Guo Yang was in a coma for three days and three nights.

When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was the swarthy face of his father, Coppersmith Guo, and his concerned eyes.

"Daddy." Guo Yang's voice was so weak that even he was taken aback.

"Don't move. It's good to be alive. Coppersmith Guo watched his son wake up, and his face showed a touch of joy. However, he has always been silent, and even when he is happy, he is reluctant to say a word.

"Dad, I ......" Guo Yang struggled and wanted to get up, but his body moved slightly, and there was a sharp pain all over his body, which made him grin and inhale a few breaths of cold air.

"Don't say it. I know it all. Duanmu Ox carried you back. Guo Coppersmith stretched out his hand to hold Guo Yang and covered him with a sheepskin, his eyes full of love.

Guo Yang looked at his father's old face and felt remorseful.

"You two are too bold to venture into the depths of the sinkhole. If it weren't for Duanmu Niu's Yin and Yang Banner, where would your two lives be sent. Coppersmith Guo frowned and said.

"Yin and Yang flags? What's that? Guo Yang's eyes widened and he asked with confusion.

Coppersmith Guo was silent for a while before he slowly spoke.

It turned out that what Duanmu Niu was cultivating was not an ordinary martial art, but a cultivation technique. However, because the cultivation time was still short, Duanmu Niu only cultivated to the first level.

And the sinkhole is actually an ancient Xiuzhen site. According to Guo Coppersmith's speculation, the sinkhole was originally supposed to be the place of a cultivator's cave, but I don't know what happened, and the cave exploded violently, which formed a huge deep pit.

During the explosion, a mysterious power contained in one of the fragments of a cultivator's magic weapon underwent a mutation, and began to devour the Qi of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Spirit, causing a large number of humans and beasts to enter the sinkhole to die.

Over time, the fragments of the magic weapon stopped devouring, but the sinkhole gathered too much death qi, and the yin qi was so dense that ordinary people would break into it rashly, and they would often lose their minds and die mad. Therefore, the Zhou people regarded that place as a forbidden place.

"Dad, what's that monster in there?" Guo Yang was shocked when he heard this, and he was glad that he could come back alive. But he was still a little puzzled, so he opened his mouth and asked.

"Xenosaurus. A gray-white lizard that has undergone a mutation in a special environment deep in the sinkhole, and is large in size and bloodthirsty for killing. You two are so lucky this time. Coppersmith Guo frowned and said.

Guo Yang still had some doubts in his heart, but he didn't know how to speak.

The so-called cultivators are the likes of the "immortal family" that are often referred to in ordinary people, although they are rumored to be the Tao in folklore, full of fantasy and all kinds of magic. But on the whole, most of the time it is regarded as an ethereal myth and legend, passed down by word of mouth, and it is a secret thing that ordinary mortals cannot know in detail.

In the Shang Dynasty, the immortal family was quite popular, especially with the strong support of the Son of Heaven and the royal family, the art of ghosts and witches was very popular, so that the sacrifice of people and animals to sacrifice heaven and earth, and the burial of living and burial became a daily routine.

However, after the Zhou people destroyed the Shang, they strictly forbade the art of ghosts and witches, and forcibly promoted the theory of reincarnation in heaven. In particular, the recalcitrant people of the merchant relics were closely monitored, and once someone was found to be preaching or practicing ghost and witchcraft, they would be killed.

However, even such strict laws cannot restrain those royal blood relatives who cherish their homeland.

Guo Yang had witnessed several burial ceremonies with living people, the screams of the Qiang and Di people who had been bought as living sacrifices, and the desperate and ridiculous struggle when their throats were finally cut.

"Xiuzhen ......" Guo Yang sighed secretly, planning not to think about these messy things anymore.

"Strength, sometimes it makes you more dangerous." Guo Coppersmith looked at his son's confused appearance and said suddenly.

"What is recorded in those tortoise shells is a ghost and witch technique, which is very powerful, but after cultivation, it often makes people lose their minds, and they are bloodthirsty and easy to kill. Not for the two of you. You take good care of your injuries, and when your body recovers, I will pass on your cultivation of the true exercises. After speaking, Guo Coppersmith got up and went out.

Guo Yang was stunned for a long time, then he was ecstatic, if it weren't for the pain all over his body, he would have wanted to jump up and cheer a few times.

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Guo Yang's life returned to peace, in addition to practicing knives, Guo Coppersmith taught a set of cultivation methods.

This set of tuna method is different from the knife technique that Guo Yang practiced before, it is extremely complicated, and the knowledge involved is correspondingly extensive, from the dantian Linghai to the eight veins of the Qi Jing, and then to the abstract five elements of mutual restraint, almost all-encompassing.

Moreover, according to Guo Tongjiang, this is the most basic exercise, and if it is combined with many methods such as pills, magic circles, and refining tools, it will form an incomparably complex and huge knowledge system.

Fortunately, Guo Yang is particularly interested in this exercise, and if there is nothing to do, he is slowly contemplating and cultivating. Therefore, on the surface, it seems that he is just an inconspicuous teenager, but his strength is increasing day by day, and he has only learned three sword techniques before, so there is naturally a difference between cloud and mud.

At the same time, Guo Coppersmith began to let Guo Yang take time to go to the market every day to set up a stall.

"Feed yourself, that's the first thing you have to learn." Guo Coppersmith's reasoning is simple and clear.

Guo Yang only sells bronze ware, and all of them are wine vessels.

Tong Yao (gu), copper horn, copper 觯 (zhi), copper 斝 (jia), copper zun, copper kettle, copper 卣 (you), copper square Yi (yi), copper 觥 (gong), copper 罍 (lei), copper 盉 (he), copper spoon, copper ban, etc., there are as many as 20 kinds.

Merchants love wine, and even the most down-and-out merchant recalcitrant people will do everything they can to get some wine to drink. Therefore, the sales of wine vessels are not worried.

Guo Coppersmith's craftsmanship is well-known among the recalcitrant people of the Shang family, and some royal blood relatives originally entrusted Guo Coppersmith to help them build a batch of wine vessels, but they were all politely rejected by Guo Coppersmith. As soon as I heard that the Guo family had also started to set up stalls, there was an endless stream of nobles who came here.

But when they saw the wine vessels on Guo Yang's stall, they shook their heads and sighed, turned around and left.

"The bronzes of the Guo family are not the casting method of my big businessman...... It's so depraved! ”

"Those ornaments actually imitate the style of the Zhou people!"

"Such a wine vessel, even if it is filled with fine wine, it will be difficult to swallow!"

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When the big nobles didn't come, Guo Yang's stall was deserted all of a sudden, and often no customer came to buy for three or five days.

Guo Yang looked at the wine vessels in front of him, and could only smile bitterly.

However, he is not in a hurry.

Guo Yang made a sheepskin cushion and squatted on it, looking like a black and thin ape. Moreover, often a squat is a whole day.

Guo Yang's funny image made the recalcitrant people in Lijiamen Village laugh: "The famous minister of dragon control, the son born is actually a big horse monkey!" ”

Guo Yang has never turned a blind eye to this, someone asked about the price of the wine vessel, he greeted him with a smile, and when there were no customers, he had always been like this.

Gradually, everyone stopped paying attention to this skinny monkey-like teenager.

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Exegesis:

Shang Dynasty bronzes, many names, and many characters are relatively rare, so the phonetic treatment is convenient for readers.

It's not a show, but a strong recommendation from several friends around. Their reason is simple: if you dare to let your children read it, and can read it smoothly, you can take it out for others to read.

It may be a bit pedantic, but it's also true. Therefore, the writing is a bit restrained and slow, and the maximum number of words updated is about 5,000 words a day. Excuse me!

- Sami Baba

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