Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 452 Unresolved Worldly Ties
Cherry, like an antelope, raced along the ridge, leaping up the almost 90-degree right-angle rock face until it reached the top of the ridge.

However, she crouched on the mountaintop, evolving all eight of her eyes into the pupils of an eagle, gazing into the distance at the enormous blood cocoon clinging to the earth, watching the rivers and veins of the land resemble thick blood vessels, into which she channeled spiritual energy.

Like a birthing room for some kind of insectoid race, a giant's abscess, or a dragon's egg sac, it was gushing out, sucking up all the true energy of heaven and earth, as if some terrifying thing was about to be born from within.

"What the hell are you doing?"

Cherry watched for a while, then suddenly turned her head and stared at Blood Eagle, who had appeared behind her at some point, and asked.

"Forging swords".

The blood eagle preened its wings, each feather as sharp and cold as a sword's edge.

"Sword forging?"

Cherry looked suspicious.
"...You promised to help me conquer Suiyang!"

The eagle raised a single feather.

"First of all, I didn't say I would help you fight Suiyang. I said I had to take a look first."

Cherry squinted...

The eagle raised two feathers.

"Secondly, hasn't this already been resolved?"

The great formation has been broken, the barrier has been dispelled, Suiyang has been transformed into a sword pool, and the blood puppet has been transformed into a sword spirit.

There are still thirty-seven cities in the Eastern Kingdom that can be slaughtered, the Heavenly King has only lost one son, and your sword has been found.

What else is there to complain about?

"You call that a solution?"

Cherry pointed to the huge blood bubble that stretched across the river.
"With that thing blocking the way, my army still can't get through Zhenzhou!?"

The eagle grew impatient.

"We can just keep going upstream and take a detour. At worst, we can get through once the sword is forged."

Cherry was afraid he would flap his wings and fly away, so she had no choice but to patiently ask.
"Then may I ask when your sword will be completed?"

The eagle calculated with its claws.

"About ten years."

Cherry bristles

"I don't have the time to waste ten years of my life with you!"

The eagle made a foot gesture.

“Then I’ll pay more. You can give me all those hundreds of thousands of wet parts, and maybe I can cast them in a year.”

Cherry took a deep breath, her lungs surging with heat, and plasma flames shot out.

"Your Excellency, don't go too far! You claimed to be fighting for the Heavenly King at Suiyang, but you tricked me out of tens of thousands of elite soldiers! Not a single one returned alive! And now you're still demanding exorbitant prices! If my army truly arrives, we'll all perish together, and there's no point in not warning me..."

The eagle flapped its wings,

"If there's nothing else, I'm going back to forge swords."

"Hiss...wait..."

Seeing this, Cherry had no choice but to take a deep breath and suppress her anger.

"Okay, I'll leave the business department's affairs aside for now. What about the important business you promised me you'd handle?"

Don't forget you're still getting paid by the Monster Department!

He actually agreed to that, so the eagle shook its head.

"No."

Cherry repeated, frowning.

"Really do not have?"

"Really do not have."

The eagle repeated after her.
"I have already separated my soul from my body and searched every inch of Suiyang, but I have not found any trace of the monster."

"Forget about Faceless Man, we haven't even found Faceless Dog. I bet whatever monster you've thrown away has already been taken by the cult."

Cherry suspected,
"You didn't find anything, so how can you be sure it was taken by the cult?"

With a flick of the eagle's wings, a sudden gust of wind arose, and a flash of blood obscured Cherry's vision.

There stood a massive altar, resembling a wine cellar, with huge bottles and jars piled up like mountains. Although the altar was now empty, the walls were covered with dense runes and blood-stained inscriptions, indicating that someone had once performed incantations and spells there.

At the very center of the altar, in the shrine, there was an empty space. One could clearly see that some kind of statue or something had once been enshrined there. That thing contained enormous energy, so much so that the residual radiation left clearly visible burn marks in the illusory light and shadow, as if it had been burned by a plasma inferno.

"As soon as I entered the game, I was entangled by Emei. The Divine Calculation of the Divine Sect is always a cut above the rest. How could those jars sit and wait for me to come and raid their homes? They probably packed up their belongings and ran away a long time ago."

Then the eagle flapped its wings, and the bloody light disappeared.
"However, I can give you a clue. Of course, it will cost extra."

Cherry rolled her eyes.
"Haven't I given you enough benefits? Tell me what information you have first. If it's valuable, you won't be shortchanged."

The eagle knew when to stop.

"The Suiyang incident was originally planned by the Eastern Venerable of the Divine Sect. Although this guy was careless and his Emei chariot overturned, he only lost one clone."

This person's true form is none other than the Three Immortals of the East Sea, specifically the Old Lord Wuzhong. An ancient monster on par with the God Lord, he's at least five thousand years old. Presumably, the monster you're looking for has been taken by him to the Great Wilderness Mountain overseas.”

"As for Lord Wuzhong, I will investigate that thoroughly. As for you..."

Cherry nodded slowly, glancing at the blood cocoon in the distance.
"Once that sword is forged, what do you intend to do?"

"Of course it's slaying the dragon! Tell your boss to wash his neck and wait, I've wanted to eat him for a long time."

Without another word, the eagle transformed into a streak of blood-red light and soared into the sky, instantly plunging into the blood cocoon.

The blood cocoon seemed to be deeply embedded in the earth's crust, like a root, with the blood-red light flowing downwards, as if it were penetrating deep into the marrow of the earth along the spine.

Finally, it was absorbed into the brow of the Taoist priest sitting in the underground blood pool.

Tie Dan opened his eyes and looked at the dragon's spine, which was being repeatedly polished within the sinkhole formation.
"Hey, Zhang Xun. What exactly did you steal from the Celestial Palace that made the Divine Sect intervene on your behalf?"

A face emerged from the pool of blood, uttering the voice of a healer.

"The governor of Suiyang said, 'It's none of your business.'"

"...Tsk."

"But I remember it was a statue made of black crystal." "A black crystal statue? You mean a statue of a deity?"

Tie Dan thought for a moment. The God's distinctive ghost mask should be easy to recognize, not something to be unclear. So he casually drew another face of the God.

"Have you no shame? Is this how you do it?"

The doctor shook his head.

"No, she's not that pretty. She's just an old woman sitting on a lotus platform."

Tie Dan was puzzled.

"An old woman? Sitting on a lotus platform? Is it some kind of statue of a mystical woman?"

Just as the physician was about to speak, he was suddenly pulled back by the bloodied hand, and Zhang Xun's goatee-like head roared angrily.

"None of your business! If you're going to cast it, then cast it! And once you're done, get out of here!"

Tie Dan was unhappy, but there was nothing he could do about it.

After all, these blood puppet soldiers agreed to be forged into swords, but that doesn't mean they agreed to acknowledge Xuan Tian as their sword master and join the Beichen Sword Sect.

Ultimately, Zhang Xun's meticulously planned situation was ruined by Tie Dan's intrusion and meddling. Tie Dan stole the pills, the monsters, and drove away his helpers, causing the Ten Deadly Formations to fail and leaving Zhang Xun completely helpless. Do you really think you're cool being forced into a desperate act like a mountain goat charging into battle...?

Therefore, the problem in Suiyang remains unresolved. Ten years later, once the Dragon-Slaying Sword is forged, these resentful souls, unwilling to accept defeat, will inevitably have to fight that boss again.

But at least, this great calamity has been postponed to ten years later, hasn't it? The population of the thirty-seven cities in the East has been temporarily saved, hasn't it? There's no need to dig up the river and change its course, and the hundreds of millions of people downstream have also been saved, haven't they?

Well, maybe in a few decades, Tie Dan will ultimately be beyond saving, but he also knows when to quit while he's ahead.

Moreover, he had a vague feeling about it in his heart.

Although Emei was given to him, the battle of Suiyang was not his tribulation, and what was ultimately forged would not be his sword.

Just as Chen Xuantian said, Suiyang is a battleground for the weak.

But if Tie Dan were to intervene, the boss would become the weakling who gets beaten up...

Moreover, the sword currently being forged has such poor compatibility between its spirit and the iron egg that it's probably only meant for the weak. Once the sword is complete, who will claim it?
Ten years later... Huangfu Yi still won't be born by then...

Ultimately, the secrets of fate are unpredictable, so Tiedan stopped thinking about it. In short, things will work themselves out, and he would know when the time came.

In short, with Chen Xuantian's assistance, Tie Dan completely transformed the Earth Sinking Formation into a sword furnace, imprinted countless sword imprints and talismans into the dragon's spine, and taught the sword-forging techniques of the Sword Sect to the gods and ghosts of Suiyang. He instructed these sword spirits to hone their skills day and night in the formation, and to wait until the sword was forged ten years later before drawing it out to kill the demonic dragon that was wreaking havoc on the world.

Having thus lingered in Suiyang for several months, Tie Dan decided to settle this karmic debt for the time being. He then planned to fly north to Qianyang to continue collecting the Nine Heavens Dao Transmission.

Suddenly, at that moment, two sword lights flew in from the horizon.

When Tie Dan saw the two beams of light from afar, a thought struck him. He stopped in his tracks and stood still, waiting for the other party to fly to him.

"It really is you!! You treacherous heretic who betrays his master and ancestors! You shameless traitor who slaughters his fellow disciples! How dare you still walk in the Central Plains!"

"He actually forged a sword using the Sword Sect's secret techniques without authorization! And he even cultivated a body covered in blood aura; he's probably entangled with the Demonic Sect as well! Bah! You've completely disgraced the Xuanmen!"

He kept calling him a traitor, but one look at this legitimate heir, with his Nine Luminaries Sword Light, it was obvious that he was a remnant of the Sword Sect's main branch.

Seeing that the plot had finally returned to its familiar rhythm, Tie Dan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and smiled at the two people in front of him.

"Eighteen Flying Stars?"

"Hmph! Flying Star of the Righteous Radiance! Sword Passes on to Heavenly Blessing!" "True Inheritance of the Northern Star! Sword Master of Heavenly Fortune!"

"I've come to take your life!" *2
As expected, the Sword Sect was straightforward. After introducing themselves, the two swords combined their swords without saying a word, creating a divine sword rainbow that charged straight at the attacker.

"Sword Sect Xuan Tian! Let's duel!"

Tie Dan showed basic respect, unleashing the light of the Beichen Sword before charging forward to fight the two.

But to everyone's surprise, these two were all bark and no bite. Although their swordplay was exquisite, they only exchanged three blows before retreating and turning their swords away in different directions.

Tie Dan didn't believe that his skills had reached such a high level that he could force the two men back without even exerting much effort. He also knew clearly that the two men were just there to lure him in.

After all, he had been out of the mountains for too long this time, and his presence in Suiyang had been exposed. Even if the Emei group didn't go around talking about it, the many consequences he had caused were enough for those with ulterior motives to figure out his background.

Although others may not know about his battle when he returned to the peak of Jiuyin and killed the sect leader Tiangang, his feat of defeating the five sword masters of the mountain by fighting against five of them is no exaggeration. The fact that his crane beak was so broken is probably a story that has been told for a long time on Yuntai Peak.

So even if the Eighteen Flying Stars of Benshan looked down on him as a traitorous disciple of the Sword Sect, the other party probably wouldn't have rushed up so brazenly, thinking that just the two of them working together could take him down.

They must have secretly laid an ambush. I guess this probing was because they suspected he had a sword formation guarding the sword-forging pool, and they planned to engage him first, then lure him into the formation to be surrounded and attacked.

So what! Let's have a good fight!

As expected, this is my favorite!

As expected, this is my favorite!

I love the way the Sword Cutter Sect talks!

"Wow——!"

"What! It really is the unification of the Nine Luminaries!"

"The sword speed is so fast! It's at least five lightning bolts!"

This isn't just about coming from behind to overtake! Tie Dan's Beichen Sword Rainbow is practically spiraling around the back of the mouth!
Suddenly to the left, suddenly to the right, suddenly forward, suddenly backward! A dazzling light streaked across the sky as Tie Dan chased after two opponents single-handedly!

In just a few moments, the Heavenly Blessing and Heavenly Fortune Protective Sword Rainbow was shattered and torn apart! It was clear that its sword power was being exhausted! Repeated sword rainbows came swirling around, creating a perilous situation!
And this was only because Tie Dan showed mercy!
"Come out! Two of them are no match for me! Call the rest of you out and gang up on me!"

"This guy!" "Arrogant!"

"Shhhhh!"

Sure enough, help arrived!
Eight sword stars rose slowly from the horizon!

Oh! Ten Nascent Soul Sword Immortals have gathered at once to take his head! Great!
Tie Dan was overjoyed. He promptly retracted his sword rainbow, letting the disheveled Tianfu and Tianlu flee back to their positions in the formation. Standing amidst the sky full of sword light, he declared loudly.

"Ben Shan has acted against all reason! My Xuan Tian Sword defeated Tian Gang, and won fair and square! I deserve the position of Nine Yin Sect Leader! If you are not convinced, fine! Let's fight!"

However, since the ten sword immortals had surrounded Tie Dan, they weren't in a hurry to attack. Instead, one of them floated out from the formation and looked down at him from above.
“Xuantian, Ruyi, Zhenjun…hehe…”

Tie Dan frowned and looked over. He saw that the man had his white hair slicked back, with three flowers above his eyebrows and arrogant eyes. He immediately felt a sense of displeasure. Upon closer inspection, he realized that only three of the people present were actually Sword Sect Flying Stars. The other seven were all masked, hiding their true identities and exuding an ethereal aura. They were clearly concealing their cultivation levels and were definitely not true disciples of the Sword Sect. Tie Dan's initial joy vanished, and his blood ran cold.

"What exactly are you here for?"

Tian Gui casually tossed a sign from his hand over.

"Hand over the Ruyi Sword Manual."

Tie Dan's eyes flashed with a sharp look, and he recognized him.

It's the sign for Cangjian Manor.

(End of this chapter)