God Weird Fairy

Chapter 18: There are signs of strangeness in Shiba Martial Style

Since the first issue of "Ming Pao" was released on the 21st, there are only three days left before the annual exam on the 25th.

These three days passed by in the blink of an eye, and soon the night of the 24th came.

Today, Nan Yi even went to the stir-fry restaurant to order a few stir-fry dishes and ate them to his heart's content.

After he received a silver dollar from the Song Dynasty as a thank you gift, he was no longer short of money in a short period of time.

But he didn't want to be too different from his original self, and he didn't overindulge in food. A while ago, he just ate noodles at a roadside stall every day.

Until today, he made a special tooth sacrifice for himself and took back the sharp knife scabbard and whetstone he ordered a few days ago.

With the scabbard, he can put the sharp knife on his leg or hide it in his boots after the examination.

As for now, Nan Yi stayed alone in the dormitory of the school, slowly sharpening his knife.

Nan Yi takes the annual exam seriously but doesn't feel nervous.

For him, the annual examination is mainly a good opportunity to escape from his lowly status. He can jump over the dragon gate and transfer to Chu County instead of being trapped in a small pond in Nanshan County.

But even if there is an accident, Nan Yi currently has other ways and means to change his household registration number and leave the village.

Therefore, he is not nervous.

To be precise, not only was he not nervous, he actually had time to think:

The world of spiritual practice in this world is hidden behind the scenes of the mortal dynasty, but it is impossible for monks and mortals to have no interactions at all. As long as the circle you hang out in becomes more and more upper-class, you should be able to contact the world of spiritual practice through formal channels.

Then, all I need to do is play steadily.

Nan Yi slowly sharpened the knife and put away the distracting thoughts in his mind.

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In Nan Yi's mind, the biggest hidden danger since time travel is the medical officer Xu Luo. He wonders if Luo's previous use of his ability to bewitch him actually had any agenda.

If he can be sure that Xu Luo will not take action against him in the future, or simply get rid of Xu Luo, he will be on the right track in this life and will have no worries for the time being.

But Nan Yi forgot that in terms of the meaning of the word, only things that you don't know about, or are not sure will cause problems, can be called "hidden dangers."

And Xu Luo, who might be spying in secret, is at most an overt "risk" due to his deliberate precautions.

The real hidden danger actually lies in "The Legend of Two Dragons".

In this world, the gods are lurking, and many things are not as simple as Nan Yi imagined.

Before Nan Yi copied "The Legend of Two Dragons of Dali", he was reluctant to spend money to buy newspapers to study popular novel themes in Dali because of his financial constraints.

He just relied on his memory, and after excluding the themes of legends of monsters and palace affairs, he determined that Dali had a legendary novel about martial arts warriors, so he decided to extend his devil's claws to Mr. Jin and copy and modify his martial arts novels.

But Nan Yi, who did not actually research the market for martial arts novels in this world, made a mistake.

Mr. Jin's martial arts novels, even in Blue Star Tianxia, ​​are called new martial arts novels, rather than the most traditional martial arts novels without personal settings.It is completely different from Dali's existing martial arts romance novels.

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Song Zhong fell on the couch, a little unable to sleep.

After confirming that regardless of his results in the annual examination, he would transfer to Nantian City next year and would no longer stay in Nanshan Academy to repeat his studies, Song Zhong had calmed down and was not nervous.

Logically speaking, he shouldn't be unable to sleep right now.But it happened that he watched "The Legend of Two Dragons" a few days ago.

Knowing that this was written by Nan Yi, Song Zhong did not just study the illustrations like others, but read the text of the story carefully.

As a result, after reading it carefully, Song Zhong felt that this book was quite strange for some reason.

But he couldn't explain what was strange, so he kept it in his mind. In the past few days, he had been thinking about Chapter 1 of "The Legend of Two Dragons" from time to time.

Regarding the chapter content of "The Legend of Two Dragons in the Great Li", when Nan Yi stayed up late to write, it was naturally impossible to write a super chapter that condensed forty chapters as in the revised version of the original work.

In fact, even Mr. Kim couldn't do it during the serialization period.

There are 118 chapters in the serial version of "Shooting the Condor" and 110 chapters in the serial version of "The Condor", both of which are not small numbers.However, it was later revised and condensed to forty chapters.

Nan Yi previously wrote three chapters, which actually roughly correspond to the story content of the first chapter of the revised version of The Condor Shooting.

Among them, Chapter 1, apart from changing the story background to Yan County in the northeast of Dali, mainly tells the plot of Qiu Chuji, Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin fighting over a misunderstanding.

In the eyes of Dali scholars, Chapter 1 of "The Legend of Two Dragons of Dali" is not bad in writing, but it mainly lays out the background, fictionalizing a story about the rivers and lakes that took place during the border war between the three kingdoms of Yanjun and Kanlizhen in the north. It is the so-called martial arts legend.

There is a sense of expectation for this story, but not much.

Therefore, Dali scholars generally do not discuss the plot of the novel, but study the illustration method.

But Song Zhong was very concerned about the content of the story.

At first it was for the convenience of getting close to Nan Yi, but later it was to find out what the weirdness was about the inexplicable weird feeling in my heart.

He went through the plot of the novel in his mind again.

"There are people in the world who are extremely intelligent, talented in literature, martial arts, calligraphy, painting, playing chess, arithmetic, strategy, medicine, divination, astrology, and all kinds of miraculous arts. They are all knowledgeable and skilled in all of them! It's just that you can't see them."

When recalling what Qu San said in the book, Song Zhong's thoughts suddenly stopped.

"Martial arts? What is martial arts? The knowledge about martial arts?"

Song Zhongfu recalled the description of the fight scene between Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin at the end of Chapter 1, where the two of them fought together against the Taoist priest in coir raincoat, and he suddenly realized:

"Could it be that Brother Nan is actually trying to focus on martial arts training in this work?"

It turns out that most of the martial arts legends on the market in Dali focus on people, describing grievances, love and hatred in the world.

However, "The Legend of Two Dragons of Dali" written by Nan Yi elevates martial arts and martial arts to a very high level, even to the level of knowledge. The style of painting is very different from the Legend of Dali Wufu.

However, "Ming Pao" has only published one chapter so far, and it is still relatively obscure and not very obvious.We have to wait until Chapter 2, when the Taoist Qiu Chuji declares his family name and leads to the Quanzhen sect, then the differences in the painting styles of martial arts and martial arts will gradually become apparent.

Song Zhong understood this section in advance and subconsciously found it funny at first: A crude martial artist only relies on the strength of his weapons to show off his ferocity and fight ruthlessly, what else can he do without knowledge?
But the next moment, Song Zhong thought of the illustrations drawn by Nan Yi.

When Nan Yi draws story illustrations, they are not always in the form of comic strips. Sometimes they are storyboarded like comics to show the tension of the picture.

Recalling the illustrations in the book where the characters competed in martial arts, Song Zhong hesitated but lost his sense of resistance.

Although I still feel that Nan Yi’s juxtaposition of “martial arts” and “literary talent” overstates the status of a martial artist.But if you practice any skill to a deep level, it can indeed be called knowledge.

Song Zhong's doubts disappeared, his thoughts became clear, and he soon fell into a deep sleep.

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(End of this chapter)