Chapter 143 - 140: Unity of the Three Teachings and Great Divine Power
The hour of noon had arrived, and Green Duckweed Daoist, along with a group of Daoist friends who had come to offer help, ascended Sword Mountain.
Sword Mountain had its name because it suppressed that arm; after True Man of Great Purity secluded himself in Mount Shu, he discovered that an evil creature was about to emerge. Consequently, he ordered countless swords to be forged, using the fierceness and rectitude of the Sword Dao to suppress the creature. However, Mount Shu’s sword cultivators were now leaderless, the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss had already been taken to the Middle Ancient Battlefield by True Man Song Lun, and the chaotic sword qi of Sword Mountain could no longer be fully channeled into the great array set up by the ancient immortals. Therefore, the seal on this evil creature was about to break.
Mount Shu was shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, with hardly two days free of fog. These few days were also the time when the sword qi of Mount Shu was at its strongest.
A party of more than twenty people flew through the sky, all of them Daluo Golden Immortals and experts of that level. Upon reaching the summit of Sword Mountain, they saw divine swords sparkling with a chilly light under the sunlight, chilling anyone who gazed upon them. Aside from one main path, the mountain was filled with sword artifacts planted everywhere. These artifacts, forged in the years when the Sect was established, showed no rust despite years of exposure to the elements.
Daoist Equal to Heaven exclaimed with wonder, "This Sword Mountain truly lives up to its fame. I can’t imagine how long it took to accumulate so many swords on this mountain."
Those True Persons who had never been to Mount Shu couldn’t help but click their tongues in amazement; Mount Shu’s prosperity was indeed not just empty talk!
Green Duckweed Daoist said, "These sword artifacts are for our future disciples to use, but they are also the foundation of our Sect’s sword array. Should a powerful enemy attack, we can activate the array with the talismans left by Pure Ancestral Master. Once triggered, the swords on the mountain will join in the slaughter—if even a Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal came, they would be turned to ashes."
Although Mount Shu had weakened somewhat over the years, other nefarious Sects still didn’t dare to target it, precisely because of this terrifying sword array. Once activated, a million divine swords would rise to the sky, striking in all directions—no Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal could withstand it! True Man Song Lun was indeed an exceptionally formidable person.
The talismans that Song Lun had left behind were kept by the successive Sect Leaders and were not to be used lightly, only to be activated when a powerful enemy appeared.
"Then why not directly activate the sword array to suppress that evil creature?" Chen Tuan asked.
"Master Fuyao is not aware, but our array might be able to suppress the evil creature, yet it cannot continue indefinitely. Furthermore, beneath this array lies another, set by an ancient immortal; it is the array below that truly suppresses the evil creature. To reinforce that lower array, the fierce qi of all these swords on Sword Mountain is needed. But with the sword cultivators leaderless and the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss gone with our Patriarch, the chaotic sword qi is unable to suppress it," Green Duckweed Daoist explained.