On an afternoon when it was almost the end of the year, Zhou Heng finished reading all the old man's books and came to Tiger Hill in his spare time.

Tiger Hill is located in the northwest suburbs of Suzhou City, according to legend, Wu Wangfu sent his father to bury here in the Spring and Autumn Period, three days after the burial, there is a white tiger standing on it, so it is called Tiger Hill. Tiger Hill mountains and rivers are connected, pavilions are scattered, the palace is uneven, the flying pavilion is over the cliff, there is the saying of "nine suitables" and "three uniques" to enjoy the scenery, the mountain is unique, the scenery is unique, the pool is more unique, spring, summer, autumn and winter, cloudy, sunny, rainy and snowy, all four seasons are suitable. It also has the inscription poems of celebrities in the past dynasties, coupled with the rendering of myths and legends, so that it also has the reputation of "the first scenic spot in Wuzhong".

The main gate of Tiger Hill is the Broken Beam Palace, and you can reach the "Thousand People Stone" by entering the Sword Stone and the True Niang Tomb. There is a sword pond in the "other cave" after the stone of a thousand people, and there are historical sites such as the white lotus pond, the nodding stone, the Yunyan Temple, the cold incense pavilion, the third spring, the Sun Wuzi Pavilion and the Tiger Hill Tower. Tiger Hill has been a tourist attraction since ancient times, and every stone and tree on the mountain has beautiful legends.

Tiger Hill attracted Zhou Heng's interest the most than the "Sword Pool". According to ancient records, the tomb of Helu is under the sword pool. Entering the pool, "there is no cave in the sky", as if being in the precipice and ravine, makes people suddenly feel that "the pool is dark and cold", "the empty mountain sword is deep". The sword pond is long and narrow, shaped like a sword, and the water depth is about two meters. The two walls are steep, rising from the ground, and there are many ancient inscriptions on the stone cliffs. Because the tomb of King Wu Lu is buried under the pool, it has put a veil of mystery on the sword pool. (Places like this are generally treasured.) ）

It is rumored that King Wu once buried a sword in the sword pool. Zhou Heng always thought that it was just a legend, and he never wanted to walk in the sword pool, but the psychic jade on his chest gradually became hotter. "Is there really a sword?" he felt a fever in his heart. Walking slowly along the sword pool, the Tongling Jade is getting hotter and hotter. On the flat ground twenty feet behind the sword pool, he stopped! It turned out that the treasure was not buried in the depths of the sword pool, but outside the sword pool! When he looked up and saw that the sun had set in the west, and there was still some time before it got dark, he made a note of the position and decided to come back in the evening.

In winter, the days are very short, and it doesn't take long for dinner to get dark. Zhou Heng chatted with the old man for a while and went back early to rest. About two o'clock, the night was silent and there was no moon, and he floated to Tiger Hill. Because of his cultivation, he can see the road clearly without the lights, so it is easy to find the sword pool. He first set up a small formation around to prevent someone from entering, and then began to dig freely. It didn't take long for him to dig up a row of huge sarcophagi. When I opened it, there were no remains inside, but it was full of swords, and the number was so large that I am afraid that there were really as many as the legendary three thousand. What's even more rare is that the thousand-year-old sword has not had a trace of rust.

He put all the swords into his bag, thought about it, put some back, and thought: "The historical heritage cannot be monopolized by me alone, and I have to leave something for future generations." (The main thing is that we still have to understand the rules.) ）

Otherwise, hundreds of years later, the world will think that King Wu is a vain person, and he will be a little wronged by the ancients. Then he buried the sarcophagus as it was, and the ground was decorated to look similar to the surroundings, and then the formation was removed.

After a little counting, he found that with the addition of the ones found on the mountain, there were about 1,800 swords in the Qiankun Treasure Bag. It's useless for him to come with so many swords, so it's better to open a sword shop and sell them. Suzhou is one of the richest places in the world, and the sword shop is located here. (The main reason is that these swords are not high-end goods, according to the pig's foot, it should be a face project done by the suspect Wu Wang)

"He Family Ironware", the smallest blacksmith shop in Suzhou City, has only one guy and a swordsmith. The guy was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and his face showed sophistication beyond his age. The swordsmith was not very old, about twenty-four or five, his face was black and red, his body was sturdy, and he looked quite simple.

Zhou Heng looked at the swords sold in the store and found that the quality was quite good, and it was already considered superior in Suzhou. Probably because the swordsman is too young to create a signboard, so the business is not too good.

A young man waited carefully beside him and said, "Guest officer, you think this sword is good, can you buy one?"

Zhou Heng smiled: "What's your name, what do you call your master?"

The young man replied: "The villain is born, my shopkeeper's name is He Zhongtang, although he has just graduated from the school, his skills are first-class. He gave a thumbs up.

Zhou Heng took out two swords dug out of the ground and handed them over, saying, "Take them to the master to see if he can build them." ”

Dansheng ran in and said a few words to the swordsman. The swordsman stopped, took the two swords in his hand and looked at them carefully, and after a while he walked out, and said with a solemn expression: "Sir, you are an ancient treasure, the craft of forging swords has been lost, and the small shop can't build it." ”

Zhou Heng said with a smile: "I was fortunate enough to read an ancient book, which has Ou Zhizi's sword heart recipe, I wrote it, you can see if it is useful." (No way, I'm also fighting against this Xuanyin Sect)

The swordsman looked for pen and ink in disbelief. Zhou Heng waved it and handed it to the sword master after writing. There are only more than 200 words in the heart formula, which talks about the control of the furnace fire, the refining of iron essence, and some strange recipes.

The sword master looked at it for a while, and suddenly his expression changed greatly, his hands and feet trembled, and he exclaimed: "Yes, so that's the case! This time the sword is much more flexible! Well, and this sharpness ......."

After sighing for a long time, the sword master put down his sword and saluted Zhou Heng, and said very gratefully: "Mr. gave me a rare ancient recipe, and if you teach a teacher, please accept my worship!"

Zhou Heng hurriedly helped him up and asked, "Why don't you open a big store?"

The sword master said: "I haven't been a teacher for a long time, I have no reputation, and I have no capital, so I have to get a small shop first and develop slowly." ”

Zhou Heng said: "I have a batch of swords, the quality is similar to what you just saw, I want to ask you to help me sell it, and the silver sold will be divided into two percent for you." ”

He Zhongtang hurriedly said: "No, no, it is already a superb sword, and one can be sold for 100,000 taels of silver." I don't dare to ask for twenty percent, half of it is enough. ”

"Then let's do it. Zhou Heng finally said.

He saw that the small shop was too shabby, took out 10,000 taels of silver tickets and handed them to Tie Zhongtang, and said, "Change to a big store and decorate it well." After the New Year, I will transport the sword and it will be ready to open. ”

He Zhongtang agreed to come down. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, a new weapons shop was opened on the most popular street in Suzhou, called "Shenjian Fang".

Because of the location and the name of the city, many people go sightseeing. Zhou Heng also went.

Three big men squeezed into the store from the crowd, and shouted as if no one was around: "You dare to call the divine sword, bring it to the uncle!"

Before the young men stepped forward to greet him, one of them had already rushed up to take the sword in his hand, and shook it and said, "The sword is good, but the sword is not even a sword!"

Dansheng hurriedly greeted: "Uncle, those are just ordinary products, the real divine sword is here." Then beckoned the three of them to the counter on the other side. As far as the eye can see, there are five swords in the cabinet, the style is simple, and the scabbard is engraved with delicate patterns.

Dansheng took a sword and handed it over. The sword was unsheathed, the cold light was shining, and the room seemed to be a little colder. The big man took out his matching knife and slashed at the sword, and when he heard the sound of "ding", the sword was intact, but the thick broad-backed broadsword was broken in two. "Ahh (I suspect you didn't come here to make trouble, I'm afraid it was He Zhongtang who asked for it)

The other still didn't believe it, so he took out his sword and said, "Let me try." My sword cost five thousand taels of silver, and it was quite sharp. As he spoke, he cut it down gently. There was no sound this time. He lifted his sword and saw that there was a deep notch in it, and the other one was still intact.

The people around gathered one after another and asked, "How to sell it, how much silver?"

"Our store has just opened, and it is auspicious, 50,000 taels of silver. Dansheng replied in a crisp voice.

"Fifty thousand taels?" Many people just watched eagerly, but no one said it was expensive, and no one stepped forward to buy it for a while.

"Give me a handful. A gorgeously dressed young man said and took out a silver ticket, not even meaning to make a counteroffer.

"I want all four left," said an old man in ordinary clothes, handing over 200,000 taels of silver tickets.

"Anything else? I'll ask my cousin for him, he likes to collect swords, and if he knows about it, he'll buy them. Someone from behind came up and asked.

Dansheng said while lighting the silver ticket: "The next batch will be baked in half a month, please come early then." Everyone refused to disperse, and later even a few of the swords forged by He Zhongtang himself were sold.

The business of the Divine Sword Workshop was booming, and Zhou Heng himself was not idle. These days, he has almost comprehended the "Liezi Yufeng Xing Hollow Heart Method", and decided to leave Suzhou and find a desert where no one is located to practice the art of body and sword integration.

At the time of parting, Wang Xianchen handed him a folding fan and advised: "I have some friends who are officials in Beijing, and I will give a few thin noodles when I see a fan." If you want to become an official in the imperial examination, you might as well go find them. Then he said the names of a few people.

Zhou Heng silently recited it a few times and remembered it in his heart, and then patted his horse and headed southeast.

It didn't take long to come to the sea, which was a wilderness formed by the alluvial sediment of the Yangtze River, and the sediment was still very soft because it had just formed. He first brushed up on his trick of resisting the wind, and then flew over the soft sand.

He felt his body getting lighter and lighter, and gradually he actually floated in the air. With a little luck, the speed of floating suddenly increased, and it flew out for more than ten miles in a moment. He turned in the air and flew towards the sea. After flying for fifty miles, I felt that my true qi was consumed quickly, so I quickly turned around and flew back.

When he landed on the ground, he almost exhausted the true yuan, and it took a long time to recover, and he felt scared when he thought about it. It seems that there is still no rush.

This was followed by the rehearsal of Edgeworth's flight. This kind of cultivation has always been very thrilling, and it usually requires someone to protect the Fa. He is now alone, and the formation cannot be expanded indefinitely, so he can only take out the turtle mirror and use the three-flavor true fire to penetrate the mirror and observe the movements around him. He found the East and the South calmer, while the West and the North were rather sinister in comparison.

He attached his divine consciousness to the flying sword, and flew the flying sword in a southeastern direction. The divine consciousness is the body of pure yang, not as heavy and turbid as the body, so it is not difficult to fly at all, and after a while, it will fly hundreds of miles, and when I look down, there is a vast sea under my feet, and the smoke and waves are vast and boundless. The sun is warm overhead, and the white clouds are around you. He enjoyed the wonderful scene in front of him to the fullest, and suddenly understood the reason why everyone wanted to be a god. What the gods pursue is superhuman ability, in fact, it is the freedom of expansion, and it is for that feeling of freedom that some people have no regrets in their lives.

After flying for a while, he felt that Liezi's mental method had been applied freely, and the cooperation between his divine sense and the flying sword was also perfect, so he took the divine sense and the flying sword back.

Now Zhou Heng has successfully entered the early stage of the fusion period after a series of opportunities and a year and a half without the harassment of an unknown object, and he can be regarded as a slightly stronger ant in the cultivation realm.

When the refining of qi and transforming the gods is completed, the further cultivation is to refine the gods and return them to the void, that is, to turn the primordial gods into the void and enter the ethereal realm, so that they will have the ability to soar in the daytime, and they can soar freely like birds.

He kept thinking in his heart, although he was not tired of the world, it would not be a good thing if he could go to the fairy world to see it.

Zhou Heng, who was soaring over the sea, suddenly heard a strange and familiar voice again.

"Ding! The upgrade is complete, congratulations to the host for entering the growth phase. ”

Then, an unknown mysterious amount sent Zhou Heng to the reincarnation space with a sword.

I only heard a faint voice still in the same place "Day~"

In early spring and February, the red apricots are first appearing, the smoke and rain are falling, and the grass is green. Spring has arrived, the season of revival of all things, and the animals have been busy again. The mountains are continuous, the green mountains are green, the peach blossoms are red, the apricot blossoms are white, and the willow leaves are green.

On the official road leading to Fuzhou City, a young man wearing a white Confucian costume and riding a tall horse galloped on a horse, and a black hair tied with a purple ribbon behind him fluttered in the wind, a good scene of free and easy.

The purpose of coming to Fuzhou City is nothing more than to be born in the "Sunflower Treasure Book" of the secret book martial arts "Evil Sword Method", perhaps this is a secret book is the easiest to get in the "Xiao Ao" The upper level martial arts cheats are now available, and the world luck carrying items that the reincarnation space wants may fall on its body. (Don't ask me how I know, if you want to ask, just ask the bandit who was beaten and had a comminuted fracture all over his body)

Thinking of martial arts cheats, Zhou Heng's mind moved, and two gray cover martial arts cheats appeared in his hands.

The origin of these two martial arts cheats called "Huaiyun Body Method" and "One Word Sword Technique" was found on the unlucky thief who was kicked and smashed eighteen bones in his body by a punch on the road, obviously, these two martial arts cheats are the exercises practiced by the bandit, for this bandit, Zhou Heng will naturally not be polite, and directly keep the two cheats as his own, thus making himself have two more martial arts cheats.

When I arrived in Fuzhou City, I casually found a passer-by and asked the direction of the Fuwei Dart Bureau.

Zhou Heng rode his horse and walked slowly in the direction of the Fuwei Dart Bureau.

After a cup of tea, Zhou Heng appeared on a wine on Ximen Street, sitting on the edge of the second floor of the restaurant, you can clearly see a magnificent mansion not far away, in front of the two stone altars on the left and right, a flagpole with a height of two zhang is erected on the top of the pole.

The yellow silk thread on the right flag is embroidered with a male lion with teeth and claws, and a majestic demeanor, and the flag is waving in the wind, making the male lion more vibrant. On the top of the lion's head, a pair of bats embroidered with black silk thread spread their wings and fly. The left flag is embroidered with four black characters of "Fuwei Dart Bureau", with silver hooks and iron strokes, and the strength is extraordinary.

The vermilion lacquer gate of the mansion, the copper nail the size of a teacup on the door is shining, and the plaque on the top of the door reads "Fuwei Dart Bureau" four gold lacquer characters, and the horizontal script below is "General Number" two small characters. At the entrance, there were two rows of benches, and there were nine men who had finished their strong suits, all of whom had straight waists, showing a heroic spirit. (It's like a Bulgarian demon king.) ）

Looking at the still majestic Fuwei Dart Bureau in front of him, Zhou Heng breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that he would miss the time, if he waited for the Fuwei Dart Game to be slaughtered by the Qingcheng faction. "The Sword Spectrum of Warding Off Evil Spirits" was found by those people, so if you want to find it again, it will be difficult.

Called the shopkeeper and threw him a silver ingot at will. After inquiring about the direction of Xiangyang Lane, he asked Xiao Er to prepare a few side dishes and wine for him, and Zhou Heng ate slowly like an ordinary diner.

After eating, Zhou Heng directly opened an upper room in this restaurant. Then he walked out of the restaurant and walked slowly in the direction of Xiangyang Lane that he had just heard from the shopkeeper.

There are many people in the city of Fuzhou, and the streets are vertical and horizontal, and even the people from the rivers and lakes that are rare to see in Zhangzhou Mansion are often seen. These people walked in the crowd with swords on their backs, and ordinary people would generally turn sideways to avoid them when they saw them.

Turn left and right on the street, and after walking for more than ten minutes, Zhou Heng came to Xiangyang Lane. Walking into this Xiangyang Lane, Zhou Heng did not go to find anyone to ask where the Lin family's old house was.

This is because he is afraid that these people in Xiangyang Lane may have an old relationship with the Fuwei Dart Bureau, and he is afraid that he will be startled, and if the matter is revealed, he is afraid that there will be more troubles, so Zhou Heng walked slowly in Xiangyang Lane alone, while watching like an ordinary person, looking for nearly half an hour, and then he saw an old house at the end of the alley. (Actually, it's like an ordinary ancient thief)

The walls of this old house are pitted, the gray walls are mottled, there are many traces of rain washing, and an old vine coils around the wall, looking from a distance, it looks like a giant python lying here.

If it weren't for the plaque in front of the old house with "Lin House" written on it, and there were still a trace of vermilion paint in large characters, I am afraid no one would have thought that this dilapidated house would be the old residence of Lin Zhennan, the head of the famous Fuwei Dart Bureau, and no one would have thought that there was a sword book hidden in this house that could cause bloody wind and rain in the rivers and lakes.

Zhou Heng turned his head to look around, and after making sure that there was no one around, he stomped on his feet, and the whole person suddenly rose into the sky like a sharp arrow and rolled over the wall, and was about to land.

Zhou Heng's mind moved suddenly, and his body, which was about to hit the ground, suddenly slammed in midair, and this moment suddenly stopped the momentum of his falling dive, and the whole person fell silently in the courtyard. (It's good to upgrade, otherwise in this world with light power, who knows if there is a special mechanism to deal with light power.) ）

The yard had been abandoned for many years, overgrown with weeds and unusually quiet, and in the middle of the night, it looked more like a haunted house.

Although he has not read the novel, he has watched all the film and television dramas adapted from the novel, and in his memory, Ling Hu Chong and a few people came to this Xiangyang old mansion to find "The Sword Spectrum to Ward Off Evil Spirits" according to Lin Zhennan's last words, and they should have found it from the roof of the house in a Buddhist hall.

After observing the surrounding environment, Zhou Heng began to look for the Buddha Hall in the old mansion.

After searching in the old mansion for a while, Zhou Heng finally found a small Buddhist hall in a small corner of the house.