It was said in a poem, “Like red beans inlaid in an exquisite dice, don’t you know my yearning for you is deep in my bones?”
Red beans had always represented yearning, and the red beans in the verse referred to the red dots on a dice.
Usually, the one and four on a dice were red dots. However, only ‘one’ was red on this dice.
Little Junior Sister had already made up her mind, if she tossed a ‘one’ by luck, then it would be the will of heaven. It’s said that the will of heaven is hard to disobey, so she was naturally willing to admit defeat.
If she couldn’t toss a ‘one’ by luck, then let man prevail over nature!
She boldly cheated with confidence, the ‘judges’ watching on the sidelines were all as if they’d accepted bribes. Even their master was so.
As it turned out, they all agreed on this beforehand and were in on it together!
That day, rain poured on the mountain.
However, in Yue Heshan’s memory that day, the sunshine was resplendent and the sky was clear and boundless.
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On the Harbor Mountain, Lu Xun shifted his gaze from the dice and swept his eye over the other purple-grade equipment on the scene.
According to reason, since yellow-grade and blue-grade equipment didn’t react to him at all, the purple-grade equipment shouldn’t react at all either.
But for some reason, Lu Xun had an intuition. He just felt that this might not be the case.
Reality proved…
…That his intuition had problems.
No matter whether it was the dice, the ring, the pike, or the belt, all of which ignored him. As if they were saying, “Don’t touch me!”
However, the purple-grade short sword let out a thunderous sword cry. It even sent out flashes of sword rays!
The sword cry resounded through the entire Harbor Mountain, even the sword rays were slightly blinding. This manifestation showed that it wasn’t a normal short sword.
The sword was quite short, only being slightly longer than a dagger. And at the same time, it was also quite narrow, somewhat narrower than normal long swords.
A tassel hung at the end of the sword hilt, the decorations that came before the tassels were like sheets of sparkling and translucent snowflakes.
At the end of the snowflake decoration was a slender and white tassel. It was currently fluttering in the wind.
There was a light blue gem at the end of the blade, it was only two fingers away from the sword hilt. This gem was only the size of a fingernail and it was currently shimmering.
Even though Lu Xun was roughly five meters away from the short sword, at this moment, he could still feel the temperature in the surroundings drop quite a bit. It made him feel as though he were in a world of ice with heavy snowfall!
The short sword’s external appearance and quality seemed to be flawless.
Although Lu Xun couldn’t see the short sword’s basic information, he could indistinctly feel that the short sword was the best out of the five purple-grade equipment here!
How amazingly talented must the owner of the short sword have been?
He didn’t know that this sword came from the Shen Yan and the others’ Big Senior Sister, the first disciple that Yan Li took when he was traveling the world.
If she were still alive right now, Shen Yan basically wouldn’t have the chance for the position of sect master in the Demon Sect.
She was an orphan who took Yan Li’s surname, she was called Yan Shu.
This sword of hers was once tainted with the blood of a flood dragon!
The blue gem on the blade was the flood dragon’s Dragon Element!
In those years, a giant snake that had just evolved into a flood dragon was suspected to have fallen into Qi Deviation, such that it rashly attempted ‘Zoujiao[1]’!
Zoujiao means that when a flood dragon attempts to enter the sea through rivers and lakes. This would trigger howling winds and torrential rain in its path, leading to the dramatic rise of river levels and even torrential floods!
Swords would be hung on many bridges, these bridges were commonly referred to as suspended sword bridges. They used swords to suppress the flood dragon and to prevent the bridge from collapsing during Zoujiao.
Back then, the giant snake that had just evolved into a flood dragon triggered great turmoil. The starting place of the Zouijao was located in the area of the Azure Heaven Sect, one of the four great orthodox sects. The Azure Heaven Sect underestimated the flood dragon and only dispatched an elder and a few inner sect disciples. In the end, the inner sect disciples all died, and even the elder was heavily injured.
Although the flood dragon was also injured, it escaped the range of the Azure Heaven Sect’s forces, and then, it unexpectedly wandered into the Demon Sect’s area.
There was a violent storm that day. Yan Shu stood on a stone bridge that ran across a tributary of a large river. In order for the flood dragon to enter the sea, it had to pass through this stream—she was waiting to stop it.
She hung the short sword under the stone bridge in the way a sword was hung on suspended sword bridges.
When the flood dragon arrived, Yan Zhu launched her sword.
A sword light flashed by and the flood dragon was split in two.
Yan Shu always regarded Yan Li as her lifetime goal, so, her sword was also like Sword Qi Near. However, its name was the name of a tune called ‘The Pacified Storm!’
After killing the flood dragon that day, within the Demon Sect’s borders, there truly ‘wasn’t any wind and rain nor clear skies’, but such a lyric was nonexistent in this world.
At this very moment, Lu Xun looked at the sword, he would be lying if he said he wasn’t interested!
No matter how the small sword inside his Heart of the Sword trembled, he still wanted to give it a try.
This corresponded to the lyrics, ‘What can’t be obtained is always restless[2].’
“Give it a shot, it’s not like trying will get one pregnant.” While harboring such an attitude, Lu Xun ignored the protests of the small sword inside his body, he slowly walked towards The Pacified Storm.
Once he was near, he felt that the sword cry of the short sword was quite unique, it was like the roar of a great scourge!
He reached out his right hand towards the sword hilt of the short sword, the instant his fingertips were about to make contact, he was sent flying backward with a “peng—”!
This was extremely similar to that day in the bamboo forest where he attempted to touch Second Senior Sister’s wooden sword!
This somewhat dejected Lu Xun.
Although he kept thinking ‘MMP[3]’ all the way here, his face always wore a cordial smile. At this very moment, he kept a stiff face and looked up at the sky.
On the main peak, Shen Yan and the peak masters were all dumbstruck.
One face was dumbstruck, two faces were dumbstruck, three faces were dumbstruck…
“What… what’s going on here?” Luo Wanqiu was the first to speak, “Shouldn’t Little Uncle-Master have received Big Senior Sister’s sword? And then be teleported to the foot of the mountain?”
Gongshu Pan wore a gloomy expression, he frowned as he said, “Big Senior Sister’s The Pacified Storm clearly chose Little Uncle-Master, but why did it end up like this?”
At the start, when they saw The Pacified Storm choose Lu Xun, all of them were extremely excited!
This was Big Senior Sister’s sword! Their revered Big Senior Sister’s sword!
Little Uncle-Master was someone with the Natural Sword Constitution, if The Pacified Storm were in his hands, it would definitely shine again in its extraordinary splendor!
But why was Lu Xun sent flying?
He shouldn’t have been sent flying!
Regarding Lu Xun’s true situation, they didn’t understand much. Second Senior Sister and Cat Southnorth didn’t mention it to them on their own accord—they were waiting until after Sir came back to inquire him about it.
This was why they didn’t know that Lu Xun, the one with the Natural Sword Constitution, could possibly be a swordless person his entire life.
Lu Xun took a deep breath. After he adjusted his state of mind, he looked up towards the dense fog on the mountain.
All of the purple-grade equipment of the Demon Sect was placed here. Further up ahead, there would only be Sword Qi Near that was placed on the 999th step!
Before Lu Xun took another step, he took another glance at The Pacified Storm. And then, he lifted his legs and continued to climb the mountain.
Long before ascending the mountain, he already had quite a crazy idea regarding Sword Qi Near’. However, he wasn’t quite certain whether or not it would be successful.
He didn’t have a terrible gambling mentality—he knew when to quit.
Rather than a grand gamble without assurances, it would be better to maximize profits as much as possible within a controlled range!
If any superior blue-grade equipment or purple-grade equipment picked him, he definitely would have left immediately.
But now, he had no choices left.
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[1] In folklore, a snake cultivates into a flood dragon then cultivates into a ‘true’ dragon, Zoujiao is the final process where the flood dragon enters the sea
[2] Red Rose by Eason Chan
[3] Internet slang, a profanity, literally short for “a mother who sells her c*nt” but it’s generally not directed at another person, used more as an exclamation