31.The Assassin and the Palace Master (2)
The next morning, I went out of the inn early in the morning, and happened to meet the strange old and young, only to see the little girl with her hands clasped around her chest, and reluctantly shouted to Yang Yu: "Hey, your cat forgot." β
Yang Yu glanced at her a little strangely, and said lightly: "Forget it, it will naturally follow." β
The finely carved girl's arms were tightly covered, and a handful of black hair struggled to poke out of the gap above, and was immediately pressed down again. She pursed her lips, stared at Yang Yu vigilantly, and said, "Then you can go, see if it will go with you." β
[Ding-Host life-saving QAQ!! γ
The corners of Yang Yu's forehead twitched, "Why are you in her?" β
[I don't know, I slept well in your room last night. γ
Yang Yu had no choice but to step forward and said helplessly: "This little girl, if you hold it, it will naturally not be able to follow me." β
The little girl pursed her lips and finally let go of her hand, and the black cat immediately jumped on Yang Yu's shoulder and pointed her ass at her. The female doll had a hint of embarrassment on her face, turned her head awkwardly, and muttered, "What does a big man with a cat look like?" β
Yang Yu was too lazy to do more, so he walked away, but he didn't expect to turn around after a few steps, and when he saw the female doll, he dropped out behind him, staring at his shoulder with a pair of big round eyes. And the old man followed the female doll like this, smiling, and had no intention of stopping it at all.
Yang Yu: "......"
In this way, I went all the way a little far, until I came to the market, Yang Yu first bought a horse that was not thin or fat, and the girl and the old man also bought two horses in the same way, the girl was not as tall as the horse's back, but she grabbed the reins and jumped lightly into the saddle, holding the reins and sitting steadily, she looked familiar. Yang Yu quietly took this qiΔ in his eyes. I bought a horse and galloped all the way out of town, and the old and the young kept a short distance from each other, which made people feel very sad.
The horse traveled for about three hours, almost ten o'clock in the afternoon, the tip of the nose suddenly came a wisp of blood, dissipated lightly in the air, Yang Yu frowned and strangled the horse, the horse was very irritable with the horse's hooves to land on the ground, carefully discerned for a while, Yang Yu pulled the reins, and walked towards the dense forest upwind.
When the little girl and the old man found Yang Yu along the horseshoe prints, they saw him calmly rummaging for something in the corpses everywhere, picking and choosing, and after seeing more than a dozen corpses, he already had four or five money bags in his hands, and seeing them coming, he no longer rummaged for money, but calmly hung the money bag on his waist, and held a dagger in his hand that was pulled down from which corpse, and blood was dripping to the ground drop by drop.
The female doll swept her eyes to the ground, and found that there were a few familiar faces, which were the people who ate at the other two tables she met in the inn last night, and couldn't help but understand: "It's the people of the Xuannu Sect and the Hundred Flowers Valley, the Xuannu Sect has long been at odds with the Hundred Flowers Valley, and this time they all came to participate in this sword competition to compete for the status of martial arts, and they really couldn't help fighting." After speaking, she sighed faintly again, "Both sides are lost, why botherβ"
Her sigh actually had unspeakable vicissitudes, with that β‘β‘ face, there was an indescribable weirdness, Yang Yu glanced at her, bent down to wipe the blood stains on the dagger on a corpse, and asked casually: "When are you two going to follow?" β
"Naturally, we followed Shumei Villa, we went down the mountain this time for the sword competition, although we didn't receive an invitation, but if we went, Shumei Villa would not stop us," the little girl looked at Yang Yu calmly, her eyes were a little complicated, and her expression was calm, "They don't dare to stop." β
Yang Yu let out an "oh", and then heard the little girl ask faintly: "Have you heard of the Ethereal Palace?" β
Yang Yu paused, brushed her past, and said lightly: "The No. 1 Demon Sect in the rivers and lakes, naturally I have heard of it." β
"Then have you ever heard that the palace master of the Ethereal Palace has been looking for someone in the rivers and lakes since he woke up?"
Yang Yu's heart tingled, he opened his mouth, and found that his throat was dry: "Who is he looking for?" Did you find it? β
Three days later, I arrived at Shumei Villa, Yang Yu settled in the village and town at the foot of the mountain, and then paid attention to inquire about the news of Shumei Villa's recruitment of servants, sure enough, half a month ago, the housekeeper of the villa selected young adults to be accepted into the villa to train as temporary workers, but even so, manpower is still in short supply, Yang Yu came to the reporting office, and the guard's servant only looked at him roughly, and asked him to write down his name and register, and mixed with other rough handymen.
Not long after staying in the villa, Yang Yu heard all kinds of rumors on the rivers and lakes, and the most of them were about the palace master of the Ethereal Palace. I heard that this palace master was young, and when he was eleven years old, he inherited the Ethereal Palace from his master, with deep internal strength and unrivaled martial arts. It's just that it seems that because of improper practice when he was a child, he would fall into a coma all year round, and the longest time was this time, and he slept for seven years.
The people of the Ethereal Palace Gate have strong martial arts, unpredictable personalities, and act according to their preferences regardless of good or bad, and they have been reckless for a long time, offending all the sects up and down the Central Plains martial arts, and they are naturally listed as evil demons and crooked sects. Later, the Central Plains martial arts gathered forces to fight with the Ethereal Palace under the slogan of eradicating the Demon Sect, and the martial arts were both defeated by the righteous and evil ways, and the Ethereal Palace was even more vigorous, and since then it has hidden out of the martial arts and gradually disappeared. For a full twenty years, there was no trace of the ethereal palace gate in the martial arts.
The old palace master was in the sky not long after that one, and the new palace master had a weak temperament and slept all the year round, so Wulin Zhengdao never took the Ethereal Palace as a major trouble in his heart from time to time, but he never thought that this time the palace master of the Ethereal Palace woke up and actually made a move. After 20 years, the people of the Ethereal Palace finally appeared on the rivers and lakes again, and they were not nervous.
ββ¦β¦ So I've heard that this sword competition is not only a competition between juniors, but also a measure of the strength of each sect, if you win the first place in this sword competition, that sect is likely to be elected as the leader, leading the martial arts righteous path to deal with the Demon Sect Ethereal Palace. β
"But this time the Ethereal Palace didn't harm anyone, why do you have to deal with them?"
"Hey, you really don't understand? The Demon Sect is the Demon Sect, and if you don't harm people for a while, it doesn't mean that you won't hurt people all the time, your nature is hard to change, and when you see people in the Demon Sect, everyone in the martial arts righteous path will be punished. β
The two members of the Tsing Yi Sect chatted happily, but Yang Yu couldn't listen to it anymore and turned his head back to his room.
Time flew by, and early the next morning, the sword competition began, and the venue was in a large square in the villa. Yang Yu stood on the periphery of the crowd, with the boiling noise in his ears, and his mood slowly became a little anxious.
This group of martial arts practitioners didn't seem to feel tired at all, and this fight was fought from morning to night, and from night to late at night, and finally the last one ended, the crowd dispersed energetically, and the next morning one by one they waited on the sidelines in good spirits to wait for the opening.
Five days passed like this.
By the sixth day, there were only five people left in the competition, namely the sons of the Xu family and the Mu family, the young owners of Qiongyun Villa and Shumei Villa, and the eldest disciples of the Tsing Yi faction. These five people are all up-and-coming young heroes in the martial arts, and their strength and reputation are on par with each other, which is quite good. Although there are fewer people in the competition, the competition time is longer.
The first game of the day was the match between Xu Ru, the son of the Xu family, and Gu Ting, the young owner of Qiongyun Villa, the two have been playing since the morning, and they saw that it was almost noon, but they had not yet decided a winner, and the two were getting more and more fighting. However, Xu Ru took advantage of his age, he practiced martial arts for two more years than Gu Ting, and his internal strength was naturally deeper than Gu Ting's, and after a long time, Gu Ting gradually fell behind. Seeing that this long-lasting competition was about to end, but he didn't want to change sharply at this time, a servant didn't know who pushed him, and he stumbled and fell in the center of the field, just below the tip of Xu Ru's sword. Xu Ru was startled, unwilling to hurt the innocent, he forcibly took the sword back, was eaten by the internal force, and suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, and at this moment, Gu Ting's sword had already arrived in front of him, and it was too late to take it back, and the tip of the sword did not enter his left chest by an inch.
Xu Ru's eyes widened and he fell.
The scene suddenly became chaotic. The servant trembled under the Xu family's fierce questioning and wanted to find the person who pushed him to shirk his responsibility, but at that time, the scene was already chaotic, how could he see who the person who pushed him was? There are people from families and sects, and he didn't dare to move, and in the end, he hurriedly pointed at it, and Yang Yu was exposed to everyone's eyes.