[Xuanyuan Sword]
In the legends of this world, this divine weapon was bestowed upon humanity by the ancient gods... The gods told people that 'it' possessed the power to dispel evil and protect the world... Therefore, it was regarded as a supreme treasure by the then sizable Youxiong clan...
However... the power of a divine artifact is not something mortals can master. When the monsters of Jiuyou attacked, the 'Xuanyuan Sword' failed to protect the tribe... The patriarch, Shaodian, could only let his daughter, Ji Xuanyuan, escape alone with the sword, while he stayed behind to face the annihilation of his clan...
Fleeing from the pursuit of monsters, Ji Xuanyuan eventually collapsed from exhaustion on the road... Just as she was despairing, the power bestowed by the 'gods' appeared along with a red mark...
From this point on... the fateful confrontation between 'Honkai' and humanity began once more after countless years...
Possessing the Xuanyuan Sword, Ji Xuanyuan, along with her beloved bird, repelled 'Chiyou' who had emerged from Jiuyou. People gathered around her, forming a new tribe, and honored her as the 'Yellow Emperor'...
The sixteen-year-old 'Emperor', with her fresh and refined appearance and unparalleled power, attracted marriage proposals from many tribes... However, faced with the numerous treasures that women found irresistible offered by other tribes, the young Emperor coldly refused... She even set a requirement to deter her suitors....
Anyone wishing to propose marriage needed to present one of the following: the scales of the mythical Lu fish, the feather of a phoenix, the horn of an Yinglong, or the jade paste from a Dan tree...
No one could produce these items... so the 'Emperor', once again left in peace, inadvertently noticed a young man she had once rescued... The young man's name was 'Jiang Zhu'.
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"Is this the real Xuanyuan Sword?!..." Li Xuan's eyes widened as he stared at the golden longsword placed openly on the table... His eyes were filled with disbelief... He never thought he would encounter it here...
"Little friend Xiao Xuan, don't get excited..." Uncle Fu couldn't help but add 'little friend' again. He reached out and gently stroked the golden sword on the table, his expression as if he were caressing a treasure...
"This is just a family heirloom..." Uncle Fu said, word by word, looking at Li Xuan, whose eyes were filled with an inexplicable expectation, "...an exquisite replica."
"..." I've already dropped my pants, and you show me this... Li Xuan was speechless. Since it was a replica, why did the old man act as if it were a priceless treasure... He had almost believed it was the real Xuanyuan Sword...
"Little friend Xiao Xuan, could you let me see your Xuanyuan Sword?" Uncle Fu suddenly looked up, his dark eyes fixed on Li Xuan as he got straight to the point.
"...?!" It was only then that Li Xuan realized Uncle Fu's goal all along was just to see the 'Xuanyuan Sword' in his hands...
"How did you know..." Li Xuan asked.
"Fu Hua is my daughter..." Uncle Fu's answer was very simple. He added, "For ordinary people, 'Honkai' is still a well-known fact in certain circles..." No matter how much the country tried to block the news, it couldn't be completely watertight...
"Alright..." Li Xuan shrugged. He wouldn't refuse just to let him have a look... Besides, his 'Xuanyuan Sword' was just a high-quality replica anyway... What a sad story.
Li Xuan extended his right hand and gently grasped the empty air. The next moment... a golden longsword appeared in his hand. It was the 'Xuanyuan Sword'...
"...." Uncle Fu said nothing, but he was clearly shocked by Li Xuan's trick... The act of conjuring something out of thin air had startled him, but Uncle Fu just gave Li Xuan a deep look and didn't ask any questions...
Uncle Fu silently took the golden sword from Li Xuan's hand, earnestly gazing at the sword before him, which was clearly different from the one passed down in his family... Although their appearances were almost identical, he could clearly feel that the 'Xuanyuan Sword' in his hand was significantly stronger than his family's Xuanyuan Sword... or rather, this sword was a real weapon...
He didn't know why he had this thought, but the feeling arose naturally in his mind...
"Actually... little friend Li Xuan, I think we are fated to meet..." Uncle Fu said suddenly.
"..." Li Xuan was baffled. What did that mean?! Fated to meet... why did he feel the atmosphere was a bit gay...
"I don't know where you got this 'Xuanyuan Sword'... but since you've obtained it, it means we are fated to meet..." Uncle Fu gently placed Li Xuan's Xuanyuan Sword on the table, slowly picked up his teacup, and took a sip before speaking.
"The Fu family is descended from the 'Yellow Emperor', but not as direct descendants... but from another ancestor who also contributed greatly to the Divine Land... He was the 'Yellow Emperor's' lover, and some called him 'Shennong'…"
"Since long ago... the Fu family has been given a command, or rather, a family precept by that ancestor..." Uncle Fu's gaze drifted to the azure sky outside the window, somewhat lost in thought. This was something that had been passed down orally from generation to generation in his family... Every time it was spoken, it felt like unrolling an ancient scroll...
"The 'Yellow Emperor' Ji Xuanyuan, in order to completely eliminate the monsters, was determined to fight a decisive battle with the king of monsters, 'Chiyou'... In the autumn, the Yellow Emperor suddenly left... No one knows what happened in the end, but from then on, the number of monsters in the Divine Land began to decrease... I suppose she won..."
"And the Yellow Emperor's lover... our ancestor 'Shennong' was always searching for the Yellow Emperor's trail... but our ancestor was ultimately just a mortal. In the end, he never found any trace of Lady Yellow Emperor, not even her remains..."
"The ancestor searched for a very, very long time... but he no longer had the strength to continue. In the end, he left behind some relics and his last wishes before passing away..." Uncle Fu said briefly.
"In the end, our ancestor said, 'He thought he would probably never see her again in this lifetime, so he asked his descendants to find her... to see her one last time on his behalf...'" Uncle Fu blinked and said with a smile, "Such a willful ancestor, always causing trouble for us descendants..." But there was no trace of dissatisfaction in his eyes...
"This is the origin of the Fu family... relying on the medical and culinary arts left by our ancestor, as well as our unique martial arts... the Fu family has survived to this day without being destroyed by the 'Honkai'…" Uncle Fu said with considerable pride.
"Little friend Xiao Xuan, why have you come to Guangzhou this time?" Uncle Fu suddenly changed the subject.
"Uh... to find the Yell... cough, that's a secret..." Li Xuan, caught off guard, almost said it out of habit, looking warily at the uncle who was trying to trick him...
"You're also looking for the Yellow Emperor, aren't you?..." Uncle Fu said, smiling with narrowed eyes. "Schicksal has already set its sights on the Divine Land..."
"Uh..." Li Xuan was at a loss for words. The more he looked at him, the more he felt that this uncle was like a fox... How did he know everything?! As expected of Fu Hua's dad, he supposed.
"I don't mean anything by it... I just hope that little friend Xiao Xuan can find our ancestor, the Yellow Emperor..." Uncle Fu said, taking a final, gentle sip of his tea.
"Alright... little friend Xiao Xuan, don't worry about it too much. Just consider it an old man's rambling..." Uncle Fu put down his empty teacup and said softly, "It's getting late... you should rest early..."
'Old man?!...' Li Xuan gave Uncle Fu's handsome, middle-aged face a strange look, barely resisting the urge to retort...
"Thank you for your hospitality, Uncle Fu..." Having listened to a heap of incomprehensible things and nearly been tricked into revealing his mission, Li Xuan quickly put away his Xuanyuan Sword, stood up, and went along with what Fu Hua's father said.
"It's nothing..." Uncle Fu shook his head.
Still a bit confused and unable to figure out why Fu Hua's father had told him so much, Li Xuan walked to the study door, opened it, and was about to leave when... a voice suddenly came from behind him...
"Little friend Li Xuan... this is for you..." With the voice came a long wooden box thrown towards him...
"Huh?!..." Li Xuan, who hastily caught the thrown wooden box, was a little confused and puzzled... Wasn't this the box that contained the replica Xuanyuan Sword?!
"This sword is useless to me... I'll give it to you, little friend. Don't refuse..." Uncle Fu, who had walked to the door, patted Li Xuan's shoulder and said one last thing.
"I hope that you can find your own 'Dao'…"
As soon as he finished speaking, the study door gently closed in front of a baffled Li Xuan...
'What's going on?!' Li Xuan stood there dumbfounded, holding the Fu family's replica Xuanyuan Sword. He had never expected this turn of events...
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At this moment, on a street in Guangzhou, a man with a pair of over-ear headphones around his neck ruffled his somewhat fluffy hair. He lifted his head and looked at the city...
"Finally snuck out of Anti-Entropy to play for a while..." He took a deep breath of air, his slightly long bangs revealing a pair of deep blue eyes...
The man's attire was no different from that of an ordinary otaku...
"It-is-my-showtime…"
On the back of his black hoodie, four large characters were written...
[Love and Justice]
(End of Chapter)