Chapter 358: Tianxiang Sword Palace
September 30th, Liangxiang Valley.
There are steep cliffs on both sides of the valley. The entrance to the valley is narrow, but the internal space is very open.
On the innermost side of the valley is a black rock wall as smooth as a mirror, with no grass growing on it.
Tens of thousands of disciples from the Tongtian Sword Sect lined up in the valley, occupying a large area.
The five hundred green-clothed cultivators of the Qingyun Sect occupied a small corner nearby.
Yun Qiushui sighed: "I never thought that so many people would participate in the secret realm trial."
He had heard of the name of Tianxiang Sword Palace, but was not clear about its specific situation.
Seeing tens of thousands of Tongtian Sword Sect practitioners gathered here, Yun Qiushui realized that the so-called Tianxiang Sword Palace Trial was actually so worthless...
No wonder Gui Wuqi was so generous and gave 500 places at one time.
Gao Xian hadn't expected there would be so many people. They had rushed here on the Aoki flying ship, and when they came in they saw the bustling scene with people everywhere.
He said casually: "It seems there is no danger, so so many people come to the trial."
Lu Jingxu looked at the disciples behind him with some concern. All five hundred of them had attended lectures at the Sutra Discussion Institute, and he knew many of them by name.
Those who can come to participate in the Tianxiang Sword Palace Trial are all elites in the sect. If there are too many casualties among such a group of people, it will be a huge blow to the sect.
He whispered, "The Tianxiang Sword Palace may not be in danger, but I'm afraid the Tongtian Sword Sect will take action. There are too many people on the other side..."
There are over 10,000 people in Tongtian Sword Sect, 20 of them to deal with one of them. If they really want to have bad intentions, none of the 500 people will survive.
Gao Xian smiled and consoled him, "Not really. The Tongtian Sword Sect took the initiative to show goodwill this time, so they would never do such a thing. The personal grudge between Gui Wuqi and I will never involve ordinary disciples."
As he spoke, he glanced at Gui Wuqi in the distance. After more than a year, he looked more sinister. His sword intent was even more refined.
Obviously, this swordsman did not retreat but advanced. This was really beyond his expectations.
Gui Wuqi seemed to sense Gao Xian's gaze. He turned his head to look at Gao Xian with a deep and emotionless look.
Gao Xian smiled slightly and nodded, as if he had seen an old friend.
Gui Wuqi withdrew his gaze. He was disgusted by Gao Xian's polite and smiling look. It was hypocritical, extremely hypocritical.
But it is very confusing. People who don't know Gao Xian's true nature can easily think that he is gentle and polite.
Gui Wuqi glanced at Xiao Hongye beside him. This woman hooked up with Gao Xian. If the two of them were to get together in Tianxiang Sword Palace, it would be really troublesome...
Xiao Hongye didn't look away, as if she didn't care about Gui Wuqi's gaze at all.
Last time she defeated Gao Xian in a move, the master was very happy and gave her the sword heart left by ancient times.
After dozens of days of rituals and refinement, the sword's heart was integrated into the Red Leaf Sword. After ten or twenty years of rituals and refinement, perhaps the Red Leaf Sword could be upgraded to the fourth level.
More importantly, with the blessing of this sword heart, it is easier to obtain the ancient sword inheritance.
As for Gao Xian, Xiao Hongye really wanted to get rid of him, but she couldn't bear it, and on the other hand, she was really a little afraid of Gao Xian.
As far as she knew, Gao Xian's enemies all ended up badly.
After careful consideration, Xiao Hongye decided to fulfill her promise. By making friends with Gao Xian, she could suppress Gui Wuqi, killing two birds with one stone. There was no need to be a villain.
Besides, she still likes Gao Xian very much.
At noon, when the Yang energy is at its strongest in the day, golden runes appear on the black stone wall.
Huge amounts of spiritual energy continued to gather, the golden runes became stronger and stronger, and the light shot straight into the sky.
After a long while, a wide golden passage appeared on the black stone wall.
Zhong Ziqi waved his hand, and tens of thousands of members of the Tongtian Sword Sect entered the golden light channel in an orderly manner in batches according to their respective departments.
After all the practitioners of Tongtian Sword Sect had entered, Zhong Ziqi waved to Lu Jingxu, "Fellow Daoist, you can go in. Remember, the trial time is thirty days. After thirty days, Tianxiang Sword Palace will be closed. It can only be opened again after sixty years..."
Zhong Ziqi reminded: "Some people wanted to stay in Tianxiang Sword Palace to practice swordsmanship in the past, but facts have proved that even Jindan Zhenren could not withstand the restrictions in Tianxiang Sword Palace. No one can hold on until the next time Tianxiang Sword Palace opens."
Lu Jingxu cupped his hands: "Thank you for your reminder, fellow Daoist."
Five hundred disciples of Qingyun Sect passed through the golden passage in an orderly manner and saw the ancient green city wall on the outermost side.
The city wall appears to be built of some huge stones. It has an extremely simple style and structure, and is full of the vicissitudes of history.
The stone wall is riddled with holes and full of traces of wind erosion.
Yun Qiushui sighed: "Is this the Wind Palace? I don't know how many tens of thousands of years it has been preserved, but it can still be kept so intact, it's almost a miracle..."
According to the simple map given by Tongtian Sword Sect, the Tianxiang Sword Palace is divided into nine palaces, one palace inside another, forming a nine-ring structure.
The outermost part is the Wind Palace. Inside the huge palace there are tens of thousands of wind-type sword spirits. They look like green phantoms and their level is probably the same as that of Qigong practitioners.
The sword spirits in the Wind Palace were very weak. As long as two or three Qigong practitioners worked together, they could always kill the wind sword spirits.
Generally speaking, Qigong practitioners will undergo trials in the Wind Palace.
Lu Jingxu didn't have time to sigh, as he had to shoulder very important responsibilities as the team leader.
He said to the many cultivators of Qingyun Sect: "Qi training disciples should form groups of three, do not separate. And do not go deep into the Sword Palace..."
The Tianxiang Sword Palace trial was extremely low in risk, but it was not without danger. Especially for Qigong practitioners, everything except the Wind Palace was very dangerous.
Many disciples responded loudly and in unison.
Gao Xian glanced at Li Feihuang behind Lu Jingxu, and used his spiritual sense to transmit his voice, "You shouldn't go too deep into the Sword Palace. Wind, cloud, rain, snow, thunder, lightning, stars, moon, and sun, the Nine Palaces correspond to nine celestial phenomena. The other eight palaces are far from your Wind and Fire Sutra path, and it won't do you any good to inherit the sword intent."
Li Feihuang didn't look at Gao Xian, nor did she reply with her spiritual sense. Gao Xian didn't come to see her during the dozens of days in Tongtian Peak, and she was a little angry.
The main thing was that Gao Xian was flirting with that Xiao Hongye. Based on a woman's intuition, she felt that there was something going on between them.
Gao Xian no longer paid any attention to Li Feihuang. This woman had a weird temper. If you treated her well, she would act pretentious, but if you treated her badly, she would try to coax you instead.
As he was about to enter the Tianxiang Sword Palace, Gao Xian had no intention of playing house with Li Feihuang.
Gao Xian said to Yun Qiu Shui: "The Sun, Moon and Star Palaces are extremely dangerous, and completely suppress those above the Golden Core level. Brother Yun, don't go in there..."
Tongtian Sword Sect only gave a simple map and emphasized that each level of Tianxiang Sword Palace was more dangerous than the next. As for how dangerous it was, they were vague.
It was Xiao Hongye who introduced him to the details of the Sword Palace.
The restrictions on the six palaces of wind, cloud, rain, snow, thunder and lightning outside are not too great, and a Jindan Zhenren can barely reach the Thunder Palace. The Lightning Palace is very, very dangerous.
The restrictions in the Sun, Moon and Star Palaces were extremely strong. Even a Yuanying Zhenjun would be suppressed by the restrictions. The sword spirits within were also extremely powerful.
Moreover, in such a dangerous place, there is no powerful sword inheritance. The highest level is the Nascent Soul level.
Even though Yuanying Zhenjun has the ability to go deeper, he has no interest in taking risks.
Yun Qiushui's Taiwei Feixian Sword had little to do with the various Tianxiang sword intentions, so there was no need to venture deeper.
"You know all this? Did your good friend tell you?" Yun Qiu Shui teased.
Please...collect 6...9...books...!
"Hehehe, I prefer making friends." Gao Xian did not deny it and smiled rather ambiguously.
Yun Qiushui did not ask further questions. He nodded and said, "I will only go to the fourth palace at most and will not go any deeper."
Lu Jingxu said: "I don't have much talent in swordsmanship, so I'm just here to take a look at the Fengyun Palace, mainly to take care of the sect disciples."
"Brother, Brother Yun, I'll go first."
Gao Xian nodded to Yun Qiu Shui again. He urged the Yin-Yang Sky Wheel to fly into the sky and went straight over the wall of Feng Palace.
There is plenty of spiritual energy in the Tianxiang Sword Palace, but the restrictions are very powerful. There is a powerful restriction a hundred feet above, like a transparent wall, completely covering the upper level of the Tianxiang Sword Palace.
The restriction in the sky also turned the huge sword palace into a closed box, making Gao Xian feel very depressed.
Gao Xian prefers the open sky, where his Yin-Yang Sky Wheel's extreme speed can fully bring out his advantages.
Crossing the ancient and thick wall, you can see the thick city wall below forming partitions, dividing into thousands of square spaces, which looks a bit like a huge circular maze.
There are often several green phantoms gathered in the partitioned space, floating around like ghosts.
There were more green phantoms floating in the air. As soon as Gao Xiancai flew in, seven or eight green phantoms surrounded him.
Gao Xian didn't need to do anything. He could just spin the Yin-Yang Wheel behind him to crush the approaching green phantom.
After these green phantoms shatter, they will turn into green light spots and drift away like rain.
Gao Xian took over a few points of green spiritual light, which indeed contained some pure wind spiritual power, as well as an extremely subtle trace of sword intent.
The Qingyun Sword Scripture can be transformed into the Fengyun Sword Scripture because he comprehended the Fengmen sword intent and knew that wind and cloud are the foundation of the four other sword intents of rain, snow, thunder and lightning.
The trace of sword intent contained in the wind sword spirit was too shallow for Gao Xian.
Even so, Gao Xian still quickly took a circle along the circular wall of Feng Palace.
The outermost Wind Palace is very large. Gao Xian roughly calculated that the circular Wind Palace is two hundred miles long.
Even if tens of thousands of cultivators from the Tongtian Sword Sect were thrown in there, they could only explore a very small part of it.
The level of the sword spirits in Feng Palace was too low. Gao Xian killed thousands of sword spirits in one round and gained some sword spirits, but they were of no use to him.
However, he still summoned Taiyuan Shenxiang's clone and threw it here. The low-level sword palace was left to the clone to explore slowly.
Gao Xian quickly entered the Yun Palace for the second time.
The Cloud Palace is just as its name suggests, a huge ring formed by layers of white clouds.
The thick clouds are damp and cold, and can also obscure people's vision and consciousness.
A sword spirit condensed from white gas will emerge from the clouds. Compared with the wind-type sword spirit, the cloud-type sword spirit is obviously much more solid and has much higher combat power.
Gao Xian killed hundreds of cloud sword spirits, and quickly passed through the Cloud Palace formed by clouds and entered the third-level Rain Palace.
The drizzle condensed from spiritual energy was like silk and fog, and in the drizzle there was rain condensed into a translucent rain-type sword spirit.
The rain-type sword spirit is quite powerful. Its sword skills have undergone some subtle changes. Moreover, there is also a sword spirit at the foundation-building level.
However, the rain-type sword spirit was also very weak, and the sword aura it left behind was of too low a level.
The Snow Palace is a huge palace built of white snow. The body of the snowman holding the sword is as hard as steel, and his speed is fast. His icy sword energy penetrates the bone marrow. It is comparable to the middle and late stages of foundation building.
Gao Xian tried it around and quickly entered the fifth level of the Thunder Palace.
The blue city wall was like blue crystal, crystal clear, with blue and white electric lights wandering around in it like thousands of giant snakes.
Gao Xian was standing outside the Thunder Palace and could already feel the powerful pressure of the thunder spiritual energy inside the palace.
At this time, a golden light flashed from his sleeves. Following the golden light, Gao Xian flew half a circle around the wall of Lei Palace before he found Xiao Hongye.
Xiao Hongye said softly: "Why did you come just now? Are you in trouble?"
"No, I just wandered around a few places." Gao Xian answered honestly.
His principle is to tell as few lies as possible so that when he needs to lie, he can easily gain the trust of others.
Xiao Hongye understood this very well. She was also very curious about the several sword palaces outside, but she would have the chance to come again in the future, so there was no need to waste time outside.
She said: "It will be very dangerous once we enter the Thunder Palace. Any Thunder Sword Spirit will be difficult to deal with. We must be more careful of Gui Wuqi. We should pass through the Thunder Palace as soon as possible and don't stay any longer..."
(End of this chapter)