Chapter 911 Sword Guard

Chapter 911 Sword Guard

Chapter 911 Sword Guard

"Has the human king mentioned in your records appeared before?"

Lu Li asked curiously, thinking that he was finally starting to relate to his starting identity.

"I don't know. Maybe it's just a story my grandfather told me to amuse me. No, I hope it was a story he told me to amuse me."

Ji Hong said, "Because that means the prophecy on the stone tablet is false. Who knows, people in every era may have looked at that prophecy, welcomed their own human king, and then fell into complete despair after their hopes were exhausted."

"What Elder Ji said makes sense. This is like cold reading."

Lu Li said with a smile, watching Ji Hong perform complicated operations in front of the stone door of the cave.

"Cold reading?"

This time it was the turn of the knowledgeable Ji Hong to be confused.

"It's probably a trick used by fortune tellers to deceive people. The prophecy on your slate doesn't even accurately say which era it is. It only says 'this era'. So everyone who sees the slate for the first time will think it's talking about their own era. But in fact, six eras have passed, right?"

Lu Li said that he didn't know what humans were like in the beginning, but since the six eras of historical records, humans have become slaves and food for the strange monsters.

"That's an interesting statement, but maybe Mr. Lu is right."

Ji Hong smiled and said that after the mechanism was activated, the stone door automatically opened backwards. It was obvious that this was not a technology that their tribe had currently.

He led Lu Li into the cave, which was dark inside. Fortunately, Lu Li was not an ordinary person and could see roughly. Ji Hong was very familiar with the place and could walk easily without light.

After passing through a long corridor and arriving at a hall, Ji Hong lit a fire on the side of the wall, and then the series of eternal lamps brought light to the place.

It can be seen that in the rectangular hall, at the deepest part there is a throne made of black iron, and on the throne, where a person sits, there is an ancient sword inserted.

And at the foot of the steps to the throne, there was a figure kneeling on one knee, like the most pious knight, or like an eternal stone statue.

At least when Lu Li first saw it, he didn't think it was a living creature. When he glanced at it, he thought it was a sculpture made by the tribesmen out of something.

Because the figure was covered with thick dust, as if it had not moved for thousands of years.

It was not until Ji Hong knelt down respectfully before the figure, performed a ritual with a sense of religious ceremony, and began to speak to the person that Lu Li realized that this was a living being.

Ji Hong used an ancient language to talk to the man. Fortunately, among the languages ​​that the space helped him learn, there was a branch that used this language, which made him understand the meaning of Ji Hong's words. "Respected Sword Keeper, I have brought him here. Do you think he is the reincarnation of the Human King?"

Although Ji Hong expressed all kinds of disbelief, his expression at this moment was extremely pious, with red eyes, just like a gambler with only one chip left on the table.

Lu Li curiously observed the "stone man" kneeling on the ground. The reason why he didn't realize that the other party was a living person at first was because he didn't see any reconnaissance intelligence at all. It was the same now when he looked carefully. The martial arts eye could only see a row of question marks.

This surprised Lu Li a little. A hidden tribe in a remote mountain area actually hid such a master. No wonder the tribe could survive for so many years.

The strange energy lingering over the tribe was most likely the work of the Sword Keeper, otherwise a monster would have passed by and killed everyone here.

Ji Hong stood up and looked at Lu Li, and said in common human language: "Mr. Lu, please wait a moment, the sword keeper's reaction is slow."

"Is this senior the ancestor of your tribe?"

Lu Li asked curiously.

However, Ji Hong shook his head and said, "I don't know either. It's just that according to legend, the Sword Keeper was here at the beginning of the first era and he never left. Our ancestors said that we should live here and the Sword Keeper will protect us."

Obviously, Ji Hong was an ordinary person. He could not feel how powerful the Sword Keeper was, nor could he sense the magical energy that protected the tribe. He only knew that the Sword Keeper was an object that they needed to respect and worship.

It’s just that the people here don’t call the object of their faith and respect God. God is not a good word in this world. Their tribe only has ancestor worship and belief in sacred beasts. Holy here is a word that means pure and great.

So they also call the Sword Keeper the Saint, but for countless years, they actually didn't know the Sword Keeper's name at all, but just because he had been guarding the sword on the throne here, they called him the Sword Keeper or the Saint.

"How long do we have to wait?"

Lu Li asked curiously, because although he could see that the sword keeper was unknownly powerful, he didn't understand what state the other party was in. On the surface, he looked like a dead stone statue.

"I don't know. When I was young, I once came to ask the Sword Keeper for advice, and he didn't reply to me until three years later."

Ji Hong's answer almost made Lu Li choke himself.

“Three…three years!?”

Lu Lixin said that he didn't have that much time to waste here. Apart from anything else, he was at least participating in a competition in the space. In three years, it was possible that other contestants had already conquered the world.

"Don't worry. I may not have made it clear on the way here, but I see that Mr. Lu is so extraordinary. Maybe he is the Human King in the prophecy?"

Ji Hong said, "If so, the Sword Keeper will definitely reply to you soon."

Lu Li was speechless, thinking that you really didn't explain it clearly. You were hesitating in front of me yesterday, and today you think I am the reincarnation of the Human King.

Fortunately, Lu Li was finally matched with his starting identity, and now he just wanted to know whether the benefits of this starting identity were coming.

"Meow~"

At this time, Ah Huo also curiously moved closer to the sword keeper and sniffed around. As a result, he sneezed several times in succession because of inhaling dust.

Ji Hong was extremely nervous when he saw this scene. On one side was the most sacred sword keeper in the tribe, and on the other side was the legendary sacred beast. He felt that he could not intervene.

The part of the sword guard that was sprayed by Ah Huo's sneeze had a lot of dust dissipated, and it finally had some of the color of human skin.

"Draw the sword..."

At this moment, a voice sounded in Lu Li and the others' minds, but the stone statue kneeling on the ground did not move.

"It's really old-fashioned..."

Lu Li complained, walked up the steps, and held the hilt of the sword with one hand, "If I pull out the sword, will I become the human king in your prophecy?"

The sword keeper did not give any reply this time, while Ji Hong looked at Lu Li expectantly and nervously.

"The sword in the stone, I'm familiar with it, it's nothing to pull it out..."

Lu Li was already exerting his strength while he was speaking, and then he stopped talking.

Because he had just exerted a lot of strength, but the sword didn't move at all.

Before pulling this thing out, it didn't seem to belong to the list of props classified in the space, so Lu Li couldn't get information directly through identification.

He didn't know what material the sword was made of, nor what material the throne was made of, but he only felt that he was wrestling with the entire mountain range, and even with the world.

No matter how much strength he exerted, the sword did not move at all. Lu Li used his hands and feet to step on both sides of the throne, exerting force like pulling a carrot, and in the end, his face turned purple, but he still could not move the sword at all. "Huh..."

Lu Li let out a breath after letting go. The scene was a bit awkward for a moment, and he had cursed Zhongyan thousands of times in his heart.

Hey!
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Where is my starting identity? Am I not the reincarnation of the Human King? Why is this sword not moving at all?

"Meow~"

At this time, Ah Huo shouted, stood up, walked towards the Iron Throne, and gently pushed Lu Li with his fat paw.

Lu Li's eyes widened, "Ahuo, no way, you can't be the king of humans, right?"

"Meow meow."

Ah Huo raised his chin, meaning let me try, who said pandas can’t be the king of humans?

Lu Li walked aside and wanted to see if Ah Huo could do it.

So, under Ji Hong's strange gaze, Ah Huo imitated Lu Li and stood on the Iron Throne, but it was too big and too fat, and its butt was stuck behind the Iron Throne, which looked very awkward.

Then, Ah Huo grabbed the hilt of the sword with both claws. Since his claws couldn't hold it, he could only pull it up by the force of clamping.

Half a minute passed in the terrifying silence. Ah Huo leaned back and somersaulted in the air due to excessive force, before falling to the ground, with his belly bouncing twice.

"Meow..."

Ah Huo sat up and rubbed the place where he was hurt from the fall, indicating that it wouldn't work either.

"Well, it turns out that we are not the Human King that Senior is waiting for. I am just curious, has anyone really pulled out this sword in history?"

Lu Li was thinking, if he could really pull it out with brute force, then even if it wasn't the Human King in the prophecy, it would be one.

"Although I don't know whether it's true or not, my grandfather told me a story that said the Human King of the Fifth Era once drew out that sword. But since it's still the same now, I guess he's not the real Human King."

Ji Hong said.

Lu Li glanced at the sword keeper again, "Senior, honestly, what's the use of being able to pull out the sword and sit on the throne? We have to be realistic and seek some benefits for the people in the tribe. You don't know that everyone is now living in poverty and fear. As an ancestor, shouldn't you protect your descendants more?"

"Mr. Lu..."

Ji Hong wanted to persuade Lu Li to be more respectful to the sword keeper, but Lu Li was about to go up to him and put his arm around his shoulder.

"Senior, it's like this. Although I may not be the human king predicted and cannot pull out the sword, as a human I have a warm heart and hope to lead humanity to greatness again. However, I am still young and have no means to become stronger quickly. I still need your care."

Seeing that the End Space was unreliable, Lu Li no longer cared about saving face and shamelessly began to flatter this seemingly powerful sword keeper.

However, the sword guard seemed to be made of stone and ignored him completely, which made him feel helpless.

Lu Li sighed, feeling that he was really tricked by the End Space this time. After thinking about it, he decided that if there was really no other way, he could only go to Aizen first.

He took out a lunch box from the storage space, and after opening it, a snow-flake roasted suckling pig that was originally huge but was compressed to a normal size in this world appeared on the ground.

He ignored Ji Hong's surprise, patted Ji Hong's shoulder and walked out of the cave, "Friendly support, it's time for me to embark on a new adventure."

Just as Lu Li was about to walk outside in the corridor, a voice sounded in his mind again.

"Trial... strength... holy perception..."

Lu Li knew that it was the Sword Keeper who was talking to him, but he didn't quite understand what the Sword Keeper meant. He walked back and saw that the Sword Keeper had stood up.

The dust on his body was too thick, and it kept falling off whenever he moved. Ji Hong looked at the scene in amazement, because he had never heard of the Sword Guardian moving.

The sword keeper walked to the side of the hall, opened a secret compartment on the wall, took out an ancient leather scroll from it, and spread out his hands.

"For me?"

Lu Li carefully took the scroll from the sword keeper, unfolded it, and found that it was written in ancient language. After spatial identification, Lu Li realized that this was a scroll from before the First Era. The material was amazingly good, even the stone slabs on the outside were weathered, but the words on it were still clear.

This was the secret manual of martial arts that he had longed for. It was really strange to get a secret manual recorded on a leather scroll in such an occasion and in such a world.

What was even more inconsistent was that Lu Li felt that the secret book recorded on this scroll was more of a martial arts type, which was completely different from the style of this world.

"Nine scrolls... City-State, retrieve them."

The Sword Keeper's voice sounded again, "Weird, devour, and become stronger."

As he spoke, before Lu Li could react, the sword keeper's finger touched the center of Lu Li's forehead, and a spike like a nerve ending pierced into Lu Li's brain.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Li felt a large amount of information pouring in. The Sword Keeper was actually instilling the memory of a cultivation system directly into his brain!

The sudden change made Ah Huo think that the Sword Keeper was attacking him, so he bit him directly. However, the Sword Keeper did not move at all, and even the ashes on his skin were not broken by Ah Huo.

Ji Hong was watching this scene from the side, also at a loss as to what to do.

About half a minute later, the sword keeper's fingers left Lu Li's forehead, and Lu Li stopped Ah Huo's attack.

He frowned slightly. It was a good thing to acquire new skills and practice system, but the feeling of being manipulated without being able to counterattack was really terrible. If the sword guardian was an enemy, he would have died just now.

This made him realize once again that his strength in this world was still very weak and he must improve it as soon as possible, otherwise he would die without knowing how when facing powerful monsters.

He thought about the skills passed down to him by the guardian, or the core method of a system, which actually relied on devouring monsters to become stronger.

This kind of practice system is extremely risky. If you eat something weird, you might turn into a monster yourself. But if you can survive it, you can gain extraordinary powers. The legendary saints in the Jihong tribe should have come from this.

But there is a contradiction. If you want to eat the monster, you must first defeat the monster, and to defeat the monster, you must have extraordinary power.

That's why this system was lost, because there is no one in the Human Union Tribe who can kill monsters, and the Sword Keeper stays here as a otaku every day.

Lu Li doesn't have these problems. He can start with the simple things, devouring weak monsters and see if he can become stronger.

Lu Li thought for a moment and asked, "Senior, do you mean that there are nine more scrolls like this that record ancient secrets and have been lost in the human city-states outside? Do you want me to retrieve them?"

The Sword Keeper nodded, "If we take it back... it will be... stronger."

Lu Li roughly understood that whether he wanted to hunt monsters or get more advanced secrets, he had to go to the abstract human city-state.

Fortunately, he knew that the city where Aizen was was not far away from him.

(End of this chapter)