Chapter 5

What? Done already? You know from men's point of view, done too fast is an embarrassment, right? And there are lot of issue about this matter. We need more information. Tang Kun and Chang Jihan felt the agony. If they pursue this matter, they will look like a stupid cow, but they really need more. This is their future, no, the future of all golden cores realm!

"Don't worry, we still can discuss it next time, don't be anxious. Master Calvin want to move to the next matter, so we can only follow him." Master Lin's words douse their anxiety.

"Now, it's your turn Tang kid. With all the effort you've done so far for her, don't tell me that you're owing something from her relative, yes?" Calvin looking at Tang Shen.

"Eh? You're indebt? By heaven! How much is it? Is my treasury could pay it? If not, I'll give them the city as collateral!"

The City Lord got to get panicked. Tang Shen was a filial kid. And he's rich too, his commercial chamber was number 3 at the city, below him and Tang Shen's older sister. 

Tang Shen was stucked between laugh and cry. If those citizen heard his father's words, they will spit him to death. Give a city as collateral, how big is your love to your son?

"No! I'm not indebt. Well, I owe something to her kin, but, it's… sigh, just see it for your self."

Tang Shen put an ornamental knife on the table. It was old and full of cracks, but everyone sense something special in it.

"You know, some people stuck their soul to a ring or necklace. This is the first time I saw someone put their soul to a knife. What a dumb ass. What if someone use it to cut onions, bet the soul will cry a river. What if someone use it to kill a chicken, the blood will be spread over it. It will be a mess. By the way, Tang kid, is it old man residing in this knife? Or an old hag? I bet that…"

"You Scroundel!!!!!" before Calvin finished his words, a shadow jumped out off the knife. 

"I am not an old hag! I was young when I put my soul in it! I was so beautiful that all residents of kingdom shame on their look whenever they saw me! Stop talking like I'm deceiving Tang Shen!"

Everyone was silence. (again)

"Look, you could say anything you want, ghost lady, but we can't be sure about your claimed look since you are now just a faint shadow." (Calvin)

"What? No! how could this happened?"

"Master! What happened to you? You're not like this before!" Tang Shen got shocked too. Her aura is diminishing. She could disappeared at any time.

"When she was hibernated, her energy are dissipating at low rate. After she woke up, she should siphoning energy from the host, a.k.a you. But she didn't. she must be forgot about it. Let's call it 'ghost-dementia'" (Calvin)

"YOU ARE IN DEMENTIA! Your family are in dementia! I just don't want to do that. It would make Tang Shen's life became harder. And I don't want to suck something from a man."

Lady, your last words could make a huge misunderstanding among men's world. And harder is better! Among men's world p.o.v again.

"A man in the ring wouldn't hesitate to do that just to survive. In cultivator's world, survival is the fittest. You are such a failure. But you are kind enough to think about Tang kid. Let me help you then."

Calvin stretch out his hand to grab the knife. 

CRACK!!!

The knife have additional cracks. The shadow got fainter. Everyone was pale. The shadow was screaming.

"You!! You want to kill me! Bastard! Put me down!" the shadow was gone.

Calvin turned deaf eared. He was concentrating. After long time of silence and tense, he finally talked to Bruce.

"Bruce, give me a glue, some white cement and sand-paper. We could fix it, right??"

Now, everyone was on panic state. It was an artifact, not some pottery! How unreliable can you be!

While everyone didn't know what to do, Astrid snatched the knife.

"It's just repairing soul, how could you do that barbaric act, master!"

The dark purple light surrounding the knife. The crack started to receding. The missing phantom started to materialized again. A few breath later, Astrid put the knife on the table. The knife now looked like a brand new out of the box. Astrid looked at the knife with a satisfied smile.

"Master, look! This is how you repair a soul weapon. It's easy isn't it?"

Yet Calvin and Bruce seemed like didn't hear her brag. They're staring at the formerly faint shadow.

"Astrid, I think you are doing a little over the limit." (Calvin)

"Hm…" Astrid looked at the knife at closer range. "I don't think it's over the limit. Ah right, this knife absorbed my power a little bit too much, I'll activate it now, tee hee!"

Astrid tapped the knife. The ornamental knife started to change. From a decoration became real soul weapon. Alas, with Astrid's influence, the weapon looked little ominous.

At the same time, the phantom became solidified. A beautiful woman with simple clothes that not only shun her beauty, but it gave her innocent vibe. But with her eyes shone a seductive aura, clashing the innocent vibe, make her an epitome of yin and yang.

"Wow, I've become a real person, what is this sorcery?" (The lady phantom)

"It's not a sorcery, Astrid just upgrade you from 2D to full 3D. congratulation! though that breast size too exaggerated." (Calvin in sarcasm)

"This is my original body, you bastard!"

"Yes, it is her right size, alright," Master Lin added in.

"Hah, likewise, your butt is too big! Your waist is too thin! You are fake!"

"They are real! You bastard! Let's fight for 100 rounds!"

"Yes, they are at the right size," Master Lin nodded again.

"Stop helping her, master Lin!" (Calvin got irritated)

"But it's all true master Calvin. After all, her real self is my dao companion, so of course I know everything about her. I even know where her birthmark is, it's…."

"STOP!!!!" (Calvin covering his eyes). Brother, if you don't want to listen the true, the one you should be covered was your ears, right? Everyone was amused by Calvin's weird act.

"Eh? Wait a minute," Calvin looked at master Lin. "The one who destroyed your soul lamp was your wife, wasn't it?"

Master Lin nodded.

"That's mean this ghost over here is your enemy's image, right?"

Master Lin nodded again.

"But why I didn't sense any murder intent, or any hate from you?"

"Because look at her, my wife is so beautiful! Why should I hate her? Even if she's slicing to the dices I will happily accepted. She's smart, love me her whole life, strong, she's a goddess. And the goddess was mine! Huahahahaha."

Master Lin lost his composure.

"Welp, another dick head with acute cancer called love, no one can save him for sure. Hey, master Dick, ehm.. Master Lin, we're leaving now, so…"

"What? But…" Master Lin back to his cool appearance.

A while ago, Bruce sent a mind voice to Calvin. Synchro rate 5%.

"Well, someone will hunt us eventually, so we'll hit the road. Anyway, Astrid, give them the souvenirs."

Everyone got a small mirror. A pocket size mirror.

"Now everyone, this mirror is a defense tool. It could withstand one full attack from galaxy destroyer. So it could save your lives for some extend." (Astrid)

"What is galaxy destroyer, miss Astrid?" Sui Chen couldn't hold her curiosity.

"A ship that created by some baboons to destroy the galaxy, my dear. Anyway, whenever it ran out of power, the mirror will got blurred, so all of you do is keep it at the cold, dark place and it will recover on it's own."

"This treasure is so powerful, miss Astrid. Thank you very much. It must be took you a very long time to made it, yes?" (The 3D phantom)

"Of course, it took me this much to made one," Astrid raise her 3 fingers.

"Three years?" (3D phantom)

Astrid shake her head.

"thirty years?" (3D phantom).

That moment, everyone felt that the gift was so heavy. If all the gift combine, it would took Astrid 180 years to complete it without rest.

Even Sui Chen drop her tears. No one had gave her so much beside master Lin after her downfall.

"Eh, why are you crying, kid. It's just 30 minutes, you don't have to be too sad about it." Astrid patted Sui's head.

Damn it! Like master like the servant! We're so afraid that the gift was too precious, but then the giver said that it was picked at some random store with wholesale price plus 90% discount, that's how we feel!

"Anyway, this tool need special thing to be activated, so listen up and remember correctly. First, you point the mirror to the incoming attack, then shout out 'MAKE-UP MIRROR! ACTIVATED!' and voila, you're safe and sound. Easy peasy isn't it?"

Easy peasy my ass stinky! Do you expect we, the brave and mighty men, will spend their last effort to yell that embarrassing activation code? We'll choose death! Or not.

While the male cultivators thought about how their dignity will be tarnished whenever they use the gift, the girls are doing a warm chit – chat.

"Astrid." (Calvin)

Without sound Astrid put her hand on Calvin's shoulder and hold another mirror. As soon as Bruce hold another Calvin's shoulder, Astrid activating the mirror in whisper.

"Activating Make-up mirror."

The trio disappeared at the instant. The 3D phantom saw the move and without hesitate entering the knife. Before anyone else realize what has happened, the time, were frozen.