With a flash of light, Mei Ziqing was teleported out of Wanjian Mountain.
Only Xue Mingzhao and Su Ye remained.
The two of them buried their heads and continued searching.
One shichen passed.
Nothing.
Two shichen passed.
Still nothing.
The two slumped onto the ground in despair, surrounded by piles of broken weapons they had already sifted through.
Xue Mingzhao stared at the small mountains of scrap metal before her, her mind slowly breaking down.
Why do authors of cultivation novels always like to write these kinds of plots for their protagonists?!
A peerless divine weapon must be covered in rust!
An ancient Magic Treasure must look completely ordinary!
A world-shaking inheritance must be stuffed into a corner that no one would ever look at!
In books, sentences like, “With a single glance, she picked out that unremarkable ancient sword from among tens of thousands of discarded blades,” were indeed satisfying to read.
But when it was her turn to do the searching, she realized just how wicked that line truly was.
Finding one unremarkable broken sword out of tens of thousands of broken swords.
It was like finding a needle in a haystack!
The more Xue Mingzhao thought about it, the angrier she became, and she abruptly stood up.
“Aren't you supposed to be a divine sword?”
“Aren't you supposed to have a spirit?”
“All you do is lie here waiting for someone to pick you. Can't you take some initiative?”
“If no one ever takes a liking to you for the rest of your life, you can just stay here and cry!”
Silence surrounded her; there was no response.
Xue Mingzhao stood with her hands on her hips, her anger flaring even hotter.
“Any of you who can understand me, make a sound!”
“Those who know would say this is Wanjian Mountain, but those who don't would think the Heavenly Origin Sect opened a scrap metal recycling yard!”
The moment she spoke, a broken sword nearby suddenly trembled.
Then, it flew up from the pile of discarded weapons, wobbling unsteadily.
Xue Mingzhao's eyes lit up.
One of them actually understood.
“What are you looking at?”
“You can fly on your own, yet you had to wait for me to call you?”
“Opportunities must be seized by yourself, understand?”
“Look at yourselves—some are crippled, some are broken, some are damaged. If you don't take the initiative, you can forget about ever leaving this place!”
Following these words, several more damaged weapons wobbled up into the air.
Right after that, as if triggering a chain reaction...
One.
Ten.
Hundreds.
Longswords, scimitars, spears, iron rods, whips, folding fans...
More and more weapons detached from the ground, hovering in the air in a dense crowd.
Xue Mingzhao was overjoyed.
“As expected, they all have spiritual awareness.”
“At least you can still understand human speech—”
Before she could finish her sentence, all the weapons in midair turned at the same time.
They pointed directly at her in unison.
The smile on Xue Mingzhao's face instantly froze. “What are you trying to do?”
Su Ye silently climbed up from the ground, suddenly struck by a bad premonition.
In the next instant, the sky full of weapons charged toward the two of them simultaneously.
Xue Mingzhao and Su Ye: “!!!”
The premonition had come true!
“Run!”
Xue Mingzhao waved her hand and threw out the Azure Ripple Leaf, slapping several speed talismans onto it in one go.
The two of them leapt onto it, and with a whoosh, they shot forward.
Countless weapons followed closely behind.
Instantly, Wanjian Mountain fell into utter chaos.
Disciples along the way saw a massive swarm of weapons charging from afar. Thinking the spiritual weapons of Wanjian Mountain were staging a collective rebellion, they scattered in terror.
Some even threw away the weapons they were currently selecting.
In response, those abandoned weapons dithered on the spot for a moment before excitedly joining the chasing army.
“Have all the spiritual weapons in Wanjian Mountain gone mad?!
“Run, quick!
“Who provoked them?!”
One disciple was running too slowly. Seeing a dark iron battle-axe chasing him from behind, he covered his head and closed his eyes in terror.
After waiting for a long time, the expected attack never came.
He carefully opened his eyes.
The dark iron battle-axe had already bypassed him, chasing forward without looking back, as if even glancing at him was a waste of time.
The other disciples gradually noticed that something was off.
Although these weapons looked incredibly menacing, they did not attack anyone else at all.
They were only chasing the two people at the very front.
Plastered with speed talismans, the Azure Ripple Leaf was so fast that it was nothing but an afterimage.
For a moment, the crowd could not make out who was on it.
The two of them flew around Wanjian Mountain for two whole laps.
The army behind them still refused to give up.
“Is there no end to this?!
“I only scolded you a bit, is it really worth chasing me this far?!
“Your hearts are narrower than the point of a needle!
“With temperaments like yours, how could anyone ever choose you?!”
It would have been better if she had kept quiet.
But with this shout, the spiritual weapons behind her flew even faster.
Su Ye looked back, his face turning green.
“Junior Sister, please shut up!”
The two of them rounded a cliff face, only to find a dead end ahead.
They were cornered at the edge of the barrier!
Xue Mingzhao hastily stopped the Azure Ripple Leaf.
Countless weapons arrived immediately after, completely blocking their retreat.
Su Ye gripped a handful of talismans tightly.
“If you get any closer, we're going to play for real!”
Xue Mingzhao squeezed out a stiff yet friendly smile.
“Brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts...
“I was speaking too loudly just now.
“I apologize.
“We are all civilized weapons here. We can talk things out, so please don't use force.”
The crowd of spiritual weapons did not attack.
They simply flew around Xue Mingzhao lap after lap, as if competing for a good spot.
Xue Mingzhao grew dizzy from the spinning.
“What on earth do you want to do?”
A folding fan squeezed out from the crowd of weapons, flew up to her, and gently poked her shoulder with its guard.
Xue Mingzhao was utterly bewildered.
“What does this mean?
“Fanning me?”
Su Ye observed for a moment and whispered, “Junior Sister, could it want you to contract it?”
The folding fan immediately bobbed up and down twice.
It was as if it were nodding frantically.
Xue Mingzhao: “!”
No way.
This massive crowd of weapons chased her for two laps just to get her to contract them?
She tentatively looked around.
“Do you all think the same way?”
The sky full of weapons bobbed up and down in unison.
The scene was magnificent, yet carried a hint of the bizarre.
Xue Mingzhao swallowed hard.
With so many weapons begging for a contract at the same time, even if she wanted them all, she wouldn't be able to master them.
However, the most important thing right now was to find the Xunyang Sword.
“Which one of you is the Xunyang Sword?”
The weapons showed no reaction whatsoever.
Xue Mingzhao slapped her forehead.
She had almost forgotten.
At this point, the Xunyang Sword did not have a name yet.
“Those with star marks on your scabbards, come forward.”
A commotion stirred among the weapons.
Soon, over a dozen longswords flew up to stand before Xue Mingzhao.
On each of their scabbards, there were patterns resembling stars.
Xue Mingzhao was dumbfounded.
The original book's description of the Xunyang Sword's appearance was pitifully scarce.
Aside from the star mark, it had never mentioned any other features.
With over a dozen placed together, how was she supposed to tell them apart?
What if...
...she took them all?
The moment this thought arose, Xue Mingzhao dismissed it.
The restrictions and barriers of Wanjian Mountain were incredibly dense, more than the sum of all the restrictions in the Grand Primordium Sect.
If she took even one extra, she would be discovered the moment she left the barrier.
Cang Jue reminded her, “Boss, why don't you try putting them into the Qiankun Heaven-Locking Bracelet?”
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