Chapter 116

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Chapter 116: Insistent on the Last Hit

"Heaven has a way for everyone, is this the opportunity that the elders told me about before?"

Shen Xinghai sat still like an old monk, watching the floating clouds in the sky, and sighed deeply with these words.

Zhu Erchong didn’t understand at all, he scratched his head and said, "What opportunity?"

Turning to Immortal Su Yuan, he asked, "Elder, what did you say to him before?"

Immortal Su Yuan shrugged, "I have no idea!"

Except for Wen Yun, no one knew what Shen Xinghai was muttering about. She pulled Shen Xinghai’s arm and said seriously, "The Cloud Crystal is meant to be used to make a sword for you. We should wait a bit longer…"

Let’s wait until next year to see if more Cloud Crystals will appear from the Cloud Beasts. Shen Xinghai has no sword now and has suffered from these opportunities created by the Cloud Beasts. How can we let him down at this moment?

Shen Xinghai was not sad at all. He skillfully took out all the Cloud Crystals from the space bag and pushed them towards Cui Yu, saying with a cheerful smile, "How many do you need? If you need all for embedding, then take them all!"

Seeing Wen Yun and Ye Shubai frowning, he felt touched in his heart. He earnestly said, "Elder martial siblings have sacrificed opportunities for me, how can I continue to burden them? These are just Cloud Crystals, compared to our martial siblings, they are only mundane materials!"

He turned and looked at Cui Yu, saying, "Friend Cui Yu, now that we have the Cloud Crystal, can we start making the Nebula Shuttle?"

Cui Yu stared at the Cloud Crystal, not saying a word.

Shen Xinghai felt uneasy, "What’s wrong? Friend Cui Yu, is it that we don’t have enough Cloud Crystal?"

If this doesn’t work, we’ll have to go find the Cloud Beast again, maybe we can try feeding them soil to get more Cloud Crystal…

"No need." Cui Yu finally regained his composure, took a deep breath, and seemed to understand something, "No wonder you all dare to challenge Dongxuan World, it all makes sense now."

"Makes sense?" Several sword cultivators looked at each other.

"Since you can’t reveal your background, I won’t ask further, I will keep it a secret."

Cui Yu looked even more respectful, he had figured it out – with such talented young disciples like Wen Yun and Ye Shubai, and the abundance of top-quality Cloud Crystal on the island, these individuals couldn’t possibly be from the mortal realm, they must be from a powerful hidden sect!

The winged people had truly found a powerful ally this time!

Wen Yun felt like the birdman in front of her was imagining something extraordinary.

Cui Yu carefully took out a piece of cloud silk scarf, wrapped a piece of Cloud Crystal, and reluctantly pushed the rest back to Shen Xinghai, saying, "The Nebula Shuttle only needs one Cloud Crystal for its core energy. Please keep the rest properly, my friends."

Shen Xinghai was surprised and asked hesitantly, "So… so we don’t need to take them all?"

Cui Yu glared at him and said sharply, "How can we waste such precious items? One is enough, keep the rest for future use in making other treasures."

Shen Xinghai quickly stored the remaining Cloud Crystals and brought them to Ye Shubai.

Without Shen Xinghai saying a word, Ye Shubai understood and nodded, "This is enough to forge the sword."

Upon hearing this, Shen Xinghai’s forced calmness and smile turned genuine, revealing a smile from the heart.

Cui Yu, standing nearby, looked confused and exclaimed, "Forging a sword? Are you planning to use all the Cloud Crystals to forge a sword? This is wasteful! You sword cultivators are going too far!"

Wow, the whole Phoenix tree was used to make a sword, and all those Cloud Crystals were used for forging a sword. These sword cultivators are extravagant!

However, the calls of the Winged People had no effect, the sword cultivators had already happily said goodbye and walked away.

*

The winged people may boast about other things, but their skill in making magical treasures is truly remarkable. Half a month later, with bloodshot eyes, Cui Yu, with drooping wings, found Wen Yun.

Exhausted as if out of strength, he could only say simply, "With ten people, we finally completed the Nebula Shuttle."

Cui Yu struggled to open his tightly clenched hand, only to find a delicate shuttle lying in his palm, crystal-like in quality, with a color like clouds and mist. In the middle, there was a faint, gentle light, resembling stars falling through the clouds, truly befitting the name Nebula Shuttle.

Seeing everyone’s gaze fixed on the Nebula Shuttle and unable to look away, Cui Yu immediately felt his strength returning. Proud and emotional, he said, "I never thought I could create such an advanced magical treasure like the Nebula Shuttle. Even within the Wing Clan, only two seniors could make such a treasure. With it, I have been promoted to a master craftsman in the art of refining!"

Cui Yu thought that her reputation would impress everyone in the room, but these inexperienced sword cultivators were not impressed at all.

They even focused on another key point—

"What? Are you saying that even you couldn’t be sure if you would succeed? So, you were just bragging earlier."

Cui Yu calmly passed over the matter, "Oh, look, isn’t this a success? I call this a prediction, not boasting! Now that the Nebula Shuttle has arrived, who wants to experience its power?"

Excited Immortal Su Yuan quickly stepped forward and took the Nebula Shuttle from Wen Yun’s hands.

He said solemnly, "How can we let the children take such a dangerous task, let me handle it!"

Wen Yun, "Tsk."

Since the elder ancestor wanted to play, Wen Yun couldn’t stop him, so she gave the first test flight opportunity to Immortal Su Yuan.

"The Nebula Shuttle only needs a tiny bit of power to operate, so Ascension Stage cultivators don’t need to use most of their power for flying. Instead, they can use the power to protect lower-level cultivators, allowing more people to travel faster through the void."

After Cui Yu finished explaining, Wen Yun suddenly widened her eyes and stared ahead, witnessing Immortal Su Yuan flying away almost instantly as if teleporting. Shortly after, he reappeared in front of everyone without any signs of spatial distortion, proving it was not teleportation but incredible speed in action!

Even faster than Ye Shubai!

Immortal Su Yuan was holding a brick in his hand, and Zhu Erchong recognized it first, surprised, "Isn’t this a brick from Cloud Sea City?!"

"Correct." Immortal Su Yuan weighed the brick in his hand and said triumphantly, "I just took a trip to Cloud Sea City, how about that, quick right?"

Can it be so fast for Cloud Sea City to Cloud Island back and forth like this?

"Hiss!" Everyone gasped in unison.

Cui Yu finally saw the shock on the faces of this group of sword cultivators, feeling satisfied.

Of course, on the way back, she didn’t forget to take five million in fees from Wen Yun, after discount, Cui Yu tearfully earned four million, making Zhu Erchong, who had only made two million before, envious and tempted to give up sword cultivation for alchemy.

Sword cultivators all love to pursue extreme speed, and this Nebula Shuttle simply fulfilled their dreams.

Not to mention Immortal Su Yuan, even Ye Shubai couldn’t resist and flew around Cloud Island twice using the Nebula Shuttle.

After everyone had enough fun, it was time to get back to business.

Wen Yun returned the Nebula Shuttle to Immortal Su Yuan, saying seriously, "Senior, Little Bai and I still need to perfect the layout on Cloud Island. This time, you are needed to go to the realm of cultivation."

Immortal Su Yuan smiled and said, "What’s so hard about that? Just let me make a few more trips and I promise to bring the entire Qingliu Sword Sect back to you."

Holding the Nebula Shuttle eagerly, he didn’t wait for Wen Yun and the others to say goodbye. With a swoosh, he flew far away, only the sound of joyful laughter lingering behind.

Zhu Erchong listened enviously, "I also want to play with the Nebula Shuttle for two months."

Wen Yun gently reminded from the side, "In another two months, Senior Bao and the others will all arrive. If they have all reached Nascent Soul in the mortal realm, while you, Martial Brother Zhu, have been in the immortal realm for so long and are still at Golden Core…"

Before Wen Yun could finish, Zhu Erchong had already picked up his sword in shock and ran after Ye Shubai.

"Martial Brother Ye… no, Ancestral Master Ye! Let’s go practice swordsmanship now!"

*

Cui Yu successfully crafted the top-tier magical treasure Nebula Shuttle, barely qualifying as a master craftsman.

In Cloud Sea City, there were actually quite a few master craftsmen, each major influential clan had one. However, true master craftsmen were few in the entire Cloud Sea World, almost reaching the pinnacle. So, despite Cui Yu’s reputation as a master being somewhat disputed, more and more people were coming to him for craftsmanship now.

The giant living next door envied others and grumbled to himself, "I am better at crafting than my son, why don’t they ask for my help?"

Unable to resist, he looked at Wen Yun and said, "I heard your group recently got some good materials for making swords? Why didn’t you come to me for help? Do you look down on me?"

Without a doubt, this gossip was spread by the talkative winged people.

Wen Yun suppressed a smile and reassured the giant, "It is our tradition for the elders to make swords for the younger generations. We will come to you next time."

The giant grumbled but couldn’t say much, as the voices from the neighboring treehouse grew louder and approached them.

"Well well, it seems someone is unhappy with the winged people’s skills and has come to hire me for work!"

However, the newcomer was not there to ask the Giant Spirit Clan to forge weapons.

After Cui Yu explained the reason for their visit, Wen Yun raised an eyebrow in surprise and asked, "You want to rent the island from me?"

"Yes, we only wish to have the Wing clan’s master repair our magical treasures. We heard that this island belongs to Taoist Friend Yun, so we have come to request permission."

The visitor was a very short and skinny old man, with very long eyebrows above his eyes, and his eyes were squinting as if smiling, combined with his pointed chin and mouth, he looked like a mouse.

Wen Yun felt that she had seen this person before, and she recalled, "Friend, have we met in Cloud Sea City before, you are…"

Before Wen Yun could speak out her guess, the old man in front of her was already very touched, "Oh, Taoist Friend Yun, you have a good memory! I am the elder of the Fox tribe. It was all thanks to Taoist Friend Ye’s mercy on the first floor of the Cloud Sea Tower that my old bones were not hurt. I thanked you both when we left. I didn’t expect you both to still remember me!"

Wen Yun was relieved she didn’t guess he was from the Spirit Rat tribe. She quietly hid her embarrassment, glanced towards Ye Shubai, but he showed no emotion on his face, almost saying "I don’t know this person," indeed the same person who couldn’t even recognize his own disciple’s voice back then.

Well, both Wen Yun and Little Bai had bad memories, so no one should make fun of each other.

Wen Yun had to step forward to greet him, "Yes, I certainly remember you are a friend from the Fox tribe, may I ask why you have come here today?"

"I’m ashamed to say, we Fox tribe were originally one of the indigenous tribes of the Cloud Sea World, we also had some ancestral property, but due to several generations of incompetent and ridiculous ancestors, we lost all our wealth, even had to mortgage our Cloud Island, and could only settle here by competing for Cloud Island in the Cloud Sea Tower. Unfortunately, I have no talents, slipped in the rankings in the Cloud Sea Tower… now we can only barely stay at the end of the first floor, so the Cloud Island we received is one of the smallest, barely enough for our Fox tribe to settle."

The elder of the Fox tribe’s eyebrows drooped even more, his eyes squinted visibly, but no matter how you looked at it, he seemed more sad, and his tone was extremely low, "Just my luck, in the middle of the night the other day, a group of Cloud Beasts rushed over and ate up our Cloud Island! It’s strange, our place, although not too far from Cloud Sea City, should not have had Cloud Beasts appearing here."

Since ancient times, there has been a balance between Cloud Beasts and cultivators, humans residing on Cloud Islands around Cloud Sea City, while Cloud Beasts living in the remote depths of the Cloud Sea, although there are hunters, both sides maintain an unspoken agreement not to intrude into each other’s territories.

As for the Little Cloud Beasts in their group…

Wen Yun had good reason to suspect that this was an exceptional case drawn out by Shen Xinghai’s strange nature.

The elder of the Fox tribe sighed, stooped down, and bowed again, "My descendants of the Fox tribe have been living in the Cloud Sea World for generations, with nowhere else to go. Now we are squeezed onto a small Cloud Island, coming here to ask Taoist Friend Yun for a place to stay."

The old man quickly added, "We won’t take advantage of you, we can rent at market price, is that okay?"

The residents of Cloud Sea City cannot afford to live there, and most of the other Cloud Islands belong to different races or families who would not rent them out. Among the wandering cultivators, Wen Yun currently owns the most Cloud Islands.

Seeing the elder of the Fox tribe looking pitifully at her, Wen Yun’s heart softened. She quickly helped him up and said gently, "No problem, how many people are in your tribe?"

Calculating that there were just over a hundred houses on the island now, Wen Yun figured it wouldn’t be difficult to accommodate the Fox tribe.

"Not many, just over fifty thousand foxes and fox cubs. Most of them are now working in Cloud Sea City to earn Origin Crystals."

Wen Yun fell silent, quickly dismissing the idea of bringing them to this Cloud Island.

Although she is now a wealthy woman in Cloud Sea World, she has many Cloud Islands under her control, so she decided to rent a larger island to the Fox tribe.

After choosing a large Cloud Island a little further away, the elder of the Fox tribe thanked Wen Yun repeatedly and left with tears in his eyes.

Unexpectedly, after the Fox tribe left, several people came to visit Wen Yun in the following days, all asking to rent Cloud Island. She had a lot of Cloud Islands at her disposal, so she decided to rent them out.

Zhu Erchong, who was in charge of collecting rent, never stopped smiling these days. Just the thought of Origin Crystal made him feel happy, even if Ye Shubai made him practice for extra hours with a stern face, he still smiled foolishly.

Ye Shubai shook his head helplessly, put away the Phoenix Tree Sword, walked to Wen Yun’s side, looked down at her who was deep in thought, and whispered, "Recently, Cloud Beasts have been crossing the boundaries in a big way, it’s not right."

"Yes, three of my Cloud Islands have been nibbled on. I heard from Cui Yu that the hunters in Cloud Sea City have been very excited recently, all going out to capture Cloud Beasts."

Wen Yun frowned slightly, looked down at the town below the peak, and with the recent construction boom, the outline of a city was beginning to form there.

A layer of gloomy rain was drizzling down on the river around the city, and although others couldn’t see anything unusual, she knew that it was the Cloud Beasts earning Cloud Soil diligently. They respected Wen Yun very much, and aside from the time they bit off Shang Wuyang’s arm, they behaved well, staying on the island to help.

Wen Yun had set up a monitoring formation on the island long ago, so she naturally knew that they had not left.

For this reason, Wen Yun found it strange.

Cloud Beasts were already rare, and based on what the Fox tribe elder and the Winged people said, because Cloud Crystals were very popular, the job of a hunter was highly sought after in the Cloud Sea World. As a result, over the past thousand years, Cloud Beasts had nearly disappeared, and any sightings of them were only in the most remote parts of the cloud sea.

The normally elusive Cloud Beasts seemed to have lost their minds, actually starting to move towards where people were gathered? Something doesn’t seem right no matter how you think about it.

Wen Yun was worried that the Little Cloud Beasts would be caught by hunters. She floated over to them and gently said, "There have been hunters around lately, so you should hide for now."

The small fire dragon, who was breathing fire next to them, rolled over, holding its stomach in fear, "Don’t hide inside my belly this time. They’re making me so full, I can’t even eat dessert."

Wen Yun sighed, "The defensive formation on the island is all set up. Just hide on the peak so that outsiders won’t see you."

Only then did the little fire dragon relax and lazily lay on the ground, continuing to breathe fire.

The lead Little Cloud Beast squeezed out from the clouds, wagged its small tail, took a piece of Cloud Soil from Wen Yun’s hand, and softly bleated.

Without looking up, Little Hong translated, "It says it heard news about the Cloud Beasts causing trouble."

"Baa!"

"They said that Cloud Beasts have a rule to not easily leave the clouds…" At this point, the little dragon suddenly turned around and curiously asked, "Then how did all of you manage to run away?"

Little Cloud Beast sprayed a burst of water towards the little dragon and tried to bite its tail, but Little Hong was not easy to deal with either. She skillfully swung her tail and knocked Little Cloud Beast away.

Wen Yun quickly caught Little Cloud Beast, who rubbed against her chest and whimpered sadly.

The little dragon grumbled, "Always pretending to be pitiful…" then obediently continued with the translation.

"It says it wants to go back under the cloud sea to see what happened to its cloud family. Oh, I bet you don’t want to work on the island anymore, you want to escape!"

Wen Yun ignored the second half of what the little dragon said, petted the Cloud Beast’s soft head, and asked it, "Did you originally live under the cloud sea?"

After getting a positive answer, Wen Yun asked, "Can you take me to the cloud sea?"

Little Cloud Beast seemed hesitant, but eventually nodded with its small round head.

Wen Yun felt a twinge in her heart and turned to look at Ye Shubai.

Without her needing to speak, Ye Shubai softly said, "I’m with you."

Wen Yun was surprised, "Do you know what I want to do?"

Ye Shubai didn’t sense anything amiss and naturally replied, "Wherever, whenever, and why, I am with you."

This answer was hard to argue with, Wen Yun had no choice but to explain her thoughts, "I do want to find out why the Cloud Beast is acting strangely, but there is something more important."

"Shang Wuyang doesn’t seem like the type of character that can be easily dealt with. According to the story, these kinds of villains are not easy to kill. Also, in the story, even if they fall off a cliff, they will have adventures. We have to stop him before he experiences any adventures!"

After carefully listening to Wen Yun’s analysis, Ye Shubai didn’t argue, he just couldn’t help but ask, "Your words make sense, but I don’t understand why you think we are living in a story?"

Wen Yun was at a loss for words, unable to explain to Ye Shubai about Martial Brother Shen, the ring, and his obvious heroic demeanor.

She could only vaguely say, "As the saying goes, seeing is believing, I want to see Shang Wuyang’s body."

Yes, I just want to see that person’s body.

What if he’s not dead?

Then let’s give him another blow and turn him into a body.