Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect-Chapter 877 - 452: Shanglin Treasure
Hidden Sword Manor, of course, Tie Dan has not forgotten it. Not to mention the Mad Woman still looming in sight, he was deeply entangled with the matters of the Shen Family. The grudges and karma of several generations cannot be easily resolved with just a few words.
The people of the Demon Sect are utterly ruthless, and the Sword Sect’s main mountain is utterly shameless—Tie Dan thought he understood this well. But now, with these self-proclaimed Mystic Sect righteous factions and so-called Sword Sect true inheritors appearing right in front of him, gathering crowds to block him, ambush and attack, and even using Hidden Sword Manor to coerce and extort the Sect Leader’s Secret Sword, Tie Dan was still utterly outraged.
"If you rely on your skills to contend and compete with me in sword fighting, even if my skills are not up to par and I die beneath your swords, I will still look up to you.
If you claim to be disciples of the Sword Sect, seeking the sect’s supreme techniques, I would also never be as secretive as the main mountain, and would teach without reservation.
But to employ such deceitful and sinister tactics and dare to mention the Ruyi Sword Scripture to me? Come take it by the sword!"
Tie Dan directly activated the sword ball, ready to fight.
Tian Gui, however, showed no shame. Instead, his eyes lit up,
"Good, it’s good you admit it! The Ruyi Sword Scripture is indeed in your hands!
Hmph, little bastard, don’t think I don’t know, it’s Lingxu who is backing you up.
Although I never considered that desolate place Nine Yin Mountain of any importance, if you want it so much, you can have it.
As long as you wisely hand over the sword scripture, we will spare the Shen Family and will no longer entangle with you!"
Tie Dan said coldly,
"Do you really think I care about the lives of the Shen Family?"
At this moment, Tian Fu and Tian Lu also arrived by sword, enclosing Tie Dan with sword light on three sides.
Tian Gui seemed to be waiting for the sword array to be completed, continuing to prattle,
"There’s no need for you to put on a pretense anymore. The Hidden Sword Manor of the Shen Family is the key to our Sword Sect’s thousand-year grand plan of the Heavenly Demon Sword Seed. Since the old miser Tian Gang entrusted the Ruyi Sword Scripture to you, he surely passed the Sword Sect’s true legacy into your hands.
You occupy Nine Yin Mountain and even defiantly took the Sect Leader’s title yourself, and yet dare to claim you don’t want to take on the Sword Sect’s legacy? And say it has nothing to do with the Sword Sect!
Fine, since you want the position of the Sword Sect so much, keep it, I couldn’t care less about serving it; just hand over the Ruyi Sword Scripture! We shall have nothing further to do with the Sword Sect!"
Tie Dan was silent for a moment. He originally intended to fight directly, but the other party seemed not to be here to seize position, just incessantly muttering about sword scriptures, which intrigued him, leading him to ask,
"If you want to rebel from the sect and abandon the sword, no one stopped you, why then seek death by coming to me?
The Ruyi Sword Scripture is nothing more than a Sword Control Technique, what’s so special about it?"
Tian Fu and Tian Lu exchanged glances and replied,
"Every true inheritance of our Mystic Sect is passed with a Heavenly Book, and only by receiving the Nine Heavens Mystic Lady’s Ruyi Manual can one become the genuine Beichen Sword Sect Leader."
"But in the past, when the Divine Lord broke through our Mountain Gate, stormed our Sword Array, and reached the peak of the Nine Summits, he took the Xuan Nu’s Heavenly Book. Since then, Sect Leaders have only passed down a transcribed and recompiled Ruyi Sword Scripture. What it contains are all unshared teachings of the outer mountain and the Sect Leader’s secret records."
Perhaps confident of their inevitability today, Tian Gui didn’t hide anything, openly explaining before the audience,
"Back in the day, the old thief Tian Gang had us Eighteen Flying Stars steal countless wondrous treasures from the Shanglin Garden of the Immortal Palace, Emperor Wu.
Although part of it was hidden in the Cloud Platform Treasure Vault, which Lingxu and his followers later relocated.
Yet the cunning old fox anticipated the Sword Sect’s disaster, secretively relocating most valuable treasures outside the mountain. The location and opening spell of the treasure are known only to him.
Since Tian Gang is dead, the treasure map must be hidden in the Sect Leader’s Secret Record, the Ruyi Sword Scripture, and passed on to you.
Hand it over."
Scanning the crowd of cultivators around, seeing the greed in their eyes, Tie Dan understood well.
So that’s it, damn it, they’re here on a treasure hunt...
Tie Dan found it both infuriating and amusing,
"He claimed there was a treasure map and you believe it? Tian Gang died by my sword, would he pass on any treasures to me?
Have you no brains? This guy just made up a reason to trick you into ganging up on me.
If there were truly any treasures, they would’ve long been used by the Mystic Sect to restore the Cloud Platform!"
Yet these people still encircled him in silence, probably seeing it as a high-risk, high-reward venture, each choosing to believe in an all-or-nothing gamble.
Tie Dan knew that more words would be useless now; since negotiation seemed impossible, the only thing left was a fight to the death over sword skills. Yet he was still unsure about one thing—what exactly the other party intended to do with that Shen Family card.
Has Hidden Sword Manor already fallen into their hands, have the Shen Family become hostages? Or are they all dead, and their souls held captive?
"Fine, since you really want it, take it then."
Tie Dan thought for a moment, casually taking out a Jade Pendant and holding it up,
"Where are the Shen Family now? Let’s make the exchange."
The ten Sword Cultivators seemed to not believe he could be so agreeable, Tian Gui sneered,
"Alright, hand over the Sword Scripture. Once we open the treasure and confirm its authenticity, the Shen Family will naturally be returned to you."
Tie Dan sneered,
"Fine, catch this!"
The Jade Pendant was flung into the air, immediately causing wind and clouds to surge, sword light flashed, and in an instant, it was shattered by the collision of eleven Sword Rainbows.
Indeed, among the Mystic Sect, there isn’t a single honest and trustworthy person. It’s tacit that everyone is a scoundrel, bastard; unless you beat it out of them by crushing them into pieces, you can’t tell what’s true or false.
At that moment, the crowd stopped wasting words, directly engaged in sword fighting, with Sword Rainbows colliding horizontally across the sky, tangled and making the clouds in the sky shredded in chaos.
It’s necessary to mention a bit more; when setting up a scene, ambushing, or fighting on the same stage with sect mates comparing skills, the Mystic Sect naturally follows the rules. Everyone leaves room, competing for superiority; however, when calling out to kill rebels, actually hiding intentions and directly going to kill and steal treasures, it’s a different matter entirely.
If it were a direct battle formation, Tie Dan wouldn’t be afraid. But taking on ten alone with entangled Sword Rainbows and force collisions from both sides, admittedly, Tie Dan was not assured of an absolute victory.
After all, in such an instantaneous life-and-death moment, who cares about exquisite moves or the level of skill? Both sides put forth their utmost, expending their entire Dao Power, lifelong True Qi clashes, spirit morphs into Sword Rainbows, directly uniting in human-sword unity, cleaving the heavens and earth. Such a confrontation of Sword Light, power clashes—hard skills versus each other, even the slightest mistake means death!
Had it been just one against Tie Dan in a power clash, he could have leveraged the Nine Luminaries Unification and Beichen Sword Qi to thrash the opponent to death with a single sword.
But now, with Sword Light shifting instantaneously across the sky, Tie Dan also had to consider that if he tangled too long with any one opponent, he could be restrained and directly attacked collectively by the remaining nine. Even with two thousand years of sword power, he couldn’t withstand being besieged, barely escaping distractions could lead to his body’s destruction, needing Chen Xuantian to help resurrect him on the spot...
So, Tie Dan didn’t aim for a quick victory, but instead searched for opportunities everywhere, never lingering too long after each sword attack, strategically maneuvering in the midst of ten Sword Rainbows, breaking through the encirclement with his superior sword speed to avoid being trapped or blocked by others.
These Mystic Sect assassins were also shameless, throwing everything into fighting for the treasure. They surrounded front to back and side to side, forming pairs and groups, never allowing Tie Dan a chance to break them one by one.
For a moment, it seemed like a group of sentient shooting stars bouncily darting across the sky.
Although it was perilous for a time, Tie Dan wasn’t worried.
The Sword Rainbows, though powerful, were ultimately too exhausting, unable to continuously use dozens of moves without a break. Moreover, these ten Sword Immortals’ skills varied, most with less Dao Power than Tie Dan, inevitably someone would tire, Qi would deplete, needing to rest; that would lead to division, revealing weaknesses, giving him a chance to counterattack.
After battling for a while, Tie Dan realized something was wrong; they appeared disorganized, someone stopping to catch a breath much later than expected, seemingly not exerting full effort, and although the attack seemed intense, they deliberately left a gap, intentionally driving him eastward.
How could there be more than ten? Is there an ambush ahead?
Just how many people have gathered, and could Tian Gang truly have a treasure worth dividing among so many?
Tie Dan also began to suspect, and can’t help but recite the Ruyi Sword Scripture again.
Tie Dan recalled, this Sword Scripture was one he learned in a dream, enduring a thousand cuts while trapped under the Sword Furnace to forge a Child Sword body, with Tian Gang grumbling beside him, teaching line by line. Truly, every sword mark delivered a teaching, painful and unforgettable, impossible to misremember.
As he said, the Ruyi Sword Scripture is purely a Sword Control Technique, refining Innate True Qi repeatedly, inserting into opponent’s Qi acupoints and death spots to kill stealthily, a superior Qi Gong.
This technique alone requires a minimum of a hundred years of refinement to truly form, and Tie Dan held numerous True Inheritor Divine Skills, there’s no need to specially harness this singular sword Qi, truthfully having little time to refine it; otherwise, facing Emei in sword fighting, when Chen Xuantian suddenly struck with sword Qi, it wouldn’t just severely injure Cang Wu but decisively slay him.
... Hmm? Wait, something seems off...
I hadn’t paid much attention before, but upon closer consideration, Huangfu Yi’s Sword Control Technique seems much like the Ruyi Sword Scripture?
Indeed, back when Huangfu Yi learned a bunch of messy junk Divine Skills in a dream, Tie Dan observed and remembered.
Upon meticulous comparison, Tie Dan suddenly found that the unnamed Basic Sword Control Technique taught by the system seemed to be the martial art in the Ruyi Sword Scripture.
Of course, the Ruyi Sword Scripture requires collaboration with the Child Sword Dao Foundation to reconstruct, so it appears dissimilar, yet upon comparing the two martial arts now, Tie Dan clearly noticed some discrepancies.
Purely from a Sword Control Technique perspective, the content in the Ruyi Sword Scripture included a bit too much.
By comparison, the Basic Sword Control Technique was very streamlined, only instructing disciples in Qi Refining and Sword Control.
And even excluding the sections on Killing Sword Child Secret Technique, some Chapters and mantras in the Ruyi Sword Scripture, which reviewing now, truly could be drastically reduced, refined and perfected.
Wait a minute, could there really be some treasure map hidden within these redundant scriptures?
"Rebellious disciple! Where do you think you’re going!"
Before Tie Dan could ponder, a sudden explosive shout came from the east, then a burst of bright light flickered, hundreds of Bright Mirrors suddenly lit up from the clouds, projecting dazzling light, forcibly halting the Sword Rainbow’s light and shadow, cutting off the pursuing and slaughtering Sword Immortals.
Then, as the light dispersed, true Sword Immortals emerged from the mirror array, numbering dozens, each brandishing magic treasures, gathering Sword Light, forming an array in the sky. Among them, one with a spinning Sword Wheel behind his back, brandished four Great Success Sword Radiances, and shouted with a transmission of sound,
"Mystic Lady True Inheritance! Sword Pavilion Chief! Beichen Sect Leader! Tianxu is here!
You rebellious sect deserters, betrayers of teachers and ancestors, do you not surrender!
If you do not return our Sword Sect disciples! You will not be spared!"
Oh, it seems they are here to contest for position with him.
