Past life sage: This life a dual cultivator

Chapter 178 Celestial Night

"Are they still inside the city?", Lan Yueyue looked towards elder Sima.

"Yes, young miss. They are still inside the Serene wood inn", the peak fifth stage expert replied.

"It has been two days since they are staying there. What are they doing inside that inn?", Lan Yueyue raised her eyebrows.

"Probably cultivation", elder Yang guessed.

"Keep an eye on them. Inform me if they leave the inn. I want to see for myself what is so special about this Zhan Chen", Lan Yueyue spoke.

"Yes young miss", elder Sima replied. He left the place after bowing his head towards Lan Yueyue.

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"Is something wrong with young master Chen?", Li Shu looked towards Kai Min worriedly.

Kai Min also had a worried expression on her face as she looked towards the closed door of Zhan Chen.

"He would have informed us if he is going for a long term seclusion", Kai Min spoke.

"Have some patience you two. It has been only five days. We will check on him after another few days", Li Yan comforted both Li Shu and Kai Min.

Li Shu and Kai Min nodded their heads but they didn't insist on checking the room of Zhan Chen anymore. Li Yan didn't know that her unintentional words saved Zhan Chen from a cultivation deviation.

Zhan Chen was still meditating while holding his sword in his hands. There was a certain glow on the sword now which lit Zhan Chen's room with a faint light.

After his persistent try, Zhan Chen finally managed to establish a connection with his sword. The connection was faint but Zhan Chen still felt it was worth it after considering how unique the sword was.

Now, it was the time for naming ceremony of the sword after establishing a connection with it. "I wonder if you are happy with the name written on top of you or you need a new name", Zhan Chen murmured inside his mind. He was trying to get a response from his sword.

He didn't receive any reply immediately but he was patient. He knew such process need extreme concentration and patience.

Zhan Chen kept persisting on his attempt to communicate with his sword. He kept trying and an extremely feeble thought came to his mind after sometime.

"You do not like your current name?", Zhan Chen could somehow understand the thoughts of his sword.

The sword shook slightly as if it was trying to say 'Yes'.

"The name is too simple!", Zhan Chen could somehow understand the next thought of his sword. The sword shook again as if it was trying to say that the guess of Zhan Chen was right.

'Devour, is indeed a tasteless name for a sword', Zhan Chen thought inside his mind.

"So, it is my turn now, right?", Zhan Chen kept communicating with his sword.

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"How about Heavenpiercer?"

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"Skyruler?"

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"Nethermaster?",

Zhan Chen kept trying various imposing names but he could tell that his sword disliked all of these names. It was not exactly dislike, it was disdain. Even such imposing names were not enough to be his proud sword's name.

"Damn it, I give up. I can't think of anymore name which can satisfy you", Zhan Chen spoke with frustration after trying more than hundred names.

He sat silently for some moments as he was not sure what to do at this point.

"Why are you so haughty? Can't you obediently pick one of the names I have given? The way you are behaving, one would think that you are one of those celestial treasures from legends", Zhan Chen complained inside his mind.

But what he didn't expect was, a positive response from his sword after hearing the complain inside his mind.

"You like the word celestial?", Zhan Chen muttered in a surprised voice inside his mind. His sword shook in response as it tried to covey it's thoughts to Zhan Chen.

Zhan Chen could tell that it was feeling cheerful after hearing the word celestial. The word somehow resonated with the spirit of the sword.

"Your nature is somehow dark and you have a lustrous black colour. Then how about calling you 'Celestial night'?", Zhan Chen proposed inside his mind.

p The sword in his hand shook violently in response to his words. A cheerful sword hum came and the sound was clear to everyone in the Serene wood inn. Zhan Chen hurriedly covered the entire area with his soul consciousness because he didn't want to alert the experts staying inside the city.

Zhan Chen was taken aback by the changes in his sword. One after another changes happened and he kept looking at his sword with a surprised expression on his face.

His sword escaped his hands and floated into the air on its own. The body of the sword shimmered with bright light and the word devour started to disappear on its own.

Sacred looking ancient symbols came out of thin air as they imprinted themselves on the body of Zhan Chen's sword.

Zhan Chen had never seen such symbols but he could tell that what those symbols represent were celestial night. Beside the name of the sword there were some other symbols but he had no inkling about the meaning of those extra symbols.

Zhan Chen felt a connection was established between his soul and the sword after the symbols imprinted themselves on Celestial night.

This connection was not merely of a sword and it's master. It was something deeper as if the sword spirit had entrusted it's everything to him.

Zhan Chen had no control of what was going on with him and the sword. Even the connection between his soul and the sword spirit was not his doing.

The things that were happening too magical for him even though he was a former sage with vast experience about the cultivation world. The changes in the Celestial night lasted for a while.

Then the sword body became ethereal infront of Zhan Chen's eyes and its size grew smaller. It flew towards Zhan Chen after finishing it's transformation and circled around him for a while.

Zhan Chen could link it's behaviour to the curiousity of a child. It circled around him for sometime and plunged into Zhan Chen's body when Zhan Chen spread his hand to grab it.

Zhan Chen tried to call it out with his soul consciousness but only thing he could hear was a soft snoring sound.

"What the hell? This Celestial night is too mystical", Zhan Chen murmured to himself.

'Forget it. I have to talk with my girls. They seems to be too anxious about my safety", Zhan Chen thought to himself.

He pushed open his door and came out. Li Shu, Kai Min and Li Yan were waiting for him outside the door.

What Zhan Chen didn't know was that his sword had entered the diagram world inside his mind after entering his body. The diagram was a separate space in itself. So, Zhan Chen didn't know what was going on with Celestial night. The sword's body changed after entering the diagram world. A little beauty appeared in the place of the sword as she fell into a deep sleep after entering the diagram world inside the mind of Zhan Chen.