When the Core Formation cultivators heard this, they looked down at the fourth Origin Reversing Stone Sword, and their expressions became strange.
There was a line of small words below the indestructible sword:
"The number one sword cultivator in the Heavenly South was here."
It looked as if it had been forcibly engraved on it. The words were sharp like swords, and they gave off a feeling of hostility.
"What's going on … I don't think there was such a line of words before …"
"Could it be … the inner court elders who came to take the test did it?"
"Impossible, Vice Daoist Xiong said that although his Origin Reversing Stone Sword doesn't have any offensive power, it's indestructible and comparable to an Immortal Artifact!"
"Then who did it?"
"Remember, all of you, keep this matter to yourself and pretend you didn't see it. If Vice Daoist Xiong finds out, all of us will have to bear the consequences!"
"Of course!"
"Yes, yes, we absolutely can't say it."
"By the way, you said Heavenly South … where is this place?"
"It's probably a small place in a corner …"
Amidst a wave of voices that became lower and lower, the group of Core Formation cultivators carried the fourth Origin Reversing Stone Sword and walked out of the square under the afterglow of the setting sun.
… …
Xiong Shan led Elder Mo Xie, Han Li, and the other ten people, but they didn't fly far away. Instead, they directly landed at the foot of the mountain behind Heavenly Sword Peak and stood in the air in front of a golden mountain wall.
He shook his sleeves, and immediately, four golden sword qi flew out from his sleeves. They coiled around each other in pairs and sank into the mountain wall in front of them.
At first, the mountain wall didn't change at all, as if the golden sword qi had disappeared into the sea. But in the next moment, the surface of the mountain wall shone with golden light, and countless dazzling golden runes jumped out from the surface of the mountain wall. After intertwining in midair, they formed a somewhat strange pattern, like the diagram of a sword formation.
Where the golden light shone, the mountain wall suddenly became translucent.
"Haha, so this is the entrance to Brother Xiong's famous Heavenly Sword Tomb. Today is really an eye-opener." Elder Mo Xie chuckled when he saw this.
Xiong Shan's face was solemn, but he didn't answer Elder Mo Xie. Instead, he kept chanting and waving his sleeves. Golden Sword Qi flew out from his sleeves and entered the formation, making it clearer and clearer.
"Heaven Sword Tomb …"
Han Li looked curiously at the formation in front of him. Through the formation, he seemed to be able to see a black tunnel faintly appearing on the mountain wall.
However, beside him, Qi Liang, Zhu Feng, and the others all showed some excitement in their eyes.
"Brother Qi, what's wrong?" Han Li asked via voice transmission.
"Brother Li hasn't been in our sect for long, so it's normal that you don't know about the Heavenly Sword Tomb … Vice Daolord Xiong Shan is a famous sword fanatic in the sect, and it's said that he has collected countless famed swords. This Heavenly Sword Tomb is the place where he hides his swords, and he's extremely famous in the sect.
However, this place is extremely mysterious, and there are only a few people in the sect who have seen it … I didn't expect that he would actually bring us to the Heaven Sword Tomb today. Looks like he wants to sacrifice and refine his treasures there, "Qi Liang said with a voice transmission.
"Oh, so that's how it is." Han Li nodded with a pensive look, and his interest was piqued.
At this time, Xiong Shan's spell casting had reached the final stage. The golden light on the mountain wall grew brighter, and it gradually turned from transparent to a thick layer of golden light screen. Countless restriction runes flashed on it.
Several muffled sounds rang out!
Seven dents appeared on the golden light screen, forming a circle.
Xiong Shan's incantation suddenly stopped, and he waved a hand. Seven balls of white light shot out. They were seven half-moon-shaped golden talismans.
He made a hand seal and pointed. The seven golden talismans flew out and embedded themselves in the dents on the light screen, fitting seamlessly.
Buzz!
Countless runes shot out of the golden light screen, and it gradually became thinner. After a full fifteen minutes, the light screen finally disappeared completely.
A black tunnel appeared. It was dark, and no one knew where it led to. Divine senses could not explore it. It was obvious that some kind of profound isolation restriction had been applied.
"Let's go!" Xiong Shan walked in first.
Elder Mo Xie walked in without saying a word. Han Li and the others followed closely behind.
After everyone stepped into the tunnel, a golden light flowed on the mountain wall, and the entrance of the tunnel turned into a mountain wall again.
The black tunnel was not short. They walked for a full fifteen minutes before they reached the end. At the end of the tunnel was a huge green stone door. There were countless runes carved on it, and it looked very simple and unadorned.
Xiong Shan waved his hand and took out a token from his waist. He gently waved it towards the green stone door. The surface of the stone door glowed with a green light, as if it had just woken up from a long slumber.
The green light twisted and gradually condensed into a formation pattern that was more complicated than the one on the mountain wall outside.
Subsequently, Xiong Shan raised one hand, and nine small green swords flew out one by one amidst whistling sounds, piercing into nine different places on the stone door.
The formation pattern on the green stone door flashed wildly for a while, and then gradually disappeared.
Creak!
The huge stone door slowly opened!
At this moment, a dazzling light suddenly shone out from inside.
The light was too sudden. Everyone outside, including Elder Mo Xie, closed their eyes subconsciously. Their bodies were shrouded by the dazzling light, and they disappeared in the tunnel.
When Han Li opened his eyes again, he heard a whistling wind in his ears. It was as if there were countless abundant sword essences filling this part of the world. At this moment, they were coming towards them with an extremely fierce aura.
After calming himself down, he glanced at his surroundings. Everywhere he looked was lush green, and in front of him was a vast grassland with a circumference of a thousand miles.
On the grassland, there were green tombs in the shape of steamed buns everywhere. On top of each tomb, there was a flying sword. There were more than a thousand swords.
In between these densely packed graves, there were ten huge black stone pillars scattered everywhere. The distance between each pillar was at least a hundred miles. The entire Heaven Sword Tomb grassland was vaguely divided into ten regions with this as the core.
And in these areas, there were three teams of cultivators. Each team was led by a Great Vehicle cultivator, and led by nine other Form Synthesis cultivators. There were a total of three hundred people.
Han Li's gaze swept across the grassland in front of him, and he saw the layout of this place. He looked slightly surprised, but in fact, he was shocked.
Among these tombs, some of the flying swords were as slender as willow leaves, some were as wide as the door of a palace, some of the swords were so cold that they froze the surrounding grass into ice, and some of the swords were still burning with raging flames, scorching the land within a radius of a thousand feet …
The blades of the swords swayed slightly, emitting a series of buzzing sounds. Astonishing sword Qi shot straight into the sky, slicing all the white clouds in the sky into pieces, causing them to be unable to condense into a single shape.
Among them, there were even some flying swords that trembled violently from time to time, making ear-piercing sounds of friction. They were actually trying to pull themselves out of the tombs. Every time this happened, the cultivators stationed nearby would make hand seals and work together to suppress them.
Unfortunately, there were too many flying swords on the grassland. After suppressing the gourd, there would be a ladle rising again. As soon as one side was suppressed, there would be flying swords struggling on the other side, and some even flew up. It was quite a lively scene.
However, these cultivators seemed to have long been used to this kind of thing. They dealt with it in an orderly manner, and there was not the slightest bit of panic.
No matter which one of these wild and untamed flying swords was a treasure that could make a Unity Realm cultivator or even a Grand Ascension Realm cultivator not hesitate to go bankrupt to obtain. Moreover, some flying swords of even higher quality were something that even a True Immortal Realm cultivator that had cultivated for tens of thousands of years would covet greatly.
When these flying swords converged together and appeared before the eyes of the people of the world, no matter how calm one's mental state was, one would be unable to avoid feeling shocked. Because this wasn't something that could be accomplished purely by relying on abundant wealth.
Without exception, all these True Immortal Realm cultivators were cultivators that used flying swords as their Natal Treasures, and every single one of them was skilled in the art of sword control. So when they saw this scene, the shock in their hearts grew even more intense.
The expression in Zhu Feng's eyes changed repeatedly when he saw this, and he withdrew his gaze with great difficulty before looking at Xiong Shan with an expression of admiration and praise.
"I heard that Daolord Xiong's Heavenly Sword Tomb is extraordinary since a long time ago. Now that I've seen it with my own eyes, I know that not only were the rumors of the past not exaggerated, they were slightly incomplete instead.
There's probably no one in our entire Serpent Dragon Sect that can surpass Daolord Xiong. It's truly breathtaking, truly breathtaking … "
His words carried a slight trace of flattery, yet everyone present didn't feel it was ear piercing when they heard it because they had similar thoughts in their hearts as well, and they just didn't say it out loud.
"It's nothing.
This is something that I've searched all over for a few tens of thousands of years and exhausted great effort to gather. It's truly not easy to be able to gather all 1,080 flying swords required by the sword formation today … "Xiong Shan waved his hand as he spoke, yet a wisp of complacency flashed in the depths of his eyes.
At this moment, Han Li couldn't care about all this at all, and his gaze stared fixedly at the northwest of the Heavenly Sword Tomb grasslands.
Because in that area, an azure colored flying sword was stabbed into each of the 72 round and bulging tombs. The bodies of the swords trembled without end while strands of fine golden arcs of lightning shot out from their bodies, and they seemed to be trying to struggle free from the tombs.
These 72 azure colored flying swords were none other than the True Life Flying Sword that Han Li had painstakingly searched for, the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords!
At this moment, these flying swords seemed to have sensed Han Li's existence, and they struggled even more intensely while the arcs of lightning around them flickered brighter and brighter, and they seemed to be on the verge of completely erupting.
Han Li's pupils constricted slightly when he saw this, and thoughts spun rapidly in his heart.
He naturally wanted to take back his flying swords immediately, but it was naturally impossible to ask Xiong Shan for them. Moreover, forcefully seizing the flying swords by himself was akin to courting death.
These thoughts flashed in his mind like a bolt of lightning, and in practically the next moment, he forcefully suppressed the thoughts in his heart and directly severed the soul connection with the Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords.