Nishimura Mina smiled, then took out a red token from the space ring and handed it to Li Guanqi.
"Um?"
Li Guanqi took the token and found that the round token was engraved with a flame pattern.
There is also a "ghost"-like pattern on the flame pattern - the Sakura Shogunate generally uses this image to refer to cursed spirits.
Burning curse spirits?
Well, it has the characteristics of "Fenling Mountain".
"Fenling Mountain pays attention to fate."
Nishimura Mina took out two more Spirit-Burning Tokens from the space ring, handed one to Guan Ting, and then looked at Li Guanqi, "Although they recruit disciples, they also have to look at their qualifications, but before the 'qualification check' step,
They have to see if they have a chance first.
The so-called fate is this token.
Only by holding this token can you enter the 'qualification check' link.
Every 30 years, Fenling Mountain will be opened to welcome new ones.
And every time they receive new ones, they will re-issue these soul-burning tokens all over the shogunate, placing them randomly, either in caves, in the soil, or at the bottom of lakes.
Thirty years is enough time for some people to pick it up by chance..."
"Sorry, let me interrupt."
When Nishimura Mina mentioned this, Li Guanqi couldn't help but say: "But isn't this very inefficient? The person who picks up the token is not necessarily a different-blood warrior, and the possibility of being a magician is even lower.
, in this case, it would be useless for ordinary people to pick up the token."
"Efficiency is inherently low."
Mina Nishimura shrugged, "Feng Lingshan's creation of a new mountain is actually just a joke. Once you recruit disciples, you will be there, and if you don't, forget about it.
In fact, they have no shortage of new disciples at all.
Because at the foot of Fenling Mountain is the family gathering area of the old disciples of Fenling Mountain, it has already formed a city in less than a hundred years, and their main source of newcomers is from there, all of them are from their own family."
"oh……"
Li Guanqi suddenly realized.
It turns out that Fenlingshan is a family business.
Doesn’t Teru Fujii have cerebral palsy?
This operating model has too many drawbacks.
I have not had children for so many years, but all my disciples have spread out. The entire Fenling Mountain members are all family members, so who would recognize him as the founder and teacher of the "Fenling Style" weapon refining method?
father?
The boss has no children, and all the employees in the company are the family members of each manager.
It seems that those who are engaged in technology are not necessarily suitable for management...
"Shall I continue?"
Nishimura Mina glanced at Li Guanqi.
"Please continue."
Li Guanqi nodded.
"Where did I just talk about...oh, issuing tokens."
Mina Nishimura continued: "Feng Ling Shan will randomly place tokens around the shogunate for those who are destined to pick them up.
Then in the 29th year, this token will glow, showing the pattern of the burning curse spirit that you see now... This token originally had no pattern, just pure red. It was only this year that it officially showed the pattern.
Moreover, writing will appear on its back, indicating that it is the token of Fenling Mountain. If you take the token to the designated location, you can participate in the mountain entry test.
At first, this was indeed interesting.
But in the past hundred years, this 'fate' has changed somewhat.
Because everyone has discovered that there is actually no need to talk about karma.
I have no luck, I have money.
I didn’t pick up the Burning Spirit Token, but I bought the token from another person who was destined to do so. Then wouldn’t I be destined?
In fact..."
Nishimura Mina shook the Burning Soul Token in her hand and chuckled: "The three tokens we have now were bought by me. It cost a total of 2.8 million. The price of this thing is really high now."
The more it gets speculated, the higher it gets.”
"Ha, Yuan Na, Yuan."
Li Guanqi looked at the token in his hand and couldn't help shaking his head and laughing.
He suddenly remembered a plot from the real world.
——Master, how much does this cost?
——I, the Buddha, don’t talk about money, but about fate, eighteen thousand yuan (destiny).
However, although there are still believers in gods in the strange world, they are actually no longer the gods that Li Guanqi is familiar with. There is no Buddha, and they use gold coins, and there is no term for "yuan".
If Li Guanqi's jokes were told, the two people next to him wouldn't laugh and would think he was strange.
Only now did he feel like he was alone in a foreign land...
"Let's go?"
Nishimura Mina stood up and looked at Li Guanqi and Guan Ting with a smile, "Since we have to wait for Mr. Jincheng's senior sister to come, let's relax before she arrives. This is my family's territory. As the host, I will take you to experience it.
What are the customs and customs of this place?"
"Okay."
Li Guanqi nodded lightly.
…
…
The next day, early morning.
A woman dressed in red slowly walked into the lobby of Nishimura's house under the guidance of Nishimura's servant.
"Long time no see, senior sister."
Li Guanqi stood in front of Nishimura Mina and Guan Ting, looked at the oncoming Wang Yanqing, grinned, and smiled brightly...
"Ouch!"
Unexpectedly, Wang Yanqing came over angrily and gave him a shudder on the head, "You brat, what a stupid brain you have, you didn't even think of positioning ring until now?!"
"I'm so busy that I can't remember anything at all."
Li Guanqi held his head and looked innocent.
"What have you been busy with these past two months?"
Wang Yanqing crossed her arms across her chest and looked at him in surprise. Then she glanced at Nishimura Mina and Guan Ting behind him, and her eyes particularly lingered on Nishimura Mina's purple-blue mechanical left leg.
"Busy looking for that sheep-headed man?"
Wang Yanqing asked curiously.
"No."
Li Guanqi shook his head.
The sheep-headed master who studied ancient studies is no longer among his primary goals. He still needs to find him. After all, it is a task, but there is no need to be so anxious.
"Then what are you busy with?"
Wang Yanqing became more and more curious.
"Um……"
Li Guanqi looked at the Nishimura servants around him, then looked at her and chuckled: "We haven't seen each other for two months. We still have a lot of things to talk to each other about. Find a place with a better scenery and talk slowly?"
"uh-huh."
Wang Yanqing shrugged, noncommittal.
…
…
"The nobles of Southern Xinjiang are all damn rubbish. That teleportation field is so deceptive."
Xicun Mountain, on the top of the mountain and on the edge of the cliff.
Wang Yanqing sat next to Li Guanqi, her slender legs swinging in the air, her face full of depression, "When I saw your severed arm, I was almost scared to death."
Li Guanqi couldn't help laughing when he heard this.
"Um……"
Then, he pondered and asked first: "Senior sister, what have you been doing these two months?"
"Looking for you."
Wang Yanqing turned to look at him and blinked, "I don't have any experiences worth mentioning. I just walked around the Sakura Shogunate and inquired all the way. Occasionally I heard about some local intelligence dealers, so I went over and asked them to help find you...
Well, but the first time I got news about you was your reward."
"A reward for killing Kuroba Shinichi?"
Li Guanqi smiled softly.
"So that's really you."
Wang Yanqing looked strange, "You can kill Liuhe level warriors? Even if he does not use the law of space at a specific time, his physical strength is not comparable to that of the Five Elements level. How did you kill him?"
"I said so."
Li Guanqi smiled proudly, "Your little junior brother always makes everything impossible become a reality."
"Smelly boy..."
Wang Yanqing shook her head helplessly.
But for some reason, there was a bit more... loss in her eyes?
"Then now that you can kill Liuhe-level warriors of different blood, wouldn't it mean that Senior Sister can no longer be your bodyguard?"
This female martial artist at the peak of the Five Elements level said in a low voice, "I have long thought of such a day, but I never thought it would happen so soon."
"You were never a bodyguard."
Li Guanqi looked at Wang Yanqing seriously, "You are my senior sister. I am an only child and have never had a sister. It is you who make me feel like I am being taken care of by my sister. You are not a bodyguard, you are my sister."
"I guess you can talk, kid."
When Wang Yanqing heard these words, the corner of his mouth suddenly rose.
"Senior sister, do you want to hear about my experience in the past two months?"
Li Guanqi smiled.
"certainly."
Wang Yanqing's face was full of curiosity.
"You must not have imagined it."
Li Guanqi smiled softly and said: "After I made a teleportation error, I fell into an unknown valley, and in that valley, I met your ancestors."
"Eh?"
Wang Yanqing was stunned.
"Wang Xiu."
Li Guanqi smiled and said, "Do you still remember this name?"
"Grandpa Wang Xiutai?!"
Wang Yanqing was stunned.
"Where is he now?"
After a while, Wang Yanqing calmed down a little and couldn't help but smile: "He hasn't returned to the Wang family for a long time. I haven't seen him since I was 12 years old. I was very close to him when I was a child!"
"He...he's going to die."
Li Guanqi hesitated for a moment and finally said.
"Um?!"
As soon as these words came out, Wang Yanqing's expression suddenly changed drastically, "How is that possible?!"
"The foundation of his soul has been destroyed."
Li Guanqi sighed helplessly, "At that time, he encountered an eighth-level curse spirit. Although he jumped over the level and killed him, the foundation of his soul was also completely destroyed by the eighth-level curse spirit's dying counterattack. Fortunately, he found one nearby.
The Place of Soul Destruction uses the environment of that valley to slow down the speed of soul collapse.
But even so, he can only live for ten years at most...or should I say, seven or eight years? Or even shorter is possible."
"Eighth-level curse spirit?!"
Wang Yanqing's face was full of bewilderment, "How is this possible?! This is within the borders of the Sakura Shogunate! Although the Sakura Shogunate is not as good as Daluo, there are also Jiugong-level powerhouses sitting there. How could they allow the existence of eighth-level cursed spirits within the borders?
?!This is simply impossible!”
"But it just showed up."
Li Guanqi looked calm, "There are always exceptions in the world. No matter where the eighth-level curse spirit comes from, it is here."
"..."
Wang Yanqing clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, "Where is Grandpa Wang Xiutai now? I want to see him!"
"But he doesn't want that."
Li Guanqi turned his head and looked at the rolling clouds in the distance, as if he saw the burly old man in the unknown valley through thousands of miles away. "Master said that in his life, after his parents passed away, he walked alone.
He didn't want to be seen by anyone, so he wanted to just... walk quietly by himself."
"Grandpa Wang Xiutai..."
Hearing this, Wang Yanqing sighed deeply.
"So, are you going?"
Li Guanqi hesitated.
"Not going."
Wang Yanqing shook his head, "Since this is his wish, I have no reason to violate it, and the most important thing is that Grandpa Wang Xiutai is different from others. Every word he says is the true thought in his heart.
He never concealed his temper, did not like to tell sarcastic words, and never meant what he said. When he said he wanted to go alone, he just wanted to go alone, and he definitely did not want me, a junior, to see his weak appearance before his death."
"Yeah, that's right."
Seeing this, Li Guanqi said nothing more.
"etc……"
A few seconds later, Wang Yanqing looked at Li Guanqi in surprise, "What did you call Grandpa Wang Xiutai just now? Master?!"
"Um."
Li Guanqi nodded lightly, "I became my disciple. He taught me the wind and thunder sword. In ten years, I will go to the top of Xiaoshan in the shogunate to attend a sword engagement for him, using the wind and thunder sword."
I want to engage in a sword fight with a female samurai from the Sakura Shogunate."
"Is it Sister Takeda?"
Wang Yanqing asked curiously.
"Forehead……"
Li Guanqi looked strange, "Sister? If the Takeda you are talking about is Takeda Kosai, then it is indeed true, but why do you call her...sister?"
"That's what she asked for."
A flash of reminiscence flashed across Wang Yanqing's eyes, seeming to recall some past events, "When I was 9 years old, Takeda Kosai came to see Grandpa Wang Shuta. I called her grandma, and then she pointed at her gorgeous face that overwhelmed the capital.
She had a pretty face and asked me how I dared to call her grandma, and then she spanked me several times until I changed my name to her sister."
"oh?"
Li Guanqi looked at Wang Yanqing with great interest, "She is so beautiful in the capital, is Takeda Yukisai so beautiful?"
"certainly."
Wang Yanqing nodded, "She grew up in the capital like Grandpa Wang Xiu. Takeda Yukisai was the dream goddess of almost all the talented people in the capital of that generation. It is said that even a prince of the same age fell in love with her.
When I was little, I would run behind her all day long."
"But my master is not bad either."
Li Guanqi couldn't help but laugh.
"Of course."
Wang Yanqing also smiled, "To be honest, Grandpa Wang Xiutai is more powerful than Sister Takeda. Sister Takeda just made Prince Da Luo fall in love with her, but Grandpa Wang Xiutai directly asked Queen Tulip to give birth to a baby for him."
"These two people..."
Li Guanqi looked into the distance, looking at the scorching sun, and said softly: "No, senior sister, what you said is completely wrong. You said that Master Wang Xiu would never be duplicitous, but... at least, at least in the matter of Takeda Yukisai,
He lied, and I always felt that his relationship with Takeda was more than a simple friendship and sword fight."
"There's no need to 'feel', Takeda Kosai already likes him."
Wang Yanqing blinked and said calmly: "And I like it very much. I have liked it since I was a child. The relationship between the two childhood sweethearts is known throughout the capital. Grandpa Wang Xiutai was raped by the Prince of Da Luo and the Eight Kingdoms surname because of this incident when he was a child.
The children teamed up and beat her up many times."
"ah?"
Li Guanqi was stunned, "Well, then he and Takeda Kosai..."
"Grandpa Wang Xiutai is not worthy of Sister Takeda's love."
Wang Yanqing shook her head gently and said helplessly: "Sister Takeda has never married or fallen in love, but Grandpa Wang Xiutai is famous in the capital for his romantic nature.
A large part of the reason why he left Daluo Dynasty back then was because he hooked up with an imperial concubine. This incident was so big that he had to flee Daluo... And to be honest, he changed women just like changing women.
Clothes, not a good man at all."
"But he has never put on Takeda Kosai's beautiful clothes, which are the most stunning in the capital. Never."
Li Guanqi chuckled.
"..."
Wang Yanqing was startled, then looked thoughtful, "Yes, maybe Takeda Kosai, the female Sakura warrior, is indeed different in Grandpa Wang Xiu's heart."
"I still have a sword date with her."
Li Guanqi smiled slightly, "Perhaps, by then, I will be able to hear more stories about her and Master."
"Ten years."
Wang Yanqing raised her brows slightly, "It's not too long to say it's long, it's not too short to say it's short."
"yes."
Li Guanqi nodded lightly, "The sword agreement after ten years will be too long. Now, we have to talk about the current matter first."
"Um?"
Wang Yanqing was a little confused, "What's going on now?"
"Sister, I'm going to steal an artifact."
Li Guanqi looked at her and said seriously: "And I need your help."
"Artifact?!"
Wang Yanqing was immediately stunned.
"Things are a bit complicated. Let me start from the beginning..."
Li Guanqi spent a while and told Wang Yanqing from beginning to end about the artifact of Fenling Mountain and the forbidden object, the Dual-Phase Mirror.
"Stealing is not what a gentleman does."
Wang Yanqing tilted his head, thought for a while, and said: "However, the original owner of the thing has died long ago and was murdered by his apprentice. His artifact was also occupied by these white-eyed wolves. Faced with a group of rebellious people who killed their masters,
Stealing what they killed and robbed is not an act of justice, but it is not a despicable act either."
"..."
Li Guanqi was slightly silent beside him.
The treacherous person who killed his master...ahem...
"So how do you want me to help you?"
Wang Yanqing looked at Li Guanqi and said hesitantly: "Let me keep the bodies and souls of the three of you, and go to Mo Crow Island in advance to wait?"
"Is that okay?"
Li Guanqi asked.
"sure."
Wang Yanqing said without thinking: "I don't have anything to do. Since the Fenling Mountain artifact can save Nishimura Mina's father and Guan Ting's sister, then stealing the artifact can be considered a good deed... There is only one problem."
She looked at Li Guanqi seriously, "You have to be careful!"
"Yes."
Li Guanqi grinned, "Senior sister, I won't say thank you anymore. When this matter is over, I will accompany you to find that old friend named Miyagi Ryota."
"Speaking of this guy..."
Wang Yanqing frowned slightly, "He seems to have disappeared from the world. He promised to be an official in the shogunate, but I asked, and there is no such guy's name in the entire Sakura shogunate bureaucracy. I went to inquire about him.
It was discovered that in the third year after he returned to the shogunate, he resigned and disappeared, and there has been no news from him since."
"No matter."
Wang Yanqing waved his hand, "Take out the Fenling Mountain artifact first, and then we'll talk about that guy."
"Then let's go."
Li Guanqi stood up from the edge of the cliff, "Without further ado, let's go to the Xicun family's ancestral home. I really want to experience that forbidden object."
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