Chapter 8: Sword Fourteen

In the dungeon of the Sword Hall of the Hidden Sword Villa, the man in black who was fascinated by himself was tied to a pillar. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info In order to find the poison he hid in his mouth, seven or eight teeth were extracted, which looked quite funny.

"Tell me, who sent you to my village to assassinate the assessment disciples?" the second elder asked, sitting in the prison and watching him. The man in black was unmoved, and his eyes didn't open. Seeing this, the third elder spoke: "Don't you have to eat some flesh and skin before you are willing to say?" The man in black opened his eyes and looked at the two elders and said, "If you want to kill or chop, listen to me, don't want to get half a word from me." ”

The third elder smiled: "I hope you will have a mouth harder than a bone later." The second elder seemed to know what was going to happen next, so he said, "Third elder, I'll go to the owner, and I'll leave it to you here." The third elder nodded: "I promise to ask the truth." ”

At this moment, in the council hall, the owner of the village and several other elders gathered here, and the five foreign affairs elders were also there. When the second elder walked to the door, Wen Jiansheng was furious: "Tell me, what are you doing to eat? I hide the sword villa, don't you want to go through your outer door first? I touched more than a dozen people and five foreign affairs elders, and they didn't find any of them?" Seeing this, the second elder silently shrank his head and prepared to go back.

Suddenly, a voice came from inside the room: "Second Elder, what are you going to leave when you're here?" The Second Elder had no choice but to walk in.

Wen Jiansheng saw that the second elder had come in, and continued to scold: "I won't say that they are extremely skilled, a few second-rate assassins in the rivers and lakes, you are all first-class masters and can't find out? ”

Several foreign affairs elders didn't dare to come out, Wen Jiansheng turned his head again, and continued to scold: "Let's talk about you again, the first thing to say is you, Second Elder, Second Elder, what are you in charge of in the Sword Hall? Responsible for being funny? Guarding the villa, are a group of people eating? There are no two assessment disciples who are alert, didn't people kill two first, are you all still dreaming?"

After scolding for a while, Wen Jian's anger subsided a little, and then he asked the internal affairs elder: "Have the two boys been arranged?" The internal affairs elder replied: "It has been arranged, but the young man named Fourteen said that he wanted to see you, so I brought both of them over." ”

Wen Jiansheng was surprised: "Oh? Okay, I was about to ask." The Elder of the House said, "Then call them over?" and the two of them were in the side hall. Wen Jiansheng said, "Then you can call him over." The five foreign affairs elders, you are all busy if you have nothing to do, and you have been on strict alert for me in the past few days to prevent enemy attacks. The five foreign affairs elders sighed in their hearts, hurriedly said "yes", and quickly retreated.

After a while, Mu Ninety and Fourteen were brought over. Looking at the few elders in the room with gloomy faces, Mu Jiushi's heart was furious, and he didn't know whether he had come to the right place or the wrong one.

Seeing the two of them, Wen Jiansheng opened his mouth and said: "You two have meritorious work this time, very good, it just so happens that the four elders are also there, I see that one of you is holding a wooden sword, and the other is holding a rusty sword, I really don't know what to say about you." Won't I lose the name of the Hidden Sword Villa when I walk the rivers and lakes in the future?" said and looked at the four elders again: "Fourth elder, you go back and issue a cold light sword to each of the two boys for self-defense." The four elders answered.

Then Wen Jiansheng asked again: "By the way, what are you two looking for me?" Mu Jiu Shi didn't speak, looked at Fourteen, but the expression on his face was clearly written: "He is looking for you, it's none of my business." Fourteen opened his mouth and said, "I have seen the owner, these people should have come to kill me." Hearing this, everyone was a little confused, so Wen Jiansheng asked, "How do you say this?"

Fourteen's eyes were a little misty, as if he was reminiscing. After a while, he slowly spoke: "This is a long story. Wen Jiansheng looked at Fourteen: "But it doesn't hurt to say it." Fourteen sighed: "I don't know what my name is, and I don't know where I came from, since I was four years old, I was taken away by a man called the Demon Lord. ”

Several elders heard the words of the Demon Lord, and their bodies trembled. Fourteen continued: "From then on I lived an extremely harsh, bloody, cruel training, learning how to kill, how to kill. Because I was the fourteenth of those orphans, my face was carved fourteen. I don't know what I'm called, I've been fourteen since I was sensible. ”

Mu Jiu Shi sighed a little, and there was some sympathy. "Because of my extremely high understanding, five years later, I was accepted as a closed disciple by the Demon Lord, and I followed the Demon Lord and helped him with his errands. Although he is cold-blooded and ruthless, his disciples' abilities are extraordinary. A set of heaven-level top-grade swordsmanship, I learned it very quickly. When the demon lord is suspicious by nature, his disciples, even if they are like me, only teach external skills, not internal skills. Fourteen suddenly stopped and looked at Wen Jiansheng: "Owner, do you have any water to drink?"

"Poof", Mu Jiu Ten accidentally laughed, and Wen Jiansheng and several other elders were a little speechless. The Elder of Internal Affairs spoke: "Come on, make tea." Wen Jiansheng also spoke: "Sit down, sit down and talk." Mu Ninety and Fourteen clasped their fists: "Thank you, Master." ”

After taking two sips of tea, Fourteen continued: "The Demon Lord just gave us an ordinary mental method for us to practice, and after practicing it for four or five years, we have not even reached the level of entering the rivers and lakes. How could I be willing with a few other brothers with extremely talented talents? So we discussed it and did a great thing. ”

Mu Jiu came to the spirit, "What's the big deal?"

Fourteen glanced at Mu Jiuyi and said, "The six of us went to the Demon Lord's treasury to steal something, and it was better to say that it was stealing, but it was better to steal learning." Because we didn't take anything, we just used our identity to steal the most precious thing of the Demon King, the Demon Sutra. ”

There was a huge shock in the hearts of several elders, and only Mu Jiu was in the clouds. "After changing the exercises, several of us reached the third-rate level of the rivers and lakes in half a year to a year, and we made rapid progress. Just as we were triumphant, the Demon Lord found out. ”

The atmosphere was a little solemn, "It turns out that the Demon Lord's Mind Method is a non-streamed Mind Method, how can a few of us use a Mind Method that does not enter the stream at all to cultivate to the third rate? ”

"The other five were all skinned to death, and I escaped because I was out on a mission. Little did I know at the time that the group I was on a mission would suddenly kill me after the mission was completed. After killing a few people, I was also seriously injured, and I found a secret letter on the person in charge, and I realized what happened, it turned out that the Demon Lord slaughtered the village in order to recruit orphans and train them to become his own killers, and I was also captured by him in this way. ”

Everyone in the council hall clenched their fists when they heard this, and the five elders even spoke directly: "Beast." Fourteen continued: "I fled all the way, cultivated all the way, and arrived in Yangzhou, just in time for the assessment of Guizhuang, so I signed up. One is to avoid pursuit, and the other is to practice swordsmanship, in order to take revenge in the future. ”

At this moment, the third elder walked in, glanced at Mu Jiu and Fourteen in surprise, and said to Wen Jiansheng: "Master Zhuang, the man in black is dead, and he bit his tongue and killed himself. He didn't say anything, but found two secret letters on the other dead men in black, and the owner had better take a look. ”

Wen Jiansheng took the secret letter, and after reading it, he said: "The Demon Lord has already colluded with Gonggong Li, it seems that the world will not be peaceful again." Then he handed the two secret letters to the other elders and read them as well. After all the elders saw it, their hearts were solemn.

Wen Jiansheng spoke again: "Everyone, have you all seen it, what do you think?" Several elders responded: "Agree", "No opinion", "Second". "Well, since you all have no objections, then I'll say it. “

Then he looked at Fourteen and said, "Fourteen, I will ask you." You have no name, no surname, and no home, so I will give you the surname Jian, and you will still be called Fourteen. And asking you to call Fourteen is to make you not forget your past, would you?"

Fourteen knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times, and his eyes were filled with tears: "The great kindness of the owner is beyond repayment, thank you to a few elders." ”

The last three elders were a little baffled, and Wen Jiansheng said, "Okay, okay, okay, you get up first, now it's another matter." Which of you will take this kid?"

For a moment, suddenly no one spoke. After a long while, the second elder spoke: "Why don't I take it away?" The fifth elder and the third elder just finished talking about the matter, and the third elder became anxious when he heard it: "No, no, you want this and that, you can't take all the good things for you, I want this." The second elder looked at Xia Mu Ninety, and then at Xia Jian Fourteen, and finally said, "Okay, okay, but say okay, then you have to help me." The third elder nodded hurriedly: "Okay, it's easy to say." ”

This time, it was Mu Jiu and Fourteen's turn to be a little inexplicable, and the three elders asked, "Jian Fourteen, are you willing to be my apprentice?" Jian Fourteen was a little surprised, Mu Jiu Ten kicked him in the back before Jian Fourteen reacted, and hurriedly knelt down: "Disciple Jian Fourteen, I have seen the master." ”

"Hahaha, good, good, get up, oops. After the assessment, it will be announced to the world. The smug look of the third elder made the other elders a little speechless. As for announcing the world, that's for sure. Who in the world doesn't know that the five inner door elders of the Tibetan Sword Villa are all the top masters of the first class today, and now they have only accepted one or two apprentices, and their every move is a major event in the rivers and lakes.

The next day, in the main hall of the Tibetan Sword Villa, eighty-one disciples stood in line, and Mu Jiu saw that Lu Tianming was also among them. Lu Tianming looked at Mu Jiu Shi with a little surprise, and felt incredible: "Could it be that the black and white shuangsha failed to kill him?" Mu Jiu Shi said to him: "I didn't expect you to pass the test?" When Lu Tianming heard this, he didn't fight in one place, and was about to have a seizure, when the owner of the village came in with six elders and sat down. "I've seen the owner, the elders. The disciples below greeted him with swords.

The Elders of the House stood up and said, "You have all seen and known you, Elders. There are pen, ink, paper and inkstones on the left and right sides of you, each of you fills in the entrance of the hall you want to go to, and then undergoes the assessment of the elders. If you don't choose, follow the arrangement of the village. Now that you are the inner disciples of the village, from now on, your words and deeds represent the Tibetan Sword Villa, and if you insult the reputation of the villa outside, you will not be spared. ”

The disciples responded, and then lined up to fill in the entrance of the hall they wanted to go to.

After a while, the disciples finished filling it out, and a white-clothed disciple took the results and handed them in.

"Lord Zhuang, elders. There are three people in the Medicine Hall, 28 people in the Punishment Hall, 39 people in the Sword Hall, and 10 people in the Bingjia Hall. There is also one that fills out the Scripture Pavilion. “

When the internal affairs elder heard this, he said, "Huh, the Scripture Pavilion?"

The internal affairs elder turned around and handed it to Wen Jiansheng, and after Wen Jiansheng read it, he said, "It's okay, that's it." ”

The internal affairs elder didn't know why, but at this time, the owner of the village couldn't help it, so he could only say: "Then please ask the elders to ask questions." ”

The fifth elder said first: "I have few people, so I will come first." The two disciples brought up a seat and put fifty flavors of medicinal herbs, "In front of you, if you can know thirty kinds of fifty kinds of medicinal materials, you can enter my medicine hall, and if you can know fifty kinds of herbs, I will accept him as my personal disciple." ”

The three people who chose the medicine hall stepped forward one by one, and after reading it, they filled it in with paper and pen. The fifth elder took the results, and the first one surprised him: "Who is the Lu family?" A decent middle-aged man stepped forward and replied: "Elder Hui, I am the Lu family." "Very well, even though all three of you have passed, it is not easy when you can answer all of them correctly. I have another 5 kinds of medicinal materials here that are almost extinct, how did you know?" The fifth elder asked again, and the Lu family replied: "Elder Hui, I have been collecting medicine in the mountains since I was a child, and my grandfather was the imperial doctor of the former dynasty. Later, the Sui Dynasty died in the country, and he traveled with his grandfather to practice medicine in all directions, and he saw a lot of medicinal materials, so he knew. The fifth elder replied: "I see, then I will accept you as a personal disciple, are you willing?" Lu Jiacai knelt down and kowtowed: "If you can worship the King of Medicine as a teacher, you can't ask for it, and the disciple will visit the master." The five elders laughed: "Hahahaha, okay, announce the world on a certain day." ”

"Now I'll come," a deep voice came, it turned out to be the fourth elder: "My rules are very simple, come here." The four white-clothed disciples took out two hammers, "These two hammers, one is called the Sun Hammer and the other is called the Moon Hammer. ”

The ten disciples tried one by one, and they all picked up the moon hammer. One by one, he stepped forward to get the hammer, and nine people passed, but they didn't move. The fourth elder smiled self-deprecatingly: "It seems that this year is still unlucky." The other elders comforted, "It's okay, maybe there will be next year." The four elders responded, "Yes, so be it." At this moment, Bahu stepped forward and lifted the hammer with one hand, and the surroundings applauded. The four elders also haha, "Okay, just right, good." Are you willing to be my apprentice?" The four elders nodded: "Get up, and announce the world on a certain day." The elders congratulated one after another.

After the ten people bowed into the Bingjia Hall, the three elders got up and said, "There are many rules in the mountain villa, and there are also many rules in the rivers and lakes. There are 100 precepts in the villa, I will send you one now, for a quarter of an hour, you can memorize half of them into the punishment hall, and if you can memorize them all, I will accept you as a personal disciple. ”

A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and there were only eleven people who could carry more than half of them, but Lu Tianming was one of them, not only one of them, but also one of the two who could memorize them all, and the other was Sword Fourteen. The third elder smiled and spoke: "It's not a loss in the world of writers, the qualifications are good, and the memory is also good. Lu Tianming immediately knelt on the ground: "Disciple to meet the master." The three elders smiled even more happily: "Okay, the understanding is also good, and the world will be announced on a certain day." In addition, Sword 14 is exempted from the exam, and I have been accepted as a closed disciple, and it will be announced at a later date. Lu Tianming frowned, and Sword Fourteen didn't think so.

In the end, the second elder got up and said lightly: "I don't have so many rules in the Sword Hall, and the other elders have not been selected, they will all be members of my Sword Hall in the future, but if you want to be my personal disciple, you have to beat others." I'm not talking about one-on-one, I'm talking about a pair of all the other people who worship in my sword hall today. ”

However, no one was sure of this, and although they all entered the Sword Hall, the second elder did not receive a single disciple. At this time, the second elder reacted, but it was not good to attack in front of so many disciples, so he had to sit down stupidly.

At this time, Mu Jiuyi was left alone, and everyone didn't know what he wrote, Lu Tianming also looked at Mu Jiuten with a sneer, and Mu Jiushi didn't care. Wen Jiansheng pushed the Great Elder who pretended to be asleep, and the Great Elder opened his eyes and looked at the owner. The owner of the village showed the great elder the one written by Mu Jiuten, and the great elder looked embarrassed, so he had to cough twice to cover it up.

Wen Jiansheng looked at Mu Jiu Shi and asked, "Why do you want to go to the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, under the Great Elder?" Mu Jiu Shi stepped forward and returned: "Lord Zhuang, since you are the Great Elder, your martial arts must be among the elders, and you can't worship the Zhuang Master as a teacher, so I have to choose the Great Zhuang Master." Moreover, there are few people in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion and it is pure. ”

Wen Jiansheng laughed twice, looked at the Great Elder, and seemed to say, "If you don't accept me, I'll accept it." The Great Elder was a little speechless and looked at Mu Jiuten, but Mu Jiuten's expression clearly told him: "If you don't accept the master, the master will poke out the things you keep cheating." "I also made a fishing action on my hands. The owner of the village and the other elders saw that they wanted to laugh but had to hold back in front of the disciples, which was really uncomfortable.

The Great Elder's heart must be complicated, and it is estimated that he is panicking, and in the end, the Great Elder compromised, first, he is really a good seedling, and second, he still wants his old face, at least he can't know it all over the world, and this kid is not a fuel-efficient lamp. Thinking about this, the Great Elder's heart must be as complicated as it is to be complicated. "Okay, I'll accept you as a personal disciple, don't kneel, I won't accept disciples in the world, you can go with me now." Then he got up and left. Mu Jiu said goodbye to the owner of the village and the elders, stepped forward to say a few words to Jian Fourteen, and then left. For the jealousy in Lu Tianming's eyes, he didn't pay attention to it at all, as if there was no such person. This kind of disdain made Lu Tianming full of killing intent.

The owner of the village and several other elders all thought in their hearts: "The old man is endless, and he will sell well when he gets cheap." ”

After the distribution, the elders also led the disciples to leave one after another, preparing for the next many matters.