Pushing Yi Yun in the direction indicated, Yi Yun pointed to an oil lamp fixed on the wall and said, "Feng'er, there is a protruding mechanism behind this oil lamp. Press the mechanism."
Li Ling immediately stepped forward and groped behind the oil lamp. After a short while, he found the mechanism and pressed it with a little force.
A series of 'crackling' friction sounds rang out, and the stone slab in the center of the secret chamber opened to both sides, revealing a secret passage about one meter square that extended downwards.
Li Ling couldn't help but secretly admire it. This was truly a secret room within a secret room. Even if someone broke in and discovered the outer secret room, it would still take a lot of effort to find the even more hidden secret room underground.
"Feng'er, come down with me," Yi Yun said.
Li Ling immediately stepped forward and pushed her grandfather's wheelchair.
The secret passage leading underground was made of steps. Li Ling used his arms to lift the wheelchair and Yi Yun on it, and slowly walked down the steps.
After descending about five or six meters, they reached level ground. The oil lamps along the sides of the secret passage were now lit, their electric light revealing another long, winding passage. (The remaining text appears to be unrelated and likely refers to a different passage.)
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Chapter 147 Yin Yang and Five Elements Qi
Pushing Yi Yun forward, Li Ling and the other person arrived at a secret room that was much smaller than the previous one.
Li Ling looked up and saw that the secret chamber was completely visible. At the very back was a stone platform with eight swords floating on it.
These eight swords were not covered by scabbards. Seven of the swords were arranged in a circle around the sword in the center.
The seven swords around the center sword slowly rotated, and the eight swords floated in mid-air without any support.
Li Ling was quite surprised, wondering how these eight swords could float without any external force.
As he released his mental energy, it came into contact with the eight swords, and he immediately felt eight different sharp sword energies surging towards him.
It possessed a fierce and sharp, tenacious and unyielding, continuous and surging, explosive and scorching, profound and all-encompassing, chilling and piercing, intense and meltingly hot, and finally, a sword aura that was a mixture of the previous seven auras.
The eight sword energies instantly shattered Li Ling's spiritual power.
"Hmph~"
Li Ling groaned, as his spiritual power had been shattered and damaged by the sword energy of the eight precious swords, which had some effect on him.
The universe in his mind trembled slightly, and more of the world's original liquid flowed into Li Ling's sea of consciousness, replenishing and repairing his damaged mental energy, making him feel much better.
And the eight precious swords were also humming softly at this moment.
Yi Yun didn't notice Li Ling's strange behavior. Seeing the eight swords humming softly, he said happily, "This is the first time Feng'er has seen the eight swords of my Famous Sword Manor. The eight swords have already started to sing. It seems that Feng'er is destined to be connected with these eight swords. There is hope for the revitalization of my Famous Sword Manor. Haha."
Li Ling smiled slightly, but he wouldn't tell his grandfather the reason for the sword chanting at that moment. He would just treat it as a beautiful misunderstanding. The old man's lifelong wish was to revitalize the reputation of Mingjian Manor, and Li Ling was sure that he could achieve this wish.
After laughing for a while, Yi Yun gestured for Li Ling to push him to a spot not far from the eight swords on the stone platform. Li Ling then asked the question that had been bothering him:
"Grandpa, I wonder what the origins of these eight swords are? I can feel the sword energy emanating from them from a great distance. Also, why can these eight swords float in the air without relying on any external objects?"
Yi Yun's eyes were deep as he looked at the eight swords, his gaze seemingly transcending time and space. He said, "These eight swords were left behind by the ancestor who founded our Famous Sword Manor. The eight swords are the Purple Lightning Sword, the Mu Iron Sword, the Xuanwu Sword, the Glazed Sword, the White Jade Sword, the Azure Nether Sword, the Death Sword, and the Nameless Sword."
Yi Yun pointed to each of the swords and introduced them one by one:
The sword that exudes a fierce and sharp sword aura is the [Purple Lightning Sword];
The sword that exudes an unyielding and indomitable aura is the [Mu Iron Sword];
The sword radiating continuous, surging sword energy is the [Black Tortoise Sword];
The sword radiating explosive, scorching heat is the [Glassy Sword];
The white jade sword exudes a profound and all-encompassing aura.
The sword exuding a chilling, bone-piercing aura is the [Azure Nether Sword];
The sword radiating intense, metallic sword energy is the [Death Sword];
And finally, the Nameless Sword, which blended the sword energy of the previous seven.
Yi Yun said, "Each of these eight swords has a remarkable history. They were forged by our ancestor with his life's blood and sweat, and they are also related to the highest sword technique of our Famous Sword Manor, the Eight Forms of Famous Swords. Of course, this also includes the Ten Forms of Heavenly Sword that I will pass on to you today."
Li Ling listened attentively.
Yi Yun continued, “The Purple Lightning Sword was forged from the essence of Xuan Iron; the Mu Iron Sword was forged from the core of a thousand-year-old ironwood; the Xuanwu Sword was forged from the marrow of a thousand-year-old icy jade; the Glazed Sword was forged from volcanic glaze; and the White Jade Sword was forged from the marrow of the earth’s core.”
The Azure Sword and the Death Sword were forged from a meteorite collected by our ancestors. According to ancient records, when our ancestors discovered this meteorite, half of it was icy cold and the other half was blazing hot.
Our ancestors forged the Azure Sword with the icy, bone-chilling half and the Death Sword with the blazing, sun-like half.
Li Ling was stunned as he looked at these precious swords. Whether they were thousand-year-old icy jade marrow, fiery glaze, or black iron, they were not things that ordinary martial artists could access, let alone the strange extraterrestrial meteorite iron that was half icy and half blazing.
Yi Yun sighed, "Our ancestor devoted his entire life to forging these eight precious swords."
As he spoke, he pointed to the Xuanwu Sword, which was radiating continuous and surging sword energy, and said, "Take the Xuanwu Sword for example. It was a piece of millennia-old ice jade marrow that our ancestor discovered after spending three years carving out a hundred-meter-deep ice surface in the Arctic ice field."
It took another six months, with the combined efforts of fifteen swordsmiths, to forge the final sword. The other swords also required immense effort, especially the Azure Nether Sword and the Death Sword, forged from extraterrestrial meteorite iron, which demanded extraordinary luck.
Li Ling took a deep breath, gazing at the eight precious swords, deeply moved by the painstaking efforts of the ancestors of the Famous Sword Manor. Then, pointing to the nameless sword in the very center, radiating seven fused sword energies, he said:
"Grandpa, if I'm not mistaken, the Nameless Sword was forged using materials from the other seven swords, right?"
When Yi Yun introduced the nameless sword, he didn't mention its origin, but Li Ling could easily guess its origin by sensing the aura of seven precious swords mixed within it.
Yi Yun nodded, giving an affirmative answer: "That's right, the Nameless Sword was created by fusing the leftover materials from the forging of the other seven swords."