Chapter Twenty: Investigating the Mysterious Dagger

  "Singing mountain songs, this side sings and that side harmonizes, the other side harmonizes. Mountain songs are like spring river water, not afraid of many bends and turns. Singing mountain songs, this side sings and that side harmonizes, the other side harmonizes..." The big girls and young wives sing, the Yingxia Peak is originally on the edge of Mount Tai, after being impacted by the river flow, it is basically the edge of the Mount Tai sect, and some ordinary people live here.

  This river is called Luojiang River nearby, which is a small river. Generally, the villagers wash their clothes in this Luojiang River.

  "Second sister, how's the matter of you and Tiezhu going?" a young wife asked the big girl beside her who was in her early twenties. The girl didn't look particularly good-looking, but youth has no ugly women, and her youthful aura was also overwhelming.

  The girl who was asked blushed: "Tie Zhu said that a man should first make a name for himself before getting married, so he wants to go out and make a name in the world."

  "Is Tie Zhu going to make a name for himself in the martial arts world? How is he going to do that? He's joined the Mount Tai Sect as an outer disciple?" asked another woman.

  "It's not that easy, being an outer disciple of the Tai Shan sect isn't a trivial matter. Iron Pillar is said to have been lured away by a lower-ranking family to be their guard, where he can learn martial arts."

  "Lower-class families aren't bad either."

  The power of the Daqi Empire is divided into six levels: Golden Gate, Silver Gate, Bronze Gate, Black Iron Family, Middle-ranking Family, and Lower-ranking Family, with each level being weaker than the last. For ordinary people, it's extremely difficult to join the Silver Gate, but being absorbed by a lower-ranking family as a guard is also an option, although it's far from being an outer disciple of the Silver Gate.

  "Huh, there's someone in the river." said the one called Er Niu.

  "Yes, is someone dead?" a girl from next door said.

  That person remained still for a long time, then suddenly lifted his head. This was a fairly handsome face, clearly only an eleven or twelve year old boy. Everyone noticed that the corner of this blue-clad youth's robe had a Tai character on it - this was the emblem of an outer sect disciple of the Mount Tai school.

  "So young and already became an outer disciple of the Tai Shan Sect."

  "This young man will have a bright future ahead of him."

  That's right, it was Gu Chao who played the ultimate rafting from Yingxia Peak and went downstream all the way. He was still a little dazed in the loud river for a while before he came to his senses.

  The ultimate rafting just now was too exciting.

  Gu Chao gripped the small black knife tightly in his hand, and only then did he feel a slight relaxation in his heart, this was the key.

  At this time, the whole body was wet and dripping, and I couldn't help but listen to those big girls and little daughters-in-law singing melodious mountain songs. I quickly grabbed the small black knife and swam to the riverbank, got ashore, found a secluded place to pile up firewood, and used the fire starter to ignite it to dry my clothes. The fire starters I brought with me were all waterproof, so they could still be used after being soaked in water for so long.

  One end of the fireboard is slightly larger than the other. The larger end is rapidly moved back and forth in the air to generate a flame.

  After the fire was extinguished, Gu Chao took out a small black knife to study it. What kind of treasure is this small black knife? It can occasionally emit auspicious aura and even make the double-headed sand snake with spiritual energy guard it.

  Gu Chao looked at it for a while and didn't find anything different about this small black knife. There were no patterns on it, just a plain black surface.

  Gu Chao stroked the small black knife with his hand, feeling a warm sensation, but nothing else was different.

  Now that I have this small knife in hand, how to use it is a problem.

  Firstly, it can't be confirmed whether the black dagger is a treasure or not. Secondly, even if the black dagger is a treasure, all that's known about treasures are just hearsay and rumors from others, which are often vague and unclear, with no concrete information on how to utilize them. What to do? Gu Chao was originally someone who excelled at thinking on his feet, and in an instant, he thought of several methods.

  First, input the internal energy inside and see if the small knife will have any reaction to the internal energy.

  Secondly, add a few drops of blood on top and see if it reacts with human blood.

  It seems that there are only two ways to do this, if neither of these methods work, then plan to hide the small knife and return to Zhongxi Peak Xueyuan Mountain Villa to find a solution in the Cangshu Pavilion. Gu Chao first tried putting his internal energy into it, but there was no reaction at all, and the half of the small knife remained unchanged.

  There's only the second way left, Gu Chao poured blood into the ancient super, and after pouring in the blood, it seemed like there was still no reaction. Wait, how did a brilliant light suddenly burst forth? Various colored treasures shot up straight, fortunately, the place Gu Chao chose had many trees blocking the shooting-up treasure lights, otherwise people from afar would have definitely seen them, this was also why Gu Chao deliberately chose this kind of place.

  Did he react? Gu Chao suddenly discovered that the half of the small knife had moved, and it was shooting straight at his own brow. Gu Chao was greatly shocked and wanted to dodge, but the speed of the half of the small knife was extremely fast. Before Gu Chao could even react, he was stabbed in the brow by the knife, and he fainted and fell to the ground with a thud.

  In a daze, Gu Chao saw a virtual world of knives, and these knives were also performing various knife techniques and dancing.

  On the right side, there is a straight-bladed, sturdy and sharp ring-headed knife that cuts through the void.

  In the east, there was a large knife with a long handle and a powerful cutting force, slashing at the void as if to tear it apart.

  There was also a nine-ring broadsword, the body of this nine-ring broadsword was thick, with nine iron rings on its back, and each swing brought all nine rings dancing.

  In the southeast, there is a willow-leaf knife, moving as nimbly as a willow leaf, with intricate and clever movements, yet amidst the cleverness, an endless killing intent converges.

  In the southeastern direction, there was a light and beautiful goose feather knife with an extremely beautiful shape. This extremely beautiful knife transformed into countless breathtakingly beautiful knife flowers in mid-air.

  The two knives in the direction of due south are butterfly twin knives, both of which are quite exquisite, each one is delicate and intricate, and the two also complement each other, cooperate with each other, and turn into a move after another extremely wonderful moves in the air.

  In the southeast direction, there is a pair of Mandarin ducks knives. The Mandarin ducks knives are paired as mandarin ducks, and the moves are also intertwined, warm and gentle.

  In the southwest direction, there is a pair of mother-child knives, also known as two knives. The child knife is hidden in the handle of the mother knife. When the mother knife is outside to meet the enemy, it can suddenly kill the child knife, with a feeling of iron riding out and silver breaking out.

  In the southwest, there was another Cloud Head Knife. The head of the knife seemed to be round in shape, and its killing intent wasn't particularly heavy. In the midst of empty space, it danced out a gentle and warm knife technique.

  To the south, there was a fish-headed knife. The knife of the fish-headed knife resembled a fish head, and in the midst of emptiness, it danced with a warm and gentle knife technique.

  In the direction of due south, there is also a Kikou-to, with an extremely protruding blade and a completely ungentle killing method, walking in an extremely fierce and perilous realm.

  There is a wind-breaking knife in the north-south direction, with a small body and a protruding small knife. The blade is sharp, the back of the knife is thin, and the cutting momentum is extremely fast, which can break through the wind.

  In the north and south, there is also a thin-bladed knife. The blade of this thin-bladed knife is extremely thin and easily damaged. However, its speed is astonishingly fast, to the point where you can't even see the shadow of the knife.

  To the north there was a slender knife, this knife was curved and fine, in the empty space it displayed a strange and swift knife technique.

  To the due north, there was another scimitar. The blade of the scimitar had a layer of cold light on its edge. Wherever the knife passed, it was quick and unmatched.

  Northeastern big curved knife, this big curved knife blade is curved to the extreme point, and the knife move is also completely different from the previous knife move.

  In the northeast direction, there is also a ring knife. The knife forms a ring, and the knife move is also in the virtual space to form a ring. The curved knife turns straight and urgent, like a circle, cutting extremely fast.

  In the Northeast, there is also the Achang knife. The shape of the Achang knife is like a ring, similar to the ring knife, but the blade is longer and the technique is a combination of cunning and overbearing.

  Apart from these, there are many other knives that leap in the void, such as the intimidating dragon bird knife, the short-handled pu knife, the horse-killing knife, the sharp-edged miao knife, the large horizontal knife that slashes in all directions, the curved shu knife, the ferocious wolf-toothed knife, the agile monkey knife, the dancing wild goose wing knife, the razor-sharp dali knife, the double-bladed kongtong knife, the beautiful luan knife, and the crimson red knife. These knives that emerge in the void have various moves, some are illusory like a dream, some are overbearing to the extreme, some are extremely fast, and some are strange and bizarre.

  All kinds of knives, all kinds of knife methods.

  What a multitude of divine thoughts flooded into Guchao's mind, Guchao was struck by so many divine thoughts and suddenly fainted without looking at it for a moment. This time he was thoroughly unconscious, not even half conscious, nor did he know what had happened to his own body.

  (Hmm, today's first chapter, early bird gets the worm, where are my recommendation tickets?)