A Blind Swordsman's Sword Coffin

That night, He Yuning vomited so much that he kept crying about never drinking again. Li Guanqi stayed by his side, caring for him like a little brother.

Sitting next to his bed, Li Guanqi took out a spirit gathering array and placed spirit stones inside. He quieted his mind and began cultivating.

Although the Great Profound Sword Sect was powerful and had many eyes and ears, he did not think they would find Cang Lu. If Cang Lu were that easy to find, Li Guanqi would have discovered something when he initially tested him at the sect. He was one of the most troublesome people Li Guanqi had ever dealt with. The other was Miao Rongchang, who had followed him for over two years.

Li Guanqi sat cross-legged, resting his hands on his knees. As he inhaled, the surrounding spirit qi turned into a stream of white mist that entered his body through his mouth. He refined the spirit qi quickly and felt his nascent soul swell, yet he continued to absorb copious amounts of spirit qi. Only half of the nascent soul’s head had not yet turned into a primordial soul. His divine soul had almost merged with his nascent soul as well.

Li Guanqi gained an insight from this. So this is why anyone with a nascent soul can rebuild their physical body as long as their nascent soul isn’t destroyed. Once the primordial soul is complete, the physical body really is just a vessel...

After entering the Illusory Refinement Realm, the physical body was merely a shell. Yet he couldn’t quite perceive it due to his immense physical strength.

On the second morning, a large tornado appeared above He Yuning’s courtyard.

The massive tornado, spanning hundreds of zhang, stirred up a flurry of conversation within the sect.

“That’s strange. Hasn’t Senior Brother He already reached the peak of the Divine Transformation Realm? Is he progressing again?”

“That’s not right. Yesterday, he brought someone here, a guy with a huge sword box on his back.”

“Really? I didn’t see anyone.”

“Well, anyone who could be Senior Brother He’s friend would be no ordinary person.”

“Nonsense. It’s unrealistic for someone at the peak of the Divine Transformation Realm to be friends with a Golden Core Realm cultivator.”

More and more disciples gathered to watch. Even some of the sect’s elders were alerted.

A dense crowd appeared above the courtyard to observe.

An old man with white eyebrows watched the courtyard wistfully. He sensed that the aura did not belong to He Yuning. Turning to the disciples, his face darkened. He yelled sternly, “What are you all doing? You don’t need to cultivate? Do your tasks? Does watching another person’s breakthrough help you with your own? Are you all that bored?”

The onlookers scattered immediately, bowing and excusing themselves.

“Hehehe, yes, yes, Elder Wu. We’ll go cultivate now.”

“Let’s go, let’s go. Elder Wu’s pissed.”

The old man watched the disciples flee and smirked. “A bunch of brats.”

He looked down at the courtyard and murmured, “That kid is causing quite a commotion.”

He raised his hand. The wind howled, and a terrifying green barrier covered the land across a thousand zhang in radius. He was worried the disciples would accidentally interrupt Li Guanqi.

A jade bottle the size of his palm appeared in his hand. With a pained expression, he tossed the bottle outward and glanced at the courtyard, muttering, “This is someone Yuning brought back to drink wine with. It’s just a bit of jade essence. I’ll give it to him.”

Boom!

Li Guanqi suddenly sensed a powerful current of spirit fluid floating around him. He hesitated, breathing heavily, then inhaled it into his body.

Boom!

His bottleneck shattered. His vital force surged, but the lightning crackling around him stopped just short of his bed, as if hitting an invisible wall.

He Yuning was fast asleep on the bed, even snoring lightly. He rubbed his nose and lay spread out, utterly oblivious.

After the spirit fluid entered Li Guanqi’s body, it turned into a fireball that spread through him. Li Guanqi huffed and used his vital force to suppress it. The spirit fluid was even clearing his tendons and bone marrow. He rarely consumed pills and had a good physical foundation, so his body didn’t have many impurities in the first place. The spirit fluid then mended his battle-damaged bones, restoring them and preventing any future long-term issues.

Vital force roared through Li Guanqi, and the nascent soul in his dantian merged completely with his divine soul. The nascent soul had transformed into a tiny golden human that bordered on the solid and the holographic.

The golden human had blood-colored patterns on its body, just as Li Guanqi did.

Boom!

Powerful energy ripples radiated in all directions, and his aura climbed to the peak of the Divine Transformation Realm.

He stepped forward, lightning flashing under his feet. He looked at the old man in the sky and bowed sincerely.

“I am Li Guanqi of the Daxia Sword Sect. Thank you for your help, Senior.”

The old man, surnamed Wu, stroked his beard and nodded with a smile. “You don’t need to thank me. It was nothing. Even if I hadn’t helped you, you still would have achieved the breakthrough. I was just giving you a small push.”

Li Guanqi smiled and said nothing. His gratitude was real. He looked at the old man, thought for a moment, and then tossed out a storage ring.

“I don’t have much, but at least I have this. It should suit you.”

The old man was initially nonchalant, but when he extended his divine consciousness into the ring, he was stunned. “A Three-Tailed Kunwu Wolf’s fur? And it’s complete too?”

He looked at Li Guanqi in disbelief. “You... killed it?”

Li Guanqi merely smiled.

The old man fell silent. He waved and removed the barrier. “If you have any issues here or want to go somewhere, just let me know. I’m not anyone important, but I’m in charge of the major and minor issues in this sect.”

Li Guanqi grinned. “Alright.”

By then, He Yuning had woken up blearily. “Water... I need water...”

Exasperated, Li Guanqi got him some water.

Having recovered a little, He Yuning noticed the chaotic courtyard. His eyes widened, and he hurried to his yard. When he saw the empty pond, he cried out, ”My fish... Where did my fish go?!”

“I... may have pushed my cultivation a bit too far,” Li Guanqi said with a sheepish grin. “How about I catch a few more for you?”

“No, I don’t want fish that I didn’t raise!” He Yuning cried out furiously.