Chapter 16: The Dragon Slaying Sword
"How so, how so!"
The masked girl was the first to scream, losing her usual composure and intelligence.
"What's going on? Is this a scam?" Jin Ning said to herself, a look of disappointment on her face.
Li Xuanji and Long Da were silent and did not speak.
The jade coffin of the Purple Dragon Emperor was opened, but there were no bones and burials of the Purple Dragon Emperor inside, and there was only an ancient sword buried in the jade coffin!
"For it, we have been tracking it for so many years, and we finally found this place, but how come it is an empty dream in the end?"
The masked girl's eyes were red, and tears were dripping down, gradually soaking the masked red scarf. She looked up at the Purple Dragon Emperor jade carving standing beside the jade coffin, and looked at the smug and domineering face, her eyes gradually revealed a hatred.
After a lot of hard work, he was finally tricked by the Purple Dragon Emperor!
"Bang!" the masked girl snatched the treasure knife from Long Da's hand, pulled it out, threw the scabbard aside, and then held the knife in both hands and flew up. A big knife was filled with spiritual power by her full of hatred, and it slashed straight at the jade carving of the Purple Dragon Emperor.
"When-boom-" As soon as the big knife came into contact with the Purple Dragon Emperor Jade Carving, the Jade Eagle instantly erupted with a terrifying yellow barrier that shook the masked girl in the air back, and fell directly to the ground, a mouthful of blood spurted out of her mouth, and the red veil covering her face fell to the ground, revealing a face that was overwhelming.
"Master, how are you?"
"Master, are you alright?"
......
The masked girl's series of actions frightened the four guards of Long Dalong, Erlong, Sanlong, and Si, and the four people hurriedly helped the masked girl on the ground up, and Long San took out a delicate jade bottle from his arms, fed a spirit pill into the girl's mouth, and then checked the girl's pulse and explored the injury.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. It's me who is impulsive and willful. Purple Dragon Emperor, even if it's just a jade statue, it's not something I can humiliate. ”
The girl sat down on a stone with the help of four guards, and began to heal herself and comb her blood. There are still tears on her handsome and charming face, and she looks as old as Jin Ning. The pointed melon seed face, the moth eyebrows frowned slightly, the originally beautiful flying fairy bun on the head was scattered, the golden hairpin also fell to the ground, and a few strands of hair covered the side of the face, which made people feel a little pity.
The girl's originally agitated and angry emotions returned to her previous calm and intelligent appearance after this encounter, but the look of loss and sadness on her face could not be completely concealed.
Li Xuanji looked at the injured girl in front of him and felt a little sympathy. Even if I changed myself and spent several years searching for it, in the end it was an empty dream, and I am afraid that I will be even more angry than her, and I will not even destroy this cave. And this girl was able to quickly control her emotions, which I am afraid is really not something she can do. Looking at the jade carving standing there that shook the girl to vomit blood, a trace of doubt appeared on Li Xuanji's face.
"Is this sword used by the Purple Dragon Emperor back then? It doesn't seem to be anything special, and it looks ugly. When Li Xuanji was full of doubts, Jin Ning didn't know when he had already taken the sword hidden in the jade coffin in his hand, and flipped it up and down with both hands to look at it.
The sword has no scabbard, it is a two-handed sword, and the shape is very simple. The blade of the sword is not sharp, dark and dull, like black iron poured; the hilt of the sword is thick enough for people to grasp with both hands, with a hint of dark bronze luster; the head of the sword is a dragon head, with beads in the mouth, lifelike; the sword grid has two dragon claws surrounding the sword body, and the dragon scales are hideous and realistic; on the sword body of the ancient sword, two words are written in rune font - slay the dragon!
"This Miss Long, you promised us before, you only take the thing you want, and give us the rest. We need this sword, right?" Jin Ning asked the girl tentatively.
"Take it. I'm not going to break my word. The girl looked at the ancient sword in Jin Ning's hand and was not moved, even if this ancient sword was the peerless divine weapon of the Purple Dragon Emperor, it couldn't solve the death situation she was facing, so why bother to go back on her word.
"Senior brother, now that you have finally found a weapon, this sword will be used for you. Jin Ning casually threw the dragon slaying sword in his hand to Li Xuanji, who was stunned.
Li Xuanji hurriedly caught the thrown dragon slashing sword, but was knocked back two steps by the weight of the dragon slaying sword. What a heavy sword! It's twice as heavy as the purple bamboo cane he used before, right? When Li Xuanji held the big sword in his hand, he was indeed speechless.
The height of the Dragon Slaying Sword actually hit Li Xuanji's shoulder directly! A twelve or thirteen-year-old boy with such a big ancient sword felt funny no matter how he looked at it.
"That...... Senior brother, you can make do with it, I really can't find any other weapons available here. Jin Ning almost didn't laugh when he saw Li Xuanji holding the Dragon Slaying Sword, forcibly suppressed his smile, and persuaded Li Xuanji.
"Let's find out if there's anything else of value in this cave. Li Xuanji tore off a piece of the clothes on his body, wrapped the dragon slaying sword in his arms, and simply made a sword bag and carried it on his body.
"Master, let's look for it too. I can't tell if that thing was not buried in a jade coffin. We've failed many times and don't care about one more time. We can keep looking. Long Da persuaded the depressed girl.
Seeing his master so disappointed and sad, the hearts of the four guards were also quite uncomfortable. The master was watched and protected by them since childhood, although the identity is the master and servant, the relationship is like their juniors, the pressure on their master over the years is too great, so that the four of them are very unbearable, all they can do is to try their best to help the master to complete every task.
The girl stood up and walked slowly through the cave with four guards, her eyes blank. I'm afraid that the five people know in their hearts that the chances of finding it are very small, but they still have to look for it. The strange flowers and plants in the cave are delicate and fragrant, and they are all valuable alien species outside, but in the eyes of the girl, it seems that they do not exist at all, and they are all ignored.
Jin Ning didn't know where to go, Li Xuanji looked at the empty jade coffin, and his mood was extremely complicated. It seems that these people have discovered a secret that they shouldn't know!
"Purple Dragon Emperor, Purple Dragon Emperor!" Li Xuanji repeated these three words in his heart. "Why do you want your descendants to deliberately destroy your beloved "Mountains and Rivers Society Map"? Why did you spend a huge amount of money to build a mausoleum early, but there are no bones of your corpse inside? Even if you cultivate to a high level, and eventually your corpse turns into a Dao and completely dissipates into heaven and earth, then there should always be your dragon cannon in your jade coffin, right? What is all this going on? What happened back then that could force you to 'die' directly?"
Li Xuanji turned around and left with the dragon slaying sword on his back, looking for something he was interested in.
This huge cave is overgrown with exotic flowers and plants, and these rare plants are undoubtedly a unique temptation for Li Xuanji, who has read through the pharmacopoeia and has a deep understanding of medicine refining.
The Purple Dragon Emperor must have collected a lot of rare elixirs in the world back then, and transplanted a lot of those elixirs in his mausoleum. The mausoleum has been isolated from the world for 10,000 years, and many rare elixirs must have died long ago and turned into dirt, but there are still many rare elixirs that have survived and even multiplied.
Those bright red as the flame phoenix orchids have multiplied into a small patch, the nine-leaf ginseng that is more than a foot tall has also been surrounded by generations of descendants, the rhizome under an inconspicuous earth dragon has swelled the soil to crack, and a lingzhi grass as small as a fist has grown as crystal clear as beautiful jade...... Even if some ordinary flowers and plants are placed in the aristocratic circle, these beautiful flowers and plants can be said to be treasures that are hard to find.
Along the way, Li Xuanji had already been dazzled, and quickly collected some elixirs. However, most of the elixir did not move, because he couldn't keep it at all, and he was afraid that he would die if he dug it up. This made Li Xuanji simply heartbroken.
"Senior brother, junior brother, I found something interesting, come here!" Li Xuanji heard Jin Ning's cry when he was still collecting medicine and regretting it, and he had to put down the elixir in his hand and look for the sound.
When Li Xuanji found Jin Ning, the mysterious girl and the four guards also rushed over one step earlier.
In front of everyone stands a stele carved of green jade! The jade stele is no more than one zhang high, three zhang wide, and stands in the middle of flowers and plants like a wall, and the stele is also crawling with flowers and plants.
There is no writing on the jade tablet, but it is engraved with people's palms, and there are probably thousands of palms in number. The palms of the hands are connected by some strange lines, long, short, broken, and continuous, which makes people scratch their heads at all.
"What is this? Sheet music? But who can understand the mess it is carved. Jin Ning muttered and frowned.
The mysterious girl was disappointed again when she saw the pattern on the jade tablet, but it was still not what she was looking for.
Li Xuanji looked at the strange palm pattern of the entire jade tablet, and a strange feeling occurred in his heart. It's a bit like the soul exploration finger of my own practice, but I don't feel like I can understand it at all.
Li Xuanji looked at those palm patterns, and his mind couldn't help but fall into it.