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Two days later, the men from the Dianjing Valley and Li Ze Palace arrived, but there is no news of the arrival of the Xuan Yuan Sect, and they are still waiting for them. Dongfang Qingqi was relieved and sent his disciples to send a message, but they came back saying that the door of Xuan Yuan Sect was closed and the incense and ashes of the censer[1] in front of the door were cold.

This is naturally not good news, as Dongfang Qingqi frowned and sighed, “Gentlemen, I don’t know what’s going on here.”

Master Rong Gu, Deputy Palace Master, and Chu Lei, the three of them are sitting opposite each other, all with a serious look on their faces, but the Deputy Palace Master is wearing a mask, so he can’t see his face, and from the way he keeps shaking his feather fan, you can tell what he is thinking.

“Maybe the Xuan Yuan Sect is afraid of losing and won’t participate in the Zanhua Ceremony again?”

The Deputy Palace Master made a joke that wasn’t funny at all, and the others didn’t laugh, but he himself giggled.

The others, all knowing the Deputy Palace Master’s usual character, paid no attention to it. Master Rong Gu said, “I think we might have encountered something big, why don’t we send a few more disciples to monitor the place and report any change in the situation?”

Although the Xuan Yuan Sect has declined in recent years, it is still an influential sect in the south. If anything happens to it, it will be a bad omen for the other four factions.

Both Master Rong and Dongfang sent some of their disciples to stay in the Xuan Yuan Sect to observe the situation.

Dongfang Qingqi said in a low voice, “Could this situation be related to the recent Dinghǎi Iron Chain incident?”

Before he finished speaking, Master Rong said in a deep voice, “Qingqi! Don’t say that again!”

Finally, Chu Lei said, “No matter whether it is related or not, just be on your guard. Counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir.[2]“

The last eight words he said were so heavy that the hearts of everyone are cold, deeply understanding the importance of this matter.

But the Deputy Palace Master chuckled, “Chu, you are overthinking. A couple of miscellaneous feathers, still don’t count as soldiers[3]. They are at least a human immortal cultivation sect, we must not be presumptous. Come, come, it’s better to decide on the list of participating disciples first.”

Chu Lei understood that the Deputy Palace Master’s words were meant to allay the tensions of the crowd, so he smiled and said, “The Deputy Palace Master is right, Island Master Dongfang and I have already decided on a list. Master Rong Gu, Deputy Palace Master, do you have a list of the two sects?”

Both of them bowed to each other, took out the list from their sleeves, and handed it to Dongfang Qingqi. Master Rong said again, “The last time the Zanhua Tournament was held, the Dianjing Valley was a disgrace. This time, I have personally examined the participants, so similar incidents will never happen again.”

They knew that Master Rong was talking about Wu Tong, who was halfway through his apprenticeship at the Dianjing Valley, and had a strange skill of his own, but they didn’t know what other sect he was from. His master was an Elder of Dianjing Valley, who at the time cherished his talent and left him behind, but because of his soft heart, he let him escape after committing a serious crime, and finally took the blame and secluded himself under the Little Moon Cliff of Dianjing Valley, never to be seen since.

At that time, Wu Tong intentionally stabbed Chu Lei’s daughter Chu Xuanji, and became a felon with a reward of five hundred taels of gold by the five sects. He was wanted by the five sects, not to mention the fact that he was an individual, but even a rabbit could not hide for a month.

However, they failed to catch him. After Wu Tong’s escape, he was like a vapor, leaving no trace of him. The most wanted list of the five sects changes every year, and the price of this man’s wanted status keeps increasing from five hundred taels of gold to two thousand taels of gold. In the end, all the cultvators in the world knew Wu Tong’s name and tried to find him, but no one succeeded.

As time went by, some people speculated that Wu Tong was afraid and committing suicide, so they couldn’t find him. In the end, the heads of the five sects believe that Wu Tong is dead, but the list of those on the most wanted list remains unchanged, fearing that there will be more trouble in the future.

Although the Zanhua Tournament is a competition for young disciples of the five sects, but it is of great significance as important figures from each sect will be present, so it is inevitable that some people with bad intentions will come to cause trouble. Master Rong has already made up his mind, If Wu Tong has the guts to come again, he will be sure to kill this villain.

The four men chit-chatted in the main hall, saying that Bēng Yù had a new owner, Chu Lei’s young daughter Xuanji. When Master Rong Gu heard this, he laughed and stroked his moustache, saying, “Brother Chu, you only know that the Duàn Jīn and the Bēng Yù are powerful swords, but you don’t know that the materials used to make them are the real power.”

When Chu Lei heard this, he asked, “What do you mean? Please enlighten me.”

Master Rong sighed, “That was the Grand Master, I don’t know how many generations ago, who one day was melting his newly-picked basalt stone on the Heavenly Platform of Sword Casting. Suddenly a light fell from the sky, like a shooting star, and hit the edge of the rooftop. You should know that the materials used to make the sword were taken from the mountains and the sea. Although they are considered to be treasures, they are nothing compared to the meteor in the sky. The material in the sky is hard to come by, so my ancestor thought the meteor was falling and rushed over, hoping that the stone would contain the material for sword-making. Then he could really create the world’s most marvelous sword.”

“Does it mean that Duàn Jīn and Bēng Yù are actually cast using a meteorite that had fallen from the sky?” Chu Lei was surprised and delighted. This was the first time he heard about the origin of the two swords.

Master Rong Gu laughed and shook his head, “They were cast from the sky, but not from stone. If it wasn’t for the fact that it was written in the history of the Dianjing Valley, it would have been a joke to us now. It was not a stone that fell from the sky, but a sword with a gigantic blade that burned brightly up and down, emitting a light that dared not be seen. He was so delighted that he thought it was a weapon dropped by the gods that he wanted to take it as his own, but he was too mortal to use it. He could not let go of the divine weapon, so he visited the five lakes and the four seas, the famous mountains and rivers, and finally found a lot of high-quality sword-making materials and melted them together with the divine weapon in the sword-making platform, over a period of three years, created two swords, namely, Duàn Jīn and Bēng Yù.”

The crowd heard such a strong story, can not help but be stunned. Dongfang QIngqi wondered, “That … fallen from the sky, truly a weapon used by the gods in heaven? How can any fire melt it?”

Master Rong added, “That’s why it took three years for the Grand Master to cast two swords. After numerous attempts, he found that the jade ice crystal that he got from the foot of Mount Kunlun melted with the sword, overjoyed he first cast the Bēng Yù. When it was time to cast Duàn Jīn, there was not much left of the sword, so he had to add other materials to it. After the swords were completed, he tried it out himself and found that Bēng Yù was almost the essence of the weapon, which he loved very much, but he could not use it and sealed it up, instead he used Duàn Jīn. When he was dying, we do not know through what insight, he left his last words that all disciples of his school should not use these two swords. Since this is what Grand Master has told him, the next generation of leaders can only seal the two swords in the Heavenly Hall of Sword Casting. By the time it reached my generation, the disciples did not know the matter related to Duàn Jīn and Bēng Yù. I am not aware of the fact that the two swords are sealed in the Heavenly Hall of Casting Swords. I saw the two swords in the hall, pity, no one can use in the sect, so I simply took advantage of Master Chu’s happiness when the two daughters are born, gave it to him. Unexpectedly, so many years no one has been able to use Beng Yu, I never imagined that the sword could be brought back to life by your daughter’s hands. The spirit of the Great Grand Master in the nether world, should also rest in peace.”

The people all sighed in admiration, and now they realized the origin of the Beng Yu, but do not know what is the divine weapon that fell on the platform back then could it really be the weapon dropped by the heavenly gods? They are cultivators whose goal in life is to achieve immortality, but no one knows what the gods are like, no one knows, no one has seen. Who would have thought that there is really a miracle in the world, it really makes people feel various emotions and that their lifelong efforts are not in vain.

While chatting, the sound of a deer chirping came from outside, followed by the frightened and respectful voices of the disciples who were guarding the door: “Madam! The Headmaster is entertaining guests…….it is not convenient for you to enter…….”

Before the words were finished, that charming voice rang out, laughing, “What guest, can’t even I go in? You little disciples are so unreasonable.”

The man’s brow was furrowed and his eyes grew cold. Chu Lei immediately and knowingly got up, and the others followed, to take their leave, smiling and saying, “It’s a long way to go, and we’re all a little tired. Tomorrow the Island Master must drink three hundred cups with us!”

He laughed and sent them to the door. There they saw was a beautiful woman in white standing at the door, with two deer nestled beside her, asking for pine nuts to eat. When she saw them coming out, she smiled and gave a little gesture of blessing, and said in a soft voice, “I greet you all, Masters.”

The wind blew her silky hair in a tangled mess, her long sleeves were wide, and her pupils were like gazing into the waters of autumn, so beautiful that nothing could be said. The people knew that she had a special identity and was a cunning and cold-hearted person, but when they saw such a terrifying beauty, even if they were as stable as Master Rong, their hearts trembled and they smiled and clasped fists with her.

The two deer beside her also leaned over, surrounded her yowling and eating pine nuts.

She smilingly took Dongfang Qingqi’s arm and said in a charming voice, “Master, look at my ears.”

Dongfang Qingqi turned towards her, smiled faintly, took her by the shoulders, looked at her white jade-like ear, and said softly, “What’s wrong?”

But in his heart, he sighed coldly.

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[1]: A censer, incense burner, perfume burner or pastille burner is a vessel made for burning incense or perfume in some solid form. These vessels vary greatly in size, form, and material of construction, and have been in use since ancient times in many cultures, in both secular and religious contexts.

[2]: 兵來將擋，水來土掩 (bīng lái jiàng dǎng , shuǐ lái tǔ yǎn) – is an idiom that translates as ‘counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir’. In Mandarin the idiom has eight characters, however the English translation adds the ‘an‘ before ‘earth weir’ which turns it into nine words.

It means that ‘different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation’.

[3]: 幾個雜毛，還算不得兵 (jǐ ge zá máo, hái suàn bù dé bīng) – the original sentence translates as ‘A couple of miscellaneous hair/feathers, still don’t count as soldiers/an army’ . Deputy Palace Master is basically saying he’s not worried, and neither should the others be.

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