sword sentient beings

Chapter 49

At that moment, something shattered.

Tang Zhao knew that what was broken was his three views and his infinite imagination of swordsmen.

The fat old man Ping Jiangqiu raised his head, and said: "This old man is a swordsman, so of course he has a sword. It's just manifested in the shape of a jar, you see how rare and strange you are."

Tang Zhao carefully asked, "Swordsman...is he a swordsman?"

The fat old man proudly said: "What kind of swordsman? A swordsman is a swordsman, a swordsman who transcends the world. Have you ever heard of a swordsman in the world, a swordsman outside the world? A swordsman can still walk in the world. Swordsmen are all masters outside the world, extinct in the world of mortals."

Tang Zhao understood that a swordsman is a realm above that of a swordsman. For him, a swordsman is already an unattainable ideal, and a swordsman has never even thought about it.Then facing the fat old man, he still had some doubts: "Then you are very good?"

That's still so cowardly?
Ping Jiangqiu said: "Of course, the old man's name was frightening, so that children would not cry at night. If I hadn't retired early, you should think of the old man's prestige when you see me, and bow to him if you accept your head."

Tang Zhao still didn't believe it, and said, "What is your prestige? I heard that swordsmen use swords as their nickname. Is your nickname in the world is Jar Can Sword?"

The fat old man was furious, jumped up from the chair, and cursed: "Get out! You ignorant idiot, you know nothing! You go and ask, who doesn't know the name of Lao Tzu's 'Sumi Sword'? Can sword... Can your head!"

Tang Zhao was not annoyed at all, but felt that he was "breaking the defense", as if he had been called "Jin Can Sword" before, and said, "You said that. If you let me inquire, I will inquire about it." .”

The fat old man was a little flustered, he stopped him and said, "I didn't let you go! Who told you to go? You are not allowed to go, you are not allowed to tell anyone, you are not allowed, you are not allowed!"

He was messing around like a child, Tang Zhao was just amused and not very angry.

After thinking for a while, he still took a retreat, and said, "Don't be nervous, I won't talk nonsense, besides, who should I ask? You are from hundreds of years ago. But if I disappear out of thin air, outsiders say Maybe someone will investigate, and when you are found, you will really be unable to hide. For example, the judge yesterday, he knew that there was an abnormality in your jar, and I happened to disappear. He will definitely investigate you. Up to the sky."

The jar was left in the hands of the judge for a whole day yesterday, and Ping Jiangqiu must have not come out, otherwise it would not have happened today.Since he refused to come out, even if he didn't dare, the fat old man should be more or less afraid of the judge's strength, right?
Ping Jiangqiu tugged at his beard and said, "Judge? You mean that kid from yesterday? Is he a fart? I just don't like talking to him. You let him try one-on-one?"

Tang Zhao was dubious, wondering if the old man had swollen his face to make himself fat, and said: "There is also the District Prosecutor, in fact, I was recruited by the District Procurator..."

Hearing the word "District Inspection Division", the muscles on Ping Jiangqiu's face twitched a few times, and even his beard trembled, and said, "District Inspection Division? They recruited you? They want to train you? That's nothing. They recruit eight hundred if not one thousand a year, so what does it matter if you have one more or one less?"

Tang Zhaodao: "It's not an ordinary recruitment. I'm required to go to the battlefield in half a month. Let alone half a month, if I disappear in three or two days, they will come to find me."

Ping Jiangqiu said angrily: "Nonsense! Tell you to go to the battlefield? How old are you? What skills do you have? How much have you practiced internally and externally? Have you learned Xuangong? Can you afford a sword? Where is the magic weapon? Why? Tell you to go to the battlefield? Is it okay to find an excuse to lie to me?"

He was very excited when he asked a series of questions, Tang Zhao's heart suddenly moved, thinking: Doesn't this old man even know what dynasty it is now?How do you understand the "district inspector" again?Is the district inspector handed down from the previous dynasty?Or is he just bragging?Is he hundreds of years old?
He said sternly: "Senior Ping, I never lie. I really haven't practiced martial arts very much, at most I've been cramming for half a month. But the district inspector did recruit me..." He hesitated for a while, and finally decided to Said truthfully, "Because there is a sword that only I can hold."

He didn't know if it was a secret, anyway, Xing Ji didn't tell him to keep it a secret.Furthermore, he has only held that sword once, and he still has many questions, perhaps this swordsman can answer him.

Ping Jiangqiu still didn't believe it, and said: "I know you have the talent of inspiration, so you can find this old man? So what? Even if there is a 'Dragon Sword' made for you, from the sword of enlightenment to the heart of the sword 'Gold and stone are the open', How long does it take to wake up a sword elephant, develop sword skills, and become a true swordsman? Even a genius can be counted in years, right? It won’t be your turn to go to the battlefield in less than five or six years.”

Tang Zhaodao: "Isn't it? Isn't the sword useful as long as you pick it up? After you pick it up, the power surges up, just like being reborn..."

Ping Jiangqiu opened his mouth wide, and said for a while, "What's going on?"

He jumped up and walked around on the ground with bare feet, completely ignoring the fragments all over the floor. Those ceramic and glass fragments shattered on the soles of his feet like snack residue. Tang Zhao watched and rubbed the soles of his shoes secretly.

Suddenly, Ping Jiangqiu turned around and said, "So they have a power sword?"

Tang Zhao asked, "Quan Jian?"

Ping Jiangqiu said: "It is a sword that anyone can pick up if the conditions are met. It can't be called a sword, it should be said to be the remains of the sword."

Tang Zhao's heart moved, and Ping Jiangqiu had already added some explanation: "Actually, you should know that the sword is alive."

This sentence was unexpected, Tang Zhao said "ah", and Ping Jiangqiu said: "A sword has a sword image and a sword intent. The sword image is its body, and the sword intent is its mind. When the sword was conceived, it already had a mind. , choose your own swordsman through the sword intent, and then the swordsman wakes up the sword elephant. It was really born, fell to the ground like a baby, and grew up with the swordsman."

Tang Zhao tentatively asked, "Your sword elephant is a pot?"

Ping Jiangqiu said angrily: "It's Xumi... the pot."

Tang Zhaodao: "Is the Sumeru Jar alive?"

Ping Jiangqiu said: "Of course, I have a heart-to-heart with it. It went through fire and water for me. Why isn't it alive? I am also alive. But we are all likely to die. A swordsman is easier to die than a sword. Which sword will not kill ten or eight swordsmen?" The sword will be dark when it dies, and wait for a new swordsman. The sword may also die, the sword will disappear, the sword image will disappear, and it will even be killed by other swords."

Ping Jiangqiu whimpered: "That's why I don't want to go out. If I die, what will happen to my baby Sumeru? It is so loyal, it must be sad. What will I do if it dies?"

Tang Zhaoqi said: "Loyalty? Didn't it mean that the sword will be exchanged for ten or eight swordsmen?"

Ping Jiangqiu was slightly embarrassed, and then said plausibly: "It is enough to be loyal when getting along. A sword and a swordsman are like a husband and wife. When they are alive, they can be single-minded. Can they stop them from remarrying when they are dead? They are all short-lived ghosts, and they were young when they died. If you have the ability to cultivate into a sword fairy, then you can grow old together?"

"But husbands and wives also have grievances, and some even turn against each other. If it was okay at the beginning, the swordsman retreated the sword, and the sword found another swordsman. But there is a swordsman and swordsman who are connected with each other but hurt each other, and finally die together, forming a power sword. This At that time, the swordsman is dead, but his spirit, soul and obsession will be entwined on the power sword. Obsession is the key to awaken the power. And the sword is also dead, and only the original sword image and sword intent remain. Memories and visions, which may seem vivid, never grow."

Tang Zhao felt lost, and said, "So that's the case. I thought I was the one chosen by that sword."

Ping Jiangqiu pursed his lips and said: "You think too much. A sword would be broken in the District Procuratorate. Only people wait for swords, no swords wait for people. You are just recruited, so it is so easy to get a sword ? At most, the conditions of the power sword are harsh, and you can use it temporarily."

Tang Zhao sighed and said, "You are right."

Ping Jiangqiu paused, and said: "In fact, the power sword is very strong. Those who can form the power sword are powerful swordsmen or even swordsmen. Everything in life is completely sealed in it. The body must be able to hold it, and even master it. The full strength of that swordsman back then, the conditions are more relaxed than the selection of swordsmen. Many sects and aristocratic families have powerful power swords to guard their gates, and some ancestors of aristocratic families even deliberately turned into power swords for their descendants before they passed away."

"However, the burden of Quan Jian is also very heavy. How long can you use it for a quarter of an hour? If the district inspector has no conscience, he can make you exhausted to death. Don't listen to their promises, what kind of future is it, what future does a dead person have? They may not have deceived many ignorant teenagers with this trick. Otherwise, where did the former swordsmen of their Quan Jian go?"

He stared at Tang Zhao and said, "Do you want to escape from this damn mission? Here I—" he pointed around, "can hide you perfectly. I don't need you to accompany me for the rest of my life, just a year or so. When the things outside calm down, you can go out and have nothing to do."

Ping Jiangqiu stared at Tang Zhao, hiding great anticipation.Obviously he always wanted to keep Tang Zhao, but this time Tang Zhao asked him for something.

Tang Zhao wavered for a moment, thought carefully about Ping Jiangqiu's suggestion, then shook his head and said, "It can't be like this."

Ping Jiangqiu was stunned and said, "Why?"

Tang Zhao explained: "We have agreed before. Whether I am a member of the district inspector or not, the inspector has cultivated me and I will fight for them. Now I have learned martial arts and swordsmanship, and all kinds of resources are in place. .People keep their promises, so how can I break my promises? Everything I said doesn’t count.”

Ping Jiangqiu sneered: "Cultivate what? Can the benefits they give buy your life?"

Tang Zhao said, "I can buy it."

Ping Jiangqiu was stunned, and Tang Zhao said: "I thought about it, I should not be worth that much at the market price. Even at the highest price, their tens of thousands of taels are enough to buy dozens of me."

In a blink of an eye, it was Ping Jiangqiu's turn to look at Tang Zhao with the eyes of a fool, and said in a strange tone: "Was it worth it at the market price, is it worth it to you?"

Tang Zhao smiled and said: "It's worth it. Do you think a meal is worth a life? How much is a bowl of rice worth, but wouldn't life be lost without this bowl of rice? I was desperate at the time, and Master Xing took me in." Is this one worth it? Subjectively, I have been favored by him to take him in, and objectively, I have spent a hundred times as much resources as I have. Both aspects are worth going through fire and water, right? I can’t be ashamed of my heart at the top, or of others at the bottom Bar?"

Ping Jiangqiu was silent for a moment, and said: "So you can buy this life. If others can buy it, can I buy it too?"

Tang Zhao smiled and said: "Not necessarily. There is a price but no market. Besides, it is still in the transaction, you have to have a first-come, first-served one. If this transaction is lost, my shop will be completely closed."

Ping Jiangqiu said: "When will your transaction be settled?"

Tang Zhao knew that he was asking about the coming of the Devil's Nest, so he calculated, "Fifteen or sixteen days before and after?"

Ping Jiangqiu sneered slightly and said, "How long have you been studying?"

Tang Zhao said, "Fourteen days."

Ping Jiangqiu sneered and said, "After fourteen days of learning like this, it took a hundred times more resources? I think this business must be losing money. If I want to buy your life, I can't buy it."

Tang Zhao didn't know whether he was telling the truth or sarcastic, and asked, "Really? I think I'm not bad."

Ping Jiangqiu said: "You have never been in the devil's lair, so you don't know what terror is. Hey, who told me to buy you an order? Do you know what my sword intent 'storage' means?"

Tang Zhao said: "Store..." Is this a new harvest for Wenjian?
Ping Jiangqiu said: "Sumeru in the pot, everything is collected. I ask you to look at my collection."

He snapped his fingers.

Above the hall, a hole was opened out of thin air, and a pot fell out.

An unremarkable clay pot, like a pickle jar.

Ping Jiangqiu pulled the jar and said, "Collect everything, for example——six hours."

(End of this chapter)