Cultivation through Skin Making novel Chapter 116

Chapter 116: 96. Current Situation of Sword Sect: The "Blind Box" That No One Dares to Open (2.6K Words - Please Subscribe)

The identity of a Nanwu Sword Sect sword cultivator serves as a good cover.

For over half a year, Song Yan’s "Granny Fox" shadow puppet, in this guise, has entered no less than three secret realms. She made the acquaintance of many loose cultivators but was unable to find blood suitable for Song Yan.

However, it wasn’t entirely fruitless. At least, through everyday interactions, Song Yan heard some things about the "Ancient Teleportation Array."

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Cultivators told him that, a long, long time ago, the North and South of this continent were connected. The so-called "Wu, Shu, Wei" Three Kingdoms were merely a small nation that split from the continent’s southern part. In the past, there seemed to be teleportation arrays that could directly connect the North and South, but now it’s all shrouded in the mists of time.

This piece of information roughly provided Song Yan a possible direction for the "Ancient Teleportation Array" — the North.

He didn’t know what the North was, but there’s a ninety percent chance it already spans across the Mountain and Sea Demon Country.

The "Wu, Shu, Wei" Three Kingdoms are a "dead end." One option is to go to sea, but no one knows what lies abroad;

the other is to go north through the "Desolate Wilderness," from where Granny Fox was invited by the Wei King. Clearly... that direction directly leads to the Mountain and Sea Demon Country.

Therefore...

Song Yan began to delve into the Ancient Teleportation Array again.

The Crimson Palace can still be hidden, but faced with the Purple Mansion Realm’s blue-headed cannibal devouring locusts, he felt there’s nothing at all that could be hidden.

The Purple Mansion Realm was a realm he had no understanding of whatsoever.

Becoming stronger was necessary, but he also had to prepare a backup plan for himself.

Upon hearing this news, he split the two shadow puppets.

Granny Fox continued to do what a sword cultivator should, helping him find more secret realms.

The other began to secretly head toward the direction of the Ancient Teleportation Array.

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After a month of trekking, Song Yan finally found the array in a secret cave southeast of Nanwu Sword Sect, following Granny Fox’s map.

"Ancient" wasn’t a lie...

The three layers of overlapping vines surrounding the cave were enough for one to overlook it, not to mention it was in a barren wilderness void of Profound Qi, a place no woodcutters or hunters would ever tread.

Song Yan lit the fire stick, maneuvered sideways through the vine gaps in his fox demon shadow puppet form, and proceeded into the dark cave. At the depths, he indeed found something of interest.

The array was about the size of a courtyard landscape pond, with a vertical span of over twenty steps, and six stone steles approximately seven feet tall standing in six directions, with the array pattern at the center.

Spanning untold years, the array pattern remained as new, with its thickness and detailing intact, clearly indicating that the stone materials used to cast the array were extraordinary.

However...

Song Yan furrowed his brow slightly, his figure flickering to the northwest of the array.

There, shockingly, was a trail the thickness of an adult’s arm!

This trail seemed to have erased part of the array pattern as if an eraser had been used.

Song Yan followed the trail further and saw a rusty broken sword standing at its end.

It appeared that the array wasn’t deliberately destroyed but was affected by a battle, during which the broken sword had slashed across the entire array, thereby ruining it.

Song Yan stepped forward to grab the broken sword, slightly channeling Profound Qi, only to find the broken sword was like a bottomless pit, incessantly absorbing his strength. As it absorbed more, the surface of the sword started to tremble, and the rust quickly shook off. However, as the Profound Qi of his shadow puppet was nearly depleted, he hastily stopped, threw the broken sword into his storage bag, and continued examining the teleportation array.

Evidently, to restore this ancient teleportation array, at the very least, the "array pattern" needed to be repaired somehow.

’Broken sword...’

’Residual array...’

’It’s time to visit Nanwu Sword Sect.’

Although Song Yan also worried about Granny Fox being exposed, as a shadow puppet cannot truly perform the Sword Control Technique, Granny Fox relied entirely on her body’s strength, power, and speed to wield a sword. Nevertheless, he had to make a trip to Nanwu Sword Sect.

Previously, he was concerned about others using some secret technique to track him through the shadow puppet, but now... first, he’s within the secret realm, and second, there’s no time to worry about such things.

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After a little over a fortnight...

Nanwu Sword Sect.

The Immortal Island hid among the clouds, its peaks not towering, but treasured for their innate spiritual grace. The mountains, amidst the ocean of clouds and mist, are akin to brush strokes by a grand master, rising and falling with a certain charm.

Da...

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