Ten days.
Ten days is neither short nor long, but it is just enough time for people to drive carriages and deal with enemies coming from all directions, from Prancing Horse Pond to the border border west of Xia Song National Gate. However, for some reason, the leader Zhao Ziyang is not in a hurry to go to Xia Song. In the pine, Li Fuan next to him said countless times that he wanted to marry Xia Song, but he was rejected every time, and he could not guess Zhao Ziyang's thoughts. When they originally came out of the mountain, the three of them, including Yun Zhong, had never thought that there would be so many difficulties and obstacles on the way to Dayuan, so they did not bring enough pills and other items. Fortunately, Li Fu'an had a keen eye, and from then on The Taoist boy picked out dozens of round and round elixirs from the messy objects in his arms. They were obviously made by a master with good alchemy skills. However, the Taoist boy was also bold and took them with a wave of his hands. Just give him the elixir and say it will prolong his life, don't worry about it.
Eighty percent of the Taoist boys themselves had never thought that giving away such a large number of pills in one trip would probably make their master's blood surge for a while, and he would curse the prodigal disciple a few times. It would be considered a mercy to give it to others, but if Being caught by Wu Shuang's disciple, he can come and go freely in the mountain gate in the future, and he can always live up to the saying that the thief never escapes. He has been stolen by Wu Shuang for many years. If his own disciple was also caught by Wu Shuang's disciple, I guess The Taoist family fortune accumulated over many years is really not enough for two generations.
Although they have collected the elixirs needed for Yun Zhong to protect his life for the time being, if it continues like this, Zhao Ziyang and Li Fu'an will have exhausted their inner energy in just ten days. Although the Taoist realm is also high, they will not be able to survive. He was unwilling to let Tao Tong take action against the enemy. First of all, both of them knew that this Taoist boy who came out of the former Taoist leader's sect may be of extremely high level. At least the ability to swallow thunder is hard to find in the world. But in this case, it is even more forbidden to take action. Firstly, If Tao Tong takes action, the number of Dayuan troops attracted will probably be even greater. In the end, even if they are forced to use their lives, they will definitely not be able to last for a few days. Secondly, they are afraid that there are still unparalleled masters in Dayuan. After all, if someone is captured, his patience will be exhausted, and he will take action even if he is enmity with Nangong Mountain. He always hides the magical power of the Taoist realm. Maybe at the critical moment of life and death, he can save his life.
To elaborate further, no matter how slovenly and frivolous Li Fu'an is on weekdays, and no matter how decisive and decisive Zhao Ziyang is, he still retains some self-confidence. Apart from himself, his junior disciples or acquaintances do not have the slightest ability to deal with them. Ability cannot depend on Tao Tong's ability no matter what.
Only Yun Zhong, who was silent along the way, forcefully poured a dozen rare elixirs into his mouth, and the black muscles, bones, skin and flesh all over his body faded away, and the skin and flesh gradually grew, and the rest fell off. However, after the Taoist boy looked at it with his eyes, it turned out that the meridians were still not healed, and the haze and fog around the Dantian became thicker and thicker. However, no matter how hard he thought about it, he could not remember what a strange phenomenon this was. Perhaps he could only wait until Yunzhong one day Only when you wake up can you know a thing or two.
"Yesterday I fought with those twenty or thirty people for a long time. The bamboo hats that were dug out from the corpses were worn by each person. This desert is windy and snowy, and they are best at cutting people's faces. Moreover, if you are confused, you will drive the tent into the quicksand ditch. , I don’t have the strength to drag him out with a car.”
The ancient long road had long swallowed most of the yellow sand. Zhao Ziyang, whose mouth was dry and cracked, leaned over and gave Li Fuan a bamboo hat. He took off his own bamboo hat, covered his face and found a high-level shady spot on the long road to lie down flat on his back. He felt as if his back was burned by charcoal fire. He bared his teeth and grinned, but did not stand up, letting the burning heat slowly dissipate.
In the past ten days, Zhao Ziyang had lost count of how many Dayuan cavalry he had killed, or how many of his hands and feet he had wiped out with swords and guns, leaving them to die. Adding them all together, there were still hundreds of men, although he had never seen such a number again. Those ape-slave cultivators were so exhausted that their muscles and bones creaked and vibrated with every slight movement. The feeling of fatigue could only be compared to the time when they were forced to stand with a gun by their master on the mountain. At first, Zhao Ziyang still had some energy left and fired out a few spear beams. After two or three days, he had completely suppressed the thought of using his inner energy and no longer dared to take it lightly.
Most of these scattered cavalry were back-up moves that had been arranged previously. They were not very successful. They could bump into twelve or three cavalry more than ten miles apart, but their abilities were not bad. Even with the help of Li Fuan and Zhao Ziyang, they had to protect the car tent. , and also have to worry about life and death with those Great Yuan cavalry, the burden is extremely heavy. If Zhao Ziyang thought before, relying on his cultivation to win, I am afraid that it will be like a revolving door in a row, and the internal energy will be empty within three or two days, not to mention Whenever you encounter a wave of people from the Great Yuan Dynasty, you will naturally have a way to tell the news. Therefore, after every hard battle, you need to urge your horse to leave quickly to avoid being caught up by the nearby cavalry. You will not have much time to cultivate your inner energy. If you really When you meet a practitioner, it is hard to defeat him just by your skills.
"It's best to move reinforcements. If we hold on now, if we don't enter Xiasong in ten days, you and I will die in this border area. We may not even be able to keep our corpses in the capital."
Li Fu'an sighed, and was taciturn. It wasn't because he didn't want to speak, but because both of them were so tired that their sporadic movements became quite strenuous. After dryly speaking these words briefly, he quickly turned around. He took out the water bag and threw it into the arms of Zhao Ziyang, who was concentrating with his eyes closed. The yellow sand is the heaviest outside Xiasong Border Gate, which is strange to say. Inside the country gate is surrounded by green trees, but outside the country gate more than ten miles away from the border gate, there is endless desert. Being in the yellow sand, ten thousand taels of gold and silver may not be able to exchange for two sips of clean water. , but this desert area is not very large, and it cannot trap others as usual, but it can only trap a group of four people who are reluctant to enter Xia Song. The clear water in the water bag will naturally become more valuable.
"Just keep it to yourself and drink. I'm used to holding hands and arms, but at this moment, you think of the word polite again?" Zhao Ziyang curled his lips, obviously closing his eyes, but he also knew what Li Fu'an was going to do at this moment, so he calmly refused, "Move But I didn’t understand the words about “reinforcement”. Are you going back to Nangong Mountain to bring in reinforcements, or are you going to Xia Song territory to bring in reinforcements?”
It was rare for Li Fuan to remain silent.
There are two roads, and Li Fu'an knows that they are both unreasonable without Zhao Ziyang's advice.
If the master of Nangong Mountain wanted to help his disciple, he would probably do it as early as the most critical time of Yuanma Lake, and he would not wait until now. Going to Xia Song to mobilize reinforcements would be even more wishful thinking. Although Dayuan is now It's turmoil. Although he has reached into the Xia Song border, it is not considered to have completely exceeded the various regulations in the covenant. Even if Xia Song's army goes out, there is still no place to find the four words of logic. What's more, nowadays, everywhere is raising essence. I am afraid that even with the skills of the man who has been silently watching Zhao Ziyang in the dark for many years, he still won't be able to do much.
The Taoist boy was always sitting not far from the two of them. His face was expressionless, but he heard every word of what the two said. He often raised his head to look at Yun Zhong, who was still motionless in the car tent. Suddenly, I figured out a lot of things. In the past ten days, the Taoist boy has not suffered much. Apart from a slight tan, Zhao Ziyang and Li Fuan tacitly gave up all the food and water to the young Taoist boy, beating those armored men. Most of the dry food collected from the tall and powerful man was given to the Taoist boy, but the two of them were falcon birds with good bows and arrows. If they were hungry and had nothing to eat, they would kill the dead Yuan. The man caught it on horseback and cooked it for a meal with horse meat still oozing with blood. He no longer cared about the taste and just filled his stomach.
But in these ten days, Tao Tong seemed to understand many things.
For example, when people are fighting with each other, it is often different from what the master said. Scenes like you coming and going with dozens of moves are actually rare. It is probably because of Zhao Ziyang and Li Fuan's superb skills. Most of them are two horses that miss each other for a moment, and two or three moves. There were already corpses falling off their horses, and there were many armored men who did not die immediately but were seriously injured. They were often dragged very far by the frightened horses, so the few remaining breaths were also dragged away. There is no trace at all, so Zhao Ziyang will most likely not go back and kill the remaining opponents; and if the driver is not very skillful, it is easiest for others to intercept him first, and there was an envoy Chang Chang in the past few days. The Dayuan cavalry followed several people, and six or seven of them resisted the gun in Zhao Ziyang's hand. The remaining four tried to force the car tent to stop, and the long spears in their hands pierced the spokes of the car, and almost smashed the wooden shaft with it. However, he was defeated by Li Fu'an several times, and he managed to avoid being harassed by four people. After Zhao Ziyang defeated the six or seven people with his skillful spear moves, he turned around and defeated four people again.
The Taoist boy once inquired during his free time and found out that Zhao Ziyang was Senior Brother Yun Zhong, but Li Fuan was not from the mountain. After thinking about it, he couldn't figure out how these two people in the Third Realm had almost dried up their inner energy and were exhausted. There are more than a hundred cavalry to deal with abruptly in the season when their attitude is fully displayed. Even though he was in the mountains, he probably learned Taoism, but he had seen his master's skills in magic, and he could guess that the soldiers who were standing in front of them were not necessarily bad at all, but rather Compared with most of the Jianghu people I have seen under Feilai Peak, they are more than a star and a half higher, but they still ask these two people to casually pick through the chest, or cut off the arms. More than ten iron cavalry can be killed in just a few dozen breaths. , this ability really made the Taoist boy a little surprised.
Zhao Ziyang, who was lying in the hot yellow sand, suddenly sat up, frowned slightly, and took out the Huozhe that Yun Zhong had always hidden in his arms. After hesitating for a moment, he searched for some dead grass and pulled two or three pieces of dead wood from behind the car tent. After starting a fire, he took out an iron sign from his arms and threw it into the fire. Then he quickly extinguished the fire with yellow sand, lifted up his blood-stained clothes, pierced the iron sign with the gun head, and pressed it to his waist and abdomen.
The smell of burnt flesh made Li Fuan lick his mouth.
At this time, the Taoist boy saw clearly that Zhao Ziyang's waist and abdomen were covered with iron brand marks, big and small. Under the brand marks, there were all kinds of knife and gun wounds. Only after the hot iron brand was used to burn them, the bleeding stopped. .
There must be dozens of injuries like this.
When Zhao Ziyang was using the iron plate to iron the bleeding wound, he didn't even tremble all over. He stared at the iron plate with lowered eyebrows, maybe because he didn't feel any pain, or maybe because he hadn't drank water for a long time, and there was no sweat on his forehead. I accidentally saw Li Fuan licking his lips vigorously and swearing hoarsely.
The two people laughed sparsely in the desert, like jackdaws sitting on a dead tree at dusk.
