Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 721: Substitute Doll

Chapter 721: Substitute Doll

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[Heaven's Calculation complete!]

[The treasure you need is the Blue-Silver Substitute Doll, an ancestral relic of the ancient Heaven's Calculation Sect! Using this substitute doll can create a false body whose aura and cultivation level are completely identical to the true body, but note that the false body has no independent thought, it requires the true body to infuse it with consciousness, and once the false body is attacked it will die!]

"Perfect! This is exactly what This Venerable One wants!" Chen Huaian's eyes lit up.

Although the Electronic Girlfriend system was highly suspicious, its customer service was genuinely useful.

"Now the question is, how does one obtain such a treasure?"

The customer service description said this thing was an ancestral relic of the ancient Heaven's Calculation Sect, so it must be extremely precious, right?

Maybe hard to get?

Chen Huaian's mind jumped through possibilities.

[This treasure has refreshed in the Electronic Girlfriend shop, players may purchase it directly!]

[Warning! The Blue-Silver Substitute Doll carries built-in karmic cost. Each use will sacrifice one relative or friend's vital energy for one week!]

"Ah… " Chen Huaian froze for a moment.

No way… Is it because he prayed earlier that this treasure now had such a karmic condition? If he hadn't prayed, would this treasure not so readily appear in the Electronic Girlfriend shop?

Chen Huaian thought it was very likely.

"Randomly sacrificing one relative's vital energy for a week—basically they can't... be intimate for a week," Chen Huaian murmured, a corner of his mouth lifting, "Aha! Isn't that a good thing? Abstaining is better than indulging!"

He wasn't sacrificing relatives at all.

He was completely thinking about their physical health!

With that thought, Chen Huaian felt instantly justified.

He opened the Electronic Girlfriend shop.

The first item in the first row was it, priced at ten top-grade spirit jades, stock one.

Without hesitation, he purchased it.

Stock became zero, showing restocking in progress.

Before, it would usually display an approximate restocking time; today this substitute doll showed no restock time, so it truly seemed like an extremely precious treasure.

And it looked like a one-time use?

Fortunately the price was acceptable.

A small wooden carved figurine appeared in Chen Huaian's hand.

"By the heavens, it really looks like him." Chen Huaian clicked his tongue in amazement as he toyed with the carving.

Despite being small, the wooden doll was exquisitely detailed, you could even see distinct strands of hair.

Only the eyes were hollow, giving a sense of a dragon without its finishing touch.

When his divine sense probed it, the method became clear—just a drop of blood.

A drop of blood would let the substitute doll absorb a fragment of the true body's vital spirit, then replicate the true body's aura and cultivation fluctuations.

That drop of blood was the finishing touch.

Chen Huaian pressed his finger to draw a drop of blood and smeared it onto the doll. He stared at the wooden figure gradually becoming lifelike, and suddenly frowned, "Wait, why does the doll I bought look like This Venerable One? Can this thing be custom-fit?"

He was sure he wasn't mistaken.

The wooden doll he received was in his image—Chen Huaian's likeness.

"But I suppose there's nothing especially suspicious. Since it's sold by the Electronic Girlfriend shop, it fitting to the buyer upon creation isn't too strange."

He suppressed the doubt at the back of his mind and walked to the meditation cushion in the center of the quiet room, carefully placing the wooden doll on it.

The moment the doll touched the cushion, an anomaly erupted.

Hum—!

A layer of blue-silver radiance flowed like water across the surface of the carving.

When the glow faded, a figure identical to Chen Huaian in every way, with aura and cultivation level completely matching, already sat upright on the cushion.

His eyes were partially closed, his breathing long and steady.

His surrounding spiritual energy even circulated slowly along the Tideborn Art's route, emitting the deep, imposing pressure unique to a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

It was a dead-ringer for Chen Huaian in deep meditation!

"Hiss… well I'll be!" Even though Chen Huaian had prepared himself, he still took a sharp breath at how lifelike the substitute was.

If not for their mind-link that told him it was only an empty shell, judging by aura and spiritual fluctuations alone even he would have had difficulty telling truth from fake.

At that moment he also felt a subtle change within himself.

A sensation as if he had completely fused with the surrounding environment slowly arose.

Although he was standing inside the quiet room of Containment Area 0, his own aura, spiritual fluctuation, even that presence belonging to "Chen Huaian," a mid-Nascent Soul cultivator, seemed wrapped and reined in by an invisible membrane.

He felt like a speck of dust, a pebble, silently melting into the quiet room's background, his presence suppressed to the extreme.

Unless he made a deliberate move or used power, even the keenest divine sense sweep would likely subconsciously overlook him.

"This shielding effect… is so domineering?!" Chen Huaian's heart jolted, then surged with ecstatic joy.

Everything from the Electronic Girlfriend shop was top-tier.

But the real experience far exceeded expectations!

To verify the effect,

he concentrated and transmitted a divine-sense message to Nine Revolutions Bell Orchid who was guarding outside the quiet room, "Linglan, take a look at what This Venerable One is doing right now."

Outside the quiet room, the green-dressed girl-like Nine Revolutions Bell Orchid idly tugged at her leaf-braid. Hearing her master's transmitted voice, she tilted her head in puzzlement, her clear eyes peering through the restriction detection formation on the door into the room.

The formation's feedback was crystal clear: on the cushion, Chen Huaian sat with eyes closed, spiritual energy drifting about, clearly in a deep cultivation state.

Linglan blinked, her bright voice carrying a hint of confusion as she responded through divine sense, "Why do you ask, Master? Aren't you meditating? Is your spiritual energy insufficient? I… I don't have much spiritual energy to spare…" Remembering how close she came to being drained by Chen Huaian's last cultivation session, Nine Revolutions Bell Orchid instinctively shrank her head.

"Just as I thought!" From the shadow behind the bookshelf, a glint flashed in Chen Huaian's eyes.

Linglan's perception had been completely drawn to the substitute doll.

However… that alone wasn't enough!

Chen Huaian needed a more conclusive test subject.

He transmitted again, "Linglan, send Muscle Tyrant to the quiet room and have it see what This Venerable One is doing."

Soon the quiet room door was pushed open.

The burly figure of "Muscle Tyrant" strode in.

Its crimson eyes held a trace of confusion at being summoned so abruptly; its gaze, like lightning, immediately locked onto the "meditating" Chen Huaian on the cushion.

Wu E's brows barely twitched, seeming to sense something a little "vacant," yet the aura, spiritual fluctuation, and even a hint of divine soul flavor emitted by the figure on the cushion unmistakably indicated that it was Chen Huaian himself.

What was wrong with this person?

He'd summoned it just to watch him meditate?

Wu E didn't understand Chen Huaian's intent, but it felt a bit uneasy.

"Master, you… need something?" Wu E's voice rumbled.

Its eyes remained fixed on the substitute that "meditated," "Weren't you circulating your energy?"

Its tone was calm, clearly having discovered no flaw.

It even instinctively scanned the quiet room, its gaze sweeping from the bookshelf's shadow, yet passing through as if scanning air—Chen Huaian's real presence had been suppressed to near nothingness, so even Wu E, an avatar of a Demon Immortal, could not detect him.

Success!

Hidden in the bookshelf's shadow, Chen Huaian's mouth curled into a frosty smile.

The substitute doll perfectly replicated aura and cultivation level, enough to fool perceptive beings like Wu E's Demon Immortal avatar.

The Blue-Silver Substitute Doll was practically a divine tool for assassination, stealth, and escape!

That so-called cost of "sacrificing a relative's vital energy" was trivial compared to such godlike effects!?

Heh heh heh!

"No problem, you can go out now."

Chen Huaian discerned all of Wu E's inner thoughts. Confident he had not been exposed, he spoke without worry, measuredly, "I only wanted to see if you've been slacking in your cultivation recently. From what I see, you indeed haven't been training seriously. Don't go anywhere for now, stay honestly in Containment Area 0 and cultivate with This Venerable One. If you fail to meet the requirements, I will punish you!"

Wu E broke into a cold sweat at those words.

It thought to itself that it was doomed!

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