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"Hey!" Chi Chaan put the knife into the scabbard, then looked at the old man and said, "Then what does the old gentleman plan to do to give me this rogue sword?"
"I am very destined to you, and I see that you are an easy-going person. Let's do this. If you pay one thousand taels of silver, I will give you this rogue knife." The old man said while stroking it lovingly. That pine-sheathed rogue knife.
"A thousand taels?" Chi Chaan lowered his head and thought for a while.
"You have to be rare. If you pass my village, there won't be a shop like mine. If you make a decision early, you will be ready to participate in the competition." The old saying "follow the guidance carefully".
The corners of Chi Chaan's mouth raised slightly, and then he calmly told Lao Dao one of his thoughts.
"Old sir, what do you think of this? Just think that I borrowed this rogue sword from you first. I will return it to you after I win the crown of the selection meeting. By then, the value of this sword will be immeasurable. What do you think? how?"
When the old man heard this, he was so angry that his beard became crooked.
Your sister, you want to have sex for free? Want me to use love to generate electricity? Why don't you ask someone to give you the title of champion of the selection meeting?
"Since you can't afford it, it means you and I have no chance. See you later."
The veteran turned his head and said nothing. He was not as enthusiastic as before.
He was about to leave when Chi Chao suddenly grabbed his sleeve.
"Old sir, I only have ten cents on me, no more. If you sell it to me today, I will give you all the money I have, otherwise I will be left empty-handed." Chi Chaan pulled the old man down and humbled himself begged.
"Ten coins?" The old Taoist almost spat out the fragrance. "You want to eat shit! My ancestral rogue sword is only worth ten coins?"
The old man originally thought that Chi Chaan would hold him back and beg him to sell him the Drifter Knife for a few hundred taels less, but what he didn't expect was that this kid's bargaining was a cliff-hanger. Directly cut back three cents more than the purchase price.
This rogue knife was mass-produced by Lao Dao from a friend's shop in the Xiguo Blacksmith Shop. Each one cost seven cents. Every ten years, he resold these fake rogue knives to foreign enemies. Then you get enough money to enjoy a quality life for ten years.
But today, the old man met a strange person.
The strange thing is that this person directly cut the price to about the purchase price. Which relative taught him this bargaining method.
"Then forget it, bothering the old man." Chi Chaan bowed to the old man.
Chi Chaan said goodbye to Lao Tao, turned around and left, without giving Lao Tao any time to react.
When the old man reacted, Chi Chaan had already walked out more than ten meters. Today was the first day of opening for the old-fashioned place. How could there be any reason why it couldn't sell anything on the first day?
The old man gritted his teeth and made a major decision.
When Chi Chaan walked out a few dozen meters, someone grabbed his sleeve. When he looked back, he found that the old man was chasing him.
"What's wrong? Old sir?" Chi Chaan looked at the panting old man calmly.
"Look, young man. You and I are destined to be together. As a favor, I will sell you this Drifter Knife for ten cents. But the requirement is that you cannot tell others that you paid ten cents for this knife. money."
The old man enthusiastically pulled out the rogue sword from the pine tree scabbard at his waist.
"Thank you, old man." Chi Chaan took the rogue knife, took out ten cents and handed it to the old man.
"I wish you the crown, young man." The old man weighed the money in his palm a few times and carefully put it into his pocket. "I go first."
The old man left to find the next victim.
Chi Chaan smiled. After watching the old man leave, he took out the tattered Drifter knife and glanced at the entire blade of the Drifter knife.
Although this Drifter knife is a defective product, its structure is very consistent with the style of the Drifter knife from Xiguo. As long as it is sharpened on the whetstone a few times, it can still be made into an ornamental and collectible.
But if you want to take it to the ring and fight, you are courting death.
Any other person's rurouni sword can be cut into two pieces as long as it is chopped down with force, and it is not picked up skillfully.
Chi Chao
He smiled, a purple light flashed in his eyes, and the rust on the rogue sword in his hand disappeared instantly. In his hand, he held a brand new rogue sword.
The rogue sword in the pine sheath was held in Chi Chao's arms. He squeezed through the crowded crowd and entered the open space beside the ring.
Chi Chao held the rogue sword in the pine scabbard in his hand, and could not help but accept the contemptuous looks from others. It was simply wishful thinking for a country bumpkin to get a ranking in this selection meeting.
Just by looking at your knife, I know I've won. This is the thought of many Xiguo students.
I don’t know when, Xiguo students developed a habit of thinking that someone’s sword looks very luxurious in appearance, or in other words, after looking at other people’s swords, they feel that their own swords are not as good as others. Then The owner of this knife won without a fight.
This is also related to a tradition in Xiguo, and it starts with a story.
The name of this story is "Changji gives a sword". Changji is the most powerful wanderer in a country. No one in the entire country is his opponent, and he has a habit.
That is, every time he defeats an opponent, he will set a gem on his rogue sword. More and more people are defeated at his feet, and his rogue sword can hardly be equipped with gems.
Until one day, an 18-year-old boy came from one of his subordinate counties. He challenged Changji with a broken knife he bought from the blacksmith shop. The boy had worked hard for three years to save money to buy the broken knife. , he is very rare and sleeps with it every night.
Changji fought. Logically, he could refuse this young man's challenge, but he wanted to use this challenge as his own sword-sealing battle. After winning this battle, he would never draw his sword again, nor would he The scabbard will be inlaid with gems.
That day, the sun was shining brightly, white and red.
Under the scorching sun, Changji's sweat soaked all his clothes, as did the boy opposite.
The only difference was that the boy only saw his knife and not the clothes on his body.
After several trials between the young man and Changji, they couldn't tell the difference. Changji slashed the young man's thigh and blood flowed all over the floor. He himself was stabbed by the young man in the socket of his left shoulder and couldn't lift his left hand.
They all have one last knife left, and with this last knife, both of them will fall.
The difference is that the person who fell first lost his life, and the person who fell last just passed out from excessive exertion.
"Drink!" Changji held the knife in front of him and ran towards the boy.
The young man also shouted: "Drink!"
Similarly, he raised his broken sword in front of him and stabbed Changji who was running towards him. The two of them struck each other with the last and most powerful sword at the moment of their fight!
At the moment of the fight, "Fat Lang!" was heard.
In the end, Changji was the first to fall, but he stopped halfway with his knife and held up his body to prevent him from falling.
But the boy behind him had fallen down and was breathing lightly on the ground.
Changji smiled bitterly, looking at his rurouni sword inlaid with gems, and then turned to look at the rogue sword that had been broken in half in the young man's hand.
If the boy had taken a good knife, he would probably be a mute corpse now. Changji suddenly had an idea before he died, and he threw his rogue sword to the boy on the ground.
"What?" The young man looked at the gorgeous rogue sword thrown in front of him in confusion.
"Give it to you." Changji said.
"Why?" The young man's eyes were full of confusion.
"I can't go on any longer. My knife is my path. From now on, you will continue on my path." Changji said, and finally exhaled his last breath and fell asleep.
After the boy was cured, he walked a long way with Changji's sword and killed many people. The gems on the scabbard fell off in battle after battle, and finally turned into its original appearance. .
And the owner of this knife, that young man, became the strongest wanderer in the world - Tao Qian!
Whoever has a good-looking sword will be the one who is given the sword after defeating many people. This one
This idea is prevalent in the cognition of some young practitioners in Xiguo.
Obviously, Chi Chao, who was holding a broken knife, was not taken seriously. All the contestants did not regard Chi Chao as a real opponent.
However, the biggest dark horse in this selection meeting is Chi Chao.
"Classmate, can I take a look at your knife?" Chi Chao was suddenly awakened by a voice while he was meditating.
He looked up and saw that it was Xie Lingxiu, the daughter of the Xie family and the winner recognized by this selection meeting.
Chi Chaan was wondering why Xie Lingxiu saw his presence. Maybe the knife in his arms did attract attention, but he would not let Xie Lingxiu put down her body and find him in front of him.
"What? Are you interested in my sword?" Chi Chaan asked.
Xie Lingxiu felt familiar when she heard the voice, but she was not suspicious.
Xie Lingxiu came to Chi Chaan with only one purpose, and that was the rogue knife on Chi Chaan's body. Xie Lingxiu felt a special power in this rogue knife.
This kind of power is different from the soul power of heaven and earth. Although practitioners like to use the soul power of heaven and earth to temper their weapons, the soul power of heaven and earth does not give people a feeling of palpitations.
Xiguo's practice method is [Tao], and the threshold of their practice is something called [Celestial Chasm]. Once you cross the chasm, you can see more things in your own vision.
Xie Lingxiu has always hidden her Tao realm, saying to the outside world that her Tao realm is only the third heaven, but in fact she has reached the sixth heaven.
Only when you reach the sixth heaven can you feel the demonic energy emitted by Chi Chaos. The Taoist realm, like Buddhism, has a special perception of demonic nature.
Xie Lingxiu had never been exposed to demonic energy, and now he suddenly appeared in front of Chi Chaan just out of curiosity and had no other ideas.
"Show me your knife, can you?" Xie Lingxiu said again, with a hint of pleading in her tone. Coupled with her close face, she breathed like blue at Chi Chaan, which made Chi Chaan How could I bear to refuse.
Chi Chaan pushed the rogue sword in his arms and handed it to Xie Lingxiu's hand.
"Look, look, take as long as you want."
