It seemed as if some strange power had emerged from that dagger, seeping from his flesh into his bone marrow, and then into every part of his body.
This is a feeling I've never had before.
This indescribable, strange feeling caused Li Chang'an's breathing to become slightly disordered, her heart to pound, her palms to be covered in a thin layer of sweat, and the veins on the back of her hands to bulge slightly.
Even so, Li Chang'an still refused to let go, wanting to see what secrets were hidden in her dagger.
Just then, Li Chang'an was surprised to find that the dagger was slowly drawing the filth from the pool towards him.
In this way, the poison, which was originally mixed with the pool water, gradually gathered into a clump, forming a pool of black, viscous, and nauseating substance that floated on the surface of the water and then surged toward the dagger.
Upon seeing this, Li Chang'an's expression immediately hardened. She naturally knew what that dark mass was, so she instinctively tried to pull her hand back.
But for some reason, the dagger seemed to be deliberately working against her, and she couldn't move it at all.
The blade, submerged in the pool, continued to tremble, as if an invisible hand was pulling it away from the surface.
Just as the venom was about to touch the blade, Li Chang'an quickly let go.
Because she gripped the dagger too tightly, she suddenly let go and staggered back two steps. Li Chang'an quickly steadied himself and stood still.
She then felt that her arm had become stiff and sore due to prolonged exertion, and it was even trembling slightly.
But Li Chang'an couldn't care less about any of that at the moment; her eyes were fixed intently on the surface of the water.
For some reason, even though she had let go, the dagger did not sink to the bottom of the pool as she had expected. Instead, it remained motionless, with the blade in the water and the scabbard above the surface, just as it had been at the beginning.
What surprised her even more was that at this moment, the blade was actually absorbing the dark poison incessantly, a sight that made Li Chang'an feel almost greedy.
It's like a wild beast that has been starving for a long time, its eyes bloodthirsty as it catches its prey.
Immediately, Li Chang'an felt a chill run down her spine, but the next second she couldn't help but examine the dagger closely.
For a moment, Li Chang'an even doubted whether this dagger was the same one he had before.
But no matter how she looked at it, the dagger looked exactly like the one she remembered.
The scabbard was still wrapped with layers of cloth strips as camouflage. Because it had been used for many years without being cleaned or replaced, the original color of the cloth strips was long gone.
In that brief moment of distraction, Li Chang'an was surprised to find that the dagger had completely absorbed the toxic filth, and the pool water had become clear again.
Looking at the dagger again, it seemed to have completed its mission, shaking it twice contentedly before falling silent.
Seeing this, Li Chang'an quickly leaned over and firmly grabbed the scabbard to prevent it from sinking.
This time, there was no longer any force to resist it, and Li Chang'an easily retrieved the dagger from the water.
Although everything that had just happened was real, when Li Chang'an took the dagger back into her hand, she still felt a sense of disbelief.
Then she took the dagger and examined it carefully from left to right for a long time, but found nothing unusual about it.
The dagger was still the same dagger, named Xuanmang, but in order to conceal its sharpness, it had to be disguised as an ordinary and even somewhat shabby dagger.
However, during the inspection, Li Chang'an discovered that a small piece of the coating on the outside of the blade, which was originally used to cover the dark patterns on the blade, had somehow fallen off.
The damaged area is located at the tip of the knife.
Even with only a tiny glimpse of its original form revealed, Li Chang'an could clearly see the true sharpness hidden within.
That single point alone was dazzling with cold light, and intimidating.
Li Chang'an suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of unfamiliarity and awe towards the mysterious light in his hand.
She had always regarded this as a weapon for self-defense, but now, looking at it again, she felt that the dagger seemed to have a spirit of its own. She just hadn't noticed it before because she always looked at it with the eyes of an ordinary object.
"Chang'an, you're awake so early."
Before Li Chang'an could fully grasp the intricacies of the dagger, he was suddenly interrupted, and only then did he quickly regain his senses.
Upon seeing that it was Feng Beichuan, Li Chang'an quickly composed himself and then casually put away the dagger in his hand.
"What are you doing? Why did you suddenly pull out a dagger?"
Feng Beichuan asked casually.
Upon hearing this, Li Chang'an lowered his eyelids slightly, then replied casually, "It's nothing, I just felt that I hadn't cleaned the blade of this dagger in a long time, so I took it out to wipe it."
Feng Beichuan nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
Just then, the others, hearing the voices, gradually woke up as well.
Although Tao Yaojun said he had accepted reality, he couldn't help but run to the hot spring to check it out. Only after seeing that nothing worse had happened did he secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
He then put his hands behind his back and disappeared.
When are we going back?
Yan Qianhe's slightly lazy voice reached everyone's ears.
As she spoke, she pulled an ordinary-looking hairpin from her hair.
This hairpin looked remarkably plain compared to the other uniquely designed hairpins in her hair, and seemed somewhat out of place among them.
But the next second, the hairpin in Yan Qianhe's hand transformed as if by magic into a purplish-blue pigment used for drawing eyebrows.
Feng Beichuan watched in disbelief as Yan Qianhe carefully drew the hairpin-like object onto her eyebrows, but he couldn't see any change in her eyebrows.
However, as the "stinky man" in Yan Qianhe's eyes, he would never understand that a great beauty who attracts attention wherever she goes needs to maintain her exquisite beauty at all times.
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