Chapter 41: The Owl and the Madness (text)
Before the footsteps of the Four Swords of Gushan had stepped into the valley, when they heard Wu Yan's words, they all stopped and turned their heads to look at the Wang brothers.
Wu Yan's face suddenly changed slightly, and the hand that had been touching the cow tendon belt stopped there, and his eyes looked at the mountain road outside the Thousand Grass Valley with strange eyes.
"Stop!" interrupted Wang Feng's hand that Wu Yan wanted to grab, Wang Feng was furious, and turned his head to look at the person who shouted. In fact, Wang Feng should be grateful for this sudden interruption of his voice, otherwise, he would already be a madman by now.
On the cowhide belt around Wu Yan's waist, a row of delicate calfskin bags hanged. In these cowhide pouches, there are more than a dozen poisons with different poisons with different poisons prepared by Wu Yan during this period of time in accordance with the "Medicine Sutra and Poison Chapter". Wu Yan was about to find out one of the poisons that could make people lose their humanity in an instant and turn into a madman to deal with Wang Feng, but he was suddenly interrupted by a new intruder.
Of course, in the sleeves of his dark robe, there was also the jet-black sword Molin dagger that he had captured from the pharmacist seal. When Wu Yan first got this short sword, he found that this short sword was actually made of an unknown black metal, which was refined by someone with an extremely special technique, and it was so sharp that it was as sharp as clay, and it seemed that nothing could withstand the light cutting of this short sword. It's just that during this time, his energy has been focused on studying the secrets of the small furnace, cultivating spells, refining and preparing poisons, but he hasn't properly sorted out some of the items he got from the pharmacist. Now he just thought that this was just a better sword, hidden close to him, and he could use this sword to cooperate with the hidden killing technique at any time.
On the mountain road outside the valley, two people hurried over to this side. They have even used light skills, although the speed cannot be compared with Wu Yan's wind control technique, but it is not slow, a distance of more than ten zhang, and they have already rushed and jumped between a few breaths.
Running at the front was a nine-foot-tall man with a giant sword behind him, and even Wu Yan couldn't help but praise "What a big man". This person is not very old, but his face has a mature and steady momentum, his appearance is very ordinary, and even a little honest, but his eyes are clear, and he can't help but feel a sense of closeness when he looks at it. He was also wearing a silver-white sword suit, and there were also two small golden swords embroidered on his chest, this person was actually of the same status as Wang Feng, and he was also a hall master, and he was also very young.
Wu Yan felt that the appearance of this person was vaguely familiar, but it was very different from the honest and honest young man in his impression.
"Are you Zhang Tao, Brother Zhang?" the tall young man who Wu Yan rushed over smiled and asked.
The young man habitually scratched his head, smiled, diluted the anxious expression on his face, he walked between Wu Yan and Wang Feng, patted Wu Yan's shoulder with a smile, and said with a sense of affection: "Wu Yan, I haven't seen you for three years, you have changed so much, I almost can't recognize you." ”
He scratched his head, and Wu Yan was truly sure that this tall and burly young man was indeed the young Zhang Tao who entered the Iron Sword Alliance with him three years ago.
"You've changed a lot, I didn't dare to recognize you at first glance. Haha, Brother Zhang, why are you here?" Wu Yan greeted Zhang Tao affectionately.
Wu Yan noticed that there was another person following behind Zhang Tao just now, the person was a little gray, and his face was unhappy, as if he had suffered something bad. However, Wu Yan still recognized him, he was Zhang Tao's uncle, the Zhang Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall, as for what his name was, Wu Yan really didn't know. He had never deliberately inquired about this person.
However, since this person was Zhang Tao's elder, Wu Yan still bowed his hand to him very politely and said hello: "Hall Master Zhang, are you here too?"
Hall Master Zhang nodded expressionlessly, his eyes swept over the faces of the Wang brothers, and then his brows furrowed slightly, and he said to Zhang Tao: "Xiao Tao, what are you doing here? Don't forget, you are now the master of the hall, and a little carelessness is not a good thing for your future." ”
"Haha, it's still Uncle Zhang who understands things. Brother Zhang, what are you going to do? Little brother came here on the orders of the alliance leader, you don't want to stand up for this kid, do you?" Wang Fengpi stared at Zhang Tao with a smile, and his right hand had unconsciously touched the hilt of a long sword hanging from his waist.
Wang Bai has been standing quietly behind Wu Yan, at this time he saw a very simple thing, but it was going to become complicated, and saw that the four swords of Gushan actually stopped after listening to Wu Yan's words, so he turned his head and glared at the four people, signaling the four of them to continue to enter the valley to search, but he quietly pulled out a short sword from his waist, approached Wu Yan without warning, and stabbed it with a sword.
Wu Yan turned his back to Wang Bai, so naturally he couldn't see his movements. The three people standing in front of Wu Yan looked at Wang Bai's qiqi in their eyes. Wang Feng smiled gloomily, Zhang Tao subconsciously stretched out his right hand, and was about to exclaim to stop it, but Hall Master Zhang's face changed slightly, and he pulled the hem of Zhang Tao's clothes.
Wu Yan's five senses are so sensitive, as early as when this group of people came here, he quietly let go of the five senses, and everything within dozens of zhang was under his control. Every movement, every expression, even the length of every breath, the speed of the pulse, could not escape his senses.
Wu Yan showed a meaningful sneering smile at the three people in front of him, just when the three of them thought that he was about to be splashed with blood on the spot and die under Wang Bai's sword, Wu Yan's body twisted a few times strangely, and gradually blurred, Wang Bai, who pounced up, screamed, feeling that the short sword in his hand didn't seem to have stabbed anything, and then suddenly felt that his neck was itching, and Wu Yan's figure had been lost in front of him.
Wang Feng, Zhang Tao, and Hall Master Zhang were also taken aback, and looked at Wu Yan who suddenly disappeared in front of Wang Bai and suddenly appeared behind Wang Bai, but no one could see how Wu Yan did it.
Wang Bai tried his best to follow the shocked eyes of the three of them and turn his head to find Wu Yan's figure, but the next moment, when he heard a soft pop, Wang Bai felt that the world was spinning in front of him, and at the last moment of his life, he saw the most unforgettable thing in his life!
He actually saw that his most familiar body, which had lost its great head, and the smooth incision of the neck, sneered and spurted blood more than three feet high.
The sound of the head hitting the ground woke up Wang Feng and the other three people with shocked faces.
Wang Feng shouted, without the slightest intention of avenging his brother, turned his head and fled down the mountain. Zhang Tao's uncle and nephew looked at Wang Bai's head falling to the ground blankly, their faces at a loss.
Wu Yan's body twisted strangely again, gradually blurred, and the next moment, Wang Feng, who had already run a few zhang away, suddenly jumped up more than two zhang high like a rabbit with an arrow, and let out a strange scream in his mouth, and then fell to the ground with a pop.
Wu Yan's disappeared figure appeared in front of Zhang Tao's uncle and nephew again, he looked at Wang Feng who threw himself on the ground with an expressionless face, kept clasping his chest with his ten fingers, and was still laughing wildly with the blood he chose, then sighed, shook his head and said: "Why is this so painful? Heaven is forgivable, people can't live if they do evil, you forced me, you can't blame me for being ruthless." ”
"This, this ......" Zhang Tao pointed at Wu Yan blankly, unable to say a word, but Hall Master Zhang's eyes suddenly lit up, and the original unhappy expression disappeared, and instead looked at Wu Yan and Zhang Tao with a strange look.
This qiē happened too quickly, from Wang Bai's sneak attack on Wu Yan and then being beheaded by an inexplicable owl to Wang Feng's sudden jump and suddenly go crazy, it only took a dozen breaths before and after. The Four Swords of the Lonely Mountain, who were about to continue into the Valley of Thousand Grasses, heard the movement outside, and when they turned around, they saw something they couldn't believe in their lives.
The eight people who came to Qiancao Valley today can be said to be the people who have had the most contact with Wu Yan after joining the Iron Sword Alliance. In their impression, although Wu Yan was accepted as a disciple by the pharmacist, he was a taciturn person who did not know martial arts at all. But his appearance today made everyone feel shocked and inexplicable, and at the same time, he felt a chill in his heart.
"You four come here. Wu Yan smiled at the four swords of Gushan and said indifferently. As if under a spell, the four of them obediently walked out of the valley, standing a few feet away from Wu Yan, looking at Wu Yan in horror, with the devil's expression on their faces.
"Senior brother, junior brother Wu, no, no, no, Shaoxia, don't get me wrong, Wang Feng and his brothers want to be unfavorable to Shaoxia, this is none of our brothers' business, we are also acting on orders, don't dare not come!" Lu Chunyang was the first to react, his face was pale, he didn't dare to look at Wu Yan's face at all, he just waved his hand to explain. The other three also reacted, and they also hurriedly continued to explain. In a moment, the four of them put all the responsibility for this matter on the Wang brothers, who were dead and crazy.
It's a pity, the four swords of Gushan have a huge reputation in the rivers and lakes, and now they don't even dare to look at Wu Yan's face, and they beg for mercy in a low voice.
There is no way, Wu Yan's expression is far beyond their cognition. Where is this still a human means? Ghosts and gods are still about the same, how can people, suddenly disappear out of thin air.
"Wu Shaoxia, the old man took the liberty of asking, what you used just now is not the famous skill of the ancestor of the founding sect of this alliance - Fengyun footwork?"