Chapter 98: Go Farther Away

“Nothing, it’s just…”

White Lotus pointed at the fruit knife at Li Changluo’s waist, her expression complicated.

Li Changluo hurriedly lowered his head to look, and saw a faint glimmer flashing on the hilt of the knife at his waist, one black, one white...

Black flame, white ice.

The two lights, like a Taoist taiji diagram, were slowly circling around the hilt of the fruit knife.

“What does that mean?”

Li Changluo quickly took the fruit knife from his waist and held it in his hand. A warm, soothing sensation spread through him, leaving every part of his body at ease...

The moment he gripped the hilt, a strand of black flame slowly rose along the blade.

“It’s nothing serious. Don’t worry. Maybe that last move was too forceful and affected your spirit weapon. In a moment, those flames will fade.”

White Lotus smiled and nodded at him, soothing Li Changluo’s nerves.

And yet...

The flames on the knife in Li Changluo’s hand burned higher and higher...

Hotter and hotter...

“Hahaha, it’s fine, it’s fine. As long as that thing inside your body has been forced out, everything’s good. These are just aftereffects...”

White Lotus hurriedly reassured him.

“Uncle, are you very frightened right now?”

Li Changluo saw, within the fruit knife in his hand, a mass of icy cold mist slowly taking shape into a shadow...

The shadow grew clearer and clearer...

It was actually Azure...

Only, unlike before, Azure’s face was no longer that wrinkled old crone’s face from earlier. She was now fully a cute little girl...

Her body was a little translucent, like a ghost, floating out of the fruit knife?

And she even had twin pigtails...

Her big, adorable eyes were wide open as she stared blankly at Li Changluo...

Li Changluo’s eyes nearly popped out of his head. What in the world...

Had he picked up Aladdin’s magic lamp?

Were you here to grant my wish?

Was she about to say to him...

Come, come, what is your dream?

I can fulfill your wish for life.

“Hey, did you all see that?”

In panic, Li Changluo pointed at the little girl who had appeared out of nowhere, at this Aladdin’s magic knife?

Did you see it?

You saw it, right...

Then let’s all make a wish...

“See...”

Lin Eggy was also staring dumbfounded at the fruit knife in Li Changluo’s hand. He pushed up his glasses, trying to answer Li Changluo...

Smack!!!

“You little brat, what nonsense are you spouting?”

Lin Eggy was suddenly whacked on the head by White Lotus. Afterward, White Lotus, like an older sister, tenderly rubbed her little brother’s head, her eyes full of grievance as she looked at him...

“We didn’t see anything. We saw nothing at all.”

After saying that, White Lotus gave Li Changluo a very courteous bow, and then...

She dragged Lin Eggy away at a brisk trot, disappearing down the corridor in a flash...

Leaving Li Changluo standing there in utter confusion, still wondering what the hell he was supposed to wish for, while he stared at Azure face to face.

As little Azure appeared, the black flames on the fruit knife in Li Changluo’s hand also began to fade little by little...

“Uncle, what are you afraid of? Are you scared of me?”

Azure asked Li Changluo in a cute, childish voice, looking at him with innocent eyes.

“My divine knife, my first wish is...”

“Yes, cough, you calling me uncle is terrifying enough.”

Pulled back from his fantasy of making wishes by Azure, Li Changluo said to her with utmost solemnity.

Being called uncle by an enemy, being called uncle by an old woman...

How terrifying. How hollow...

Still, Li Changluo noticed something...

Azure seemed different from before. If the earlier Azure had been a little girl’s body with a middle-aged woman’s heart, then the Azure now before him was completely, utterly like a child...

Those eyes were so clear, so clean and bright, so...

“What are you doing?”

Li Changluo pointed at Azure’s eyes, where frost was steadily seeping out...

It looked rather frightening...

“I don’t even know what to call you. It feels awful. I want to cry...”

“A title is just a label. Call me whatever you like. I was only joking with you, don’t cry, don’t cry...”

“Mm, Uncle, I won’t cry anymore...”

“Mm, like I said, it’s just a label. You can call me anything...”

“Mm, big brother?”

“Good girl!”

Only then did Li Changluo smile, giving Azure a satisfied thumbs-up...

A like.

Azure: (〃'▽'〃)

Azure blinked her lovely big eyes and asked again, “Big brother, you summoned me out. Is there something you need? Are we going to fight?”

“Summoned you?”

Li Changluo asked in confusion.

“Yes. My home is right here...”

Azure timidly pointed at the fruit knife in Li Changluo’s hand and said, “I’m a weapon spirit. The spirit that lives inside the weapon.”

A spirit weapon? A weapon spirit?

Li Changluo was completely lost. White Lotus had said that every monster who came to this world had their own spirit weapon. That spirit weapon was probably like a weapon, something bound to you by default, a personal exclusive weapon.

But where had this weapon spirit come from all of a sudden?

What on earth was going on? After a moment, he finally understood. Wasn’t this basically like imbuing a weapon in an online game?

A weapon spirit was simply a soul infused into a weapon?

Could it be that White Lotus had been too rough just now, failing to dispel Azure, and instead making Azure mistake her own spirit weapon for a weapon spirit, even forgetting herself in the process and believing she was the weapon spirit?

Like Orochimaru trying to take over Sasuke’s body?

Did my fruit knife get snatched by Azure?

No wonder...

No wonder White Lotus had looked as though she’d done something bad...

And run off so fast.

“Is a weapon spirit very powerful?”

Li Changluo asked Azure, his face full of doubt.

“Of course it is. Big brother, don’t look down on me. I’m very powerful.”

At that, the clear light in Azure’s eyes grew even brighter...

Li Changluo listened, entranced. Had misfortune turned into blessing?

Was he about to become a cheat?

Was this the prelude to him ascending to the peak of monsterhood?

How exciting...

How wonderful...

“Please begin your performance.” Li Changluo was practically blooming with joy. He clapped his hands, then asked Azure with a look of concern, “Do I need to stand farther away?”

Usually, the first time a cheat went off, it would be enough to darken the sky and shake the earth...

Then wind and sand would fly, stones would break loose, and within a radius of miles, not a blade of grass would survive.

Thinking of that, Li Changluo was all but flowering with delight, though safety still had to be considered.

“Of course. Stand farther away, big brother.”

Azure waved at him.

Li Changluo took a step back...

“Farther.”

Azure waved again...

Excited and worried, Li Changluo retreated even farther...

Was this the beginning of an explosion?

Oh ho ho, was I about to stage a comeback and get hold of some treasure?

“Farther, farther, farther back...”

Azure waved once more, again and again, signaling Li Changluo to step back.

Li Changluo quickly retreated, running all the way to the other end of the corridor before stopping...

It felt just like when Tang Sanzang had once rescued the Monkey King at Five-Elements Mountain...

Step back a little, I’m going to wreck heaven and earth, I’m going to blow out in a burst of brilliance...

The first time unleashing a cheat, and it was this fiery, this explosive?

Li Changluo could hardly suppress his excitement...

Would this blow the whole tavern to pieces?