At the moment of collision, the wind's trajectory instantly exploded from a smooth arc into a chaotic vortex.
The strip of cloth in Ling Yao's hand exploded to pieces and fluttered in the air, revealing the smooth and hard scabbard.
What was creaking and sparks flying on the scabbard was a pair of unexpected silver-black double swords.
"oh?"
The owner of the double-sword sword did not seem to have expected the scene in front of him. He looked with interest at the strange cultivator who wrapped himself tightly in a hooded sweatshirt and a black mask. The bytes coming out of his mouth were indistinguishable. Doubts or high praise,
"When did the Northwest Branch get a new person like this?"
However, Ling Yao's eyes were as calm as ever, showing neither panic nor doubt, and even lacked curiosity.
He had already anticipated the sneak attack in front of him, and could even guess the opponent's camp: Raven's people would not be stupid enough to take over the entire layout, and the spy in the Secret Service would not be able to conjure up someone who dared to appear openly. The thugs at the mission site, and the Li family couldn't afford to hire such skilled support, so they came up and "quarreled" with the Secret Service.
Aren't there only those ancient big families who are far away in the capital and have the world at heart, who are specially prepared to cause trouble for the protagonist, but are finally troubled by the protagonist?
And at first glance, this person is not cannon fodder, at least he is a veteran who has been on many missions and has a certain status. Otherwise, how could he dare to go to Fengcheng to go head-to-head with a team from the Special Intelligence Bureau, and "point and pick" at the opponents who stopped him?
After this person appeared, Ling Yao naturally exchanged a few moves with the opponent, and also showed his kung fu. He just slowly used the moves, pondering the opponent's method, and quickly figured out two ways.
Level 6, good at guerrilla and assassination combat.
Both belong to the wood element, so Ling Yao can easily identify the wind attribute infuriating energy on the opponent's body. Different from the short-term speed and attack of thunder attribute masters, wind attribute masters are more inclined to long-term lightness and agility. They like to take people by surprise and attack them unprepared, which is also a common choice for sword cultivators. Ling Yao had many wind attribute sect members back then, and he had also studied how to deal with such practitioners for the sect's internal conference. Therefore, he was more certain that the other party's major was not the wind attribute, but the wood attribute.
Although the wood attribute has derived two styles, wind and thunder, which are good at attacking, its own characteristics are gentle and steady, focusing on repair, amplification and treatment. In order to improve his survivability when going out for experience, Ling Yao also learned fur; If the wood-attributed spiritual power is transformed into aggression, it is mostly reflected in covert means such as poisonous miasma, restraints, formations, etc. It is still auxiliary and logistical - presumably the same is true for true energy.
But the person in front of him, whether it was his aura or his aggression, was undoubtedly a killer.
If a person with the wood attribute wants to fight head-on, even if he increases his physical strength and speeds up his speed, he still cannot give full play to his long mace advantage when facing enemies with other attributes. but if……
Ling Yao could feel that the other party did not try his best.
Like a cat playing with its prey, it switches between fighting and observing with ease - but the object of observation is not Ling Yao himself, but the team of newcomers he is protecting behind him.
Sure enough, their goal was to test the importance of this new group of people.
Ling Yao was already confident enough that there would be no support from the opponent nearby, and he had already made up his mind to fight quickly.
This person's appearance for interviews also means that there is a big problem within the stronghold. They wanted the Secret Service to look at both ends to see which was more important to the Secret Service. The only way to crack it is to quickly defeat them one by one so that they can't judge.
Moreover, Ling Yao also felt uneasy at the moment... It was impossible for this person to dare to appear alone just because of his ability to fight back and forth with him. If it was just a passive defense, Ling Yao would be hard-pressed to protect so many people.
"It's quite fun to play with you. But that's the end of it."
Before Ling Yao could take the initiative, his opponent unexpectedly chose to "stop" first. The man nimbly avoided Ling Yao's attack range and no longer wandered among the crowd, provoking Ling Yao's frequent rescues.
But he had no intention of escaping. He just laughed, teasingly and making people cringe.
Only then did Ling Yao suddenly realize that, apart from his fellow disciples who were busy all day long in the Jianmen alchemy room and the herb field, in the great world of Mang Sheng, the places where he had seen the most wood attribute cultivators were actually the territory of evil cultivators. .
They can give life to others, but they can also take away life from others.
The media are plants that are ubiquitous in nature. Plant fluff, pollen, seeds, spores... can all be used.
"Hold your breath! Protect your energy!"
Ling Yao suddenly turned around and shouted. But it was too late. In an instant, there was chaos and wailing behind him.
The spores enter the human body through the mouth and nose, and are continuously catalyzed by the true energy, absorbing nutrients from the person's energy channels, and even attempt to take root. The symptoms of the host naturally become more and more terrible.
Although Ling Yao's reminder was not useless, at least it blocked the reproduction and spread of the spores, but the other party moved one step faster, and the damage that had been caused was naturally irreversible. Except for Meng Jie'an, Dong Jie and Ning Min, everyone else was "annihilated" directly.
If the Secret Service no longer sends people to support them, there is no need for the man with the double sword to take action at this moment. Any force present can tear these newcomers into pieces.
After all, Ling Yao overestimated the moral bottom line of the Beijing family.
He thought his battlefield would be filled with exchanges of words, exchanges of interests, and calculations of people's hearts. These are the things that Ling Yao usually does with his identity and status. As Li Haibo said, what Ling Yao is good at is not only playing tricks.
At the negotiation table and in the game field, everyone maintained a well-dressed and reserved look, which gave him more room to maneuver.
Therefore, he thought that the aristocratic family in the capital would maintain a calm attitude and retain their benevolent, righteous and moral appearance. Even if you intervene in it, you don't dare to leave any traces. In the end, it will be completely wiped out so that no one can catch anything.
But in fact, neither Lin Tianyu nor this group of newcomers under him have excellent skills or strong backers. They are not at the negotiating table that the aristocratic family has in mind.
There are smoke bombs in front, and people are sent to test whether it is true or false? If there is a suspect, arrange a bureau to find out?
No, that's a lot of trouble. People from these big families in the capital always think simpler - Do you have any doubts? Is there a threat? possible?
Wouldn't it be better to kill them all?
Kill, just kill. Even if there are obvious traces left to tell you that I killed him, what can you do? Is your secret service willing to quarrel with several prominent families in the capital over a few petty soldiers?
When Professor Xia "accidentally passed away", didn't the Secret Service still "suffer from it"? Because if the project is gone, it is gone, and it is too late to do anything else.
If it is a sect or aristocratic family, they may take revenge even if they sacrifice some interests in order to gain face and dignity.
But the Secret Service is different. Although the Secret Service has its attributes, its members are a mixed bag. To put it bluntly, in fact, everyone is working hard to fulfill their due responsibilities for their own benefit. real
Those who work for the sake of faith and belief are ultimately a minority.
The weak giant beast cannot even move its limbs freely. Even with its flexible and intelligent mind, it is difficult to resist the annoying hyena.
But Ling Yao was different, he couldn't stand this.
What he wants is not face or dignity - these are things he fights for himself. He just has a sense in his mind of what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
He weighs everyone in this world with His own weight. Some people stay firmly in the middle, some struggle at both ends, some go to the left, and some go to the right.
He took it all into consideration. But he remained silent.
But if someone provokes him, if someone treats the people around him in a domineering and indiscriminate way of killing innocent people, he will use this scale to teach the person how to behave.
Before the smile on the man holding the two swords and ax could fade away, Ling Yao's figure suddenly flashed and appeared in front of him as if teleporting. The originally strict sword moves suddenly became smart and strange, and he stabbed the man's neck from a tricky angle!
The man had a look of shock on his face, but he was not at a loss. He immediately drew out his two axes and collided with the sword's edge, causing a string of golden sparks to appear.
How can the sound of wind defeat the power of thunder? Even after taking seven or eight steps back, Ling Yao's sword edge still showed no sign of decline. The man suppressed a trace of panic in his heart and finally changed his stance to resist. He turned his axes sideways, as if trying to deflect the sword force in order to find a way out.
However, the most important thing in the battle between masters is momentum. The momentum is there, the more you fight, the braver you become, and you have no fear; if the momentum is gone, and you have the thought of retreating, you will be overwhelmed by human power in an instant, and it is even more difficult to get it back.
Naturally, Ling Yao would not miss this opportunity. Holding the sword flower in his hand, he bypassed the obstruction of the double sword axe, but quickly threw two talismans with his left hand, which landed on the handle of the ax in the man's right hand, instantly exploding into two dazzling thunderbolts.
The talisman itself does not contain true energy, and only displays its power when it is activated. It was also the first time for this man to fight against an opponent like Ling Yao. At this time, he was hit by this sudden attack and was completely unprepared. His eyes blurred, and the two axes he held in his hands were no longer stable, so he had no choice but to retreat backwards based on instinct.
Ling Yao kept moving, and the man kept changing his body shape to dodge. He knew in his heart that Ling Yao might have ambushed the formation mechanism again, just waiting for him to fall into a trap, but he was forced to retreat again and again by the flickering sword light, just to seek that glimmer of hope.
He thought that the other party was already on par with him, but now he had the lives of those "little chickens" behind him at his fingertips. He should have been in a state of panic and undecided about attack and defense, but he would take advantage of it.
If the Secret Service is really determined to protect this group of people, it will naturally mobilize its forces to support this place first compared to the search team that is trapped in the stronghold but still has the strength to fight. When he got the information, he hid in the jungle and escaped without a trace. The Secret Service thought it had nothing to do with him.
But who would have thought that Ling Yao's first reaction was not to kill him with a weapon, but to kill him first and then quickly?
This made him confused for a moment what Ling Yao was thinking. Did he decisively think that getting rid of him first would solve the problem, or did he not care about these newcomers at all and just sacrifice a little as long as he could be taken down?
But his arrogance naturally has another layer of support: even if he is not Ling Yao's opponent, even if the Secret Service is really capable of taking him down, he will definitely be able to escape unscathed.
——"You can't kill him! Ling Yao! Liang Yi, he is from the Liang family in the capital! You can't provoke them yet!"
Liang Yi could even hear Yang He's angry roar in Ling Yao's headset.
Ling Yao? Liang Yi is still thinking distractedly, and sure enough, this is a newcomer's name that he has never heard of.
However, this Ling Yao, who had never appeared in the intelligence, turned out to be Yang He's direct descendant. But considering that Meng Jie'an and Dong Jie are also in this team, it doesn't seem so difficult to understand.
Yang He has been trying to develop his own strength over the years so that he can deal with the airborne Bin sent by the top management to the northwest. This matter is well known to everyone at their level.
I just didn't expect that Yang He would have already recruited such a person in just a few years.
He is the killer of the Liang family and the illegitimate son of the head of the Liang family. On the one hand, the Liang family hated him, but on the other hand, they treated him as the sharpest knife. He is simply ruthless and sharp enough. As long as he does not attack ordinary people, the Secret Service will not dare to act rashly against him despite his identity.
Naturally it is the same this time.
However, Liang Yi was wrong after all. The Secret Service is naturally the same as before, but Ling Yao is not yet a member of the Secret Service.
Yang He's words did not move Ling Yao at all. Even if he gave his real name [Ling Yao] to Yang He as a nickname for his actions, it did not mean that he would immediately follow Yang He's arrangements now.
In Ling Yao's mind, this guy just attempted murder! For such a person, no matter how powerful and powerful he is, if Ling Yao, the "protagonist", dares to stand up to him, will he still have any scruples?
On the contrary, he actually felt from the bottom of his heart that it was precisely because the Secret Service was not of the same mind, always looking forward and backward, and allowing such people to jump up and down for various reasons again and again, that the family felt that the Secret Service was easy to handle, and that made this person Such people appear again and again and cause more and greater casualties!
Of course, he had also heard Meng Jie'an talk about many confrontations and tacit understandings between the Secret Service and Beijing's aristocratic families, and he knew that as long as both parties did not take the initiative to attack ordinary people, they would not be pulled out for liquidation.
But how are the standards for ordinary people defined?
He is a "research expert" who plans to promote cultivation to all people. In his mind, all ordinary people in the future will reach the realm of these new people.
So these little brats behind him couldn't be more ordinary.
It's better to wait for Yang He's "big principles" to capture the people and leave them to the old stubborn people in the Secret Service who want to cause trouble for him.
This was Ling Yao's firm logic before taking action. Therefore, when Liang Yi was distracted and wondering about the message in Yang He's words, Ling Yao ignored it and took the opportunity to turn sideways and jump up, taking a step forward. The sword used the force to swing towards the opponent's waist and abdomen, hitting the blocking ax blade.
Then he pressed the sword sheath forward with his other hand, and held another sword axe. The condensed thunder and lightning poured down like water, instantly paralyzing Liang Yi's right hand!
The gap between the advantages and disadvantages of these back and forth has widened suddenly, but it is not because the strength gap between the two sides is too large, but because Liang Yi is overconfident in his knowledge of the Secret Service, while Ling Yao is outside the routine of the Secret Service. people.
Although he was at a disadvantage, Liang Yi also took this opportunity to re-evaluate Ling Yao's strength and thinking: This person is very strong, and has not yet been controlled by the complete secret service.
This means that Ling Yao will not take into account any factors other than the combat effectiveness of both parties when dealing with him. This is a life and death battle.
With this knowledge, Liang Yi quickly forced himself to calm down. Although he is frivolous and arrogant, since he is a killer and the sharp knife behind the Liang family's back, he cannot be a bluffing, unexperienced novice.
He is good at unilaterally killing enemies, and he is also experienced in fighting strong ones.
What's more, the jungle is his home field. As for the other party, not only is it ineffective against him in terms of his zodiac sign, but his strength does not completely crush him.
Wood is insulating, so he activated his energy and quickly counteracted the paralysis effect of lightning.
He was distracted and took back the energy that drained other people's life force. He needed his full attention now.
In the shrubs, on the branches, among the swaying leaves, and even the forest mist mixed with the fragrance of grass and soil, this space is filled with the arms and weapons of wood cultivators. The moment Ling Yao swung his sword and struck again, the surrounding vines suddenly rose up in violence, intertwining between Liang Yi and Ling Yao like a net.
Although this barrier could not stop Ling Yao, who could cut through the obstacle with just one swing of his sword, it did interrupt his fatal attack. Liang Yi also readjusted his posture at this moment, landed in a relatively safe area, and switched from defense to offense.
If there is no way to kill this new group of people, then hold back the most powerful person here. Liang Yi knew his purpose today very well.
Raven's plan is not that simple, and the chaos in the stronghold will only get bigger and bigger. Under normal circumstances, a sixth-grade master like Ling Yao will need to be transferred to support sooner or later, and other forces from the Secret Service will also fill in - - Of course, if something abnormal happens, it can only mean that there are more important secrets hidden among these newcomers than an elite team of the Intelligence Bureau.
This will be the important information he brings back today.
And Ling Yao obviously understood Liang Yi's idea, so he chose a quick victory from the beginning.
Of course, he also knew that what the Wood type liked and was best at was sneak attacks and protracted battles, and it was not easy to win a quick victory.
But just as Liang Yi missed the opportunity due to misjudgment due to "information gap" at the beginning, what Ling Yao has most is the "unexpected" trump card.
Seeing that Liang Yi chose to use the venue advantage to compete with him, he was not nervous, but even wanted to laugh a little - how could he have the confidence to be in a forest filled with moisture and it was just his own home court?
The mist spread across the ground, and no one could see clearly the electric charges jumping back and forth on the dew drops. They are like elves holding hands, weaving a fine and invisible current network on the ground in patches.
Ling Yao showed a little difficulty. Those notes that suddenly appeared from nowhere always hindered his attack just right, and the diffuse poisonous mist shrouded him all the time, making him have to distract himself to contend with it.
Liang Yi couldn't hurt him, but he couldn't touch Liang Yi either.
However, in fact, when the vines move and dance suddenly, when the trees rise strangely from the ground, when the poisonous spores float to every corner, the electricity follows the current and crisscrosses the forest, dormant, waiting for the master's order. .
A violent explosion suddenly came from the stronghold not far away.
boom--!
Half of the sky suddenly lit up, and then a long plume of gray-white smoke ignited.
The ground vibrated violently, raising a cloud of yellow dust.
There was a loud noise in Ling Yao's headset, and he seemed to be looking there in confusion, with a look of worry on his face.
Emotional fluctuations are often the beginning of flaws.
Liang Yi felt quite proud in his heart, but he still conservatively distanced himself from his opponent, considered the opportunity, and spoke slowly:
"It seems they have succeeded. I'm afraid your people won't be able to come back..."
Before he finished speaking, a dazzling blue-purple color suddenly enveloped his vision, and the dense buzzing sound of electric currents noisily obscured his sense of hearing.
He suddenly felt paralyzed, hot, confused, and the energy that shouldn't belong to him suddenly exploded in his body. The severe pain made him instantly lose the ability to think.
The two axes in his hands were picked apart, then strangled around his neck and hung in the air.
Mu Sheng Lei? That is just a visible manifestation of the laws of nature. Even thunder and lightning are only the most visible manifestation of the electricity system.
Thunder and lightning are inherently divided and stored in the sky, not born from trees. Only when the clouds and rain gather, the wooden crown will fall accurately. Liang Yi thinks that by controlling the plants, he can resist the coming of thunder and lightning, but in fact, the thunder and lightning has already been lurking around Ling Yao, and has been divided into pieces that are invisible to the naked eye. The electric charge created the most airtight cage around Liang Yi!
Liang Yi felt the electric current binding his limbs and tightening his throat. But what's even more frightening is that the electric current seems to have entered the circulation of his body along with the true energy, and completely clamped down on his Dantian, making it difficult for his true energy to circulate!
Then Liang Yi finally heard the first words spoken by Ling Yao since the battle:
"I don't know if they can come back, but you definitely can't."
