Chengyin, Dongning, and Boqing are adjacent to each other and have a total of one guard, that is, 5,600 soldiers. However, it will take some time for this force to be fully mobilized and reach the place where the Yue King disappeared.
Now in this river valley, there are only more than 500 people under General Yu and more than 20 magicians and sorcerers.
Because the final result of the spell search is five areas.
Therefore, after Taoist Master Zhiyuan and the others mapped out the direction and route, in order to prevent the group of evil people from finding the Yue King first, this group of people had to be divided into five teams and set off at the same time.
Guan Luoyang naturally moved with the people from the Zhenwu Temple, accompanied by a hundred households and more than a hundred soldiers. Qiu Shi was in charge of the road map, relying on magic to observe the direction and estimate the distance to avoid getting lost in the jungle.
A team of more than a hundred people is a lot. If placed in a town, it would definitely be very eye-catching. However, in this wild jungle, the deeper you go, the more insignificant you feel.
Towering ancient trees far and near have lush branches. The leaves in the upper crowns touch each other, blocking a lot of sunlight, leaving only tiny spots of light falling. The tree trunks below are widely spaced from each other, making it difficult for people to walk on them. In the meantime, looking up, every tree looks like a very high pavilion.
Looking around, countless green plants have cut off the hustle and bustle of the world, leaving only the chirping of insects and birds, and the sound of people stepping on dead leaves and cutting off branches.
Those low trees, shrubs, and thick old vines would sometimes completely block the road ahead. Some people in the front had to hold knives at all times to clear the way.
During this process, one can see the skills of some people. When most soldiers wield their swords, the blades tend to get stuck between the wooden textures, and they need to be pulled out and chopped again several times before they can cut off a small tree.
The man from Baihu used a steel knife with a thick back. It could cut through a small tree as thick as a human leg with one stroke. The blade became brighter and brighter as it was sharpened, and there was no sign of any chip on the edge.
If the factors of magic are excluded, the martial arts skills of most of the Qiu generation disciples in the Zhenwu Temple are on par with this Baihu.
General Nazai once mentioned that this group of soldiers under his command are brave soldiers who are not afraid of death despite serious injuries. Their courage and quality are much higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and they can be entrusted with important tasks. It seems that this is not empty talk.
Guan Luoyang walked in the front, without drawing his sword, but sometimes he raised his foot and kicked off some short and large leafy shrubs that were particularly intrusive. Sometimes the sound of breaking the trees with his kick was like a muffled thunder, which shocked the surrounding insects and silenced them.
But his mind was calm and undisturbed by the nearby noises. His ears were always distinguishing and listening to the sounds further away.
Qiu Shi calculated with one hand and said: "We are almost there. Ahead, a hundred feet to the left, a hundred feet to the right, and two hundred feet forward. The King of Yue is very likely to be in this area."
Suddenly, Guan Luoyang turned around, pulled out a soldier's waist knife, and threw it out. At the left rear of the team, a gray wolf figure just jumped up and was nailed through the chest and abdomen by a steel knife. He howled and fell to the side.
Although several soldiers nearby were frightened and did not panic, as they ducked sideways, several waist knives had already slashed down together, completely killing the wild wolf.
These soldiers looked at Guan Luoyang gratefully, but heard Guan Luoyang say solemnly: "Be careful, there are many wild beasts approaching."
Qiushi asked: "How much?"
"It's hard to say, at least twenty or thirty."
Guan Luoyang listened carefully and his eyes moved, "They are not coming for us, they have all gone ahead."
Most of the wild beasts in the forest lurk during the day and emerge at night. They move in groups to a certain place in broad daylight. There is only one possibility for this abnormal behavior, that the monster is deliberately summoning them.
Several Taoist priests and hundreds of households looked at each other, and they all saw the suspicion in their hearts.
The probability that the monster and the Yue King are in the front area is extremely high, it is no longer just one in five.
"Be careful, I'll go take a look first."
Guan Luoyang stuck the sheathed sword diagonally behind his belt, took a few steps to run, and swooped up a big tree. He grabbed the thicker horizontal branch inside the crown and swung to another big tree.
The soldiers looked forward and saw only the rustling leaves falling from high places one after another, as if they were spilling out a path.
Guan Luoyang's eyesight is precise. With a glance, he can find branches that are strong enough to bear his own weight. He steps on them or grabs them. He quickly moves through the branches and leaves, swinging away to a distant place. His movements are more flexible than that of an ape.
Wow! ! ! !
The large green leaves shook and dispersed, revealing Guan Luoyang's figure. He bent a horizontal branch under his feet, held the trunk of the tree with his palms, and looked at the corpses of the wolves below.
These corpses almost formed an irregular circle, with sputtering blood scattered in all directions. At a glance, one can think of a scene where a pack of wolves pounced on them, and then were killed by a circular knife shadow in one breath.
From here, the traces of the battle are already very obvious. The tracks of monster activity appear again. The layer of dead leaves on the ground is pushed down, and long ditches of overturned bushes extend out.
There are many large trees with lush branches. The canopy was originally dense and dense, like a lower green cloud.
But at this time, Guan Luoyang looked with all his eyes, and it seemed that a long and sparse road had been squeezed out between the "blue clouds", allowing a large amount of sunlight to shine directly.
That's because the trunks of many big trees were tilted by the huge force, and the crowns of the trees were deflected to both sides, which resulted in such a strange scene.
Wild wolves, monkeys, venomous snakes and even tigers in the jungle gathered from all directions and rushed along this track. The scattered leaves and dust were particularly clear in the sunlight.
At the forefront of these beasts, human corpses and beast corpses were constantly being discarded. There were very few people, and they were reduced to the end. Only two were still alive and capable of fighting.
The plants in this area can be said to have been greatly damaged.
Within a radius of fifty steps, all the tall trees had been broken down, leaving behind jagged tree stumps that were high or low.
Some of the shorter shrubs were uprooted, and some seemed to have been crushed. The layer of dead leaves on the ground rolled up the deepest moist soil.
The sun shines here, and the smell of blood, soil, and fresh plants surrounds every active figure.
One man wears a purple robe, a golden hair crown, and a jade belt around his waist. His temples are all white, and his beard is completely black. When he wields his sword, he is as majestic as a dragon.
He can stab a monkey when he climbs a tree stump, and the monkey will be gone as soon as the light of his sword hits it. When the monkey falls down, the figure of the person has already reached the tree on the other side. Once poisonous snakes of all sizes come close, he will trample them with his feet. His sword will arc across the moon and kill them. Kill them all.
However, the clothes on this man's body were already quite damaged, and his hair was scattered in front of his forehead. Especially on the right side of his waist, there was a scratched wound, and blood dripped from time to time, making him look embarrassed.
On the other side, large beasts such as wild wolves and even tigers and leopards were all chopped down by a Taoist holding a Daguan Dao.
After pulling out the blade from the side of a tiger, the Taoist walked around in a circle with the knife, using the knife like a large ink pen, pouring blood on the ground, carving out runes connected end to end.
As soon as the circle was drawn, some poisonous snakes and wild wolves around it seemed frightened, and hurriedly turned to avoid it, hesitating.
The Taoist sword struck the ground, and the Taoist raised his head. He had thick eyebrows and a square face. It was Jiuying.
The King of Yue fell into this circle and took a breath: "How long can I rest this time?"
"The power of twenty-two wild wolves and the blood essence of a fierce tiger is still useless against the pressure of the hidden monster. It will take half a quarter of an hour at most."
Jiuying was panting heavily, and his eyelids were slightly pressed, as if he was so exhausted that even his breathing was no longer strong. "The jungle is vast, and there are countless wild beasts and poisonous snakes. As long as that monster is alive, it can summon it wherever it goes." The wild beasts nearby are attacking us, but if we kill it, it will be enough to scare these wild beasts to pieces and scatter in a rush."
"But that monster is very cunning and has hidden itself. It only uses these things to consume our physical strength..."
The King of Yue said, and suddenly laughed at himself, "Haha, I have been planning for a long time. This time I want to stabilize the south in one fell swoop and eradicate the last nest of rats. Who would have thought that I was forced to this point by a snake, and the Diwei army was also damaged. so many."
There seemed to be a bit of decadence in his words, but he did not need to be persuaded by others. After smiling, he calmed down and said calmly, "But beasts are beasts after all. I can see that this monster is psychic. After all, it is wild and untamed. As long as If I get injured more and become weak enough, it will definitely be unable to hold back and take the initiative to attack."
"Let's do this. I'll relax a little later and let a few monkeys scratch me, and then let the wild wolves bite my limbs. You can recharge your batteries on the side and wait for the opportunity. Once the monster appears, you will strike decisively."
Jiuying disagreed and said: "It is too risky to take the initiative to be bitten. People who practice Taoism must keep their nature safe. How can they make the danger worse by themselves? Even if they have no choice but to choose this strategy, it should be used by a poor Taoist."
"After you were picked up by me, you were unconscious until you woke up two days ago, and you fought all the way. Can you really control the size of the bite?"
The King of Yue shook his head and said, "Besides, you are good at heavy swordsmanship, but I am agile with my sword. I have to rely on a split second to seriously injure or even kill the monster. It is obviously reasonable for you to perform it."
Jiuying said: "But you are more important, the situation in Jiaozhi..."
The King of Yue vibrated his long sword, the fine iron trembled, and said decisively: "Senior brother, you must not look forward or backward when doing important things. You are too polite. Are you going to keep arguing with me like you did on the mountain, wasting your words? ?”
Jiuying's eyelids moved: "It's up to you."
As soon as these three words were said, both of them shut up and calmed down.
Jiuying could not move his sword. King Yue shook the sword in his hand and glanced around, as if he was choosing which wolf to bite him.
They all know that further away, deep in the jungle, where the sun cannot reach directly, the monster is waiting, forcing and urging these beasts through the monster's ability.
But unexpectedly, there was a whistle-like sound in the air, and the first thing that struck was a ball of green poisonous fire that exploded out of thin air!
The King of Yue turned sideways and stretched out his arms. His body was like a purple cloud and he was running fast. When he moved the sword, his wrists were as soft as cotton. The sword turned as if it were sticky. He was stirred in the poisonous fire and then flung out.
The invisible poisonous fire could not escape the stickiness on his sword, and some clues of Wudang Tai Chi swordsmanship were revealed.
One wolf was unable to dodge, and its tail was rubbed by the poisonous fire. The fire immediately spread and burned all over its body. Amid the wailing sound, it panicked and crashed into a tree stump.
But there was more than just a ball of poisonous fire. Some figures were revealed among the woods on the west side. They were all short and well-dressed. They held an iron pipe in their right hand and took out white meatballs from the bag on their waist with their left hand. Enter the end of the iron pipe.
With a flick of their right arm, the ball rolled in the iron pipe. With the last moment of power, it flew out from the front of the iron pipe, turned into a ball of poisonous fire, and fell towards the target.
However, the dozens of poisonous fires that fell in batches were all pulled away by the King of Yue's sword and fell towards the surrounding beasts. The Tai Chi Sword guarded them without leakage.
Puffs of green fire burned on the surrounding ground. Wild wolves, poisonous snakes, and monkeys ran away to escape, and some of them pounced directly into the woods to the west.
However, the iron pipes in the hands of those well-dressed men have sharpened front ends, so they have no fear in close combat. Even if wolves or monkeys are close, they can be killed with just one stab.
In addition to the warlocks with their own backgrounds, Hanaya also has two backgrounds. One is the cloaked men who can dig tunnels with bare hands, and the other is this team of poisonous fire swordsmen.
There were fifty Poison Fire Swordsmen who came here.
While they were dealing with the beasts, they continued to throw poisonous fire at the Yue King. Some people put the end of an iron pipe to their lips and blew a very long and sharp whistle.
King Yue's eyes turned slightly, his thoughts changing, and when he was about to take the initiative to step out of the circle of runes, a shadow suddenly flashed above him.
The shadow was as fast as a swallow flying into the sky. In the blink of an eye, it fell into the woods on the west side and bumped into the body of a well-dressed man.
Bang! ! !
The well-dressed man's back hit the tree, and a palm-sized mark was dented on his chest. His eyes bulged and his head dropped.
The sound of breaking through the air reached my ears, and two sharp iron pipes pierced the tree from the left and right.
Guan Luoyang raised his hands, and the iron pipe was flattened by him and stuck on both sides of the tree. He circled his feet, grabbed the collar of the man on the left, and hit the man on the right of the tree.
The two fell into a heap, there was a sound of bones breaking, and blood was vomited from the mouth.
Many poisonous fire swordsmen came over with deathly eyes, changing their pace and stabbing with iron pipes.
Guan Luoyang rushed towards them, dodged an iron pipe with his head, and pushed the man's abdomen with his right hand, like a battering ram, pushing him away. Half of his body hit the tree and rolled down. On the ground.
The sound of the human torso hitting the trees was a dull sound, similar to a "dong" sound.
And then, the sound continued.
Guan Luoyang walked with a long stride, either straight or diagonally. Among the five grappling hands, the Arhat's grappling hand was the most powerful. Every time his hand stretched out, the body of a poisonous fire swordsman would be thrown away. The tree died.
These body movements were strong, and their sword moves were even more fierce. The sharp iron pipes seemed to be about to hit Guan Luoyang many times, but he always got out of the way by a hair's breadth. As soon as they met, the person flew out and lost his life. life.
"Good skill!"
The King of Yue looked at it with brilliant eyes.
He could clearly see that the man's fighting looked thrilling and fast, but in fact his movements were smooth, full of everyone's style, and he was able to do it with ease.
That man's fighting was able to reach such a devastating level, not only because of his strength and speed, but also because of his control of rhythm and distance.
When everyone thought they could stab that person, they actually stepped on the other party's trap and ran into a dead end.
Jiuying, who was nourishing his energy and concentrating his energy, opened his eyelids and said, "It turns out it's him."
call! !
Another swordsman's body was thrown out, and when it was about to hit the root of a tree, its speed suddenly slowed down.
The swordsman's upright body turned at an angle, his feet did not touch the ground, he swayed diagonally, and threw it back towards Guan Luoyang.
Guan Luoyang punched the man away with a sweeping punch and stared at him.
The surrounding poisonous fire swordsmen took the opportunity to stay away, and only a few were approaching.
The old eunuch Chen, who had just thrown the swordsman back, slowly stretched and pinched his fingers. His knuckles were blue, his nails were white, and his skin had no blood color, but was as smooth as jade.
This pair of palms seems to be completely formed by hard and broad bones and skin as tough as horns and ivory.
When Guan Luoyang saw these hands, he snorted and murmured: "Training bones and skin?"
Behind old eunuch Chen stood five people, all tall, short, fat and thin. Their solemn eyes did not dare to leave Guan Luoyang, but they smiled at the other person and said, "His Royal Highness the King of Yue, it's been a long time."
