Chapter 22 Desolate Ancient Town Gather at the Same Door
Yuxu Mountain Liu Maoran and his entourage have stayed in Jinyun City for a day and a night, and no one else has been found except for Shao Heng later.
After Shao Heng entered the city, although he did not screen one house at a time, he did not sense the presence of others nearby.
The Sword Domain was bent on testing Shao Heng, while Long Yinqing was concentrating on the swordsmanship dispute between the two on the long street, and he didn't even notice that someone was quietly lurking nearby!
When Shao Heng was concentrating on preparing to counterattack the Sword Domain, he used the material characteristics of the Heavenly Machine Sword to attract the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
The sudden thunderbolt in the clear sky shocked the hearts of everyone present, and it was only then that Shao Heng, who was tightly combined with the Heavenly Machine Sword in his divine consciousness and qi, realized that something was wrong.
And the Sword Domain sensed Shao Heng's murderous intent, and found that there were people lurking nearby, and immediately shot out in anger.
Those black-clothed and masked people were caught off guard by Shao Heng and the Sword Domain, revealing their whereabouts, and there were still several people who moved extremely quickly under the rout, and three black-clothed people fled towards the outside of the city at the first time.
Shao Heng and Sword Domain shot out like arrows from the string and chased after them closely, while Long Yinqing took a step slower, and said quickly to Liu Maoran and the others with different faces behind him: "You take down those seriously injured thieves and form a sword formation to wait here!"
After explaining, Long Yinqing took out the long sword behind his back and turned into a streamer and disappeared, leaving a word before leaving: "See, this is called a sneaky ......"
By the time Liu Maoran and the others reacted, the dust had fallen on the long street, and there was no trace of them.
When Shao Heng and Jianyu chased to the gate of the city, they saw the enemy scatter and flee in three directions.
Hearing the rumors, Shao Heng noticed that Long Yinqing of the Jade Void Mountain was also coming with a sword, so he paused slightly and said, "Chase separately!" After speaking, the Tianji Sword groaned and chased the man in black who fled to the north.
The Sword Domain stopped, snorted coldly, and his figure shook slightly, disappearing at the gate of the city.
The next moment, he had appeared in the middle of the mountains and forests, blocking the path of a man in black.
"You'd better be honest, or I'll make it difficult for you to even want to die!" Sword Domain's words did not carry a trace of emotion, and the silver fairy sword in his hand was flowing with brilliant brilliance.
The other party is not his own junior brother, and for those who disturb his competition, the Sword Domain has always been unforgiving.
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The sword was like a lightning speed, and Shao Heng secretly calculated in his heart while chasing the man in black: "This person seems to be panicked after fleeing from Jinyun City, but along the way, although I didn't use all my mana to resist the sword, the other party actually looked unhurried and had extra strength. Could it be that I just picked a big fish by random choice?"
Looking at the black shadow in front of him, a trace of coldness flashed in Shao Hengfeng's eyes: "The matter of Jinyun City must be related to Yunlai Pavilion. And these people lurk here, with ghosts in their hearts, and they must have a lot to do with the people behind Yunlai Pavilion. ”
If he wants to catch up with the other party, he will only need to spend more mana.
But Shao Heng had other plans in his heart at this time, so he simply only surrounded the enemy from afar, and did not plan to do it immediately.
Chasing and chasing, I have unconsciously run thousands of miles away.
The enemy doesn't seem to be fleeing at random, as if no one is following them, just heading in a certain direction.
The shadows of the trees were swaying, the branches and leaves were messy, and when there were fewer and fewer branches blocking Shao Heng's vision, he felt that the neighborhood was becoming more and more desolate.
As far as the eye can see, it is all flat and yellow sand.
When the birds in the air looked down, they could only see that there were two small black dots moving extremely fast on the vast land. "Is there such a place in the territory of Dachu?" Shao Heng's heart moved, and he didn't know why.
He surveyed the terrain with his peripheral vision, and suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a town in the distance, and the enemy was heading straight in that direction.
"Oops!" Shao Heng didn't want the monk's fight to involve ordinary people, so he immediately sped up, and in an instant, he narrowed the distance between him and the black cloth.
However, to Shao Heng's surprise, the other party also suddenly accelerated, always keeping a certain distance from him.
Shao Heng saw that the outline of the town in front of him was getting clearer and clearer, so he immediately stopped waiting, let out a long roar, and used the technique of splitting light, the Heavenly Machine Sword split into two, and flashed in the air to intercept and kill the man in black.
The two sword lights circled and strangled the oncoming black-clothed man at the same time, and the enemy was obviously taken aback, and his body turned hard in the air, grazing between the gaps between the two sword lights like a snake.
"Whew!"
Shao Heng heard the sound of the sword entering **, and immediately drove the flying sword to cut down again, but this time the other party was prepared and dodged in time.
In this confrontation, the two had reached the edge of town.
The man in black suffered some flesh wounds, but he still moved quickly.
Shao Heng was clearly in hot pursuit, but he never stopped wanting to do it, but fell directly into the city, and quickly disappeared with the cover of the house.
Shao Heng didn't panic.
The other party has his own method of concealment, and he can't cover the entire town with his divine sense.
But the Heavenly Machine Sword had already drunk blood, and a strange snake like Xiao Jin had its own magical powers, and it could sense the approximate location of the man in black.
With the message from Xiao Jin in his heart, Shao Heng learned that the man in black did not flee far away, but lurked in this town.
"Why?" Shao Heng was a little puzzled.
What made him even more surprised and relieved was that the town had been deserted for a long time, as desolate as it had been seen along the way.
Not only are there no people, but the houses are in ruins, and some of them are even half covered by wind and sand.
Only some lizards and rats had their small eyes open, watching warily at the uninvited guests who had suddenly arrived today.
Suddenly, the lizards and rats in the vicinity were frightened and quickly fled and scattered.
Shao Heng's sleeve robe moved, and a small golden snake snaked out, the snake letter vomited slightly, as if searching for something, and nodded at Shao Heng's little head, swimming straight towards the town.
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In Jinyun City, Sword Domain's face was pale, his eyes were burning with anger, and his body was full of murderous aura, making Liu Maoran almost unable to stand.
Liu Maoran was like this, and the rest of the disciples were even more shaky, and they didn't even dare to get angry.
"Division...... Teacher...... Junior...... The disciple is incompetent and does not ...... I couldn't keep an eye on the prisoner......"
Sword Domain's gaze moved away from the few corpses on the ground, trying his best to suppress his anger, but he didn't make a sound.
Liu Maoran asked tremblingly: "I don't know if Uncle Shi can ...... There can be ...... Catch the enemy?"
Sword Domain's expression was even colder, and he glanced up at Liu Maoran, his eyes were frighteningly cold.
He caught up with a man in black, and with his cultivation, he was naturally not afraid of the other party, but the Sword Domain also wanted to catch the live mouth and interrogate him, so it took a little effort.
Who knows, he didn't let the man in black bite through the poisonous sac hidden between his teeth and kill himself, but he couldn't ask anything after several tortures.
Impatient, Sword Domain directly cast the Soul Searching Method on that person.
As a result, before he could get any information, the head of the man in black exploded under his palm, and the blood splattered all over him, and he died no more. I thought that there were still two or three living mouths left in the city at that time, but when I came back, I saw Liu Maoran and others looking at each other, and they couldn't even look at the seriously injured people, so they committed suicide.
However, the Sword Domain itself was also put on a role, even if he was angry in his heart, he couldn't say it to these pale-faced teachers and nephews, and he was only sulky.
Liu Maoran also opened his mouth to inquire, which made him even more angry.
At this moment, Long Yinqing's somewhat unsteady footsteps came from behind him, and when Jian Yu looked back, he saw that his junior brother was covered in blood, and his face was pale, so he knew that it was not good.
"Are you injured?" Sword Domain asked with a frown.
"It only cost a little bit of true qi, not my blood. Long Yinqing also saw the corpse on the ground after approaching, and immediately stomped his feet and scolded: "Damn! I was actually planted today!
Hearing his tone, Sword Domain knew that the situation was not much different from his own, so he simply stopped asking.
"What about the kid?" Long Yinqing looked around, only to see Liu Maoran and others, but no trace of Shao Heng.
"I don't know. Jian Yu thought that Fang Cai had intended to test the other party's swordsmanship, but he didn't expect Shao Heng to surprise him again and again, and the anger in his heart dissipated a little.
"Maybe I took the opportunity to run away...... Wen Hai's eyes flashed and he muttered.
Sword Domain, Long Yinqing's ears and eyes are so smart, how could they not hear Wen Hai's whisper.
The two senior brothers glanced at each other, and knew what the other party was thinking: "This son is not famous at this time, but I am afraid that the time when he is famous will not be far away." ”
"The opening of the Lingji Cave is imminent, and the day of goodbye will not be too long. When the time comes, senior brother, don't be overtaken by juniors!" Long Yinqing laughed in a low voice, but in exchange for a fierce slap in the sword domain.
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On the other side, Shao Heng used Xiao Jin to continue to follow the traces of the man in black, and almost the entire town was trampled through.
The grass and trees around this town are empty, and on the way here, Shao Heng did not see other villages, as if he was located here alone, and had no connection with the outside world.
Judging from the degree of weathering of the houses, the town has been abandoned for at least ten years, and there is not even a trace of caravans passing by.
After learning about the situation here, Shao Heng concentrated on tracking the enemy's whereabouts.
Strange to say, the enemy somehow only circled the town, but never left.
"Could it be that there is something strange here?" Shao Heng thought, "Otherwise, since I know that I can't get rid of me, and I don't want to fight head-on, I just stay here." For what, exactly?"
Xiao Jin's body became several times larger, no longer as thin as a little finger, and swam quickly in front of him.
Suddenly, there was a shout, a shout, and the sound of weapons colliding in the distance!
Shao Heng's face changed, and he jumped onto the roof, chasing straight towards the source of the sound.
From a distance, I saw three monks besieging the black-clothed man who Shao Heng had been chasing for a long time.
The sword shone brightly, chilling, scorching, and terrifying howls that can only be made when wielding something extremely heavy.
Shao Heng's right palm flipped over, and the Heavenly Machine Sword shot out, thrusting upside down from the air, and in an instant, four sword shadows were transformed, surrounding the man in black like four fences!
"It's you?!"
"Brother Shao!"
"Why are you here?"
Three different voices rang out in surprise at the same time.
Shao Heng looked at it and saw that they were all acquaintances.
The three people who appeared in this barren town and besieged the man in black were actually Nangong Beidou, Ning Qingyun, and Shangguan Chengtai!