Chapter 59: Holding a Sharp Blade, Killing Intent Arises

When Li Si heard this voice, his brows furrowed even tighter.

From Luo Ye, he knew that Liu Qin had stopped the constables’ questioning for him. At the same time, he was also very clear that this Liu Qin was no kind and virtuous person. Since he had helped him, he definitely wanted something.

After thinking for a moment, Li Si said to Cao Meng, “Tell him I am not receiving visitors recently.”

When Cao Meng heard Li Si’s words, he immediately left the courtyard and walked toward the hall.

“No... You cannot come in...” Before long, noisy sounds came from the hall.

Immediately afterward, a middle-aged man rushed into the courtyard, while Cao Meng followed behind this middle-aged man with an anxious expression.

“Oh, Scholar Li, you have been living quite comfortably recently.” As soon as the middle-aged man saw Li Si, he spoke with a beaming smile.

“Teacher, he...” Cao Meng anxiously wanted to say something.

Li Si waved his hand slightly, telling him there was no need to speak. At the same time, he looked toward Liu Qin and asked, “One does not visit the Three Treasures Hall without a reason. If there is something, say it directly. After you finish, I still need to rest.”

After saying this, he stretched lazily and yawned, looking very sleepy.

Seeing Li Si like this, a trace of anger flashed deep in Liu Qin’s eyes, but he still smiled fully and said, “Can I not come looking for you if there is nothing?”

“No. If Legal Secretary Liu has nothing to do, please go back.” Li Si swept a glance over Liu Qin and spoke calmly.

“Don’t. This time, I really do have something to come find you about.” Hearing Li Si speak so casually, Liu Qin became somewhat anxious.

“Speak.”

“Do you still have that book?” Liu Qin asked somewhat nervously.

Li Si frowned slightly and asked in puzzlement, “Which book?”

“The book I sold you back then!” Liu Qin said urgently.

“When did you sell me a book?” A trace of amusement flashed deep in Li Si’s eyes as he continued asking.

After Liu Qin sold him that book last time, he had refused to acknowledge it no matter what. Now he had come to ask him for the book, which could not help giving Li Si the idea of teasing him.

Liu Qin opened his mouth and was somewhat speechless. After he sold the book to Li Si back then, he had turned hostile and refused to recognize the matter, saying the book had not been sold by him. Now, bringing up this matter again was rather awkward.

But even though it was awkward, Liu Qin still braced himself and smiled. “It was the book I sold you for fifty taels of silver. I can now spend one hundred taels to buy it back. You would be earning double.”

Li Si looked at Liu Qin, his eyes narrowing slightly. This person would never rise early without profit. How could he possibly spend one hundred taels to buy back that previous book? There had to be something strange here.

“That book has already been burned by me. It was nothing but a useless book,” Li Si said calmly.

He was not lying. After the original owner had been played by Liu Qin back then, he had been somewhat angry and directly thrown the book into the stove as firewood.

“This...” Liu Qin opened his mouth, his expression somewhat ugly. He did not suspect Li Si’s words. Although this person did not get along with him, he disdained lying to him.

“This is serious trouble.” In the end, he sighed. Without greeting Li Si, he directly went out the door.

Li Si looked at his back, a thoughtful look appearing in his eyes.

Was this person acting like this because he had encountered something demonic or evil? Impossible. With the City God in the city, how could demons and evil things possibly set their eyes on him?

And even if he had encountered something demonic or evil, he should have told Li Si. After all, Li Si also had deeds of eliminating demons and evil things. Yet Liu Qin kept completely silent.

Then it should have nothing to do with demons and evil things. It was very likely connected to some people.

Thinking of this, Li Si threw this matter to the back of his mind. This matter had nothing to do with him. There was no need to wade into muddy water.

Afterward, he had Cao Meng go practise writing, while he took the Black Sword from the study.

Li Si sat on the stone steps and stroked the Black Sword. To be honest, he really was surprised. This Black Sword had only been worth 13 soul points, yet it was so useful. It could already be considered a divine weapon. This time, being able to return from the mountains owed a great deal to this sword.

He could not help having some thoughts. Perhaps the mall’s pricing method was not based on the object’s own value. It might be based on its effect against demon creatures and ghost creatures.

A divine weapon like the Black Sword could only be considered a mundane object. It could not have much effect against demon creatures and ghost creatures, so its value was not even as high as an Eight Trigrams Mirror.

At the same time, Li Si also thought of the lightning from the day before yesterday. It had struck that tiger demon seven or eight times before killing it. Could it be that lightning did not have the legendary power to execute evil? Or perhaps the power to execute evil was not as strong as imagined.

Could it be that apart from the sun in the sky, there was nothing in this world that could harm demons and ghosts?

Thinking of this, Li Si could not help finding his own thoughts funny. If that were the case, the people of this world would long since have been wiped out. How could so many people still be living in this world?

However, this question buried itself deep in his heart and took root there.

Since he could not figure it out, Li Si stopped wasting time. After all, he had only been in this world for a short time, and he knew too little information. Without corresponding intelligence, it was very difficult to reason out a conclusion.

After putting down the doubts in his heart, Li Si looked at the longsword in his hand and pondered slightly. This sword looked extremely unreasonable.

Because this sword had no guard. That made it very easy for the sword to injure its user.

Suddenly, Li Si’s eyes brightened. He looked toward the hilt of the Black Sword, reached out, and tugged at the black cloth wrapped around the hilt. Immediately, the long strip of black cloth was untied by Li Si, revealing the true grip inside.

The grip was wrapped in thin cord. Li Si touched it, and the sensation of the thin cord rubbing against his palm felt extremely comfortable, giving him an urge to swing it.

However, Li Si immediately suppressed this urge. He looked at the black cloth strip extending from the thin cord on the grip, and his heart stirred slightly. He slowly wrapped this long black cloth strip tightly around his right hand. Only then did Li Si discover that this cloth strip was extremely firm, unlike an ordinary object.

After Li Si tied the long cloth strip properly, his hand and the sword hilt had already been tightly bound together by the black cloth.

His right hand extended, drawing out the Black Sword. The longsword’s sword light flashed, immediately making one feel chilled to the bone.

“What a sword with such heavy killing nature!” Li Si looked at the sword in his hand. His right hand was tightly bound together with this sword, and he only felt a surge of killing intent sprout from within his heart.

So this sword did not need a guard, because this black cloth strip was the guard.

Li Si exhaled softly, slowly inserted the Black Sword back into the scabbard, untied the cloth strip, then wrapped the cloth strip back around the grip.

“When one carries a sharp weapon, killing intent arises on its own. I must be careful and treat it seriously.” He calmed the killing intent that had sprouted earlier, while also secretly warning himself that even if his martial force became stronger, he absolutely could not kill innocents recklessly.

Li Si had not cultivated martial virtue before practising the martial path, so he had always kept vigilance in this regard.

Afterward, he practised sword techniques with a long stick in the courtyard. This sword technique was one of the killing moves from The Black Tortoise Record. He had also understood that no matter how many ghosts he had helping him, he still needed something to rely on himself. Otherwise, like when he encountered that tiger, he would have a nine-in-ten chance of death.

And as it happened, learning killing moves with a weapon was much better than using hands and feet, especially with a divine weapon like the Black Sword.

Even if he encountered an extremely powerful expert, if that expert was not on guard, Li Si might still use the Black Sword to kill him by surprise.