Chapter 1: Rusty Knives
The Longji Mountains, winding and circling, are tens of thousands of miles long, long enough to isolate the East China Sea from the entire continent.
Among them, the mountains and rivers are magnificent, like dragons and tigers leaping, and their heroic and majestic posture seems to be about to fly to the sky in the next moment.
The mountains and rivers on the peak are picturesque, like a fairyland, but they are hidden in the floating clouds at a height of thousands of feet, far away from the world.
This year, the east wind came earlier than in previous years, and the east wind came with momentum, determined to peel off the clouds that hung over the mountain peaks and reveal their true colors.
So, the wind rose and the clouds surged.
The east wind blows to the mountains and rivers, stirring up the clouds in all directions, and the floating clouds are surging, but the clouds accumulate more and more, and the clouds accumulate thicker and thicker, always covering the mountain peaks.
Patches of white puffy clouds were ruthlessly thrown out by the east wind and flowed towards the west.
The tiny ice particles in the white clouds accumulated larger and thicker as they tumbled and collided, and the flowing air seemed to be unable to bear it, and the white clouds sank.
The sinking white clouds are affected by geothermal heat, and some of the ice particles begin to melt into water, so the white ice particles become black due to the water immersion, and the white clouds become dark clouds.
More dark clouds formed, and the dark clouds condensed into a huge black hand, covering the sun in the sky and the whole world.
The clouds gathered for a long time, and one of the largest droplets of water attacked first, falling to the earth.
Droplets of water pass through the clouds and continue to fall.
The droplets passed by a flying flaming bird, and the beautiful bird did not look at it, but continued to fly forward, so the droplets continued to fall without danger.
The drops of water passed through the branches of the tree, through a rusty knife stuck in the tree, and finally landed on a young man's black face.
The boy looked up, and he saw no drops of water on his face, for he could not see it, nor at the black, oppressive clouds, for the phenomenon of rain was a common thing in the world, and he did not need to see it, but he saw only the rusty knife in his eyes, and his eyes lit up, and a look of surprise appeared on his somewhat dark face.
Yes, he smiled, he was so happy, he had spent years trying to find it, just to find it.
To be exact, he was trying to find a weapon.
Now hanging on the tree is a rusty knife, but the rusty knife is also a knife, and more importantly, the knife is a weapon.
So now the boy was overjoyed to find the weapon of the rusty knife.
The boy exclaimed excitedly, "Haha, I finally have a weapon, and I can finally go to learn kung fu." ”
If you have a weapon, you can learn kung fu, this seems to be illogical, can't you learn kung fu without a weapon?
But for the young man with a slightly darkened face in front of him, with a weapon, he has the opportunity to learn kung fu, because the ninth master promised: I will teach you kung fu when you have your own weapon.
Although the promise given by the Ninth Master at that time was a little different from what the young man understood, it would not be much different. The boy remembered that it was one night five years ago, when he had just turned ten. That day, the young man finally mustered up the courage to learn kung fu from the only martial artist in the village, Jiu Ye, at this time Jiu Ye was practicing boxing, only to see the tiger and tiger practiced by Jiu Ye, tossing and turning, majestic, and the black hair that was scattered made people worship.
There were stars in the young man's eyes, and he couldn't wait to become the ninth master immediately, and then show his majesty in front of a few friends, and get great satisfaction from it.
The boy was distracted, and in the fantasy, the boy rubbed the face of the dead fat man who was not flat, and then took the candy from the fat man's trembling bun hand, and then stuffed it into his mouth without saying a word.
At this time, the young man smiled, he felt a little sweet taste in his mouth, he had fantasized about how many times he had fantasized about snatching the sugar from the fat man's hand, and he was sure that this time it was true......
Jiu Ye had just finished practicing boxing, retracted his momentum, and posed in a cool shape, and then his eyes looked at the only observant from between the scattered strands of hair - Xiao Chi sucked his fingers and closed his eyes and was smiling stupidly.
“......”
Jiu Ye slapped the smirking Xiao Chi.
Xiao Chi, who was distracted, woke up and immediately told the ninth master that he wanted to worship him as a teacher.
The Ninth Master said, "When you have a weapon, come to me for apprenticeship." ”
Koike didn't understand.
Obviously, I didn't see the ninth master use weapons, didn't he practice kung fu with fists, why should he have weapons to apprentice.
Weapons, ah, there is, so Koike raised his slingshot.
The corners of the ninth master's mouth twitched, sample, I am so handsome and dashing, suave and suave, and there is an endless stream of apprentices, and I have accumulated a lot of experience, it is not trivial to refuse such a little child. Last time, the dog stole his hoe, and Huzi's father took an axe, I still refused, there are great weapons, I want a decent weapon, haha, this excuse is good, yes, decent, your weapon is too bad, how can I set off my master who is a high master in your hearts in the hands of a disciple, anyway, all the weapons that want to apprentice are not decent, haha......
Of course, Jiu Ye can't let them succeed in apprenticeship, because he regards this village as his home, he doesn't want anything to happen to his family, and it is inevitable that he will be bold to go out after learning kung fu, and the world outside the village is very dangerous, and the most important reason is that none of these people have the qualifications to practice martial arts, and it is a waste of time to practice, it is better to enjoy the peaceful life here.
The Ninth Master straightened his mind and said, "At least a decent weapon." Then he strode past Koike with his head held high and his chest held high.
From the second day, Koike found a lot of decent weapons, including sticks, wooden bows, stones, lime, and rat poison......
And then......
The dog gave up looking for it, and he gave up apprenticeship.
The fat man gave up.
Huzi's father gave up.
......
Xiao Chi hasn't given up yet, because some people say that in the deep mountains and old forests, there are strong people haunting, they have too many weapons, and some of them will be thrown away, but there is a danger to their lives, so they must not go.
Koike automatically ignored the second half of the sentence and began a journey deep in the mountains to find weapons.
And this search is five years.
Now that he had finally found the weapon, he climbed the tree and took the knife down.
The blade was rusty and pitted, the blade was gone, and there were many gaps that I couldn't guess if they had been cut or rusted.
The rusty knife felt as uncomfortable as holding a dried toad, and it was stained with a hand of red rust powder, which could not be washed off.
In order to make this weapon more comfortable to hold, the key is to be presentable, so be sure to wipe the rust off.
Koike immediately started his work and sharpened it on the stone with a rusty knife.
Grinding and grinding, Xiao Chi became more and more heartbroken, because this rust is too much, it will fall off as soon as it is grinded, it is still a large area, and even a few holes have been grinded, he suspects that the whole knife will be worn out if he grinds it again, this is completely a rusty knife, the kind of rusty knife that is all rusty.
Xiao Chi's heart trembled, after so many years, he finally found a knife, or a broken knife, he wanted to sharpen it to become that kind of shining and decent knife, but the dream is beautiful, and the reality is cruel.
Xiao Chi didn't dare to grind it down, he pulled off the last piece of cloth on his clothes, his clothes were almost torn off by the tree technique in the past few days, and his clothes were left with the last piece of cloth, and now he was naked, but fortunately there were still a few pieces of cloth on the lower body, otherwise he would be completely naked.
Wrap the knife carefully in your hand, you have to be careful, this kind of rusty knife may be cut in two wherever it touches, not the knife to split something in two, but the knife itself to break in two.