"Cough cough..."
Shu Han crawled out of a pile of ashes. His whole body was stinging with a burning sensation, and his magic power was completely drained.
Just now, twelve hundred Fire God Talismans had exploded at once. Even though he had carried the second elder and ran several hundred meters in one breath, he was still engulfed in the giant hot fireball.
At the critical moment of life and death, Shu Han used all thirty-six of his Armor Protection Talismans, and the last layer of his Mysterious Iron Heart-Protection Mirror also shattered. Finally, by deploying all his magic power to form a Green Light Shield, he managed to save his life.
Dragging his weary body, Shu Han quickly dug his master out of the ashes.
The second elder's face was pale. After being dug out, he slowly opened his eyes and weakly asked, "Kid, what was that just now?"
Shu Han didn't want to hide anything from his master. If his master hadn't arrived in time, Shu Han might have stuck to his original plan to detonate a bundle of Fire God Talismans next to Master Mystical Dragon. He replied dryly, "Master, that was twelve hundred Fire God Talismans."
"Twelve hundred... This..."
Shu Han hesitated for a moment, then decided to tell his master about the situation. After all, his master had risked his life to save him. He began, "Master, I have a power that can..."
Suddenly, the second elder covered his mouth.
"Kid, listen, you have an opportunity that ordinary people don't have. But you must never let anyone know what it is you have! Don't make the same mistake I did." As he said this, he took out a thick book from his storage bag and handed it to Shu Han, "Back in the day, if my Bai family hadn't revealed this Bai Family Artifact Refining Manual, we wouldn't have attracted the disaster that wiped out our clan. You must remember... never reveal your trump cards to anyone..."
Listening to the second elder's increasingly labored breathing, Shu Han quickly said, "Master, stop talking. I will help you back to the valley."
The second elder shook his head. The hand covering his chest moved away, revealing a black, gaping hole. Shu Han was stunned. It was the wound from the Blood Soul Sword!
"I don't have much time left... Actually, I didn't have many years to live anyway. If it weren't for you coming to the valley and taking care of me, I might not have been able to hold on for these ten years."
The second elder pointed to the Bai Family Artifact Refining Manual, his sincere gaze seeming to implore Shu Han.
"Don't let it be lost..."
After saying this, his last breath slipped from his throat. The second elder's pale face lost its last bit of life.
Twelve hundred Fire God Talismans had gathered a massive amount of heat, evaporating the streams on Yandang Mountain. The dense water vapor in the air condensed into clouds, and torrential rain began to pour.
Shu Han knelt in front of the second elder's body, silent for a long time. His entry into the Mystical Dragon Sect had been a disaster. Being apprenticed to his master had been his only fortune.
Because of Master Mystical Dragon, his master might owe a debt to all the predecessors of the Mystical Dragon Sect, but he had never owed him anything.
After a long time, Shu Han gave his master three deep bows, wiped the rain from his face, took the storage bag hanging from his master's waist, and stored his master's corpse inside. He knew that now was not the time for remembrance. Dragging his battered body, he walked toward the center of the explosion. Whether Master Mystical Dragon was dead or alive, he needed to check it out.
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The center of the explosion was a deep pit with a diameter of a hundred meters. As soon as the rain hit the ground, it was boiled by the scorching soil. The boiling hot water flowed down the slope and into the deep pit. Shu Han looked around and saw many dried-up corpses being dug out of the ground, all victims of Master Mystical Dragon's deeds over the past twenty years.
One man thrives, ten thousand perish!
Shu Han leaped and jumped into the pit, starting to search for something in the boiling water. His body was scalded to a crimson color by the boiling rain, but thankfully his gradually recovering magic power protected him from severe damage.
Here, everything was a mix of severed limbs, and could not tell if they were from Master Mystical Dragon. Suddenly, Shu Han felt a small sword in the mud. He pulled it out and was surprised to find it was Master Mystical Dragon's Blood Soul Sword!
The Blood Soul Sword now had no red glow and was full of notches. The blade was no longer straight, and no longer the ghostly magic treasure that could kill thousands. Seeing the Blood Soul Sword, Shu Han felt a sense of relief.
A person's magic treasure shares the same fate as its owner.
The indomitable Blood Soul Sword had lost its spirit, which proved that Master Mystical Dragon was truly dead. The malignant tumor that was harming the Northern Yan region had finally been removed.
Shu Han knelt in the mud pit, sighing heavily.
"Erdan, rest in peace. Big brother has avenged you!"
After the sadness passed, Shu Han put the broken Blood Soul Sword into the storage bag and started to feel around in the mud pit. Soon, he found a piece of broken armor. The engraved dragons on it were all shattered, and it had become a piece of scrap metal.
It seemed he was getting closer! Eventually, Shu Han found what he was looking for in the mud pit Master Mystical Dragon's storage bag. The storage bag was in shambles. As Shu Han squeezed it, the bag immediately shattered into stardust, and the items inside were ejected into the air.
Shu Han collected the items that were scattered around. He didn't expect Master Mystical Dragon's storage bag to be so empty. Other than a few bottles of decent-quality elixirs, the rest were insignificant materials.
Shu Han pondered that Master Mystical Dragon, who had been living in Northern Yan for over twenty years and single-handedly established the Mystical Dragon Sect, must have depleted his reserves long ago. However, Shu Han didn't mind because he had finally obtained the complete version of the Mystical Dragon Triple Rotation Divine Art.
Actually, calling it a complete version might not be accurate. Upon checking, Shu Han found that it was actually an incomplete book, only recording the cultivation process up to the late stage of the Foundation Establishment. There was absolutely no record of the more advanced Golden Core stage.
Nevertheless, it did solve Shu Han's worry about future cultivation methods and gave him hope of breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage. After all, according to the characteristics of the Mystical Dragon Triple Rotation Divine Art, he couldn't be stuck at a major bottleneck for too long, or his meridians would explode and die.
Moreover, it completely records the high-level spells from the Qi Refining stage to the Foundation Establishment stage. This was exactly what Shu Han had been thinking about day and night.
After tidying up the area, Shu Han found a bottle of Qi Gathering Pills from his master's storage bag and used a token to summon the Heavenly Quadrant Sword Formation that had been blasted away by the explosion to protect him. After the Second Elder's death, Shu Han naturally became the owner of this sword formation, since he already had the authority to use this sword formation when the Second Elder was still alive.
The four Heavenly Quadrant Swords are top-grade magic tools, with material quality higher than the Blood Soul Sword, and were not damaged at all in the violent explosion. The Heavenly Quadrant Sword Formation formed by them is even on par with a Foundation Establishment stage's life-bound magic treasure. This is the pinnacle masterpiece among the magic tools in the Bai Family Artifact Refining Manual.
Although the four Heavenly Quadrant Swords are not magic treasures, they can still be manipulated like one's own limb through secret commands.
Although they are not as fast as Master Mystical Dragon controlling the Blood Soul Sword like lightning, they still have a respectable flying speed. Moreover, the sword formation composed of the four Heavenly Quadrant Swords is even more mysterious, except for the Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, almost no one at the Qi Condensation stage can resist them.
Apart from his ability in alchemy and tool refining, this sword formation is also the reason why the Second Elder could maintain his transcendent status in the Mystical Dragon Sect. This sword formation was not something the Second Elder could refine; it was passed down from his ancestors.