Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?

Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal?

"Hohoho! Finally snuck in—nothing but spirit crystals and premium-grade spirit stones!" In the mining cave, the girl excitedly rubbed her hands together, eyes gleaming. "If I devour all these spirit stones, just imagine how powerful I'll become!"

No sooner had she spoken than she pounced like a starving tiger, landing lightly atop the spirit stone vein before feasting voraciously. Her petite crimson lips seemed to transform into a bottomless abyss, as surrounding spirit stones were drawn toward her by an invisible force, converging like flowing water.

In just a breath or two, a noticeable depression had already formed at the cave's center. Having carefully chosen the mine's deepest recesses as her hunting ground, the busy Moon Shadow Sect disciples remained oblivious to the vein being hollowed out from within.

"Oh? Coming so soon..." The girl tilted her head slightly, eyes narrowing into slits as a sly smile curled her lips. "Seems I'll need to speed up!" She suddenly took a deep breath, chest swelling slightly before her entire body transformed into a vortex devouring spirit stones—the surrounding ore visibly vanishing at alarming speed.

Capable of discerning heaven's secrets, she naturally knew how to use them to conceal herself. Her current mission was simple: swallow as many spirit stones as possible before being discovered. After all, once this Moon Shadow Sect opportunity passed, there wouldn't be another!

"The Moon Shadow Sect's leader and founding ancestor are truly impressive!" the girl mused between mouthfuls, licking her shimmering lips with satisfaction, admiration flashing in her eyes. "In this era of dwindling spiritual energy and resources, they still possess such an enormous high-grade spirit vein... Aside from here, probably only the demon race has a few comparable ones left."

Unfortunately, infiltrating demon territory was impossible. Those demon cultivators deep in the Hundred Thousand Mountains were wolfish and tigerish toward human practitioners—mortal enemies they'd gladly devour alive. Even revealing her heaven-seeing abilities wouldn't help. Most likely, they'd imprison her as a puppet tool to be manipulated.

...

Chen Huaian arrived at the mine and immediately summoned nearby disciples. "Has anyone seen that fortune-telling girl?"

The disciples exchanged glances before shaking their heads uniformly. "Ancestor, none of us have seen her."

Chen Huaian's eyes narrowed slightly, a faint cyan glow appearing between his brows as he spread his Void Treading first-stage spiritual sense like mist across the entire mine—yet found nothing. He'd already attempted divination through the game system, but even the normally infallible game customer service couldn't pinpoint the girl's location.

It wasn't that the divination failed—the feedback suggested his authority level was insufficient. He escalated his spiritual sense from Void Treading first-stage to ninth-stage, then to Great Ascension Stage, yet still detected no trace of the girl.

"Tsk— Could we have misjudged her?" Chen Huaian stroked his chin, brow furrowing. "Did she genuinely grow tired of Moon Shadow Sect and embark on some spontaneous journey?"

"Ancestor!" Dan Yun's complexion suddenly changed as a dreadful thought struck her. Trembling, she gasped: "What if... she went to our sect's treasure vault instead?!"

"Don't say it! But you're absolutely right!" Chen Huaian's head snapped up, a chill shooting from his heels to his scalp. The vault's spirit stones and crystals were readily available, plus it housed massive resources plundered from Jade Pool Holy Land and Burning Purity Holy Land. For valuable items, the vault was undeniably more convenient—here at the mine, one still had to excavate everything manually.

"Let's go! To the vault immediately!" With a sharp glint in his eyes, Chen Huaian tore open a spatial passage and stepped through ahead, while Dan Yun followed closely with Dan Bai in tow.

As the trio departed...

*Hehe~* Back in the mine, the girl's lips curled smugly. "Would this young lady be stupid enough to raid the vault?"

"That wide-open space would get me caught instantly. The mine's much better~" She happily took another massive bite, her cultivation fluctuations rising steadily with each spirit stone absorbed.

...

"How strange—nothing in the vault's been touched." Chen Huaian circled the treasure repository; not a single tile was out of place, let alone any missing treasures.

"We may have truly wronged her. Perhaps she didn't come for our spirit stones... and might not be Jade Compassion's middle corpse either." Dan Yun stood frozen in awkward silence, the situation having completely escaped her control. Her earlier confident analysis had proven utterly mistaken.

If the girl wasn't Jade Compassion's middle corpse, then her presence at Moon Shadow Sect must conceal some other ulterior motive—making her potentially even more dangerous!

Just as they pondered the girl's whereabouts, a Moon Shadow Sect disciple stumbled in, face pale as paper. Sliding to his knees before Chen Huaian, he wailed: "Ancestor! B-big trouble!"

As if responding to his cry, a thunderous explosion echoed in the distance, accompanied by violent mountain tremors. The disciple paled further, body trembling uncontrollably.

"Speak slowly, no need for panic." Chen Huaian's chest tightened with growing unease.

"Ancestor..." The disciple's voice quivered near hysterically. "Our mine's been hollowed out—it's collapsing! N-no, it's already collapsed! That sound just now was the mountain caving in!"

"What?!" Chen Huaian's eyes bulged. Without another word, his sleeve flashed as space split open again—one step carrying him instantly before the mine.

The once clearly defined mountain now sagged inward, as if some colossal beast had gnawed it hollow from within. The spirit stone-rich regions resembled an emptied eggshell, only a thin outer layer remaining while the interior was completely void.

And at the center of this massive crater, he finally spotted their long-sought target—that fortune-telling girl, now lounging lazily in the pit. One hand stroked her distended belly while the other delicately licked residual spiritual energy from her fingertips, her face the picture of satiated bliss.

"Oh dear, if it isn't Moon Shadow Sect's founding ancestor?" The girl's smile froze upon seeing Chen Huaian's livid expression.

Disaster. She'd been too engrossed devouring spirit stones and neglected proper structural support at several key points, causing the entire mine's collapse. Having consumed nearly half the mountain's spirit ore, begging Chen Huaian's forgiveness was impossible.

Only one path remained—escape!

Having absorbed so many spirit stones, her cultivation hadn't fully stabilized yet, but already matched ordinary Void Fusion Realm practitioners. At this level, mere spirit stones and crystals no longer sufficed—further advancement required more valuable resources.

Facing another Void Fusion expert, surely focusing all abilities on fleeing would work?

Yet she'd underestimated Chen Huaian's capabilities. The instant her toes touched ground preparatory to darting away, her nape tightened—suddenly suspended midair like a chick scooped up by Chen Huaian's single-handed grip.

"You think you can flee after devouring my spirit veins?" Chen Huaian's iron-claw fingers clenched her collar, expression thunderous.

"I don't care if you're Jade Compassion's sister or her severed middle corpse. Today, you'll either vomit up every spirit stone you swallowed—or I'll beat the shit out through your mouth!"