"Oh, you're asking about the Sword of Truth. It's priced at three hundred taels of silver!"
The stall owner was a young man dressed like a scholar. When he saw Su Rui asking the price, he touched his nose and smiled.
Seeing his actions, Su Rui felt that the price was a rip-off. However, he was very curious about the sword and asked, "Mantra Sword? It is said that Buddhism has Sanskrit mantras. Are the runes on this sword Sanskrit mantras?"
"That's right, the Sanskrit words above are the nine Sanskrit mantras of 'When approaching the enemy, all those who fight will march forward in formation'! It's said that chanting the mantra will bring you infinite blessings of light, and all evil will ward off evil, and ghosts and gods will avoid you!" The young scholar introduced with great proficiency.
Su Rui reached out and touched the runes on the sword. From these runes, he felt the breath of the sun's essence. Every day he channeled and refined the sun's essence to use in the ritual of refining the "Mori Sun Golden Light Pupil". Su Rui was very familiar with the aura it exuded!
"Is that really the case? I'll buy this Sword of Truth!"
Su Rui pondered for a moment, and decided that the sword might not be entirely a scam. At least those nine characters were quite valuable, so he decided to buy it. He hadn't saved much money during this period, mainly because his "Gengjin Sword Qi Jue" was too expensive to cultivate, and it would easily "turn gold into earth." The metal he had consumed so far was probably worth no less than ten thousand taels of silver. However, as the saying goes, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse, so he still had the financial resources to spare for two or three hundred silver coins.
After settling the payment with the young scholar, Su Rui took the Mantra Sword and studied it as he walked. The sword was made of ordinary iron, but after being engraved with nine Sanskrit mantras, it had the unique property of absorbing the sun's energy, which was perfect for suppressing evil spirits.
Su Rui suspected that someone had mass-produced these specifically to target the evil spirits outside the town. Whether the intention was to exterminate the spirits or to make money was hard to say.
"If these nine Sanskrit mantras were engraved on other weapons, would the same effect be achieved?"
"Is there any way to incorporate this nine-character mantra into the 'Golden Light Pupil of the Maori'? After adding the nine-character mantra, the 'Golden Light Pupil of the Maori' should be able to gain some power, right? After all, both have the property of absorbing the essence of the sun."
Questions popped up in Su Rui's mind, and he finally decided to give it a try.
He first asked Xiaotu to deduce the feasibility of incorporating the nine Sanskrit mantras into the "Mori Golden Light Pupil." He then bought several standard iron swords identical to the Mantra Sword and carried them behind him.
Although Shi Yi and others were puzzled by his purchase of swords, they simply assumed that he was buying a few more swords as backup for when he left the city.
In addition to him, several other people also bought some small protective accessories such as hairpins, sachets, head ornaments, and earrings.
Looking at these things, Su Rui suddenly remembered that the evil-repelling jade pendant he had taken from the scumbag Zhang San seemed to still be on him, so he didn't join them in the attack. Afterwards, the few of them bought a few rare magic talismans and some golden wound medicine before returning to Shi Yi's courtyard.
It was still early.
Su Rui found an open area, started a fire, and selected a standard iron sword, heating the blade red hot. He then began to engrave the Sanskrit mantra on the blade in the style of the Mantra Sword. It took him nearly an hour to finally finish, but he discovered that none of the inherent properties had appeared.
"Do I need to use my true Qi to stimulate it?" Su Rui thought unwillingly.
So he picked up the freshly forged iron sword and tried to inject a wisp of Gengjin true qi into it to stimulate a sword energy, but the stimulated sword energy was scattered and far inferior to the Hanjiang Sword, and there was nothing special about it.
Afterwards, he picked up the Sword of Truth and poured a strand of true energy into it. Although the sword energy that was stimulated this time was also scattered, it was attached with strands of solar essence, and it was obviously the nemesis of evil.
Su Rui sighed, discarded the freshly forged iron sword, and then muttered to himself, "Xiaotu, have you found any results on the deduction of the nine-word mantra for the 'Golden Light Pupil of the Maori'?"
"Master, I have deduced a feasible path, but I don't know how effective it will be. Do you want to try it?" Xiaotu replied.
"Pass it to me!" Su Rui nodded silently.
Soon, a secret of using divine power to condense the nine-character Sanskrit mantra on the inner wall of the pupil appeared in his mind.
This process requires the use of He Bo's divine power as a medium, but after condensation, the divine power can be gradually removed, leaving the imprint of the truth, and the effect will not be worse than before removal.
Su Rui thought about it and felt that it was feasible, so he asked Xiaotu to call out a wisp of divine power. According to the method and steps deduced by Xiaotu, he drove the divine power to condense nine golden Sanskrit characters in the pupil of his right eye.
As the golden Sanskrit characters took shape, his pupils immediately produced a strange phenomenon. A beam of platinum-colored divine light shot out from his pupils, shooting straight towards the Bullfight in broad daylight. Fortunately, it was a bright and clear day, otherwise it wouldn't have been so silent.
However, many people in the city still sensed the strange phenomenon, but they did not know the source.
Su Rui was planning to arrange the pupil of his left eye as well, but for some reason he suddenly had an idea. It seemed that if he also refined the Sanskrit golden letters into his left eye, there would be ominous changes, so he stopped.
This time, when he looked at the Sword of Truth again, he finally figured out something. The nine-character Sanskrit mantra on the sword did not look like it was engraved, but more like it was printed with Buddhist hand seals by someone who practiced some kind of martial arts, so some subtle skin lines could be seen in the details of the font.
"Is this the rumored consecration of the iron sword?"
He was even more puzzled, but he still needed to continue exploring. Although he thought that if everyone had a sword of truth, it would surely terrify evil spirits, he ultimately gave up the idea of replicating the sword of truth. The main reason was that he did not understand the seal of the truth, so he could not imitate it at all.
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