Song Qingshu nodded to himself. This was roughly the same as the intelligence he had obtained earlier from the old master of the Shen Family.
"Why had your mother seen the Yuan Saber?" Song Qingshu could not help asking. "As far as I know, the Yuan Saber seemed to be in the hands of the Shanyin Shen Family." Princess Jinzhi had once been in the Ming Cult, whose territory had included Jiangnan at the time. Could there have been some connection between the two?
"What Shen Family? The Mandarin Duck Saber was originally an artifact of our Ming Cult!" Qin Keqing said indignantly.
"The Ming Cult's?" Song Qingshu's expression shifted. He truly had not known about this. It seemed he had never read of it in the books before, either.
"Of course!" A strange gleam surfaced in Qin Keqing's eyes, as though she were reminiscing, yet also mourning. "The Mandarin Duck Saber had always been in the Ming Cult's possession. Unfortunately, no one knew when the Yuan Saber was lost, leaving only the Yang Saber behind. No one in the cult could decipher the secret of the Mandarin Duck Saber any longer, but every generation of cult masters remembered the words passed down by their predecessors—'Within the Mandarin Duck Saber lies the secret to becoming invincible under heaven.'"
"Later, my grandfather was defeated in battle, and the Yang Saber was passed to Zhong Xiang, in hopes that he could preserve the Ming Cult's spark. Zhong Xiang was later killed by Kong Yanzhou at Dongting Lake, and the Yang Saber passed to the new cult master, Yang Yao. Still later, Yue Fei pacified Dongting Lake, and the Yang Saber vanished without a trace. It was also from that time that the secret, which only the cult master had originally known, somehow