What is supposed to come will eventually come, don't take chances. Chu Xiuyang drew the bow and let go of the arrow. As he exerted more force, the wound became more painful, as if a knife was cutting flesh.
However, she still gritted her teeth and shot out arrows one after another. Her archery skills were superb, and every time she shot an arrow, a demon fell down.
Although the demon clan's sneak attack caught everyone off guard, when the soldiers reacted, they all picked up weapons to fight with them, so the demon clan did not take much advantage.
After the demon clan charged down from the mountain, they were not as densely packed as before, but they were scattered. They didn't seem to be many in number, and it felt like there was a lot of thunder and a small amount of rain.
The reason is that Taotie ordered only five thousand soldiers and horses to ambush Tang She, which was indeed a little less. There are still fifteen thousand soldiers in Tanglin Pass here. Even if the demon clan is brave and good at fighting, it is not easy to fight one against three.
When everyone discovered that the number of demons was not large, their morale was greatly boosted. However, the demons refused to back down and the battle became a stalemate.
In the mountain forest, there was a long black snake hiding behind a tree, looking at the situation in the river valley with cunning eyes.
It watched for a while, but found no trace of the swordsman it was looking for, and then it felt relieved.
Suddenly, it opened its wings as thin as cicada's wings, fluttered and flew towards the bottom of the river valley at high speed. The towering tree was vulnerable in front of it and fell down like wheat. Suddenly dust flew up and the ground trembled.
Tang Snake was not the only big monster in this ambush. It was accompanied by two big monsters from the eighth realm.
One is a white wolf with pure white fur, like the snow that never melts in the mountains all year round; the other is a huge goshawk with a wingspan of four to five feet long. At this time, it is also flying high with the snake's wings, its wings The wings covered the sky and the sun, and the sky suddenly became dark.
These three great demons were the reason why Taotie dared to ambush Tang She with only five thousand troops. When the big demon takes action, unless there are monks in the same realm to stop it, no matter how many soldiers come, it will be useless.
Taotie did this because he had calculated that there was a lack of great monks in Tanglin Pass. If it is within Tanglin Pass, you can still send a message to the Xingyue Sect and ask them to send high monks to support. However, in this river valley, how can you send a message to the Xingyue Sect?
All they can rely on is themselves. Three big monsters came with a strong wind, and their actions reversed the situation instantly.
With just a slap or a step, many soldiers fell down, and for a moment no one could stop them. Seeing this situation, two seventh-level monks, Yin Zishi and Xia Ying, as well as several other sixth-level monks, quickly united and used their magical powers to stop them without hesitation.
However, just two seventh-level monks and a few sixth-level monks can entangle an eighth-level demon, let alone an eighth-level demon and a ninth-level snake.
Even though the monks tried their best, there was still danger. Just by accident, a Sixth Realm monk was slapped to the ground by the white wolf. He vomited a mouthful of blood and died immediately before even screaming.
The other monks were inevitably chilled when they saw him. However, if they don't get there, who else can stop these big monsters?
Therefore, all the monks had no choice but to grit their teeth and fight hard. They were all risking their lives, and no one was timid to fight. Chu Xiuyang was extremely anxious when she saw that the monk's situation was critical. However, she glanced around the crowd, but could not see Xu Huaigu's figure. She was so anxious that she shouted: "Xu Huaigu! Xu Huaigu! Where are you! Hurry and take action. ah!"
"Xu Huaigu!" But no matter how loudly she shouted, the figure did not appear. Seeing this situation, Tang She became even more proud, and simply spread all her anger towards Xu Huaigu on all the soldiers.
Unable to defeat the army, they had to resist the monsters while retreating to the mountains, suffering heavy casualties. Chu Xiuyang watched the soldiers fall one after another, feeling extremely sad in his heart. He drew the bow harder and harder, but to the big demon, the fully charged arrows were no different from the raindrops on a rainy day and could not cause any harm. .
One quiver was empty, so she took the other from her horse and continued to draw the bow. A few scattered monsters rushed to her side, and she drew her knife angrily, the tip of the knife being stained with blood.
Her wound couldn't help but burst open, and the bright red blood stained the armor on her chest.
But no matter how hard she tried to kill the demon, defeat was a foregone conclusion. She felt guilty in her heart. It was she who led these soldiers to the road of death, and she wanted to pay for it with her life.
At this moment, Chu Xiuyang has made up her mind. She will not retreat. She will stand here and fight to the death with the demon clan until the last bit of strength is gone.
What family, what expectations, what separation and reunion, such thoughts never even flashed in her mind.
Her eyes were red with blood. When the monsters were far away, she would draw her bow. If they were close, she would draw her sword. Only these two things were done, and she didn't know the rest.
Seeing the defeat of the human race, the leader of the snake seemed to have finally lost its bad temper, and vomited out the snake letter in excitement,
He laughed "hissingly". Chu Xiuyang saw the tan snake. She pulled out an arrow without expression, put it on the string, and raised her hand to pull out the full moon bow.
Blood flowed from her wound, and she didn't know it. She just squinted her eyes, aimed, and then let go. The arrow was very powerful and hit the snake's cheek hard, then broke into two pieces and fell to the ground.
The snake couldn't laugh anymore. It took back the snake letter and looked viciously towards the direction of the arrow. When it saw that he was just an ordinary person, its eyes became sarcastic.
It turned its head and continued to look away, as if it was dismissive of this person, so another arrow was shot, this time hitting its wing.
Although it was not injured, it was thoroughly enraged. Tan Snake flew towards Chu Xiuyang and landed in front of her.
The huge body of the snake is coiled on the ground, dozens of feet long, and the little woman shooting arrows is only about the size of its nostrils.
Tang She felt that she was full of momentum. It lowered its head, stretched out toward the woman, then stopped in front of her, exhaled, and then a smelly wind hit her. It looked at the woman with contempt.
It thought that the woman would panic and run away, but Chu Xiuyang just stood firm, neither retreating nor giving in, and also looked back fiercely.
One person and one snake looked at each other face to face, one big and one small, one strong and one weak, as if they were worlds apart, but their momentum was about the same.
Tangshe was still a little confused, wondering why this man was not afraid of it like other ordinary people, but Chu Xiuyang did something even more surprising.
She drew her sword out of its sheath and struck Tangshe heavily on the face with the knife. Tangshe remained motionless, her eyes initially filled with confusion, but then turned to anger.
Chu Xiuyang held the handle of the knife tightly and sneered: "I'm not afraid of you." Tan She finally couldn't bear it anymore, roared violently, raised her tail, and was about to hit Chu Xiuyang hard.
Xu Huaigu suffered a loss from this move last time, and a robe of a high-grade magic weapon was completely destroyed.
Seeing Tang She making a move, Chu Xiuyang closed her eyes, thinking that this would be the end of her life. To deal with an ordinary person, Tang She didn't hold back at all. She used her full strength with her tail. Before it hit the ground, a strong wind blew from top to bottom. Chu Xiuyang gritted her teeth and stood firmly. That's why he didn't fall to his knees.
Just when she thought she was going to die, she suddenly heard someone shouting
"General!" Then someone held her hand tightly, and then she felt her body sway. Although it was only for a moment, it felt like she had gone a long way.
Chu Xiuyang hurriedly opened her eyes and saw that Fan Xuan rushed out from nowhere, held her hand, and used a shrinking talisman to avoid Tan Snake's fatal blow.
Fan Xuan also looked very embarrassed. Her robe was damaged in several places and she was panting. The snake's tail swung down, and dust suddenly rose up on the ground, and a dent about one foot deep suddenly appeared. The force was so powerful that it is self-evident.
When Tangshe saw someone coming to save her, her move missed her, and she suddenly became angry and wanted to raise her head and flap her wings to chase them again.
However, before its head could be raised, a swift sword came through the air and stabbed into its neck. The snake was so painful that it immediately rolled over and began to cry.
Chu Xiuyang and Fan Xuan were both startled and looked over hurriedly, not knowing where the sword came from. The sword, which was more than three feet long, was more than halfway inserted.
Needless to say, the snake was already bleeding profusely. What was even more abominable was that the sword's intent penetrated into its flesh, destroying it wantonly, just like countless small knives cutting the flesh, causing immense pain.
It is very familiar with this sword intent. The last time it was injured, it was also the sword intent of this sword. The person who fought with him last time is here!
Fear spread in its heart, and it forcibly cheered up and looked around a few times, but did not find where the sword came from.
Suddenly, an ominous premonition arose in its heart. Subconsciously, it did not dare to stay here and quickly flapped its wings and flew into the air with the intention of escaping.
However, it had just taken off, and there was another flying sword waiting for a long time. A sword flew forward, a white rainbow penetrated the sun, and cleanly cut off one of its wings. Immediately, the snake fell from the air to the ground, rolling around desperately. Fan Xuan was so frightened that she quickly took Chu Xiuyang back for a long distance. , to avoid being affected by the crazy snake.
A sword was inserted into the neck and one of its wings was cut off. The snake was in great pain and howled more and more desperately, the sound was bone-chilling.
"You idiot! Don't you know how to write the word "lead the neck to be slaughtered"?" A burst of sneer came, and a person walked out of nowhere and taunted Tangshe.
The man was dressed in black and had a sword on his waist. He looked very calm when facing the snake.
"Xu Huaigu?" Chu Xiuyang and Fan Xuan both saw him and exclaimed in surprise. Chu Xiuyang thought that Xu Huaigu simply left in anger after quarreling with her yesterday. Sure enough, he was not such a person.
He had been hiding in the dark just for this opportunity to kill the snake.
"Hiss!" When the snake saw that it was Xu Huaigu, its eyes turned red with anger and he hissed. As the saying goes, trapped beasts still fight. At this time, the snake was injured by Xu Huaigu's flying sword, but the centipede insect was still alive. It still had the capital to fight with Xu Huaigu. After all, its realm was really higher than that of Xu Huaigu.
If a fight breaks out, it's not necessarily clear who will win or lose.
"Take it!" Xu Huaigu raised his hand, and the flying sword on the snake's neck trembled slightly, and then he pulled it out suddenly, and the snake wailed again.
Another Heart Lake Flying Sword followed suit, and the two swords surrounded him. Xu Huaigu pulled out the Phoenix Feather Sword, held it tightly in his hand, and faced the behemoth.
Although the snake suffered a loss, the blood angered it even more. It also knew in its heart that if its wings were injured, it would definitely not be able to escape. The only way to survive was to kill Xu Huaigu, so it became ruthless and determined to fight to the death.
A man and a demon stood facing each other, their swords drawn and their murderous intentions stern. Seeing that Tang She was in trouble, the other two Eight Realm Great Demons also stopped killing and hurried to Tang She's side to help.
Seeing that he was about to fight against many, Yin Zishi and other monks rushed over and stood next to Xu Huaigu.
Everyone said proudly: "Fellow Daoist Xu, you can't do without us when it comes to killing monsters! Just let go and fight with that beast. You can't do anything to these two little bastards. We'll help you stop them!"
"Well said, we are not vegetarians! These beasts have pushed us into a panic. Even if we risk our lives, we have to show them some color!" Three big demons and a group of monks were fighting each other, and it was about to break out.
Fan Xuan stretched out her hand to protect Chu Xiuyang and said, "General, let's go first. I want to stay and help." Chu Xiuyang argued, "No, I also want to stay!" Fan Xuan glanced at Chu Xiuyang's heart, where the wound was cracked. Open, the blood stained the clothes red, seeping out from the gaps in the soft armor, it was horrible to see.
Fan Xuan frowned and said: "If the general stays, not only will he not be of any help, but it will also make Xu Huaigu and I worry. Besides, the army needs the general to be alive and continue to lead the soldiers. The general cannot die now." Chu Xiuyang bit. Gritting his teeth, he glanced at Fan Xuan's robe again and said, "Miss Fan, I owe you my life. I will definitely repay you. You must give me this chance! Take care!" Fan Xuan also said: " Take care, general, see you later." Chu Xiuyang reluctantly mounted the horse, pinched the horse's belly, and shouted
"Drive!" and ran towards the north where the army retreated. Fan Xuan walked into the monks' camp, took out several talismans from her sleeves, and twisted out one of the thunder talismans. Suddenly, dark clouds gathered in the sky and thunder rolled.
The tan snake roared, twisted its body quickly, and rushed towards Xu Huaigu, but Xu Huaigu's two flying swords were even faster, and they rushed forward.
The white wolf and the goshawk also rushed towards the monks, and the monks offered their own magic weapons one after another without giving in.
A brutal fight took place in the unknown mountain forest to the south.
