Chapter 244

Two hundred and fifty-two, Is the Xiao Shimei in danger?

Ever since Ouyang Rong first spat out his true name and established a connection with "Craftsmanship," he had realized the massive demand of the Dingjian for spiritual energy.

No wonder Dingjian are mostly not things that individuals can possess.

It is said that the "Emperor Wen Huang" possessed by the Great Zhou imperial court has a large group of people serving it behind the scenes, and it is supported by a whole system. Even the Xiao Shimei once joked that it is "the iron-clad Emperor Wen Huang, the flowing sword-wielders."

He discovered that from the birth of the first Dingjian in the Qin Dynasty to the present, after so much time of exploration, the Qi Refiner world inside and outside the world seems to have reached a consensus.

If one wants to go far, the sword-wielder must have the support of a top force behind them, just like the Wei family's Prince Wei's Mansion is to Wei Shaoxuan.

Ouyang Rong faintly guessed that this was probably the reason why the old swordsmith wanted to transfer Aqing, who was a person of great prosperity, and "Craftsmanship" together to the hidden sect Yunmeng Sword Marsh.

Because cultivating a sword-wielder requires throwing in massive resources. Bu Jian killing people was refreshing, but just the Qi-replenishing items needed to quickly restore spiritual energy and combat power after using a Dingjian ultimate art once were not something ordinary Qi Refiners could easily squander.

And the path of a sword-wielder is not necessarily passable. After all, it is a mythical Severed Meridian, sword manuals are hard to find, true meaning is hard to comprehend, and the bottleneck of every grade is like a chasm.

Even for a cultivation seed like the Xiao Shimei, if she accidentally chooses the wrong path, she might be blinded by a leaf, embark on the mythical Severed Meridian path, fail to comprehend the true meaning of the Dingjian, and get stuck at the bottleneck, which would be a waste of great talent.

"Makes sense."

"What's wrong, does this academy's psychic jade ring point to next door?" Princess Li Guoer guessed intelligently: "Is Wei Shaoxuan's jade ring there?"

She paused, "Could there be a trap? But that's not right either. If it's the old swordsmith's enemy, how would they know this jade ring is in your hands?"

We have to give the new book friends a good impression. Give her some face in front of people. What is "family status"? (Leaning back)

For these things, noble ladies like Sheng Xianglun are actually unable to understand, because the family background of the five surnames and one hope and the father's great Confucianism naturally gave her a higher platform and a broader vision.

On the roof, Qiu Shenji watched silently for a while. He lowered his head, took out a small porcelain bottle from his bosom, poured the last Qi-replenishing elixir into his palm, and swallowed it.

The two of them left the Beitian Jiyang Yuan together.

Sheng Xianglun felt the direction the jade ring in her hand was faintly pointing and pondered: "The induction is right in the front hall, but the Xiao Shimei has no response."

"The wounds are all throat-slitting sword wounds, which should be from the Xiao Shimei's hand. There are bloodstains dragged on the floor tiles, and the bodies were moved by someone later."

"Do you eat this too... A mortal body forging a myth?" He murmured, faintly catching a glimpse of the true meaning.

Qiu Shenji threw a moonlight longsword backward, and Princess Li Guoer caught it tacitly. "Is this Sheng Xianglun so easy to fool?"

"Something's not right." Sheng Xianglun suddenly raised her head: "Just now, Liu Fu and the others were repelled by the Xiao Shimei and an unknown Yue woman. By logic, after the Xiao Shimei escaped, she should have come to find you and Uncle Li, but we haven't encountered anyone along the way. Where did the Xiao Shimei go?"

"There is not only the Xiao Shimei in the Scripture Copying Hall, but also others." He said.

The main hall and the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall where Qiu Shenji and the other two were currently located were only separated by a bamboo forest, neighbors to each other.

Da Rong is a piece of trash, brothers, stop scolding. For the sake of the hard-won recommendation slot, endure it for one day. Don't scold today, scold tomorrow, okay, babies?

But I won't set a flag, I won't guarantee... If I end up staying up until evening to post it, it will only torture you brothers, woo woo.

No one. Approaching the Scripture Copying Hall.

Qiu Shenji frowned and looked around, "The Xiao Shimei has mysophobia, she wouldn't move those bodies."

Along the way, Sheng Xianglun knitted her brows, carefully pondering the sentence that had just surfaced in her heart like a flash of inspiration.

Xie Jie blocked in front of Venerable Shan Dao, motionless. The jade ring at her waist was shining, but she also made no response, as if she couldn't pull her hand away.

The fact that "Craftsmanship" reacted to the purple merit mist he had accumulated was a major discovery.

In the next instant, she was grabbed by the wrist again, pulled back with force, and her body couldn't help but spin around, almost falling.

"Go to see what?"

The latter's face was full of lingering doubts, but she followed quietly.

He had a vague impression that when he had breakfast earlier, he seemed to have been dragged by the long-haired girl to this hall because of the strange sound of the Buddha statue.

Princess Li Guoer was thoughtful:

Besides, Qiu Shenji was not idle. Taking advantage of the gradually weakening crisp sound of the wooden fish in his ears, he extracted his mind on the way and glanced at the Merit Tower.

It was as if a Thunder Pool was placed between them.

At the moment of touching the physical body of the Dingjian for the first time, Qiu Shenji suddenly realized that the paths that severely restricted the Dingjian and the sword-wielder, and heavily relied on the support of powerful forces behind them, didn't seem to be a problem with this "Craftsmanship."

"Deducting the original three thousand two hundred or so, it increased by about four thousand merit, right?" or2 (Pouting)

No one.

But this also meant that the way this Xie noble lady looked at problems had a bit more romantic idealism, so she really loved the big cakes that a certain Senior Brother liked to draw, and she ate them all until she was full...

Princess Li Guoer faintly guessed what he was going to do and hesitated:

Qiu Shenji's eyes turned pale purple, and he slowly reached out, his fingertips touching a trembling "Arc" in front of him.

The jade ring slowly became hot. Merit deducted by one.

Princess Li Guoer's eyes were a bit unbelievable. Could it be that the Dingjian also had the ability to predict the future and sense danger? That was too outrageous.

Qiu Shenji didn't answer. He understood the Xiao Shimei better.

So far, he was walking in the front in a daze, and could only rely on his own blind exploration.

He continued to lead Princess Li Guoer away, but didn't immediately go to the Scripture Copying Hall where the Xiao Shimei's jade ring was sensed.

Qiu Shenji turned around again and led Princess Li Guoer to search around the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall.

Qiu Shenji looked at her and nodded slightly.

"Is that the Scripture Copying Hall?" Sheng Xianglun asked hesitantly.

"Okay... wait." Princess Li Guoer nodded, then suddenly reacted and asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"

After a while, the two arrived at a Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall.

The "Arc" in the air, after being touched by Qiu Shenji, had its clear blue sword light dyed a little bit by a kind of purple that seemed to appear out of thin air.

There was someone beside him at the moment, so he couldn't fully verify it for the time being... Qiu Shenji was calm and composed.

"Creak--!"

Putting aside the insidious and cunning, as long as the three Liu brothers could break free from the chessboard of Longcheng County and obtain the two admission tickets of "sword-wielder" and "Dingjian," where wouldn't the world be vast and the sky high after they got out?

Qiu Shenji didn't speak, suddenly took out a deer-shaped jade ring full of cracks from his sleeve, followed the example of the last time he watched the Xiao Shimei's method of use, and injected a little spiritual energy that his dantian had just recovered into it.

At this moment on Mount Dagu, Qiu Shenji was dazed, observing the scene on the mountain where the Zhe Yi Canal turned decay into magic and subdued the monstrous flood.

If he hadn't guessed wrong, this jade ring should have come from the academy uncle the Xiao Shimei had been searching for bitterly. As for why it fell into the hands of the old swordsmith and was full of cracks, did he still need to guess?

"Simple." He shook his head and answered: "Openly repair the plank road, secretly cross the Chen Cang." And... Sheng Xianglun.

And who doesn't yearn to touch a myth?

"Where did Wei Shaoxuan go?" Princess Li Guoer turned her head and looked around. "Once bitten, twice shy, naturally there is experience."

And at the moment, the Zhe Yi Canal water conservancy construction that Qiu Shenji had been forcefully pushing for several months had saved many houses and fields in Longcheng County and the thousands of people on the mountain, which was another large sum of merit credited.

Qiu Shenji suddenly reached into his bosom, took out a Sanskrit Buddhist scripture, and glanced at it. "Let's go."

The two looked closely.

Qiu Shenji breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned again, and turned to look at the Scripture Copying Hall outside the Buddhist pagoda.

Qiu Shenji nodded slightly.

But even so, there were still people like Liu Zian and Liu Zilin who followed one after another, flying like moths to a flame, not hesitating to snatch food from the tiger's mouth, attempting to be promoted to sword-wielder.

Every era is like this. The struggle of the lower class for precious resources has always been cruel, commonly known as involution.

"How did you know someone fainted here?"

Princess Li Guoer thought for a while and said: "Could it be that the monks in the temple discovered this place with your county government people and sent someone to move and clean it up?"

Back to the topic.

But the old swordsmith had previously regarded it as a true humble scholar sword manual, so translating Buddhist scriptures in this Scripture Copying Hall was also a matter of course...

The hazy clear blue halo dyed his fingernails. "He should be very familiar with the old swordsmith."

"It's possible, very possible." Qiu Shenji suddenly interrupted. He let go of Princess Li Guoer's hand, turned around, and instead walked toward the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall behind him: "Let's go, we'll know once we take a look."

Woo woo kneeling in thanks. "Where to?"

Don't you see, the Donglin Temple in the Lotus Tower Alliance, just by providing one sword-wielder, could have the opportunity to cooperate equally with the Yunmeng Sword Marsh and the swordsmith family, although it fell apart later.

"You mean, the monks were halfway through cleaning when they were interrupted by outsiders?" Before today, merit was sufficient, nearly twenty thousand.

Xie Lingjiang wandered around the two people in front of her, as if a tiger or wolf was watching its prey, but didn't dare to take another step forward.

Qiu Shenji turned his head sharply and looked at a magnificent hall a hundred feet to the southeast.

Princess Li Guoer lowered her eyes and found that the hand under the sleeve of the man in front of her was silently clenched at some point, and it was already full of sweat.

"His knowledge should also be clear about the precursor to the humble scholar's sword."

The latter didn't know why, but actually rushed over from Mount Dagu. However, looking at his appearance, he seemed to be seriously injured, coughing blood from time to time, and full of murderous aura.

No figure.

【Merit: 11,811】 Qiu Shenji was silent for a moment.

Sheng Xianglun silently took out his mask, walked off the roof, and said without looking back: "One more time."

"What happened to them? Who did this?" Princess Li Guoer's apricot eyes widened, and she blurted out.

Ouyang Lianghan, you are becoming more and more outrageous...

Sheng Xianglun pulled a smile from the corner of her mouth, a bit bitter.

But after redeeming the "Return, oh return" blessing, he had consumed several blessings on the Mirage Beast mask one after another, and originally only had three thousand or so merit points left.

"You grabbed me."

"Craftsmanship" was newly born today. The true meaning and ultimate art of the Dingjian were not like the "humble scholar," which had already been summarized and concluded by the legendary sword master.

"Craftsmanship" appeared naturally, sticking to Qiu Shenji, circling him intimately.

The two walked out of the main hall. Qiu Shenji squatted down, his fingers gently twisted the bloodstains and footprints on the ground, looking left and right at the fighting traces in the square outside the hall.

"What did you say?" Princess Li Guoer suddenly turned her face.

This Buddhist scripture was also no surprise to him. It wasn't even the same Sanskrit Buddhist scripture that Ouyang Rong's master gave to Liu Zian. It was obviously fooling the two, and it wasn't any humble scholar sword manual.

Qiu Shenji understood, detached from the Merit Tower, and opened his eyes.

"That's right, it's the Scripture Copying Hall." Princess Li Guoer said casually: "Previously, the old swordsmith and the others wandered around this hall, separated from the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall, and discovered my father, brother, and mother..."

The new Dingjian forged by Ouyang Rong's master, who gathered the achievements of his predecessors, seemed to be a bit different, no longer exclusive to princes, nobles, and aristocratic sects.

Princess Li Guoer followed Qiu Shenji curiously and walked around the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall. It was a small corner room behind the hall. Qiu Shenji searched it thoroughly.

Qiu Shenji didn't answer, led Princess Li Guoer in a big circle, came to a distant roof in front of the Scripture Copying Hall, climbed onto the roof, and observed from afar.

He knocked the brave commoners unconscious one by one, threw them behind the forest, sealed their acupoints, and took them to the sword furnace...

It's a pity that they encountered an even more involutionary old postgraduate entrance exam taker.

Directly below the small wooden fish that was knocked exhausted by "tap-tap-tap" today, a line of motionless cyan-gold characters fell clearly into Qiu Shenji's eyes.

"Is it possible..."

And through the gap left by the fierce fighting, three people could be vaguely seen in the hall. Sunlight shone in, revealing a ground of figures.

Go to the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall.

"What are you doing?" Princess Li Guoer frowned.

Both cold and scorching. "This is..."

Qiu Shenji answered calmly: "It's possible, but this time, let's change positions." Qiu Shenji felt the "Arc" at his fingertips trembling more and more, as if... eager to try.

Princess Li Guoer didn't refuse. She glanced at the precarious situation of Wei Shaoxuan in the main hall in the distance and followed.

He suddenly stood up and pointed his finger at the black-clad blade-wielder's corpse on the square: Looking from the front, a corner of the Scripture Copying Hall had collapsed.

"No." "...??"

"Wouldn't that be very risky?" She was helpless and asked: "How to deal with Bu Jian? How to hold on for seventeen breaths, or even more?"

"You..." Her eyebrows knitted, but after stabilizing her figure, she saw Qiu Shenji not even looking at her, staring at the main hall behind the bamboo forest in front, silent.

Fed it a little.

As for the unknown Yue woman that Qiu Shenji heard about from Liu Fu earlier, Qiu Shenji didn't see her figure in the main hall, and didn't know where she went.

After a while, Qiu Shenji turned his head and found that not far from the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall, there was a lonely Buddhist pagoda.

Xie Jie, Venerable Shan Dao.

Because the scarcity of Severed Meridians represents important bargaining chips, one can grasp the initiative, and joining any force is easy.

In his ears, the cheering of thousands of people on the entire Mount Dagu had already surged into the sound of wooden fish feeding back hundreds or thousands of merit, making him temporarily deaf and tinnitus.

Princess Li Guoer glanced sideways at someone and said nonchalantly: "Is there such a possibility that she didn't go to find you?"

Especially the lower class of the world. "Yes."

PS: The gentleman finally got a recommendation slot today. Da Rong is working hard to code words, let's see if I can update one more chapter.

She walked behind Qiu Shenji, her pretty face under the veil stiff: "Then this time, can you not grab my hand or hold my waist?"

Qiu Shenji asked directly: "Then why not clean it up? The bodies were moved halfway and then left on the ground. What's going on?"

After observing the Zhe Yi Canal successfully discharging the flood outside the courtyard, Qiu Shenji touched "Craftsmanship" briefly and then put it away. He suppressed the purple abnormality at the bottom of his eyes, immediately turned around to find the Xiao Shimei, and Princess Li Guoer followed.

After the main door was opened, it revealed the figures of a group of fainted monks on the ground inside the Buddhist pagoda.

Let her look at the pros and cons of the sword-wielder more clearly, not so greedy, but it is very difficult to understand the various crazy things the three Liu brothers did for a Dingjian.

Seeing Qiu Shenji beside her, holding a jade ring and a blood-stained Buddhist scripture, frowning and looking sideways at the Scripture Copying Hall, the jade ring in his hand emitting a ghostly light.

Princess Li Guoer walked over to call out. Sure enough.

The main door of the Buddhist pagoda was pushed open by Qiu Shenji and the other two from the outside. It was discovered among the fragments of the old swordsmith's body.

And Xie Jie and Venerable Shan Dao stood together, and their situation was not much better. "It's okay." Qiu Shenji shook his head and withdrew his finger.

"What's wrong?" Princess Li Guoer asked calmly in a low voice: "Is she not here?"

At this moment, the standing positions and situations of the three people in the hall were even more complicated than Qiu Shenji imagined.

And between the Xiao Shimei and Xie Lingjiang, something was vaguely separating them on the ground.

Previously, he and a hundred brave commoners were cleaned up like this by a war-god-like figure. That person seemed to be wary of killing ordinary people.

"You mean, these monks were originally cleaning up the bodies in the square, but someone arrived, knocked them all unconscious, hid them in here? Now that person is in the Scripture Copying Hall, confronting Wei Shaoxuan?"