Chapter 16: The Silver Serpent
Seventy-two peaks from the Heavenly Sword Sect, although Dapeng Peak is the highest peak, but when it comes to actual status, it is the Silver Snake Peak that is deservedly the highest, and the only reason is because the Silver Snake Yu family lives on it. The Yu family originally made a fortune because of the Fire Imperial True Person, one of the five great elders of the Heavenly Sword Sect, but over the years, it has been able to run rampant in the Heavenly Sword Sect and form a huge force that is intertwined, which is also indispensable to the shrewdness and strength of Yu Jun, the head of the Yu family. He is the eldest grandson of the Fire Yu Zhenren, with outstanding talent since childhood, and now he is in the middle of the Jindan period, his strength is strong, and his scheming is deep, and he uses the name of the Fire Yu Zhenren to expand the power of the Yu family in the door, cultivate children, and gradually form a behemoth. Even Zou Anlong, the head of the Litian Sword Sect, had to give him some face.
It was precisely because of this that Yu Tianlu was able to do anything wrong in the Litian Sword Sect. His cultivation talent is not low, but he can't endure hardships, and his strength in the late stage of qi refining is also piled up by the Yu family's pills. There are a bunch of followers around him, and there is also a second-generation disciple of the condensation period as a bodyguard, although he has a bunch of magic weapons and armor on his body, but he has no chance of actual combat.
The Yu family's mansion is extremely luxurious, the exterior walls are all inlaid with white mica stones, the backyard is full of all kinds of spiritual fruit herbs, full of spiritual energy, and there are white cranes and spirit beasts, today is Yu Tianlu's birthday, except for Yu Jun, the head of the Yu family, who went out because of a major event, the rest of the people who have heads and faces from the Heavenly Sword Sect have come, and it is said that even the head Zou Anlong personally congratulated. Naturally, it was a big special event, and the banquet was held from late afternoon until late at night, and there was still a constant noise of silk and bamboo.
Ji Wei held a dagger in his mouth, lying on the courtyard wall of the Yu family, blocking his body with a water heart tree, and quietly waiting for the patrols to pass by.
Since three days ago, after the two of them fell off the cliff, he used his body to protect Lin Han, one person endured most of the miasma in the valley, the whole person was unconscious, struggling on the line of life and death for three days, several times his life was hanging by a thread, he relied on the innate divine body and the domineering technique of swallowing the heavens to survive, and when he woke up, the miasma in the valley no longer attacked him, but Lin Han had already been poisoned by the miasma.
Although there were many medicinal herbs in the valley, he didn't know any of them, and he was afraid that Lin Han would be even worse if he ate them—after all, not everyone was like him who couldn't be killed. And the shape of the valley is really dangerous, although there are no white bones, but there are many broken magic weapons, presumably left by people who have fallen into the bottom of the valley for thousands of years, the bones have long been corroded by the miasma, and even the magic weapons have been scrapped. Ji Biao searched for a long time, only to find a jet-black dagger, although the shape was simple and did not look strange, but it was so sharp that it almost cut off his fingers. Moreover, after staying at the bottom of the valley for three days, his cultivation has actually improved, and he has faintly broken through the posture of the middle stage of qi refining.
It's simply providential.
Ji Biao then found some rattan, carried the unconscious Lin Han on his back, and climbed up along the mountain wall. First tried to seek the help of Xiaoyaojing, but his blood was almost dry, except for absorbing his blood, Xiaoyaojing still did not react at all, the old man of the machine spirit was like dead, there was no movement at all, he had to quietly send Lin Han to Huoling's medicine house, and also left a spiritual coral grass, hoping that Huoling could find a way to rescue Lin Han.
Then he appeared here following his heart's thoughts.
Ji Biao figured out the rules of patrolling, and then took advantage of the time after the guards patrolled a wave, and quietly infiltrated the Yu Mansion.
He also knew that the Yu Mansion was dominated by Jindan Dao people, so he acted extremely carefully. It was not for nothing that he was treated as a small beast as a child, he seemed to be a natural predator, instinctively knowing to hide his prey, approaching his prey silently, with a professionalism bordering on coldness......
Even if the prey is a living person, it is the same.
The buildings inside the Yu Mansion are still very ornate, and some places are even inlaid with spirit stones as decorations, but these do not bother Ji Biao at all. He crept into the backyard promenade, then dodged under the railing.
Two people wearing the red robes of the second-generation disciples, carrying a large bag of things, whispered maliciously and laughed playfully, and walked down the corridor.
Ji Biao could see at a glance that the bag contained a person.
Only storage artifacts above the spiritual product can hold living things, no wonder these two people will carry one person over.
“...... Senior Brother Huozhao, Yu Gongzi will definitely reward you when he sees this little beauty, maybe even the high-grade flying sword given by the head of the house will be rewarded to you, he really relies on you. One of the emaciated second-generation disciples said to the other in a flattering tone.
The second-generation disciple who was carrying that person was Huo Zhao, the second-generation disciple who had reached the condensation stage who had fought with Ji Biao on the cliff that day.
Ji Biao knew that they were going to find Yu Tianlu, so he waited with bated breath for them to pass, and quietly followed behind.
The two of them walked around in the backyard, and finally came to a remote wing, according to Ji Wei's judgment, this place was already the depths of Yufu. And the place is remote, and no one usually comes. In fact, no matter how nonsense Yu Tianlu is, when it comes to women's reputations, the Yu family will still not let him do anything wrong, after all, there are few women in the cultivation world who walk outside alone, and most of them are family inheritances. For example, the Heavenly Sword Sect, ten male disciples may not have a female disciple, because most of the female disciples of Xiuzhen have family support behind them, and the Heavenly Sword Sect is only a snake in Yixian County, not to mention in the Vermilion Bird Continent, even in the Nanzhao Kingdom where Yixian County is located, they are not ranked in the top fifty. In case of provoking a terrible family, naturally they will not be able to eat and walk around.
But Yu Tianlu is also bold, he forced three generations of disciples to jump off the cliff in order to grab something three days ago, and under Huo Ling's propaganda, it is already something that the entire Heavenly Sword Sect knows. He was still a little apprehensive at first, after all, the human and material evidence was there, but after waiting for two days, not only did those uncles say nothing, but even the head Zou Anlong seemed to have nothing to do, and today he also came to the door to give him a flying sword as a birthday gift, and he was pleasantly surprised, but he became more and more arrogant. This woman was met when he bought the spirit fruit in the Qianqiu Pavilion under the mountain, she was beautiful and arrogant, and she didn't care about him, he couldn't get angry, and saw that she was single, but she cultivated during the Qi refining period, so she must have no background, so she had a bad heart. Commanded his minions to collude with Qianqiu Pavilion, plotted against this woman, and stunned her and brought her up the mountain.
"Senior Brother Huo Zhao, when the time comes, Yu Gongzi will be happy, don't forget to say a few kind words for me......" The short second-generation disciple stood at the door, still chattering, and noticed that Huo Zhao was a little distracted, and hurriedly asked with a flattering smile: "What is Senior Brother thinking?"
For a moment, Huo Zhao felt a chill that made his heart palpitate, and this chill was like a needle, piercing directly into his body along the gap between his spine. It was this chill that froze him.
Those who cultivate the truth have somewhat touched a little bit of the world's avenue, which is different from ordinary people who have not yet opened their spiritual apertures, so they will also have instinctive intuition when facing the threat of death.
But that's all there is to it.
Because the next moment, a black shadow jumped high from under the railing, like a night owl with the breath of death, and pounced directly on the unsuspecting Huo Zhao with his back to the railing.
Between the elbows and armpits, even if Huo Zhao had thousands of means, he only had time to sacrifice the golden lotus flower that protected the body, but the golden light flashed, and before it could bloom completely, it was like a weak eggshell, which was shattered from the middle.
Huo Zhao looked at the face close to his eyes in shock.
It was still as cold as three days ago, without a trace of expression, and his long, dark eyes were like death......
He slowly lowered his head, looking at the dark dagger on his chest that had already sunk into his body, and Ji Wei's hand holding the dagger. A drop of blood fell, splashing on the cold boy's scarred wrist. Huo Zhao opened his mouth, but only more blood spat out, and he fell to his knees, an unwilling corpse.
A sword light flew straight over, and Ji Wei reacted as fast as a beast, dodging sideways.
The second-generation disciple of the little man saw that his reaction speed was so strangely fast, and he saw him kill a senior brother in the condensation stage in front of him, and he was already frightened, and when he dodged his flying sword at a non-human speed, he couldn't hold back anymore, and let out a short and desperate scream.
Ji Wei didn't give him a chance to call anymore.
The bottom of the valley was stirred by miasma, his strength was close to the middle stage of Qi refining, and the benefits of the slow progress of the Heaven Swallowing Technique were finally beginning to show - the aura in his body was now several times more abundant than other people in the late stage of Qi refining, coupled with his own speed and reaction much faster than ordinary people, as well as beast-like stealth and explosiveness, so that he had such a terrifying melee ability in the Qi refining period. Seeing that the second-generation disciple was about to sacrifice his armor, he jumped forward, forcibly carried the flying sword that was worn back from behind, and directly wiped off the neck of the second-generation disciple with a dagger.
It's intense, but it's just a momentary event. In the blink of an eye, two corpses had been left at the door, covered in blood, and even the moonlight seemed to be stained blood-red.
Ji Wei didn't care about stepping on the corpse of the second-generation disciple to wipe the dagger clean, and then searched out all the things on their bodies and put them in the gourd, preparing to go back and bring them to Lin Han - he followed Lin Han, he didn't learn anything good, but learned the truth that "killing people and stealing things is a good business without profit". When everything was gone, he glanced at the closed door of the wing, and was about to enter, when he suddenly turned around, picked up the goldfish tank on the corridor, poured all the water directly on the sack on the ground, and then cut open the mouth of the sack, and pushed open the door of the wing without looking.
It seems to be just an ordinary wing room, but there is a hole in it, not to mention the magnificent layout, there are wide steps extending all the way down, the underground lights are bright, Ji Wei cautiously walked down the steps, and found that there was a small underground palace hidden under this wing room, and there were all kinds of exquisite antiques on the rosewood shelves on both sides, and there was a small earth altar in the middle, which was in the shape of gossip, and there were curtains hanging all around, and a person could be seen sitting in the middle.
It is said that some families will spend a lot of money to hire craftsmen to build a spiritual altar for the sake of their children's cultivation, so that the progress of cultivation can be doubled with half the effort, which is something that only very doting and unprincipled elders do......
However, Ji Biao just wanted to pry off all the spirit stones around the Spirit Gathering Altar and bring them back to Lin Han.
I don't know where Ji Biao stepped on, probably there is an early warning mechanism in this underground palace, and suddenly the walls around it lit up.
"Huo Zhao, are you back?" The figure sitting on the altar of the Gathering Spirit stood up overjoyed and lifted the curtain, but was stunned by Ji Ao.
"Is it you?" Yu Tianlu believed that he was in his own mansion, heavily guarded, and had a bunch of magic weapons to protect himself, so he was not in a hurry to call the guards, showing a disdainful smile, and jokingly: "Why? I didn't fall off the cliff and died?
It's okay that he didn't mention Lin Han, but when he mentioned Lin Han, Ji Wei's eyes stared at him directly murderously.
"What are you looking at, you want to kill me?" Yu Tianlu was triumphant: "Just come." ”
Before he finished speaking, Ji Biao had already pounced directly.
The distance between the two is only two zhang away, and for Ji Biao, it is only the distance between two verticals. However, the moment he threw himself out, he felt his body sink. The bright light from the surrounding walls is intertwined like a cage, and the places where the light shines seem to be shackled with a thousand catties.
"Hahaha, Tubaozi, I haven't seen the Earth Spirit Array!" Yu Tianlu stepped on a black symbol under his feet, obviously he was manipulating this defensive formation, Ji Biao was struggling, but he raised his hand, and a silver light came straight towards Ji Biao: "The flying sword that the head gave me hasn't been used yet, so let's take your sacrificial sword today." ”
Seeing the flying sword coming straight towards his head, Ji Biao wanted to dodge, but his body was like being filled with lead, and he used all his strength to deviate his head, Rao is like this, the flying sword still grazed the corners of his forehead, cutting off a large piece of flesh and blood, and the wound was visible to the bone.
"Aren't you very good at dodging, aren't you very good at jumping?" Yu Tianlu obviously wanted to slowly torture Ji Biao to death, but the second sword did not choose to attack the vital point directly, but spun back and directly penetrated Ji Biao's legs, Ji Biao gritted his teeth, his body shook, and he almost fell to the ground.
Ji Biao's appearance of the wolf bèi obviously made Yu Tianlu very happy, he slowly controlled the flying sword, and tortured Ji Biao who was trapped by the formation one by one, but in a moment, Ji Biao had become a bloody man, with countless injuries all over his body, and his already tattered black clothes were soaked with blood, which made him even more wolf.
If Yu Tianlu was careful, he could have found that the young man in front of him had terrifying willpower, even if he was swordsman, he still did not show a trace of fear, but the look in his eyes became colder and colder.
But he was so immersed in the abuse of his superiority that he didn't even notice the dimming of the light on the walls around him.
"It's boring to stop playing," he said with a leisurely sigh: "I'll be merciful and send you to the Yellow Spring." ”