Xuanxia

Chapter 847: Sword Refining (Part )

"My mother?"

Fang Ruyue looked at Qi in surprise: "Are you willing to help her?"

"Yes." Qi nodded with a smile: "I have already understood the secrets of the stone tablet."

"really?"

Fang Ruyue tilted her head: "What's the secret?"

"Since it's a secret, of course I can't tell you." Qi smiled and said, "Is there anything I can help you with? When do we leave?"

"Oh! Wait a minute."

After Fang Ruyue responded, she put the hoe she had used for farming today back to the wall, and ran to the water tank behind the house to get some water to wash off the mud on her legs.

Afterwards, he took great pains to finally pull out the stubborn donkey that was pulling the mill in the backyard.

"My mother is quite far away."

He handed the donkey's rope to Qi and said, "You ride on the donkey."

Qi was startled: "What about you?"

"I definitely won't go."

Fang Ruyue said as a matter of course: "Mom said that if I am gone, this place will be flattened soon - all the people buried here are good to her, and they can't disappear, so I have to look after the graves here."

Qi asked again: "What if I can't find your mother?"

"You will find it."

Fang Ruyue smiled and said, "Shitou told me... In addition, there is a bag of silver under the bed where you sleep. It is the money I saved over the years for your travel expenses."

In this case, Qi has no doubts anymore.

So he mounted his donkey and set off on his journey.

Fang Ruyue said that his mother was in the desert in the north of Shenzhou, not far from the legendary Styx Valley.

It took several months, and they carefully passed through the Western Buddhist country, crossed mountains and rivers, and finally arrived at the northern desert.

In fact, he didn't need to spend so much time.

But during this period of time, he slept longer and longer, especially after entering the desert, he could even sleep for nearly ten hours a day, and the time he spent on traveling naturally became shorter and shorter.

In those dreams, he could always see all kinds of bizarre scenes, but he had forgotten them completely after waking up.

Of course, these dreams are never without impact.

At this time, Qi, who was riding a donkey and walking slowly in the desert, had a somewhat crazy look in his eyes.

From time to time, he lowered his head and let out a strange laugh, but when he raised his head again, his expression was cold as ice.

Occasionally he would curse at the empty person around him, and sometimes he would sob quietly...

If anyone else saw him, they would definitely think he was a lunatic.

Fortunately, this desert is uninhabited, so naturally no one saw Qi's crazy look.

And, just as Fang Ruyue said, he seemed... to know where he was going.

There is no reference point and the desert has no end. Anyone who comes here will easily get lost. However, Ke Qi always stays firm and moves forward towards one direction.

Finally, five days after entering the desert, Qi arrived at a rift valley.

He casually left the stubborn donkey outside the valley and walked leisurely into the valley.

The rift was very deep and there were countless forks in the road, but Qi did not hesitate at all and walked on the path that only he knew clearly.

Of course, after walking a few steps, he fell asleep in the valley again...

But this time, he was woken up not long after falling asleep.

"Your line of thought is wrong."

It was a voice as deep as thunder: "This sword is still useless."

"I know! I know this is a useless sword!"

Another female voice shouted sharply: "But my idea is right! I don't know what the problem is! Give me more time, give me a little more time!"

Qi rubbed his eyes and slowly sat up.

"Did you hear that?"

He whispered to the empty surroundings.

No one responded to him, but he immediately laughed: "I guess so, that woman should be Jiang Lingyun, but who is talking to her?" Still no one responded to him, he just said to himself: "Okay, then go and help me listen."

After saying that, he actually fell asleep again.

This time he slept very soundly, and the sound coming from not far away... did not affect him at all.

"Crazy woman, you are too extreme."

The deep voice slowly said: "Xuanxing may not be the only correct path, but is it inappropriate for you to deny Dongtian as well?"

“I myself am the best example!”

The crazy woman said angrily: "By the time I realized everything, it was already too late! Despite this, I still managed to do something that none of you could do! Doesn't this prove something!"

"Um……"

The owner of the deep voice seemed to think for a moment, then said, "Okay, we are willing to give you some more time. Tell me what you need."

"I always feel like something is missing. It must be something..."

The crazy woman murmured, "Do you have... that kind of... thing where the two opposites coexist?"

"The two opposites coexist?"

The tone of the voice suddenly became a little strange: "Can you explain it more clearly?"

"Good and evil! Life and death! Light and darkness!"

The crazy woman said angrily: "Don't you understand this? How did you reach this level? Don't you people in the Styx Valley understand the cycle of life and death the most?"

"..."

The voice was silent for a moment, then asked, "With this, can you forge a magic sword?"

“Yes, I can!”

The crazy woman said excitedly: "I have found the direction! I have figured it out! If anything only moves along a straight path, it will never reach the real distance! They need to take detours, hit walls, and sway left and right! Only in this way can they be firm in their determination and reach the end!"

"Um……"

The voice slowly said: "I see, it turns out that we found it for this moment."

"What?!" The crazy woman's tone became even more excited: "What is it!"

"..."

The voice did not answer, but asked: "You said opposites can coexist, then, is the yin and yang of heaven and earth possible?"

"Yes! Of course! You actually have something like this!"

The crazy woman was so excited that her voice broke: "Give it to me! Give it to me right now! With it, I will definitely be able to refine the sword!"

"Okay, I can give it to you."

The voice said calmly: "But you must promise me that I am the only owner of this sword."

"It doesn't matter! It's up to you! This sword belongs to whoever wants it!" The crazy woman laughed wildly, "I just need to see that road! Just seeing it is enough!"

The voices of the two people gradually became quieter until they disappeared.

Not long after, on the other side of the rift, a dark shadow flew into the sky, turned into billowing black smoke, and disappeared into the horizon.

It was not until then that the crazy woman's voice sounded again.

"Humph, you don't believe me at all, you just want the sword!"

"No one in this world believes in me!"

Qi slept for a long, long time again.

He seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, and it was even longer than ten hours. It seemed like several days, or even several months...

After a long, long time, he slowly opened his eyes.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he tilted his head as if he was listening to someone talking.

"People from the Styx Valley, would you like to ask Jiang Lingyun to refine the sword?"

Qi rubbed his eyes, smiled and said to himself: "That sword is the key to saving Him, right?"

He stood up, yawned, and walked slowly towards the depths of the rift.

As he went deeper and deeper into the valley, the sunlight around him became less and less - Qi had already gone deep into the mountain and walked into a bottomless cave.

Inside the cave, there was a constant sound of hammering...

(End of this chapter)