Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 722: You're not strong enough, how can you protect me?!

Chapter 722: You're not strong enough, how can you protect me?!

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"Dare I ask, Master, what level of strength counts as... as qualified?" Wu E mentally cursed Chen Huaian's ancestors eighteen generations deep in his heart.

If he couldn't meet Chen Huaian's requirements, and Chen Huaian refused to let him leave, he'd be in serious trouble!

"You're currently at mid-stage Nascent Soul, so you should at least reach mid-stage Unity to be considered qualified." Chen Huaian stroked his chin, saying something that made Wu E's eyes gradually widen.

"Mid-stage... Unity?!" Wu E desperately wanted to slap Chen Huaian across the face.

Chen Huaian was only at Nascent Soul stage, yet he demanded his "pet" reach Unity stage?

Why not just ask him to achieve Feathered Transformation directly?

"What, do you have objections to This Venerable One's requirements for you?" Chen Huaian's expression turned cold, speaking with the frustration of someone disappointed in their subordinate's failure: "Look at you, as a pet, your cultivation realm is actually lower than your master's, so what use does This Venerable One have for keeping you?

Otherwise, if you eat This Venerable One's food, wear This Venerable One's clothes, yet cannot provide This Venerable One with assistance... what difference are you from a freeloading master?"

Wu E pondered this.

Hey, that actually made sense.

Setting aside his identity as a Demon Immortal's avatar, assuming he really was just Muscle Tyrant.

As Chen Huaian's pet, if he could only mooch food and drinks, then indeed Chen Huaian would have no reason to continue keeping him.

So Chen Huaian's requirement wasn't excessive—it was quite reasonable!

But wasn't this realm requirement a bit too much? If it were late-stage Nascent Soul, he could probably break through with some effort.

"Master, I understand your expectations of me, but why must it be exactly one major realm higher than you?" Wu E appealed to emotion and reason, hoping Chen Huaian would slightly lower the requirement...

However.

"As a pet, if you're not one major realm higher than This Venerable One, how can you guarantee you can protect This Venerable One's life safety?" Chen Huaian glared at Wu E, speaking with absolute conviction: "If you don't have sufficient strength to protect This Venerable One, then what use does This Venerable One have for keeping you?!"

Wu E: "..."

Worthless!

This Chen Huaian was utterly worthless!

As a cultivator, one should be self-reliant and strive for strength—what did it mean to be constantly thinking about being protected by a pet?

He hadn't seemed like that kind of person before! What was wrong with him today, having some kind of episode?

"I definitely can't break through that quickly in a short time, you need to give me at least half a year..." Wu E said with a troubled expression.

Internally, he was actually grinding his teeth in fury.

But Chen Huaian couldn't even be bothered to lift his eyelids, saying indifferently: "This Venerable One doesn't care, This Venerable One is also going into seclusion, you'll go into seclusion with This Venerable One!"

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers.

A previously arranged formation instantly activated, leaving Wu E completely dumbfounded.

When had this confinement formation been set up? How didn't he know about it?

"Master, I... what if I need to take a shit?" Wu E panicked—with this confinement formation activated, wasn't he completely screwed?

Although the formation wasn't particularly strong, leaving it would definitely alert Chen Huaian, right?!

But no matter what he said, Chen Huaian had already fallen silent, completely entering cultivation state.

Wu E circled around Chen Huaian anxiously, pacing back and forth.

Little did he know, what he was staring at was merely Chen Huaian's false body, while Chen Huaian's true form had already reached outside the sanctuary.

"Heh heh~" Chen Huaian sneered coldly while watching Wu E jumping around anxiously before his false body: "Let anxiety be the death of you! Stupid creature!"

The time for Wu E to make his move wasn't far off.

This confinement formation would inevitably delay both Wu E and Chen Niu's progress.

Originally, Wu E could have directly gone to meet up with Chen Niu, but now Chen Niu would first need to find a way to extract Wu E from the formation.

All this back and forth would create time differences!

Most importantly, Chen Huaian was confident that Wu E wouldn't dare attack his false body, and could only anxiously wait within the great formation.

Using his Heart Hearing supernatural ability, he had already pretty much figured out Wu E's personality.

This was just a stupid creature.

Not worth worrying about.

But that Chen Niu—not only cautious but also very cunning—was worth being vigilant about.

While pondering this, Chen Huaian rose on his flying sword, swiftly flying toward the direction of Shenlongjia.

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Meanwhile, within the great formation.

"Seriously, is Chen Huaian sick?! Just entering meditation like that?!"

Wu E looked left and right, even extending a claw to poke at 'Chen Huaian's' body.

But Chen Huaian showed no reaction, with only the surrounding Spiritual Energy continuously converging toward him.

Clearly, he had already entered cultivation state.

This speed of entering meditation was absolutely at the level of a top-tier genius.

But Wu E currently had no mind to care about Chen Huaian's talent.

He was about to crack.

Chen Huaian—he didn't dare touch.

The formation—he also didn't dare touch.

So how could he get out?!

Wu E racked his brains, finally discovering that this formation seemed to only block him from leaving, but wouldn't prevent him from transmitting information to the outside world.

"I've heard that when human Ascenders enter cultivation state, they have little awareness of their surroundings... unless the disturbance is particularly significant." Wu E pondered, then tested for a long time with methods including but not limited to shouting loudly, farting toward Chen Huaian, and even flicking little Chen Huaan and other unconventional operations, and indeed Chen Huaian showed no signs of leaving cultivation state.

Even after all that, the other party was still cultivating.

So what level of disturbance would using a treasure to transmit information to Chen Niu count as?

Wu E took out a treasure, glancing at Chen Huaian.

Activated the treasure, glanced again.

Connected with Chen Niu, glanced once more.

"Wu E! What exactly are you doing?!" An enraged roar came from the mirror: "I have been waiting for you for so long, why haven't you come yet!"

Chen Niu's face was gloomy, clearly quite angry.

If it weren't for needing Wu E to absorb those Fierce Beasts' Demonic Souls to maximize their benefits, he wouldn't have waited there at all.

Wu E remained silent, simply aiming the mirror toward the cultivating Chen Huaian.

"You—!" Chen Niu's face twisted in fright, about to cry out before forcibly swallowing the sound.

He glared fiercely at Wu E, lowering his voice with a sinister tone: "What are you trying to do?! What if our plan gets exposed?"

Only then did Wu E reply: "Elder brother, Chen Huaian is currently cultivating and has no reaction to anything in the external world... He ordered me to cultivate with him and set up a formation to prevent me from leaving. Come quickly to take me away—I'm afraid breaking the formation might wake him.

If that happens, this worthless guy probably wouldn't settle for just setting up a confinement formation.

He might specifically call people to watch me, not letting me go anywhere—then we'd truly be finished!"

After hearing Wu E's excuse, Chen Niu was also speechless for a long time.

But this was indeed an unexpected situation that couldn't be blamed on his younger brother.

Chen Niu looked at Wu E, then at Chen Huaian behind Wu E.

Cursing his bad luck internally, he said in a muffled voice: "Wait, I'll come immediately. You prepare in advance!"

If they wanted to avoid breaking the formation, Wu E's physical shell wouldn't be coming out.

But he could extract Wu E's Demonic Soul through the formation barrier.

After all, when Wu E absorbed Fierce Beasts' Demonic Souls, having a physical shell wasn't absolutely necessary.

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