Chapter Nineteenth: The Unparalleled Divine Soldier

  Finally sent away this owl, a worry gone, back to the troops what a good sleep.

  What is happiness? It turns out that happiness is a good sleep during a nap. A few steamed buns when hungry.

  "Monitor Yu, Monitor Yu..."

  "Who called me?" I irritably replied, "What's up?"

  "Yu Ban Zhang, Yu Ban Zhang, wake up, don't scare me." It was vaguely the voice of the class vice president.

  I forced myself to open my eyes and saw the deputy class leader standing at the door with a pale face. "Yu, Class Leader, can you put down your knife?"

  "A sword? What sword?" I thought to rub my eyes with my hand, but as soon as I stretched out my hand, I discovered that my right hand was actually holding that ancient sword, and it was even unsheathed. The blade had a faint purple-red color, and the chill emanating from it was oppressive.

  "I'm grass!" I shouted and threw away the ancient sword. Only then did I realize that I was actually standing up. Another look at my left hand, and I was completely dizzy. Oh no, why is my left hand still holding that feather duster?

  "Yu Banzhang, are you okay?" asked the class vice-president with concern.

  "What's going on?" I asked back.

  "I don't know, I just went to the bathroom and when I came back, I saw you standing by the bed, holding that thing in your left hand," he pointed at the duster. "And this knife in your right hand, you pressed it twice on the handle and pulled it out, I thought something was wrong so I woke you up, Yu Banzhang, are you sleepwalking?"

  "Uh-huh, uh-huh, maybe you're just tired lately, don't talk nonsense." I warned. Since he can't tell the difference between a knife and a sword, I'm too lazy to explain.

  "Yes, yes," replied Vice Squad Leader with a nod.

  I put the ancient sword back in its scabbard and tried pulling it out a few times. Damn, why can't I pull it out again?

  "Yu Ban Chang, you just pulled it out like this," said the vice-captain, pressing down on the eyes of the dragon-like creature on the hilt of the sword. With a "ding" sound, the ancient sword popped out, leaving me staring in amazement. "Was it really me who pulled it out?"

  "Yes, you even swung it around a few more times, really scary." Class Vice-President nodded.

  "You sleep, I'll go out for a walk," I said, putting on my clothes, pulling out the flour sack from under the bed, and throwing it at the still dazed Vice Class Leader, holding the feather duster. Gu Jian walked out of the dormitory.

  The morning breeze blew, and I was instantly wide awake. Oh no, oh no, I'm possessed! My first reaction was that I was possessed. I lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, letting the nicotine in the tobacco recklessly stimulate my lungs, making me slightly more alert. I pulled out the ancient sword again, carefully examining it. The sword was about three feet long and two fingers wide, with a slender shape. Its body was a deep purple-red color, with a faint red aura surrounding it. Near the hilt of the sword were two blurry ancient seals. I tried to identify them in the morning light, and as soon as I did, I sat down on the ground with a thud. Those two ancient seals actually read "Gan Jiang!!!"

  I've made a big mistake, this time I've really made a huge mistake. Is this a national treasure? This, stealing a national treasure is punishable by death! I sat on the ground in a daze, my mind filled with thoughts of being shot, until the cigarette burned my fingers and I came back to reality.

  "It might just be a coincidence, but in ancient China, there were so many swords and knives with the same name. In legend, Gan Jiang was the sword of swords, able to cut through iron like mud and sever hair with a mere blow. I'll give it a try." Thinking this, I picked up the ancient sword, closed my eyes, and swung it at a small pine tree next to me...

  "Haha, fake." I saw that the ancient sword only left a shallow mark on the small tree, and couldn't help but cheer up. To be honest, from the moment I first picked up this ancient sword, I had a kind of intimate feeling, a heartfelt love for it. If it were really the legendary treasure sword "Gan Jiang", I wouldn't dare to show it off to people.

  I put away the ancient sword and took out that square white jade box again. The box was about half a foot in size, with a pure white body all over. It didn't reflect any light, one side was engraved with the yin-yang symbol, and the other side was engraved with the five elements diagram. I held it in my hand and flipped it back and forth repeatedly, feeling more and more familiar as I looked at it. Suddenly, I stopped on the side with the five elements diagram carved on it. My left hand quickly pressed down on the fire, water, gold, earth, and wood patterns one by one, and with a "click" sound, the box popped open from the side with the five elements diagram.

  Goodness gracious! I was so startled that I threw the box far away. Unbelievably, I stared at my left hand, and those smooth and swift clicks were actually done by me?

  The ancient corpse in the stone coffin was already enough for me to bear, but today I not only pulled out the ancient sword in my sleepwalking, but also accidentally opened the white jade box. "It's over, I'm really possessed by a ghost." I anxiously spun around in circles, occasionally stomping my feet. The scene was probably similar to that of a donkey occasionally stopping to kick its legs.

  After turning around in circles, I slowly calmed down. For now, let's not worry about whether the ghost is on my body or not, and go take a look at what's inside the jade box instead. Thinking of this, I slowly approached the box that I had thrown far away earlier. The things I've seen and heard over the past few days have almost made me neurotic. I took step by step, getting closer, first using a branch to poke it gently. Luckily, it didn't explode. At that time, my nerves were already a bit oversensitive, and an absurd thought of explosion even popped into my head.

  I steeled myself and picked up the jade box, using two fingers to pour out what was inside. I saw a thick stack of leather strips neatly stacked together, similar in texture to the binding material of "The Art of Chess". Apart from that, there was only a white spherical object about the size of a longan fruit. I tapped it with a small stick, and it didn't sound like metal or stone. I stared at it for a while, then got up and started searching around.

  After searching for half a day, I finally found what I was looking for - a large ant.

  Damn, it was early in the morning, I reckon even ants hadn't gotten out of bed yet. After searching for half a day, I finally caught one that was out for an early stroll. I gently pinched the ant and placed it on that neat pile of skin. I crouched down to observe the ant's reaction. Luckily, the ant was still alive, not poisoned to death. At that time, I was already on high alert...

  I picked up the ant again and put it on that small ball, um, nothing happened, the ant struggled to escape, I watched as it was sent far away, seeing the little thing crawling with quite a bit of energy.

  Finally, I let go of that unlucky ant and put the jade box into my bag. The small ball I weighed it and smelled it, a strong medicinal smell that was pungent to the nose. It seems that it shouldn't be some kind of immortal pill, people say in books that immortal pills should have a clear fragrance, this one is so pungent, if it's not poisonous then that's already good enough. Anyway, throwing it away would be a waste, I'll keep it for now and put it into my pocket.

  Finally picked up that stack of skin and took a look: "The Secret to Observing Yin and Yang". To be honest, this result is basically within my expectations. If it were something like "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" or something, that would be really strange.

  Just as I was congratulating myself on my own cleverness, the five small characters below the title gave me a real shock: Written by Cheng Feng Dao Ren!!!!!