A rain fell without warning. The raindrops were not big, but they could not bear to rain for a long time. After walking for a while, everyone was already wet with raindrops, but they did not stop. There were no inns along the way, so they had to hold on. Pick up the oiled paper umbrella and continue on your way.
Zhao Qixing stretched out his hand to catch two drops of rainwater. This was the scene he saw. It rained and he was on his way.
After leaving the town, the group had been traveling for two hours, and they were all a little tired.
When I was on the road before, I had a destination and a direction, and I could roughly calculate when I would arrive, but this time it was different. This time, Zhao Qixing led the way. When asked how long it would take, he always said it would be soon, but this time How fast is it?
Gu Xiaotian held the umbrella all the way, his hands were a little sore, and he asked dissatisfiedly: "How far is the sword tomb?"
Zhao Qixing could only say perfunctorily: "It's all a secret. Don't let it out, or your life will be shortened."
Gu Xiaotian clicked his tongue, this guy was just showing off, maybe he had never even been to the Sword Tomb, everything he had done before was all his bragging!
Zhao Qixing looked at Xiao Yu, turned around and said with a smile: "Whether this is bragging or not, you will know soon."
Several people were helpless. After all, Zhao Qixing was leading the way. If he didn't tell them to stop, they would have to follow.
When he reached the fork of the official road, Zhao Qixing stopped, looked around, and finally chose the road on the right.
Gu Xiaotian was a little surprised. There was a sign clearly standing on the road on the right, with the word "Desert" written on it.
Could it be that this sword tomb is hidden in the desert?
Who cares, Zhao Qixing will lead the way, and he will go as he says. If he goes the wrong way, he will be beaten, and then he will go back the same way and continue to follow his plan.
As soon as they walked into the desert, the rain stopped. Everyone put away their oil-paper umbrellas and looked at the place full of sand, not even a touch of green was seen.
Is Zhao Qixing reliable?
Everyone couldn't help but look at it.
Only Zhao Qixing's expression became more and more excited, and his steps became faster and faster, as if there was a sword tomb in front of him.
But when everyone looked over, there was nothing but a large expanse of sand in front of them.
I don’t know what he is excited about. Is he not saying that secrets should not be leaked every day, but he is actually a lunatic? A few times before, a blind cat bumped into a dead mouse?
Zhao Qi walked to a place, finally stopped, and hurriedly squatted down to dig up the sand.
Gu Xiaotian came up and took a look curiously. The sand was half a meter thick. He had to dig it with his hands. Do you want to dig it until the year of the monkey?
Zhao Qixing only focused on digging sand and did not care about other people. After digging for a long time, Zhao Qixing finally smiled and said: "I found it!"
Everyone came over to take a look and saw Zhao Qixing taking out a sword hilt from the sand.
It was just the hilt, not even the blade.
The hilt of the sword was also very rusty. Even if it was thrown into the blacksmith shop, it would still have to be thrown into the furnace and recast.
Gu Xiaotian looked at Zhao Qixing holding the broken sword hilt and couldn't guess his intention.
Zhao Qixing held the hilt of the sword, knelt down on his knees, kowtowed and said, "Zhao Qixing respectfully asks the sword tomb to open the door!"
After waiting for a long time, there was still no response from the desert.
Zhao Qixing scratched his head, not believing in evil, and kowtowed twice again and said: "Junior Zhao Qixing, please open the sword tomb!"
At this time, an old man's voice suddenly came from the sky, "The Sword Tomb is an important place, and no one is allowed to enter!"
Gu Xiaotian was secretly shocked that someone actually responded.
Just looking around, there is no living thing in this desert except a few of them. Could it be that the sword tomb is actually hidden in the sky, and will there be a ladder descending from the sky?
Zhao Qixing stood up and said with a playful smile: "Senior, you are worrying too much. We all came here according to God's will and we are not idlers."
For a long time, the desert was silent.
Gu Xiaotian asked: "Don't you open the door?"
Zhao Qixing scratched the back of his head, feeling very strange.
When he left before, the owner of the sword tomb told him that he would bury the hilt of the sword in the desert and wait for it to be recovered.
The next time he came back to figure it out, he dug out the hilt of the sword. Why did the other party regret it after such a period of time passed?
Looking at the hilt of the sword in Zhao Qixing's hand, Gu Xiaotian suddenly thought: "Why don't you let me try it?"
In fact, it was not a sudden thought, but Gu Xiaotian felt that the hilt of the sword seemed to be calling him.
It seems that only after getting the hilt of the sword can the true face of the sword tomb be seen.
Zhao Qixing came back to his senses and let out a long shout. He was really smart. He was confused for a moment. He didn't need the opportunity of Jianzhong. Naturally, Jianzhong wouldn't open the door. The one who wanted the opportunity of Jianzhong was Gu Xiaotian!
After handing the hilt of the sword to Gu Xiaotian, Gu Xiaotian followed Zhao Qixing's previous example, knelt down on both knees, kowtowed and said: "Junior Gu Xiaotian, please open the door to the sword tomb!".
As soon as he finished speaking, a huge gust of wind and sand rose up in the desert, making everyone unable to open their eyes.
When everyone opened their eyes again, the original desert scenery had disappeared. What was in front of everyone was a vibrant oasis, standing in front of them as if appearing out of thin air.
Qu Xiaohan murmured: "It turns out there really is a sword tomb in this world."
In front of the oasis, there were two children in green clothes stationed at the door, a man and a woman. They had obviously been waiting for a long time. They came up with a smiling basket in their hands, took out a banana leaf from the basket, and swept it over a few people. Just made a gesture of invitation.
Entering the oasis is like a paradise.
There are not many houses in the entire oasis. You can count them clearly at a glance. These residents are no different from ordinary people. They are doing farming or practicing swordsmanship in open fields.
Zhao Qixing pointed to the innermost house and said, "That is the house of the owner of Jianzhong."
Qu Xiaohan stopped a few people and said with a smile: "Since it is Gu Xiaotian asking for an opportunity, it would be breaking the rules if we come together, so we will wait here."
Zhao Qixing and Gu Xiaotian walked side by side towards the innermost room. Gu Xiaotian asked Zhao Qixing on the way what kind of person the master of the sword tomb was, but Zhao Qixing kept telling him that he would know it if he had seen it.
There was a gap left in front of the door. Apparently the people in the room knew someone was coming and left the door intentionally open. However, out of politeness, Gu Xiaotian still knocked on the door three times before entering the room.
Stepping through the threshold, there are dozens of swords displayed in the room, hanging on the walls one by one. Apart from these swords, there is only a table and a bed.
The owner of this sword tomb must be a real swordsman who didn't even arrange a chair.
Looking at the swords on the wall, the sword intention in Gu Xiaotian's body suddenly surged, and his hands couldn't help but want to touch the swords on the wall, as if they were merging together.
For such a moment of trance, Gu Xiaotian felt his sword power surge. Just as his hand was about to touch the sword on the wall, there was a sound outside the door.
"The sword is excellent, but the mind is inferior."
After coming back to his senses, he turned around and saw an old man standing at the door of the house. He walked into the house with his hands behind his back and gently took down the sword that Gu Xiaotian originally wanted to touch.
After knowing that he was rude, Gu Xiaotian quickly bowed and apologized: "I was confused for a moment. If I was offended, please don't blame me."
The old man shook his head, "It doesn't matter, these swords still have a glimmer of life, but they will slowly die out soon."
The old man looked at Zhao Qixing again and said with a smile: "You said before that you would definitely bring someone with you when you come back. He is the one who needs the opportunity of Jianzhong. It seems that he is the one?"
Zhao Qixing nodded and smiled at Gu Xiaotian.
Gu Xiaotian quickly knelt down on one knee and said, "Senior, if I have the opportunity to give it to you, I will be very grateful to you!"
He'll do something good.
Kneel down when you need to. Opportunity is not something that can be found casually. Just the appearance of this sword tomb is enough to be dreamy. In such a dreamy place, there must be good luck.
But the old man waved his hand and said: "People often say that the sword tomb is mysterious. In fact, our sword tomb is not mysterious at all. As long as we open the door sincerely, the sword tomb will naturally appear.
In front of people now, it’s just that our Lin family has been guarding the sword tomb for generations, and there has never been a chance for anyone to take away the sword tomb. "
The sword tomb is not big, and the people living here are all named Lin, both men and women.
The Lin family has a long history if we look back. The original Lin family was just a generation of swordsmen, and they just learned the art of swordsmanship by chance.
However, the swordsman who realized the way of the sword did not use the sword to act chivalrously, but instead became murderous. For a time, corpses were everywhere in the rivers and lakes. Fortunately, an immortal later took action to suppress it and imprisoned the swordsman of the Lin family in this oasis. Inside, he said that he wanted his descendants to guard this place from generation to generation. Only after someone comes to take away the things he put here can he choose to leave.
This defense lasted for nearly a hundred years.
Now it has been passed down to the third generation of the family, Lin Xiao.
Gu Xiaotian asked: "Senior, can you tell me where the opportunity in the sword tomb is placed, and how to get it out?"
Lin Xiao silently shook his head.
Although he is the head of the family, he actually has no idea where the opportunity lies. He only knows that his father told him that the things the immortal placed here exist in the dense forest at the innermost part of the oasis, and that dense forest is banned. People with Lin family blood cannot enter.
After telling the location of the dense forest, Gu Xiaotian wanted to go there without stopping to see what was going on.
But he was stopped by Lin Xiao. The reason was naturally whether Gu Xiaotian was the one who could take the things away.
No one dares to guarantee it.
When she met Zhao Qixing before, Lin Xiao had been in contact with him for a few days and felt that he should have been sent by the immortal. After all, the immortal had trapped the Lin family here for nearly a hundred years. If it was considered punishment, it should be enough.
However, Zhao Qixing rejected Lin Xiao's request. He said that even if he entered the dense forest, he would not be able to take the things away.
It didn't belong to him in the first place. If he took it away by force, he would be violating the immortal's wishes.
When leaving, Zhao Qixing told Lin Xiao that he would definitely come back soon, and when he came back he should be able to find something that could take away the things the immortal put here, and give the Lin family freedom.
Lin Xiao has his own judgment. Even though this is the person brought back by Zhao Qixing, Lin Xiao will not easily let Gu Xiaotian enter the dense forest to try. If something goes wrong, he is afraid that he will anger the immortal. Shut them up for a hundred years.
This oasis seems to be full of life, like a paradise in the world, but it is actually cruel to the Lin family, because for generations they cannot leave the oasis, and they can only be buried in the oasis until they die.
They have no idea what the outside world is like.
