Chapter 4: Killing Is the Weapon, and the Master of Weapons!

Quiet!

Li Yuan's heart was in his throat as he exhaled a breath of turbid air, feeling uneasy.

Is there any effect?

The ancestors wouldn't know that I didn't "read through all the 100 scriptures", right?

Give some reaction!

After a few breaths, Li Yuan felt that his sweat was about to drip, and suddenly he heard an extremely harsh sound in his ears.

This sound was very much like the whistle of a ship, but it was countless times louder than that. The moment he heard this sound, Li Yuan could no longer feel his own existence.

Buzz~

Buzz~

Buzz~

...

The sound rang in his ears one after another, and Li Yuan felt that his eyes were dark, but he seemed to be able to feel something vaguely.

It was as if an extremely huge giant was whispering, telling him something, waiting for his response, and even seemed to be angry because there was no response? !

But...

"I can't hear it! I really can't hear it..."

Li Yuan tried desperately to hear the sound, but he felt like a lone boat in a storm, about to capsize at any time.

Buzz~

I don't know how long it took, when Li Yuan's spirit began to disperse, the huge sound finally dissipated.

He opened his eyes in a trance, and felt that there were countless colors surging violently around him, making people want to vomit at a glance.

But in a flash, all the colors had faded away. Li Yuan looked around blankly, and he seemed to be sitting in the void.

No!

He lowered his head suddenly.

Under him, there was a painting that he couldn't see clearly, and it was so big that it seemed endless!

This is...

"Lian?!"

When this thought came to his mind, Li Yuan was shocked to see the collapse and contraction of the void, and the endless ancient painting rolled back, wrapping him in it.

Bang!

Li Yuan heard the bowl and chopsticks fall to the ground, and his second brother's scream, and then he lost consciousness.

"Uh~"

After an unknown amount of time, Li Yuan woke up and felt a sharp pain in his head as if it had exploded. He couldn't help but groan.

"Third brother, what's wrong with you?"

Li Lin sat in front of the bed, his face full of tension.

"No, second brother, I, I'm fine..."

Li Yuan supported himself on the bed and sat up. His eyes were still a little dazed, and his tinnitus was very serious. After a while, he saw his second brother,

and the woman leaning against the wooden door with her hands on her waist.

The woman was in her early twenties. Although she didn't wear makeup, she was still pretty. But at this moment, she stared at him with displeasure.

She was the wife that the second brother had chosen when he was young...

"Sister-in-law?"

Li Yuan stood up with the help of his second brother. He saw that his sister-in-law was unhappy, and he had something on his mind. He left the half catty of pork he bought and left the alley regardless of Li Lin's retention.

"Huh!"

Outside the alley, Li Yuan held the wall with one hand and held the three coins of silver that his second brother stuffed into his arms with the other hand, with a complicated look on his face.

Beside his ears, he could vaguely hear the sharp voice of his second sister-in-law:

"You are the only one who has human feelings? You only make six coins of silver a month in the Chai Gang. Without my mother's help, the debt collectors would have thrown you brothers into the Bishui Lake long ago..."

"Did my second brother borrow the money he stuffed into the forging shop? How much did he borrow?"

Li Yuan gritted his teeth, but did not turn back to intensify the conflict between his brother and sister-in-law.

He closed his eyes and saw the talisman with complex patterns again, and this time, he sensed more things.

"The talisman of holding the weapon!"

The ritual really works!

But I didn't go back. Can't I go back?

Surprise and bitterness surged in his heart at the same time. Li Yuan was even a little scared. This ritual was so dangerous?

Did he die in this ritual in his previous life?

"The Armed Scroll!"

After a while, Li Yuan suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart and began to sense this "Scroll granted by the Heaven".

In a vague way, he even understood the loud noise and colors he heard after the previous ceremony.

Is it that this Armed Scroll communicated with him in different ways, and finally, in a way that he could understand, it turned into the talisman he saw now?

Li Yuan had some understanding.

But...

'I still don't understand it...'

Li Yuan, a wild Taoist priest with two knives, felt a little ashamed. He was not good at learning, did not know the classics, and had no research on talismans.

Buzz~

As if sensing his thoughts, Li Yuan heard another loud noise, but it was not as scary as him. When he sensed it again, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

[First granting of the scroll: Armed Scroll]!

[First-level Armed Master, Li Yuan]

[Number of soldiers that can be controlled: 1]

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Are the ancestors so cool? !

Li Yuan was shocked.

Compared to the loud noise and talismans before, what he saw was more than simple and clear! !

"First-level military master? If you offer a thousand pounds of raw iron, a hundred ounces of silver, and one ounce of gold, you can be promoted to the second-level military master?"

Li Yuan closed his eyes and felt the stars moving again.

After a moment of trance, he found himself in a dark and unknown space.

At this moment, he stood on a small gray platform that could only accommodate him. The surroundings were all gray, strange and dangerous.

Above his head, the huge weapon-controlling talisman was like a dim star map.

At this moment, only one star was lit on the map.

Looking at this talisman, a lot of information emerged in Li Yuan's mind, as if the memory that he had learned before and then forgot suddenly came back to him.

"Weapons are the way of life and death!"

"If you use it, you will act; if you abandon it, you will hide it; those who wield it will be invincible; those who hold it will be powerful!"

"Anyone who can be called a weapon can control it!"

...

"Weapons!"

When he opened his eyes again, Li Yuan's fingers trembled, and he had to resist the urge to snatch the weapons of the pedestrians nearby.

He lowered his head and looked at his palm. In the palm of his hand was the weapon-controlling talisman that had been shrunk countless times, and it was dazzling at a glance.

He had never had such an urgent urge to pick up a knife or a sword, but he could only restrain himself.

"Even a sword of the worst quality costs one or two taels of silver. I am so poor..."

Li Yuan clenched his fists and disappeared into the crowd. Although he wanted to get familiar with the weapon-controlling scroll first, he could only go back to the forging shop as it was getting dark.

It would be a big loss if he was late and had to deduct a day off.

"What a strong reaction. The forging shop is really the best place for me!"

After walking through the streets and alleys, Li Yuan still found it difficult to suppress his restlessness when he arrived at the forging shop.

After taking a day off and standing in front of the door again, his mood was very different.

"Is this the confidence?"

Li Yuan tried to figure out the change in his mentality. He felt that the originally dark road ahead seemed to be torn into a big hole, and light shone in.

"Be cautious..."

Reminding himself in his heart, Li Yuan returned to the forging shop, but his peripheral vision occasionally looked at the shop and the forging rooms that were connected together.

How many weapons must the forging shop have accumulated as a time-honored brand for more than 200 years?

Feeling the vibration of the weapon-controlling scroll, Li Yuan's heart was boiling.

…

…

Walking through the front yard, there were already many apprentices standing in the martial arts field in front of the middle yard. The diligent Niu Gui was not there either, and it was obvious that the work in the middle yard had not been completed.

Li Yuan glanced a few times, and naturally had no intention of returning to the middle yard. His peripheral vision had already landed on the wooden-handled iron hammers piled at the edge of the martial arts field.

"Hammers, too?"

Li Yuan couldn't be sure, because the throbbing from the weapon-controlling scroll had not stopped all the way.

"Master Qin!"

Li Yuan was slightly distracted, and a low sound of footsteps came from behind him.

The apprentices in the front yard followed Qin Xiong to the martial arts field, and the apprentices from the other courtyards also gathered one after another.

Without being told, all the apprentices had already stood still, not daring to make the slightest sound.

"The White Ape Cloak Hammer has two parts, the inner and the outer. The inner is the pile and the outer is the hammer! Among them, there are three combinations inside and three combinations outside. If the six combinations are both inside and outside, it can be accomplished!"

Qin Xiong strides like the wind and has come to the front of everyone.

Li Yuan felt a flash in front of his eyes, and Qin Xiong's big hand like a palm leaf fan fell on the shoulder of Niu Gui who was standing on the far left.

Snap!

With just one click, Li Yuan couldn't help but tremble his eyelids, and felt like a vicious bear stood up and slapped him hard.

"Ah!"

Niu Gui screamed.

With just one click, Niu Gui's legs bounced apart, and his hips made a 'crackling' sound, which made people's teeth ache.

"Without a stable footing, forging iron... hitting people is not cruel!"

Qin Xiong's big hand was like playing with straw, and Niu Gui was placed in a shape like a big ape with his arms hanging down. The latter's face turned red and his teeth were bared.

"This is the White Ape Posture!"

A group of apprentices went to watch and made their own moves. Qin Xiong strode forward, his big hands like a palm leaf fan tapping down from time to time like a weeping willow.

"Tighten your thighs!"

"Relax your shoulders and arms! Are you dead?!"

"Have you never seen apes? Don't stand still, your eyes and ears should move!"

...

"Power starts from the ground, your feet should be heavy, your body should be like a spirit ape, and your body should be relaxed! The White Ape Posture is the basics. If you can't even stand steadily, don't even think about learning the Cloak Hammer!"

Qin Xiong strode like the wind, shuttling between dozens of apprentices, very fast and very flexible.

Every apprentice was slapped.

"This strength..."

Li Yuan was also slapped, and his eyes almost went black, and he almost fell to the ground.

"The White Ape Cloak Hammer is the fundamental martial arts that has been passed down in our forging shop for two hundred years. It is divided into four levels: entry level, mastery, minor accomplishment, and major accomplishment!"

"If you want to enter the inner courtyard, you must practice this martial arts to the first level before the end of the year, entry level!"

Qin Xiong's voice was loud, and Li Yuan, who was standing at the edge, also felt deafening.

"Lift the hammer, stand still!"

Li Yuan's ears were a little 'buzzing', but he also heard the words 'lift the hammer', and his heart was slightly shaken.

Not long after, an iron hammer was handed to him by the apprentice in the middle courtyard, and a touch of gray appeared in front of his eyes.

[Eight Jin Training Hammer (Not Entered)]

[This is the training hammer used by the apprentices of the forging shop to practice the White Ape Cloak Hammer. It is stained with the blood and tears of hundreds of apprentices...]

[Control requirements: None]

[Control effect: Master the Cloak Hammer technique! ]