55: Chapter 55 The Resonance of the Sword of Judgment

The next morning.

Finishing a night of meditation, Mu Qingci got up, washed up, and prepared to head to the dining hall inside Mingde Hall for breakfast.

"Qingci!"

As usual, Meng Hongchen's voice arrived before she did.

Mu Qingci smiled and greeted her and Xiao Hongchen, who was beside her.

The three of them got their breakfast and casually found a table to sit down and eat.

"Qingci, the tournament is coming up soon, and I'm a little nervous. Do you think our academy can defeat Shrek Academy this time?"

"Don't worry, Sister Meng. With me here, I will definitely win back the glory of the championship for the academy!" Mu Qingci was full of confidence in his current strength.

"Well said!" Jing Hongchen appeared out of nowhere, holding a tray, and sat down next to the three of them.

"Qingci, I am very happy that you have this confidence. If you have any needs, just ask. As long as Mingde Hall can do it, I will fully support you."

Seeing that her grandfather had arrived, Meng Hongchen sat directly next to Jing Hongchen and affectionately hugged his arm, acting spoiled.

Hearing Jing Hongchen say this, Mu Qingci was overjoyed.

He had come to Mingde Hall with a purpose, and that rank-8 melee spirit tool, the sword of judgment, was one of his goals.

Among the melee spirit tools currently known to Mu Qingci, none were more suitable for him than the sword of judgment.

Knowing Jing Hongchen's personality, Mu Qingci didn't beat around the bush and spoke directly: "Grandfather Jing, I do have a request."

Hearing the other party call him grandfather, Jing Hongchen was overjoyed.

"Just say it, your Grandfather Jing will definitely get it done for you!"

Mu Qingci went straight to the point: "I am still missing a suitable spirit tool."

"Don't you have the sword of blazing sun that the royal family gave you last time?"

The existence of the sword of blazing sun was already known to many, and Jing Hongchen was naturally among them.

Regarding this, Mu Qingci had already thought of a reason.

"Grandfather Jing, you know that my attributes are both Light and Darkness, and that sword of blazing sun doesn't fit my attributes very well. I know it's difficult to find a spirit tool that possesses both Light and Darkness, but it would be fine if it just possessed one of them."

Mu Qingci had said this much, and Jing Hongchen immediately thought of the sword of judgment.

"Qingci, now that you mention it, I actually do remember." He put down his chopsticks, his face full of pride. "My Mingde Hall recently crafted a rank-8 melee spirit tool that possesses both Light and Darkness attributes, named: the sword of judgment."

But when he said this, a look of contemplation appeared on his face, as if he was weighing the pros and cons.

Out of the corner of his eye, Jing Hongchen saw how happy Meng Hongchen was for Mu Qingci. Gritting his teeth, he made a decision: "I can lend you the sword of judgment until the tournament ends. If you can lead the academy to win the championship, I will represent Mingde Hall and give that sword of judgment to you."

Perhaps because he didn't have absolute confidence in Mu Qingci, but didn't want to disappoint Meng Hongchen, Jing Hongchen added:

"Of course, you are still young, and you will be eligible to participate even in the next tournament. If you ultimately fail to win the championship, I won't blame you, but if you still want the sword of judgment then, you will have to pay a price."

"What price?"

Meng Hongchen and Mu Qingci said in unison.

Jing Hongchen looked at the two of them and finally sighed: "If you don't win the championship, you will have to use your sword of blazing sun as an exchange."

This condition was clearly Jing Hongchen looking after Mu Qingci.

As rank-8 spirit tools, the value of the sword of judgment was far greater than that of the sword of blazing sun. The only reason Jing Hongchen insisted that Mu Qingci use the sword of blazing sun as an exchange was entirely to provide an explanation to Mingde Hall.

Mu Qingci looked at Jing Hongchen gratefully and cupped his hands: "Grandfather Jing, rest assured, I will definitely lead the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy to win the championship of this tournament!"

After breakfast, the three of them couldn't wait to follow Jing Hongchen to his exclusive laboratory.

The sword of judgment was stored in his exclusive laboratory.

Meng Hongchen and Xiao Hongchen also wanted to see what this spirit tool, which possessed both the diametrically opposed attributes of Light and Darkness, actually looked like.

Arriving at Jing Hongchen's exclusive laboratory, he took out a large box from a combination cabinet.

The box was made entirely of hard alloy and looked very high-tech.

There was a combination lock on the box, and after Jing Hongchen entered the correct password, the box was successfully opened.

Mu Qingci saw a giant sword, three meters long, lying quietly in the box.

The blade was wide and heavy, with a strong metallic feel, and the hilt was very long, clearly designed to be held with both hands.

"This is the rank-8 melee spirit tool, the sword of judgment." Jing Hongchen looked at the sword of judgment, unable to hide the pride in his eyes.

"Normally speaking, a Spirit King would have no way to use this spirit tool, unless using some special methods that come with a price, but you might be able to."

The special methods with a price that Jing Hongchen referred to were naturally the same method Ma Rulong used in the original work that consumed his own talent.

As for why Jing Hongchen felt that Mu Qingci could successfully use the sword of judgment, it was because he learned from Elder Ma that Mu Qingci could fully unleash the power of the sword of blazing sun.

Both being rank-8 spirit tools, although the sword of blazing sun might be slightly inferior to the sword of judgment, it was still a genuine rank-8 spirit tool.

If Mu Qingci could fully unleash the power of the sword of blazing sun, then using the sword of judgment shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Mu Qingci nodded, stepped forward, reached out, and grasped the sword of judgment.

The moment his hand grasped the hilt, a strange feeling instantly surged through his whole body.

Mu Qingci picked up the sword of judgment and could clearly feel his Hades Sword Spirit resonating with the sword of judgment inside his body; it was a resonance between attributes.

He released his Spirit.

The Hades Sword appeared, hovering autonomously in front of Mu Qingci.

Soul Power with the attributes of Ultimate Light and Ultimate Darkness was injected into the sword of judgment simultaneously.

Just at this moment, a miraculous scene occurred.

The sword of judgment split into three, turning into three long swords, each emitting black, white, and gold light.

The long sword in the middle, emitting a golden light, slowly floated toward the Hades Sword and finally merged with it.

The other two long swords, one on the left and one on the right, merged with the Hades Sword from both sides.

Jing Hongchen and the others watched this scene in extreme shock; this was a situation they had never seen before.

After the fusion was complete, the sword of judgment appeared in Mu Qingci's hand in a brand new form.

It was still a heavy sword, but its appearance had changed.

The hilt had shortened, the blade had lengthened, and as Mu Qingci held it with one hand, it radiated a terrifying pressure.