Chapter 55 - Heart of Swords Palace’s Ten Malefic Weapons (1/2)

Another four or five days passed, Zhong Yue got up from his bed and walked around, his ribs were fully recovered and the wounds were all healed leaving only faint marks of scars, the only thing was that he could still feel vaguely feel some vestigial pain in his chest when he breathed.

It would take at least half a year for an ordinary man to recover from such heavy injuries, but his body was countless times stronger than the ordinary humans, in addition to the high-quality medicines of Swords Gate, he was able to fully recover in such a short while.

The next time I go for a training trip, I must bring some of these medicines.

Zhong Yue moved his muscles and bones around, the Qi Practitioner outside of the door saw him exercising and he walked in smiling, "Junior martial brother your wounds are all healed? You are indeed a physique-refiner, your body is stronger than the others and is able to recover quicker than the others. If I'm in your position, I'm afraid I will have to lay on the bed for another few days before I recover."

"Junior martial brother?"

Zhong Yue was startled, he smiled and replied, "This junior martial uncle…."

The Qi Practitioner quickly stopped his words and said, "It is fine for junior martial brother to acknowledge me as Senior Martial Brother Gu, please don't call me junior martial uncle. You have acquired the first place in the Lawless Battles and is destined to be a Qi Practitioner, according to the rules, all of the upper house disciples will have to acknowledge you as their junior martial uncle. But before you enter the Ethereal Palace, the elders would like to meet you. Junior martial brother, please follow me."

The elders would like to meet me?

Zhong Yue's heart shifted, he stood up and followed behind. He knew that the prowess he had shown during the battle between him and Tian Myriad Mother had caused a surge of distrust among the Swords Gate elders.

An ordinary disciple from mediocrity that spent five or six years cultivating before entering the upper house, but in months, his prowess had ballooned to the point that he was able to claim the name of strongest upper house disciples, such a cultivation speed was too good to be true, sure enough he would attract the attention of the Swords Gate elders.

"Senior Martial Brother Gu, the medicine that was applied to my wounds, can I exchange them from the Swords Gate?"

The Senior Martial Brother Gu led the way and they slowly walked out from the upper house towards the inner hall of Swords Gate, he smiled and answered, "This medicine is known as the Lingyu Paste, it was made with various kinds of medicinal herbs by the Qi Practitioners, you can indeed exchange it from the Valley of Remedy of the inner and outer halls of Swords Gate. If it is applied to normal wounds such as injuries to the muscles and tendons, it will take a day or so to recover and heal. While if it is the major wounds like how you were a few days ago, resting for tens of days will also have the wounds fully healed. Junior martial brother your body physique is stronger than the others, which is why you are able to recover this quickly."

He paused for a moment before continuing while shaking his head, "But the Shui Tu Clan young lady is not that lucky, her neck was nearly slashed off by you, I heard that the elder was only able to heal her neck by opening her neck and poured a pot of the medicine onto the wound."

Zhong Yue said in an indifferent tone, "Her prowess is not weaker than mine, she is probably all healed up now."

Senior Martial Brother Gu nodded and said, "I heard that the junior martial sister of the Shui Tu Clan is recovering fast, she might just be fully healed up now, the elders requested to meet with you and at the at same time summoned her too."

Zhong Yue's heart shifted, the elders summoned him and also 'Shui Qingyan', could it be that they were also suspecting 'Shui Qingyan'?

Not long later, they have come to the side of a steep escarpment, Zhong Yue glanced around, the steep escarpment was a few miles wide and the bottom of the cliff lurked with surges of dark black rays. In the escarpment there was an ever-present evil and demonic aura, Zhong Yue lowered his head and as the dark black rays entered his sights, an extreme dizziness struck Zhong Yue as if his soul was getting sucked into the bottom of the escarpment!

Billowing waves of dark black rays surged and lurked their way up to the escarpment, but every time the dark waves gushed its way up there would be totem carvings at the slopes of the escarpments emerging out and suppressed the malevolent dark rays. The totem carvings were complex, majestic and awe-inspiring.

This air, this aura, it feels so familiar….

Zhong Yue's heart shifted, he immediately recognized where he had felt it before, The Devil Soul Yin Effluvium! These dark black rays, their aura is the same as the Devil Soul Yin Effluvium!

Just right the moment when the dark black rays were suppressed, he could see flesh and blood all around the escarpment from the bottom to the top, without skins, this flesh and blood were squirming their way up to the escarpment as if they were trying to crawl out it.

"What is at the bottom of this escarpment?"

Zhong Yue repressed his shock, in his inner mind Xin Huo was all pumped up, he glanced around through Zhong Yue's eyes and exclaimed out, "The devil souls, they are really repressed here. Hehe, this is surely the seals of the gods, Swords Gate is established on top of an active volcano, a moment of neglect could have turned everything into ash and dust…."

"These seals are not placed by Swords Gate Qi Practitioners?" Zhong Yue's calmed heart was again disrupted, he quickly asked.

"The Swords Gate Qi Practitioners are not strong enough to repress these underground devil souls."

Xin Huo shook his head and said, "The totem carvings below are the seals of the gods, the gods have turned their psyches and images into totem carvings, that is why they are able to repress whatever is underneath. I suppose the Devil Soul Yin Effluvium only got triggered because there is a crack in the seals, thankfully it is not in Swords Gate or otherwise, Swords Gate would be in deep trouble."

Senior Martial Brother Gu smiled and said, "Junior martial brother, below this escarpment, is the forbidden land of Swords Gate, there is a force of strange power that can wipe off every art and skill above it, not a single technique can be cast right here. To cross the escarpment to the other side, we can only wait for the Croc Dragon."

"Croc Dragon?"

Zhong Yue was puzzled, there were two swords gates on each side of the escarpments with clouds billowing in between them, Senior Martial Gu led him to one of the swords gates and he rang the copper gong that was dangling in the wind. Dang dang – a deep and yet bright sound echoed, in the clouds, a giant crocodile made its appearance and swam over, it had wings and flew in the air towards the source of the echoing sounds of the gong.

The crocodile was like a floating island, Zhong Yue looked at it, it had four eyes and on its back were a few pairs of wings, its conformation was weird and peculiar.

No one could visualize any arts around the escarpments, thence the wings on the crocodile's back were not visualizations but rather flesh and blood wings, it could fly in the air and therefore the strange power that represses every technique had no effect on it.

The duo jumped onto the crocodile's back, Senior Martial Gu said with a smile, "Croc Dragon, please bring us up to the mountain."

The giant crocodile nodded and its wings fluttered, it turned around and flew towards Swords Gate on the other side of the escarpment, in a deep and yet loud voice it said, "Brother Gu, this little brother is looking unfamiliar, is he a new Qi Practitioner?"