Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 76 Tang Tong

After staying in Benshan for only one night, Tiedan started to dislike these people in the mountains from the bottom of his heart.

But after all, he was unfamiliar with the place, so he followed Tang Tong.

This place is full of high mountains and dense forests, and there is no human habitation. Tang Tong obviously cannot fly or hide, but he at least knows how to find a way out.

He was seen holding a copper plate in one hand, calculating with the other and muttering silently. The copper plate, engraved with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the Zhoutian Constellations and the Xuanmen Secret Mantras, began to rotate spontaneously under the stimulation of the true Qi. Tang Tong also manually corrected it from time to time based on his calculations, and thus kept changing the formula and moving towards a general direction.

"This is called Yang Gong Pan, a magical instrument for Feng Shui arithmetic. You haven't seen it before, right? You don't understand it, right? You want to learn it?"

Tang Tong also knew that Tiedan was secretly looking at him, and he was very proud.

"It's a pity that the secret method is not passed on to outsiders. Junior brother, you were punished to chop wood on your first day on the mountain. I'm afraid you don't have this fate."

Tiedan looked at him.

"why."

“Why not?”

Tang Tong stopped and glanced at Tiedan.
"Why else? They are afraid that they will end up like other sects. If they don't investigate, they will accept those rebellious and unethical children. If they learn the skills of the mountains, they will betray their teachers and ancestors, deviate from the orthodox teachings, and change their sects."

Tiedan was silent.

Tang Tong shook his head.
"So, Junior Brother, why are you so angry? You are already a Foundation Establisher. Just beat him up if he wants to. It can't hurt you.

You finally get to Benshan, and you have to endure whatever anger he gives you and serve him well, otherwise who would be willing to teach you his real skills?
What? Do you think you are the only one with amazing talent? Just because you are gifted and have great abilities, everyone should flatter you and give in to you?

Don't be silly, brother! You are the head of the sect because your father is the head of the sect! We are all the same if we can worship in the mountains!
The higher-ups are trying every possible way to weed out those who are disobedient and unruly! Don’t run into their clutches like a headless fly!”

Tiedan just looked at him.
"why."

Tang Tong raised his eyebrows.
"I've made it so clear and you still don't understand. How did you build this foundation?"

Tiedan still stared at him.
"Why help me."

Tang Tong suddenly realized, then realized,

"Ah? Oh, I wasn't helping you. After all, I was just sweeping the floor. What does it have to do with me? Of course I told you the truth.

Besides, those guys are really nothing. Everyone in the mountains knows their accents, especially the ones who rode on the valley road. They are so disgusting. I still want to continue the Tang family, so I don't want to be confused with them.

But logically, you should have been dead, I really don’t know why the leader let you go…”

Tiedan didn’t quite understand.

"Continuing the family line?"

Tang Tong raised his eyebrows.
"You don't know how to pass on the family line? That's it. This job is too delicate. It would take three days and three nights to explain it. I can't teach you. If you want to learn, you have to find the sister of Qingtang Sect..."

Tiedan narrowed his eyes.
"If you lose your primordial energy, how can you forge a sword embryo? If you forge a sword embryo, you will become the sword with your body, and sacrifice your body as the sheath. How can you pass it down from generation to generation?"

Tang Tong was dumbfounded.
"You...are you a swordsman?"

Iron Egg,

"you are not?"

Tang Tong was speechless for a while.
"I am, no, I am not, it's not me, ah... well, you win, no wonder you are so powerful, you killed them in just a few strokes. So this is the Sword Servant, he really lives up to his reputation...

Oh, I understand. No wonder the leaders are reluctant to chop off your head now! They want to wait for your sword infant to forge the sword!"

Tiedan was not surprised. In fact, he had vaguely guessed it when he saw the swords all over the mountains.

Isn't that how sword boys are supposed to be used? When a sword infant is formed, the whole person is directly put into the stove to stew. This is the so-called self-sacrifice sword, which is also considered the sword-making secret technique of the Sword Sect that is famous all over the world.

But listening to this...

"You from this mountain, don't you practice the sword of self-sacrifice?"

No, maybe I should ask it another way.

"Can you refine the sword without sacrificing your life?"

Tang Tong opened his mouth, sighed, and nodded.
"This method is not taught outside the mountain."

Okay, Tiedan understood everything.

So Benshan, there really are all kinds of methods, but people just won’t teach them to you.

"Take the swords forged from other mountains and give them to the people of your own mountain.

What's the difference between this and making a scabbard for the Emperor in the Demon Palace? "

Tang Tong scratched his head.

"At least if you can become a sword infant and combine your body with the sword, you will have a lifespan of hundreds or thousands of years.

Don’t you think about it? All of you people from other places picked up things on the roadside or bought them in the market.

If the Sword Sect hadn't picked you up, how could you have lived to this age? "He didn't need to say more. His life was given by the Sword Sect. They could use it however they wanted. Tiedan had always understood this principle. This was just the way the world was now. However...

"You guys from this mountain were also picked up by monkeys. What's the difference between you and us?"

When Tang Tong heard Tiedan ask this, he couldn't help laughing.

"Oh, you're talking about the story of the ape master who stole the sword and passed it on to his son. The disciples of the Sword Sect were all picked up by white apes and brought back to the mountains to be raised. That's why they are cautious in killing and don't look like humans.

That's just some gossip in the novels, which conceals the origin of Beichenwei and can't be taken seriously..."

Seeing Tiedan still staring at him, Tang Tong scratched his head and sighed.
"Forget it, you keep fussing about this outside the mountain, but do you know how I got my position as a disciple?

My Tang family has lived in Qianzhou for generations. We have served the Sword Sect for eight generations and made offerings every year. It was only in the ninth generation that I was born. I was destined to attain enlightenment and become an immortal. So we sold everything we had and sold everything we had to collect three thousand kilograms of charcoal, three thousand kilograms of iron, and the deeds to three thousand acres of land. We sent them all to the mountain and knelt for nine days and nine nights. Only then did the mountain monks, seeing my family's diligence over the years, reluctantly agreed to accept me as their disciple.

So what's the difference between us? Well, that's the only difference. I paid the tuition. What about you? "

Tiedan was silent for a while.

"So, everyone in your Benshan is a powerful family."

"Aristocratic family? Haha! Aristocratic family!?"

When Tang Tong heard that the other party had come to such a conclusion, he was so angry that he laughed.
"What is a noble family? If a family is wealthy, has a lot of money, and has many family members, then it is considered a noble family.
According to this statement, even the beggars on the streets today, if you count eight generations back, which one of them is not from a noble family?

Those truly poor people a few generations ago would have starved to death on the streets! How could there be any descendants left?
We are all descendants of the aristocratic families! The descendants of the Demon Palace!
Oh, what’s the matter? Senior brother, your family has fallen on hard times and you are pitiful, so I should pass on the Dharma to you for free?

I have been in the mountains for nine years! I sweep the floor and chop wood every day! I get beaten by them! Am I pitiful?
Just because my family paid the least! Until now, they only taught me this little bit of arithmetic and path-finding skills! Why!
I've been enduring this for nine years, just because of your little thing! I was driven down the mountain! Just because you wanted to fight for your anger! Just because you couldn't help but beat me up!

Why? Why? My family has worked so hard over the years to provide food, to pay grain, to mine iron, to shed sweat, to shed blood. All of this is given to us for nothing!?
I still want to ask why! Without the support of a powerful family like us! What do you eat, drink, and use in the mountains? Did it fall from the sky? ?
You say! If you don’t recruit people from the aristocratic families! How are you going to survive! Huh! ? "

Tiedan said coldly,
"Rob."

"Ha! Haha! Grab!"

Tang Tong laughed loudly.
"Haha! Grab it! Good! Senior brother, you're really not bad! At least you don't even bother to pretend! Good! Grab it!"
Then why don’t you ask the person you robbed whether he thinks it is fair?

Will people ask, since we are all the same! There is no difference!
Why do I deserve to be robbed by you? "

"It's what you deserve."

Tiedan looked coldly at the boy opposite him, speaking in a low voice, as if he was talking to him, or as if he was talking to himself.

“This is the way the world is, those who are older and stronger than me can rob me, bully me, and kill me.

Then when I am strong enough, I will snatch it back, seize it back, and kill it back.

Everyone's life is the same. Everyone can die by the sword. No one is any different.

Since everything I cared about has been taken away.

If I want something, I will draw my sword and take it, and I will kill anyone who stands in my way.

As long as I keep killing and robbing, when I become the best in the world, no one will be able to take my things away anymore."

"Bah! Nonsense! I think you're possessed!"

Tang Tong glared at Tiedan angrily.

Tiedan also stared at Tang Tong coldly.

The two men stared at each other, neither refusing to give in, until it got dark. Then a bear came over from the other side of the ridge, and suddenly saw the two men cross-eyed. It was startled and turned around and ran a few steps before it reacted.

That’s not right. I am a bear, why should I run?

Then it turned back and roared, "Gaaooh!" which made people stand up.

Tang Tong sneered and raised his head.

"Please, brother, you are very capable. Explain your truth to it."

Tiedan nodded.

"Good! White Tiger Leaps Over the Ravine!"

The Qingshuang sword flashes and the cold blade is unsheathed!
With a wave of his hand, the sword slashed and the bear's head was cut in two!
"Humph, you have a sword in your hand, but you hide it. You wanted to kill people from the beginning."

Tang Tong snorted coldly, took out a badge, and captured the bear with one move.

Tiedan didn't argue with him, and still let his right arm hang down, looking weak.

"Lead the way, it's getting dark."

Tang Tong also turned his head away and stopped looking at him, then walked away in silence.

The two young men, one in front and one behind, walked silently into the dark mountains.

(End of this chapter)