Chapter 39: This Seat's New Weapon

Inside the cave, there is a narrow tunnel. They stepped on steps made of slippery stones at the bottom of the lake, and the slippery sensation pervaded from the soles of their feet to their hearts. After this section, a light suddenly dawned in front of them.

The Shenwu Arsenal, which Gouchen Shanggong described as 'small and messy', is not at all the size it seems to be. The ancient wood is so vast that the cavernous sky inside is even more so from the sky above and the earth below. The rows and rows of shelves holding the most powerful weapons in the world were so imposing that they could not be seen from the dome.

In the centre of the armoury lies a hot smelting pool, filled with orange-red iron water, in which a single unmade blade is being washed. Each of the weapons made by Gouchen Shanggong is superior to the streams of purple, lightning and frost, and the terrible heat does not destroy them in any way, but makes the blades more and more brilliant, and the dragon shines brightly.

The best part is the swirling of the various parts in the air, all of which are influenced by the spell formation within the ancient wood and can move around on their own.

The tiny floral pieces, inlaid with jewels, are like charming spirits, squeaking and rattling all over the sky, occasionally colliding with each other to create crystal sparks and tinkling.

Gouchen Shanggong looked back and smiled slightly, "Smaller place, isn't it"

Shi Mei :""

Ugh.

Xue Meng :""

Small then what does big mean?

Mo Ran :""

I have a fucking word for you, I don't know if I should say it.

Chu Wanning :""

Gouchen Shanggong told Xue Meng and Shi Mei to take whatever they liked from the collection. As for Mo Ran, Gouchen was quite interested in him and exchanged several blades for him, but none of them were to his liking.

"The phoenix is a scorched tail." Handed a fourteenth weapon, Gouchen Shanggong was undeterred, "Try this one."

Mo Ran: "I don't know how to play music."

"No harm, just a couple of random strokes."

Mo Ran played a few strokes on the ancient lute, which had a shiny front section and a blackened end, but the string tremors could not be stopped and became a sharp tone.

Gouchen Shanggong immediately tosses Feng Ming aside and the spell holds the guqin back in place, replacing it with another jasper lute.

Mo Ran: "Forget about it." He's a big man and he's not playing the lute like a girl, something that only the Kunlun Snow Walk Palace boys would do.

Gouchen Shanggong insisted: "Try."

"All right." Mo Ran couldn't resist, so he took it and did as he was told, but he seemed to have a bit of a grudge, and before he could play it twice, he actually broke the string.

""

Gouchen Shanggong stared at the broken string for a long time and said, "Do you know what this string is made of?"

Mo Ran said, "You're not going to ask me to pay for it, are you?"

" The white hair of the goddess Wushan." Gouchen Shanggong murmured, "It is the essence of the earth spirit that cannot be cleaved by sword or burnt by fire. You actually you"

Mo Ran turned his head in horror and said, "Master I can't afford to pay him back"

Chu Wanning :""

Gouchen Shanggong twirled the long strings and muttered to himself, "Wood is the key to earth, you can destroy earth spirit essence, could it be that the right weapon for you is wood spirit essence"

"What."

"I shouldn't have" Gouchen Shanggong glanced at Chu Wanning for some reason. Chu Wanning catches his gaze and asks, "What shouldn't"

Gouchen Shanggong did not answer immediately, but raised his hand and summoned a clay ocarina to blow slowly, and as the sound of the ocarina fell, a blood-red summoning spell suddenly split open at the top of the sky.

" Ji Baihua, you come out."

Mo Ran tilted his head, and Xue Meng and Shi Mei were also attracted by the buzz. Gouchen Shanggong's fingertips were in the air, working the complex spell formation at the zenith, and then a fox fairy with a fluffy tail emerged from the formation, silver dust rustling and light flowing.

The fox fairy hovered in the air and landed in front of Mo Ran.

The fox immortal was extremely good-looking, and only when he got closer did he realise that he was a man, with red yin falling from his brow, his peach-blossom eyes slightly lifted, his anger was also three parts love.

Gouchen said, "You should have sensed why I called you."

"I am aware of that."

Gouchen asks, "What do you think?"

Ji Baihua smiled, "Not bad, give it a try."

These two guys asked one question and answered the other, completely ignoring the remaining four.

Mo Ran couldn't help but say, "What the hell are you talking about?"

"Your Mightiness, can't you wait," said Ji Baihua, the fox fairy, "It's funny, before I showed up, I sensed your spiritual energy from a distance and thought you were at least an old man with white hair, but I didn't think you were a handsome boy. But I didn't expect a handsome young man."

Mo Ran :""

Gouchen Shanggong said, " Ji Baihua, you start with the serious stuff."

"Well, I was just kidding." Ji Baihua narrowed his eyes and flicked his furry tail, "Seriously what is it oops little hook don't stare at me like that, this is really a long story"

Mo Ran laughed and said, "Well, can we make this short?"

Ji Baihua also smiled and said, "Well, well, well, if you want to be short, it's actually particularly short." He channelled his spiritual energy and suspended the box in his hand in front of Mo Ran.

"Here, take it."

It was really succinct.

Mo Ran took the box and held it in his hands, turning it over and weighing it.

The box is a brilliant golden box, with a brilliant colour, and there is no telling what kind of Shenwu it contains. The only decoration is a yin and yang fish pattern on the box, with two koi carp, one black and one white, joining their tails to form the eight trigrams.

"How should this be opened?"

Ji Baihua: "Hee hee, the way to open it is out of my mouth and into the ears of the king, and no one else shall hear it."

Xue Meng asked, "Do you mean that we should recuse ourselves?"

Ji Baihua smiled and said, "There is no need for you all to take refuge, I will only offend this little Your Mightiness." With a wave of his hand, Mo Ran's eyes went dark and, at some point, they were in a small chamber.

"Little Your Mightiness Don't be nervous, this is a spatial shifting technique that I am good at, the brocade box containing the weapon is my unique secret magic treasure, so I must not tell you the method of opening it in front of everyone. Don't be offended."

Mo Ran laughed and said, "No matter. But I would like to ask what kind of weapons are in here that need to be contained in a separate box."

"I can't tell you that." Ji Baihua said. Ji Baihua said, "Shenwu has a temperament, this weapon does not want to be known easily, if you mess with it, even if you open the box, it will not recognise you as its master."

"" Mo Ran was speechless for a moment and had to laugh bitterly, "What weapon has such an odd temper. All right, all right, just tell me how to open this box"

When Ji Baihua saw that he did not press the issue, his heart grew fonder and he laughed, "Your Mightiness, then I am not ambivalent. This box is called Sauvignon Blanc. As you can see, it is seamless, and if you want to open it, you must meet two conditions."

Mo Ran said, "I'd like to hear more about it."

Ji Baihua said, "I, the Fox Immortals, believe in true love and good karma. Therefore, firstly, in this world, there is only one person who can open a long love affair. This person is very important in your life, you must love him/her deeply and he/she must also be devoted to you and treat you faithfully."

Mo Ran laughed, "So that's a strange request, but it's not difficult." He was still convinced of his affection for Shi Mei.

Ji Baihua said, but his lips curled up slightly: "How is it not difficult? Since ancient times, people's hearts are the most difficult to gauge, and what you think is not necessarily true. I have been in the world for a long time, and I have seen too many people lose their hearts, not knowing who their beloved one really is. In these millions of years, there are very few people who have been able to open their hearts to longing, so to speak."

Mo Ran wondered, "Why is that? Even if we get the wrong person, we can keep looking, we can try everyone we know one by one, we can always find the most important person in our lives."

Ji Baihua said, "This is the second condition I have to say. Apart from you, the Sauvignon can only be touched by one person, which means that you only have one chance, and if you find the wrong person to open it, it will be closed forever, and no one will ever be able to obtain the contents of the box again."

Mo Ran laughed, "No wonder you're keeping everyone else apart. It's hard for me to deal with that if they hear you. How awkward it would be if I held the box up to whoever was there to see it and they would know who I liked." He paused, playing with the brocade box in his hands, and added, "But it's funny how you guys make these little gadgets, this turns out to be a locking eye that can only be used once, open it wrong and the box is ruined."

"Naturally, you can only open it once, otherwise how many more times do you want to open it?" Ji Baihua glared at him, "You mortals have been playing around in the red world for dozens of years, how many good destinies you have let down without realizing it. You should know that deep love in this world is like this long love, if you choose wrong, it is hard to go back."

"Haha, don't worry Fox Tai Sin, others can choose wrongly, but I know it well." Mo Ran bowed towards him with his palms together and smiled, "I can't live up to this love affair."

Ji Baihua gave him a look, his voice low and warm, extremely elegant and beautiful: "Little Your Mightiness, don't be too confident. I see that you are in fact a Wushan customer who does not know his destiny."

Mo Ran froze, her smile still frozen on her face, "What do you mean?"

This handsome immortal, who claimed that he "believed in true love and good karma", did not want to say more, but only sighed quietly: "There is no reason to break the willow branch for long love. Alas."

Mo Ran was not very educated and could not understand this acidic dropping of books, but he always felt that the fox fairy was trying to remind him of something in a roundabout way, but unfortunately he was too stupid to think of anything.

When Ji Baihua was about to ask another question, he smiled faintly and said that his mission had been accomplished, waved his sleeve and sent Mo Ran out of the chamber, while he himself suddenly froze and became stiff and rigid, then broke apart with a crash, leaving only a black piece to fall where he had been standing.

It's a pity Mo Ran didn't see this, but if he had, a lot of things would probably have changed at the bottom of the lake.

When Mo Ran came back to his senses, he found himself back in the Shenwu Arsenal, holding the Sauvignon Blanc in his hands. The other four were waiting for him in the Shenwu Arsenal and when they saw him return, Gouchen Shanggong smiled with a bright smile on his teeth and said, "That little fox is really funny, opening a box in such a mysterious way. How is it? Do you know how to open it?"

At this juncture, he couldn't be bothered to think about it, and Mo Ran, on second thought, smiled and said, "Yes, that's easy enough."

He walked up to Shi Mei seemingly unobtrusively: "The lock is so subtle and interesting that I don't think you'll be able to figure it out for eight or ten years. Come and have a look."

With that, the box is handed to Shi Mei in a seemingly unobtrusive manner.

The golden glow of the glorious box in front of Shi Mei's face is reflected in her soft, beautiful eyes.

" Shi Mei, you try it first." Mo Ran was trying to act like nothing was wrong, but her heart was in a tangle and her palms were sweating.

It was a gamble on his chances of having a new Shenwu, and he should be very careful, but he felt he had been very careful, he had died once, would he not know who he cared about most?

He's not stupid.

Shi Mei hesitated slightly, but eventually took the Sauvignon Blanc from Mo Ran.

Mo Ran's heart hung in her throat, but after a long time of staring, nothing was happening.

Mo Ran :""

Shi Mei is holding the box carefully, examining it, running her fingertips over the yin and yang fish pattern, and then wondering, "There's not even the slightest gap, and the chain of eyes can't be seen anywhere."

Why no response

Why did Shi Mei come across Sauvignon Blanc and it didn't move at all?

Could it be ah yes yes yes gloves

Mo Ran glanced at the warm deerskin gloves Shi Mei was wearing and was about to ask Shifu to take them off and try again. Suddenly, without warning, a hand with five long fingers and well-balanced bones reached out and took the long acacia in a smooth and steady manner.

Mo Ran was struck by lightning and cried out in dismay, "Master!"

Chu Wanning was so shocked that he almost dropped the box, but the man's calmness was so deep in his bones that his inner turmoil was unnoticeable.

Mo Ran wailed like a dead man, "O Master!"

Xue Meng got goose bumps: "What's wrong with screaming like someone stole your wife when you just took a box?"

"I'm-I'm," Mo Ran said, too furious to say it explicitly, but covering her face and howling, "Oh my God."

Chu Wanning Why don't you wear gloves?

You are so afraid of the cold

We all wear them in the snow and ice, why only you?

Suddenly, Mo Ran froze for a moment.

Yes

The exorcising begonia that they wore needed to echo Chu Wanning's palm power, so Chu Wanning never bought himself a pair of cold gloves in the first place.

He doesn't wear gloves to protect them.

But I never cared for him from the beginning to the end, so much so that it was only when I was about to start my long love affair that I suddenly realised that Chu Wanning, who was most afraid of the cold, had been freezing all along.

Mo Ran was in tears, thinking how unlucky he had been to lose out on Shenwu. The two metal fish came to life as Chu Wanning's fingers gently touched the fish, and they began to twist and turn around the box.

Slight pause.

There were two crunching sounds as the yin and yang fish tangled and disturbed each other, eventually floating up and becoming two handles.

Mo Ran is stunned.

Ji Baihua's words still ring in my ears.

"There is only one person who can open a long love affair. This person is extremely important in your life, you need to love this person deeply and this person must also be devoted to you and treat you faithfully."

This person is Chu Wanning

How could it be Chu Wanning?

How could he love Chu Wanning and how could Chu Wanning love him?

This must be wrong, it must be the wrong box, this box is broken.

But before that surprise was over, Chu Wanning picked up Shenwu in Sauvignon Blanc and something even more disconcerting and shocking happened.

Mo Ran was not the only one who was surprised, the other three, even Chu Wanning, had a slightly shaken face.

Eyes reflecting the brilliance of the arms, a glistening beam of fine soft willow vine illuminates the faces of all.

Chu Wanning :""

Xue Meng :""

Shi Mei :""

The two words stuck in Mo Ran's throat for a long time before he spat them out with difficulty, full of disbelief.

"Heavenly Questions"