Wandering Sword Seller's Life in the Qin Dynasty

Since there's no internal energy to circulate, there's naturally no risk of going astray.

Unfortunately, Xu Fu did not remember Xu Qing's kindness at all.

These past few days of labor reform have not made Xu Fu realize his mistakes.

Or rather, he never thought he was wrong; it was always someone else who was wrong.

While the other convicts were asleep in the quarry, Xu Fu remained awake. Although he had temporarily lost his powers, he did not want to spend his life moving stones here.

He wanted to escape from here.

"Do you think that just because I've crippled my skills, I can't leave this place?"

"The art of Yin and Yang is far more wondrous than you can imagine!"

The first level of Yin-Yang arts is called alchemy.

Alchemy is also a form of alchemy.

Using this method, Xu Fu figured that even without supernatural powers, he could concoct some special concoctions and then blow up the quarry.

In this quarry, he discovered many unique minerals.

If they are collected together, they can produce a special reaction.

Destroying the quarry will inevitably cause chaos, and that will be the time for him to escape.

Time passed day by day.

Because Xu Fu attempted to deceive the emperor and Hou Sheng, even though Xu Fu did not cause any real harm, Hou Sheng disliked Xu Fu greatly due to the fabricated charges.

Even though Xu Fu was sent here because of Xu Qing's persuasion, the people below him naturally couldn't let Xu Fu go, as the saying goes.

During this period, he lived a very miserable life and often encountered people who would cause trouble for him.

Not only did the soldiers bully him, but even some convicts, after discovering that he was easy to bully, also bullied him.

Ironically, when they discovered that someone was fighting, and that Xu Fu was the one being attacked, these soldiers did not have the slightest thought of standing up for him.

Instead, his words, "Why do those people only bully you and not others? There must be something wrong with you," shut down all of Xu Fu's words.

This made Xu Fu even more furious. If his martial arts hadn't been crippled, he could have easily killed these convicts with a wave of his hand.

"Wait a little longer, it will be fine after a while."

Xu Fu kept reassuring himself.

Little did he know that Xu Qing, with his God-like perspective, had known all along that Xu Fu was no good person and a scoundrel, which was why he would never let him go like this.

Secretly, someone was closely watching Xu Fu's every move.

If Xu Fu had lived during his most prosperous period, he would naturally have been able to detect these surveillance agents.

But now, after working alongside the convicts for so long, he is exhausted, and his martial arts skills have been ruined by Xu Qing. He can't even beat the convicts around him, and he is often harassed by the soldiers.

Xu Fu no longer had the energy to constantly perceive everything around him; he was only a little more careful when collecting certain special ores.

But we're only being a little cautious.

In Xu Fu's view, these ignorant fools who couldn't even read wouldn't understand the secrets of alchemy.

……

"He's definitely someone who can't stand being alone!"

After Xu Qing learned of Xu Fu's movements, he immediately guessed some of the other party's thoughts.

So he gave a slight hint, and immediately some people started targeting Xu Fu.

That night, Xu Fu had just fallen asleep when he was awakened by a violent shaking.

"Get up! Get up, all of you! Temporary search!" Four soldiers carrying torches rushed into the thatched hut, the firelight making the scars on their faces look particularly menacing.

Before Xu Fu could react, two soldiers grabbed him by the arms and dragged him up, their rough hands tearing his prison clothes to shreds with a "rip." He was shirtless, and the whip marks on his back were particularly glaring in the firelight.

Two soldiers searched through his haystack and found all the blue ore he had hidden in the hole. The stones rolled on the ground with a "clattering" sound, and one of them hit his ankle, making him gasp in pain.

"These are just some worthless stones, and you've hidden them so well?" A soldier sneered as he ground the ore under his foot.

Xu Fu watched as the ore was crushed and cracked, and his heart ached as if it were being squeezed. It was his hope for half a month, and it was gone just like that.

He squatted on the ground, his fingernails digging into the cracks of the bluestone slabs, dirt seeping into his fingernails, but he didn't even have the courage to raise his head and argue back.

Afterwards, the soldiers cleaned the room thoroughly, leaving him not even a single stone fragment.

Logically speaking, this is a good thing, since the place he lives in is really not very hygienic.

But the crucial point is that everything he collected is gone.

What was he suffering for these past few days? It was to lie low for a while, and then escape from here.

Now that all the things he painstakingly collected have been swept away, doesn't that mean all his suffering was for nothing?

What bothered him even more was that these people would come to search every few days afterward, giving him no chance to collect ore again.

It's hard to say how Xu Fu felt under these circumstances.

In any case, he suffered more hardships in the rest of his life than he had in the first half of his life.

The struggles within the Yin-Yang School are extremely brutal; training disciples is akin to raising poisonous insects.

The weak perish, the strong live.

However, when he was with the Yin-Yang School, Xu Fu didn't really suffer too much. After all, his talent was strong enough, and in the same amount of time he cultivated, the power he gained far surpassed that of ordinary people.

He was actually quite pleased to see his competitors being trampled underfoot.

But things are different now; he endures hardship in various ways.

They moved stones, were beaten, and were targeted by the soldiers.

Things he never dared to imagine before began to happen to him one after another. Xu Fu's mindset gradually began to change.

The only thing that hasn't changed is that determination to escape from here.

……

Xu Qing has been rather bored lately.

Aside from completing another set of seven swords, he spent most of his time keeping an eye on Xu Fu's movements.

Xu Fu tried to escape the quarry several times, but all his attempts failed due to Xu Qing's scheming.

After tempering Xu Fu's temper, Xu Qing felt that it was about time.

If you keep making Xu Fu suffer, he might lose his composure and give up completely. You have to give him a taste of the good things.

It's another night.

Xu Fu, exhausted, lay down on the cold stone. After his attempt to concoct "explosives" from the ore failed, Xu Fu began to think of a new way to escape.

As for starting to cultivate again, he did try.

After one's power is destroyed, as long as one is willing to put in the effort to cultivate again, theoretically, given the rapid nature of Yin-Yang techniques, one should be able to quickly regain some of their power.

But the truth is that there is an unusual force within him, which is entrenched in his acupoints, making it impossible for him to circulate his cultivation techniques. His idea of ​​cultivating back to normal was impossible from the very beginning.

"Wake up, wake up..."

While half asleep, Xu Fu felt someone poking his face.

He couldn't help but open his eyes.

Immediately, a man in black appeared in front of him, holding a small twig in his hand, constantly poking his face, as if he thought he was dirty and didn't want to touch him.

"who are you?"

After seeing the person in front of him clearly, Xu Fu suddenly woke up.

He had initially thought it was the soldiers, as before, coming to search him late at night.

But judging from the person in front of me, that doesn't seem to be the case.

"Who I am is not important," the man in black replied hoarsely to Xu Fu's words. "What's important is whether you want to understand the meaning of life and truly want to live."

"???" A look of doubt flashed in Xu Fu's eyes.

I don't quite understand what the other person meant by that.

The man in black paused for a moment, then realized that his explanation was strange, so he changed his words.

Do you want to escape from here?

Upon hearing this, Xu Fu was no longer sleepy; he dreamed of leaving this awful place.

Putting everything else aside, as long as he can leave this place, even if his skills are temporarily crippled, he will have a way to recover them as long as he can gain freedom.

As for revenge, that will have to wait until I recover my strength.

However, given what he had experienced during this period, Xu Fu remained cautious.

He did not directly state his answer, but cautiously replied: "These are all convicts, and there are many soldiers closely guarding them in the vicinity."

"Although I don't know who you are, if my escape is discovered, the consequences will be severe, and I don't want to suffer."

"So, you're content to suffer here?" the man in black asked Xu Fu again, "The Yin-Yang School... Lord Yunzhong!"

Upon hearing the name Yun Zhongjun, Xu Fu's expression changed drastically.

"Who exactly are you?" The same question, but it carries completely different meanings.

If Xu Fu was unaware of the other party's background before, now his heart was filled with endless waves, like a raging storm.

Few people know the identity of Yun Zhongjun.

Even in Langya, where he used to be active, people only knew him as a sorcerer, unaware that his true background was that of a Yin-Yang master.

He was a hidden agent of the Yin-Yang School planted in the State of Qi, bearing a heavy responsibility.

"Are you deaf?" The man in black asked Xu Fu again, his tone quite unfriendly.

Xu Fu was immediately displeased. Of course, he wasn't deaf. He had heard the other party say something like "Who I am is not important," but that didn't mean the other party had revealed his true identity.

That's why he asked the question a second time!

"Can you help me get out of here?"

Because the other party revealed his true identity, Xu Fu did not hide anything after his expression changed for a moment, and asked the other party directly.