Free Web NovelHearing Lu Yibei's request, Jiang Li turned to look at the broken sword on the ground, thought for a moment, and nodded, "Okay."
Lu Yibei was stunned, "Huh? You just agreed? Don't you want to go and see?"
She originally thought that to get this troublesome woman to agree to her acting alone in this situation, it would probably take a lot of effort.
But she didn't expect that she agreed so readily without much hesitation.
Jiang Li, who is so easy to get along with, must have something wrong.
Could it be some kind of conspiracy?
Lu Yibei felt a little unaccustomed for a moment.
Jiang Li rolled her eyes at Lu Yibei and said lightly, "Is it useful to want to go and see?"
"Even if I stop You, You will definitely say a lot of garbage to distract me and then find a chance to slip away, right?"
"Wow, don't act like You know me so well, okay? Be careful or I'll misunderstand that You have a crush on me!" Lu Yibei teased.
Jiang Li tilted her head, looked at Lu Yibei's mischievous expression, and rolled her eyes, "You're thinking too much, I already have someone I like."
Damn! Big news! A Miss who lives like a "machine" hunting urban legend, actually likes someone else? Something's not right! Lu Yibei thought to herself.
Her gossip soul was immediately restless. If it weren't for the restrictions of her current identity, she could have pulled Jiang Li and chattered all night until she dug out all the information from the man's household registration book.
While Lu Yibei was thinking, Jiang Li spoke, interrupting her thoughts, "Alright, have You thought about where You want to try these things out?"
"This..." Lu Yibei frowned slightly and said, "Isn't it enough to just find a place where no one is around?"
Jiang Li looked at Lu Yibei, her eyes like she was looking at an idiot, shook her head and said, "Of course not. There is a set of strict procedures for testing these unknown Spiritual Energy items."
Lu Yibei didn't know what unpredictable consequences might occur if she casually tried to use Spiritual Energy items with unknown effects, but Jiang Li, who had been working at the Night Watch for several years, knew very well.
A few years ago, when she first joined the Night Watch, she was fortunate enough to witness a Calamity-level Spiritual Energy item at the Si Ye Hui Headquarters that looked similar to a matchlock gun.
According to the Night Watch member who introduced that Spiritual Energy item, the Wang Gongchang explosion during the Tianqi period had a subtle connection with that Spiritual Energy item, and it was suspected that someone had made a very reckless attempt without knowing the specific effect of that Spiritual Energy item.
Therefore, Jiang Li did not object to Lu Yibei testing the Spiritual Energy items she had obtained tonight, but for safety's sake, she absolutely could not let her mess around.
With this in mind, Jiang Li said in a serious tone, "Of course You can't just find any place. If You haven't thought of a suitable testing ground, I can recommend a place to You."
"What place?" Lu Yibei asked curiously.
Jiang Li did not directly answer Lu Yibei, but stood up on her own, patted the dust off her body, and said, "Wait here for a while, I'll take You there."
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Ten minutes later.
On a road in Hua City leading to the suburbs, a matte black sport motorcycle, carrying two young girls, sped along under the orange streetlights.
On the back seat of the motorcycle, Lu Yibei was holding Jiang Li's soft and boneless slender waist, wearing her cat-ear helmet.
In the confined space of the helmet, a faint, lingering fragrance filled her nostrils.
The fragrance was pleasant, exactly the same as the fragrance that occasionally wafted from Jiang Li's hair.
Lu Yibei had lived this long without even holding a girl's hand, where had she seen such a scene?
From the small river to the destination, she was completely stunned, her mind constantly flashing with a bunch of messy, unrealistic, and easily reportable fantasies, and she was uncharacteristically quiet.
By the time she came to her senses, Jiang Li had already stopped the car near the ruins of the Hua Yu Sunshine Resort Hotel.
"We're here, get off?" Jiang Li said lightly.
"Oh!" Lu Yibei responded, and quickly withdrew her hand from Jiang Li's waist.
After getting off the car and taking off the helmet, her face changed slightly as she looked at the scorched earth and the remnants of buildings that looked like a giant's burnt skeleton a few hundred meters away.
"......"
Damn it, why did she suddenly bring me here?
Is she fed up, doesn't want to pretend anymore, and is just bringing the suspect to identify the crime scene?
Lu Yibei was thinking anxiously in her heart when Jiang Li suddenly turned around and looked directly into her eyes, making her feel a chill in her heart and almost confessing on the spot to get a lighter sentence.
"Not long ago, a very terrifying Strange Tale was born here, causing significant destruction. Now the residents within a five-kilometer radius have been evacuated."
"Due to the residual Spiritual Energy fluctuations, there aren't even any urban legend."
"Here, You can do as You please without worrying about affecting innocent people," Jiang Li said.
So she still doesn't know! That's right, I look very different now from how I looked back then... Lu Yibei thought, secretly letting out a sigh of relief.
Seeing Lu Yibei's hesitant and silent look, Jiang Li mistakenly thought she was waiting for herself to leave but didn't know how to say it, so she rode the car alone, while tying up her long golden hair, she said lightly to Lu Yibei, "Then I'll go first. Contact me when You're done here."
As her voice fell, she gradually disappeared from Lu Yibei's sight amidst the hum of the engine.
Watching Jiang Li's back disappear into the distance, Lu Yibei always felt that something was different about her compared to when they first met at the Night Watch, or in that burning building in this ghostly place.
What was different exactly?
Lu Yibei couldn't say for a moment.
"Who cares, it has nothing to do with me how she changes!" Lu Yibei muttered, put the guitar case on the ground, squatted down, took out the ancient sword from it, and examined it carefully in front of her, "The most important thing now is to study the ancient sword."
"You called me grandson just now, right? I'll make You call me Old Dad later!"
Lu Yibei placed the ancient sword on a prominent rock scorched black by thick smoke, and carefully examined the broken sword, which she had exchanged for two ancestral kitchen knives, using the light from her phone's built-in lighting device.
The style of the ancient sword's blade was somewhat similar to early bronze swords, willow-leaf shaped, with complex openwork patterns, and a faint flow of firelight within the patterns, but due to the broken blade, the full extent of the patterns could not be seen.
However, what made Lu Yibei feel strange was that such an ancient sword actually had a guard.
She had read a miscellaneous book in Professor Ma's office and remembered a passage describing swords from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, which were all "without guards, without pommels."
But this ancient sword had the shape of an early bronze sword, while also having a degree of sophistication comparable to a modern lathe-polished ring-shaped abnormal guard. This combination was a bit strange.
"Hiss--!"
Lu Yibei suddenly thought of a serious problem, took a deep breath, and muttered softly, "Damn it! Could it be a fake?"
After realizing this serious problem, Lu Yibei quickly picked up the ancient sword, gently patted the blade, and growled, "Hey, hey, Sword Spirit there? Come out and receive guests!"
"I'm a sword bone, iron-blooded glass heart!"
"Baby, baby, turn around!"
"Bankai!"
...
Password incorrect, the other party refused to respond.
"......"
Lu Yibei shouted randomly for a while, and seeing that the ancient sword had no reaction, she became more and more anxious.
Something she exchanged for such a high price, it's fine if it's not from the Eastern Jin or Western Jin, wouldn't it be a huge loss if it's a recent one?
In a fit of rage, she growled, "I am Your Old Dad!" and threw a Red Flame Flash at it.
A basin-sized crimson fireball whistled towards the broken sword, and when it was less than an inch away from the blade, it suddenly hovered in mid-air for two seconds, and ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) then the scattered, silent air around it seemed to be awakened, turning into a strong wind, stirring up a white vortex on the blade.
Lu Yibei was blown by the strong wind and the ground was covered in black dust, making her unable to open her eyes. She covered her mouth and nose with her hands in front of her, and in the darkness, she heard the sound of bells and drums ringing together.
That grand and deep sound was like a sacred ritual, striking the heart and purifying the soul.
Soon, everything was silent.
Lu Yibei cautiously lowered the hands that were in front of her and looked at the broken sword, which was completely unharmed after being bombarded by about twenty to thirty times the Red Flame Flash, her eyes filled with surprise and uncertainty.
It actually swallowed my Spell?
Looking at the ground around the ancient sword, which had lost its scorched blackness and showed the original color of the soil, Lu Yibei shook her head, denying the first thought that popped into her mind.
No, it's not swallowing, this feeling is more like...
Purification?
Amazing, this time I didn't lose heavily, I even made a small profit!
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Lu Yibei thought to herself with secret glee, just as she was about to reach out and pick up the ancient sword again for a closer look, a sudden change occurred.
A pure and clear light, like a mountain spring, condensed from this section of the blade, and the majesty of steel erupted from within, shooting out in all directions.
The light became brighter and brighter, more and more brilliant, tearing through all darkness and announcing the arrival of light.
The light erupting from the blade was like a surging torrent, carrying an indomitable and upright momentum, intending to purify, disintegrate, and destroy everything around it with overwhelming force.
Lu Yibei couldn't dodge in time and was instantly enveloped by the sword light. Then, she shrugged helplessly, feeling her eyes getting hotter and hotter, and looking at the strange flowing light gradually appearing before her, she gave up resisting, lay down on the ground, and skillfully let her vision fall into darkness.
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Just like countless times before, Lu Yibei felt herself gradually breaking apart, spreading out like an invisible gas, and sinking down continuously amidst meaningless murmuring.
Then, suddenly, her back touched the cold, hard ground, and she woke up on that familiar rooftop.
Opening her eyes and looking at the sky, she was momentarily stunned. This familiar sky, although still a dirty grayish-blue like severe pollution, was much more pleasing to the eye than the previous times when the sky seemed about to collapse and the end of the world was imminent.
"Hey, the substitute player! I'm here, what's the situation this time? Can you explain it to me?"
Lu Yibei shouted, did a sit-up like a lazy fish, and sat up. Her eyes searched around for the mysterious girl she strongly suspected was another "herself," but she saw a scene that surprised her.
On the dilapidated and crumbling rooftop, a rusty water tank lay collapsed on the ground, and the breeze stirred up the debris on the ground. The mysterious girl did not appear, but a man wearing a black long gown, carrying a box on his back, and with a long braid, as if he had traveled from the late Qing Dynasty, stood with his back to her, holding a sword.
And the sword in the man's hand was that ancient sword.
A complete ancient sword.
Silver-white light flowed on the ancient and simple sword body, sometimes transforming into lotus flowers, sometimes into flying cranes and auspicious clouds, exuding a pure feeling.
Lu Yibei, "......"
What the heck?
Not only did you get rid of my main character, but you also brought out a strange Uncle with this kind of appearance?
Don't you know the Great Qing Dynasty has long since perished?
As Lu Yibei was secretly complaining about the suddenly appearing man, she was also cautiously retreating, maintaining a safe distance. The man standing with the sword, as if sensing something, suddenly turned around.
After seeing the man's face clearly, Lu Yibei's pupils contracted violently, and her body trembled slightly due to the intense emotional fluctuations.
That face, she was too familiar with it. In the past ten years, she had seen it almost every day.
That's right, the man looked almost exactly like her Old Dad, Lu Ming.
It's over, it's over, it's over, I must have been happily sent away by that ancient sword.
Otherwise, how could I see Old Dad's ghost?
Is this the underworld?
But didn't the si ye shu say that there is no such thing as an underworld in this world?
...
Just as Lu Yibei was in a fierce internal struggle, with garbage thoughts flashing through her mind like a massive barrage, the man who looked so much like her father walked over and cupped his hands towards her.
"I have met the Miss. My name is Qingji. May I ask for the Miss's name?"
Lu Yibei, "......"
He doesn't recognize me?
That's right, that's right, even if Old Dad saw me like this, he probably wouldn't recognize me.
But, what did he say his name was? Never mind, he's not right anyway!
"Wang Bu Liu Xing." Lu Yibei replied indifferently with a poker face.
"Ah? Isn't that..." Qingji scratched his cheek. Isn't that a medicinal herb for promoting blood circulation, relieving menstruation, and reducing swelling? How could someone be named this?
However, out of consideration for the Miss's face, he ultimately didn't have the nerve to ask Lu Yibei this question.
"Miss Wang is polite." Qingji said politely, took a few steps forward, and sat down cross-legged about two or three meters away from Lu Yibei.
Throughout the entire process, Lu Yibei kept looking back and forth at the man in front of her who resembled her Old Dad by eighty to ninety percent, and was constantly wary of the complete version of the ancient sword in his hand.
Seeing Lu Yibei's gaze occasionally drifting towards the ancient sword in his hand, Qingji seemed to realize something and asked with a light chuckle, "Oh, Miss seems to be very interested in the sword in my hand?"
Lu Yibei didn't dare to speak, but nodded several times like a chick pecking at rice.
She was actually quite afraid of her Old Dad, and unfortunately, the man in front of her had a face just like her father's.
So...
She's scared!
"This is an heirloom from my sect, named Lingtai Pure Karma, but unfortunately..." Qingji said, a hint of sadness flashing in his eyes, and shook his head, "Let's not mention it, let's not mention it!"
"Speaking of which, I have something I don't understand, and I would like to ask the Miss to enlighten me."
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"What the Miss is seeing now should be a wisp of residual image I left in the Lingtai Pure Karma, originally intended as the last blessing for future generations. I just don't know how this Lingtai Pure Karma ended up in the Miss's hands?"
Qingji said, his expression unchanged, but his eyes suddenly turned cold. This subtle change made Lu Yibei feel his demeanor suddenly shift, instantly transforming from a gentle scholar to a swordsman who could kill in ten steps.
"This... this..."
Lu Yibei stammered for a while, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw Qingji getting closer little by little. As if she had made up her mind, she gritted her teeth fiercely and blurted out, "Ancestral, that's right, this is my ancestral heirloom!"
"Oh?" Qingji narrowed his eyes, looked Lu Yibei up and down for a while, and asked, "May I ask the Miss, is your husband's surname Lu?"
"..." Lu Yibei was silent for a moment, feeling like she was about to grasp something important, but she wasn't sure. She just replied lightly, "Yes, how did you know?"
Hearing Lu Yibei's affirmative answer, Qingji's brows relaxed, and the cold aura emanating from him gradually dissipated. A wry smile appeared on his face, and he sighed, "That's right."
"I just don't know your husband's name?"
"Lu, Lu Yibei..."
"Hmm?" Qingji frowned. "Then what is Lu Yibei's father's name?"
"Lu Ming."
"Still not right..." Qingji muttered, and continued to ask, "Lu Ming's father?"
"Lu Bayi." After Lu Yibei finished speaking, she saw Qingji frowning, knowing that he might continue to ask. She quickly said, "Lu Bayi's father is called Lu Yuebo, and I don't know anything before that."
"That's right, that's right! Lu Yuebo is my son!"
"..."
As soon as Qingji's words fell, there was a sudden silence between the two, followed by...
The two almost simultaneously pointed at each other and shouted in surprise, "You are my great-great-grandfather! / You are my great-great-granddaughter-in-law!"
Qingji, "..."
My great-great-granddaughter-in-law is so beautiful, my great-great-grandson is really capable!
As expected of my descendant!
Lu Yibei, "..."
I was thinking of dealing with him, but it turns out I'm really his grandchild...
This is awkward. If I tell him now that I am Lu Yibei, will he come at me with a sword and clean house on the spot?
Just as Lu Yibei was thinking nervously, Qingji sat closer and asked, "Great-great-granddaughter-in-law, let me ask you, this sword should have been reforged into several kitchen knives and be in Lu Yibei's hands. Why did it suddenly recover? Did something happen at home?"
"Indeed, my husband, he has unfortunately passed away."
Damn it, I'm never going to lie again (one-time only)!
As the old saying goes, one lie requires a hundred lies to cover it up.
What kind of idiotic behavior is it to Spell yourself to death when you're perfectly fine, you bastard!
Lu Yibei thought, holding her forehead, not daring to look at Qingji's expression anymore, and quietly waiting for his response.
Then...
"Granddaughter-in-law, are you pregnant?"
Lu Yibei, "???"
