Zhang Xiaozu held the bone knife in his hand and felt melancholy in his heart.
As the saying goes, no matter how skilled you are, you are still afraid of the kitchen knife.
It’s not that a kitchen knife can cut down an expert, but it’s that the deterrent effect of a kitchen knife is greater and more direct than that of bare hands.
But what makes Zhang Xiaopou uncomfortable is that in his hand, the bone knife, which can cut through iron as much as clay, not only cannot exert its powerful power, but also limits his combat power.
Zhang Xiaozu felt that he needed a knife and martial arts skill to unleash the power of the bone knife. To kill enemies on the battlefield, using a knife is always more efficient than using bare hands.
"It would be great if I could learn all the "Three Steps to Kill" sword technique." Zhang Xiaozhu said regretfully in his heart. The "Three Steps to Kill" sword technique is a technique for killing enemies in battle formations, which is exactly what he needs now.
There are a total of eighteen sword techniques in the set. He has only learned the first three techniques, which can be used to deal with enemies with average combat power. However, when encountering enemies with strong combat power, he seems to be stretched thin and unable to continue.
However, the "Three Steps to Kill" sword technique is a secret enemy-killing technique used by the heavy armored infantry of the famous black-armored army guarding the southern border. It is not easy to learn it, at least it is not possible to learn it now.
Zhang Xiaozu got rid of his unrealistic thoughts and focused on the ancient secret books, trying to find a powerful sword and martial arts. However, he was illiterate and could not even recognize the names of the secret books. He could not help but blush and regret.
When I was a child, I didn't listen to the village chief's grandfather's words and study hard. I could only cast an embarrassed look at Zhou Jianlai asking for help and said, "Brother Zhou, I want to find a powerful sword and martial arts, but I can't read. Can you?"
Can't you help me look for it?"
"And me. I want it too." Niu Dawa hurriedly shouted, throwing a secret book back on the shelf and cursing, "Damn, there's not one with pictures."
"" Only then did Zhou Jianlai realize what he was picking up. It turned out that he was looking for an illustrated secret book.
Zhou Jianlai nodded towards the two of them, thinking that their fighting styles were both brutal and they must have liked simple and rough sword skills, so he started looking for them on the bookshelf.
Zhang Xiaozu and Niu Dawa saw that it might take some time for Zhou Jian to come, so they walked away.
Niu Dawa walked towards the shelf where the treasures of elixirs were placed, with a fiery gaze in his eyes. However, after walking back and forth in front of the shelf twice, he couldn't help scratching his head in frustration because Taoist Tianwu had specially warned him before that there were some treasures on the shelf.
There are many highly toxic poisons that must not be eaten indiscriminately, but he is illiterate and cannot read the names of the elixirs. He cannot tell which ones are good medicines and which ones are poisons, so he can only stare at the shelves.
"Damn it, I swear, I will go to school and learn calligraphy after the war is over, otherwise I won't know what good things are when I grab them in the future. It will be so frustrating and depressing." Niu Dawa shouted through gritted teeth.
Zhang Xiaozu nodded in agreement and said, "I'll accompany you."
Zhou Jianlai couldn't help but joked, "Then you two have to start studying in the enlightenment class. Think about the scene of two soldiers and a group of baby boys sitting together to study. The baby boys must not be frightened by the evil spirit on your body and cry for father and mother."
It’s really exciting. It’s exciting. It’s exciting!”
"" Zhang Xiaozu thought about the scene Zhou Jianlai said in his mind, and several black lines appeared on his forehead.
Niu Dawa rolled his eyes and said, "There are so many valuable things out there. We can just take two of them and invite the master to teach us at home. Who would fight for seats with a group of nanny boys to make the price drop?"
"You can have this." Zhang Xiaozu nodded and smiled.
"Pawn, didn't Senior say there are some good things hidden? How about it, have you found anything?" He didn't dare to take the medicine randomly. The weapons were picked out, and Zhou Jianlai, the secret book, was helping with the selection. Niu Dawa had nothing to do for a while, so he
Attention shifted to Tianwu Taoist's explanation.
"Looking for it." Zhang Xiaozu responded, covering the whole secret room with his subtle state of mind, not letting go of any clues, and soon found something. He walked towards the left wall with a soft sound, and Niu Dawa immediately came over.
There was a palm print on the wall that was invisible to the naked eye. Zhang Xiaozu stretched out his hand and pressed it, pushed hard, and with a click, a three-foot-square wall suddenly turned over. On the overturned wall, there was an upper middle mark.
There are three levels of concave grids on the lower level. There are three bottles of elixirs on the first level, two secret books on the second level, and a short sword with a gray-white scabbard on the third level. The hilt is engraved with auspicious carvings.
"Good stuff. It must be good stuff." Niu Dawa rubbed his hands and said with bright eyes. It can be taken out separately and hidden, and it can be hidden in such a secret way. Even if Niu Dawa doesn't know what it is,
He also knew that it must be something good. He hurriedly greeted Zhou Jianlai and said, "Brother Zhou, come on, come on, come and see what good thing we have found?"
Zhou Jianlai was full of curiosity, put down the secret book he was reading, and walked quickly closer. He first looked at the three bottles of elixirs on the top shelf, but they were not all on the shelf.
The labels on these three bottles of elixirs were unmarked, and it was impossible to tell what elixirs they were.
He picked up a bottle curiously and pulled out the jade stopper. A refreshing fragrance suddenly floated out from the mouth of the bottle. As soon as the three of them smelled the fragrance, they couldn't help but swallow their saliva. He shook the jade bottle gently and followed the mouth of the bottle.
I took a look inside and found that there was only one pill in the bottle. It was hidden so deep and there was only one pill. I didn't have to think about it. It must be an extremely precious elixir.
"I don't know. But it must be a good thing." Zhou Jianlai put the jade stopper on it and said, put it back in place and went to get the second bottle. He held the neck of the elixir bottle with his fingers and lifted it, but it didn't move. A look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.
, gradually increased the strength on his fingers, until he reached nearly a hundred kilograms of strength, and then he could lift the elixir bottle. He couldn't help but exclaimed to Zhang Xiaozhu and Niu Dawa, "I don't know what's in it. It's very heavy, almost a hundred kilograms."
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"Such a small bottle weighs 100 kilograms?!" Zhang Xiaozhu and Niu Dawa stared in shock at the pill bottle in Zhou Jianlai's hand.
Zhou Jianlai shook it lightly and felt the sloshing sensation of liquid coming from the elixir bottle. He immediately knew that it must be some kind of liquid. He pulled out the jade stopper and a faint fragrance floated out from the mouth of the bottle, a bit like grass.
, it has the milky aroma of cheese and a little earthy smell. When he smelled this smell at first, his eyes suddenly lit up and he exclaimed, "It's stone marrow! No wonder it's so heavy!"
"What?" Niu Dawa didn't hear clearly.
Zhang Xiaozu also looked puzzled.
"Well," Zhou Jianlai thought for a moment and explained in simple and easy-to-understand words, "The stone marrow is the marrow of the stone. Well, let's understand it this way. It is a very strong earth element that has come together and has gone through thousands of years of changes.
A kind of spiritual liquid that was finally brewed. The spiritual energy contained in it is extremely pure and is an excellent spiritual elixir for cultivation. Of course, its biggest role is not to improve cultivation, but to enhance the perception of the earth element and
Affinity is of great help in understanding and controlling the realm of earth."
Zhang Xiaozhu's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this. What he is most afraid of facing now is the master who possesses the realm of earth. He can control the weight at will, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, catching him off guard, and even deforming his moves and revealing fatal flaws.
If it is heavy, it will lie on the ground and cannot get up. It may even be as light as flying catkins and float in the air, making it impossible to fight.
He once asked Taoist Tianwu about this problem in the underground secret room of the city lord's palace. Taoist Tianwu told him that with his current cultivation level, there was no good way to deal with it. The best way was to comprehend an elemental power and go to it.
Confronting the Earth Realm. So when he heard Zhou Jian say that stone marrow can help people understand and control the Earth Realm, he was immediately excited.
"How to use it? Drink it directly?" Niu Dawa asked directly, licking the corner of his mouth and looking passionately.
"Any addition of anything to stone marrow or even pure substance will destroy its value, so it is best to take it directly. This is what the book says, and this is the first time I have seen it." Zhou Jianlai said.
"Want to try a drop?" Niu Dawa said impatiently.
"Isn't it good?" Zhou Jian looked in the direction of Taoist Tianwu, implying that it was best not to move without his consent.
"Senior is a powerful star, and the Earth Realm has long been a child's play for him. He will definitely not care about this thing." Niu Dawa said.
Zhou Jianlai smiled, capped the jade stopper, put the elixir bottle back in its place, and said, "These are the trophies of the seniors. Let's wait until the old man wakes up."
After saying that, he picked up the third elixir bottle, which was of normal weight. He pulled out the jade stopper and saw that there were five brown elixirs inside. A pungent smell wafted out. He quickly closed the jade stopper, fearing that something was inside.
Plant poison.
Putting down the elixir bottle, Zhou Jian looked at the two secret books on the second floor. One of them was about swordsmanship and martial arts, called "Cloud Piercing Sword", and the other was about cultivation techniques, called "The Jue of Nirvana Heart".
Zhou Jianlai read out the names of the two secret books to Zhang Xiaozhu and Niu Dawa, and then analyzed, "If nothing else goes wrong, these two books should be the family secrets of the Li family."
"The name sounds very powerful." Niu Dawa picked up one of the books and flipped it twice, then threw it back. Then he picked up the other one, flipped it twice, curled his lips and threw it back, and said depressedly, "Why are there no martial arts secret books?"
With a diagram? Have you never thought that the descendants of future generations may have poor family fortunes and no money to study? How sad it would be to have the unique knowledge passed down by the family but not know how to practice it. Isn’t it?”
"Uh" Zhou Jianlai was stopped by Niu Dawa's question. He frowned and muttered, "This is indeed a problem."
"I have decided." Niu Dawa patted her chest and said, "After I learn how to read, I will annotate all the secret books in the world."
Zhang Xiaozhu rolled his eyes and said, "I advise you to be kind."
"What do you mean?" Niu Dawa asked confused.
"As for your soul-drawing skills of drawing a chicken, no one in the village can recognize what it is. If you add illustrations to the secret book, I can't imagine how many people will become obsessed with practicing. So, you'd better do it.
, Don't mislead others." Zhang Xiaozu said happily.
"roll!"
Zhou Jianlai smiled and looked at the dagger in the third frame. He reached out to pick it up and held it in his hand. He immediately felt a sense of vicissitudes on the sword. Upon closer inspection, he found that the scabbard should have been dark green because of the long-term use.
It turned gray-white after wear. He handed the hilt of the sword to Zhang Xiaopou and motioned for him to pull it out and take a look.
Zhang Xiaozu drew his sword out of its scabbard, and the three of them looked at the sword with a look of surprise on their faces. Because the sword was so worn and the blade was broken and curled, it looked like it was a used sword.
"I can only feel that it has a heavy sense of vicissitudes, and there is nothing strange about it." Zhou Jianlai said, "I guess it was used by a powerful ancestor of the Li family, so it was treasured by the Li family to commemorate their ancestors.
use."
"Yes." Zhang Xiaozu nodded, took the scabbard handed over by Zhou Jianlai, returned the sword to its sheath, and put it back in its place.
"I thought it was a sword." Niu Dawa looked disappointed, turned to look at the surrounding walls, and asked, "Are there any other hidden compartments?"
"It seems there is." Zhang Xiaozhu responded, but judging from his tone, he seemed unsure. After speaking, he walked towards a wall and stretched out his right index finger to point on the wall, because he saw that there was only one fingerprint on the wall.
, with the experience of the previous two times, this time he pressed down directly.
There was a click.
Without much force, a small square was dented into the wall, and then there was no movement.
"What's going on?" Niu Dawa asked.
Zhang Xiaozu shook his head and said that he didn't know either. Then he moved five steps to the right and stretched out his finger to point on the wall. With a click, another small square was recessed into the wall.
Niu Dawa waited for a while and saw that there was still no movement, but his face showed excitement and said, "Hiding it so secretly, there must be a treasure."
Click
Zhang Xiaozu followed the traces he found in his subtle state of mind and groped around on the front, back, left, right, and rear walls, pressing squares one after another. However, except for the clicking sound of the squares sinking, there was no other change in the secret room.
After pressing the sixtieth square, Zhang Xiaopou turned his gaze to the ceiling of the secret room. He jumped up and pressed another fifteen squares.
Whether it was Niu Dawa or Zhou Jianlai, even Zhang Xiaozu himself showed an expression of great expectation, wanting to know what good things the Li family had hidden, and how they made it so complicated.
"This should be the Nine-Nine Palace Grid." Tianwu Taoist's voice suddenly sounded in the secret room.
"Master, you're awake." Zhang Xiaozhu shouted happily.
"senior."
"senior."
Niu Dawa and Zhou Jianlai paid homage to Taoist Tianwu together.
Taoist Tianwu's face returned to ruddy color, he smiled and nodded at the three of them, and then said, "Nine-nine palace grids, there should be ninety-nine and eighty-one hidden grids. How many have you found?"
"Seventy-five." Zhang Xiaozu replied.
"There are still six paths left." Taoist Tianwu looked around the secret room, stretched out his finger and tapped the ground, and said, "The remaining six paths should be hidden on the ground."
"Well, the disciple seems to have found it." Zhang Xiaozhu nodded and smiled. After speaking, he walked towards a shelf, squatted down, grabbed one leg of the shelf, slowly lifted it, stretched out his fingers and pressed it on the ground under the shelf leg.
, the flat ground immediately sank with a click.
Niu Dawa looked at Zhang Xiaopou lifting the legs of the shelves or moving the shelves, and easily found the hidden compartments one after another. She couldn't help but exclaimed, "It's just a fool's dream to try to hide things in a subtle state of mind."
Zhou Jianlai nodded in agreement.
"One more to go." Zhang Xiaozu frowned and searched repeatedly in a subtle state of mind, but could not find where the last secret compartment was hidden.
Tianwu Taoist pointed to the corridor at the door and said, "They may not all be in the room."
Zhang Xiaozhu's eyes lit up, and he rolled out into the corridor in a subtle state of mind. He immediately shouted in surprise, "I seem to have found it."
As he spoke, he ran into the corridor, picked off a luminous pearl embedded in the corner of the wall, and pushed it into the hollow with his fingers.
There was a click sound.
Immediately afterwards, the sound of stone grinding was heard from the ceiling of the secret room. After a period of clicking sounds, a dark hole appeared.
"Damn! There's a secret room?!" Niu Dawa exclaimed in surprise.
"No." Zhang Xiaozu responded, "It seems to be a box. Look, it's been put down." (https:)
This chapter has been completed!