Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 129: There is Really a Beauty in the Book
In the second volume of Dagger Techniques, apart from the lack of a deeper application of the opening move, the four moves of Chongguan, Yuxi, Yangxiao and Henmie have undergone certain changes.
In addition, two alternative moves were added between Yang Xiao and Hen Mie - Dust and Cloud Moon.
Tang Zheng took out a dagger and tried it.
After Yang Xiao, whether it is catching the dust or catching the cloud and moon, different combat power can be exerted, and because these two moves do not require the use of the power of the double stars, they are placed in the second volume.
"No wonder I want to buy separate volumes of martial arts." Tang Zheng couldn't even imagine that if his set of dagger techniques was not in separate volumes, but all the moves were listed in order all at once, he would definitely get half the result with twice the effort in learning it.
After having a preliminary understanding of the second volume of Dagger Techniques, Tang Zheng turned it off and went to sleep.
Starting tomorrow, in addition to finding a way to get the Red Spider Golden Silk, he will also start practicing the second volume of the Dagger Technique!
He fell asleep holding the dagger...
In a trance, he seemed to see a pile of ruins.
"Dream...?" Tang Zheng said in a daze.
The desolate ruins were overgrown with weeds and there was no trace of human habitation.
But in a flash, those ruins seemed to be reversed by the power of time and space, and gradually recovered into the huge palace before it was abandoned.
Inside the high white wall built with huge stones, a delicate figure, dragging a snow-white dress, walked up the sunny path to the high throne, and then... suddenly a dagger stretched out from her hand!
"Starting posture..." Tang Zheng called out subconsciously in his confusion.
bite!
The man on the throne, whose face could not be seen clearly, drew his sword and tried his best to block.
Apart from the two of them, there wasn't even a single guard around...
The veil on the face of the pretty woman in the long dress was lifted by the sword energy, revealing a stunningly beautiful face.
However, the dagger in her hand was unambiguous. Just when the sword energy was about to strike, another rain stopped!
Tang Zheng had never thought that such a powerful dagger technique could be used in so many ways in the hands of a woman. Even from the perspective of a first-class assassin in his previous life, this woman could probably be considered a very strong assassin.
It’s a pity that the figure whose face could not be seen in the dream was even more powerful!
The two of them only exchanged two or three sets of dagger techniques, but the stunning woman was seriously injured and had no choice but to turn around and flee...
The king on the throne did not chase after him, but just let out a meaningful laugh.
A silent night.
The next morning, when Tang Zheng woke up, he could still remember every flow of star power and every detail of the battle when that stunning woman wielded the dagger!
"What a strange dream." Tang Zheng looked at the dagger in his hand again, and there was clearly no change. "There really is Yan Ruyu in the book!"
However, the demonstration in the dream was as if the woman and he had become one.
What he got was no longer the simple star power guidance like in the first volume, but it was like an excellent mentor entered his body and directly called upon his body and his star power to fight a battle.
That kind of intuitive understanding is probably something that cannot be achieved by simply copying martial arts!
"As for the use of Dust and Cloud Moon, her demonstration was a bit too fast." After practicing it himself, Tang Zheng had mastered 70% to 80%.
You know, it used to take him at least ten days or half a month to practice a new move to 70% or 80% proficiency.
But a dream actually saved him more than ten days!
And the dream is not over yet...
Tang Zheng had very similar dreams for several days in a row. The unknown and stunning woman broke into his dreams and demonstrated the dagger techniques over and over again.
But, it only ends in the second volume.
Although Tang Zheng did not open the third volume, what the woman in the dream demonstrated did not go beyond the contents of the second volume.
A set of martial arts, seven moves, appearing over and over again.
Apart from dreaming about beautiful women all night long, which left Tang Zheng with dark circles under his eyes every day, his star power and martial arts were all progressing smoothly.
He has already mastered most of the seven moves in the second volume of Dagger Techniques and has figured out the basic principles. The next step is to keep practicing!
In the morning, the sun is still bright.
After Tang Zheng had finished his breakfast and went to the martial arts training ground, he saw that the two stars on the Blood Sea Corpse King constellation behind Azhi had become brighter.
"Two-star mid-level?" Tang Zheng smiled, "Not bad!"
"Hmph." Ah Zhi turned his face away, but there was an indescribable sense of pride on his little face.
He is only twelve years old this year!
The younger you are, the less stable your star veins are, and of course the more difficult it is to practice.
It is difficult to find a few twelve-year-old two-star intermediate warriors like him throughout the entire continent.
However, when he was waiting for Tang Zheng to praise him a few more times, Tang Zheng just smiled and walked away, leaving behind eight words: "Be cautious and keep working hard."
Ah Zhi stamped his feet in anger.
Before he could go up and scratch Tang Zheng, Tang Xiaotang came running over: "Master, Madam Zhao, whom you asked me to send for, has arrived!"
"Okay, okay, that's great!" Tang Zheng hurriedly trotted towards the reception room.
…
Madam Zhao, of course, is Zhao Shanhe’s wife, the beautiful lady from the Yaoshan tribe whom Tang Zheng knew when he bought the medullary elixir at Jubao Pavilion.
Although she has taken off her flower crown and married, one can still tell from her face how charming she must have been when she was a flower crown girl in the Yaoshan tribe.
Tang Zheng asked her to take a seat, and then he got straight to the point: "To be honest, I asked Madam to come here today because I have something to ask of you!"
Madam Zhao smiled politely: "I know. The head of the family said that Tangjiabao specially sent someone to invite you. It must be that they have encountered difficulties. Please tell me in detail..."
Tang Zheng nodded. Actually, there wasn’t much that needed to be “elaborate”.
It was simply that he needed the red spider golden silk from the Yaoshan tribe, and not just one or two strands.
The fan blade of his fan dagger had to be thin and easy to fold, but also able to block attacks from metal and stone, so Lu Huang designed it to be woven with red spider golden silkworm silk. At least fifteen silkworm cocoons were needed to be barely enough.
"Red spider golden silk?" Madam Zhao had not expected that Tang Zheng would bring up such a thing. "Red spider golden silk is a sacred object of our Yaoshan tribe. It is considered to be the two most precious things in the Yaoshan tribe."
"It is precisely because I know it is very rare that I wanted to ask Madam Zhao to think about whether there is any way..." Tang Zhengdao said.
"If I hadn't taken off the corolla ten years earlier, perhaps I could have tried to raise a nest of red spiders and golden silkworms, and maybe I could have produced red spiders and golden silkworms. But... red spiders and golden silkworms feed on the essence and blood of the corolla girl. I... I'm afraid there's nothing I can do now."
After some discussion, Tang Zheng finally understood what was said.
The Yaoshan tribe probably used crowns made of some exotic flowers to distinguish between married and unmarried women, and their crown-wearing girls, that is, girls who were still virgins, obviously had more abilities than married women.
However, even if Madam Zhao was still a girl with a flower crown, it would take at least two breeding seasons for her to raise red spider golden silkworms now, and Tang Zheng could not wait that long.
"You just said that the Yaoshan tribe has two most rare things. One is the red spider golden silk. What about the other one?" Tang Zheng was thinking about what Mrs. Zhao had just said and continued to ask.
"Another thing?" Mrs. Zhao smiled and shook her head. "That's not something you can get from raising spiders and silkworms..."
"So the other thing is even more scarce ?"
"Yes." Madam Zhao stretched out her fair and tender right hand. "If you can find a small piece the size of your palm and replace it with fine silk made from ten or twenty silk cocoons, there will be absolutely no problem."
"..." Tang Zheng looked at the palm of her hand and said, "Are you talking about some kind of broken stone?"
"Broken Chen Stone?" Madam Zhao was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Of course not, why would the Yaoshan tribe want to break the Chen Stone?"
"What on earth is so precious?"
"Pure gold!" Madam Zhao uttered these two words seriously, and then explained to Tang Zheng: "The purer the gold, the easier it is to shape. Almost every handicraft of the Yaoshan tribe requires pure gold, so it is never enough..."
“……” Tang Zheng was stunned for a moment.
"Don't get me wrong. Of course it won't work with something like Zijin Tongbao. Not only is it mixed with other materials of a fixed shape, but the purity of the purple gold used to cast it is not high enough."
Mrs. Zhao looked up at the sky and lowered her head after a while.
Seeing that Tang Zheng didn't say anything, she continued, "The purest purple gold is thousands of years old. The purple gold that fell in the starry sky in recent years is no longer of that purity. Therefore, many of the Yaoshan tribe's craftsmanship that relies on high-purity purple gold is gradually being lost..."
It is really sad that a craft has been lost.
Just like the loss of Bailianfang's secret engraving skills, it can be regarded as a huge loss to the entire human race.
Therefore, when talking about the lost craft, a shadow was cast in Mrs. Zhao's eyes.
Although she has married, her roots are still in the Yaoshan tribe - that art palace with beautiful mountains and rivers.
"How many Red Spider Golden Silkworm Silks can be exchanged for one ounce of pure gold?" Tang Zheng took a deep breath and asked Mrs. Zhao.
"One tael?" Madam Zhao raised her eyebrows slightly. "A half tael of high-purity purple gold would be this big..."
The fingers of her right hand tapped the palm of her left hand, roughly outlining its size.
Tang Zheng nodded: "How much can you get for the half ounce?"
"Red Spider Golden Silk is worth the same as pure gold, half an ounce for half an ounce..." Madam Zhao tilted her head, "Could it be that... the young master has..."
"Hmm." Tang Zheng took out half a piece of purple gold from his sleeve and placed it on the table. He raised his head and smiled, "Is this pure enough?"
"This... How is this possible..." As soon as Mrs. Zhao's hand touched the half piece of purple gold, she immediately retracted it, her pretty face filled with shock.
