Chapter 33: Departure for Wei
This needle-shaped magic weapon is called Qingfeng Needle, which is silent after being issued, and is the best at sneak attacks, and it is also difficult to refine, and it was found from Ji Hai's storage ring.
The old man in charge is obviously knowledgeable, and when he looks at this needle-shaped magic weapon, he knows that the price is expensive, and the market price should be no less than two hundred spirit stones.
So he hurriedly said: "This thing is just a little smaller, I'll suffer a little loss, you can change it." ”
Yi Jiuxiao smiled, then stopped talking, the old man hurriedly took the Qingfeng needle from Yi Jiuxiao's hand, and then put it into his storage bag, he was afraid that Yi Jiuxiao would regret it.
"I just have a few things that are heavier, do you find someone to pick them up yourself, or do I ask a few people to send them to your house. ”
"Don't bother, I'll take it myself. After speaking, Yi Jiuxiao put the longbow and quiver on his back, inserted the short sword into the gap between the quiver, the shield in his left hand, the spear in his right hand, and walked out of the store after taking it.
The old man looked at Yi Jiuxiao in a daze, always feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of anything, just watched him go away.
After leaving the store, he didn't go far, Yi Jiuxiao sent the weapons into the storage ring one by one, his methods were very concealed, and he did not attract the attention of others.
He didn't want to take these big guys to swagger through the market, this set of outfits was commonplace in the Great Song Dynasty, and in Qi Kingdom, it was really a bit terrifying, so it was better to be cautious.
There are still twenty days before departure, and Yi Jiuxiao is relatively free during this time, and he doesn't have to go to the academy every day to report.
He rented a horse, rode out of the capital, and lived in a remote market in the suburbs, he wanted to test the power of these weapons, the so-called "know yourself and know the enemy, a hundred battles will not be defeated", understand the performance of weapons to know how to apply.
Choosing a wilderness, Yi Jiuxiao first took out a spear, carefully cleaned and wiped it with a coarse cloth to remove the dirt that had been deposited for a long time, and finally revealed the body of the spear.
The spear was nine feet long, of which the handle was eight feet long, and was made of non-gold and non-wood materials, and was gray in color and unusually tough. The spearhead is about a foot long, with blades on both sides, which is different from the material of the spear shaft, and the color is bright and sharp.
Yi Jiuxiao carefully weighed it in his hand and found that it weighed more than four hundred catties, which was really not light, and the spears of the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty usually weighed dozens of catties.
He looked up and down carefully, and found that there were three words on the tail of the spear handle, "Spear Piercing Mountain", which seemed to be the name of the spear. The spear pierced the mountain, and he didn't know if it could really penetrate the mountain, so he picked up the spear and stabbed it at a rock.
"Poof", the hard rock was pierced like tofu, and it didn't reach the end of the spear, Yi Jiuxiao was suddenly scared into a cold sweat, this spear is sharp, it is simply indestructible!
This is a stab on a rock, if it pierces into the human body, no matter how thick the armor is, it will have to penetrate the heart, but I don't know if it can pierce the body protection magic weapon of the cultivator.
He put the spear into the storage ring, and then took out the short sword, which was also wiped and cleaned, and found that the material of the sword body was the same as the spear blade, and the handle material was the same as the spear handle, and three words were also engraved on the handle, "Panshan Sword", which should be the name of this sword.
He stabbed the rock again with his short sword, still reaching the handle, and seemed to be a little sharper than the spear.
The short sword was also sent into the storage ring, and Yi Jiuxiao took out the longbow and quiver, which he guessed were originally a set, but they were placed separately by the shop.
Sure enough, as Yi Jiuxiao expected, the bow and arrow were originally a set. After cleaning up the dirt, the back of the bow and the body of the pot are engraved with words, the name of the bow is "Piercing Mountain Bow", and the name of the arrow is "Piercing Mountain Arrow".
He did not dare to shoot his bow and arrows at the mountain, for if it did not enter the mountain, and it would be difficult to take them out, he found a rock protruding from the ground, which was five feet square in size, and could be used to test the arrow.
Yi Jiuxiao stood a hundred steps away and shot an arrow towards the boulder, and after the arrow entered the stone, suddenly the stone exploded in pieces, and then the arrow continued to fly forward and disappeared without a trace.
There is no turning back from the bow, what should I do if the arrow is lost. Yi Jiuxiao was in a hurry, and hurriedly searched in the direction of the shot, and searched for two hundred zhang away until he saw an arrow on an ancient tree, half of which was inserted in the tree.
Pull out the arrow, check it yourself, and find that it is undamaged, then put it in the quiver and then put it in the storage ring in its entirety.
This time to recover the arrows is lucky, the two armies confronted, the arrows shot are absolutely not recovered, there are a total of ten arrows in the quiver, so that one shot is one less, ten shots ten times, and when it is used up, it is gone.
The monk's magic weapon can be recovered under the urging of mana, Yi Jiuxiao is not a monk, and he doesn't have this ability yet.
This is the only way to rematch arrows, but the whole Qi country does not use this kind of bow and arrow, I don't know if Orion uses it, even if Orion uses it, mortal arrows are too soft, and it is estimated that they will break on the bow before they are shot.
It seems that you can only customize, draw a picture yourself, and find a blacksmith to build it.
Blacksmiths, there are also a lot of them in Qi country, the farmer's utensils, kitchen knives and pots and spoons are all forged by blacksmiths, Yi Jiuxiao took the drawings and found a blacksmith shop in the suburbs.
The blacksmith looked at it for a long time and didn't understand what it was, and in desperation, Yi Jiuxiao took out an arrow and asked the blacksmith to do the same, using the best fine iron, and the size was larger and thicker than the original, otherwise the strength would definitely not be enough.
The blacksmith was too lazy to do this, but when he saw Yi Jiuxiao take out a few hundred taels of silver, he couldn't help but be moved, so he invited a few blacksmiths from the neighboring village to work day and night. Within ten days, a thousand fine iron arrows were created, and these arrows were all collected by Yi Jiuxiao into the storage ring.
Then he returned to the academy from the suburbs of Beijing, because in the next few days, Fei Tong arranged for the academy to teach him the etiquette of the academy.
There are many etiquettes in this continent where the Qi State is located, many of the etiquettes are different from the Great Song Dynasty, and are closer to the ancient rites of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
Yi Jiuxiao learned very quickly, and he learned decently in a few days, and even the chief history of etiquette couldn't help but praise this colleague for being very smart.
On the morning of 28 February, he went to the academy again, said goodbye to the dean, Fei Tong, and his colleagues, and prepared to go back to his lodgings to rest for a few days.
Before he went out, he was stopped by Fei Tong and said don't hurry to go, something good is coming. As soon as the words were finished, the holy decree arrived, and Xuan Yi Jiuxiao received the decree.
The chief of the palace interior read out the holy decree, which was to canonize the king of Anyuan, Qi Changguo, with the title of leading the country, and the official rank of the first rank, as the envoy of peace and proximity. Canonized Yi Jiuxiao as a university scholar, with a third-rank official rank, and was a deputy envoy to his relatives.
After the decree was read, Yi Jiuxiao hurriedly received the decree and thanked him, and gave the chief attendant a happy money.
After receiving the holy decree, he felt a little confused for a while, the official rank of the third grade, that is the state taishou and the general existence of the servants of various ministries, so that the eighteen-year-old is embarrassed.
Originally, the four-grade position of the chief history of the national policy was rare, and some officials were quite complaining, especially Qi Yuanhu and Zeng Guang, who were on the same list, were greatly unconvinced, and these two only received a five-grade official position.
Today, he was promoted to a scholar of the Third Grade University, and everyone in the academy was surprised, but Dean Fei Tong was calm, and he seemed to have known about it for a long time.
Although everyone is sour in their hearts, it is normal to think about it, and the matter of harmony is very small, and the officials who send the envoy must have the corresponding level, otherwise it is difficult to show the importance that Qi attaches to this matter.
King An Yuan is the imperial prince, but he was previously in the forbidden military capital, a military position, and it was quite taboo in diplomacy, so he could only be canonized as a sub-minister, which was an official position second only to Dazai. Yi Jiuxiao's official position as a bachelor is actually a fictitious title, just to promote the rank of deputy envoy.
On the second day of the first month of March, fireworks and ceremonial music were fired in unison in the imperial city, and a forbidden army escorted a phoenix out of the imperial city, and an eighteen-year-old beautiful woman sat in the phoenix.
She kept looking back, hoping to take a closer look at the palace where she had grown up. Knowing that from now on, there will be no way back, and she couldn't help but burst into tears, she was Qi Qingyun, the seventh princess who was close to her.
After leaving the imperial city, another team of forbidden soldiers joined the escort ranks, and one of the white-clothed young men was eye-catching, only to see that he was slender, with clean eyebrows, and his slightly immature face flashed with fortitude and vigor, which was Yi Jiuxiao.
Originally, he could ride in the carriage as a deputy envoy to the family, but he didn't like the feeling of stuffiness in the carriage, and he was able to ride the horse easily and could see the scenery along the way.
Wei was directly west of Qi State, and the entire Heqin team left the capital from the west gate and marched in the direction of Wei.
This team was selected by King An Yuan from the forbidden army, which was a royal guard army, and most of its members were children of various royal relatives, who were loyal to the royal family and rarely disagreed.
There are a total of 500 people in the whole team, all of them are cavalry, and all of them are monks, and the lowest of them are all sixth-level Qi refining cultivators. Among them, there are 100 magic weapons that are shields, good at defense, and can form a protective formation at critical times to block the enemy's attack.
There are two hundred people who are flying sword troops, mainly attacking, and hundreds of flying swords are fired together, and the power is very huge. Another hundred guards were guarded, with different weapons, skilled in assassination, espionage, etc., and these people took turns to protect the princess's chariot on both sides of the chariot in case the enemy attacked.
There are also 100 people who are mainly engaged in miscellaneous labor, driving supply wagons, guarding spare horses, setting up camps, lighting fires and cooking, repairing equipment, and treating poison and wounds.
There are two commanders of the escort team, and the orthodox leader is named Qi Bin, who is the nephew of King Anyuan, and he has built a nine-layer foundation. The deputy commander is named Zheng Yuanhu, who is also an imperial prince, and he has built an eight-layer foundation.
The two commanders were around thirty years old and had a lot of combat experience. The two of them also have a division of labor, among which the orthodox leader Qi Bin is at the forefront of the team, leading the team forward, and the deputy commander Zheng Yuanhu is behind the palace to prevent the rear of the team from being sneak attacked.
The chariot in which the princess rode was in the middle of the procession, and the chariot was very large, and there were four maids in it to guard and serve personally, and the four maids in the carriage followed, making a total of eight.
None of these eight maids were mortals, all of them were monks, and they were all monks in the early days of foundation building.
There is also a carriage in front of the chariot, and the one sitting on the chariot is the daughter of King Anyuan, the county lord of Qi Qingru, known as the lord of Ru.