Martial Arts Escort System: I Got A Maxed Level Divine Technique From The Beginning - Chapter 670: 291: Memorial Service
Chapter 670: Chapter 291: Memorial Service
The next morning, before dawn.
Su Mo and his companions had already gotten up.
Hidden Sword Hermit was holding a bundle, his face still showing traces of a hangover.
After throwing the bundle to Su Mo, Hidden Sword Hermit showed impatience:
“Alright, I’ve already given you shelter for one night, you should hurry off today.
“After you leave, I need to tidy up and prepare to leave this place.”
“Is the Hermit leaving?”
Su Mo was startled.
“Of course, I’m leaving.”
Hidden Sword Hermit shrugged his shoulders:
“Why would I stay here? To wait for death?
“Ji Shuhua, that fool, even managed to mess up delivering an item. Now that the whole town is in uproar, who could your whereabouts be hidden from?
“If I don’t leave, it won’t be long before someone comes knocking.
“Although I am highly skilled in martial arts and seldom meet my match, why bother creating unnecessary slaughter?
“When it comes down to it, beating them till they cry for their fathers and beg for mercy, I can neither bear to kill them nor can I ignore the endless troubles if I let them go. It’s better to leave first.”
Su Mo smiled:
“Good. Since the Hermit has decided this, we shall take our leave then.”
“Mm.”
Hidden Sword Hermit nodded, and as if remembering something, he spoke:
“That ‘Dragon Roar in the Box’ isn’t quite up to standard.
“If you meet a better blacksmith in the future, have him reforge it for you…
“It might remedy some of the shortcomings of my craftsmanship.”
He said this and showed a face full of impatience again:
“Alright, alright, enough said. Hurry up and go, the sooner you leave, the safer I’ll be.”
Hidden Sword Hermit seemed extremely eager to send them away, as if he couldn’t wait to leave the place.
Su Mo and his companions had no choice; they were just guests for one night and with the host insisting, they naturally couldn’t overstay.
After quickly tidying up, they left Hidden Sword Hut.
Hidden Sword Hermit escorted them out of Qingmu Forest, watching them disappear among the trees before he returned into the woods.
The formation set up in Qingmu Forest was called “Chaotic Eight Gates Mysterious Formation.”
It was based on the Eight Diagrams, with the sectors Kan, Li, Gen, Dui, Zhen, Xun, Qian, and Kun all inverted.
This formation was set up by Hidden Sword Hermit many years ago. Today, the phrase ‘turn right upon seeing red’ exists because his few friends, not well-versed in formations, could not completely understand it.
Without guidance, the changes in the formation were too complex, and they absolutely couldn’t enter.
To prevent them from resorting to extreme actions like setting fire to the forest in desperation, Hidden Sword Hermit almost entirely halted the changes within the formation.
And he left a sign marking the easiest route to reach Hidden Sword Hut, to make it convenient for his friends to find him for a drink and a chat.
At this moment, he casually entered Qingmu Forest and picked up a few stones from the ground, tossing them into the depths of the forest.
The stones vanished behind the bushes in an instant.
He looked twice, nodded, then climbed a tree and unexpectedly pulled out a rope.
Click, clack, two sounds were heard, and machinery behind the tree made noise.
He sat on the tree trunk, inspected it for a while to ensure there were no issues, then climbed down.
Walking deeper into Qingmu Forest, he was constantly engaged in similar actions.
This Qingmu Forest was originally filled with mechanisms.
There were countless hidden traps within.
But he had never used any of them over the years.
“Old Ji once said that the villagers occasionally get lost and wander here, and after mistakenly entering Qingmu Forest, it’s just a matter of sending them out as they are just ordinary people with no ill intentions.
“Heh… I actually listened to him for all these years.
“This person appears inept in speech, but actually knows very well how to persuade others.
“To let others take such a dangerous escort quest for just two hundred taels… Do you feel that two hundred taels are not enough, so you put your own life on the line? You’re indeed quite bold…
“But… it’s excessive.”
The winding paths of Qingmu Forest could be navigated quite straightforwardly once familiar.
Su Mo and his companions were confused and took nearly two hours to navigate, whereas for Hidden Sword Hermit, it would take merely the time it took to finish one pot of tea to walk out from the forest.
However, he started walking from the dimm sunrise still to when the sun was up in the sky.
Afterwards, he arrived at a fissure between mountains and stayed there a long while before arriving inside the hollowed midsection of the mountain.
The formation of this mountain belly was unknown; it was surrounded by steep cliffs that naturally formed a barrier.
Looking up to see the sun directly overhead, Hidden Sword Hermit shielded his eyes, took a slight breath, and said:
“Time to work!”
The forge was lit, and the ding-ding-dong-dong of metal striking resounded throughout the mountain belly.
If ordinary people were outside Qingmu Forest at this time, they indeed would be able to hear the sound of metal clashing.
Sometimes the sounds were dense like rain; sometimes, it took a long while before another sound fell.
Yet this time, the noise lasted for three days.
Three days later, inside Hidden Sword Hut, Hidden Sword Hermit took a deep breath and held a dark iron block as he walked to a newly made, exquisitely beautiful table.
However, looking at this table, his face showed nothing but gravity.
When placing the iron block, he was extremely cautious,
as if each positioning had been calculated rigorously.
Only when the iron block was finally stable at the center of the table did he breathe a sigh of relief.
