Chapter 164: The First Sword in the World
[December 14th, 10 p.m., Green Sea Edge]
"Can I call you Captain?" asked the fleshy red-haired boy.
"No, you can't. Qi Yunming didn't have any expression on his face, and he refused without the slightest leeway, "I'm not the captain of the ship, and I don't want to be the captain." β
"Beautiful big sister, can I call you Lord Sword Immortal?"
"It's better not to, because I'm not a sword immortal yet, at least after defeating the sword master Qiu Fengyang. β
"Is that the Tree Country Sword Hero Qiu Fengyang?"
"Yes. Qi Yunming touched the long sword Bingfeng hanging from his waist, if it wasn't for the protection of the scabbard, the cold air emitted by the sword body would make the air within three meters around it freeze, not to mention the child in front of him.
This child's name is Luo Ju, and he is the child of an ordinary person on the ship, and he heard that the famous sword immortal Qi Yunming will stand on the deck every day to enjoy the beautiful scenery, so he often comes over. There were only more than 5,000 people transporting the four hundred and fifteen warships of the Snow Country, and no one except Luo Ju dared to say a word to Qi Yunming, because every time people wanted to chat with this cold sword immortal, Qi Yunming just said lightly: "I want to be alone and quiet, if there is nothing important, don't come to me-" So, many people gave up like this.
But Luo Ju is different, he will go to the deck every day to pester Qi Yunming and tell her a lot of stories. Once, he told a story about the stars and the moon, and although the story was ridiculous, and in the end the star fell in love with the moon, but the story was finished. Another time, Luo Ju told a joke, the story was very funny, but Qi Yunming didn't laugh, so he lay on the ground and laughed for a long time.
Until now, Luo Ju felt that he had been telling stories for several days in a row, and he and Qi Yunming were acquaintances, so he couldn't keep calling her beautiful big sister, right?
So he tried again and asked, "Big sister, what should I call you?"
Qi Yunming did not answer, nor did he look at the existence of Luo Ju.
"Then I'll give you another storyβ"
"No need. Qi Yunming said: "Now I will give you a task, leave the deck immediately, and then tell everyone to evacuate urgently." Saying that, he clenched the white Ice Wind sword hilt, if he drew his sword at this moment, Luo Ju next to him would instantly turn into a popsicle, so he had to wait for Luo Ju to leave first.
"Is the enemy coming?" Seeing Qi Yunming so serious, Luo Ju realized that something was wrong, "Is the enemy coming?"
"Yes, the enemy is coming. β
Luo Ju smiled, saluted Qi Yunming, and then left quickly.
"Wait. Qi Yunming stopped Luo Ju.
"Is there anything else going on with the big sister?"
"Just call Qi Yunming in the future, I don't like the title of Sword Immortal. β
"Yesβ" Luo Ju overjoyed and dragged out his voice, and then left in the blink of an eye.
Qi Yunming breathed a sigh of relief, pulled out his long sword Ice Wind, and just like the legend, the deck within three meters was frozen into frost. She jumped to her feet and was more than twenty meters tall. The beautiful eyes were suddenly filled with blue-white ice spirit, and the infinite cold ice spiritual power gathered in his hands, and the narrow sword body of the ice wind carried a cold aura visible to the naked eye. Like a sword fairy descending to earth, the long wind stirred the cloak behind her, and without charging, the long sword swung in all directions, and the ice-blue spiritual pulse spread like a wave.
A sword aura with a chill covered the entire sea, and a surprising scene appeared. The fleet was surrounded by countless dry bones, black and pressed, and the number was at least five or six thousand.
"What's that?" the crew members all asked, "Quick, go and inform the Sword Immortal, there are not enough troops on board, if these guys attack the fleet, we'll be finished-"
Just as everyone was panicking, the evacuation alarm was turned on, and everyone was asked to take refuge in the cabin immediately. Luo Ju ran down from the deck and told everyone Qi Yunming's request. The five thousand crew members all calmed down and entered the cabin one after another, as requested by the Luo Bureau and the broadcast.
Countless monsters quickly approached the fleet, surrounding the fleet from front to back, to the left and right.
"There are four hundred and fifteen warships in the fleet, and it is difficult for the Ice Knights to be able to cover them all, no matter how powerful they areβ" Everyone in the cabin had different opinions. Except for the Ice Knights and Sword Immortal Qi Yunming, most of the people on the ship couldn't even open the vein gates, and there were not even more than a hundred people who could open more than four vein gates and form a harmonious pulse array, and they had no way but to hide here.
Just when everyone was anxious, a white-clothed swordsman stood on the snow-white spirit array, floating directly above the fleet.
"Look, Sword Immortal Qi Yunming-"
"She's going to make a move, and the ice wind is out of the sheathβ"
Everyone's eyes are full of admiration, the peerless face like a country and a city, and the unfathomable strength like a god, her existence and gods in the snow country are undoubted.
"Sister Qi Yunming, everyone is looking at you. Luo Ju leaned on a small window and muttered, "You are the Snow Country Sword Immortal, the strongest swordsman in our hearts-"
The powerful spiritual power gathered by the long sword and ice wind caused the entire sea area to begin to shake, the sea surface was turbulent, and the windows around it also made a vibrating sound.
"Is this the power of the Sword Immortal?"
Just when everyone was surprised, those humanoid bone monsters got closer and closer. Everyone could clearly see the appearance of these monsters, with the shape of a human, but without human flesh, only a bare skeleton, and the crew understood why these monsters could float at sea for so long.
Covering the sea like seaweed, these living dead covered all the moonlight on the sea, and the originally bright Heming suddenly turned black. The crew's minds were now full of doubts, but only thinking about how to drive them away, and did not have time to think further about where these guys had quietly approached the fleet from where.
There was a crisp sound in the sky, and a light brighter than the moonlight hung over the fleet, so fast that it was too fast to react. Everyone looked at Qi Yunming in unison, and by the time everyone reacted, the Ice Wind Sword had already been sheathed.
"That was ββββ just now," the crew opened their mouths wide.
"ββThis is the sword of the Sword Immortal, the strongest swordsman in the alliance, the Snow Country Sword Immortal, Qi Yunming. β
In the frozen air, everyone did not dare to breathe, until they focused on the living dead in the sea, and found that the whole body of each living dead was cut to pieces by dense sword marks, and the purple-black mist on their bodies also dissipated in the moonlight-like sword moves.
"It's-"
This is nothing short of a miracle. β
The crowd began to cheer, opening the door of the cabin and shouting Qi Yunming's name.
"Snow Country Sword Immortal, Qi Yunming;
In the crowd, the meaty Luo Ju also cheered, it was she who saved everyone. Just retreats from ten thousand armies with one sword, this is the sword immortal, the first person in the world to use a sword. Since ancient times, the youth of the Snow Country of the Tree Country love to use swords, and the Tree Country produces sword heroes, and the Snow Country produces sword immortals. Jian Hao is the honor of the tree country, then the sword fairy is the pride of the snow country. They don't care how powerful the Autumn Wind Sword Hero is, they just need to know that the Snow Country Sword Immortal is the number one in the world.
Amid the cheers of everyone, Qi Yunming, dressed in white, slowly fell from the sky and smoothly returned to the deck of the strongest side of the fleet.
She could feel the chill from the icy wind gradually seeping into her spiritual veins, as if she had fallen into an endless ice cave. She sighed, it seemed like a big joke to her, since she became the inheritor of Ice Wind, while gaining the powerful power of the Ancient Spirit Weapon, the backlash of Ice Wind has always haunted her.
The powerful chill can only be suppressed by the scabbard, and once the ice wind comes out of the sheath, the chill can't help but hurt people as well as themselves. This is also the reason why she rarely draws a sword, Ice Wind has never been unsheathed in three years, and this sword is also the first sword in three years. I didn't expect that the backlash of the chill behind this sword would be so strong.
Every day and every night, she imagines the scene when she draws her sword, and the sword intent is natural. Less than three minutes ago, when she found the living dead around her, she had already sensed the unusual power in them, not spiritual power, no spiritual arts, and no veins, but a substance that was just the opposite of spiritual power. The first moment he saw these living dead, Qi Yunming thought of a countermeasure, to ensure that he killed so many living dead, the only way to do it was to use his sword-
Although she was not satisfied with this sword, after cultivating for so long, her control over the chill was still insufficient, and this would be her biggest weakness when she faced a real enemy. Of course, her imaginary enemies were world-class masters of the level of Qiu Feng Sword Hero Qiu Feng Yang and Scarlet Body Gu Monroe, as well as several other inheritors.
It didn't take long for the chill in his body to finally clear. Qi Yunming looked at Bingfeng blankly, while this sword gave her strength, it also weakened her strength, this is a contradiction, and it is also an axiom, power does not appear out of thin air, all powerful power has a price.
She smiled, looked at the bright stars and said, "One day, when the chill of the ice wind merges with me, that is the real sword immortal-"
The breeze gently blew across the sea, and the corpses of the living dead that had been cut into fine pieces by Qi Yunming fell into the water, and no one noticed that the corpses had disappeared, but everyone began to discuss the origin of these living dead and why they attacked the Snow Country Fleet.
"Is it the legendary mage of the Ning people? The ability to summon the living dead is something that a psychic can't do, and it's impossible for the living dead to act on their own, someone must be behind it. A crew member analyzed.
"I don't think so, Ning Guo is also a member of the Holy Alliance, and Ning Guo and us Snow Country people have no hatred, there is no reason to do so. The knight of the Ice Knights in silver armor said, "Judging from the situation just now, the number of these living dead is at least close to ten thousand, and there are very few people in the world who can perform such a large-scale summoning technique-"
Another knight said, "If Carragon is excluded, no one will have such abilityβ"
For a while, the whole fleet was full of discussions, everyone had their own opinions, most people thought that this was a good thing done by the legendary mage of Calagon, some thought it was some ancient spiritual magic, and even a few people thought it was a mirage.
There were all kinds of conjectures, but Qi Yunming already had his own ideas.
The leader of the Ice Knight team in this operation was a middle-aged man who was not very tall, and he found Qi Yunming on the deck for the first time.
"What should I call you?"
"Honorable Sword Immortal, if you don't mind, just call me Captain, it's hard to remember a person's name. β
"Well, Captain, I agree with what you said. Qi Yunming turned around and smiled slightly, "You must have come to me for the matter of the living dead just now, but I regret to tell you that I don't know much about the living dead." β
"But His Excellency the Sword Immortal fought with them just now, didn't he-"
Qi Yunming shook his head, "Mr. Captain, I can't see anything greasy from the fight just now, I can only say that they were already dead before I cut them to pieces. β
"We all know that. β
"In addition to this, there is one last discovery. β
"What?" asked the captain.
"These living dead people don't have any spiritual power, no spiritual veins, no veins, and what flows in their bodies is a kind of power that is opposite to spiritual power, and it seems that collision with spiritual power will produce an annihilation effect. Qi Yunming said, "Other than that, I really don't know anything, Your Excellency Captain." β
"Thank you for your help and for sharing the information with the Ice Knights. β
Qi Yunming turned around and said, "What should I do with this information, that's the matter of your Ice Knights, and it has nothing to do with me." β
"Yes, that's going to take your leave. β
Just as the captain was about to leave, Qi Yunming stopped him, "I have a hunch that if we are attacked by the living dead, then the Beast Country Fire Department should also be attacked, if the conditions allow, you can talk to the people of the four divisions, maybe you will get more information." β
"Yes. The captain bowed, and quickly left the deck.
Qi Yunming's long lilac hair was draped over his shoulders, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he could actually see the scattered lights of the coastline. At this time, they had already left the green sea area and officially entered the inland sea of the tree country.
At this pace, we will definitely arrive on time tomorrow afternoon. Qi Yunming pondered for a long time and also left the deck, this was the last night she spent in this fleet.