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“Wow hahahahahaha…”

Jiangling City, the prefect's mansion, and the bedroom where Wu Fan is located.

Wu Fan was having fun when he woke up early in the morning, and he was having fun until he had dinner.

Finally, I have obtained the legendary Holy Scar skill. It’s so damn difficult! So, next, all the princes in the world who are still resisting stubbornly, let’s see how I, Wu Fan, deal with you next!

Wu Fan was happy because the pace of unification of the world was further advanced, and his long-cherished wish was realized as soon as possible. His three wives, servants, and Wu Ying were also happy; however, they were not very interested in the Holy Seal skill, but were happy and proud that Wu Fan became the most famous scholar in the world. The entire prefect's mansion was decorated with lights and a joyful scene, and the scene was much more festive and lively than the New Year.

After breakfast, many civil and military officials under Wu Fan came to congratulate him. Because of the New Year, Wu Fan gave his civil and military officials five days off, so these talents came to Wu Fan's prefect's mansion from home to congratulate him, rather than waiting in the main palace as usual.

The house is not as serious as the main hall of the palace. Although they are subordinates, they smile like their own brothers. This is like a teacher and a student. In class, the teacher looks serious and serious. After get off work, when walking with the student, the teacher usually puts down his airs and gets together with the student.

The same was true for Wu Fan at this time. He drank hot tea with his subordinates in the lobby, chatted casually, and chatted around the world. I don’t know which general suggested that since the governor had the Holy Scar skill and we are now in the rest period, why not go out of the city to hunt now? Maybe he could encounter a holy beast lurking in the human world.

This proposal was unanimously agreed by everyone. Wu Fan was also happy to take this opportunity to exercise his muscles and bones. If he really could meet the legendary holy beast, it would be too exciting!

After Yuan Shao surrendered, Wu Fan once asked Yuan Shao about the holy beast and learned that the holy beast obtained by Yuan Shao was low. The reason was that Yuan Shao was panicked at that time, and his subordinate Xu Huang killed the holy beast on his behalf, so that the holy beast did not agree with Yuan Shao very strongly.

Even so, when the Yuan and Cao armies were fighting, Yuan Shao released the low-level holy beast, which still caused the Cao army to lose money and even reverse the situation directly, forcing the Cao army, which originally had the advantage, to retreat back to the camp.

Wu Fan's force is much higher than Yuan. Therefore, Wu Fan is confident that he can gain higher recognition from the holy beast, and the level of the holy beast he gets is naturally higher than that of Yuan Shao. Thinking about this, it is not difficult to understand Wu Fan's expectation for this Holy Scar skill.

The surrounding areas of Jiangling City are mostly plains and farmland. There is a barren mountain just a few miles away to the east. There are dense forests on the hillside and at the foot of the mountain. Most wild animals are hidden in it. It is the best place for hunting in the surrounding areas of Jiangling.

After everyone arrived at the barren mountain, according to the rules in the circle, most of them rode their horses and ran away from all directions, driving away the beasts in the forest, leaving the protagonist Wu Fan and several civil servants in the center, waiting for the prey to appear.

A few minutes later, the sound of wild beasts frightened in the originally calm forest began to sound. Then, wild beasts such as rabbits, wild boars, foxes, mountain jīs appeared in front of Wu Fan. After seeing Wu Fan and everyone standing here, they emerged from the woodland and rushed to other places. There were also the panicked beasts running over Wu Fan and everyone, and crawling into the forest on the other side.

Whether it is a wild beast that shows its head a little or a wild beast running past, as long as Wu Fan wants to shoot, he can achieve perfect arrows with his current bow technique.

However, after firing a few arrows, Wu Fan was a little excited because he could not see large beasts, especially the tigers that might possess the holy beasts, and he rushed down the bow and arrow on the saddle bridge, looking at the beasts that appeared around him, only looking for the figures of the beasts.

However, a whole morning passed, only a tiger appeared and was easily knocked down by Wu Fan. There was no prompt about the holy beast. Everyone felt a little regretful about this.

In fact, the chance of the holy beast appearing is very low. Yuan Shao was lucky at that time and even encountered the holy beast as soon as he left the city. Wu Fan also knew about this. Therefore, after feeling a little regretful, Wu Fan did not struggle with this issue for too long, and divided the prey he shot to his subordinates, and then took everyone back to the city.

After returning to the city, Wu Fan asked everyone to go back to reunite with his family without having to accompany him. After all, for Chinese people, the annual New Year is the most important festival. It is already very interesting to accompany him all morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Wu Fan felt that he should not take up the time when everyone reunites with his family, let alone he had nothing to do.

After everyone said goodbye to Wu Fan one by one, Wu Fan walked alone on the streets returning to the mansion.

At this time of the festival, although every household is filled with a festive atmosphere, the streets are decorated with lights, and red couplets and lanterns set off a warm atmosphere. However, due to the traditional family concepts and customs of the people of China, during the festival, most people will stay at home with their families, and the streets become deserted, which is different from the bustling scenes in the past.

The horse's hooves were stepping on the ground, and the sound of hooves was clearly heard. Wu Fan was walking on the cold street. The gate of a family in front of him opened, and an old craftsman in his forties or fifties walked out from inside. Behind the old craftsman was a jumping grandson. It seemed that his grandson was so bored at home that he asked his grandfather to take him out to play.

This old craftsman and Wu Fan are considered old acquaintances. The weapon used by Wu Fan, Long Eshan, was created by this old craftsman and dozens of skilled craftsmen in Yuan Shao's army when he was under Yuan Shao's command in Hebei. Everyone may not remember his name, and he was named Gu Zhong; he also had a son named Gu Feng, who was also a craftsman.

As for the grandson who was following Gu Zhong, he was naturally Gu Feng's son.

Why is this old craftsman in Jiangling? Chongjia will briefly explain it here:

It's not very complicated to say. After Yuan Shao officially surrendered to Cao's army, not only did his civil and military officials and the army surrendered to Cao's army, but the craftsmen in the army also belonged to Cao's army. Gu Zhong and his son officially became craftsmen in Wu Fan's army at that time. Later, Wu Fan organized this main force, and Wu Fan was also incorporated into this army by Wu Fan because of his outstanding skills. Since these two people did not have much interaction with Wu Fan and had nothing important, they were always in a state of neglect.

Although they have fewer relationships, Wu Fan and the father and son have a very good relationship, but the identity relationship makes it impossible for them to be together often.

Seeing that Wu Fan happened to pass by the door of his house, Gu Zhong hurriedly bowed to Wu Fan. Wu Fan smiled, so that he didn't have to be too polite. However, Wu Fan suddenly remembered something and asked Gu Zhong:

"Old Gu, I have a strange piece of metal here. I wonder if you can see what it can be used for?"

The piece of metal Wu Fan mentioned appeared from Zhang Fei.

After killing Zhang Fei, a leather bag also appeared. Wu Fan thought that it would be a treasure of the transfer military talisman or even a property upper limit talisman, and could not help but look forward to it. As a result, when a Qingzhou Dou general took the leather bag in front of him, Wu Fan opened it and saw that there was only a piece of black metal inside. He looked at it again in surprise and explained that it was only an unknown piece of metal, and the specific quality and attributes were all question marks.

Wu Fan was very depressed, but at that time, Gao Shun and others' troops were still fighting against Qingzhou generals, so Wu Fan directly put the unknown metal in his arms. Afterwards, he threw it at home after returning to the mansion and ignored it.

Today I suddenly saw Gu Zhong. Wu Fan knew that this old craftsman was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and had a lot of knowledge about metallurgy, so he had this question.

Gu Zhong was stunned when he heard this and repeated:

"The Governor said...metal?"

Wu Fan was also stunned at this time and turned to understand. The ancients did not understand what metal meant, so he said:

"It's just a strange piece of iron."

When Gu Zhong heard that there was a strange piece of iron, he immediately became interested. He had dealt with iron all his life, and he had never seen any iron before? There was a strange piece of iron now, so Gu Zhong naturally wanted to see what it was.

Therefore, he hurriedly bowed to Wu Fan:

"I wonder where the strange iron that the governor said is? Please let the old man take a look."

Wu Fan said:

"In my house, follow me."

Gu Zhong responded, picked up his grandson and followed Wu Fan and walked behind.

However, the grandson seemed not interested in going to the prefect's mansion. After a while in Gu Zhong's arms, he clamored to take him to another place to play. Gu Zhong coaxed and scared him, but his grandson just refused to listen. Finally, Wu Fan said in front: Uncle will give you a lot of candy later. This made the grandson quiet.

After returning to the prefect's mansion, Gu Zhong insisted on waiting outside the mansion, but Wu Fan did not force him. This is the case in this era. It is better not to destroy the order of superiority and inferiority. After taking out the strange metal, Wu Fan did not forget to instruct his servants to bring out another plate of candy and give it to Gu Zhong's grandson.

When the present man handed a plate of candy to Gu Zhong's grandson, his grandson was naturally very happy. Gu Zhong was even more flattered and refused several times, finally happily accepted it. Wu Fan took out the strange black metal and handed it to Gu Zhong to watch.

Gu Zhong held it in his hand and looked carefully for a while, frowned deeply. With all the metals in the world, he could not recognize what this strange piece of metal was.

Just when Wu Fan was disappointed, Gu Zhong asked tentatively: I wonder if the governor could allow the old man to take this piece of metal to his master, and he would take a look at it. If that was the case, the mystery of this metal could be solved!

Wu Fan was very surprised. He thought Gu Zhong's skills were very strong and he should be considered a top expert in this world. Unexpectedly, he had a master!

Since this piece of metal is like a waste in his hands, Wu Fan certainly would not object to Gu Zhong's proposal. However, Wu Fan then asked where his master was and replied: It is in Li County, Pingchang, Xiang.

When Wu Fan heard that it was so far away, he was speechless. It took at least more than a month to travel from Li County, Xiangping to Jiangling from Pingtung County, Xiang, and his master had to study it for a while. It seemed that he would not know the result after at least two months.

Even so, it would be better than being as strong as a waste in his hands. Wu Fan finally agreed to Gu Zhong's proposal.

As for why there is such a strange piece of metal on Zhang Fei? Wu Fan speculated so—

Zhang Fei's Snake Spear was snatched by himself, and there was no weapon to match. Therefore, Zhang Fei naturally wanted to create another weapon to match, so he began to collect materials for making weapons. Since Zhang Fei had a deep hatred with him, he always wanted to play with him, but he felt that his own force had no advantage compared to himself, so he wanted to use the creation of a peerless weapon to significantly increase his force.

With this idea, Zhang Fei looked for materials used to build weapons that were very different from the usual materials, which is why this piece of metal is strange.

Although Wu Fan's analysis has no evidence, it is completely consistent with the facts. As for what this piece of metal is... Well, Chongjia doesn't know now. After two months, Chongjia will be revealed the truth like everyone...

Looking back, Gu Zhong wrapped the strange piece of metal with a thick layer, putting it in his arms, fearing that he would be dirty. Then, he led his greedy grandson to bid farewell to Wu Fan and went back to his home.

Before leaving, Wu Fan asked casually:

"Old Gu, have you ever heard people say that where are there beasts in the surrounding area of ​​Jiangling?"

Sometimes, the folk news on certain things is more detailed and in-depth than the information that the official has. Although it is inevitable that there is some distortion or exaggeration during the word of mouth, it still cannot deny the unique role of folk news.

However, this is just sometimes, not absolute. Wu Fan did not expect too much about this issue, but just asked this casually.

Under Wu Fan's rule, the security level of Jiangling City has always remained high, and has basically never been below 90 points. Currently, the security level of Jiangling City is 97 points. Under such a high security level, the chance of hunting and encountering tigers is very high. Wu Fan therefore asked Gu Zhong about the situation of beasts in the surrounding areas of Jiangling.

Unexpectedly, Gu Zhong had really heard of such a place and said to Wu Fan:

"When I go back to the Governor, if you want to talk about where the beasts are there, the old man has heard of a place called Heifeng Cliff. It is said that there are groups of beasts there, all over the mountains and fields. No matter how outstanding the hunter is, he is silent when he hears the three words Heifeng Cliff. Throughout history, no one can come out alive from there!"

When Wu Fan heard that this place called Heifeng Cliff was so dangerous, he suddenly became curious: In such a dangerous place, I wonder if there is a holy beast lurking in it?

Assuming that there is indeed a holy beast lurking in this place, compared to the low-level holy beast possessed by an ordinary tiger in the mountains and fields that Yuan Shao encountered, the holy beast that could lurk on the Black Wind Cliff would be much higher! Even the top level might be. After all, in this world, I have never heard of a more dangerous place for beasts to gather than the Black Wind Cliff.

With this idea, Wu Fan was even a little excited and hurriedly asked Gu Zhong where the Black Wind Cliff was. Gu Zhong said:

"It's in Wuchang County west of Chaisang. Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to say to the governor, this Black Wind Cliff belongs to the territory of Chaisang and the jurisdiction of Sun Jian in Jiangdong."

When Wu Fan heard this, he nodded silently, said nothing, and waved his hand to let Gu Zhong go back.

The territory of Chaisang is under the jurisdiction of Sun Jian. These two keywords made Wu Fan frown slightly. If it were Liu Yan or the territory of the four counties in Jingnan, Wu Fan would not care about it at all, but Sun Jian in Jiangdong was different. In order to prevent Wu Fan's Jiangling, Chaisang was stationed in many historical generals under Sun Jian's tents, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, and Jiang Qin, were not ordinary people.

I just wanted to see if there were any holy beasts in Black Wind Cliff, so it was naturally not convenient to bring heavy troops to it, nor was it convenient to bring other generals. After all, this is my own business. Although the generals would not say anything about this, I thought it was unreasonable for the reasons.

In addition, riding a target alone is not easy to be seen by others, and there is no concern when escaping in danger. In contrast, if you take other generals, there are disadvantages in both aspects.

After thinking for a while, Wu Fan couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, laughing at himself as being too cautious. Although Heifeng Cliff is close to Chaisang City, it is just a rarely visited mountain and jungle. Sun Quan and his subordinates ran away after eating and running out of their fill? Could they calculate that they would know where they would go to check if there were any holy beasts, and then set up an ambush in advance?

Thinking of this, Wu Fan's previous worries were wiped out, so he immediately decided: stay in the mansion for another two days and spend the New Year with his family. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, go to Heifeng Cliff to find out.

With this thought in mind, Wu Fan spent the next two days like the New Year. Early in the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Wu Fan found an excuse to say goodbye to his family, rode his horse out of the city alone, and came to Chaisang, east of Jiangling.

There is also a Jiangjin County between Wuchang County and Jiangling City, which belongs to the Jiangling boundary; after crossing the entire Jiangjin County, it enters the Chaisang boundary.

Wu Fan asked a few locals and found out that Wu Fan was going to Heifeng Cliff, the locals were shocked. Although they told Wu Fan the location of Heifeng Cliff, everyone repeatedly advised Wu Fan not to go there.

The more he said this, the more curious Wu Fan felt, the more he had to go to Heifeng Cliff to find out. The so-called skilled and brave man is the most appropriate way to describe Wu Fan at this time.

About twenty miles away from the Black Wind Cliff, there is a Black Wind Town. Wu Fan rushed to the town when it was dark, ate some wine and food in a tavern, and stayed in the tavern that night.

In the middle of the night, the north wind yelled, and you could vaguely hear the sound of tigers roaring and bears roaring on the Black Wind Cliff in the northwest. The children in the town were so scared that they hurried into the quilt, and the adults were so scared that they didn't dare to come out.
Chapter completed!