Xuanxia

Chapter 848: Sword Refining

Chapter 848: Sword Refining (Part )

Qi slowly walked into the cave.

The walls of the cave are engraved with various deep and shallow words.

Not far away, the flames of several oil lamps were crackling. A figure had his back to him, wielding a sledgehammer and hitting something.

Qi felt that this picture looked familiar.

He received a revelation from the heavens and knew he had to find this place, but...

This scene was not glimpsed in the Voice of Heaven.

But...

Many, many years ago, that early morning when I woke up in Wuliang Taiji Palace, that day of the inner sect assessment, that day that changed my life.

That morning, I had a dream. I dreamed that I became a person named Fu Qingzhou.

Fu Qingzhou has seen this scene.

Qi shook his head and cleared his mind of these messy thoughts.

"I am right, I must be right, just a little bit more, just a little bit more, and I will succeed... I will definitely succeed..."

Deep in the cave, the woman was mumbling in her sleep.

Qi continued to go deeper, and finally saw her appearance clearly in the light of the oil lamp.

She was dressed simply, without gorgeous silks or complicated embroidery, only rough linen. Her face and hair were covered with traces of dust, and it looked like she had not washed for a long, long time.

There was something strange in her eyes, revealing some kind of indescribable obsession and madness.

A piece of pitch-black iron was held in her hand. There was no anvil or fire. She just used her internal energy to heat the iron block in her hand until it was red hot. Then she placed the iron block on the ground, swung the hammer again, and hit it hard.

Time passed little by little, and the woman kept repeating this action. The shape of the iron block did not seem to change at all under her repeated hammering. She did not feel tired or irritated, and continued to hammer.

This, of course, is Fang Ruyue’s mother, the legendary crazy woman... Jiang Lingyun.

Suddenly, she seemed to sense someone approaching from behind and turned her head sharply.

"Who are you!"

Her eyes were filled with fierceness, she glared at Qi fiercely and shouted angrily: "You want to steal my sword!"

Qi smiled and said, "No, I'm here to help you."

"help me?"

Jiang Lingyun sneered: "No one in this world believes me! How could anyone be willing to help me! You are lying to me!"

"No, I believe you." Qi said softly and seriously: "I have heard your story, and I think you are right."

"Oh?"

Jiang Lingyun's mind was obviously not normal, but after hearing this, her eyes immediately brightened: "Then how can you help me?"

"Didn't you notice?" Qi smiled and said, "Your sword lacks some vitality."

"vitality?"

Jiang Lingyun was puzzled, but soon her eyes lit up: "Yes, yes, yes! There is no vitality! Those things are all dead, all dead! No matter how good they are, they are all dead!"

"So I hammered for so long, but it was no use at all!"

She suddenly dropped the sledgehammer in her hand, took a big step forward, and held Qi's hand tightly: "Then what should I do!?"

"Use me to forge a sword."

Qi smiled and said, "My flesh, blood and soul can help you integrate the Great Dao."

"Your flesh, blood, and soul?" Jiang Lingyun asked suspiciously, "Who are you?"

"I……"

Qi smiled and said, "I am a gift from heaven to you, and your son Fang Ruyue asked me to come here."

"Ruyue? Have you seen him?" Jiang Lingyun's face lit up, but then she tilted her head nervously: "But... why are you a gift from heaven? Can you compare with it?"

She turned around and pointed to the side.

Qi looked along her hand...

On one side of the sword-forging platform, there was a stone basin.

There is water in the stone basin, and there are fish in the water.

It looks very special, with a body that is half black and half white, and very small scales, but its fins are very large, like bird wings. Qi is a disciple of the Wuliang Taiji Palace, so naturally he has seen this kind of fish... There are also several Taiji fish raised in the Wuliang Taiji Palace. Their meat is poisonous, but the fish eggs can be used as medicine, and can be used to refine a holy medicine that can bring the dead back to life.

However, this Tai Chi fish seems a little different.

It's... half real and half fake.

When the fish swam in the water, two balls of black and white smoke emanated from its body. They spread in the water like ink but did not change the color of the water. From time to time, the whole fish turned into complete black and white air and then condensed again.

"This is... yin and yang."

Qi's expression was slightly tense: "The root of heaven and earth."

"That's right." Jiang Lingyun reached her hand into the basin of water and immediately pulled out two balls of black and white energy entangled together, and the Tai Chi fish in the water seemed to become a little smaller as a result.

"you say……"

She cast the black and white energy onto the red sword embryo, and the two energies were instantly absorbed by the sword embryo. She also turned to Qi: "Why are you better than it?"

"I told you, I am a gift from heaven."

Qi smiled and said, "You can take a look for yourself."

After saying that, he suddenly stretched out his hands and stabbed them into his own chest!

Blood spurted out, but there was no sign of pain on his face. Instead, he began to exert force with his arms and violently pulled his chest open!
However, the opened chest and abdomen did not reveal a horrific scene of internal organs spilling out and blood all over the floor. Instead...

A red starry sky appeared.

In Qi's chest and abdomen, there seemed to be an endless sky, but it was a red sky, the red background was exactly the same as his hair color, and countless vast stars were flowing in it. Jiang Lingyun's eyes widened.

She slowly walked closer, tried to reach out her hand and reach in, and then her hand reached into the starry sky.

She was overjoyed and moved her head closer, reaching into Qi's chest, followed by her upper body...

Thus, half of Jiang Lingyun's body sank into Qi's chest and abdomen.

After a while, she pulled back, her eyes full of surprise and joy: "It's true! What you said is true!"

"of course it's true."

Qi smiled and said, "How about this, a living gift, am I qualified to help you?"

"Enough! Enough! Definitely enough!"

Jiang Lingyun was overjoyed: "Go, go now!"

The Tai Chi fish in the basin wagged its tail and looked at everything outside curiously.

It saw Jiang Lingyun pick up the sword blank with a pair of pliers and put it into the huge furnace on the side. Then Qi smiled and put it into the furnace without hesitation with an extremely happy smile on his face.

The fire was blazing and the heat was overwhelming!
In just a moment, Qi's red hair disappeared into the stove.

But the consciousness that remained in his soul did not completely disappear.

There was a ghost from a thousand years later... When Qi's physical body was completely destroyed, it inexplicably came to the Tai Chi fish in the basin.

Or perhaps, there is already a part of him in the Tai Chi fish.

Is he Qi, the strange stone slab that Qi ate, or the Tai Chi fish?

Or maybe, both.

The Tai Chi fish swam, its consciousness was confused and dazed, and Jiang Lingyun's wild laughter echoed in its ears.

But soon, the wild laughter suddenly subsided.

"Wait, what's going on?!"

she exclaimed.

The sword in the furnace flew out by itself and hung in the air. Red and blue colors began to flicker on the sword, and the entire cave began to shake violently!

No...not just caves!

Although the Tai Chi fish is just a fish, for some reason, it can keenly feel that the whole world is shaking!

Something has shaken the foundation of this world!
"You! You lied to me!"

Jiang Lingyun was furious. She didn't care that the sword blank was scorching hot. She just reached out and grabbed it in her hand, threw it on the sword forging table, swung the hammer and hit it hard.

This is not forging a sword. Judging from her actions, it seems that she wants to destroy the sword directly.

But before the hammer touched the sword, the red light on the sword suddenly burst out and shocked her away!

Jiang Lingyun was extremely frightened. After looking around, she stood up with a start, picked up the basin of water where the Tai Chi fish was, and without hesitation poured the basin of water and the Tai Chi fish onto the sword!

The Tai Chi fish instantly turned into strong black and white energy, spreading across the entire sword body.

The sword made a crackling sound, as if it was being quenched, and the temperature dropped instantly.

This time, when Jiang Lingyun swung the hammer again, it no longer resisted.

She was so furious that she madly hit the sword she had forged with a hammer and roared, "You lied to me! What you brought is not life at all! Not at all! You want to destroy me, you want to destroy me!"

"You are not a gift from Heaven! What you have is not Heaven! You are a predator and a parasite! You want to destroy me and this world!"

The Tai Chi fish disappeared, but the consciousness remained.

But this time, he finally woke up gradually.

"I see……"

Fu Qingzhou murmured, "Qi, Slate, the voice disguised as Heaven's Way, is me... They are things that were born from Heaven's Way, but they want to replace Heaven's Way. They are where Qi Ran came from, and where I came from as well."

"The two energies of yin and yang, the origin of heaven and earth, are also me... They are the source of the Way of Heaven, the source of the Infinite True Immortal Art, the source of Master's realization of the Yi Ran Jue, and also the source of me."

"From the beginning, Yiran was me, and Qiran was also me."

"Whether it's Qi Ran or Yi Ran, they are all reflections of my true nature... Uncle Shi was wrong, and Long Dabei was also wrong. They have never changed my view of the world. They are just a part of me."

"I don't need to merge them, because they are me!"

“No matter where I come from or where I’ve been, it’s just me!”

Fu Qingzhou opened his eyes.

The bow and arrow in his hands were no longer red and blue, but had turned into pure blue.

The secrets of the past have not yet been fully revealed.

But now, more importantly, now.

Boom!
The clear sound of the strings resounded throughout this world of consciousness.

The green arrow flew through the air and collided with the invisible sword swung by Jiang Baichuan.

The "piercing" was like a drop of boiling oil, falling into the snow and easily melting the sword.

The next moment, Jiang Baichuan lowered his head.

A huge hole appeared in his chest.

The edge of the hole began to dissipate like smoke, and his consciousness also began to turn into smoke and dust bit by bit.