Chapter 260 Minglong

The drawing is very old and was obviously made many years ago. But Ning Mingmei recognized the content at a glance.

He took out the spoils from his Qiankun bag and then took out the blueprint he got from Jiang Duo's ring. The peacock feather fan on the drawing is exactly the same as the peacock feather fan on the drawing of Lingshui Village!

"What's going on? Did Jiang Duo get this blueprint from Lingshui Village?"

No, that's not possible. Ning Mingmei judged others by himself. If he were Jiang Duo, he would never just take a blueprint and leave. Instead, he would hollow it out. What's more, how could Lingshui Village store two identical drawings?

Moreover, the existing drawings of Lingshui Village are incomplete due to their age, and the dimensions are very vague. The ink on Jiangduo's painting is very new, obviously it was restored later.

Who has the ability to restore such an old drawing? This requires not only old age, but also a very profound amount of knowledge.

"...Yejasmine." Ning Mingmei read out the name again.

It's night-blooming jasmine!

The person who teamed up with Jiang Duo to force them into danger must be Ye He!

"Why did she do this?" After getting the preliminary answer, Ning Mingmei first felt that there was a bigger mystery. "She was a person from a thousand years ago, and the incident between her and Spark Island also happened a thousand years ago. What threat do I pose to her that would make her want to get rid of me?"

Ning Mingmei had no clue for the time being. So he looked more closely at the details of the original drawings.

Lian Chengyue was also there and saw Ning Mingmei comparing the two drawings. Although he didn't know who Ye He was, he had already secretly memorized this name in his heart. At this moment, he looked at the blueprint and suddenly said, "Immortal Venerable, if it were me, I would not be able to restore this blueprint."

Ning Mingmei: “Nonsense.”

Lian Chengyue said: "Most of the dimensions on the blueprint have been lost, as well as the material list. If it is not someone who has seen the complete appearance of this blueprint with his own eyes and knows it very well, it is impossible to restore it. What I mean is that the person who drew this blueprint must be very old, much older than the time when this blueprint was damaged."

Much bigger...

An idea appeared in Ning Mingmei's mind. He had not yet grasped the underlying logic behind the idea, but he had already carefully put the drawing into the package.

"Take it back and do a carbon-14 test to determine the age of the damage to this drawing..." Ning Ming said, "But why does my intuition tell me to do this? What clues are there behind this?"

All the property in Lingshui Village was looted. Ning Mingmei walked towards the depths of the forbidden area. Lian Chengyue walked behind him. The deeper he went, the more he felt his solar plexus throbbing.

The feeling was a mixture of depression, pain, anger and fear. The closer he got to the depths of the forbidden area, the more he felt that his entire body and even his entire soul were beating. They jumped up and down as if they were about to tear each other apart at any moment.

"Are you okay?" Ning Mingmei asked.

Lian Chengyue nodded suppressedly.

It's too deep and dark here, like a cage. Deep in the forbidden area, Ning Mingmei lit up the magic in his hand and finally saw a corpse.

A skeleton nailed high up on the wall.

The corpse was still wearing the shaman's clothes, but its body had turned into a skeleton. Its eye sockets were dark, and it was unclear whether it was emptiness or a monster hidden inside.

It was also wearing silver ornaments, which swayed gently in the breeze. In the past, it may have swayed here for many years.

Under the body of the witch, Lian Chengyue saw a longevity lock lying there, along with a pair of tiger-head shoes. The longevity lock was obviously for the baby, and looking to the side, there was even an empty cradle.

"This is……"

This is the body of my "mother".

When the invaders came, the shaman took the child and hid in the forbidden area. But the forbidden area’s formation couldn’t hold out for long. Finally, she decided to stay alone and let the maid take her child away.

The corpse had blood that he was familiar with. He could feel that he was connected to the corpse by blood... Lian Chengyue followed this intermittent intuitive connection and moved forward, but when he took a step forward, his body was pulled to the side by a strong force!

There seems to be a tall stone monument there. However, the forbidden area was dim and dark, and Lian Chengyue had a hard time seeing what was going on inside.

But his heart was pounding. The feeling of his heart pounding was far more intense than when he saw the corpse of the witch. He suddenly stood up and ran towards the stone tablet and the destroyed confinement magic circle!

"Such a large formation, there must be something incredible sealed here."

Although he already knew the result, Ning Mingmei still followed Lian Chengyue to the stone tablet. The light in his hand illuminated the scene, and the object sealed by numerous spells finally appeared before his eyes.

"Wood carving?!"

Tied up with the chains and buried in the iron box, there turned out to be a wooden sculpture!

The iron box should have been sealed in the past, but now it has been blown open, and the objects inside are exposed in broad daylight. The wood sculpture was dark and looked like a ten-year-old child. Ning Mingmei thought about it for a moment and then understood.

Lian Chengyue is the reincarnation of the demon who was sacrificed for the forging of the divine sword, and is also the sword spirit in the sword. When the bird is dead, the bow is put away. In order to safely store the sword, the person who stores the sword must naturally separate the resentful sword spirit from the sword.

The sword was placed in the Qingji Sect. The sword bone contains power and is placed in the body of the furnace. As for the sword spirit's soul, it also needs a support.

Therefore, the ancients chose the wood carving of a ten-year-old child as a support. They locked the unwilling sword spirit on the wood carving, making him stay in darkness for eternity, never able to avenge himself for being sacrificed by the sword.

Or maybe, the reason he wanted revenge was not just because he was "sacrificed to the sword".

…

"ah!"

Ning Mingmei heard a shrill scream. When he turned around, Lian Chengyue had already knelt down. The young man covered his eyes, and tears and blood continued to seep out of them.

"He's regaining his memory."

Ning Mingmei heard the voice of the system that he hadn't heard for a long time. The system said: "Aren't you going to save him?"

Should I save him or just stand still?

Ning Mingmei was silent for a moment. In the end, he went up.

His eyes were burning, as if filled with tears of blood, as if burned by heat. But in that horrible heat, a cold hand still touched the back of his hand.

Even though his words were not nice: "Calm down, it will be fine soon."

Ning Mingmei took out the lotus lantern and used gentle energy to heal Lian Chengyue's eyes. His face was as gloomy as water and he was muttering to himself. The system continued to haunt him: "I didn't expect you to care so much..."

Then it found that Ning Mingmei was reading Lian Chengyue's emergency bill with his mouth.

system:……

In the dark forbidden area, in front of the prisoner's stone tablet and the gloomy iron coffin, Ning Mingmei, holding a lotus lantern, is the only tiny glimmer of light.

The faint light shone on Lian Chengyue's face.

"...Mother. Why are you taking me...to die..."

Ning Mingmei heard Lian Chengyue's voice.

Even though Ning Mingmei had seen some of the sword spirit's memories when reinforcing the seal, it was still unbearable to hear these words coming out of the devil's mouth. Ning Mingmei's speed in calculating the bill dropped by 50%.

Suddenly at this moment, as energy was flowing, scenes were transmitted into Ning Mingmei's mind with the support of energy!

Soon, Ning Mingmei realized that it was the memory of the sword spirit!

In front of the sword furnace, he struggled and tried to run away, but his mother hugged him tightly and jumped into the sword furnace with him. That embrace was so warm and soft, but it came from a mother who claimed to love him but was inspired by "righteousness".

"The world needs us to save it. Once the gate to heaven is opened, everything will be fine. It will be fine... our people will also be able to live a life where they are not excluded by others..."

The sword furnace is so hot, it hurts! Why sacrifice me, why let others live!

"He" opened his eyes from the sword. Finally, he became part of the Excalibur. The sword became extremely powerful because he was a sword spirit. However, his mother broke her promise, as if she was moved by herself and did not abide by the agreement to "sacrifice the sword together".

She became a pale shadow without much consciousness. Maintaining consciousness after sacrificing the sword is not something that ordinary people can do. Even so, the shadow has its own purpose.

He feels angry, he wants to rebel, he refuses to follow orders, he doesn't want to be the sword that helps others. However, tremendous divine power was injected into the sword, suppressing all his actions and even his consciousness. It was as if a voice said to him, "What are you resisting?"

"You're already dead anyway. Why don't you stay and save others?"

"Now that you have become a sword spirit, this is your new beginning."

The shadow gained consciousness due to divine power and began to comfort him and soothe him...but he resisted too fiercely. Then tremendous divine power was input again, knocking him unconscious and making him shut up.

And the magic sword continued to absorb power from the unconscious sword spirit.

When he woke up again, it was after a massacre. Before he realized where he was, he could only sense an unsettling bloody aura on the sword - that bloody aura seemed to indicate that the sword had been used for evil purposes.

Someone has already been killed with this magic sword. The breath of those people...smells very powerful, like the scent of God.

Someone killed some gods with this sword?

But he hasn't reacted yet. Someone was already wielding a divine sword and slashing forward.

When the sword pierced the man's body, he suddenly realized through his blood and energy that he was one of his kind.

Someone was using him to massacre his own people.

Not only he woke up at this time, but also the white shadow. His mother finally regained consciousness under the strong stimulation. She looked at the scene outside the sword and made a heart-wrenching sound.

Who is using Excalibur? Who is using them to kill their own kind? Why did they give their all but not get the outcome they wanted, and instead brought disaster upon the demon clan?

Were their so-called sacrifices all a lie?

Ridiculous, so ridiculous. The so-called optimism and ideals have now turned into something ridiculous and self-admiring that is being exploited!

The blood of the demons flowed like a river. He looked at his mother, hoping to gain some comfort from her. But his mother wiped her tears, suddenly held his face, and whispered: "There is another way."

"What?"

"You self-destruct, as a sword spirit, you self-destruct. As long as you do this, the sword will be destroyed, and the person holding the sword will not have such strong power, and may even be killed by us... and will never be able to slaughter all of our race again!"

"Please, just blow yourself up!"

"I'm sorry, but this is the only way... Look, those are your uncles, nephews... the lives of the entire demon clan... You don't want them to die, do you?"

"Mom will be with you... We will die together... You won't be alone, you won't be lonely..."

No…no…

Ning Mingmei heard the sound of the magic sword, which seemed to be angry and fearful. At that moment, the small figure he saw when he sealed the sword flashed through his mind.

When the devil's reincarnation was sacrificed to the sword and sealed into the divine sword, he was still a very young child.

That was why the man used a child's wood carving when making the weapon to seal the sword spirit.

Everyone, those people, clearly knew that the sword spirit was a child at first.

Why did you let me die in the first place for your kindness, for your win-win situation, for your idealism of self-sacrifice for the greater good of the world and to be accepted by the world?

Why after proving that you were deceived, you still want me to die?

Why am I the one who has to die from the beginning to the end?

Soon, Ning Mingmei knew what had happened.

Jian Ling did not accept his mother's proposal. He watched quietly as his mother's hands grasped his throat, and finally, he killed her in resistance.

He killed her!

The divine sword is born to cut through all chaos. But at that moment, all the chaos was sucked into the magic sword and entered the body of the sword spirit.

He began to absorb the chaos and enrich himself with its power.

And the magic sword was constantly absorbing power from him. That group of demons were completely slaughtered by the divine sword.

It was as if he had been silenced.

Later, he fell into darkness and sleep. When he woke up again, he had been brought to this village and split into three parts.

The sword bone and sword body were taken away. And he was sealed in the wood carving and remained here forever.

The land of Lingshui Village is his seal. Every descendant of Lingshui Village has a suppressive effect on him. Until a massacre occurred.

Those men in black didn't come for him originally. He had no idea what Yehei was.

But the deaths of those people and the strong blood energy finally gave him the opportunity to break the seal.

He broke through the seal and eventually inhabited the baby's body, squeezing out the baby's weak soul.

From then on, he was doomed. There is no possibility of being decent anymore.

He was determined to climb up by any means necessary. The noble reincarnation of the devil was actually played to such an extent by the "righteousness" of the human world. He wants revenge on everyone who has taken advantage of him.

Until no one can reach him anymore.

…

When Ning Mingmei pulled himself out of the desperate dark memory, he was already sweating profusely. He looked down and saw Lian Chengyue lying on his lap, having fainted.

Lian Chengyue's face was frighteningly pale, with several lines of blood and tears running down his cheeks, adding a bit of evil and weirdness to his original appearance.

At that moment, he really looked like the devil.

But even the devil is just an undergraduate.

But Ning Mingmei did not look at Lian Chengyue for long. Instead, he stood up and ran behind the stone tablet!

Behind the stone tablet was a glimpse of what he had just seen in Lian Chengyue’s nightmare. In this dark forbidden place, in the darkness that could never be seen in the wood carvings, a glimpse of the scene behind the stone tablet once flashed through his memory.

And this corner is the answer that Ning Mingmei must find at this moment.

Finally, Ning Mingmei stood at the other end of the stone tablet. He looked up and took in the scene before him.

Who could have imagined that there would be such a scene in the forbidden area? On one side is an iron coffin box where the evil sword spirit is sealed. It was dark, bloody, and ominous.

On the other side, it is a completely different holy picture.

It was a statue carved from white jade.

The statue has fluttering clothes, graceful movements, and a slightly lowered head. Its appearance is holy, cold, and beautiful. She was wearing a long white dress as white as petals, a flower crown on her head, and holding a long sword in one hand, like a Valkyrie in mythology.

But in her other hand, she was holding something.

The same...just like the lotus lantern that Ning Mingmei is holding in his hand now.

And below the statue. It has her name on it.

"Minglong." Ning Mingmei said in a daze.

Minglong, the ancient goddess, opened the gate of heaven single-handedly.