Preface:

When he was young, he was windy and rainy, and he practiced hard for several years.

It is difficult to practice martial arts day and night, and there is no way back for the cold and summer white temples.

Last night, I dreamed of blood and tears, and now I wake up from my dream to carve a sword model.

The day sweats and steames the clouds, and the dark night tears and poison.

Ten years of casting into a peerless instrument, half a lifetime of training ruthless bones.

Towards the green mountains to intentional, twilight on the evening clouds to return to the road.

The spring thunder is about to come out in a prosperous era, and the hatred of the family and the country is alone.

It is difficult to destroy this hatred, and there is nowhere to live, and he does not hesitate to respond to the jealousy of heaven.

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[Thunder shocked Ancheng, and the sword immortal returned to the spirit]

A dilapidated temple with a transparent roof and air leakage from left to right.

There is a faint fire in the temple, and a dilapidated plaque with the words "Guiling Temple" hanging crookedly on the broken temple door can be faintly seen.

Ergazi was dressed in disarrays at this time, and his face was muddy. He looked fixedly at the flickering fire in front of him, his face was pale, and his forehead was full of cold sweat.

It was a thunderclap.

The thunder exploded, and the sky cracked. The wind was raging and howling, and people were deaf. The entire city of Lin'an was shaken three times by this loud noise, and trembled three times.

Immediately followed by a huge lightning bolt, surging down like a fierce thundersnake, silver blooming, and the whole heaven and earth were as bright as day!

The harsh white light reflected his pale cheeks.

Ergazi saw through the hole in the roof of the temple and saw an unforgettable scene in his life.

The sky is cracking.

A huge crack of immense length tore through the clouds, stretching across the sky. It was pitch black, like an open hole in hell. At the edge of the rift, the golden light shimmered, revealing a trace of mystery.

Then the sky and the earth went dark, and Lin'an City fell into a dead silence again.

It was a rainy time, but there was such a sudden change, and no one could know why. According to the people's speculation, there is a big demon in Lin'an, who has been struck by thunder and thunder!

The rain fell obliquely through the holes in the roof of the broken temple, gradually accumulating small ponds in the low-lying areas of the temple.

The fire gradually weakened, and after a long time, Ergazi gradually calmed down, and found the broken table and chair legs in the corner of the ruined temple and added them in.

He was already weakened and made a gray face, patted the dust on his body casually, looked at the grass pile on the side, sighed slightly, and lay down as soon as he leaned back.

"Oops~"

With a painful cry, Ergazi reflexively stood up.

"What the hell is killing me!"

After a grin, Ergazi turned over the haystack. Soon, his hand touched a hard object and continued to pull at the haystack.

A quaint long sword, impressive.

He has lived in this broken temple for more than ten years, and he has long been familiar with the broken temple, but he has never seen this thing.

This is definitely just the time to appear!

Could it be that it has something to do with this thunder? Ergazi laughed at himself, shook his head, and continued to rummage along the blade of the sword.

"Ahh

An exclamation came, looking at the scene in front of him, Ergazi's heart instantly jumped to his throat, he was covered in cold sweat, his eyes were wide open, and his limbs stiffened suddenly.

It was a pale face.

With the flickering light of the fire, it was as terrifying as a hanged ghost. After Ergazi reacted, he suddenly fell to the ground in fright, his eyes full of horror. After a long time, seeing that the grimace did not move much, he gradually came back to his senses, got up again, and said in surprise:

"Are you a human or a ghost?"

“......”

Boldly stepped forward, Ergazi carefully pulled away the haystack, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

This is personal.

I picked up all the dead grass, and saw a naked man lying flat on the grass, his body covered with scars, as if he had been burned. And in this person's hand, he holds the simple long sword.

What surprised him even more was that this man was so young, and he was already full of gray hair!

Ergazi let out a sigh of relief, waited for a long time and saw that the other party did not react, so he simply stepped forward and poked out his fingers and tried the person's breathing.

"It's still alive!"

Ergazi looked around, walked to the dilapidated Buddha statue case, and saw that there were still some dusty incense ashes in the incense burner, but he didn't care about it, grabbed two handfuls, and applied them to the man's wound one by one. Since he was a child, he was beaten because of frequent petty theft, and he had a hole on his body, and he had no money to buy medicine, so he smeared some fine soil on it, but he got better in a few days. After dressing the man's wound with incense ash, and feeding the man with some rainwater from a broken bowl in the mud, Ergazi found a corner of the haystack and sat down.

Quietly looking at the man in front of him who was in a coma, I don't know how long it took, Ergazi's vision blurred.

The same ruined temple, the same fire, three people sitting around.

"Big brother, do you really want to go up to that ten thousand mountains!"

"Well, I figured it out, instead of living like this every day, it's better to gamble. ”

The boy's eyes were determined.

The flickering light of the fire reflected the young man's determined gaze.

"You two stay here, wait for the eldest brother to come back, and take you to eat and drink spicy food. ”

......

"Little Gazi, where are you...... I promised you that I would take you to have food and clothing without worry......"

......

On the day, the sky is cloudy, the rain stops, and the wind slows.

Inside the ruined temple,

"Uh-huh~"

A low cough woke Ergazi from his sleep.

"Are you awake?"

Ergazi hurriedly got up to check, only to see that the man was sweating profusely, and he covered the man's forehead with his hand, and suddenly felt extremely hot. Touching up and down all over his body, he only found a copper plate in his shoe, and Ergazi sighed, sat on the straw mat with his buttocks, and touched his hungry stomach again.

"Alas, you will die of illness, I will starve to death, who can be saved by a copper plate? ”

Suddenly, Ergazi's eyes lit up, and then his gaze stopped on the man's quaint long sword.

"This big brother, now that your life is gone, what do you want to do with this sword, why don't you let me change the money, maybe for you and me, it's a way to live. ”

After saying that, Ergazi reached out to take the long sword in the man's hand, and after a long time, he finally took the sword away from the man's hand and barely stood in front of him.

"What kind of sword, this is, it's so heavy, how can you take it away?"

Ergazi was worried.

The sword was looked at all over, and finally Ergazi found a trick on the sword, although he had not used it, but he was also used to seeing those swordsmen who killed the rivers and lakes every day outside Lin'an City, and knew that this was the mechanism that activated the long sword, containing a collapse spring. At the moment, he no longer hesitated, holding the scabbard with one hand, and pressing it slightly with the other hand, Ergazi only heard a sword groan in his ears, and the blue light appeared.

But I saw a long sword that emitted green light rising into the sky, and then it fell straight to the ground, and the entire sword body and the hilt did not enter the earth, but it actually pierced directly into the ground, leaving only a small hole in the ground.

"Oh my God!"

Ergazi exclaimed.

"What kind of baby is this!?"

calmed down the shock in his heart, looked at the hilt of the sword in his hand, and then looked at the seriously injured man, and Ergazi was firm in his heart.

"This person must be a master, if I save him, won't he owe me a great favor?"

Thinking of this, Er Gazi hurriedly took off his torn coat, directly tore it into strips of cloth, and bandaged the large wound on the man's chest and back. After finishing it, Ergazi thought about it again, wrapped the sword with the remaining strips of cloth, covered the man with a layer of withered grass, and left in a hurry. Fortunately for Ergazi, the scabbard was not heavy, on the contrary, it was extremely relaxed, holding the scabbard in his arms, it seemed that the whole person was not tired, he was refreshed, and he couldn't even feel hunger.

Ergazi became more and more surprised, and his thoughts were more determined, so he entered Lin'an City like a wind and went straight to the pawn shop.

At this time, the sky was slightly dark, and there seemed to be another sign of rain. Suoxing's streets are sparsely populated, but they haven't encountered too many obstacles, and the "Gang of Three" who are showing off their might has not appeared recently. Soon, Ergazi ran to a beautifully decorated building like a wind, and saw the five big characters of "Conscience Pawnshop" hanging high on the façade.

Ergazi immediately stepped forward, stood under the high counter, and said loudly: "Boss, I want to be a thing!"

"What treasure can you have, you hapless saga, get out of the way, don't get in the way of my business!"

The shopkeeper Li Guifu looked at Ergazi under the stage with a mean face, and saw that his clothes did not cover his body, but he was a hungry street child who came to beg.

"I have a baby, I don't know if you can take it?"

Ergazi ignored it, took off the scabbard rag aside, and quickly exposed half of the scabbard on the high table.

The shopkeeper's eyes were sharp, and he didn't care at first, but he suddenly saw the delicate and simple pattern at the end of the scabbard in front of the desk, and his heart was slightly shocked, but he said meanly:

"You little begging for food, what good things can you have, hurry up, it's just a broken sword, hurry up and go, I still have to do business!"

After that, the shopkeeper's casual clothes wanted to shout to the guards to pick up people.

Ergazi's heart was anxious, his heart was impossible, looking at the posture of the sword out of the sheath, this scabbard was not too bad, and immediately shouted:

"Shopkeeper, take a good look, I'm really a baby!"

Immediately removed all the rags and handed the scabbard to Li Guifu.

Li Guifu looked carefully, and there were bursts of surprise in his eyes, only to see that the scabbard was full of patterns, and he didn't know what kind of animal it was made of. I got close and smelled it, but there was no peculiar smell, and a trace of surprise flashed in my heart, but my mouth was unforgiving, and I only heard him say:

"Boy, there is only a scabbard, what about this sword? Scrap copper and rotten iron, a broken scabbard without a sword, aren't you here to make fun of me?"

Ergazi immediately pretended to sneer and said: "I didn't expect that the big shopkeeper of the first pawn in Lin'an didn't know the goods, this is a god-given sword box, it is my ancestral treasure, the box contains thousands of sword energy, only people who are destined can be excited, if I don't lack money at this time, I will not come to you to be this treasure!"

The shopkeeper Li Guifu looked carefully, doubted his heart, turned the scabbard upside down, and looked at the cloud mouth of the scabbard.

I only felt a chill in the sheath, and my eyes were a little stinging, as if there was a poisonous snake in the scabbard.

"Hiss~"

Li Guifu stirred up a cold sweat, and believed a little bit of Ergazi's words, and immediately said angrily: "Cultivate presumptuously, this shopkeeper has never seen any treasures, just what family heirloom treasures can you, a street boy begging along the street, give you a few copper plates, and leave a sword... Forehead box, get out of here!"

Immediately, he grabbed some copper plates in the corner of the counter and threw them down.

"Isn't it really worth anything?"

Ergazi was puzzled, but it was important to save his life, so he quickly picked up the copper plate and ran out like a gust of wind.

At this time, a young man dressed as a scholar on the side stepped forward and said:

"The shopkeeper, give him so many copper plates, I see that the little cub is talking nonsense, and there are thousands of sword qi, I think you can send it away by giving ten old money, is it possible that this thing is really a treasure. ”

Li Guifu found a magnifying glass, looked carefully at the 'sword box', and saw that the sword box was square as a whole, light in hand, and faintly seemed to have bursts of silver flowing.

"Huairen, take a closer look, this scabbard alone is enough to pay ten thousand gold! That little begger may be lying to me, what kind of bullshit sword box, but since he can bring this scabbard, the things in the scabbard...... A scabbard alone is so precious, and what is inside the scabbard is certainly not ordinary."

Li Guifu's eyes lit up.

"In a few days, it will be the eightieth birthday of the old city lord Xiao Moran, if you remember correctly, doesn't the old swordsman Xiao have a cold light sword that is missing a scabbard? If this thing is used as a gift, it will definitely improve our status in the underground pavilion, and that lord will definitely take a high look at us!"

"The shopkeeper Gao Jian, sure enough, nothing can escape your eyes, but the villain has a lot of tongues. ”

Zhou Huairen's eyes were full of admiration.

Li Guifu's eyes flashed violently, and suddenly, I saw him gesture in the dark and said:

"You follow him, if you see the sword in this scabbard, grab it directly!"

"In short, no matter what the outcome, it must be ...... in the end"

Li Guifu made a gesture of killing with his hand, then found a delicate wooden box and carefully put away the scabbard.

Inside the city of Lin'an.

Ergazi went to Jishitang first, and it was not until the last patient who was consulted that he bought the medicine for the injury with a disgusted look from the owner of the pharmacy. I was just going to buy some food, but I happened to pass by the coat shop, hesitated for a long time, and bought a wide coarse cloth shirt.

After some tossing, it was almost noon.

I touched the only six copper plates left in my palm, put one away and put it on the sole of my shoe, and used the remaining five copper plates to buy two steaming green vegetable buns, and walked towards the Guiling Temple while eating the buns.

Soon, a bun went down, and the hunger in his stomach was a little less, and Ergazi looked at another bun wrapped in oiled paper, touched his stomach, and ran towards the broken temple.

When he reached the broken temple, it was drizzling again, and Ergazi hurriedly ran into the temple, turned over the broken grass, and saw the white-haired man sweating profusely, the corners of his mouth were white, and he was already dying.

Ergazi hurriedly searched around, and finally poured out the ashes in the bronze incense burner, and then ran to the puddle outside the house, and poured some relatively clear rainwater into the furnace with a broken bowl.

After returning to the house, Ergazi lit a fire again and began to boil a decoction to heal his wounds.

After a while, the soup was boiled, and Ergazi first changed the coarse cloth clothes he bought for the man, and then fed the man the medicinal soup in a broken bowl. Seeing that after the man took the decoction, his face improved slightly, and Ergazi breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as he was about to help the man lie down, he heard a sinister laugh coming from outside the temple gate.

"Hehe, I can't see it, you little cub is quite righteous, right?"

Ergazi looked intently and saw a black-clothed masked man wearing a scimitar at his waist standing outside the door. With a tense heart, he hurriedly got up and took two steps back, and said, "Who are you and what are you going to do?"

The man in black smirked, raised his hand and drew his scimitar.

"Acquaintance, hand over the sword, otherwise, I will cut off your head and kick it as a ball!"

"What sword, I don't know?"

"Less nonsense, you can take out such a delicate scabbard at the pawnshop, how can you not have a sword......? No, see, these ten taels of silver are yours. ”

The black-clothed swordsman deliberately suppressed the long tone, and then with a flick of his wrist, he saw that he took out a snowflake of silver from his arms, full of threat and temptation.

"Of course, if you don't say it, then there will be one more ghost under Lao Tzu's knife!"

With the scimitar in his hand raised, the man in black slowly wiped the blade.

Ergazi immediately knelt on the ground and cried out bitterly:

"This hero, I really don't know, I admit, this is not my heirloom, the scabbard I picked up from a ruin in the apricot forest outside the city, there was only a scabbard at the time, and I didn't see the sword, what the villain said is true, if there is no truth, let me go out and be crushed to death by the car, choked to death when eating, choked to death when drinking..."

"Well, you little bastard, if you really don't want to give face, then don't blame grandpa for being ruthless!"

"Whew!"

The man in black sprang up with an arrow step, and the scimitar in his palm slashed Huashan with force, and pressed down towards Ergazi.

"Ahh

Er Gazi exclaimed, and in a hurry, he rolled on the spot, dodging the knife of the man in black, but completely exposed the white-haired man to the knife of the man in black.

"Huh?"

The black-clothed swordsman didn't take a closer look outside the door at first, just thought that Ergazi was feeding medicine to a homeless child, and at this moment, when he looked at the person in front of him, there was a hint of intrigue in his eyes.

"Boy, who is this person?"

"I don't know, I just came here, I saw that he was injured, so I bought him medicine. ”

The black-clothed swordsman was thinking about it, and he only listened to him say slowly:

"That sword, it must be this person, right?"

"Ah~, no... No, I really picked it up!" Ergazi was a little flustered.

"You dare to lie to me! I really don't believe that Lao Tzu sent you back to the West with a knife?"

The black-clothed swordsman stepped forward and grabbed Ergazi by the collar and lifted him up with one hand.

"Where's the sword?!!"

"I... I really don't know. Ergazi's face turned red and he had difficulty breathing.

"Humph!"

The black-clothed swordsman snorted coldly, shook his wrist, and threw Ergazi to the ground vigorously.

"Ah~"

Ergazi screamed miserably, rolled on the ground a few times, and the bun in his arms fell out and slipped all the way to the feet of the knife man.

The swordsman stepped on it, directly crushed the bun, and scolded in his mouth:

"It's really a thing that doesn't know whether to live or die, so let's send you and this white-haired monster back to the West today!"

When Ergazi saw the crushed buns, his eyes were red, and a fierce aura suddenly hit.

Those who beat me and scold me, I can bear it, and those who destroy my food will be a terrible ghost, and they will fight with it!

"Ah~!, I'll fight with you!"

Ergazi lifted the half-burned table leg on the side, roared, and rushed towards the black-clothed swordsman.

A hint of disdain flashed across the black-clothed swordsman's mouth, and then a cruel smile grew.

"Hehe~, you give me death!"

"Bang!"

The scimitar cut off the table leg in Ergazi's hand in unison, and went straight to Ergazi's front door.

"Big brother, little Gazi, goodbye. ”

Ergazi's heart was desolate, knowing that death was approaching, he closed his eyes in resignation, and his heart calmed down.

After waiting for a long time, I only felt that the surroundings were quiet, and only the sound of brushing rain was still there.

"Is this, dead?"

Ergazi's body slowly fell downward.

"Oops~!"

There was a sharp pain in his head, and Ergazi suddenly woke up.

"Didn't kill me?"

Rubbing the sharp pain in the back of his head, Er Gazi raised his eyes and saw that the black-clothed swordsman was still standing, his body maintaining the posture of taking out the knife, but he was motionless.

Recruited, a line of blood slowly flowed down the knifeman's face.

"Bang!" the swordsman fell to the ground on his back.

Ergazi stepped forward cautiously.

"Hey~!"

He kicked the knife man in the body, still motionless. In doubt, Ergazi boldly reached out and tried the swordsman's snort, and breathed a sigh of relief at the moment.

"Dead?!"

"What's going on? I killed you?"

"Is there anyone?" Ergazi shouted a few words loudly, looked around, and saw that no one accosted him, so Ergazi simply dared to search the body of the swordsman.

"It's gone!"

Looking at the two ingots of silver in his hand, Erga's mouth smiled.

"What is this?"

Continuing to rummage, Ergazi pulled out a token from the swordsman's arms. The token is black, cold to the hand, with two words engraved on the front and a lifelike plum blossom engraved on the reverse.

"This character should be pronounced eight, and the other word should be pronounced nine?" Ergazi, who was already illiterate, scratched his head.

"Eight...... Nine, what do you mean?"

Puzzled, he put the token away and continued to search his body, but he never found anything of value on the knife man again. When even the scimitar of the swordsman was put away, the corpse was hastily buried in a pit behind the ruined temple. When I returned to the ruined temple again, I saw that the white-haired man was still lying there, and his face was already a little bloody.

Ergazi, who thought he had killed people and won treasures, was afraid for a while at this time, and the first time he killed made him feel an inexplicable sense of guilt in his heart, as if in some dark corner, the black-clothed swordsman was looking at him with a cruel smile.

"Whew~"

With a long breath, Er Gazi calmed down his pounding heartbeat and picked up the bun that the knife man had stepped on. Sitting on the haystack again, unwrapping the dusty oiled paper, Ergazi smiled, although the bun was deformed, it remained clean. took a bite of the bun and looked at the white-haired man in front of him, and Ergazi's mind flashed.

"This black-clothed swordsman is interested in getting rich, and looking at his token, he must have a great background. ”

"If you don't leave at this time, I'm afraid that there will be an accomplice of the swordsman coming again. ”

After eating the buns three times and twice, Ergazi reached into his arms, touched the two ingots of silver, and his eyes were hesitant.

"With these twenty taels of silver, you can have at least five years without worrying about food and clothing. He looked at the scimitar on the side again.

"With this knife, I can also go to the rivers and lakes!"

"But this man... What should I do? I can't take him on the road, not to mention that he can't move, just his weird white hair is enough to cause trouble..."

"Forget it, these days, conscience is ultimately harming yourself. Besides, I've done my best, and the rest will be left to his own creation. ”

After making up his mind, Ergazi got up and left.