Act Seventy-Seven: Sword Drawn
Chu Zihang stood in front of the golden gate and thought for a long time.
"Senior brother, why don't you open the door?" Lu Mingfei couldn't help it, and stepped forward to ask.
"Nothing." Chu Zihang stretched out his hand, as if he was about to push open the door, and stopped halfway through.
"I have a hunch that what's inside is going to change my life."
Lu Mingfei thinks that Senior Brother, when you met me, your life has been changed, or rather, I am here for this.
"Do I have to pay the price?" Chu Zihang asked, "Take that thing."
It's too a coincidence, everything is too coincidental, there is some kind of danger hidden in the coincidence, Chu Zihang was vaguely aware, but he couldn't figure out what the danger was.
Could he really be the so-called Chosen One? Chosen by fate? Only he can open the living soul that no one else can open, and the stone door that looks so heavy, he can just say a word to open the door, and now standing in front of this magnificent palace, he rarely hesitated for a long time.
Perhaps just thinking of the sword's previous owner, King Arthur, and his tragic fate, there was always a premonition that nothing good would happen to those who owned the sword.
But it doesn't matter if it costs his life, in fact, for so many years, he has only lived for revenge, turning back the clock to a year ago, he thinks he will not hesitate to push open that door, and then take the sword and leave.
But now...... Some kind of emotion was bothering him, it was something he had never had before, he didn't want to lose his current life, if it really meant that he was going to lose something very important, and it would cost him a lot, then he simply didn't want that sword.
"There is nothing in the world that does not have to pay a price, just more or less differences, but, brother, you have to believe that it will only make you better." Lu Mingfei patted him on the shoulder.
"Hmm." Chu Zihang made up his mind, and pushed the door with heavy force in his arm.
The door was pushed open a crack, and from inside there flashed an extremely bright light, as if a flame was burning. The island, which had no passage of time and no change of day and night, was now completely filled with light leaking from the crack in the door, as if it were about to sunrise.
The glimmer of light expanded so quickly that soon half of the sky turned golden, and the cyan clouds were completely engulfed in light.
Chu Zihang couldn't see anything clearly, but he instinctively realized that there was something going to appear in the world, what was it, when it appeared, the world was illuminated by its light? Its aura permeated the heavens and the earth, like a high wall that connected to the sky.
Everything was a sign that something was about to happen, as if the sky was falling apart and the whole world was terrified.
The light leaking from the crack in the door became more and more intense, although there was only a trace of it, but it blinded Chu Zihang's eyes.
He gritted his teeth and pushed hard, and the door was completely pushed open, and the golden façade reflected a fierce light like a river of fire, changing colors, as if it would burn at any moment.
The extreme light and extreme heat roasted Chu Zihang's face hot.
Natsumi instinctively turned her head to avoid the dazzling light, and was horrified to find that the entire sea was fiery red, and the fire in the door was repeatedly refracted in the sea, and the sea seemed to be churning with flames.
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It could just be a corpse." Nono sensed it, but didn't perceive anything.
"Is that stylish? When a person dies, he still sits on the throne in a living posture......" Natsumi grunted angrily.
Chu Zihang slowly walked towards the throne, and suddenly had a strange feeling in his heart, the king Arthur sitting on the throne ...... It's like looking at yourself.
"No offense, don't look for me if you have something to do, Senior Brother......," Xia Mi couldn't stop muttering.
"Is there such a black-hearted junior sister as you?" Lu Mingfei glanced at Xia Mi, "Senior brother, I do my best for your good, what about you? If something happens, you'll find me, right?"
"You applaud me? It's obviously ......" The more Xia Mi spoke, the more voiceless he became, thinking about it carefully, Lu Mingfei was really good to himself.
"You can't tell you why, right?" Lu Mingfei made an international friendly gesture towards her, "If you can't say anything, shut up, don't disturb Senior Brother."
"Cut, shut up, shut up." Xia Mi didn't bother to talk to Lu Mingfei anymore, and turned his head to look at Chu Zihang.
They were already close to the throne, and they realized that the body of King Arthur was sitting on the throne...... Or more accurately, King Arthur's bones.
"It's kind of scary." Natsumi hid behind Nono again.
"What's this, isn't it just a skeleton?" Nono looked King Arthur up and down, he had long since dried to the point of being a skeleton, but he still sat in a majestic posture, with a crown made of gold on his skull.
"It just feels so weird, why do you have to do this pose when you're dead......" Natsumi said as she stopped suddenly, noticing what King Arthur was holding in his hand.
"Is this the legendary sword of the lake?"
King Arthur's skeleton held a sword with both hands together, and it didn't look anything special, even the part of the scabbard that was exposed was rusty.
"That's it." Lu Mingfei touched his chin and nodded, "Senior brother, go pull it out and try it."
"Wait." Nuno interrupted Lu Mingfei with a loud voice, "You should give us a try first."
"Why?"
"In order to verify whether Chu Zihang is the chosen one?" Nono said uncertainly, "But it's just my own conjecture, it doesn't matter if I try it or not, just satisfy my curiosity."
"If Chu Zihang is, then only Chu Zihang should be able to pull it out."
"Haven't all the previous circumstances already explained that Senior Brother is right......," Lu Mingfei whispered.
"Try it and you won't lose a piece of meat, what if it's not Chu Zihang? Are we the rest of us? And we don't know, we don't even try it, thinking that even Chu Zihang can't pull it out, and we definitely can't pull it out, so we just walked away in vain, missing the opportunity."
"I can do it all." Chu Zihang gave way, "It's not bad to try."
"Then I'll come first." Lu Mingfei pretended to roll up his sleeves, walked up, and bowed to King Arthur's skeleton first, "Great Eternal King, I don't want to offend, if there is anything to do, please find that guy named Xia Mi among us......
"Senior Brother Lu, you're embarrassed to talk about me!" Xia Mi jumped up and was about to hit Lu Mingfei.
At this time, Lu Mingfei slowly held the sword in King Arthur's hand, and the sword body suddenly bloomed with a violent light, exactly the same as the light leaking from the door before, even the heat was so real, Lu Mingfei only felt that the sword became very hot, and he almost couldn't hold it.
He resisted the burning sensation in his palms, spread his legs, and pulled up with all the strength he could to feed.
The sword body went down in the dark, and Lu Mingfei couldn't pull it out in the end.
"I'll just say it, only my brother among us can do it." Lu Mingfei scolded and walked to the side and shook his hand, "This dog sword burned me."
"I'll come." Nono did not believe in evil, so he rushed up and drew the sword.
As a result, it was naturally not pulled out, and the sword was similar to Lu Mingfei's reaction to pulling it out before.
"Really." Nuo Nuo also learned from Lu Mingfei to shake his hot hands.
"I'm not going to try." Natsumi shook her head, "I always feel like this thing
It's very wicked."
"Then I'll do it." Chu Zihang said.
He walked up to King Arthur and bowed, unlike Lu Mingfei, Lu Mingfei's previous bow more or less carried a little bit of wholeness in it, and he didn't have much respect for King Arthur.
And Chu Zihang is different, he really has a deep respect for the eternal king in front of him, and there is an indescribable sense of intimacy, maybe because King Arthur also fought against Odin?
Chu Zihang slowly held the sword in the skeleton's hand, and this time the sword's reaction was completely different from before, no longer blooming with a fierce light, but blooming with a burst of gentle light that made people feel a little warm.
The sword body is no longer hot, and the most peculiar thing is that the moment Chu Zihang held the hilt of the sword, King Arthur's skeleton let go of his hand.
Lu Mingfei was stunned from the side, "Damn, it's actually this kind of reaction, senior brother, your King Arthur bastard, right?" His hidden descendants?"
"I don't know why that's happening." Chu Zihang shook his head, "I just feel very kind."
"Senior brother, can you pull it out and try it?" Lu Mingfei instigated.
"Hmm." Chu Zihang pulled out his sword with a slight force.
The previous sword was covered with a scabbard and embedded in the floor, which shows the power of sealing it at that time.
And Chu Zihang pulled it out so easily, with the sword and scabbard.
"Senior brother, you don't have to hide it." Lu Mingfei slowly lowered his jaw that almost fell to the floor, "Everyone knows that you are King Arthur's illegitimate son."
"No, I feel more like ...... This sword chose me." Chu Zihang held the holy sword in both hands and observed carefully.
"Everything is predestined in the dark." Lu Mingfei put on a strange posture for unknown reasons, "Senior brother, maybe it feels your golden spirit."
Among all the people present, only the senior second-dimensional Xia Mi understood what Lu Mingfei was doing at this time, and she said a little speechlessly, "Return the golden spirit, Senior Brother Lu, I think you are too deeply poisoned by Jojo."
"Hehe, it's really poisoned, I love that comic." Lu Mingfei scratched his head.
Chu Zihang held the hilt of the sword and pulled out the holy sword for a few points, which was completely different from Murayu, when Murayu drew the sword, the breath he gave him was cold, containing some kind of bloodthirsty murderous aura, while the sword in the lake gave him warmth, and he felt that even in the state of bursting blood, it could calm his mood.
But there was nothing special about it except warmth, and he pulled out all of his sword, and even some of it was rusty like the hilt.
Chu Zihang looked around with his sword in his hand, and there was nothing in the hall for him to chop.
"Senior brother, you're already thinking about cutting people?" Lu Mingfei knew what he was thinking as soon as he saw Chu Zihang's appearance, wiped a cold sweat and thought, "Killing embryos is really killing embryos, and the first thing you do when you get the sword is to cut something."
"Cut down the pillar over there." He hurriedly pointed to the pillars in the hall, afraid that Chu Zihang's next sentence would be to ask him to spar.
"Hmm." Chu Zihang walked towards the pillar with his sword, and when he raised his hand, there was a powerful and heavy crack.
With a "bell", the entire sword sank into the pillar made of unknown metal.
"It's not like you said it has the property of 'slashing'." Chu Zihang's wrist flicked, and the sword body was pulled out by him, "I felt obvious resistance when I slashed, if the 'slashing' characteristic still exists, it should be very easy to cut all of this pillar."
"Show me." Lu Mingfei took the sword in the lake from Chu Zihang's hand.
"Could it be that it's been too long for the feature to disappear?" Chu Zihang asked uncertainly.
"How can it disappear so easily, if the artifact will wear out because of time, don't call it an artifact, alchemy weapons are stronger than it." Lu Mingfei turned the sword around and looked at it, "It should just be that Senior Brother, you haven't activated it yet, so it has no characteristics now, it's just an ordinary sword."
"How do I activate it?" Chu Zihang seemed to be a little impatient.
"Senior brother, don't be anxious." Lu Mingfei glanced at him, "This thing can't be asked for, when it thinks you can."
, naturally, but I suggest you better keep a good mindset."
"I'm sorry." Chu Zihang was silent for a while, "I'm just...... I want to be stronger so much."
"Understood." Lu Mingfei returned the sword to him, "But there are some things that you can't do by burning yourself, in short, take this sword with you first."
"Hmm." Chu Zihang inserted the sword in the lake into his waist, and on the other side of his waist was stuck with Murayu.
"Senior brother, you can get another sword, and you can go to Sauron." Lu Mingfei said a bad word.
"Zoro?" Chu Zihang was confused, "Who is that?"
"That three-sword swordsman in One Piece! Take a handful in each hand, and bite a handful in your mouth, the thief is handsome."
"yes, yes, super handsome." Natsumi added.
"Brother, haven't you seen One Piece?" Lu Ming said incredulously, and then remembered a sad fact, and his face was slightly apologetic, "I'm sorry, senior brother, I forgot that you didn't have a childhood."
"......" Chu Zihang was speechless.
Suddenly, King Arthur's skeleton collapsed all at once, and then turned into a pile of flying ashes under the gaze of everyone.
"What does that mean?" Natsumi asked.
"Maybe King Arthur's long-cherished wish has been fulfilled." Lu Mingfei had a pilgrim look, "He has already entrusted the sword to his successor."