Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 109: Taking the Sword

Chapter 109: Chapter 109: Taking the Sword

"Invisible spiritual thoughts enveloped the girl’s head, as if slowly twisting it, turning her face pale with fear. She wanted to scream, but her throat and mouth were tightly clutched by the spiritual thoughts."

Just then, Lin Xing’s voice came from the courtyard, "I forgot to ask you how long you’ll need to talk, I’m in a hurry to head north."

Seeing Lin Xing emerging from the courtyard, Jing Shiyu’s face, which had just been filled with a murderous look, immediately blossomed into a smile, "Give me ten days."

After Lin Xing returned, Jing Shiyu coldly glanced at Shuting and the girl and said, "Don’t bring these kinds of people here in the future."

"Let’s take her back."

Watching Jing Shiyu turn to leave, Shuting helplessly said, "Master, you’ve killed her."

Jing Shiyu turned back to look and realized that she had accidentally used too much force and had already twisted the girl’s throat.

A trace of red flashed across her face as she said coldly, "What I meant was for you to take the body back and deal with it. Don’t you understand?"

...

Lin Xing returned to the courtyard and saw the Puppet Girl practicing her martial arts again. He greeted her, "Master Bai, practicing again?"

Bai Yiyi asked, "Are you really so confident in leaving matters to Jing Shiyu?"

Lin Xing thought for a moment and said, "I think she’s quite nice. I’ve been staying here for free for quite some time, and she’s never asked me for money."

He still remembered how she had tried to save him during the battle at the canyon and nodded, "She is a good person; she probably won’t harm me."

"Good person?" Bai Yiyi inwardly rolled her eyes at his comment but, touching the doll’s ear that Jing Shiyu had sewn up the previous day, she thought it wasn’t too appropriate to speak ill of Jing Shiyu in front of Lin Xing.

"Lin Xing, as your mentor, I’m just giving you a heads-up. Always keep your guard up, and besides me, don’t trust others too easily."

In the following days, Lin Xing continued to live a simple life in the courtyard, preparing talisman paper and practicing his spiritual sight daily.

With Xuanzhenzi’s assistance, Lin Xing had made tremendous breakthroughs in his spiritual sight.

Now, as his spiritual thoughts poured from the center of his forehead, it swept through the entire courtyard instantly.

And he felt as if he had grown countless pairs of eyes, observing the courtyard from every angle.

But the scenes he saw were still in black and white.

Lin Xing closed his eyes, and a faint, blurry figure floated out from behind him.

While projecting his soul and activating spiritual sight, he felt that the usual fuzziness after leaving his body had substantially improved.

Watching a vendor passing by beyond the wall, Lin Xing thought to himself, "The details on the faces are lacking. Overall, the resolution is still a bit low."

For the next few days, Lin Xing just like before, paid no mind to the affairs outside the courtyard and focused on his own matters.

And as Jing Shiyu had said, Xuanzhenzi did indeed send people over to pay their respects.

Lin Xing, as he had promised Jing Shiyu, ignored all the visitors irrespective of who they were.

Although he spent every day in the courtyard, with Bai Yiyi coming and going, it was hard not to learn about certain things he didn’t want to know.

"Now the whole city is buzzing with rumors that Jing Shiyu has a mysterious master behind her, one who drove Xuanzhenzi away with just a few words."

"Didn’t Xuanzhenzi swallow a lot of things a while ago? Guess what happened? In the past few days, he vomited up a lot of them..."

"With Jing Shiyu back in power, she’s now wined and dined daily... huh... these Demon People from the cult really are opportunistic weeds..."

"Lin Xing, this is a list Jing Shiyu drew up for you, all items that could be exchanged for your flying sword and Xuanzhenzi. What do you think?"

Lin Xing took the list and noticed that it was divided into categories, clearly listing various weapons, equipment, secret manuals, gold, silver, and more.

Beneath each category, the items were further arranged in descending order of value.

Among them, three items were specially marked by Jing Shiyu, indicating their higher value.

Bai Yiyi, who was beside him, couldn’t help but remark, "This woman is really diligent."

Lin Xing skimmed through the list and then focused on the three items marked by Jing Shiyu.

They were a weapon, a piece of armor, and an elixir.

The armor was said to be a family heirloom treasured by a famous general for a hundred years, which after being worn, could withstand sword and blade and even deter enemies’ courage.

The weapon was a Sword Sphere, capable of transforming the spirit injected into it into sword light. It had been used by Xuanzhenzi during the first heritage period and had received a century of worship.

The last item, the elixir, consisted of three Hundred Spirit Pills which could help enhance one’s spirit upon consumption.

Lin Ling asked, "How many can I choose?"

Bai Yiyi replied, "Xuanzhenzi is only willing to give one, but Jing Shiyu said you can pick a few you most desire and order them by priority. She will try to get as many as she can for you."

After she finished speaking, she clicked her tongue twice and added, "This woman is really ruthless. I don’t know what she did in the past few days to dig out so much of Xuanzhenzi’s property."

After everything was arranged, Lin Xing used a Secret Technique to return to Building C, ready to retrieve his flying sword.

...

Crossing the gate, Lin Xing found that the flying sword he had carelessly left on the ground had disappeared.

Therefore, he could only call for Lv Ming.

Soon, he saw Lv Ming coming over with a box: "Why did you leave your things and just go last time? I was worried that the sword might get lost, so I had someone collect it for you."

Lin Xing opened the box and saw the arm-sized flying sword lying quietly inside.

This flying sword had only a blade and no hilt, seemingly emitting a cold light all over, and the surface of the blade reflected everything around it like a mirror.

Lin Xing explained, "This is a flying sword. Someone used it to attempt to assassinate me. I couldn’t handle it, so I tried opening the door and luring the flying sword in, and it actually worked."

"A flying sword?" Lv Ming mused over what he had just heard. After all, flying swords had always been things of myth and legend, and seeing one with his own eyes inevitably stirred his heart.

"The person using the flying sword, wouldn’t that mean they’re at the level of a Sword Immortal?"

Under such circumstances, hearing Lin Xing talk about battling such an opponent, Lv Ming couldn’t help but feel that Lin Xing’s strength in Mirror World had grown incredibly fast.

After Lin Xing retrieved the flying sword, the door had already disappeared, which meant he could only wait in the present world until the door opened again to return.

Taking the opportunity, Lv Ming said, "By the way Lin Xing, Zhang Tiande wants to meet you."

"Meet me?"

...

Inside the ward wrapped in layer upon layer of armor plates, Zhang Tiande was wearing an electric shock collar around his neck, dressed in a restraining garment, and all his limbs were wrapped up in metal fixtures, currently lying on the bed watching TV.

The TV was playing a revolutionary-themed drama, narrating the story of great figures transforming the nation more than a hundred years ago.

When Lin Xing arrived at the ward, he saw the other party with his mouth slightly open, drooling, watching the television with a calm face.

"Commander Zhang?" Lin Xing greeted him, and commented with relief, "You seem very calm now; it looks like the treatment here is quite effective."