Longzang

Chapter 631 The Power of the Demon Blade
In the early morning, sunlight streamed through the carved window lattices, casting a golden glow on the floor.

Wei Yuan sat upright in his study, engrossed in reading a storybook.

At that moment, the demonic blade flew in and hovered steadily in front of Wei Yuan, asking, "My lord, are you looking for me?"

Wei Yuan put down the storybook in his hand, his expression calm, and slowly said, "Yesterday was busy with many matters, and I didn't have time to ask you about your abilities and background. Tell me about your abilities first."

The demonic blade trembled slightly, its voice tinged with a hint of smugness: "My main ability is called 'A Steed That Can Travel a Thousand Miles,' which allows me to allocate a portion of my fortune to a chosen mount, making it more powerful and easier to control, just like Lei Dong."

Wei Yuan nodded slightly, a hint of curiosity in his eyes, and urged, "Continue."

"The second one is called 'Shooting Through a Willow Tree from Ten Thousand Miles Away.' Once my divine sense locks onto a target, no matter how far away or how small the target is, I can annihilate them with a single strike!"

The Demon Blade's main abilities are these two. In addition, it is both real and illusory, possessing the characteristics of a celestial weapon. Its blade can switch between reality and illusion at will, easily cutting through gold and jade, and also annihilating Dao power and spirituality. It is truly a killing blade.

However, after hearing about the Demon Blade's two abilities, Wei Yuan felt a strange sense of unease. He paused, then continued, "Tell me about your background, but before that, sign this." With that, he handed over a specially made piece of jade paper.

Demon Blade looked at the jade paper handed to him, his heart filled with doubt. He scanned it with his divine sense and saw that it contained thousands of clauses, most of which were about preventing betrayal and how to keep the oath after betrayal.

At first, when it saw the sign "If you disobey, you will be struck by lightning," the Demon Blade was indifferent and didn't take ordinary lightning seriously at all.

But then, the densely packed small characters that followed made its expression change instantly: The lightning referred to here includes, but is not limited to, the Radiant Sun Heavenly Fire Lightning, the Nine Heavens Purple Clarity Divine Lightning, and the Jade Void Supreme Clarity Immortal Lightning...

Mo Ren could understand this part, but as it went on, "entering the Yin-Yang furnace" was something he could understand literally, but he had no clue what it meant in practice. There were countless explanations of the word "Yin-Yang" in the Daoist scriptures, making it impossible to distinguish between them.

Later, there were also sayings like "body enters the full moon," "mind enters the full moon," "spirit enters the full moon," and "three corpses enter the full moon." Demon Blade wondered, what was so scary about climbing to the moon? Did they have man-eating monsters on it?
Just as Mo Ren was engrossed in watching, he suddenly heard Wei Yuan say coldly, "Have you been looking for loopholes after watching for so long? Hmph, his intentions are despicable!"

Demon Blade was taken aback and quickly explained, "I just don't quite understand them. These terms are too profound and mysterious. I want to study them carefully."

"No need to speculate, there are no loopholes. Sign it." Wei Yuan's tone left no room for argument.

"How do we sign it?" Demon Blade asked cautiously.

"Show a bit of your innate spirituality and primordial spirit, and leave a mark on it."

The demonic blade hesitated for a moment, but finally gritted its teeth and imprinted its divine sense onto the jade paper. Upon imprinting, it immediately felt as if it had been bitten hard by an insect, experiencing excruciating pain, and at the same time, it felt as if something crucial was missing.

Wei Yuan was very satisfied and naturally wouldn't tell Mo Ren that if the title of this contract were magnified a thousand times, each word would be a clause. Leaving a mark with one's divine consciousness and primordial spirit meant agreeing to leave a portion of one's divine consciousness as collateral.

Seeing that Demon Blade had signed the agreement, Wei Yuan smiled and said gently, "Very good, now that you've signed, you're one of us. Now tell me about your background!"

"I was originally a strange stone that flew from the sky. I accidentally entered this world and was picked up by an unknown divine beast. The divine beast nurtured me with its spiritual energy every day, and gradually, I gained sentience."

Then one day, several immortals arrived together and, together they defeated the divine beast, taking me with them. Afterwards, they threw me into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and I lost consciousness. When I awoke again, I was in my current form, and I possessed supernatural powers.”

Wei Yuan nodded, then asked, "Since you possess sentience, do you have a name?"

Wei Yuan's question was full of hidden meaning and was extremely crucial. When immortals refine magical treasures, they solemnly name them. Some high-grade immortal treasures are even named by heaven and earth, and these names are often the key to controlling them.

The Demon Blade replied, "I have been passed through the hands of three immortals, and my name has been changed three times. Now my name is July."

Wei Yuan asked again, "Then where is your previous master now, and why are you wandering outside?" "That day, the Immortal Lord suddenly said: Something from beyond the heavens has come to visit, I will go and return. Then he went and never came back. Immediately afterwards, the Immortal Palace suddenly exploded, and all the magical treasures of us who followed the Immortal Lord were thrown down from beyond the Nine Heavens."

I landed nearby and slowly recovered by absorbing good fortune. Then one day, a great fortune suddenly fell upon me, and I met Lei Dong, who became my mount. Later, I met the Lord of Destiny, who is you.”

Wei Yuan pondered to himself that this was most likely due to the dissipation of Hongye's fortune, with a portion of it being obtained by the Demon Blade.

Having asked enough questions, Wei Yuan suddenly changed the subject and asked, "And who is Fengxian?"

The demonic blade shuddered violently, nearly falling from the void, and muttered to itself, "Fengxian? This...this name sounds so familiar..."

Wei Yuan snorted coldly and threw the storybook in his hand in front of Demon Blade. Demon Blade glanced at it and saw that the title was "The Romantic History of Three Men." Just looking at the title, it didn't feel any interest.

Wei Yuan turned to the third chapter of the storybook, where a line of words caught his eye: "...Having wandered for half my life, I have yet to encounter a wise ruler...If you do not despise me, I am willing to become your godfather!"

"What...what's going on?" Demon Blade was shocked.

"Yes, what's going on?" Wei Yuan asked in return.

"I just felt that the name Fengxian was familiar, but I couldn't say when or where I had heard it before. Those words just now came to mind naturally when I saw my lord."

Wei Yuan then asked, "You could have easily run away, why did you choose to walk right into my trap and fall into my hands? Wouldn't it have been better to find a mount and live a carefree life?"

Demon Blade said earnestly, "My lord has an aura that I recognize, clearly originating from the same source as mine."

"From the same source? What do you mean by that?"

“I came from beyond the heavens, originally a strange stone. My lord carries the aura of my origin.”

Wei Yuan pondered for a moment, then manifested the aura of the Netherworld and asked, "Is this it?"

The demonic blade swung horizontally, indicating that it was not.

Wei Yuan then manifested the Desolate Realm aura he had taken from Tian Yu, but the Demon Blade still denied it. The extraterrestrial fortune was also ruled out. Finally, Wei Yuan manifested the aura of the small world he had just fished out; this time, the Demon Blade violently lurched forward, nearly slicing into Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan's heart was filled with shock. The predecessor of the Demon Blade actually came from that strange world, and that strange world was lured here by the shadow in the moon. And now he obtained the Demon Blade here. It seems that this is no coincidence.

Then, Wei Yuan thought about it a step further. It was only because the Red Leaf's fortune had dissipated that the Demon Blade awakened, allowing rising stars of the Witch Clan like Lei Dong and Tian Yu to obtain it. Without Lei Dong, the Demon Blade might never have appeared in the world, nor would it have been his.

So, is the decline of the red leaves not also a coincidence?
If even a person as talented and brilliant as Hongye cannot escape the arrangement of fate, then who in the world can break free from the shackles of fate?

Wei Yuan grew increasingly alarmed, realizing he needed to seek further guidance from True Monarch Yan Shi. However, he was too embarrassed to approach True Monarch Yan Shi since his senior sister's matter was still unresolved.

To save Ji Liuli, the most likely solution lies with the Dream Eater. But to see the Dream Eater, one must first dig through the Nether Iron Mountain; after digging through the Nether Iron Mountain, a great battle is inevitable; to escape the kingdom and find the Dream Eater, one must then fight Uncle Li, and win…

Wei Yuan felt a deep headache; his senior sister's Dao heart was involved in too many things.

(End of this chapter)