I picked up the scattered attributes

"One hundred times?"

"Yeah, about a hundred times, I didn't count them carefully."

The girl's expression was quite calm, showing no sign of anything unusual. When she felt Feng Xia's strength, she even puffed out her chest and replied with a giggle, "That's about the total time!"

After saying that, she gave Feng Xia a look that said, "I'm a genius, come and praise me!" and looked at her expectantly.

"彳庍口巴."

After a few breaths, Feng Xia smiled helplessly. He reached out his other hand and ruffled the girl's hair, saying with a smile, "This method is not bad, but you have to promise me one thing."

Zhu Youniang blinked and stared at him: "Go ahead and say it."

Feng Xia said earnestly, "This method is quite good, but it's best not to use it again in the future. Oh... it's fine to use it only on me, but there's no need to use it on others."

"Okay!" The girl agreed without hesitation.

Time passed by, second by second.

Feng Xia patiently counted the girl's heartbeats, which steadily increased from the beginning, heading towards one hundred.

During this time, Zhu Youniang seemed to be getting too bored while waiting, so she simply grabbed Feng Xia's other hand and pressed it against her chest as well.

"..."

Feng Xia felt like a pervert harassing a young girl in the street.

Although this old street is indeed very soft, uh no, he meant that the books are quite large...

Finally, when she counted to one hundred, Zhu Youniang released Feng Xia's hands and then smiled and gestured, "That's about the time it took."

"The physique of a supernatural being far superior to that of an ordinary person; a hundred heartbeats are roughly equivalent to half an hour."

Feng Xia silently calculated the time, and before he knew it, his gaze became increasingly serious.

He had just left inexplicably and attended a full lesson under that teacher—lasting approximately four hours.

For a person with supernatural powers, four hours is not a very long time.

However, compared to the time he stood still, which was about a hundred heartbeats as Zhu Youniang mentioned, roughly equivalent to half an hour, four hours seemed rather long.

"Is it because only consciousness has actually left, or is there some other reason, that the time I perceive is completely different from the actual passage of time?"

With Feng Xia's current level of insight and knowledge, it's clearly impossible for him to answer this question.

So he very rationally gave up thinking about it.

“If it comes to time, even Ancestor Chenhai might not be able to explain it clearly, right?” In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Feng Xia’s mind. “If that’s the case, this long street wasn’t left behind by the first sect leader. Perhaps he discovered this place by accident and chose to establish his sect here!”

Unlike the sects that later migrated to Canglan Mountain, Qianqiu Valley's mountain gate was always located in the Canglan Mountain range when it was still the first holy land.

In a vague way, Feng Xia felt that the distance between herself and the truth seemed to have imperceptibly narrowed a little.

"Well, let's continue forward for now and see if we can find anything else. If there's nothing particularly noteworthy, let's stop here for now and study that strange private school properly next time we come back."

Feng Xia made up his mind in an instant.

If it's determined that this ancient street isn't suitable for further exploration, then he'll temporarily focus his attention on the private school, after all...

That place was practically a mobile repository of martial arts techniques!

Moreover, there's a patient and helpful teacher inside to guide you throughout the process!

The only problem is that there are other students inside, and some of them are so despicable that you just want to slap them to death.

Continuing along the empty ancient street, all around remained silent. Feng Xia activated his perfected sword heart, reflecting all things and sensing all the movements around him.

In stark contrast to Feng Xia was Zhu Youniang, who followed behind him.

The girl put her hands behind her back, her bare feet spotless, and swayed lightly across the ruins of the ancient street, humming a tuneless melody as she looked left and right, clearly in a very good mood.

Of course, she wasn't really enjoying shopping to the fullest.

As she traveled, Zhu Youniang released numerous spider shadow clones, which scattered to various corners of the street to explore those blind spots that Feng Xia could not perceive.

Faced with this near-innate ability, Feng Xia could only sigh in awe...

I can't learn it, I really can't learn it!

"Unless the Sword Heart Clarity can also split, but wouldn't that be like having a split personality?"

Feng Xia shook her head vigorously, banishing the unreliable idea from her mind: "I wonder what this street was originally for? Since there's a private school here, could there also be... um?"

His steps suddenly stopped.

Just a dozen or so feet away from him, there was a relatively intact building. A wide stone table stood across the entrance, its surface empty. Above the table, a metal wire about the thickness of a little finger hung.

Inside the building, there are several shelves of varying heights with hooks hanging from them, but the most eye-catching thing is the half-person-high sacrificial table!

As the saying goes, "Man is the butcher, and I am the fish."

The so-called "zutai" is actually a chopping board.

However, the sacrificial altar is generally larger and heavier, and can withstand greater impact.

The sacrificial altar in this shop is made entirely of cast metal, and just one glance at it evokes an indescribable sense of heaviness.

But what truly made Feng Xia stop in his tracks was the knife on the sacrificial altar!

A butcher's knife, stained with countless drops of blood, blackened from hilt to blade, with half of its tip still embedded in the chopping block!

"There's something wrong with this knife!!"

Feng Xia felt a sudden, inexplicable jolt of fear, and almost instantly became extremely vigilant.

He could clearly feel a fine rash of goosebumps creeping up the back of his neck in the blink of an eye!

Zhu Youniang was even a step ahead of him. The young girl unusually bent down, her beautiful hair dancing wildly without wind, her pale pupils flashing with a dangerous light as she stared intently at the pig-slaughtering knife, and a hoarse hissing sound constantly escaped from her mouth.

"Ah Xia...this knife is dangerous!"

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Chapter 0098

On the quiet street, Feng Xia looked extremely solemn, while Zhu Youniang was in a state of agitation, hissing and staring intently at the butcher shop in the distance!

"What's going on with this knife?"

Feng Xia took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the unease in her heart.

It was an unprecedented sense of terror, which transformed into thousands upon thousands of sharp needles that pierced his entire body, causing waves of pain!

He tried to sense it with his sword heart, but after only the first contact, a sharp pain suddenly arose deep between his brows, and his bright sword heart quickly dimmed, like a pearl covered in dust, about to be assimilated by that terrifying and fierce aura!

"Could the evil aura that the Third Elder spoke of actually be this butcher knife?"

Feng Xia paused for a moment, then dismissed the idea: "This butcher knife is indeed extremely vicious, even my Sword Heart Clarity couldn't withstand it, but it seems to be somewhat different from the kind of evil the Third Elder described."

"Ah Xia, let me try first."

Zhu Youniang spoke softly from behind, and at the same time, she released spider shadow clones, which spread silently into the distance like a gentle spring rain flowing across the ground.

hum-

The butcher's knife on the altar trembled.

clap clap clap!

Clap clap clap clap!

One after another, the spider shadow clones exploded almost simultaneously, turning into fragmented, mottled black light that dissipated.

"Damn it! What's wrong with this knife?!"

Zhu Youniang immediately showed a displeased expression: "Those can clearly still be eaten for a long time!"

Feng Xia: "?"

and many more!

Did he overhear some terrible secret by accident...?

"No, the murderous aura of that knife is too strong; my clone simply cannot get past it."

Despite her anger, after a long while, Zhu Youniang, who had sacrificed a large number of clones, could only shake her head with puffed-out cheeks: "Besides, with this intensity of malevolent energy, if we were to approach it directly..."

Even without her saying it, Feng Xia could imagine the situation.

A terrifying aura, invisible to the naked eye but undeniably real, swirled around the butcher's knife like a prison.

It's one thing if it's Zhu Youniang's spider shadow clone, but if a living being with flesh and blood gets close, it will likely be eroded by the terrifying evil energy within a few breaths, its flesh and blood will disintegrate and melt away on the spot, leaving only a skeleton!

"Give it a try..."

Feng Xia held his breath and focused his mind, pushing his own power to the limit, and carefully took a step forward.

Then comes the second step, the third step, the fourth step...

When he took the seventh step, it was as if he had crossed some invisible boundary. With a loud bang, it was as if an invisible explosion had occurred in all directions. The surging evil energy, like a mountain torrent, crushed towards Feng Xia in an instant!

In that situation, everything around disappeared, as if only a giant with a menacing aura remained, striding with its enormous, sky-covering feet, and fiercely stomping down on Feng Xia's head!

"I knew it!"

Without even thinking, Feng Xia unleashed his Qi and Blood Domain, causing three Primordial Green Lotuses to bloom. At the same time, a sword wheel formed from sword light slashed fiercely backward!

boom--