Chapter 15: The Knife Spectrum
The early morning sun shone on the verdant pine forest, and the light cut into pieces by the branches and leaves shone on Jin Jiu's face through the window, invading Jin Jiu, who was asleep after exhaustion. Jin Jiu rubbed his sleepy eyes and woke up suddenly. Look at the old desk in front of him, there is still a hard stone bed under him, walk to the window to look at the pine forest in the early morning, this is probably the first time he looks at the pine forest in the sun like this on the island, the crystal dew slowly accumulates and drips down the pine needles, and he has already carried a knife to practice a few times on the beach before dawn on weekdays.
Jin Jiu touched his neck, suddenly remembered what happened last night, I don't know if it was a dream or true, looking back at the stone wall behind him, he vaguely remembered that he broke through the wall yesterday, but the stone wall in front of him was undamaged. Look at the black knife lying on the side, lying on the side of the bed like a stone, as if he was also tired and fell asleep. "I had a dream!", Jin Jiu said in his heart. Thinking of this, he looked at the sky, quickly grabbed the black knife, pushed the door and walked out.
Along the mountain road that he walked every day, stepping on the loose sand and gravel, Jin Jiu quickly ran to the bottom of the mountain, before the feet were hard stones, but they couldn't withstand the daily drag of the extremely heavy black knife, the stone was broken into the appearance of sand and gravel, and Jin Jiu went down the mountain every day with a burst of sand.
"On the Thumb Peak, what's going on with a burst of dust and sand?" Some disciples who had just finished practicing in front of the Dihuang Temple speculated and discussed with each other when they saw the appearance on the peak.
"Why is Jin Jiu late today," said the second master as he looked at the dust and sand rising all the way down. In the past, Jin Jiu went down the mountain very early, and it was natural for the disciples under the mountain not to see it, but today they felt a little strange when they saw it, and the second master would pay attention to Jin Jiu's practice every day, and he got up very early, and he heard the sound from the thumb peak every day, and knew that Jin Jiu had gone down the mountain, but he didn't listen to it today, he thought that Jin Jiu entered the country every day, and he got up earlier than himself today, but he didn't think it was too late. I was thinking about what the reason was, and I saw that the mud doll was calling for me from afar. The second master said in his heart: "This doll, what's going on lately? He often asks me some advanced words, does he think of what he remembers? The prophet of the earth world is really not an idler!", thinking that the mud doll has arrived in front of him, he came up and said: "I remembered some scriptures and spells last night, and I can't figure it out, and I ask the second master, your old man, for guidance." Several apprentices saw that the mud doll was always neither big nor small, and they were not angry, and it was inconvenient to see their master smiling and greeting each other, and the second master was already accustomed to the tone of the mud doll, and when he saw that he was a child, he smiled and said: "Then please come here!" The mud doll also smiled and said, "Wait a minute, I'll go eat something first, I'm hungry, hungry!"
Looking at the waves of the sea churning in front of him, and listening to the sound of the tide hitting the stones, Jin Jiu didn't want to believe that everything that happened last night was just a dream. After practicing the sword technique taught by the second master twice on the beach, he looked at the sea in a daze and said, "How did I have such a dream, it's the same as the real thing!" Thinking back and forth in my heart about everything that happened last night. After a while, he suddenly said to himself: "Alas, it's all a dream, what do you want to do with this, but that person is really powerful! I don't want to, I don't want to, there is nothing in the world, and mediocre people disturb themselves! I want to practice hard, even if it is true, I will definitely surpass him!" After Jin Jiu said this, his heart suddenly felt a little more happy, and he picked up the black knife again, and re-practiced every movement on the gravel beach, chopping, chopping, chopping, chopping, chopping
After practicing like this over and over again, time passed quickly, and at noon I had dinner, and then I came back to continue the endless repetition after the afternoon class at the Rehmannia Temple. Soon another day passed, Jin Jiu didn't think about last night's thing anymore, it was dark, after dinner, he sat on the big stone in front of the house, practiced the Xuanjin Blade, and after a while of practice, he felt sleepy and tired, and fell asleep again with the black knife.
"Boy, it's time to wake up," a long voice came from outside, followed by a "bang" The door opened. Jin Jiu suddenly woke up and jumped out of bed, slashed across his chest, and said to the black shadow fluttering under the cold wind outside the door, "Who are you?"
"Didn't we meet last night, how did you forget?" the man said.
"Didn't you dream last night and last night?" replied Jin Jiu intermittently, apparently not convinced himself.
"If you have seen it in a dream, it is not considered to have seen it?" said the man lightly.
"No, no, what kind of person are you? What is the purpose of coming here? Even if I have seen you, I have never said it, and of course I don't know who you are!" Jin Jiu said.
"Do I have to answer whatever you ask me?" the man continued.
"That's for sure, you came to me, and you will definitely report your name!"
"Well, what's your name?"
"Golden Nine"
"What are you doing on this island?"
"Learn the skill, in order to avenge the clansmen!"
"Revenge, with your current ability?"
"Of course not, I have to learn hard!"
"When did you learn?"
"I don't know about this!"
"Whose knife does this belong to?"
"This knife, this knife, this can't be said!" Jin Jiu remembered the words of the second master, and he couldn't tell others about this knife.
"Why can't you say that you just asked something and have to answer?" said the black-robed tone unchanged.
"I promised Master about this knife, if you can't talk about it, you can't talk about it!" Jin Jiuyi said rhetorically.
"You can't say anything you promise to someone else, no matter who asks?" the black-robed man then asked.
"That's natural, and if you say yes, you have to keep your promise. Jin Jiu said, seeing that the black-robed man was silent and thoughtful, he continued: "I told you, who are you?
"Why should I tell you?" said the black-robed man.
"I've told you who I am, and you should tell me who you are. Jin Jiu saw that he couldn't defend himself, and said in a hurry.
"That's your way, I'm different, at least someone who can't even hold a knife is not qualified to know my name!" said the black-robed man, his tone unchanged.
"You, you, you!" Jin Jiu couldn't argue, he didn't know what to say angrily, he was angry, he saw the black shadow disappearing into the forest, Jin Jiu saw this, and immediately followed, although the forest was dim, but the black robe could still vaguely see the direction, Jin Jiu followed the black shadow to carry the black knife down the mountain, although Jin Jiu's steps were fast, but the speed was too bad compared to the black shadow, in order not to fall too far behind and lose the goal, Jin Jiu had to rush down with all his strength.
After a short time, the two of them reached the bottom of the mountain, and the black shadow walked to the beach and stopped, Jin Jiu followed behind and panted, and suddenly put down the black knife and plunged it into the gravel.
"What are you doing here?" asked the black-robed man calmly.
"You came here in the middle of the night and I don't know what your intentions are, if you do something bad, how can I not care!" Jin Jiu said breathlessly.
"Why do you care? I have done something bad, what can you do to me?" said the black-robed man.
"You're really not a good person!" Jin Jiu said anxiously, and immediately put on a posture ready to make a move.
"Boy, it's not a good habit to be nosy! some people could have been fine, but just because they were busy, the outcome was different!" said the black-robed man.
"If you hurt someone, I know but I didn't stop it, how can I feel at ease?" Jin Jiu said.
"Since you said so, then I'll give you peace of mind, the bad thing I'm going to do is to kill your master Qingshi! Since you want to take care of it, come and stop me!" said the black-robed man.
"Kill my master, you and my master are kind, why do you want to kill my master?" Jin Jiu was furious and was about to attack.
"Your master is blind, such a treasure knife has been handed over to a waste material, it is really a great insult to this knife, do you think it should be killed!" said the black-robed man.
"I, I, I'm stupid, but I can't blame my master for this, I begged him to accept me as an apprentice, what are you doing at me!" Jin Jiu said, Jin Jiu thought of the master's kindness, and handed over the treasure knife to himself, but because he was stupid and incompetent, he even affected the master, and it didn't feel good to think of this! Seeing that the black-robed man laughed faintly, he raised his knife and slashed horizontally at him, and the black-robed man did not move, and his body moved back out of thin air. Jin Jiu slashed the air with a knife, turned around, held the knife with both hands, jumped up suddenly, the knife slashed from top to bottom, and the person moved horizontally and gently resolved. In this way, Jin Jiu is chopping and chopping, no matter how hard he struggles, he can't hurt that person in the slightest, that person is indeed like a leisurely walk, silent. After dozens of moves, Jin Jiu held the knife and gasped. It's useless to secretly scold yourself in your heart.
"Am I wrong to say that you are not good at what you do, that your master has eyes and no beads and is violent and destroys heavenly things?" said the black-robed man.
"Say that I am not good at my ability, say that I am stupid, but you can't say that I master, and you can't hurt my master, you will kill me and sacrifice this knife!" Jin Jiu knew that he was invincible, and he was angry in his heart, and he didn't feel tears in his eyes.
"Wouldn't killing you dirty my hands!, what qualifications do you have to die at my hands!" said the black-robed man.
"You" Jin Jiu couldn't say anything when he heard this, he raised his knife again, and slashed like a storm, but this person was as gentle as a breeze!
"I'll kill myself, as long as you don't hurt my master!" Jin Jiu saw that he couldn't stop the man, and the man didn't want to do anything with him, so he stopped the knife in his hand and said.
"Kill yourself!?" The black-robed man was a little surprised, only to see that Jin Jiu had already slashed at the back of his neck!
Jin Jiu closed his eyes, calming in his heart, waiting for the black knife to sweep over his cervical vertebrae, but in this life, the enmity of the clan, if anyone can bring his body back to the Netherworld to be reborn, and then take revenge in the next life!
"Wow!" There was a soft sound, and the knife edge was a millimeter away from his neck, and he stopped, only to see the black-robed man stretch out two fingers and clamp the black knife that Jin Jiu was struggling to kill himself.
"Do you still want to dirty this knife? It's a pity to be so unambitious!" said the black-robed man.
Jin Jiu suddenly felt embarrassed and lowered his head.
"That's it, this has a sword book, I'll give you a month, if you can practice the sword book moves! I won't embarrass your master, and even if your master didn't see the wrong person! Don't insult this knife!" The black-robed man took out a book from his arms and said to Jin Jiu.
"Okay" Jin Jiu didn't think about it, so he agreed, of course, he had no other choice.
"And tonight's affairs, don't say anything to others!" The black-robed man let go of the black knife, and Jin Jiu took the knife.
"I answer," Jin Jiu said, holding the knife in his right hand and looking at it, he raised his head and said. Before the words were finished, the black-robed man had already disappeared!