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"That's right, this is the Sword Forest … the place where the founder practiced his swordsmanship!"
Almost as soon as Qin Fang asked that question in shock, someone beside him answered loudly. It was Cui Haoyu and Fu Qinglin, who had arrived earlier than Qin Fang.
Other than the two of them, there were about ten other people in the Sword Forest. They were divided into two factions, and they should be from the Fu family and the Cui family respectively.
Qin Fang took a quick glance at them. He was familiar with a few of them, such as the four young masters from the two big families, Cui Zhemin from the Cui family, and Fu Qingyang from the Fu family … Qin Fang did not recognize the rest.
However, none of them were weak. They were all Master-level and above, and some were even late-stage Master-level and above …
It was not hard to see that the Fu family and the Cui family could become the only two first-rate families in South Korea. Other than the fact that they had a good heritage, their family's foundation was also much stronger than those second-rate families.
Think about Kim Jung-myung from the Kim family. He had just reached late-stage Master-level, but he was already so arrogant as if he was already the best in the world. However, the two big families in front of him had at least five masters who were much stronger than Kim Jung-myung.
These were only the masters who were present. There were also some early-stage and mid-stage Master-level masters who did not seem to be qualified to be here. That was why they were not included …
With such strength, in addition to the fact that each of them had a Grandmaster expert, these two families were able to dominate South Korea. They did indeed have a strong foundation.
Of course, that was not what shocked Qin Fang. Such strength might be considered decent in South Korea, but it was not enough in Long Province. They were not even comparable to some martial arts families.
For example, the Lei family in Beijing, who did not have a good relationship with Qin Fang, was a Master-level master. Although there were not many Master-level masters, one of Old Master Lei's nephews had also reached the Master-level. Such a family with two Master-level masters was definitely much stronger than the two big families in front of him.
The foundation of the Cui family and the Fu family was not enough to shock Qin Fang. What really shocked Qin Fang was that the Sword Forest in front of him … could really be considered a "Sword Forest".
The Sword Forest was located somewhere in Bagong Mountain. It should be covered by some kind of array, so the location of the Sword Forest could not be found from the outside … only people who knew array formations could enter this place.
Qin Fang knew this because the mountain in front of the Sword Forest could not be seen from the outside. It was obviously covered by someone, and the Sword Forest was located was located at the bottom of the mountain.
On the empty ground of about two to three hundred square meters, there were hard rocks everywhere. However, as if they had been cut by a knife or an axe, the originally rugged rocks had become extremely flat.
What really shocked Qin Fang was that there were at least hundreds of longswords stuck in the huge flat rock surface …
These swords looked very old, and some of them were even broken and had become broken swords. However, they were stuck in the hard rocks just like that. Hundreds of swords were stuck there, and it was really shocking to see …
Therefore, the name of this Forest of Swords could be considered to be genuine!
"Senior Cui, the swords in the Sword Forest …"
Qin Fang glanced at them slightly, and the expression on his face became a little unnatural. This was because he found that many of these swords were long swords from Long Province, or some of them were famous swords in Long Province … But now, they were stuck here!
As a person from Long Province, although Qin Fang did not like these swords very much, he did not reject them. However, when he saw such a scene, his face changed a little.
"These swords belonged to those who had challenged the founder and were abandoned here … In his later years, the founder collected these swords over the years and made this Sword Forest!"
Seeing that Qin Fang's face was a little ugly, Cui Haoyu also explained politely, "However, these swords have been nurtured for hundreds of years, and they have some spirituality. If there is a fated person, maybe he can take away a good sword from here …"
"Can I?"
After listening to Cui Haoyu's explanation, although the truth could no longer be verified, Qin Fang's face was not as ugly as before.
The chivalrous warriors of ancient times were much more valiant than those of today. Many people lived with their swords, and if their swords died, they would die. Some people lost their weapons when they were defeated. Only when they won the next challenge would they be able to take away their weapons.
The Sword Master, Fu Cailin, was already considered a top expert who stood at the peak of martial arts. There were not many warriors who could be compared to him. Running to challenge him, other than courting death, Qin Fang did not know what words to use to describe it …
Thinking of this, Qin Fang realized that he had no choice but to leave these weapons here. However, what really surprised him was Cui Haoyu's words.
"Of course, if Young Hero Qin is fated with any sword, you can give it a try … As long as you can pull the sword out of the stone, it will belong to you …"
Cui Haoyu replied with a chuckle, as if he did not mind at all. He did not even treat these treasured swords in the sword forest as the private property of the Cui and Fu families.
"However, I have to remind you that although this sword forest looks like there are only swords, in reality, the ancestor has set up a sword formation. Unless it is a fated person who can pull out the treasured sword without being harmed, if anyone else forcefully pulls out the sword, they will immediately trigger the restriction, and this sword formation will immediately activate …"
Qin Fang was confident that with his strength, even if these swords were stuck in the stone, he was confident that he could pull them out. Moreover, he had a heaven-defying skill like the detection skill, so he could easily distinguish the best sword among these hundreds of treasured swords.
However, before Qin Fang had the time to be happy and was about to step into the sword forest to retrieve the sword, Cui Haoyu suddenly added this sentence.
"For so many years, no one has been able to walk out of this sword formation alive … Not even a Grandmaster!"
Especially Cui Haoyu's words, it was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head, causing Qin Fang to break out in a cold sweat …
Sword-fighting Grandmaster Fu Cailin should be a peak level 9 expert. The sword formation he had set up in his later years was definitely the peak of his swordsmanship.
Once such a sword formation was activated, not to mention that Qin Fang was only at the Master level, even if a Grandmaster or Grandmaster entered, it would be very difficult for him to escape unscathed.
"This … Let me give it a try first!"
Qin Fang naturally did not doubt the authenticity of Cui Haoyu's words. He was willing to let Qin Fang try, so he naturally had considerable confidence.
Moreover, there were hundreds of treasured swords in this sword forest, but the number of swords that had been taken away could be counted on one hand. Only a few sword grooves were empty, and most of them were still in their original state.
For hundreds of years, the Cui Family and the Fu Family had been passed down for at least a dozen generations. There were at least over a hundred experts at the Master level and above, and no less than ten at the Grandmaster level.
However, with so many experts, only twenty to thirty treasured swords had been taken away at most. Most of them were still in their original positions. This was enough to explain the problem.
"Let's not talk about this for now. We still have plenty of time. Let's go over there …"
Cui Haoyu smiled and pulled back Qin Fang, who was about to enter the sword forest to look for opportunities, and gestured to the group of people not far away.
Since his master had made such a request, Qin Fang could not refuse. After all, his current status was very special. His master had made an exception for him to join. Otherwise, he would not have known about the existence of the sword forest.
"Why is he here?"
In fact, when Qin Fang appeared in the sword forest, many people from the Cui Family and the Fu Family were very surprised. They were very puzzled as to why Qin Fang would appear here.
These people also looked at Qin Fang with strange eyes. In terms of age, Qin Fang was even younger than the contestants who had won. In terms of strength, except for the two Grandmaster experts, Cui Haoyu and Fu Qinglin, who could defeat Qin Fang, even experts like Chief Steward Fu and Cui Zhemin dared not say that they could defeat Qin Fang for sure.
A few days ago, the battle between Qin Fang and Ishihara Ichiro had already explained a lot of problems. In particular, Ishihara Ichiro had mysteriously disappeared later. Although the Fu Family had never found his body, they all guessed that Ishihara Ichiro had been killed by Qin Fang …
As for not being able to find the corpse, although Mt. Bagong wasn't very big, it wasn't too difficult to find a place to hide the corpse. It wasn't strange that they couldn't find it.
However, the problem was that this was a Sword-fighting Assembly within the two great families, and it involved the most secretive matters of the family. Yet, they had called Qin Fang over, which was very surprising.
"I'm sure everyone is no stranger to him. He is Young Hero Qin from the Long Province. Today, he will be participating in the Sword-fighting Game with the four juniors of our two great families …"
Cui Haoyu led Qin Fang in front of everyone and immediately answered the questions in everyone's hearts with this sentence.
"What?"
"Let him participate …"
However, the people from the two great families were still puzzled. When they suddenly heard this sentence, almost all of them were stunned. They were all dumbfounded and couldn't recover from their shock for a long time.
"Cough cough …"
Fortunately, Cui Haoyu had expected everyone's reaction. He immediately coughed a few times, waking everyone up from their shock.
"Patriarch …"
An elder from the Cui family hesitated for a moment, as if he wanted to say something.
However, as soon as he opened his mouth, Cui Haoyu waved his hand and said impatiently, "This matter has already been decided. Elders, there's no need to say anything more. Lead these juniors to make preparations. The endgame will begin very soon …"
"Yes, Patriarch …"
Although the elders of the Cui family seemed to have something to say, since Cui Haoyu had already said so, they could only helplessly agree and lead their people to prepare.
Seeing such a scene, Qin Fang himself was surprised. It seemed that these people were too easy to talk to, and no one made a fuss.
However, what Qin Fang didn't know was that these two great families had always respected their respective Patriarchs. As long as the Patriarchs decided on something, it would be difficult to refuse.
Even if the two great families had many elders, the elders had a lot of power. There had even been cases where the elders had dismissed the Patriarch …
However, that was an extremely rare occurrence. After all, to be able to sit in the position of Patriarch, all of them were the number one experts in the family. Although the elders had a lot of power, their strength was not as good as the Patriarch, so everything was nonsense. The Patriarch could even directly deal with the elders who caused trouble with the crime of rebelling. Moreover, it was the kind of punishment that no one could say anything about!
Now, whether it was the Cui family or the Fu family, only the two Patriarchs were Grandmaster level experts. Therefore, the elders could only obediently listen to them. Otherwise, a punishment from the family was enough for them to bear.
Therefore, when they heard that Qin Fang had actually replaced the Cui family to solve the Sword-fighting Game, although they were very unhappy in their hearts, they immediately calmed down after hearing Cui Haoyu's words.
Of course, the main cause of the commotion was the Cui family's opinion. The Fu family's side was much quieter …
Although they were the victors of the martial arts competition, they were quite unhappy that the winning spot had to be given to the Cui family because of a certain player's foul.
However, that was something that couldn't be helped. The rules that had been set for thousands of years were not allowed to be tampered with. Otherwise, the two great families would really go to war.
Although they were unhappy, they could only helplessly swallow this breath. At most, they were jealous in their hearts. However, now that the spot that should have been given to the Cui family had landed on the head of Qin Fang, an outsider, although they were very surprised, they could still accept it.
They were even slightly surprised in their hearts. At least, when they saw the Cui family depressed, the displeasure in their hearts immediately turned into joy!
"Young Hero Qin, I've let you see a joke …"
Seeing that the people from his family still seemed to be very unhappy, Cui Haoyu said somewhat embarrassedly. This person seemed to be quite humble, which made Qin Fang feel a little embarrassed when he heard it.
"Senior Cui is really … making this junior blush with shame!"
Qin Fang also responded politely. However, he naturally couldn't let go of this opportunity that was in his hands, especially when he felt that Cui Haoyu and Fu Qinglin might not be doing this out of kindness. It was very likely that they had some unknown purpose. Then, Qin Fang naturally had to treat it well.
Everything now was just a sugar-coated bullet that Cui Haoyu threw out. What Qin Fang had to do was to peel off the sugar-coated bullet and throw the bullet back …
"I won't say much nonsense. Qinglin and I will open the Sword-play Go game together. You will enter with the other four disciples … It's still the same sentence. Everything depends on your luck. If you can solve the Sword-play Go game left behind by the ancestor, you might be able to obtain the ancestor's sword dao inheritance!
At that time, perhaps the two of us will have to call you ancestor … "
Cui Haoyu patted Qin Fang's shoulder and said with a smile.
(To be continued.
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