Genius Demon Empress - Chapter 26

Chapter 26 - Elemental Spirit Tool

Translated by Luxican

Just before Yue Jing Hua entered her hut, Sha Man stared at Yue Jing Hua coldly, her eyes were no different from the vipers she raised.

Yue Jing Hua heard a rustling noise, she immediately came alert, and saw a lot of scorpions crawl in the room, on the walls and the ground. There were big and small scorpions, with many different characteristics.

Sha Man stood in the group of scorpions without any discomfort.

"Sha Man, do you want to scare me?" Yue Jing Hua's bed was covered with finger-sized scorpions.

"My little pets just like to crawl out for a walk at night. What? Are you frightened? Get out of the outer court if you're afraid." Sha Man smiled sinisterly.

In fact, these scorpions were non-toxic, but no one could stand such a large number. If they were in a scorpion nest all day, they would be constantly stressed and eventually collapse. Several people had already been driven away by Sha Man in a similar manner.

Unfortunately, it was destined that Sha Man was kicking an iron plate today.

Sha Man's smile froze, because Yue Jing Hua had a small flame in her hand.

The fire was pale, the flame heart blue, and moving like a living lotus flower fairy. Although the fire was not fierce, when the fire appeared, all the scorpions in the room were too scared to move.

Scorpions were naturally afraid of fire.

Let alone, of the only Chaotic Green Lotus Flame between heaven and earth.

With Sha Man's eyesight, she could not recognize the mystery of the flame in Yue Jing Hua's hands. But if Yue Jing Hua knew how to control Profound Fire, she had to be at least of the Profound Jade Realm.

There was the rumor that Yue Jing Hua was unable to practice Profound Qi, but she had achieved the Profound Jade Realm? No, there was no Profound Qi inside her body, thought Sha Man, wondering what the origin of the shocking flame was.

In Sha Man stupor, Yue Jing Hua grabbed a scorpion, put it on fire, waited for it to be fragrant and crisp, and threw it into her mouth (T/N: O.O), biting loudly, and said intoxicated, "I haven't told you, my great-great-great-great-grandfather was of Cantonese descent, he even took me to eat all kinds of weird food. Not to mention scorpions or snakes, I could also recite dozens of ways to prepare them, raw, boiled, fried, made into wine..., just let me think about, how I will deal with your scorpion army, for a minute." As she spoke, her eyes were sharp, like an eagle soaring in the sky, looking down on Sha Man.

Sha Man only felt that she had become a snake under the eagle's claws. With only a little movement she could be killed.

Looking at the shocked Sha Man, Yue Jing Hua stretched out and lay down comfortably.

Jokes on you, when she was still a spy she had to go to the Amazon to complete some tasks, there were few snakes, worms, and ants Yue Xiao Qi hadn't seen. In that environment, let alone a scorpion, she would even eat a maggot, regarding it as protein capsule.

"Can-to-nis? What is that place? How come I've never heard of it. Now that that strange girl who liked to eat snakes and insects came, in a month's time wouldn't all my pets be finished?" Sha Man shivered and hurriedly put away all her scorpions.

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On the second day, Qui Zi Zi sat in the courtyard, leisurely smoking a hookah. Yue Jing Hua walked out quite spirited, Sha Man on the contrary was yawning again and again.

Old Man Qui was secretly surprised, and looked into Yue Jing Hua's eyes, thinking.

"It seems like no one has told you about the traditions of new students. And I was in a hurry yesterday, so let me tell you now. Every student who enters the Profound Pearl Imperial Academy has to study in their respective court for at least six months. During this time, the dean and deputy dean will put you through several assessments to determine your expertise, so, as to teach you the skill that will suit you the best, in order for you to freely roam the Azure Dragon Continent. Qui Zi Zi said with pride.

In the inner court the students only ever learn the most orthodox Profound Qi Practice, Alchemy and the other orthodox Profound Pearl Imperial Academy courses, but the outer court was a lot different.

Yue Jing Hua couldn't help but be surprised. The real outer court was very different from what the outside world thought.

Had someone told her this, she wouldn't have believed it, but seeing is believing. Take Sha Man as an example, her Profound Qi cultivation was very poor. After entering the middle- stage of Profound Human, she hadn't progressed. Compared to the average inner court student this was a lot worse.

After half a year of observation, the old man Qiu unexpectedly discovered that Sha Man was very talented in rearing, and ordered her to breed all kinds of insects, so that she could use insects to defend against her opponents. His vision was indeed unique, and Sha Man's fighting power were now comparable with inner court students.

For some reason, Sha Man's specialty was not known to the outside world, but in the mouth of the few outer court students, Sha Man's nickname was "Scorpion Girl".

The reason why Lie Si Si had left Yue Jing Hua in a bit of a distance of the outer court was, because she had heard that the area was a place of frequent viper activities, even some inner court students who accidentally broke into this area would be attacked by poisonous snakes, not to mention Yue Jing Hua.

Before Yue Jing Hua came, there had been indeed some outer court freshmen , who were accidentally injured by the poisonous snakes or scared by the scorpions in the house. They had immediately dropped out of school.

These things were eventually calmed down by Qiu Zi Zi.

In this way, Yue Jing Hua, who wanted to just get a diploma, became a true student with an undetermined major. Her life in the outer court had just started.

As the days passed, the relationship between Yue Jing Hua and Sha Man did not improve at all. But Yue Jing Hua and old man Qiu got along nicely.

Although the outer court was part of the Profound Pearl Imperial Academy, it seemed to have nothing to do with the inner court. The days in the outer court were quite poor.

Qui Zi Zi was also a person with several roles. The  dean, gardener, cook, and director of training, in his words , just worrying about the school affairs could let him lose his hair.

After staying with Sha Man for a few days, except for the unpleasant experience on the first day, Sha Man thought of Yue Jing Hua as nothing but air. Sha Man would go out at night every other day, and would stay out the entire night.

One night, Sha Man went out again.

Yue Jing Hua took advantage of this opportunity to enter the space of the Rare Calligraphy Sacred Canon.

In the past few days, Yue Jing Hua was repeatedly thinking about what weapon to make out of the Falling Star Iron.

Recalling the situation when she had met the poisonous snake in the bushes that day, Yue Jing Hua dismissed the original idea of making steel needles from the iron ore. Once the needle was ejected, it was difficult to retract it.

After a few days, Yue Jing Hua, who had practiced the Nine Transformation Technique a bit more, could now control the Chaotic Green Lotus Flame a bit more proficient than before.

The Chaotic Green Lotus Flame ignited, and the Falling Star Iron was wrapped in its flames.

During the time it took to burn an incense, no changes had occurred on the iron ore, but Yue Jing Hua once again focused on smelting.

Even under influence of the Lotus Flame, no matter how much it burnt, there was no sign of softening on the surface of the iron ore. But cracks slowly appeared. The rocks the iron ore was covered in had cracked under the influence of the fire.

The iron hidden inside turned into liquid.

The blue fire kept jumping in the eyes of Yue Jing Hua. "This was the first refinement, ninety-nine to go."

In the mother country of Yue Xiao Qi, Hua Xia Guo, there had been an excellent steel making technique called Hundreds of Refinements, which referred to the process of repeatedly overlapping crude steel, forging it continuously, removing its impurities, and refining the steel.

On the basis of this, Yue Jing Hua made further improvements on the Falling Star Iron. The volume of the iron kept shrinking until it was only the size of the little finger.

After the 100th refining, Yue Jing Hua smoothed her eyebrows, and immediately left the small hut.

In the dark night, Yue Jing looked for a boulder that even three people couldn't embrace.

Then, she stretched the refined Falling Star Iron, it quickly became thinner, until was like silk hair, and the length of an arm. It was even difficult for ordinary people to see it with the naked eye.

The air close to her seemed to be turn apart by the invisible blade, and the starlight fell on the now halved boulder.

It had only taken the time of a breath, and the boulder was cut off in the middle and the cut area was extremely smooth.

The Falling-Star wire automatically wrapped around Yue Jing Hua's ring finger, as if it had an ego of its own.

Looking at the wire on her finger, Yue Jing Hua's face was full of smiles. Through the constant refinement through the Lotus Flame, the wire was now connected to her soul.

"The Hundreds of Refinements Technique really turned this weapon quite powerful," this weapon called "Soft Fingers" by Yue Jing Hua would later become the nightmare of countless powerful people leaving on the mainland.