On May 29th, the weather was sunny.
The temperature is... hot!
Qin Ran made preparations and took Li Shiyin with him from Yuelai Inn to Li Benshan to get the sword.
They didn't know if it was because of the weather, the fact that Xu Zhixie used the volcano to forge the sword, or simply their mentality, but the master and disciple felt that it was exceptionally hot today. Even though they both brought fire-proof beads, they still felt like they were in a sea of fire.
At the foot of Liben Mountain, Qin Ran looked up at the mountain and saw that the clouds in the sky had been baked red, fiery red, like blood, and condensed into a ball on the top of the mountain.
This was not a good sign, just like the omen of great misfortune that the charlatan had described. Qin Ran felt heavy in his heart, as if the mountain in front of him was pressing down on his heart.
"Check the equipment." He said to his silly apprentice.
Li Shiyin checked her Qiankun bag and found that everything she needed was there.
"No problem," she replied.
"Today..." Qin Ran looked at Li Shiyin and said solemnly, "There will be one battle after another.
"Are you ready?"
Why is Li Shiyin afraid of fighting
There was fire in her eyes, she was looking forward to the battle, and she said, "Let them come!"
“Okay…” Qin Ran suddenly laughed, “You should say always be prepared.”
"Ah?" Li Shiyin expressed confusion.
To liven up the atmosphere, Qin Ran shook his head without explaining.
"Up the mountain!" he said.
The master and his disciple then walked up the mountain.
Liben Mountain is an active volcano. The surface of the mountain was originally covered with magma. It was bare and full of stones, nothing else. But since Xu Zhixie moved here, he sealed the entire crater, turning the entire volcano into his melting furnace, and no magma erupted from the crater anymore.
Over time, due to the high nutrition in the magmatic rock, some plants actually grew on Liben Mountain. They were not tall and lush, but they covered the brown-red magmatic rock of Liben Mountain, making it look somewhat green.
When the master and disciple reached halfway up the mountain, Qin Ran suddenly sensed something and raised his hand to signal Li Shiyin behind him to stop.
Li Shiyin stopped and a gust of hot wind blew up. It blew from the mountain, blowing across her face, burning her. It blew through the low bushes on the side of the road and blew down the mountain.
Then the ground began to shake. It was a slight shake at first, and the dust on the ground danced quietly. Gradually, the shaking became stronger and stronger, and gravel rolled down from the mountain. The shaking was still getting stronger. After a few breaths, it seemed as if the whole mountain was jumping.
Qin Ran grabbed Li Shiyin, wrapped them with bubbles, then left the ground and slowly floated up.
The whole mountain under my feet began to shake, and there was another rumbling sound.
Qin Ran was in mid-air and saw the bushes on the mountain swaying back and forth, like crazy young men and women in a disco.
At a certain moment,
The surface couldn't withstand it and cracked. Then, as if hearing a signal, the ground began to crack one after another. The outer surface of the entire mountain was like clay that was burned too dry and cracked.
There was a hot breath coming out of the cracks, and the plants on the surface quickly died, then turned yellow and dry...
The rumbling sound continued, but at a certain moment, the rumbling sound was mixed with the sound of a sword.
Then…
There was a loud “boom…” sound that pierced through the heaven and earth. For a moment, the sound waves seemed to be real, spreading in all directions like waves of water.
Qin Ran looked towards the direction where the loud noise came from. It was the top of the mountain...
The top of Liben Mountain exploded, with smoke, dust and debris rising, but it was impossible to see clearly what was happening there.
“Did the sword furnace explode?” Qin Ran was worried. “Did the sword forging fail?”
As he was thinking this, the wind and clouds suddenly changed. The red clouds in the sky quickly condensed, as if they had absorbed the smoke and dust rising from the top of the mountain. They quickly turned black. More clouds gathered, covering the sky and the sun, pressing it down. The sky darkened rapidly, and there was a strong wind...
"Thunder tribulation?" Qin Ran's heart trembled, and he had a guess that he dared not think about.
The sky and the earth darkened, and in the blink of an eye, it went from noon to midnight. Stars appeared, starlight gathered, and a ray of starlight broke through the darkness and entered the smoke and dust on the top of the mountain.
“Boom…” Lightning snakes were moving within the dark clouds gathered in the sky, and thunder was heard between heaven and earth.
At this moment, Xu Zhixie's voice came from the top of the mountain. He asked, "Name?!"
Li Shiyin knew she was asking herself, asking Jian's name. She stepped on the bubble, took a step forward, pressed her hand on the tough bubble membrane, and looked back at Qin Ran.
Qin Ran looked at her but did not speak. Naturally, he had to name his own natal sword himself.
Li Shiyin looked toward the top of the mountain again. She hesitated for a moment, then shouted, "Muran!"
"Mu Ran?" Xu Zhixie said, "It's dark now, not bad!"
Li Shiyin opened her mouth. She wanted to refute that it was not that Muran, but she did not have the courage after all.
It’s just… Qin Ran understood what he heard. Complexity kept overflowing from his heart and filling his eyes. He looked at the back of the girl in front of him with an extremely complicated expression.
"do the splits!"
A bolt of lightning struck from the clouds in the sky into the volcanic smoke.
The smoke and dust were dispersed a little, and a glowing sword could be vaguely seen floating inside.
"do the splits!"
Another bolt of lightning struck.
The smoke dissipated, and in the darkness, a sword with a bright glow was suspended in the air.
"do the splits!"
The last bolt of lightning struck from the clouds to the sword. The lightning was absorbed by the sword, and purple lightning flashed on the sword body.
After the thunderstorm, the clouds gradually dissipated, and the world changed from night to day in the blink of an eye. The wind died down, the clouds dispersed, and the stars faded. Except for the sword in the air that still carried lightning and thunder, and the cracks on the ground, everything seemed to have returned to normal.
Qin Ran took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and drove the bubbles to fly directly from the middle of the mountain to the top of the mountain, stopping in front of Xu Zhixie's residence.
Xu Zhixie was in the villa, looking dusty and exhausted.
He looked at Qin Ran and said, "This won't happen again..."
It means don't fly directly up anymore.
Kieran nodded.
Xu Zhixie raised his hand, and the sword in mid-air that was streaking with lightning flew into his hand. He held the sword, looked at Qin Ran, and said, "The quality of this sword is at least a low-grade spiritual weapon. You know what level the Star Stone can reach. The difference is what you owe me."
The Star Stone can at most be a high-grade magical weapon, and it can never be a spiritual weapon.
Qin Ran took out a porcelain bottle from his Qiankun bag, threw it to Xu Zhixie, and said, "There are nine pills in here, let's call them fire-removing pills. One pill is enough to remove all the fire poison in your body. Nine pills, you can use them for many years."
Xu Zhixie took the pill, opened the jade seal, took a look at it, nodded, and poured one into his mouth.
Qin Ran took out Xu Zhixie's sword-shaped token from his Qiankun bag, imprinted his divine consciousness on it, and threw it to Xu Zhixie, saying, "You can come to me with this token to make pills at any time. As long as it's a pill that I can make, I'll help you for free."
Not everyone is as untrustworthy as he is. Xu Zhixie knew this very well. He took the token and felt the mark of consciousness left by Qin Ran on it... This token of Old Monster Xu, with the mark of Qin Ran's consciousness, was indeed a unique token.
But he said: "But you are only in the foundation building stage at present."
What useful elixir can be refined in the foundation-building stage? Is it worth a low-grade spiritual weapon
"I can form a pill at any time." Qin Ran replied.
Xu Zhixie's eyes narrowed. This young man is so confident and arrogant!
It does not refer to his confidence that he can form a pill at any time, but to his understanding of cultivation, his control over his realm, and his confidence in his potential.
Xu Zhixie stared at Qin Ran for a long while, then suddenly laughed loudly, threw the sword in his hand to Li Shiyin, and said, "Okay!"
Li Shiyin took the sword, and the lightning on it had disappeared, turning it into an extremely dreamy sword. It looked like a sword cut from the Milky Way, beautiful, dreamy, and like a work of art.
This is her own sword, she thought to herself, and she searched on the hilt. She saw the name of the sword there, Muran, Muran Sword, and she sighed inwardly.
"This sword can be regarded as the masterpiece of my career..." Xu Zhixie said, "But precisely because of this, it is more difficult to refine it. Little girl, although it was refined for you and is now in your hands, it is not certain whether it can become your natal sword. There is still a long way to go between you and it."