Chapter 178: Da Chun officially transforms into a spirit! |
When Da Chun lived at Yuelai Inn, the innkeeper and the staff all liked him very much.
Because Da Chun treated people sincerely, without any ulterior motives, and would try his best to help others within his capabilities.
Although sometimes his good intentions backfired, fortunately, it was only things like breaking a plate or knocking over a dish.
Moreover, once Da Chun made a mistake, he wouldn't repeat it, showing a stronger ability to correct errors than many normal people.
"Alright, come with me, brother! I'll take you flying!"
With a sound of tearing through the air, Chen Yi took Da Chun and soared directly into the sky.
After rising to a high altitude, Chen Yi took out the Flame Iron Heavy Sword and carried Da Chun on a sword flight.
In the simulation, this sword was fooled silly by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and wanted to betray Chen Yi.
So, Chen Yi killed it as a warning to others, but at this point in reality, the Flame Iron Heavy Sword was still perfectly fine.
"Wow! Yi Brother! You can already fly!"
On the large map of the Five Regions, Chen Yi drew a straight line starting from Baiyun County, Qingzhou, in the Central Plains, heading directly to Wave Valley in the Eastern Wastes.
Because the Eastern Wastes were sparsely populated, the place names here were actually little known.
But who was Chen Yi?
An inner sect disciple of the Limitless Sword Sect!
When he was at the Limitless Sword Sect, he had studied the complete topographic map of the Eastern Wastes and remembered it at a glance.
So, Chen Yi knew where this Wave Valley was.
During the flight, Chen Yi heard the Ten Thousand Souls Banner complaining.
"Ah! Bro! Can you throw this Hu Chacha out! He's blabbering all day, giving me a headache!"
"What's he saying?"
"Gobbledygook, no idea what he's on about! Like a bunch of sparrows outside the window, chirping away on the wall!"
Chen Yi pondered for a moment.
When the enemy invaded the human world, they still knew to have everyone master the human language.
If he wanted to resist the Dragon-Man tribe, how could he not learn their language?
Might as well take advantage of having nothing to do while traveling to learn the Dragon-Man tribe language from this Hu Chacha.
Thinking of this, Chen Yi swapped in a rare trait - Foreign Languages Should Be Learned!
This trait didn't directly grant mastery of a foreign language, but made learning foreign languages more efficient.
So, he still needed someone to teach him.
Chen Yi told the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to let Hu Chacha's head out.
"Classmate Hu Chacha, I'd like to learn the Dragon-Man tribe language from you."
"Xita!!"
"I know this one, it's a curse word, but I want to learn it systematically, to make it easier for us to communicate in the future!"
"Dream on! Who wants to communicate with you, I'll never teach you! I'll self-destruct! Wah yah yah yah..."
Chen Yi rolled his eyes and a plan came to mind.
"Ah, they say the Dragon-Man tribe is the noblest race among the myriad races of the Void Realm, so their language must also be very noble, very elegant, very pleasant to the ear, right?"
The Ten Thousand Souls Banner caught on immediately.
"Get outta here! I listen to this Hu Chacha squawk every day, where's the nobility? Where's the elegance? Where's the pleasantness? Pure sparrow chirps!"
Chen Yi immediately retorted.
"You don't understand the Dragon-Man tribe language, how do you know it's not noble? Not elegant? Not pleasant to the ear?"
"Even if I learned it, I wouldn't think it's noble! Elegant! Pleasant to the ear!"
"Damn it! If someone could teach me, I would definitely prove to you how noble, how elegant, how pleasant to the ear the Dragon-Man tribe language is!"
Hu Chacha stopped his self-destruction rant, hopping mad.
"Damned Ten Thousand Souls Banner, don't you dare insult my tribe's language!
You're just a soulless Spirit Artifact, what the hell do you know about language!
Human! Seeing that you have such good taste, I can teach you!
But I'll only teach you once. If you can't learn it, don't even think about me teaching you a second time!"
When the Dragon-Man tribe tried to win over Alien Race spies, teaching the Dragon-Man tribe language was originally part of the process.
Hu Chacha pretended he was trying to recruit Chen Yi, to justify his actions to himself.
Teaching only once was fine.
Chen Yi had "Foreign Languages Should Be Learned" boosting him, so he learned ridiculously fast.
So fast that Hu Chacha was stunned.
"Xita! How are you more proficient than me?! Which one of us is the Dragon-Man??"
Chen Yi smiled confidently.
"Piece of cake."
After learning the Dragon-Man tribe language, Chen Yi removed "Foreign Languages Should Be Learned".
After arriving in the Eastern Wastes.
Chen Yi first went to retrieve the cauldron.
In the simulation, when Chen Yi retrieved the cauldron, he was at the Golden Body Realm, and it took him several days just to dig a hole downwards.
But now, with the boost from "Half-Emperor for a Thousand Ages", Chen Yi, possessing Martial King Realm cultivation, found earth-moving much easier.
"Boom!!!"
Chen Yi unleashed the "Dragon Flame Profound Art", punching vertically into the ground with a fierce blow. A fire dragon roared out, charging straight into the earth, leaving a deep, charred tunnel.
After several consecutive punches, Chen Yi reached the location where the Nine Provinces Cauldron was buried.
"Da Chun, just touch this bronze piece."
Da Chun looked a bit nervous.
"Da Chun, don't be afraid, you won't feel anything. After becoming an Artifact Spirit, you can still live in Chen Mansion as the steward, just like before."
Da Chun nodded and placed a hand heavily on it.
Everything after that was pretty much the same as in the simulation.
As the core part of the Nine Provinces Cauldron's Artifact Spirit, Da Chun awakened the long-sealed Nine Provinces Cauldron and transformed into its Artifact Spirit.
The small world inside the cauldron was activated, giving Chen Yi another treasure trove to hide in.
Da Chun began his journey of eating peaches.
The more he ate, the more of the Nine Provinces Cauldron's divine power he could mobilize, and some of his past memories would also recover slightly.
But just as the last Guardian of the Demon World said, no matter what, Da Chun was only a part of the Nine Provinces Cauldron's Artifact Spirit, making it difficult to restore the cauldron to its peak state.
Da Chun could freely switch between Spirit Body and physical form because he was the core part.
The other parts couldn't.
If Chen Yi had Third Sister, Elder Brother, and their descendants also supplement the Artifact Spirit, they would vanish on the spot.
Besides, even adding them wouldn't be enough; after all, an entire village of people died in Luoding Village.
Almost the moment Da Chun became the Artifact Spirit, Chen Yi's "Treasure-Sniffing Nose" sensed something.
The Earth Spirit had arrived.
It hid in a relatively distant place and didn't come any closer.
The Ten Thousand Souls Banner jolted upright like a dying man suddenly sitting up.
"Huh? This aura... could it be... an Earth Vein?!"
This traitor, still going on about Earth Veins.
Chen Yi wouldn't let the Ten Thousand Souls Banner succeed.
For the Earth Spirit to enlighten all Spirit Artifacts on the continent came at a cost.
Whether this loss had more negative consequences was still unknown.
So, he couldn't let the Ten Thousand Souls Banner run wild in the real timeline.
"Hey! Bro! Earth Vein! It's an Earth Vein! To the east! Hurry over!"
"What Earth Vein? I don't see one."
"There is, there is! Bro, this one's in the bag!"
"In the Five Regions, we don't say 'in the bag', we say 'determined to succeed'."
The Ten Thousand Souls Banner froze for three seconds, its banner surface twisting together, forming a very vivid human-like expression, as if saying: Are you sick?
"Bro! This one we are determined to succeed!"
"The Earth Vein matter isn't urgent. Da Chun said there's a small world inside the cauldron, sounds interesting. Come on, let's go check it out."
"Bro, are you serious? An Earth Vein! Don't you want to break through?!"
Poor Ten Thousand Souls Banner, being led around by the nose by Chen Yi.
Chen Yi entered the small world inside the cauldron and experienced it firsthand.
"Truly a paradise. Feels like staying here, you could forget all the troubles of the outside world...
Da Chun, doesn't this small world have a name?
We can't just keep calling it 'the small world inside the cauldron'."
