His clothes were very different from those of the villagers, so he was recognized by them as soon as he entered the village.
Someone immediately reported his whereabouts to the village chief.
The village chief here is a physical cultivator in the Jindan stage. After hearing the news, he found Zhao Kangping.
"Excuse me, are you from outside?" The village chief was a sturdy middle-aged man with a tough appearance.
"That's right. The Long family said something happened in the sword furnace, so they summoned a group of cultivators to investigate, and I was one of them." Zhao Kangping made up a story.
There was indeed something wrong with the sword furnace, but the Long family was very secretive about what exactly happened. They had hired people here not to investigate, but to work, yet those cultivators were still very motivated.
The villagers seemed wary of him as an outsider, but that was normal.
"Oh, how about you come to my house and have a seat? I can talk to you in detail." The village chief smiled friendly.
However, Zhao Kangping politely declined, "No, no, I just want to ask a few questions and leave soon."
Seeing that he seemed unwilling to stay for long, the village chief relaxed a little and said, "Fellow Daoist, please ask."
Zhao Kangping: "Is it that there are new people coming to the village recently?"
This question stumped the villagers, and they looked at each other in confusion.
However, Zhao Kangping did not expect to get an answer from them.
The people here are quite xenophobic and they don't trust anyone except the Long family.
It was estimated that the weapon spirit had sneaked into the village, disguised as a villager. They probably couldn't see through the weapon spirit's disguise.
So Zhao Kangping planned to look for it himself. While he was talking to the village chief, his spiritual sense was also searching the village.
The people here don't have high cultivation levels. Only the village chief is in the early stage of the Golden Core stage, and he has barely broken through to the Golden Core stage. His potential may have been exhausted.
So even though he has been compressed to the level of the Nascent Soul stage, he can still release his spiritual consciousness without anyone noticing.
After scanning, he indeed found nothing unusual in the village, so he left the village somewhat disappointed.
However, when he was about to leave the village, a little girl who came back from playing outside the village caught his attention.
Chapter 488 Luo Xueqing VS Lan Ruoyu
In the crystal jungle, two figures crossed each other in the air, and sword lights poured down like rain.
The swords in the two men's hands sometimes collided and sometimes separated.
To Luo Xueqing's surprise, her master didn't have any special physique for swordsmanship, but her sword moves were still quite powerful. She couldn't get any advantage.
It may be that the grade of the Qingni Sword is several levels higher than that of the Feixue Sword.
The greater the difference in quality between spirit swords, the greater the difference in the power of sword moves.
Luo Xueqing's innate sword body makes her a natural sword cultivator. Not only does it make it easier for her to learn various sword techniques, it also increases the power of all her sword techniques.
"Some of your moves were not taught by your master, right?" During the battle, Lan Ruoyu was also observing Luo Xueqing.
This disciple's talent in swordsmanship is stronger than that of her two disciples.
"Yes, some of them are my own opportunities, and some are the sword techniques collected in the Sutra Library." Luo Xueqing learned a variety of sword techniques, and she said it very frankly.
In fact, she challenged Lan Ruoyu not only for the ultimate sword core, but also wanted to take the opportunity to ask the master for some guidance, or to secretly learn the master's sword.
Lan Ruoyu swung her sword, bringing out a streak of white light that swept through the crystal pillars along the way and caused them to collapse.
Where the crystal collapsed, smoke and dust shot up into the sky.
A white figure broke through the dust, turned into a stream of light and rushed over, fighting with Lan Ruoyu again.
Where the two collided, sword light splashed everywhere, and the aftermath caused great damage.
Sand and rocks flew everywhere, smoke and dust filled the sky, colorful petals danced in the wind, and were then strangled by two sword energies.
"You are very talented. You have already mastered the sword skills at such a young age. In time, you will become a great man." Not many people can receive praise from Lan Ruoyu, but when fighting with her disciple today, she did not hesitate to praise him.
Grandmaster is very powerful. Luo Xueqing can feel that in terms of swordsmanship, master's sword is not as exquisite as grandmaster's.
As Master said, his spiritual roots weren't really that advantageous for swordsmanship. It was mainly because his master was skilled in swordsmanship that he followed him in learning swordsmanship.
I don’t know whether it was because the master didn’t teach the master well, or because the master didn’t learn well.
Some of the great sword moves of my great master have never been used by my master.
She had practiced with her master countless times, and she had seen and learned almost all of his sword moves.
It just so happened that Luo Xueqing possessed an innate sword body. After watching Lan Ruoyu's moves once, she basically memorized the opponent's moves.
After a few rounds, she had mastered these sword moves.
Then she used those moves in front of Lan Ruoyu.
"You learn and apply what you learn right away. You're truly a genius." Lan Ruoyu admired her disciple even more.
As Luo Xueqing guessed, Lan Ruoyu did not teach Zhao Kangping some sword moves.
But it wasn't that Zhao Kangping didn't want to learn, but Lan Ruoyu saw that he had limited aptitude in swordsmanship and didn't teach him.
In fact, it is not the case that the more tricks you learn, the better. In many cases, quality is more important than quantity.
Mastering one set of sword techniques thoroughly may be better than learning three sets of the same level of sword techniques but only learning the basics.
However, Luo Xueqing's talent in swordsmanship was so outstanding that even Lan Ruoyu felt a sense of appreciation for her talent.
"It would have been great if you could have been born two or three hundred years earlier." The white-haired fairy sighed sincerely.
After saying that, she used another sword to offset Luo Xueqing's sword force.
The violent wind carried the petals all over the sky, causing a violent storm that swept across the entire crystal jungle.
Many smaller crystal pillars broke, fell, or were uprooted, and shock waves spread out in a large area centered on them.
The shock wave scraped off layer upon layer of the ground, the soil layer was lifted up, and even the bedrock layer underneath was exposed.
The two men continued to fight in the air, the fight became more and more intense, and they were surprisingly evenly matched.
In fact, Lan Ruoyu had not yet used her full strength, but Luo Xueqing had already tried her best.
She had a precious sword like the Qingni Sword. If she wanted to, she could cut off the Feixue Sword in one fight. But she didn't.
When she saw the Feixue Sword again, she felt a myriad of emotions in her heart.
This is the sword she once used, which was later passed on to Zhao Kangping and now is in Luo Xueqing's hands.
Isn’t this a kind of inheritance from the master?
"Master, look at my sword." Luo Xueqing dodged a few times and moved more than a hundred feet away, but her voice still appeared clearly in Lan Ruoyu's ears.
Fairy Luo raised the sword above her head and then brought it down heavily.
The mighty sword light like an EX curry stick slanted out, as if to swallow up everything that stood in its way.
The dazzling sword light swept past, and the sword wind arrived before the sword, blowing Lan Ruoyu's hair into dance and her clothes fluttering.
Even she, after her strength was compressed to the level of the Nascent Soul stage, could not withstand this sword with her physical body.
She could have easily dodged it and not taken the sword. With her physical skills, she could still do it.
However, seeing that her disciple was so talented, she also wanted to test his abilities.
Therefore, a blazing green light burst out from the Qingni Sword.
Her next sword strike was not as powerful as that of a Yuanying stage cultivator. Under the suppression of the secret realm, she still used a sword strike that exceeded the limits of the Yuanying stage.
The fairy in colorful clothes swung her sword horizontally, and the green sword light was like a long rainbow, carrying unstoppable power to meet the opponent's unstoppable sword force.
"Your swordsmanship is very strong, but you're still a little young."
It had been a long time since Lan Ruoyu had met an opponent who could match her in kendo.
In terms of swordsmanship alone, there is basically no cultivator active in the Eastern Region who can match her.
So she has reason to be proud, but she never mentions it.
……
The miners, craftsmen and servants working in the secret realm have just been rescued by monks from outside.
They were setting up pots and cooking on the ruins. Most of these people had not yet started fasting, so eating was a big deal for them.
The disaster in the sword furnace had subsided somewhat, but the people were still a little frightened. However, after the hot meals were served, they felt more at ease.
"What's that over there?" Someone pointed into the distance, where there seemed to be a light rising into the sky.
The dazzling light brought a different color to the secret place, which has always appeared gray due to volcanic ash.
That seems to be the direction of the Crystal Jungle.
The wind blew from that direction, and a large gap was split in the volcanic ash cloud in the sky.
The skylight fell, and the entire secret realm became a little brighter.
Many indigenous people who have lived in the secret land since childhood saw the sky of the secret land for the first time.
It turns out that the sky here is a huge inverted bowl-shaped piece, which is a sky-blue glowing crystal.
Although they had never seen the real sky, the natives all put down what they were doing and looked up at the crystal sky.
They had never seen such a scene before. Compared with the sky formed by volcanic ash, even the exposed corner seemed to take away all their sight.
Because it is so beautiful.
……
Zhao Kangping stared at the little girl who came back from outside the village and found that she was holding a puppy in her arms.
The girl was about six or seven years old and looked very young.
Zhao Kangping subconsciously scanned her with his spiritual sense, and found that there was nothing wrong with the girl, but the problem was the puppy in her arms.
Feeling that it was being watched, the dog became very agitated and quickly broke free from the little girl's arms.
Then the puppy turned into a shadow and disappeared in a flash.
The little girl didn't react to what was happening. She looked around in a daze, but didn't see the puppy. She suddenly sat on the ground and burst into tears.
Zhao Kangping quickly chased after him.
The spirit of the weapon actually turned into a puppy, instead of a woman as in the original story.
The sword furnace spirit itself has no combat ability, but its means of escaping are unique.
But don't underestimate it because it has partial control over the Sword Furnace Secret Realm.
Every blade of grass and tree, the earth and mountains here are controlled by its will. It can cause earthquakes when it wants, and it can make the three volcanoes erupt when it wants.
It is considered to be the master of most of this world.
Why not complete domination? Because the three ancestors of the Long family also have some control, but the combined power is not as great as that of the weapon spirit.
The riot of elemental creatures in the secret realm was the work of the spirit of the weapon.
Because the Long family has been constantly exploiting this secret realm to produce spiritual swords, this has brought a great burden to the entire secret realm.
Just like in some science fiction works, humans over-exploit the earth's resources, causing Mother Earth to be overwhelmed, and then the will of this planet brings extreme natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis to punish humans.
In a sense, this weapon spirit also represents the will of the entire Sword Furnace Secret Realm. It seems unwilling to continue to be the slave of the Long family and wants to rebel.
But the spirit of the weapon was born not long ago, and its mentality is still a bit like that of a playful child.
So it didn't take a more violent approach, but instead vented its dissatisfaction like a child throwing a tantrum.
Zhao Kangping tracked the escaped weapon spirit.
At this time, it had lost its puppy form and turned back into a ball of fire.
Then it dived into the ground and escaped underground.
If it were in the past, he might have lost her.
In the past, he could only use the Earth Escape Talisman to go underground. The speed of moving underground with the Earth Escape Talisman was fixed and only linked to the grade of the Talisman.
However, he had learned the Earth Movement Technique from Dongfang Jingrou, which allowed him to burrow underground. The speed of this technique was not fixed, but depended on the user's level of cultivation. It could also be accelerated by using the Divine Movement Talisman while using the Earth Movement Technique.
That's what he did, so after being briefly thrown off by the weapon spirit, he quickly caught up with it again.
The spirit of the weapon seemed to be moving deeper underground, and the temperature around it was getting higher and higher.
Just as he was about to catch up with the spirit of the weapon, the situation changed a little.
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