Volume 11: The First Law Chapter 50 Dragon Bird Sword Spirit
Qin State, Observatory.
Lu Qingshan leaned his head on the desk.
The table was filled with snacks such as peanuts, fruits, and pastries. Sitting opposite him was Qin Yitian, who was lightly dressed.
The two of them looked up at the vast sea of stars in the sky for a long time.
"General, is the world you mentioned really countless times larger than the Daoyuan Realm ?" Qin Yitian peeled a grape, handed it to Lu Qingshan, and asked softly.
"Of course, this place is too small." Lu Qingshan said.
Qin Yitian looked around.
Looking down from a high place, you can see thousands of lights.
Qincheng alone is so deep and vast, how can this world be small?
It’s not that the world is too small, it’s that the man’s heart is too big.
Lu Qingshan casually took another piece of cake from the table and stuffed it into his mouth, muttering, "Eat two more pieces, it can be considered a local specialty. I won't have the chance to eat it again in the future."
Qin Yitian looked at Lu Qingshan in surprise when he heard this, "General, are you also going to leave Daoyuan Realm?"
"Now that you've left, why should I stay here?" Lu Qingshan said as a matter of course.
"Didn't the general say that the Dao Law of our Daoyuan Realm is the embodiment of the Three Thousand Great Daos and is of great help to cultivators in their enlightenment? Why don't you stay for a while and comprehend it?"
"Your Highness, there are also differences among cultivators. I am a sword cultivator, and sword cultivators do not need to attain enlightenment," Lu Qingshan said calmly, "I will walk my own path."
Combine the Dao, integrate the Dao, and compete with the Dao of Heaven for world power?
What does that have to do with sword cultivation?
The power of a sword cultivator does not come from heaven or earth, but only from the sword in his hand and the will in his heart.
"Sword cultivator..." Qin Yitian smiled. Somehow, he always had an inexplicable liking for this identity.
"Have you arranged everything in Qin?" Lu Qingshan asked.
Qin Yitian nodded. "I originally assumed that I would die under the law of karma when the time came, so I had already started to plan for my afterlife a long time ago..."
"I won't let you die." Lu Qingshan interrupted Qin Yitian.
Qin Yitian looked at Lu Qingshan, smiled sweetly and nodded, "I know."
Her eyes wandered and fell on the dragon bird that Lu Qingshan placed on the table. "The man who died because of the sword will live because of the sword. No matter how you think about it, it feels very strange."
"Aren't you afraid?" Lu Qingshan asked.
"If I'm not afraid of the sky, why should I be afraid of this?" Qin Yitian shook his head indifferently.
At this moment, she seemed to be emitting a light that even the sky had to be faced up to.
…
Five days later.
Outside Qincheng, a solitary peak and a steep cliff stand tall in the sea of forests.
There is a vast forest below and snow drifting for thousands of miles above.
Looking down from here, you can have a panoramic view of Qincheng.
However, the peak is so dangerous that it is difficult for others to climb, so there are few traces of this place.
But today the cliff is extremely lively.
Two figures jumped up from the cliff.
They are nimble and light in their movements, and they treat cliffs as flat ground. One glance shows that they have extraordinary martial arts skills.
But when they climbed up the cliff and saw the man who had been waiting there for a long time, and looked at his tall back, complex emotions suddenly arose in their hearts.
There is subconscious fear and hatred, but also uncontrollable respect.
Although the peak is high and the cliff is dangerous, how can they be as unattainable as the man in front of me?
The two men stepped forward, saluted respectfully and said, "General."
Lu Qingshan turned around and nodded slightly, "You are here."
There are three thousand Taoist laws in the Daoyuan Realm. The first law is cause and effect, and there are eight more Taoist laws under it. Each of the eight great countries controls one law.
Meng Guo is in charge of the law of sealing the sky and is the main person in charge of sealing.
The State of Wei, mastering the Yuanling Taoism, can turn decay into magic.
The two people in front of him, one is the former king of Meng State, Abbot Pudu, who is the person who has the deepest grasp of Fengtian Taoism, and the other is the former prince of Wei State, Wei Yun, who is also extremely proficient in Yuanling Taoism.
There were three other people on the cliff besides Lu Qingshan.
Qin Yitian, Gu Tianyan and an extremely young woman - Qin Lingfeng, the next ruler of the Qin State chosen by Qin Yitian.
Yes, the next leader of Qin will still be a woman.
It’s not that Qin Yitian looks down on men, but she has started to train an heir early on. However, there are dozens of people in the Qin royal family’s side branches, all of whom are of noble birth. How can they truly accept Lu Qingshan’s ideas?
Even if some people appear to accept it, they are probably just pretending.
In the end, only Qin Lingfeng, who lost both her parents when she was young, had been alone for many years and had animals as companions, was the one who could most accept Lu Qingshan's ideas.
Unfortunately, Qin Lingfeng is not the most talented one among all, and is even only in the middle and lower ranks.
Given the current size of the Qin State, can it really be governed well without sufficient talent?
So Qin Yitian was very hesitant at first and sought Lu Qingshan's opinion.
"If there are external and internal troubles, the talent of the monarch is naturally the most important. But if the world is peaceful and the country is strong, then the most important thing for the monarch is his virtue." Lu Qingshan did not give a direct answer, but just said this.
Finally, Qin Yitian designated Qin Lingfeng as his successor.
…
"Everyone is here, it's almost time to start." Lu Qingshan looked around, paused, and spoke.
When everyone heard this, their faces immediately became extremely solemn.
Before coming, they already knew what they were going to do today.
It is because we know that we are in awe.
"Tianyan."
"General." Gu Tianyan stood out from the crowd, with a sturdy figure, and bowed to Lu Qingshan.
"After decades of hard work, you are finally taking this unprecedented step. Congratulations." Lu Qingshan said with a smile.
"Thank you for your care and support, General." Gu Tianyan was deeply grateful to the man in front of her.
"Okay, let's start!" Lu Qingshan still had a faint smile on his face and waved his hand gently.
With a clang, the Dragon Bird was unsheathed, and the tip of the sword was inserted diagonally in front of everyone, flashing a bright light.
The Qin State's national sword, the most powerful weapon in the Daoyuan Realm, and also the "Daoyuan" itself.
The dragon bird is the "source of Tao".
Only Daoyuan can use such a powerful law of cause and effect.
"Abbot Pudu, it's up to you." Lu Qingshan's eyes fell on Abbot Pudu who was waiting on the side.
“It’s all up to the general.” Abbot Pudu stepped out, formed hand seals with his hands, and performed Taoist magic without hesitation.
Light and shadow suddenly burst out from his hands.
"Seal the Sky!" Then, Abbot Pu Du took a deep breath and looked at the dragon bird that was not far in front of him. His eyes flashed, and when he raised his right hand, marks flew out one after another, condensing into a beam of light and shooting towards the dragon bird.
Woo——woo——
The body of the Dragon Bird Sword began to tremble and make a mournful sound, as if trying to resist the approach of the beam of light.
Lu Qingshan lightly tapped the hilt of the Dragon Bird Sword, "Don't make trouble, I'll just have to bear with you for a while."
Buzz!
Longque seemed to understand Lu Qingshan's meaning. He gradually calmed himself down and allowed the beam of light to approach him.
After the light beam approached the Dragon Bird, it suddenly dispersed into countless marks, which were imprinted on the body of the Dragon Bird sword.
The dragon bird shook violently, and its entire body became bright and shining.
Then, strands of red silk threads flowed out from the dragon bird like silk threads being unravelled, interweaving in the air.
Abbot Pu Du's body was trembling slightly.
In those red threads, he sensed an almost terrifying power.
He just looked up at Lu Qingshan, whose expression was as cold as ice, then lowered his head silently, and kept making hand gestures with his hands.
The red lines became more and more numerous, constantly entangled, spinning rapidly around a center, and gradually began to solidify.
But Abbot Pudu was also finding it increasingly strenuous, and his hands, which were forming the seal, began to tremble.
Phew!
Finally, Abbot Pu Du could no longer hold on. He spat out a mouthful of blood which fell to the ground. His hands trembled and the light disappeared.
He has reached his limit.
Ding ding ding!
Above the Dragon Bird, the number of red lines has reached a certain level. They are rotating faster and faster, becoming invisible to the naked eye, and are beginning to shrink.
In a burst of dazzling red light, a diamond-shaped, fiery red crystal diamond appeared before everyone's eyes.
Looking at the dragon bird that was emitting a bright light before, it has become visibly dimmer with no visible light.
"General, this is part of the crystallization of Dragon Bird's divine power." Abbot Pu Du said in a hoarse voice.
The master of the Heaven-sealing Dao can seal everything in the heaven and earth.
Lu Qingshan is now using Abbot Pudu's Heaven-Sealing Method to strip away and seal some of the Dragon Bird's divine power.
As for the purpose...
Lu Qingshan reached out and grabbed the blazing red crystal diamond.
The crystal diamond struggled in his hand and moved towards the Dragon Sparrow, as if it wanted to drill back into the Dragon Sparrow Sword, but it was held firmly in Lu Qingshan's palm and could not move.
Lu Qingshan turned his head and looked at Wei Yuan beside him.
"Prince Wei, it's your turn." he said.
Wei Yuan nodded solemnly, walked to Qin Yitian's side, and said carefully: "Your Highness, I need your cooperation."
Qin Yitian's gaze unconsciously fell on Lu Qingshan's face. When he saw Lu Qingshan nodded to him imperceptibly, he relaxed unconsciously, having been nervous.
"No problem," she replied.
Wei Yuan stopped talking nonsense and also formed a seal with his hands. Green light emerged and instantly covered Qin Yitian's tall figure.
"Your Highness, do you feel the pulling force?" he guided.
Qin Yitian closed his eyes and nodded in response.
"Relax, and then follow this pulling force, and I will pull your soul out." Wei Yuan reminded.
Yuan Ling is the primordial spirit.
Under the cover of green light, Qin Yitian's body gradually became illusory and blurred. At the same time, a similar hazy light and shadow gradually emerged from above her head.
…
When Qin Yitian opened his eyes again, the perspective was much higher than before.
She looked down and suddenly saw "herself" with her eyes closed.
Is this what it feels like to be out of body?
Qin Yitian, who was mentally prepared, stretched out his hand and looked at his illusory palm. What he felt was not panic, but novelty.
Here, Wei Yuan stopped his action with a pale face, saluted to Lu Qingshan and said: "General, as you wish."
"Very good." Lu Qingshan nodded, and then his eyes fell on Qin Yitian's soul.
"Everything went well," he said.
"The general is really creative. He can actually come up with this method." Qin Yitian sighed, still feeling it was too incredible. The scene of Lu Qingshan explaining the plan to her in detail at that time flashed through her mind:
"The price of using the law of cause and effect is your life. This is cause and effect, and there is no escape from it."
"But what if you turned into a dragon bird? What would that be?"
"The cause and effect between you and Longque has become the cause and effect of Longque itself. And cause and effect only exist between two independent persons. In other words, this cause and effect has disappeared out of thin air."
"...But I turn into a dragon bird? How can I do that? How can a person turn into a sword?" When Qin Yitian first heard Lu Qingshan's plan, even though he had great trust in Lu Qingshan, his first reaction was to find it extremely absurd.
"People cannot turn into swords, but they can become sword spirits." Lu Qingshan gave his answer.
"Sword spirit?" For Qin Yitian, this is still an extremely unfamiliar term.
"Yes, sword spirit," Lu Qingshan had already thought of everything, "You just need to put your soul into the dragon bird, and as time goes by, you will gradually assimilate with the dragon bird and become the dragon bird sword spirit."
"The Dragon Bird contains infinite divine power, and it will instinctively expel and kill foreign objects. Therefore, I found Abbot Puxian to use his Heaven Sealing Method to strip away and seal part of the Dragon Bird's divine power, so that there will be enough space in the Dragon Bird for you to live in."
This was the inspiration that Lu Qingshan gained from the experience of Longque being contaminated by evil spirits.
"Then, with the help of Wei's Yuanling Dao, I will help your Yuanshen leave your body and enter Longque."
"The last and most crucial step is that it will take quite some time for you to become the Dragon Bird Sword Spirit. During this time, the stripped Dragon Bird divine power must not return to the Dragon Bird, otherwise it will immediately kill you before you can control the Dragon Bird."
“But the Dragon Bird is a divine sword, and it is its instinct to absorb the stripped divine power. Even the Heaven Sealing Technique cannot seal it for a long time. Therefore, the Dragon Bird must be separated from the stripped divine power to isolate it from its perception of its own power.”
"It's not an ordinary separation, because it's just a geographical distance, which will definitely not have much effect on a magic sword like Longque."
"There is only one way."
"Two worlds apart!"
…
Lu Qingshan remained silent.
It’s a fantastic idea, but that’s not entirely true.
In fact, it was just a process of working backwards based on known results.
Just like solving a math fill-in-the-blank problem, if you already know the answer, it will undoubtedly be much easier to find a solution.
On this side, after expressing his emotion, Qin Yitian did not hesitate at all. His figure turned into a red light and suddenly crashed into the dragon bird that was inserted diagonally into the ground. In just a blink of an eye, he was immersed in it.
After losing her soul, her body fell straight backwards. Fortunately, Lu Qingshan stepped forward in time and hugged her, preventing her from falling to the ground.
Lu Qingshan looked at Gu Tianyan.
"It's my turn now," Gu Tianyan, who was watching all this, grinned, "General, I'll leave first."
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Tianyan's aura changed drastically. He pulled out the dragon bird that was stuck in the ground, and swung his sword out like a god who created the world.
This swing of the sword seemed to shake the heaven and earth.
A huge black hole more than ten feet wide appeared in the sky, with a huge suction force directed at Gu Tianyan alone.
Abbot Pu Du, Wei Yuan and Qin Lingfeng all stared blankly with their eyes wide open.
“Break the void!”
“Break the void!”
"It's Shattered Void!"
Wu broke through the void, a scene that only existed in legends, actually appeared before their eyes.
On this side, seeing the black hole appear, Gu Tianyan took a big step forward and actually flew into the air.
This is a manifestation of breaking away from the limitations of the Daoyuan Realm.
One step seemed to bring the world within reach. In a flash, Gu Tianyan brought Longque from the cliff to the sky.
Before entering the black hole, Gu Tianyan turned back and nodded slightly to Lu Qingshan, and finally plunged completely into the black hole.
Afterwards, the black hole continued to repair itself, the hole continued to shrink, and finally disappeared.
"Have a safe trip." Lu Qingshan said silently.
