Chapter Twenty-Two: The Sword Tomb

  "Ding! Congratulations, host, you have successfully refined a spiritual soldier. The spiritual soldier's grade is top-quality, with the attribute of armor-piercing. Please click to receive it." Fang Yan was cultivating his Pure Yang Technique with his eyes closed when he was suddenly startled awake by the cold system prompt tone.

  "Top-grade spiritual soldier, he actually refined a top-grade spiritual soldier." Fang Yan muttered in disbelief, and then clicked to obtain it in the Alchemy Pavilion template of the Xianjie system in his mind.

  A blood-red ancient long sword suddenly appeared in Fang Yan's hand, three feet and three inches long, with a simple style, the hilt was wrapped in a layer of dense scales, revealing a blood-red metallic luster, feeling icy to the touch.

  "This top-grade spiritual soldier is forged from the materials of Blood Blade Stag Beetle, so let's call it Blood Blade." As he stroked the top-grade spiritual soldier in his hand, a chill ran down his spine, and Fang Yan felt that if he were to face the Blood Blade Stag Beetle at this moment, he could break through its defenses with just one sword.

  With this top-grade spiritual soldier blood blade, Fang Yan's combat strength directly soared by 20-30%.

  The next day, Fu Qingxuan and Tao Hui's injuries had also recovered a bit, and the three of them gathered together again.

  "Fang Yan, how's your injury?" Fu Qingxuan lightly opened her lips, her eyes shining brightly as she asked Fang Yan.

  "The wounds on my body have basically healed, Xuan sister, Tao Hui, how are your injuries? If there's nothing serious, we can try to explore the several secret caves in the Sword Tomb." Fang Yan smiled lightly and shrugged.

  "That's exactly what I mean."

  "Fang Shao, Miss Fu, why don't we gather the Fang family's younger generation? With their assistance, our chances of entering the Sword Grave will increase significantly." Tao Hui said.

  "You go gather the people nearby, without a master to preside over them, they will likely be intercepted by Gao Jin and Wang Yanran." Fu Qingxuan was very powerful, if not for being separated from the Fang family members by Gao Jin and Wang Yanran's scheme, she wouldn't have been so humiliated.

  The three men made a plan and Tao Hui was in charge of sending out signals to gather people. The three of them headed towards the depths of the Sword Grave space.

  All the way through, Fang Yan was responsible for clearing the demonic beasts encountered on the road. If they encountered some powerful third-level demonic beasts, they would avoid them. In just one day's time, they entered deep into the Sword Grave realm.

  "The signal has been sent out, let's wait here for a while, Fang Chao and the others will arrive soon." Tao Hui said to Fang Yan in front of a small hill.

  "We're close to the nearest Sword Tomb, where we found the descendants of the Gao and Wang families. I suppose Gao Jin and Wang Yanran are nearby too." Fu Qingxuan slightly furrowed her brow.

  After a meal's time, more than a dozen disheveled figures emerged from afar. A sturdy young man, like an iron tower, was covered in blood and let out a sob upon seeing Fang Yan and Fu Qingxuan.

  "Miss, you must avenge us! The disciples of our Fang family who entered the Sword Grave realm were killed and injured, now only a few of us are left."

  "What, everyone else is dead? How is this possible?" Fu Qingxuan's beautiful eyes narrowed, her gaze sharp, a burst of astonishing anger brewing between her eyebrows as she asked that direction.

  "It was Gao Jin and Wang Yanran who led the disciples of the two families, Gao and Wang, to slaughter us. If we hadn't received your message, Miss, we wouldn't have dared to come here." Fang Chao's eyes shot out a gleam of hatred.

  "It's Gao Jin and Wang Yanran again, that cheap woman, I will chop them into pieces."

  "Fang Yan, what do you think about this?" Fu Qingxuan asked with a frown.

  "Master, Master you're still alive, it's really great." Fu Qingxuan asked, and Fang Chao and others only then noticed Fang Yan standing beside Fu Qingxuan, his face filled with surprise. Fang Yan was in trouble, and when they returned to the Fang family, they would definitely not be spared from punishment.

  "Xuan sister, they all have injuries on their bodies. Entering the Sword Grave, there will likely be some casualties. Rather than this, why not just you and I go lightly equipped, who knows, we might still be able to find an opportunity." Fang Yan looked at Fang Chao and the others, each of whom was covered in wounds, and then said in a low voice.

  "Master, absolutely not! This Sword Grave is fraught with danger. If you and the young lady were to enter and something unexpected happens, how would I explain it to your father?" Fang Chao's face changed drastically as he spoke out in obstruction.

  "I've made up my mind, you and Tao Hui will rest nearby, while I and Xuan sister enter the Sword Grave space to explore. With your abilities, as long as you don't encounter a super strong master at the 9th level of Qi Refining, you should be able to take care of yourselves." Fang Yan's face was firm with determination.

  "Young master, if you want to enter the Sword Tomb, let me and Tao Hui, Fang Ping accompany you together. With more people, there is also a power of self-protection." Fang Chao insisted with a determined face.

  In Fang Chao's impression, Fang Yan was only a cultivator of the third layer of Qi Refining, exploring the Sword Tomb was a journey to send himself to death. He didn't understand why Fu Qingxuan didn't come out to stop him.

  "Miss, please advise Young Master, it's really too dangerous in this Sword Grave." Seeing that advising Fang Yan was of no use, Fang Chao turned to Fu Qingxuan.

  "Let's do as Fang Yan said, you guys stay nearby and rest, I'll enter the Sword Tomb with Fang Yan to explore." Fu Qingxuan knew that the current Fang Yan was not the same as before, being able to single-handedly kill a third-level top-grade Blood Blade Mantis, even if he wasn't a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator, his strength wouldn't be much weaker.

  "Miss, think thrice!"

  "Fang Chao, let's do as Fang Shao said. The young master now is not the same as before." Thinking of how easily Fang Yan slaughtered the Qi-refining cultivators of the Gao and Wang families in the valley, as well as the third-stage Longmao Biantie Tiger, like slaughtering dogs and chickens, he couldn't help but advise against it.

  A few people discussed and agreed, then Fang Yan and Fu Qingxuan set off towards the Sword Tomb.

  Jianmu, that is the relic in Jianmu space, it's the tomb of some strong people after they died. In Jianmu, there are the cultivation methods left by the strong swordsmen, and some divine weapons. Someone once found a magic weapon in this Jianmu, which was used by the innate strong people as their weapon.

  "Fang Yan, Fu Qingxuan, hurry, inform Gao Shao, Fang Yan and his party have entered the Sword Tomb." As soon as Fang Yan and Fu Qingxuan approached the Sword Tomb, the scouts set up by the two families of Gao Wang in the vicinity detected something.

  "One person, one." Fang Yan heard this and gave Fu Qian a faint smile. He then flew up, leaving behind a trail of residual images as he rushed towards one of the Qi Refining stage cultivators at the seventh level.

  "Pffft!"

  "Hmmph!"

  Fang Yan moved, and Fu Qingxuan also followed with a move, raising her sword. A sword energy shot out, the action was like flowing clouds and water. Only two "pu" sounds were heard, and the two scouts fell into the blood pool one after another.

  "Ding! Congratulations, host has obtained 7 points of merit value."

  "The Gao and Wang families dare to kill my family's clansmen, they must be prepared to die." The cold system prompt sounded, Fang Yan's face was cold and cruel, he killed the person with ease, and very skillfully searched the two corpses quickly.

  "Xuan sister, let's go." Fang Yan tied two cloth bundles on his back, and the two continued on their way.

  All the way, Fang Yan and others did not encounter Gao Jin and Wang Yanyan. On the road, they encountered several scouts left by the two families of Gao and Wang, all of whom were beheaded by them. In less than a short while, in front of a tall tomb, they saw a huge stone gate, with a disciple of the Wang family guarding it.