Dugu Xiang saw that he had a trick with his words, so he told Runke to get rid of Jiang Shuo, and hurriedly jumped to Jiang Shuo's side and asked: "Brother Shuo, how are you?"
Jiang Shuo finally got out of the predicament. As soon as he landed, he held his sword across his chest to defend himself. His nose and temples were already covered with sweat. He wiped his face with his sleeves and took a long breath and said, "This is Xiang Runke." The wooden stick in your hand is so powerful."
Dugu Xiang said to Runke: "Old monkey, what kind of evil thing are these wooden sticks in your hands? How can the sword keep cutting, and it can also absorb weapons? I see that these two sticks of yours are burnt black. Could it be that they are too much?" Do you want to use the fire stick for Lao Jun’s alchemy stove?”
Xiang Runke said: "Young girl has sharp teeth and a sharp mouth. This is not a Taoist magic weapon. This dragon and tiger staff are made of Nanhai ash wood."
Jiang Shuo suddenly realized, "It turns out to be a Nanhai cypress tree. I see that the stick is dark, so I guess it is a lightning-struck tree."
The lightning-struck trees were made from trees struck by thunder from the sky. They looked scorched black. People in the village were ignorant and believed that the lightning-struck trees could ward off evil spirits. Witches often used them for witchcraft blessings. It happened that the two wooden sticks were crooked towards Runke. The dark color of the wood looked very much like the lightning-strike wood staff used by shamans. Moreover, everyone in Liuyao looked suspicious, and they could not help but think that the weapon Xiang Runke was using was some evil lightning-strike wood.
Xiang Runke had taken off his mask just now, and Jiang Shuo looked at his face now. He was about forty or fifty years old, with a slender figure and a long and narrow face. With his round eyes and dark complexion, he looked like a standard horse face. Dugu Xiang was also beside Jiang Shuo and said, "Brother Shuo, look at his head that looks like a horse's head."
When Jiang Shuo heard what Dugu Xiang said was the same as what he was thinking, he couldn't help but smile knowingly and said: "Yes, but he seems to be a Han Chinese, just with a different look. I said before that he makes lightning strike trees." What a ghost." "
People in the Tang Dynasty called Wu Jin a "ghost-seeing man". Xiang'er laughed and said, "I think he looks like a ghost. How can he be a ghost-seeing man? Brother Shuo, do you think he looks like someone from the temple?" Horse-headed Rakshasa?"
Xiang Runke glared at him and said angrily: "Are the two little dolls chirping and arranging things for me?"
Xiang'er said: "No, no... we told senior that you were born with... extraordinary appearance!"
Xiang Runke said: "Hey... Girl, don't think that just because you said I'm handsome, I'll spare you two. Even if you abandon your sword and surrender now, you still have to take one of my sticks first."
When Jiang Shuo just fought with Xiang Runke, he felt worried that there was something strange about the two sticks in his hands, and he felt timid in his heart. Naturally, all his skills were greatly reduced. Now that he knew that what Xiang Runke was using was Nanhai cypress wood and not some evil lightning strike wood, the fear in his heart had receded. He raised his sword and said, "Senior, let's fight again."
Jiang Shuo is a junior, so it would be a bit rude to invite a fight to a senior like this, but Xiang Runke didn't have the demeanor of a senior in the martial arts world at all. He hit him when he was told to, and hit Jiang Shuo with his stick, shouting: "Don't think that The sword in my hand is sharp, but I can't get any advantage in front of my South China Sea ashwood staff. The ashwood is the strongest wood in the world. Even if you are a magic weapon, you can cut it with a sharp blade. There is also a section. The ashwood can channel internal energy. This But it can’t be done with any wood.”
Jiang Shuo raised his sword to meet him. He knew that Xiang Runke was talking nonsense, but his kung fu was actually very good. He said to Dugu Xiang, "Xiang'er, don't help me. Senior Xiang and I will fight alone." Dugu Xiang also knew this. With Xiang Runke's skills, joining the battle group can only become a burden to Jiang Shuo. It would be better to use language to disrupt others and help Jiang Shuo more.
Jiang Shuo fought with Xiang Runke for the second time. This time he was afraid that he would stick his sword to him again, but he did not dare to use the sword to cut the wooden stick in his hand. Xiang Runke swung his wooden staff wide open and closed, and without any scruples, he aimed at the seven-star sword in Jiang Shuo's hand, but Jiang Shuo dodged left and right to avoid intersecting with his weapon. This has never been the case since Jiang Shuo's debut. Even when he fought against Zhang Gou'er and Li Zhu'er's sun and moon swords, it was just a draw without taking advantage of the weapons. But at this moment, Lost.
Dugu Xiang saw Jiang Shuo at a disadvantage, pretending to be contemptuous and sneered: "Senior, let me say something unpleasant. Your fire stick is nothing unusual. It is common for people with high internal strength to transmit their internal strength through weapons. But you took these two fire sticks as your treasure."
Xiang Runke is also a person who refuses to forgive others.
While fighting, he said: "Girl, what do you know? This Nanhai cypress stick is not like an ordinary weapon. The internal power is transferred into ordinary gold and iron, and it can only be fired but not retracted. The longer the blade, the faster the internal power will deplete. It is like using a spear." A person cannot transfer internal force through the barrel of the gun to the tip of the gun."
Dugu Xiang pouted and said, "Nonsense, my grandfather can use his inner strength to pass through a long white silk rope that is ten feet long."
Xiang Runke swung his staff and hit Jiang Shuo fiercely. The wooden staff in his hand made a thunderous roar. Jiang Shuo avoided it and stabbed towards the soft ribs of Xiang Runke's side. Xiang Runke's wooden staff suddenly swept across, but Jiang Shuo did not dare to take a direct hit. , he had no choice but to step back with his sword to avoid the blow. He was not afraid of the strong force of the wooden staff, but he felt that the internal force on the staff was strange. Previously, the wooden staff had a sticky force and could not be shaken off if it touched it. But now When the wooden staff swept the sword, there was a faint repulsive force that pushed the sword away from Jiang Shuo's hand.
The more Xiang Runke fought, the more proud he became. He said to Dugu Xiang: "With weapons such as soft ropes and soft whips, people with advanced internal skills can indeed change softness into hardness and bend into straightness. However, when internal energy is poured into it, it can only change the shape, but it will not change the shape." It cannot be continuous, nor can it stick to the weapon."
Dugu Xiang said: "Oh, it turns out that Senior Xiang is not a strong martial artist, but you just took advantage of the unique nature of this South China Sea cypress wood."
Xiang Runke said angrily: "How can this be taking advantage? This boy has broken many people's swords with the sword in his hand. Why don't you say that he took advantage?"
Dugu Xiang said: "Hey... you already said he is a little doll, and a doll is a child. It is normal for children to take advantage of adults. On the other hand, if you take advantage of children, you are a bit old and shameless. .”
Xiang Runke said: "Bah... this sword is no different from chopping heads to chopping vegetables. It's a bit too much of an advantage."
The two of them were bickering, and Dugu Xiang was just teasing casually, trying to distract Xiang Runke, but Jiang Shuo suddenly realized something - if the two of them were competing in boxing and kicking, it wouldn't matter if the internal force in their hands had the ability to absorb and stick. It's strange, but Xiang Runke's Nanhai cypress stick seems to have lengthened his arm. It can use various internal forces of sticking and repelling, and it is not afraid of being cut by a sword.
Jiang Shuo originally thought that this weird fighting method was due to Xiang Runke's special internal power. But now after listening to what he said, he realized that it was caused by the wooden nature of Nanhai Qianmu. He couldn't help but have a thought in his mind - he had heard that the scabbard of the Seven-Star Sword was also made of wood. Made of Nanhai cypress wood, now looking at Runke's double staff carefully, the color and appearance are indeed very similar to the scabbard of the Seven-Star Sword.
The head of the Seven-Star Sword has a screw mouth that can be connected with the tail of the scabbard. Jiang Shuo only saw Pei Min assemble it like this when he was slaying the dragon in the Han River, turning the Seven-Star Sword into a horse-slaying sword, but he himself had never Used.
At this moment, Jiang Shuo casually took off the scabbard hanging on his belt, put his left and right hands together, and twisted the sword's head and sheath tail together to connect them. At this time, Xiang Runke's wooden staff hit him, and Jiang Shuo used his strength to push the sword's sheath horizontally to meet him. Xiang Runke asked: "Silly boy, do you think all wood in the world is the same?" Before he could finish his words, the wooden stick hit the scabbard, but there was a loud bang, like the sound of wind and thunder, which filled the whole valley. The Khitan warriors and Yiluohe who were fighting in the distance couldn't help but be stunned.
Xiang Runke was also quite surprised. Seeing that the scabbard in Jiang Shuo's hand was not damaged at all, he was even more surprised and said, "You brat, your scabbard is quite strong."
Jiang Shuo was not good at concealing things and said, "To be honest with you, senior, my scabbard is also made of Nanhai ashwood."
Xiang Runke said: "Impossible, impossible!" As he spoke, he swung his wooden stick and struck hard, but Jiang Shuo caught it with his sword scabbard. Each strike made a loud noise, because Jiang Shuo also poured his internal energy into In the ash wood scabbard, at this moment, the two of them were actually fighting each other with their inner strength.
In terms of internal strength, Jiang Shuo is really not inferior to Xiang Runke. Previously, Xiang Runke's internal strength was already strong through the cypress staff, but when Jiang Shuo's internal strength was transferred to the sword, it was much weaker. During the battle, he was defeated. At this moment, both of them were strong. The ash trees in the South China Sea were fighting against each other, but Jiang Shuo was not at a disadvantage.
He struck Runke with his staff three times in succession, held the wooden staff across the scabbard, and swung his sword downwards to slash down. Xiang Runke used the dragon and tiger staff. He could have raised the dragon staff in his right hand to meet him, but his right arm had been broken by Beimingzi before, so he could only use the tiger staff in his left hand to fight the enemy. At this moment, he could only dodge backward and withdraw the wood. stick.
When Jiang Shuo saw him withdrawing his staff, he reversed the hilt of his sword, held out the Nanhai ash wood scabbard forward, and stabbed Xiang Runke in the chest. Make a sticky sign on the sheath and stick it on Xiang Runke's wooden staff.
Go up, flip your wrist and hook him back. Xiang Runke wanted to withdraw his staff, but found that Jiang Shuo's internal energy was already pouring in. He had no choice but to pour his internal energy into the staff. Although the two of them were just clashing swords at this moment, it was actually the same as putting their palms together to compete for internal energy.
Jiang Shuo turned his wrist again, pressed the hilt on Xiang Runke's wooden staff, and slashed the long sword towards Xiang Runke's head. The two people's internal forces were fighting each other. Jiang Shuo's long sword turned extremely slowly, but slowly Slowly, the long sword still slowly fell towards Xiang Runke's head. The Seven-Star Sword is a magical blade that can cut through gold and jade. Even if a person without martial arts slashes it at will, it is not fun to be chopped off on the head, let alone Jiang Shuo's sword.
Xiang Runke poured his inner strength into the staff and raised it to hold it up, hoping to stop the long sword in Jiang Shuo's hand from falling. However, his and Jiang Shuo's inner strength were already on par with each other. Although the two forces were equally matched against each other, Qixing The sword was still slowly pressing on his head under its own weight. Xiang Runke's face seemed to be able to feel the cold air coming from the edge of the Seven-Star Sword, and he was sweating on his forehead. He only regretted that he was too tall, and if Ruosheng was shorter, he could be farther away from the sword's edge.
Dugu Xiang didn't know why Jiang Shuo suddenly had the upper hand. He just thought that his interference technique had a miraculous effect. He kept disturbing Xiang Runke's mind and said: "Hey, hey... I've cut it, I've cut it. , Senior, why don't you move? If you don't avoid it, your head will be cut in two."
In fact, the seven-star sword was still a few feet away from Xiang Runke's head at this moment, but Xiang Runke was no longer able to retort at this moment, and even with all his strength, he could not stop the sword from falling slowly.
