Chapter 28 - Dragon Blood Sword Scabbard (1/2)

In the training room, Ting Lanyue, He Chengchuan, and Elder Pu's other disciples came forward. Ting Lanyue clenched her teeth to come forward despite her heavily wounded body. Most of them had their own soul weapons, but the weapons they possessed were not of high quality—they were all curious about the soul weapons that Elder Pu spent twenty days crafting.

"A wooden box?"

Ting Lanyue and the others were dumbfounded, their sights were fixated on the six feet tall wooden box, even Zhong Yue was confused. The soul weapons Elder Pu talked about is a box carved from a single piece of maroon-red wood. It was made without any signs of connecting components or joints. The wooden box was placed vertically on the floor, and its height reached his chest.

On the surface of the wooden box were carved various markings of dragons, which appeared to be a totem carving. But the dragon totem carvings were not artificially carved; instead, it seemed more like they were intrinsic to the wood itself!

"This is… the Dragon Blood Wood!"

Ting Lanyue was shocked, she exclaimed out involuntarily, "This is really the Dragon Blood Wood! My clan's Qi Practitioner elders said that there is a Dragon Blood Forest somewhere on the Swords Gate mountain. Rumors said that tens of thousands of years ago, the blood of a wounded true dragon splattered into the woods forming the Dragon Blood Woods! The woods were naturally innate with the dragon totem carvings, but their maturity cycles were too long, more than hundreds of years. Even most of the elders are unwilling and reluctant to craft soul weapons out of the Dragon Blood Wood!"

"Even the Swords Gate elders aren't too willing to use them?" Zhong Yue was dumbstruck upon hearing her words, and all of a sudden, the wooden box felt much heavier than just a moment ago.

He was not one of Elder Pu's disciples, yet Elder Pu crafted him a soul weapon using such a precious material, this favor was too deep for him to accept!

Elder Pu caressed the wooden box with his fingers, he smiled and said, "This Dragon Blood Wood was given to me by the headmaster as an appreciation for my contributions to the Swords Gate during my early days. It is good nourishing your soul, soul weapon, and Sword Qi, but it is not of much use to me. That's why I have never crafted it into a soul weapon, I was planning to leave it to my disciple, but I couldn't find any suitable disciple, so it had been laying around collecting dust all this while."

Elder Pu was gratified as he continued with a smile, "Zhong Yue, although you aren't my disciple, fate brought you here. In addition to your [Jiao Dragon Winding Body Totem Art], the Dragon Blood Wood was fated just for you. Hence, I have crafted it into a sword scabbard for you."

Zhong Yue was surprised and overjoyed at the same time, anxiously he said, "Elder Pu, this is too precious…"

Elder Pu laughed and said, "Precious? It isn't precious at all! If it wasn't you that looked after Lanyue and the others, I am afraid my disciples would have all died in the Demon Ruins! The disciples of the other Qi Practitioners all died in the Demon Ruins, thousands or even more of them, but a dozen of my disciples survived, what is the Dragon Blood Wood compared to this? You deserve this Dragon Blood Sword Scabbard! Zhong Yue, open it up and have a look!"

Zhong Yue cleared his thoughts, and he opened the wooden sword scabbard, Ka! A light sound could be heard as the sword scabbard opened, showing a wooden sword's hilt.

He gently removed the soul weapon from the scabbard. The sword was five feet long with strange totem carvings on its blade. It weighed a hundred kilograms with a perfectly adjusted center of balance!

The sword was all jet black, but it reflected rays of dark-gold; it was evident that the sword was made of an alloy of darksteel and mystic gold as the synergy between those two materials to enhance the soul weapon's toughness and sharpness!

Thunder-like engravings could be seen throughout the entirety of the soul weapon as if it were kissed by true lightning—clearly, it was formed when Elder Pu forged it with the thunder totems!

The dragon-scale-like carvings were the Jiao Dragon totem, giving a draconic scale look to the sword. The moment Zhong Yue pulled the sword out from the sword scabbard, he could hear the resounding dragon blood flowing in the body of the sword!

He immersed his soul into the sword without having any difficulties controlling the sword. His soul did not feel any discomfort, but rather, was overtaken by a tranquility that he had hitherto never experienced before.

This was the difference between a high-quality soul weapon and ordinary soul weapons. One's soul could not leave the body for too long, or otherwise, it would be damaged. This was often the quagmire faced by those who possessed ordinary soul weapons!

But a well-built soul weapon was like another body. Immersing the soul into it would feel like occupying an identical body. No discomfort would be felt, and there would be no concern for the risks that are typically associated with the soul departing from the true body for long durations....

While the lower level soul weapons were not as good, they also could not protect the soul too well. If the soul stayed within the soul weapon for a longer period, then it would be put in jeopardy at which point, there was no choice but for it to return to the body to recuperate.

When Zhong Yue immersed his soul into the sword, it felt like he was just entering another body of his own, one could tell how high the quality of the sword was, it was definitely a soul weapon of the highest caliber!

"Dragon Blood Wood nourishes the Dragon Scale Sword, just perfect for you."

Elder Pu said slowly, "These two soul weapons complement each other and would also nourish your body, helping you in your cultivation. The soul weapons require frequent sustenance from the soul. The stronger the link between the soul, psyche and soul weapons, the stronger the power they can unleash and the faster the speed they will travel. Zhong Yue, these two soul weapons, are you satisfied with them?"

Zhong Yue returned his soul to his body and was overjoyed. He caressed the Dragon Scale Sword and Dragon Blood Sword Scabbard, and he said, "Satisfied, satisfied!"

"The Dragon Blood Sword Scabbard can store nine Dragon Scale Swords, but there is only one at the moment, you will have to figure out and find yourself the other eight."