Chapter 13 (I) Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas

In the next three days, Tianming will come to the river outside the city after nightfall as promised, and Wei Zhuang will guide the horizontal sword swordsmanship. After practicing the sword www.biquge.info he returned to Yuexiang Building, he practiced the internal skills of the Xuantian Seal Method in his room, consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan, and running pranayama until dawn. During the day, together with Ling'er, she occasionally helped Wen Renyan with work, dealt with some affairs, and walked around the city when she was free, hoping to meet Gu Qiuyi again, however, she never appeared again.

That night, Tianming was instructed by Wei Zhuang by the river as usual. The rules of the rivers and lakes, passing on art and teaching, others are not allowed to peep, so Chi Lian, Bai Feng and You Long are not present, only Wei Zhuang and Tianming are there at this moment. Although Tianming was practicing swords on the surface, he was actually absent-minded, and he had already wandered into the clouds. Looking at Wei Zhuang again, he couldn't stand it anymore, he interrupted impatiently: "Okay, let's be here today, you don't have to come again tomorrow or two days later," Seeing that Tianming stopped and looked at himself with a stunned face, Wei Zhuang continued, "Your sword practice today is a mess, if you face the enemy in such a state, you will already die in Huangquan, go back and deal with your personal affairs before you come to see me." With that, he left, leaving Tianming alone by the river.

Tianming looked at the trickling water under the night, and was unconsciously stunned. The private matters he remembered were nothing more than two things, one was the life and death of the man in gray, and the whereabouts of Gu Qiuyi. Regarding the man in gray, Tianming was beyond his power, and he had no way to investigate it at all, and he must not disclose it to others because of this matter, so he had to give up for the time being. And Gu Qiuyi may have left Yingchuan County and gone north at this moment, or maybe he really stayed and waited for Ling'er and himself, but how to meet her is another question. Tianming thought as he walked, and as soon as he looked up, the high wall of the city gate came into view.

Tianming was about to walk over, but suddenly he alertly hid behind the big tree beside him, poked his head out and looked at the city gate.

I saw a figure walking out of the city gate quickly, she was carrying a burden on her left shoulder, and she was wearing two delicate short swords on her waist, not Gu Qiuyi, but who was it! Seeing that she was dressed in a costume, it turned out that Gu Qiuyi planned to leave alone without waiting for Tianming and Ling'er.

Tianming wanted to step forward and stop Qiuyi, but he didn't know what to say to persuade her to stay, so he still hid behind the tree and didn't show up immediately. It was precisely because Tianming was not in a hurry to come out that he found out that there were still people following Qiu Yi.

There were about ten people who were following, and although they kept a certain distance, their eyes glanced at Qiuyi who was out of the city from time to time.

Gu Qiuyi obviously also sensed that someone was following, so he quickened his pace. Coming out of the west of the city is a forest, and with the help of night and terrain cover, it can be said that it is a good way to escape. Tianming turned the non-attack into a long sword, and quietly followed the group of people who were following Gu Qiuyi into the forest.

Sure enough, as soon as they entered the forest, Gu Qiuyi immediately disappeared, and when the group saw this, they showed their blades one after another, unfolded their formation and slowly moved forward, and the position between them was the search formation of the net knife array. Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a few steps, there was a sound of fighting not far away, and the group immediately approached over, and when they saw Qiu Yi and a dozen other net killers encountering, they immediately surrounded and formed a twenty-person net knife formation.

Tianming saw that Qiu Yi was about to fall into a heavy encirclement, so he jumped out at the moment and attacked the place where the encirclement had not yet been completely closed with the horizontal sword sword technique taught by Wei Zhuang. As soon as Gu Qiu saw this, he also leaned his sword towards Tianming, so that the two could take care of each other. The twenty people saw that a helper appeared, and the knife formation changed sharply, and they were in a group of five, diagonally inserting Tianming and Qiuyi on all sides. Tianming first learned horizontal swordsmanship, coupled with the first time he joined forces with Gu Qiuyi to face the enemy, and it was quite difficult to let go of the net sword formation composed of so many people, but the killers on all sides would not give the two of them any chance at all, alternating attack and defense, taking turns to attack, sometimes feint, sometimes raiding, and the cooperation was very tacit. At this time, only one of them shouted a secret word, and the attack of the net knife formation changed again, and a group of four people came towards Tianming and Qiuyi from five different directions. This time, each round of attacks from the five groups of killers was aimed at the gap between the two people's defenses. These gaps are the weaknesses of Tianming and Qiuyi's cooperation, both of them are afraid of each other's defense, and they want to prevent and are afraid of accidentally injuring each other, and the result is either not to defend at all, or to be clumsy, and the leader of the net is to see through this, so he issued an order, changed the way of playing, and forced Tianming and Qiuyi to be in danger for a while, one of the two relied on the exquisite swordsmanship, and the other relied on the sharp moves, so that they finally did not lose, but they have fallen into a passive situation, and if they continue like this, they will both die, it is just a matter of time.

However, Tianming and Qiu Yi were calm enough after all, and the shouting command just now also exposed the leader of this gang of killers, and the two immediately realized that if they wanted to turn the situation around, they had to capture the thief and capture the king first.

"I'll take the lead, and you help cover it!" As soon as Gu Qiu said this, he tossed and turned, and the two swords came out together, and he opened the scimitars of the two groups of killers. Tianming followed closely, and changed to the Guigu Longitudinal Sword Sword Technique taught by Gai Nie to take the net leader directly. Seeing this, the other three groups of killers hurriedly swung their knives to block, Tianming concentrated on parrying, and the long sword in his hand drew several sword flowers one after another, trying to contain as many killers as possible. Qiu Yi stepped on the strange step, the fast sword in his hand was like flying, and he used the Gu family's swordsmanship "Feiyan Sweeping Tail", taking advantage of the fact that most of the killers were attracted by Tianming's attack of rushing left and right, and his body suddenly stabbed straight into the left rib of the leader, which was really unexpected. But the leader of the net is not a vegetarian, with a flick of his left sleeve, several hidden weapons flew straight towards Qiu's door, Gu Qiu immediately changed his moves, raised his sword in his right hand to block the hidden weapon, and at the same time twisted his body, and swung the sword down with his left hand, attacking the leader's thigh. However, this change of move also gave the leader of the net time to react, only to see him sideways pick up the scimitar in his hand, and with a "bang" sound, it was against Qiu Yi's left sword. Gu Qiuyi was not reconciled, the tip of the sword in his right hand was raised, and he got up from the other direction and stabbed the right shoulder of the leader of the net, but at this time, she had lost the opportunity, and several other killers beside the leader of the net had come to their senses, and the seven scimitars stopped Qiuyi at the same time, even if she was difficult to bully the leader of the net. Suddenly, I heard Tianming's reminder: "Be careful with Qiuyi!" As he spoke, he stepped on Gu Qiuyi's side with an arrow step, dragged his sword back, and was taking the four scimitars that stabbed Qiu Yi in the back. Tianming struck each other with swords, and flew up and down with non-attacks in his hands, and successively used the "grass warbler flying" in the vertical swordsmanship and the "traversal quartet" in the horizontal swordsmanship, forcing back the raid of the four people at the same time, and breaking up the flanking attacks of the eight killers who followed, two of whom were also stabbed in the arm by Tianming's non-attack, and were injured. "Thank you for breaking the siege!" Qiu Yi couldn't hit it just now, he thought that he would fall into passivity again, and there was nothing he could do, but he didn't expect Tianming to hit back and hurt two people in a row, which made Gu Qiu feel a lot of confidence, Yan Ling's double swords danced more violently, focusing on the weak part where the injured killer was in the Luo Net Knife Formation, and stabbed two more people in the blink of an eye.

Only then did Tianming realize that combining the longitudinal swordsmanship with the horizontal swordsmanship could have such an unexpected miraculous effect, and he didn't feel refreshed. This time it was the turn of the net knife formation to start passive, and the rest of the killers had to take care of the injured killers to prevent the formation from being completely broken by Tianming and Qiuyi, but the more this was the case, the greater the weakness of the weak part was exposed, and the pressure faced was getting bigger and bigger, and soon, a few more people were injured under Tianming and Qiuyi's sword.

The leader of the net just now shouted again, and the rest of the killers reacted when they heard the secret words, only to see that three of them suddenly withdrew their knives and raised their hands, and threw something to the ground together, "boom", smoke and dust rose up, surrounded Tianming and Qiuyi, and suddenly lost their vision. In order to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the gap to sneak attack, Tianming and Qiu Yi did not dare to stop the blade in their hands, and tried to avoid the direction of the other party's body with their memory, and stabbed back and forth at other angles, none of them could see anyone, and it was very dangerous to rashly take such a defensive move, and the possibility of accidental injury was extremely great, but in such a critical situation, the two of them could not be allowed to think so carefully, and all the actions were out of the instinct of self-preservation and survival. Luckily, the swords they stabbed didn't hurt each other, nor did they touch the blade of the snare killer, but this made people even more nervous, if it weren't for the more dangerous attack that the enemy was about to launch next, how could the surroundings be so calm at this moment?

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Chapter 13 (I) The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada

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Chapter 13 (II) The Yellow Sparrow is behind