Ch 311: The Sword Stele Trial
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“This is the Sword Tablet… where countless Ancient Swords are buried…”
Young Master Lin’s eyes lit up.
Everyone’s breathing grew heavy, for within this Sword Tablet lay countless peerless good swords. Although some swords were not on the Divine Weapon Ranking, they were still rare Treasures.
Just casually throwing one out would cause Jianghu people outside to fight over it.
“This place requires one to enter the tablet with their Divine Soul, debate with the Sword Soul, and obtain the Sword Soul’s acknowledgement before one can inherit its teachings.” Nangong Ao said to everyone at this moment.
As soon as the words fell, many people had already stepped into the snowfield, heading towards those Sword Tablets.
These Sword Tablets had different appearances. Nobody knew what kind of sword was hidden within the tablets; it could only rely on fate.
Young Master Lin strode to a Sword Tablet, looked at the crescent moon-like Sword Tablet, closed his eyes, and his Divine Soul instantly entered the Sword Tablet.
Immediately afterwards, he sat in meditation.
As if he had fallen into a state of enlightenment.
Everyone knew that Young Master Lin was debating with the Sword Soul.
“Young Master, what is this Sword Soul debate?” Zhao Qing’er was curious.
“I don’t know either.”
Li Hanzhou shook his head: “I heard that the Sword Soul will ask questions. If you can answer them, you will have the qualification to cultivate the swordplay in this Sword Tablet. Just try it, anyway.”
After speaking, Li Hanzhou also came to a Sword Tablet, and his Divine Soul entered the Sword Tablet.
Li Hanzhou felt the world spinning. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in a boundless sea of clouds, with a 330-foot-high Green Jade Sword Tablet floating in front of him. The inscriptions on the tablet were twisting and moving like living things.
“What is the fastest sword in the world?” An ancient voice came from the inscription.
“The fastest sword?”
Li Hanzhou was stumped for a moment.
What is the fastest sword?
Shouldn’t the fastest thing be not the sword, but the person wielding it?
In Li Hanzhou’s current understanding, Sword Immortal Luo of Divine Peak Mountain’s sword should be extremely fast. As for other people’s swords… Li Hanzhou really wasn’t sure. After pondering for a moment, Li Hanzhou could only say: “Sword Immortal Luo of Divine Peak Mountain’s sword is the fastest sword.”
“Wrong!”
The Sword Tablet trembled violently: “The fastest sword is the Early Slanting Sword, ranked forty-seventh on the Divine Weapon Ranking, because it’s early-slanting, haha!”
The voice burst into laughter.
It completely dumbfounded Li Hanzhou.
What was that?
A brain teaser?
And they’re even using puns?
“You and I have no fate. Get out.”
After saying that, Li Hanzhou felt the scene before him change, and he had already come out.
Li Hanzhou was completely dumbfounded on the spot. These irreverent old Sword Souls were actually giving him brain teasers?
Seeing everyone else thinking hard in front of the Sword Tablets, Li Hanzhou couldn’t help but sigh, could it be that every Sword Tablet asks these idiotic questions?
“Young Master, are you alright?”
Seeing Li Hanzhou staring blankly, Zhao Qing’er quickly came to ask.
“I’m fine.”
Li Hanzhou took a deep breath and entered another Sword Tablet with his Divine Soul.
Another crimson Sword Tablet appeared: “Which sword needs no sheath to hide its sharpness?”
Li Hanzhou stared at the flickering flame patterns on the inscription, and suddenly remembered hearing a similar brain teaser: “Could it be… a tongue sword? Sharp Tongues and Witty Arguments injure people invisibly.”
Crimson Sword Qi exploded in the air, turning into a boundless Flowing Fire. The Flowing Fire surrounded Li Hanzhou. The hot aura rushed towards his face, but within the Flowing Fire, the Prairie Fire Sword Manual appeared, actually secretly containing three killing moves.
“As expected.”
Young Master Li’s eyes lit up.
“Why are all these questions so difficult?”
A purple-robed martial artist shook his head: “Young Master Lin just now spent a long time thinking about the ‘coldest sword’ in front of the ‘Mysterious Ice Tablet,’ and it took him seven attempts before he understood that the ‘Plum Blossom Sword needs to be tempered in the snow,’ and his eyebrows were frosted when he came out.”
“The successor of the Nanzhao Witch Sword hasn’t comprehended a single sword yet.”
Just as they were speaking, suddenly a Sword Tablet trembled violently. Then, to everyone’s surprise, a colorful Sword Intent flew out from the Sword Tablet, and the Sword Intent directly came before Li Hanzhou.
Li Hanzhou also came out of the Sword Tablet at this moment, then stretched out his hand and grasped the Sword Intent.
“Xiao Han has actually broken through a Sword Tablet!”
Many people couldn’t believe it.
Even someone as strong as Young Master Lin had only just broken through one Sword Tablet, and Li Hanzhou, a martial artist of only Sixth Rank realm, had also already broken through one Sword Tablet.
Young Master Lin also took a deep look at Li Hanzhou before continuing to comprehend the other Sword Tablets.
He wouldn’t use this Sword Intent easily because he needed to accumulate more to break through the better swords later.
Li Hanzhou naturally didn’t bother with others and continued to comprehend the other Sword Tablets.
“The sword that fears heat the most?” Li Hanzhou stood in front of the Crimson Bronze Sword Tablet at this moment, gazing at the lava hell formed by the inscription, his mouth twitching.
This Sword Soul actually asked such a simple question.
“The Ice Soul Sword.” Li Hanzhou said offhand: “It melts when it encounters heat, so it naturally fears the greatest heat.”
The lava suddenly solidified, condensing into the Frost Sky Nine Transformations sword manual.
Li Hanzhou pointed with two fingers as a sword, and wherever the cold light swept, the Crimson Bronze Sword Tablet shattered.
Wu Sisi, who was comprehending the Flowing Cloud Tablet in the distance, turned her head in astonishment. She had been pondering the question ‘Which sword can cut flowing water’ for half a day, how could this prodigal son break the tablet like cutting tofu?
Seeing this, Li Hanzhou’s mouth twitched. This Wu Sisi’s talent in Sword Dao might be good, but her inability to solve brain teasers isn’t going to work.
Young Master Lin seemed to be doing alright. When Li Hanzhou broke through the tenth Sword Tablet, Young Master Lin had already broken through the second Sword Tablet.
In the Sword Forest, many were vying for supremacy.
At this moment, within the Divine Palace Dragon Court, the Blood Qi was also heavy.
Emperor Yu Yang stood in the center of the altar, his five fingers deeply inserted into the eye sockets of the Demon God Skeleton.
Fine blood patterns floated on the bluish-green bones, like millions of poisonous snakes crawling between the bones, making the ninety-nine oil lamps around the altar glow scarlet red like blood.
The skeleton suddenly let out a childish laugh, and the sound wave made the bronze bells hanging in the four corners of the altar jingle. The dark-colored Dragon Robe behind Emperor Yu Yang moved without wind, his eyes like knives: “You should also come out and move around.”
As soon as the words fell, Emperor Yu Yang waved his hand and lifted a red cloth.
Under the red cloth, a three-inch-high wooden niche was revealed.
The wooden niche was only the size of a palm, but its entire body was covered with the dark green copper rust that only bronze objects acquire after thousands of years.
The moment the niche door creaked open, the entire mausoleum was suddenly filled with the sound of a baby crying.
A jade infant, crystal clear throughout its body, with a cinnabar dot on its forehead that was eerily red, was curled up in the niche. It held half a Bone Flute and gently played it. The night pearls embedded in the dome exploded and shattered into countless star-like fragments that fell: “This Demon God Skeleton is barely passable, it can be used. Now, in this Tianxuan Realm, being able to get something like this is already quite good.”
Emperor Yu Yang’s pupils contracted. The Demon God Skeleton in his hand suddenly turned into Flowing Light and poured into the wooden niche. Dense bone patterns appeared around the jade infant.
The Dragon Court began to tremble violently. The gold paint on the seventy-two coiled dragon pillars peeled off inch by inch, revealing the white bones within. When the last piece of gold paint fell to the ground, the jade infant had transformed into a nine-foot-tall Black Robed Person, with a Bone Flute hanging from his waist, clearly made from the Demon God’s leg bone.
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