The Sword Named Stardust Part 2

The blood-colored star in the sky finally also fell, but the dazzling light it emitted when it fell made it impossible for anyone to open their eyes.

Zhang Jingmo also closed his eyes, but he was very clear in his heart where this star was going to fall.

After the light passed, Zhang Jingmo opened his eyes. Lu Guijiu in front of him had collapsed on the stone table, looking at first glance as if he had fallen asleep after being unable to hold his liquor.

Zhang Jingmo brushed aside Lu Guijiu's black hair and saw a small star-shaped red mole on Lu Guijiu's forehead. This red mole only appeared for a moment before hiding within Lu Guijiu's forehead.

Zhang Jingmo put down the hair in his hand, knowing that this matter was considered finished.

The next day, Lu Guijiu woke up in a daze, feeling as if he had had a bizarre dream. He dreamed that he had turned into a sword and killed dozens of people before returning to his body.

However, Lu Guijiu quickly discovered that he was not dreaming at all. Everything was real, because the sword that had killed people had shrunk to the size of a thumb and was now floating in his dantian.

Lu Guijiu was stunned for a long time before suddenly remembering Zhang Jingmo's determined gaze when he was drinking with him. His master had probably anticipated all of this long ago.

Did Zhang Jingmo know? He knew, and he didn't know. He only knew that the first-place token sword could only be recognized by the blood of the person who won the first-place token, and could not possibly be snatched by others. But he did not know what would happen if someone else's blood dripped on it.

But today Zhang Jingmo knew, because this news was too shocking, shaking the entire Lingxu Sect.

Last night, after the first-place token sword was forged, it slaughtered forty-six cultivators. With the sole exception of the forgemaster, Gong Jiguang, everyone else present was killed, each with a single stroke of the sword.

Among them were five Golden Core cultivators, twenty-one Foundation Establishment cultivators, and twenty Qi Refining cultivators. They did not call for help, and before they could even react, they became sacrifices under that first-place token sword.

Zhang Jingmo was surprised and unsurprised by this news. He had long guessed that something would happen, but he didn't expect that only one person would be left alive.

And as the only witness, Elder Gong Jiguang's mental state was not very good. After being discovered, he kept laughing wildly, constantly saying, "I knew it, this is a magic weapon, a magic weapon! This is what I, Gong Jiguang, forged, hahaha!"

The Gong family lost as many as five Golden Core cultivators in this incident, including Gong Cheng.

But this was not the worst. The worst was that the first-place token sword, after slaying more than forty people, disappeared along with the falling star to an unknown location.

After this incident, although some people in the sect suspected Zhang Jingmo and Lu Guijiu, the master and disciple had not even left their cave, so it was too far-fetched to blame them.

After hearing the news, Zhang Jingmo sent the servant boy away. At this time, Lu Guijiu happened to wake up and walked into the room, seeing Zhang Jingmo.

Lu Guijiu called out, "Master."

Zhang Jingmo asked, "How is it?"

Lu Guijiu said, "Master, you knew long ago that the first-place token would come to seek me."

Zhang Jingmo laughed, "Did you think I would really make that losing deal? The first-place token, at the time it was won, was already imprinted with your mark, and will never change. Did you really think I would use the first-place token to exchange for that Wanli Landscape Painting?"

His master knew too many things, so many that it was somewhat frightening. Lu Guijiu looked at Zhang Jingmo's indifferent expression and actually felt his mouth go a bit dry, inexplicably a little nervous.

Seeing Lu Guijiu's unnatural expression, Zhang Jingmo thought he was afraid of the first-place token matter being discovered. He said, "Although I don't know where the first-place token is on your body, if you don't use it, even if a Nascent Soul cultivator comes, they won't discover it."

Lu Guijiu nodded.

Zhang Jingmo said, "It's just that I'm a bit curious, what exactly does your first-place token sword look like?"

Hearing this, Lu Guijiu did not hesitate and took out the first-place token sword from his dantian.

This sword looked ordinary, with seven star-shaped patterns on the blade. Zhang Jingmo, out of curiosity, wanted to take it with his hand. However, as soon as his hand approached the sword, he felt as if his skin was repelled by some sharp weapon, instantly drawing bright red blood.

Seeing this, Lu Guijiu nervously said, "Master, your hand."

Zhang Jingmo withdrew his hand, looked at the wound, and said, "It's nothing."

Lu Guijiu said, "Master, I don't know how to control this sword yet and accidentally hurt you..." Before he could finish, he saw Zhang Jingmo shaking his head, saying, "It has nothing to do with you. I'm afraid only you can touch this sword."

Lu Guijiu slightly frowned.

Zhang Jingmo changed the subject, "You haven't named this sword yet." Although he was injured by the sword, Zhang Jingmo's eyes were gentle when looking at it. No one would dislike such a spiritual weapon, even if it belonged to someone else.

Lu Guijiu said, "This sword appeared together with the stars, so let's call it Stardust."

Zhang Jingmo laughed, "You're not very particular."

After he said this, he saw the sword in Lu Guijiu's hand humming, as if responding.

Seeing this, both master and disciple laughed.

Zhang Jingmo added, "When this sword was forged, it was stained with a lot of blood energy. Remember to be careful when using it."

Lu Guijiu agreed, and Zhang Jingmo told him to put the sword away, instructing him not to take it out within the Lingxu Sect.

However, the matter of Gong Cheng and his disciple dying under the sword would not be easily resolved. The Gong family's Nascent Soul Elder was furious upon learning of this and said he must find the culprit.

Zhang Jingmo was not afraid at all. He did not do anything underhanded, and the fact that the first prize token could not be obtained by others was only known to him and Lu Guijiu in this world.

The first prize token was already scarce, and only a small portion was forged into weapons. It was one in a million for it to be snatched by someone else during the forging. If Zhang Jingmo had not gone through so many lifetimes and encountered so many situations, he probably would never know the mystery behind it.

Although Zhang Jingmo was confident that no one had any evidence against him, they decided to target the path of least resistance. Soon, some people targeted Zhang Jingmo, wanting to use him to appease the Elder's anger.

Those people really took Zhang Jingmo for a good-tempered person and directly went to his cave abode to question what tricks he played with the first prize token.

This time, Zhang Jingmo was not polite. He ridiculed those people with sarcasm and vicious words, not giving them any face. He called Gong Cheng a good-for-nothing who took advantage of others, called his disciple an incompetent student, and also mocked the Gong family.

If you don't provoke Zhang Jingmo, you might think he has a good temper. But if you do provoke him, you'll experience the feeling of being so angry that you vomit blood yet can't find any words to refute.

Those troublemakers were furious and about to make threats when they saw Zhang Jingmo unapologetically activate the formation in his cave abode and throw them all out.

Seeing how angry they were, Zhang Jingmo felt extremely happy. He had already burned his bridges with the Gong family anyway, so it didn't matter if their relationship worsened.

After Gong Cheng's death, most disciples in the Lingxu Sect sympathized with Zhang Jingmo because a saying became very popular within the sect - the spirit in the weapon forged from the first prize token found Gong Cheng's disciple to be useless and unwilling to be recognized by blood, so in a fit of anger, it slaughtered everyone present and returned to the sky to be a star.

When Zhang Jingmo first heard this saying, he guessed who had spread it. Although their sect seemed peaceful on the surface, there had always been small conflicts between the major family clans. After the Gong family's incident, it wasn't strange for someone to spread such rumors to spite them.

Zhang Jingmo also had a backer - Bai Lingxiao, who had been in seclusion for nearly a hundred years.

Others didn't know if Bai Lingxiao had made a breakthrough during this seclusion, but Zhang Jingmo was very clear that when Bai Lingxiao came out, he would definitely be at the mid-stage of Nascent Soul. In another thousand years, Bai Lingxiao would have a chance to ascend to the immortal realm. But that would also be when the demon race invaded, and the continent was in peril.

It was just unknown how Bai Lingxiao would choose at that time.