Rune Master

"Communication..." The shopkeeper shook his face, smiled kindly, narrowed his eyes slightly and rubbed his fingers, the meaning was self-evident.

That frightening little expression made Jing Chen want to stick the sole of his shoe to his face.

Ling Yi threw a Lingshi and said coldly, "Let's talk."

The shopkeeper grinned and rubbed his hands together, then pulled the waiter in the aisle, pointed at Asura, and said, "Pack a piece of today's recommended pastry for the little guest."

Jing Chen raised his brows slightly, but it's not necessarily a picky one.

But the shopkeeper's next words made him choked up, "Of course there is no summons. The guest left in a hurry, and even Xiaoer didn't know about it. He only found out when he went in to do routine cleaning."

Jing Chen, "Can the spirit rune stone be returned?"

The shopkeeper immediately raised his eyebrows, "Do you want to pay for the pastries in my shop?!"

Jing Chen, "..."

The waiter in the shop quickly came out with the packaged pastries, wrapped in lotus leaves and tied with hemp rope. They were boxy and looked quite attractive.

After putting the cakes on the counter, the shopkeeper took the account book at hand and looked through it. He lowered his head and did not intend to continue the conversation. "They are all open for business. Since the two of you are customers in my shop, I will send you a message."

"Go out and turn left. The one-eyed man at the end of the alley is an old man in a sea of ​​swords. If you want to ask anything, you can find him. The price is fair, and the most important thing is that you newbies will not be cheated."

Huo Zhixing was not found in the Famous Knife Inn, and there was no message left. Instead, he was tricked for a while. Jingchen was a little depressed, pushed aside the lotus leaf, picked up the pastry, tasted it, and said, "It tastes good. .”

But it's definitely not worth the runestones given just now, they're still cheated.

Ling Yi couldn't help laughing, the preoccupied Jing Chen had a special interest in his eyes, so he lifted the lotus leaf away and replaced it with the food Yu Liuqing gave before parting.

"Eat!" Asura, who had been lying on Jingchen's back, kicked his short legs, and threw most of his body over his shoulders into his arms, grabbing a few pieces of spiritual food pastries with tears in his eyes.

Jing Chen, "..." gritted his teeth, "I can only give you half!"

"Yeah."

Ling Yi silently turned his face away, watching the two scrambling for food, it was really interesting.

Oh, and forgive my little mischief.

The one-eyed squat at the end of the alley was not squatting, but sitting lazily on the mud floor, leaning against the wall of the knife shop behind him.

His cultivation is at the third rank of Xuan level, and his clothes are not decent, even a little tattered. If it weren't for the comfort on his face while basking in the sun, and the unsheathed knife in his arms, he might be no different from a beggar.

Sensing someone approaching, the one-eyed eyes moved slightly, and slowly opened the uninjured eye, while the other eyelid was covered with dark scars, as if it had been severely injured, and it really became one-eyed.

"What's the matter?" The man was young, only in his thirties, with thick and short stubble on his chin, and he was quite decadent.

"We're going into the sea of ​​swords." Ling Yi went straight in.

One Eye was not moved by it, and raised his eyelids, "I see you came out of the Famous Knife Inn. The shopkeeper there should have said that I only sell information."

"If I want to hire you, what is the price?" The information alone will always be incomplete, and experience is something that sometimes cannot be said. Ling Yi knows the reason.

"That's not cheap." One Eye changed his posture, still looking lazy, and suddenly glanced at Jing Chen next to him, licked his dry mouth, "Your pastry seems good?"

Jingchen choked, and Asura swallowed the unfinished glutinous rice cake in one gulp, and said angrily, "It's not that one person is half as good!"

"Yeah, yeah." It's half of one person.Asura's big eyes flickered, he finished mine, half of yours, that's right.

Ling Yi, who had a rare understanding of Asura's meaning, decided to ignore the two of them for the time being, and took out a small square cake wrapped in oiled paper from the storage ring, "If you don't mind..."

"I don't dislike it, I don't dislike it." One-eyed grabbed the square cake and devoured it hungrily. It seemed that he hadn't eaten for a long time after being hungry.

Both Jingchen and Asura were dumbfounded. If they want to become foodies, they have to work harder judging from this person's appearance.

"It's been a long time since I tasted such delicious spiritual food." One Eye wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, "Okay, I'll take this order, and the reward is this kind of spiritual food pastry. I want three yuan a day."

If he couldn't leave the range of Daohai for some reason, who would want to stay in this place where birds don't lay eggs.

You must know that the people who come here are all swordsmen or monks, and no one has the spare time to study food. In addition, the surrounding land is poor and there is a lack of ingredients. It is simply impossible to get some spiritual food.

One-eyed tightened the knife in his arms, really missing Shizhou, Wine, America and America.

Daohai occupies one-tenth of the area of ​​Daozhou, and it is also the most core territory.

As far as I can see right now, the sea of ​​swords cannot be called a sea in a clear sense, but a forest of swords composed of endless sword intentions.

It's just that there are no trees growing in this knife forest, but there are blocks of nameless knife stones.

Now that you have agreed, Cyclops will do it. Before entering the sea, there are still some preparations to be done, such as buying Xingmuxiang that can drive away the imbued frogs, and a compass needle that can predict the weather changes in the sea of ​​swords.

If these people who came to inquire about the news did not mention it, he would not take the initiative to inform.

So it was definitely prescient to say that Ling Yi wanted to hire Cyclops as soon as he opened his mouth, instead of simply buying and selling news.

"What are you doing in the sea of ​​knives? Looking for knives?" After leaving the town, Cyclopedia still looked lazy and took out a chestnut candy from nowhere and threw it into his mouth. knife."

There is a word called sympathy, and of course there is a sense of similar temperament between swordsmen and swordsmen.

But in Ling Yi, he couldn't see this.

Although the other party's cultivation base is extremely restrained, the aura exuded by ordinary actions cannot deceive people.

He had only experienced that kind of sharpness from top swordsmen.

As for Jing Chen, his one-eyed gaze swept across Asura again, but he couldn't see through.

Not far outside the town is the area of ​​Daohai. In order to prevent people from entering by mistake, boundary stones were erected around the area.

On the other side of the boundary stone, it looks the same at present.

The loose trees grow randomly, and the branches and leaves are not considered lush. There are a few nicks formed by cutting near the roots, and there is no other place to pay attention to.

"Also, are you sure you want to bring a little doll in?" When approaching the boundary stone, the one-eyed cynical expression restrained a lot, I don't know if it was because he was about to enter the sea of ​​swords.

"Yeah." Asura lay behind Jing Chen's back and ate a candy bar, which he got in Niuman Town back then. Hearing this, he pursed his lips unhappily, and looked at One Eye maliciously.

"Don't mess around." The two of them share the same mind, and Jing Chen knows what the brat is thinking without thinking, "Don't mess around after entering."

"Yeah." Asura's voice drooped, as if he had been hit, and he saw the dream poison in his hair sting.

Jing Chen flicked on the little jellyfish that looked like a hair ornament, "You too, if you are not calm, I will separate the two of you."

Unknown one-eyed, "..."

Ling Yi said in a timely manner, "I'm sorry, you just lead the way, and I will take good care of them."

One-eyed shook his head helplessly. Anyway, he was doing things with money, so he couldn't care about his employer's affairs.

Crossing the boundary stone is the boundary of Daohai.

Different from what he saw just now, after walking a few steps, Jing Chen really felt the difference in the atmosphere inside.

The weird feeling of being tense all the time is lingering, as if there are visions projected from all directions.

Actually there is none.

If someone is watching, they can't be unaware.

In addition, the trees around him seemed to have changed slightly at this moment.

The knife marks on the trunk seemed to be much deeper than those seen before, some were old wounds a long time ago, and some were brand new.

Just like it was engraved just now.

However, from entering the Sea of ​​Swords to the present, it can be confirmed that there is only one of them in this area.

So where did the new knife marks come from?It can never be generated out of thin air.

Seeing Jingchen's confusion, he said with one eye, "Look at the knife marks on it."

The scratch pointed out by One Eye was two fingers long, and the incision was not too new. The bark was split, and the yellowed part inside could be seen.

"What?" Jing Chen probed, and Asura tilted his head on his shoulder to watch the fun.

"Wait a minute."

While the one-eyed man was talking, the incision had already changed. It seemed that an unknown force was cutting the trunk, renewing the knife marks on it, and the yellowed opening was rolled out again, revealing the white inner core of the tree inside.

"Huh?" Jing Chen opened his eyes wide in surprise.

Asura was even more straightforward, reaching out to touch the newborn knife mark.

"Don't move." One Eye yelled, and then realized that he had overreacted, so he smiled embarrassedly, "Just don't touch this tree."

Jing Chen patted Asura's hand, then turned around and asked Cyclops, "Why is this tree playing with self-mutilation?"

One-eyed, "...it's the sword intent, the disordered sword intent in the sea of ​​swords."

He took out a bottle of ointment and handed it to the two of them, "This is the juice extracted from the root of the saber tree. You apply it under your eyes, once in the morning and at night." As he said, he also took a little bit of it and wiped it on.

They are just past the boundary stone, and it can be seen that the one-eyed state is relatively relaxed.

After the plaster was applied and he opened his eyes again, Jingchen found that there were blue lines in his vision.

No, to be precise, it is a disordered saber intent that runs in circular arcs, pointed at both ends, and slightly raised in the middle.

These cyan colors are especially attached to the knife tree. The knife tree they saw just now had a cut on the edge, and the knife mark was cut by this disordered knife intention.

Not only that, looking around, except for the other side of the boundary stone, the sky and the earth are filled with cyan saber intent.

Some are suspended, some swim back and forth, and some suddenly appear and then disappear.

"The outermost disordered sword intent is usually attached to the sword tree. As long as you pay attention not to get close to the sword tree, you will generally not touch it." One-eyed said, "If you encounter such a thing."

He pointed with his hand, and not far away was a saber intent that appeared out of thin air, "The speed is not fast, and it is enough to avoid it according to your cultivation."

"Of course it's okay if you touch it." One Eye touched Disorder's Saber Intent with his hand, and the palm was separated. Fortunately, the wound was not big, and the Saber Intent disappeared after injuring someone. "See, the power That's all."

Jingchen and Ling Yi nodded, and what Duoyan was explaining to them now was the way to survive in the sea of ​​swords.

"But don't worry about it too early." Cyclops said again, "This is only the outermost area, and the people who are supposed to come haven't come yet, I just let you get used to it in advance... By the way, now you can tell me the purpose of your coming here. "