Xiaoyu Township is located on the outskirts of Yisang City, which is a famous medicine town in the middle of the Xiling Empire.

Ying Yanshu looked at a pond in front of him, dazed. He remembered that after stealing the Cangluo Sword, the rest of the weapons were buried here by himself at night. At that time, it was still a barren grass, but now it has been transformed into a pond area. More than 10 ponds are connected to each other, and there are ridges separating them, with a large total area. The slope of the pond is gentle, and several kinds of medicinal herbs are planted on the edges.

Sweat gradually oozed from Ying Yanshu's forehead. He didn't take these weapons seriously at the time, so he didn't bury them too deeply. Looking at the situation in front of him, the weapon must have been dug up. If an alien was present when he dug up the weapon and realized the secret, it must have fallen into his hands. If not, then there is no way to know its whereabouts.

"Where did you come from, what are you staring at my medicine pond?"

Ying Yanshu turned around like a frightened bird, and saw a sturdy middle-aged man carrying a medicine basket, holding an iron fork in one hand, looking at him vigilantly. Ying Yanshu's heart reborn some hope, and immediately asked, "This, is this your medicine pond?"

"Yes, it's only been out for a short time. Seeing that Ying Yanshu was not obviously hostile, Yao Nong's tone softened a little, but he still did not completely let down his guard.

"So, did you dig up anything when you opened this pond?"

"Huh?" the middle-aged man thought for a moment, "yes, yes. At that time, a few rusty iron rods were really dug up, all of which were weapons, and ninety percent of them were new. Later, he was sent to a blacksmith shop and melted down to make farm tools. What, it's yours?"

"Melt it! Melt it all down? No, what's left?"

"No, what's left? There's not a drop of molten iron left. Oh, no, no, there are still a few of them there. ”

"Shopkeeper Cheng?"

"Shopkeeper Cheng is a medicine merchant in Yisang City, and it is because of his cooperation that our brothers opened this medicine pond. That day, the shopkeeper Cheng happened to come to the township to collect medicinal materials, and by the way, he came to see how the medicine pond was dug. It's strange to think about it now, when the shopkeeper Cheng saw those rusty iron rods, he said that he wanted to take a few back to play. He gives face, how can we refuse?"

"Then the weapon he brought back was chosen by himself, or was it chosen by you. ”

"He picked it himself. ”

"Thank you, thank you, then how to find the shopkeeper Cheng?"

Hearing this, Yao Nong's eyes suddenly turned cold, he took half a step forward, pointed at Ying Yanshu's nose with an iron fork and asked, "Why are you asking this? Could it be that you want to find trouble with the shopkeeper Cheng?"

Ying Yanshu realized that he was too excited, and hurriedly said: "No, no, no, I just have some things that need to be explained to Shopkeeper Cheng clearly." ”

"Brother, you have washed the blood before saying such things. Look at your appearance, it's either a mercenary or a bandit, anyway, it's not a good stubble, if you really have no malice, just stay here, I'll find someone to invite the shopkeeper Cheng. ”

"No, man. I really have something very urgent, not to mention finding someone to invite, whether the shopkeeper Cheng will agree, just this time to go back and forth can not afford to delay. Besides, Yisang City is heavily guarded, if you look at my body injury, even if I really have malicious intentions, what can I do?"

After a mouthful of people who didn't know how much was true and how much was fake, Ying Yanshu was so anxious that his face was red and his ears were red, and his palms were full of sweat. His time was already short, if this medicine farmer refused to reveal some more information about the shopkeeper Cheng, Yi Sang City was so big, where would he go to find it? If he had to turn Yi Sang City over, wouldn't it be to send his head to the Meita to be sold?

Fortunately, the folk customs of Xiaoyu are quite simple, and the medicine farmer thought about it again and again, but he still didn't feel embarrassed by Ying Yanshu, sighed and said: "Okay, you are lucky to meet me." Cheng's shopkeeper's pharmacy is called Houqiufang, which is on Nongqi Street in the west of Yisang City. Shopkeeper Cheng himself has a liuze accent, as for his real name, we don't know. ”

"Thank you, thank you. ”

"You'd better not have bad intentions. Don't blame me for not warning you, Shopkeeper Cheng is not easy to mess with. ”

“······ Thanks a lot. ”

The time has passed, and the noise of Yisang City during the day has subsided a little. Ying Yanshu changed into clean clothes, lowered his head, and walked lonely on the street, from time to time with suspicion or curiosity sweeping the wounds on his face. The lanterns along the street emitted a dark red halo, covering Ying Yanshu's forehead, making his expression even more obscure.

As he was walking, a bow jumped and landed at his feet. Ying Yanshu was annoyed, and when he flew up, the ball flew out like a cannon, and went straight to the door of the young man who came to pick up the ball. Fortunately, the young man's reaction was quick, and he instantly hooked his neck and bent down, and the ball grazed the back of his neck and flew towards his companions behind him. Because the young man before blocked the view, the companions didn't have time to react, and a guy who was caught off guard was smashed and fell to the ground in an instant. The ball bounced off and unabated, smashing over a lantern on the side of the road, attracting the attention of passers-by.

The unlucky guy who had been knocked to the ground had lost consciousness, and the people around him gathered around to check the situation. The young man in front straightened up with palpitations, glanced back, turned around, and glared at Ying Yanshu. Ying Yanshu raised his head, his scar lined with shadows, revealing a dangerous aura. The cold gaze swept over, so frightened that the young man did not dare to say more, and the previous anger was scattered to some corner, and he was stunned in place and did not know what to do.

Ying Yanshu stared at him twice, then turned around and walked into the alley beside him. Only then did the young man react, and his companions gathered around him again, which made him emboldened again, and immediately shouted: "Don't go!" led people to catch up, and rushed into the alley with Ying Yanshu. However, in front of them, in the long, dark alley, there was not even a single figure.

A group of people stood at the entrance of the alley, looking at each other.

Nongqi Street, Houqiufang. Ying Yanshu silently closed the back window, and every time he was in a hurry to enter the house, he leaned out half of his body, and gently fanned his nose with his left hand, confirming that there was no abnormal breath before carefully sneaking into the house. He wears a layer of light red gloves as thin as cicada wings, from Baiyuling, made of the snakeskin of the red-tailed pit viper, which is quite resistant to corrosion, and turns purple-black when it comes into contact with the toxin.

Ying Yanshu tapped his toes and climbed onto the beam. At the same time, the eyes turned golden, and with a little light, the interior of the house was fully visible. Seeing that there was no danger, he hooked the beam tightly with his arms and left leg, hung upside down directly under the beam, his back was as straight as a keel, and then slowly stretched out his right leg and closed the window with his toes.

After waiting on the beam for a while, Ying Yanshu fell to the ground with confidence. His knees bent slightly, unloading the force of the fall, and did not make any sound.

Returning to Yisang City is extremely risky, if it is really as the medicine farmer said, and the shopkeeper Cheng is also very human, then this trip is closer to Huwei Chunbing. The depth of Cheng's strength is still unknown, let alone whether he is his opponent, even if he is really stronger than him, he will not dare to go all out in Yisang City.

With the idea of a quick decision, Ying Yanshu quickly searched several rooms in Houqiufang, but found nothing, and couldn't help frowning. Could it be that Shopkeeper Cheng hid things in other residences? Ying Yanshu muttered in his heart, unwillingly searched again, and finally fixed his eyes on the medicinal herb stall in the corner of the warehouse.

There was only a white cloth on the ground, and the white cloth was covered with a layer of sun-dried herbs and large cracked leaves. Previously, Ying Yanshu felt that the thin layer of medicine stall did not look like something could be hidden, and once the medicine stall was turned over, those broken leaves would inevitably make a sound, so he did not turn over the medicine stall. But his time is running out now. Since there was no one in the house, Ying Yanshu was a little bolder, and he stretched out his hand to open the medicine stand.

Only halfway through it, he realized that something was wrong: the broken leaves were not spread on the white cloth like medicinal herbs, but sewn on the white cloth. Ying Yanshu was vigilant at the moment, slowly pulled the white cloth away, tried not to make a sound, stuck it on the ground and observed it carefully, and sure enough, he found a gap that was even more hidden than a hair. Stretched out his hand to caress it, he didn't feel anything unusual, and he didn't see any movement when he pressed it down, if it weren't for the extraordinary eyesight of the golden pupils, he really wouldn't be able to find it.

After thinking for a moment, Ying Yanshu pressed his hands on the ground, used internal force to absorb the floor, and lifted it up, revealing a secret passage below. The passage runs vertically downward, turning to the other side at the end, with a dim light flickering.

Seeing this scene, Ying Yanshu was bittersweet. Happy, because most of the things are here, and worried, because the shopkeeper Cheng is also here, and he is definitely not very human.

Even if there was no way back from here, Ying Yanshu suppressed his courage, lifted his heart, pressed his hands and feet against the four walls of the secret passage, and climbed down cautiously like a big spider. The walls of the passage are very rough, and there are no tools such as ladders, but there are scratches scattered all over the place. Ying Yanshu pondered, this Cheng shopkeeper either raised fierce beasts or demon beasts as pets, or was a master of body refining, and his skills and qi might be his weaknesses.

At the end, Ying Yanshu took out the jade willow sword from his back, jumped down gently, bent his knees when he landed, unloaded the strength of the shock, and rolled forward, beware of possible attacks. Fortunately, there is a bend in front of this short passage. Ying Yanshu looked around, stood up, bent his waist, and carefully leaned towards the corner, his back pressed against the wall, and stretched out the jade willow sword. The smooth blade of the sword mirrored the situation on the other side of the wall. There was no ambush, so Ying Yanshu poked his head out with confidence.

On the other side is a spacious chamber with a stone platform on which an oil lamp is lit. Through the golden pupils, Ying Yanshu clearly saw a pile of broken metal pieces scattered on the countertop, as well as a lone spear head, so he expected that the thing had been discovered by the shopkeeper Cheng. Directly on the opposite wall is a closet, densely packed like a honeycomb, on which are placed scrolls and boxes of various sizes and shapes.

There was a "click" sound, as if the bamboo slips had been thrown into the pile, and then there was a "crunch" sound of the ladder. Ying Yanshu shrunk his neck, his hand broke off and the sword was clenched, all kinds of senses were raised to the extreme, and his nerves were tense like a string that was about to break. After a while, the figure of the shopkeeper Cheng appeared.

Shopkeeper Cheng looks obviously not young, and his white temples look particularly tired under the light of the lights. The wrinkles on his face reminded the middle-aged man that he was only one step away from a senior rocking chair. Despite this, his figure did not look rickety or bloated by time. His sleeves and trouser legs were rolled up, and the muscles were still visible on his bare forearms and calves. Especially on his forearm, there are lines like knife cuts, half a finger long, very weird.

He held a long glass plate and placed it carefully on the countertop, with his back to the passageway, as if he had not found Ying Yanshu.

Suddenly, a sound of rustling aroused Ying Yanshu's vigilance. He immediately turned his head to see a lizard lying on the wall behind him, with a body and a tail one palm long, and a third eye on its forehead, staring at him.

After being stunned for a while, Ying Yanshu suddenly realized, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end. Halfway back to his head, a figure caught a glimpse out of the corner of his eye. Shopkeeper Cheng had already attacked behind him silently. Ying Yanshu raised his sword and slashed, Cheng shopkeeper didn't expect his vigilance to be so high, and he didn't have a weapon in hand, so he had to stop, crossed his arms in front of him, and took the sword.

The moment the blade tangent to the arm, there was no expected blood light. On the contrary, the Jade Willow Sword was shocked back. Ying Yanshu's strength on this sword was extremely strong, and after being hardened, he couldn't even control the tremor of his wrist for a while, as if what he had just slashed was not an arm, but a pair of refined steel hammers.

Ying Yanshu hurriedly took two steps back and shook his numb right hand vigorously. At the same time, the shopkeeper Cheng also had a little grasp of the reality of the thief in front of him, kicked his feet, and threw himself towards Ying Yanshu, turning his left hand into a claw and taking it straight to his throat. The nails of the five fingers of Ying Yanshu's right hand turned golden, and several wisps of golden light spread out from under the nails, forming a line of sword light along the blade. At the same time, the whole person fell to the right, and with a light tap of his toes, he surged out diagonally with the momentum of lying on the thorns, avoiding the attack of the shopkeeper Cheng, and slashed at his ribs with a sword. If the strange defensive ability of the shopkeeper Cheng relied on the Gang Qi to protect the body, he Ying Yanshu was fully confident that he would lock the victory with the demon-breaking power on this sword.

Once again, however, his hopes were dashed. The Jade Willow Sword only left a small hole in Cheng's shopkeeper's clothes, and it still couldn't pierce his skin. Shopkeeper Cheng threw himself into the air with one claw, and was stabbed in the ribs, so he suddenly lost his balance and staggered into the shadows of the passage in two steps. Ying Yanshu rushed forward, slapped his backhand on the ground, turned a somersault, and entered the secret room. He didn't want to fight an invulnerable monster in such a cramped environment.

So far, Cheng has not shown any use of qi or techniques. Ying Yanshu had no choice but to disperse the sword, so as not to waste his energy.

Looking around, Ying Yanshu didn't find any other entrances. The square stone platform sits alone in the center of the chamber, and the three walls except the entrance are filled with closets filled with all sorts of things. There were vents and drains in the chamber, but they were too small for him to pass through.

Turning his head to look, Ying Yanshu saw the glazed plate that was placed on the stone platform: two thin glazed plates were stacked together, and in the middle was a square scroll as thin as a cicada's wings with ancient lines.

"This must be what the charm department wants. Ying Yanshu thought so, "Even if it's not, maybe you can fool around with this." ”

"It's too early to think about drawers. Just when Ying Yanshu was about to uncover the glass plate, the voice of the shopkeeper Cheng came from the entrance of the passage. Ying Yanshu had no choice but to withdraw his hand, ready to deal with this difficult guy.

Shopkeeper Cheng slowly walked into the secret room. His face was not pretty, but he was not so angry or nervous, as if there had been no attack just now, but that he had accidentally dropped a peeled tea leaf on the ground. Ying Yanshu doesn't like to deal with such an old bird, especially this kind of ruthless character who is so bold and reckless that he hides under the nose of Emperor Xiling.

"Drawers? It seems that the shopkeeper Cheng is mixed with the forest (land boundary) of Liuze. ”

Boss Cheng didn't answer, and silently took off his shirt, revealing his lean muscles. His skin had sag, and like his forearms, there were short, knife-cut lines.

"If you want to be Liuze, Boss Cheng is ······ Puppet?" Ying Yanshu asked tentatively, his palms sweating a little.

He didn't want to hear an affirmative answer. But there are some things that the more I am afraid, the more I am afraid.

Boss Cheng's body shook suddenly, and his skin and flesh instantly tightened and hardened, like rough rocks. The strange lines on the arms, face, chest, abdomen, and back opened at the same time, and there were dozens of eyes!