Sacrificial Artifact System: From Bell-ringer to the Ancestral Patriarch of the Sect novel Chapter 56

Chapter 56: Chapter 56: The Forest of Swords in the Sky

The characters on this stone stele actually contain a sharp edge, making them difficult to look at directly.

Even Li Qian, who has comprehended the Illusion Level Sword Intent, vaguely felt an invisible pressure from the characters on the stele.

"Does the sharp aura contained in these characters seem to come from the same person as those in the Sword Grinding Cave?"

Li Qian had a thought.

At this moment, the black-masked Sword Carrier walked under the stone stele, where there was unexpectedly a path on the cliffside.

The crowd hurriedly followed.

Due to the dense fog, there was a sheer cliff next to the path beneath the feet, and it was extremely perilous.

Even an Innate Martial Artist who carelessly falls might not survive if their Qinggong is slightly inferior.

Moreover, this place gave off an eerie feeling, walking on the mist-shrouded cliffside path made one’s hair stand on end for no apparent reason.

It was very quiet all around.

Walking on the cliff-hanging stone path, it felt as though one was cut off from the outside world.

Li Qian looked up at the sky, which had become a hazy gray, completely different from the vast white expanse previously seen from the mountain top.

Everyone had questions in their hearts, but no one spoke. They simply followed the Sword Master, walking deep into the abyss along the cliff.

After about ten or so minutes, they finally reached the end. Another stone stele was erected, inscribed with the words "Sword Tomb."

The crowd stood on a platform surrounded by walls on all sides.

Below the platform were layers of stone steps, with the bottom being a rather large and ordinary valley floor.

Nothing about all this seemed to resemble a Sword Tomb.

"Below here is the Sword Tomb. Once you descend from this platform, you can comprehend the Sword Intent contained within the Sword Tomb. If your luck is good enough, you might even find a match with a Divine Sword."

The Sword Master seemed to perceive everyone’s confusion and said indifferently.

With doubts, the crowd slowly descended from the platform.

As soon as Li Qian entered the Sword Tomb, he felt his scalp tingle and his heart hung in his throat.

Looking up, he saw thousands of swords suspended in mid-air, forming a vast and dense and terrifying Sword Forest.

If they all fell, it would be a horrifying rain of swords.

In the most central position was a huge stone sword, probably a hundred zhang tall, standing tall and towering, striking awe into all.

This huge stone sword was a bit strange, covered in dense holes.

Additionally, there were many stone steles, methodically placed around the stone sword.

"Is this the Sword Tomb?"

Li Qian had imagined what the Sword Tomb might look like, but what he saw now was completely beyond his imagination.

Thousands of swords were just suspended in the air.

What kind of magical power was this?

Or might it be false, an illusion?

But his own consciousness told him that this was no illusion; it was real.

Unless there was a force so powerful here that it could deceive someone with Illusion Level Sword Intent like him.

Both possibilities were plausible.

Even the latter seemed more likely.

Judging from its position, the location of the Sword Tomb was right beneath the cliff beside the Divine Sword Hall, at the bottom of the abyss.

Wasn’t this place open to the sky?

He had thought it would be an enclosed cave or the like.

Suddenly, he looked around, even more astonished.

The twenty or so Inner Sect Disciples who had entered with him had all disappeared.

"It must be the powerful force here that has completely disrupted all my senses."

Li Qian could feel the pervasive and invisible Sword Intent within this space.

Very chaotic, as if hundreds of Sword Intents were mixed together, omnipresent.

Taking a deep breath, Li Qian opened his eyes and slowly walked towards a stone stele.

It bore many inscriptions, chronicling the life of an ancestral Sword Master of the Divine Sword Sect.

Clearly, each stele here represented a predecessor of the Divine Sword Sect, and there were thousands of them.

It was said that those qualified to be buried in the Sword Tomb were either distinguished by great achievements or profound cultivation.

Taking another deep breath, Li Qian sat down cross-legged and began to release his Heartless Sword Intent.

Boom!

In an instant, Li Qian’s perceptual world completely changed.

Various sharp Sword Intents with different characteristics appeared in his world of perception, roaming through the air.

Suddenly, a nearby Sword Intent seemed stimulated, abruptly transforming into a figure wielding a Sacrificial Artifact, attacking Li Qian.

Li Qian instinctively mobilized his own Sword Intent to meet the attack.

Sword lights intertwined; the two Sword Intents clashed fiercely.

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