refining sword

Chapter 45 The cruel truth
Tie Jian's heart moved slightly, and his eyes were a little wet. He didn't have a deep friendship with Situ Hao, but at this moment, for some reason, he felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

"There is a long way to go... Qi Xiu is far away..." Situ Hao looked at Tie Jian and said the last sentence.

His face quickly decayed and withered, and all the vitality of the whole person burned out, turning into a skinny appearance, and he died suddenly.

With red eyes, Tie Jian stuffed the stone talisman into the sachet given to him by Ning Xiaoxiao, and then put it close to his chest.

He looked at Situ Hao's remains, holding the storage ring tightly in his hand, reluctant to get up.

After half an hour.

There was a sudden sound of footsteps at the entrance of the stairs, and a middle-aged man in a silver-patterned purple robe went upstairs and appeared there.

"Jian'er." A familiar call sounded.

Hearing the sound, Tie Jian suddenly raised his head and looked at the stairs in disbelief.

He looked at the familiar figure, his voice trembled a little, and choked out, "Father."

Who would have guessed that the person who appeared here at this time was actually Tie Jian's long-lost father, Tie Shu.

It's just that compared to what he remembered, the iron tree in front of him seems to have grown a bit older, his square face has many wrinkles, and there are some messy whites in the short whiskers under his jaw, only a pair of tiger eyes, still It is Shenguang that is restrained and does not seem angry and self-possessed.

"My son is not filial, and you will suffer for your father." Tie Jian hurriedly stood up and bowed in front of Tie Shu.

"If anything, it's because of your father's failure to protect you that you have been displaced and wandering in a foreign land." Tieshu sighed and said.

"Father, how did you find this place?" Tie Jian asked with joy in his heart.

"Before, the old thief Ning Chen led people to attack my governor's mansion at night. After I broke it with my cronies, I finally broke through and left. Unexpectedly, the thieves were so powerful that they had to hide in Tibet. Later, for some unknown reason, the intensity of search and arrest suddenly became stronger. When I became small, and received the news from you, I realized that you actually arrived in the capital of Yue Kingdom, so I hurried here. I learned from the Yan family that you were here, so I quietly chased after you. By the way, what happened here?" Tie Shu looked around with confusion on his face.

"Is such that……"

Just as Tie Jian was about to speak, he saw Tie Shu patted his forehead and said:

"Look, I haven't seen my son for a long time as a father. I'm too excited. Why do I ask you to kneel in front of me and get up quickly."

After saying that, he bent down and stretched out his hand to help Tie Jian up.

"Well, it has grown a lot taller..." Tie Shu raised his hand and stroked the top of Tie Jian's head, and said with a smile.

But at this moment, his eyes suddenly changed, and he placed it between the fingers of the palm above Tie Jian's head. Suddenly, a red light flashed, and a long scarlet needle with an inch long was caught, and it shone on his back. The top shot.

The accident happened so suddenly that Tie Jian couldn't react at all, he felt numb all over his body, unable to move his limbs at all, and froze in place.

Immediately afterwards, several black shadows flashed around, and seven or eight men in black flashed in from outside the attic, landed in the building, and bowed to Tie Shu.

"Qi Yifu, the park has been cleaned up, and more than [-] servants and stewards have all died. It's just that Ji Wuxiang threw himself into the Lintao River and escaped for him." The first person had a look of fear in his eyes and lowered his head to report.

"It doesn't matter, he was hit by Situ Hao's spirit sword, and his injuries were not minor. If he survives this time, it will be his life." Tie Shu nodded lightly and waved them to stand up.

The men in black immediately stood up and stood in a row behind him.

Tie Jian's body was imprisoned, but his consciousness was very clear, his eyes rolled, and he looked at the men in black.

He found that the faces of these people were very young, and they looked like they were only sixteen or seventeen years old, but each of them had the iron and blood of a dead man in the battlefield, and there were many old scars on the forehead and the corner of the eyebrows.

At a glance, you can tell that most of them are people who have experienced battles and are accustomed to fighting.

"Who are you? Why are you pretending to be my father?" Although Tie Jian couldn't move his body, his mouth was not affected.

he asked angrily. "What's your relationship with the faceless man just now?"

"Faceless Man? You mean Ji Wuxiang?" Tieshu said.

"Hey... Chi'er, Chi'er, I am Tieshu's deity, not someone pretending to be." Tieshu sighed.

"This is absolutely impossible!" Tie Jian said in disbelief.

"It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, I'll explain it to you later." Tie Shu put his hands in his sleeves and asked nonchalantly, "By the way, is that Situ Hao's secret technique of refining the spirit sword in your hands? Hand it over."

When Tie Jian saw his habitual action, his eyes suddenly dimmed.

When he saw his father appear, he also suspected that it was the faceless man who turned back, so although he was excited, he still did not forget to use his spiritual sense to investigate carefully, and found that there was no difference in the breath or other, so he was inadvertently Got it.

But until this moment, he finally believed that the person in front of him was indeed the one who gave birth to him and grew up.

"Why?" Tie Jian said with a painful expression on his face, gritted his teeth.

"Why? Of course it's because of the strange fire on you, otherwise I have nothing to do with you, why would you raise you to grow up?" Tieshu said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"No worries? What do you mean?" Tie Jian's expression changed slightly, and he asked.

"You don't really think that I can do the bestiality of the tiger's poison and eat its children? Hahaha... Now, I should tell you that you are an abandoned baby that I picked up when I was an official in Lingzhou. "The fingers in Tieshu's sleeves rubbed gently and said slowly.

He pointed to the men in black around him, and gestured to Tie Jian, "Like them, I originally raised you as a dead man, but I accidentally found out that you were carrying a strange fire. I gave you the status of an only child."

As he was talking, his eyes suddenly sank, and he found the storage ring that Tie Jian was holding in his palm, took a few steps forward, and took it out of Tie Jian's hand.

"Hehe... With Situ Hao's method of refining the spirit sword, and the strange fire in your body, it won't take long for me to return to the Great Jin and kill Feng Qingzi and his allies in one go." Tie Shu checked After passing the ring in his hand, he said proudly.

"You said Master Fengqingzi?" Tie Jian was startled and asked quickly.

Feng Qingzi was the national master of Jin State and the only Spirit Sword Master. His status in Jin State was even more respected than that of Situ Hao in Yue State.Moreover, this Feng Qingzi also has a second identity, it is Tie Jian's master Ning Chen's master, that is, his master.

Tieshu actually said that he wanted to wipe out all his henchmen, which was tantamount to treason and treason...

"Don't you know? The reason why your master Ning Chen wanted to attack the governor's house was because of Feng Qingzi's instructions." Tie Shu looked at Tie Jian and smiled helplessly: "And all of this is for you. Fire on him."

Hearing what he said, all the past scenes and scenes emerged in Tie Jian's mind, all the clues were combined, and many doubts were finally solved.

When he found Yunlong Ling on Tang Hui, he thought that the royal family was involved, but he did not expect it to be related to the master.

"So, senior brother, Tang Hui, and the faceless man Ji Wuxiang are all sent by Feng Qingzi, right?" Tie Jian suppressed the sadness in his heart and calmly asked: "It seems that The temptation of my strange fire is really great, and it has provoked the national teacher and the governor of a state to plan so deliberately?".

"Hehe, I don't need to hide it from you anymore. I was also one of Feng Qingzi's allies. I provided him with the people under his control to make magic swords. He assured me that I would have a successful official career in Jin." Tie Shu naturally heard it. The sarcasm in his words meant nothing, but he didn't care.

Hearing this, Tie Jian immediately understood that people in Tanzhou often disappeared, and it was all because of this, and he couldn't help feeling shocked and angry.

"It's just that when I knew the real purpose of his urgent need for your Yihuo, I began to secretly accumulate strength to try to replace him when your Yihuo awakened. Unexpectedly, the old fox noticed something, and Ning Chendai came to the rescue. The incident of the assassination of the Governor's Mansion." Tieshu continued.

Speaking of which, there were faint blue veins on his forehead, and he obviously still held a grudge against it.

After a while, he suddenly calmed down again and said with a big laugh: "Hahaha... Fortunately, the emperor pays off, my good son, you finally returned to my side..."

Tie Jian's limbs were paralyzed at this moment, unable to move, and the mana in his dantian was also blocked by a strange force, and he could not be mobilized at all, but the influence of the strange fire in his dantian was very limited.

While talking to Tieshu, he has been trying to use the power of the different fire to force the blood needle that pierced his top out of the body, but unfortunately the effect is very weak.

"Okay, after solving all the doubts in your heart, it can be regarded as the last thing for your father to do for you. Next, you can transfer the strange fire to me with peace of mind." waved his hand.

Those people rushed over immediately and cleaned all the things in the attic to the first floor, making the entire second floor empty.

Seeing that the two of them were holding up Situ Hao's body, they were about to throw it out of the attic window. Tie Jian quickly stopped him and said, "The dead are the greatest! If you still have a little bit of humanity, don't do that."

The two men stopped and turned to look at Tieshu, who nodded slightly and nodded.

So, the two found a chair, placed it in a corner of the room, and placed Situ Hao's body on it.

After that, two more people stepped forward and put Tie Jian aside, leaving the center of the second floor of the attic completely empty.

Tie Shu stepped forward, and when he flipped his wrist, a dark red dagger appeared in the palm of his hand.

I saw him holding a dagger in one hand, rolled up his wide sleeves, took a deep breath, crouched down, and began to draw on the ground with a concentrated expression, which was very similar to the way he used to paint with his brush strokes. .

As his arm moved a little bit, the dagger began to glow with blood-red light, making bursts of sour sounds on the slate-paved ground, making deep nicks.

Seeing that Tie Jian was ignoring him, he closed his eyes, and tried his best to stimulate the strange fire in his body.

After about a quarter of an hour, Tieshu's clothes were all wet, and he stood up from the ground holding a knife like a pen.

"Not bad, not bad." His face was filled with a gratified smile. Looking at a strange formation similar to the Yin-Yang Pisces Diagram that appeared on the ground, he nodded with satisfaction.

Hearing his words, Tie Jian's eyes suddenly opened, and a hint of anxiety flashed in his eyes.

The blood needle on the top of his head was deeply embedded, and under the full force of the retreat, more than half of it had already withdrawn. As long as he was given another moment, Tie Jian would be able to completely force it out of the body.

"Bring him over." Tie Shu glanced at Tie Jian and ordered.

(End of this chapter)