Chapter 79 — Two Modes and Fine Dust

"Here there are one hundred and thirty-nine supreme treasures in all, and several of them are more powerful even than the Purple and Green Twin Swords. Ha—this is what Shushan relied upon when we shook the world in those days!" Lingxu the Daoist's complacency showed plainly in his words. His hands grasped, and a shaft of blue radiance was caught in his grip; despite its frantic leaping, Lingxu again and again worked his true essence and recited incantations, until the blue radiance ceased its throbbing and became a small blue disc some half a chi across, its surface dense as a net of pearls with the tracked courses of sun, moon, and stars.

At its center lay floating a silver needle four or five cun long, from whose tip issued a fine spray of radiance like gossamer threads, its pure light wondrously bright. Where it pointed lay two small heaps of crystal sand, one green and one yellow; at first glance they seemed very fine, but fixedly regarded each grain was clear and translucent, its rare luster shifting and phantasmal, not to be looked at overlong. "This treasure is called the Cosmic Light Disc. The fine golden sand within is the essence of earth and wood refined by immortals, and each grain holds supreme power and infinite transformation. Once this sand leaves the disc, every particle weighs as heavy as a mountain. And the Midday Midnight Spirit Needle within is even more vicious beyond compare—once unleashed it cleaves like a maggot to the bone, and whomever it strikes suffers both spirit and form annihilated. It is a vicious treasure no whit inferior to the Purple and Green Twin Swords." Lingxu pointed again to several masses of dazzling, eye-piercing radiance. "Those are the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Ruler, the Dust-Diffusing Precious Banner, and the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Demon-Quelling Shuttle, the most vicious of the treasures here. The sect-founding grand ceremony is but a few days off; I will help you subdue one of them, and on the day of that ceremony shall Shushan become the first sect under heaven!"

"Master! What are we going to Shushan for? Are we going to take revenge? But my sister and I are both demons! Those wicked Daoists will do us harm!" Little fox Zhou Can pouted as she spoke to Zhou Jing, who held her in his arms and trod the white clouds, flying slowly at a height of ten thousand zhang.