Chapter 80 Get the Sword (Ⅳ)

There were swords under the cliff.

It was unnecessary to say more or think more. When Li Fuyao finally came to the bottom of the cliff along the mountain stones step by step, he felt the fierce sword Qi first.

Although the sword Qi was fierce, he felt there were differences. It must be because many wisps of the sword Qi was mixed. Otherwise, it wouldn’t make Li Fuyao have different feelings.

Li Fuyao turned pale and leaned against a huge rock. He stood still and pressed the wooden sword on his waist. When he looked at the riprap and weeds in the front, his face was solemn.

Before he went down the cliff, the masters had told him that there was a Sword Immortal’s among the swords under the cliff, although the others were uncertain. The Sword Immortal was known because his sword Qi was the most powerful in the world those years. When he unsheathed his sword, the sword Qi was as long as several thousand miles. Many swordsmen regarded him as a rare genius in the world, and he had countless disciples. He was one of the few Sword Immortals from Sword Mountain. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have fought against a big shot from the demonic land on Sword Mountain and then died, and even his sword was thrown down the cliff. Although he didn’t kill even one big shot from the demonic land, his statue was displayed among those in the front in the Sword Immortal Hall on Sword Mountain till now. It was because of Sword Mountain’s personal motives, but that Sword Immortal’s cultivation was true to the fame.

After taking a deep breath, Li Fuyao walked ahead slowly and saw the first sword as soon as he passed a small riprap.

There was a broken sword inserted in the riprap, and the blade was full of rust. Its handle made of sword tree was decayed, and even this sword was almost connected to the riprap as time passed. Li Fuyao reached out his hand to grab the handle, trying to pull out this sword, but when he put forth strength, the broken sword remained unmoved.

Li Fuyao frowned and gave up this plan.

He continued to walk forward and saw the second sword after several steps. This sword had a much thinner and longer blade than the broken sword, but its handle was also decayed, and its blade was full of rust. However, the difference was that this sword was lying on a big rock and even had two small words on the blade.

Li Fuyao moved closer to have a look at them and then recognized the words after he checked them carefully. They were “No Return”.

There was no return or what?

Li Fuyao didn’t think too much but walked on. Then he thought that there was sword Qi in the front, and the pore on his body seemed to be stabbed by many people with tiny needles. The pain was not as serious as that when he was stabbed by Chao Qingqiu’s sword Qi while climbing Menchen Mountain that day, but it was almost the same.

After passing the riprap, Li Fuyao came to a stream which was not deep but wide. He saw a small and exquisite bamboo cottage not far away on the opposite bank. The bamboo cottage was built on a huge bluestone and pleasant to the eye.

Li Fuyao took off his shoes and socks, walking into the stream. Soon he took two steps backward and came back to the bank. When he looked at his sole, he found that a part was cut with fresh blood flowing.

Much blood flowed downstream along the stream and was scattered in the water at once.

Li Fuyao stood on the bank and looked confused. There was sword Qi everywhere at the bottom of the cliff, but the sword Qi on the bank was less than one half of that in the stream. When he stepped into the water, he suddenly noticed that the water around his feet was full of sword Qi, and after he came back to the bank, his sole was cut with a wound. Fortunately, the sword Qi was not released by a man and didn’t enter Li Fuyao’s meridians along this wound. Otherwise, it would be troublesome when he cleaned it up later.

Li Fuyao stood by the stream and then looked at the water in it carefully, to find that there were fragments of swords filling the stream. The fragments were small and it seemed that they were broken and thrown one after another into the water by somebody. Li Fuyao looked at the exquisite bamboo cottage on the opposite bank and wondered if it was done by the person who lived inside.

But if somebody lived under the cliff, he must be an old master on Sword Mountain.

However, if such a swordsman could live under the cliff for so many years, couldn’t he get that Sword Immortal’s sword yet?

Li Fuyao had complicated thoughts, but there was sword Qi all over the stream. If he wanted to go to that bamboo cottage, would he have to jump over from this side of the stream?

Or if he would go to that bamboo cottage, must he walk over in the water?

When he was a storyteller in Baiyu Town in the past, Li Fuyao always liked to tell such stories. A poor man fell off a cliff but he was so lucky that he didn’t die. Then he was at the bottom of the cliff and saw a cave with only skulls and a secret book about martial arts. Later he practiced a unique martial skill in the world and became a hero. Or he met a great martial arts master under the cliff and learned from the master to practice a unique martial skill. Between the two, the former was easier. After learning the martial skill in a secret book, he could become famous, but the latter might be deliberately put obstacles in his way by the hermit and great master and later could finish studying the martial skill smoothly. But after he told such stories for many times, even Li Fuyao was fed up with them.

Li Fuyao stood by the stream and wasn’t at a loss yet. He stopped walking forward and sat on the bank, looking at the bamboo cottage on the other side of the stream.

Li Fuyao looked at the bamboo cottage in the distance from time to time and wanted to see if there was a great master who stayed secluded inside. However, even though he craned his neck, he didn’t see anything to show that there was somebody.

In the end, if the thin and long iron sword whose name was No Return didn’t suddenly fly up from the rock to this side of the stream for no reason, Li Fuyao wouldn’t get up anyway.

Li Fuyao stared at the iron sword and asked with interest, “What? Will you tell me to go to the bamboo cottage?”

The sword No Return couldn’t speak, but it seemed to nod joyfully. Li Fuyao frowned. “There was sword Qi everywhere in the water. If I walk over, I would be cut and have many wounds. I don’t want to go.”

The sword heard that and then seemed to draw circles on the ground with a grievance. But as it waved, a lot of rust on its blade fell and a small part of the snow-white blade was revealed. It must be its original appearance.

Li Fuyao sighed. “When you are covered under the rust, you are like a bright pearl with dust. Shall I remove the rust for you with the water?”

Seeing that the sword remained unmoved after he said that, Li Fuyao thought it agreed with him silently. Then he prepared to reach out his hand to grab this sword, but in an instant, the sword’s blade suddenly became horizontal and the sword tip pointed at him.

Before Li Fuyao reacted, this sword tried to stab him.

There was no sword Qi, but it was aggressive.