What a lucky world!

Chapter 204 The Nightmare Begins
Although he didn't know what means Cui Yong used, Zhang Mu was certain that he had indeed been moved.

Zhang Mu patted his head to sober himself up, then re-checked Cui Yong who was lying on the ground, confirming that the other party's heart meridian had been severed by him and he was dead.

I searched the corpse and found nothing valuable on it.

Finally, Zhang Mu bent down and picked up the yellow-level spiritual weapon, the Nightmare Sword.

As soon as the Nightmare Sword was in his hand, it began to vibrate continuously, as if trying to escape from Zhang Mu's control.

At the same time, Zhang Mu also felt a will coming from the Nightmare Sword.

That will, with a chilling feeling, spread along Zhang Mu's arm directly to his meridians, as if it wanted to devour Zhang Mu.

Zhang Mu frowned slightly. Normally, spiritual weapons would only show such resistance when they were about to be controlled. He didn't expect that this Nightmare Sword would be so domineering. He just held it, but it actually took the initiative to attack.

If an ordinary person got hold of it, wouldn't his mind be quickly impacted by the Nightmare Sword and he would be turned into a puppet?
This is not a spiritual weapon at all, it's simply a demonic weapon!
Zhang Mu took a deep breath, circulated his energy, and the insights of the Tagge Sword Technique emerged in his mind. He gathered his martial arts will, and it was as if a flying sword was flying through his body, heading straight for the will of the Nightmare Sword.

The martial arts will generated by the unique charm of the skills was extremely powerful. In the blink of an eye, it killed the will of the Nightmare Sword. The will of the Nightmare Sword quickly retreated into the sword body, and at this time Zhang Mu's martial arts will also rushed in.

Until this moment, Zhang Mu seemed to see the manifestation of the Nightmare Sword's will in his mind—

A strange monster, that monster seemed to be countless people merged together, both terrifying and disgusting.

The long sword condensed with the will of martial arts directly pierced the monster, and an additional piece of information appeared in Zhang Mu's mind.

It's information about the Nightmare Sword.

……

At first, the Nightmare Sword was just an ordinary weapon.

One day, a man threw the Nightmare Sword into a quenching furnace and put in a lot of materials to reforge it. However, after forging, the Nightmare Sword was still just a weapon and had not been improved.

Then it was buried in a mass grave.

An unknown amount of time passed before the Nightmare Sword was dug out from a mass grave. It was still a weapon, but it was inexplicably shrouded in a thick aura of corpses.

Then, the Nightmare Sword was handed over to ordinary people.

First it was the children, then the old people, women, and finally the strong young men.

The blood, energy and soul of each life were absorbed by the Nightmare Sword, and the Nightmare Sword gradually became spiritual.

It became a spiritual weapon.

A murderous spiritual weapon.

……

Zhang Mu looked at the Nightmare Sword in his hand with cold eyes.

No wonder he felt that the will of the Nightmare Sword was so chaotic and domineering. It turned out that it was forged by evil magic.

This sword has absorbed the lives of at least thousands of people!

At this time, the will of the Nightmare Sword collapsed under Zhang Mu's martial arts will. Just as Zhang Mu was about to completely control the Nightmare Sword, suddenly another will emerged from the depths of the Nightmare Sword's will.

That will was not as chaotic as the Nightmare Sword, but was extremely sharp, rushing directly towards Zhang Mu's true martial arts.

Zhang Mu only felt as if his head was suddenly hit by something, and then he understood the details of this will.

This is the will of the master of the Nightmare Sword!

"Hmph!" Zhang Mu snorted coldly in his heart, closed his eyes, and reappeared the Treading Waves Sword Technique in his mind. His martial arts will became even more powerful, and it collided head-on with the will engraved in the Nightmare Sword by the owner of the Nightmare Sword!

This was a battle of minds, and Zhang Mu could even feel a pair of eyes watching him from the dark.

However, it was only the will remaining in the Nightmare Sword after all, while Zhang Mu's martial arts will was condensed by mastering the charm of the unique skills. Therefore, after several rounds, Zhang Mu's martial arts will dispersed the will of the original owner.

At this moment, the Nightmare Sword seemed extremely obedient in Zhang Mu's hands, like a tamed poisonous snake.

Naturally, Zhang Mu would not hold a grudge against the fact that the Nightmare Sword was forged using evil methods.

Weapons do not distinguish between good and evil. The evil one is the one who forges and nurtures an evil sword.

Now that the sword is in his hand, it will only be his helper.

Zhang Mu inserted the Nightmare Sword into its scabbard, looked at Cui Yong's body again, hesitated for a moment, then pushed down a few trees and buried Cui Yong's body.

After doing all this, Zhang Mu roughly identified a direction, used his lightness skills, and quickly left the place.

……

Sunset Peak is located ten miles west of Taiping County. Due to its terrain, the sun sets behind the peak every evening, making it one of the eight scenic spots in Taiping, the "Sunset West Peak".

There is a villa on Sunset Peak. At this moment, a young man in his twenties is playing chess with a woman in the villa.

On the chessboard, the young man played with black pieces, placing pieces alternately with the woman.

But during this chess game, the young man actually kept his eyes closed throughout.

He just relied on his ears to judge the placement of the pieces and memorized them all in his mind.

Suddenly, the young man paused as he was about to let go of Heizi's hand and frowned.

The woman opposite saw this and asked softly, "Sir, did this servant do something wrong?"

The young man shook his head and said softly, "It has nothing to do with you."

"Uncle Cui won't be back!"

The woman's expression changed when she heard this: "How is that possible? Uncle Cui..."

The young man shook his head and dropped the black piece in his hand. As soon as the piece was dropped, the black piece seemed to instantly turn into a giant dragon with a bloody mouth opened wide, swallowing up all the life of the white piece.

The chessboard was messed up casually, and the young man opened his eyes. In his eyes were a pair of pupils within pupils, which looked extremely charming.

The Duke of Dumu, Yang Sun.

The woman was confused when she met Yang Sun's strange eyes, and she quickly lowered her head to avoid his gaze.

"How's the situation at Frost Moon Mountain?" Yang Xuan asked.

The woman quickly responded, "Qiao'er sent a letter saying Sha Tonghai has already made a plan to send troops to Qianyuan Wuzhai at dawn tomorrow."

"We have also summoned helpers from several other martial arts villages."

Yang Sun nodded.

The woman hesitated for a moment and said, "Sir, there is something I don't understand."

Yang Sun looked at him and said with a smile, "Are you asking why I went to so much trouble to subdue the Wuzhai of Taiping County?"

The woman nodded and said, "The many martial arts camps in Taiping County may seem to have a large number of people, but they are just a mob."

"If Sha Tonghai didn't have the help of the young master, he would be at the Nascent Soul stage at best."

"Sir, if you really want to conquer these martial arts villages, you can invite a servant to your home."

Yang Xuan smiled and shook his head.

"If the martial fort had no value, the great ancestor would not have bothered to build it in the first place, and the Emperor Tianqi would not have risked the world's taboos and forcibly taken over the martial forts under the guise of violating ancestral teachings."

"It's a pity that Wuzhai is poisonous."

The woman was stunned, looking confused.

Yang Sun did not explain any more, but stood up, walked to the gate of the courtyard, and looked down at the Taiping County City below.

If everything goes well, by this time next year, he will become the real master of this city!

(End of this chapter)