HLnovel Chapter 86 The Lost City of Time 6
Chapter 86 The Lost City of Time 6
Nabu, whose eyes were originally filled with tears, stared blankly at the manual in front of her and said, "Me, me?"
"Otherwise what? After all, you're the one involved. Don't you want to fight back?"
The one who was originally offered to the gods was not you, but your cousin Ajana.
"It was your father's desire to become the city lord, it was your father's selfishness, that ultimately led to your downfall. Are you really willing to accept this?" Cheng Jiu's voice seemed to bewitch him.
Nabu, upon hearing her words, was naturally unwilling. The solid wall in her heart began to loosen, and she said urgently, "No, I'm not reconciled. I don't want to, I don't want to become a so-called bride. I don't want to die, but this is my responsibility." By the end, her voice had softened, as if she were trying to convince herself to accept her fate.
"Responsibility? Who said it's your responsibility? We are born naked, and God has never given us any mission."
"Don't you even know whether what you're burdened with is responsibility or shackles imposed on you by others?" Cheng Jiu disagreed: "Your so-called responsibility is nothing more than something forced upon you by God and your family through their overwhelming power."
"So what if I am? But I can't resist!"
"But now, the power to resist is in your hands, isn't it? You are powerful, so how can the gods and your family force you?"
Nabu listened to Cheng Jiu's words, stared blankly at the manual in her hand for a long while, and finally her gaze slowly became firm: "I want to become stronger!"
Cheng Jiu looked at her with relief and patted her lower back: "Good girl, you've finally come to your senses. Don't worry, we'll all help you! Now let's take the first step. I'll teach you how to guide your Qi into your body!"
Following Cheng Jiu's instructions, Nabu assumed the five-heart-facing-the-sky posture, closed her eyes, and entered a meditative state.
Seeing that Nabu had entered a meditative state, Liu Shaoyuan whispered to Cheng Jiu, "Even if Nabu cultivates now, she might not be able to defeat that 'god'!"
"Why does she need to defeat a 'god'? She only needs to defeat her father. After all, Nabu is Nabu, isn't she?" Cheng Jiu said calmly, looking at Nabu.
"Won't it be that little girl Agana who marries that 'god'? The little girl is innocent too. Her parents were killed by her uncle. If she takes Nabu's place, she will also die. She will be even more pitiful than Nabu."
“‘God’ is indeed the greatest source of evil at present, and he must die! But, apart from him, who is the real source of evil?”
Solving the problem with the 'god' is merely treating the symptoms, not the root cause. With Nabu's father around, even if this 'god' is gone, there will be other 'gods'. He has never treated Nabu and Agana as human beings.
If there is enough benefit, even if they are not offered to the gods, they will be offered to others.
"If we want to prevent this from happening again and truly make Nabu the master of her own life, the only way is to let her gain great strength, have the power to resist, and take back the life that belongs to her," Cheng Jiu said earnestly.
With great strength, even mountains that once seemed insurmountable are nothing more than trifles.
“Having a knife in your hand is different from not having one!” Yingyue agreed.
"I'll help too, junior sister," Gong Yu said earnestly.
Others also expressed their approval.
"Me too."
“We are all the chosen ones of our respective sects. Surely we can teach him together and still not produce a good talent?” Liu Shaoyuan said proudly. “I can teach him alchemy.”
"Anyone knows how to refine pills," Wen Sishu scoffed. "My teaching is definitely better than yours."
"How about we have a competition?" Liu Shaoyuan challenged.
"Let's compete!"
Gong Yu glanced at the two of them, then scratched his head: "Then I'll teach her formations. Brother, what about you?"
“I won’t compete with you; I’ll teach her how to use the spear,” Miyagi said.
Nan Yanzhe looked at the group and said, "I know a little bit of Yi Jing (Book of Changes)."
"I won't compete with you two. We're all women, and I can teach you how to use a long whip." Yingyue looked at Liu Shaoyuan and Wen Sishu, and felt that the alchemy field was too crowded.
"I'll teach you talisman making and weapon crafting." Cheng Jiu stepped down to take on the remaining two tasks.
The group discussed amongst themselves and finalized Nabu's future training plan.
"Speaking of which, she's so slow at drawing qi into her body!" We've been discussing this for quite a while now, but Nabu still hasn't made a move.
Liu Shaoyuan nodded understandingly: "After all, she has missed the best time for cultivation, so it's normal for her to be slower."
Yingyue looked at the sparse spiritual energy around her and said, "Maybe it's because there's so little spiritual energy here that it's difficult to draw energy into the body?"
"Then I'll set up a spirit-gathering array for her." Gong Yu said, taking out an array plate and setting up the spirit-gathering array.
As the concentration of spiritual energy increased, Nabu's absorption rate also increased slightly.
From moonset to moonrise, from moonrise to moonset.
Bored, the group took out jade slips and formed a team to play Dou Dizhu (a popular Chinese card game).
Cheng Jiu even upgraded the jade slip and developed a jade slip version of Go.
Miyagi and Minami Hikozawa really enjoyed the game; they could play it all day long.
Towards the end, the group took out the Song Immortal Cards to play. These cards, which combine games and entertainment, are indeed a phenomenon in the cultivation world. Everyone present had collected some cards, and even Nan Yanzhe had quite a few. The more cards there were, the more fun they became.
After playing for three days, Cheng Jiu was worried that Nabu would starve herself to death by inducing qi into her body, since she hadn't even started fasting yet.
Just as she was struggling with this, there was finally some movement on the other side. Spiritual energy quickly surged into Nabu's body, and filth and impurities were continuously expelled from her body.
The taste was absolutely divine, and the group hurriedly moved away.
"It stinks!" Yingyue gagged twice, breathing in the fresh air. "It's just as bad as Wen Sishu's back then."
"Senior sister!" Wen Sishu called out to her helplessly.
He came from the mortal realm. Although his family was quite powerful, it wasn't like the cultivation world where children from wealthy families were baptized in medicinal soups from a young age and ate spiritual rice and food, which meant they had fewer impurities.
Nabu was overjoyed to have begun cultivating by drawing in Qi into her body, but the hunger in her stomach made her dizzy and she collapsed.
Although they were far away, the group had been keeping an eye on the newly recruited disciple. When they noticed she had fainted, they rushed over.
Gong Yu cast a cleansing spell to cleanse her body, and Ying Yue picked her up, placed her on the prepared bed, and gave her a fasting pill.
Nabu lay on the bed for a while before she recovered and said, "Thank you!"
"You should get some rest. We'll be very strict with you afterwards," Yingyue said gently.
"Okay!" Nabu closed her eyes.
After Nabu had rested, the group proceeded with their initial plan to instruct Nabu.
First, the alchemy duo ran into a wall. Their opponent had a single fire elemental root, but the fire elemental root was too volatile, and the alchemy process was like an explosion.
Miyagi has a lot to say on this point.
Secondly, there's the formation. Gong Yu was scratching his head, wondering how someone could be so stupid. He'd explained it so many times, but the person just couldn't remember!
He and his brother were able to remember it very quickly.
His talent in formations is quite average, so he's out of the running.
As for the spear and the whip, she decisively chose the whip.
Finally, she is extremely talented in divination, which Nan Yanzhe praised highly.
As for talisman making and weapon crafting, Nabu also stopped there. In the end, she was taught by Nan Yanzhe and Yingyue.
Cheng Jiu and the others taught her body tempering and swordsmanship, but in reality, not everyone was as monstrous as Cheng Jiu. After the great wave of elimination, Nabu ultimately only learned the whip and the Yi Jing (Book of Changes).
However, with the unlimited resources provided by the group, Nabu successfully broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage within three months.
During this time, the group remained at the Bride's Tomb. The city lord did come looking for them, but they were kept out by the formation.