Chapter 476: Chapter 339: Mosquito Slaying Sword? Jiao-slaying Sword!
The sword light receded.
The words “Slay Jiao” on the sword hilt became clearer. The sword looked ordinary, somewhat similar to a peach wood sword, about 1.2 meters long and about 3.5 centimeters wide. The blade was blunt and looked dull.
However, when held in hand, it gave a sharp and oppressive feeling.
Xu Yang pulled out a strand of hair and blew it onto the blade. The hair was instantly cut in half.
He then rolled up his sleeve and lightly chopped the sword towards his left hand…
With a plop.
His left hand fell directly to the ground.
Whoosh!
At this moment, a Yin wind blew over.
Grandpa appeared behind Xu Yang.
The anomaly of the “Heavenly Master Xu’s Sword” was neither too big nor too small, but it was definitely not insignificant. At least, Grandpa, who was in Wanshou Palace, had noticed it. He rushed here the first time, only to see this scene. He couldn’t help but be shocked and exclaimed, “Xu Yang…what happened to you?”
“Oh, Grandpa, I’m fine.”
Xu Yang looked at his bleeding wrist, made a sword flower with one hand and inserted the “Jiao-slaying Sword” into the ground, then picked up his severed left hand and pressed it back onto his wrist.
He activated the Separation skill of the 72 Earth-Devil Skills, and his severed left hand quickly regrew.
Xu Yang shook his wrist, pulled out the “Jiao-slaying Sword” inserted in the ground, looked up and down, and marveled, “Grandpa, this sword has never been sharpened, but it’s so sharp?”
Seeing that Xu Yang was unharmed, the old man finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He took two steps forward and laughed, “The Mosquito Slaying Sword is the Heavenly Master Xu’s Sword, an immortal artifact. It followed Heavenly Master Xu to slay demons and monsters, and is naturally a sharp weapon in the world.”
“Mosquito Slaying Sword?”
Xu Yang said: “Grandpa, this is the Jiao-slaying Sword.”
“What Jiao-slaying?”
The old man glared and scolded, “Since I was a child, I have been well-read in the Daoist Collection and most admired the strong, like Heavenly Master Xu…I have memorized all the records about Heavenly Master Xu in Wanshou Palace.”
“Heavenly Master Xu had two great treasures when he traveled the world.”
“One is the Supreme Purification Seal, which can detain and dispatch gods and ghosts.”
“The other is the Jiao-slaying Sword, which is said to have been specifically forged by Xu Zu to slay evil dragons. It is extremely sharp and can slay demon immortals… Huh?”
As he was talking.
Seeing Xu Yang handing over the sword to him, he immediately looked at the sword hilt and stared, “This… Jiao-slaying? It’s really called Jiao-slaying? How could that be? Could it be that there is another sword under this ancient pine and cypress tree?”
“No more.”
Xu Yang said: “Under the pine and cypress trees, there is only this sword…and according to you, Grandpa, this sword was specially forged by Xu Zu to slay evil dragons. Isn’t it reasonable for it to be called the Jiao-slaying Sword?”
Xu Zhiyuan fell into deep thought.
It seemed…
That makes sense!
But if so, why are the “Daoist Collection” and many other scriptures treasured by the Jingming Sect recorded as “Mosquito Slaying Sword”?
As for this, Xu Yang speculated…
It might be that after Xu Zu ascended, the sixth elder among his later disciples made a mistake when copying the Dao scriptures or compiling them, and wrote the character “Jiao” as “Mosquito.”
“Since it is the Jiao-slaying Sword, I will let the disciples correct all the errors in the Daoist Collection…”
Xu Zhiyuan made a decision.
The grandfather and grandson didn’t dwell too much on this issue. Xu Zhiyuan asked, “Xu Yang, this Jiao-slaying Sword is an immortal artifact, can you refine it?”
“I should be able to.”
Xu Yang gently cut his fingertip with the Jiao-slaying Sword.
With a plop.
The fingertip fell off.
“Slow down, slow down!”
Xu Zhiyuan shouted.
Xu Yang said, “It’s okay, Grandpa, I’ll just grow it back in a while.”
He dripped blood onto the Jiao-slaying Sword…
“Ding!”
A system prompt sounded in his mind, followed by a line of text that only Xu Yang could see on the system properties panel.
“Do you want to spend 100,000 merit points to refine the Jiao-slaying Sword (immortal artifact)?”
[Yes],[No].
“Refine.”
Muttered in his heart.
“Ding!”
“Merit Points -100,000.”
“Refinement Successful.”
The next moment, Xu Yang found that there was a subtle connection between himself and the “Jiao-slaying Sword”… That connection was extremely peculiar, as if the sword had become a part of his own body.
With a thought, the Jiao-slaying Sword immediately turned into a sword light and drilled into his Zifu acupoint on the forehead.
Xu Zhiyuan: “…”
The old man looked astonished and wondered, “You…you refined it so quickly?”
“It’s impossible…this is an immortal artifact. Without heavenly power, you can only control it by nurturing it with time and effort. How could you refine it so quickly?”
“Maybe when Xu Zu left the Jiao-slaying Sword, he left some means on it.”
Xu Yang made up an explanation casually.
He didn’t dwell on this topic and said, “Grandpa, have the cooks for the grand ceremony banquet arrived yet? I’ve been cultivating for a whole day today, and I’m a little hungry.”
“They’ve arrived.”
Xu Zhiyuan laughed, “These cooks are famous ones I asked someone to find from various places…what do you want to eat, I’ll let the disciples make an order.”
Soon.
A few exquisite and delicious late-night snacks were sent to Xu Yang’s courtyard.
“Grandpa, do you want to eat something together?”
“No need, I just ate.”
“Do you want to drink something instead?”
“I can drink.”
Xu Yang set out a wine glass in front of the old man, then picked up a bottle of Maotai, opened the cap, and poured the wine on the ground.
As the wine spilled on the ground, the wine overflowed in the glass in front of Xu Zhiyuan.
He picked up the glass and drank it all at once, glared at Xu Yang and scolded, “Alright, no more…I’m the City God now, I can drink directly without offering sacrifices.”
One person and one ghost, the old and the young, had a heart-to-heart talk late into the night.