Small towns in the south are undoubtedly extremely lonely and quiet.
Nanyi City has suffered from wars many times, so it is naturally difficult for such a town to the east to be lively.
Perhaps it was because it had just rained. The stone slabs in the town were wet and had a dark color.
I don't know whose clothes were forgotten in the alley. They were knocked down by the rain and were spread in the corner of the wall in an awkward manner.
The man in black robe bent down, silently picked up the piece of clothing, and placed it on the wall. It was probably the movement that alerted the people in the yard. One man stretched out his head warily and saw the man. When he was dressed in black, the color in his eyes first turned into fear, and then turned into a very reassuring emotion.
"It turns out to be the Lord of Heavenly Prison."
The man in his thirties looked at Lord Tianji who came from nowhere and bowed respectfully.
If it were in the year 103 of the Gale Calendar, these people might not have such a good attitude towards these people in black.
Only now apparently the story is different.
During the war in the south, Heavenly Prison became one of the few places in the world that people could rely on and seek sustenance - when both the Xuansheyuan and the Human Sword Sect rebelled and left.
The man in black robe just nodded slightly, without saying anything, and continued walking deeper into the alley. But halfway through, he seemed to remember something, and looked back at the small town man who was about to close the courtyard door, and pondered. After a while, he asked.
"Do you have a blacksmith here?"
The man obviously didn't expect that the Lord of Heavenly Hell would suddenly ask such a question. He didn't react for a while. He looked at the man for a long time, but he didn't see anything like a sword that needed to be repaired. , but if there is no such thing, it does not mean that you cannot go to the blacksmith. Maybe it is precisely because there is no such thing that you come here for this purpose.
"There seems to be one. It's on the east side of the town. You can ask around, or I can show you the way."
The man in black robe nodded and said, "Thank you very much. There is no need to lead the way."
The man said sincerely: "You're welcome, sir..."
This sentence seems to have not been finished.
So the man in black robe still stood there for a long time, looking at the small town man standing at the entrance of the courtyard.
After hesitating for a long time, the man in this small town asked very carefully: "Where do you come from, sir?"
The man from the Heavenly Prison said calmly: "Huaidu."
This place name obviously surprised the men in the town. They were stunned for a while before they bowed respectfully again.
"It turns out to be the master of Huaidu."
Not only was Yu Dan from Huaidu, but also the dispatcher from the north of Heaven Prison. Because he was worried about any accidents, he came to the south in person. Yu Dan looked at the man from the small town for a long time, and then said slowly: "What else do you want? Did you ask?"
The man in the small town was a little uneasy, but he probably did have some questions. If he didn't ask them, he would be even more uneasy.
It took a long time before the man's sincere voice rang out from the alley, which occasionally had the sound of raindrops on the green eaves.
"Your Majesty...don't you want the south?"
I don't know why, but when Yu Dan heard such a gentle question, he felt a little pity in his heart.
Therefore, the light in the eyes of the Heavenly Prison Northern Dispatcher softened a little. He looked at the man for a long time and said slowly: "I won't let him go. They will be here soon."
The man from the small town had a happy face, and he saluted and said repeatedly: "Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir."
Yu Dan didn't say anything more, turned around and headed towards the east of the town.
When the Heavenly Prison Northern Dispatcher walked out of the alley, he stopped at the entrance for a long time, looking up at the green hills outside the town for a long time, such an ancient city, such a group of mountains, and a place that was still burning with blood and blood. The battlefield of fire is outside those green mountains and seems to be invisible.
It's just that without seeing some things, you can imagine many stories that make the world panic.
Yu Dan had to admit that he was still a little lucky that this was a world where etiquette and music had not really collapsed.
The world still talks about many rules - the war has not extended to these human towns.
Although the world is in a panic, it is not as if the people are in dire straits and homeless - this is probably a story that some people are unwilling to write.
Be courteous to the world and be courteous to the world.
Yu Dan stood there melancholy for a long time before finally taking steps towards the east of the town.
After asking questions along the way, the attitude of the world towards Heavenly Prison has indeed improved a lot - after all, there are some things that the world can see.
In these turbulent stories in the South, such a worldly office with dark walls in a deep courtyard has indeed shouldered a lot of wind and snow for the world.
Naturally, Lingnan was not the only one who died generously for the sake of the world.
The east part of the town is the last branch of the tributary from the Nanyi River. Not far from the town, it extends into a large tidal flat, Tingzhou land, with lush reeds and grass, and it seems that there is indeed a family in it.
When Yu Dan walked there, he saw a muscular man with bare arms tying a boat in a small shed on the water bank.
This scene undoubtedly made Yu Dan look weird.
Because there are some fishing nets in the boat, and there are some fish with blue and white scales in the nets.
Even Yu Dan, who was the dispatcher of the Northern Heavenly Prison, when he saw this scene, he doubted whether he had come to the wrong place.
Yu Dan watched there for a long time. The man was very skillfully tying the boat and collecting the net. He was probably too serious. It took him a long time before he noticed the man in black robe by the water.
The sudden arrival of the Heavenly Prisoner will certainly bring some surprise to the people in the town, especially because the robes worn by such a man are not the ordinary clothes worn by the Heavenly Prisoner.
Whether Yu Dan had suffered any grievances in Huaidu is unknown to the world, but when he stood quietly by the reed water, with his black robe rippling, it was always easy to make people's hearts tighten.
The man hesitated for a moment, put down the net in his hand, hurriedly stepped on such a swampy path, came to Yu Dan, and bowed.
"Sir, do you have anything to do with me?"
When such a man stops in the town, people in the town will naturally not ask such a question.
After all, there are streets and roads in the town, and no one knows who this man in hell is looking for.
But when we got here, there was a swamp and tidal flat ahead, and there was only one family like this among the reeds, so it was naturally different.
Yu Dan looked at the man quietly for a long time, then stretched out his hand and said calmly: "Show me your hand."
The man hesitated a little. Although he didn't know what he was going to do, he still stretched out his hand nervously and handed it to Yu Dan.
Of course, the hands of small town men have calluses. On the soft flesh of the palms, there are very hard calluses, and they also have some yellow and black colors - probably caused by hammering and hammering iron.
Yu Dan looked at it for a while, then raised his eyes to look at this very strong man, and said slowly: "You used to be a blacksmith?"
The man was stunned for a moment, and then said seriously: "It is the same now."
Yu Dan raised his eyebrows and looked at the small fishing boat used to enter the water for fishing.
The man said seriously: "In the past, you could make a good income by making some farm tools for small towns and nearby villages. But adults also know that the world has not been peaceful in recent years, and everyone is uneasy. Naturally, these needs If you don’t have enough food, if you don’t have any work on weekdays, just catch some fish in the water..."
Yu Dan was silent for a while and said softly: "I understand."
The man didn't say any more. He looked at the man who had come to heaven for no apparent reason and asked cautiously: "Sir, do you want to..."
Yu Dan walked along the path the man came from, until he reached the house among the reeds. There were indeed some blacksmithing stoves and utensils there, but there was no fire in the stove, and it had probably been out for a long time.
The man followed up silently and stood behind Yu Dan. After waiting for a long time, he still didn't wait for the answer from Lord Tianji. He hesitated a little, thinking that he didn't hear, so he took a step forward. Just when he was about to ask again, this Lord Tianji indeed suddenly put his hand into his sleeve. The next moment, with the surprised look on his face, the man in this small town pulled out a very crude sword from his loose robe. .
The man stepped back in horror.
Yu Dan turned around holding the sword, turned the sword upside down in his hand, handed the hilt to the man, and said calmly: "I picked up a sword by chance. It doesn't look very beautiful. I hope you can help me. Recast it.”
The moment Yu Dan turned around with the sword in hand, the man was so frightened that he was wet all over and gasping for air. It wasn't until he heard the following words that he calmed down a little, calmed down a little, and looked at Yu Dan's hand. That sword.
This was indeed a very crudely made sword, so much so that when it was inserted into the heart of a sword cultivator in white, it made a Taoist Taoist from Shanhe Guan think that he was like a horse.
The man looked at it silently for a while, seemed to be a little embarrassed, and said softly: "It is indeed possible to cast it, but adults... What I usually make are rural farm tools, but for things like swords, there are only I made some before when I was an apprentice in Nanyi City, but they have been abandoned for many years. Maybe after they are finished, they will look uglier than they look now..."
Yu Dan said calmly: "It doesn't matter."
Such simple words probably cannot be rejected.
The man was silent for a long time, then took the sword and said softly: "Sir, please wait a moment. It will take a long time for the stove to heat up."
Yu Dan nodded and said, "Take your time, don't rush."
As the dispatcher from the North of Heavenly Hell spoke, he caught a glimpse of the small boat tied to the water by the man not far away - there were some fish in the net in the boat struggling for lack of water.
Yu Dan turned around and headed that way.
"You do it slowly, and I'll help you get the fish out."
Only then did the man remember his fish and kept saying, "I don't dare bother you, sir."
Yu Dan just said calmly: "The fish smells bad, can I still sell it?"
The man said nothing more and walked back to the blacksmithing stove, preparing to give the sword a good beating - it couldn't really make it look uglier than before.
The man looked at the sword in his hand melancholy, and then looked at the bank of the reed water. The Lord of Heavenly Hell got on the boat and picked fish from the net one by one.
This is probably a weird thing indeed.
The man was puzzled.
...
The fire was burning brightly.
The two of them stood by the stove and looked at the iron sword lying quietly among the coals.
The sky is approaching evening, and the sunset is reflected in the water. After the rain, the world is probably very cold and quiet, especially around such a small town beside the green mountains and rivers.
There is smoke curling up from the town, bringing with it the smell of human food.
Although the man didn't want to smell that smell, it was just that the wind in the world didn't understand the meaning of the world, so it still blew that smell over very persistently.
The man glanced at Master Tian Yu next to him. The latter looked calm. Of course, the people in Tian Yu were all practitioners, so they would naturally not be hungry.
But the man still asked sincerely: "The material of this sword seems to be unusual. It may not soften for a while. Are you hungry? Do you want me to make a fish for you?"
Yu Dan turned around and looked at the man silently for a long time, shook his head, nodded again, and said, "Okay."
The man left the stove with some joy, ran to the bucket where the fish had been placed, picked out a big fish, squatted by the water, and handled the fish neatly.
Yu Dan stood by the fire and watched for a long time.
Hell is often a place where people are suspected of being guilty.
Because there are too many things that cannot be proven.
Just like this story now.
His Majesty asked Tian Yu to come to the south and see if he could still find such a blacksmith from the East China Sea.
It's just that both Liu Qinghe and Yu Dan are extremely troubled by such a thing.
No one has ever seen such a blacksmith from the East China Sea. Maybe some people have seen him but have forgotten it.
How to find such a person?
The most important thing is that the only case file that may have records about such a blacksmith was burned in Nanyi City. Yu Dan could only trace some clues through the household registration of Kidoji.
It's just that of course not everyone in the world will record Kido Tsukasa.
Even around Huaidu, there are some people who have not recorded their residence, so naturally many things cannot be known accurately.
Yu Dan could only use very primitive methods to test it bit by bit.
What can you tell by just looking?
Yu Dan was silent for a long time, then raised his hand and took out the red-hot but still extremely hard sword from the scorching furnace.
The man squatted by the water and cut open the belly of the fish, taking out the fish intestines, fish eggs and other things.
Yu Dan held the sword and walked behind the man.
Whether Heavenly Hell is good or bad may be a question that the world will not be able to answer clearly in another thousand years.
But at least at this moment, when Yu Dan is holding such a red-hot sword...
Yu Dan didn't think about it anymore. He walked to the water's edge with his sword and slashed the man's arm with his sword very quickly.
The sound of wind in the dusk is soothing.
Just the sound of the scorching sword breaking through the wind was extremely sharp.
The man seemed to hear something.
But everything happened so quickly.
That hand, together with the fish intestines that had not yet been taken out, suddenly fell into the water with a plop.
In this way, the watery land east of the town remained silent for a long time.
The man looked down at the severed arm in the water, and for a moment he didn't understand where such a familiar-looking hand came from.
Until the burning and profound pain in my shoulder came.
The man suddenly cried out in pain. He used his remaining hand to cover the broken part of his right arm. He fell back in fear and saw the man holding the scorching sword with a silent expression on his face. When he came to the prison, his whole body kept trembling, kicking on the mud and retreating.
"Big... big..."
The man might want to ask what Lord Tianji wanted to do, but in the sudden and severe pain, he couldn't say anything.
Yu Dan's hand holding the sword was very steady.
The blood on the sword was ignited by the high temperature in an instant, and continued to spread along the sword's body, just like the sunset.
Anyone who forges swords knows that the blood of human beings is actually a very good combustion accelerant. Only with high enough temperature can the iron ore be melted. This is why there were human sacrifices to swords in the ancient stories of the ignorance of the world. s story.
So the fire on the sword is not a very magical story.
The man's screams continued at the water's edge. Even in the small town, people heard them and ran out, standing in the distance and looking towards this side.
The flames on the sword gradually lowered, just like the twilight will not last long.
Yu Dan was silent for a long time, then bent down and put the sword in his hand into the water. The water vapor instantly filled the waterside place.
"Feel sorry."
The dispatcher from the northern part of the Heavenly Prison did not look back. He quietly looked at the sword submerged in the water and spoke softly.
The man just looked pale and fell to the ground beside the water in pain. He looked at this Lord Tianji who had drawn his sword and hurt people for no apparent reason with confusion and fear.
It wasn't until the sword had completely cooled down that Yu Dan silently took it out and put it into his sleeve. He turned around and looked at the sword with guilt. Due to the turmoil in the world, he had no business in farm tools and had to catch some fish. A man who makes a living.
"This is the only way I can try."
Only then did the man finally regain some of his language skills, struggled to stand up from the ground, and stumbled back.
"Why, my lord?"
Yu Dan looked at the pool of blood on the ground in silence, and after a long time, he spoke slowly.
"Because the answer to such a question is so important to the human world."
The man just stood there in pain and confusion, with blood dripping from his shoulders.
In the twilight, the water reeds became painful and kept swaying in the wind.
Yu Dan turned around and looked at the man for a long time, then silently took out a money bag from his arms, put it on the ground, turned around and walked away in the direction he came from.
People in the distant town watched this scene in silence and panic.
In the story of the war in the South, Hell may indeed play a very positive role.
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It's just a story that happened suddenly in such a small town, but it reminds the world.
Of course, heaven is still hell.
Good and bad in the world may never be opposites.
Everything is a struggle and a contradiction.
