The Setting Sun Wooden Sword

"Huh?" Ma Feifei was a little confused. He thought Yun Qingyang would be very angry, after all, he had destroyed the Ice Crystal Palace without her permission. Who knew that Yun Qingyang was not only not angry, but also said something like that to him, which left Ma Feifei a bit bewildered.

"Do you want it or not?" Yun Qingyang asked again.

"What is that?" Ma Feifei subconsciously took a step back. Although Yun Qingyang had never abused him since he acquired the Dragon God Arm, that didn't mean Yun Qingyang wouldn't do it again.

Seeing Ma Feifei's reaction, Yun Qingyang couldn't help but roll her eyes. She took out a wooden sword from her spatial ring and handed it to Ma Feifei, saying, "Here, this is for you."

Ma Feifei took the wooden sword from Yun Qingyang, his face full of confusion. Why give him a wooden sword?

However, Yun Qingyang did not explain the origin of the wooden sword to Ma Feifei. Instead, he looked at Ma Feifei with an unprecedentedly solemn tone and said, "You must remember to take good care of this sword. You must never lose it, and you must never give it to anyone else, under any circumstances."

Ma Feifei could tell from Yun Qingyang's tone how much she valued the wooden sword. This was the first time Ma Feifei had seen Yun Qingyang so serious and focused since they met, which made Ma Feifei a little flustered.

"Why don't you take this sword back? I don't need it." After thinking for a moment, Ma Feifei pushed the sword back.

But Yun Qingyang shook her head, did not take the wooden sword offered by Ma Feifei, and instead turned and left, going into the house.

Ma Feifei kept glancing at Yun Qingyang's room and then at the wooden sword in his hand, completely baffled.

"I must say, this thing is a bit heavy." Ma Feifei weighed the wooden sword in his hand and found that the material it was made of was probably not ordinary wood. He now had the cultivation of the peak of the Spirit Emperor realm, but he still felt that it was very heavy. He estimated that it weighed at least over a thousand catties.

Of course, there are many magical artifacts that weigh more than a thousand catties, but it is very rare for a wooden sword to weigh more than a thousand catties.

"Huh! There are words on it." Ma Feifei accidentally touched a bump on the sword near the hilt. After taking a closer look, he found two words engraved on it.

"Setting Sun..." Ma Feifei murmured these two words, pondered for a moment, and then channeled the Innate Purple Qi within his body into the sword, but the Setting Sun Sword did not react at all.

"Could I have guessed wrong? This isn't a divine artifact?" Ma Feifei looked at the motionless Setting Sun Sword, his eyes filled with doubt.

"That doesn't make sense..." Ma Feifei looked at the Remnant Setting Sun Sword, feeling that it couldn't be that simple. Ma Feifei hadn't detected the Remnant Sun Sword when he used his divine sense to enter Yun Qingyang's spatial ring, which meant that Yun Qingyang hadn't placed the Setting Sun Sword in the palace. That meant that the Remnant Setting Sun Sword was no ordinary item.

Considering Yun Qingyang's reaction just now and her rambling about giving the Setting Sun Sword to Ma Feifei, it couldn't possibly be an ordinary wooden sword.

"There must be something I haven't noticed." Ma Feifei shook his head, put away the Remnant Setting Sun Sword, temporarily set aside his study of the wooden sword, and walked towards the kitchen. He hadn't eaten dinner yet and was starving.

Above the full moon, deep within the Nine Heavens Mountain, the Nine Bend Spider moved swiftly. Any spirit beasts that encountered it along the way would crawl and give way. Only after entering the Nine Heavens Mountain did the Nine Bend Spider stop, turn around a few times, and arrive at a swamp.

"Your Majesty, something has happened! Yun Bai Shu and Gou Yu Hu were captured by people from the Mysterious Bookstore while collecting fragments, and after a fierce battle, they both died at their hands."

"Bang"

The silent swamp suddenly burst open, and a giant snake as thick as a water bucket leaped out, reaching straight to the sky.

"Whoosh"

With a flash, a middle-aged woman appeared before the Nine Bend Spider.

"Where is Jiu'er?" The middle-aged woman seemed unconcerned about the deaths of the two Sacred Beasts, and asked indifferently.

"Inside the Mysterious Bookstore, I tried to communicate with him, but he didn't seem to respond," Nine Bend Spider replied in a deep voice.

"What about the fragments?" the middle-aged woman asked again.

"The fragments were stolen by the people from the Mysterious Bookstore," Nine Bend Spider replied, his voice trembling slightly.

"Then why did you come back?" The middle-aged woman suddenly opened her blood-red maw, and before the Nine Bend Spider could react, it Swallow whole.

"No...!" A pitiful Growl rang out.

"Gurgle"

The giant snake head retracted and transformed into human form. Everything happened so suddenly that, if it weren't for the middle-aged woman's swollen belly, it would be hard to believe what had just happened.

The middle-aged woman kept her eyes closed, seemingly digesting the Nine Bend Spider, until her swollen belly returned to its original size. Only then did she open her eyes and coldly stare in the direction of Dubian Town.

Under the full moon, the middle-aged woman's figure appeared so dark, but upon closer inspection, one could see specks of orange light shimmering around her ears.

She, too, possessed a Tianshu Fragment!

"Jiu'er, you're so disobedient. Your mother is very disappointed." The middle-aged woman murmured to herself, gazing in the direction of Dubian Town.

"Boom"

Suddenly, the middle-aged woman revealed her true form: a giant snake nearly a hundred meters long coiled around her.

"Waaah..."

The aura emanating from the giant serpent spread outwards, gradually enveloping everything in its path. Wherever it passed, spirit beasts trembled and groaned in fear.

"Whoosh"

The giant snake lunged forward, soaring like a dragon into the sky, heading towards Dubian Town.

As dawn breaks, the sun has not yet risen, but the sky is already gradually brightening.

The heavily armored warriors outside the town did not withdraw but instead set up camp to guard against a new wave of spirit beast attacks.

There were few pedestrians in the town, only early-rising merchants and vendors, and practitioners hurrying back from outside the town; everything was hurried yet quiet.

The siege by the spirit beasts didn't seem to have any negative impact on this town, which was almost entirely populated by cultivators; everything proceeded as smoothly as usual.

It was under these circumstances that the middle-aged woman appeared on the street leading from the Zhenbei to the Mysterious Bookstore.

The middle-aged woman walked slowly with an expressionless face, her mouth slightly open and closed as if she were speaking silently, but every time she opened and closed her mouth, the temperature in the air seemed to drop several degrees.

"Boom"

The dawn sky suddenly darkened, and a muffled clap of thunder suddenly erupted.

"Ah!"

In the backyard of the Mysterious Bookstore, in Ba Jiu's room, Ba Jiu, who was fast asleep, was awakened by the muffled thunder, and a look of fear appeared on his face.

Gradually, the expression on Ba Jiu's face changed, showing hesitation, fear, and a hint of helplessness.

Finally, sitting on the bed, Ba Jiu sighed helplessly, got off the bed, opened the door, and walked out of the Mysterious Bookstore.

"Crunch"

Across the street, Ma Feifei's door opened at that moment. Watching Ba Jiu's departing figure, Ma Feifei pondered for a while before knocking on Yun Qingyang's door.

"Qingyang, come with me."