Zhang Xiaopaw held the bone knife in his hand, and his heart was melancholy.

As the saying goes: no matter how high the kung fu is, you are afraid of kitchen knives.

It's not that you can cut down a master with a kitchen knife, but that a kitchen knife is more deterrent and direct than your bare hands.

But what made Zhang Xiaopaw uncomfortable was that the bone knife that sharpened iron like clay in his hand not only failed to exert great power, but also limited his combat power.

Zhang Xiaopaw felt that he needed a sword martial art to exert the power of the bone knife. Killing an enemy on the battlefield is always more efficient with a knife than with bare hands.

"It would be nice if I could learn all the knife skills of "Three Steps to Kill". Zhang Xiaopaw regretted in his heart, the knife technique of "Three-Step Kill" is a skill to kill the enemy in a battle formation, which is exactly what he needs now.

There are a total of eighteen styles of the whole set of knife techniques, and he only learned the first three styles, which is okay to deal with enemies with average combat power, but when he encounters enemies with strong combat power, he is overstretched and weak.

However, the "Three Steps to Kill" knife technique is the secret technique of killing the enemy of the heavily armored infantry of the black-armored unit of the well-known border guarding army on the southern border, and it is not easy to learn it all, at least not at the moment.

Zhang Xiaopaw shook off his unrealistic thoughts, his eyes fell on the quaint cheats, and he wanted to find a powerful sword martial art, but he was very illiterate, and he couldn't even recognize the name of the cheats, and he couldn't help blushing, regretting that he didn't listen to the words of the village chief's grandfather when he was a child, and read and read well, so he could only look embarrassed and cast a look at Zhou Jianlai for help, and said: "Brother Zhou, I want to find a powerful sword martial art, but I can't read, can you help me find it?"

"And me. I want it too. Niu Dawa hurriedly shouted, threw a cheatbook back on the shelf in his hand, and scolded: "Damn, there is no one with pictures." ”

Only then did Zhou Jianlai understand what he was picking, it turned out that he was rummaging through the cheats with illustrations.

Zhou Jianlai nodded at the two, thinking that the fighting styles of the two of them were both arrogant, and they must like simple and rough knife techniques such as opening and closing, so he looked for them on the bookshelf.

Zhang Xiaopaw and Niu Dawa saw that it might take some time for Zhou Jian to come, so they walked away.

Niu Dawa walked to the shelf where the elixir was placed, and his eyes shot a fiery gaze, but after walking back and forth in front of the shelf twice, he couldn't help but scratch his head in annoyance, because the Tianwu people had specially told him before, saying that there were a lot of highly toxic poisons on the shelf, and he must not eat them indiscriminately, but he was illiterate, couldn't understand the name of the elixir, and couldn't tell which was a good medicine and which was a poison, so he could only stare at the shelf.

"Dog's day, Lao Tzu swears, when the war is over, I will go to study and learn words, otherwise I won't know what it is when I grab good things in the future, and I will be so depressed. Niu Dawa shouted through gritted teeth.

Zhang Xiaopaw nodded in agreement with deep sympathy, and said, "I'll accompany you." ”

Zhou Jianlai couldn't help but quipped: "Then you two have to start reading in the enlightenment class, think about the scene of two soldiers and a group of milk babies sitting together to study, the milk babies must not be frightened by the evil spirit on your body to cry dad and call mother, it is really not lively." It's exciting. It's exciting!"

Zhang Xiaopaw thought about the picture of Zhou Jian in his mind, and a few black lines couldn't help but rise on his forehead.

Niu Dawa rolled her eyes and said: "There are so many valuable objects outside, let's just take two of them is enough to invite the master to teach at home, who will go to compete for seats with a group of milk babies and drop the price." ”

"This can be there. Zhang Xiaopaw nodded and smiled.

"Pawn, didn't the seniors say that there are still good things to hide, how about it, have you found it?" The medicine didn't dare to eat indiscriminately, the weapon was selected, and the cheats Zhou Jianlai was helping to choose, Niu Dawa had nothing to do for a while, so he shifted his attention to the explanation of the Tianwu Daoist.

"I'm looking for it. Zhang Xiaopaw responded, covering the entire secret room with a subtle state of mind, not letting go of a little clue, and soon found out, he walked to the left wall with a light sigh, and Niu Dawa immediately came over.

There was a palm print on the wall that was invisible to the naked eye, Zhang Xiaopu reached out and pressed on it, pushed it hard, and with a click, a three-foot square wall suddenly flipped over. The flipped-over wall has three layers of concave lattices, the first layer is placed with three bottles of elixir, the second layer is placed with two secret books, and the third layer is a short sword with a gray and white scabbard, and the hilt of the sword is engraved with auspicious carvings.

"Good stuff. Something for sure. Niu Dawa rubbed her hands and said with a bright eye. can be taken out separately and hidden, and it hides such a secret thing, even if Niu Dawa doesn't know what it is, she also knows that it must be a good thing. Hurriedly greeted Zhou Jianlai: "Brother Zhou, come on, come on, come and see what good things we have found?"

Zhou Jianlai was full of curiosity, put down the book of cheats he was flipping through in his hand, walked quickly to the front, and first looked at the three bottles of pills on the top layer, but they were not like the pills on the shelf

The label, these three bottles of pills are not labeled, and I can't tell what kind of pills they are.

He curiously picked up a bottle, pulled out the jade stopper, and a refreshing fragrance suddenly wafted out of the mouth of the bottle, and the three of them couldn't help but swallow as soon as they smelled this fragrance. He shook the jade bottle lightly, looked inside the mouth of the bottle again, and found that there was only one pill in the bottle. Hidden so deeply, and there is only one pill, you don't have to think about it, it must be an extremely precious elixir.

"I don't know. But it must be something good. Zhou Jianlai covered the jade plug and said, put it back in place and went to get the second bottle, his fingers pinched the bottleneck of the Dan bottle and lifted it, but he didn't lift it, his face suddenly showed a look of surprise, and his fingers gradually increased the strength, until he added nearly 100 catties of strength, before he could lift the Dan bottle, and couldn't help but exclaim to Zhang Xiaopaw and Niu Dawa: "I don't know what is inside, it's very heavy, almost 100 catties." ”

"Such a small bottle, weighing a hundred catties?!" Zhang Xiaopu and Niu Dawa's eyes widened in shock, staring incredulously at the Dan bottle in Zhou Jianlai's hand.

Zhou Jianlai shook it lightly, feeling the fluctuating sensation of liquid shaking coming out of the Dan bottle, and immediately knew that it should be filled with some kind of liquid, and when he pulled out the jade stopper, there was a faint fragrance wafting out of the bottle, a little grassy grass, a little cheese milk, and a little earthy smell, at first smell of this smell, his eyes lit up suddenly, and exclaimed: "It's chalcedony! No wonder it's so heavy!"

"What?" Niu Dawa didn't hear clearly.

Zhang Xiaopaw was also puzzled.

"Hmm" Zhou Jian thought for a moment and explained in simple and easy-to-understand words: "Chalcedony, the bone marrow of the stone." Well, let's understand it that way. It is a kind of spiritual liquid that is finally brewed after thousands of years of changes by the very rich earth elements. The aura it contains is extremely pure, and it is an excellent elixir for cultivation. Of course, its biggest role is not to improve cultivation, but to enhance the perception and affinity of the earth element, which is of great help to comprehend and control the earth domain. ”

When Zhang Xiaopu heard this, his eyes lit up suddenly, what he was most afraid of now was facing the master of the Earth Domain, who could control the weight at will, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, caught off guard, and let his moves deform and expose fatal flaws, and if he was heavy, he couldn't get up from lying on the ground, and he could even be as light as flying flotsam, suspended in the air, and couldn't fight at all.

In the underground secret room of the City Lord's Mansion, he had asked the Heavenly Martial Daoist about this question, and the Heavenly Martial Daoist told him that with his current cultivation, there was no good way to deal with it. And the best way to do this is to comprehend an elemental power and fight against the Earth Domain. Therefore, when he heard Zhou Jian say that chalcedony can help people comprehend and control the Earth Domain, he was immediately excited.

"How to use it?, do you drink it directly?" Niu Dawa asked directly, licking the corners of her mouth, and her eyes were blazing.

"Chalcedony or even something pure, adding anything will destroy its value, so it is best to take it directly. That's what the book says, and it's the first time I've seen it. Zhou Jian said.

"Let's have a drop?" Niu Dawa said impatiently.

"Not very good, okay?" Zhou Jian looked in the direction of the Heavenly Martial Daoist, and the implication was that without his old man's consent, it was best not to move.

"The predecessor is the power of the stars, and the Earth Domain has long been a pediatric for his old man, and this thing will definitely not be rare. Niu Dawa said.

Zhou Jianlai smiled, covered the jade stopper, put the pill bottle back in its place, and said, "This is all the spoils of the predecessors, let's wait for his old man to wake up." ”

After speaking, he picked up the third pill bottle, normal weight, pulled out the jade stopper, and saw that there were five brown pills in it, and a pungent smell wafted out, he hurriedly covered the jade stopper, afraid that it contained some kind of poison.

Putting down the Dan bottle, Zhou Jian looked at the two cheats of the second layer of the grid, one of which was a swordsmanship martial art, called "Cloud Piercing Sword", and the other was a cultivation exercise, called "Silence Heart Technique".

Zhou Jianlai read the names of the two cheats to Zhang Xiaoshu and Niu Dawa, and then analyzed: "If these two books are not accidental, they should be the family heirlooms of the Li family." ”

"It feels amazing to hear the name. Niu Dawa picked up one of them and flipped it twice, then threw it back, picked up the other one and flipped it twice, pouted and threw it back, and said depressedly: "Why don't the martial arts cheats come with illustrations? Right?"

"Uh" Zhou Jianlai was stopped by Niu Dawa, frowned, and muttered: "This is indeed a problem." ”

"I decided. Niu Dawa patted her chest and said, "After I read and write, I will mark all the cheats in the world with annotations." ”

Zhang Xiaopaw rolled his eyes and said, "I advise you to be kind." ”

"What do you mean?" asked Niu Dawa puzzled.

"As far as your soul painting skill of drawing a chicken can't be recognized by the whole village, if you mark the cheats with a caption, I don't dare to imagine how many people have gone crazy when they practice. Therefore, you should do well, don't mislead people's children. Zhang Xiaopaw said happily.

"Get out!"

Zhou Jianlai looked at the short sword in the third grid with a smile, reached out to pick it up, held it in his hand, and suddenly felt a sense of vicissitudes coming from the sword, and when he looked closely, he could find that the scabbard should have been dark green, but it had become gray-white after long-term wear. He handed the hilt of his sword to Zhang Xiaopaw and motioned for him to pull it out and take a look.

Zhang Xiaopu pulled out the sword from the sheath, and the three of them looked at the sword, and their faces showed surprise, because the sword body was worn badly, the blade collapsed and rolled, and the appearance alone should be a scrapped sword.

"I can only feel that it has a heavy sense of vicissitudes, and there is nothing else strange about it. Zhou Jian said, "I guess it should be used by a powerful ancestor of the Li family, so it was treasured by the Li family to remember the ancestors." ”

"Hmm. Zhang Xiaopaw nodded, took the scabbard handed by Zhou Jianlai, returned the sword to the sheath, and put it back in its place.

"I'm still thinking of it as a sword. Niu Dawa looked disappointed, turned her head to look at the surrounding walls, and asked, "Are there any other dark grids?"

"It seems to be. Zhang Xiaopaw replied, but listening to his tone, he didn't seem to be sure. After saying that, he walked to one side of the wall, stretched out his right index finger and pointed at the wall, because he saw that there was only one finger fingerprint on the wall, and with the experience of the previous two times, this time he directly pressed it down.

Click.

It didn't take much effort to sink a small square into the wall, and then it stopped moving.

"What's going on?" Niu Dawa asked.

Zhang shook his head, indicating that he didn't know, and then he moved five steps to the right, and then stretched out his finger and pointed at the wall. There was a click, and a small square recessed into the wall.

Niu Dawa waited for a while, but there was still no movement, but his face showed excitement, and said, "Hiding so secretly, there must be a treasure." ”

Click

According to the traces found in the subtle state of mind, Zhang Xiaopaw groped on the four walls of the front and back, left and right, and pressed one square after another. But apart from the click of the squares sinking, nothing changed in the chamber.

Pressing the sixtieth square, Zhang Xiaopaw turned his gaze to the ceiling of the secret room. Jumping in succession, he pressed fifteen more squares.

Whether it was Niu Dawa or Zhou Jianlai, even Zhang Xiaopaw himself showed an extremely expectant expression, and he wanted to know what good things the Li family had hidden, and it was so complicated.

"This should be a nine-nine square. The voice of the Heavenly Martial Daoist suddenly sounded in the secret room.

"Master, you're awake. Zhang Xiaopaw shouted happily.

"Seniors. ”

"Seniors. ”

Niu Dawa and Zhou Jianlai saluted the Tianwu Dao people together.

The Heavenly Martial Daoist's face regained his ruddy color, nodded with a smile at the three of them, and then said: "Ninety-nine square grids, there should be ninety-nine eighty-one dark grids, how many have you found?"

"Seventy-five. Zhang Xiaopaw replied.

"Six things to go. The Heavenly Martial Daoist looked around the secret room, stretched out his finger and nodded to the ground, and said, "The remaining six should be hidden on the ground." ”

"Well, the disciple seems to have found it. Zhang Xiaopaw nodded and smiled, walked to a shelf after speaking, squatted down, grabbed one leg of the shelf, slowly lifted it, stretched out his finger and pressed it on the ground under the leg of the shelf, and the flat ground immediately clicked and sank into a piece.

Niu Dawa looked at Zhang Xiaopaw or lifted the legs of the shelves, or moved the shelves, and easily found one dark grid after another, and couldn't help but say: "If you want to hide things in a subtle state of mind, it's just a fool's dream." ”

Zhou Jianlai nodded in agreement.

"One more than one missing. Zhang Xiaopaw frowned, searched repeatedly in a subtle state of mind, but did not find where the last secret grid was hidden.

The Tianwu Daoist pointed to the Yongdao at the door and said, "It doesn't have to be all in the room. ”

Zhang Xiaopaw's eyes lit up, and he spread out into the corridor in a subtle mood, and immediately exclaimed in surprise: "It seems to have been found." ”

As he spoke, he ran into the corridor, picked off a night pearl set in the corner of the wall, and stretched out his finger to press it into the pit.

There was a click.

Immediately after that, the roof of the chamber sounded the sound of stone grinding, and after a click, a dark hole appeared.

"Damn, there's a secret room?!," Niu Dawa exclaimed in surprise.

"It's not. Zhang Xiaopaw replied, "It seems to be a box." Look, put it down. ”