Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Da Xuan’s Armory! Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Da Xuan’s Armory! Editor: Atlas Studios “You are quick to see the situation, knowing that pointless resistance is meaningless. However, rest assured, as long as you obey, this old man may not necessarily kill you.”
The man simply smiled: “As for the object in the Brocade Box, huh, there’s no harm in telling you, but what will you exchange for it?”
“Hmm?”
Su Mo was startled: “Now that I’ve ended up like this, what do I have left to keep?”
Yet, the next moment, he had an epiphany: “You want my martial arts?”
Inside the forest, this person had witnessed with his own eyes Su Mo breaking a blade with two fingers, flinging it and piercing through a person’s neck, and still being able to penetrate three big trees in succession.
Such physical strength was indeed a bit terrifying.
It was natural for him to desire to possess this skill.
That’s why the other party used poison, but only to rob Su Mo of the ability to fight back, instead of directly silencing him by killing.
“It’s a pleasure to talk with a smart person.”
The man sat down again, picking up his teacup: “In actuality, there’s no poison in this tea.”
As the words fell, he took a sip and then said: “So, do you agree or not?”
“Do I even have a reason to refuse now?”
Su Mo sighed: “I don’t ask that you spare my life, I only wish for a quick death.”
“Ha ha ha, if not for our differing positions, with your temperament, I would have liked to befriend you despite the age difference.”
The man said this, yet fell silent again for a moment, before finally speaking up: “The object inside the box is called ‘Mysterious Mechanism’.”
“?”
Su Mo thought carefully, there was definitely no record of such a thing in his notes.
For a moment, he was somewhat baffled, and the confusion on his face was completely genuine.
“You’re young and inexperienced, naturally you would not have heard of it.”
The man said indifferently: “But, you should have heard of ‘Da Xuan’s Armory’.”
Su Mo’s eyebrows furrowed slightly: “Isn’t that just a legend?”
Going back hundreds of years, the times were different from now. There was a dynasty named Xuan!
The Da Xuan Dynasty was powerful, and with its own might, it suppressed the world. Everywhere under heaven was the king’s land, and everyone along the coast was the king’s subject!
Even the most arrogant martial artists in Jianghu and the most powerful Jianghu Sects all had to bow their heads and proclaim themselves subjects under this imperial power.
It is said that when Xuan Tianzi unified the world back then, he personally led the troops on seven campaigns, horses trampling Jianghu, collecting all martial arts under state control, thus establishing an enormous arsenal. This was not only filled with countless Divine Skill Secret Books but also with endless exotic treasures, truly deserving the title of the world’s greatest treasury!
However, there have never been invincible masters in this world, nor eternal dynasties!
Even the mighty Da Xuan Dynasty had its day of downfall.
Overnight, the royal authority crumbled, some said this was returning Qiyun to Jianghu, and as a result, it kicked off centuries of conflicts in Jianghu.
During these hundreds of years, many heroes rose in Jianghu, carving territories and ruling them, with ceaseless strife.
Through unity and division, but never again did a dynasty appear that unified the world under one rule.
As a result, across the world, the Martial Arts flourished, but scholars were left in frustrated yearning.
This was also why, back in the day when Su Mo told Li Yishu ‘I wish Brother Li a future as splendid as brocade’, Li Yishu could only smile bitterly and sigh deeply.
And among all this, numerous legends circulated in the world.
Among the most popular ones that people yearned for was indeed the tale of Da Xuan’s Armory!
Not only because of its legendary origins and documented history, but there was also a saying that spread: He who obtains Da Xuan, commands the world!
For a time, indeed, quite a few people were mobilized by the mere mention of it.
Regrettably, after successive waves of bloody struggles, it all came to nothing in the end.
Not only did no one obtain the arsenal in Da Xuan’s Armory, or the extraordinary skills and exotic treasures within, but even the existence of Da Xuan’s Armory itself was cast into doubt by countless question marks.
As time passed, many simply came to regard it as a Jianghu legend.
Yet who would have thought, this Brocade Box would actually be involved with this matter?
That explains why that young Blade user was so determined to kill me that day…
This matter, with its earth-shattering implications, could lead to obliteration if even a whisper escaped, ensuring not the slightest trace remained.
Otherwise, it would spell enormous trouble.
“A legend…isn’t a legend grounded in nothingness, a baseless fabrication—how could it be without reason?”
The middleman, surnamed Xu, chuckled softly: “Alright, you know enough now, it’s your turn.”
“Just by mentioning Da Xuan’s Armory, you want to trap my martial arts skills?”
A twitch played at the corner of Su Mo’s mouth: “Isn’t that a bit too easy?”
“Hmm? I had thought you were a smart man, but it seems I overestimated you… While most of what I just told you was deceit, one thing was true. Indeed, I possess a Hand Technique, named Mountain Flipping Palm.
“Admittedly, it can’t truly flip a mountain with the wave of a hand, yet crushing your bones would be effortless!”
With these words, he suddenly thrust out a palm, sending a fierce gust of wind barrel toward Su Mo’s shoulder.
At this moment, he was still not intent on killing, for with Su Mo’s death, the martial arts would be without a destination.
He sought to find that legendary Da Xuan’s Armory, and the difficulties along the way go without saying. If aided by a Divine Skill, success would come much easier.
And as for Su Mo?
A fish on the chopping board has no chance of turning the tides.
Unexpectedly, Su Mo, who had previously slumped weakly onto the stone table, suddenly smiled and promptly rose to his feet.
With a palm thrust out in kind, the two palms collided fiercely before his opponent could react.
There was just a thunderous boom, and the man, caught off guard, felt an overwhelming surge of Inner Strength burst unreasonably into his meridians, crushing everything in its path; where it passed, meridians broke inch by inch!
Within the space of a breath, coursing through his body, all his meridians were suddenly severed.
The man then flew backward like a torn sack, thrown back a full thirty feet, and upon hitting the ground, his momentum unabated, he rolled farther still, only stopping after another ten feet when obstructed by a peach tree.
To the point where the peach tree shuddered nonstop, as if receiving a profound shock.
Su Mo looked at his palm and shook his head lightly:
“I overestimated you…”
Within the forest, his two fingers snapped the blade, his backward flick packed with astonishing force.
He was unaware that this was the result of Su Mo’s deliberate control.
And currently, without knowing the depth of his opponent’s martial arts, Su Mo only released thirty percent of his strength, yet unexpectedly, he left his foe battered as if he were non-human.
In many ways, he had indeed overestimated his adversary and underestimated himself.
His Thirteenth stage Great Perfection Longxiang Wisdom, in terms of Inner Strength and physical strength, although would not dare to claim unmatched under the heavens, certainly few could stand shoulder to shoulder with it.
Clearly, the man before him was not one such person.
Thirty percent of Inner Strength was enough to beat him like a dead dog.