Starting My Cultivation With Time Management

Chapter 1045: After Revision: Chapter 33 Why Save Me

Once upon a time, Chen Guanshui thought that once he tore off the mask, it would be equivalent to bidding farewell to them forever, with no chance of meeting again.

Yet in just a few short months, encounters with Xu Yinglian, An Zhisu, and Shi Liuli made him sure that something must have been done to him, and no matter where he hid, they would “coincidentally” find him.

Among the three, An Zhisu was the most resolute, always ready to fight at any moment; Xu Yinglian and Shi Liuli were relatively perceptive, sensing something amiss about him, but unlike An Zhisu, they didn’t accuse him based solely on intuition without evidence.

But if he stayed with them long-term, without the Kunlun Mirror’s Mirror Flower Water Moon Illusion Technique to hint, being exposed would be only a matter of time.

The one who posed the greatest threat to Chen Guanshui was Shi Liuli with her utterly unreasonable art calculation ability.

Others’ art calculation results are often described as having four interpretations: A, B, C, D, while Shi Liuli’s art calculation ability is, “The hexagram result is clearly A.”

In other words, for her, most of the world’s problems are like a crossword puzzle already completely solved, leaving no secrets—so much so that she still found him even after he ran here, which is truly terrifying.

On the way to the office, Chen Guanshui deliberately walked slowly, gradually devising a response plan:

First, there was the issue of how to handle the current situation.

It seemed that before leaving this secret realm, Shi Liuli was determined to follow him.

Fortunately, this dwelling cave heaven could shield art calculation, rendering Liuli Lady’s greatest means ineffective, otherwise, he feared his identity would be exposed in seconds.

However, identity exposure does not solely rely on art calculation. As long as she stays by his side, his flaws will eventually be revealed—after all, the understanding accumulated over hundreds of years is not so easily concealed.

This place cannot be stayed for long, that being one reason.

Of course, leaving directly is not an option. Once he disappears, Shi Liuli will surely realize he is gone, and if she leaves the dwelling cave heaven as well, her art calculation ability will return to normal, exposing his disguise immediately.

Thus, he must think of a way to keep her here.

If the Kunlun Mirror were here, Chen Guanshui would immediately have it disguise him and help lure Shi Liuli and other wives away… but unfortunately, that broken mirror had wandered off elsewhere.

To this day, he realized it’s not just Ah Jing that needs him, but he also cannot do without Ah Jing’s help.

Not to mention other things, at least in terms of escape and disguise, without Ah Jing, he himself couldn’t achieve perfection.

Hence, the second plan is to immediately head to the East Sea to find Ah Jing after leaving this dwelling cave heaven.

I without Ah Jing, am like Cao Cao without Guo Jia, akin to Shushan without its prime minister, which is absolutely unacceptable!

Whether or not it was her handiwork can be figured out slowly. But the urgent matter is to use Ah Jing’s ability to conceal his wives’ perception!

As Chen Guanshui made up his mind, the two had already arrived at the office door.

The offices of ancient times differed greatly in style from modern office buildings, resembling more of a land temple than a public hall.

On either side of the entrance were two large jars, half-full with shark oil—these were the Everbright Lamps of ancient times, now largely obsolete due to the proliferation of illumination magic artifacts that take up less space.

Shi Liuli looked at the burning wick in the center of the oil surface, pondering something, while Chen Guanshui, with an unchanged expression, stepped inside, where he saw in the dim public hall several twisted-bodied Nirvalas prostrate on the ground, seemingly worshipping something.

Before them was a huge, bizarre idol.

The idol had a form neither Buddha nor Immortal, but an abnormal, big-bellied creature from which countless tentacles extended into each Nirvala’s head, as if sucking something.

The Nirvalas’ hollow faces showed no joy or sorrow; rather than being plundered, they seemed to be offering willingly.

After a few breaths, the Nirvalas suddenly turned their heads in unison, silently gazing at Chen Guanshui and Shi Liuli.

Shi Liuli took a slight step back, a sense of unease rising in her heart.

Chen Guanshui remained calm, forming a Sword technique with one hand, as the Fire Dragon Chant shot out swiftly, severing the tentacles all at once.

The tentacles appeared thick but were in fact fragile; once burned by the Fire Dragon Chant, they were cleanly and swiftly cut off.

Shi Liuli scanned quickly like lightning. Compared to formations, she was more familiar with sword casting, and soon recognized that the style of this Fire Dragon Chant did not come from any current sword casting technique, suggesting it was definitely a product of some lost ancient sword casting craftsmanship.

The size and weight of the sword were significantly beyond the values of popular sword styles, indicating that the Sword Cultivator’s root bone and True Yuan surpassed those of ordinary cultivators, hence the use of such a cumbersome Flying Sword—considerably heavier than the Flying Swords favored by even the Shushan Sword Immortals, known for their emphasis on the Sword Bone.

So, was this “Wang Wang Daoist” actually a rare Body Refining Cultivator?

She guessed this in her heart, not knowing that Chen Guanshui was intentionally misleading her.

After abandoning the persona of Ling Yunpo, Chen Guanshui now no longer had the support of Innate Sword Bone. However, he had the Tai Yin Suming Sword as his life-bound sword artifact, hidden within his spine, and he had nurtured his entire bloodline with Ying Long’s blood for many years while also mastering Dragon Clan martial arts; his physical root bone remained far superior to ordinary human cultivators.

Therefore, using the Fire Dragon Chant flying sword with a human body would inevitably make Shi Liuli mistaken: thinking either he was a body refining cultivator or of the Demon Race’s physique… In any case, whatever the situation, it had nothing to do with Luo Yan.

Shi Liuli indeed thought so, and for a while, she even felt a bit down.

Could it be that she was really mistaken?

But she soon realized that since that bastard could hide in Penglai Yuqing View for years, and still manage well in Kunlun and Shushan, wasn’t it normal for him to master some techniques to disguise other identities?

Let alone using such a heavy flying sword, even if he tore his shirt off on the spot and revealed the muscular physique of a body refiner inside, what could that prove?

Prove that he wasn’t Luo Yan, because a person couldn’t possibly practice artifact formation and body refinement both? But aren’t you skilled in Kunlun’s Thunder Method and Shushan’s Sword Control Technique!

Chen Guanshui wasn’t aware that Shi Liuli had already guessed his multi-persona tactic, so he just cut through the tentacles with Fire Dragon Chant, then performed Sleeve Universe and collected all the Niveilos, sealing them away.

Seeing all its followers disappear, the idol was dumbfounded for a moment, then erupted in angry radiance.

It emitted a purple glow all over, drifting lightly like a ribbon; Chen Guanshui glanced at it and immediately felt his mind swaying, struggling to maintain composure.

No! That purple light has an illusionary effect, don’t look at it!

Chen Guanshui swiftly closed his eyes, hurriedly shielding his body in front of Shi Liuli and completely blocking her view.

Shi Liuli initially lacked combat experience, so she immediately caught sight and became immobilized with consciousness frozen. But as Chen Guanshui blocked her view, she barely regained her senses, quickly invoked Gouchen Star Sand, forming it into a solid wall upfront, completely blocking her sight.

In the next second, the stardust shattered with a roar, gigantic eerie tentacles pierced through the sand wall, aiming at Shi Liuli’s crown swiftly, but soon got sliced by the flying sword—Chen Guanshui timely intervened, shielding her from this deadly strike again.

Shi Liuli woke as from a dream, realizing if she stayed any longer she’d only become a burden to this bastard, quickly controlled her sword to exit the hall.

The idol seemed to know Shi Liuli was the weak point, shooting tentacles through the wall, trying to capture and restrain her sword light.

But would Chen Guanshui give it the chance? As Shi Liuli just exited his sight, silently he pointed his hand and shot out a white thunder light, specifically the Shenxiao Thunder to counter flesh.

The Shenxiao Thunder pierced the bloated belly of the idol, thoroughly annihilating it from inside out like a mighty timed bomb.

The lower half of the idol was hollowed out, but soon tearing points grew countless flesh sprouts to swiftly mend the wound upwards and downwards, evidently restoring back to original seconds later, Chen Guanshui’s eyelids twitching—it was clearly another of the indestructible Heavenly Demon creation.

If it were other cultivators, facing this “indestructible” attribute alone would leave them helpless. But how could Chen Guanshui be stumped by such an issue, he sent out two more Shenxiao Thunders, directly blowing the idol into three pieces.

Then performed Sleeve Universe, taking away the central section.

The idol attempted the same trick again, trying to mend its body completely.

However, though blessed by Heavenly Demon’s bloodline supernatural powers ensuring any body shattered into smaller pieces could be rejoined, without any fragment it’s a different matter.

After losing the neck and upper half, only watching the head and lower body squirm at each other’s voids for a long time before barely sticking together again, becoming a more grotesque unidentifiable creature.

Chen Guanshui watched with disgust, simply fired the Tai Yin Suming Sword, decisively slicing it smoothly, then using Sleeve Universe to collect the corpse, finally resolving this battle.

The Sleeve Universe Mystic Art he linked was a space specifically opened while cultivating secret techniques, originally intended as a storage bag but now stuffed with a heap of demonic entities, presumably usable only as a trash can.

Having dealt with this strange idol, Chen Guanshui prudently scanned the hall’s interior with Divine Sense.

Previously with Kunlun Mirror a simple scan would suffice, now he had to meticulously probe with Divine Sense, only to discover peculiar damages everywhere on the floor resembling some piles of residue fragments.

And the area previously obscured by the idol was a deep tranquil corridor leading to the back yard, unclear in the distance, only exhibiting indistinct shadows of an unknown outline.

He was about to proceed when suddenly saw Shi Liuli return from outside.

Seeing the idol already gone, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, asked Chen Guanshui with a haunting gaze:

“Thanks for saving me just now, fellow Daoist… but why did you help me?”

The first half of the sentence was still a ceremonious courtesy, but by the latter half, suddenly carried a gnashing tone.

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