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Although he now had a piece of warm fragrant nephrite in his arms, Lin Xiao had no time to care about it at the moment. Before the blade in the black-clothed woman's hand fell, he already felt a bone-chilling chill in his back.

The tip of the knife is about two to three inches away from the position of the heart, which can ensure that the person who is hit by the knife will not die for a short time, but the blade will continue to tear the back muscles, and plug the wound to cause a certain degree of blood obstruction, so that people can clearly feel the life passing from their bodies little by little in the pain of life is worse than death.

Lin Xiao said secretly in his heart: "It is really worthy of being an assassin cultivated by 'Dark Fragrance', and he is really powerful." At this moment, he still didn't have any movement to struggle and fight back, but as if he had given up resistance, he raised his hand and waved, and Hongchen came out of his hand.

At the same time, the knife had already pierced Lin Xiao's back.

The woman in black did not hesitate at all, the blade of the short blade directly pierced the skin behind her back, and Lin Xiao's back burst out with a scarlet color, dyeing everything in front of her into a red color.

The woman's pupils shrank violently in horror.

That bright scarlet was not blood, but a red glow brought up by the sword qi.

The woman in black hurriedly turned around, only to see a sword rainbow flashing in front of her, but it was a "fluttering" momentum, the remnant of the sword qi pierced by the blade gathered in the sword rainbow, Lin Xiaoren followed the sword, a sword slanted to the fall, and the blade slashed at the wrist of the woman in black.

The woman in black flipped her wrist, and the spine of the short blade was comparable to the blade of the red dust; while she lifted her true qi and swung the long sword, she quietly pressed the bracket on the hilt, only to hear a buzzing sound of "Zheng", and the short blade suddenly popped out more than two feet, turning into a long knife again. The woman in black sank her wrist and pressed the blade with her blade, the tip of the knife flashed with a dangerous light, and she pushed a knife diagonally, pointing straight at the location of Lin Xiao's eyebrows.

Lin Xiao withdrew his sword and quickly lowered his waist, putting on an "iron plate bridge" posture to avoid the stab in front of him. The woman in black took a step forward, and with a move "Outside the Cold River Sky", she slashed straight at the top of his head. Lin Xiao hurriedly stretched out his hand to support the ground, the soles of his feet were strong, and the whole person slid forward a distance of a few feet against the ground. The knife also came very quickly, and it could pass by an inch above his head, and the knife wind made him feel his scalp tingle for a while, which was really dangerous.

The woman in black sneered slightly: "The little thief's body is quite slippery, how about trying my trick again!" After finishing speaking, the long knife slashed in the air three times in a row, and three cold sword winds swept in three ways, and it also happened to seal the three ways that Lin Xiao could dodge.

"Why do girls always like to use knives and guns, they can't be ladylike. Lin Xiao laughed for a while, the purple yang true qi in his body quickly circulated and gathered on his arm, and then raised his hand, and the red mangs on the red dust sword were sheng, rushing out with a violent sword qi, and the three sword winds were directly rolled together.

Lin Xiao's hands were sealed, and Hongchen's sword body was wrapped in sword wind gusts of wind and volleyed sword marks like runes, and those sword marks were intertwined, like a tight magic array, disintegrating the incoming sword momentum layer by layer. The sword momentum pushed back under the sword mark formed by Lin Xiao, and it forced towards the woman in black step by step.

The sword qi came in the blink of an eye, but the woman in black did not dodge or dodge, but instead met it head-on, and her body was directly twisted into it by the sword qi.

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows and secretly smiled: "Are you learning from me?" Thinking of this, he saw that the woman in black had lost the trace of the woman in black in the sword qi, and the next moment, an afterimage flashed, and the long knife broke through the shackles of the fan cage with a cold light, and slashed straight towards Lin Xiao's chest.

The blade approached in an instant, and the woman in black could already foresee the blood splattering out next.

Lin Xiao stood in place, the other party's knife came very quickly, and it was a killing move made with the cooperation of the Dark Fragrance Assassin's unique "Shadow Escape Method", even if he was the first to dodge, he might not be able to retreat with his whole body.

His hands hung down at his side, and the tips of his five fingers touched back and forth, as if he was pinching something. In an instant, the long knife of the woman in black was about to slash at his body.

Lin Xiao's steps were misplaced, and he took a step to the right at the fastest speed, avoiding several locked vital parts of his chest. But he only took one step, and the next moment, the long knife penetrated his left shoulder; the woman in black did not retreat, and the residual power on the knife did not disappear, so that he fell backwards and hit the rockery hard, and the blade was inserted into the rock mass, directly nailing Lin Xiao to the rockery.

Lin Xiao turned his head and spat blood on the ground, then looked down at the bloody wound on his shoulder, and quickly took out his fingers to seal several acupuncture points on his left shoulder, such as "Shoulder Well", "Shoulder Zhen", "Shoulder Hip", and "Face Meeting".

Obviously, he had just spat out blood, and his face was still a little pale, but he had a smile on his face like a successful conspiracy, and smiled evilly at the woman in black: "Pay attention to your back!"

The woman in black suddenly felt as if her heart was skipping a beat, and then, the two acupoints of "Spine" and "Center" on her back instantly became numb, but it seemed that she had been hit hard by something and sealed the acupoints. I saw that Hongchen's sword hilt was on her back, and the next moment, a red light bloomed on the body of the spirit sword, turning into a delicate woman in red.

Hongchen stretched out his hand to hold the spirit sword body, and then clicked on the four big points of "Shendao", "Lingtai", "Zhiyang" and "Hanging Pivot" that went down the spine behind the black-clothed woman, and then put the blade of the sword across her neck.

Lin Xiao reached out and grabbed the handle of the knife, took a deep breath, and pulled it out violently. Rao is that he has been mentally prepared, and the moment the blade is pulled out of his body still makes his eyes blacken in pain. As the blade left his body, blood gushed out again from the wound on his shoulder, and Hongchen hurriedly threw down the long sword in his hand and stepped forward, using his True Qi Fei to point at the acupoints on his shoulder to help him stop the bleeding, and firmly sealed those acupoints with the "Bone Penetrating Acupoint Method".

Lin Xiao gasped in pain, covered the wound on his shoulder with one hand, and held her freely retractable treasure knife in the other, and slowly walked to the woman in black - he was not deliberately fiddling with the style of a winner, but because if he walked fast, it would affect the wound on his shoulder...... That's a pain!

Lin Xiao looked at the anger and unwillingness in the beautiful eyes of the woman in black, and couldn't help laughing: "You know in your heart that I'm a thief, why don't you know how to guard against me a little more!" After finishing speaking, he raised the hand that raised the knife, and at the woman in black, it was a knife in his hand......

The woman in black subconsciously closed her eyes, but the expected severe pain and the cold feeling of death did not come. However, after the knife wind carried over, a crisp "hiss" came from his body......

The woman in black was secretly strange in her heart, so she opened her eyes, and the scene in front of her suddenly made her whole body stiff-

Lin Xiao's slash actually tore his skirt!

The woman in black couldn't help but consider a certain possibility, Rao is she was not surprised by various changes in the battle, and at this time she couldn't help but mess up, and for a moment she felt that even if she was hacked to death, it was a happy thing, it was better than being humiliated in the hands of others. However, the acupoints on her body were sealed by Hongchen with true qi, and she couldn't move at all, so she had to scream in tears: "What do you want to do?!"

The corners of Lin Xiao's mouth hooked up a wicked smile, and under her gaze, which was almost about to erupt into flames, she tore the cut skirt into strips of cloth, and then bandaged the wound on her shoulder, smacking her lips while bandaging it: "What are you staring at!

The anger of the woman in black immediately faded, and for a moment only a stunned face remained.

Hongchen couldn't help but hold his forehead and embarrassed, and turned his head directly, looking like "I don't know this neurosis".

2.

"How long has it been since the people in the dark incense have been walking in this world?" Lin Xiao looked at the woman in black while tying the strips of cloth on the wound tightly, and said, "It seems that the charm of the remnants of this "Dark Demon Evil God Record" is quite great, and it is really something that anyone can hook out." ”

The woman in black said coldly, "To be fair, your courage and skill are indeed outstanding, and you are no worse than anyone else in terms of intrigue and intrigues. But as long as you carry that half of the fragment with you for a day, the eyes of the Cult will not take their eyes off you. If you think you can keep everyone at bay, then you little thief is too arrogant!"

Lin Xiao picked up the remaining pieces of the skirt that had been bandaged and brought them to his mouth to wipe the blood on the corners of his mouth and chin, but inadvertently smelled a faint Qiluo fragrance on the skirt of the woman in black.

Lin Xiao had just been injured, and before he could recuperate, his mind was aching for a while, and this smell actually made his headache slightly relieved, this strange feeling couldn't help but make him feel a little stunned.

Lin Xiao dropped the torn skirt, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, gently rubbed the "temples" on both sides of his forehead, came back to his senses slightly, and asked at the same time, "You were appointed by the people of the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect?"

The woman in black sneered, "Aren't you very smart?

Lin Xiao opened his eyes: "Although Dark Fragrance is famous in the Eternal Night Territory, it is probably not a wise move to covet the "Dark Demon Evil God Record" that has been passed down from generation to generation by the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect, right? ! ”

The woman in black looked at Lin Xiao calmly, and the expression on her face was uncertain.

"The reason why you dare to search for the whereabouts of this half of the fragment with such fanfare is because of the entrustment of the sect master of the Ming Sect. Lin Xiao played with the knife he pulled out of his shoulder, and continued: "Besides, I know - you are not an ordinary person!"

The face of the woman in black suddenly turned pale, and she said in her heart: Could it be that she saw it?

Lin Xiao grabbed the bracket on the handle of the knife, turned the long knife into a short blade, and then turned it into a long knife after another blow, and then inserted it into the scabbard on the waist of the woman in black, untied the knife with the sheath, and threw it to Hongchen for her to hold.

Hongchen stretched out his hand to take the knife that Lin Xiao threw over, and happened to see the two ancient characters engraved on the handle of the knife - ruthless.

"It's ...... Demon Blade 'Heartless'?!" Hongchen exclaimed.

Lin Xiao nodded and said, "I also saw it after I just pulled it out of my body, and it turned out that the world-famous demon blade was ruthless, and it turned out to be like this." Look at this weird mechanism that can make the blade stretch freely, it's no wonder that Li Yinghua was able to rely on it to make such a big name in her early years!"

The "ruthlessness" of the demon blade is an important symbol of the "First Shadow Assassin of the Demon Dao" Li Yinghua breaking through this title in the early days and pulling up the development of the entire dark incense. But such a famous knife, few people in the world know what it looks like, and they can't even say its general shape.

The reason is actually very simple, that is because there are often only two kinds of people who have really seen this ruthless blade - one is the person who is extremely close to Li Yinghua, and the other is the vast majority, that is, those souls who have died under her knife!

Of course, those close to them will not leak secrets, and the dead will not speak.

The Demon Blade "Heartless" has thus become one of the most mysterious existences on the world's weapon list.

"Li Yinghua is now the lord of the dark incense, and if she wants to kill someone, she doesn't have to do it herself, and with her current cultivation skills, flying flowers and picking leaves can be used as assassination tools, and there must be no need for such fancy blades as the ruthless blade. Lin Xiao looked directly into the eyes of the woman in black and said, "A person who has cultivated the Shadow Hunting Technique so well must be a disciple of Dark Incense, and you are qualified to be able to hold Li Yinghua's Ruthless Blade, I think the relationship between the two of you should be ready to come out." ”

Lin Xiao took a step forward: "You should be Li Yinghua's closed disciple." ”

What surprised Lin Xiao was that the face of the woman in black did not have the kind of anger that should be after her identity was revealed; on the contrary, the pale color on her face had disappeared without a trace at this time, and she even laughed, although it was just a dry laugh, but the smile like a flower was enough to make the most vivid flowers in the world wither and lose color, and Lin Xiao lost her mind for a while.

The woman in black smiled, "Do you think I'm a disciple of Li Yinghua?"

Lin Xiao looked back at her: "Isn't it? ”

The woman in black looked at Lin Xiao playfully, and felt a burst of hair in his heart: "Why don't you say that I am the daughter of Tiansha?"

Lin Xiao raised his eyebrows and sneered: "If you can provide me with evidence, I don't mind calling you Ye Wudi's daughter." ”

The woman in black put away her smile, changed into her original cold appearance again, and said, "Since you think you have seen through me, then what are you waiting for? Kill me!"

Lin Xiao smiled slightly, raised his hand to signal Hongchen to remove the long sword around her neck, and said, "Although you slashed me, I don't want to kill you for the time being, so let's remember this account first." Besides, you've helped me find an important clue - that's a great achievement! I can't thank you before it's too late, so why would I want to kill you. ”

This time, it was the turn of the woman in black to be stunned for a while: "I? helped you, what did I help you?"

Hongchen also looked at Lin Xiao suspiciously: "Didn't she hurt your shoulder?

Lin Xiao walked to Hongchen's side, pulled out the ruthless blade from the scabbard in her hand again, took it in his hand and gently checked it, and then pulled a knife flower, looking at the blade flashing with a cold cold light in the night, and said: "This knife is made of cold iron, the blade is long, narrow and thin, much lighter than ordinary long knives, and it is biased towards a sword in terms of weight, but because it also has a retractable spring hidden inside, it is not only difficult to maintain a balance of weight from head to tail like a long sword, but it will also have a 'top-heavy' situation like now." ”

Hongchen frowned and said: "Don't sell Guanzi, you can say whatever you want to say, we still have important things to do." ”

Lin Xiao said: "Don't worry, what I'm going to say now is related to our important things. A top-heavy blade like this, with a heavy grip but a very light blade, can perform two or three more moves than a well-weighted blade with the same strength, but because the blade is so light that it cannot cause great damage, it is suitable for assassination, but not for facing the enemy head-on. ”

"That's right. Hongchen nodded, "Then what if you infuse a large amount of True Qi before making a move?"

Lin Xiao turned the ruthless blade in his hand: "If you are blessed with a large amount of true qi, you can indeed cause greater damage, but due to its own relationship, this kind of damage is also limited." For example, ......" paused at this point, and turned his head to look at the woman in black: "Wait, please ask, how high is your cultivation?"

Before the woman in black could answer, Hongchen had already taken one of her hands, pinched her wrist lightly, and said, "It's similar to you, probably the kind where there are more than six heavens and seven heavens are insufficient." ”

The woman in black glanced at Hongchen: "Do you know how to touch bones?"

Hongchen said coldly: "I understand a little, at least I can feel someone whose cultivation is lower than mine." ”

"It's about the same as me, that's easy. Lin Xiao stepped forward and took the spirit sword body in Hongchen's hand, and then held the sword in one hand and the sword in the other, and the tips of the blades of the swords were all downward. "Now that I have injected the same True Qi, the result is ...... After finishing speaking, his hands were used at the same time, and his true qi was reached, and the sword was thrown downward at the same time.

After hearing only two hideous blade sounds, the three of them looked at the sword on the ground together, only to see that the blade of the Red Dust Sword had been completely inserted into the ground, reaching the handle, and a third of the Ruthless Blade was still exposed.

The woman in black asked coldly, "I've been talking nonsense for a long time, so what does this mean?"

Lin Xiao looked at the deep eyes of the woman in black: "The knife you just cut me was blessed with a large amount of true qi. At that time, the sword mark I had formed had not yet been erased, and I still had spiritual protection around me, and it was not much easier to pierce my shoulder in that situation than to penetrate the ground, not to mention that the momentum had been removed when I crashed backwards. How did your knife pierce my shoulder and then pierce the rockery and nail me to it?!"

Hongchen suddenly realized: "You mean, there is something wrong with that rockery?"

The woman in black didn't say a word, but she also looked at the rockery that had just been penetrated, and her eyes flashed thoughtfully.

"There will be this anomaly, either this rockery is made of tofu, or it is ...... Some things are not as simple as they seem on the surface!" Lin Xiao paced slowly, walked to the edge of the rockery, put his hand on the edge of the gap that had just been pierced by the ruthless blade, and moved to the palm of his hand, and the internal force was everywhere, and the rock on the surface of the rockery suddenly shattered, revealing another layer of intact stone wall below.

"Oh my God!" Hongchen was stunned for a moment, hurriedly stepped forward, picked up a pinch of stone chips from the ground, put it to his nose and sniffed it carefully, and couldn't help but be surprised: "It's made of lime - it's really for you to be sure, this rockery is really greasy!"

"It seems that the ancestor of this Liaoyuan family has a much deeper scheming than we imagined. Lin Xiao groped for the newly exposed position on the rockery again, and with a flick of his right hand, he lit an open flame talisman that illuminated a bulge on the rockery, which was covered with dense and incomparably complex patterns.

"This one seems to be a bit like a river map...... Or Luoshu?" Hongchen said with a frown.

Lin Xiao turned his head to look at her: "So it's Hetu or Luoshu?"

Hongchen glanced back: "How do I know, I don't understand!"

The woman in black rolled her eyes speechlessly.

The Hetuluo Book is two mysterious patterns that have been handed down from ancient times. In ancient times, people designed a system of discernment according to the time, direction and seasons of the stars, which were closely related to the 28 constellations and the zodiac signs. Because it contains the profound principles of the universe and astrology, it is known as the "cosmic Rubik's Cube" and is the source of the five elements of yin and yang in Taoist culture.

Hetu 1 to 10 is the number of heaven and earth generation, and Luo Shu 1 to 9 is the number of heaven and earth change. All things have gas that is tangible, tangible is qualitative, qualitative is numbered, and there is a number of images, and the five elements of qi-shaped prime numbers are simulated and expressed by the Heluo Bagua schema, and they are cleverly combined and integrated into one, so as to construct a cosmic space-time unity, and the generation and evolution of all things.

Later generations would usually use the mysteries on these two drawings to design corresponding mechanisms and circles. For example, on the river chart, the black and white dots arranged in several arrays contain infinite mysteries, and on the Luo Shu, the sum of the three numbers on the vertical, horizontal, and oblique lines is equal to 15...... The most famous "Qimen Dunjia Technique" in the history of Daomen, its "wearing nine shoes one, left three right seven, two four for the shoulder, six or eight for the foot, with five in the center" structure and "the five white circles are all yang, the four corners of the black dots are yin" The law comes from this.

At that time, the pattern carved by the innocent family on the rockery was hidden in it by the natural lines on the rockery rock. Although it is not as esoteric and unfathomable as "Qimen Dunjia" and "Nine Palace Bagua", it is also vaguely in line with the laws of pictures and books, and for a while, Lin Xiao and Hongchen have no idea where to start.

Lin Xiao looked at the uneven and crooked pattern, only felt a headache, and couldn't help but shake his head and smack his tongue: "No wonder you dare to expose the mechanism so blatantly, even if you see it, you can't open it without culture!"

Hongchen Qi said: "But this is just a diagram, it can't be pressed or turned, how can you open the hidden mechanism here?"

A cold voice suddenly came from behind the two of them: "The picture here is a schematic diagram of the layout of the nine palace gossip on the Luo Shu, and the lines and points depicted on it all have their own fingers. The lines correspond to several interconnected paths in the mansion, referring to the imaginary and solid lines connecting the hexagrams on the Luo Shu, and the nine points refer to the nine palaces, which correspond to the eight rockery blocks in the Bagua position in the house, and Haoran Xuan in the middle palace. ”

Lin Xiao and Hongchen turned their heads, only to hear the woman in black continue: "The position of the pattern represents the direction of the gossip, you need to turn the rockery so that several hexagrams can be connected to each other through the road, and finally find the connection points where the middle palace is located, and you can unlock the sealing mechanism at the entrance of the secret room." ”

Lin Xiao blinked: "You still understand this?"

The woman in black said coldly, "At least I know better than you." ”

Hongchen asked suspiciously, "Why did you help us?"

The woman in black sneered, "What you want to track down is exactly what I want to know." You have half of the remnants in hand, and when I help you, I'm actually helping myself. ”

Hongchen put the sword on her neck, and said, "Then I can also kill you first." ”

The woman in black said fearlessly: "Kill me, of course you can do this, but what are you going to do in the future, do you take that half of the fragment to go all over the world to find resonance?!

Lin Xiao pressed Hongchen's sword-holding hand and looked at the cold face of the woman in black: "You want to cooperate with us?"

"You have remnants, and I have clues from the Cult. The woman in black said: "Let's take what we need from each other, and after the matter is completed, we will find the other half of the fragments, and then decide whether we win or lose according to our ability!"

Lin Xiao was silent.

Hongchen gave him a color without a trace: "Lin Xiao?"

"Okay, it's a deal!" Lin Xiao stretched out his fingers to unlock the acupoints on the black-clothed woman's body, and then stretched out a hand: "Ziyang Divine Sect, Lin Xiao." ”

The woman in black turned her wrist, which was a little numb from stiffening for too long, reached out and gently touched Lin Xiao's hand, and spit out two words coldly in her mouth:

"Ye Xin!"

【To be continued】