Chapter 657 - The Path of Heaven? (2/2)

Qian Yexue sneered and didn’t refute him.

“Clack, clack!”

After walking through a long corridor, they reached the door of the last room.

“This should be the venue where the Old Man of Nine Abandonments and the Masters of the Sword Palace practiced,” Hua Yunfeng said.

Everyone else looked thrilled and knew this was the highlight of their visit.

Although they had found many Dharma Artifacts and broken flying swords in the Sword Palace, the real treasures, sword arts and secret books would only be hidden in the main room.

“Be careful, there must be some kind of protection here,” Qian Yexue said.

They indeed saw a yellow talisman on the stone door. It looked a bit different from the other talismans and had a faint sword shape like a brand.

“The Sky Sword Talisman,” Qian Yexue said seriously, “I heard that when you reach a certain level, you’ll be able to store your Sword Qi in a talisman which will explode once somebody touches it. This sword talisman might have come from the Old Man of Nine Abandonments…”

Everyone went silent.

They had heard the name, the Old Man of Nine Abandonments, several times since they entered the Sword Palace.

The sword art he pa.s.sed down made legends like Sword Secret the Exalted Cultivator. He built the Sword Palace of Mount Shu and was once on top of the Realm of Cultivation in the ancient times. There used to be three thousand sword cultivators and five hundred Sword Immortals under his command, and he had killed Sky Immortals with his invincible sword arrays…

The attack from such a powerful sword master had to be terrifying. Even Earth Level Deities would be helpless against it.

Azure Dragon frowned and said, “So, what should we do? Can we open the door without touching the sword talisman?”

“It’s impossible. The cultivation room of the Sect Master usually leads to the core forbidden area of a sect. You must know some kind of special secret arts or spells in order to enter and I guess only the Sect Masters or the Junior Sect Masters of the Sword Palace can get in freely…”

While Qian Yexue was talking.

Chen Fan took the yellow sword talisman off and placed it inside the Blade Strengthening Gourd.

“You…”

Qian Yexue felt she had just seen something that was totally the opposite of what she knew before. Her face flushed as if someone had slapped her dozens of times; she couldn’t say a word.

“Master, did you just tear it down?” A’Xiu said.

“It’s just a small talisman, not as bad as you think,” Chen Fan said.

For people from Earth and the Realm of Kunxu, there was no way to break such a kind of sword talisman, unless there was someone more powerful than the Old Man of Nine Abandonments, or if it were one of his descendants. Otherwise, anyone who touched it would be attacked by the talisman.

But who was Chen Fan? He was the reincarnation of the Celestial Lord. Breaking the protection a Golden Core Cultivator created was a piece of cake.

Then, Chen Fan entered the room.

Qian Yexue was speechless; she had no choice but to follow Chen Fan. She could sense that A’Xiu, Xiao Wu and some others were sneering behind her. And yet, she really had no idea how Chen Fan had torn off the sword talisman.

“Perhaps he’s not only the successor to the Sword Palace, but also the descendant of the Old Man of Nine Abandonments?”

A startling thought suddenly came to Qian Yexue’s mind.

Behind the stone door was only a stone room of ten square feet. Apparently, the Old Man of Nine Abandonments and the Masters of the Sword Palace were all simple.

A’Xiu widened her eyes and said in surprise, “Wow, there are a lot of treasures!”

There were nine marble boxes, each with a small sword inside on the table. These swords were made with special materials and were at least superior-grade Spirit Artifacts.

“These are just half-completed swords. If you want to make a real superior-grade Spirit Artifact or Spirit Treasure, you’ll need at least dozens of years,” Chen Fan looked at them and said.

Considering his current level, he needed treasures like superior-grade Spirit Artifacts or first-grade Spirit Treasures. These half-completed swords weren’t useful to him at all.

“Xie Yan, Yukis.h.i.+ro Sa, since you’re both sword cultivators, take one each. Devotion is the most important thing in sword cultivation. Many Sword Immortals chose their own flying swords at the Connate level and never changed it from then on,” Chen Fan said as he put his hands behind his back.

“Yes, Master.”

Xie Yan and Yukis.h.i.+ro Sa bowed and started choosing.

Qian Yexue was startled.

The word “devotion” was indeed the motto of sword cultivation. On the contrary, even though the Azure Mystic Sect was regarded as the top sword sect of the Realm of Kunxu, they also practiced all sorts of techniques and arts besides refining their flying swords.

“No wonder he could crack Xuan Luo’s Red Gla.s.s Sword. He might be a bit arrogant, but he’s truly powerful and knows a lot about cultivation.”

Qian Yexue glanced at Chen Fan.

At the same time, everyone else turned their attention to the two books on the stone table in the center of the room.

The left one was the “Sword Art of Nine Abandonments” which was the Sky Immortal Art that those from the Realm of Kunxu dreamt of. However, Chen Fan ignored it and picked up the other one, the “Chronicle of Mount Shu.”

“Since the Battle of Deities broke out, many alien races have invaded the planet. I am the only one left on Mount Shu and the others are all dead… I have no choice but to follow the Path of Heaven and find another planet to establish a new sect…”

The first few sentences of the book were astonis.h.i.+ng.