Embers of Sword

Chapter 85: The Lord of Dao Furnace

In front of the Daolu Hall, there was a bloody mist.

The familiar smell of blood lingered in the air. Dao Jiu held his chin and looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but think of the scene several years ago.

Hmm...it seems that the difference between humans and monsters is not as big as imagined.

Xie Xuanyi put away his sword and stood up. He stepped over the remains of the mechanical engineer and slowly came to the woman.

"Miss Chu, you are so courageous."

Between the two people, there was a huge golden Buddha.

The body of the Flesh Buddha was still hard, and a faint golden light emanated from his entire body, but his eyes had dimmed, and his entire Purple Mansion soul had been shattered, deader than dead.

"Kill him, and it will be just you and me."

Xie Xuanyi gently patted the giant Buddha standing in front of him with the side of his scabbard.

Boom!
The giant Buddha fell to the ground, and smoke and dust spread everywhere.

The woman sitting in the dust did not take the opportunity to make a move, but plucked the strings silently.

hum!
The sound waves were shaken and spread out!
"If we don't kill him, the consequences will only be worse."

Chu Man said in a very light voice: "Although they are both cave heavens, they have been controlled by greed and fear... If they can't be driven by me, what's the point of saving their lives?"

Xie Zhen's words of discord actually did not carry much weight.

But if we add the instigation of the spirit of [Daolu], the effect will be different!

Xie Xuanyi sneered. He knew that this woman was not a good person, but it was a bit unexpected that she was so cruel.

A person in the Golden Body Realm can be of some use. Just kill him if you say so!
"Thank you, Master. I understand the rules of this [Daolu] now."

Chu Man said calmly: "If you want to take it, you need to pour blood on it... Now the two cave gods are both dead. If you want to take the [Dao Furnace], Chu Man can give it to you."

"let?"

These words surprised Xie Xuanyi even more: "Miss Chu doesn't want to fight?"

"Great fortune, who wouldn't want it?"

Chu Man smiled slightly and said, "It's just that I want to make friends with Master Xie. Those people from Baihua Valley should have traveled with Master Xie all the way. Now that they are nowhere to be seen, they must have been sent away... It seems that as long as we leave the secret realm, we won't delay the acquisition of the [Dao Furnace]. Is Chu Man right?"

Xie Xuanyi looked at Dao Jiu.

Dao Jiu said helplessly: "Not bad."

He sat between the curtains and looked at Chu Man with a little more appreciation in his eyes. This woman acted decisively and reacted quickly... She was a good candidate.

"You came to the Bai Ze Secret Realm on the orders of King You Hai, killed Bai Hua Gu and the Chu family's staff, but ultimately returned empty-handed."

Xie Xuanyi sneered: "Aren't you afraid of being blamed by that prince?"

Take ten thousand steps back!

Even if King You Hai does not pursue the matter...what Chu Man did in the secret realm will definitely be pursued by Baihua Valley!
"Your Majesty?"

Chu Man's expression remained calm as she replied calmly, "Compared to King You Hai, I am more afraid of those sword cultivators in Baihua Valley."

Xie Xuanyi narrowed his eyes.

In fact, until now——

There is no suspense about the identity of King You Hai.

The Jiang family and Baihua Valley were brought to the Lichao City Bureau, where they suddenly launched an attack.

obviously.

This prince is the "blood light" that Zhidao Book House calculated. Today, Chu Man eliminated dissidents in the secret realm to eliminate trouble for You Haiwang... There are not many people who know the truth of this game. The reason why those evil cultivators in southern Xinjiang were recruited is because they don't need to know too much inside information, they just need to act according to orders and kill people.

Chu Man is not afraid of King You Hai.

Because she knew what the King of the Sea was going to do——

She knew better what the consequences of doing such a thing would be.

No matter what the ending of Lichao City is.

If you go to the Sea King, there is a high probability that you will die.

Even if he succeeds in becoming a Yang God and is lucky enough to escape from the border of Da Chu, he can only operate in the territory of the Demon Kingdom in the future.

What does Chu Man’s little betrayal matter?
Could he turn back and kill him just for her?
"interesting."

Xie Xuanyi sneered: "Do you think you can turn back or have a second choice?"

"As long as Mr. Xie nods, I will have it."

Chu Man placed her hands on the strings of the zither, light dust was flying in front of the hall, her clothes were fluttering, and she looked ethereal in the light and shadow, not like an ordinary person.

“Everyone was killed.”

"Those disciples from Baihua Valley were also sent away in advance."

Chu Man looked at Xie Xuanyi and said, "As long as Master Xie doesn't tell anyone, who would know that I'm still alive?"

Xie Xuanyi was silent.

Indeed, as long as he was willing to cooperate, he could create the illusion that Chu Man "died" in the Bai Ze Secret Realm.

"You have some truth in what you said..."

Xie Xuanyi sighed, and then changed the subject: "But why should I nod?"

He threw out his reed scabbard!
A stream of light shattered the dust in the sky and shot out like a sharp arrow!

Chu Man remained silent and pressed the strings with both hands.

An invisible sound wave hit the scabbard, knocking it back and forth. Xie Xuanyi reached out again to grab it, then exerted force with his palm, and the sword came out of the scabbard. Layers of sound waves rolled in, like a river tide, one wave higher than the other.

The scene where Chu Manyin killed Hong Jing, the senior sister of Baihua Valley, appeared again!

But Xie Xuanyi's soul is far from being comparable to Hong Jing's -

He drew his sword from its sheath, then turned his wrist and created a sword flower.

With Xie Xuanyi's spiritual realm, he could have easily resisted Canghai Yin, but he did not do so. Instead, he used sword intent to counter the murderous intent of the sound waves!
The sword light swirled and flowed in front of him.

Countless sound waves piled up like a river tide, and were then cut apart by the continuous silver light!
Xie Xuanyi just walked "slowly" like this!

Chu Man increased the speed of plucking the strings, and the sound waves produced by the ninth-grade treasure finally became almost continuous into a line, without any signs of interruption, and the "reed" in Xie Xuanyi's palm also drew a perfect circle.

In the tide, I walk alone.

Dao Jiu sat in the main hall, his eyes intoxicated, listening quietly to this rare music.

He could hear the emotions contained in the song "Song of the Cang Hai".

On the surface, it looks like raging waves with continuous ups and downs.

But if you immerse yourself in these waves, you will find that... every note is filled with despair and dead silence.

This sounds like music played by a "dead person".

Xie Xuanyi also noticed something strange.

Every word Chu Man said to him was intended to "survive", but the sound killing technique at this moment contained a strong sense of death.

finally.

Xie Xuanyi came to Chu Man with a sword in hand.

The song of Cang Hai Yin has come to an end.

No matter how Chu Man infused her murderous intent, the string music could never get within three feet of Xie Xuanyi. The "reed" which was far inferior to the guqin in quality, repelled all the tides.

Finally the string broke.

A string of scarlet blood beads was thrown into the air, slid down, and fell to the ground.

Xie Xuanyi did not draw his sword.

The ten fingers of Chu Man's hands that were pressing on the broken strings were already covered in blood.

For some things, the outcome is known from the beginning.

Ever since the music of the Po Lu Hao sounded, Chu Man knew that Xie Zhen's spiritual realm was unfathomable, and unless it was absolutely necessary, she should never make an enemy of him.

It was not until this moment that she understood.

It turned out that the distance between the two of them was like a natural chasm.

"Miss Chu, do you have any last words?"

Xie Xuanyi handed over the reed and placed the tip of the sword against the woman's chin.

"..."

Chu Man smiled gently and did not resist at all. Instead, she raised her snow-white neck obediently.

She stared at Xie Xuanyi's bamboo hat and asked, "Xie Zhen, do you dare to take off your bamboo hat and show your true face?"

She had said this once on the ship Po Lu.

At that time, Xie Xuanyi dismissed it lightly with just one sentence, "Can you bear the consequences?"

Now, Chu Man spoke again.

What consequences in this world are more terrible than death?
"If I'm not mistaken, you are not a special envoy of the Tanyi Guard, and you don't belong to the Imperial City."

Chu Man smiled: "In fact, your name is not 'Xie Zhen' at all. You dare not show your true face in front of a dying person, which means you are really afraid of something... What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of death?"

"..."

Xie Xuanyi fell into a brief silence. He was too lazy to talk nonsense, and immediately urged his sword energy to kill Chu Man.

At this moment, the entire Daolu Hall suddenly trembled -

Boom!
The ground where the two were standing suddenly collapsed and shattered.

Between the lightning and flint.

The woman who had been sitting quietly suddenly leaned back, clapped her hands, and mercilessly knocked the priceless ninth-grade guqin out.

Xie Xuanyi reacted immediately.

He shook his wrist mercilessly, and the reed sword light pierced through, cutting the ninth-grade treasure in half!
Boom!
Chu Man did not retreat, but leaned forward with the guqin. At the moment the guqin exploded, she stretched out her hands and actually pulled out a snow-white and brilliant silver light from the belly of the guqin and stabbed it at Xie Xuanyi!

Xie Xuanyi's pupils contracted.

Everyone thought that Chu Man was a musician who specialized in the art of spiritual power.

But no one expected that her sword skills were also impressive.

The timing and angle of this sword were both extremely tricky!

Xie Xuanyi had no time to dodge.

He could only choose to hand over the sword and exchange injury for injury!
Finally, Xie Xuanyi's shoulder was pierced by the silver light. He groaned, frowned, and looked at the woman who was floating away.

The sword swept down from the collarbone and cut diagonally.

If there was no "body-protecting treasure", Chu Man would be cut in half directly...

The four evil cave-heaven cultivators who came from southern Xinjiang all had treasures to protect them.

As King You Hai’s confidant, how could there not be one?

Chu Man’s treasure is a small jade pendant. She practices the art of the soul, so this jade pendant can protect her body.

It was this jade talisman that saved her from death.

even so.

Chu Man's injuries are still more serious than Xie Xuanyi's.

However, her tone at this moment was calm: "Thank you, Master. It seems that what I said was right."

Most of Chu Man's grey shirt was torn off by the sword energy, her hair bun was shattered, and her messy long hair fluttered in the wind.

She was originally a warrior.

Because of King You Hai, she stood in the sun and was watched by many people... Many of them coveted her beauty. In recent years, it has been said that the Qingzhou Chu family has produced a woman who is not inferior to Jiang Miaoyin. Although her appearance is a little worse, she is an excellent zither player.

But who would have thought that under the clothes.

It is not a snow-white and exquisite body.

Chu Man didn't care at all about exposing her body to outsiders.

After the gray shirt was torn, the exposed skin was covered with dark scarlet scars.

Some of the scars have already formed scabs.

Some of them form scars.

“It’s not quite what I imagined.”

Dao Jiu, who was watching the battle in the hall, had been staring at Chu Man. At this moment, he looked at this ugly body with regret, and said with emotion: "Those hideous demon cultivators back then, few of them were injured so badly..."

Dao Jiu, who is a spirit of an artifact, is very interested in Chu Man's body.

But Xie Xuanyi, who was a living person, just glanced and then looked away.

"Xie Zhen, I know I'm no match for you!"

Chu Man took a deep breath and spoke seriously: "King You Hai brought this upon himself. He attempted to overthrow the Chu family. As a loyal soldier of the Chu family, I have no choice but to obey his orders... Now, if you can show mercy and spare my life, I will repay you a hundredfold, a thousandfold in the future!"

"Is this a plea for mercy? Or a last word?"

Xie Xuanyi released the hand that was pressing on his shoulder.

Under the nourishment of the Immortal Fountain... the pierced flesh and blood healed at an extremely fast speed, and at this moment a layer of gray scab had formed.

This scene caught Chu Man's attention.

She looked at the sword in her hand with some disbelief.

This sword only left a superficial wound?
No.

It is very likely that there are not even superficial injuries!
As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Xuanyi attacked again.

The sound of the sword suddenly burst out——

Reeds broke through the air and nails shot out.

"???"

Chu Man drew his sword subconsciously, and then his expression suddenly changed.

Because this time the sword sound did not only come from the reeds!
The flying sword she was tightly grasping was suddenly seized by an extremely powerful thought——

The flying sword broke through the air, splashing a puff of blood.

Chu Man's heart was pierced by the reed nail, and she flew dozens of feet away and was nailed into the stone wall on the side of the hall.

Xie Xuanyi watched this scene in silence.

He and Chu Man looked at each other——

Then he took a deep breath and reached out to call back the reeds.

The flying sword returned to its sheath.

The woman who was nailed to the stone wall slowly fell to the ground with her head tilted.

Treason, murder, no choice...

Chu Man’s last words before her death echoed in Xie Xuanyi’s mind. Were they her hardship or a plea for mercy?

Xie Xuanyi is unknown.

But there was one thing he knew very well.

The reason why she could hear these words was because Chu Man knew that she had no chance of winning this battle.

If they get along with each other.

Chu Man would definitely kill herself with one sword.

Holding the reed scabbard, Xie Xuanyi slowly walked forward a few steps and arrived in front of the main hall.

The divine mist from the Taoist furnace surges and gushes out!

Brilliant rays of light shot out from the furnace!

"Boom, boom, boom."

After killing Chu Man, a sensation suddenly appeared in Xie Xuanyi's heart.

He looked up and gazed at the huge red Taoist furnace.

Just a thought.

The furnace slowly moved and fell slowly from the sky above the hall, and it kept shrinking in the air.

In the end, the [Dao Furnace] floating in front of Xie Xuanyi was only the size of a palm.

It looks like a child's toy.

But Xie Xuanyi knew that with just a thought, this [Dao Furnace] could increase dozens of times!
The grade of this treasure is extremely high, even higher than [Chronic Illness]!
With my current level... I'm afraid I can't even exert one tenth of my power.

If used casually, it will attract attention.

Xie Xuanyi reached out and touched the uneven surface of the Taoist furnace.

The sound of thunder rolled, and with Xie Xuanyi's touch, red patterns emerged!

The ancient atmosphere echoes over the heart lake.

The Dao pattern that belongs to the Great Saint Bai Ze——

It was these Dao patterns that restricted Dao Jiu, making him unable to leave the hall for a thousand years!
now.

As long as Xie Xuanyi engraved it into his soul and sacrificed his own blood.

This [Dao Furnace] will become a natal artifact that you refine.

Xie Xuanyi's expression was somewhat complicated.

When he first entered the Bai Ze Secret Realm, his original intention was only to retrieve his own flying sword.

He even rejected Daolu's invitation several times in succession...

Just didn't expect it.

After many twists and turns, I finally arrived at this moment.

"Thank you brother."

Dao Jiu's eyes were full of anticipation, and he said respectfully: "The next step is to engrave it into the soul and become the master of the [Dao Furnace]."

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(I had something to do this morning, so I'm sorry for the long wait. As compensation, I'll update more in the evening, but the update time is not yet certain.)

(End of this chapter)