I got up early in the morning and had breakfast at a small restaurant near the hotel. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Fu Lang hired a carriage and rode with Dongfang Tianma to the puppet village dozens of kilometers away from Lion Snow Town. The horseman who drove the car was named Zhao Chuan, who was about to reach the age of no confusion, and learned during the conversation that his wife and children had died early due to illness, and he was the only one living in Lion Snow Town.

"The two of them are capable people at first glance, and they haven't pulled such guests for a long time, hahahaha......" Zhao Chuan had a sentence without a word while catching the car, and in his speech and demeanor, he could feel that he was a person whose daily life was extremely boring and monotonous, and he was eager to find someone to chat and chat a few words, so as to vent the suppressed emotions in his heart.

After chatting with Zhao Chuan for a while, Dongfang Tianma sat back in the carriage and said to Fu Lang, who closed his eyes and recuperated: "Brother Fu Lang, what you promised to teach me yesterday about the ability of the soul stone, can you start now?" ”

Fu Lang opened one eye and replied, "I thought you had forgotten about this." In that case, let's get started now! Let me think about where to start. He closed his eyes again, and after about half a minute, he opened both eyes and said to Dongfang Tianma, "Let me see your soul pattern ability first." ”

Dongfang Tianma nodded, and then stretched out his right palm, concentrating on releasing the soul pattern energy. Soon, two visible air currents appeared at his feet, surrounding him.

"It's a soul stone of the Gale type." After seeing Dongfang Tianma's soul stone ability, Fu Lang showed a slightly surprised look. Dongfang Tianma was even more amazed by Fu Lang's eyes that could distinguish his ability with just one glance.

Fu Lang said: "If you guess correctly, your ability is a god-given talent, right?" In fact, I don't know much about this aspect of the soul pattern ability, and I can only give a general idea. That's right! Do you know the four stages of improvement of the four abilities of the Printed Soul Stone? ”

"I don't know." Dongfang Tianma shook his head honestly in response.

"Then I'm going to start at the beginning. Listen up Pegasus, each of the abilities bestowed on the Soul Tattoo by the Printed Soul Stone has four stages that can be improved. They are enlightenment, awakening, enlightenment, and meditation. Every time a Soul Tattoo Master reaches a new stage, the Soul Pattern power integrated into his body will be sublimated and refined into a higher-level variety. In addition to the demon return core that no one can control at present, the God-given talent corresponds to the understanding of the foundation of the talent, the awakening of the absolute ability to release, the enlightenment of the collection of energy to burn, and the heavenly dome of Zen enlightenment; The earth is armed with the embodiment of the soul pattern, the awakening of the armed mutation, the consciousness of the fission, and the root of the earth of Zen enlightenment; The Heavenly Appreciation Spirit Appeal corresponds to the Soul Pattern Manifestation, the Awakening of the Power of the Imperial Spirit, the Awakening of the Source of the Roaring Spirit, and the Soul of the Zen Enlightenment. Fu Lang paused for a moment when he said this, took out the small silver wine jug he carried with him and took a sip, which contained the cat's eye wine from the Cat's Eye Winery of Lion Snow Town.

Dongfang Tianma took advantage of the time to ask, "If you say so, I am now at the stage where the gods have given the talent to realize the foundation of the talent, but how can I cultivate to advance to the second stage of awakening?" ”

Fu Lang held the small flask in his hand and replied, "There is only one way to improve the ability of the soul pattern, and that is to constantly and frequently use the ability of the soul pattern. Only when the soul tattoo master has reached the level of knowledge of the soul pattern ability, it is possible to ascend to a higher stage. ”

Dongfang Tianma blinked curiously and asked, "Brother Fu Lang, what is the attribute level of your soul pattern ability?" ”

Before Fu Lang could answer, the shield appeared in his hand out of thin air, "My soul pattern ability is different from yours, it is the earth to arm the metal light class, I named it the Tiger Head Sword and Shield, and I have now mastered the stage of enlightenment." As long as the ability formed by the ground armament is manifested, it is strengthened around the armament. For example, in the middle of the battle, I made the tiger head spit out the golden blade from his mouth, which is the effect of awakening the armed mutation. In fact, no matter what kind of ability, when you are in the first stage of enlightenment, you will be able to discern the direction of its development. My Tiger Head Sword and Shield attribute is light, so it naturally comes with light attribute damage. Knowing how to use these attributes flexibly is also an ability that a soul tattoo should have. ”

Dongfang Tianma listened to Fu Lang's words, and had a new understanding of the soul tattoo warrior in his heart. Ever since he had carved the soul pattern in Claw Frog City, he had felt that his body had changed a lot from before, especially when he was dealing with bandits in Lion Snow Town before, his body's agile reaction was almost synchronized with his brain, and he realized how powerful the soul pattern was.

The conversation felt brief, but the carriage had already gone far away. Zhao Chuan often takes this road, so he naturally only chooses shortcuts that are easy to walk and save time. I heard him shouting outside the carriage: "We have arrived!" In front of it is the clay puppet village. ”

The Eastern Pegasus lifted the curtain in front of the carriage and saw the village in front of the carriage at a glance. All the houses were made of yellow clay, and there were people standing in front of each house, but when you walked in, you realized that they were actually just clay puppets carved from yellow clay. At the entrance of the village, there is a mud tablet made of yellow mud, on which three concave characters of "Tu Puppet Village" are cut out.

Dongfang Tianma and Fu Lang got out of the car, and Zhao Chuan collected the fare and left. The two of them stood in front of the clay monument in the clay puppet village, and looked around to see half a figure, although those clay puppets were inanimate dead things, they all exuded an inexplicable strange atmosphere, as if they were flesh and blood with their souls drained, and they would move at any time.

"There's something wrong with the atmosphere." Fu Lang said as he glanced around with a vigilant eye.

Dongfang Tianma replied: "It's really weird, this village doesn't look like there are living people at all. ”

Fu Lang took two steps forward, stretched out his hand and pointed to a piece of footprints on the yellow mud ground and said, "These footprints are new, it seems that there are other people besides us." Come along! After saying that, he chased after the footprints.

The two followed the footprints to the center of the clay puppet village, only to see that on this road, the clay puppet was set up in front of the house, the mud cup was placed under the window, the roof had an earthen chimney, there was a civil fire kang in the house, the bluestone paved road on the street, and the yellow mud base behind the house was used as a wall. In the center of the village is a plane tree with several people hugging each other, surrounded by large angular stones, and four people are sitting under the tree, all wearing the white uniforms of the city-state swordsmen.

"Hey! It's great to meet the people of the city-state swordsmen here. Fu Lang took the initiative to walk up to say hello, and the four of them turned their heads to look this way at the same time.

The highest-ranking of the four was a man in his thirties wearing a four-star sword badge and a uniform embroidered with a snow leopard, wearing a long purple ponytail, a delicate silver-white scabbard hanging from his waist, and slender eyebrows and eyes that were tender and wise. Among the other three, two are two-star black bear-level swordsmen, and one is a one-star gray wolf-level swordsman.

The four-star snow leopard-level swordsman stood up first, and when he saw Fu Lang's extraordinary temperament, he asked, "Are the two soul tattoo warriors on the trip?" ”

Fu Lang nodded and said, "Your eyes are really sharp!" He is worthy of being a member of the city-state swordsman regiment. ”

The swordsman didn't have any joy because of Fu Lang's praise, he only heard him introduce himself: "My name is Xu Yun, and I am the resident captain of the Iron Horse City State Swordsman Regiment, these three are Yan Fa, Lin Jiazi and Dong Haifan, all of whom are my subordinates. ”

"My name is Fu Lang, this is the little brother Dongfang Pegasus I met in Lion Snow Town, and we are currently traveling together." After a brief introduction, Fu Lang asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

Xu Yunying said: "I received a message from the Soil Puppet Village before, asking our city-state swordsman regiment to dispatch to help subdue a young man with mental problems. But when we arrived, we found that the whole village was missing. ”

Yan Fa on the side had been sitting under the tree, he was wearing a black baseball cap, and interjected: "I have been to this village before, and it is not this atmosphere at all, although there are many clay puppets, but it is not so depressing." I don't think the villagers are just missing, and they're probably all killed. ”

"It can't be a mountain thief, right?" Lin Jiazi, who had not spoken, asked.

Xu Yun shook his head and said: "The probability is very low, we have not found too messy or concentrated footprints in the village along the way, on the contrary, there are many pits left by like sharp cones pierced into the soil. If it was a mountain bandit, there should be at least a wheel print of the car, or a lot of horseshoe prints. ”

Dongfang Tianma listened to their conversation on the side, and being able to come into contact with the people of the city-state swordsman group at such a close distance was a very happy thing for him. The swordsman named Dong Haifan was the same age as Dongfang Tianma, and it seemed that he had just joined the swordsman group, and the two chatted speculatively, and they quickly became acquainted with each other.

"Where is your hometown?" Dong Haifan asked as he played with a sycamore leaf in his hand.

Dongfang Tianma responded: "Fengqi Village." What about you? ”

"It's a long way from here! I'm from Iron Horse City. ”

"What kind of place is Iron Horse City?"

"It's no different from other cities, except that there are a lot of iron horse statues in the city, and the biggest one is the statue of the seventeen heroes on the iron horse in the square in the center of the city, which is my favorite! When I have a chance in the future, I'll take you to see it. ”

The two were chatting about the excitement, but they heard a sudden noise from the earthen hut next to them, even if the sound was very short, the six people present all noticed its existence. The first to react was Xu Yun, who walked quickly to the earthen house, kicked the door open and broke in, and soon walked out with a person in tow.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! Blame ...... "The man was covered in mud, and if it weren't for the fact that his body was trembling with fear all the time, everyone would have thought he was a clay puppet made of mud."

Fu Lang took two steps forward, glanced at the man twice, and said to Xu Yun, "What's wrong with this person?" ”

"It should be stimulated by something, and the way he looks should be temporary. I've been in this situation on the battlefield before, and many of my timid companions can't stand the stimulation and temporarily go insane. Xu Yun let go of his hand, and the man sat on the ground with his butt down, still talking nonsense in his mouth.

Yan Fa on the side walked over, pressed the man's shoulders with both hands, and said to Xu Yun: "I know this person, he is a native of Tu Puppet Village, and he invited me to drink when he came last year." After speaking, he shook the man's shoulders vigorously, but who knew that the man had a sudden seizure, kicked his feet on the ground, grabbed Yan Fa's body with both hands, and shouted hoarsely: "Monster!" The monster is coming! Eat your flesh and drink your blood......"

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