Chapter 17: The Sword in the Stone

Sword Dynasty

Volume 2

Chapter 17: The Sword in the Stone

Everyone could understand Feng Qianzhuo's current emotions.

At this moment, a calm voice sounded from behind Xue Wangxu. “Where’s the Appearance Enhancing Pearl?”

Everyone's gazes once again fell on Ding Ning.

Everyone knew he had said these words, and understood their meaning—previously, Feng Qianzhuo had promised that if Ding Ning could defeat Feng Qinghan, the Appearance Enhancing Pearl would belong to the White Goat Cave.

Based on this previous agreement, Feng Qianzhuo should have handed over the Appearance Enhancing Pearl by now. But calmly demanding the Appearance Enhancing Pearl in a situation like this seemed extremely inappropriate.

“Appearance Enhancing Pearl?”

Feng Qianzhuo laughed angrily. He looked at the unconscious Feng Qinghan in his arms and said sadly, “Is my grandson's cultivation and life not worth a single Appearance Enhancing Pearl?”

Ding Ning looked calmly at him and said, “Appearance Enhancing Pearl.”

All the nobles and important figures of Zhushan District present were speechless.

Ding Ning surprisingly only said these three words again, and judging by his expression, it all seemed a matter of fact… The fact was that Feng Qianzhuo had to hand over the Appearance Enhancing Pearl. It was also certain that Feng Qinghan's cultivation and life were no match for the Appearance Enhancing Pearl.

Feng Qianzhuo's eyes seemed to burn.

“Appearance Enhancing Pearl,” Ding Ning looked at him fearlessly and repeated calmly.

He was like a stubborn child asking for candy. However, Feng Qianzhuo felt a great sense of humiliation and coldness from this action..

He handed the blood-stained Feng Qinghan in his hand to the gathered family members. The family members were all gasping for breath, and some were even sobbing. Then he opened his left hand.

The snow-white Appearance Enhancing Pearl shot out of his palm and flew towards Ding Ning without much force. However, his expression turned extremely cold.

“Even if I give it to you, what use can you have for it?” His murderous gaze scanned Ding Ning and Xue Wangxu as he spoke coldly.

Ding Ning held the snow-white Appearance Enhancing Pearl. Then he did something completely unexpected.

First, he took out his waterskin and washed the Appearance Enhancing Pearl. Then, he calmly swallowed it.

All the nobles and important figures of Zhushan District were once again speechless and shocked.

Ding Ning did not even say a word this time. But his actions were like slapping Feng Qianzhuo again.

He used his actions to tell Feng Qianzhuo, even if he and Xue Wangxu died here, he had used this Appearance Enhancing Pearl.

To the surprise of the onlookers, Ding Ning closed his eyes after swallowing the Appearance Enhancing Pearl and sat down on a rock behind Xue Wangxu. He seemed to ignore everything happening around him and began refining and absorbing the Appearance Enhancing Pearl!

Seeing Ding Ning act like this, and listening to the screams and cries behind him, Feng Qianzhuo knew he had to remain completely calm, but his hands were trembling uncontrollably.

He took a deep breath and then reached back.

The steward of the Feng Family, Feng Futang, who Xue Wangxu called a hypocrite, stood behind Feng Qianzhuo, with a pale face, and holding a longsword in a black scabbard.

Seeing Feng Qianzhuo reaching out towards him, Feng Futang's hands trembled uncontrollably.

Seeing this scene, Xue Wangxu just waited quietly.

Feng Qianzhuo did not take the sword that the steward offered him. His hand landed on the hilt of the sword and he immediately drew the sword.

This has fully demonstrated his attitude.

The hilt of the sword in the black scabbard was black and gold.

But when this sword was drawn, a rainbow seemed to appear, and multicolored light shone upon many people.

The blade of this longsword was a seven-colored crystal.

Xue Wangxu's slightly furrowed brows relaxed as if he had finally received the answer to a question that had been bothering him for a long time. He said quietly to himself, “So, this is the sword.”

The Ba Mountain Sword Field was once the strongest sword cultivating place of the Qin Dynasty and naturally possessed numerous powerful sword manuals and renowned swords. The surviving members of the Ba Mountain Sword Field all obtained numerous sword manuals and renowned swords.

In the past, when Feng Qianzhuo defeated Du Qingjiao and seized the Appearance Enhancing Pearl from him, he used his lifebound sword, not this renowned sword from the Ba Mountain Sword Field.

So now, the question of which sword Feng Qianzhuo chose from the swords of Ba Mountain has finally been answered.

Of the renowned swords from the Ba Mountain Sword Field in the past, only one radiated seven colors.

This sword was called the Seven Treasure Crystal Sword, also known as the Buddhist Light Demon Subduing Sword.

 

When this sword appeared, a powerful wave of presence spread out.

Everyone nearby sensed danger and instinctively retreated.

Even the statue of the Kitchen God was moved away. Only Feng Qianzhuo, Xue Wangxu, and Ding Ning remained within a hundred feet of each other in the open space in front of the Fire Virtue Hall.

The sparkling, crystal-like light of seven colors grew brighter and brighter, finally forming circles of Buddha light in Feng Qianzhuo's hand.

The primal energies of the universe gathered in these ripples of light. They enveloped Feng Qianzhuo's body and gradually formed a massive circle of Buddha light, emitting an ever-increasing aura. Feng Qianzhuo's body resembled a Buddha shining with seven-colored crystal light.

Within the Buddha light, Feng Qianzhuo felt a momentary daze.

He felt this was absurd. After so many years, because of a small revenge from White Goat Cave, this sword, which should never have appeared before him again, had appeared before him. After all these years, he still had to use this sword to fight for his life against someone.

But this was only a moment. The thoughts floating in his mind faded in the Buddha light, becoming pure killing intent.

He flicked his wrist, and the gleaming sword stabbed at Xue Wangxu in midair.

As his sword moved, circles of Buddha light overlapped. Waves as tall as several sheets of cloth suddenly appeared in the world.

A wild wind came out of nowhere.

Many ordinary people in Zhushan District who were at a distance from it were unable to stand upright and fell down in the wind.

Xue Wangxu's long, snow-white hair blew behind him. Facing the wild wind and rising waves, he shook his head and sighed with emotion. “In the end, you don't have enough spirit. Using the Turbid Wave Sword Manual with the Seven Treasures Crystal Sword is indeed powerful, but it lacks a certain charm… If you had enough spirit, you would have switched to cultivating the Buddhist sword manual again. Without destruction, there would be no construction. You dare not give up your skill in the Turbid Wave Sword Manual.”

With this sigh, he reached out toward the huge waves in front of him.

He had always used the sword of the sect master of the White Goat Cave in the past. But because he had given it to Li Daoji and did not have another sword with him, he could only use his lifebond sword now.

What kind of sword was Xue Wangxu's lifebond sword?

Ding Ning was also very curious about this, so, while trying his best to concentrate on refining the Appearance Enhancing Pearl, he also opened his eyes.

An unusually heavy presence radiated from Xue Wangxu's palm. There was no bright light. There were only the simplest colors, like ordinary stones on a path.

The lifebond sword that appeared in Xue Wangxu's hand was a small sword that looked like it was carved from ordinary stone.

However, all the cultivators of Zhushan District felt an incredibly dangerous presence.

Layers of stone peeled off the small sword. Each thin layer of stone seemed to fly forward like an enormous stone crashing into turbid, roaring waves.

The sword blade within it radiated an unimaginable light.

This light was so bright that one could not see any color. People even felt the sword blade was intangible and made of bright light, yet everyone knew that this sword was indeed there.

So they began to react.

This sword had been hiding for too long like a great sword sleeping in the ground. The dust on the blade had formed layers of stone.

Today, this great sword once again displayed its edges.

The Buddha's light seemed to dim in the face of the light this sword radiated.

Feng Qianzhuo felt a suffocating pressure. He let out a low roar. The sword in his hand slashed seventy-two times through the air in front of him!

Seventy-two waves suddenly appeared within the Buddha's light, shattering the flying stone skin.

At this moment, all the stone skin fell off Xue Wangxu's lifebond sword.

Under the dazzling white light, its entire body appeared to be made of white jade.

He made no exaggerated movements. He stabbed as simply and straight as the streets of Changling.

A booming sound rang out!

The sound could be heard from across the distant world.

A giant, formless mountain suddenly appeared above his head. The mountain shrank violently and flooded the lifebound sword in his hand.

At this moment, almost all the vital energy and primal energies of the universe accumulated within his body poured out of his body, and with unparalleled determination, pierced into the lifebond sword in his hand.

He could only use one sword strike at most, due to the sword's powerful momentum. But this was precisely what he desired.

He did not want the battle to drag on. He wanted to win with this one sword strike.

He used all his strength to channel his sword essence and power through this sword strike.

The Buddha light vanished! The turbid waves shattered!

Seeing the dazzling sword light heading towards him, Feng Qianzhuo's heart was filled with disbelief. He could not imagine Xue Wangxu being capable of such a powerful sword strike.

He was not willing to be defeated by a sword strike like this.

An endless fire burned in his eyes as he shouted. The circles of Buddha light emanating from the Seven Treasures Crystal Sword in his hand suddenly transformed into countless seven-colored sword lights that bloomed forward.

In an instant, it seemed as if tens of thousands of swords were stabbing at Xue Wangxu. No one could tell which one was the real Seven Treasures Crystal Sword.

However, Xue Wangxu only smiled faintly. His sword move remained unchanged and continued to advance in an unusually straight line.

The seven-colored sword lights all vanished in an instant.

Feng Qianzhuo's roar turned into a shrill, heartbreaking scream as he retreated backwards rapidly.

Blood gushed out from his lower abdomen. His body continued bouncing along the stone floor, leaving a long trail of blood. He only stopped when he hit the steps in front of the Fire Virtue Hall.

 

Notes:

This novel is not my work... I just translated it from a Chinese web novel written by Wu Zui

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