Chapter 654: Sword Slashing Demon

"Yes, the incantation is indeed this. Do you also know this ring?"

Sister Daifulin nodded. The autumn night wind on the cliff blew the hems of the blind nuns' robes. In the wind, they maintained the exact same posture, making the eye masks reflect light in the moonlight, which was indeed a bit strange.

"This relic is not famous. I heard about it from Grandmother Cassandra before, and even the incantation was told to me by the grandmother. It is said that this is the knowledge of her teacher. This Sage-level relic was originally held by the local blood-sucking species clan in Midehillburg. According to Grandmother Cassandra's teacher, this relic first appeared in the Fifth Era. The Great One of Blood-sucking gave it to a human male. After that mortal died in the Xikar Mountain area, this relic returned to the hands of the blood-sucking species."

"So that's it... died in the Xikar Mountain area."

Xia De nodded with a sense of loss. The Sage-level relic ring should have been given by the saint to the armored old man with gray hair at the end of the God's Banquet. And now, after an era, Xia De heard about that ring again. The ring had already transformed from a powerful divine magic item into a relic, while that old man had long since disappeared.

"Blood-sucking species ring, changing species, and unlike the transformation ring, this one seems to be able to be activated by other people chanting the incantation... If given to Mia, it would be equivalent to letting Mia change from a cat to a blood-sucking species. In this way, perhaps she could use the 【Fish-Training Ring】, and then open her mouth to use the 【Transformation Ring】... What am I thinking? The user of the 【Blood-sucking Species Ring】 will be infected with blood-thirst disease. I can't let that cat get such a troublesome disease."

The nuns of the 【Spiritual Cultivation Cult】 still had to rush to the top of the mountain, so after confirming that Xia De was fine, they bid farewell to him. Xia De watched the nuns leave the cliff and enter the dense forest again. He turned around and came to the edge of the cliff, then looked down.

Even without acrophobia, looking at the dense forest under the cliff in the middle of the night from this angle still made him feel a bit dizzy. And that witcher's silver sword was in a secret cave under the cliff. Ordinary methods couldn't see the cave entrance at all; only those holding that roll of parchment could see it.

"Finally found it..."

It was very late, and Xia De was also thinking about the cat at home. Although Luweiya, who was stargazing on the third floor, would help Xia De feed the cat, Xia De was still a bit worried.

"Move faster, I want to go back as soon as possible."

He looked up at the moon in the sky, then found some thin threads from his pocket. After covering them with white cloth, he restored them into a thick hemp rope, tied it to the tree closest to the edge of the cliff, and tied the other end to his waist. After pulling it a few times to make sure it was very firm, he slowly slid down from the edge of the cliff.

"That's why I say, looking for things in the mountains is really troublesome."

Fortunately, he found the right location this time. Before long, Xia De, holding the roll of parchment, saw the distorted fluctuation traces on the cliff. When he stuck the parchment toward there, the pitch-black cave entrance appeared immediately.

Xia De swung into the cave, melted a handle-style depression on the cave wall with Feilianna's Witch Light, untied the rope and tied it to the "stone handle" to facilitate climbing up again later.

"Silver moon."

Pointing his finger, the moonlight bloomed, illuminating this pitch-black cave. This didn't look like a nest dug by animals, but rather a natural stone crack that had been widened to become what it was now.

The cave was very deep, going all the way down, and he couldn't feel the wind; it seemed there was no other exit. Because the parchment recorded the location and unlocking method of the traps, Xia De didn't encounter danger. It was just that he confirmed that all the traps had no traces of being triggered, and the ritual used for warning was only damaged due to time, not artificially destroyed.

"This is good news. That sword is indeed still here. It seems my luck is not bad."

The further he went inside, the narrower the passage became. The deep cave was like an ant's nest, and he couldn't see the end at all.

It wasn't until nearly nine o'clock that the sound in his ear reminded him that a whisper element appeared in front, which was the trace of a 【Relic】, meaning Xia De was getting closer and closer to the destination.

"How did the high-level Ringed Shushi of that year, the ancestor of the ophthalmologist Mr. Jacob Alfred, find this cliff cave?"

He thought in his heart, supporting himself on the uneven stone wall and continuing to walk forward. The ground here was not flat either, and walking was quite strenuous.

"And, why do I feel it's getting hotter and hotter?"

This was definitely not an illusion of temperature rise caused by the closed space of entering the cave too deeply, nor was it a natural temperature rise in a cave that hadn't been ventilated for years. He didn't feel it when he first entered here, but after the whisper element appeared, the feeling of temperature rise became very obvious immediately.

"Could it be that this passage leads directly to the underground magma lake?"

Xia De thought in surprise, and as he continued to move forward, even the rocks in the cave became scorching hot, which made the sound of his breathing more and more obvious:

"What's going on? This is definitely not normal."

Continuing to move forward, this increasingly narrow passage finally came to an end. A faint red light flickered in front, and at the same time, rolling heat waves rushed toward him. The moonlight on his fingertips showed that outside the passage was a vast space, and according to Xia De's estimation, he should be in the belly of the Xikar Mountains now.

He walked out carefully, trying his best to raise his right hand to illuminate his side. Outside the passage was a small stone platform, and outside the stone platform was a huge empty cave in the mountain belly. The environment was quiet, empty, dark, and extremely oppressive, and the faint firelight swaying back and forth added to the eeriness of the environment at this moment.

The top of the large empty cave was not high, about three stories high, and below...

Xia De bent down to pick up a stone, then threw it toward the bottom of the stone platform, and it took a long time to hear the sound of falling.

"In the Xikar Mountains, there really is everything."

On the opposite side of the mountain belly empty cave, there was another stone platform, connecting to another cave. And between the two stone platforms, there was a thick stone pillar that seemed to extend from the bottom. The two platforms and the stone pillar in the middle happened to be in a straight line, and after Xia De approached the edge of the platform further, he indeed found traces of bridge pillars and broken bridges.

That is to say, a long time ago, there was a rope bridge of astonishing length here, connecting this platform to the stone platform in the center of the large empty cave, and then connecting to the platform at the other end. But now, although the pillars of the bridge and a small part of the rope bridge hanging downward remained on the stone platform, the main body of the bridge had disappeared.

"What happened here?"

Fortunately, Xia De didn't think about continuing to explore here. The sword he was looking for was on the stone platform where he was currently standing. More precisely, it was stuck in front of the damaged rope bridge.

The silver sword body shone in the darkness because of the moonlight on Xia De's fingertips. He could clearly see the inscriptions on the sword body. Those ancient characters came from a more distant era, an era when evil spirits and demons were rampant in the material world:

【My heart is clear, the sword slashes demons.】

Finally seeing this sword, Xia De was not happy, but frowned instead. Because this sword was not stuck in the soil, but in a bonfire that was emitting sparks.

Although the bonfire had long been extinguished, it was only shooting out a few scattered dark red sparks, and the dim red light came from those sparks. The temperature of this bonfire was extremely high. Just walking out of the narrow passage behind him, he felt rolling heat waves rushing toward him, and the temperature rise he noticed after feeling the whisper element was caused by the influence of this bonfire.

"What is this again?"

As Xia De narrowed his eyes and stared at the bonfire, the sparks actually ignited the long-extinguished ashes instantly. Dark red flames shot up, and with a loud bang, Xia De was forced back several steps by the heat wave.

The flames almost rushed to the top of the large empty cave in the mountain belly, completely illuminating this stone platform. The flames splashed in all directions, and the firelight also cast Xia De's huge shadow on the cliff behind him.

The silver sword stuck in the bonfire vibrated *hum~*, and the originally black inscriptions on the silver sword body lit up with bright yellow light from bottom to top, suppressing the rising flames. The bonfire was suppressed little by little until it became normal size. In the crackling sound, the flames licked the silver sword that was stuck obliquely, as if the two were wrestling.

Xia De looked at this scene in a daze. Fine whispers sounded in this large empty cave in the mountain belly at this moment. There was a voice tempting Xia De, tempting him to pull this sword out immediately.

"Oh, damn, this wouldn't be..."

He took a ring from his pocket and put it on his right hand, put his right hand behind his back, and then walked over as if he were really bewitched.

The heat wave impacted his skin, and the dazzling firelight made him have to narrow his eyes. In the bonfire flames that the silver sword was forcibly suppressing, there seemed to be a terrifying face made of flames looking at Xia De, with sharp and slender eyes, and a split mouth that could almost extend to behind the ears.

It was whispering, it was murmuring, it was staring at this mortal who had stepped in here for the first time in eight hundred years.

Light and shadow crossed on Xia De, his shadow swayed constantly due to the swaying bonfire, and the firelight on the ground had layers of depth. And when Xia De finally arrived in front of the bonfire, with another eruption of the bonfire, a giant hand that was bigger than Xia De's body, as if composed of broken obsidian, with magma-like luster flashing in the cracks, suddenly stretched out from the bonfire and grabbed toward Xia De.

"Moonlight Greatsword!"

The right hand wearing the 【Witcher Seal】 fiercely slashed the silver greatsword at the giant hand that was attacking. The two-handed greatsword collided with the demon giant hand. At the cost of the greatsword scattering into dots of light, Xia De retreated a few steps to stabilize his body. And that giant arm was slashed into a cluster of flames, forced to return to the bonfire again.

The silver sword stuck obliquely on the bonfire completely suppressed the flames, and the crackling bonfire also returned to the appearance of only scattered sparks. Although it was still crackling, it couldn't see anything appearing from the flames just now.

"So that's it. So the ancestor of ophthalmologist Dr. Alfred didn't put the 【Witcher Seal】 and this sword together in the house where his descendants lived because of this reason."

Xia De covered his right arm, stared at the bonfire, and retreated step by step. The firelight illuminated his face:

"That high-level Ringed Shushi from eight hundred years ago actually used this sword to seal a demon here! Demon scholar Mr. Sean Asmon actually guessed right!" ===== CHAPTER 655 =====

Xia De clutched his right arm, staring at the bonfire, and stepped back step by step. The firelight illuminated his face:

"That high-level Ringed Shushi from eight hundred years ago actually used this sword to seal a demon here! Demon scholar Mr. Xiao En Asmon was actually right!"