Chapter Fifty: Twelve Knife Cuts to Remove the Skin

  Su Dong's cultivation had only reached the first gate of Long Jia, but now he had successfully opened both gates, and a kind of unprecedented wonderful experience made Su Dong very happy.

  After the double doors opened, the spiritual power no longer ran along a fixed route, but instead shuttled back and forth between the two doors at will, or surrounded them, or walked in a figure-eight pattern, making Su Dong feel relaxed and light.

  The sky was already bright, Su Dong stood up and muttered to himself: "No wonder Old Master said that Long Jia Ba Men can extend one's life and benefit one's health, Shen Zhang Jiu Gong can make one immortal, I didn't expect Long Jia Ba Men to also affect the body's reaction, this feeling is really great!"

  What Su Dong said was the physical reaction of strength and lightness, as if he had stepped on a skateboard. When Lao Yezi was over 100 years old, he was still agile and nimble, jumping up and down in the mountains, climbing trees faster than monkeys. This is the physical change brought about by Long Jia Ba Men.

  Now Su Dong has opened both doors and deeply felt the power of Long Jia Ba Men, he is very excited!

  He tried to cultivate his Bi Luo Huang Quan Jiuzhongtian in the big yard, and it was indeed much easier than before.

  Su Dong has been studying the combination of movement and stillness in his combat process. Movement refers to his first-class violent spiritual power, while stillness refers to his body technique.

  Su Dong's kung fu and spiritual power were quite brutal, with a hard-hitting, needle-sharp stance, but Su Dong felt that as a warrior, just knowing the hard moves was not enough, he also needed to add more variations to make his opponents defenseless.

  The dragon armor's double doors made Su Dong's footsteps even quicker, and his movements became much lighter, but unfortunately, Su Dong had never learned any footwork or martial arts techniques, everything was figured out by himself, so when moving, his body appeared slightly stiff.

  "There's indeed no such thing as a genius without hard work. You're already up and practicing so early, I'm sure there's even more unknown hardship behind your rapid progress." Old Man Zhou said with emotion after getting up early and seeing Su Dong practicing martial arts.

  Su Dong smiled slightly and said, "It's not that exaggerated, just exercising my body since I have nothing to do. By the way, thanks to Old Master and Zhou Jiao yesterday, we were able to sell Ling Nong She's Ling Gu and Ling Yao smoothly. Now your goods haven't been dealt with yet, if you need me to help, just say so."

  Old Man Zhou smiled strangely, waving his hand: "This autumn trade fair of the four northern countries will last for a whole month. We businessmen need to watch the market before making a move. It's still too early now. Today I'll go visit each family first, and let Zhou Xing accompany you to stroll around the city. You wanted to buy a Ling Jia armor, didn't you? Zhou Xing knows several large armories in the city."

  "Good!" Su Dong nodded in response.

  ……

  Lingnong Society has temporarily disbanded, and everyone has gone their separate ways to buy things to bring back home. After receiving a large sum of silver, each member's waist is now much more robust. Whatever good food, good clothes, or unseen items they can get their hands on, they are buying with all their might for their families.

  Su Dong and Zhou Xing went to a weapon shop together. After visiting two shops in a row, Su Dong was still not satisfied and frowned gradually.

  "These spiritual armors aren't that great, why are they priced so outrageously?" Su Dong asked curiously. The set of spiritual armor he had just looked at was only a sixth-level Ling War, yet it was priced at 50,000 silver coins, which made Su Dong very unhappy.

  Zhou Xing sighed and said, "It's hard to find a master craftsman, our entire martial arts hall, only the hall owner has one piece of spiritual armor, others at most have a spiritual sword, and Yang Hall Master's spiritual armor is just a breastplate, without a helmet, arm guards, wrist guards, and gloves. These matching items, even if it's just a set of spiritual armor, cost the hall owner over 100,000 taels of silver."

  Su Dong nodded slightly and said, "The price of the Ling Jia is much higher than that of the Ling Bing, which was beyond my expectation. I thought a few tens of thousands of silver coins would be enough to buy a very good set of Ling Jia."

  "Of course, the Ling Jia is expensive," Zhou Xing smiled. "The Ling Jia requires the star's spiritual power to be evenly distributed on the armor, otherwise it will cause some areas to have high defense and others to be low."

  Moreover, the spiritual energy consumed by a casting master to forge a battle armor is much more than that of forging a soldier's blade. In short, forging a spiritual armor is a very troublesome thing, requiring a high-level casting master to devote himself to it, and its high price is also normal.

  "But without a spiritual armor it's also impossible, after all the enemy is using spiritual power attacks, ordinary battle armors can't withstand them. Let's go to the next one and see if we can get some good gains."

  But after visiting all the armor shops in Ye City, Su Dong still couldn't find a satisfactory spiritual armor.

  "Su Dong, what kind of Ling Jia do you want after all? We've looked at dozens of sets from front to back, can't you find one that suits your taste?" Zhou Xing frowned and said.

  Su Dong thought for a moment and said: "Ling Jia is an important defensive tool, I hope the level can reach Ling Zun, if not, then Ling Wu high rank will do."

  Zhou Xing's eyes widened in shock, almost going crazy, and he said: "You're just barely scraping by with your Lingwu High-Rank armor!?"

  "That's right, it can be used somehow." Su Dong said calmly.

  "You're too abnormal! Lingzun, that's a revered being of the spiritual realm! It's enough to establish a sect! You actually want a Lingzun-level battle armor? My god." Zhou Xing said to himself in sorrow and indignation.

  Su Dong smiled and said: "I'm a person who fears death, Lingjia is for keeping one's life, of course I want to buy the best."

  "Don't come here with that nonsense." Zhou Xing sneered, "Are you still afraid of death? You got Season Lianchun from the City Master's mansion killed, I dare to guarantee that at that time, even if it wasn't Season Lianchun but City Master Tong Yufeng, your knife would have chopped down just the same."

  Su Dong didn't say a word, after all, it's an enemy, and if there's a chance to kill them, of course, they would make a ruthless move, that's always been the style of Qi Men.

  "What you want, ultra-high-end stuff, isn't impossible to get." Zhou Xing thought for a moment before saying: "At the end of the trading season, there will be a large number of explorers returning from the northern wilderness. They might have some good things in their hands, but doing business with these guys is very risky. After all, explorers are used to snatching food from under Snow Magic's nose, killing people, and counterfeiting - those are their usual tactics."

  "When I get back, I'll discuss with Father how to contact those explorers and find out where their black market is."

  ……

  The next day, Su Dong was unwilling to give up and continued to stroll around Yecun with Zhou Xing.

  Ye City, as the imperial capital, has 300,000 households of permanent residents alone, and with the majestic Imperial City, its area is not less than six times that of Hanshing City.

  With the addition of merchants rushing to attend the autumn trade fair, the entire Ye City was bustling with people, noisy day and night without stopping.

  Su Dong and Zhou Xing walked while looking around, and also bought two cucumbers to eat along the way. Up ahead was Antique Street, which Su Dong entered with great interest.

  Unexpectedly, Zhou Xing was quite knowledgeable about antiques. Probably due to his wealthy upbringing, he had a broader perspective than ordinary people. With just one glance at the age and material, he could understand it with great accuracy.

  A very ordinary shop in the alley, Su Dong saw a set of quite interesting things, peeling knife!

  Su Dong smiled slightly and called for his assistant to bring out this set of props for him to see.

  Only twelve small knives with different shapes were wiped clean and shiny, with brass handles and stainless steel blades, including fan-shaped, hook-shaped, double-edged, single-edged, and even a small hammer for crushing bones, the workmanship was very exquisite.

  Zhou Xing furrowed his brow and said in a low voice, "What are you looking at this thing for? It's very unlucky."

  Su Dong didn't make any gesture, what he wanted wasn't a knife, but a ritual instrument!

  The law enforcement needs a lot of air, and this set of flaying knives exudes a kind of eerie and chilling aura that makes one's skin crawl!

  Zhou Xing saw Su Dong unmoved and a bit anxious, saying: "Do you know what this thing is used for?"

  Su Dong shook his head.

  "In ancient times, the four northern countries had not yet split apart. On this vast land, there was only one empire called Blood Knife. The nobles of this country were composed of nomadic tribes from the north, who were very barbaric and cruel. They enjoyed torturing their enemies for pleasure."

  "This knife should be the tool used by a noble family in Blood Knife Country to flay people, and this set of tools is not for stripping animal hides, but for stripping human skin!"

  Su Dong was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly laughed and muttered to himself: "No wonder the resentment and killing intent are so strong, it seems that there are indeed many vengeful spirits under this knife."

  Zhou Xing was suddenly speechless, Su Dong's hobby was as strange as he was!

  Su Dong already has a set of magical instruments, Jade in Stone.

  Shizhongyu contains the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, especially the spiritual energy of water, which is extremely rich and nourishing, belonging to a rare treasure.

  But this set of skinning knives contains a completely different kind of resentment and killing intent than Shi Zhongyu!

  This aura is too strong and will be extremely detrimental to the people in the formation. Take Su Dong's usual Qimen Ghost Formation as an example, Shi Zhongyu's released ghost formation can indeed make the enemy confused, but the effect is not too strong. If the enemy's mental willpower is very stubborn, they can resist it.

  Who says that the Qimen formation must nourish the people in the formation? You should know that besides the nourishing life wind and water formation, there are also killing formations and reverse killing formations! This set of ruthless and poisonous small knives is just suitable for setting up a killing formation!