Chapter 742: The Story of the Night Stalker (2)
"I'll give it my all. β
The village was quiet in the night, but in Zhang Xian's perception, many villagers were standing on the street with wooden sticks, farm tools, kitchen knives, etc., and these people sensed that they were all ordinary farmers, who had no cultivation and were in poor physical condition.
The night owl naturally knew that they were behind him, and his dry and cold face showed a trace of helplessness, a hint of a different kind of emotion.
He shook his head slightly, looked at Zhang Xian and said coldly.
"Me too. β
After saying that, the two disappeared as if they were in place, and on a windless night, a whirlwind appeared out of thin air under the old locust tree at the head of the village, which was caused by the high-speed movement of the two.
"Ding Ding ,,,"
The sound of popping beans and iron striking is indistinguishable.
In this confrontation, both of them went all out, and whoever was careless would be killed on the spot.
Zhang Xian also used a short sword, which was given to him by Luo Yu, not a treasure, but a slightly better weapon, a necessary weapon for every killer.
In a duel like theirs, the Sunny Sky Sword can't be used.
The two fought for more than a dozen breaths, but they attacked each other no less than hundreds of times, and then the wind stopped, the dust fell, and the people separated.
Zhang Xian held the short sword upside down and gasped a little, while the night owl's withered face was a little flushed.
The two were five steps apart and opposed.
For a long time, no one spoke.
"When the ......"
Suddenly, the sword in the left hand of the night owl fell to the ground, and the sound was crisp but piercing in the silence of the night.
His hands trembled, and blood trickled onto the dagger.
"I lost. β
The night owl's momentum weakened, and his body shook a little.
His eyes darkened.
It's not that he's hurt heavily, it's heartbroken.
Both of them used assassination techniques, and he didn't expect to lose to Zhang Xian.
Although he was still standing, it meant that he was already a dead man.
What hit him the most was that he had never missed a stunt for decades, and he was not as good as the young man in front of him, and this young man was definitely not a professional killer, he was a princely king.
Of course, Zhang Xian is not a professional killer, but he is much stronger than the night owl in terms of killer techniques, first, his martial arts are the essence of thousands of years of inheritance accumulated from the world in his previous life, and second, his princess was born in the Netherworld Sect, which ranks first in the killer world of the Moon Continent.
Zhang Xian naturally studied the secrets of the Netherworld Sect's killers thoroughly.
This is the main factor, but in fact, Zhang Xian won half a move of the night owl, using his stunt: sword finger skill.
Because his cultivation is not as high as the night owl after all, although the technique is superior, but the back strength is insufficient, and even the night owl's vitality armor can't be broken, so there are many times when the night owl misses, but he failed to hurt the night owl, and finally he still pointed hard at the left wrist of the night owl holding the sword, and the sword finger skill is a little bit of vitality condensation, a little bit of defense, and everything is broken, but he is now cultivating to the bottom, otherwise the night owl's hand is afraid that it will be separated from the body.
But in the eyes of the night owl, Zhang Xian was all to the point, and he didn't mean to hurt him, but he didn't know how to advance or retreat, so that the family had no choice but to hurt his hand holding the sword, making him lose the strength to fight again.
What a beautiful misunderstanding.
However, with Zhang Xian's cultivation below that of the night owl, if you ask him to admit defeat, I'm afraid no one can do it.
When Zhang Xian's cultivation was not as high as it is now, he used his sword finger skill to entrap the energy of the rules of the wasteland and overturn a half-step legendary master, and tonight he had a plan for the night owl, so naturally he would not kill him.
If you don't break through the opponent's Yuan Qi armor at the peak realm of the divine master, without regular energy, Zhang Xian can't kill the night supper.
The night owl is the pinnacle of the god master, if under normal circumstances, the god master skill is used, it is also quite terrifying, not to mention that it can destroy a hill with one move, but it is more than enough to create a water channel more than a hundred steps long on the ground.
The skill of the divine master is very terrifying, but every divine master is rarely used, mainly because the vitality is too large, and the magnification move is very gorgeous, but the consequence is that the vitality is dried up, and the small soldiers can stab you to death with a knife.
An ordinary divine master, as long as he controls his vitality consumption and is fully vigilant, it is difficult to kill him.
Generally speaking, killers can cross the line and kill people by sneak attack.
The death of the peak master of the divine master was all because he had to do it with all his might, and it is an exaggeration to say that in the end, he fell a leaf and killed him.
No matter how high your cultivation is, after losing your vitality, true vitality, and essence vitality, you are not even as good as an ordinary person.
If the two gods face off against each other, the big moves are frequent, and in the end, no one can help anyone, but most of the vitality is consumed, and in the case that neither of them has anyone to protect, an ordinary person, a beast can kill and swallow it.
Therefore, the higher the realm, the more people rarely make a move, and even if they do, there will be many people around to maintain it.
Just like the mighty, there is only one way to move mountains and reclaim the sea, but who sees that the mighty person has nothing to do to move mountains and reclaim the sea, when they reach their level, it is considered to be against the sky, and it takes a long time to consume the essence and vitality to make up for it, and their bodies are already in decay, all relying on the essence and vitality to conceive and nourish, and the greater the damage to the body if the essence is consumed too much.
Therefore, the higher the realm, the more cautious they become, and they are basically unwilling to make a move until they are forced to do so.
is like self-reel, the first person in the world, but whenever there is a big event, although he will be the first to arrive, he rarely makes a move, and other powerful people do it for him.
One of the reasons for this is that he has the strongest ability and the highest cultivation, and he has to keep himself in the best condition at all times in order to guard against external and internal strong people with a super desire for destruction.
Second, the consumed essence is not so easy to replenish.
Especially the Almighty, the top-level Treasure Medicine Elixir on the Moon Moon Continent no longer had any effect on them, and they could only rely on the natural pure aura of heaven and earth to recover.
This pure aura is not much worse than the spiritual essence obtained by Zhang Xian, the spiritual essence is solid, and the natural pure spiritual energy is condensed, and it is difficult for those powerful people to collect it.
And pure aura can't be seen or touched, even if it's a half-step legendary realm, it can't be collected.
Zhang Xian and the night owl stood opposite each other, but Zhang Xian did not answer.
He knew that the Night Stalker would admit defeat in terms of technique, not strength.
If he wants to work hard, Zhang Xian can't bear it without borrowing external forces.
It's the aforementioned skill of the Divine Master.
"I want to hear your story. β
Seeing that the night owl really looked depressed, Zhang Xian put away the short sword and came to the night owl.
"You want to hear it?"
"Of course. β
"Okay, follow me. β
The two walked side by side, and the night owl waved to the people in the street to let them go back to rest.
These people were obviously a little reluctant, or uneasy, and no one went back, but followed them to the night owl's room.
The village has no walls or fences, and is covered with sand and mud walls, topped by wooden frames and weeds.
When I entered the house, there was no two-story shed, and I could see the shelf.
The area of the house is not large, the entrance door is a hall and a bedroom, and the back is not high and the half-section of the earthen wall is separated by a place for cooking, so simple.
"I'm just such a broken table and two wooden stools, wronged King Xia. β
"I am a Taoist cultivator, I have no traces, I live without a room, I sit on the ground at dusk, and I indulge in whatever I want. If you stop, you will be persistent, and if you move, you will carry the pot, only wine and tea are business, and there is nothing to pay attention to. β
Zhang Xianyan moved his mind, and the tea set and wine jar were put on the table.
"I brought tea and wine. β
"Haha, Haoshuang, I'll prepare snacks and snacks. β
was infected by Zhang Xian, and the night owl was in a much better mood.
Zhang Xian nodded and began to make tea, and the night owl walked out of the house, he had nothing here, so he had to ask the villagers outside to raise some fruit snacks and meat dishes.
"Good tea. β
Back in the house again, the smell of tea is intoxicating.
"The latest Maofeng tea in Zongye Mountain, pure spiritual spring water, unique tea brewing skills, Brother Night, you taste. β
The tea brewed by Zhang Xian himself is one level higher than that of Uncle Tai, I am afraid that after the night owl tastes, it will be tasteless if I taste other people's tea.
After a while, several rough-dressed peasant women walked in with baskets.
"Father, there are only some wild fruits and peel fruits (similar to peanuts) stored in the cellar, and some wild boar and wild vegetables, the second aunt and they are cooking on a fire, and it will take a while to get better. β
Respecting the father in the Xianyue Continent is not called casually, the disciples of the family call the master the master, respect the reborn father, climb a backer, respect the father, this is much worse, it is not as good as the adoptive father.
And respect for the father, no matter how big or small the person is, can be said to be as kind as a mountain, and only then can he be honored as the father;
"Very good, let it go. β
It seems that life in the mountain village is very difficult.
Zhang Xian didn't say anything, he was a guest, and talking too much at the moment would hurt people's hearts.
In fact, he doesn't care about what he eats, as the king of Xia, he is not the delicacies of the mountains and seas that people imagine, his food is often a bowl of porridge for breakfast, two cakes and a plate of small pickles.
It's not that he's thrifty, it's personal habits.
At noon and evening, I ate with everyone.
He eats whatever everyone eats, and never picks.
After the peasant woman withdrew, the fragrance of tea in the house was overflowing, and the two of them tasted tea attentively, no one spoke, it was very silent, only the squeak of the oil lamp.
Long.
"You see these villagers, they live very hard, this is just one of the villages, there are five villages in the mountains, all of them are very poor, barely alive, of course, there are many such poor people in the Xianyue Continent, but these six cottage people are more special......"
It turned out that the people from these six villages had taken refuge here more than ten years ago, and when the night owl said that they were the Liu family in Jianye City, Zhang Xian's mouth opened wide in shock.
The night owl told Zhang Xian that the Liu family incident, the old family owner was killed, the old family owner was killed, those who fled, and the rest were sentenced to slavery.
Those who have cultivated have been abolished.
It was the night owl who contacted his former friends and rescued some of them to come here to live in seclusion.
"Could it be that they can't find the people of the Qin family and the Liu family here?"
It's too close to Jianye City.
"It soon became known, but we killed all the people who came to arrest people, and no one dared to come after a few times. β
"It's not that simple, is it?"
"Hehe, I claim that this is the dark night territory, they are protected by the dark night, who wants to come again, the dark night will kill its nine clans, the Qin family and the Liu family do not believe in evil, then I will give them some color to see, I and my friends went to Jianye City, the six sons of the current patriarch of the Liu family killed five eighteen grandsons, more than a hundred martial arts masters and above, the Qin family also made us a mess, and also killed hundreds of their masters, the Qin Emperor sent troops to clean up, I withdrew people into the Tiger Leaping Gorge, only with dozens of masters to attack and kill the Qin army, layer by layer of attack and killing, the Qin family killed in about a month The blood flowed into the river, and they were stunned not to let them enter the Tiger Leaping Gorge, probably because of these people they think are waste, It's not worth sacrificing too much for the Qin family, so they withdrew their troops and didn't come, but they blocked this place, so that the people in the mountains couldn't get life supplies......"
Only then did Zhang Xian understand why Hu Zhong didn't find the Dark Night Gate, it turned out that the Dark Night Gate was in the Tiger Leaping Gorge, and the village outside was inhabited and cultivated by those of the Liu family who had been abolished and cultivated.
"In order to prevent them from sneaking up, those young people live in Tiger Leaping Gorge, and these people outside are all volunteering to stay and farm to provide food for the children in Tiger Leaping Gorge, and I live in the outermost part of here, monitoring and warning ......."
"They haven't been here in years?"
"Well, we haven't been here in recent years, and the blockade outside is also worse, and we can also ship out some grain and mountain goods in exchange for cloth, edible oil and salt, etc., but there are more and more people, and life is becoming more and more difficult, so we have no choice but to accept tasks and receive commissions. β
After all, the mountains are too desolate, the land is barren, and the people here reproduce quickly and numerously, and some of the deserted ravines and ravines cannot support these people, which forces the night owls to do tasks to collect commissions and subsidies.
"You've failed in all your missions this time, and I've killed all the people you sent. β
"What if you lose, it's none of my business, it's better not to give them money if you die. β
"Huh?"
Zhang Xian didn't understand, the mission failed, the killer died, and there was such a careless master.
"It's true that I took it, but I hired those scum to complete it, I just charge commissions, and someone is willing to stretch out his head to let me slaughter why not. β
"That's fine. β
Zhang Xian was speechless.
"Anyway, I don't plan to continue this business, to hell with any creditworthiness. β
The night owl is rightly strong.
"But you can't kill my people if you want to pay the bill. β
"The one who killed you?"
The night owl didn't seem to be pretending to be confused, he probably didn't pay attention to the affairs of Yangchun Manor at all.
"Forget it, let's not talk about it. β
Zhang Xian didn't want to mention the matter of Yangchun Manor anymore, it was a red evil person, and if he talked too much, he would reveal the secret of the red evil, and people could not be resurrected after death, as for letting go of Wuyang Hou and Zhang Ge, the matter could not be reversed.
The most important thing here is that this night owl has a lot to do with Luo Ye (Liu Zhan), and on this basis, Zhang Xian had no choice but to give up pursuing the matter of Yangchun Manor.
"I'm a little puzzled, why are you so desperate to protect the people of the original patriarch's line?"
This is important.
"It's okay to talk about it, in fact, my name is Liu Hanγγγ"
"What?"
Zhang Xian jumped up suddenly.
Speaking of which, Liu Han is Liu Zhan's own uncle, Liu Zhan is also known as Bai Zhan, Luo Ye, the head of the Red Evil Pavilion, in fact, he built the eldest son of Liu Zhongyu, the former patriarch of the Liu family in Yecheng, Liu Zhongyu's family was framed by the Qin Emperor because he offended the Qin Emperor, so Liu Zhongyu's family was destroyed.
Liu Zhongyu is Zhang Xian's maternal uncle; Liu Zhongyu's sister fled to Li Guo to join Liu Guozhong, Liu Guozhong did not know her true identity, because she was also surnamed Liu, she thought that she was a righteous sister, and later married Zhang Yuecheng, that is, Zhang Xian's father, which gave Zhang Xian, and later Zhang Yuecheng was assassinated, it was Zhang Xian's mother who blocked a sword for him and died, and the true identity of Zhang Xian's mother was told to Zhang Yuecheng before she died.
also took special care of Zhang Xian.
But after the establishment of the Dongli Kingdom, Zhang Yuecheng was assassinated, and he did not reveal this secret until his death, and this secret was only known to Liu Zhan, who took refuge in his aunt, and told Zhang Xian when the time was ripe.
Liu Zhan tried his best to defend Zhang Xian because of these.
And Liu Han was also mentioned by Liu Zhan to Zhang Xian.
Liu Han belongs to the kind of depressed character, with a gloomy face all day long, very cold to everyone, and disappeared five years before Liu Zhongyu's accident.
Unexpectedly, he wandered the rivers and lakes to establish an assassination organization, the Dark Night Gate.
In fact, this Night Gate has existed for a long time, and I don't know how he became the Night Gate Master.
Zhang Xian's sudden gaffe startled the night owl.
"Do you know Liu Zhan. β
"Well, do you know Xiao Yezi?"
"Oh, nephew Yuan also visited the second uncle. β
Hearing the night owl call out Liu Zhan's milk name Xiao Yezi, it would be no worse, because the people who knew this milk name were only limited to the people closest to Liu Zhan, after all, Liu Zhan was likely to become the next patriarch, and the milk name was then blocked.
Zhang Xian bowed his head and bowed, but stunned the night owl.
His five brothers are a sister, it is said that he is missing, his life and death are unknown, how did Zhang Xian become his nephew.
"You get up first and explain the matter. β
The night owl hurriedly helped Zhang Xian up.
"Second uncle, let's do it, cousin Liu Zhan may not be able to see you for a while, Liu Zongyu (change it, it is repeated with Liu Zhongyu), Liu Tao, you should know each other. β
Zhang Xian said that Liu Zongyu is Liu Zhan's second uncle, Liu Tao is Liu Yifan, the one who almost didn't kill Qin Mu, he is Liu Zhan's cousin.
"Second uncle, Brother Tao?"
It seems that Liu Han knows the two.
That's right.
Zhang Xian is connected to the boiling in the Dragon Domain.
Temporarily invite Liu Feng (Liu Zongyu) and Liu Tao, who were in retreat in the Dragon Domain, to come out.
"Second uncle, wait a minute, I'll pick up the two of you. β
The matter of the Dragon Domain cannot be known to Liu Han now, and Zhang Xian feels that it is not too much to be cautious.
He came to find Hu Zhong outside the village, asked him to go back to Luo Song first, and wrote a letter by himself, and sealed his mouth.
"Just say what I said, let him pass this letter to Luo Ye as quickly as possible. β
After Hu Zhong left, he invited the two out.
"Yuan Yi, why are you running to this barren mountain and wilderness?"
Liu Feng asked with a frown.
Zhang Xian concisely explained Liu Han's matter to Liu Feng and Liu Tao.
Liu Feng didn't say anything, because he had strayed into the Spirit Pagoda for many years, and there were some things that Liu Han didn't understand, but Liu Tao was very excited.
"Take me to meet me. β
After boiling back to the Dragon Domain, Liu Feng and the three of them quickly entered the village.
When he came to Liu Han's house, the village woman had already delivered the dishes, and Liu Han was in a daze there.
"It's Chungsan, that's right. β
Zhongshan is Liu Han's family character.
There is no suspense, the three of them are so old, although they haven't seen each other for more than ten years, their physical appearance has not changed much, and they can be recognized at a glance.
The three of them were very excited to see each other, but they ignored Zhang Xian.
Zhang Xian didn't care, he was very happy in his heart, he didn't think about family affection, but a good move in the long runγγγγγγγγγ