The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 25 Master, I have a question for you

"Big brother is here!"

Xu Xingchen greeted him with a smile, looked back at the cave, pondered for a moment, then took the food box as usual, and welcomed Linghu Chong into the cave.

Linghu Chong followed behind and came to the stone chamber. His eyes inadvertently swept across the hole in the stone wall. When his head turned halfway, his neck suddenly braked and he turned his head again.

Blinking his eyes, he stared at the hole that suddenly appeared on the stone wall. After a moment, Linghu Chong shouted, "Junior Brother! Junior Brother! I am hallucinating. I actually saw a hole on this stone wall!"

Xu Xingchen looked at Linghu Chong's amused reaction, nodded with a smile, and said, "Big Brother, I saw it too. There is indeed a hole there."

Linghu Chong looked at the hole in the stone wall, then at his smiling junior brother, and looked back and forth several times before he realized what was happening. He couldn't help but ask in surprise, "Junior brother, what's going on with this hole? How come another cave suddenly appeared inside a cave?"

Xu Xingchen said: "This is a long story. Let me light the bonfire first, then sit down and talk slowly!"

After saying that, he placed the food box on a large rock beside him, turned around, took down a round log about a foot long from the pile of firewood beside him, erected it on the ground, and was about to draw his sword to dig it open when he heard a sword sound nearby, and then the sword light flashed quickly on the round log several times.

With the sounds of "crackling" and "crackling", the logs broke into pieces in an instant and scattered all over the ground.

Looking closely, the dozen or so pieces of firewood scattered on the ground were planed with smooth surfaces and of the same size, which showed the accuracy and speed of the swords just now!
"Senior Brother's swordsmanship has improved so rapidly!" Xu Xingchen praised with a smile.

"Haha, this is all thanks to you, Junior Brother. In the past six months, we brothers have used the sword-training tips you taught us, and everyone's swordsmanship has improved greatly!" Linghu Chong smiled and sheathed his sword. Then he said impatiently, "Junior Brother, let's talk about this new cave while we build a fire, okay?"

"Okay!" Xu Xingchen did not refuse. He squatted down, took a piece of firewood, and moved the ashes to find the remaining redwood charcoal buried inside, while telling the story of the appearance of the new cave.

It was nothing more than a "coincidence" that I inadvertently heard a hollow echo behind the mountain wall, and out of curiosity I decided to use a stone to break it.

Linghu Chong stood at the entrance of the cave, looking down at the bones lying on the ground. He picked up the axe beside him and chopped off a piece of stone from the stone wall. Then he looked at the narrow passage hewed out by the axe and exclaimed in amazement: "Who on earth is this person? He actually used two axes to forcibly open up such a passage in the belly of the mountain. It's unbelievable!"

Xu Xingchen smiled and said, "This person has quite a background. He was also a well-known figure in the martial arts world back then!"

"Oh? Junior Brother, you can actually identify this person's identity from a skeleton and two axes?" Linghu Chong leaned his head to look deeper and asked, "Junior Brother, do you know where this leads to? Could it be a secret prison of our Huashan Sect? It is used to detain the most evil members of the Demon Sect?"

Xu Xingchen blew a few breaths at the remaining red charcoal in the ashes, and new flames quickly burned along the dry firewood on top.

Then, he answered: "This passage leads to a wide stone cave in the belly of the mountain. The origin of the skeleton is engraved on the stone wall. At the same time, the stone wall also records a shocking secret!"

"What?" Linghu Chong turned around suddenly and stared at Xu Xingchen with shining eyes: "What earth-shattering secret?"

Xu Xingchen placed the firewood piece by piece on the small flame, and built it into a tower with a gap in the middle. Then he stood up, looked at Linghu Chong, and said seriously: "Big Brother, the secret in that cave is of great importance and far-reaching influence. If we are not careful, it will bring disaster to our Huashan Sect. So, we need to ask Master and Master's wife to come first, and let them decide whether to let Big Brother and others know after they have seen it!"

"So, before that, I hope that Senior Brother will not blame me for not being able to tell you the rude secret!" As he said that, Xu Xingchen bowed solemnly towards Linghu Chong.

Linghu Chong was startled when he saw his junior fellow apprentice brother was so serious. He immediately put away his curiosity and surprise and said seriously, "Okay! Brother, I understand."

After thinking about it, he said, "My junior brother told me this. Does that mean I should go back now and call Master and his wife?"

Xu Xingchen nodded and said, "Junior brother, that's exactly what I meant!"

"Okay, I'll go back now!"

At the critical moment, Linghu Chong was extremely reliable. He looked back at the cave entrance beside him, completely put away his curiosity, turned around and left the cave.

At this time, Xu Xingchen's instructions came from behind again: "Big Brother, remember, only tell Master and Master's Wife about this matter, and don't let anyone else know."

"Okay, I got it!" Linghu Chong agreed and quickly went down the mountain.

Xu Xingchen returned to the cave, opened the food box, and started eating the vegetables, tofu, steamed buns and rice porridge inside.

Although he only ate one simple vegetarian meal a day over the past six months, he was in extremely good health and in high spirits. Not only was he free from illness or disaster, but the progress of his inner strength seemed to have accelerated a lot.

This once again proved his conjecture that the internal strength cultivated by martial artists was definitely not extracted from food.

The Cliff of Repentance is quite a distance away from the Huashan Main Hall in front. Xu Xingchen finished his food, cleaned up the tableware, and waited for a while. Then three figures hurriedly climbed up the Cliff of Repentance and entered the cave.

Xu Xingchen had been in seclusion on the Cliff of Repentance for half a year, but Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze would come to see him every one or two months, so there was no sense of unfamiliarity between them. "Hello, Master and Master's Wife!" Xu Xingchen bowed respectfully to Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze.

"Hmm!" Yue Buqun nodded, turned his head to look at the new cave entrance on the mountain wall beside him, and looked back and forth at the stone walls of the corridor, the white bones and axes on the ground.

Ning Zhongze smiled gently and said, "It's been more than a month since we last met. Xingchen has grown a bit taller. He's almost taller than Master's wife!"

Xu Xingchen replied seriously: "Disciple can grow taller!"

"Hahaha!" Ning Zhongze laughed happily twice and turned to look at the newly appeared cave entrance.
Linghu Chong, who was behind the two of them, nodded to Xu Xingchen without saying anything.

After a while, Yue Buqun finally withdrew his gaze, turned to look at Xu Xingchen, and asked in a deep voice: "I heard from Chong'er that after you went in along this corridor, you found a stone cave, which contains a shocking secret?"

Xu Xingchen replied: "Yes!"

Yue Buqun asked again: "Is that secret of great importance? Will it even bring disaster to our Huashan Sect?"

Xu Xingchen confirmed again: "Yes!"

Yue Buqun was silent for a moment, then said solemnly: "In that case, let's go in and take a look to see what kind of big secret it is!"

At this moment, Xu Xingchen suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Yue Buqun, and called out, "Master! Before entering the cave, I have a question that I need to ask you."

Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze both looked over in surprise. Even Linghu Chong, who was standing in the corner, had a look of astonishment on his face.

This is not what a disciple should say to his master.
Ning Zhongze looked at his senior brother with a little concern, and gently blamed him: "Xingchen, don't be rude!"

“Junior sister, it’s okay!” Yue Buqun waved his hand. Looking at the serious-looking disciple, he became even more curious and couldn’t help asking, “Xingchen, what do you want to ask me?”

Xu Xingchen stared at Yue Buqun and asked, "Master, if one day you meet a master who can break all the sword techniques of my Huashan Sect, will you feel depressed and desperate? Can you withstand such a heavy blow?"

Hearing this, Yue Buqun's eyes flashed for a moment, and then he fell silent.

Ning Zhongze frowned and said unhappily, "Xingchen, don't talk nonsense. My Huashan swordsmanship is unrivaled in the world. How could anyone break my swordsmanship? Even Senior Brother Zuo from Songshan Sect and the leader of the Demon Sect, Dongfang Bubai, dare not say such a ridiculous statement that they can break all my Huashan swordsmanship!"

Xu Xingchen looked at Ning Zhongze apologetically and said stubbornly, "Master's Wife, what if there really is such a person?"

Ning Zhongze was very confident in his swordsmanship. He waved his arm and said firmly, "Absolutely impossible!"

However, the one who refuted this time was her senior brother. Yue Buqun's face was as stern as water, and he said: "No, junior sister, if that person is still alive, he can break all the sword techniques of our Huashan Sect. In fact, not only the sword techniques of our Huashan Sect, but even the sword techniques of the whole world can be broken!"

Ning Zhongze turned to look at Yue Buqun and asked in disbelief: "Are you talking about Uncle Feng and his Dugu Nine Swords? That's just a rumor. None of us have seen that sword technique."

A complex thought flashed across Yue Buqun's eyes, and he said slowly: "Although I have only heard of his name and have never seen his sword, but considering Uncle Feng's reputation in the past, the rumors should not be false!"

Ning Zhongze was shocked, and slowly turned his head to look at the new cave entrance not far away, muttering: "So, the secret in the cave in the mountain belly that Xingchen mentioned was left behind by Uncle Feng after he left?"

Xu Xingchen was sweating coldly in his heart, thinking to himself: "If the Grand Master heard that someone here is cursing his death, I don't know if he will jump out and stab a big hole in the body of each of us present."

Seeing that the looks on his master and mistress' faces were becoming more and more strange, Xu Xingchen quickly pulled their thoughts back from drifting further and further away.

"The Uncle Feng that Master and his wife mentioned should be a senior master of our sect, right?!"

"If that's the case, then he should have nothing to do with what I'm talking about now!"

Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze finally came to their senses and focused their attention on Xu Xingchen again, waiting for his further explanation.

Xu Xingchen frowned, pretended to sigh heavily, and continued to give the two people a shot of prevention: "The secret in the belly of the mountain is very involved and shocking. In short, Master and Master's Wife should be mentally prepared!"

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