Chapter 140: The Secret of the Tablet

On April 22, Wang Jie returned to Los Angeles with Kate Beckinsale, who had been suspended, and Kate Beckinsale finally met her idol Audrey Hepburn.

For Wang Jie to bring a beautiful girl home again, Audrey Hepburn is used to it, and she also likes this slightly straightforward girl very much.

After arranging Kate Beckinsale, Wang Jie came to a storage room in the basement of the villa alone. Wang Jie took out the stele from the subspace, used the stone dissolver to start cutting the stele, and it took more than an hour before Wang Jie took out a long sword made of stone from the stele. WANG JIE SUMMONED SHENNONG DING FROM THE DANTIAN, PUT THE STONE LONG SWORD INTO THE DING AND BEGAN TO IGNITE THE FIRE AND CALCINED, AFTER MORE THAN HALF AN HOUR, I SAW WANG JIE TAKE OUT A DAZZLING WESTERN-STYLE LONG SWORD FROM SHENNONG DING, AND THE INSCRIPTION ON THE SWORD BODY WAS ENGRAVED: ONLY THE KING CAN TAKE THE SWORD FROM THE STONE.

Wang Jie was taken aback when he saw this inscription, and he also determined the origin of this sword, which was none other than the legendary King Arthur's sword in the stone.

The first recorded appearance of the sword in history in a church was on Christmas Eve, when people looked up after confession and saw a sword stuck in a square stone. Written in gold around it were the words: "Whoever pulls this sword out of the stone platform and is born in England, he is the king of all England." "When the people present had done Mass, they tried to draw the sword, but no one could pull it out. So the bishop ordered ten respected knights to guard the sword. On the New Year, the knights took part in jousting sessions. King Arthur's adoptive father, Ektor, brought his son Kai to the tournament, but Arthur was not allowed to become a knight due to his young age. The careless Kai forgot to bring his sword, which could have caused him to lose and humiliate in the tournament, and even seriously injured him. So he asked Arthur to ride his horse to get his sword. When Arthur arrived at the house where he was staying, he found that the owner had locked the door to watch the joust. Arthur, who was out of order, suddenly remembered the sword in the stone. He hurried to the church to draw his sword, only to find that all ten sword knights had gone to see the tournament. In desperation, Arthur grasped the hilt of his sword unsupervised and drew his sword in one fell swoop. When he handed the sword to Kai, Kai recognized it as a sword in the stone at a glance and passed it on to his father, Ektor. Ector couldn't believe his eyes, he never thought Arthur would pull out this sword. He then plunged his sword back into the stone, but neither he nor Kai could pull it out, and Arthur drew his sword with ease. Because Arthur was too young for the nobles to bow down, they repeatedly asked Arthur to draw his sword in public but still didn't believe that it was their true destiny. Over time, the people began to identify with Arthur as king, and they objected to the nobles' repeated procrastination. Shortly thereafter, Arthur became king of all England.

Legend has it that the sword in the stone broke in a duel with King Bellinor. At that time, King Bellinnor repeatedly refused to fight with his sword, and only fought with his spear. The first two spear contests were evenly matched, and the third time King Arthur was defeated. Despite King Birlinor's repeated assertions that he was unwilling to test his swordsmanship, King Arthur, who refused to admit defeat, eventually drew his sword, and after a battle to the death, the sword was cut off by King Birlinor. When King Bellinor learned that his opponent was King Arthur, King Arthur, who was afraid of being defeated, waited for revenge, and in fear, he tried to kill King Arthur on the spot to prevent future troubles, but fortunately Arthur escaped with the help of the magician Merlin. The sword was especially important to the knights, and King Arthur was guided by the magician Merlin to a lake, where the fairy held a sword in her hand and lifted it out of the water to give to King Arthur.

Although in many places the Sword of Stone and the Sword of the Lake are conflated, the Sword of the Stone is King Arthur's original sword, and the Sword of the Lake was obtained by King Arthur from the Nymph of the Lake under the guidance of Merlin. The Sword in the Stone is the "Sword of Destiny" used by the chosen king, and there are two versions of the origin legend of the sword in the surviving ancient Arthurian legend. The original origin of the legend of "Sword in the Stone" comes from the poetic wizard "Merlin".

Specifically, in the Legend of Merlin, it is explicitly stated that the sword drawn from the stone is Excalibur, but in later versions, it is changed to be obtained from the fairy of the lake. And "The Death of King Arthur" writes both statements, resulting in two swords. Therefore, Excalibur is the sword in the stone. There is an opinion that "drawing a sword out of a stone" is an allusion to metallurgy.

The sword in the stone does not only represent the divine authority of the king, it also represents the virtues that a king should have. As history has written, when a group of frogs at the bottom of the well, greedy for status and wealth, dreamed of becoming king of all England, Stone Sword rejected them, and when a young man ran to protect his brother's life and honor, Stone Sword blessed the young man. When Arthur grew up, God decided to see if he could endure the humiliation, but unfortunately he failed to live up to God's expectations and the sword in the stone broke. Even so, the heavens still gave King Arthur a chance, and Merlin took King Arthur to obtain a sword in the lake. When Merlin asked King Arthur whether he preferred the sword or the scabbard, King Arthur chose the sword, which showed that he did not accept the lessons that King Bellinnor had taught him, and that he was not a king who valued the security of the country, and this choice deprived him of God's blessing and planted the seeds for the decline of the Arthurian dynasty in history.

Wang Jie took a closer look at this legendary holy sword, and was surprised to find that this sword was actually made of a mixture of copper and dark iron from the first mountain. Xuantie is the star stone, is a special meteoric iron, the legendary famous sword cadre Mo Ye is made of Xuantie; as for the copper of the first mountain is more famous, the legendary divine soldier, the sword of the Holy Dao Xuanyuan Sword is cast by the Yellow Emperor by the bronze of the first mountain of the gods, and later passed on to Xia Yu. Legend has it that the body of this sword is engraved with the sun, moon and stars on one side, and the mountains, rivers and plants on the other, and the hilt of the sword is written on the art of farming and animal husbandry, and on the other side is the policy of unifying the four seas. Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor relied on this sword to defeat Chi Youcai to dominate China, legend has it that Xuanyuan Sword contains infinite power, for the demon to kill the demon sword. This sword was passed on to Xia Yu, and Yu made great contributions when he ruled the water, and the Xia Dynasty established the country with this. Hundreds of years later, the Xia Dynasty monarch had no way, and this sword was obtained by Shang Tang, who took the world with this sword and established a new kingdom - the Shang Dynasty again. In the end, turmoil also began in the late Shang Dynasty, and this holy Dao divine sword was nowhere to be found.

Wang Jie carefully put the sword in the stone into the subspace, he planned to use this sword as a material to refine a sword that belonged to him in the future, he would not use this sword lightly before that, and God knows if the descendants of the Knight of the Round Table would make a big fight for this sword.