In late autumn, the cold wind blows on the ground.
The layers of thick soil on the Loess Plateau are piled up into mountains, like huge tombs.
With the decrease in rainfall, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are no longer as wild and unruly as in summer, and seem to be much quieter.
In the low-lying valley along the river, on a road trodden by scattered footsteps, bursts of bloody smell rushed forward.
The blood flowing from his forehead was mixed with dust and flowed into Peng You's mouth, which was extremely bitter.
Peng You was unable to continue running along the river. He stumbled and fell to the ground. The cold river water hit him, chilling him to the bone. He looked up and saw only cliffs on both sides.
A long roar!
A group of people were chasing after him, and the leader shouted: "Capture him, don't let the boy with the jade pendant escape!"
Behind them were a group of beast-skin soldiers with bronze heads and iron foreheads, holding swords and halberds.
Peng You could never forget this voice. All his comrades died at the hands of these people.
But Peng You, who had blood on his face and injuries all over his body, was no longer able to run, and it was difficult to even breathe.
He lay on the ground, looked into the distance, and struggled to crawl forward a few steps. One step, two steps.
The animal skin soldiers are approaching. One hundred steps, fifty steps.
On the knives they were holding, the blood left by the killing had not completely condensed, and small pieces were shaking, like red spiders staring at it.
Bang bang bang footsteps were approaching.
Peng You did not look back, his eyes were always staring in the direction of his hometown.
In Peng You's blurred eyes, a woman suddenly appeared jumping up and down the twisted road.
The woman was dressed in white. She was eighteen or nineteen years old, with skin as white as snow, round eyes, a phoenix tail tied behind her back, and a beauty mark on her left cheek near her ear.
She was of medium height. When she approached Peng You, Peng You looked up, as if in a dream.
Peng You suddenly saw someone arriving. He was expecting reinforcements to come to his aid and felt excited. However, when he saw that it was just a thin woman, he became disappointed and said hurriedly: "Girl, leave quickly, they are all here."
The woman knelt down, tilted her head and looked at Peng You, and asked, "What are they?"
Peng You was actually unable to speak. He only knew that the thieves and enemies were cruel. Although he did not recognize the woman in front of him, since she was coming from the direction of home, she should be from the same ethnic group and from the neighboring village.
Peng You gritted his teeth and said: "They are all murderous demons!"
The woman was still squatting on the ground, resting her thighs with her elbows and supporting her chin. She just said, "Oh, you are so kind. You can't even protect yourself, so you still care about me."
When the leader of the animal-skin soldiers saw the sudden arrival of the woman, who was talking to Peng You, he became vigilant and made the soldiers stop a few dozen steps away from the two of them.
The leader asked: "Who is this woman? Does anyone know her?" All the soldiers shook their heads.
The deputy leader chuckled and said with a sneer: "No matter who he is, capture him all. The men will be handed over to the king, and the women will be filial to their brothers."
snort! After hearing this, the woman stood up, pouted, stamped her foot angrily, then turned around and sighed, saying to herself: "I'm not as knowledgeable as you."
The deputy leader said again: "Don't move, let me come! Just a soldier, hum."
The man came with a knife!
Peng You knew that the opponent's poisonous hand was coming, so he tried his best to support himself and said: "Girl, I will stop him, you run!"
The enemy soldier was walking very fast, and a few steps away from the two of them, there was a sudden bang!
He was instantly beaten to the head and bleeding, and fell to the ground.
An invisible and intangible wall seemed to lie in front of the two of them.
Peng You had clenched his fists and was ready to face the enemy, but he didn't know why such a change happened.
When the leader of the group of soldiers saw this, he first thought that the man had slipped and slipped. When they saw him again, he was shocked to see his face covered with blood.
The leader shouted: "The big crossbowmen in the back row obey orders and fire arrows!"
Dozens of people moved quickly, using the leader as the base, spreading out like wings, with large crossbows in hand and sharp arrows loaded.
Whoosh!
Dozens of sharp arrows shot out and struck directly at Peng You's position.
Peng You tried his best to stand up, his tall figure completely blocking the woman behind him.
Peng You gritted his teeth and said, "Girl, I can only block you once. If you jump into the river quickly, you still have a chance to escape."
The woman smiled and said, "Why did you jump into the river? You want to freeze me to death."
Peng You shook his head slightly and stopped talking.
The flying arrow had arrived, and Peng You's instinctive fear made him close his eyes, but his frown gradually relaxed.
He breathed a sigh of relief. All these disputes and sufferings were finally coming to an end. He quietly waited for the end of his life and put an end to his endless thoughts.
Bah!呲呲呲……
The sound of piercing arrows!
Peng You did not feel any more severe pain. When he opened his eyes and looked again, he saw dozens of arrows hanging in the air, motionless.
The wind blew up the fine loess sand on the ground, swimming like a small snake.
Peng You's brows tightened again, and he turned to look at the woman behind him with confusion.
The woman stroked the white bracelet on her wrist, smiled slightly, and said, "How about it, I'm not afraid of you."
Seeing this scene, the pursuers were frightened.
Some of the soldiers who followed were trembling with fear, and several of them were already lying on the ground, shouting: God! God!
An envoy beside the leader said hurriedly: "It is said that Kuei has invited an immortal master from Taiyi Mountain. I wonder if it is this witch!"
The leader gripped the halberd tightly, looked at it with anger, and said, "Is it her?"
The envoy continued: "However, this demon girl only has defensive skills, not any killing skills, so there should be nothing to be afraid of."
The leader shouted: "Keep shooting arrows!"
Arrows flew out one after another, but they still stopped a few meters away from Peng You and the man.
The woman said to Peng You: "Let's go, let them play by themselves." She waved her hand in the air, and a red phoenix walked out of nothingness.
When the pursuers saw this, they were all shocked.
Peng You also opened his eyes wide and said, "This? What is this?"
The woman smiled and said, "This is my pet. Climb up."
Peng You felt as if he was in a dream, lying on the back of the phoenix as he was told, as if he was falling into a pile of warm and soft cotton.
The woman also sat down, and the faint cold fragrance from her body floated into Peng You's nose.
The phoenix rises into the sky.
The group of pursuers on the ground were stunned. Several of them knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
The leader scolded: "Anyone who kneels again will be killed without mercy!"
The counselor beside him said: "This new immortal master from Taiyi Mountain has some abilities, but he does not dare to confront our Jiuli Heavenly Soldiers!"
The leader sneered: "The immortal master from the east dares to interfere in our affairs."
The envoy bowed and said to the leader: "Master Xiaolang, these immortal masters are nothing to be afraid of. In the battle of Dongyi, all three thousand immortal masters were slaughtered under your sword!"
The envoy paused and said, "I just don't know who this young man is, but the chief gave the order to have an adult with ninth-level combat power come and arrest him personally."
Xiaolang said coldly: "Hmph, but this kid has some skills. He jumped off such a high cliff and didn't die!"
The envoy said: "My lord, there is no need to worry. Even if he can control the curare poison for a while, if there is no antidote within three days, he will definitely die."
The owlwolf nodded slightly.
In mid-air, the woman was riding upside down on the phoenix, looking at the group of soldiers, smiling and waving.
The owl wolf glared angrily, stared at the two people flying far away, pointed at the way the woman came from, and said loudly: "Go in that direction!"
