Volume 1 The Wind Will Rise and the Clouds Will Be Treacherous Chapter 5: The Old Man Awakens (5)
"Fortunately, now we no longer have a chaotic era in Huaxia. Bojun put down the comic book and said proudly.
"yes, it's a good time!" the orange cat agreed.
"What's a good way?"
"The phoenix bird is here, the river is out of the map, the rivers and mountains are good, and the country is safe and secure. The orange cat lazily lay on the armrest of the sofa, looking out the window at the thousands of lights in the bustling city.
"Very good, very good. Xu Guan said cheerfully.
The orange cat asked him, "What are you going to do next?"
"Continue the mission of the Night's Watch. Xu Guan thought seriously, "You should first find the lost jade pendant." β
"Where to look?"
Xu Guan shook his head. The orange cat, who was looking out the window, hesitated, but withdrew his gaze and said, "My boss may know something." β
"Really?" Xu Guan was surprised.
Bo Jun glanced at the orange cat with some surprise: this fat cat's Taoism is already quite good, and there is even a boss.
"My boss is a black cat who has lived for more than 700 years, a veritable super monster! He experienced the great war 400 years ago. The orange cat said proudly.
"What does he have to be fat?" Xiao Ai suddenly leaned over and stared at the orange cat's fat body, his mouth wide open.
"My boss is skinny!" the orange cat rolled her eyes.
"Isn't it true that the longer you live, the bigger you get?" asked Xiao Ai innocently.
"How is that possible?"
The world of night has been hidden in ordinary society for more than thousands of years, and the word "hiding from the sky and crossing the sea" has been vividly used - yin is within yang, not against yang. The darkest world is precisely contained in the world of light.
There are many cultivators in the night world, and in addition to human cultivators, there are also many cultivators of other alien species, they are either spirits or monsters, demons or spirits, and their lifespans are much longer than ordinary people.
Among them, there are many old monsters, such as the great monk who uses secret methods to prolong life, the wild fox who has practiced for 600 years, the black cat who has practiced for 700 years, the lich who has cultivated the immortal Gu, and the dryad who has collected the essence of heaven and earth, and so on. In the dark corners of all dynasties, there are their faint figures, witnessing the rise and fall of one dynasty after another.
The black cat is one of the few super monsters.
"Where is that black cat senpai now? I'll go find him right away. Xu Guanxi said.
"My boss is in Rehe, and at your pace, at least three days. β
"It's such a long journey, it's not in a hurry, you wait for your body to recover first. Bojun persuaded.
"Isn't it fast to take the train?" asked Xiao Ai.
"None of us have IDs. Bojun said.
"You didn't either?" said the orange cat.
"I used to, but I can't use it. β
"Why?"
"I'm actually in my 60s as recorded on my ID card, but I'm so young that I can be scared to death. Bojun laughed at himself.
"Why aren't you old?" Xiao Ai wondered.
"Nightrays have a very long lifespan, generally more than 200 years, so aging is also very slow. Bojun explained.
"That's amazing. Can you turn me into a nightweed?"
"No!" Bojun said simply.
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Xu Guan has been sleeping for more than four hundred years, his body functions have deteriorated greatly, and his true qi has almost dissipated, for several days, he has urged the only few wisps of true qi left in his body to run Zhou Tian, nourishing the meridians around his body with true temperature, and after half a month, his body finally returned to a normal level, and his true qi has also condensed two or three percent.
That night, Xu Guan sat by the window, looking at the city in the distance at night, looking yearning.
Bo Jun found Xu Guan's appearance, followed his eyes, suddenly realized, and said: "It's been half a month since you woke up, and you haven't seen the world yet." Shall we go out for a walk today?"
"Good, good. Xu Guan hurriedly turned back, he had long wanted to see this new era, but he felt that it was already disturbing to live here with Bojun, and he was embarrassed to take the initiative to make this request, so when he heard that Bojun was going to take him out, he naturally agreed without hesitation.
The two of them went outside, walking on the sidewalk, and the warm yellow light shone from the streetlamp, falling on them through the tangled gaps in the leaves.
Cars drove by one after another on the main road, and occasionally a few knights formed a line and rode their motorcycles along the roadside, and the buildings on both sides were brightly lit, and the signboards of the merchants on the bottom of the buildings flashed in colorful colors, and fashionably dressed passers-by came and went in such streets.
Xu Guan only felt dizzy, and his two eyes kept looking around, not knowing where to look.
"It's a good sight to behold. Compared with the Shangyuan Night of the year, it is still a few points better. Xu Guan sighed from the bottom of his heart.
"In ancient times, Shangyuan Eve was once a year, and it was like this every night here. Bojun enthusiastically introduced this era to him, he pointed to the passing car, and said: "This car is a modern means of transportation, which can travel thousands of miles a day." β
"This thing can't be owned by rich and noble people, right?" Xu Guan thought that ancient thousands of horses were hard to find, so cars must be very precious.
"Where. It's not that expensive, and the common people can afford it. Bojun shook his head, "It's nothing, there are cars that are hundreds of meters long, and they are two or three times faster than cars." β
After Xu Guan listened, his shocked expression didn't go down, and Bo Jun said again: "There is also a plane, which can carry hundreds of people to fly in the sky, a journey of thousands of miles, and it will arrive in an hour." β
"Could this thing be the Divine Bird Dapeng?" Xu Guan immediately remembered the story told by Zhuangzi.
Bo Jun looked at Xu Guan and couldn't help laughing, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "There are many novelties in this era, you can understand it slowly." β
Xu Guan became more and more energetic, and the two of them unconsciously turned to the middle of the night, there were fewer vehicles and pedestrians on the road, and the lights were nearly half off, leaving a lighthouse-like building in the distance still lit up to attract people's attention.
Bo Jun pointed to the building and said, "Mr. Xu, do you see that building? β
Xu Guan looked at the building about a kilometer away, and was also eager to try, and said hello, as soon as the words fell, Bo Jun rushed out first, Xu Guan laughed, "Let you take the first step." After finishing speaking, he also pulled out his heels.
Both of them were not slow, and a gust of wind swept through the place where they passed, bringing up the fallen leaves on the ground, and they were having fun, but they did not notice that a car was following them not far from the road.
Li Qianshan drove the car, the co-pilot was his master Qiao Song, and a middle-aged man sat in each of the two seats behind. The man on the left has a monkey gill, a thin body, and a wooden sword on his knee, while the man on the right is of medium stature, with a flat head, and a string of beads in his hand.
"I've finally met this nightfish, and it's been in vain that we've been wandering around for several nights. Li Qianshan stared at Xu Guan's figure.
"The body of these two night rays is not weak," Qiao Song drew a demon spell on the palm of his hand, "Be cautious when you start to do it later." β
"Don't worry, I've prepared a magic weapon to restrain the nightrays. The man with the monkey's cheeks stroked the wooden sword, which was covered with cinnabar and obscure mantras.
"It is worthy of Mr. Lin Mu. Li Qianshan patted his ass.
"Which is the target?" The flat-headed man with a rosary in his hand named Wu Mian.
"Both were killed. "Qiao Song is more ruthless than Li Qianshan.
Bo Jun was rushing in front, Xu Guan caught up and smiled at him, and said in an unhurried tone: "Brother Bo Jun, can you be faster?" After speaking, the speed suddenly increased, surpassing Bo Jun, and throwing him away from afar.
Bo Jun smiled bitterly in his heart, did this person really only recover two or three successes?
A three-meter-high overpass was in front of Xu Guan, and he kept under his feet, as if he jumped at will, he jumped on the overpass, and then turned over in a vertical leap, and fell down from the bridge again, and continued to run without stopping.
Bo Jun saw him in the back of the way to cross the bridge, and the strength of not admitting defeat came up, and when he came to the front of the overpass, he had the strength under his feet, his knees bent and flicked, and he also jumped on the bridge, and jumped off the bridge, and his knees bent again, and he unloaded part of his strength to stand firm.
Qiao Song looked at Bojun who had just landed, and immediately said, "Crash over!"
After hearing this, Li Qianshan immediately stepped on the accelerator to the end, and the car slammed onto the sidewalk and crashed straight into Bojun.
"Not good!" Bo Jun's ears moved, and when he heard the movement behind him, he didn't have time to turn back, so he hurriedly ran away.
The car body brushed the corners of Bojun's clothes, and a sudden brake grinded a black mark on the road, and the hot tires emitted a pungent smell.
"Who are you?" Bojun looked at them warily.
Lin Mu, who was sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, swooped out of the car window, and the wooden sword in his hand slashed towards Bo Jun's neck. "Ask Lord Yama to go!"
Qiao Song and the others got out of the car and surrounded them, Bo Jun blocked four with one, he was invincible, fortunately, his body was not weak, and he dodged and wandered among the four people, although he also took a few hits, but fortunately, he avoided the vital point.
Xu observed that there was a movement behind him, and when he turned around, he saw Bojun being besieged by four strangers, and immediately rushed to this side.
"Quickly solve him!" As soon as Qiao Song saw Xu Guan coming back, the attack of his subordinates became a little more fierce, and the demon spell in his palm shone with white light.
Lin Mu's long sword slashed quickly, Bo Jun was on one side, his shoulder brushed the blade of the sword, but his calf was kicked by Qiao Song, and he knelt on the ground on one knee, watching Qiao Song's demon spell fall from the top of his head. Xu Guan arrived in time and pushed horizontally with both palms, forcing Qiao Song to give up attacking Bojun and turn around to block Xu Guan's palms.
Xu Guan pushed Qiao Song away, his body was also shocked, while Qiao Song was repulsed, the other three had already made a move on Xu Guan, Li Qianshan twisted the demon trick, pointed to Xu Guan's heart, Lin Mu, who had a sharp mouth, waved the wooden sword, and the spell on the sword flashed red and swept towards Xu Guan's neck, and Wu Mian wore beads on his wrist and smashed towards Bojun's chest.
Xu Guan pulled Bo Jun to roll on the ground, dodging many attacks,
But! Qiao Song, who had been repulsed, had already returned! He forcibly suppressed the surge in his chest, and his five fingers turned into claws and buckled down on the top of Xu Guan's head!
"Get out of the way!" Bojun pushed Xu Guan away, his shoulder was grabbed by the buckled claws, his knees bent, and he half-knelt on the ground, and the grabbed shoulder emitted white smoke and floated out of Qiao Song's fingers.
Xu Guan raised his leg and kicked Qiao Song in the heart to kick him away, and he was about to run away when he pulled Bo Jun, but he didn't prevent his waist from being hit by Wu Mian's fist, and his body staggered forward.
Li Qianshan stretched out his hand and grabbed Xu Guan's right arm, and twisted it hard.
Lin Mu's wooden sword stabbed at Bo Jun, who was still half-kneeling on the ground, Bo Jun only had time to side half of his body, and the small half of his lower ribs were pierced by the wooden sword, and finally screamed in pain.
If Xu Guan was grabbed by the other three people, it would be difficult to break free, but Li Qianshan is skill is still shallow after all, Xu Guan's internal strength burst out, his right arm shook, and Li Qianshan was shaken out, followed by a one-handed pinch, and waved backwards, "Qianzi Jue - Shock!"
An invisible ripple appeared in the air, Lin Mu's hands holding the sword felt paralyzed by the violent vibration, and involuntarily let go of the wooden sword, Wu Mian's smashed fist hit the invisible ripple, the offensive was stagnant, and suddenly his arm was sore, and he retreated, and the two men felt that their hands were sore, and they couldn't clench their fists. The two looked at each other, both shocked.
Xu Guan hurriedly used this move, as if most of his strength had been drained, and he gasped twice, he knew in his heart that with the current true qi of less than thirty percent, it was still too reluctant to use the Qiankun trick. He pulled out the wooden sword under Bo Jun's ribs, pulled him up, and ran towards a nearby alley, after entering the alley, the terrain became complicated, with the unique body of the night dragon, tossing and turning, climbing and jumping easy to get out.
"Don't let them run away!" Li Qianshan got up from the ground.
"Chase!" Qiao Song chased after him first. Lin Mu and Wu Mian followed closely behind.
Lin Mu's hand holding the wooden sword was still trembling, Wu Mian's hands kept shaking and patting, subsiding away the soreness, and the two of them felt strange in their hearts, maybe they shouldn't have coveted the reward that Qiao Song promised to themselves to provoke this monster.
"What is the origin of this monster?" As he ran, most of Wu Mian's voice was carried away by the wind.
"It's just a night ray that has slept for hundreds of years and then woke up, but it's just a little stronger. Li Qianshan shouted from the side.
"It's just a brute with brute force, what can it be? Qiao Song finally calmed down the breath in his chest: "Fang Cai is a little despised by him, but don't worry, the three of us join forces, and I'm afraid that we won't be able to take him?"
"I think this nightray is weird, so be careful. Wu Mian shook his hand twice, feeling less sore.
"This beast has some way, and it is by no means a general. Lin Mu's hand clenched the wooden sword again.
"The three of you are just underestimating the enemy for a while, let this monster get out of the air, don't think too much. Li Qianshan stared at Xu Guan and the others not far ahead, and was afraid for a while, but fortunately he ran fast at that time. This monster can escape with the combined efforts of the master and them, it is definitely not something that you can deal with, you must kill him today!
"Don't say so much, anyway, I'm already an enemy of him today, and it's definitely a trouble to keep him for the future. Qiao Song stared at Xu Guan's back with both eyes.
"That's a good thing!" Lin Mu and Wu Mian agreed, the matter has come to this point, and they can only do it without stopping.
Bo Jun's wound under his ribs was bleeding, leaving a string of blood behind him, and the more he ran, the weaker he became, and he gradually couldn't keep up with Xu Guan's footsteps.
Bo Jun glanced back and caught a glimpse of the four people who were getting closer and closer, and said, "Mr. Xu, you go first, I'll stay and stop them for a while." β
"No!" Xu Guan decisively vetoed, seeing that Bo Jun really couldn't keep up with him, he simply carried him on his back, and there was one more person on his back, and his speed slowed down greatly, but it was not completely hopeless, he could see that the alley was only two or three hundred meters away from him, such a distance, it was only a blink of an eye.
Li Qianshan and the four of them also saw the small alley in front of them, and they were even more anxious, Qiao Song turned around and shouted to Lin Mu: "Mr. Lin, borrow a wooden sword." β
Lin Mu directly handed over the wooden sword, Qiao Song drew a few strokes on the sword body in the air, added a secret spell to the wooden sword, and flicked his fingers forward, "Go!"
The wooden sword was like an arrow shot by a strong bow, the hilt of the sword trembled and flew over, Xu Guan's ears moved, heard the wind behind him, shouted to be careful, his body flashed to the left, the wooden sword passed by, this flash, the speed was at least five steps slower, and the four people behind quickly approached.
Xu Guan shrugged his back, carried Bo Jun up, grabbed him with both arms and threw him forward, "Go!" turned around and swung his palm with all his strength, and this palm slashed down towards Li Qianshan and the four of them with a sound of breaking the air! The four of them dodged on both sides, and the powerful strength of this palm hit the ground and scattered in all directions.
Li Qianshan was hit by the agitated force, his feet were unstable, and he fell to the side.
Qiao Song and Wu Mian blocked the scattered residual strength, wrapped around Xu Guan, the three of them fisted to the flesh, and fought peelingly, Lin Mu bypassed the three people who were fighting, picked up the wooden sword that had just flown down, and went to chase Bojun who was thrown out by Xu Guan by the way.
Bo Jun, who was just thrown by Xu Guan, adjusted his body when he was about to land, touched the ground and rolled four or five times, just stood firm and was about to flee into the alley, when he suddenly felt a chill in his back, and he didn't want to return a punch, hitting the wooden sword body that was slashing towards his back, his fist hurt, and he saw the person clearly, a middle-aged man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, holding a wooden sword with a red spell in his hand, staring at himself fiercely.
When Xu Guan and Qiao Song and Wu Mian were fighting, they caught a glimpse of Li Qianshan out of the corner of their eyes, and their hearts were about this person again.
He said in a loud voice: "Last time, you dug the grave, and today you are here to do harm." When did you mess with you?"
"You didn't mess with me. But I provoked you and killed you for a hundred, so that you would not seek revenge on me again in the future. β
"I don't want to pursue the events of that day. You go, and I will definitely not retaliate against you in the future. Xu Guan said what he said from his heart.
Qiao Song didn't think so, he pinched his fingers and added a drop of essence blood to the demon spell in his palm, and the white mangs in his palm were mixed with a few red threads, "Don't be kidding." My apprentice almost killed you, and if I don't kill you all, how can I rest assured?"
"What is the truth of this?" Xu Guan naturally couldn't give birth to such a dark thought, "If you can't kill once, you have to kill a second time?"
Li Qianshan shouted on the side: "Master, don't talk nonsense with him, kill him quickly!" With his skills, he couldn't help, and he couldn't get involved in the battle of the three at all.
Wu Mian launched the rosary on his wrist, lassoed Xu Guan's forearm, and quickly tightened it, Xu Guan immediately tensed his forearm muscles, and ripped off the rosary with his other hand, at this time, the shoulder blade was hit by Wu Mian's fists, his body shook, Qiao Song's demon spell came again, Xu Guan barely moved half a step, and at the same time stretched out his palm and pushed Qiao Song's palm.
Xu Guan warned: "If you don't stop, you won't be able to spare any effort!"
"If you have the ability, don't stay!" Qiao Song attacked again
Bo Jun fought with Lin Mu empty-handed, if you talk about body methods, Bo Jun can usually beat him, but he was injured at this time, and the wooden sword in Lin Mu's hand is really difficult to deal with, completely restraining himself, he is already scarred after only twenty moves,
Seeing that the wooden sword stabbed again, Bo Jun's heart was horizontal, and he grabbed the sword body tightly, the skin and flesh of his palm were scorched and the black smoke was not let go, he scrapped one hand, raised his other hand and grabbed it towards Lin Mu's face, Lin Mu immediately abandoned the sword, took a step back, and freed his hands to hold Bo Jun's outstretched wrist, and with a turn of his two hands, the joints of Bo Jun's entire forearm bones were staggered, and he screamed in pain!
Xu Guan heard Bo Jun's screams and wanted to rush over to save him, but Qiao Song immediately blocked in front of him.
"How can you be so ruthless!" Xu looked at Bo Jun, who was knocked to the ground and stepped on his chest, and said angrily: "Even if you want to kill, it is only for one person, what does it have to do with others? It is too much to do such a vicious attack on innocent people!"
"Innocent people?" Qiao Song sneered, "You are not human, and he is not human. It's just an outlier. β
"It is necessary to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Besides, it's just a beast to us, so why not kill one more? Wu Mian was unceremonious.
"You!" Xu Guan was so angry that he didn't know what to scold for a while: "Shameless! You are still cultivators! Your heart is so vicious, how different is it from a demon?!"
This was already the most ruthless thing Xu Guan could scold, but these people laughed out loud when they heard it in their ears, and Li Qianshan laughed at him: "Whether we are vicious or not, we are human beings after all, and you monsters are also worthy of being compared with people? β
Lin Mu dragged Bo Jun, who had no power to resist, towards this side, leaving a large blood stain on the ground, and deliberately said something provocative: "You see this beast was dragged to the ground by me, what is the difference between it and a pig and a dog?"
"You're enough!" Xu Guan's face was flushed, his eyes were bloodshot, and his fists were clenched.
Qiao Song and the others consciously realized that the victory was in their hands, and the four of them surrounded Xu Guan in the middle as a trapped beast, and Bo Jun was thrown aside and half dead.
Xu Guan stared at Bo Jun who was covered in blood, his eyes were motionless, the hot blood in his body was churning and surging, his dantian true qi was running wildly, and he spit out a few words in a hoarse voice, "Qiankun Jue, solution!"
Lin Mu saw him standing there without moving, raised the wooden sword and stabbed it, Xu Guan raised his hand to block, two fingers clamped the tip of the sword, and the fingers were scorched by the sword body and were not moved, Lin Mu held the hilt of the sword with both hands and couldn't pull it out several times, Qiao Song waved his palm and clapped it, shouting: "Beasts die!" Xu Guan flipped his wrist, two fingers broke the tip of the sword, Lin Mu was pulling the sword back, only to feel a sudden release, shaking and falling to the ground.
Xu Guan threw away the tip of the sword, raised his palm to meet Qiao Song's demon curse, the two palms collided, white smoke rose from the palm of the palm, making a sizzling sound, Xu Guan curled up with five fingers, and firmly held Qiao Song's palm!
"Blood debt and blood repayment!" Xu Guan gritted his teeth, pressed his wrist hard, Qiao Song's wrist was broken crisply, Qiao Song shouted in pain, raised his leg and kicked, Xu Guan's feet were faster, his toes hit his knee joints accurately and powerfully, his hand was pulled to the side, Qiao Song was thrown to the ground and rolled on his knees.
The rosary on Wu Mian's wrist behind him flashed with golden light, and he quickly made a seal on his hand, pushing horizontally towards Xu Guan's back, bursting with strength, attacking from the air, Xu Guan casually hooked his hand backwards, "Kun Zi Jue - Move the Mountain!" A wall of earth suddenly rose on the ground under his feet, blocking Wu Mian's attack, Xu Guan turned around and punched out, penetrating the earth wall and seriously injuring Wu Mian.
Li Qianshan saw that Xu Guan was so violent, he was so frightened that he shouted for help and turned his head and fled, Xu Guan stretched out his right hand and said, "Qianzi Jue - Wind Sucker!" Li Qianshan's back was dragged by an invisible force and flew towards Xu Guan, but with a punch of his hand, Li Qianshan was knocked to the ground and vomited blood.
"Brute, fight with you!!" Lin Mu raised his broken sword again and slashed down at Xu Guan's head!
"We're not brutes!" Xu Guan yelled, struggling to throw a punch!
ββThe sword body was broken inch by inch, Lin Mu fell out, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
Xu Guan had blood on his hands, walked up to Bo Jun, pulled him up, put him on his back, and hobbled towards the alley......
The next day, someone passed by the alley and saw four sentences with handwriting on the wall:
More than 400 years in a dream,
The old man wakes up and falls into Pingchuan.
There are also times when you are young and romantic,
Fresh clothes and angry horses crossed Chang'an.