The Mystic Iron Sword was stabbed into the grave at an angle. Only about a foot long was exposed above the ground. The hilt was covered with black iron embroidery, and the blade was cracked in many places, as if it had gone through a battle. Even so, the sword still contained a killing intent that could not be underestimated. It was like an old soldier who had returned from a hundred battles. His eyes were dim, his body was covered with wounds, and his body was hunched as if he would fall at any time. However, the killing intent that was contained in his body was still not to be underestimated.
As he looked at the Mystic Iron Sword, Fang Xing could even sense the shocking power contained in the sword. It wailed day and night, as if it was an ownerless ghost that was waiting for a new owner to take it away and return to the battlefield.
"Mystic Iron Sword Box, refined iron, forged by fire … Sword Spirit Resides … Ownerless Soul …"
As Fang Xing focused his attention on the Darksteel Longsword, a piece of information entered his mind. After carefully comprehending it, he had some understanding in his heart. This Darksteel Longsword was not actually a real sword, but a sword case. The real sword resided within the Darksteel Longsword. It was a kind of sword spirit. Right now, it was a soul without a master. The sword spirit was the real sword embryo.
It could be nourished in the body of a cultivator, and its power would increase as one's cultivation increased, turning into the Sword Embryo of the Ancient Flying Sword Technique!
"Is this the legendary Sword Embryo that people have been talking about?"
The Golden Crow came over and sized it up. "It doesn't look sturdy …"
Fang Xing looked at it in disdain. "What does a treasure like this have to do with sturdy or not?" He paused for a while and told the Golden Crow everything he knew from the Yin Yang Fiendgod mirror, so that it wouldn't mess up his plan.
The Golden Crow was immediately interested. "Quick, get the Sword Spirit …"
Fang Xing said, "Don't touch it. This Sword Embryo is connected to the divine sense. Everyone should only be able to take one!"
The Golden Crow was stunned. "Then what's the use of us coming in so early?"
Fang Xing sighed and said, "I just discovered it. I've never seen this thing before!"
The Golden Crow pondered for a while and said, "Why don't we find two of the best ones and smash the rest?"
Fang Xing looked at it in disdain and said, "Prodigal …"
As he spoke, he ignored the Golden Crow and tentatively pulled out the Mystic Iron Longsword. He carefully sensed it and immediately found that as the Mystic Iron Longsword left the mound, there seemed to be invisible spiritual energy slowly leaking out. Fang Xing immediately came to a realization. No wonder the Huangfu family didn't immediately take away all the sword embryos after discovering this sword tomb. It was because this domain could nurture the sword embryos.
If they pulled out the sword embryos, the sword embryos' spiritual energy would slowly leak out. If they didn't find someone to nurture the sword embryos quickly, the spiritual energy would leak out more and more until it completely lost its spiritual energy and the sword embryos would disappear.
This kind of sword embryos was originally similar to spiritual bodies and could only exist in special environments. This longsword was somewhat similar to the Myriad Spirit Flag, which could allow demonic spirits to reside in it. However, the sword was damaged and could no longer protect the sword embryos' spiritual energy for a long time. It could still maintain the sword embryos' spiritual energy in this mound chosen by the Mysterious Domain's environment, but once it left the ground, its spiritual energy would leak out.
"Hmm, looks like we can only keep it for three days before it disappears. But that's enough!"
Fang Xing sensed for a while and made up his mind. He waved his hand and said, "Collect them, collect them all!"
The Golden Crow loved to hear this. Its eyes lit up and it flapped its wings and flew off into the distance. Fang Xing also took action. The two of them were like radishes, plucking out the remnants of the sword embryos wherever they went. Not long after, almost a hundred sword embryos were scattered around the periphery of the cemetery. Almost all of them had been collected into their storage bags.
There was also a small portion that wasn't collected because it was close to the valley in the southeast where the fierce battle was taking place. They were afraid of alerting the enemy.
"I'll collect those in the periphery first. There's also the one in the main hall inside …"
Fang Xing stopped the elated Golden Crow and glanced at the black main hall in the depths of the sword tomb. It was a very strange hall. It was completely black and seemed to be carved out of some kind of material. It sat crookedly inside the sword tomb and looked extremely dilapidated on the outside. However, the main hall itself emitted a chilling aura.
In this cemetery, there were a few spirit formations set up by the Huangfu family. However, there were no spirit formations around the main hall. It seemed that even the Huangfu family was unable to set up a spirit formation around the main hall. According to the information that Li Ying and the others had mentioned before, there was no doubt that the highest grade sword embryos were stored in the main hall.
The sword embryos in the main hall were also the purpose of their alliance. In fact, with Li Ying's identity as the Ghost Kingdom's Crown Prince, he had already received a handwritten order from Huangfu Daozi, allowing him to enter the sword tomb to choose a sword embryo. However, the handwritten order had been taken away by his sister. The reason why Li Ying did not go to his sister to take back the handwritten order and instead allied with Fang Xing and risked his life to enter the sword tomb to obtain the handwritten order was because he knew that the handwritten order allowed him to choose an ordinary sword embryo outside the main hall.
However, this fellow had his eyes on the highest grade sword embryo inside the main hall in the deepest part of the sword tomb.
Before the Huangfu family sealed off the sword tomb, there were already cultivators who had entered earlier to investigate the sword tomb. In the end, they discovered that the quality of the sword embryo outside the sword tomb was extremely different from that of the sword embryo in the deepest part of the black main hall. They could not be mentioned in the same breath.
However, for some unknown reason, the first group of cultivators who had entered earlier were unable to obtain the sword embryo in the deepest part of the main hall. Regretfully, they only obtained a sword embryo outside the main hall and left. News of the quality of the sword embryo also spread from their mouths.
Since Fang Xing had come to this place, he naturally did not care about ordinary sword embryos. If he was going to take something, he would take the best.
Of course, he could not let go of the ordinary ones either. These things were very valuable!
"Creak …"
After arriving in front of the black main hall, Fang Xing looked around. Seeing that there was no danger, he gathered his courage and pushed open the door.
The things inside the hall were revealed to him, but it was extremely dark and the air was icy cold.
This coldness did not mean that the temperature was low. Instead, it seemed like some kind of existence was repelling the sunlight outside the hall.
When Fang Xing's eyes adapted to the darkness in the hall, he finally saw the five altars in the hall.
The five altars were divided into azure, crimson, white, gold, and violet, and they were arranged in the shape of five stars in the hall. Every single one of them was around ten meters tall, and there was a damaged divine sword stabbed into the top of every single altar. The sword's appearance was different, and the light it emitted was indistinctly divided into azure, crimson, white, gold, and violet. Without exception, it was the ancient and deep bronze color of the divine sword.
The five swords were all made of bronze.
"Something's wrong. The swords outside are all made of black iron. Why are the five swords in the hall made of bronze?"
The Golden Crow also saw the scene in the hall and muttered in confusion.
Everyone knew that iron was stronger than bronze, and the material of black iron was a hundred times more condensed than ordinary iron. Because of this, most of the treasured magic weapons in the cultivation world were made of black iron. Apart from some special materials, copper was rarely used. After all, copper was not strong, and the weapons forged with it could not withstand a fight with an enemy. They were easily damaged and had copper embroidery.
Therefore, the common material used to forge magic weapons in the cultivation world was black iron. Copper weapons were very rare.
However, within the Sword Catacomb, there seemed to be a very strange phenomenon. The inferior Sword Embryos in the periphery were instead forged from Darksteel, while the five Five-Colored Sword Embryos in the main hall were forged from a strange kind of bronze.
"Who cares. Anyway, the things inside are more valuable. This is an iron law. I'll take them together …"
Fang Xing pondered for a while and was also a little puzzled, but he quickly made the right decision.
"Okay …"
The Golden Crow spat a mouthful of saliva on its claw and flew straight towards the green altar that was closest to it. Its black claw was like a divine weapon as it forcefully grabbed the bronze sword on the altar, wanting to pull it out like it was pulling a carrot from the outside. However, unexpectedly, before its black claw could touch the bronze sword, a green light suddenly flashed on the altar, like a ripple appearing on the surface of the altar …
"Oh my god …"
The Golden Crow shrieked and was rebounded like a cannonball.
Fang Xing was standing behind the Golden Crow. He was shocked when he saw the Golden Crow being rebounded. The Golden Crow squeaked and cawed, thinking that Fang Xing would catch it. However, Fang Xing was stunned and jumped to the side. The Golden Crow flew past him.
"Bang …"
The Golden Crow flew out of the hall. After a long time, it wailed, "Bastard, you're not loyal …"
Fang Xing was relieved and scolded back, "Who told you to be so impatient?"
As long as the Golden Crow wasn't dead, everything was fine. Ignoring it, he turned his head to carefully examine the five altars. The Yin Yang Fiendgod mirror in his mind began to spin. Fortunately, it only took him less than a third of his spiritual power to identify the five altars. They were a mysterious Spirit Nurturing Altar, a place to nourish the sword embryo and lock the spiritual power of the sword embryo.
At the same time, it was a strange restriction that prevented external forces from obtaining the sword embryo. It could only be opened from the inside.
In other words, the five-colored sword embryo could only come out of the altars by itself and could not be obtained by external forces …
"Have you figured it out?"
The Great Golden Crow rubbed his back and crawled back into the hall. He saw that Fang Xing was deep in thought, so he asked.
"I have figured it out …"
Fang Xing sighed and looked at the five-colored sword embryo helplessly.
The Great Golden Crow trusted Fang Xing blindly. He was overjoyed and asked, "How do we deal with them?"
Fang Xing sighed again and said, "We have to suck up to them …"
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