Chapter 705: The Sword Spirit of the Azure Edge Sword

Compared to three years ago, besides his appearance becoming increasingly mature, the biggest change in Ming Tai was his pair of eyes; they were as bright as two sword tips, his sharpness fully revealed.

"I heard that Senior Brother Lu Yang, you survived the Invincible Divine Thunder that had never appeared before, as well as the Rank 1 Qian Heaven Tribulation encountered only when breaking through to the Spirit Transformation stage, and have become a Spirit Transformation stage cultivator?"

Ming Tai set down his large hammer and bowed, very happy to see Lu Yang.

Although everyone in the Sword Tower spoke of how great his own sword dao talent was, in his view, Senior Brother Lu Yang possessed the most top-tier sword dao talent, and he himself was somewhat lacking.

If he were to undergo his own tribulation and encounter the Invincible Divine Thunder and the Qian Heaven Tribulation, he would certainly not survive it.

"This person is..." Ming Tai noticed Yun Mengmeng, who had been standing to the side, quiet and silent.

"Her surname is Yun; I met her on the road, and she is traveling with me for the time being."

"So it is Miss Yun." Ming Tai bowed very politely, not looking down on her because of her low cultivation base.

Yun Mengmeng felt that people in the outside world were actually quite good, not as terrifying as the old woman had said, filled with schemes. The old woman had also told her that when she was out and about, she must keep a low profile, suppress her cultivation, and not reveal it until she met Miss Yun Zhi.

"Are you forging swords here?" Lu Yang noticed the large hammer Ming Tai had just set down.

"This is a tradition left behind by the first-generation Tower Master. He believed that for sword cultivators, forging sword implements helps improve one's ability to understand the sword dao."

"Since then, every Sword Tower disciple must learn the art of forging."

The first-generation Tower Master was the Sword Tower Supreme, a peerless talent who advanced triumphantly all the way, stopping only at the Half-Immortal stage and falling under the Immortal Ascension Tribulation.

Under normal circumstances, Ming Tai addressed the Sword Tower Supreme as "Master," but the fact that she was the Sword Tower Supreme's sword spirit was a secret known only to a few high-level members of the Sword Tower. It was kept completely confidential from the outside, and she could not call her that in front of Lu Yang.

Lu Yang knew Ming Tai's background because the Immortal Fairy had told him.

"So that's how it is."

"Is Senior Brother Lu Yang here to purchase a sword? The swords here are all forged by us Sword Tower disciples; they likely won't catch Senior Brother Lu Yang's eye."

"That's not necessarily true..." In front of Ming Tai, Lu Yang felt embarrassed to say that the grade of their swords was too low and not worthy of him.

"Senior Brother Lu Yang might as well try your luck at the Sword Inquiry Ceremony. If there is a sword that resonates with you, it will naturally follow you."

"There's such a thing at the Sword Inquiry Ceremony?"

Although Lu Yang was a sword cultivator and the Sword Inquiry Ceremony was the most important event for all sword cultivators, Lu Yang had indeed not paid much attention to it, knowing only that it was a tradition left by the Sword Tower Supreme, held once every hundred years.

"Our Sword Tower forges swords frequently. The successive Tower Masters and Elders always have a few who enjoy forging spirit swords, and occasionally, they can forge swords that possess spirituality."

"After the successive Tower Masters and Elders exhaust their lifespans, these swords become ownerless objects. If they are forced upon sword cultivators who lack affinity, it will instead invite the dissatisfaction of these swords."

"But if they are left to gather dust, the spirit swords will be obscured, and their spirituality will eventually disappear."

"Our Sword Tower is unwilling to let spirit swords be obscured, so we opened the sword treasury. Whoever can resonate with a certain spirit sword can take it away, allowing the spirit sword to shine brilliantly in the hands of a suitable sword cultivator. However, it is limited to the sword cultivator's own use; it cannot be sold or gifted. If the sword cultivator dies, the spirit sword must be returned to our Sword Tower."

"Your sect is magnanimous!" Lu Yang said sincerely. There was no need to mention how precious a sword possessing spirituality was. That the Sword Tower was actually willing to let outsiders use these swords made Lu Yang admire them; the Sword Tower was truly worthy of being a holy land for sword cultivators.

"It is merely an unwillingness to let spirit swords be obscured." As a sword spirit, Ming Tai felt this most deeply.

"Why not have the Sword Tower consider cooperating with our Congwendao Sect?" the Immortal Fairy suggested in the mental space.

"Cooperate?"

"Look, the Sword Tower is unwilling to let the sword's spirituality disappear, and our Congwendao Sect has this ability."

"The Fifth Elder is that capable?"

"Not that brat. To make a sword's spirituality exist forever, one must either find an owner or have this spirituality ascend to become a sword spirit. Look at our sect's River Spirit; isn't that the latter method?"

Hearing this, Lu Yang roughly understood the Immortal Fairy's method, and his eye twitched: "So, Fairy, your meaning is to refine the prisoners of the Prison Peak into sword spirits and fuse them with the Sword Tower's swords?"

"Right, it's a good method, isn't it?"

"No." Lu Yang flatly rejected the Immortal Fairy's proposal; this was not the way of a righteous sect.

Mass refining of souls, with gusts of yin wind and the wailing of ghosts—if outsiders saw this, it would make their Congwendao Sect look like a demonic sect.

"And how would the ownership of the spirit swords be resolved then? Are we supposed to steal these swords for the Congwendao Sect? We are the leaders of the righteous path; we cannot commit such acts."

"That seems to be the logic."

"What a pity. This Immortal was thinking of holding a large-scale sword spirit refining event, and by the way, refining Guan Shanhai into your Azure Edge Sword. Then the immortal sword would have a sword spirit, making it the top-tier immortal artifact; even the Ying Tian Immortal couldn't refine one."

"Wait, it seems that if you want your immortal sword to have a sword spirit, you don't need to refine Guan Shanhai." The Immortal Fairy thought of a brilliant idea that could raise the quality of the Azure Edge Sword to a higher level.

"What do you mean?"

The Immortal Fairy smiled mysteriously: "Little Yangzi, take out the Azure Edge Sword."

Lu Yang honestly did as told, taking the Azure Edge Sword from his identity jade tablet, still not understanding the Immortal Fairy's meaning.

The Immortal Fairy flew out of the mental space, slid along Lu Yang's arm, and zipped into the Azure Edge Sword.

"Now your Azure Edge Sword is a top-tier immortal artifact with a sword spirit."

Staying in the mental space all the time, changing to a different place wasn't bad either.

The Immortal Fairy warned fiercely: "You cannot put the Azure Edge Sword back into your identity jade tablet!"

"... Fine."

Lu Yang swung the Azure Edge Sword a couple of times casually. Although according to the Immortal Fairy's theory, the Azure Edge Sword was already the most powerful weapon in the world, Lu Yang had absolutely no such feeling; it felt the same as before.

"Senior Brother Lu Yang, why did you suddenly take out your sword?" Ming Tai was puzzled. Senior Brother Lu Yang had just acted as if he were possessed by an evil spirit, suddenly taking out the Azure Edge Sword and swinging it, as if he were going to randomly hack at two people.

"It's nothing, just took it out to let it get some air."

"Oh." Ming Tai could also understand Lu Yang's actions; sword cultivators all regarded their swords as their beloved, so it was understandable if their brains weren't normal.

"By the way, Fairy, is there a problem with this girl named Yun Mengmeng?" Lu Yang always felt that this Yun Mengmeng was a bit off, but he couldn't say where.

The Immortal Fairy hummed with dissatisfaction: "You've been treating her to hotpot and storytelling with snacks; what kind of problem could there be?"

She hadn't even enjoyed such treatment.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 706 =====