Chapter 64

**Chapter 64: Challenge and Elegance**

A sword, a blade, an armor, and a square seal!

Four celestial artifacts hovered between heaven and earth, faintly radiating the brilliance of the Dao.

Long Que steadied himself, unable to hide the shock in his heart as he gazed at the four celestial artifacts, momentarily unable to speak.

After a while, he came to his senses and exclaimed, “Brother Chen! These four celestial artifacts are truly exceptional. Are you really willing to lend them to this old man?”

Long Que was not foolish enough to ask Chen Ansheng how he came by these celestial artifacts. After all, in a world of millions of cultivators, some might gain unspoken opportunities. Impulsively inquiring would only offend the other party.

Chen Ansheng replied lightly, “What are you saying, Brother Long? If I were unwilling to lend them to you, would you even see these four artifacts? Haha, take them and use them, Brother Long.”

Upon hearing this, Long Que couldn’t help but feel grateful and moved. “I will remember Brother Chen’s kindness!”

Chen Ansheng smiled and said, “If you don’t take up your weapons soon, the celestial realm of the North Ancient Holy Land will sense the presence of these four artifacts.”

“Right, right, right.”

Long Que raised his trembling hand and, gathering all his celestial power, reached toward the artifacts.

The four celestial artifacts emitted a humming sound, seemingly resisting Long Que, but ultimately, as they were unowned, they were subdued by Long Que, a cultivator of the eighth celestial realm, in a moment’s time.

Long Que manifested a battle blade inscribed with mysterious celestial patterns, gently caressing the blade’s body, murmuring, “This blade must have been forged from the essence of heaven and earth, rivaling the Mad Dragon Hammer of the North Ancient Holy Land. Truly a supreme treasure!”

Chen Ansheng secretly laughed, thinking, if you ascend, you won’t feel this way anymore. “Brother Long, do you now have confidence to fight against the celestial beings of the North Ancient?”

Long Que pondered for a moment and replied, “By relying solely on myself, even with this exceptional artifact, I wouldn’t stand a chance against the ninth celestial realm. But our family has three others at the eighth celestial realm; if each of us has an artifact of this level, the outcome is uncertain!”

Chen Ansheng stated, “If we are to fight, a fifty-fifty chance is not acceptable. Depending on the situation, if things don’t go well, I can lend you a few more celestial artifacts.”

Long Que: “…”

He was momentarily stunned. Brother Chen actually has more celestial artifacts?

No wonder, on that day when he gifted a set of ruined celestial armor as a token of gratitude, Chen Ansheng showed no emotional reaction. It turned out he was embarrassed!

Thinking of this, Long Que couldn’t help but feel fortunate. The misfortune that befell the young man Shaoyan indeed brought an immense opportunity to the Long Family. Truly, fortune and misfortune are intertwined.

However, Long Que was also somewhat unsettled.

Brother Chen was already the savior of the young man Shaoyan. Not being able to repay this life-saving grace and now borrowing a supreme celestial weapon made him uneasy.

How should he repay Brother Chen?

After some thought, Long Que clasped his hands and said, “This old man thanks Brother Chen. By the way, Brother Chen, when you first arrived at our family, I sensed that you are a sword body?”

Chen Ansheng hadn’t fully concealed his physical aura at the time, allowing Long Que to sense it a bit. “Yes, I am indeed a sword body. Is there a problem, Brother Long?”

Long Que quickly waved his hand, “Of course not! It’s just that within my family, there is an ancient sword technique that has been passed down for over a hundred thousand years, and I wish to gift this sword technique to you.”

Chen Ansheng took a sip of tea, “What a coincidence! I can give it a try.”

Long Que smiled, “Actually, it’s not so coincidental. Our ancestors found many techniques from a forbidden zone, but this sword technique has eluded comprehension by the descendants of the Long family throughout generations, which is why it has remained until now.”

Chen Ansheng was curious about what kind of sword technique could not be understood by generations of the Long family. “Why don’t you take me to see it now, Brother Long?”

Long Que opened his palm and, with a thought, produced a dark brown jade tablet. “The sword technique is contained within this transmission jade tablet. Brother Chen can inspect it here.”

Chen Ansheng nodded and took the jade tablet.

He sent his spiritual energy into the jade tablet.

“Boom!”

Suddenly, a loud rumbling echoed in his sea of consciousness.

An ancient black sword with hollow patterns formed and coalesced in his mind.

“What does this mean?”

That sword image stood in Chen Ansheng’s sea of consciousness, with no other information being transmitted.

Chen Ansheng condensed his consciousness and stepped forward to touch the sword image.

The moment his consciousness made contact with the sword image, a torrent of information surged into his mind.

“So that’s how it is.”

Chen Ansheng understood that this sword image contained a transmission sword technique, but only a saint-grade sword body would have the qualifications to obtain this sword path inheritance.

No wonder the descendants of the Long family could not comprehend it for generations; the likelihood of producing a saint-grade sword body was much lower than other saint bodies.

Moreover, even if the Long family had a saint-grade sword body born, it wouldn’t possess the powerful spiritual strength that Chen Ansheng had now, unable to perceive even this illusory sword image, let alone bear the information contained within.

Chen Ansheng withdrew his consciousness.

In the past, this kind of thing would have seemed useless to him.

But now, it was different. His physique could be improved through the Bi Shui Pool; once he reaches the saint-grade sword body in the future, it would not be too late to obtain the transmission sword technique.

“This is good stuff. I’ll take it.”

Chen Ansheng stored the jade tablet in his storage bag.

“Great! As long as it’s useful to Brother Chen, I can feel at ease,” Long Que said, genuinely pleased.

At that moment, Long Que sensed several strong auras approaching the edge of the Long family territory.

Of course, Chen Ansheng also sensed the incoming presence.

He expanded his celestial consciousness and saw two old men protecting a young man and woman, confronting the Long family guards.

“How dare such ants come to our family territory to cause a ruckus!”

Long Que was immediately enraged, wanting to wipe out those few people.

“Brother Long, please calm down. The other side has come to challenge the young generation, so let me handle them and give them a taste of their own medicine.”

Chen Ansheng clearly heard the young man and woman who came over shouting, wanting to challenge the strongest members of the Long family’s younger generation, thus giving birth to this wicked idea.

Long Que was taken aback, not expecting Brother Chen to have such a penchant for bullying the weak and teasing others; quite interesting.

“The younger generation nowadays is indeed getting bolder and more outrageous. Then please, Brother Chen, teach them a lesson,” Long Que said with a smile.

“I’ll go.”

Chen Ansheng’s figure flickered and instantly disappeared from his spot.

“Greetings, Immortal!”

Everyone in the Long family, regardless of rank, bowed to Chen Ansheng.

“Immortal, what brings you here…”

One person, uncertain of Chen Ansheng’s intentions, bravely inquired.

“There are people outside challenging us. You should treat me as a descendant of the Long family. I’ll go teach them a lesson.”

The crowd exchanged glances.

The Immortal is actually going to intervene personally? Then those challengers will surely be left with nothing!

“Then we’ll be counting on you, Immortal.”

In fact, among the younger generations of the Long family, there were many masters at the Earth Immortal realm who qualified to deal with the challengers outside.

However, their ancestor had issued a decree: seeing the Immortal was like seeing the ancestor himself, and how could they ruin the Immortal’s elegance?

“Is the young generation of the Long family dead? Why don’t you come out to fight?”

From beyond a barrier, the arrogant voice of the blue-clothed man came.