Volume 2: Buddha's Hand Saves All Living Things, Subdues Demons and Attains Bodhi Chapter 89 Shangguan Xianer
"Ye Kai, hurry up."
The days are short in autumn. With the crows of a few roosters, Ding Linglin came out from the corner on the ancient road outside Peacock Villa, leading a big horse.
But when she looked back, she immediately laughed so hard that she almost cried.
But a few feet away, Ye Kai was struggling with a stubborn donkey with mottled fur, but he couldn't pull it no matter what. The donkey kept making "hmm ah" sounds and grinning, as if it was laughing.
Helpless, Ye Kai could only smile bitterly, untie the reins, take the bag, and release it.
"I bought it with my silver." Ding Linglin was anxious when she saw this. She quickly let go of the horse and turned to chase the donkey. But after running a few steps, she heard laughter behind her. She turned her head and saw Ye Kai had climbed onto the horse's back. "Ah, you dare to steal my horse."
He immediately used his lightness skills to jump onto the horse's back, but unexpectedly Ye Kai took advantage of the situation and held him in his arms.
Ding Linglin blushed, looked around, and whispered, "You are not ashamed in broad daylight."
Ye Kai could not laugh, because now the Demon Cult was about to march eastward and a catastrophe was about to occur. Who knew how many more disasters would happen in the world. Even though he was the successor of "Little Li Flying Dagger", facing such a powerful situation, he could not help but feel powerless.
He even regretted being a hero and a knight. If he was just an unknown person, he could just keep to himself, but who told him that he was the descendant of "Xiao Li Flying Dagger".
This title is really tiring.
Ding Linglin seemed to have sensed her lover's thoughts, and she calmed down. She said with concern: "When we meet Fu Hongxue, together with my brother, Guo Ding and others, we will surely be able to form a force and do more."
Ye Kai nodded and was about to ride his horse to Peacock Villa, but unexpectedly something unexpected happened and a black carriage suddenly passed by behind him.
The carriage was moving very fast. The coachman holding the reins was a big man wearing a long hemp gown. He had a rough face and eyes like an eagle. His weathered face was covered with scars. His arms were especially covered with bulging veins and no hair was visible.
Ye Kai took only one look and was secretly shocked. He had already recognized that this man seemed to be Gongsun Tu, the "Immortal Eagle" who was feared throughout the desert.
Just as the carriage was moving away, the two men saw a woman in purple fainted behind the shaking curtain of the carriage.
Ye Kai and Ding Linglin looked at each other and smiled. Then Ye Kai lightly pressed the horse's back and he was already floating in the air. He paddled with his feet and actually stepped on the falling leaves. He tapped his feet to gain leverage and his body floated in the air like a feather. In a blink of an eye, he floated several feet away and chased after the carriage.
After just two breaths, Ye Kaifu turned back and threw the person in his hand to Ding Linglin.
Ding Linglin took the woman and looked at her, but she exclaimed, but she saw that there were several cross-shaped knife scars on the bright face of this person, but Ye Kai's expression suddenly changed: "Do you think she looks like someone?"
Ding Linglin took a closer look and suddenly glared: "Shangguan Xiaoxian!"
That’s right, this woman’s eyebrows and eyes are somewhat similar to Shangguan Xiaoxian.
Suddenly, the woman opened her eyes.
Compared to Shangguan Xiaoxian's domineering attitude, this person was very weak. His eyelashes trembled, tears welled up in his eyes, and he asked in panic, "Who are you?"
Ding Linglin did not answer but asked: "Who are you?"
Unexpectedly, the woman's words startled the two of them: "My name is Shangguan Xian'er."
Ding Linglin asked anxiously: "What is your relationship with Shangguan Xiaoxian?"
The woman hesitated for a moment and whispered, "She is my half-sister."
"Why did that man arrest you?" Ye Kai asked again.
Shangguan Xian'er bit her red lips tightly, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "My father left me something... Peacock Feather."
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"Is this the Peacock Feather?"
In the inn, Li Muchan sat in front of the window all night, with a lamp next to him that was about to go out and was almost out of oil.
Facing the rising sun, he held something in his hand. It was an artifact, and also a unique wonder in the world. Its shape was extremely beautiful, and the whole body was shining with breathtaking golden light. It was like a peacock with its feathers folded, or like a cylinder, and it was lifelike.
But this seemingly beautiful and moving work of art is actually the most terrifying weapon in the world.
Unfortunately, it turned out to be a fake and an unfinished defective product.
Li Muchan played with this thing, his eyes sweeping over the finely carved feathers. At the end of the feathers were countless densely packed holes, hiding murderous intent.
Even if it is fake, this hidden weapon is enough to take the lives of twenty or thirty heroes in an instant.
On the couch behind him, the Goddess of Bliss was yawning slightly sleepily. She was lying on her side, revealing her exquisite body, with the sleeping Ye'er in her arms.
She looked at Li Muchan's back and sighed, feeling angry and ashamed, and gritted her teeth again and again.
Not only Li Muchan, but also Peacock who was also sitting by the window, this stinky blacksmith, these two stinky men actually spent the whole night pondering over such a cold and fake thing. They sat there for the whole night without even feeling sleepy, and they didn't even look at her.
Just as he finished speaking, Li Muchan's hands moved rapidly. His ten pale and slender fingers leaped like flying, and each one seemed to have its own consciousness. As the shadows of the fingers passed by, the "Peacock Feather" in his hand immediately disintegrated. It did not break into pieces, but scattered into countless large and small parts and mechanisms of various shapes, which were placed one by one on the table.
Peacock's breathing suddenly stopped, his eyes widened, but his pupils slowly shrank as he stared at the mechanisms being disassembled one by one.
But his breathing suddenly became rapid again, and his eyes brightened.
Over the course of one night, he only demonstrated the disassembly technique once in front of Li Muchan and explained the ingenuity of the mechanism. This man then sat staring at the "Peacock Feather" all night, and now he has reproduced the disassembly technique exactly.
Moreover, he also discovered that the ghost young master's cognition was extremely complicated, almost to a terrifying degree. As for the mechanisms and hidden weapons, he only gave a slight mention, and Li Muchan was able to understand them instantly, and could even express some unique insights. His mind was wild and imaginative, and it was really hard to understand.
"Sir, have you been thinking about the dismantling techniques all night?" Peacock asked.
Li Muchan stretched out his ten fingers and finally yawned: "Yes, I have tried it many , but thinking and doing are two different things. Fortunately, I was lucky and succeeded in one try."
The peacock looks a little weak and delicate, with fair cheeks and shallow eyebrows.
He said, "This is not luck. To dismantle this thing, in addition to flexible hands, you also need an extraordinary mind, and the two must achieve an unimaginable coordination. I think you are very proficient in hand skills, right?"
Li Muchan started to move again. He reassembled the mechanical parts one by one, connecting and locking them together in an orderly manner. He smiled gently and said, "I used to hang around in the market, working as a blacksmith and an embroiderer."
After hearing these words, not only the peacock, but even the Goddess of Bliss was stunned and surprised.
Now, this "ghost prince" who spends money like water and has great power actually has his downfalls, and he still talks about it so calmly.
The lights are out.
It's daybreak.
With a "click", the "Peacock Feather" in Li Muchan's hand returned to its original shape.
Li Muchan asked curiously, "Can you make a real one?"
Peacock frowned, thought about it seriously, and then shook his head: "It's as difficult as ascending to heaven. The blueprint is just the shape of the peacock feather. If you want to cast a real peacock feather, it is said that you need to collect 29 kinds of gold and iron with different properties and various auxiliary items. These things are all very rare treasures in the world. Some are worth a fortune, and some are even rarer and can only be found by chance."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly closed his eyes, as if waiting for death.
Li Muchan was stunned: "What are you doing?"
Peacock said calmly: "I am worthless now, and I don't want to fall into the hands of the 'Devil Cult' and the 'Blue Dragon Society'. Just kill me."
Li Muchan placed the fake peacock feather on the table, glanced at the rising sun in the distant sky, and said softly, "What if I can find those things?"
Peacock opened his eyes again, with a look of fatigue in his eyes. "Back then, not only did the famous craftsmen in the manor recast this object, but even the Tang Sect got involved. The 'world's best craftsman' at that time was Master Xu from the Tang Sect. Her skills in embroidery and making hidden weapons were unparalleled in the world, but she spent six years and her hair turned white, but she still couldn't make this object reappear."
Li Muchan just smiled slightly, his pale cheeks dyed golden by the morning light. He said, "Then why did you make these fake peacock feathers?"
Kong Que still said slowly: "My Kong family has received great kindness from Kong Que Villa. Seeing that the former master is in danger, how can we remain indifferent? Although these things are fake, their lethality is far beyond many famous hidden weapons in the world. I used them to kill several unscrupulous bandits. I thought that they would make those villains retreat, but I didn't expect that the opposite was true and attracted powerful enemies."
The man became more and more anxious as he spoke, and after he finished speaking, he realized that he had done something wrong, so he tilted his head and was about to bang his head against the wall and die on the spot.
"I said, can you please not rush to seek death?" Li Muchan felt a headache. After he stabilized Kong Que, he said, "Just because others can't find it doesn't mean I can't find it."
Peacock sneered: "You are too conceited."
Li Muchan retorted, "Your vision is too narrow, and your knowledge is too shallow... If there is nothing in the Central Plains, I will go to the Western Regions, to the Peacock Kingdom, or even cross the ocean to the Kingdom of the Arabs or England, and I will always find it."
When Peacock heard someone dare to say that he had a narrow vision, his face immediately turned red and he wanted to refute, but he couldn't say a word after opening his mouth for a long time. He could only stare with his eyes wide open and frowned, "What is England?"
Li Muchan fell silent. He rubbed his brows and said, "Don't die yet. Don't worry, I won't kill you... Have you ever thought about recreating this rare treasure that has dominated the martial arts world for hundreds of years?"
Seeing that Li Muchan was extremely serious, Peacock hesitated for a moment, and then there seemed to be a lot more light in his eyes.
"Deputy leader!"
Suddenly, a voice was heard outside the door.
Li Muchan asked: "Who?"
The person outside the door replied, "My name is Gongsun Tu."
"The person has been brought back?" Li Muchan stood up and pushed the door open, only to see Gongsun Tu suddenly kneeling on one knee outside. He immediately raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's going on?"
Gongsun Tu said hoarsely: "The person is missing."
Li Muchan groaned and smiled faintly, "It's lost, so what? The peacock feathers in the martial arts world are probably all fake anyway, and that person is just playing tricks. By the way, what's that person's name?"
However, Gongsun Tu's words made the smile on Li Muchan's face gradually fade.
"Deputy leader, the peacock feather in this person's hand is very likely real, because her name is Shangguan Xian'er!"
But Li Muchan's smile soon returned to his face: "Isn't Du Lei with you?"
Gongsun Tu said: "He went to find someone to duel with."
Li Muchan: “…”
