Volume 1: This is a world that speaks with weapons Chapter 30: Speaking
The corpse was dressed in a brocade robe made of gorgeous brocade, animal skins and metal decorations. The main color was yellow and the color was dazzling. The brocade robe was decorated with colorful wavy patterns and flowing red. The waist was tied with a gold belt inlaid with gems. The lapels were inlaid with emerald green jades. The feet were wearing black high boots embellished with gold decorations, looking extremely noble and gorgeous.
"Is this... a Feiyu suit? Jinyiwei?" Qi Ji looked at what the corpse in front of him was wearing and immediately connected it to the "Jinyiwei", the imperial guards of the Guang Dynasty that he usually saw in TV dramas and museums.
He couldn't help but feel shocked. He had just heard the story of the Tujia genius swordsman fighting the Jinyiwei during the day, so how come he saw the Jinyiwei in the Tower of Transcendence that night?
Is it a coincidence or a necessity? What kind of existence is the Tower of Transcendence? What are its origins, mechanisms, and effects?
If he wanted to figure it out, perhaps even if Qi Ji spent his entire life climbing and breaking through to the next level, he might not have the chance to figure it out.
But those are all things that happened later. Right now, the most important thing for Qi Ji was to ensure his own survival. He had a very strong and certain premonition that he must not let his spirituality drop to 0, otherwise he would surely die.
After collecting his thoughts, Qi Ji continued to observe the scene.
The gorgeous and noble guard in brocade clothes was now lying quietly on the ground like a piece of rag. Deep and shallow wounds could be seen all over his body, and the most fatal one was a penetrating wound on his heart.
And on the ground not far from him, there was a knife. According to Qi Ji's shallow knowledge of history and TV dramas, this was the close combat weapon commonly used by the Jinyiwei of Guang Dynasty - the Embroidered Spring Knife.
After a pause, the light path gradually increased its flashing frequency, not allowing Qi Ji to stay for too long. He quickly glanced around and stepped over the body of the Jinyiwei, pulled out the Embroidered Spring Sword beside him and continued to move forward.
As the standard weapon of the Jinyiwei, a secret service agency of the Guang Dynasty, the Xiuchun Knife in Qi Ji's hand is about one meter long. Minus the handle, the blade is only 70 centimeters long. The blade is narrow and slightly curved, and weighs about a little more than one pound. For Qi Ji, who has 85 points of transcendence, it is as light as a piece of paper.
This knife is quite different from the ring-handled straight knife he is used to, but having a weapon is always better than having no weapon.
With the weapon in hand, Qi Ji felt a little relieved. He raised his head and cast his gaze towards the tall tower not far away.
What will be on top of the tower?
A leader of the Imperial Guards? A master of the Imperial Palace?
Or a talented swordsman?
No matter what, according to the rules of the Tower of Transcendence, he must face it .
He didn't think too much, adjusted his mindset, and continued moving forward calmly.
He continued to move forward for several hundred meters while remaining vigilant. The dilapidated streets covered with blood showed him what happened to an ordinary village after being burned, killed and looted.
After stepping over dozens of corpses of villagers and Jinyiwei , Qi Ji arrived at the bottom of the wooden tower.
"The twenty-second..." Qi Ji counted silently. At the bottom of the wooden tower, next to the wooden stairs, he saw the body of the twenty-second Jinyiwei, who was lying face down on the ground. An obvious sword mark could be seen on the back corresponding to the heart.
Qi Ji didn't know why, but he was a little concerned about the number of Jinyiwei who died. He silently recorded the bodies of Jinyiwei he saw. From the village to the bottom of the tower, he could see a body of Jinyiwei every twenty meters or so. Moreover, the further back the bodies of Jinyiwei were, the fewer wounds there were on their bodies, until the one at the bottom of the tower, who only had a fatal sword wound on the back.
He seemed to see a swordsman who didn't like fighting and had unfamiliar moves, but drew his sword with hatred. In the process of killing the Jinyiwei one after another, his swordsmanship became more and more mature and refined, and finally he killed with every move.
"The death of his fellow villager inspired the swordsman to draw his sword in anger. In an instant, the sword energy surged into the sky, unstoppable. He killed 23 Jinyiwei masters in a row, and finally died of exhaustion in a fatal fight with the leader 'Wolf'."
The story that Zhang Zizai told during the day came to Qi Ji's mind. Qi Ji shook his head and took a deep breath.
Then he saw that next to the body of the 22nd Jinyiwei was a long Miao Dao. His eyes lit up and he immediately replaced the Xiuchun Dao in his hand with it.
This weapon is obviously more suitable for Qi Ji. The blade is nearly 1.3 meters long and the cutting edge is about one meter long. It is longer and heavier than the straight sword used by Qi Ji in reality, but it is more in line with Qi Ji's current physical fitness.
He walked lightly up the stairs of the wooden tower.
The stairs seemed to be in disrepair for a long time, and they creaked as Qi Ji climbed up, as if they would crack and collapse at any moment.
As the stairs wound up around the wooden tower, after circling several times, he arrived at the top of the tower.
The wind and snow suddenly became stronger.
In the flying snow as night was about to fall, the situation on the top of the tower caught Qi Ji's eyes. It was an open-air, huge, wooden platform. At this moment, there were three people on the platform, two of whom were lying on the ground. One was a Jinyiwei who fell not far in front of Qi Ji, and the other was a swordsman who fell at the feet of a standing person, holding a long sword and wearing a coarse cotton coat.
"Twenty-three..." Qi Ji saw the body of the last Jinyiwei and his pupils shrank slightly. The number actually matched.
There were twenty-three dead Jinyi Guards and one dead hemp-robed swordsman.
Then, the remaining living person... Qi Ji raised his head and met the other person's eyes.
This living person was different from the Jinyiwei seen before. He was about the same height as Qi Ji, with a rough look, a small tuft of short beard on his chin, a wide-brimmed iron hat on his head, and a simple black tights with a white collar, decorated with golden patterns of fish and dragons. He had a breastplate on his chest, and he exuded a terrifying aura just by standing there.
His expression was indifferent, with a scornful smile on his lips, and his eyes were cold and full of murderous intent , as if he regarded all life as pigs and dogs.
"Wait, what do these people look like!" Qi Ji realized at this moment that something was wrong. Since he entered the Tower of Transcendence, whether it was the Sakura Rurouni on the first floor or the giant swordsman on the second floor, their faces were all shrouded in a layer of mist, with only their eyes exposed. Now in this new floor, he can actually see everyone's face clearly.
No wonder he felt so uncomfortable on this level. After having the appearance, those corpses felt like reality to him. These scenes that he could only see on TV in reality, how could they not shock him as a person living in peacetime!
Before he could think about it carefully, what happened next made Qi Ji stunned on the spot.
But the black-robed swordsman saw him coming, tilted his head and opened his mouth.
"Another one?"
A shocked expression appeared on Qi Ji's face.
