#66 - The power of darkness, the original sword embryo

"Stop, Jiu Ye!"

Jun Wu Xie didn't need to think at all; he deeply trusted the mysterious woman.

Jiu Ye, who was about to seize the Ancestral Master's weapon, suddenly turned to look at him and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Jun Wu Xie secretly communicated with the mysterious woman while responding to Jiu Ye, "Are you referring to this sword embryo of the Ancestral Master when you said you were going to give me something?"

"That's right! This sword was obtained by the Ancestral Master in a fortunate encounter. It may seem unremarkable, but it is actually extraordinary! If you wield this sword in tomorrow's duel, you can increase your chances of winning."

As Jiu Ye spoke, he was about to take the sword.

"Jiu Ye, let me take this sword myself."

Jun Wu Xie stepped forward and grabbed from a distance. Golden blood energy wrapped around the sword embryo, instantly flying it over.

"Seal the coffin!"

The corner of Jiu Ye's eyes twitched fiercely. At the moment of taking the sword, he seemed to see the Ancestral Master's tightly closed eyes tremble slightly.

He wasn't sure if he was seeing things.

The Ancestral Master's corpse exuded a strange and eerie aura, causing even a strong expert like him to feel a chill down his spine.

With a loud bang.

The opened coffin lid, wrapped in his true energy, was tightly sealed onto the coffin.

At the same time, Uncle Bird flicked his large sleeve, and a large amount of soil was swept up, covering the coffin.

"Jiu Ye, Uncle Bird, I'll leave this place to you. I'm going back to study the Ancestral Master's weapon!"

After Jun Wu Xie finished speaking, he hurriedly left.

"Today, was what we did right or wrong?"

Jiu Ye had a bad feeling in his heart. He looked at the Ancestral Master's tomb, which had been rebuilt, and then looked at Jun Wu Xie, who was leaving in a hurry.

"Back then, the seniors of the sect suspected that the Ancestral Master was tainted with misfortune. I don't know if this misfortune will erode the weapon. I hope he will be alright."

Uncle Bird said in a deep voice.

Jiu Ye heard this and said, "In the next few days, we must pay close attention to him and not let him have any mishaps!"

… …

In a mountain forest behind the Sect King Mountain.

Jun Wu Xie sat cross-legged under an ancient tree, his whole body trembling. Yin and cold energy flowed within his body, making him feel icy and bone-chilling, as if his blood was about to freeze.

This coldness was not ordinary coldness, but a yin coldness that made him uncontrollably feel various negative emotions.

"Fortunately, it's just a slight amount of dark and strange power, otherwise even I wouldn't be able to do anything about it!"

Inside the Town Suppressing Pagoda, the mysterious woman's voice was full of solemnity.

At the same time, Jun Wu Xie felt an indescribable pure energy appear in his meridians, flowing throughout his body along his limbs.

The feeling of yin coldness was gradually suppressed in a corner of his body under this power, and finally, wrapped in pure energy, it was drawn out of his body.

"Senior, what exactly is going on?"

Jun Wu Xie entered the Eternal Life Temple. The sword embryo was now in front of him, suspended in the air, wrapped in mysterious pure energy.

The mysterious woman did not respond.

"Senior? What is the dark and strange power you just mentioned?"

Jun Wu Xie felt lingering fear. That power was too terrifying, causing people to have all kinds of negative emotions, eroding their minds, and engulfing their sanity!

"That is a power unknown to the world, and its horror is beyond imagination. It is said that this world should not have remnants of this kind of thing..."

"Is that dark and strange power from this sword embryo or from the remains of the Ancestral Master of my Sect King Academy?"

"It comes from the sword embryo in front of you. This sword is not simple. The core of the sword is cast from Primordial Divine Metal!"

"What? The material of this sword is Primordial Divine Metal?"

Jun Wu Xie was shocked. The entire sword was made of Primordial Divine Metal, which was simply unimaginable!

Primordial Divine Metal is extremely rare in the world. It would be very rare to get a fingernail-sized piece.

"Unfortunately, although this sword is made of Primordial Divine Metal, it cannot be used to repair the Town Suppressing Pagoda. This sword contains a formation space inside, which stores dark and strange substances. Because the formation has been damaged, the dark and strange substances have leaked out with dark power."

"So, I can't use it as a weapon either?"

"That's not necessarily the case."

The mysterious woman said, "I can repair the formation in the sword, so that it will no longer leak dark and strange power, and you can use it yourself. Fortunately, you dug up the grave today, otherwise, when the formation inside collapses, the dark and strange power will erode the entire world. At that time, there will be no living things in the entire world!"

Hearing the mysterious woman say this, Jun Wu Xie breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed. Looking at the Town Suppressing Pagoda, which occasionally made the sound of iron chains struggling, he asked, "Is the fierce evil in the pagoda more terrifying, or is the dark and strange power in this sword more terrifying?"

"The things in the pagoda are more terrifying."

Jun Wu Xie: … …

"This Primordial Sword Embryo can now be used by you."

As the mysterious woman's voice fell, the pure energy wrapped around the Primordial Sword Embryo dissipated, and the sword embryo slowly flew into Jun Wu Xie's hands.

At the moment of touching it, his hands sank, and he almost didn't catch it.

It's too heavy!

This sword embryo is many times heavier than before.

When he took the sword, he didn't feel any weight at all.

Only after asking the mysterious woman did he know that the sword embryo was controlled by a strange power before, so it was very light.

The current weight is the original weight of the sword embryo!

Jun Wu Xie weighed it, estimating that it weighed at least tens of thousands of pounds!

With a clang.

He inserted the sword embryo into the ground and said to the Town Suppressing Pagoda, "Senior, I have now reached the realm of Grandmaster of Weaponry. Using a sword will not affect my understanding of weapon intent. Moreover, with the Primordial Sword Embryo in hand, please teach me sword skills!"

"Granted."

Mysterious sword inscriptions rushed out from within the Town Suppressing Pagoda.

Suddenly, Jun Wu Xie seemed to see the ten thousand zhang of mortal world, the three thousand floating worlds. Various scenes appeared before his eyes, and his entire mind was pulled into that unique sword intent.

"I will teach you the Red Dust Sword Art, cultivate the sword of the human world, which can help you kill the enemy in tomorrow's life-and-death duel."

"Rolling red dust as the sword, ten thousand zhang of the human world as the edge? Senior, what does this mean?"

Jun Wu Xie studied the essentials of the sword art, but found it difficult to understand.

"Red dust and the human world can only be experienced by oneself, and I cannot teach you. What I understand can only belong to myself and is of no help to you."

"Then how should I cultivate?"

Jun Wu Xie was in trouble. The sword art was in his mind, but he couldn't find a way to get started.

"Go to the red dust to experience, and you will gain something."

After the mysterious woman finished speaking, a light gate appeared in front of Jun Wu Xie, and the rolling red dust energy surged out from inside.

"Go, this is the Red Dust Illusion. At noon tomorrow, I will let you out."

Jun Wu Xie nodded, pulled out the Primordial Sword Embryo, and the moment he stepped into the light gate, he felt his memory blurring. All his past experiences became blurred.

Past memories seemed to be forcibly cleared.

How could this be?

He frantically resisted, but it was to no avail. In a moment, he couldn't even remember who he was!

"Wu Xie?"

After Jiu Ye and Uncle Bird left the forbidden area of the sect, they searched almost the entire Sect King Mountain.

Finally, they saw him in this forest.

"Are you alright?"

Uncle Bird stepped forward and carefully checked him before breathing a sigh of relief.

"He is in a state of cultivation and should be comprehending sword intent."

Jiu Ye sat down under the tree he was facing, took out his wine pot, took a sip, and said to Uncle Bird, "Qianshan, go back. Your martial uncle will guard him here."