"Mr. Gu, it just so happens that I want to find you."
Seeing Gu Ning'an walking in, a look of surprise appeared on Zhao Liu's face.
Gu Ning'an looked at Zhao Liu carefully for a while, then smiled and said, "Is Gu's sword ready?"
"Yes!" As he spoke, Zhao Liu took out a wooden sword with a brown scabbard from the sword stand on the side and handed it to Gu Ning'an. He said with a smile: "My father wanted to send it in person, but Ever since that day when he was drunk and making swords, he has been extremely sleepy... No, at this hour, he is still sleeping soundly!"
Gu Ning'an took the wooden sword, and the delicate scabbard didn't have the greasy feeling of wood at all. If he didn't know it, it would be an exaggeration to say that it felt like uncut jade.
Holding the hilt of the sword, Gu Ningan pulled it out and the wooden sword was unsheathed!
Different from the "clang" sound of an iron sword being unsheathed, the sound of a wooden sword being unsheathed is softer, like the "click" sound made by tapping jade.
The wooden sword is about seven feet long. The sword body is surrounded by a circle of "annual rings". The blade goes from wide to narrow and slowly "tucks in" at the edge of the sword.
The overall workmanship is just as Gu Ning'an expected - everything is simple!
"What a good sword. Carpenter Zhao's craftsmanship is truly unparalleled." The wooden sword returned to its sheath, and Gu Ning'an also retracted the sword fingers that were caged in her sleeves.
During the conversation just now, Gu Ning'an had already used his magic power to scan Zhao Liu's three souls of heaven, earth, and human. To his surprise, there was no demonic intention in Zhao Liu's body.
"Can I borrow a pen and paper?" After Gu Ning'an finished speaking, Zhao Liu said "Of course" and went to take out a fairly good set of Four Treasures of the Study.
Gu Ning'an put down his sword casually, and after grinding the ink, he swiped his pen and left eight big characters on the rice paper: [Zhao's carpenter, unparalleled in the world! 】
Wow!
Picking up the rice paper and shaking it, the ink on it dried in the blink of an eye. Gu Ning'an handed it to Zhao Liu and said seriously: "Put it on the paper. Don't go out if you have nothing to do in the past few days."
"Hey, okay." Zhao Liu, who was a little confused, responded and began to read the vigorous and powerful handwriting.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but when Gu Ning'an put away his pen, Zhao Liu still saw a fleeting light on this word.
"Gu has something else to do, so I won't bother you anymore. See you later." With that, Gu Ning'an strode out of the carpenter's shop. Zhao Liugang, who was chasing after him and wanted to see him off, ran to the door and couldn't see Gu Ning'an's face. Figure...
Huh-shhhhhhhh!
The sound of snoring echoed in the wooden house. After Gu Ning'an used his magic power to explore the three souls of Carpenter Zhao, he left quietly.
The three souls of Zhao Carpenter and Zhao Liu are both normal and do not contain the slightest bit of demonic intent.
But didn’t the other counties immediately pick out passers-by and check ten, and found ten?
In order to determine the "three souls" of the people in Lexiang County, Gu Ning'an traveled all over Lexiang County and then randomly checked ten people. It turned out that among these ten people, the three souls contained evil intentions deep inside!
In order to be sure, Gu Ningan rushed to Mr. Hu's home without stopping. At that time, Mr. Hu was having lunch with Hu Shi. He hid himself and did not detect any evil intentions in Mr. Hu, his father, and his grandson.
But in Hu Shi's "human soul", he saw some "black mist"!
After casually defeating the black mist, Gu Ningan just watched from the sidelines.
No, Hu Shi, who was holding the bowl and chopsticks to put the rice in his mouth, paused, put down the bowl and chopsticks with a snap, turned around and jumped off the seat: "I want to go find Mr. Gu!"
Seeing this, Mr. Hu showed a hint of helplessness on his face: "This kid reacts quickly, but why does he start wasting food?"
Outside the door, Hu Shi, who was furious, bumped into a figure in a green shirt. Just as Hu Shi was about to apologize and leave, he recognized Gu Ning'an's clothes.
Hu Shi, who looked excited, said quickly: "Gu, Gu, Mr. Gu! I want to tell you something!"
Gu Ningan nodded and said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry, take a breath and speak slowly."
After almost a cup of tea, Hu Shi finally explained clearly what happened to the eyeless man he met that day.
After listening to this, Gu Ning'an was certain that that person was the protagonist of this Xiangzhou Rebellion - Zhen Mo.
However, he still doesn't understand the purpose of this demon's contact with Hu Shi.
After letting Hu Shi go home, Gu Ning'an told him not to go out in the near future, and then hurriedly went to Bazhang River again.
The injury the red-tailed fish suffered that day was not serious, and it healed on its own within a day's work.
According to the red-tailed fish, the blindfolded man it saw that day gave it a feeling of jealousy, danger and an inability to resist. If the man wanted to kill it, it was just a matter of waving his hand...
When Gu Ning'an returned to An Si Courtyard, it was already evening, and a Japanese patrolman approached him.
On the order of Xu Chenghuang, Ri Xuanyou conveyed the decision from above to Gu Ning'an.
The response method is roughly as follows: first, dispatch the surrounding underworld ghosts and gods to block off the entire Xiangzhou in order to prevent the continued spread of the evil spirit.
Secondly, the "King Mingling" in charge of the ghosts and gods of Daganyinsi in Gyeonggi Prefecture is writing the "Edict".
The edict has only one purpose, which is to make the evil energy in the entire Xiangzhou territory invisible!
As soon as the edict is issued and the real demon appears, all the ghosts and gods from all over the world will swarm in and kill him.
When Gu Ning'an asked about the time when the edict was written, the Japanese patrolman who came to report it just smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know."
Gu Ning'an could also understand this. After all, such an order that could reveal such a wide range of demonic energy could not be created overnight.
After bidding farewell to the day parade, Gu Ning'an first watered the kumquat tree, then returned to the house and tried to condense the red dust air into the wooden sword.
Now, he has collected six rays of human qi. Following his thoughts, Gu Ning'an pulled away a wisp of human qi, starting from the hilt of the sword and slowly integrating it.
The thread-like red dust energy seemed to be lighter than a feather, but it was as difficult to control as moving a heavy object... But fortunately, the wooden sword's endurance far exceeded Gu Ning'an's expectations, and a wisp of red dust energy merged into it. After that, there was no change in the sword hilt.
Following the same pattern, Gu Ning'an suddenly discovered that the difficulty of controlling the integration this time was twice as great as the last time... The fusion of these two strands of red dust energy was enough to It consumed one-third of the mana in Gu Ning'an's body.
Without the slightest pause, Gu Ning'an continued to induce the third ray of mortal air... As he expected, the difficulty of introducing the third ray of mortal air had doubled again!
call!
Exhaling a breath of turbid air, Gu Ning'an also managed to integrate the third ray of mortal air into the sword... Similarly, the mana in his body was also exhausted. Breathing heavily, he walked to the courtyard and sat cross-legged next to the kumquat sapling. , close your eyes and start breathing...
