Tie Hanfeng had a long and glorious career as a killer, and under the influence of swords and blood, he realized a truth on his own and put it into practice.

Huan Nu was his first apprentice, most likely his only apprentice, and he had been waiting for the right moment to teach this truth, and now, he felt that it was time.

He didn't drink or swear.

"Remember the guy I asked you to kill?"

Gu Shenwei nodded, of course he remembered that horse-faced man, who had exchanged heartfelt complaints with Tie Hanfeng one moment, and was set as an assassination target the next moment.

"He used to be a very famous person in Nancheng, and he was inextricably linked to Shibao and Mengfu, and you and I didn't cause any trouble by killing him. ”

At this point, Gu Shenwei also remembered that the horse-faced man was as if he had never existed, and he had never heard of anyone wanting to avenge him.

"You killed the big-bellied Buddha, but you caused a series of troubles, think about it, what is the difference between this?"

Gu Shenwei shook his head, in fact, he had a little idea in his heart, vague, and embarrassed to say it.

"That's what I'm going to tell you: killing people and killing people safely are two different things. To kill is to kill, anyone can kill, and you can kill with your bare hands. Killing safely is not just about bleeding the other person, the first thing you have to kill is his 'relationship'. ”

When Tie Hanfeng talked about Xingtou, he chattered a lot of words, Gu Shenwei didn't remember it, he understood the meaning of Master's words, and it was like an empowerment.

He remembered the conversation between the master and several people before killing the horse-faced man, which sounded inexplicable at the time, but now that he recalled it, he clearly had a clear purpose, and the promises and bold words made by Tie Hanfeng were actually in exchange for the other party giving up the protection of the horse-faced man.

Long before Tie Hanfeng ordered his apprentice to do it, the horse-faced man was already "dead".

The Big-Bellied Buddha is not more important than the horse-faced man, and if he gives an appropriate return, Meng Wugongzi will still give up this minion, but Gu Shenwei violated the rules and killed people before cutting off the "relationship" of the Big-bellied Buddha, and there was no remedy afterwards, which made Meng Mingshi lose face and must take revenge.

The Xu siblings were the initiators, and because they had handed over all the money and took on a large amount of debt, they were forgiven.

Tie Hanfeng finally said to Mr. Guo, "Now you understand, why can't you challenge Mr. Guo, his 'relationship' is deep-rooted, directly related to the king himself, you don't have to do it, as long as you say a little, it will cause death." ”

"So what am I going to do? Just wait for him to kill me?"

Tie Hanfeng had a smug smile on his face, like a child who finally had the opportunity to share his secrets, "This is the other side of 'relationship', the deeper and wider the 'relationship', the more difficult it is to get rid of it, in turn, if you want to ensure your own safety, the best way is to increase your 'relationship'." ”

Gu Shenwei suddenly realized, but he still didn't know what to do, he only had a few "relationships", one was Master Tie Hanfeng, who was calling for wind and rain in Nancheng, and was a sycophant when he returned to the castle, and the other was Shangguan Ru, who he hadn't seen for a long time, and there was a Shangguan Yushi who regarded him as an enemy.

Tie Hanfeng seemed to have a solution, but he didn't say it at the time, and it wasn't until another month later, when Gu Shenwei ended his life as a miscellaneous servant in the library and returned to the Alchemy Academy, that Tie Hanfeng took his apprentice to complete the important step that a Jinpeng Castle killer had to take: formally swear allegiance to a young master.

This is not the joke oath made by Luo Ningcha, but a blood oath that cannot be violated for life, in the history of Jinpeng Castle, the tragedy of fratricide occurs from time to time, but there has never been a killer who betrays the master, the reason is very simple, whether it is betrayal or loyalty, once the master loses power, the killers under him will all be martyred.

In fact, Gu Shenwei had almost guessed the master's intentions, and in the past month, the surviving apprentices of Dongbao had sworn an oath to different young masters, who had started a battle over the past year, either overtly or covertly, and those best apprentices had already established contact with their intended masters through various channels.

The boys of the Arm Slave Gang omitted this step, they had a master before they entered the East Castle, no one was fighting, and their master had a rightful right.

The lotus girl had already sworn allegiance to the Eighth Young Master, and Gu Shenwei followed the master to complete this obligation on the first day of returning to the Fire Refining Academy.

Swearing allegiance to the enemy who destroyed the door, Gu Shenwei spent a night to heal the waves caused by this incident in his heart.

Only two of the adult sons of Dubu Wang failed to leave the fort, the eldest son, Shangguan Chui, stayed behind as usual, and the eighth son, Shangguan Nu, for various reasons, has not been self-reliant, staying in the fort to assist his father and take charge of foreign affairs in the "Foreign Affairs Yuan".

Gu Shenwei completed the blood oath in the Foreign Affairs Academy, and he had already learned the whole process from the Dutch girl, so it went smoothly.

Tie Hanfeng's master was the third young master, and he sent his apprentice outside the gate without following up.

The ceremony was not complicated, Gu Shenwei knelt outside the council hall and bowed nine times, said his real name and slave name loudly, said a cliché of "the killer has no roots, only the master is the one", and finally begged the master to take him in.

Someone brought out half a bowl of water and a sharp cone, Gu Shenwei stabbed a few drops of blood on each of the ten fingers, indicating "ten fingers are connected to the master", the blood fell into the water, and was brought back to the house, after a while, it was sent out again, and the water was a little less, indicating that the owner had taken a sip and dripped into his own blood.

Gu Shen drank it all in one go, and since then he has become Shangguan Nu's "loyal" subordinate, with this relationship, if anyone wants to kill him, they must first cut off Shangguan Nu's "relationship", or do it extremely secretively.

For more than 100 years, the blood oath process has been greatly simplified, initially, the master and the killer have to kill an enemy together, swear by the enemy's blood, the stronger the enemy, the better the effect of the blood oath, and then go through a series of elaborate rituals, and it often takes days or even months to recruit a killer.

As the number of killers has increased year by year, the blood oath has become a formality, a simple means for young masters to seize talents and expand their power.

The reason why Gu Shenwei knew all this was because he had spent a month reading the dusty books and books.

There are too many books in the library, and it may not be possible to read them in ten years, so they must be chosen, and the person who guides Gu Shenwei is Mr. Zhang Ji of the school.

Gu Shenwei was able to read the problem from a document, which made Zhang Ji deeply impressed, Gu Shenwei returned to the Tibetan courtyard room, took the initiative to ask him for advice, Zhang Ji at the beginning of the concession, but later was in high spirits, not only to teach the years of experience, but also set a task to force this "supernumerary disciple" to read the necessary information.

Zhang Ji often said, "History has taught us many lessons, and one of them is that no one has ever learned a lesson." He taught the children of the Shangguan family to read and write, and was also responsible for explaining the history of Shibao, which he deeply experienced.

It was during this boring month that Gu Shenwei learned about the history of Jinpeng Castle and found that Zhang Ji's words were true, and in countless assassination attempts, the reasons for failure were often the same, and each generation of Dubu Kings made the same mistakes and corrected them by similar means.

There are many other traditions that have been simplified as the blood oath, such as the killer's funeral, which used to take place for three full days at the cliff of the dead before the body was left behind, and the whole process was full of dignity and has now been reduced to a humiliating connotation.

The same goes for the assassination operation, as the power of Jinpeng Bao becomes stronger and stronger, the difficulty of assassination is actually getting lower and lower, looking at the Western Regions, there are very few forces that can escape under the knife of the Jinpeng killer, and the original meticulous reconnaissance and the process of selling key people have almost all been abandoned, and sending a "probe" has become the only remaining tradition.

Zhang Ji is most interested in the part of "selling traitors", and every time he asks Huan Nu to read relevant materials, he has to touch the cover and sigh, "People's hearts, people's hearts, it's all in it." ”

Selling traitors was sometimes costly, and from the previous generation of Dubu kings, the expenses in this area were gradually reduced, and in the last few years it was simply stipulated that unless there were major assassinations, there would be no more "selling".

Whenever he talked about this, Zhang Ji was heartbroken, "In the past, the sharpest knives were gold and silver, and the most powerful killers were strategists, but now everything has changed, only butchers are left, and there are no real killers." ”

Zhang Ji has studied the outdated "selling" skills quite deeply, and even summed up the theory, "The master often takes the servant's groveling as a matter of course, but the servant does not think so, they regard their every flattery and humiliation as the capital of doing business, a note, waiting for the appropriate return, if there is no return or the return is unsatisfactory, the seeds of betrayal will take root and sprout, pay attention to observation, this kind of person is the object you will strive for." Loyalty and betrayal, I have seen a lot, to tell you a word, the masters are stupid, they enjoy everything with peace of mind, never think that everything has a price, so you can always find the ideal betrayer, that is, those who are the most loyal, the most flattering, and think they give the most. ”

Gu Shenwei listened to it with pleasure and sincerity, and at the same time was a little frightened, these words were simply himself, the reward he asked for would never be affordable, he was destined to be the "most ideal betrayer".

This study experience also had a huge impact on Gu Shenwei, and like the teachings of his master Tie Hanfeng, they were the two pillars of his great cause of revenge.

The only regret is that there is no information about the current Dubu King in the library, and Gu Shenwei cannot find a detailed record of the slaughter of the Gu family.

Psychologically, Gu Shenwei felt for the first time that he was not so weak, while Jinpeng Fort was getting stronger and stronger, he was also losing many seemingly unimportant things, and now Jinpeng Fort was unprecedentedly strong, but in some hidden places, it was also surprisingly vulnerable.

Gu Shenwei has not yet been able to formulate a formable plan for revenge, but the road ahead is no longer a fog, and Jinpeng Fort is no longer an admirable King Kong Mountain, it is just an ordinary stone castle towering above the top of the mountain.

Gu Shenwei's thinking has been greatly expanded, but the martial arts have fallen, and the evil fruits planted by Xue Niang have gradually appeared, and he has experienced another madness, and like the previous time, he completely fainted, unable to recite the words of the nameless sword spectrum, and his internal strength has not been enhanced in the slightest.

It has been more than half a year since Hopewell Jin stayed in the third layer of Yin Jin, and the internal strength of the apprentices in Dongbao was generally weaker than Gu Shenwei, but now someone began to surpass him.

On the third day after swearing allegiance to Shangguan Nu, Gu Shenwei participated in the seventh monthly test, but was defeated miserably and almost lost his life, which provoked the anger of his master Tie Hanfeng, and also made him reopen the nameless sword spectrum.