A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 183 Plum Blossom Lancet
It's not just because Ximen Yong is Ximen Kankan's father, he can't just sit back and watch.

He will register to participate in the selection of Taiyi Sect's registered disciples at the end of the year. If Ximen Yong gets into trouble in this ambush, he will have to ask someone else to take care of his registration.

Even if he wanted to ask someone else, would there be anyone who could lobby his father to help him like Ximen Kankan did?
Even if he was willing to help, their father-son relationship had to be good enough. He heard that the relationship between Jiang Qingyu and his father Jiang Heng was very tense.

All these factors prompted Duan Rong to finally decide to intervene in this matter.

Of course, more importantly, Duan Rong analyzed the strength comparison between the two sides in detail in the carriage.

With his current state of the third level of internal energy and mastery of swordsmanship, coupled with his Plum Blossom Needle Technique and Cloud Snake Step, Duan Rong felt that if he suddenly intervened in the battle in secret, there was a high probability that he would reverse the outcome of the battle.

The last item plays the most crucial role in Duan Rong's decision.

One's own strength is the basis of everything.

Duan Rong returned to the willow hut and continued to stand in the same posture until midnight before falling asleep.

The next morning, after breakfast, Duan Rong came to an arms shop on West Street.

This weapons shop on West Street is the largest weapons shop in Xiangu County.

It is no problem for an ordinary blacksmith shop to make hoes, shovels and some common weapons, but this weapons shop has already grown to a large scale, with more than 20 to 30 experienced blacksmiths in the shop.

Several major forces in the county, including the government, place expensive orders with this shop every year.

Jiuzhou is a martial arts country, and many highly profitable industries have developed around the word "martial".

The weapons business is naturally one of them.

Duan Rong came to this weapons shop to buy some weapons such as javelins or throwing knives.

After all, unless it was a matter of life and death, it would be better not to use his plum blossom needle indiscriminately in the future.

In Xie Lei's case, Xie Daohan even dug out the corpse poison, not to mention the flying needles. Although he was at the scene and picked up the flying needles, a truly powerful person would probably be able to guess what he used at the time from the clues.

Duan Rong wandered around the dart stall in the weapons shop for a long time before finally choosing a scimitar.

This scalpel used as a dart is only one-third the size of a javelin, and is only slightly larger than a real willow leaf.

This knife is small in size, but of moderate thickness and does not appear thin.

After repeated selection, Duan Rong felt that this flying knife was currently the most suitable for him and had the best feel.

A big shop is a big shop. Although the price is a bit higher, the service is good and the facilities are complete.

As long as you buy 40 scalpels, you will get a scalpel bag for free.

The scalpel bag was like a belt, with openings inside and outside, and both sides could hold scalpels. There were twenty scalpels in the inner layer and twenty scalpels in the outer layer, which were staggered, making a total of forty scalpels.

When Duan Rong walked out of the weapon shop, he had a knife pouch wrapped around his waist.

Duan Rong returned to Liulu and closed the gate. He stood in the courtyard and suddenly his figure flashed...

Walking through the courtyard, a shadow gradually appeared behind me...

Duan Rong leaped, slanted, turned, or stepped sideways. His figure was as fast as a ghost. Moreover, as his figure flashed, afterimages of plum blossoms began to bloom between his hands...

One by one, the scimitars shot out from the afterimage of the plum blossom. The slight, almost inaudible sound of breaking through the air... was just like a bubble bursting in the water... and the inaudible "puff" sound was a whisper between all things in nature, not audible to human ears.

After Duan Rong achieved the third level of internal energy, his flying knife technique became even more ghostly. There was no short whooshing sound, but only a quiet sound like a bursting bubble. It was simply a silent ghost that took his life...

As the flying knives passed by, willow leaves fell from the treetops and were nailed to the tree trunks by the flying knives behind them... Duan Rong shot all the flying knives in his knife bag in one breath, and he was quite good at it.

After all, this scimitar is a flying knife made by a weapons shop. As the saying goes, every profession has its own expertise. The tail of the scimitar has anti-slip texture and is obviously polished. It is not only beautiful, but also feels very good in the hand.

It is really not comparable to an embroidery needle.

However, flying needles are very thin and almost invisible. Among all hidden weapons, they are the most secretive and insidious, and can kill people silently.

In the weapons shop, Duan Rong did not see any hidden weapons such as flying needles.

"Perhaps it is impossible to forge anti-slip patterns on the tail of something as slender as a flying needle with the forging technology in this world." Duan Rong wiped the sweat from his forehead and speculated with a twinkling look in his eyes.

Then Duan Rong flashed and took back all the scimitars that were stuck in the willow trees.

Afterwards, Duan Rong practiced a few more times until he felt very proficient, and then he put away the knife bag.

After practicing the flying knife, Duan Rong made some more preparations, then went to the carriage shop to rent a horse and rode out of the east gate. The Black Tiger Hill was still some distance away from Xiangu County, so Duan Rong started galloping on his horse in the morning. When dusk fell in the mountains and fields, Duan Rong estimated that he was still five or six miles away from the Black Tiger Hill.

When he was escorting an escort to Ruyang Prefecture, he would also pass by Heihugang, because Duan Rong was quite familiar with the distance.

Seeing that it was about to get dark, Duan Rong found a wild place by the roadside and tied up his chestnut horse, which was already foaming at the mouth from running.

Then Duan Rong took out his nightgown from the bag on his back and put it on. He then covered his mouth and nose with a piece of black cloth, folded the clothes he had changed into the bag, and then jumped up like a monkey climbing a tree and tied the bag to the top of a birch tree beside him.

Duan Rong stepped on the birch tree and leaped out, floating down to the ground like a willow leaf falling from a treetop in the wind.

Duan Rong then moved his body and leaped across the mountains and fields like a ghost, using his mastery-level Cloud Snake Steps with all his strength. His speed was much faster than that of the chestnut horse, which was foaming at the mouth and was already at the end of its strength.

After about an incense stick of time, Duan Rong had arrived at Heihugang.

At this time, the night had already come, and the hill was pitch black, with one not seeing one's hand in front of one's face. As soon as Duan Rong reached the edge of the Black Tiger Hill, he slowed down his pace, and at the same time, he suddenly released his spiritual sense.

The released spiritual consciousness immediately covered the area within a hundred meters centered on him.

Duan Rong hid in the woods beside the official road, moving slowly so as not to make any sound.

After Duan Rong walked for a distance, his spiritual sense suddenly swept across two people. The two people were tying a thick hemp rope full of caltrops to a tree beside them.

Two people, also dressed in black, were standing at the edge a hundred meters away from him.

The moment Duan Rong saw the two people, he immediately stopped.

Although he was now in a dark forest, he released his spiritual sense and used the plum blossom willow leaf knife to claim the life, and he was invincible.

However, Duan Rong also knew that among these people, Huang Gaozu might have already arrived.

If he were to attack in the dark night, he would very likely expose his location. Huang Gaozu was very good at martial arts, so if he was locked onto by him, he would be in trouble.

The best option is to hide here and wait secretly for Ximen Yong and his party to arrive.

When the time comes, as soon as Huang Gaozu comes into contact with Yuan Shouzhi, it will be his time to take action.

Duan Rong paused for a moment, then leaped up and hid in the crown of a lush tree beside him. The moment he hid, he withdrew his spiritual sense.

His soul would not be able to bear the long-term release of his spiritual consciousness.

He now had to retract his spiritual consciousness and replenish the energy of his soul. When the time came for him to make a move, he had to release his spiritual consciousness to coordinate with the Cloud Snake Step and the Plum Blossom Willow Leaf Knife.

(End of this chapter)