The world of martial arts, the immortal swordsman in the mortal realm.

Chapter 219, Section 234: Our sect's founder participated in the Battle of Flower Fruit Mountain.
"So much black iron?"

Inside the warehouse, Li Xiuning was astonished to see more than a dozen pieces of black iron of various sizes piled up on the ground.

Xuan Tie (玄铁) came to Earth with meteorites and is extremely rare.

The black iron that the Li clan had previously collected was only enough to forge a 120-jin (60 kg) spear for Li Yuanji, but the black iron here looked to weigh at least 500-600 jin (250-300 kg).

"lucky."

Lu Chen said with a smile.

He was indeed lucky to find a black iron mine, but it wasn't in this world.

On another note, Lu Chen had some doubts about whether Xuan Tie was still considered a rare material in the new world.

It might just be a material that's only slightly more advanced than ordinary steel.

Li Xiuning had many doubts in her mind.

Lu Chen stayed in the Flying Frost Palace to cultivate all morning and didn't go out. Even if he was lucky, where could he find so much Xuan Iron?

Furthermore, the hot springs of Lishan have been exclusively for the imperial family since the Qin and Han dynasties.

So many emperors have come to Mount Li to soak in the hot springs, and they have also built palaces on a grand scale from time to time. The entire mountain must have been searched thoroughly. Even if a meteorite fell there and brought back black iron, it should have been discovered long ago.

Despite her doubts, Li Xiuning didn't ask.

She knew that Lu Chen had many secrets.

Just like his origins.

After he began to distinguish himself, especially after seizing the He Shi Bi jade, defeating Yin Hou, and killing Qu Ao, many forces put a lot of effort into finding out Lu Chen's background.

But to this day, no one knows where he came from.

The first recorded instance appears to be the night of the Jiangdu mutiny, when they repelled Yang Xuyan and rescued Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling.

Prior to this, there was no information about who he was, what school or sect he belonged to, or any such details.

It was as if he had appeared out of nowhere.

Even during his last visit to the Lishan Palace, Lu Chen "returned home to visit relatives" for half a month, only returning on the day the Turkic envoy came to the Tang Dynasty.

His "return to his hometown" was also marked by a mysterious disappearance, followed by a mysterious reappearance half a month later.

Sometimes Li Xiuning couldn't help but wonder if Lu Chen, as he jokingly told Wanwan, came from "outside the heavens."

Of course, given her current relationship with Lu Chen, these things don't matter.

She believed that one day, Lu Chen would let her know these secrets.

……

Li Xiuning personally drove the carriage, transporting the hundreds of kilograms of black iron, along with the piece of dark blue metal, back to Chang'an to have the Dongming Sect forge weapons. Lian Rou and Dugu Feng accompanied her, escorting the carriage.

Wanwan, full of enthusiasm, pulled Shi Feixuan along to teach the thirteen palace maids basic martial arts. Of course, it wasn't the Yin Gui School or Cihang Jingzhai's martial arts, but a set of basic sword techniques compiled by Lu Chen.

Although not everyone has a talent for swordsmanship, the early stage is just a trial period, mainly to test the character of these new disciples.

Only after assessment will they be taught according to their individual talents, imparting skills suitable for each of their talents.

During the probationary period, it doesn't matter what you practice.

Lu Chen observed for a while, while also probing the emotions of the thirteen palace maids.

I experienced joy, nervousness, trepidation, and reverence – all normal emotional reactions – but there were no dark emotions.

After watching for a while, Lu Chen returned to the Flying Frost Palace to continue refining the tribulation energy.

……

night.

"Time to cultivate again!"

The enchanting woman approached the couch with a grin, climbed onto the large imperial couch, and used both her hands and feet, swaying her hips and waist, to present herself to Lu Chen in an extremely seductive manner.

Although the Heavenly Demon Art has reached the eighteenth level, for Wanwan, this is only the beginning.

Having acquired so many essential techniques from other sects of the Demonic Sect, she was about to push the Heavenly Demon Art to a higher level, so dual cultivation naturally couldn't stop.

Furthermore, having a high level of understanding is not enough; one's skill level must also keep up.

Dual cultivation increases one's power much faster than cultivating on one's own.

"She's already taken a bath. She's all clean and smells wonderful."

The enchanting woman prostrated herself before Lu Chen, her voice shy and her eyes alluring:

"Should we cultivate first, or kiss Wan'er first?"

Lu Chen said expressionlessly, "Cultivate first."

With your invincible talk but ineffective combat skills, if I kiss you first, how will you have the strength to cultivate?
Wanwan chuckled, sat down obediently, palms facing each other with Lu Chen, and began her daily cultivation.

After about half an hour of cultivation,

Wanwan felt a surge of progress in her cultivation and beamed with joy:
"After reaching the eighteenth level of the Heavenly Demon Art, the cultivation effect is even better! I feel like it won't be long before I catch up with Shi Feixuan!"

She sparred with Shi Feixuan this afternoon and found that even though her cultivation level had caught up with Shi Feixuan's, her strength was still slightly inferior.

She knew that this was not only because Shi Feixuan had advanced to "Sword Heart Clarity" earlier, thus taking the lead over her.

Furthermore, some Buddhist practices are illogical; once one has an epiphany, one's cultivation progresses incredibly quickly.

Shi Feixuan can now go to the battlefield and kill without restraint. Her sword heart is so clear that she is not even afraid of cause and effect or karma. Her enlightenment is truly thorough.

It's not surprising that their strength has improved by leaps and bounds.

However, Wanwan is still confident that she can catch up with Shi Feixuan.

Because she can cultivate with Lu Chen, while Shi Feixuan cannot.

After reaching the eighteenth level of the Heavenly Demon Art, the dual cultivation effect becomes even stronger. Wanwan believes that before long, in terms of martial arts, she will be able to suppress Shi Feixuan severely.

Overjoyed, Wanwan couldn't help but lean forward and give Lu Chen a light peck on the lips.

Before Lu Chen could respond, she giggled and gracefully rose to her feet, beginning to dance the Heavenly Demon Dance, a dance both ethereal and alluringly enchanting.

Her clothes fell away one by one as she danced, until, just like last night, she was left with only a plain-colored bodice.

Perhaps they think it's more interesting that way?

Or perhaps she felt that at least she had one more piece of clothing to cover her body, which would give her more courage?
After the dance, she didn't immediately offer herself to Lu Chen for a kiss. Instead, she crawled down, using both hands and feet to gently sway her round, snow-white, full-moon-like buttocks, until she reached Lu Chen on her knees. She then looked up at him with a shy and bashful expression and said:
"I said this morning that I'd return the favor tonight and give you a kiss too. Wan'er won't go back on her word, okay?"

Lu Chen raised an eyebrow:
"Do you know?"

"You underestimate me?"

Wanwan puffed out her rosy cheeks:
"I've learned all the real skills of the Yin Gui Sect. If we're talking about who knows them, Dugu Feng, Li Xiuning, and even that Lian Rou who dares to do anything are not as good as me."

"Then I'll wait and see."

Wanwan smiled shyly, first propping herself up, then gently kissing Lu Chen's chest, before softly pulling open his waistband and kissing him tenderly. The enchantress Wanwan was indeed very skilled.

Although her moves were clumsy, clearly indicating that she had only learned them but never used them, she was not bragging. She had truly mastered all the skills of the Yin Gui School.

During the kiss, she could even use her flawless, snow-white, soft little feet as an aid, with ten delicate toes like pink pearls, as flexible as fingers, showing the amazing flexibility and control of a martial arts master, and giving Lu Chen a unique enjoyment.

Lu Chen was very satisfied with Wanwan's gratitude and her keeping her word.

So he did his best to help Wanwan with desensitization training.

As for the results, I can only say that compared to last night, I didn't see much improvement in Wan Yao Nu.

Perhaps because she was too excited from kissing Lu Chen, when Lu Chen kissed her, she trembled and drooped with honey-like fluids as soon as he touched the sword spirit mark. The crystal-clear silk threads covered her round, snow-white thighs.

However, desensitization training is a long-term process.

We must persevere in this regard.

……

Five days later.

Lu Chen refined the calamity energy he had captured previously and went to the new world once again.

Although the Black Stone Mountain is less than five miles in circumference and only twenty feet high, its terrain is rugged and complex, with ravines everywhere, and even several deep rift valleys that are ten or twenty feet deep. Therefore, Lu Chen did not explore the entire stone mountain last time.

After passing through this area, he continued to explore the stone mountain while absorbing the calamity energy. He didn't rush to mine the black iron embedded in the rock strata, but mainly explored the terrain.

He descended into three deep rift valleys, each more than ten feet deep, and discovered that these rift valleys contained even more black iron, some buried in the rock strata and others lying directly at the bottom of the valley.

The once rare black iron was so plentiful that Lu Chen became somewhat bored and didn't even bother to bend down and pick it up.

Afterwards, they descended to the bottom of a rift valley that was tens of feet long and twenty feet deep, ignoring the scattered pieces of black iron at the bottom of the valley, and wandered around exploring.

suddenly.

He stopped in front of a rock that was taller than a person and looked at it as it was unremarkable.

This black stone looks like a protrusion on the rock wall at the bottom of the valley. To the naked eye, it seems to be part of the rock wall and there is nothing unusual about it.

But as Lu Chen passed by the stone, his "Heart Sword" suddenly trembled, and his spiritual sense detected a slight discord.

There seems to be a special kind of energy.

Lu Chen stopped in front of the large rock, carefully sensed it for a while, then retreated to a distance of ten feet to the side, flicked his finger, and released a sword aura.

The sword energy landed on the black stone, but it disappeared into it like mud entering the sea.

Then the black stone, which was taller than a person, trembled and emitted a dense array of sharp energy.

Those energies were clearly sword energy.

It looked exactly the same as the sword energy that Lu Chen had just unleashed, as if it were a copy of his sword energy, but there were tens of thousands of them.

The dense barrage of sword energy shot wildly, riddling the rock wall opposite the black stone with holes and cutting the ground on both sides into pieces, covered with crisscrossing cracks.

The moment the sword energy erupted.

Lu Chen retreated another ten feet and unleashed a sword wind force field.

Even so, several sword energies still shot towards him, which he intercepted with his sword wind force field.

After careful observation and analysis, he discovered that the sword energy emitted by the black stone, at first glance, was similar to his own sword energy, but in essence, it was still inferior. It failed to simulate some of the essence of his sword dao true energy, and its power was slightly weaker than the sword energy he emitted.

Nevertheless, if Lu Chen were to stand directly opposite the Black Stone and face so many sword energies, he would likely be in a rather sorry state, given his cultivation level.

The burst of sword energy lasted for a full ten breaths.

A large hole was carved into the opposite rock wall, and large and small pieces of black iron fell to the ground.

The ground in front of and on both sides of the black stone had also become a mess, with a thick layer of stone dust on top.

Lu Chen waited for a while, then slowly stepped forward, unleashed a burst of sword energy, and then retreated.

Black Stone continued to unleash sword energy.

that's it.

After ten rounds, the black stone finally stopped spewing sword energy, and the eleventh sword energy that Lu Chen unleashed finally stopped "seeping" into the black stone, instead cutting a crack in it.

Lu Chen raised an eyebrow and unleashed a series of sword energies, quickly slicing the black stone, which was taller than a person, into pieces. Finally, with a clang, the sword energy shattered a piece of the black stone, and a dark box fell out.

The box was a little over a foot long, about two inches wide, and only about an inch thick.

Upon seeing the box, Lu Chen's eyes lit up. The existence of such a creation meant that this place was not a lifeless world, but rather a place where intelligent beings existed!

Lu Chen unleashed several more sword energies at the box, but only produced a few sparks on it, leaving the box undamaged.

After observing from a distance for a while, Lu Chen raised his hand and made a grabbing motion, using the sword wind force field to lift the box from the air and pull it to a distance of three zhang in front of him. After observing it carefully for a while, he once again flicked out a sword aura and gently pierced a small hole on the surface of the box that looked like a keyhole.

With a single thrust of sword energy, the black box clicked open, revealing a small, snow-white sword about a foot long and an inch wide, as thin as a cicada's wing, seemingly carved entirely from jade.

The snow-white sword, supported by the sword wind force field, hovered quietly three zhang away from Lu Chen, and there was nothing unusual about it to the naked eye.

But when Lu Chen used his Heart Sword to sense it, he discovered that the small jade sword seemed to be emitting some kind of "emotion".

Well, it's not an emotion unique to living beings, but a strange kind of "information".

After pondering for a while, Lu Chenxin's sword vibrated, and he slowly released his spiritual power, reaching out towards the jade sword like a tentacle.

With the intent of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword guarding his sea of ​​consciousness, he was not afraid that the jade sword might hide some ancient ghost waiting to seize his body, or some kind of trap targeting his mind that would erode his mind by following the spiritual power he released.

In any case, all "external evils" are nothing more than easy prey in the face of the Immortal Slaying Sword Intent deep within his sea of ​​consciousness.

When the spiritual tendrils released by the sword touched the jade sword, a weary and weak voice suddenly rang in Lu Chen's spiritual senses:
"I am the third-generation successor of the Void Sword Sect. Our sect's founder answered the Heavenly Court's call to participate in the Battle of Flower Fruit Mountain, fighting alongside the sword immortals of Emei, slaying seventeen demons, and receiving a spiritual elixir from the Heavenly Court, extending his life by one hundred and seventy years..."

"The water demon of the Tongtian River caused chaos. At the request of the villagers, I went down the mountain to subdue the demon. However, my skills were insufficient and I was seriously injured. I had no choice but to activate the 'Heavenly Escape Talisman' left by my ancestor. Unexpectedly, I encountered a spacetime turbulence during the teleportation and was trapped deep in the earth's lungs."

"Severely injured, my true energy depleted, and my elixirs exhausted, I am powerless to reverse the situation... The Void Sword Sect is a single-lineage sect, and if our sect's legacy ends in my hands, I will be condemned to death. Therefore, I leave behind our sect's methods of weapon crafting, sword control, and cultivation, awaiting a destined individual..."

After listening to this message.

Lu Chen's expression was exceptionally interesting.

He had already guessed that this place was not a complete world, but a special area in a new world.

The mystery has now been solved.

This is deep inside the Earth's lungs.

and……

"Responding to the Heavenly Court's call to participate in the Battle of Flower Fruit Mountain... and fighting alongside the sword immortals of Emei? Is this a serious undertaking?"

Although one can ascend to immortality in the Twin Dragons World, it would be reasonable to assume that any world with a higher level of cultivation than the Twin Dragons World is a cultivation world.

But jumping straight into the Journey to the West world seems a bit too far-fetched, doesn't it?
What's the situation with the Emei Sword Immortals?
Could it be the Emei Sect I'm thinking of?

We had just ascended to heaven when the Heavenly Court sent us to fight at Flower Fruit Mountain.
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