Chapter 318: A Baby’s Sword
As spring turns to winter, another year steps into winter.
It has only just begun winter, and it hasn’t snowed yet, only the weather has become gloomy and cold. The lawn in front of Danfeng’s cabin, the grass is already withered and decayed, and can’t be seen; the trees by the sword-washing lake are already under the falling trees.
A few hundred meters deep beneath this land that was immersed in the silent atmosphere of winter, right next to the Spirit Vein, there was a small rectangular chamber that was seven meters in length and width and about three meters in height.
Inside the chamber, there was a circular formation diagram on the floor that covered the entire chamber, with dense arcane formation patterns engraved in between; on the side wall, there was a light table with bright lights that illuminated the small chamber; at one end, there was a small platform more than a meter high, and on the platform, there were two grooves, the size of which was the same as that of a generic spirit stone.
Without further ado, we know that the extraordinarily complex formation on the floor of this secret room is Qin Ran’s “ultra-distance one-way teleportation formation”.
At this moment, Qin Ran stood behind that small platform, tightening his brows with a grave expression.
He looked at the formation pattern of the teleportation formation on the ground and silently calculated in his heart, verifying bit by bit that there were no mistakes or omissions in the formation.
After calculating many times and confirming that there is no error in all aspects of the array pattern, he went around the small platform and went to each array eye location, turning over every important array material to look …… at the material to see if there is any mistake, and to see if the quality of the material is up to standard.
After looking at it a few times, he stood back behind the small platform, but finally took out two spirit stones …… two top quality spirit stones from his Qiankun bag.
He took two spirit stones and carefully coiled them in his hands, looking at the formation in front of him, and without noticing, he began to calculate the structure of the formation pattern again ……
This formation had actually been set up for a long time, but until today, the formation had never been activated.
Because every time Qin Ran came here, he went around like this to check if there were any mistakes.
Of course, this actually couldn’t be blamed on Qin Ran at all, because every time the broken formation was activated, it would cost two top-grade spirit stones!
The conversion ratio between Spirit Stones and Spirit Stones was such that a medium grade Spirit Stone was at least a thousand lower grade Spirit Stones, and a top grade Spirit Stone would be at least a million lower grade Spirit Stones.
Qin Ran’s greed over the past year or so, coupled with his savings from previous years, by now, he only had two top-grade spirit stones.
If the teleportation failed, the two million spirit stones would directly go down the drain.
Furthermore, what he teleported over this time would have to be a bilocation with considerable weight;if it failed, this would have too great an impact on his Yuan Shen. He was already a wimp, and with this cost being so great, he was even more wimpy …… and delayed starting.
After dwelling on it for most of another day, he suddenly heard Li Shiyin on the ground asking Tushan Yoyo, “Yoyo, have you seen my master?”
Tushan Yoyo had been planting peach trees by the Sword Washing Lake all this time, almost at the head of this small secret room.
When he thought of his stupid disciple, Qin Ran gritted his teeth and secretly said, “People die and birds face the sky, but it’s just some spirit stones, what’s so tight?”
With that thought, he reached out and was about to slap the spirit stone up, ready to teleport.
But just then, he heard Li Shiyin exclaim again, “Sword Qi! That’s …… my sword qi!!!”
In a rare occurrence, Li Shiyin’s tone appeared to be grave.
“Something’s wrong!” Just by listening to Li Shiyin’s tone of voice, Qin Ran knew that something had happened. He hurriedly left the formation chamber and then unfolded his Earth Escape Technique to return to the ground.
When he came to the ground, Li Shiyin had already disappeared, and only Tushan Yoyo was looking at him with an astonished face as he drilled out of the ground.
“Where’s Shion?” He asked out loud, ignoring Tushan Yoyo’s curiosity.
Tushan Yuyu pointed outside the Dao Sword Gate and said, “She said she sensed her sword qi and then flew out, I don’t know what’s going on.”
“Shiyin’s sword qi?” Qin Ran frowned, and his face was a bit grave.
A not that appropriate analogy to illustrate the idiosyncrasies of each sword cultivator’s sword qi:
Each cultivator’s mana, flowing through the cultivator’s body, was actually no different from blood flowing through them. And everyone’s blood, in detail, was unique. Even though there were people with the same blood type who could transfuse blood between each other, there was bound to be a subtle difference between the bloods due to the different body types. And even though cultivators could cultivate the same gongfu, the mana produced by the gongfu in each person’s body would be different with each person, the same as the blood.
Thus, the sword qi that was born from mana also had the specificity of each cultivator.
Especially for a sword cultivator of Li Shiyin’s height, her sword qi could almost be said to be unique. And as she got higher, her sword qi would become more unique, and perhaps one day, her Star Sword Qi would be unique when placed across the entire history of cultivation.
To summarize, when there was an appearance of Li Shiyin’s sword qi elsewhere, it was an extremely significant event for Li Shiyin.
Qin Ran also did not think any more and performed his body technique to fly up, heading out of the Dao Sword Sect.
However, he had just flown to the Dan Peak’s mountain protection formation when Li Shiyin returned.
…… She was carrying a one or two month old baby in her arms.
Her expression was extremely heavy, a kind of seriousness from her bones that Qin Ran had not seen before.
At this moment, Qin Ran looked at Li Shiyin as if he really saw a peerless sword immortal. He really had never seen this side of Li Shiyin before.
“He is?” He asked.
Li Shiyin looked towards her master, her stoic face finally a little strained, but she gritted her teeth, resisted the urge to jump into her master’s arms and cry bitterly, and replied, “His name is Li An.”
Before leaving home at the beginning of the year, Li Shiwen told Li Shiyin that if the baby in Yuchi Zhen’s womb was a girl, it would be called Li Ping, and if it was a boy, it would be called Li An. Names were the parents’ high hopes for their children, just as Li Konghe wanted Li Zhan to fight for his country, and Li Zhan wanted Li Shiwen and Li Shiyin to read more, it was clear that Li Shiwen wanted her child to be peaceful.
“Li An.” Qin Ran remembered that Li Shiyin had bestowed a sword qi seed on Li Shiwen’s child, and he asked, “He ……”
“He hasn’t practiced …… yet but came by imperial sword!” Li Shiyin knew what Qin Ran wanted to ask and answered directly.
Once again thinking of the seriousness of the problem, she took a deep breath and moved forward, sending Li An into Qin Ran’s arms. And then she probed her head and gave Qin Ran a light touch on his lips.
Li Shiyin retreated her position, summoned the Twilight Sword and said to Qin Ran, “Master, something must have happened to them! I’m going to save them.”
After saying that, she merged her body with the sword and used her body to control the sword, instantly rushing out of the Dao Sword Gate from the Dan Peak, and in the blink of an eye, she disappeared into the distant sky.
In this year, Li Shiyin had barely used her sword in order to learn gentleness. But as she told Wind Chaser, she had gained a new realization in the sword path.
She didn’t use her sword, but she was stronger. The moment she struck was when her body and sword merged.
It’s rather like a sword that doesn’t go out without a bang.
Qin Ran watched Li Shiyin disappear in an instant without marveling or uttering a word to stay her.
He looked down to see Li An in his arms. Little Li An must be a month old, at this moment peaceful and quiet, staring at him with wide open eyes, not crying, not sure if he didn’t recognize the baby or knew he was holding goodwill towards him.
“A baby came …… with a sword,” Qin Ran thought about the image, the child commanded a sword across the sky and flew directly to the Dao Sword Sect, “This is fate. You flew to Dan Peak by yourself, when you are a disciple of my Dan Peak.”