Yue Jiu remained silent, as cold and silent as a life-and-death showdown between sword cultivators. Mu Qing looked at this scene and couldn't help but feel surprised at Yue Jiu's silence, and then chose to remain silent. As a result, the atmosphere between the three gradually became strange and tense.

Butcher Hu didn't want to wait in silence, so he had to break the silence. He calmly looked at Yue Jiu condescendingly and said, "Ask me again, what is your relationship with the lineage of Medicine Master or Ten Thousand Flowers Valley?"

Forced by the pressure, Yue Jiu collapsed to the ground. The pressure that made flesh, flesh and even soul tremble became stronger and stronger. Blood seeped out from between her teeth. Worried about bringing danger to the beauty in her heart, Yue Jiu Jiu ignored the fierce light above his head, but turned his gaze towards Mu Qing, and said in a hasty tone: "Let's go!"

"Hmph! Do you want to die, brat?" Seeing Yue Jiu ignoring him like this, Butcher Hu felt angry.

He had killed many people in the early years, including many genius sword cultivators. The admiration he had for Yue Jiu yesterday was gone at this moment, and he didn't mind sending this ignorant thing to death first.

Butcher Hu's murderous thoughts came together, and the bloody aura that had been spreading in the scene instantly subsided.

Mu Qingxing's eyes narrowed slightly. Before he could see clearly how Butcher Hu moved, the other man's thick and wide hands had already pinched Yue Jiu's neck and lifted him up.

"senior!"

The arrow was like a string, and Yue Jiu's neck might be broken in the next moment. Mu Qing didn't have much time to judge the relationship now, so he had no choice but to stop it loudly.

He pinched the thick envelope in his sleeve, thinking that Yue Jiu had just refused to reveal his relationship with Ning Chu, his eyebrows knitted together and then relaxed.

"What?" A trace of surprise flashed in Butcher Hu's eyes, and he lifted Yue Jiu off the ground with one arm. Then he turned his gaze slightly and asked in a hoarse voice: "You want to save him? Weren't you still fighting for life and death just now? ?"

"Uh... don't worry about it, just leave!" Yue Jiu shouted at Mu Qing with veins popping out on his forehead.

Mu Qing pursed his lips slightly, ignoring Yue Jiu's suicide attempt. He shook his head and said seriously: "It was just a misunderstanding between him and me. Now that it has been resolved, it will be fine."

Mu Qing put his left hand on his back, signaling Liu Weirui and the others behind him to retreat, but he slowly walked forward.

He looked straight at Butcher Hu and asked calmly: "I just don't know if there is any misunderstanding between senior and us, or with Wanhua Valley?"

Butcher Hu's eyes narrowed slightly, and the big hand holding Yue Jiu's neck felt Mu Qing's obscure gaze. He pressed harder on his hand, shook his head and said coldly: "You really don't look like a real assassin."

Mu Qing did not deny this statement. He narrowed his eyelids and said calmly: "Senior was hiding in the dark before, and none of us noticed it. If you wanted to kill us at that time, you would have done it long ago."

The hidden meaning in Mu Qing's words was obvious enough. Since he didn't take action at that time, why should he do it now?

"Haha." Butcher Hu sighed that Mu Qing could have such a calm and thorough mind at such a young age, and couldn't help but chuckle.

A burst of crimson energy appeared and disappeared on his arm. Yue Jiu was helpless in his hand, and he let go and threw her out in an instant.

"Whoosh--" The sound of the wind sounding like tearing clothes, Yue Jiuren quickly crashed into Mu Qing in the air.

Mu Qing didn't dare to be careless. He stepped back with his right foot. Qi surged into his arm. Kankan grabbed Yue Jiu. A huge force surged towards him in an instant. Fortunately, he was prepared in advance. , due to the force, he stepped back with his right foot and made a two-inch deep footprint, which offset the huge force.

"Your Qi is indeed special." Butcher Hu's eyes showed some admiration.

Jiang Shangxiu didn't say much about Mu Qing in his letter. He said that Mu Qing was extremely talented and was already at the fourth level when he just became an adult. However, he had been practicing Shura Jue before, but after being promoted to the third level on the way, he became As a poison cultivator, Hidden Valley doesn't know what happened, nor does he know what kind of poison Mu Qing is good at. It can be seen that Mu Qing has always been good at hiding herself.

He just wanted to test out Mu Qing's true energy, and used 60% of his strength when he threw Yue Jiu. The first and second grades are already a natural chasm, not to mention that Mu Qing is still a third grade. This cannot be made up for by quantity. The gap, logically speaking, a hundred Mu Qing might not be able to withstand his full strength, 60% of it is because he deliberately held back.

But when Mu Qing was able to catch Yue Jiu without taking a step back, Butcher Hu discovered that Mu Qing's true energy was probably stronger than the ordinary second-level peak level.

This was the first time that Hu Tufu, a Taoist cultivator, had seen a third-level poisonous cultivator who had just been promoted to a third-level poison cultivator. His true energy could be so terrifying.

"And the most powerful thing about poison cultivators should not be true energy but the use of poison." With this thought flashing through his mind, Butcher Hu's eyes swept over the dagger in Mu Qing's hand in a moment, with a hint of confirmation and The meaning of vigilance.

After just hiding in the shadows and watching for a long time, he was almost certain that Mu Qing should have applied poison on the dagger to be able to defeat Yue Jiu by chance. This was just a way of using poison externally.

The thoughts that arose while walking calmed down again. Tufu Hu looked at Yue Jiu who stood up with the help of Mu Qing, and said contemptuously: "You had your acupoints and meridians sealed on this kid before. If I kill him, it will be like killing a bird." A dead dog cannot resist before dying and is totally powerless.”

"You!" Yue Jiu was full of anger, and the sword intent on his body was about to break through the blockade of the acupoints and meridians.

Mu Qing silently stopped Yue Jiu's movements, looked at Butcher Hu with his starry eyes, and asked doubtfully: "Senior, what do you mean?"

"Oh, you are always talking about 'senior'." Butcher Hu lifted up the Yuehua Sword on the ground with his kick. When the Yuehua Sword was still on his waist and abdomen, he slapped the hilt with his backhand, and the long sword was like a shooting star. Like shooting at Mu Qing.

Mu Qingjian raised his eyebrows but made no move. His bright eyes followed the Yuehua Sword as it landed on the ground in front of him. Then he raised his head and looked at Butcher Hu calmly.

"It's a pity that you never say what your relationship is with Ten Thousand Flowers Valley."

The coldness in Butcher Hu's eyes grew brighter. He raised his chin slightly with a short gray beard. He looked at Mu Qing and said coldly: "You didn't seize the last opportunity. I will give you another opportunity. You take it." His Qi blockade has been released. You two have a good fight with me. Only if you can withstand ten of my moves will you be qualified to negotiate terms with me."

Facing this half-hundred-year-old man who suddenly appeared and became the focus of the scene, Mu Qing had been suppressing his emotions. Now after hearing these words, his hands moved like the wind, and after untying the acupuncture points on Yue Jiu's body, he remained silent for the first time. One rushed forward.

"Oh, they all have the aura of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers."

Butcher Hu shot the zhenqi in his hand and cut off a branch as thick as his wrist. The crimson zhenqi lingered on it, and it was as solid as cold iron. He never deliberately prepares any weapons when killing people. Most of the time, a pair of iron fists can kill many opponents. But Mu Qing's short sword contained some kind of poison, and Hu Butcher would not underestimate his opponent due to his own cultivation.

"boom."

After a short buzz, Mu Qing struck with all his strength and flew backwards, while Butcher Hu only took a slight step back.

Even if the Dao Heart is broken and the first-level cultivation level is no longer at its peak, the true energy is still there, and it is still so majestic that no one can easily resist it.

Butcher Hu looked at Mu Qing who flew upside down and stabilized himself in the air. He raised his eyebrows slightly. He was not satisfied with the result. With a shake of the wooden stick in his hand, he caught up with Mu Qing in an instant. The wooden stick had already hit Mu Qing's face with the sound of wind and thunder.

Yue Jiu watched Mu Qing fly upside down in the air and was in deep danger. In the blink of an eye, he pulled out the Yuehua Sword on the ground, forcibly activated the stagnant Zhenqi sword element and rushed forward.

A cold light arose from behind, and a wooden stick carrying the force of wind and thunder struck from the front. Mu Qing had no choice but to believe in his senior sister's vision, and exposed his back to Yue Jiu's sword light.

"Bah——" As the Zhenqi Sword Element was gradually functioning smoothly, the cold sword light on the Yuehua Sword was so long that it broke through the front end of the wooden stick when it was only one foot away from Mu Qing. Infuriated. .

Feeling the sword energy coming from his back and finally passing by his face, and looking at the subtle collision between the sword tip and the wooden stick in front of him, Mu Qing was sure that the person was still in the air, and the surging energy was directly in his mind. Forcibly reversing his retreat, his left hand naturally tapped Yue Jiu on the shoulder beside him, and he held the sword in his right hand and slashed it upwards against the wooden stick.

"Hiss—" a sharp and harsh friction sound exploded.

Butcher Hu's aura was fully activated, crimson Shura Qi surged out from his arms, and the wooden stick became even more indestructible.

Yue Jiu received the huge force from the sword and Mu Qing's palm, and flew backwards, unharmed for the time being.

However, in the first move of the exchange, the green and red zhenqi intertwined and collided, making a sound that resounded throughout the forest. Mu Qing switched from retreating to moving forward in an instant. Before Butcher Hu could withdraw his hand, the dagger wrapped in infuriating energy scraped against the crimson infuriating energy overflowing from the wooden stick, and slashed directly towards the opponent's solid body. A powerful tiger's mouth.

"Hmph!" Butcher Hu moved the bowl in his hand slightly, and raised the wooden stick upwards, directly blocking Mu Qing's sharp blow from the stick.

"This dagger must be filled with poison!" Butcher Hu did not dare to be careless. As his true energy surged, he took the initiative to retreat for the first time.

Butcher Hu's breath was unusually calm after he stood still, and he looked coldly at the black-green dagger in Mu Qing's hand.

Feeling the needle-like gaze from the opposite side, Mu Qing's right hand shrank into the sleeve that naturally hung down after being torn.

At this time, his right hand holding the dagger was still trembling slightly. The sleeves were fluttering, and the five fingers behind the cover were slightly relaxed, trying hard to relieve the tingling and numb feeling.

With just one blow, the palm of Mu Qing's right hand was bruised and bloody, and he could no longer hold the dagger in his hand safely.

Recalling the surging crimson Qi just now, Mu Qing's heart sank, and his eyes narrowed into a straight line, hiding the horror in his heart. He looked at Butcher Hu and asked coldly: "Shura Qi?"

Mu Qing knew that he would definitely fall into a disadvantage, which did not make him feel so horrified.

But Hu Tufu had always maintained restraint at the beginning. Even with the pressure of the first-level aura and the blood-killing aura revealed, Mu Qing still did not expect it to be this kind of true energy.

Because even when the opponent throws Yue Jiu, his true energy always flashes and disappears. It wasn't until after the close range attack and after getting out of danger from the wooden stick that Mu Qing realized that the crimson Qi just now had the same origin as the Shura internal force that he was extremely familiar with. It was clearly the result of practicing Shura techniques. The Shura Qi will slowly transform and appear after the third level!

Shura Jue is the same as the Ten Thousand Poisons Heart Sutra that Mu Qing is now boldly practicing. They are just internal skills. According to common sense, a mental method that can be selected by a sect should have other supporting contents. For example, the Ten Thousand Poisons Heart Sutra is only an internal skill in the Poisonous Qi Chapter of the Ten Thousand Poisons Manual that specializes in cultivating true energy. There are also many moves in the chapter that can be learned with the advancement of cultivation and used in conjunction with the Ten Thousand Poison Qi.

The difference between Shura Jue and Shura Jue is this. Orphans like Mu Qing were kidnapped by Hidden Valley and can only learn Shura Jue and moves that can be used with internal energy below the third level. There are no moves that can be used with true energy above the third level.

Mu Qing once heard Shaoyao's master say that Shura Jue is only the inner strength and mental method in "Shura Sutra", and only the elders can see the real "Shura Sutra" in its entirety.

There is a consensus recognized by everyone in the cultivation world. After reaching the third level, if you want to slowly transform your inner strength into true energy, you must practice moves that can use true energy. Only then can you realize the respective avenues while slowing down. Slowly promotes conversion.

After an assassin who practices Shura Technique is promoted to the third level, unless he exchanges for high-level mission achievements in Liuyelu, or chooses to join the Zhanglu lineage, he may not be able to advance because he does not have the moves after the third level. Always stuck at level three.

Mu Qing did not want to be controlled by others, so after having a better choice, he boldly chose to study the "Ten Thousand Poisons Manual" halfway, while Yue Jiu had the opportunity to study the "Moon Flower Sword Sutra" a long time ago. From some choices, it can also be seen that they actually do not want to be subject to Hidden Valley.

But for assassins born in Hidden Valley, Shura Jue fundamentally binds their hearts, because Shura Jue is very easy to learn and get started in the early stage. If you are very talented in the later stage, you will be the lackey of Hidden Valley wholeheartedly. , you can also get other contents of the "Shura Sutra". In the end, if you can prove the Tao through killing, it is actually a first-class Dao Sutra.

But in the blink of an eye, Mu Qing had many complicated thoughts in his heart. If he didn't become Hidden Valley's iron lackey, how could he be promoted to the first level of truth-seeking through Shura Jue?

He frowned slightly. According to this logic, the other party has been asking about his relationship with Wanhua Valley. What is his intention?