Chapter 94 – Strange Sword Scabbard
Chapter 94 – Strange Sword Sheath
“Fellow Daoist, please stay!”
Lu Xuan shouted in surprise towards the three cultivators more than ten feet away.
After he resolved the parasitic skin bag, he had been rushing in the direction of the outer perimeter of the Mysterious Realm, away from the core area of the Mysterious Realm.
Along the way, he was quite lucky, picking a few spirit medicines and taking out an ungrateful First Grade Demonic Beast.
But he didn’t know exactly how to leave the secret realm, and had been trying to find cultivators familiar with the secret realm to lead the way, and it was only after nearly half an hour that he found the figure of these three cultivators.
When the three cultivators heard Lu Xuan call out, they turned around, magic weapon spirit power surging in their hands, their eyes alert.
Lu Xuan walked to the distance of six or seven feet from the three people, three cultivators two men and one woman, two people for the sixth level of qi cultivation, one person for the fifth level of qi cultivation, dusty, visible already in the secret realm to stay for a lot of time.
“Please don’t worry three fellow Daoists, I have no malicious intent, instead I have something to ask.”
Lu Xuan stood still and spread his hands, saying with a kind expression.
“Fellow Daoist, please speak.”
The leader of the group said as he carried an ebony flying sword.
“I was originally an ordinary Spirit Plant Master in the Lin Yang Marketplace, and I was invited by someone to come over to pick some tricky Spirit Plants.”
“I didn’t expect to run into an evil spirit invasion halfway, my fellow cultivators were constantly killed by the evil spirit, and I was lucky enough to escape with my life.”
“However, this is my first time entering this newly reclaimed secret realm, I don’t understand everything inside, after escaping, I don’t know how to leave the secret realm, can the three of you make it convenient and take me out of the secret realm by the way, I will have the spirit stones to thank you.”
The three of them looked at Lu Xuan, their spiritual sense spied out that Lu Xuan’s cultivation was at the fourth level of qi cultivation, their eyes exchanged a little cryptically.
The tacit understanding formed over the years allowed the three of them to instantly understand what the remaining two were thinking.
“Fellow Daoist will be blessed if you don’t die from a great calamity, the three of us happen to be planning to leave the secret realm, fellow Daoist can join us.”
A middle-aged cultivator at the head said with a warm smile.
Lu Xuan clasped his fists in gratitude and followed behind the three.
“Fellow Daoist Lu might have been injured? Is it serious?”
Halfway there, after getting to know each other a little, the middle-aged cultivator asked out loud.
Lu Xuan, who was following the trio, didn’t look in very good shape at the moment, his face was pale, his steps were weak, and he looked like he had a serious loss of energy.
“It’s alright, thanks for your concern, fellow Daoist. In order to get rid of the Evil Sneak’s tracking, I utilized a technique that requires the burning of Essence Blood, so it led to the current hellish state, but I’ll recover well soon.”
Lu Xuan explained, after taking a Blood Pill, the Essence Blood in his body had already recovered more or less, he just looked a little weak on the surface.
“I see, I have a bottle of Healing Pill here, after taking it, it can quickly restore your qi and blood, can you try it?”
The middle-aged cultivator took out a jade bottle from his storage bag and was about to throw it to Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan hastily refused.
“Fellow Daoist Lu is too outgoing if you say so.”
“Moreover, I noticed that fellow Daoist had a long distance from the three of us along the way, are you worried that we will be unfavorable to you?”
“That’s not true, it’s just that I think it’s better to maintain a safe distance so that both sides feel at ease.”
Lu Xuan explained.
“Fellow Daoist this gives the three of us a bit of a chill, since you’ve joined the three of us, you should trust us instead of being this suspicious and skeptical.”
“Besides, there are demonic beasts and evil spirits everywhere inside the secret realm from time to time, and as you are so far away from us, in case if you encounter an accident, you might not be able to come to our rescue in time.”
The middle-aged cultivator in the lead said patiently, and the two beside him nodded in agreement.
“Then …… I came over?”
Lu Xuan said tentatively, moving a little closer to the trio.
……
“I told you to keep a safe distance, you guys just don’t.”
“Keeping a safe distance is to protect you guys, not to protect me!”
On the ground, three small piles of black ash were still lingering, and Lu Xuan threw down an Evil Dispelling Talisman in the center of the triangle. The pure spiritual light spread out without causing any strange movements.
Lu Xuan was completely relieved and looked at the three storage bags in his hands.
Not long ago, after luring him ever closer, the trio suddenly snapped, and were easily disposed of by the well-prepared Lu Xuan in a few shots, burning to black ash.
The storage bags left behind by the trio were naturally laughed at.
“There is indeed a blessing in the aftermath of a great calamity, isn’t that where the blessing comes in?”
The corner of Lu Xuan’s mouth rose as his spiritual energy probed into the storage bag.
“Bah, three poor people!”
There wasn’t much left in the three storage bags, spirit stones totaling more than a hundred, and some pills and talismans, mainly focusing on various demonic beast materials, spirit medicines and herbs, but none of them were of a high grade.
Together, the value was far less than the storage bag left behind by Jianfeng Li.
……
The core area of the secret realm, a huge palace.
More than a dozen cultivators were frantically attacking the prohibition outside the palace, which was shaky and seemed to break in the next instant.
Among the dozen or so people, the weakest cultivator was at the high level of Qi Practicing, more than half of them were at the Qi Practicing Perfection realm, and even the early stage of Foundation Establishment, the Wang Family Head, was among them.
The clan disciple Lu Xuan had seen earlier, the red-clothed girl, stayed in the corner, the four-eyed ruddy elf on her shoulder, her two pairs of pupils staring into the distance, and her strange face had two blood-colored tear stains on it.
A cultivator wearing a black robe had several green and black little ghosts crawling haphazardly on his body.
Next to him was a pair of young men and women, dressed in white, with a small golden sword embroidered on their sleeves, each harnessing a flying sword and attacking the forbidden system.
After breaking through the heavy array of prohibitions, with the Wang Family as the main force, along with several other groups of forces, they finally managed to break through to the last layer of prohibitions.
The crowd guessed that this secret realm was a cave left behind by a late Foundation Establishment cultivator or even a JieDan cultivator, thus, they were even more thirsty for the things inside the palace.
Under the gusty attack, the prohibition shattered with a bang, and several millilights shot out from inside.
The crowd used their own means to fight for the treasures inside the millimeter of light.
Surrounding the secret perimeter, Lu Xuan suddenly felt that the Sundown Thunder Sword Pill, which was being nurtured with spiritual energy inside his dantian, was out of control, trembling slightly with an increasing frequency and seemed to be about to pop out of his dantian at any moment.
“What’s going on?”
Lu Xuan was startled, this was the first time he had encountered such a situation after obtaining the Sundown Thunder Sword Pill.
Right at this moment, a millimeter of light flew towards Lu Xuan from the sky, and before he could react, the millimeter of light swiftly arrived and stuck to his chest.
An ancient and simple scabbard clung to his chest and kept sliding downwards.
“There… …… No way… ……”
Just as Lu Xuan intended to grab the scabbard that was sliding further and further downward, the scabbard automatically stopped at his dantian.
“What is this thing?”
Lu Xuan grabbed the scabbard and was about to scrutinize it when he didn’t know what came to his mind, his face changed, and transparent silk threads surfaced on the surface of the Hidden Spirit Cloak that was draped over his body, swimming madly.
Lu Xuan’s figure instantly disappeared in place.
In an instant, a sharp wailing sound rang out from afar, and before the sound fell, a cloud of blood floated over.
Inside the blood cloud, a fierce aura filled the air, nearly turning into substance, and a violent spiritual sense swept over the location where the sword sheath had disappeared.
“Huh?”
A soft eek came from inside the blood cloud, and a blood-colored skeleton popped out from inside, looking towards the ground.
Pale flames flickered in the skeleton’s hollow eyes, and the flames wavered.
“Obviously perceived that the sword sheath breath has appeared here, but there is no trace left, where did it run away?”
The blood-colored skeleton returned to the blood cloud and floated to the north.
(End of chapter)