Since Ouyang Rong spoke his real name for the first time, he established a connection with "craftsmanship".
He realized that Dingjian had a huge demand for spiritual energy.
No wonder most tripod swords cannot be owned by individuals.
I heard that the "Emperor Wen" who was in the hands of the Zhou court had a large group of people to serve him and was supported by a whole system. Even the younger junior sister once jokingly called him "the iron-clad Emperor Wen, the flowing sword holder." .
He found that since the birth of the first tripod sword in the Qin Dynasty to the present, after so much time and exploration, Qi practitioners in and out of the world seemed to have reached a consensus.
If you want to go a long way, the sword holder must be backed up by top forces, just like the Wei family's Wei Palace has for Wei Shaoxuan.
Ouyang Rong vaguely guessed that this was probably the reason why the old swordsmith wanted to transfer A Qing, a man of great energy, to the hidden world sect Yunmeng Jianze together with the "craftsman".
Because cultivating a sword wielder requires investing a huge amount of resources, killing people with a cloth sword is refreshing, but it is not ordinary to just use the replenishing energy needed to quickly restore the spiritual energy after using the unique skill of the tripod sword once. Qi practitioners can easily squander it.
Moreover, the path of being a sword holder may not be feasible yet. After all, it is a mythical lineage. It is difficult to find the sword techniques and understand the true meaning. The bottleneck of each level is like a chasm.
Even for a cultivation seed like the little junior sister, if she chooses the wrong path, blinds her eyes with a leaf, and embarks on the ultimate mythical path, but is unable to understand the true meaning of the Cauldron Sword and gets stuck, it will be a waste of great talent.
But even so, there are still Liu Zi'an, Liu Zilin and others who are rushing to the fire, not hesitate to grab food from the tiger's mouth, trying to be promoted to the sword holder.
Because the scarcity of Juepui represents an important bargaining chip, it is easy to take the initiative and join any force.
Didn't you see, Donglin Temple in the Lotus Pagoda Alliance only provided one sword holder, and it had the opportunity to cooperate with Yunmeng Jianze and the swordsmith family on an equal footing, although it fell apart later.
And who doesn’t long to touch upon mythology?
Especially at the bottom of the world.
This is the case in every era. The struggle for precious resources at the bottom has always been cruel, commonly known as involution.
Putting aside the insidiousness and cunning, as long as the three brothers of the Liu family can break free from the chessboard of Longcheng County and get the two tickets of "Sword Holder" and "Tripod Sword", after they get out, where can they go but the sea and the sky are brighter?
It's a pity that they met an old postgraduate entrance exam taker.
For this, a wealthy and noble woman like Xie Lingjiang could not understand, because the family background of Qi Wang, the fifth surname, and her father, the great scholar, naturally gave her a higher platform and a broader vision.
The advantages and disadvantages to the sword holder are made more real, and they are not so jealous. It is difficult to understand all the crazy things the three brothers of the Liu family did for a tripod sword.
But this also means that this noble lady of the Xie family looks at problems in a more romantic and idealistic way, so she really loves to eat the big cakes that a certain senior brother likes to draw, and she is full of them all...
Back to business.
At this moment, on Dagushan Mountain, Ouyang Rong was in a daze, watching the scene where the Folding Wing Canal at the foot of the mountain turned decay into a miracle and subdued the monstrous flood.
In his ears, the cheers of thousands of people in the entire Dagushan Mountain, as well as the sound of hundreds of wooden fish that responded with merit, made him temporarily deaf and tinnitus.
"Craftsman" appeared naturally, close to Ouyang Rong, and surrounded him intimately.
Ouyang Rong's eyes glowed lavender, and he slowly stretched out his hand, and his fingertips touched a trembling "arc" in front of him.
A hazy blue light stained his nails.
Both cold and hot.
The moment he came into close contact with the entity of the Cauldron Sword for the first time, Ouyang Rong suddenly realized that the paths above that were very restrictive to the Cauldron Sword and the sword holder, and relied heavily on the support of the powerful forces behind it, seemed to be... impossible for this "craftsmanship". question.
The old swordsmith combined the achievements of his ancestors and worked hard to forge this new tripod sword. It seems to be a little different. It is no longer exclusive to princes, generals, and sects.
After the "arc" in the air was touched by Ouyang Rong, the blue sword light was dyed a little purple by a familiar purple that seemed to appear out of thin air.
Feed it something.
One deduction for merit.
Ouyang Rong felt the "arc" at his fingertips and trembled more and more, as if he was... eager to try.
"Are you going to eat this too..." He murmured, hinting at his true meaning: "Using a mortal body to create a myth?"
"What did you say?" Li Guo'er suddenly turned his face.
"Nothing." Ouyang Rong shook his head and retracted his fingers.
After observing the smooth discharge of water from Zheyi Canal outside the small courtyard, Ouyang Rong briefly touched the "craftsman's work" and put it away again. He suppressed the lilac look in his eyes and immediately turned around to find his junior sister, Li Guo'er. He also followed.
The two left Beitian Nursing Home together.
Go to Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall.
Along the way, Ouyang Rong concentrated his brows and carefully pondered the sentences that just came to his mind like a blessing.
"Craftsman" is reborn today. The true meaning and unique skills of the tripod sword are not like those of "Han Shi". The sword techniques have been summarized by the legendary sword master.
So far, he was walking in the front in a daze, and could only fumble around on his own.
Just now "Takumi" reacted to the purple mist of merit he had accumulated, which was a major discovery.
There was someone beside him at this moment, and it was impossible to completely verify it for the time being... Ouyang Rong remained calm.
In addition, Ouyang Rong was not idle either. Taking advantage of the clear sound of wooden fish echoing in his ears gradually weakening, he took a moment to take a look at the Merit Tower on the way.
Before today, I had enough merit, nearly 20,000.
But after redeeming the blessings of "Come Back and Come Back", he consumed several blessings on the Mirage Mask, leaving only more than 3,000 merit points left.
Now, the construction of the Zheyi Canal water conservancy project that Ouyang Rong has vigorously promoted for several months has saved many houses in Longcheng County and thousands of people in the mountains. This is another huge benefit.
[Merits: Eleven thousand three hundred and eleven]
Just above the little wooden fish that had been beaten to exhaustion today, a line of motionless blue-gold fonts fell into Ouyang Rong's eyes.
"After deducting the original more than 3,200, the merit has increased by about 8,000."
Ouyang Rong understood it in his heart, left the merit tower, and opened his eyes.
After a while, Ouyang Rong and Li Guo'er arrived at the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall.
There was no one in the hall.
The two walked out of the hall. In the square, Ouyang Rong squatted down, wiped the bloody footprints on the floor tiles with his fingers, and looked around for signs of fighting in the square.
"Where did Sister Xie go?" Li Guo'er looked around.
"Something's wrong."
Ouyang Rong twisted the blood mud with his fingers and raised his head:
"Little Junior Sister teamed up with an unknown Yue girl to repel Liu Fu and the others. Logically speaking, after Little Junior Sister escaped from danger, if nothing happened, she should come to look for you and Uncle Li, but we didn't meet anyone along the way... Where has the little junior sister gone?"
Li Guo'er glanced sideways at someone and asked, "Is there a possibility that she is looking for you?"
Ouyang Rong did not answer, thinking that he knew his junior sister better.
He suddenly stood up and pointed at the corpses of black-clad swordsmen scattered around the square:
"The wounds were all throat-sealing sword wounds. They should have been caused by the junior sister. However, there were blood stains on the floor tiles. It was obvious that someone had moved the body behind it."
Ouyang Rong frowned and looked around, "But junior sister is mysophobic and won't move these corpses."
Li Guo'er nodded and said softly: "There are two types of people who can carry corpses at the moment. The monks in the temple and the people from your county government. They found this place in a mess and came to move it and take care of it?"
Ouyang Rong nodded, then shook his head:
"But why didn't you clean it up and leave it here? Judging from the blood stains and the orderliness, these corpses were only moved halfway before the people left."
Li Guo'er thought about it for a moment and said in a clear voice:
"You mean, the monks or minor officials were interrupted by outsiders? But Wei Shaoxuan and Liu Fu were executed, and the other accomplices were deceived by you to go down the mountain. What danger can there be here now?"
Ouyang Rong was silent and suddenly took out a cracked deer-shaped jade ring from his sleeve.
He followed the method he had observed when his junior sister used it last time. He activated some of the newly recovered spiritual energy in his dantian and injected it into the deer-shaped jade ring.
If he guessed correctly, this jade ring should come from the academy uncle that the junior sister was looking for. As for why it fell into Wei Shaoxuan's hands and was full of cracks, do you still need to guess?
The jade body slowly became hot.
"Um?"
Ouyang Rong turned his head fiercely and looked at a magnificent hall a hundred feet away to the southeast.
There is only a dense bamboo forest between this main hall and the Manjusri Hall where Ouyang Rong is currently located. The two halls are neighbors of each other.
"Is that... the Sutra Copying Hall?" Ouyang Rong asked hesitantly.
He had a vague impression that when he had breakfast before, he was pulled away by his hair because of the abnormal noise from the Buddha statue in this hall.
"That's right, it's the Sutra Copying Hall." Li Guo'er said casually: "Wei Shaoxuan and the others occupied this hall before. Because it is separated from the Manjushri Hall, they discovered us..."
Ouyang Rong remained silent, reached into his arms, took out a Sanskrit Buddhist scripture and took a look at it.
This was found among the fragments of Wei Shaoxuan's body.
This Buddhist scripture was just as he expected. It was not the same Sanskrit Buddhist scripture that the old swordsmith gave to Liu Zian. It was obvious that he was trying to deceive the two of them. The Buddhist scripture was not a Hanshi sword technique.
But Wei Shaoxuan had previously regarded it as the real Hanshi Sword Technique, so considering that he was looking for someone to translate the Buddhist scriptures in this scripture copying hall, it was natural to let it go...
"What's wrong? Where does this academy's psychic jade ring point to?"
Seeing the young county magistrate beside him, he was holding a jade ring tightly in one hand and a blood-stained Buddhist scripture in the other hand. He frowned and looked sideways at the scripture copying hall in front of him. The jade ring in his hand was emitting a faint light.
Li Guoer cleverly guessed: "Where is Sister Xie's jade ring?"
Ouyang Rong glanced at her and pursed his lips in acquiescence.
"Then what are you waiting for?" Li Guoer walked over and wanted to shout.
After a moment, her wrist was grabbed again and pulled back with great force. She couldn't help but spin around and almost fell down.
"You..." The little girl with plum blossom makeup frowned. When she was about to stabilize her figure, she saw that Ouyang Rong didn't even look at her. His eyes were fixed on the silent hall behind the bamboo forest in front of him, silent.
"What's wrong?" Li Guo'er asked calmly, "You suspect that she is not here?"
After a pause, she lowered her voice and cleared her throat:
"You think there is a trap? But that doesn't make sense. If they are Wei Shaoxuan's accomplices, how do they know that this jade ring is in your hands? Or are they waiting for you?"
Ouyang Rong felt the faintly pointing position of the jade ring in his hand, and pondered for a moment: "The two jade stones of the Academy Qi Practitioner are very close, and they can sense the nearby direction, but the junior sister did not respond."
Li Guo'er pondered: "Is this so? Is it possible..."
"It's possible, very possible."
Ouyang Rong suddenly interrupted Li Guo'er's words. He turned around and walked in the opposite direction, towards the Hall of Manjusri Bodhisattva:
"Let's go and find out."
"What are you looking for?"
Li Guo'er curiously followed Ouyang Rong, and they walked around the Manjusri Hall together, pushing open the doors from time to time, especially the huts in the corners behind the hall, and Ouyang Rong patiently checked them.
unmanned.
Ouyang Rong turned around and took Guo'er away to search the woods around the Manjusri Bodhisattva Hall.
No one is there.
After a while, Ouyang Rong stopped, turned his head, and looked at a lonely pagoda not far from the Manjushri Hall.
He continued to lead Bao'er away, but Dudu did not immediately go to the Sutra Copying Hall where the Yuhuan was sensed.
Li Baoer's eyes were filled with doubts, but he followed quietly.
"Squeak——!"
The door of the pagoda slowly opened.
Sunlight shines in, revealing the figure of the place.
Li Guoer's eyes widened slightly, and she blurted out: "Who did this?"
On the ground inside the pagoda, there was a fainted monk.
Ouyang Rong, who had been silent all this time, took a long breath, immediately frowned, and looked back at the Sutra Copying Hall in the distance.
"How did you know that someone fainted here?"
Li Guo'er looked at Ouyang Rong with a somewhat unbelievable look in his eyes.
Ouyang Rong squatted down, checked the way the monks were unconscious, and sighed:
"Once you are born, you will become familiar again, so you will naturally have experience."
Previously in Xiaogu Mountain, he and Ah Qing led a group of civilian warriors to carry dragon oil up the mountain. They were also attacked by a terrifying figure, and that person seemed to be quite afraid of massacring civilians.
So they knocked out a pair of civilian heroes one after another and threw them behind the forest. They sealed the caves of Ouyang Rong and Ah Qing and took them to the A-shaped sword furnace...
"Qiu Shenji has been here. In the Sutra Copying Hall... there are not only junior sisters." He nodded.
Li Guoer was impressed by the thoughtfulness of the young magistrate in front of her, but she saw from the corner of her eye that the hands under his sleeves were clenched tightly at some point, and sweat seemed to be soaked in his palms.
"So your previous speculation was that these monks were cleaning up the corpses outside the temple, but they were all knocked unconscious by Qiu Shenji who suddenly arrived and were thrown here?"
Li Guoer was thoughtful:
"So this Qiu Shenji should have come to see Wei Shaoxuan, but he met Sister Xie instead?"
Ouyang Rong nodded seriously.
"Thank you, sister, now..."
"Let's go." Ouyang Rong said suddenly.
Turning around and leaving the pagoda, he and Li Guo'er made a long circle in tacit agreement, bypassing the Sutra Copying Hall, and came to a rooftop in the distance opposite the main door of the Sutra Copying Hall, with a good view.
The two climbed up to the roof and observed from a distance.
I saw that half of the sutra-copying hall in front had collapsed, and the door of the hall fell to the ground, revealing the general scene inside the hall.
Take a closer look.
Sure enough, three familiar figures were vaguely visible.
The girl in red dress, the old monk in cassock, and...
A man in sackcloth.
The latter was covered in blood, his linen clothes were torn, and the sword wound on his chest was exposed. It looked like he had escaped from the fierce battle in Xiaogushan and was seriously injured.
But the situation of Xie Lingjiang and Master Shandao, who were standing opposite each other, was not much better.
Xie Lingjiang stood in front of Master Shandao, his figure motionless, and a jade ring around his waist was constantly flowing with vermilion light.
But she seemed unable to move her hand and did not respond.
As for the unknown Yue girl Ouyang Rong heard about from Liu Fu before, she was not seen in the hall and her whereabouts were unknown.
Observed for a while.
Ouyang Rong frowned and noticed that there seemed to be something vaguely separated between the two junior sisters and Qiu Shenji.
Qiu Shenji stopped two feet in front of them, wandering slowly, like a tiger or wolf surrounding its prey, but he didn't take a step forward.
There seems to be a thunder pool lying horizontally.
In the Sutra Copying Hall, the positions and situations of the two parties were more complicated than Ouyang Rong imagined.
On the roof hundreds of meters away, Ouyang Rong watched silently for a while, lowered his head, and took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms.
He opened the seal, poured the last Qi-Building Pill into the palm of his hand, and swallowed it calmly.
Li Guo'er frowned, vaguely guessing what he was going to do.
"What do you want to do?" she asked knowingly.
Ouyang Rong took out a mask, jumped off the roof, and said without looking back, "Junior sister can't hold on any longer."
Li Guoer asked back:
"This Qiu Shenji is a top-grade Qi practitioner. Is he as easy to deceive as Liu Fu?"
"No."
She stated: "He should be very familiar with Wei Shaoxuan."
"Yes."
She added: "With his knowledge, he should be able to understand the starting position of 'Han Shi''s sword."
"rational."
"Isn't this very risky?" She nodded helplessly and asked: "How do you deploy the sword? How do you survive fifteen breaths...or even more?"
"You can give it a try." He shook his head stubbornly and replied, "Build the plank road openly and visit the warehouse secretly."
Li Guoer was silent and looked at the distant hall where Sister Xie was about to draw her sword. She pursed her lips and jumped down lightly.
The little girl with plum blossom makeup and sleeves followed the young county magistrate. Under the tulle, a pretty face said:
"Then can you not hold my hand or hold my waist this time?"
Ouyang Rong calmly replied: "Yes, but this time, let's change positions."
"Okay...wait a minute." Li Guo'er tilted his head and asked, "What do you mean?"
"You caught me."
"...??"
Ouyang Lianghan, you are getting more and more outrageous...
Close to the Sutra Copying Hall.
Ouyang Rong threw a moonlight sword back, and Li Guo'er caught it tacitly.
…
(End of chapter)
