I held my breath and stared at the Qingzhou cauldron, waiting quietly.
Time ticked by. Half a minute later, I furrowed my eyebrows.
There was no movement from the Qingzhou cauldron. Even if I used my spirit sense to observe, I could only sense that the cauldron was filled with witch energy. Apart from that, I didn't find anything else.
How could this be?
I put the Qingzhou cauldron down and frowned.
From what Liang Tianxin had said that day, I could confirm that the Qingzhou cauldron had to be filled with witch energy before it could open the so-called Chiyou's Tomb. From this, I could tell that the Qingzhou cauldron that was filled with witch energy was different from before.
But now, the Qingzhou cauldron didn't change at all … What was the problem?
Could it be that the Qingzhou cauldron would only be different in Chiyou's Tomb?
Thinking about this, I couldn't help but feel disappointed.
At first, I thought that after the Qingzhou cauldron was filled with witch energy, it would show a strange phenomenon. Then, I could see its effects and guess if the other cauldrons had the same effects. If that was the case, I could use this time to do many things.
But if I had to go to Chiyou's Tomb to figure it out, I wouldn't be able to do anything for the next few days. I could only wait for the trip to Chiyou's Tomb to make a decision.
Sighing, I put the Qingzhou cauldron away and threw it into the Xiang Liu leather bag that I carried with me. Then, I prepared to stand up and stretch my body.
However, just as I threw the Qingzhou cauldron into the bag, a sharp whistle came from the Xiang Liu leather bag. Right after that, I felt an extremely sharp aura shoot out from the bag.
This aura was extremely fast. I didn't even have time to react. Just as I sensed it, a starlight shot out from my body, piercing through my arm and disappearing into the wall in front of me in the blink of an eye.
After the starlight disappeared, I felt a sharp pain on my right forearm.
I lowered my head and saw that there was a small hole on the inside of my arm. Blood flowed out from the hole and along my arm, instantly soaking the bed sheet.
I instantly opened my eyes wide. One must know that I currently had the cultivation of a Heaven Master, and my body's toughness was similar to that of a Heaven Master's. Even if a normal person used a sharp dagger, they would at most be able to leave a white mark on my body. Even if it was a Heaven Master, they would have to go through a tough battle to heavily injure me. What was that star light just now? It actually caught me off guard and caused me to be hit.
Ignoring the pain in my arm, I got up and checked the wall where the starlight had disappeared. There was a finger-sized hole in the wall. I stooped and saw that the hole led to the other side of the wall.
From this, it could be seen that not only had the starlight pierced through my arm, but it had also pierced through the wall.
Moreover, I guessed that after piercing through this wall, the starlight still had enough power to continue flying. Fortunately, this wall was the outer wall of the hotel. After passing through, it disappeared into the air. If I had been sitting in front of another wall, who knew how many walls the starlight could have pierced through? I might have even lost my life.
I calmed myself down and used the Dao and Wu Qi in my body to stop the wound on my arm. However, no matter how hard I tried, the wound wouldn't stop bleeding. I carefully sensed and found that there was a sharp aura around the wound. It was obviously left by the starlight. If I wanted to stop the wound, I had to dissolve this aura first.
After spending a lot of effort, I used the Dao and Wu Qi to wrap the sharp aura and slowly dissolve it. The wound stopped bleeding and formed a scab.
After treating the wound, I hurriedly took out the Xiang Liu's leather bag and checked it. Before I opened it, I found that there was a soybean-sized hole at the mouth of the bag.
This time, I was even more shocked. Yan Nantian had told me that Xiang Liu's leather bag was very tough. Even with his cultivation base at that time, he might not be able to break it. But now, there was a hole!
Moreover, I was sure that this small hole didn't exist before. It must have been caused by the starlight.
When I found that the starlight had pierced through my arm and still had enough power to pierce through the wall, I was already shocked. Now that the starlight had pierced through the Xiang Liu's leather bag, I wasn't just shocked. I couldn't believe it.
What kind of power could cause such a result?
Fortunately, the Xiang Liu's leather bag had blocked it. Otherwise, if the starlight had pierced through my arm, it wouldn't have been just a small hole.
With a lingering fear, I hurried to open the leather bag to check. After checking everything inside, I didn't find anything.
I was even more puzzled. Where did the starlight come from?
After carefully searching again, I finally made a discovery.
The Qingzhou cauldron that I had just put into the leather bag was now empty. The witch energy that had taken me several days to fill it was now gone.
Was this … the effect of the Qingzhou cauldron?
Transforming the witch energy in it into a starlight and shooting it out?
After discovering this, I wasn't happy. Instead, I was a little disappointed.
The starlight just now wasn't ordinary. Even if I tried my best, I couldn't block it. It definitely had the power to injure me.
But the problem was that I had spent a lot of effort to fill the cauldron. The total amount was seven or eight times more than my cultivation base. It was much stronger than the power of an ordinary Heavenly Master. If it could only launch one attack, then the Qingzhou cauldron was too weak.
The evil sacrificial spirit had said that this thing was very useful to me. Liang Tianxin had also said that this thing had something to do with Chiyou's tomb. When I was in the Corpse Yin Sect, the so-called ancestor also lived in one of these small cauldrons. From this, I could guess that these small cauldrons were extraordinary. No matter how I thought about it, they couldn't only have such a weak effect.
Moreover, when the starlight appeared, although I wasn't prepared, I vaguely felt its aura.
There was absolutely no trace of witch energy in that starlight. Instead, it had a faint aura of Dao energy. It was a bit similar to the sword energy emitted by the Taoist sword used by the Celestial Master Sect of Mount Longhu.
Of course, this starlight was far more vast and sharp than the sword energy of Mount Longhu. Even the Celestial Master Sword used by the younger brother of Celestial Master Zhang in the Yinshang Royal Tomb didn't have such power.
It was just that among the things I carried with me, there were no sword-type artifacts, nor were there any similar daggers or silver needles. Where did this sharp sword-like thing come from?
What did it have to do with the Qingzhou cauldron?
I held the Qingzhou cauldron and looked at it for a long time, but I didn't find it. Finally, I poured out all the things in Xiangliu's leather bag and looked through them one by one. When I saw a simple wooden box, my heart suddenly skipped a beat and I was stunned.
This simple and unadorned wooden box was covered in extremely complicated markings. These markings seemed as if they had been chiseled by a blade, and they were extremely sharp. Every single one of these markings contained an extremely shocking aura of the Dao. Merely a single glance at it caused one to be inexplicably shocked.
Of course, what stunned me at this moment wasn't the complicated stripes on the wooden box, but the three big seal characters formed by these simple stripes in the middle of the wooden box.
"Xuanyuan Sword!"
I suddenly remembered that I didn't have no sword-type artifacts with me. The "Xuanyuan Sword" that Nangong had given me was in Xiangliu's leather bag!
Of course, I hadn't opened this box before, so I didn't know if it was that world-famous artifact or not. But if Nangong didn't lie to me, and the Xuanyuan Sword was inside, then was that starlight the Xuanyuan Sword's sword energy?
Thinking about this, my heart suddenly beat faster. This was the Xuanyuan Sword. Since Nangong had given it to me, I had been studying how to use it. Unfortunately, my cultivation was too low. Not to mention using it, I couldn't even open the sword box. After trying many times, I temporarily gave up. Later on, I asked the evil sacrificial spirit and learned that he also couldn't use this item. Only then did I completely give up on this idea. I threw it into Xiangliu's leather bag and didn't touch it for a long time. Who knew that today, for some reason, I would find a way to use it.
I carefully held the sword box and reached out my hand to try to open the lid. However, no matter how hard I tried, the lid didn't move at all.
I wasn't discouraged and tried to pour the Dao energy in my body into the wooden box.
From the surging traces of Dao energy on the wooden box, it was definitely a magic artifact that contained Dao energy.
For magic artifacts that contained Dao energy, pouring Dao energy to activate them was the most common method. When I had first obtained the Xuanyuan Sword, I had also tried it. However, at that time, the Dao energy in my body was like a clay ox entering the sea. When I poured all of my Dao energy into the box, it didn't create any ripples. The Xuanyuan Sword didn't react at all.
But this time, it was obviously different. As soon as the Qi of the Way was injected into it, I felt an extremely overbearing suction force coming from the sword case. This suction force was much stronger than the suction force of the Qingzhou cauldron on sorcery qi. It almost instantly absorbed half of the Qi of the Way in my body.
Right after that, a ray of light suddenly flashed through the complicated and sharp patterns on the sword box. The lid of the wooden box that I had used all of my strength and couldn't move at all suddenly slid down a little, revealing an extremely small gap at the top.