Chapter 31 Entering Tongguan
Misty in smoke and rain, Li Xuanxin and Shen Wan stood on a prominent cliff, looking at the sky-like Tongguan City Gate not far away, silent.
Tongguan enjoys the praise of the literati and writers of the past dynasties, and the cliff under their feet is the most riotous place among them. If it weren't for the rain to lock the sky, there would always be some young talents who think they are romantic here all year round.
Naturally, here you will also have a panoramic view of Tongguan!
Li Xuanxin didn't feel the wind and rain at the moment, he only felt that the wind and rain were getting stronger and stronger, his clothes were getting wetter and wetter, and his heart was getting colder and colder!
He looked sideways several times, his eyes were complicated, and he seemed to be able to cross Tongguan to see the world-famous Luodu-like Shen Wan, and he wanted to speak again.
"Bo Yi should be fine, calculate the time, he should be about to leave Tongguan?"
Li Xuanxin put his hands behind his back and whispered softly, like an inquiry, and like talking to himself. The mountain peaks were blowing, and he tried his best to straighten his body, but the clear lines of the water chestnuts on his black face made him unable to see the suffocation of the wet green shirt in the mist and rain.
Shen Wan turned her head to look at him, there seemed to be a complicated color in her eyes, she was silent for a while, and said: "Actually, you also know that with the things in his hands, as long as he bows his head and submits to softness, no one in this big man will dare to kill him, not even King Li...... At least not yet. ”
"He's a stubborn man, he's an extreme man, and likewise, he's a capable man, but it's all based on the premise that he's an unfortunate man. In this life, I don't think he will bow his head to King Li......"
"Actually, you still have a question that I haven't answered. Li Xuanxin wiped the raindrops from his face again and interrupted Shen Wan's words.
The wind and rain quieted down, Shen Wan's voice stopped abruptly, she turned her head to look into the distance again, and her body even trembled slightly. After a while, Shen Wan said calmly: "Yes, my sword can't be unsheathed in front of King Li." ”
Shen Wan said very calmly, and Li Xuanxin seemed to listen casually, but there was a hint of indescribable feeling in the frozen atmosphere, which made Li Xuanxin feel a little depressed.
"So in the future, at least you won't have to fight Boyi to the death?"
There will eventually be an end to silence, maybe I haven't experienced it myself, I never know what it's like to be unable to pull out a sword in front of others, or maybe it's for some other reason, Li Xuanxin said again.
"As long as we go to that place in Luodu, we don't have a choice. You may or may not have it, so you can't help yourself with the thing of life and death. Shen Wan's cold words came again.
"People are in the rivers and lakes, how can anyone be more involuntary in Luodu!"
Li Xuanxin looked at Tongguan again, only to feel like the gate of a cold prison, as if once it passed, it would be a catastrophe. However, I still have to fight for my life to feel such a catastrophe!
Smiling self-deprecatingly, Li Xuanxin wanted to say something like 'you don't actually have to go in', but first, he seemed to be hypocritical, and secondly, he could expect Shen Wan's answer, so he shook his head with a wry smile again.
"Actually, I have another question I want to ask you, at that time in the belly of the mountain, that purple sky thunder ......"
Before Li Xuanxin's words were finished, she was interrupted by Shen Wan, and she said in a very fast tone as always: "I saved you, and I was injured because of this, and I will heal my wounds on the top of the mountain......"
For some reason, Li Xuanxin felt that Shen Wan's answer was a little panicked, and what he actually wanted to ask was the purple heavenly thunder in his sea of qi that was like a swimming fish.
"If you successfully enter Luodu this time, there will always be a chance to ask again!"
Looking at Shen Wan's obviously preoccupied look, Li Xuanxin still didn't speak again after all.
I don't know how long later, the two people who were silent in the rain jumped up at the same time and swept down the mountain.
Near Tongguan, the villages on both sides of the Shu Road are relatively scarce, and at this moment it is pouring rain, and even pedestrians are few.
The middle gate of the narrow city gate of Tongguan was wide open, and there was not a single soldier stationed on either side, and even on the city wall, there was nothing except the banner that was still waving in the wind and rain.
And this is completely in Li Xuanxin's expectation, according to the military law of the Han Dynasty, except for the prince who is allowed to have a certain amount of private army, the rest is that the Privy Council and Dali Temple do not have the right to private soldiers. Even the guards of a pass and the officials of the frontier only have the right to lead the army, and they have to be transferred every few years.
Except for the few forbidden armies directly under the Son of Heaven, there has never been a general who has been able to control an army for more than ten years.
Therefore, even if Fang Shouxingui is the sixth privy envoy of the Privy Council, there is no possibility that the Tongguan garrison will be used to round up Li Xuanxin. However, if it is only a temporary transfer, it is within the purview of the Privy Council.
Besieging and killing personal vendetta in front of the officers and men of the whole army always has a bad impact!
The wind and rain blocked the line of sight, and the Tongguan with the middle gate wide open was like a beast with a huge mouth open, Li Xuanxin and Shen Wan did not pause, like two giant dragons under the rain curtain, raising two white waves of water and heading straight for Na Sen Sen's sharp teeth.
Shen Wan was in front and Li Xuanxin was behind, just like when she was in Jiannanguan that day, the rain in the sky gathered one after another on Shen Wan's way to run.
Bang Dang!
At the moment when the two of them walked into Tongguan, the city gate behind them slammed together, and the two did not look back, as if they had no external objects, they ran straight towards the other city gate at the end of their sight.
The falling footsteps splashed transparent water splashes in the rain, and the water splashed up and down, splashing and ticking. A big man suddenly appeared on the empty street.
The big man had no hair on his neck, but he had a thick beard, and his tiger eyes were round, like King Kong's angry eyes, and he stood in front of him with his hands folded, dressed as a monk and walker.
His palms were extremely wide, two the size of ordinary people, and a string of gray-white skull prayer beads hung diagonally on top of his folded hands.
Looking at Shen Wan and Li Xuanxin, who were coming quickly, the hairless man's eyes were slightly closed, and his hands suddenly bloomed with countless gray-white millilights, and the gray-white millimeters of light passed through the skull rosary beads in his hands, and the empty eyes of the rosary seemed to light up with a little faint green light.
The faint green light flickered, and there were bursts of ghosts crying wolf-like howls all around, and the howling sound seemed to be able to attract the killing intent hidden in people's hearts, Li Xuanxin only felt hot all over his body, as if there was a voice in his mind that kept pouting him, making him draw his knife out of the sheath and kill him happily.
At this moment, the purple swimming fish in Li Xuanxin's sea of qi flipped over his slightly bloated body again, and purple lightning lit up in the deepest part of Li Xuanxin's pupils, bringing Li Xuanxin's consciousness back to consciousness again.
At the same time, the hairless man threw up the skull rosary in his hand, and the rosary turned in the air, turning into the size of a grinding plate, bringing up a gray-white aura, and spun to the top of Shen Wan's head in a roar, as if it was about to fall in the next moment, killing Shen Wan.
Shen Wan still didn't make any moves, even when Li Xuanxin was affected by the roar at the beginning, she didn't have any abnormality, it seemed that at this moment, no foreign affairs and foreign objects could affect her in the slightest.
Shen Wan didn't stop, and Li Xuanxin didn't stop, and neither of them had the slightest sign of paying attention to the huge skull rosary above their heads.
Seeing the two of them behaving like this, the hairless man snorted coldly, and without any movement, the skeleton rosary hovering in the air became larger again, and the light was even greater!
Just when the rosary was about to be pressed, Shen Wan looked down at the sheathed long sword in her hand, her right hand moved slightly, the water-stopping sword was two inches out of the sheath, the quaint sword body suddenly brightened in the rain, and then returned to its original state again, a crystal clear water line, like a needle and a thread, came from the gap in the rain to the eyebrows of the hairless man, and in the next moment, a blood flower bloomed in the eyebrows of the hairless man.
The light emitted by the skull rosary in the sky suddenly disappeared, and the gray-white skeleton seemed to have lost all its vitality, and after a few shakes in the air, it fell to the ground, and was urged by the dense wind and rain, and turned into a little dry fragment.
Solving a powerful second realm cultivator with a gesture, Shen Wan's face did not have the slightest hint of relief, but instead tightly furrowed her eyebrows, which were as faint as a distant mountain.
At this moment, the other party is still so secretive, which makes her feel a little uneasy, unknown, and always frightening.
But it was this kind of shrinking behavior that also made her know that what she was most worried about before would not happen!
If there is a cultivator of the third realm, there is no need to fight like this, just take whatever you want.
More and more rain wrapped around the water-stopping sword, and gradually formed a sea eye again, Shen Wan's face became more and more serious, and her right hand kept rubbing against the hilt.
The only sound of the rain falling on the street was once again the sound of footsteps splashing on the ground, and it seemed that after a round of resistance from the hairless man, the other party had died down and had no desire to continue.
Li Xuanxin flew quickly, his hands clasped on both sides of his belt, and his body was lying low so that he could draw the short knife behind his back at any time.
Click!
A crisp voice came, and Li Xuanxin's footsteps stepped on the skeleton fragments broken by the hairless man, and suddenly a creepy feeling hit, and cold sweat appeared all over his body in an instant.
Li Xuanxin subconsciously threw himself forward, but the skeleton fragments under his feet suddenly burst out with several gray rays of light, like ropes, tightly binding his right foot in place.
At the same time, his left foot took a step back, and the short knife behind his back had already appeared in his hand, and the short knife flashing with a crackling arc slashed angrily towards a place of 'disharmony' in his perception.
Khooth!
The short knife seemed to have slashed at something extremely hard, and Li Xuanxin's right hand holding the knife was suddenly swung away, and his entire body was violently shaken by the powerful force.
An extremely subtle voice came, and a pitch-black sword tip appeared from the void at the back of Li Xuanxin's heart, and it was about to penetrate Li Xuanxin's heart in the next moment.