Chapter 937 - 846: Sword Servant Family
This line of text gave Dugu Yuqing an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
As if it was written by another self.
Moreover, just like Li Fan had said, this Sword Dao held a verifying significance to him at the present time.
Upon hearing this, Li Fan also could not help but nod his head and say,
“Calligraphy is indeed something that requires much exchange, learning from each other’s strengths. You may go!”
Dugu Yuqing immediately brightened up with joy and said,
“Thank you, Master!”
At this moment, a voice came from outside the small courtyard.
Wu Dade, looking disheveled, walked in.
His whole body was covered in wounds as if he had been stabbed by some beast’s fangs, and his clothes were torn in many places!
However, his face bore a trace of contentment and a smile.
“Master, I’ve trimmed the teeth of Uncle Zhang’s piglets.”
Wu Dade reported.
A few days ago, a sow owned by Uncle Zhang had given birth to a litter of piglets.
Upon learning of this, Li Fan asked Wu Dade to help by trimming the piglets’ teeth.
This was a necessary step in raising pigs, because if the teeth of the piglets were not trimmed, they would injure the sow while nursing.
After all, Wu Dade had studied “Postpartum Care for Sows,” so this was simple for him.
But now, Li Fan couldn’t help feeling puzzled; why did Wu Dade look like he’d been in a fight with pigs, bitten by them?
“Da De, it’s good that you’ve come.”
Li Fan said,
“Your fellow disciple Yuqing is going on a long journey, and you will go with him.”
Upon hearing this, Wu Dade immediately said,
“I shall obey!”
He then changed into a clean set of clothes, called the Big Black Dog, and together with Dugu Yuqing, left the little village.
…
On the road leaving the small mountain village, Wu Xiaokun told Dugu Yuqing and the others about the things that had happened in the Wu Huang Realm.
“Ban Explorers?”
This was the first time Dugu Yuqing and the others had heard of this organization.
“Bark, this organization is probably not clean,”
said the Big Black Dog as it stepped out of the village, its dog nose sniffing the air,
“Something smells off here…”
It looked towards Dugu Yuqing and murmured,
“This sword intent sweeping across the world, why does it resemble the sword you held in the past… but that sword was already shattered, wasn’t it? When I, the Emperor, left the battlefield to seek someone, I saw Blade Shards scattered across the Grey Mist Sea…”
“Could it be that someone found the Blade Shards and sent them over from the Grey Mist Sea?”
The Big Black Dog seemed to think of many things.
“Why do I feel that what we’re facing this time might not be as simple as just a small Ban-Exploring Organization… Could it be that there are dark forces behind it from the Grey Mist Sea?”
Upon hearing this, both Dugu Yuqing and Wu Dade’s expressions turned solemn.
The Grey Mist Sea… in all the legends, that place was utterly despairing!
The Era of the Ancient White Mist had ended because of the invasion from the Grey Mist Sea.
Even the ten Venerables had died on an ancient path in the Grey Mist Sea.
It was filled with mystery and strangeness.
Now, were they actually to come into contact with something from the Grey Mist Sea?
“It’s just right to see, the Grey Mist Sea… what means they have.”
Dugu Yuqing, however, said indifferently,
“Let’s go!”
They went straight towards the Northern Border—Wuji Peak.
…
At this moment.
Outside the Wu Huang Realm, in the void.
A warship was hastening through space.
The body of this warship was battered and almost destroyed.
On this warship, there were only two grey-clothed old servants and a young girl in a tight-fitting martial outfit.
The auras of these three people were very chaotic, as if they had just been through a great battle.
“Miss, hurry, people from the Dugu Family… are already on our tail!”
One of the old servants coughed as he spoke; his left hand held a sword and said,
“Zhonglie, take the miss and go!”
“I will stop them!”
Hearing this, the other grey-clothed old servant said in a deep voice,
“You are too injured to hold them off, take the miss and go, I’ll handle this!”
He also held a sword in his left hand!
“Grandfather Zhongtian, Grandfather Zhonglie… let’s leave together!”
But the young girl in martial attire urged anxiously,
“As long as we enter the Wu Huang Realm and come under the protection of Martial Honor, the Dugu Family cannot do anything to us!”
However, Chen Zhonglie gave a faint smile and said,
“Miss, the emergence of Martial Honor’s sword intent is the opportunity that the Chen Clan has been waiting for through the ages… It’s a pity that our Chen Family, being a fellow servant family of swordsmanship to the Dugu Family, was ambushed, leaving only you… You must not delay the chance because of us!”
As his voice fell, his figure disappeared from the warship.
A shocking sword intent erupted from Chen Zhongtian.
His left hand wielding a sword, the sword light pierced the heavens and with a palm strike, he thrust the damaged warship into the Wu Huang Realm.
Then, he turned around and looked towards the void behind him.
A fleet of warships had already appeared.
Each warship emitted a terrifying presence.
The two leading warships were both of the Spirit King level.
That was … the people of the Dugu Family!
“Chen Zhonglie, our Dugu Clan has not been unkind to you, yet you left in secret and fled here, even attempting to abduct the fiancée of our family’s heir? What is your intent!” barked Dugu Songming from aboard one of the warships, a Sword Dao Spirit King of the Dugu Family.
Hearing this, Chen Zhonglie’s eyes were filled with hate as he said,
“Unkind to our Chen Family? Our Chen Family and your Dugu Family are both Sword Servant Clans, but your Dugu Clan has betrayed us!”
“You said you wanted to discuss the marriage with our clan, but in reality, you set a trap and placed all of our masters under house arrest … with the aim of taking our Chen Family’s sword techniques!”
“Is this what you call not being unkind?!”
Chen Zhonglie was furious beyond measure.
The Chen Family and the Dugu Family had deep historical ties.
Both families were renowned as Sword Dao clans, and their ancestors had once followed one of the ten venerated beings—Sword Venerable—during The Era of the Ancient White Mist.
In the Era of the Latter White Mist, the two families’ relationship remained quite close.
Indeed, Chen Yue, the prized daughter of the Chen Family, was engaged to the heir of the Dugu Clan, Dugu Daosi.
But, just a few months ago,
The Dugu Clan had invited many masters from the Chen Family to visit their estate, claiming it was to discuss the wedding.
However, during the banquet, the patriarch of the Dugu Family, upon failing to obtain the Chen sword techniques from the Chen Family head, launched a surprise attack on the Chen Family.
It was a trap akin to a banquet set to deceive guests!
Many of the Chen Family’s masters were placed under house arrest.
Until today, when the sword intent of Sword Venerable swept across the heavens, Chen Xiaoran, father of Chen Yue, took advantage of the Dugu Family’s unpreparedness to set fire to his sword intent, breaking the large formation of the Chen Family and finding a ray of hope for Chen Yue.
The three of them had managed to escape.
They fled toward the Wu Huang Realm, and now they were caught up with.
“Sword Venerable created a set of Dual Polarity Swordsmanship back in the day. This technique consists of a Left Hand Sword technique complementing the Right Hand Sword technique.”
“Dual Polarity Swordsmanship is the foundation of Sword Venerable’s Ultimate Sword Path. Only by combining the Left Hand Sword with the Right Hand Sword can we obtain the Ultimate Sword Path!”
Dugu Songming spoke with a cold voice,
“Our Dugu Clan is aiming to resurrect the Way of Sword Venerable!”
“And yet, your Chen Family remains stubbornly ignorant!”
Chen Zhonglie retorted coldly,
“Those are nothing but high-sounding justifications!”
Dugu Songming shook his head, saying,
“Chen Zhonglie, your Chen Family is no longer capable. In the True Ancestor World, to be weak is the original sin!”
“The law of the jungle is blameless; do not blame our Dugu Family for being ruthless!”
He was utterly cold!
Chen Zhonglie slowly raised his sword and said,
“Weak? In the past, the Chen Clan sent all eighteen of its Sword Dao prodigies to the Northern Border to defend the Heavenly Abyss… If even one of them remained in the Ancestral Realm, how could your Dugu Clan behave so outrageously?!”
“Do you not fear the day when the Chen Clan’s eighteen swords will return from the border?”
He hated them!
The Chen Family, once a servant clan of the Sword Venerable, was certainly no weaker than the Dugu Family.
But the most elite geniuses and masters of the Chen Family, known as the Chen Clan’s Eighteen Swords, had all been sent to the border.
Otherwise, the Dugu Clan would not have been able to take advantage of the Chen Family.
“Heh heh… I admit, the Chen Clan’s Eighteen Swords were indeed strong back then… but they won’t live much longer.”
Dugu Songming said with a cold laugh,
“You’re as good as dead, so it doesn’t matter if I tell you.”
“The Heavenly Abyss is about to break, and the Chen Clan’s Eighteen Swords will spill their blood at the border. They won’t be coming back!”
“Otherwise… why would our clan dare to take action at this time? Ha ha ha…”
With those words, he pointed forward with his right hand, and a fearsome sword intent immediately swept towards Chen Zhonglie!
…
Not long after,
Dugu Songming sheathed his long sword.
On his sword was blood of a greyish hue.
Chen Zhonglie’s head was held in his left hand, still with some life in it.
“This man was too fierce, he nearly injured both of us,” said another Spirit King of the Dugu Clan—Dugu Songsi.
In the earlier battle, Chen Zhonglie had fought like a madman.
Dugu Songming had almost been unable to hold him off.
Finally, Dugu Songsi also took action, and it was only with two against one that they were able to cut off Chen Zhonglie’s head!
“Why didn’t you completely extinguish his life force, Second Uncle, Third Uncle?” asked a young man who walked up behind them, looking at Chen Zhonglie’s head with an indifferent expression on his face.
He… was the Dugu Clan’s heir, Dugu Daosi.
Chen Zhonglie was not yet dead. At the level of Spirit King, even if only a head remained, one could regenerate.
“We still have use for it.”
Dugu Songming smiled faintly, looking forward towards the Wu Huang Realm, and said,
“The things in the Wu Huang Realm are connected with Martial Honor. Their blood and souls… might grant us a chance to obtain the opportunities within!”
A fervent look flashed in his eyes.
“Ptui…”
The head of Chen Zhonglie spat in anger,
“A bunch of beasts, unworthy even to covet the things of Martial Honor…”
But before he could finish speaking, Dugu Daosi had already slapped him.
“Old fool, shut your mouth!”
He said coldly,
“Pursue them, we must not allow Chen Yue to escape, nor can we miss out on Martial Honor’s opportunity!”
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