Chapter 190: Divine Weapon Heaven-Reaching Staff

After the seventh four hundred breaths.

Qiu Zhihe was no longer cold; her petite and delicate body was embraced by Qin Gengyun, her cheeks flushed red, without any resistance.

Qin Gengyun had not been this intimate with his wife for several days, so he lowered his head to seek her cherry lips again.

Qiu Zhihe quickly extended her small hand to hold his face, panting as she said:

"You, you’re injured, you shouldn’t indulge."

Qin Gengyun glanced at the spot on his left shoulder where Chang Zhenzi had injured him and smiled:

"It’s just a superficial wound, don’t worry, my dear."

After saying this, he lowered his head again. Qiu Zhihe was powerless to resist and could only close her eyes and let him proceed.

After another five times four hundred breaths, as dawn was breaking, Qin Gengyun, satisfied, held Qiu Zhihe:

"My dear, let’s sleep."

However, Qiu Zhihe sat up, put on her clothes, and turned to say to him:

"Husband, it’s time to get up and cultivate."

Qin Gengyun was stunned, "My dear, I’m still injured, and after a night’s work, I should rest a bit, right?"

Qiu Zhihe’s face was blushing with shyness, but her eyes were cold:

"Didn’t you say it was just a superficial wound? I’ll wait for you in the courtyard."

Having said that, she turned and walked out of the bedroom.

"..." Qin Gengyun hadn’t expected his wife to hold grudges like this, and with a wry smile, he had no choice but to get dressed and leave the bedroom.

Yet, he felt a vague excitement inside.

Come to think of it, his wife had never taught him cultivation before, but today it seemed she intended to teach him a cultivation technique.

He wondered, between his wife and his master, who would be stricter?

In the courtyard, Qiu Zhihe stood gracefully in a long black silk dress, embroidered with gold threads.

It was the dress he bought for her with the first Spirit Stones he earned when he initially succeeded in Alchemy.

Now, with her face still slightly flushed from her practice, she stood in the morning light, looking like the Nine Heavens Profound Lady who had married a mortal.

"My dear, you are so beautiful."

Qin Gengyun sincerely praised, and the red blush on Qiu Zhihe’s face lingered, her lips involuntarily curving slightly upwards.

Then, remembering there was serious business to discuss, she turned serious, taking out an embroidery needle from her Storage Bag.

Qin Gengyun was puzzled: "My dear, what is this?"

Qiu Zhihe tossed the embroidery needle towards him. In midair, the thing suddenly thickened and lengthened, and Qin Gengyun quickly caught it:

"Isn’t this Changyunzi’s magical artifact?"

He had once beaten Chang Zhenzi to death with this staff, so he recognized it. At the time, the staff was like a towering tree; Qin Gengyun had always thought it could only lengthen and thicken.

Unexpectedly, in Zhihe’s hands, it turned into an embroidery needle. Qiu Zhihe said:

"This staff is called the ’Heaven-Reaching Staff,’ an upper-grade divine artifact. It can suppress mountains or pierce through veins, and if it recognizes its master, it can be used for flying on a staff."

Hearing his wife’s words, Qin Gengyun couldn’t help but gape:

"This staff is actually an upper-grade divine artifact? Why, in Changyunzi’s hands, could it only be swung around without skill?"

Magical artifacts are usually divided into upper, middle, and lower three grades, but above these three grades, there is a category called divine artifacts.

However, divine artifacts are extremely rare, with only about a hundred in the entire Cultivation World.

Qiu Zhihe dismissively said: "Chang Zhenzi had meager cultivation, unable to unleash even a tenth of the Heaven-Reaching Staff’s power. Such a treasure was wasted in his hands."

Holding the Heaven-Reaching Staff, Qin Gengyun felt the staff tremble, as if unwilling to be held by him, and he said in surprise:

"My dear, this staff seems to dislike me?"

Qiu Zhihe said: "Upper-grade divine artifacts have intelligence and choose their masters. Your cultivation is insufficient, so the Heaven-Reaching Staff is unwilling to acknowledge you as its master."

Qin Gengyun was surprised and said: "My dear, you mean to give me this staff?"

Qiu Zhihe said matter-of-factly: "You killed Changyunzi, who held it, so naturally, you are its new master."

Qin Gengyun ran his hands over the slightly roughened staff shaft, feeling rather excited, but the Heaven-Reaching Staff trembled again, apparently feeling irritated by his touch.

"My dear, this staff seems to be rather disdainful of me."

Qin Gengyun was somewhat upset.

Qiu Zhihe took out a booklet from her embrace: "Husband, I happen to have a staff technique here that I can’t use. You take it and give it a try. Once you’ve mastered it, you might be able to subdue this staff."

Qin Gengyun took a look. The booklet had no cover, making it impossible to discern what cultivation technique it contained, but he knew his wife’s gift could not be false.

"Thank you, my dear, I won’t stand on ceremony."

Qin Gengyun accepted the booklet and casually wielded the Heaven-Reaching Staff a few times, finding it quite handy, as if it were a divine artifact made for a Body Cultivator. Curiously, he asked:

"My dear, who crafted this staff? Was it also by a Body Cultivator?"

Qiu Zhihe’s expression darkened slightly: "The person who crafted the Heaven-Reaching Staff wasn’t a Body Cultivator, her husband was."

Qin Gengyun said in astonishment: "To create a divine artifact for her husband, it truly shows deep love between husband and wife. I wonder who that elder was?"

Qiu Zhihe shook her head: "I only heard about it. Alright, go practice the staff technique."

"Okay!" Qin Gengyun agreed, lifting the long staff as he walked to a clearing in the courtyard and opened the unnamed booklet, which recorded all staff techniques, greatly compatible with the Heaven-Reaching Staff.

After practicing the staff techniques in the booklet for a while, he felt increasingly more fluent and couldn’t help but express joy:

"My dear, the cultivation technique in this booklet perfectly suits the Heaven-Reaching Staff!"

Qiu Zhihe calmly said: "Husband, you must practice diligently. The journey to the Northern Wilderness is fraught with peril. You must unleash at least twenty percent of the Heaven-Reaching Staff’s power before going to ensure your safety."

Qin Gengyun swung the Heaven-Reaching Staff and loudly said: "I will obey my dear’s command!"

Qiu Zhihe rolled her eyes at him, "Focus on your cultivation, and spare the empty talk."

With that said, she turned and walked towards the inner hall, but her lips couldn’t help but turn up discreetly.

Seeing her husband so happy made her feel happy as well.

"Tsk tsk, it’s not easy to find our Cyan Lotus Sect’s long-lost treasure, only to turn around and give it to her husband, along with the ’Heaven-Reaching Staff Technique’ specially made for it. No wonder they say that women become losing investments once married."

Qiu Zhihe walked into the inner hall, accompanied by Liu Su’s teasing laughter from beside her.

Divine artifacts always have techniques made explicitly for them, and the Heaven-Reaching Staff naturally had the ’Heaven-Reaching Staff Technique.’ However, this cultivation technique had long been lost, so Changyunzi could only unleash ten percent of the Heaven-Reaching Staff’s power.

The Chang Family had sent people everywhere to search for it, to no avail.

Little did they expect the ’Heaven-Reaching Staff Technique’ to be with the Cyan Lotus Sect’s Saintess.

If Liu Su’s words reached Zhenyang Sect, it would cause quite a stir.

Any cultivator with some experience knew that the Zhenyang Sect possessed five divine artifacts, one of which was the Heaven-Reaching Staff.

However, this staff had been lost five hundred years ago, but Zhenyang Sect claimed externally that it was given to an elder after the Sect Leader’s ascension.

However, the world didn’t know that the Heaven-Reaching Staff was created by the second Sect Leader of the Cyan Lotus Sect.

At that time, the Cyan Lotus Sect was not feared as a "Demon Sect" but was a dignified and righteous revered sect.

Only the Cyan Lotus Sect’s successive Sect Leaders, Saintesses, and their close ones were privy to these secrets, so Liu Su was aware of this hidden fact.

Upon hearing her words, Qiu Zhihe calmly replied: "Since he found the Heaven-Reaching Staff, it should rightfully go to him."

"Hehe, you are the Saintess, of course, you have the right to dispose of our sect’s treasures."

Liu Su, holding onto Qiu Zhihe, then said something shocking:

"Back then, Sheng Tanglian, the Sect Leader, deeply loved Zhenyang. Knowing he was a Body Cultivator, she painstakingly crafted the Heaven-Reaching Staff for him, but ended up being killed with the Heaven-Reaching Staff by Zhenyang himself!"

"Meanwhile, our Cyan Lotus Sect was slandared as a demon sect in the evil path and shunned by the world!"

"Zhenyang used Sheng Tanglian, the Sect Leader’s life, to ascend to the position of Sect Leader of Zhenyang Sect, and eventually attained ascension, revered by the world."

"Renowned and righteous sects, I spit on them!"