The clear water of the lake flows slowly from the stone bridge, sparkling in the sunlight. There was a rustle of the willow branches.

The stone bridge is just a very ordinary big stone bridge, not Ananda. The person who walked on the bridge was not a woman, but a gentleman.

Jun Ao obeyed Yun Thirteen's orders, disguised himself as a mortal hunter, and entered Ananda City, and the soldiers at the city gate did not make it difficult for him, and let him walk by, and there were two lonely soldiers guarding the city in the cold aisle of the entire city gate.

I don't know why, after entering the city, Jun Ao suddenly had a strong sense of weirdness, although the streets of the city were full of people, but under this lively surface, Jun Ao saw a trace of terrifying silence.

Knowing that this Ananda City is not so simple, Jun Ao muttered to himself in his heart, lifted his senses, silently observed the changes and unusualness around him, and had an extra eye in his heart, slowly wandering on the street.

The people in the city seemed to be having a good time, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces. Although the voices were noisy, everyone's conversation was very quiet, as if they were afraid of disturbing others, and they were very polite. Even the peddlers and jugglers would not shout loudly, and the great city was peaceful.

When Jun Ao walked to the stone bridge, he had already walked through the streets and alleys of Ananda City, and had a general understanding of the layout of the city.

Staying in this city for three months means that Jun Ao has to find a way to settle here. He had just walked around and realized that he only had a few options to choose from.

The first choice is to go back to your old business, find a spacious place on the street and lie down, and put a broken bowl next to it - begging. Speaking of this, Jun Ao noticed an interesting thing in the city, that is, there is not a single beggar in this city.

The second option, when I just passed by a blacksmith shop, I noticed that the old blacksmith was busy back and forth in the shop, although he disguised himself as a mortal, but it was still okay to show a little strength to strike iron.

The third option is to find inns, restaurants, and teahouses one by one to ask if you can recruit a shop second, if it is a recruit shop, you can go to work in it for a while, anyway, Junao is only staying for three months.

In the end, Jun Ao decided to try it at the blacksmith shop to see if he could become an apprentice. Although striking iron is a rough job in the world, it can also be pondered. It is said that many swordsmen in the world are also swordsmiths, because they know how to forge swords, so they know how to forge swords.

Although I don't need a sword weapon as a sword cultivator, if I can learn to forge a sword, maybe I can also understand some wisdom and truth in the way of the sword, which is better than nothing, which can be regarded as a kind of cultivation.

Back in front of the blacksmith shop, the bearded, stout old blacksmith was picking up the hammered blade with iron tongs and putting it into the water tank to cool, Jun Ao walked to the side and silently waited for the old blacksmith to finish.

The old blacksmith put down his work, patted his hands on the cowhide on his chest, and said in a rough voice, like a bellows by the fire, "What is the matter, young man?"

"Uncle, I have something to tell you. Jun Ao also deliberately pretended to be honest and upright, and said: "My name is Liu Ada, I am a hunter in the mountains, and the wild beasts have recently returned, and the prey is not easy to fight!

"In the mountains?" the old blacksmith frowned, his expression suddenly became very serious, his eyes rolled and he looked around. Suddenly, he patted his head heavily, walked to the table, picked up the wine bag, and poured himself a big sip of spirits, his expression relaxed, and he looked at Jun Ao and said: "Okay, you can try it, if you have the strength, you can also help me fight, and it is not a problem for me to give you food." ”

"Okay. Jun Ao strode to the stove, and without hesitation, he reached out and picked up the one that weighed at least one hundred and eighty pounds, but Jun Ao lifted it in his hand as if he was holding a wooden stick, and he didn't feel it at all.

"Okay! try two hammers!" the old blacksmith's eyes lit up, and he nodded approvingly.

Jun Ao picked up the iron tongs next to him, took out a semi-finished iron bar from the iron tong next to him, put it on the stove, and then raised the hammer to fall, trying to control his arm strength, because if the strength is too great, the whole furnace will be blown down with a hammer.

Bang!

Sparks flickered, the sound of gold and iron was crisp and loud, and the thick iron bar was flattened with a hammer.

"Good fellow! The strength is really great!" The old blacksmith stepped forward with a smile on his face, took the hammer and tongs in Jun Ao's hand, and said with a smile: "Striking iron is not as strong as possible, you have to learn to control it, but you can stay, help me do some chores, talk first! I only eat and live, and don't pay for it!"

"Alas, no problem!"

"That's okay, everyone else calls me Lu Blacksmith, so that's what you call me. ”

"Well, all right. ”

"Come, I'll teach you how to strike iron......"

Time passed, and more than two months passed in a blink of an eye.

At night, Jun Ao lay in the narrow room, silently took out an arrow, it was the high-grade treasure soul chasing loss, the second cooldown time has passed, so he can start to modify the magic weapon, the high-grade soul chasing loss in his hand has been modified once, from the top grade to the best, the cooldown time took ten days.

"Huh?" Jun Ao frowned.

Name: Soul Chaser (Extreme) (modifiable)

Up: None

Downgrade: Upper grade

(Cooldown of 28 days)

It can't be adjusted up? What's going on? Isn't the treasure weapon a spiritual weapon after that? How can it be modified to a superb treasure weapon, and the increase becomes 'nothing'?

Jun Ao thought about it for a while, and probably understood. If you don't guess wrong, the modifier can only modify the grade of the magic weapon, and cannot improve the level of the magic weapon, the treasure and the spirit weapon are completely different, although the power of the treasure weapon is huge, but there is no 'spirit', just like the sword box of hiding oneself, although it is only a low-grade spirit weapon, but it already contains a trace of the 'spirit of the white tiger', so it can be called a spirit weapon.

And the modifier can only modify the treasure weapon into the best, but it can't modify the treasure weapon into a spirit weapon, which is a bit unsatisfactory, Jun Ao still thinks that he can directly modify a set of holy weapons! It seems that this idea cannot be realized.

Since the soul chasing loss could not be modified, Jun Ao took it back into the Sumeru Mountain Bag, and took out a strange scroll of chains from the Sumeru Mountain Bag, the cold light was terrifying, cold and shiny, this is another high-grade magic weapon soul detention rope, used to trap the enemy. He chose to raise this magic weapon to the superb.

After the revision, Jun Ao lay down on the bed and fell asleep. Since the cultivation realm broke through to the foundation building realm, he hasn't slept anymore, because he doesn't need it anymore, his mental state can always stay awake and full, saving the time to sleep, he can do something else. However, in the past two months, he has really become a mortal again, he doesn't cultivate, he doesn't practice the Fa, he eats three meals a day on time, sleeps on time when he arrives, and his life is comfortable and leisurely.

In the early morning of the next day, Jun Ao suddenly opened his eyes, full of energy and no sleep.

"Uncle Lu should have cooked the meal. Jun Ao walked out of the room, went to the nearby lake to wash his face, and then went back to the shop. There are two simple plates of vegetables and rice on the table, which is what he has eaten for the past two months.

Half of the meal was already missing, and the blacksmith Lu went to work after eating. Jun Ao sat down and ate in a big gulp, not because the blacksmith Lu was selfish and stingy, and deliberately did not cook meat dishes in order to save money, but that in the whole city, no household ate meat dishes! Even the food in the restaurant was the same as in front of him, green vegetables with rice.

In the past two months, Jun Ao not only learned to strike iron, but also got very familiar with the people around him, and slowly, strange things in the city emerged.

Except for Jun Ao, the only outsider, no one has ever been to Ananda City, and no one in the city has ever gone out, once they mention the things outside the city to them, they will have a great headache, but then they continue to be busy with the things they were doing before.

There are about five or six thousand people in the city, and all the people in the city rely on the rice grown in Qiushui Lake for their food sources, and these rice grow quickly, with two crops a year, and there are people who take care of these rice. Vegetables, on the other hand, are the vegetables grown by some farmers and sold on the streets.

Aside from these two oddities, the people in the city were otherwise normal. The aunt and uncle next door, the sister next door, and the scholar at the entrance of the alley are all kind, and the neighbors are very close. Jun Ao didn't dare to say that he knew everyone in the city, but he was quite famous in a few places with large populations, and those people knew that there was a very powerful guy in the blacksmith shop, named Liu Ada.

Although I don't know why this Ananda City is like this, it feels like it was being captive by the monk with some kind of spell, and I don't know what the plan is, anyway, other than that, Jun Ao didn't notice anything else unusual. He had already roughly guessed the purpose of Yun Thirteen asking him to come to Ananda City, it should be for him to rescue these people in the city, but what to do at present, Jun Ao was also confused, and he couldn't figure it out, so he could only wait slowly for these three months, and then use the jade pendant to communicate with Yun Thirteen to see what he wanted him to do.

However, on the last day before the three-month deadline was approaching, another strange thing happened, a strange thing that made Jun Ao's scalp tingle.

"Who are you, little bunny, dare to come to my store and steal something!

When Jun Ao came out of the room and walked to the shop, he found that the table was empty today, and there was no food, and the old blacksmith was moving the wooden door and opening the shop. However, before Jun Ao could speak, the old blacksmith turned around and saw him, and immediately looked shocked, picked up a big knife next to him and pointed it at Jun Ao, shouting and scolding.

"Get out, or I'll kill you with a knife! His grandmother doesn't even ask who I am, and dares to come to my store to steal!"

"Yo! Blacksmith Lu, what's it called early in the morning!" An old woman with gray temples walked out from the side, Jun Ao knew her, usually called her Aunt Zhou, and took good care of Jun Ao, and now Jun Ao is wearing clothes, which she gave to Jun Ao.

"Sister Zhou, let's see if you have lost anything at home! This little rabbit cub is a thief, and he just came to my shop to steal something!"

"What? Oh, I've got to get home and have a look...... He's not wearing my father-in-law's clothes! Come back quickly! You thief with a thousand knives!"

Looking at Blacksmith Lu who was shouting loudly and Aunt Zhou who was emotional, Jun Ao frowned.

...... Take me ...... Forgot?

What happened to this city?