Since there were almost no ready-made roads in this mountain forest, the divine sense looked around the sky, and there was no specific direction to go, so he followed the previous route to find the antidote along the stream to the stone platform, and I didn't know if it was a hormonal problem, but I actually remembered the scene of the woman bathing before.

At this time, I longed to take another look, although I didn't want the enchantress to stand in our way again, but I always wanted to see more...... After all, the blood is strong, and this kind of useless thought constantly drives me to fly quickly in that direction with both contradiction and excitement.

In the blink of an eye, I had reached the top of the stone platform, and the stream went down the mountain, and when I looked around, I was disappointed not to find the woman.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, I deliberately raised my consciousness to a height of more than 20 meters above the ground, covered by the dense branches and leaves, gliding quietly like an owl while patrolling the ground covered with fallen leaves by the moonlight.

Soon I reached the top of the hill, and it was estimated that it would take about an hour or two to walk up the grassy slope where I rested, and if we hadn't encountered the miasma in the afternoon, we might have been able to descend into the village.

Thinking of this, I unconsciously moved my mind again, since my divine sense is so fast, it is better to go down the mountain first to see the situation in the village.

The mind flew into the air again, looking for the general location of the village in the dark valley, and faintly saw the faint light of the fire at the foot of the mountain, which should be the bonfire lit by the two teams of men and horses who had arrived before.

At this time, with a turn of thought, he first estimated the controllable return power of his divine sense, which should be very sufficient, and flew down the valley with a swoop.

This village is much larger than I imagined, from the bottom to the middle of the mountain, there are sparse bamboo and wooden huts, along the banks of some streams, the number of houses of all kinds has increased significantly, and the line is a relatively concentrated small village, each village has as little as four or five houses, and more than a dozen households. The distance between the villages is not very far, as the mountains go down, the villages become more and more dense, and some have even been connected into a large area, and there is a relatively primitive layout such as street markets, and the place where the fire is lit is the center of the whole village group, that is, the flattest part of the valley.

In this terrain, there is a building that is particularly conspicuous, there are several large-scale stilted buildings enclosed into a house, there are a few more high fences and long walls outside the courtyard, although the black tile slope roof is not much different from the surrounding houses, but you can also see some decorative details on the top of the beam and the eaves corner, I think if you are not mistaken, it should be the "palace" where the Ah Zi family was originally located.

The consciousness crossed the roof path to the courtyard of the "palace", where a few soldiers were chatting around the bonfire, and after listening to it it was nothing more than some meat and vegetarian jokes, they did not linger any longer, and went to the other houses along the courtyard corridor, most of the soldiers had fallen asleep on the floor with their clothes closed, and the only light left in the room was the stove with a pot of tea warm, and there was still some faint charcoal fire.

I went to a few other rooms, I can vaguely see some tables, chairs, pit couches and other furniture, the window eaves and door corners are hung with a lot of spider webs, the wall is hung with some bull head swords and other ornaments, because the light is too weak and does not see the details of the interior really, after looking around, I just feel that the whole house is gray with a damp and moldy aura, presumably because no one has lived in it for several years, this good and decent king's mansion is deserted to a lot of damp and evil.

The divine consciousness flew into the air again, and wanted to find the "rainbow pool" that Ah Zi said, but after looking around, there was only the vast night, and there was no trace of the pool.

Because of the rush to fly back before the power of the divine consciousness was exhausted, so along the way to choose the top of the stream without branches and leaves, because of the speed, there was no way to slowly probe all the way, when passing near the big rock, suddenly felt that there seemed to be a circle of white light under the water surface faintly flickering at the bottom of the water, but the divine consciousness had no time to care about it at this time, presumably it was the reflection of the moonlight and the like, without thinking too much, he returned to the campfire on the grassy slope in one breath.

I saw that the golden fat man was already snoring on the ground on all directions, and Ah Zi was playing with something in his hand, and he couldn't wait to take a closer look.

My body, still sitting in place with the Heaven and Earth Seal Plate in my hand, my divine consciousness slackened slightly above the Heavenly Spirit Cover, and then I drilled into my body along the center of my eyebrows, and my mind calmed down a little at this point, and I finally came back safely in time.

After opening his hands to seal the seal, he slowly sighed and opened his eyes slightly. Ah Zi also noticed my actions, turned her face sideways and asked softly, "Awake?" ”

"Uh-huh, take a break." I don't plan to fly away from her house with her now, because she may not be able to understand it immediately, and secondly, I am afraid that her homesickness will only increase her sorrow.

"I see you sitting motionless, only a very weak breath, I guess you are resting, although I don't understand your yin and yang arts or anything, but in the movie, you can often see those people who practice martial arts or Taoist priests meditating, so I don't dare to call you, I'm afraid of you...... Gone mad, hee-hee. Ah Zi looked at me with a smile, and he didn't look as worried as he was when he looked up at the starry sky before.

When I saw that she was holding a long knife in her hand, I pointed and asked, "This is your father's sword." How did you take it out? ”

She held the scabbard in her left hand, stroked the handle up and down with her right hand, and pointed to the fat man lying on the side with her eyes: "One of you is meditating, the other is sleeping, let me be a little girl to stay here alone, cold and dark, can't you take this treasure knife out to strengthen yourself?" ”

I saw that she looked like a coquettish and not like a joke, so I quickly apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm not asleep, if you call me, I'll wake up." Oh, by the way, is there any specific use for this knife? When listening to your uncle talk about that incident, it seems that the ghost woman is still a little taboo about this knife? ”

"How do you use it? I haven't heard of this, and my uncle hasn't talked about it, and I think Abba just hung him on his body before, just like an ordinary long knife, but this is a knife left by his ancestors as a proof of the royal family, I think...... Maybe the materials used are better, or maybe you have any spells you cast when forging them before? ”

"Spells?" I asked.

"I'm just guessing, I've never heard Aba recite any spells, you said that the ghost woman is afraid of it, so I remembered that there was probably a spell or something to bless this knife."

"Well, can you show me?" When I saw that she didn't mean to put away the knife, I reached out and asked her to borrow it.

"Okay, you're an onmyoji, why don't you help me study it carefully, is there any mystery on it that we ordinary people can't see?"

She reached out and handed the knife into my arms, and when I took it, I picked up a branch and stirred the campfire, added a few new firewoods, and looked at the sword in my hand by the light of the fire, which I don't know how many years old.

As I have said before, the tail end of this knife handle is a ring circled by the double horns of the dragon's head, below the ring head is a dragon head inlaid with two red and green gems to make an eye, the head of the dragon is golden as a whole, if you are not mistaken, it should be made of gold of higher purity, the length of the handle below the dragon head is different from the ordinary handle, it is more suitable to hold the knife with one hand or both hands, the whole handle is tightly wrapped by a black similar animal skin, and the outside is wound with gold wire, and in the middle part of the handle, two pieces of ancient jade are embedded, and it is carved into a tiger shape.

Look at the knife blade, that is, the gauntlet part, shaped like a turtle's back, leaning on the blade of the knife slightly raised, engraved with tortoiseshell patterns, connected to the handle of the knife and slightly inward, can fit half of the fist. This form of guard is more like a handguard of Western fencing, which is very rare in Chinese sword formation.

The scabbard is wrapped by a thick tortoiseshell, the material inside the scabbard cannot be determined, the sheath tail and the sheath are sealed by rhino horns, and the ears of the hanging lanyard in the middle are in the shape of flying goose beads, and a collar of goose feathers is hung on the lanyard.

Drawing the blade of the knife, there was no sound, just a cold light, which was very dazzling in the firelight. The blade is about one meter, the blade is single-sided, there is a small groove in the back of the knife, and the blade head is cast into an arc-shaped pointed end, shaped like a phoenix tail. I picked up a piece of grass from the ground and blew lightly on the blade of the blade, and it immediately broke in two.

Although I have learned a little about sword appreciation with my father, I know that the history of this ring of the first knife can be pushed back to the Western Han Dynasty, but from the shape of this single-edged long knife in my hand, it is more Tang Yun, not to mention that the craftsmanship is so exquisite, it should not be used for battlefield fighting, but more like a ceremonial knife used as a court guard of honor and a decoration for the body of the powerful.

Although I have seen a lot of ancient knives, but most of them are seen in books or museums, often these unearthed cultural relics have long been unrecognizable compared with their original appearance, and now this knife in the hand is full of strong antiquity, but it is a bit incredible that it can be maintained so well.

"How? See what's different? Seeing that I could see it, Ah Zi asked softly on the side.

"This knife is not an ordinary knife, it is really a good knife!"

I pointed to the ornamentation on the different parts of the knife and explained:

"I guess this knife should be made in the Tang Dynasty, according to the length measurement unit at that time, the overall length is about three feet six inches, these three feet six inches actually correspond to the 360-day timekeeping cycle of the ancients a year, the width of the knife is about two inches and four minutes, that is, it corresponds to the twenty-four solar terms......"

"Oh? It turns out that it still means, what else? Ah Zi leaned in, looked down and looked closely at my fingertips.

"Look at it again, the head of the dragon's head, the tip of the phoenix tail, the boring of the turtle's back knife, and the handle of the tiger should be the four elephants corresponding to the green dragon, the white tiger, the red bird, and the xuanwu that represent the east, west, north and south. The tortoiseshell, rhino horns, and goose ears on this sheath represent the sea, land, and air...... The idea of this knife fully embodies the Chinese philosophy of Qiankun, but it is ......"

"Just what?" Ah Zi heard me pause, and then asked again.

It suddenly occurred to me that, despite the ingenuity and simplicity of this sword, I always felt that there was something missing.

"If this knife is a treasure knife, from the perspective of design or refining technology at that time, it is not impossible, if it is put into the Forbidden City Museum, it is definitely a national treasure-level cultural relic. It's just that...... That's only at the level of process design, and if it's just that it can deter the evil thing, I can't find the mystery of this knife...... Even, there is not even a word or symbol on it, just with these few animal statues, what kind of magic can there be......"

After listening to this, Ah Zi tilted his head and hummed twice as if he understood or not: "Then I don't know, anyway, Abba said that he is a treasure knife, so it must be a treasure knife." After speaking, she took the knife from my hand, inserted the knife into the sheath and touched it again, I know that this knife in her eyes, at this time it is more like a kind of family sustenance, seeing things and thinking about people, human nature.

"Dididi, Dididi......" suddenly came out of the fat man's pocket, startling me, the golden fat man hummed and straightened up, leisurely took out his mobile phone from his pocket, rubbed his eyes after pressing the sound, and saw that we were all looking at him, so he laughed and said: "Don't be nervous, it's just the alarm clock, our hard vigil task is completed, it's time to change shifts!" ”

"You're still keeping vigil? Bah, you've been asleep for almost three hours. Ah Zi smiled.

"Hey, who said that this vigil has to be awake, this is called Jiren's own natural appearance, as long as I lie down here like this, even if I am awake and asleep, I can ensure that the big guy is too peaceful~~"

"Come on, then you can continue to lie here, don't change shifts, you will sleep the same if you don't keep it anyway." Ah Zi replied.

"That's not possible, this is a set of rules and regulations, we have to do things according to the rules, I'll go and call up the Wang Company Commander and a few of them, let's go in and sleep until dawn!" After speaking, Jin Facai got up and shivered, and walked towards the tent of the Wang Company Commander with sleepy eyes.

Ah Zi and I looked at each other and smiled, and we were about to get up after packing our backpacks, but we saw that the fat man had taken two steps and stopped, turned to look at me, blinked obscenely, and said with a smile: "By the way, Daguanren, I had a dream earlier, which is about the follow-up story about our previous on the big rock, I have to share it with you later...... Hey, hey, hey."