It was the first time for Ling Xiaoman to see such a strong person.
He was cut in half from the chest, but he was still alive!
However, the aura of Tiehen was already very weak.
"Ling Xiaoman?"
Tiehen didn't expect that he would still see Ling Xiaoman when he was about to die.
Ling Xiaoman nodded: "It's me."
Tiehen whispered: "It's fine if it's you. You can hear every word I say clearly and remember it well."
Ling Xiaoman didn't dare to speak and listened carefully.
"Do you know the source of the secret technique?" Tiehen asked.
"Know."
Tiehen smiled indifferently and was relieved to save the time to explain the source of the secret method: "Your brother and I know each other. Two and a half years ago, your brother went to the headquarters of the Ministry of War to steal the source of the secret method. I fought with him for three days."
Ling Xiaoman's heart trembled and he said, "My brother was killed by you?"
"No, your brother is very strong and escaped."
Ling Xiaoman let out a sigh of relief.
Tiehen said: "Your brother said that he wanted to destroy the source of the secret method for the good of Jiutian Continent, but I stopped him. Later, I did the same thing.
"However, the source of the secret method is too hard, and the core is almost indestructible! I put the core in your trial place. After you get it, you will have a better effect than the secret method spring, and it is not as good as the secret method spring. This is a side effect of reducing talent. There is a map in my Sumeru Ring with coordinates, you go get it."
Ling Xiaoman took Tiehen's Sumeru Ring. There was a lot of space inside and there were many resources. Ling Xiaoman quickly found the map.
"There is also a knife." Tiehen reminded.
Ling Xiaoman took out the knife. The knife was not wide, but the blade was slender. It was a ninth-level magic weapon, indestructible!
"Do you like knives or swords?" Tie Hen asked.
Ling Xiaoman said: "Although I learned the Nine Blades of the Demon Sword, I actually still like swords."
Tiehen asked: "Because he is handsome?"
Ling Xiaoman replied: "Yes."
Tiehen shook his head: "Young, young! Do you know why we use knives?"
Ling Xiaoman didn't know.
"Because the knife only has a single edge, it was never born for killing, but for protection."
Tiehen said: "Remember, the direction of the blade is for enemy, and the direction of the back of the sword is for love. My family, country, relatives, friends, and land, everything is what I love."
Ling Xiaoman suddenly woke up!
He remembered that snowy night, when Ling Feng's broken blade was facing Snow Wolf and his back was facing him.
Thinking of Yun Yan massacring the army on the mountain, she always followed him, as if protecting a treasure.
Even old man Zhang once raised his long knife and faced the official for himself...
…
Tiehen asked: "What do you like now?"
"I like knives." Ling Xiaoman's eyes were clear.
Tiehen was very pleased and said: "Very good, from now on this Tielu Sword will be yours, and you can help me deliver the resources in my Xumijie to the thirty-four households in Wumaxi Lane in the slums of Tianyun City. That's where I was born."
Ling Xiaoman felt a little confused.
He didn't have much hatred for Tie Hen. On the contrary, Tie Hen had helped him a lot, and he also knew that this "iron-faced judge" was cold on the outside and warm on the inside.
Unexpectedly, this powerful law enforcer was also from a pariah background.
He really wanted to keep Tiehen alive, but with his cultivation in the foundation building stage, what could he do?
In the end, Ling Xiaoman nodded and said, "Okay, I will deliver it."
Tiehen closed his eyes in contentment, his breath already weak to the extreme.
"Go ahead and don't have to watch me die."
Ling Xiaoman felt even sadder and turned around to leave.
After Ling Xiaoman ran away, a dark shadow came over and blocked the moonlight. He smiled with his teeth, which were extremely white.
"Ling Feng said, let me follow you, and you will work with us sooner or later. That guy is right."
Then, Tiehen put away his limbs and disappeared from the night sky.
…
After witnessing the battle between Tiehen and another person, Ling Xiaoman didn't dare to stay in the wild anymore, for fear that the other person would regret it temporarily and come to kill him again.
As for the breakthrough, Ling Xiaoman was not in a hurry.
After all, now Tiehen has given himself the core of the source of the secret technique. With this core, all his bottlenecks will disappear and he can directly step into the first level!
Moreover, his path to the peak of the third level will be smooth!
Therefore, it would be a good idea to wait until we find the source of the secret technique and attack the realm together.
He ran all the way back to the martial arts academy, still looking a little panicked.
Old man Zhang hurriedly got up and asked, "What happened?"
Ling Xiaoman nodded: "Something happened, Tiehen is dead."
"Tiehen? Who can kill Tiehen?"
Old Man Zhang frowned, Tie Hen was standing in the cloud of warriors, only a thin line away from the Supreme!
"A person named Yuwenhu, who is Yuwenhu?"
Old Man Zhang panicked: "The general of the Ministry of War is a supreme leader! You haven't been seen by him, have you?"
Ling Xiaoman shook his head.
Old Man Zhang let out a long breath and said: "Then you should continue to practice killing ferocious beasts. Try to get to the first level as soon as possible. If you don't go to the Tianyuan trial before the first level, you will only die!"
Ling Xiaoman said: "No need, before Tiehen died, he gave me a great gift, giving me the core of the source of the secret law."
Old man Zhang didn't understand, so Ling Xiaoman explained it to him before he understood.
"So you don't need to practice for the time being?"
"Yes, I killed a lot of ferocious beasts this day, took some materials, and sold them to buy tactics."
Ling Xiaoman lacked nothing but fighting skills.
The tactics in hand are still not enough. They are all too strong and consume a lot of spiritual energy. The more of these things, the better.
Ling Xiaoman also had a Sumeru Ring in his hand. It was the bald master's Sumeru Ring, which contained a lot of ferocious beast materials.
However, when Ling Xiaoman sent those materials to the Chamber of Commerce, the price was not ideal.
"What the hell, you only gave me ten taels of silver for my two blood-steel pig teeth? It would cost thirty taels to buy them from you!"
"You only gave me eighteen taels of silver for the jade deer's antlers?"
"and this……"
"A black shop, you are a black shop!"
Ling Xiaoman made a big fuss with the people at the counter. It was his first time selling things and he felt like he had been taken advantage of!
I originally thought that these things would all have a good price, but the result is so poor. Even if there are seventy or eighty materials, it will not cost much.
The receptionist at the counter said seriously: "A black shop? Brother, don't talk nonsense!"
"With this price, do you dare to say that you are not a black shop?" Ling Xiaoman was furious.
The receptionist said: "You're a big-headed idiot! Do you think I don't have to pay taxes?"
Ling Xiaoman was stunned for a moment and said, "Tell me carefully!"
The receptionist said helplessly: "We have to pay a tax of 30% on our transactions! I will spend ten taels of silver to collect your things, and I will pay the tax for you if you have four taels or five taels of silver! Don't look at me selling for 30 taels. Two, when the time comes, there will be a tax of ten taels, how dare I not pay it? If I don’t pay it, my little shop will be punished by Master Bing!”
Ling Xiaoman had a big head and asked: "So many?"
"Yes, that's the amount. This is the tax rate set by the federal government." The receptionist said helplessly, "The tax goes to support the military department and provide supplies to the Holy Land."
It is precisely because the tax rate is high enough that the Ministry of War has enough resources and is powerful enough to suppress the entire continent! Only then can we continue to maintain such high taxes.
"What a bastard! All my money was taken away by those bastards. They made more money than I did during the robbery!"
Ling Xiaoman finally realized what Yun Yan said. Even if they could rob hundreds of thousands of taels in one robbery, it was still far behind the Federation's new "robbery" method!
In the end, Ling Xiaoman sold everything, took 850 taels of silver, and bought two new tactics.
Both are second-level tactics, one is the attack tactic "Fire Knife", and the other is the movement tactic "Ice Escape". Compared with the previous tactics, these two tactics are much simpler. They are not difficult to learn and are more powerful. Save your energy.
Just like that, after practicing for a day.
In the afternoon of the next day, Ling Xiaoman's chalcedony began to shine with a milky white light.
"It's time to go." Old man Zhang was very attentive, with a worried mood like Master Sun Xing Qianli. He stuffed Ling Xiaoman's Sumeru Ring with quilts, tents, "The Collection of Ten Thousand Volumes of Huochun Palace", and anthropomorphic dolls. …
Ling Xiaoman's face turned dark and he scolded: "Why are you installing these things for me?"
Old man Zhang said: "You are shy and don't dare to talk to other girls. There is no hope of having a grandson. You have nothing to do, so you might as well take a look at these."
"Lost it!" Ling Xiaoman was so angry that he almost jumped! Old Man Zhang could only throw it away helplessly.
"But you have to get these dry food. The trial lasts for half a month, so don't go hungry."
Ling Xiaoman originally wanted to refuse, but looking at Old Man Zhang's loving eyes, he finally accepted.
"If you leave this time, geniuses from all sides will probably target you, so be careful." Old Man Zhang said.
"Okay." Ling Xiaoman nodded.
He has been helping the cook in the martial arts academy since he was six years old. Since then, Old Man Zhang has been helping the two brothers from time to time. It has been twelve years now.
Just like my own grandfather.
Now it was his first time to travel far away. His mouth was a little trembling, but he still suppressed his emotions and said with a smile: "I will escape unscathed and come back with the quota to enter Tianyun Martial House. When the time comes, , I am a truly free man.”
"Okay." Old Man Zhang also let go of his hand.
Ling Xiaoman took out the chalcedony and injected it with spiritual energy. The lines in the chalcedony spread out. In just a moment, a magic circle was formed, and Ling Xiaoman disappeared into the magic circle.
When we came out again, we had arrived in a big city full of spiritual energy!
