Ouyang Rong has been in contact with "craftsmen" since he first spit out his real name.

I sensed Ding Jian's massive demand for aura.

It's no wonder that most of the tripod swords are not something that individuals can own.

I heard that the "Emperor Wen" in the hands of the Great Zhou Dynasty was served by a large group of people behind him, and it was a whole system to support, and even the little junior sister once laughed and called it "the iron Emperor Wen, the sword bearer of flowing water".

He found that since the birth of the first Ding Sword in the Qin Dynasty to the present, after so much time of exploration, the qi practitioners in and outside the world seem to have reached a consensus.

If you want to go long-term, the sword bearer must have top forces behind him to support him, just like the Wei Clan's Wei Wangfu is to Wei Shaoxuan.

Ouyang Rong faintly guessed that this was probably the reason why the old swordsmith wanted to transfer Ah Qing, who was a vigorous person, to Yunmeng Jianze of the Hidden World Sect together with the "craftsman".

Because cultivating a sword bearer, it is refreshing to smash into a large number of resources, but just after using a Ding Sword mastery, the qi replenishment that is needed to quickly restore the combat power of the aura is not something that ordinary qi practitioners can easily squander.

And the road of the sword bearer may not be able to go through, after all, it is a mythical vein, the sword trick is difficult to find, it is difficult to understand the true meaning, and the bottleneck of each product is like a chasm.

Even if a cultivation seed like a little junior sister chooses the wrong Dao vein, covers her eyes with a leaf, and embarks on a mythical lineage, but it is difficult to understand the true meaning of the Ding Sword and gets stuck on the bottleneck, it is also a good talent for empty consumption.

But even so, there are Liu Zi'an, Liu Zilin and the like, moths to the fire, and they do not hesitate to grab food in an attempt to promote the sword-bearer.

Because of the scarcity of the absolute vein, it represents an important bargaining chip, and it is easy to grasp the initiative and join any force.

You don't see, the Donglin Temple in the Alliance of the Lotus Pagoda, just by providing a sword-wielder, he can have the opportunity to cooperate with Yunmeng Jianze and the swordsmith family on an equal footing, although the game collapsed later.

And myths, who doesn't aspire to touch?

Especially at the bottom of the world.

This is the case in every era, and the competition for precious resources at the bottom has always been cruel, commonly known as involution.

Putting aside the insidious and cunning, as long as the three brothers of the Liu family can break free from the chessboard of Longcheng County and get the two admission tickets of "Sword Bearer" and "Ding Sword", after going out, where will they go to the sea and the sky?

It's a pity that they met an old graduate student with a more volume.

For these, a wealthy lady like Xie Lingjiang can't understand it, because the life experience of the five surnames and Qiwang and the father and Confucianism naturally gave her a higher platform and a broader vision.

Let him see the pros and cons of the sword-wielding person more realistically, and it is not so hot-eyed, but it is difficult to understand all the crazy things that the three brothers of the Liu family have done for a sword.

But this also means that this noble lady of the Xie family has more idealistic ways of looking at problems, so she really loves to eat the big cakes that a certain senior brother likes to draw, and she is full of them......

Straight to the point.

At this moment, on the Dagu Mountain, Ouyang Rong was stunned, watching the scene of the folding wing canal under the mountain turning decay into magic and subduing the monstrous flood.

In his ears, the cheers of thousands of people in the entire Great Lonely Mountain, as well as the sound of wooden fish that skyrocketed into hundreds of meritorious feedbacks, made him temporarily deaf and tinnitus.

"Craftsmanship" naturally appeared, sticking to Ouyang Rong, close to surrounding.

Ouyang Rong's eyes were light purple, and he slowly stretched out his hand, and his fingers touched a trembling "arc" in front of him.

A hazy blue glow stained his nails.

It's cold and hot.

At the moment when he touched the Dingjian entity for the first time, Ouyang Rong suddenly realized that the roads above that were very restrictive to Dingjian and the sword-wielding people, and relied heavily on the support of the powerful forces behind them, seemed to be ...... Not a problem.

The old swordsmith gathered the culmination of the ancestors of the master's family, and the new Ding sword that he forged with great effort seems to be a little different, and it is no longer exclusive to princes and generals, and the family sect.

The "arc" in the air, after being touched by Ouyang Rong, the clear blue sword light was dyed a little purple by a familiar purple that seemed to appear out of thin air.

Feed it a little.

Merit deduction one.

Ouyang Rong felt the "arc" at his fingertips, and he trembled more and more, as if he was ...... Eager.

"Do you eat this too......" he muttered, faintly glimpsing the true meaning: "The body of a mortal, casting a myth?" ”

"What did you say?" Li'er suddenly turned his face.

"Nothing." Ouyang Rong shook his head and withdrew his fingers.

After observing the smooth flood discharge of the Folding Wing Canal outside the small courtyard, Ouyang Rong briefly touched the "craftsman's work" and collected it again, he suppressed the strange appearance of the light purple under his eyes, and immediately turned around to find the little junior sister, and followed with Bao'er.

The two left the Beitian Nursing Home together.

Go to the Manjushri Temple.

Along the way, Ouyang Rong condensed his eyebrows, carefully pondering the sentence that had just surfaced in his heart.

"Craftsman" is new today, and the true meaning and mastery of Ding Sword are not like "Han Shi", which has been summarized by the legendary sword master.

So far, he has been at the forefront in a daze, and he can only rely on his own blind groping.

The reaction of the "craftsman" to the purple mist of merit he had accumulated just now was a major discovery.

There is someone next to me at the moment, and it is impossible to fully verify it for the time being...... Ouyang Rong remained silent.

In addition, Ouyang Rong was not idle, taking advantage of the crisp sound of wooden fish in his ears gradually weakening, on the way he took out his mind and went to the merit tower to take a look.

Before today, there was enough merit, nearly 20,000.

After redeeming the good fortune of "Returning to Come", he consumed several blessings in succession on the mirage mask, and originally only had more than 3,000 merit points left.

And now, Ouyang Rong's strong promotion of the construction of the Folding Wing Canal Water Conservancy for several months has saved many houses and thousands of people on the mountains in Longcheng County, which is another large amount of merit.

[Merit: 11,311]

The little wooden fish that was exhausted by the "Papapa" today, directly above, a line of static blue-gold fonts fell into Ouyang Rong's eyes.

"After deducting the original 3,200 or more, is it about 8,000 merit?"

Ouyang Rong understood this, broke away from the merit tower, and opened his eyes.

After a while, Ouyang Rong and Libao'er came to the Manjushri Bodhisattva Temple.

There was no one in the hall.

The two walked out of the main hall, and on the square, Ouyang Rong squatted down, his fingers wiped the bloody footprints on the floor tiles, and looked left and right at the signs of fighting in the square.

"Sister Xie, where have you been?" Look around from the wrapper.

"Something is wrong."

Ouyang Rong twisted his fingers into the bloody mud and raised his head:

"The little junior sister united with an unknown Yue girl, and repelled Liu Fu and them, it stands to reason that after the little junior sister escaped, if there is nothing to do, she should come to find you and Uncle Li, but we have not encountered anyone along the way...... Where did the little sister go? ”

Li Bao'er glanced at someone sideways: "Is there such a possibility, she is looking for Ling?" ”

Ouyang Rong didn't answer, thinking that he knew the little junior sister better.

He suddenly got up and pointed to the corpses of the black-clothed swordsmen in the square:

"The wounds are all throat sealing sword wounds, they should all be from the hands of the little junior sister, but there are blood stains on the floor tiles, and it is obvious that the corpse has been moved behind."

Ouyang Rong frowned and looked around, "But the little junior sister has a habit of cleanliness and will not move these corpses." ”

Li'er bowed his head and said softly: "Right now, there are two kinds of people who will carry the corpse, the monks in the temple, and the people in your county yazhong, they found this place in a mess and came to carry and take care of it?" ”

Ouyang Rong nodded, and shook his head again:

"But why don't you clean it up and leave it here, and look at the bloodstains and the degree of regularity, these bodies are only half moved, and the people are gone."

Li'er pondered for a while, and said in a crisp voice:

"You mean, a monk or a minor official, interrupted by an outsider? But Wei Shaoxuan and Liu Fu were punished, and the other comrades were deceived by you to go down the mountain, what else can be dangerous here? ”

Ouyang Rong was silent, and suddenly took out a deer-shaped jade ring full of cracks from his sleeve.

He drew a scoop according to the gourd, learning the way he observed when the little junior sister used it last time, urging some of the newly recovered aura of the dantian to inject it into the deer-shaped jade ring.

If he guessed correctly, this jade ring should come from the academy uncle who the little junior sister was looking for, as for why it fell into Wei Shaoxuan's hands, and it was full of cracks, do you still need to guess?

The jade body slowly became hot.

"Huh?"

Ouyang Rong turned his head sharply and looked at a magnificent hall hundreds of zhang away on the southeast side.

Between this hall and the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall where Ouyang Rong is currently located, there is only a dense bamboo forest separating each other, and the two halls are neighbors to each other.

"That's ...... Scripture copying hall? Ouyang Rong asked hesitantly.

He vaguely had the impression that when he had breakfast before, he was pulled by his hair because of the abnormal sound of the Buddha statue in this hall.

"That's right, it's the scripture copying hall." Li Bao'er said casually: "Before Wei Shaoxuan, they occupied this hall, because they were separated from the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall, and they found us ......."

Ouyang Rong was silent, reached into his arms, took out a Sanskrit Buddhist scripture and looked at it.

This was found in the fragments of Wei Shaoxuan's body.

This Buddhist scripture is not the same as the Sanskrit Buddhist scripture that the old swordsmith handed over to Liu Zi'an, it is obvious that he is fooling the two, and the Buddhist scripture is not a Hanshi sword technique.

But Wei Shaoxuan had regarded it as a real Hanshi sword trick before, so when he thought about it, it was a Buddhist scripture that he was looking for someone to translate in this scripture copying hall, and it was natural......

"What's the matter, this academy's psychic jade ring is pointing there?"

Seeing the young county magistrate beside him, he held the jade ring in one hand and the blood-stained Buddhist scriptures in the other, frowning and looking sideways at the scripture copying hall in front of him, the jade ring in his hand emitted a ghostly light.

Li'er was smart and asked, "Where is Sister Xie's jade ring?" ”

Ouyang Rong glanced at her and pursed his lips in acquiescence.

"So what are you waiting for?" Walk away from the wrap and shout.

Suddenly, she grabbed her wrist again and pulled it back vigorously, and her body couldn't help but spin in a circle, almost falling.

"You ......" The little girl with plum blossom makeup frowned, waiting to stabilize her figure, but she saw that Ouyang Rong didn't look at her, her eyes were fixed on the silent hall behind the bamboo forest in front of her, and she was silent.

"What's wrong?" Li'er asked calmly: "Do you suspect that she is not there?" ”

After a pause, she lowered her throat:

"You think there's a trap? But this doesn't make sense, if it is Wei Shaoxuan's accomplices, how will they know that this jade ring is in your hands? Or is it waiting for the rabbit? ”

Ouyang Rong felt the position of the jade ring in his hand faintly pointing, and pondered for a moment: "The two jades of the academy qi practitioner are so close that they can sense the nearby directions, but the little junior sister did not respond. ”

Li'er groaned: "Is this so, is it possible to ......?"

"Possibly, quite possibly."

Ouyang Rong suddenly interrupted Li'er's words, he turned around and walked in the opposite direction, towards the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall:

"Let's go, just look for it."

"What are you looking for?"

Curious to keep up with Ouyang Rong's footsteps, they took a turn in the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall together, pushing the door from time to time, especially the huts in some corners behind the hall, Ouyang Rong patiently checked it.

Uninhabited.

Ouyang Rong turned around, and then took Bao'er away and searched around the woods around the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall.

No one.

After a while, Ouyang Rong stopped, tilted his head, and looked at a lonely stupa not far from the Manjushri Bodhisattva Hall.

He continued to walk away from Bao'er, and did not immediately walk to the scripture copying hall with jade ring induction during the whole process.

The suspicion in the bottom of Bao'er's eyes did not dissipate, but he followed quietly.

"Squeak——!"

The door of the stupa slowly pushes open.

There is sunlight shining in, showing the figure of a place.

Li'er Xing's eyes widened slightly, and blurted out: "Who did this?" ”

On the ground inside the pagoda, there is a faint monk in the ground.

Ouyang Rong, who had been silent, exhaled a long breath, and immediately frowned, looking back at the scripture copying hall in the distance.

"How do you know that someone fainted here?"

Li Bao'er looked at Ouyang Rong's eyes, a little unbelievable.

Ouyang Rong squatted down, checked the way the monks were unconscious, and sighed:

"Once born and twice ripe, naturally there is experience."

Previously, in Xiaogu Mountain, he and A Qing led a team of people to carry Jiao oil up the mountain, and they were also like this, they were cleaned up by a terrifying figure, and that person seemed to be quite afraid of slaughtering ordinary people.

So he knocked a pair of people unconscious, threw them behind the forest, and sealed Ouyang Rong and A Qing and took them to the Jiazi Sword Furnace......

"Qiu Shenji has come, copying the scriptures in the hall...... There are not only little sisters. He nodded.

The thoughtfulness of the young county magistrate in front of her made Li Bao'er impressed, but she saw that the hand under his sleeve was clenched tightly at some point, and sweat seemed to be soaked in the palm of his hand.

"So your previous speculation was that these monks were originally cleaning up the corpses outside the hall, but they were all knocked unconscious by the sudden arrival of Qiu Shenji and thrown here?"

Thoughtful from the wrap:

"So this Qiu Shenji should have come to find Wei Shaoxuan, but he ran into Sister Xie?"

Ouyang Rong bowed solemnly.

"Sister Xie is ...... now"

"Let's go." Ouyang Rong said suddenly.

Turning around and leaving the pagoda, he tacitly understood that he went around a big circle, bypassed the scripture copying hall, and came to a roof facing the gate of the scripture copying hall in the distance, with a good view.

The two climbed onto the roof and watched from afar.

I saw that the scripture copying hall in front had collapsed by a small half, and the temple door fell to the ground, revealing the general scene in the hall.

Take a closer look.

Sure enough, three familiar figures could be faintly seen.

The girl in the red robe, the old monk in the robe, and ......

Mai man.

The latter was covered in blood, his sackcloth was torn, and the pink sword wound on his chest was exposed, and it seemed that he should have escaped from the fierce battle in Xiaogushan, and seemed to be seriously injured.

But Xie Lingjiang and Master Shandao, who were standing opposite each other, were not much better.

Xie Lingjiang stood in front of Master Shandao, his figure did not move at all, and a jade ring on his waist flowed with vermilion light from time to time.

But she didn't seem to be able to pull her hand and didn't respond.

As for the unknown Yue Nu that Ouyang Rong heard from Liu Fu's mouth before, he didn't see her in the main hall and didn't know where to go.

Observed for a while.

Ouyang Rong condensed his eyebrows and found that there seemed to be something faintly separated between the two junior sisters and Qiu Shenji.

Qiu Shenji stopped two feet in front of them, wandering slowly, as if a tiger and wolf were surrounding their prey, but they didn't take half a step forward.

There seems to be a thunder pool tapped.

In the scripture copying hall, the positions and situations of the two parties were even more complicated than Ouyang Rong imagined.

On the roof hundreds of meters away, Ouyang Rong watched silently for a while, lowered his head, and took out a small porcelain bottle in his arms.

He opened the seal, poured the last Qi Replenishing Pill into his palm, and swallowed it calmly.

Li Bao'er frowned, vaguely guessing what he was going to do.

"What are you going to do?" She asked knowingly.

Ouyang Rong took out a mask, jumped off the roof, and said without looking back: "Little junior sister can't hold on." ”

Leaving the wrapper rhetorical question:

"This Qiu Shenji is a high-grade qi practitioner, is it as easy to deceive as Liu Fu?"

"Nope."

She stated: "He should be very familiar with Wei Shaoxuan. ”

"Yes."

She added: "With his knowledge, he should know the 'Han Shi' cloth sword starting style. ”

"Reasonable."

"Isn't that risky?" She nodded helplessly and asked, "How do you use the sword?" How to survive fifteen breaths... Or even more? ”

"Try." He stubbornly shook his head and replied, "Ming Xiu plank road, dark Chen Cang." ”

Away from Bao'er's silence, she looked at Sister Xie's precarious sword in the hall in the distance, she pursed her lips and jumped down lightly.

The little girl in plum blossom makeup caged her sleeves, followed by the young county commander, under the tulle, with a pretty face:

"Then can you not grab my hand or hold my waist this time?"

Ouyang Rong replied calmly: "Yes, but this time, let's change positions." ”

"Okay...... Wait a minute. Li'er tilted his head and wondered: "What do you mean?" ”

"You caught me."

“……？？”

Ouyang Lianghan, you are getting more and more outrageous......

Near the scripture reading hall.

Ouyang Rong threw a moonlight long sword back, and caught it tacitly with Bao'er.

……

(End of chapter)