Be the Hardest Working Demon Cultivator!

Chapter 40: 40. Unsociable Tan Someone

Tan Shuchang waved his hand, signaling the young man to leave, and as soon as he had gone, he began to ponder deeply.

"The cultivation tradition of the Jiawu Realm has been around for at least a few thousand years. Although it’s very difficult to ascend beyond the cultivation realm to the Immortal Realm, over these thousands of years, there should have been a few individuals of exceptional talent who took a step beyond the pinnacle and approached the divine. But now..."

Tan Shuchang couldn’t help but reveal a look of surprise, "In this vast Jiawu Realm, not only is there just the cultivation realm, but even the rumors about the Immortal Realm are few and far between that have been passed down."

And with this thought, Tan Shuchang inevitably recalled his own mother, the image of her departure.

Her aura was overwhelming, exceedingly fierce, and the look she gave from the void, sharp as a blade that seemed to sever the mortal world. That was definitely not something a cultivator of the cultivation realm could achieve!

Therefore, his mother was certainly of the Immortal Realm, and probably not an ordinary Immortal Realm cultivator.

"Nine Sons’ Mother Ghost..."

Without realizing it, Tan Shuchang recalled this demonic technique.

Instantly, he felt a bit unsettled at the bottom of his heart.

Consequently, Tan Shuchang quietly composed his thoughts, suppressing these messy ideas.

Right away, he raised his hand and waved his sleeve, and a round bead rolled out from his cuff.

This bead appeared to have nothing special about it.

Besides being round, it was somewhat black.

However, after Tan Shuchang entered the Magical Treasure Pavilion, this bead not only rolled over on its own but also directly burrowed into his sleeve.

Such liveliness was nearly sentient!

Just based on this, one could tell that this bead was far from ordinary. What was strange, though, was that the bead reacted to him, but Tan Shuchang couldn’t even foster a spirit within it.

When a cultivator refines a magic artifact, they foster a spirit within the artifact.

Once the spirit has been successfully nurtured, one can wield the artifact like an extension of their arm.

The staff modified by the shadow, that superior-grade magic artifact, Tan Shuchang had refined in this manner.

But no matter how good they are, they’re merely inferior artifacts. How could they be as appealing as spirit-communicating artifacts?

Unfortunately for Tan Shuchang, even after nurturing the spirit of the bead for a whole night, he was unable to evoke any response from it.

Tan Shuchang had initially decided to continue nurturing it, but at that moment, Qiu Junlin came looking for him.

"What are you here for?" the invariably inhospitable Tan Shuchang bluntly expressed his attitude upon facing Qiu Junlin.

"That miss from the Dong family sent you a letter, didn’t she? May I have a look? Of course, it’s okay if you refuse, but you can’t tell her that I wanted to see that letter," Qiu Junlin said curiously, but as he spoke, he suddenly seemed somewhat guilty.

"You know who sent that letter?" Tan Shuchang was surprised.

"Of course I know. That little miss from the Dong family thinks she’s disguised it well, but in fact, many people know it’s her. They just don’t want to get on her bad side, so they pretend to be oblivious. Her disguise is as good as none," Qiu Junlin sneered.

Tan Shuchang nodded, then asked, "Who exactly is this little miss from the Dong family you’re talking about?"

In fact, he already had an idea of who it was, but he still felt somewhat uncertain.

"Isn’t she the one who slashed at you several times with a sword in your diary?" Qiu Junlin looked at Tan Shuchang in surprise.

"..."

Although the answer was certain, Tan Shuchang still felt a bit uncomfortable about Qiu Junlin’s response.

At the same time, it confirmed for him that she was indeed the one who had stolen his diary and made thousands of copies—the dreaded little thief!

Originally, he had only suspected as much.

Now it could be said to be confirmed.

Seeing that Tan Shuchang remained silent, Qiu Junlin chuckled, "Don’t say, what you wrote is actually quite interesting. Oh, by the way, do you know about her so-called childhood betrothal? It started when she was five or six and had heard too many of those stories. She felt she ought to have one too, so she pestered her parents and others in her household until they got annoyed.

Finally, a young sword cultivator casually pointed her out to get her off his back."

"Believing it, she even attempted to elope with him at the age of ten, having heard too many such tales. Naturally, this scared the young man terribly. He recounted the matter to the Dong family, promptly packed up his things, and fled with his family that very night."

"So this is the reason she was sent off to train in the Heavenly Sword Mansion at Yuezhou’s Jianxia Sect?" Right now, Tan Shuchang felt an urge to scoff.