Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

Qin Gang said to Bai Yixing, "I heard from the clan leader that Xiaomu climbed up the Raofeng Cliff, which is several hundred feet high, to collect herbs for you. No one has ever climbed that cliff before. Xiaomu risked his life for you."

Bai Yixing was even more moved. He suddenly knelt down towards Chu Xiaomu and was about to kowtow.

Chu Xiaomu was quick and held him up, saying, "Brother, what are you doing?"

Bai Yixing said with tears in his eyes, "I will never forget your kindness. I don't have any other brothers or sisters, so why don't I recognize you as my brother? We will call each other brothers and share happiness and misfortune. What do you think?"

Chu Xiaomu didn't know that there was such a custom of worshipping brothers with different surnames in Cangmu Country, Baixue Country and other places. He was confused for a moment and didn't know how to answer.

Qin Gang explained, "If you two have a deep bond and are of the same mind, after you become brothers, he will be your elder brother and you will be his sworn brother, just like biological brothers. The three countries of Baixue, Cangmu, and Chisha all have this custom."

Chu Xiaomu didn't know how to respond and hesitated to answer.

He saw Bai Yixing was tall and handsome, and his clothes were a little tattered, but they could not hide his extraordinary demeanor. In contrast, he was wearing gray coarse clothes, his face was dark from years of sun exposure, his hands and feet were rough, and he looked dirty. Compared with him, he felt ashamed of himself, so how could he dare to call him a brother?

Seeing that Chu Xiaomu didn't say anything, Bai Yixing thought that he was unwilling, and said with some embarrassment: "Well...well...that's fine. We still have a lot of commercial goods on the ship. I'll give you some more..."

Chu Xiaomu shook his hands repeatedly and said, "That's not necessary. Your things are useless to me."

Bai Yixing was rejected repeatedly and felt very embarrassed. He had to talk about other things and said some irrelevant words, then left with many thanks.

Except for two seriously injured people who still need recuperation, the other seven people from the Snow Country have recovered.

After getting Bai Yixing's permission, everyone moved a lot of commercial goods from the ship to send to the residents of Baihua Island. However, most of the goods on the remaining cargo ship were hard emerald stone, jade and other items. Although they looked beautiful, they could only be used for decoration.

The residents of Baihua Island have always been simple, and no one knows the techniques of carving and engraving. Since there was no use for them, they all refused them, and Bai Yixing did not force them.

There are no iron mines on Baihua Island, but there are some copper ores in the shallow water area on the northwest coast. The islanders pick up some copper ores there to refine brass and make knives, axes, tripods and other objects, but because the refining is not precise, the quality of the products is very poor.

Bai Yixing took out several bundles of refined swords made of cold iron from the boat, which were very popular among the islanders.

Chu Qi excitedly picked up a long knife and chopped at a cypress tree as thick as a bowl. The cypress tree broke with a sharp sound, and the cut was neat, like chopping rotten wood.

He was so shocked that he was speechless and said, "This is incredible. If there are water monsters coming up next time, I will kill one at a time, two at a time, three at a time, four at a time... Even if there are no water monsters to kill, using this knife to cut down trees is also great. I can cut down at least a hundred trees a day. More than that, at least two hundred. Still more than that, at least three hundred and more..." Everyone laughed.

Bai Yixing smiled and said, "It's best to use it to kill water monsters, but it would be a waste of resources to use it to cut down trees. Do you know how much this knife would cost in Cangmu Country?"

Everyone shook their heads and said they didn't know. Bai Yixing stretched out two fingers and shook them, indicating that it was twenty gold.

Chu Qi nodded and said, "It's amazing that it's worth two fingers. But the people of Cangmu Country are also weird. Do they use their fingers to buy things? Ten fingers to buy five knives, it seems not a loss, but the fingers are all cut off, how can you use the knives?" After saying that, he shook his head. Everyone laughed again.

Bai Yixing smiled and said, "It's not a finger, it's money, money made of gold. This knife is worth twenty small pieces of gold!"

Chu Qi added, "I have seen gold before, but it cannot be eaten or drunk, and it certainly cannot be used to chop wood. You exchanged such a good knife for twenty pieces of useless gold. Isn't that a big loss?"

Seeing that he was being entangled, Bai Yixing just smiled and stopped answering him. He picked out a long sword from among the twenty or thirty swords and spears and sent it to Chu Xiaomu's home.

At this time, Chu Xiaomu's left arm had healed. He had just returned from mining salt with Chu Liang. When he saw Bai Yixing's excited look, he didn't understand why.

Chu Liang opened the door and invited him in to drink some freshly made scented tea.

Bai Yixing pulled Chu Xiaomu over and said happily: "I'll give you something good, I guarantee you'll like it."

Chu Xiaomu asked: "What good thing is this so mysterious?"

Bai Yixing took out a long hard cloth bag from behind him and opened it carefully. He saw a dark blue sword with a cold light. Although Chu Xiaomu recognized it, it was the first time he saw it. He said, "Is this the sword?"

Bai Yixing said: "This is a sharp weapon for killing enemies in battle. There is no man in the Cangmu Country, the Baixue Country, and the Chisha Country who doesn't like it."

Chu Xiaomu took the sword and suddenly remembered something. He walked into the house and searched for a while, and found a yellow and white old book that was about a finger thick.

The old book had no cover, the twine binding it had broken in several places, and the pages were in tatters.

There were seven or eight little men holding swords or spears on each page, posing in all kinds of strange postures, some stabbing, some thrusting, some chopping, some slashing, and some slashing horizontally. On some pages, the little men were riding horses, also posing in all kinds of postures... Bai Yixing knew that both the Cangmu Kingdom and the Baixue Kingdom had martial arts. Looking at the human figures on the old book, it was obvious that they were all martial arts techniques using swords and spears.

Chu Xiaomu opened the book and read it carefully for a while, then walked into the yard with a sword in hand and started slashing and stabbing left and right like the little man in the book. He actually did it quite well, with a whoosh of wind.

Bai Yixing clapped his hands and cheered, saying, "It turns out that Brother Xiaomu is born with the ability to use a sword. This time I gave him the right gift."

Chu Xiaomu blushed and said, "No one is born with the ability. I just learned it by following the examples of the villains in the book."

"I didn't expect that your village actually passed down martial arts. What sword style do you use?"

Chu Xiaomu shook his head. "Is this a sword style? I don't understand. But my grandfather told me that my ancestor Chu Xiong was originally a young general of the Cangmu Kingdom. He was particularly good at swordsmanship, so he left this booklet. When I get bored, I take a look at it and practice accordingly."

Bai Yixing said: "If you like this sword, I will get two more swords for you from the ship tomorrow."

Chu Xiaomu quickly shook his hand and said, "No, no, I just use it to play with it occasionally. It's useless to use more."

Bai Yixing said again: "Okay, I'll take you to my cargo ship in a few days. If you like anything, just pick it up."

Chu Xiaomu thought that he could get on the Snow Country ship, so he agreed. He thought that he could not take other things anyway.