Chapter 552: Ning Family’s Hidden Sword Pavilion!
In an old courtyard house in Jinling, three figures stood facing each other. The courtyard before them was old, and the door was even covered in cobwebs.
The head of the Ning family, Ning Zhiyuan, looked at the courtyard house with great appreciation and said, “Mr. Ye, this is the Ning family’s ancestral home, and it’s where the family’s Hidden Sword Pavilion is.”
“Your ancestor is indeed wise to be able to design such an exquisite courtyard house,” Ye Chen’s Divine Consciousness covered the entire house and he saw all the mechanisms and formations in the courtyard.
“Dad, when did our family have this courtyard house? I didn’t know about this before.”
Ning Ruolan, who was standing at the door, looked around curiously. It was obviously her first time here, and there was a hint of complaint in her voice.
Ning Zhiyuan glared at her angrily, “Only the heads of the family know about the ancestral home. I thought if Wushuang and you got together, he would inherit it…”
He could not continue speaking as he spoke to this point, as Ning Ruolan’s expression instantly dimmed.
Seeing this, Ning Zhiyuan sighed to himself.
He knew his daughter very well!
Even though this girl was usually carefree, energetic, and did not have any reservations, once she set her mind on something, even nine bulls would not be able to pull her back.
Especially when it came to her feelings.
“Mr. Ye, you’re not an outsider either. That’s why I made an exception today and brought you here to take a look. The Hidden Sword Pavilion has collected the weapons of my Ning family for hundreds of years. As a hero, how can you not have a suitable weapon?”
Ning Zhiyuan intentionally changed the topic and led Ye Chen into a tattered room. Subsequently, he placed his hand on a candlestick and spun it a few times following a certain pattern.
Boom!
In the next moment, the floor in front of them disappeared, replaced by stone steps that led underground.
“After you, Mr. Ye!”
Ning Zhiyuan took out a flashlight and shone it on the stone steps.
Ye Chen took a step forward and walked down the stone steps. He could not help but ask, “Did Wushuang enter your Ning family’s Hidden Sword Pavilion with the same method?”
“No!”
Ning Zhiyuan looked at Ning Ruolan by instinct, he shook his head and said, “Mr. Ye, you may not know this, but our Ning family’s Hidden Sword Pavilion has an exit and an entrance. We’re at the entrance, and the exit was set up by the Ning family’s ancestor in a waterfall.
On that day, Wushuang somehow found out about this. He forcefully cut off the waterfall and forced his way through the exit!”
At this point, a hint of admiration appeared on his face, “In order to prevent outsiders from accidentally intruding, the ancestors of the our family set up many formations at the exit, such as the Giant Rock Formation, the Ten Thousand Arrows Formation, and even the Glazed Heavenly Flame Formation. For thousands of years, countless people who were blinded by greed had died in here.
However, Wushuang single-handedly broke through the traps set up by my family for countless generations. I was shocked when I found out.”
Ning Ruolan said unhappily, “Of course, Brother Wushuang is powerful. Dad, if I had known earlier that Brother Wushuang wanted to enter our family’s Hidden Sword Pavilion, I would’ve turned off the formations secretly. Fortunately, Brother Wushuang was fine, or else I would not forgive you.”
Ning Zhiyuan was speechless.
When they were talking, they had already walked down the stone steps and entered a dim stone room.
Ning Ruolan shone her flashlight in the room, and an old face appeared in the darkness. She was so frightened that she cried out by instinct, “Ghost!!!”
“It’s not a ghost, it’s a human!”
Ye Chen shook his head helplessly.
The person was an old man in a gray robe. Judging by his appearance, he looked like he was in his seventies. He had probably stayed here for a long time and had not seen the sun for a long time, so his face was pale.
“Zhiyuan greets Great Uncle!”
Ning Zhiyuan immediately took a few steps forward and bowed deeply to the old man like a junior bowing to an elder.
The old man did not say anything. Instead, he looked at Ye Chen with great caution, “Who is this man? Zhiyuan, no one outside from the Ning family are allowed to enter the ancestral land. Are you trying to break the rules?”
The moment he finished speaking, a shocking force exploded from his body!
There was even a sliver of sword intent.
‘There’s actually a Martial Dao master hidden in the Ning family?
Not only that, he’s about to comprehend the elementary form of sword intent!
Surprise flashed across Ye Chen’s face.
“Grand Uncle!”
After Ning Zhiyuan calmed Ning Ruolan down, he smiled and said, “Do you still remember the person who broke the trap of my family’s ancestral land and took away the Great Thunder Sword?”
“Of course!”
The old man’s expression turned serious, and his sharp expression softened, “How could I forget that sword-like young man? If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t have gotten to the threshold of sword intent.”
“Grand Uncle, Mr. Ye is Wushuang’s relative!”
Ning Zhiyuan immediately explained, “Not only that, Mr. Ye is also the top cultivator in China!”
The old man looked at Ye Chen in shock when he heard that, “That young man back then has relatives?”
“Mr. Ye, this is my granduncle, Ning Teng. He’s the most powerful person in the family. He’ll protect the Hidden Sword Pavilion for life,” Ning Zhiyuan introduced.
“Ruolan, hurry up and greet Grand Uncle!”
Only then did Ning Ruolan react. She looked at Ning Teng with some fear and said timidly, “Ruolan greets Grand Uncle!!”
“I didn’t expect you to have grown so big!”
Ning Teng looked at the slender and elegant Ning Ruolan and sighed, “You were not even two years old when I entered the Hidden Sword Pavilion to guard it.”
“Grand Uncle, here’s the situation. It’s rare for Mr. Ye to visit our family, so I took the liberty of bringing him to the Hidden Sword Pavilion. I hope that you can…” Ning Zhiyuan hesitated.
“Strictly speaking, those who are not of my family are not allowed to enter!”
Ning Teng seemed to hesitate, but in the end, he sighed lightly and said, “But since you’re the relative of that young man, you may enter!”
“May I know if there’s something that I’m not aware of that happened for you to come to that decision?”
Ye Chen was slightly surprised. He did not expect the Ning family to let an outsider like him in on Wushuang’s account.
Ning Zhiyuan explained, “Mr. Ye, you might not know this, but when Wushuang barged into the Hidden Sword Pavilion that day, Grand Uncle attacked him. However, he was defeated by Wushuang in one strike. Wushuang’s three questions to Grand Uncle gave him some insight.”
“Which three questions?” Ye Chen said while smiling.
Ning Teng took a deep breath in and said, “As a member of the Ning family, I thought that I knew swords and knew how to use them. However, I was defeated by that young man’s sword with one strike. I was unconvinced, so I asked why there was such a huge gap between us in swords.
The young man did not answer me. Instead, he asked me three questions. Do you know what a sword is? Do you understand swords? Are you worthy of using a sword?”
Ye Chen nodded secretly when he heard that.
That was Wushuang. As the sword spirit of the Heavenly Emperor Sword, he had the right to question everyone who used swords!