Dao Ye is going to ascend

Chapter 59: The Shaking Weapon Forging Shop
Qin Xiong was killed at home!
The rain continued all night, and when it was dawn, Qiu Da, who had received the news, had hurried over with a group of yamen runners, but was stopped outside the door.

"Captain Qiu, please stop!"

Outside the courtyard, several guards from the blacksmith shop stopped Qiu Da, led by Leader Zhao.

"Brother Zhao, what are you doing?"

Qiu Da suppressed the anger in his heart. Before his uncle got into trouble, who in this outer city dared to stop him?
"Captain Qiu, please don't make things difficult for me!"

Zhao He held a spear in his hand, expressionless: "Liu County Officer is inside, are you worried?"

"you!"

Qiu Da was furious, but he couldn't vent his anger. He could only groan and walk away, but he secretly made a vicious move in his heart:
"Wait, wait until Mr. Han arrives, and then see how you die..."

He always suspected that his uncle's death was related to the forces like the Weapon Forging Shop!

"Qiuda is gone."

Zhao He walked into the yard.

Yu Zhen stood with a knife in his arms, his brows furrowed, while Cao Yan had a cold expression. In the mud in front of them was a corpse that was almost smashed into mud.

"Qin, Guard Qin was ambushed by someone, and was caught off guard and beaten to death!"

Beside the corpse, a slightly fat man paced and checked, sometimes looking around, sometimes looking up, and after a long time, he clasped his hands and said:

"The murderer probably used the most common hammer. As for his martial arts..."

After a slight pause, the man's expression was somewhat subtle:
"It's the White Ape Cloak Hammer, a killer move, the White Ape Hammer!"

White ape hammers!

Cao Yan's eyelids twitched. Even though the heavy rain overnight had washed away all traces, the injuries on the corpse could not be faked.

"Brother Liu is right. Qin Xiong did die from the white ape's hammer."

Yu Zhen held the knife and walked around the yard. When he reached the door, he turned his back to it.
"It rained heavily last night. Qin Xiongsi went out at night. When he came back, he saw the lights were off and the door was wide open. He rushed into the house.
The murderer lurked on the roof and ambushed him in the rain. The first blow broke his crossed arms..."

Yu Zhen gestured as if he had seen it with his own eyes, which made Cao Yan and Liu Bin nod their heads involuntarily.

Finally, be sure:

“The killer deliberately used a hammer, probably to conceal his true weapon skills. This person must have cultivated internal strength but has not yet tempered his body.

Otherwise, there would be no need to go through all the trouble of setting up an ambush or launching a surprise attack!"

"Brother Yu is right!"

Liu Bin nodded repeatedly to express his admiration:
"This thief is quite cunning. He smashed the corpse and left no internal energy. He clearly wanted to mislead us and hide his identity. Unfortunately, he was still exposed!"

"This person deliberately didn't retain his internal energy, but it was precisely because of this that his identity was exposed. How many people in Gaoliu County can smash Qin Xiong's arm bones and sternum with one hammer without using internal energy?"

Yu Zhen sneered.

Liu Bin glanced at Cao Yan, then quickly looked away, guessing:

"Could it be, Nian Jiu? But that doesn't make sense. Where did Nian Jiu learn how to use the White Ape Hammer?"

Cao Yan's face was gloomy, and he concluded: "Nian Jiu was born in Qianjun Cave, and he was a thief for many years. What's the big deal if he can imitate a few White Ape Hammers?"

"Could it be that Cao sent someone to kill Qin Xiong and cut off his own arm?"

"How dare Liu be so suspicious?"

Liu Bin expressed his indignation: "God damn this thief, how dare he commit such a crime! If he falls into the hands of this county lieutenant, I will skin him alive!"

Then he bowed and said goodbye, and went to the county government to report.

After Liu Bin left, the yard became quiet. Yu Zhen's eyes turned cold: "Qin Xiong's death was strange."

"It must be Nian Jiu who killed him. What's so strange about that?"

Cao Yan turned around indifferently and told Zhao He: "Qin Xiong has few relatives at home. The shop will help him with his funeral. Bury him as soon as possible and let him rest in peace!"

"Yes!"

Zhao He understood what was going on, and called a few guards to lift up the body and left in a hurry.

"The White Ape has lost his plan..." Yu Zhen's face twitched, feeling both heartbroken and angry:
"I will compensate you myself. I hope Brother Cao will not blame me."

Cao Yan only responded and looked into the distance with a cold look in his eyes:
"Han Chuijun is coming soon."

……

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"Horizontal training martial arts, also known as beating martial arts, is a martial art that uses breathing techniques combined with medicinal wine and oil to hit the whole body. And the more you hit, the harder it gets?

No wonder so few people practice this kind of martial arts..."

In the forging room, hammers were hitting iron, clanging, Li Yuan was multitasking, thinking about the Seven Star Horizontal Training, the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

Hit the whole body, from beating with a wooden stick to rubbing with iron sand. The intensity of the beating needs to be increased seven times before it is fully achieved!
How much does it hurt?
Iron sand is used to sharpen knives...

Just thinking about it, Li Yuan felt a little annoyed. Isn't this a form of self-mutilation?

"Have you heard? Guard Qin was beaten and killed by Nian Jiu last night. The shopkeeper was furious and increased the reward for Nian Jiu to five hundred taels of silver!"

"Five hundred taels! But no matter how much silver you have, it is not as important as your life. That Nian Jiu was too vicious. He even killed Commander Qiu..."

"Poor Guard Qin! He just died and his mistresses are already fighting and bleeding. Niu Gui's face is even scratched!"

Amid the clanging sounds of iron forging, the blacksmiths were also talking.

There is little entertainment in the outer city. If you want to listen to a song, you have to go to the inner city. There is no fun on weekdays, but if there is any big or small thing, it will spread quickly and become the topic of conversation among the public after dinner.

"Buried on the same day?"

Li Yuan caught the point.

Obviously, this was the intention of the head manager Cao Yan.

"Could it be that the people from the Divine Weapon Valley are coming?"

The hammer fell, sparks flew, and Li Yuan's heart calmed down.

Without the threat from Qin Xiong, he felt that his progress in forging skills had accelerated a lot. As for the people coming from the Divine Weapon Valley, they had nothing to do with him.

So what even if Qiu Long was killed by Cao Yan?

The execution of nine clans has nothing to do with him!
"Old Zhang didn't participate in this..."

Li Yuan let out a long sigh, calmed down, and started from selecting the ore, preparing to forge his first top-quality sharp blade.

"I can buy back the first top-grade sharp blade I made myself at half the price. Needless to say, what I'm going to use it for is the inner armor!"

Arriving at the warehouse, accompanied by Wang Hu, Li Yuan began to select ore, the first of which was the black silver ore.

"Black Silver Stone? Junior Brother Li, you are not going to fight for the inner armor, are you?"

Wang Hu was surprised.

The imperial court banned armor and crossbows but not inner armor. The biggest reason was that inner armor was far more complicated and difficult to make than head armor.

Over the decades in the weapon forging shop, there have been only a handful of blacksmiths who could forge inner armor. Now, Zhang Ben is the only one left. Due to his lack of energy, he needs the cooperation of others to forge the armor, and can only make two pieces a year at most.

"Isn't it too difficult to choose this right away? If it fails to be made, I will have to pay for half of the ore and iron materials..."

Wang Hu was a little worried.

"With my master watching, I must take the opportunity to fight the most difficult one. I won't get this treatment anymore!"

Li Yuan smiled.

If it weren't for this horizontal martial arts, he would have hesitated. Now, soft armor naturally takes priority.

If Tang Tong didn't have the soft armor to protect him, that knife attack would have not only injured his internal organs. If Qin Xiong didn't have horizontal training, he wouldn't be able to block his eighteen hammers.

Horizontal training with soft armor, in critical moments, there is no way to save your life.

It would be even better if we could create a soft armor with the blessing of "horizontal training talent".

(End of this chapter)