The night breeze is grinning, it seems to have a tendency to blow bigger and bigger, the dark clouds in the sky have been thick and cannot be opened, there is no starlight, there is an owl cry in the distance, like a child laughing, in this dark night is eerie and terrifying, occasionally mixed with the low chirping of unknown birds, as if to alleviate the strange atmosphere of the dark night.

Li Tianchou listened intently for a long time, and felt that the birdsong was quite regular, and the surroundings were quiet as usual, so he slowly relaxed and continued to dig, but after a while, several nightingales chirped from a farther away, rough and short, which seemed very unusual.

After a long time, it was silent again, Li Tianchou silently counted the time in his heart, at least more than three minutes, and finally there was no sound of the owl, he immediately realized that there were large animals that had attacked the place where the nightingale lived, whether intentionally or not, the trespasser had approached the range of the valley, or five hundred meters, or only three hundred meters.

Of course, trespassers may also be people, but in the middle of the night, who would choose this time to run to this wilderness? Not far ahead, there was a sudden trembling, very subtle, mixed with the night wind and extremely difficult to distinguish, like the sound of branches bending and rebounding, and like the surface vegetation or rotten leaves being slowly crushed by heavy objects*.

But before Li Tianchou could distinguish further, the sound of breaking the sky suddenly appeared, and an extremely powerful and terrifying killing machine rushed to his face, piercing the depths of his consciousness, his eyebrows instantly ached like a pinprick, the hairs on his body stood up, and his body was completely instinctively trying to dodge to the side.

The energy that burst out of all the nerves and muscles in Li Tianqi's body in an instant only shifted the position of his body by less than two inches, but just such a small distance allowed him to avoid the fatal blow, and the powerful crossbow arrow slashed through the flesh on his collarbone with a scream, and sank into the mud behind him with a pop.

With such a strong force, Li Tianzhen almost didn't have to think about it to conclude that the other party was using a standard military*, and it was likely to have a night vision aiming function, with an effective killing distance of more than 300 meters, and it was an extremely sharp murder weapon in field and jungle combat.

Unable to delve into the identity of the sneak attacker, Li Tianqi rolled several times in a row and hid behind a mountain rock, temporarily grabbed a thick wooden stick in his hand, and embedded a metal pipe in the front section, the section was curved and extremely sharp, which he intercepted from the front bumper of the wrestled car, which was the only weapon for self-defense.

Although he had lost most of his perception ability, Li Tianzhen could quickly distinguish the aura of the comer, and there were as many as five people! Moreover, they were spreading out in formation, surrounded in a fan shape, and the distance between those who were closest was less than 100 meters, and the farthest was not more than 150 meters.

Judging from the lurking, approaching, and formation position, the opponent is obviously an extremely professional hunting combination, and Li Tianzhen guessed that the * just now is just one of the weapons, and these five people should have their own strengths and be good at cooperating.

Fighting in the field, if it is in the heyday of physical fitness, Li Tianzhen is not afraid, but now he is going to die, although his physical strength and perception at the moment are recovering little by little, but the speed is obviously far from enough, not enough to support several sharp abilities, perhaps the most practical 'phantom kill' can be barely launched once, of course, this is also the only means of saving life at the moment.

This is an extremely terrifying ability to kill with bare hands, and the reason why Li Tianzhen also classified it as an ability is because the speed of the attack is too fast, too unbelievable, and the word instant kill is not enough to describe its terrible, and it cannot be practiced by normal training.

At close range, especially within ten meters, once the attack is launched, the opponent has almost no way to react and judge, and if you are lucky, you may be able to see some afterimages pulled out during the attack, but this change in milliseconds no one can escape the ensuing kill.

This ability did not appear out of thin air, but the strangest of Li Tianji's many chances, and it was the result of his acquired perception, but he never imagined that the cultivation of 'Phantom Kill' would be of great help to several other abilities.

Two years ago, on the first day of Li Tianji's entry into the Liuyunguan Purple Garden, the visions he saw when he met a strange fate on the big stone platform, and the huge and complicated old things that emerged with it were poured into his mind and consciousness like a torrent, but it was a pity that many events were fragmented and could not be coherent and spliced, some only said a few words, and some only left a silhouette, completely unable to figure out the rules.

But there is one thing that is more strange, in Li Tianji's mind, it is a very coherent set of pictures, although the painting is rough, but basically the whole story is explained. In the first painting, a bearded man stands at the gate of Liuyunguan Mountain, and opposite him is a tall long-bearded old man.

In the second picture, the two of them entered the mountain gate one after the other, the old road was in front, and the bearded guest was behind; in the third picture, the two were outside the main hall, the long-bearded old man knelt down to worship the statue of the Sanqing patriarch, and the bearded man stood proudly behind him.

Fourth, the two of them stand opposite each other in the courtyard outside the main hall, this painting style is strange, a few strokes will depict the demeanor of the two very expressive, it is a kind of angry look, the bearded man is a side portrait, there is a thin line on the right hand, like pinching a wooden bar, and like a short knife, and the old road is completely frontal and standing, but the angry eyes are round, the beard is open, a posture ready to desperately.

The fifth and last one is exactly the same as the fourth, no, there is a slight difference, there is a thin line on the neck of the old man, which is not obvious if you don't look closely, and the right hand of the bearded man is still drooping, and he still holds the thread-like thing in his hand, the difference is that at the end of the line, there is an extra black dot.

At the beginning, Li Tianzhen pondered for a long time and didn't understand what was going on, and directly understood from the painting, the bearded guest came to Liuyunguan to find the old Taoist priest, and the two talked about things in the open space in front of the main hall, which can also be understood as a lecture on the Tao, it may be that the words are not speculative, and the bearded guest angered the other party, which is almost like this, but if it is just that, this story does not seem to be complete.

Later, Li Tianchou always unconsciously remembered the fifth picture, especially the thin line around Lao Dao's neck, which was by no means a repetition of the fourth painting, nor was it a pen error, it was a very neat knife mark, quite expressive and terrifying.

Because the facial expression of the old Taoist priest is slightly different from the fourth picture, the eye sockets are slightly larger, and the eyeballs seem to be more prominent, which is an expression of extreme consternation, which can also be said to be unprepared.

Li Tianchou finally figured out that the painting of this picture seemed to be rough, but the pen power was amazing, and the thin line pinched by the bearded guest in his right hand could also prove his judgment, that is, a black dot under the thin line, which should be the blood of the old Taoist!

From the fourth picture of the two people standing opposite each other, to the fifth picture, where the bearded man completes the kill, there is no excessive action in between, what does this mean? The painter is lazy and omits the description of the action? Or is the bearded man himself too fast to depict and unable to react?

Li Tianchou did not know, and could only figure out from the intention of this group of pictures, whether the painter was trying to express the fact that the old Taoist was killed by the bearded guest, or to express the process of the bearded guest killing the opponent? If it is the former, the first three pictures can also explain some problems, but why is it more intuitive to put so much effort into the performance of the fifth picture, and directly let the old Taoist priest lie on the ground covered in blood?

But if it was the latter, wouldn't the first three pictures be too verbose? Li Tianchou couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to break his head, so he finally decided to go to the 'Zangjing Pavilion' to find out if there were any classics and documents about recording old Taoist priests or bearded people.

He spent two days in the 'Zangjing Pavilion', rummaging through all the collections of Liuyunguan, except for eating and drinking, he barely went out, and he didn't even find a word of information about the two people in the painting, but he accidentally found a strange book.

The reason why it is called a strange book is because the material of the book is strange, the pages are not paper and silk, but some kind of animal skin, and the age can not be seen, but no matter ancient or modern, such materials are very rare in the Central Plains, and what is even more strange is that the whole book is only four pages, and the cover without a word is thrown away, leaving three pages of dry goods.

But these three pages of content made Li Tianchou surprised, and suddenly there was a feeling of clearing the clouds and mist, and the content was all wordless pictures, and the painting and brushwork were so similar to the five pages of pictures in his mind, which at first glance looked the same.

The first page is a group of four pictures, each of which is a naked puppet, the content is extremely simple, in order is standing and relaxing, squatting, the whole body is in a round ball, the head is wrapped in the arms, and the last is the body suddenly stretched, soaring into the air, the body is in the shape of a bird.

Li Tianchou pondered for a while, and realized that the four pictures were some kind of physical training, and then looked at the next page, but it was a cliff edge in the wild, and the difference from the first page was that there were more depictions of scenery in the pictures, and the cliff seemed familiar, but the picture was so simple that it could not be compared with the places I had seen before.

On the edge of the cliff, the puppet stands with its arms down, holding a branch in its left hand, and opposite the puppet is a huge, hungry wolf with a long tongue and eyeing it.

This picture reminded Li Tianchou of the Wufu picture he had seen, this page was exactly the same as the fourth picture at that time, the difference was that the direction was reversed, the bearded man became a puppet, and the old Taoist priest became a hungry wolf.

The painting on the third page is remarkable, and when the puppet is attacked, the afterimage of the road pulled out is depicted vividly, from standing upright to squatting, and then to the body curled up, and finally bursting into the air, the body stretches as much as possible, an arc goes straight to the hungry wolf, the different postures of the puppet in the air, like slow motion, are presented in front of you, until the last action, the puppet has become substantial, and the root of the branch in the hand is inserted into the eyes of the hungry wolf, which is amazing.

The form of the hungry wolf does not change in any way throughout, and the picture is intended to illustrate the fact that the puppet moves so fast that the hungry wolf as an opponent cannot react at all. This is the same as the old Taoist priest in the five pictures, and without any reaction, the bearded man cut his neck.

Li Tianchou suddenly became enlightened, this is a primitive combat training method, the movements on the screen look ordinary, similar to the actual combat fighting skills he learned during training, there is nothing amazing. The only difference is that the speed shown in the picture is unbelievable, and even the mutant predator 'Angel', which I saw in the forests of Myanmar a few years ago, does not have such a lightning-fast attack ability.

Unconsciously, Li Tianchou completed the action of stretching, squatting, shrinking, and then bursting into the air according to the picture.