Ji Cha picked up a piece of rope and felt very strange: "This hunchback was obviously so seriously injured, and he didn't even eat much, but he could use his internal strength to break the rope?" Then he said: "Forget it.
Well, this hunchback ran away as soon as he ran away, and all the Taoists in Tianwei City asked us to kill him, so where can I exchange money for him?"
Hong Chen was silent. Ji Cha turned around and asked, "Are you still thinking about killing people?"
Hong Chen suddenly said: "Have you ever killed anyone?"
Ji Cha immediately said: "Who do you look down on, grandma? I have never killed anyone? I am a dignified tea picker, grinding my teeth and sucking blood, killing people like hemp. The number of innocent souls who died under my hands is not one hundred thousand, but ninety-nine thousand."
Nine hundred and ninety-nine and a half."
Hong Chen said: "No need to brag deliberately, you have never killed anyone."
Ji Cha was silent for dozens of breaths before he spoke again: "I have killed him." His tone was gloomy, unlike usual.
"Who have you killed?"
"There are so many people, I can't even count them."
"Where's the first person you killed?"
"The first person I killed was a person I didn't even know."
"Why kill him?"
"My master asked me to kill him."
"Your master?" Hong Chen was stunned for a moment, "You never mentioned your master to me. Is he a man or a woman? Why are you asked to kill someone you don't know?"
"Master said, I need to practice my courage and my cruelty. If a person cannot be cruel enough to kill people, he will not be able to gain a foothold in the world."
"So you killed him?"
"yes."
"When I was in Ziyun City, I saw murder for the first time. Head Huang killed his wife, and Lu Xingwei killed his senior brother. At that time, I thought that killing was just an ordinary thing. We had known each other for decades.
, I can kill if I say kill. But today is my first time to kill someone, and I feel that killing someone is a very difficult thing.
A person has relatives and friends. If you kill him, some people will be sad and some will be resentful. When you close your eyes, that person's body will still appear in your mind, and you will imagine a dead body saying with a ferocious face: 'Why?
Kill me? Why kill me?' Do you also feel this way after killing someone?"
"Yes." Ji Cha nodded, "I stabbed that man to death with one sword, and I would dream about him for many days afterwards. Even if my master later told me, that man was a bully who bullied men and women. He had committed many crimes and had to be killed a hundred times.
I didn’t even bring enough, and I couldn’t feel at ease for a while.”
"Then how did you feel at ease in the end?"
"No, I've seen so many things that I've become used to it and become numb. I regard killing as a natural thing. I'm different from you. You grew up in Taoyuan, but I wander around the world. You raise bamboo rats,
I can live happily by chopping bamboo. But I have to do many things with Master and kill many people."
"Are all the bad people you kill?"
"Most of them are dog officials and bandits, as well as their subordinates who help the tyranny. But no one can tell whether there are relatively innocent people among them. But I don't think too much about it. In order to achieve certain goals, killing is sometimes necessary.
It's inevitable. This is not peace.
In the prosperous times, there were officials and businessmen who colluded with snakes and rats to oppress the people, and there were sects and gangs that dominated one side and bullied the weak. If you are merciful, you will only bring greater disaster to others. Master told me one thing, teach me not to
Be gentle when you should be cruel."
Hong Chen was curious: "What's going on?"
"When Master was young, he aspired to be a warrior. He once rescued a poor woman from a bully's home who had been kidnapped and bullied. At that time, he wanted to kill the bully, but the bully had an 80-year-old mother. She knelt down and begged Master, saying
:'My son will definitely change his ways, and if he dies, I will
How can he live? Just spare him this time!" When the master saw that she was pitiful, he let the bully go, sent the woman home, had a meal and left. But the next day, the master found that he had a
I left the little bundle at the girl's house, so I went back to get it. What do you think the master saw?"
Hong Chen asked: "What?"
Ji Cha said quietly: "When the master rushed to the woman's house, he saw the bully beating the woman's head crazily with an iron rod. Her whole head could not be seen anymore. The woman's parents also fell in a pool of blood, and the bully's
The old mother looked extremely pitiful, with a ferocious face, and she strangled the woman's five-year-old brother's neck with both hands, strangling the child to death!"
Hong Chen couldn't help but say: "What a cruel person! He even kills children!"
"Master showed no mercy this time and killed the bully and his mother. From then on, Master showed no mercy and always killed evildoers because he knew that letting evildoers go would often lead to greater cruelty to others." Ji Cha
Having said this, he took a long breath and said, "Master told me this story, and I will tell it to you again. I hope that when you kill someone in the future, you will never hesitate like you did today."
"I hope so."
After listening to Ji Cha's story, Hong Chen felt that his depressed mood was immediately relieved, and he could finally breathe freely.
Now that Zhong Tuozi had escaped, Ji Cha and Hong Chen had no intention of staying in Tianwei City. They left the courtyard and headed north. When they arrived at the city gate, there were many soldiers blocking their way. Hong Chen took the snow-drinking knife, the first one with the sword.
All the soldiers in front of him were chopped open, and the second sword cut off the city gate lock.
Ji Cha snatched two horses and Hong Chen opened the city gate. The two mounted their horses and left the city. They galloped with the wind howling in their ears. They ran for dozens of miles and stopped to rest when they reached a village. Ji Cha stayed with a farmer.
Although the farmer was a little scared when he saw the two men with swords, when he saw Hong Chen taking out a shiny piece of silver, he immediately happily called his wife to light a fire for the guests to cook.
The next day, the two rode horses and continued north, carrying dried meat pancakes bought from farmers and two skin bags of water. After walking through the wilderness for three days, they arrived at a market and bought new clothes there.
, and found an inn to rest for a while. On this day, Ji Cha and Hong Chen turned the newly acquired Xue Fengqie, the iron-making Jiangshan fan and the snow-drinking knife into heavenly iron, but Zhong Tuozi's sword did not matter anyway.
It didn't work out, so I had to give up.
"This sword is of such high quality that I can't even refine Heavenly Iron with my current 'Lihuo Divine Technique'." Ji Cha wrapped the snake sword in a piece of cloth and slung it on his back, "I'd better keep it safe first.
When I meet Master later, I will ask Master to do it by hand."
Hong Chen looked at a piece of paper spread out on the table in front of him and said: "How long will it take to get to where we are now from where Mrs. Dai told us?"
Ji Cha pointed to the text on the paper and said: "Look, it says 'North of Tianjing City, at the foot of Huiyan Mountain, in the White Horse Temple, next to the General's Statue'. If Mrs. Dai didn't lie to us, 'Xiaochou' is in Huiyan
In a White Horse Temple on the mountain. We are still more than a hundred miles away from Tianjing. To reach Tianjing, we need to travel from the Dongfang Mountains to Huiyan Mountain in the northeast. It will probably take seven or eight days, or even longer."
Hong Chen sighed with emotion: "It will really be a long journey. I hope this knife to relieve sorrow will be the knife I am looking for."
Ji Cha said: "I really don't know what kind of sword you are going to find. Xiaochou is a famous sword that has disappeared for a long time. It was made by the former Yunwu Mountain Sword Emperor by six famous swordsmiths in the world. The name is taken from 'Toast a Cup to Xiaochou'.
The more sorrowful he is, the more he cuts off the water with his knife, and the water will flow again. It is said that he once used this knife to cut off a river."
Hong Chen was surprised: "So awesome!"
Ji Cha waved his hand and said: "Listen to the disciples of the Yunmo Sect bragging about him? And cutting off the river with a knife? I think about it, just splitting a stone and blocking a creek that is as wide as an arm, but not necessarily how much has been split.
Dao. Heroes in the world of martial arts generally live up to their reputation. If they do something good, they must be praised wildly by others, so as to use it as social capital.
.As for the pair of 'Exiled Immortal Sword' and 'Goddess Sword' that I met at the General's Mansion last time, they built a 'Fairy Villa' on the northern border of Tianjing. They regularly held some kind of 'Fairy Convention' and invited young knights from all over the world to go there.
Compete in martial arts, and then give them rankings and so on, so as to attract the attention of various sects and gangs and collect money."
"Well, instead of relieving our worries, we can go and join in the fun." Hong Chen said, "Since there are so many knights going there, there must be many magic weapons."
Ji Cha patted Hong Chen on the shoulder and said: "Hey! You've learned a lot! You know where there are many people and you can make a fortune. Not bad, good, good progress. This Fairy Fair is held every fifteenth day of four months
Once, they are on the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month, the 15th day of April and the 15th day of August. After we finish the trip, we can just catch up with the trip on the 15th day of August."