Chapter 177 Shenqing Xuanqi Sword Formation (1/2)

The Qi Instrument that flew out from Shen Lian was what he picked up by chance in the Kingdom of Yuetuo. It was an antique shop called ”Zhixing House”. The house owner was a middle-aged scholar. Shen Lian had a memorable impression of him. He was elegant and well read. He even tested Shen Lian’s knowledge on the origin of the Qi instrument – if Shen Lian could answer it correctly, he would give the item to him for free. As Shen Lian answered him easily, he gave the item to him.

The reason why Shen Lian was willing to accept the Qi instrument was because of its properties where ‘it stays straight when it is half full; it will topple when it is full; it stays as Qi in the void.’ It was rather mysterious, and could potentially help him in understanding Dan Dao. Without the awareness, he could not have understood the secret of Huandan when he was fighting Zhao Xiaoyu. Or even if he could achieve Huandan, it would not be a comprehensive one.

He did not expect that someone had played a trick on the instrument, and it went under his eyes. The person who had played the trick was rather careful, as he only activated it when the bone relic appeared in Jing Guang Temple.

Shen Lian had been paying attention to Hong Zhen. He realized that Hong Zhen was mumbling something when the odd thing happened to the Qi instrument. He noticed an odd activation of spiritual power and hence related the two incidents.

He intended to suppress the instrument with his power, but as the sword will carry the voice of Chen Jianmei, he decided to just let it out.

Chen Jianmei did not become the sword will, but instead, he made use of some secret techniques to resonate with the sword will within his body in order to transmit the message to him. It could go undercover without anyone noticing. This was because Chen Jianmei had spent a long time understanding Master Yuanqing’s sword will, and hence he could make use of it to transmit a message without anyone noticing.

It would be impossible to hide from all the powerful people present, especially people like Mister Sea and even Baoyue the Venerable.

He connected the dots, but he still could not understand what was wrong with the middle-aged scholar. At the same time, Hong Zhen was the one who transmitted the message to him and invited him over to Jing Guang Temple. While he was under the order of Hui Ke, but coupled with what happened just now, Hong Zhen seemed like a problematic character.

Furthermore, the Qi instrument flew out from him and took the bone relic. He could not just escape from being responsible for its action, but Hong Zhen could stay out of it completely.

Ultimately he wondered what was the trick used by the person who stole the bone relic. He could deceive Mister Sea, and even stealthily placed the real relic on Hong Zhen. Chen Jianmei, however, seemed to predict all of it as he was ready to ambush the blood ray from the void with his sword ray.

To be able to go undetected by Baoyue the Venerable was entirely impossible, even though Chen Jianmei’s Shapeless Sword Incantation had reached an incredible height.

The sword ray was from Chen Jianmei, and the blood ray was his opponent, which was likely to be the middle-aged house owner.

Shen Lian thought that the blood ray resembled the young man dressed in blood clothes who intended to steal his power at the Temple of Killings.

He chased after the rays to clear his doubts, and to help Chen Jianmei.

When Shen Lian hesitated about whether to step forward to help the sword ray, someone said, ”Please don’t act rashly.”

It was the voice of Chen Jianmei. A white-robed Daoist appeared from the right. His robes were ruffling in the void. He was staring coldly at the blood ray within the sword ray. He flicked his finger, and a hot white ray appeared from the tip of his finger, which was then turned into a few thousand swords of Qi. The sword ray wrapped around the blood ray dispersed, and the blood ray was trapped by the sword formation. It could not escape.

The sword formation was recorded in the Shapeless Sword Formula as the ultimate technique. It was known as Shenqing Xuanqi Sword Formation. It used thousands of swords of Qi to form a formation and it could destroy not just the body, but also the spirit of people. It was extremely powerful and nobody could set this formation up alone in regions below Dixian.

Chen Jianmei could set up this formation using his own Qi had already exceeded all the previous generations of Qingxuan who had yet to reach the level of Dixian. Even in terms of swordsmanship in heaven and earth, Chen Jianmei could be considered as top notch.

Chen Jianmei stared at Shen Lian and said, ”If not because of you, a part of my Primordial Spirit can’t be trapped.”

Shen Lian moved to the side of Chen Jianmei, carried by the wind. He stood in the void.

Chen Jianmei did not seem to be activating any spiritual power or his Qi of vitality to be able to float in this void against the gravitational pull.

Shen Lian wondered, ”What is happening?”

Chen Jianmei pointed at the blood ray and said coldly, ”Part of the Primordial Spirit of the headmaster’s Apprentice-Brother Yan Xu is trapped inside. We should, in fact, call him our Master-Uncle.”