Three sounds were heard in the middle of the night, and Xinghua Town lay dormant in the long, dark winter night.
An inn room with weak firelight.
Snow-white Zhu Xian was placed on the table, and Gui Liu was meditating. Between spitting out and taking in, you can see the energy flowing like water. The blood-soaked clothes he changed out of were neatly folded beside him.
He resisted the martial arts master Xie's shot, and the wound was only half an inch away from his heart. In fact, he should be half disabled even if he was not dead. Fortunately, he had taken the Taoist golden elixir before, which allowed his muscles, bones, and flesh to be reshaped. In addition, Hu Meizi's few fire luck protected the internal organs and removed most of the gun power that should have penetrated the body, so it could be considered a near miss. .
His life was saved, but his state was unstable. After the shocking battle in Green Belt City, it was a blessing in disguise that he managed to gain a firm foothold in the early stage of the fourth level, directly eliminating the need to slowly take root. Otherwise, it would take several years to stabilize the state, no matter how talented he is. But this interception in Xinghua Town was a blessing and a curse. By luck, he killed the martial arts master, but his realm was knocked back to its original state. Such a situation is extremely rare and extremely terrifying. If the realm cannot be stabilized again, it is possible to fall back to the third level at any time. After that, the martial arts path will be sealed. Only a very small number of geniuses can survive after falling. Break the mirror again.
In fact, the journey of martial arts is like crossing a river and demolishing a bridge. Most people can only walk once in a lifetime. Only those with great talent and luck will be favored by God and be rewarded with another bowl of rice as an exception.
Of course, Guiliu knew that he was in danger of falling into trouble at any time, but he always felt calm. In fact, there was no reason for it, it was just his temper.
Suddenly, a soft voice sounded outside the door, "Your Highness."
Guiliu slowly opened his eyes and said, "Come in."
Taozhi pushed open the door and walked lightly to Guiliu.
"It's so late, why don't you sleep?" Guiliu said with a smile.
"I miss Your Highness and can't sleep."
Taozhi walked behind Guiliu, gently held a strand of snow-white hair, and said softly: "Your Highness has not worn a crown for a long time."
"Do you want to wear a crown?" Guiliu said with emotion, "Maybe this head of white hair suits me better."
Suddenly, a fragrant wind surged in, and then Gui Liu felt an unbearable itching on his neck.
This situation lasted for a long time before Taozhi slowly stood up, still licking her red lips. Looking back at Gui Liu, a scarlet patch appeared on his neck, like a wound.
Guiliu pinched Taozhi's waist hard and laughed angrily: "You came into my room tonight with ulterior motives."
Taozhi hummed and said: "This slave has ulterior motives. Who allowed His Highness to have so many beauties? She is indeed the eighth most beautiful woman in the world. No wonder she can charm His Highness."
Guiliu suddenly realized, "Why is there always a sour smell? It turns out that the vinegar jar has been overturned."
Guiliu raised his big hand, as if to strike, and said fiercely: "Sit over here!"
Taozhi shook his head: "Your Highness is injured, and this servant will not sit down."
"Have you thought about it?" Gui Liu smiled and said, "Next time it may be Wang Sizhi."
She bit her red lips lightly, hesitated, and took a step forward, but in the end she shook her head vigorously.
Guiliu was a little surprised, "Taozhi, when did you become so sensible?"
Taozhi narrowed her pretty eyes and licked her red lips, "Then, your highness, can you let me take another bite?"
Guiliu tilted his head and smiled: "You bite me once, and I bite you ten times, how about that?"
The peach branches are eager to try.
Guiliu was stunned for a moment, then slapped her forehead hard, dumbfounded, "You little girl, Wang Sizhi can't fight you."
Taozhi was just about to make tea when Guiliu had already stood up.
"Go out for a walk with the master?"
Peach branches are natural.
The two walked out of the inn, and the sky was filled with wind and snow. At night in Xinghua Town, there were very few people who were still awake with lights on, so everything was pitch black.
The street was covered with a thick layer of snow, but the master and servant both made light marks in the snow and did not find it difficult to walk.
Guiliu held Taozhi's hand and suddenly recalled the scenes on the outskirts of Xinghua Town during the day. In fact, even though the master and servant had a deep love for each other, this was the first time he saw Taozhi take action with his own eyes.
"Taozhi, now that you have recovered from your illness, with your strength, how high can you rank in the martial arts evaluation?"
Taozhi said nothing and made a gesture with a smile.
Guiliu blinked and said in shock: "Third? More powerful than my mother?"
Taozhi never knew it was a joke, tilted his head and said with a smile: "The third hundred."
Gui Liu snorted and gave her a playful look of disdain.
As early as before, Geiliu wanted to figure out a problem very much. Even if the four maids around him were at the same level and were all at the sixth level, there must be some gap in strength. For this reason, Guiliu asked Qin Fang specifically, but he didn't get an answer. But based on Taozhi's strength today and what Taozhi said, he could roughly guess the answer.
But this answer will take some time to prove.
Taozhi suddenly said softly: "I would like to ask you, Your Highness, is he currently studying the mind?"
Guiliu didn't think it was too presumptuous, because in his eyes, the four maids were already family members. It's just that he was a little surprised. You must know that the mind method is not like the leakage of fist, intention and sword energy. It is something introverted and collected, which is difficult for others to perceive.
"I am indeed comprehending a set of mental methods. You might as well guess what they are?"
Guiliu just wanted to give another reminder, such as the previous sentence, "This set of mental methods is of no benefit to practice. It's just that my anger is too strong and I need to meditate."
But here Taozhi has already given the answer, saying: "The Heart Sutra of the Immortal Way comes from the famous Taoist text "The Yuanshi Immeasurable Human Sutra". It is the orthodox heart method of the Lotus Cave Heaven and has never been preached to the outside world. It is said that this heart method has been understood to the extreme. It can make the Supreme Being forget his feelings and achieve the Immortal Realm above the Nine Realms."
Guiliu swallowed, turned to look at the charming woman beside him, and said in disbelief: "Really or not? Do you even know this? Are you still the little maid who only wants to be jealous? Why do you feel like I suddenly looked at you? I don’t understand you anymore.”
Taozhi felt a little aggrieved, "His Highness looks down on this slave."
Guiliu pinched her pink cheek and said with a smile: "Your word 'again' is quite biased. Has the master ever looked down on you?"
Taozhi quickly changed the subject, "Your Highness hasn't told this slave yet, how did you obtain the Immortal Heart Sutra?"
"Well," Guiliu grinned, "that day in Greenbelt City, I said goodbye to my mother and continued south. After only walking a few miles, my mother caught up with me and gave me two things in total, the Heart Sutra. There is also a small sandalwood box, but I haven’t opened it yet and don’t know what’s inside.”
"Speaking of which, these things all come from a Taoist. He wears a lotus crown on his head and looks quite young. Anyway, he is much younger than the sword leader in blue shirt next to him. I guess my mother also used coercion and inducement to let him I am reluctant to give these two things to me, but my mother will probably use other things as compensation."
Taozhi frowned, "Your Highness, do you know who that person is? There are ten caves in Taoism in the world, and the Lotus Temple occupies one of them. The Taoist you mentioned wearing a lotus crown should be the master of the Lotus Temple, one of the most famous Taoist temples. There are not many true kings, and he is also one of the ten strongest people in the world."
Guiliu said cautiously: "Can you beat my mother?"
Taozhi shook his head and said: "The Queen is one of the top five people in the world, and the master of Lotus Temple is one of the bottom five. There is a huge gap between the top five and the bottom five. It is not surprising that there is a situation where they are overwhelmed by strength."
Hearing what Taozhi said, Guiliu breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "As long as you can't beat my mother. Then I'll settle on his Taoist temple."
Guiliu looked proud and suddenly rubbed his eyes. There seemed to be a figure in front of him, but it seemed that he had seen it wrong.
"Taozhi, do you see someone in front of you?"
For some reason, Taozhi just glanced at her, her pretty face turned slightly cold, and she snorted coldly.
Guiliu was stunned for a moment. He vaguely saw the graceful figure and felt a little familiar. He subconsciously blurted out: "Is it Wang Sizhi?"
A figure swept away from the distance. Wang Sizhi was walking hard in the snow when he suddenly felt a gust of cold wind coming from behind. He subconsciously closed his fox fur without noticing anyone behind him.
"Where to go?"
The sudden sound startled Wang Sizhi, and she quickly turned around and found that it was this man with a lot of love.
"Where to go?" Guiliu repeated it again with no expression on his face.
Wang Sizhi quietly wiped the blood from his hands.
Guiliu narrowed his eyes and quickly placed his eyes on her hands.
Suddenly, Taozhi said softly: "Your Highness, there is a corpse less than a hundred meters ahead. I will go take a look."
"Corpse?" Guiliu frowned and looked at Wang Sizhi with an increasingly unkind look, "Did you kill someone?"
Wang Sizhi was stunned for a moment, shaking his head desperately, his moist eyes filled with fear.
Guiliu lifted her chin, narrowed his eyes and smiled: "I can see clearly, you Wang family members are all the same. You really can't shed tears until you see the coffin."
Guiliu didn't show any pity for her, so she grabbed the woman's bloody hands with all her strength.
But the next second, he saw clearly that the reason why Wang Sizhi's hands were stained with blood was because they were scarred. The wounds were in strips and looked like scratches.
At the same time, Taozhi also came back. Unexpectedly, the body in the snow in front was frozen to death. There were many empty wine jars around it. It must be that a drunk man fell to the ground unconscious and was frozen alive. die.
"My injury was scratched by a cat." Wang Sizhi said in a low voice.
As soon as he finished speaking, a round, fat, snow-white cat jumped down from the eaves of a certain house. It seemed to land heavily on the ground, but it only left slight traces on the snow.
The snow-white fat cat is very annoying. A second ago, he ignored Wang Sizhi's love and even stretched out his claws to scratch people. Then he jumped down from the eaves with his little head next to Wang Sizhi's skirt. Rubbing it back and forth, a sticky purring sound came from the throat.
Guiliu looked relaxed and said softly: "Don't run around at night, danger may happen at any time. Go back to the inn first. Your hand injury needs to be treated in time, otherwise it will leave scars."
Wang Sizhi lowered his head and glanced at the white cat rubbing around, and said softly: "I want to keep this cat."
Guiliu knelt down and looked at the chubby white cat carefully, and couldn't help but said: "It really looks like a ball of snow."
Wang Sizhi looked at him and said softly: "Can it be raised? I will take care of it and won't cause you any trouble."
Guiliu nodded, "Then you have to take good care of it."
Wang Sizhi held the cat and the three of them returned to the inn together.
In Guiliu's room, Taozhi applied medicine to Wang Sizhi's wound. Obviously, Taozhi was reluctant, but since it was Gei Liu's request, he couldn't resist, so he had no choice but to comply.
Taozhi is a first-class maid in the palace. She was personally taught by the empress to take care of the prince in the future, so she is naturally very good at taking care of people. This includes making wine and tea, and naturally also includes giving medicine. Taozhi's technique is light and does not cause too much pain when applying the medicine, so Geiliu feels more at ease.
Sure enough, during the whole process of applying the medicine, Wang Sizhi only frowned slightly occasionally and did not react too strongly.
After applying the medicine, Taozhi was still a little reluctant. Wang Sizhi held the white cat in his arms, stood up, and looked at Guiliu, "Can I go?"
Guiliu tilted his head and smiled: "What? Do you still want to stay here and sleep with me?"
Wang Sizhi was so angry that she slammed the door and walked out.
"You should go back to sleep too."
After finishing speaking, Guiliu just lay down on the bed and was about to blow out the candles when he suddenly felt something was wrong. When he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he saw Taozhi still standing there.
Guiliu frowned slightly, "Why don't you leave?"
Unexpectedly, Taozhi was about to cry, "My bed is so big and cold. I'm afraid of the dark and don't dare to sleep alone."
Gui Liu let out an ooh, and said with a smile: "It's okay, then you can sleep in my room. Your master only has a small bed like this, which is warm and comfortable. If you are afraid of the dark, I won't turn off the lights. I will go to Wang Sizhi's room to stay overnight. .”
In the next room, Wang Sizhi started to have heart palpitations for no reason.
On this side, Taozhi wiped her tears, squeezed out a charming smile, and said softly: "Suddenly, I am not afraid anymore. Your Highness should go to bed early, and I will help you get up tomorrow."
Geiliu lay down on the bed, covering his limbs with the quilt, leaving only his head exposed, a classic way of sleeping in winter.
"Blow out the lamp for me." Guiliu said with a smile.
Taozhi's eyes were filled with resentment, her red lips were biting lightly, and she looked back three times with each step, wanting to see through the autumn water. It is said that it is most difficult to accept the kindness of a beautiful woman. If it were anyone else, it would be unbearable for someone else to show such pity. But Guiliu seemed to have the mind of a saint and pretended to turn a blind eye.
In the end, Taozhi failed to win over from this hard-hearted man.
In great annoyance, she gently extinguished the candlestick and then quietly exited the room.
This night, there is heavy snow in the sky
Thirty killers who were dormant in Xinghua Town, waiting for opportunities, all quietly lost their lives.
The charming woman in a pink dress casually straddled the corpse, picked up a handful of pure white snow, wiped the blood off her hands, and then returned to the inn.
Corpses, pools of blood, broken arms and limbs.
The streets are full of them.
But soon it will be buried under heavy snow.
On the high eaves of the inn, Gui Liu was in a daze, murmuring softly:
"A perfect snowfall."
