Xuanxia

Chapter 160 A Sword
Seeing this group of screaming red-skinned monsters, the two reacted immediately.

This is the monster from before looking for help...

I have to say, they were really lucky.

If there were no Tai Chi fish in this river and if the fish eggs could not heal wounds, they would now be two useless people who could not walk or fight. Facing this group of monsters, they would have no power to resist at all. Even if they could kill a few of them at all costs, the final outcome would be that they would be captured and used as food.

But right now, hehe.

Fu Qingzhou was already pissed off by that monster, not to mention Qiu Chan, who almost became the monster's dinner. Besides, the atmosphere was so good right now...

"Shameless thing!"

The shame on her face turned into intense anger in the blink of an eye. She suddenly jumped up, waved her right hand, and swung out the black soft sword at her waist, quickly rushing forward!
It was obvious that her internal energy had not recovered much, and her sword swings were much slower and weaker than in her prime. But as I said, she was a fifth-level warrior after all, so it was not easy for her to beat these monsters who only knew how to punch...

In a blink of an eye, the soft sword cut the necks of the two monsters.

"Qiu Chan, be careful!" Fu Qingzhou finally realized, "Their blood is highly poisonous!"

After saying that, he also drew his longbow and shot several arrows in rapid succession!

Qiu Chan heard what he said, but didn't care at all.

"What the hell is this poison? Their blood won't even splash on me!"

She kicked a monster away, and then struck the monster's vital point with a sword before it was kicked away. The monster's poisonous blood could not touch her at all.

However, in this way, Fu Qingzhou's arrows all missed...

There was no other reason. Before the arrow arrived, Qiu Chan had already kicked them one by one and they rolled away like gourds.

Fu Qingzhou: “…”

At this moment, more than a dozen red-skinned monsters came rushing over. In front of Qiu Chan, they were like fierce-looking wild dogs. After a few of them were killed, they wanted to flee in fear. But Qiu Chan was furious, so how could she let them escape?

She chased after them with a sword in hand, cursing as she ran: "Stand still, I'll let you die quickly! Otherwise, I'll skin you alive!"

Fu Qingzhou smiled helplessly, packed up his arrows and followed.

The monsters fled in fear, and Qiu Chan followed behind, killing them one by one with her sword. Fu Qingzhou could see that even though she was furious, she was still very smart. She did not kill them all in one breath, but kept a distance from them, killing one or two monsters from time to time.

She wanted these monsters to lead them to the monster tribe.

The purpose of finding the lair of these monsters is not to kill them, but to find a way out.

This damn place is like a maze. Although we have found the underground river, we may not be able to get out by following the underground river. There may be some other clues in the monster's lair.

So the two of them drove the monsters away like they were herding sheep, and gradually went deeper into the underground cave.

"be careful."

Fu Qingzhou caught up with Qiu Chan and whispered, "The old guy on my body said that these red devils were very difficult to deal with hundreds of years ago. They killed people everywhere. There is no guarantee that there are no more powerful ones in their group."

Qiu Chan bit her lip, tilted her head to look at him, her eyes watery: "Are you worried about me?"

Fu Qingzhou: "...Can you please stop doing this? I'm scared."

Qiu Chan was furious: "I gave you face, didn't I?"

Fu Qingzhou breathed a sigh of relief: "Yes, yes, yes, this way I am more used to it."

Qiu Chan: “…”

She was about to cry and was extremely sad. How could such a beautiful girl become a shrew in the eyes of others?

Confused and sad, she used her sword to kill a monster that fell in front of her, and sneered at the fleeing monster in front of her: "Run away? Keep running away? Let's see how far you can run!"

The monster in front was running away and the two people were chasing behind, making them look like demons.

After a cup of tea, several monsters were killed, but Fu Qingzhou found something abnormal.

"Qiu Chan, have you noticed any signs of activity here?"

he asked suddenly.

Qiu Chan was stunned: "How could that be? I didn't see it."

She killed monsters along the way, and of course she was not like Fu Qingzhou who kept careful observation the whole time.

Fu Qingzhou led her to the side and pointed at the stone wall: "Look."

The two men looked carefully and saw that there seemed to be some scratches on the stone wall, but the scratches were very shallow. In addition, the cave was damp and the wall was covered with a layer of mist, so it was difficult to see without careful observation.

After wiping away the mist, the marks became clear.

"Or not."

When the marks are connected together, they form these four words.

Fu Qingzhou and Qiu Chan looked at each other with joy on their faces.

There's someone here!

But this place is so close to where the red-skinned monsters live, how could there be people living here?

"Don't worry, we've chased here, and we're probably not far from the monster's lair. Since we're worried about the danger in their lair, let's not rush to chase them. Let's first investigate to see if there are any other inscriptions."

Fu Qingzhou said softly: "Whether this person lived here before or is still here now, it will be very helpful for us to find a way out."

Qiu Chan nodded.

The two stopped chasing the monster and let it escape into the distance with a squeaking sound.

They wrote down the talisman characters one by one, and suddenly the glow in the cave became stronger, illuminating the stone wall. In this light, countless inscriptions appeared faintly!
They spread to another corridor which was different from the direction the monster fled, but the words written on them were mostly a bit chaotic.

"What's the point? What's the point?"

“An old horse still has a thousand miles to run. It will definitely succeed! It will definitely succeed!”

"How sad! How miserable! It's over!"

"The world is ruthless, but I refuse to accept it!"

"I don't believe it... there must be a way..."

Qiu Chan frowned: "How weird, the person who left the message is sometimes lonely and sometimes full of confidence. What is he doing?"

Fu Qingzhou had some thoughts: "Is he doing some research?"

In many novels, movies and other works he had read in the past, there were such Frankenstein characters, who hid alone in a dark place to do research. Sometimes they would be ecstatic when they achieved some small success, but most of the time it was just an endless and desperate cycle of mistakes.

The two of them followed the traces of the inscriptions, and soon they actually saw more and more traces of human life.

There were scattered cloths, stone bowls, some dried food, and some stone utensils...

At this point, the emotions expressed in the handwriting become much gentler.

"I'll let them know that I'm right."

"We have made considerable progress today. I am very happy. I will give you three ounces of rice as a reward."

"All this must have a source..."

"Source, source..."

Judging from the handwriting, the person who engraved the words at that time was still full of hope, and he must be really doing some research.

Qiu Chan also pondered and said, "Looking at the appearance of these foods and utensils, I'm afraid this happened a long time ago."

Fu Qingzhou narrowed his eyes and said, "What I'm curious about is that this place is not far from where monsters appear. These monsters can use utensils and are probably not very picky about what they eat. But seeing how much dust there is here, it seems that those monsters never come here."

"Because they are afraid of this person?" Qiu Chan asked.

Fu Qingzhou glanced at her and smiled, "It could also be that he respects this person."

Qiu Chan raised her eyebrows slightly.

The two continued to go deeper into the corridor and indeed found a series of caves that clearly showed people living there.

A tattered wooden bed, a broken stone table, a large amount of rotten and moldy clothes, and countless papers and books that have become damp and moldy and unrecognizable.

There were no more words carved on the wall here, just some deep and shallow regular characters, which looked like they were recording the days. However, the marks were smooth at the beginning, but became completely messy and blurred later, and it was impossible to tell how long he had lived here.

"It was a very simple life... it's just a pity that the contents of these books and papers are no longer recognizable."

Fu Qingzhou frowned and asked, "What on earth is he researching?"

As they spoke, the two walked towards the "side room" in the other corner of the cave.

As soon as I turned the corner, I saw a sword hanging in the middle of the cave. The sword was bound by iron chains, with only the ancient hilt exposed. The thick rusty iron chains were fixed to every corner of the top of the cave, like a spider web, firmly hanging the sword.

"This is?"

Fu Qingzhou and Qiu Chan looked at each other again and asked in unison, "What is his research subject?"

"What a strange feeling..."

The smoker, who had been silent for a long time, spoke up, his voice ringing beside the two of them: "This thing, why do I feel a little familiar?"

"Oh?" Fu Qingzhou was surprised: "Do you recognize this sword?"

The smoker's tone was extremely puzzled: "I don't recognize it. I can't remember where I have seen it, but I just feel familiar. It's so weird. How could I have such a feeling?"

Fu Qingzhou sneered: "That's not surprising. How is it possible that you can remember everything after living for hundreds of years?"

"No, no..." The smoker still muttered: "How could I not remember..."

Qiu Chan interrupted his soliloquy: "Hey, then tell me, is it dangerous?"

"Danger?"

After a moment of silence, the smoker whispered, "No, this thing shouldn't be dangerous, but I don't know why I don't like it. Why? Why exactly..."

Fu Qingzhou glanced at Qiu Chan: "Since there is no danger..."

"Then let's go and take a look." Qiu Chan nodded.

But just as they took a step forward, they suddenly had an extremely strange feeling.

It felt like... there seemed to be an eye on the sword, and it was suddenly looking at me straight.

Of course there are no eyes on the sword, but the intuition of a cultivator would not be wrong. They both stopped at the same time, and both wanted to take a step back out of caution.

but……

That's too late.

As soon as the feeling of being watched arose, some kind of wave invisible to the naked eye spread out in the air with the ancient sword as the center.

It came quickly and in an instant it reached Fu and Qiu.

The next moment, both of them rolled their eyes and fainted, lying straight on the ground.

Thanks to book friend shuzhuoxsjwigrd for the reward!
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(End of this chapter)