)

“Master, look again. Is it a branch from the Tree of Life?”

Yu Yu handed over the broken branch in his hand, letting his master and senior martial uncles examine it properly.

“Hm?”

Qingquan took the broken branch from Yu Yu and studied it closely, even using his own eye-technique divine ability.

“Its appearance is the same as a broken branch from the Tree of Life, but it no longer has that vitality that stirs the heart. If a medical cultivator used this kind of bonded spiritual weapon, it could allow their healing arts to expand the treatment range while preserving the same healing effect.”

After Qingquan finished examining it, he handed it to Eldest Senior Brother Qingsheng, completely ignoring Qingyang’s foot-stomping frustration.

“That’s not right. You didn’t look at all of it. The vitality has been hidden inside the broken branch. Unlike before, this vitality is closely connected to Little Martial Nephew. It no longer has that life force that makes cultivators’ hearts stir.”

Only after Qingsheng finished examining it did he place the broken branch into the hands of his youngest junior brother, who had been gazing at it with aching longing.

“I don’t understand much outside of sword cultivators, but this broken branch gives me a very unusual feeling. It makes me feel threatened. If it were merely a spiritual weapon used by medical cultivators, I wouldn’t feel my heart tremble.”

Qingsheng returned the broken branch to his little disciple. “Little Yu, there should be something extraordinary about this bonded spiritual weapon of yours, right? Can you let us see it?”

“Hehe, of course. Master, Senior Martial Uncles, please look.”

The broken branch in Yu Yu’s hand changed form.

“This…”

Everyone looked at one another. They had never seen a bonded spiritual weapon that could change forms.

The reason bonded spiritual weapons were special was that they were different from ordinary spiritual weapons. Ordinary spiritual weapons could temporarily change form, but bonded spiritual weapons could not.

Did that mean bonded spiritual weapons were inferior to ordinary spiritual weapons?

Of course not. Bonded spiritual weapons needed to be nurtured in the dantian, and the longer they were nurtured, the stronger they became. On top of that, a bonded spiritual weapon was the one most compatible with its owner, so the instant its shape was fixed, it became the spiritual weapon best suited to its master.

Because of this, in everyone’s common understanding, a bonded spiritual weapon could not transform.

In reality, everyone’s bonded spiritual weapons truly could not change forms. Only Yu Yu’s was special.

“And that’s not all. It’s a growth-type bonded spiritual weapon. As long as my realm reaches the next threshold, I can undo the next layer of seal.”

Yu Yu changed the bonded spiritual weapon back into the shape of a broken branch. The second form was something he used to trick people, so he absolutely could not let others know about it casually.

“Impressive, my little disciple. You’ve shattered everyone’s fixed understanding of bonded spiritual weapons.”

Qingyang was so impressed by his own disciple that he practically prostrated himself in admiration. He could not help rubbing his little disciple’s head.

They all had the same kind of head, so why was his little disciple’s especially clever?

“People need to know how to innovate. If you ask why, it’s because I read too many novels.”

Yu Yu spread his hands. On Blue Star, there were more immortal cultivation novels than could be counted.

As for the knowledge about cultivators in them, it was truly a matter of there being nothing you could not imagine, only things the authors could not fail to write.

Because he had read so many immortal cultivation novels, when Yu Yu refined his bonded spiritual weapon, he could not help letting his imagination run wild.

Just when he thought he would not be able to refine it successfully, it was completed. After the refinement was done, even he himself froze for a long while before coming back to his senses.

Then he was deeply impressed by the authors on Blue Star. Those wild ideas truly had not been written for nothing. They had inspired him a great deal.

A bonded spiritual weapon was a weapon that would accompany him all the way until he ascended to the Immortal Realm, one that could still be used without needing to be refined anew. If he refined it poorly, he would be letting down all the materials he had tricked out of his master.

Fortunately, his luck was quite good. The wild ideas from Blue Star had been tested, and it had been proven that they could be done.

From now on, when everyone refined their bonded spiritual weapons, they would also have a direction they could refer to.

As for whether they could succeed, Yu Yu did not dare guarantee it, because in this refinement of his, several of the materials were rare even in the world.

Especially the stellar meteorite and the broken branch from the Tree of Life. Those were precious materials that were hard to see even in the Immortal Realm.

That was why Yu Yu did not dare say with certainty that it would definitely succeed. After all, his bonded spiritual weapon had too many firsts. Unless someone gathered another set of materials exactly like his, perhaps they might be able to refine one successfully.

Obviously, that was impossible. Just the broken branch from the Tree of Life alone would stump a great many people. Ever since the Tree of Life vanished, no one outside had ever seen this thing again.

This broken branch of Yu Yu’s had been given to him by Qingquan. How could there possibly be a second one?

So the chances of replicating a second bonded spiritual weapon like Yu Yu’s were not high. On top of that, refining this kind of bonded spiritual weapon required an amount of spiritual sense and spiritual power far beyond ordinary imagination. Other than Yu Yu, there was simply no one who, while still in Foundation Establishment, could possess spiritual sense comparable to Golden Core.

The richness of his spiritual power surpassed geniuses of the same realm by at least five to ten times, or even more.

Even Lingji did not dare say that he had been stronger than Little Junior Brother during his own Foundation Establishment stage.

It was not that his combat strength was weak, but that Little Junior Brother could exhaust someone to death relying on spiritual power alone.

As long as he used a turtle shell to cover himself, if the opponent’s spiritual power could not compare to his, then even a sword cultivator would be unable to break his defense in the end.

This could be considered one of the directions Qingyang had chosen for his disciple. Since his combat strength was lacking, then they would put effort into defense.

However, Qingyang’s impression that his little disciple lacked combat strength had somewhat changed. After seeing the second form of his little disciple’s bonded spiritual weapon, he remained doubtful about his little disciple’s combat ability.

Perhaps he was not as strong as a sword cultivator, but if anyone truly thought he was weak and easy to bully, all that could be said was that they were thinking too much.

“Qingquan, can medical cultivators also possess powerful combat strength?”

On the way back to his own mountain peak, Qingsheng suddenly stopped Qingquan and asked.

“Why did Eldest Senior Brother suddenly think to ask that?”

Qingquan’s gaze flickered. He looked at their family’s Eldest Senior Brother with a smile.

Qingsheng was still immersed in his own thoughts and did not notice Qingquan’s abnormal reaction.

“Because I saw the second form of Little Lingyu’s bonded spirit sword! That is not a bonded spiritual weapon a medical cultivator should have.”

Qingsheng could not figure out whether medical cultivators were hiding some kind of secret, or whether their little martial nephew was simply unconventional.

“It shouldn’t be strange for Little Martial Nephew to have a second form to his bonded spiritual weapon! I remember everyone speculated before that Little Martial Nephew was a soldier on Blue Star. How could a soldier possibly have no combat strength?”

Qingquan did not answer Eldest Senior Brother’s question directly. Instead, he steered the matter back toward Yu Yu.

“That is possible too. After all, compared with everyone else, Little Martial Nephew has shown differences from the very beginning of his cultivation.”

Qingsheng thought of the Classic of Nature. Even now, no one had managed to research anything definite about it.

The same cultivation method had actually produced different effects. Who exactly had cultivated it incorrectly? It seemed they still needed to find an opportunity to let Little Martial Nephew observe those disciples.

They needed to analyze where exactly the problem lay.

Although the disciples currently cultivating the Classic of Nature had decent strength and acceptable abilities, when the best was available, who would want second best?

“Perhaps Blue Star people are relatively special. After all, two worlds will always have differences.”

Qingquan continued guiding Qingsheng’s thoughts elsewhere. It was not that he did not trust his senior brother, but that after considering the matter, the fewer non-medical cultivators who knew, the better.

It was best not to let those who were not medical cultivators know. Combat strength was their means of protecting their lives, and they could not let others know about it.

“That’s possible.”

Qingsheng quite agreed with Qingquan’s explanation. After all, what Yu Yu had displayed truly was rather different from everyone else.

“Eldest Senior Brother, isn’t it a good thing for Little Martial Nephew to have combat strength? Why think so much?”

Qingquan pushed Eldest Senior Brother along in flight. Stop thinking about it. If he kept thinking, they would not be able to hide it anymore.

“That’s true. Why am I thinking so much? What matters is that it benefits Little Martial Nephew.”

Qingsheng stopped dwelling on it too. Cheerfully, he returned to the main peak to share the good news with his eldest disciple.

After Lingbao learned about it, he was sincerely happy for Little Junior Brother and gave him one hundred supreme-grade spirit stones as a congratulatory gift.

It was not that he did not want to give resources, but that he currently did not have any resources suitable for Little Junior Brother’s use, so he might as well give spirit stones.

Supreme-grade spirit stones went with everything and could be used for anything.

Yu Yu held the supreme-grade spirit stones Lingbao had sent and once again deepened his impression of the sect master’s lineage being wealthy and imposing.

To give out one hundred supreme-grade spirit stones just like that was something ordinary people truly could not do.

Of course, his master did not count. If he ran out, he would just go rob someone. It had to be known that anyone worthy of his attack was a major figure. At worst, they would be Soul Transformation cultivators.

Those cultivators had plenty of good things in their possession, which was why Qingyang had so many good things in his own hands.

Add in the resources he had snatched from evil cultivators and enemies, and the total was said to be enough to fill more than half of Holy Sun Peak.

Under these circumstances, Qingyang naturally did not lack supreme-grade spirit stones either.

The sect also had its own spirit stone mine, which produced quite a few supreme-grade spirit stones every year. The Supreme Elders could also receive several hundred supreme-grade spirit stones each year.

Those at Soul Transformation received only several dozen, Nascent Soul received ten, and Golden Core received five.

As for Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining, apologies, they did not get a share.

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