Volume 1 Chapter 5 (2/2)

“This sword is the legendary Zhongfeng?”

Everybody was staring at the wide sword standing in the ground, and suddenly it felt hard to breathe.

“Impossible!”

“The Sword Zhongfeng and Sword Jinguang both disappeared ten years ago when the Sword Villa was eliminated.”

“Leader Huang was the master of the Three-River Sword Clan, and he had once had a compet.i.tion with the fourth Prince of the Sword Villa; how could he be mistaken? Maybe he has seen the Sword Zhongfeng.”

“If this is the legendary sword, how did this guy get it? Has he any connection with the decimation of the Sword Villa?”

“How could he? He was only four or five years old ten years ago.”

“Where did you get this sword?” the Leader of the Three-River Sword Clan asked Di Hongtian coldly.

He had enjoyed a good relations.h.i.+p with the Sword Villa and he had held an investigation of the decimation case, but had found no trace of cause or culprit.

“From my family,” Di Hongtian replied. He turned to Doukong and said, “Since you would not take this sword, I will pay with a finger.”

The young man raised his palm to the sword and cut off his pinkie.

“Little almsgiver, why do you hurt yourself?” Doukong shook his head and looked at the abbot for him to settle the issue.

“I owe n.o.body,” Di Hongtian answered in a quiet voice.

“Amitabha.” The abbot stood out and advised, “Little almsgiver, the sword is sharp enough to take lives; Buddha and I dislike it. You’d better take it, and be careful when you walk around in the world.”

The Sword Zhongfeng was one of the nine swords. For this treasure to reappear in the world, the abbot could foresee a series of b.l.o.o.d.y fights in order to take possession of it.

There was a legend about the nine swords. In ancient times, the demon who possessed tribe leader Chiyou of the Shennong tribe enjoyed killing and the people lived in endless wars and slaughter. So all the G.o.ds took the copper of the First Mountain to forge a G.o.dly sword, and granted it to Huangdi, the leader of the Xuanyuan Tribe, to help him kill the cruel Chiyou. This sword, named after the last name of Huangdi, was called Sword Xuanyuan. It had endless power from the G.o.ds and it successfully helped Huangdi defeat the Shennong tribe.

After that, this sword pa.s.sed through the consecutive Five Emperors, and was inherited by Emperor Yu, the emperor of Xia Dynasty, the first Dynasty of China. Yu was afraid that this sword was too powerful and it could be a disaster if it was stolen by some malicious person, so he melted it down and had it re-forged into nine swords, putting them into nine tripods to hide in the nine provinces he managed.

The legend said that if all the nine swords were joined together, they had the power to kill any G.o.d or demon.

This was only a legendary saying, and n.o.body knew where it came from. The nine swords had existed for such a long time, and n.o.body had seen them gathered together. But each of the nine swords alone was powerful, and it could only be held and hid by one of the most powerful artists, otherwise the world would become b.l.o.o.d.y, even if one of them appeared.

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