Chapter 32: Xiuzhenfang City
In the official hall of the Academy, Fei Tong called Yi Jiuxiao over and told him the entire harmony plan, without concealing the difficulties and risks, and he also gave Yi Jiuxiao the opportunity to choose by himself.
Yi Jiuxiao thought for a long time and said: "Thanks to the trust of the emperor and the adults, the lower officials are willing to go, but the lower officials are young and less knowledgeable, and I ask the adults to give me more advice." ”
In fact, after listening to Fei Tong's plan, Yi Jiuxiao decided to go, this is an opportunity to go out to practice martial arts, how can you miss it, you can't usually get it.
But he still had to pretend to think about it, so as not to let Fei Tong be suspicious. Fei Tong is an old fox, and he, a little fox, must guard against the old fox.
Seeing that Yi Jiuxiao agreed to send an envoy, Fei Tong was very happy and said: "Although you are young, you are calm, I am not worried about this, as for the lack of diplomatic etiquette, I will also arrange someone to teach you." This trip is indeed dangerous, but I will greet King Anyuan. Let him strengthen the protection of you, you just need to pay attention to your body, don't get sick, this trip is a good opportunity to improve your knowledge, you must concentrate on learning, grasp it well. ”
After getting Yi Jiuxiao, Fei Tong invited Dazai Peng Chen to meet the emperor together. After meeting the emperor, the emperor sent someone to invite Qi Changguo, the king of Anyuan, to jointly agree on the travel schedule.
In fact, on King Anyuan's side, the emperor must have talked about it, and he didn't have to worry about Fei Tong and Peng Chen.
It's only February, and it's still a bit cold. Between Qi and Wei, there are still some alpine regions, it is better to wait for the weather to warm up, but the emperors of both countries hope not to delay, and later will change.
So it was set on the second day of the third month, which happened to be an auspicious day. And there is still a month before the trip, and King An Yuan can just make some arrangements and arrangements.
All that remains is that Peng Chen summoned Qiu Chengfeng, the envoy of Qi, informed him of the princess's departure itinerary, and asked him to send the news back to Wei, so that Wei could prepare and arrange personnel to meet him at the border.
Peng Chen particularly stressed that Wei should do a good job of keeping secrets in order to prevent sabotage and obstruction by enemy countries. But the matter is so big, and there are so many participants, how difficult it is to keep it secret!
Due to the long time of this trip, the road to Guanshan is blocked, and the future is precipitous, Yi Jiuxiao also has to make some preparations.
He roughly calculated that the journey of 20,000 miles, all the way without delay, would take half a year. If there are some unexpected situations in the middle of the trip, the time will be longer.
Departing on the second day of the first month of March, if you can safely reach Gyeongju, the capital of Wei, it will already be a good result.
Yi Jiuxiao bought a lot of things to prepare, including clothes, daily necessities, etc., and even dry food, bags of water, and some pills.
The pills are mainly used to heal injuries, but one of the pills is not a healing medicine, it is called Bigu Dan, which is originally used by low-level cultivators, and can be used as a substitute for food after eating. Yi Jiuxiao is not a cultivator, so he naturally doesn't need it, so he bought some just for emergencies, anyway, his storage ring has a huge space, so he doesn't have to worry about having no place to put it.
Since this trip was dangerous, Yi Jiuxiao decided to buy a few weapons, and he had always been bare-handed, because there was no big fight.
But this time there may be a war, and there must be someone who can take advantage of it. It's just that Qi is the country of cultivators, and all that is sold in the market are magic weapons and magic weapons, which he can't use, he is a martial artist, and what he wants is swords, guns, swords, and halberds.
There is a fang market in Bozhou City, in which there are thousands of large and small shops, all of which are sold and sold in cultivation supplies, Yi Jiuxiao has never been there before, this time in order to find weapons, he decided to go and have a look.
There are several streets in Fang City, and most of the people walking among them are cultivators, but there are also many mortals.
Most of these mortals do some hard labor, and some come to buy ritual weapons. It is said that after mortals bring magic weapons, they can drive away illness and cowardice, protect themselves, and even have magic weapons that can allow mortals to resist the full force of the foundation building master.
Yi Jiuxiao mixed in the flow of people and walked into one shop after another, these shops were different from mortal shops, selling magic weapons and pills, array flags, as well as refining tools and alchemy materials. The purchaser did not use gold or silver jewelry, but a spirit stone.
It is said that it contains a large amount of heaven and earth aura, which can assist cultivators in their cultivation and can also stimulate the magic circle.
Spirit stones are useless to Yi Jiuxiao, he doesn't need aura to cultivate martial arts. But he has spirit stones, and there is a pile of spirit stones in the storage ring, of course, they were left by Ji Hai, and they have been kept like this, and they have not counted how much, it seems that they can be used today.
I went in and out of several stores, but I didn't find what I wanted, there were swords, guns, swords, halberds, all magic weapons and magic weapons, Yi Jiuxiao was gone, there was no mana to urge, and those things were no different from burning sticks.
The shop guy was also very cold to Yi Jiuxiao, seeing that he had no mana fluctuations all over his body, he was obviously a mortal, and he couldn't buy any good things. The shop guys are not ordinary people, they are cultivators themselves, and they deal with cultivators every day, so they can be said to be well-informed.
The hard work paid off, and when Yi Jiuxiao walked through more than 200 shops, he finally saw the weapon.
It's a dilapidated little shop, there are no guys, and the owner is also sixty or seventy years old, and his cultivation seems to be very low.
There were some pill bottles in the store, as well as some magic weapons and magic weapons that looked ugly, although Yi Jiuxiao was not a cultivator, he could guess that this was a defective product that failed to be refined.
The old man in charge didn't get up to solicit business, and kept squinting behind the counter, letting Yi Jiuxiao look around in the store.
Yi Jiuxiao stumbled upon the weapon in the corner of the room, a sword and a bow lying crookedly under the dusty and cobweb-covered walls, seemingly unmoved for a long time.
If it was simply a sword, Yi Jiuxiao couldn't tell that it was a weapon, and many Xiuzhen and Xiuzhen shops sold magic swords, but the bow was the first time he saw it in the market.
And it was a longbow, and even if a monk had a bow, he would not use it.
The sword is a short sword, only more than two feet long, including the handle, and I don't know what material it is made of, and it has a lot of weight in the hand, and it weighs fifty or sixty pounds. Yi Jiuxiao is now in the realm of the Martial Sect, and his arms have the strength of several thousand catties, and it must be very difficult to change to a mortal.
He wiped the dust off a section of the sword with his fingers, and then saw the body. Among them, the ghostly light flickered, and there was no rust at all, Yi Jiuxiao secretly said that it was really a good sword.
Put down the sword, grabbed the bow again, this bow is black and swarthy, even the bowstring is a color, it is also very heavy, it actually weighs hundreds of pounds, Yi Jiuxiao grabbed the bow handle with his left hand, grabbed the bowstring with his right hand, and tried to pull it away, but he couldn't pull it.
His strength is very strong now, and he didn't dare to exert himself too hard, for fear of breaking the bow, who knew that this bow was so strong.
Hmmm, there's a weird bow, I'm going to try it. This time, I saw him squeak with a squeak of his arms, the back of the bow was bent, and the bowstring was long, and even then, it could not be pulled into the shape of a full moon.
Yi Jiuxiao didn't know how many strong bows and hard crossbows he had seen in his previous life, but compared to this bow, they were all not mentioned, this bow was really strong.
Putting down the bow, Yi Jiuxiao took another look, and without looking at any other weapons, he walked to the counter and asked, "Boss, how did you sell those two magic weapons just now?"
The boss opened his eyes that had been squinting: "Little brother, you really have a lot of strength, the two things you saw just now are not magic weapons." ”
Yi Jiuxiao knew that it was not a magic weapon, but he deliberately asked so, he wanted to test the boss, but who knew that the boss actually told the truth.
"It's not a magic weapon and it doesn't matter, I like these two things a lot, can you sell them to me, tell me a price." ”
The old man squinted at Yi Jiuxiao, and was secretly happy in his heart, these two things have been put away for many years and no one cares, and today someone actually asked for it, so let's talk about the price, I am afraid that this kid has no money, what money can a mortal have.
"Little brother, these things are handed down from my ancestors, and I have never been willing to sell them, if you really like them, it doesn't hurt to sell them to you, but the price is not cheap, I don't know if you can afford it." ”
"Haha~ Ancestral, has your family been refining magic weapons for generations?"
Yi Jiuxiao didn't know if what the old man said about the ancestral heirloom was true or not, but these two weapons must be very old, and they were definitely not the current works. As for not being willing to sell, it must be a lie, and no one cares about it in the corner, and no one buys it.
"Little brother, I can't lie to you, my family has been a monk for generations, but it is not a magic weapon, these things were obtained by the ancestors by chance in a ruin, and after taking it back, it was found that it may be a magic weapon, but the spiritual power has passed, if you find a refining master to re-bless the magic power, it must be a good magic weapon." ”
This old man said that his ancestor obtained it in the ruins, which is also credible, as for what spiritual power has passed, it is just fooling himself and deceiving himself to buy it.
This is clearly a weapon, how can the magic weapon be so heavy, the physique of the law cultivation is weak, and it is difficult for the foundation building monks to hold such a heavy magic weapon.
But just now the old man said that it was a few things, and this sentence attracted Yi Jiuxiao's attention.
"Boss, what do you mean, besides these two, there is something else?"
"Yes, there are a few more, I have them in the backyard, if you want to see them, I will take you there. ”
Yi Jiuxiao followed the shopkeeper to the backyard, and found three weapons in a pile of rubble in the corner of the wall, a spear, a shield, a pot of arrows, plus a bow and short sword in front, just like a military general's outfit.
This made Yi Jiuxiao even more sure that this was a weapon, and it was not a treasure. He reached out and grabbed the spear, and found that it weighed four hundred pounds, and the shield was not light.
This time, Yi Jiuxiao learned well, and deliberately pretended not to be able to hold the spear and shield, so as not to be eaten by the boss and asked for a crazy price.
Sure enough, the old man of the shopkeeper saw that Yi Jiuxiao grabbed the spear and immediately put it down, probably because he couldn't hold it, and couldn't help but reveal a faint disappointment in his eyes. These ghost things have been placed for hundreds of years, and they have not been able to find a buyer, and they are placed in this corner, and they can't be moved.
The old man's every move was in Yi Jiuxiao's thoughts, and when he saw the old man's disappointment, he knew that the effect had been achieved, so he said: "I'm a mortal, it doesn't matter if it's a magic weapon, I just think this thing is fun, so I want to buy it, as for what's the use of buying it, it's really useless, it can only be placed at home to look good, boss, you can make a price." ”
"I want to sell these things together, not only for sale, if I give spirit stones, I will have a hundred spirit stones, and if I give silver, I have to ask for a thousand taels of silver. The old man tentatively said the price, and this price could buy two ordinary magic weapons.
"How about I exchange something with you, it's given by a friend, and I don't need it. After speaking, he opened the package on his body and took out a needle from it, this thing was originally in the storage ring, but Yi Jiuxiao took it out and put it in the package.