Reborn as a Hatrack in the Mystical Land-Chapter 738 - 7: Monstrous Pill Master, Chen Jiangyin
His temples were sharply defined, as if sculpted with a sword blade, and his brows were neither sparse nor dense, and his eyes were like the warm pools of a spring day; a pair of brows and eyes especially attractive, such was Yue Jinghua’s first impression of Chen Jiangyin.
A pair of men and women, with affectionate eyes full of tenderness, a relationship that seemed ambiguous, entwined in an embrace.
This was the immediate reaction of the members of the July Mercenary Team upon breaking the Shura Sword Formation and returning to the Titan.
"Captain, that was low of you. While we battled for our lives in the Sword Formation, you were here, embracing warmth and beauty. No, no, it’s more like hugging a pile of handsome men," Compass, who was always eager for trouble, immediately started yelling the moment he saw the mysterious handsome man on board.
"Shut up," Yue Jinghua shivered and with a mix of pushing and kicking, she sent Chen Jiangyin, who had inexplicably changed back into men’s clothing, tumbling over.
The latter brushed off the dust from his clothes with a sense of helplessness and straightened the white jade hair crown on his forehead.
"Captain Yue’s hospitality is truly special. I am Chen Jiangyin, the senior fellow apprentice of Cheng Ying. To avoid any speculation, my junior sister has asked me to treat Ni Qianjun," Chen Jiangyin quickly clarified the reason for his unexpected appearance on the ship in just a few words.
Cheng Ying was "born a woman," and it was indeed inconvenient for her to mingle in a mercenary group filled with men.
Cheng Ying usually appeared before others with her face covered, and only Yue Jinghua had seen her true face; looking at Chen Jiangyin, dressed in a scholar’s white robe, with a Golden Jade Medicine Gourd, symbolizing the highest rank of a Danlu Alchemist, hanging at his waist, with jet-black hair and a jade-like appearance, he was truly a rare handsome man.
When they heard him identify himself as Chen Jiangyin, the others were shocked, and dared not let their thoughts wander further.
Ni Qianjun was overjoyed, who is Chen Jiangyin? He is the rare genius Pill Master of the current continent, having him here meant that Ni Qianjun’s bizarre illness was very likely to be cured.
Seeing them gathering around Chen Jiangyin, calling him Pill Master this and that, more affectionately than their own mothers, Yue Jinghua couldn’t help but feel sour in her stomach. She snorted with a nasal tone, "Who was it that just now caused this captain to be injured?"
This light comment, heavy in implication, struck the members of the July Team like a thunderbolt from a clear sky.
The group had been overly pleased with themselves, temporarily forgetting what sort of person their captain was.
This person was petty and spiteful, with a temperament as small as a sesame seed, swift and fierce in revenge. Anyone who fell into her hands could only be described by one phrase: there is no such thing as the most miserable, only more miserable.
In the minds of the July Mercenary Team, as thoughts clashed like lightning and thunder, they unanimously pointed their fingers, without hesitation, at Compass, the most durable and thick-skinned among them, "It was him."
Compass tried hard to round his small, mung bean-sized eyes, inwardly despising his comrades’ shamelessness, "Captain, it was clearly because you were outskilled, how could you take it out on Little Panpan."
However, Yue Jinghua was surprisingly not angry. She glanced at the mercenaries, and then at Chen Jiangyin who was watching the commotion with great amusement, and suddenly had an idea.
The Shura Sword Formation relied on her spiritual power for support. Now that the members of the July Mercenary Team had grown increasingly in sync with each other, sustaining it alone for more than a month was indeed difficult.
Originally, she had wanted to use the three-headed Dusa Queen to control the Shura Sword Formation, but after the evolution, the Dusa Queen’s strength had increased greatly, and with the heavy Evil Qi, Yue Jinghua was worried that she might carelessly harm the mercenaries, leaving them half-dead.
However, the man before her, Chen Jiangyin, was a good chess piece to make use of. From the fluctuations in his spiritual power earlier, his spiritual power cultivation was not inferior to her own, and his spiritual power was stable. He was also cautious and careful in his actions, more than capable of controlling the Shura Sword Formation.
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Yue Jinghua’s lips, "Alchemist Chen, you have seen the situation just now. My friends and I are playing a fascinating game of spiritual illusion chess. This game has nothing to do with Dark Power, but is related to one’s spiritual power. It’s a long journey, and if you are interested, why not join them for a few rounds?"
After saying this, Yue Jinghua briefly explained the principles behind the Shura Sword Formation.
She wasn’t worried about the secrets of the Shura Sword Formation getting out; the formation was an independent training ground. Before leaving, Yun Zhao of the Cloud Dragon Clan from the Silver Dragon Clan entrusted it to Yue Jinghua. Without Yue Jinghua’s permission, no one else could enter the Shura Sword Formation.
Chen Jiangyin indeed had exceptional talent, and Yue Jinghua was quite eloquent.
With Yue Jinghua’s explanation, Chen Jiangyin quickly understood that the sword formation was divided into several major parts: Shura Moon, Gravity Restriction, and the Million Sword Evil Sword Soul.
These three could be seen as the Shura Moon representing Heavenly Time, Gravity Restriction representing geographical advantage, and Million Sword Evil representing Human Unity.
And the rest of the July Mercenary Team were the opponents.
His task was to control the three main forces within the Shura Sword Formation using his spiritual power, to counter the members of the July Mercenary Team.
As Yue Jinghua had said, the entire Shura Sword Formation was like a giant game of Battle Chess, except that for Chen Jiangyin, who could not control Dark Power, such a game where he could control the life and death of others and the battlefield, was an extremely novel attempt, something he had never experienced before.
In the following days, Chen Jiangyin took the place of the spiritually injured Yue Jinghua and began another round of "Shura Trial."
After this round of trials, the members of the July Mercenary Team were too exhausted to even complain. They finally understood the saying: a barking dog doesn’t bite.
They had thought Chen Jiangyin, who seemed gentle and refined, with an innocent look of a harmless scholar, would handle the Shura Sword Formation benignly, but to their surprise, his control was far more cunning and ruthlessly efficient than Yue Jinghua’s.
Under Chen Jiangyin’s ingenuity, he also used his spiritual power to add poison swords and miasma within the Shura Sword Formation, these unpredictable secret moves even overturned the one known as the "first in defense" of the team, Compass.
And yet, Chen Jiangyin played with great enjoyment. If it weren’t for Yue Jinghua’s whim to see the training progress of everyone, even Qin Dongting, who would normally remain unfazed even if mountains crumbled in front of him, would have been driven to the brink of a mental breakdown.
"Not playing anymore? Don’t want to play a few more rounds? I feel that my spiritual power has greatly improved within the sword formation, it’s like making giant strides every day," Chen Jiangyin was brimming with vitality, as if invigorated, the continuous seven days and more of the second round of training had almost no effect on his spiritual power consumption.
Yue Jinghua naturally knew that controlling the Shura Sword Formation could greatly enhance one’s spiritual power, but she never expected Chen Jiangyin’s spiritual realm to have reached such a terrifying level.
This made Yue Jinghua cautious and wondered about Chen Jiangyin’s background. His spiritual power seemed endless and as vast as the ocean, having only more to offer than her own.
Fortunately, despite the July Mercenary Team members being battered and bruised, each of them had breakthroughs in their realms, and their ability to react in combat had also strengthened a lot.
When more than half of the journey had passed, the July Mercenary Team members, having undergone their bloody training, all appeared spirited and reinvigorated. The entire team seemed reborn after a calamity, radiating an unprecedented brilliance.
