I am a swordsman in a strange city

Chapter 17 Secret Forbidden Learning [Please give me some monthly tickets]

Inside the old building, there was deep darkness, with a single light in the depths.

Pei Ju walked closer step by step, but after he walked for a while, he found that the light was still in the distance, hazy, as if there was wind blowing the light, making it shake constantly.

As he walked, he blinked and the light disappeared.

After looking again, I found that the light had moved and was actually in another direction, blocked by a pillar. I could vaguely see a few people sitting under the light.

They sat around the ball of light, silently and quietly. They were like characters in a silent horror movie, sometimes clear and sometimes blurry.

He reached out and grabbed the flat wooden stick on his back, holding it in his hand, and his courage suddenly grew.

He did not open his mouth to tell others about his origins. He felt that if he spoke first without others saying anything, he would feel like a loser.

He has fought and lost since he was a child, but he has never admitted defeat.

Perhaps because he had grown braver, his heart gradually calmed down, and he remembered that when he was practicing swordsmanship, his grandfather once said, "When you can't see clearly with your eyes, try to see with your heart, feel with your heart, and swing the sword from your heart."

So he took a deep breath, slowly closed his eyes, and then opened them again. This time, the originally blurry light in his eyes no longer shook, but began to become clear.

He walked towards the light, and after a few steps, the light seemed to diffuse and blur. Then he stood there motionless, feeling the darkness and the possible existence of light.

In the darkness, the wind started to blow, and there was a whimpering sound in the wind. The wind seemed to follow the crying and kept drilling into his heart, as if to blow away the anger in his heart and to cry away his will with the crying.

He held his heart tightly, shouted loudly into the darkness, and swung his sword as he spoke.

He didn't know what the target was, like a net, like an invisible person, like some kind of will.

When the sword was swung out, the whole person felt relaxed, and the sound of the wind and crying was cut off by this sword.

Everything became clearer in his eyes. The darkness was still dark, but it was no longer shrouded in fog. He strode towards the light and soon approached it.

It was a large table made up of several small tables, about three meters long. Six people sat on one side of the table, and only one person sat on the other side.

The person opposite looked very young, probably in his twenties, or thirties, or maybe forty. He thought he was young at first glance, but at second glance he thought he might be a little older. After looking more closely, he couldn't be sure.

The other person was wearing a black ancient costume dress, which looked heavy and had dark red cloud patterns on it, giving people an ancient feeling. This was why Pei Ju thought she might be forty years old, like the mistress of a wealthy family in ancient times.

It's such a hot day, but she can still wear it.

Her hair was tied up and she had an oval face. She wasn't particularly pretty, but she gave people a serious and noble feeling.

When he walked over, the woman was looking at Pei Ju, and the other people sitting at the table also turned around to look at Pei Ju. Pei Ju saw at a glance that one of them was Ye Youruo.

Pei Ju's heart flashed with surprise, but he didn't look at her for long. Instead, he held the flat wooden stick in his hand, stood at attention, bowed slightly and said, "Hello, teacher. I am Pei Ju, and my grandfather is Pei Jieyang."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the other person. The other person also looked at him, and did not speak for a while.

Pei Ju's hand holding the flat wooden stick upside down tightened involuntarily. Whenever he was nervous, embarrassed, or at a loss, he would involuntarily grasp his sword.

In the eyes of others, it was just an ordinary flat wooden stick, but in his heart, it was his sword and his last resort.

"Your sword is very good, a bit like Pei Xu's." said the woman sitting there whose age could not be determined.

When Pei Ju heard the name Pei Xu, his breathing changed a little.

"Do you know my father?" Pei Ju asked casually. In his daily life, few people talked about his father. Maybe they didn't want to talk about it in front of him, a child who had lost his father, or maybe they didn't want to talk about it in front of his grandfather, a father who had lost his son. So he seldom heard others comment on his father directly.

"I've seen him once before. He came to the capital to challenge various sects with his sword. I saw his sword when he broke the forbidden hall I set up with it." When she said these words, it was as if she was talking about someone else. There was not much emotion in her, she was just stating a fact.

After saying that, he asked Pei Ju to sit down. There was a chair at the very edge.

"My name is Han Yitong. I'm from Shangjing. I work at the Longxiong Republic's Forbidden Secret Society as a first-level researcher. I'm here mainly on a business trip, and I happened to be returning a favor, so I'm opening a class for famous teachers. Passing the exam is definitely not your main goal, and I'm not opening this class just to help you get a first or second-level certificate."

"I hope that after learning from me, you can solve some simple mysterious leaks. Even if you get involved in some complicated incidents, I hope you can find the patterns and protect yourself." Han Yitong's voice was cold.

Pei Ju looked at the other person and glanced at the others. There were three women and four men in total, including himself.

Everyone listened attentively.

Pei Ju didn't know what level of person this first-level researcher of the Forbidden Secret Society was, but since the other party reported this, he must be very powerful.

"Each of you has just passed the test and has good talent. Now it depends on your ability to absorb. If you don't understand, I will give you a chance to ask questions after the class. I will stay here for about two months, teaching two classes a week, on Saturdays and Sundays from now on."

"Today I will tell you what the secret forbidden science is." Han Yitong did not have any lesson plans or textbooks, and started teaching directly.

"Secret refers to both mystery and spiritual secrets, or more directly, the existence of all mysteries. And forbidden refers to taboos. Everything has its own conditions and elements for existence. When these conditions and elements are violated, and then the mystery descends, we call it breaking a taboo."

"This entire process is known as a mysterious leak. Paranormal events occur in some places, some naturally occurring, some man-made. These all require professional attention. Once you've learned enough, you might be able to work in related organizations."

"We humans organize typical mysterious events time and time again, find the commonalities between them, and then summarize the methods and approaches to deal with them. This is the science of esoteric forbidden events."

"What we need to learn is how to recognize the place where mysteries are born, how to prevent the disclosure of mysteries, and how to deal with and eliminate mysteries after they are disclosed."

Pei Ju sat there listening attentively. He thought of the "Mountain King" in his own training hall, which was a typical place where mystery was born.

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