Chapter 310: The Devil’s Trail
Chapter 310 – Demon Trail
【Wind and Thunder Sword, Fourth Grade Flying Sword, forged with the Heavenly Wind and Thunder Stone as the main material, the sword body contains the power of powerful wind and thunder】.
“Fourth Grade Flying Sword ……”
A thought flashed through Lu Xuan’s mind as he muttered.
This was the first Fourth Grade Flying Sword that he had opened from inside the light cluster, and after using the Third Grade Purple Electricity Sword for such a long period of time, it could finally be updated and iterated.
With the possibility of evil spirits appearing in the waters of the Empty Underworld Island, with this additional fourth-grade Wind and Thunder Sword, his strength had increased a bit.
“However, the Wind Thunder Sword comes from the light mass of the Wind Thunder Sword Grass after it matures, while the Wind Thunder Sword Grass is cultivated with the Sundown Thunder Sword Manifestation, and both of them have the wind and thunder spiritual power in common.”
Lu Xuan recalled that sword pills could be integrated into flying swords to get rid of impurities and enhance their quality.
With the fourth-grade Wind Thunder Sword and several fourth-grade Sword Talismans, the Sundown Thunder Sword Pellet that he had obtained while at the Lin Yang Workshop Market gradually became a bit unable to keep up with him.
Thinking of this, the sword pill within Lu Xuan’s dantian rotated rapidly, opened its mouth slightly, and flew out from within Lu Xuan’s mouth.
The egg-sized sword pill consisted of countless tiny sword qi, sword awns gulping and black qi twisting, with occasional flashes of faintly invisible electric arcs.
Lu Xuan’s spiritual energy controlled the Sundown Thunder Sword Pellet and approached the Wind Thunder Sword blade.
In a slight zipping sound, countless tiny black sword awns drilled into the blade of the Wind Thunder Sword.
After a long time, the Sundown Thunder Sword Pill completely fused with the Wind Thunder Sword.
Lu Xuan spiritual sense perception, Wind Thunder Sword sword body more a trace of if not the spirit, harnessing the flying sword more dynamic and natural, as if the arm of the command.
At the same time, the power of wind and thunder contained in the sword blade has also been enhanced by three points, and the sword energy is more powerful and more lethal.
“Whether it’s the Sundown Thunder Sword Pill or the Wind Thunder Sword, both contain the power of wind and thunder, they have the same root and origin, so there isn’t much difficulty when fusing them together.”
Lu Xuan secretly sighed as he smoothly inserted the Wind Thunder Sword into the Nurturing Xuan Sword Sheath at his waist.
“Here comes the new sword.”
With a ding, the ancient scabbard that was inserted by the Wind Thunder Sword’s Qi Sword trembled slightly, as if it could not bear this simple and crude method of entry.
Inside the scabbard, a shrill whistling sound was vaguely heard, not knowing whether it was the Wind Thunder Sword’s own incidental wind and thunder that was at work, or the painful whistling sound emitted by the scabbard.
“It’ll be fine after a bit of acclimatization.”
Lu Xuan soothed, allowing the Nurturing Xuan Sword Sheath to nourish the Wind Thunder Sword well.
For the next half a month, the winds and waves were calm, the imagined invasion of evil spirits did not happen, and just when Lu Xuan thought it was a false alarm, a summoning talisman flew into the small courtyard.
After confirming that there was no evil aura on the talisman, Lu Xuan punched out a spiritual energy to excite the talisman, and Song Yu’s slightly urgent voice came out from inside.
“Uncle Lu, when the Song Family cultivators were patrolling the island, they found something unusual, most likely related to evil spirits, please come over to take a look.”
“Directly southeast of the outer island.”
“It’s finally appeared.”
Lu Xuan sighed in a low voice, the Nurturing Xuan Sword Sheath was tied around his waist, the Tsunami Sword Talisman, and the Great Sun Sword Talisman were hidden within his sleeves, and the rest of the many treasures were placed in the easiest position to take out.
His silhouette was like a floating light as he hurriedly swept towards the southeastern direction of Empty Underworld Island.
When he was about to arrive at the southeastern island, his spiritual sense spread rapidly, instantly locking onto Song Yu’s aura.
“Uncle Lu!”
The moment Song Yu saw Lu Xuan appear, his heart settled down quite a bit.
“What exactly is going on?” Lu Xuan asked calmly.
“It’s like this.”
“After my senior uncle instructed me last time to pay more attention to the situation on the island every day, I organized quite a few Qi Practicing Cultivators from my family to act in small teams to patrol the area daily, delineating areas to take a closer look.”
“One of the squads discovered something unusual during their routine inspection.”
Song Yu said as he brought Lu Xuan into a small, humble courtyard nearby.
In the small courtyard, the atmosphere was extremely tense. There was a corpse lying on the ground, there were four cultivators wearing the Song Family’s standardized vestments, a gentle woman was lying on the corpse, wailing silently and crying so hard that she was almost about to faint, and there were also a few loose cultivators standing on the sidelines, looking panicked.
“Song Qiming, come and introduce the specifics to Senior Lu, there shall be no omissions.”
Song Yu said with a serious expression towards a middle-aged cultivator.
The middle-aged cultivator nodded heavily and came before Lu Xuan, bowing respectfully.
“Elder Lu, I patrolled here today with three of my subordinates, and as per usual, I checked each loose cultivator, and was about to use the Evil Expelling Talisman to check if they were contaminated by an evil spirit, when this loose cultivator suddenly flared up and attacked us.”
“We had intended to keep him under control, but we didn’t expect that he would defy death and attack us frantically, so we had no choice but to kill him.”
“But I didn’t expect that after killing it, the corpse left behind suddenly underwent a huge change and became what it is now.”
The middle-aged cultivator was at the high level of Qi Practicing cultivation, while the other three Song Family cultivators were all at the middle level of Qi Practicing cultivation.
Lu Xuan looked at the corpses on the ground with a grave expression.
The entire corpse’s skin was grayish-white, with not the slightest trace of blood, and there were tiny cracks in all directions, as if it was a piece of cracked and parched land.
From the wounds of the corpse, it can be seen that the sinews inside were air-dried, not like they had just been killed, but like they had been exposed to the sun for ten days and half a month.
Under the spiritual sense perception, the internal organs in the body of the corpse were also gray and black, extremely abnormal.
“Is this what it looks like after death?”
Lu Xuan asked Song Qiming.
“Yes, this is how it looks after death.”
“The four of us can vouch for our lives that we attacked this loose cultivator with ordinary and common talismans and spells, and we didn’t move any more after killing him.”
The middle-aged cultivator, lest Lu Xuan suspected himself, said with conviction, and the three behind him also stepped forward in unison to show their attitude.
“Well, you guys don’t have to worry, it has nothing to do with you.”
Lu Xuan had long ago carefully probed the several people and said gently.
“This fellow Daoist, what is the relationship between the dead cultivator on the ground and you?”
Lu Xuan lowered his head to the gentle woman and asked.
The woman looked up at Lu Xuan and returned with a hoarse voice.
“Back to senior, this is my husband.”
Her eyes were red and swollen at the moment, her cheeks were left with streaks of tears, and her expression was haggard, so it was evident that the loss of her beloved had dealt a huge blow to her.
“Have the two of you been out exploring recently?”
“Yes with the company of other cultivators, went to search and collect sand gathering snails, came back less than a month ago.”
Lu Xuan nodded gently.
“Did you find out if your husband had any abnormalities after returning?”
“No.” The woman nodded blankly, and suddenly, not knowing what came to mind, her head bumped frantically against the ground.
“Senior, you must do right by us! We’re just a small loose cultivator on the outer island, how could we possibly have an affair with an evil spirit?”
“The Song Family cultivator indiscriminately killed my husband and framed him for having been contaminated by an evil spirit invasion.”
“But we’re just casual cultivators at the low level of qi cultivation!”
“My husband, he was usually careful and prudent, just to be able to live one more day!!!”
The woman completely forgot about her own pain, and the thumping sound reached the ears of the crowd.
(End of chapter)