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Where's Yang Hong?" Zhou Shu asked.
"I left a team there to guard that place. Yang Hong also stayed there," Mi Ziwen said. "Second Brother, do you want to go take a look at it?"
"Let's take a look." Zhou Shu was very curious about the place Mi Ziwen mentioned.
As for studying the God of War Catalog, it wouldn't be too late to wait until he returned.
Zhou Shu and Mi Ziwen both had the ability to fly. The two of them soared into the sky and quickly arrived at the place.
While in the air, Zhou Shu had already observed his surroundings.
The Ten Nations Martial Arts Tournament space was actually like an undeveloped primitive forest. But this place was full of continuous hills. The tallest peaks were only a few hundred meters tall, and the short ones were only dozens of meters tall.
This was one of the highest mountains in this world.
On one side of the mountain was bare rock. There wasn't a single tree to be seen on the cliffs hundreds of meters up.
Under the cliff, Yang Hong and the Hundred Wars Armored Army were stationed among some strange rocks.
Seeing Zhou Shu and Mi Ziwen arrive, everyone bowed. "Your Highness, General."
Zhou Shu nodded and beckoned Yang Hong over. "Divine Constable Yang, that place, where is it?"
"Your Highness, it's right behind this stone wall." Yang Hong pointed at the bare cliff. "But you have to jump from the top of a mountain to get in.
"Otherwise, this stone wall is really stone!
"I was lucky enough to get in when I fell and scrambled to grab on to something."
Yang Hong waved his arms around as he demonstrated.
"Is that so?" Zhou Shu took two steps forward.
His right hand suddenly gripped the hilt of the earth-grade Great Destroyer Sword.
Whoosh!
A dazzling sword light flashed in front of everyone's eyes. Then a curtain of light visible to the naked eye appeared on the cliff hundreds of meters high. There was a blinding light above the curtain of light.
The blinding light boomed. Then, as if breathing, the curtain of light contracted and retracted, abruptly ejecting the blinding light.
Boom!
The light turned into a sword beam and disappeared into the air.
The light screen on the stone wall gradually faded until it disappeared.
Mi Ziwen, Yang Hong, and the others were dumbfounded.?As expected of His Highness, how simple and crude…
Zhou Shu looked at the stone wall and clicked his tongue in wonder.
After studying the God of War Catalog with Yin Wuyou, although Zhou Shu's cultivation had yet to break through the first rank of the Martial Dao, it had increased greatly.
Not to mention, there were the rewards from the Legendary Armament Canon.
Zhou Shu's spiritual essence was definitely second to none among first-rank martial artists.
If an ordinary first-rank martial artist dared to take his Heaven Slaying Sword Art head-on, they would definitely die.
This stone wall was actually not damaged at all under his Heaven Slaying Sword Art. It was indeed something.
"I can't open it," Zhou Shu said without any embarrassment. "Then, let's follow Yang Hong's instructions. Divine Constable Yang, lead the way. Let's go in and see what's going on inside."
"Alright." Yang Hong wiped his cold sweat. He was really afraid that the king would fly into a rage and destroy this place.
After Yang Hong entered the Ten Nations Martial Arts Tournament space, his cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds under Zhou Shu's intentional guidance. But until now, he was only at the sixth rank.
He was far from being able to fly.
But a sixth-rank martial artist could barely be considered an expert. He used his hands and feet to climb up. It took him less than a meal's time to reach the top of the mountain.
Chapter 418: Longevity Sword (2)
"Second Brother, watch carefully." Mi Ziwen stood beside Zhou Shu and reminded him.
They had experimented many times before. They were surprised every time they saw this magical thing.
At the top of the mountain, Yang Hong jumped down as if he was trying to take his life.
During the rapid fall, Yang Hong waved his arms menacingly. Just as he was about to reach the middle of the mountain wall, he suddenly waved his hand into the stone wall, as if the wall had disappeared.
Then with a flash of light, Yang Hong's figure disappeared.
Zhou Shu's eyes flickered. He had been staring at Yang Hong just now, but he hadn't noticed any signs. Everything had happened in the blink of an eye, as fast as lightning.
"Second Brother, we've tried. We have to jump down from the top of the mountain, and we can't use our spiritual essence and fly over directly," Mi Ziwen said.
Zhou Shu was getting more and more curious. "Big Brother, are you interested in going in and taking a look?"
"Of course." Mi Ziwen smiled.
Zhou Shu followed the method Mi Ziwen had taught him and jumped down from the top of the mountain. He didn't use any spiritual essence and fell freely to where Yang Hong had disappeared. He reached out to the mountain wall.
Then he felt a gentle force suddenly envelop his entire body, making him feel weightless.
The next moment, Zhou Shu felt the light in front of him change, and his figure continued to fall.
"Your Highness, be careful!" Yang Hong's voice sounded in Zhou Shu's ear.
...
Without needing Yang Hong's reminder, Zhou Shu could already see a ten-foot-wide pool appear under him. He was about to fall into it.
With a smile, Zhou Shu turned around in the air and stepped on the water. Riding the wind, he landed beside Yang Hong.
At this moment, Mi Ziwen suddenly appeared above the pool and descended.
It wasn't the first time Mi Ziwen had come in, so he knew what to expect. He activated his spiritual essence and was already flying.
Yang Hong was envious. It was good to know how to fly.
Every time he came in, he was like a drowned rat…
"This is the place, Your Highness." As Yang Hong silently circulated his spiritual essence to dry his body, he pointed ahead. "There's a door here. Sir Mi and I have tried, but we can't push it open."
Zhou Shu nodded. He sized up the space he was in.
This place was like a cave formed after the entire back of the mountain wall was hollowed out.
The length, width, and height were dozens of feet. In the entire space, other than the pool, there were only the Heaven Refining Stones piled in the corner.
Thousands of kilograms of Heaven Refining Stones were casually piled there.
Zhou Shu also saw the door Yang Hong talked about.
Directly across from them, on the wall a few steps from the pool, it looked as if someone had opened a hole and then installed double doors.
Rather than doors, they looked more like two slabs of stone. They were plain, but polished smooth and flat.
Zhou Shu walked around the pool to the double doors.
This time, he didn't draw his sword. Instead, he pressed his hands against the doors.
Boom!
Zhou Shu circulated the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique, and his arms erupted with immense strength.
Squeak—
With a grinding sound, the two stone doors slowly opened on both sides.
Mi Ziwen and Yang Hong looked at each other and saw the awkwardness in each other's eyes.
It turned out to be that simple. They couldn't open it because they were too weak….
"What a heavy door." Zhou Shu pushed the door open and swung his arms.
"Second Brother, will there be danger behind the door?"
"I don't think so." Embarrassed, Mi Ziwen changed the subject. Heavy or not, he couldn't open it…
Zhou Shu said, "In any case, I don't sense any living creatures. Big Brother, follow behind me. Don't be too far away."
Although he said this, Zhou Shu still placed his hand on the hilt of the earth-grade Great Destroyer Sword before walking inside.
Mi Ziwen and Yang Hong quickly followed.
Past the stone door was a much smaller stone chamber, about ten feet square.
The layout of the stone chamber was simple enough to be seen at a glance.
To the left, against the wall, was a row of wooden shelves. These wooden shelves had seen years of decay and collapse.
To the right of the stone chamber was a smelting furnace, which was covered in green verdigris and obviously hadn't seen use in years.
In addition, there was a stone bed facing the stone door.
On the stone bed, a sheathed sword was placed horizontally.
Besides this, there was nothing else.
Mi Ziwen and Yang Hong stared at each other. They thought that there was a secret behind the stone door, but this was it?
There was nothing left except a sword and a smelting furnace that could no longer be used?
Yang Hong rubbed his eyes hard and refused to give up.
The result was the same.
"It looks like a retreat for some forger." Zhou Shu was also surprised. "From the looks of it, the owner's been gone a long time. I wonder if he's dead or went somewhere else."
He sheathed the earth-grade Great Destroyer Sword, then stepped forward to the stone bed.
He picked up the sheathed sword on the stone bed.
"Second Brother, be careful!" Mi Ziwen exclaimed.
It was best not to touch anything in such a place. Who knew if there were any traps?!
Zhou Shu turned around and grinned at Mi Ziwen. "Don't worry, Big Brother. It'll be fine."
Clang!
Zhou Shu separated his hands and drew the sword halfway.
The sword was gray and lusterless. It didn't look like a divine weapon.
"Longevity…?" Zhou Shu sized up the sword. Near the hilt was a word. Upon closer inspection, he realized that it was the word 'Longevity'.
"This sword is called Longevity?" Mi Ziwen joined him, studying the word.
"I think so," Zhou Shu said.
"Second Brother, what grade is this Longevity Sword?" Mi Ziwen asked curiously.
This place was extremely mysterious. This Longevity Sword shouldn't be bad, right?
Although this place wasn't as special as he had imagined, if he could pick up a heaven-grade weapon, he would have profited.
"Grade?" Zhou Shu flicked the sword and injected a wisp of spiritual essence into it.
Then he looked slightly startled.
He raised his wrist, and another stream of spiritual essence surged out of his body.
His spiritual essence entered the sword like a clay ox entering the sea [1. Meaning never to return].
Mi Ziwen noticed that Zhou Shu was in a daze and said nervously, "Second Brother?"
"It's nothing." Zhou Shu came back to his senses and shook his head. "This sword is a little strange."
"What is so strange about it?" Mi Ziwen was puzzled.
"I don't know yet. I'll have to take it back and study it."
When he injected his spiritual essence into it, it was like a clay ox entering the sea. He couldn't sense Its grade at all. He tentatively scanned the sword with his divine sense. His divine sense seemed to encounter an invisible barrier and couldn't penetrate the sword at all.
Zhou Shu had never encountered such a situation before. He had only encountered one thing that his divine sense couldn't penetrate, and that was the human body.
"Big Brother, Divine Constable Yang, let's take a look again and see if there's anything else here," Zhou Shu said. "This Longevity Sword is a little strange. I'll take it for now. I'll give you some benefits later."
"Second Brother, what are you saying?" Mi Ziwen said unhappily. "You opened this place. Whatever you find is naturally yours.
"As for Yang Hong, he has indeed made a contribution. But don't worry. He's now a member of the Hundred Wars Armored Army. I won't mistreat him."
Mi Ziwen turned to look at Yang Hong. "Yang Hong, you've made a great contribution by discovering this place. In addition to the military reward, I'll personally reward you with a hundred thousand taels of gold. What do you think?"
The extremely heroic Mi Ziwen was back.
Yang Hong was stunned for a moment, then he was overjoyed. It was true that he had discovered this place, but without Zhou Shu, he couldn't open the door at all. Therefore, this Longevity Sword actually had nothing to do with him.
This 100,000 taels of gold was definitely a windfall.
"Thank you, Sir Mi," Yang Hong said loudly.
Chapter 419: This Sword Has Formed a Spirit (1)
Zhou Shu, Mi Ziwen, and Yang Hong carefully searched the stone room.
Other than the Longevity Sword, there was nothing else in the stone room.
On the rotting wooden shelves in the corner, there was something weathered and dusty. It was no longer recognizable.
"Divine Constable Yang, you were the first to discover this place. Logically speaking, the pile of Heaven Refining Stones outside should belong to you." Zhou Shu looked at Yang Hong. "But the Heaven Refining Stones are useful to me. How about you sell them to me?"
"Your Highness, are you slapping my face?" Yang Hong patted his right cheek. "I haven't even paid you for the Mo Mei Sword."
"Your Highness, you helped me increase my cultivation. Money can't buy cultivation.
"I can't take these Heaven Refining Stones away anyway. Even if I could, I would give them to Your Highness!" Yang Hong said this sincerely, not because of Zhou Shu and Mi Ziwen's status.
Although he had never said it, he had long regarded Zhou Shu as his benefactor.
Thinking about it, he had only known Zhou Shu a little earlier, but Zhou Shu had given him the Mo Mei Sword without hesitation.
At the time, Zhou Shu was already a very popular Forging Master. Countless people would fight over the weapons he forged.
Although Zhou Shu had said that he had sold the Mo Mei Sword to him, Yang Hong had never saved enough money after so long, and Zhou Shu had never asked him for money.
Yang Hong knew that Zhou Shu was taking care of him.
Also, after coming here, if Zhou Shu hadn't kept using secret techniques on him, he might not have been able to survive until now, let alone advance to the sixth rank.
...
Before this, Yang Hong had never hoped that he would one day become a sixth-rank expert.
It was no problem at all to say that Zhou Shu was kind to him.
Could some Heaven Refining Stones repay such a huge favor?
Besides, didn't Mi Ziwen just give him 100,000 taels of gold?
Yang Hong was already very satisfied. With a sixth-rank Martial Dao cultivation and 100,000 taels of gold, he had already gained a lot in the Ten Nations Martial Arts Tournament.
"That works." Zhou Shu couldn't help laughing. "I'll take advantage of you. The debt from Mo Mei Sword will be written off.
"Moreover, in the future, I'll help you increase the grade of the Mo Mei Sword for free until it reaches heaven grade!"
Yang Hong was overjoyed. This promise was more exciting than any reward. "Thank you, Your Highness!"
"You don't have to thank me. You deserve it," Zhou Shu said with a smile. Yang Hong was a lucky man. Moreover, he hadn't done nothing these past few days. The Dark Cloud Armor on the Hundred Wars Armored Army was all thanks to Yang Hong's hard work.
It was just that Yang Hong didn't know.
"You're a sixth-grade martial artist now. The Mo Mei Sword is yellow grade, so it can't keep up. When we return to the camp, I'll help you raise it to black grade first," Zhou Shu added.
Without waiting for Yang Hong to thank him again, Zhou Shu took the lead and walked out.
It felt as if he had passed through a membrane. Zhou Shu reappeared outside the mountain wall.
Mi Ziwen and Yang Hong also appeared. Mi Ziwen was still carrying Yang Hong in his hand. Otherwise, he would have to climb down the mountain wall.
Boom!
Just as the three of them landed, the mountain wall in front of them suddenly collapsed.
"Retreat!" Mi Ziwen was shocked. If the mountain wall that was hundreds of meters high collapsed, it would be enough to bury the Hundred Wars Armored Army alive.
He grabbed Yang Hong by the collar and flew out.
As for Zhou Shu, he wasn't worried at all.
The landslide might be able to bury the Hundred Wars Armored Army, but it was impossible to bury Zhou Shu.
Mi Ziwen had just taken two steps when he turned around and realized that instead of retreating, Zhou Shu had taken a step forward.
He stepped lightly with his right foot and whistled.
Divine ability, One Against Ten Thousand!
A translucent wall that stretched for kilometers appeared out of thin air and blocked the collapsed mountain wall and the Hundred Wars Armored Army.
Rocks fell, and dust flew.
The translucent wall shook a few times, blocking all the falling rocks.
Mi Ziwen stopped in his tracks and twisted around to look behind him. He looked embarrassed and even more shocked.
He had made a fuss and fled quickly, but there was no need to escape!
This was his second brother.
He could easily resolve a landslide with a raise of his hand.
Why am I so timid when I know that I don't have to worry about anything with Second Brother around?
If I hadn't escaped just now, I could be standing suavely beside Second Brother now,?Mi Ziwen thought gloomily.
It took a full meal's time before the landslide stopped.
The mountain wall, which had been hundreds of meters high, was now gone. All that was left was rubble.
Zhou Shu put away his divine ability and pondered.
Could the mountain wall have self-destructed because I took away the Longevity Sword in the cave?
This cave existed because of the Longevity Sword?
As for the Heaven Refining Stones, Mi Ziwen had brought them from inside before, but the cave had not changed at all.
This Longevity Sword is interesting.?Zhou Shu thought of the Longevity Sword that he had stored in the Cosmic Bangle and urgently wanted to return to the camp to study its secrets.
When it came to forging, Zhou Shu's heart itched.
"Big Brother, everything is fine here. Take your time and bring your men back. I'll leave first," Zhou Shu said to Mi Ziwen and instantly disappeared.
Chapter 420: This Sword Has Formed a Spirit (2)
He moved so quickly that it seemed to Mi Ziwen and the others that he had suddenly disappeared.
Mi Ziwen felt another wave of emotion. When he looked at his second brother, he realized how mediocre he was.
Other than being rich, he was useless.
Mi Ziwen shook his head and sighed.
Yang Hong looked at the place where Zhou Shu had disappeared and then at Mi Ziwen. He didn't know why Mi Ziwen was sighing. He was a nobody and had never had such troubles.
Comparing himself to the king?
Wasn't that asking for trouble?
The Ten Nations Martial Arts Tournament space was only a few thousand kilometers in radius. To Zhou Shu, it didn't take long for him to travel from one end to the other.
In a few seconds, he returned to the camp.
Without greeting anyone, he went straight into the forging room that belonged to him alone.
Buzz—
Zhou Shu opened the Cosmic Bangle and wanted to take out the Longevity Sword. He was stunned when he saw what was inside.
"Seriously?" he muttered to himself. He reached out to hold the Longevity Sword as his divine sense enveloped the Longevity Sword.
...
There were originally many forging materials in Zhou Shu's Cosmic Bangle. They were all relatively precious materials dug out from this world.
But now, other than the Longevity Sword, there were no other forging materials in his Cosmic Bangle!
With Zhou Shu's current cultivation, no one could steal anything from him.
This could only mean one thing. The forging materials in the Cosmic Bangle had been eaten by the Longevity Sword!
A sword would automatically devour forging materials?
Zhou Shu had never heard of such a thing.
But he was not a rigid person. He had read countless novels in his previous life. Even if something strange happened, he could accept it.
Interesting. It can actually devour forging materials.
Zhou Shu pulled the Longevity Sword out of its sheath with a clang. The Longevity Sword was about three feet long and looked ancient. The blade was gray and lusterless.
Even the blade seemed to have not been sharpened. It was blunt. Zhou Shu couldn't feel any sharpness when he touched it.
If such a sword was thrown into the warehouse, it would probably not even be comparable to a standard weapon. No one would treat it as a divine weapon.
It would only be thrown aside as a useless weapon.
If not for the fact that he had discovered it in a very magical place, Zhou Shu might not have cared about this sword.
"You can devour spiritual essence and forging materials," Zhou Shu said. "You shouldn't be called the Longevity Sword. You're an evil weapon, right?"
Perhaps it was an illusion, but he felt a light flash across the blade of the Longevity Sword.
It felt as if it had rolled its eyes!
He was despised by a sword?
Zhou Shu was speechless. He really seemed to feel that he was being despised by the Longevity Sword!
This Longevity Sword had formed a spirit!
Zhou Shu laughed in anger.
"A broken sword, do you really think I can't do anything to you? You ate my forging materials. Spit them out!
Boom!
His hands turned red, as if they were made of lava.
A scorching aura spread out. Zhou Shu reached out and grabbed the body of the Longevity Sword.
Buzz—
The Longevity Sword let out a loud cry.
Zhou Shu actually understood what it meant.
"Come on. Do you think I'm afraid of you?"
This feeling was very strange. Zhou Shu didn't hear or see anything, but the Longevity Sword gave him this feeling.
Moreover, he was very sure that this feeling was right!
The high temperature of the Iron Smelting Hands was comparable to the power of True Fire.
Although Zhou Shu's Iron Smelting Hands Technique had yet to reach greater mastery, his current realm was not low. Ordinary weapons couldn't withstand the high temperature of his Iron Smelting Hands.
But this gray Longevity Sword didn't change at all after being burned by his Iron Smelting Hands for an hour. It didn't even turn red!
"You're good."
The Iron Smelting Hands Technique was ineffective. Instead of feeling defeated, Zhou Shu became even more interested.
Encountering such a strange weapon was a challenge to his forging skills.
If he didn't figure out what was going on with the Longevity Sword, he wouldn't be able to sleep well.
"Not afraid of fire, are you?" Zhou Shu said while walking toward the warehouse with the Longevity Sword.
"You like forging materials, don't you? I'll let you eat your fill first." Zhou Shu threw the Longevity Sword onto the mountain of forging materials in the warehouse and stood to the side with his arms crossed.
He wanted to see how this Longevity Sword could devour forging materials.
The blade of the Longevity Sword seemed to tremble slightly.
Zhou Shu suddenly felt excited.
Perhaps it wasn't that he sensed it but that he had cultivated the Visualization of the Five Mountains' True Form and his mental strength was extremely powerful, so he captured some of the emotions that seeped out from the Longevity Sword.
Is this emotion anger??Zhou Shu's eyebrows twitched.?This Longevity Sword is really smart! It can actually have emotions!
What happened next made Zhou Shu even more certain that the Longevity Sword had really formed a spirit!
The sword trembled slightly, and a black light emitted from the sword. The forging materials under it were swept by the black light and instantly disappeared, as if they had fused into the Longevity Sword.
In a breath, dozens of kilograms of forging materials disappeared.
The Longevity Sword jumped and pointed its tip at Zhou Shu, as if it was wary of him. Then the black light continued to devour the forging materials.
"Swallow, keep swallowing!" Zhou Shu crossed his arms." I want to see how big your appetite is!"
There were more than ten million kilograms of forging materials in his warehouse!
Even if the demonic beast with the Heaven Devouring Toad bloodline resurrected, Zhou Shu dared to say that he couldn't swallow so much in one go.
One breath, two…
Fifteen minutes, half an hour…
Time slowly passed, and Zhou Shu couldn't help looking surprised.
The Longevity Sword had already swallowed thousands of kilograms of forging materials, but it continued to devour.
On the surface, it didn't seem to have changed at all, but Zhou Shu felt that it had regained some of its vitality.
A thousand kilograms of forging materials was more than enough to forge an earth-grade weapon.
But after devouring so many forging materials, the Longevity Sword was still gray and lusterless. What a waste!
Millions of kilograms of forging materials were piled here. Zhou Shu didn't care at all.
He remained motionless, arms folded.
The Longevity Sword seemed to be probing Zhou Shu's bottom line. A faint clang sounded from the blade, and the black light suddenly intensified.
Originally, only tens of kilograms of forging materials had disappeared in a breath. Now, hundreds of kilograms of forging materials disappeared in a breath!
Moreover, this speed was still increasing!
One thousand kilograms, two thousand kilograms…
Five thousand kilograms, ten thousand kilograms…
The black light seemed to have turned into a tornado that crazily devoured the forging materials.
Zhou Shu finally couldn't take it anymore.
Five hundred thousand kilograms of forging material, even he felt his heart ache.
"Enough!" Zhou Shu shouted and reached out to grab the Longevity Sword.
Swish—
The Longevity Sword suddenly flew up and flashed dozens of feet away, dodging Zhou Shu's palm before continuing to devour the forging materials.
Zhou Shu snorted. "Even if you've formed a spirit, you have to listen to me obediently!"
In a flash, Zhou Shu slapped the Longevity Sword.
Clang!
The Longevity Sword suddenly stood up, and a sharp sword qi slashed out.
Zhou Shu frowned and turned his palm into a fist. Golden light flashed as he punched.
Boom!
Zhou Shu swayed and took half a step back. He looked at his fist in surprise.
Blood dripped from a shallow wound on his fist.
I'm wounded!
His perfected Golden Bell Shield body was actually bleeding from a sword light!
Zhou Shu narrowed his eyes as his gaze fell on the Longevity Sword.
He could clearly sense a trace of emotion on the Longevity Sword.
It seemed to be saying, "These are mine. Get out of my way!"
"Hmph, if you want to eat it, fine. Try my sword again!" Zhou Shu reached out and grabbed the hilt of the earth-grade Great Destroyer Sword. A sword light slashed out. The Heaven Slaying Sword Art!
He made a move, and the Longevity Sword also slashed at Zhou Shu!