Xuanxia

Chapter 1070: Divine Sword Builds Soul, Soul Returns

Early morning, Beijing.

Fu Qingzhou, carrying a large coffin on his back, stood at the entrance of Mingjian Pavilion.

Not long ago, Ning Wuwang exploded with sword intent and destroyed Mingjian Pavilion. It was naturally impossible to completely rebuild the huge pavilion in a short period of time, but Mingjian Pavilion also needed a place to work, so Li Jingzhe took his people to find a place in the capital for temporary office.

This was originally someone's house, but the power in the capital has changed very quickly in the past three years, and many of the original large houses have no owners. It is appropriate to use this house as a temporary government office.

When they saw Fu Qingzhou appear at the door, the two secret envoys guarding the door immediately lit up their eyes and bowed their heads in greeting.

"Is Li Jingzhe here?"

Fu Qingzhou didn't beat around the bush and asked.

"Your Excellency the Special Envoy, the Commander is not in the capital. He has gone to Fuhe Province." The gatekeeper replied.

Fu Qingzhou scratched his head.

This is normal. There are so many people in the Yuan family, so much money, and so many things that need to be handed over. It is impossible for Hong Zhi alone to handle it. The court must have sent many people.

"That's fine... Where are all the books in the pavilion now? I want to go and see."

Fu Qingzhou raised his head and said, "Also, pass on my order to contact Ling Jiao and tell him that... his lost sword has returned."

He untied the large coffin and said, "Also, prepare a place to store this thing properly."

One of the secret envoys responded loudly and turned to do it, while the other secret envoy led Fu Qingzhou to the library.

The Book Collection Building used to belong to Ning Wuwang, who was responsible for all logistical and clerical affairs of Mingjian Pavilion. But now the Book Collection Building is just a small building, which houses the pavilion's secret books, collections of books, files, etc., and it has no other function.

Fu Qingzhou came here to find content related to the Eight Swords of the Kingly Way.

Although Brother Hua is the master of the Righteous Sword, what if? What if he can't take Qiu Chan's soul out of the Righteous Sword?

Back then, Qiu Chan used the sword of righteousness on the city wall with the intention of committing suicide. Logically, she should have been dead, and it has never been heard that the Eight Swords of the Kingly Way would deliberately take in the soul of others, especially when that soul is not the soul of its sword master.

No one knows what happened in between.

It is one thing that it is unwilling to let Qiu Chan's soul leave, but what if it is willing but cannot do it?

Therefore, we must be prepared for both situations.

Someone from Mingjian Pavilion soon came and took away the coffin where Qiu Chan was hiding, saying that it would be stored in the deepest part of the mansion and someone would be assigned to guard it.

Fu Qingzhou quickly found the book about the Eight Swords of the Kingly Way in the book library and began to read it.

Once upon a time, the Eight Swords of the Kingly Way were one of the top secrets of the Mingjian Pavilion, and not many people knew about these eight swords.

Just like many people know that Dong Qianran has the Xian Sword, but they don’t know what the Xian Sword is or what magical powers it has. They just think it is the sword that guards the Sword Academy.

Therefore, there are actually not many records about these eight swords.

Apart from the story of the Zhao royal ancestor creating the Eight Swords, the rest are records about successive sword masters.

Fu Qingzhou didn't just look at the Sword of Righteousness. The Eight Swords of the Kingly Way all had many similarities. The abnormality that occurred on the Sword of Righteousness might have occurred on other divine swords.

Sure enough, when Fu Qingzhou was reading the records of the Sword of Wisdom, his eyes lit up!
More than two hundred years ago, the Sword of Wisdom once belonged to Meng Yanlin, the then president of the Sword Academy.

This is a very special dean...he doesn't understand cultivation.

Not only that, he is also a useless person.

He had fallen seriously ill when he was ten years old and was paralyzed from the neck down. He needed help with eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. It was also difficult for him to speak and he could only lift one finger slightly.

But it was such a person who, with his strong perseverance and extraordinary wisdom, won the imperial examination and became the top scorer in the small and medium-sized imperial examinations at the age of fourteen and entered the Zhangjian Academy!
Not only that, after he entered the Sword Palm Academy, he was on a roll!
In less than a year, he had read all the books in the academy. His encyclopedic knowledge and strong memory were jaw-dropping. Thereafter, he shined at several poetry and literary gatherings in the capital. A boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, he left countless students and even great scholars in the capital speechless.

Later, he even started to work on martial arts - Meng Yanlin was born with deficiencies and was unable to practice, but he only believed that man could conquer nature. Since the ancient martial arts could not be practiced, he decided to deduce a method of his own from the ancients to restore his health.

Regardless of whether this deduction can restore health, it has greatly improved the quality of the martial arts in the Palm Sword Academy!
Many fragments of ancient books from thousands of years ago, which were originally only collected in the academy and could not be used for practice, were actually deduced by him to their original appearance!
Today, several instructors in the Sword Academy are inheriting the ancient divine skills, all thanks to Meng Yanlin.

Before he could find a method suitable for his practice and restoration of his health, there was a rebellion caused by heretics in the world. According to the records, what they did was somewhat similar to Huijue's, spreading plague and creating famine, and then taking this opportunity to deceive people and recruit believers, and even wanted to rebel.

This kind of thing was not uncommon in all dynasties in the history that Fu Qingzhou was familiar with, so he didn't find it strange.

At that time, Meng Yanlin was no longer a student in the Palm Sword Academy because he had restored several magical skills. Instead, he was promoted directly to the vice-president. When he knew that the world was in chaos, the people were living in misery, and pagans were in turmoil, he actually volunteered to go to the battlefield despite his disabled body!

There are only a few sentences in the book about what happened afterwards.

"Meng Yanlin is a man of great wisdom and intelligence. He traveled a hundred miles south and delivered orders a thousand miles away to help the imperial court wipe out the five rebel vanguards. He traveled two hundred miles south to the camp of the evil-suppressing army, left five copies of the lucky bag, and immediately returned, never to ask about the rebels again."

"The commander of the Suppressing Evil Army responded to the enemy with a trick and put down the rebellion in more than a month."

Fu Qingzhou's pupils shook violently.

How can Lan Xiyu be called the master of the wise sword?
This guy is the master of the wise sword!

From beginning to end, he never even saw the rebels. He walked two hundred miles south, gave some strategies halfway, and wiped out the rebel vanguard. After that, he arrived at the military camp, left five secret bags, and immediately returned to Beijing. The marshal relied on his five secret bags and put down the rebellion in more than a month!
This is what is called... planning and strategizing from a thousand miles away!

Fu Qingzhou was so moved by what he saw that he regretted not being born in the same era as such heroes.

After the rebellion was quelled, Meng Yanlin's reputation reached its peak, and he almost naturally took over the position of president of the Sword Academy. At that time, he was only twenty years old.

At the same time, the then sword master also gave him the Sword of Wisdom.

From then on, Meng Yanlin's research direction shifted from the countless skills in the Sword Academy... to this sword.

This time, with his intelligence and talent, he actually figured out something.

But... the bad thing is what he researched.

The books recorded that Meng Yanlin was 23 years old at the time. He claimed that he would go into seclusion with the Sword of Wisdom, and asked the teachers of the academy to open and close the door for him after half a month. No matter what happened during this half month, he must not be disturbed, and after half a month, they were also asked not to be too surprised by anything they saw.

When the teachers asked curiously, he just smiled and said eight words.

The magic sword builds the soul, and the soul returns!
(End of this chapter)