Chapter 88: Ziwei Divine Sword

Chapter 88: Ziwei Divine Sword

Chapter 88: Ziwei Divine Sword
"It seems like he is unlucky!"

Zhang Yu sighed. The giant cockscomb snake had been cut into pieces, but the so-called inner elixir was still not found.

At this time, the sun is at its zenith and the forest is well lit.

A light golden hue appeared on Yan Sanniang's face. She breathed calmly and practiced the Emei Nine Yang Gong, continuously digesting the century-old snake gall.

Zhang Yu was busy for a long time and felt hungry, so he built a bonfire under the big willow tree.

The big snake weighed nearly two hundred pounds. He cut off the most delicious pieces of meat and slowly roasted them over the fire.

"If Brother Lan were here, we could drink and eat meat together."

Zhang Yu recalled that night in front of the Orangutan Beach, when the two of them drank fine wine, ate blue-scaled carp, and talked about the affairs of the martial arts world. It was such a great time.

It is rare to have one or two close friends in life. Some of them are as close as new even though they are old haired, while others are as close as old friends. It is all due to fate.

There was a sweet smell in the air, the snake meat was almost cooked.

Zhang Yu looked towards Yan Sanniang and saw that she was still practicing with her eyes closed, but her face was gradually becoming redder, and it was obvious that she had gained a lot of benefits from the hundred-year-old snake gall.

"A hundred-year-old python can barely be considered dragon meat."

He was hungry and didn't wait any longer. He picked up a palm-sized piece of snake meat and put it into his mouth. The sweet taste instantly melted in his mouth, leaving a fragrant smell on his lips and teeth. It was a bit like sea bass meat, but more tender and sweet.

“Top-quality ingredients, simple cooking, future generations will never let me down.”

After eating thirty slices of snake meat in a row, Zhang Yu still felt a little unsatisfied, so he quickly cut off fifty or sixty slices of meat with a dagger and roasted them on the campfire while eating.

While eating snake meat, his eyes unconsciously fell on Yan Sanniang. When he first saw her, she was wearing a mask. Since last night, he had been running for his life and had not had time to take a closer look.

The woman had a standard oval face, thin eyebrows, bright eyes, slightly curved eye corners, a high nose bridge, and she had a heroic air.

She was only wearing a white inner robe at this time, revealing half of her slender neck and a patch of snow-white skin at the collar.

Zhang Yu felt something strange in his abdomen and quickly looked away. He secretly felt strange. After waking up, he was always particularly agitated and the thought of doing that kind of thing often surfaced in his mind.

Is this my nature?
Did you just suppress your nature before?
Now completely released?
Zhang Yu was unwilling to admit that he was such a person. He looked at the snake head that he had kicked under the willow tree and thought to himself.

"Is it because he ate snake meat? Oh, snakes are silver lovers, that must be the case!"

He looked at the roasted snake meat on the fire and didn't want to eat it anymore.

At this time, Yan Sanniang had just finished her training. She looked energetic, her previous tiredness was swept away, and her internal strength had made great progress.

“Snake meat smells so good!”

She took two steps to the fire, sat down cross-legged, picked up a piece of snake meat with a branch, and was about to put it into her mouth.

Zhang Yu hurriedly said, "Wait."

"what happened?"

"This snake meat might be poisonous!"

Yan Sanniang looked at the grease left at the corners of his mouth and asked suspiciously, "What were you eating just now? Didn't the poison sac get removed? How could the meat be poisonous?"

She smelled it, confirmed it was non-toxic, and put it into her mouth.

“Delicious, it’s so delicious!”

Yan Sanniang looked at Zhang Yu with disdain, seeing through his little trick.

Zhang Yu didn't know what to say. He could only watch Yan Sanniang eat more than twenty slices of snake meat in a row, but there seemed to be nothing unusual.

"How do you feel?"

"What do you feel? This meat is really non-toxic. Haven't you eaten it before?"

Zhang Yu lowered his head in frustration. Wasn't it because of the snake meat, but it was just his nature?

"By the way, have you found the inner elixir of the cockscomb snake?"

Zhang Yu shook his head and said, "I have searched every inch, but I can't find it."

Yan Sanniang frowned and said, "This giant snake is over a hundred years old, and has a cockscomb on its head. It is a different species of snake, so it should have an inner elixir."

She stood up and looked at the seven or eight pieces of the snake's body, and her eyes suddenly looked at the still intact snake head under the big willow tree, with a bunch of bright red combs on it.

"Did you look inside the snakehead?"

Zhang Yu understood what she meant. He stood up and walked to the big willow tree. He picked up the cockscomb snake head and carefully cut open the skull with the Hanyuan dagger.

He inserted his two slender fingers into the gap and searched around. After a moment, he took out a pure white inner elixir.

It is the size of a peanut, cool to the touch, and pure white, just like a white pearl.

Zhang Yu asked excitedly: "Is this the inner elixir?"

Yan Sanniang looked at the white bead and nodded, saying, "It is said that the beasts that have become powerful in the mountains can condense this kind of inner elixir. The pure color is the most valuable, and the mixed color is second. This snake elixir is flawless. It is really a sacred object that is rarely seen in hundreds of years."

Yan Sanniang took out a gray porcelain bottle from her arms, put the inner elixir into the bottle, sealed the bottle mouth, and handed it to Zhang Yu.

"The inner elixir is different from the snake gallbladder. It can be preserved for a period of time. This gray bottle should be made of special materials. It is very effective in sealing the medicinal power. This elixir is very powerful. It is a bit of a waste to use it now. If it is used at the critical moment of breaking through the Qi Sea Realm, it will definitely be of great benefit."

Yan Sanniang was born in Emei and was a disciple of a major sect. Her knowledge far surpassed that of ordinary people in the martial arts world.

Zhang Yu took the gray bottle, but the more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. Isn't this the bottle that contains the Poison Dragon Pill?

"Where is the poisonous dragon pill originally in the bottle?"

Yan Sanniang's face turned slightly red, and she said coldly: "You were seriously injured last night. Thanks to that pill, your internal injuries were cured."

"I see. I thought it was poison, but it turns out to be a healing elixir. It seems I am not destined to die."

He smiled and put away the porcelain bottle containing the inner elixir, ate some snake meat, and suddenly remembered something. He called Yan Sanniang and the two of them climbed up the big willow tree.

Behind the skeleton was a large snake's nest with eighteen white snake eggs in the middle. Each egg was the size of a fist and oval in shape, arranged in a line on the hay.

Like two rows of white chess pieces, nine in each column, neatly arranged and close to each other. "Could this old snake have obsessive-compulsive disorder?"

Zhang Yu was confused because he had climbed the tree in a hurry and had not had time to look around or think carefully.

"My friend is the heir of Wanshou Villa. If you don't want them, these snake eggs are just right for her."

Zhang Yu had no objection. He immediately took off his outer robe and spread it aside.

Yan Sanniang picked up a snake gall and placed it on her robe.

When she picked up the second snake gall, her hand stopped in mid-air: "There is something under the snake egg."

Zhang Yu looked at it and understood immediately: "So that's it!"

He probably knew why the spiritual crested snake arranged the snake eggs in this shape.

It turns out that along with the hay and branches, there was also a sword in the snake's nest!

The scabbard was dark red, dirty and old, without any jewel decorations, and looked like an ordinary sword.

Zhang Yu took it out, grasped the hilt, pulled it out halfway, and a cold murderous aura rushed towards him.

The sword was about three and a half feet long, with a blade three fingers wide. It was trembling slightly, flashing purple light, and was extremely sharp.

This is a magical weapon!
He turned the hilt slightly and saw two small seal characters coiled with gold thread on the other side.

Yan Sanniang looked at the two small characters and exclaimed, "Ziwei? This is the Ziwei Sword."

"Miss Yan, do you know the origin of this sword?"

"My sect's founder wrote in his notes that her old friend encountered a sword tomb of a senior named Dugu Qiubai when he was young. There should have been four swords in the tomb, but there were only three, and the only sword missing was the Purple Star Sword."

"That old friend read the stone inscriptions left by Dugu Qiubai and learned that Senior Dugu loved the Purple Star Sword the most during his lifetime, but because it was too sharp and evil, it accidentally killed a righteous man, and he thought it was a bad omen, so he abandoned it in the valley."

Zhang Yu looked at the skeleton and said, "This person must have a destiny. I wonder where he got this Ziwei Sword from."

Yan Sanniang said, "Your sword was broken by Qiao Wuyong's saber, so it was God's will that you got this magic sword."

Zhang Yu glanced at Yan Sanniang and saw that her tone was sincere and she did not show any greed for the sword. He felt both admiration and happiness in his heart.

He hung the Ziwei Sword around his waist and looked at the skeleton. There were marks of knife and sword stabs on the ribs on the chest. It seemed that after being seriously injured by his enemy, he hid in the tree and eventually died of his injuries.

After the two men collected the snake eggs, they dug a hole under the willow tree, carefully moved the bones down from the tree, and built a grave to rest the unknown swordsman in peace.

Use the earth as a coffin and the willow tree as a tombstone.

The two men left here and walked south for half a day before finally getting out of the valley forest. However, they met soldiers from the father-in-law's mansion and the Embroidered Uniform Guard who came to search in the outer area.

They were being chased by tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves in the forest.

Zhang Yu and Yan Sanniang were both very skilled in martial arts and their injuries had already healed, so they easily avoided them.

When the moon reached its zenith, the two men completely left the territory of Xuangu Mountain and found a dilapidated temple in the mountains to rest.

Yan Sanniang looked at him and said, "Can you return the Nine Dragon Jade Pendant to me?"

Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Have you figured out how to deal with it?"

Yan Sanniang took the jade pendant and nodded.

"Next time you are desperate, you can always come to Qingfeng Village."

Zhang Yu lay down and looked at the stars in the sky through the half-tiled temple roof.

Although this encounter was extremely dangerous, fortunately both of them were safe and sound, and each gained something.

Yan Sanniang sat by the bonfire, looking at the full moon: "When the founder of Emei was young, she met a man. Later, she traveled around the world for most of her life, just to find his trace."

Zhang Yu naturally knew that the heroine Guo Xiang never married, so he knew who she was looking for.

He said casually: "We first met at Fengling Ferry, and the first sight of Yang Guo ruined my life."

Yan Sanniang was surprised and asked, "This is the secret of Emei. How did you know it?"

"Although those grudges happened 170 or 80 years ago, the Emei clan is not the only one that left records. I happened to see... many secrets of the martial arts world somewhere."

Yan Sanniang found his explanation reasonable, but was curious about what kind of place it was that hid the secrets of the ancient and modern martial arts world.

She continued, "Later, the second-generation headmaster, Master Fengling, felt that all men in the world were unfaithful, so she set a rule that the Emei Sect was not allowed to recruit male disciples. It was not until the fourth headmaster that an exception was made..."

For some reason, Yan Sanniang talked a lot about the past of Emei Sect.

From never accepting male disciples to the time when a male disciple became the head of the sect, who is now the Master of the Golden Summit. Many things always change beyond recognition over time.

However, Zhang Yu was thinking that from the founder of the sect, the female hero Guo Xiang, to the head master Zhou who practiced the Nine Yin White Bone Claw in the late Yuan Dynasty, Emei women did often encounter unfaithful men. It was like a curse.

"Poor, how pitiful!"

"As the saying goes, those who are too affectionate will always be hurt by those who are too ruthless."

At dawn, when Zhang Yu woke up, Yan Sanniang had already left.

Sons and daughters of the world don't stick to trivial matters.

Meeting and parting are all caused by fate.

There is no need for the conventional farewell ceremony.

Zhang Yu carried the bundle of snake skins on his back, hung the Ziwei Sword on his waist, walked to the mountain god, of which only half of the clay statue was left, bowed three times, then strode out of the ruined temple and looked up at the gradually rising red sun.

"It's time for me to go back to Blackwood Cliff!"

　I am not very good at writing adventures, and I always feel that I cannot convince myself. I revised several versions in a hurry. I did not have time to check for typos. If there are many typos, please forgive me and welcome corrections.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)