110 Mount Sword, Birth of The Demon
Although the two of them could not use their internal force, they could still be hurt by the sword.
Feeling the chill on his neck, Lin Ran subconsciously wanted to activate his internal force to protect himself. After holding it in, he said angrily, “Put away your sword! I didn’t come all the way here to save you so that you could point a sword at me!”
Huo Qiyun relaxed and sheathed his sword. “It’s indeed you. Others won’t talk like that… But why do you know so much?”
“Well… I can’t tell you.”
Lin Ran hesitated for a moment and shook his head. Seeing that Huo Qiyun was about to draw his sword again, he hurriedly added, “Your empress sister didn’t want me to tell you. If you want to know, go back and ask her. If she agrees, I’ll tell you.”
At the mention of the empress, Huo Qiyun calmed down. He lowered his shoulders and said helplessly, “Then tell me what this place is first. How can we get out?”
“This is a Sword Grave…”
As soon as Lin Ran spoke, Huo Qiyun said angrily, “I know this is a Sword Grave. It’s not only here, but everything within a hundred kilometers is a Sword Grave!”
Lin Ran asked after a pause, “Do you know where all the swords in Mount Sword come from?”
Huo Qiyun replied without thinking, “After the founding war of the Heavenly Saint Dynasty, many swords have been collected here because they are tainted with the sword intent of their master.”
“This sword intent is too strong. If it���s not collected, it will cause harm to ordinary people. Therefore, the Heavenly Saint Emperor built Mount Sword to store these divine weapons… Grandpa Sword God told me this.”
“That’s about right.”
Lin Ran nodded. Huo Qiyun didn’t know about the secret room of the Hidden Sword Pavilion, so Lin Ran naturally wouldn’t take the initiative to mention it. He paused for a moment and asked, “Then do you know where the weapons here came from?”
“Well…”
Huo Qiyun’s expression immediately changed, as if he was stumped by this question.
“Since it’s a war, there has to be both sides involved. The swords stored in Mount Sword are the weapons of the past generals in the history of the Heavenly Saint Dynasty, and here…”
Lin Ran pointed at the darkness that the two of them couldn’t see. “All the weapons here are from the enemies of the Heavenly Saint Dynasty.”
Seeing that Huo Qiyun didn’t seem to understand, Lin Ran explained, “Because they are the enemy’s weapons, they naturally contain hostility towards the Heavenly Saint Dynasty. Such weapons can’t appear in the world, at least not within the territory of the Heavenly Saint Dynasty, so they’re all imprisoned here.”
Huo Qiyun frowned and caught the point of Lin Ran’s words. “Imprisoned?”
Lin Ran nodded. “In addition to being hostile to the Heavenly Saint Dynasty, these weapons are also filled with strong killing intent and resentment. When these things are mixed together, they will become spirits over time… In other words, they’re all alive.”
Huo Qiyun’s face instantly turned pale. He had heard a lot of rumors about weapons choosing their owners, so it was not strange for a weapon to have a spirit.
However, when he heard that there were actually tens of thousands of weapons that had become spirits, Huo Qiyun couldn’t help but feel a chill run down his spine. He subconsciously looked around.
The halo emitted by the stone platform could only cover an area of ten feet. The old weapons in the black water reflected a pale white light, and further away was complete darkness.
But for some reason, Huo Qiyun felt that there were countless pairs of eyes staring at him…
“Pfft!”
Suddenly, a chuckle broke the strange atmosphere. Huo Qiyun turned around and saw Lin Ran’s smug smile. The fear in his heart was instantly dispelled by anger!
“Are you kidding me?!”
Huo Qiyun widened his eyes and was about to draw his sword again when Lin Ran hurriedly raised his hands in surrender. “Calm down, calm down. I’m not kidding you. It’s just that this place is not as terrifying as you think because the spirits the weapon turned into have already escaped.”
“What do you mean?”
Huo Qiyun was stunned. “Didn’t you say that there’s no way out?”
“Actually, there’s still a way.”
Lin Ran pointed up. “There’s a Five Elemental Seal on the top of the cave, the height of which I have no clue. Decades ago, the spirit born from countless killing intent and resentment escaped from there.”
“Five Elemental Seal? Decades ago?”
Huo Qiyun’s expression instantly turned extremely ugly. “Are you talking about the demon? The spirit that the weapons turned into is the demon that Grandpa Sword God sealed here back then? The demon actually ran out?!”
Looking at Huo Qiyun’s shocked expression, Lin Ran had no intention of mocking him because when he found out about this in the Hundred Fragrance Palace, his reaction was even greater than Huo Qiyun’s.
After Huo Qiyun calmed down a little, Lin Ran explained, “Actually, many years ago, there were no demons in the Heavenly Saint Dynasty.”
“Back then, Sword God didn’t defeat the demon and seal it here. Instead, the demon was born here. Sword God sealed it to prevent it from escaping.”
“The so-called demon is something born from the killing intent, resentment, and all kinds of negative emotions in these weapons. However, this process took a long time, and it’s longer than you can imagine.”
“But no matter how long it took, knowing that this outcome would come sooner or later one day, the Heavenly Saint Emperor built Mount Sword…”
At this point, Lin Ran suddenly paused and pointed at the surrounding darkness. “You should have realized that this main peak is more like a mechanism than an array formation. This is because in the era of the founder of the Heavenly Saint Dynasty, array formations weren’t as advanced as now.”
Huo Qiyun nodded thoughtfully. “So the Heavenly Saint Emperor built Mount Sword and imprisoned these weapons here?”
“That’s right!”
Lin Ran snapped his fingers. “In addition to this mountain, the divine swords outside have the same effect. Their sword intent can suppress the evil aura here and delay the birth of the demon.”
“That doesn’t sound right though. If what you said is true, the weapons here should have been here when Mount Sword was built.”
Huo Qiyun frowned. “Even if it was a founding war, the enemy couldn’t possibly have so many divine weapons. Moreover, what about the weapons captured in the subsequent wars? Should we build another Mount Sword to keep them too?”
“That brings us to the second function of this mountain.”
Lin Ran stuck out two fingers and said, “You don’t know the route at all, but you still came here… Do you think it’s luck?”
Huo Qiyun thought for a moment and understood. “Are you saying that the mechanism here can transport anything inside the mountain here?”
“That’s right.”
Lin Ran nodded. “Other than the secret passage where we came in, there are many other passages hidden in this mountain. As long as the weapons are placed in the passage, they will eventually end up being here.”