Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 142: The Emperor's Sword Courage (2400 votes plus additional content)
Ren Yuan quickly supported his huge body with all his strength. "Brother, are you okay?"

"What level of divine sword is this? I just checked it out, and I almost got blinded." Senior Brother was completely immersed in shock, muttering to himself: "I thought I had read all the famous swords in the world, but today I realized that I was just looking at the world from a narrow perspective. How dare the light of a firefly compete with the bright moon?"

"Brother, don't you know the origin of this sword?" Ren Yuan asked.

"No, I can roughly guess it." Senior Brother shook his head and said, "When you said that the sword's core was originally in the body of Donghun Hou, I had some ideas in my mind. Now that I have seen the kingly aura of this sword with my own eyes, I can almost tell you with certainty -"

After a pause, he whispered, "This is the Emperor's Sword!"

"Huh?" Ren Yuan and A Yao's jaws dropped to the ground. They knew this thing was incredible, but they never expected it to be so incredible!

"Forty years ago, after Emperor Gao of Qi, Xiao Daocheng, became emperor, in order to secure his rule forever, he forcibly searched for magic swords in the world, gambled his life with the heavens, and refined this Emperor's Sword..." Then he listened to the senior brother telling the story.

"Didn't you say it didn't succeed?" Ren Yuan remembered what the little girl Huan'er said.

"That's both right and wrong." Senior Brother shook his head and said, "Xiao Daocheng did not succeed in refining the Emperor's Sword, but it was not completely unsuccessful, because he refined the sword core of the Emperor's Sword."

"Xiao Daocheng was greatly disappointed at the time, because what he wanted was a sacred artifact that could rival the Imperial Seal. How could a mere sword gall satisfy him?"

"But the sword's courage is the sword's soul! With the Emperor's Sword's courage, and the world as the sword's body, and war as the hammer to forge it repeatedly, given time, you can still forge the Emperor's Sword!"

"But after the gamble failed, Xiao Daocheng died and had no time to do this, so it's correct to say that he failed." Senior Brother explained:

"The descendants of the Xiao family in later generations were not good enough, and no one could make this sword. Later, the royal family changed, and in just a few years, the emperors died one after another, and there was no hope."

"After the establishment of the Liang Dynasty, Xiao Yan did look for this thing for a while. But later, Xiao Baoyin, who fled to the Northern Dynasty, claimed that he had the Emperor's Sword, and everyone really believed it. I didn't expect that it was hidden in Xiao Baojuan's stomach." Senior Brother couldn't help but sighed: "It's really unexpected."

"Whether it's the Emperor's Sword or the Sword Courage, this thing is too sensitive." Ren Yuan had three ideas in his mind: "If people knew about this, China is so big that my sister and I would have no place to stand."

"Those who know the ghosts will know." Senior Sister was also scared. "No wonder they chased us for thousands of miles."

"Don't worry about Ming Gui leaking the secret." Ren Yuan said, "They are most likely sent by Xiao Baoyin. If they dare to reveal this secret, wouldn't it expose Xiao Baoyin's lies?"

"Yes, junior sister, don't panic. I will help you think of a solution." Sun Youyue is worthy of being a top swordsman, and his knowledge of spiritual swords far exceeds that of ordinary people.

"A spiritual sword is divided into two parts, the inner and outer shells. Yours is just the inner shell. I will help you put on the outer shell, and it will be fine, right?" The senior brother said as he flipped his hand and took out a pair of spiritual swords.

"This pair of male and female swords is a magical weapon given to me by my master. But I have no wife or daughter in my life, so the female sword has never been forged into a sword core. I used it as a shell and hid the sword core of my junior sister inside. Who knows what is hidden inside?"

"Is this possible?" Ren Yuan and his senior sister were stunned. This was completely beyond their knowledge.

"Of course. However, a low-level sword core cannot control a high-level sword body, but the reverse is not a problem. Moreover, this male and female sword is also the most precious treasure of our sect, so it is not an insult to the Emperor's Sword Core." Senior Brother laughed and said, "But it needs to be refined again."

"Can I take it back into my body to suppress Senior Sister's corpse poison?" Ren Yuan asked. "Of course I can." Senior Brother nodded and said, "I will teach Senior Sister a set of sword-controlling techniques, and then I can control the power of this sword as I wish. It can suppress the corpse poison without causing harm to her. One day in the future, when the corpse poison is gone, I can use the flying sword to fight the enemy as I wish and become a great sword immortal."

"Thank you, Senior Brother!" Ren Yuan and A Yao were so happy that they thanked him profusely. After being out for so long, they finally felt the warmth of the master.

Ren Yuan then remembered the reason why he came here in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "By the way, Senior Brother, let's wait for the sword practice. We came here to give a warning!"

"Yes, I heard you shouting outside." The senior brother nodded and shouted outside: "Zhang, nephew, come in and listen together."

"Yes." Zhang Jingyi had been waiting in the front yard and pushed the door open when he heard the sound.

"Jingyi, come and introduce yourself. These are my fellow junior sisters and brothers, A Yao and Ren Yuan." Sun Youyue introduced them solemnly.

"Oh." Zhang Jingyi was stunned for a moment, then he immediately performed the etiquette of a junior and said respectfully to the two: "Jingyi greets his aunt and uncle."

"No, no." The two of them waved their hands and said, "Let's just talk about our own affairs."

"How can that be possible?" Zhang Jingyi hurriedly shook his head and said, "Etiquette cannot be abolished!"

"The meaning of the scriptures is correct," Sun Youyue also said in a deep voice: "The more desperate we are, the more we must strictly abide by the rituals. If the rules are gone, the Taoism in people's hearts will also be gone. How can our Taoism continue?"

After hearing what their senior brother said, the two of them had no choice but to accept Zhang Jingyi's greeting with a thick face.

"I have nothing else for you, nephew." Ren Yuan took off the gourd from his waist and handed it to Zhang Jingyi, saying, "There is some food in it. Use it to make a meal for everyone. It will be our meeting gift."

"Thank you, uncle and aunt." Zhang Jingyi hurriedly took it with both hands.

"The Peach Blossom Spring has been discovered by the spies of the Ghost Country, and this location was obtained from them. It is said that the Ghost Army has also arrived and may attack at any time." Then, Ren Yuan said to the two of them in a deep voice: "Take everyone away from here quickly before we are surrounded!"

Zhang Jingyi quickly used the sound transmission technique to summon the leaders of various sects to come to discuss matters quickly, and asked puzzledly: "How did they find this place? We have the 'Enter and Exit Formation', and we have the master uncle in charge."

Ren Yuan explained the whole story, and Sun Youyue sighed guiltily, "Alas, my corpse worms have been acting too aggressively lately, and my magic power is often out of control, which has exposed everyone."

"Master, what are you talking about? If you hadn't been sitting here all these years, using your magic power to run the formation day after day, we would have been exposed long ago," Zhang Jingyi said to Ren Yuan and the others with red eyes.

"Do you know why Master Uncle became like this? It's because this great formation must be presided over by a person with great magical powers. After Master Uncle Feng, who presided over it for the first time, passed away, there was no one with great magical powers in the valley."

"In order to protect everyone, Master Uncle forcibly broke through to the Seven Apertures, resulting in his corpse god going out of control. But he has remained sitting there for so many years. Every time he activates the formation, his corpse worms become stronger. He became like this entirely for us." Zhang Jingyi said with a sob.

“Hehehe…” The fat senior brother smiled kindly and said, “This is all the incense left in my Taoist sect. Anyone would risk their life to protect it.”

(End of this chapter)