At the entrance of Dangguan Inn, Mu Qing and his group passed by a man who looked like a butcher.
Mu Qing's steps paused, and his figure involuntarily stiffened a bit.
"What's wrong?" Xiaochan noticed something strange in Mu Qing's figure, moved her steps lightly, and asked quietly after approaching.
Mu Qingxing's eyes narrowed slightly, his neck straightened and he kept looking straight forward.
When I just passed by, it was a bloody smell that was clearly invisible but as strong as substance in my heartstrings.
The other party was obviously an ordinary butcher. Although his body was relatively strong, his face was old and ordinary. He was not very arrogant, and there was not even a trace of true energy escaping.
But his heartstrings still trembled suddenly involuntarily.
This is the first time since he has been promoted to the third level and the empathy between heaven, earth and human beings has been raised to a higher level. He has a mysterious and mysterious sense of danger and caution.
If he hadn't experienced and breathed the bloody air in hellish training all year round, he probably wouldn't have felt the bloody aura on the opponent's body.
So after Xiaochan asked in a low voice, he just shook his head slightly and had no intention of turning around and looking at the other person.
Liu Weirui walked into the inn first with a relaxed and comfortable look on her face. After a moment, she realized that there was no one around her.
She was about to look behind her, but was stopped by Mu Qing who was following her.
"Don't turn around and look, just go in." Mu Qing and Liu Weirui walked side by side and said seriously.
Outside the inn street, Butcher Hu, who was about to go around to the kitchen alley behind the inn, looked ordinary. His cold and cold eyes were filled with light, and he quietly retracted his glance at Mu Qing's back for a moment. .
"Did this kid discover me?" He murmured in his heart, then thought it was impossible.
It has been a long time since I was tainted by the smell of human blood, and my aura concealment has always been top-notch. There is no chance that the other party will recognize me. At most, it is due to my cautious personality.
He came to this conclusion in his mind, and without stopping, he came to the crowded alley near the back kitchen, following the breath of the group in front of him.
On the second floor of the Dangguan Inn, the waiter had already cleaned up the remaining food and wine on the observation deck and served Mu Qing and his party new food and wine.
The amber-like golden color in the cup is apricot blossom sake. It has a clear aroma and a refreshing taste, which is most suitable for women to taste.
But as Liu Weirui tasted the wine she had longed for, she already felt that it had no taste.
She looked at the figure standing by the large window of the observation deck, frowned slightly and asked: "The smell of blood? Strong murderous aura?"
"Is it targeting the caravan again?"
As far as Mu Qing could see, he could clearly see the Qingchuan Pass he had just walked through. His long and solid fingers gently rubbed the window sill, and a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes.
He replied cautiously: "The other party has not shown any murderous intention towards us for the time being. I can detect the bloody aura on the other party, which is also related to my own experience."
"But." Mu Qing didn't like to play tricks. He turned around, faced Liu Weirui's worried eyes, and said directly: "We started from Tieguzhai and never encountered any interceptions in Youyan Prefecture. In Qingchuan Prefecture, the influence of the Liu family will increase the further you go to Jinguan City, so if the other party wants to take action, they will only choose a place like Qingchuan Pass where they can wait and escape in time."
"Actually, this can be considered as me causing trouble for you." Mu Qing sat back at the table, took the sake handed over by Xiao Chan, and said, "Senior Sister Ning Chu also said that if there is another interception next, Regardless of whether your bastard cousin intervened, it is very likely that a force targeting me will intervene, and this force will obviously be more dangerous than the previous Cao Mo and his ilk."
Liu Weirui's experience was not bad, but it was his first time to experience such a bloody thing.
She analyzed calmly for a moment, then her eyebrows were filled with worry, and she said softly: "How about we stop here first, wait for me to send a letter back, and let my father send someone to take care of it."
Speaking of this, Liu Weirui felt a sense of fear in her heart. Since the other party had taken action against her, there was no guarantee that he would not take action against his sick father. What if the situation at home had already changed?
The caravan is out and rarely contacts home on the way, but this time it has experienced many dangers and is struggling to survive. How can there be time to send a letter and then wait for a reply?
Liu Weirui really didn't know if there would be a vortex swallowing everyone waiting for him in Jinguan City.
Mu Qing shook his head and said: "No, there are still too many unexpected factors, and one move can affect the whole body. When we don't know the specific situation of Jinguan City, it's better for Miss Wei Rui not to contact her."
"Yes." Liu Weirui looked at Mu Qing's calm expression, her heart calmed, and she said softly with her silver teeth: "It is also said in the novel that if you stretch your head or shrink it, it is a knife, so it is better to face the difficulty. "
"Puff——"
Xiaochan refilled Liu Weirui's glass of wine and said with a smile: "Miss, you are definitely not bad at being in the world. The situation will be too bad when the time comes. Let's learn from those green forest heroes and dominate the mountain and become the king."
Xiaochan's teasing obviously had a big effect, and Liu Weirui's face became much less worried.
Mu Qing also smiled and said: "Things won't be that bad. You guys have a good rest tonight, and I will also practice hard to consolidate my realm. I am not a second-grade sword cultivator or some strange second-grade monk. I should We can fight.”
Then Mu Qing thought of the previous painful experience in Iron Bone Village, grinned and said with a wry smile: "You should try your best to stay with me when we go back. If we encounter another poisonous cultivator, it's hard to say how the rest of the caravan will be affected. I We can only do our best.”
"It's okay." Xiaochan thought of the guard brothers who died in Iron Bone Stronghold and said coldly: "We and the people from Iron Bone Stronghold who escorted the caravan were using our relationships, and the most dangerous ones are definitely Master Mu Qing and Miss."
Liu Weirui nodded and responded: "They will definitely focus their main attention on us. If we really die, there is no guarantee that the people under the caravan will die or disperse in a crowd. Most of those horsemen are not Liu I do want to protect the Bo retainers, but I won’t be so pedantic that I can’t tell who is more important than others, so if Mr. Mu Qing is really in danger, don’t be distracted by this.”
Mu Qing smiled confidently and said, "Don't worry."
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"Don't worry." Butcher Hu crossed his arms and looked down at the man at his feet.
He seemed to be chatting with his nephew and nephew: "Although your brother was disrespectful to me and spilled my drink, since I have enjoyed your fifty taels of wine and food, I will not take your life."
Zhang Zizhen, who was originally going to the Honglu Inn, now had a bloodless face and collapsed at the feet of Butcher Hu.
Bright red blood was overflowing from the corners of his pursed lips, slowly flowing through his raised chin, and dripping onto the ground.
"puff--"
Unable to hold it in any longer, Zhang Zizhen fortunately spit out the blood in his mouth.
"Who are you!"
While forcing himself to remain calm, he tried hard to grasp his Yang Yao knife.
The horror in Zhang Zizhen's heart became stronger and stronger. He wanted to grab the heavy black iron knife and support himself to stand up, but found that the weight of a hundred kilograms that he was accustomed to had suddenly increased a hundred times. Can't hold it.
He gave up and asked tremblingly: "What do you want to do?"
I still remember that half a quarter of an hour ago, this butcher whom I had met once at the Dangguan Inn suddenly blocked my way.
He did not dare to be careless after living in Xishan for many years. His past experience told him that once a stranger who did not know where to follow dared to block his way in such an open and honest way, there would only be two possibilities.
First, the other party is very stubborn and does not know how to write the word "death".
The second is that the other party is very confident and wants to ask himself how to write the word "death".
Ever since he provoked the evil man who deserved a thousand cuts in Xishan, even though he and his brother hugged the Lin family of Xishan, Zhang Zizhen still often nags in his brother's ears, and he should not go out in public. If he encounters the situation just now, he must According to the second scenario, no matter what, the lion cannot use its full strength to fight the rabbit.
The reality that he is now lying on the ground and cannot even hold a knife has once again proved that his words are very reasonable. If his younger brother were here, he would definitely pull the other person's ears and say loudly: "Look, I'm not lying." You."
But Zhang Zizhen immediately trembled, it was better that his brother was not here.
He recalled the knife he had just struck with all his strength, slashing the butcher's head. The butcher didn't even try to dodge. Just when the blade struck his face, he calmly raised his right hand and stretched out his usual sharp blade. The two fingers that opened the beast's abdomen perfectly caught his perfectly intended knife.
Then, he tried to chop down but couldn't, and tried to get away but couldn't. He was directly hit by the opponent's palm, which made him look like this miserable.
Butcher Hu did not answer Zhang Zizhen's question, nor could he see the rich inner drama and micro-expressions on the face of the person under his feet.
At this time, he was looking up at the direction of the cliff of Qingchuanguan Canyon. Although it was two streets away and a wall blocked his view, through the interaction between heaven, earth and human beings, he could still clearly sense that that direction was getting colder and colder. The entangled zhenqi sword yuan fluctuates.
Only then did he think about it, smiled and said to Zhang Zizhen: "In another half-quarter of an hour, your rude brother will be with you."
"What?" Zhang Zizhen said in surprise, his face became even paler, thinking that his brother was about to die. The other party's words clearly meant that they were together on the road to hell.
He really didn't expect that there would be two masters in the small town of Qingchuan Pass, and the hope he had carefully hidden in his heart was gone.
At this time, on the edge of the cliff of Qingchuan Pass, the zhenqi and sword energy were fluctuating violently, and the true meaning of the sword was permeated. Under the sunny day after noon, they actually summoned a somewhat cold moonlight.
"boom--"
The sword energy on the Yuehua Sword and the Yinyao Sword intersected, and the overflowing sword energy cut the moonlight that was consistent with the true meaning of the sword into pieces of moonlight.
Yue Jiu is indeed not as concise as Zhang Zishan in the true meaning of swordsmanship, but he has enough sword energy. As the battle begins, his hand feels hotter and hotter, and the memories of past battles instantly occupy his brain. From this point of view, Although the attack was evenly matched, Zhang Zishan failed to defeat Yue Jiu in Zhenqi Sword Element.
"Hmph!" Zhang Zishan held the sword in his right hand and swung it down, directly removing the strands of watery Yinhan sword energy that clung to the Yinyao sword like maggots attached to the bones.
He and Yue Jiu used their full strength in their first pair of moves. He could feel that the other party had more combat experience than him, but his sword intention was not as pure as his own. Therefore, after the sword energy intersected, he immediately retreated more than three feet away.
He planned to take a breath, continue the operation of the Zhenqi sword element around his body, and directly serve the opponent a big meal.
Fights between sword cultivators are always the easiest to die.
Maybe the two sides fighting each other on the first day of the junior high school really wanted to learn from each other and hone their swordsmanship. But when the fight is fierce, if you don’t have murderous intentions, this is not only disrespectful to the opponent, but also disrespectful to your own life. Be responsible.
Therefore, many times, fighting between swordsmen is a matter of victory or defeat, as well as life and death.
Zhang Zishan felt the cold and condensed killing intent in Ru Yue's sword after the Yue Jiu sword cut through the air. The light of battle in his eyes burned brightly, and he had decided not to hold back any longer.
There is a special move in the Yin Yao Sword Technique, "Flowing Light Holding the Moon". In addition to consuming most of the sword's true energy, the true meaning of the sword must be condensed enough. Only in this way can the opponent's head be cut off with a flying strike like a comet's flowing light. .
So while he silently mobilized the zhenqi sword element mixed with him, he said seriously: "This should be the only attack. Please take it seriously."
Yue Jiu smiled slightly, as if he himself had never thought that this battle would actually alleviate some of his worries about swordsmanship.
With a wave of cold sword energy, the divine light in his eyes also lit up, intending to use his own shortcomings to counter the opponent's strong points.
Among the nine moves of the Moonfall Sword Technique, the ninth move, "Catching the Moon in the Water," is for the first time like a new life in the wasteland, containing the true meaning of the sword, and the divine intention is gradually becoming more and more complete.
"Come on, one last blow."
