novelraw Chapter 215 : A Sword Born to Protect
Chapter 215 : A Sword Born to Protect
"Indeed, the color of this Kun Peng is wrong. Records describe the Kun Peng as entirely golden-cyan, but why does it have two colors? Perhaps we've misidentified it. Maybe it's not..." Someone held out hope. As long as what they encountered wasn't the legendary Kun Peng, everything would be manageable.
That disciple shook his head, his expression grave, and refuted, "On the contrary, the truly pure-blooded Kun Peng of legend is multicolored. The reason those Kun Peng beast demons recorded in the classics are only one golden color is that their bloodline is impure, containing only a minute trace of Kun Peng blood."
"But the colorful light on this Kun Peng beast demon before us has three colors. This is far purer and more powerful than those golden Kun Peng bloodlines recorded. It might even be..."
"N-never mind what it is, I only know that if you don't run now, you're about to die!" A fellow sect member beside him shouted, hurriedly pulling the person away.
They saw the Kun Peng beast demon looking down at everyone from on high, almost blocking out the entire sky. With just a light flap of its wings, the terrifying pressure of a Divine Transformation stage being swept over everyone. The ground beneath their feet swayed, and the places where they could stand were already limited. This was truly forcing them into a desperate situation.
In this place, there was no way to unleash their full power. They could only be forced into defense.
On the Ten Thousand Swords Sect side, they had Lin Qi's sword shield, which could barely hold out for a while.
The Metal Refining Sect disciples also had quite a few protective magical treasures in hand, so holding on for a while wasn't a problem. But the other sects were clearly in a much more difficult situation. Although Su Chen'an was a tool refiner, he hadn't brought many defensive spirit tools on this journey. There wasn't enough time to refine them on the spot, so he had no way to protect so many disciples from the remaining major sects.
Chu Sang focused her mind and took out the Mystic Spirit Sword.
A guess flashed through her mind.
Actually, when she had used the Mystic Spirit Sword before, she had already sensed that it was different from other swords—its attack power wasn't strong, even considered dull and slow compared to divine artifacts that could melt iron like mud. It was precisely because of this that Chu Sang didn't use it very frequently in battle, especially after obtaining powerful weapons like the Primordial Soul-Chaser later. The poor Mystic Spirit Sword had been completely relegated to cold storage.
But what if she changed her thinking and no longer treated the Mystic Spirit Sword as an offensive sword weapon, but instead like Lin Qi, treated it as a shield sword?
Chu Sang had never thought about it this way before, because she hadn't really paid attention to shield swords in her understanding. But Lin Qi had just provided her with a novel approach. Perhaps she had been using the Mystic Spirit Sword wrong all along. Maybe the Mystic Spirit Sword wasn't born for attack at all, but was a defensive shield sword.
A successful new idea needs practical verification.
Spiritual energy gathered in her hand, and the long sword transformed into a white-gold umbrella sword. The umbrella body was elegant and pure white, with the handle and edges engraved with pure gold patterns. It looked noble and elegant, more dazzling and imposing than when it was a sword. An extraordinary aura subtly appeared. So... this was its true defensive form!
The obscurity Chu Sang had felt when using the Mystic Spirit Sword before was now completely gone. She immediately raised the umbrella, opening it. The seemingly delicate umbrella surface was like the hardest shield in the world, blocking the wind blade attacks that carried Divine Transformation stage pressure. Not even a single crack was left on the smooth umbrella surface!
If Chu Sang hadn't seen wrong just now, those wind blades didn't even have a chance to get close to the umbrella surface before being neutralized by the spiritual energy attached to the umbrella!
The defensive form of the Mystic Spirit Sword was unexpectedly pleasant. She should have released Mystic Spirit from cold storage earlier.
Indeed, she had said that the Mystic Spirit Sword was an ancient spirit tool after all. How could it possibly have only that little power? Chu Sang had previously suspected that Fifth Senior Brother's craftsmanship was poor, resulting in this ancient spirit sword being forged beyond recognition.
Chu Sang silently criticized in her heart, but her expression didn't change, and her movements didn't slow down at all. The sword moved like a swimming dragon, the umbrella like a startled swan.
She hadn't used the Mystic Spirit Sword much recently, but its compatibility with her was undoubtedly very high. Even Chu Sang was a bit puzzled about how she, a sword cultivator focusing on offense, could have such high compatibility with a shield sword.
However, this was definitely a good thing for her. She tried to use the umbrella surface to form a defense that encompassed all the disciples present. Unfortunately, limited by her cultivation level, the potential that could be awakened in the Mystic Spirit Sword was limited. She could feel that the true power of the Mystic Spirit Sword wasn't just this, but this was already the limit for now.
She couldn't yet use the true power of the Mystic Spirit Sword, but at least it seemed to be enough for now.
Perhaps its original forging intention was to be a top-tier defensive weapon. Mystic Spirit's defensive power exceeded Chu Sang's expectations. To put it bluntly, it was even more powerful than Lin Qi's shield sword!
"What was the tool refiner who forged you thinking, actually coming up with the idea to forge you into a shield sword?"
It was quite avant-garde.
Chu Sang had previously stumbled upon a description of shield swords in the library. This thing was proposed by a sword cultivation master in the cultivation world only a few decades ago. The Mystic Spirit Sword was supposedly an old sword from ten thousand years ago. She didn't expect the wisdom of the ancients to be more advanced than that of later generations. Of course, it's also possible that the initial concept of shield swords was proposed by some master ten thousand years ago, and later generations were just rehashing old ideas.
"The tool refiner who forged me back then? I... can't remember clearly." Mystic Spirit shook its head. Its sword body had been damaged, and all its previous memories were gone.
But for some reason, when the girl asked this question, a sentence flashed through the sword spirit youth's mind. He murmured softly, "Perhaps... he also had someone he wanted to protect, so he specially forged a sword of protection..."
Chu Sang was slightly stunned. What a emotionally entangled statement. "It seems that the original intention of the tool refiner who forged you back then might have been to forge a unique shield sword to protect his loved one?"
To be able to forge such a powerful shield sword, one must have invested countless efforts and heart's blood. It seems that person must have been extremely important to him, or someone he deeply loved.
"That's... not quite it." Mystic Spirit shook its head. "It was just a deep longing."
Although Mystic Spirit had lost its previous memories after its sword body was damaged, it instinctively felt that after it was forged back then, it wasn't given away by the tool refiner who forged it. Instead, it fell to the lower realm carrying a trace of his obsession.
Over these ten thousand years, it had wandered through many, many places, and passed through the hands of various cultivators of all types, even becoming damaged and scrapped because of this.
If it hadn't coincidentally met Chu Sang, perhaps it would have carried this trace of protective obsession and fallen into eternal sleep in the yellow earth...