Chapter 403: Chapter 278 Sword Monarch
"Lu Xiaoliu’s treacherous act of deserting the sect with a broken sword and defecting to the Demon Sect has already been known by the Nine Luminaries Sword Pavilion.
What connection do you have with him, why did you let him go, and what did you talk about when you met? Confess the truth.
Otherwise, don’t blame me for being ruthless and cutting you down to clear the sect."
Po Jun Sword Lord said, stabbing the sword and handing the roasted chicken wing to Tie Dan.
Tie Dan, "..."
"Still not speaking."
Po Jun Sword Lord pressed the chicken wing to his face.
It’s all burned!
Tie Dan’s meridians hadn’t recovered, and his body was still frozen in ice, making it impossible to resist.
But he also knew that after a cultivator was severely injured in a great battle, the Dao Body most lacked Essence Blood for repair. Without elixirs or meat, purely relying on breathing to slowly recover, even with the Blood Jade Technique, he’d be asleep in the snow for years before recovering.
If it came to that, let alone Lu Xiaoliu possibly having mastered a Divine Skill by then, even his head would’ve been sliced off by Sword Sect assassins several times.
So Tie Dan couldn’t be bothered with whatever intention this Sword Master had, and just opened his mouth to bite the chicken wing, chewing the charred skin and flesh with bones and swallowing it.
Looking at the Samadhi Bonfire in front of him, gnawing on the wings of demon chicken charred black on the sword, Tie Dan was speechless for a moment.
Truly speechless, although he could open his mouth to eat chicken, every time he wanted to ask questions, a talisman would suddenly cover his mouth...
Meanwhile, Po Jun Sword Lord still kept babbling, chanting endlessly, one moment about this sect rule, another about that precept, sometimes scolding harshly, sometimes reprimanding angrily.
Yet simultaneously his hands were constantly moving, randomly flashing sword light, slicing through passing demons and birds, chopping them into pieces, stabbing them with the sword to feed Tie Dan.
Though to be fair, he really didn’t know the Great Dao of grilling.
Sometimes half-cooked, sometimes charred skin and rotten meat, frankly it wasn’t for cooking, he just used Dao Fire to burn off the skin, exorcise filth, toxins, parasites, then fed Tie Dan when it seemed edible, purely to quickly replenish his Essence Blood Power Qi.
It went on like this until evening, when the sun set in the west and the moon appeared bright, Po Jun Sword Lord finally closed his mouth. Calculating with his fingers, he tossed the treasure sword in his hand to the sky, like a beam of radiant light splitting across the Sky Dome, hanging in the night sky turning into a twinkling star.
Then Po Jun Sword Lord turned back to look at Tie Dan, raised his hand forming a sword finger, sliced toward his face,
"It’s your turn to speak."
Tie Dan glared at him,
"If you can’t grill, don’t grill."
"Tsk."
The Sword Lord looked impatient, took out an old shabby gourd from his sleeve, drank a mouthful, apparently genuinely dry-tongued and unwilling to speak anymore.
Tie Dan sniffed, smelled a strong scent of alcohol, and craved,
"Give me a sip."
The Sword Lord glanced at him, walked over with the gourd, and fed Tie Dan a sip as well.
"Ah! So strong! So spicy! What a drink! What’s this?"
"Yuan Zao Thunder Cup."
The Sword Lord snatched the gourd, shook it, and gulped down another drink himself,
"Quickly speak, don’t dawdle. I don’t have all night to waste with you."
Who’s the one dawdling away a whole day...
Tie Dan gazed at the Sword Lord’s face, staring directly into his eyes.
"He said his name is Lu Xiaoliu, in a previous life he was Lu Yi, the Demon Sect Dharma King. His master killed Senior Brother Zhou and joined the Demon Sect."
The Sword Lord didn’t seem surprised at all, nor did he slash with his sword. He just counted on his fingers, seeming deep in thought, and then turned to look at the sword cultivator’s corpse in the snow.
Tie Dan asked accordingly,
"Who is he?"
The Sword Lord was silent for a moment,
"Su Hao, a disciple of Heavenly Mechanism."
Tie Dan frowned,
"Inner Mountain? Just him?"
The Sword Lord slowly said,
"You’ve defied fate too many times, your body full of killing tribulations uncounted, karma numbers endless. If it weren’t for following him, I could never have found you.
But... how did he find you then...?"
Hearing this, Tie Dan also fell silent.
However, even though he hadn’t stayed long on Nine Yin Mountain, and hadn’t learned any secret inheritance from Sword Sect, his eyes weren’t blind.
With internal strife, assassinations, and sect betrayal, the situation within Cloud Platform wasn’t encountered just once or twice.
It’s evident that the Beichen Sword Sect now, the Inner and Outer Mountain, are like water and fire, with conflicts at a boiling point.
Even an outsider like Tie Dan could see this clearly; how could the Sword Lord not be aware?
"Inner Mountain, Outer Mountain..."
And he just raised his head, looked at the starry sky, took another drink, and slowly said,
"In the past, Xuan Nu and Yuan Gong imparted the sword and passed down scriptures, observing the creation of the Beichen Nine Stars, known as the Beichen Nine Luminaries Sword Sect.
Beichen Nine Stars, seven visible two hidden, Dongming, and Hidden Element meridians have unique cultivation methods limited by celestial conditions, the Sword Storage star hidden, unable to be refined, the Sword Scripture long shelved in the cabinet, and successors seldom appearing in the world.
Within the remaining seven meridians, Tianshu, Tianxuan, Heavenly Mechanism, Heavenly Authority, and Kui Sect meridians often retreat into the mountains seeking enlightenment, mainly focusing on refining and casting swords, passing down cultivation techniques and scriptures, talisman crafting, art of calculation, alchemy, and medicine preparation.
Additionally, Yu Heng, Kaiyang, Yao Guang, and Spur meridians mostly travel across Jianghu, primarily fighting demons, breaking devils, protecting mountains and arrays, exterminating evil, and upholding the Dao.
The disciples of each peak only differ in responsibility, with no high or low distinction, and certainly no division between Inner and Outer.
However, our Yao Guang meridian, ever since the destruction of the Xiaoyao Sect, suffered significant loss of vitality, now passing down only a single sword.
The Kaiyang meridian was breached by the Divine Lord back then, resulting in mass casualties among the disciples, and its sword inheritance was seized.
The Yu Heng Sword Master also, in the last Cloud Platform Competition, fought the Sect Leader with swords, lost and left in anger, and hasn’t returned, severing its lineage.
Therefore now among the nine peaks of the Cloud Platform, only Kui Sect is managing. They were originally the True Inheritor disciples, calling themselves the Inner Mountain, and it’s not unreasonable.