Embrace the blade

Half an hour ago.

A sweet fragrance slowly melted into the air.He Lan raised his eyelashes, and saw the man sitting directly opposite him prostrate on the table, and the two shadows of the guards outside the door also fell down silently, and then there was a slight smell of blood that was pushed away by the people who came. The door came in.

He Lan was half leaning on the woodpile, and the iron chains that bound her limbs were tightly wrapped around the pillars of the house. She couldn't move, and when she saw someone coming, she was not only displeased, but turned her head wearily away.

Master Ning Yu of Prajna Sect stood still in the firewood room and looked around.This villa has been unoccupied for a long time, the woodshed has accumulated a lot of dust, and there is only one window on the high part of the wall, it is very dim, and most of the light in the room comes from the half candle at the corner of the table.His eyes flicked across the candlelight, and landed on the man lying on the table: "This is the master who guarded you?"

He Lan didn't respond.Ning Yu stepped forward and stretched out his hand to explore, but he couldn't touch his breath anymore, so he couldn't help shaking his head: "It's a pity, I can't even stand this bit of poisonous fragrance." He turned his head and saw He Lan's indifferent look, and said as if thinking of something, " Hall Master He Lan, Guardian Right ordered me to bring someone to pick you up. If you are not injured, we will move faster and still be able to catch up with you."

Only then did He Lan look at him, and sneered, "It's a lie."

"Ok?"

He Lan said coldly: "He doesn't care about me. I won't even wait for one more day, let alone send someone to rescue me."

Ning Yu smiled lightly, but did not explain.

"what would you like?"

"What?" Ning Yu turned to face her, showing a little puzzled expression.

He Lan stared at him closely: "Hypocrite, don't bother. Don't think that I will appreciate your hypocrisy, let alone try to bribe me with this little trick!"

"Yes, of course I know." Ning Yu replied in a gentle voice, and was about to go to help her up, but suddenly couldn't take another step.Because a silver light pressed on the side of Ning Yu's neck, the man who had fallen on the table stood behind him at some point, holding the sword firmly with one hand.

"I was careless, and I was deceived by holding my breath." Surprise flashed across his face, Ning Yu turned around slowly, and smiled after seeing the other party clearly, "I didn't look carefully just now, so it turned out It's you."

"It seems that you and I are indeed destined." The other party also smiled, and nodded himself with an empty hand, "Qi Zhaoxi."

"Under Ning Yu." He was calm, as if the sword was not attached to his neck, and even looked at Qi Zhaoxi's face carefully, admiringly said, "Except for the people in my teaching, they are not affected by this poisonous fragrance at all. Yes, you're the first."

"Extremely speaking, I think this poisonous incense is nothing more than that."

"Really?" Ning Yu smiled deeper, "I still think that you have some relationship with my Prajna Sect."

As soon as the words came out, Ning Yu drew out his sword while Qi Zhaoxi was in a daze. With a crisp 'ding', he smashed the long sword on the side of his neck, and took a few steps back.The Prajna Cultists who were squatting outside the house were startled, and four people broke into the door immediately, and all of them swung their knives and rushed towards Qi Zhaoxi.

Qi Zhaoxi's reaction was even faster, he kicked the wooden table next to him flying away, knocking down the four people who were rushing towards him, and the residual candle on the table was thrown off, and the flame blazed on the firewood. It exploded and burned unstoppably.

He Lan couldn't help screaming, Ning Yu cut off the iron chain with a sword, and stretched out his hand to pull her past, only half of the hem of her clothes was burned.He was about to take Helan to rush out the door, but a sharp sword aura approached him first, he raised his sword to block it, and had to let go of Helan, and focused on dealing with Qi Zhaoxi.

At the same time, the four people who were knocked to the ground also got up and attacked Qi Zhaoxi's back at the same time.I saw Qi Zhaoxi defuse Ning Yu's offensive with a sword, turned half sideways and aimed at the person who was rushing forward, who was about the same size as himself, soared into the air, stepped on the man's hand holding the knife with his toes, and leaned over. The man's head was embraced in his arms, and at the same time he swung his sword across, the sword energy surged like a river in an instant, arousing the fire to surge, forcing the remaining three people back.He lowered his eyes, holding the head in his arms as if whispering to a sympathizer, but the sound of cervical bone breaking exploded. He let go of his hand and kicked the limp corpse to the wall.

The fire had already burned the door frame, Ning Yu broke open the door and pushed He Lan out, then turned around and stabbed Qi Zhaoxi with his sword, and was blocked again as expected, he smiled slightly, suddenly dropped the sword and raised his palm, slapping The wind suddenly hit the chest.In the blink of an eye, Qi Zhaoxi seemed unable to react in time, unable to dodge, received a solid slap, and fell into the sea of ​​flames behind him.

Ning Yu waited for a while, and vaguely saw the other party lying on the ground without moving through the fire, so he picked up the sword and led him away.

Only then did Qi Zhaoxi let out a breath of turbid air, stood up while clutching his chest, and shook his head involuntarily.Even if he was ready to condense his inner strength at that moment, Ning Yu's palm shook his heart, and he almost coughed up blood.

The fire was getting bigger and bigger, the beams above the head were crackling, sparks splashed down.Qi Zhaoxi sat up the corpse by the wall, looked it over, and threw the sword aside without mercy, then took off his robe, lit it, and threw it on the corpse.

After finishing all this, Qi Zhaoxi finally laughed lightly, stepped on the hot wall with her toes, passed through the high window on the wall lightly, and her figure flashed on the tile eaves before disappearing .

The firewood room was already flammable, but it burned through in a short time, and the raging fire spread to the surroundings. The servants who hurried over poured buckets of water on it, but the fire never stopped, and thick black smoke shot straight into the sky.

"Second Master Shen, what's the situation?" Xue Le recognized Shen Zhiyan in the crowd at a glance, and hurried up.

When Shen Zhiyan saw that it was him, his expression became more and more guilty: "It was our negligence that allowed He Lan from the Prajna Sect to escape. Not only the guard disciple was killed, but also..."

"Is there anyone else in the woodshed?"

"...Hero Qi should still be inside."

As he spoke, his eyes suddenly moved, and Xue Le then turned his head to look. Jiang was only two steps away from them, and he had just arrived. Hearing this, he looked at the woodshed where the fire was the most intense, and the blood-red fire came into his eyes. rushed in.

"Jiang Li!"

Jiang Li broke into the flames.The burning pain hit his face in an instant, and the thick smoke choked his nose. He had to raise his sleeve to cover his face, and moved forward with difficulty.Behind the heavy flames, he could vaguely see a black figure leaning against the wall, and he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, there was a strange movement above his head, someone pulled him forcefully from behind, and the next moment the beam crashed in front of Jiang Li's eyes, Sparks splashed.Xue Le grabbed his arm desperately, and almost yelled out in anxiety: "It's impossible to save him, come with me!"

Before Jiang Li fully recovered, he was dragged outside involuntarily. When he lowered his hand, a cloud of crimson rolled down his sleeve. He subconsciously stretched out his hand to grab it, but the tongue of fire greedily swallowed the silk flower first. Coldly scalded his fingertips.

It was not until evening that the fire was completely extinguished.Half of the courtyard was burnt into a horrific scorched wasteland, and the people inside also turned into charred human figures, only the saber next to it seemed to be tempered and became more dazzling.

Jiang Li half-kneeled in front of the corpse, without saying a word for a long time.

The onlookers were whispering, curious but afraid to approach.Du Heng of the Tianmen Sect couldn't hold back anymore, he muttered and wanted to take a closer look: "...Is it true, is Qi Zhaoxi really dead like this?" When he saw Jiang Li and didn't respond, he tentatively stretched out his hand to touch it. , but was grabbed by the wrist.

Jiang Li's voice was calm: "Don't touch him."

In the small wine shop outside Dongting City, several empty wine jars were placed on the table of the young man sitting alone by the window. With an ordinary face, he sipped the wine in his glass slowly and kept an eye on the passers-by.

In the past few days, people from the rivers and lakes have left one after another, and the business of the wine shop has been lucky for a while.When these people rested and drank, the most talked about was that Qi Zhaoxi, who "broke through the sky with a sword", died. He died in a miserable state and was burned like coke.Even more interested people enthusiastically guessed whether Qi Zhaoxi's death should make the Tianmen sect happy or worried. The joy should be happy that the enemy is not here, and the worry should be that they can't win the game. Forever on top of your head.

Hearing that they were arguing for a long time, the young man lost his interest, and saw that it was getting late, so he called a waiter and put a piece of silver in his hand: "There's no need to look for it, just pay off all the wine debts for these few days."

"Guest officer, hasn't the person you are waiting for come yet? Don't you stay for a few more days?"

The young man waved his hand, and the man left with the money.He was about to get up, when suddenly a man walked into the shop alone, wearing a green robe and a silver sword.

Xue Le stood at the door and looked around. His eyes met a young man by the window. The other party raised his glass to him, and smiled with a raised eyebrow.He walked to the seat behind the young man and sat down. The two sat with their backs to each other, and their voices were extremely low: "The matter is as you wish. I believe that the Prajna Sect will get the news in a short time."

"Ah."

Xue Le hesitated: "...But Jiang Li seems to be aware of it."

The young man was silent for a long time before he said, "He has always been very smart."

"You asked me to help in vain, and I didn't come in handy at all." Xue Le said, "He rushed into the fire to save you, and then he kept guarding the corpse, sleepless, how many people wanted to save you?" He stopped the body from being examined, and no one else was allowed to touch it. In the end, he buried the body with his own hands. The apprentice was so sad, who would doubt that the body of the master was fake? Even I was about to be deceived. gone."

"..."

"I thought he really thought you were dead. But when he bid farewell to me today, he gave this to me." Xue Le picked up a long object that was entangled in coarse cloth and handed it back, and the young man took it , Remove the cloth strip, it is a saber.

"What did he say?"

Xue Le sighed: "He said, return the property to its original owner."

"anything else?"

"Nothing."

Xue Le waited for a while, but when the other party did not speak again, he got up and said goodbye: "I can't stay here for a long time, you take care of yourself in the future, we will see you again."

The wine suddenly became dull. The young man put down his cup and slowly stroked his sword with his fingers, as if he was in a daze. After a long time, he stood up and left with the sword.