Chapter 26: Azure Dragon Tempers the Blade, Slaying the Iron Clad Gate

Although the Panyang Iron Clad Gate was not considered a top-tier sect, it was still quite famous within a radius of hundreds of miles around Panyang City.

Its external cultivation secret method, the Iron Chain Across the River Skill, when cultivated to a profound level, was said to make one invulnerable to blades, spears, water, and fire, earning it the title of the Vajra Iron Pagoda.

Moreover, the Iron Clad Gate had always acted in an arrogant and domineering manner. No nearby forces dared to provoke them, and their prestige was at its peak.

Although the location of Yellow Dragon Post was still far from the Iron Clad Gate’s sphere of influence, the Jianghu People present had all heard of the Iron Clad Gate’s reputation and proactively scattered to the surroundings.

“Jin Kaiyuan, your Qingfeng Escort Agency is quite bold. Knowing that my Iron Clad Gate wants to take action against the Lin Family, you still dared to accept their escort mission!”

An Iron Clad Gate Martial Artist stepped forward and shouted sternly in a muffled voice.

That voice seemed to be mixed with the clanging sound of clashing metal.

Jin Kaiyuan cautiously cupped his hands and said, “My Qingfeng Escort Agency has no intention of becoming an enemy of the Iron Clad Gate. Accepting the mission was also an act of ignorance by the juniors below.

I ask that your noble sect show mercy and allow us to deliver the goods. My Qingfeng Escort Agency will then have no further connection with the Lin Family.

At that time, I am willing to personally go to the Iron Clad Gate with a generous gift to apologize. I hope you all can give us a chance.”

Jin Kaiyuan was still considered mature and steady. He knew the Iron Clad Gate’s domineering style and that they valued Face the most.

If he handed over the money given by the Lin Family and then suffered a major financial loss, lowering his posture to the ground, the Iron Clad Gate would gain Face and should be able to spare their lives.

The leading Iron Clad Gate Martial Artist looked at the few people behind him and then suddenly burst into laughter.

“Jin Kaiyuan, oh Jin Kaiyuan, you are quite sensible and understand the temper of my Iron Clad Gate.”

Hearing this, Jin Kaiyuan immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

But the Iron Clad Gate Martial Artist’s tone shifted, and his voice suddenly became cold.

“But do you know that we brothers have chased you for hundreds of miles and worked several horses to death? As expected of professional escorts, you guys really run fast.

Now you say you know you were wrong and want to go to the Iron Clad Gate to apologize. What were you thinking earlier?

It’s easy to say we’ll let you go, but what about the merit of us Senior Brothers and Junior Brothers? Did we run these hundreds of miles for nothing?

If we kill you and take back the Lin Family’s Mystic Weapon, the Azure Dragon Blood Drink, wouldn’t that merit be even greater?”

Jin Kaiyuan’s eyes widened instantly, and he secretly thought to himself that things were bad.

By lowering his posture and publicly apologizing, he could indeed make the Face-valuing Iron Clad Gate let him go.

But the problem was that these Iron Clad Gate Disciples in front of him did not want to let them go for the sake of merit!

“Scatter and escape!”

Jin Kaiyuan shouted sharply, suddenly snatched the box from Qingqing’s body and carried it on his back, his figure heading straight for the door.

He had the cultivation of the Blood Moving Realm, and his movement technique was extremely flexible from years of escorting. With one pounce, he was instantly outside the door.

The leading Iron Clad Gate Disciple had reached the Foundation Establishment Realm. Seeing this, he immediately snorted coldly. His body was like an iron tower, and a layer of misty gray True Qi surrounded him as he blocked Jin Kaiyuan.

With one punch, the extremely fierce punch wind directly blasted Jin Kaiyuan into vomiting blood.

Then, the Iron Clad Gate Martial Artist suddenly grabbed the box and crushed it in his hand.

Wood chips fell to the ground, but what was inside was not a weapon, but a pile of stones.

“Damn it! Stop the others!”

The other Iron Clad Gate Disciples also took action one after another, stopping Qingqing and the others.

These young Qingfeng Escort Agency Disciples like Qingqing were only at the Pulse Opening Realm, while the remaining Iron Clad Gate Martial Artists were all at the Blood Moving Realm and even outnumbered them.

So the scene was almost a complete crush. After a few moves, the people from the Qingfeng Escort Agency were severely injured, vomiting blood one after another as they surrounded Jin Kaiyuan.

One of the Iron Clad Gate Martial Artists crushed a box, revealing a long saber.

The long saber was narrow and long, its blade bright and dazzling, extremely sharp. The edge of the blade had a hint of blood-red crimson, as if blood light was moving and flowing within it.

The hilt was in the shape of an Azure Dragon swallowing the blade, but the dragon eyes of the dragon head were originally supposed to be two gems, which were now missing.

The Iron Clad Gate Disciple raised the long saber in his hand and said excitedly, “Senior Brother! The Azure Dragon Blood Drink is here!”

The Iron Shirt Sect Senior Brother sneered and waved his hand, “Kill them all and take their heads back to claim the reward!”

Just then, a flash of brilliance appeared as an extremely fast saber light suddenly lit up in the hall.

The Iron Clad Gate Disciple wielding the Azure Dragon Blood Drink didn’t even have time to display his external cultivation before his head instantly fell to the ground.

Chen Yuan snatched the Azure Dragon Blood Drink, his left hand gently wiping across the blood-colored blade, feeling the extreme, chilling sharpness. He couldn’t help but praise, “Good blade!”

This saber was the purpose of Chen Yuan’s trip.

According to its grade, the Azure Dragon Blood Drink was a High Grade Mystic Weapon, but it was actually an Earth Weapon before.

It was forged by the Central Plains’ great forging master, Ou Yezi. Two Blood-condensing Spirit Stones were previously embedded in the dragon head as eyes.

When fighting, the edge would drink blood, condensing blood Qi into the Blood-condensing Spirit Stones, which could transform into powerful Qi and blood power to enhance the user’s combat strength.

This saber could drink blood, so it was named the Azure Dragon Blood Drink.

However, due to various killings and accidents later, the two Blood-condensing Spirit Stones on the dragon head shattered, and it lost its blood-drinking effect, so this saber became a Mystic Weapon.

But even so, the Azure Dragon Blood Drink was forged entirely according to the quality of an Earth Weapon. Its Materials were so sharp that they had effects like Destroying Edges and Breaking Qi, far surpassing ordinary Mystic Weapons.

If one had to say, it could even be considered a Peak Mystic Weapon, second only to those Earth Weapons with various miraculous effects.

Earth Weapons are priceless and are basically in the hands of major forces or held by some Jianghu experts.

It was impossible for Chen Yuan to attack a major sect to snatch an Earth Weapon; that would simply be seeking death.

The Azure Dragon Blood Drink before him was the weapon with the highest cost-performance ratio that Chen Yuan could get his hands on.

“Courting death!”

The Iron Shirt Sect Senior Brother roared, “It has always been my Iron Clad Gate snatching other people’s things. Who dares to intercept a prize from my Iron Clad Gate?

Kill him for me and crush his head into a meat patty!”

As soon as he finished speaking, the Iron Shirt Sect Senior Brother’s figure crashed toward Chen Yuan like a cannonball.

The other Iron Clad Gate Disciples circulated their Internal Energy, their muscles bulging all over their bodies, and their skin even began to turn black.

The Iron Clad Gate’s Iron Chain Across the River Skill could indeed improve Physical Body strength in the Early Stage, but it wasn’t so exaggerated that it could completely ignore sabers and swords.

Only by driving it with Internal Energy and unifying the muscles could one achieve the effect of hard-skill body protection.

The Iron Clad Gate Disciple who was killed by Chen Yuan’s saber earlier was killed because he didn’t have time to circulate his Internal Energy and activate the hard skill.

And the Iron Shirt Sect Senior Brother had already reached the Foundation Establishment Realm. With a single thought, his Internal Energy and True Qi merged into his flesh and blood, turning into the Cold Armor Iron Shirt. His speed was much faster than those Junior Brothers in the Blood Moving Realm.

Chen Yuan held the Azure Dragon Blood Drink, his Internal Energy surging, and the power of the Surging Waves and Flowing Clouds Technique was activated to its maximum limit.

A faint reddish True Qi emerged from the crimson blade of the Azure Dragon Blood Drink.

The Internal Energy cultivated by the Surging Waves and Flowing Clouds Technique actually had no attribute. Now, Chen Yuan had not drawn killing intent into his body, so his True Qi attribute was not considered Blood Fiend Force.

But his entire person had been impacted and tempered by the Blood Fiend Force, so his Internal Energy and True Qi still contained a trace of weak Blood Fiend attribute. What appeared at this moment was a pale red True Qi.

Green waves surged, and the saber momentum was boundless.

Autumn Water Startling Swan, Treading Waves Slash!

The Iron Shirt Sect Senior Brother’s expression changed suddenly.

Originally, he thought this person who snatched the saber was just a bold and reckless fool, but he didn’t expect the other party’s foundation to be so deep.

The power of this saber strike reached its peak in both speed and power. Moreover, the other party was holding the Azure Dragon Blood Drink. Even though he had already cultivated the Iron Chain Across the River Skill to the Minor Achievement stage and condensed the Cold Armor Iron Shirt, he did not dare to resist it head-on.

His charging momentum stopped abruptly, and the Iron Shirt Sect Senior Brother suddenly took off the Iron Bamboo Hat on his head, held it in his hand, and met Chen Yuan.

A loud bang of clashing metal came, and a deep saber mark was cut into the Iron Bamboo Hat.

But with a flip of his hand, the Iron Shirt Sect Senior Brother used the Iron Bamboo Hat to directly knock away Chen Yuan’s saber edge and headed straight for Chen Yuan’s chest.

The Iron Clad Gate specialized in external cultivation, but that didn’t mean they didn’t use weapons. This Iron Bamboo Hat was the unique weapon of the Iron Clad Gate.

The raised part in the center was a half-foot-thick iron block, which could be used as a shield when held in the hand.

The edges were as sharp as a blade, and there were edges all around, providing many attack angles.

And the Iron Clad Gate Martial Artists themselves had strong external cultivation, so they could directly hold the edges of the Iron Bamboo Hat with their hands without any problem. This was a unique weapon specifically designed for the Iron Clad Gate.

Chen Yuan’s figure retreated rapidly, and three Iron Clad Gate Martial Artists behind him were blocked there like three huge door panels.

The saber momentum shifted, slashing out in an overwhelming manner, condensing into a sky full of saber shadows, like autumn leaves flying. In the midst of the drifting leaves, an infinite, ferocious killing intent was brought forth!

Autumn Wind Slash!

The Iron Shirt Sect Senior Brother could block Chen Yuan’s saber, but those ordinary Disciples in the Blood Moving Realm could not.

Under the overwhelming saber momentum, the Iron Bamboo Hats in their hands were directly slashed away, and the three were instantly killed, their severed limbs falling all over the ground.

The external cultivation they relied on had almost no defensive power under Chen Yuan’s powerful foundation and the extreme sharpness of the Azure Dragon Blood Drink.

The reason the Iron Clad Gate insisted on seizing this Azure Dragon Blood Drink was also that one of their Vice Sect Leaders had died under this saber.

Such a sharp Sharp Weapon was too big a threat to their Iron Clad Gate.

At least within the Iron Clad Gate’s sphere of influence, only their Iron Clad Gate was qualified to possess a Sharp Weapon of this level.

“You deserve to die!”

The Iron Shirt Sect Senior Brother roared in rage and charged at Chen Yuan, the tables and chairs in his path instantly shattering.

Chen Yuan did not go head-to-head with him. The explosive power of the Surging Waves and Flowing Clouds Technique was powerful. With a movement of his figure, Chen Yuan instantly arrived in front of an Iron Clad Gate Disciple.

With a flash of saber light, before the other party even had time to resist with the Iron Bamboo Hat in his hand, he was cut in half at the waist by Chen Yuan, his internal organs and intestines spilling all over the ground.

The blade was stained with blood, but those blood droplets instantly gathered on the crimson blade, which was very strange.

Chen Yuan was simply too satisfied with the power of this saber.

Although it lost its blood-drinking effect, the attribute of sharpness had reached its peak, and its power was also incredibly strong.