54. One pick-up
People often have an illusion when hiking the mountain road, a mountain peak seems to be close in front of them, but when they really step on the road and walk, they find that the mountain road is circling, and the seemingly not far mountain peak is actually far away in the sky.
After drinking their horses on the road, they mounted their horses and galloped all the way, until they reached the foot of the mist-shrouded peak, and it was already dawn the next day. Jiang Xiyi urged the white horse under him and led everyone to the intersection of Shangfeng Road, and at this moment, green grass sprouted between the snowy mountains on the mountain road, full of vitality.
There were no footprints on the snow, and there was no smoke on the peaks, as if there were no people living here.
The horse's hooves stepped on, leaving a series of footprints, Jiang Xiyi led everyone to move forward slowly, and after another journey, everyone stopped their horses, only to see two cliffs in front of them, only a chain bridge was connected before the cliffs, and the two places were only about five zhang apart, and it was difficult to fly across.
But although the bridge is a bridge, it is actually just an iron chain, which just spans the cliffs on both sides, and under the bridge is a deep valley of rocks, and if you fall down, you will die without a place to be buried. For Jiang Xiyi and the people of Nandou and Beidou, it is not difficult to step on the rope, but this horse has to stay, Jiang Xiyi glanced sideways at Tianshu, and asked him if he had a way, Tianshu smiled and shook his head slightly, indicating that there was nothing to be done.
Jiang Xiyi had no choice but to raise his hand and say: "Everyone got off the horse, Shi Qinggong jumped to the other side, the horse was handed over to the seven killings, and everyone followed me up the mountain." โ
After everyone said yes in unison, they turned over and dismounted, and Seven Kills pulled the horses away, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed between the two cliffs. Jiang Xiyi listened attentively, and said softly: "There are people on the other side, there are many people. โ
Tianshu asked, "How does the owner know?" โ
Jiang Xiyi said: "In the wind, there are their voices, footsteps, and breathing, and I can hear that they are not only numerous, but also women. โ
Tiantong smiled behind him and said: "We haven't seen a single person since we went up this mountain, but now it's okay, there is finally a living person, no matter what, at least ask the owner of the village where the person is looking for is." โ
Jiang Xiyi nodded slightly.
Seven Kills just returned, hugged his fists and said, "Owner, the horses have all been parked." โ
Jiang Xiyi said: "In that case, let's go." โ
After that, Jiang Xiyi didn't touch the ground, his shoes didn't bring snow, and the person floated to the opposite cliff.
She was dressed in white and flew in the air, her clothes danced, her sleeves fluttered, like a fallen leaf flying in the wind, and like a little snowflake fluttering in the wind.
After Jiang Xiyi arrived on the other side, the people of Nandou and Beidou also jumped to Jiang Xiyi's side one by one. When the last Tianji also settled down and stood firm, everyone walked towards a narrow road like a stone alley, and walked quickly along the path to the peak, the higher and higher they went, the white fog around everyone became thicker and thicker, and they almost couldn't see the surrounding scene. About an hour or so, they entered a pine forest, and after two more steps, suddenly the figures swayed, and four people suddenly appeared in the woods, blocking in front of everyone.
Jiang Xiyi paused, raised his eyes, and saw that the four of them were all young women, wearing a one-color turquoise cloak, and a black vulture embroidered on their chests, squatting with their heads held high, with a mighty expression, each holding a weapon in their hands, and one in the center shouted: "Who are you?" Why did you come to the Vulture Palace? โ
Jiang Xiyi said: "Vulture Palace? What is that place? โ
The four of them didn't expect Jiang Xiyi to answer like this, the first one stared at her face, hoping to see something from her expression, the other three looked at each other, and the person in the center continued: "Since you don't know about the Vulture Palace, then go down the mountain, don't come up and disturb people." โ
Jiang Xiyi shook his head and said, "I naturally have something to do on the mountain, but now that the matter is not done, I will never go down the mountain, and I will not go down the mountain." โ
The man asked, "What do you have to do?" โ
Jiang Xiyi said: "I'm here to find someone." โ
The man looked her up and down with his eyes and said, "I'm afraid there is no one you are looking for on this ethereal peak." โ
Jiang Xiyi was suspicious in his heart and said, "I haven't said who I'm looking for, how do you know that the person I'm looking for isn't here?" โ
The man snorted coldly and said, "Who are you looking for?" โ
Jiang Xiyi said: "A swordsman named Dugu seeks defeat. โ
The man didn't think about it, and replied directly: "There is no such person here, you can go!" โ
Jiang Xiyi lowered his eyes and thought for a while before saying, "Thank you girls, I'll go back now." โ
After those people nodded, they watched Jiang Xiyi and the others turn around and leave, they waited to see Jiang Xiyi go away before leaving, and when Jiang Xiyi and everyone had walked out of Sanzhang, those people turned around and prepared to re-submerge their figures into the woods.
Jiang Xiyi has been staring at the four people for a while, and now seeing that they have relaxed their vigilance and turned around to leave, their feet swirled, their figures moved, and they walked up like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, they had already reached behind the four people, and their hands were raised and their fingers flicked again and again, and when they landed, the four people could no longer move or speak. Jiang Xiyi said softly: "I'm sorry for the four girls, but if I really can't find the person I said, I will leave quickly and will never disturb others." โ
After Tianshu Yuheng and the others moved the four girls to the woods, the lighter the footsteps of everyone, Jiang Xiyi listened attentively to the movement in the air, tried his best to hide, went around the forest, avoided the people who were secretly guarding, and walked all the way to the peak.
Jiang Xiyi carefully looked around, and saw that there were pine trees everywhere in the clouds, and there seemed to be no human figure, and there was a bluestone paved avenue at the bottom, each bluestone was about eight feet long and three feet wide, neatly and neatly, and the avenue was about two miles long. Jiang Xiyi looked towards the end of the avenue and saw a huge stone castle standing majestically.
After Tianshu patted Jiang Xiyi, seeing her look back, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the stone castle, Jiang Xiyi nodded, his body spread, soared into the air, and swept to the side of the stone castle, and his body was close to the wall.
The people of Nandou and Beidou concocted the same method, and also swept to Jiang Xiyi's side.
There is a stone carved vulture on the left and right sides of the gate of this stone castle, which is more than three feet high, with a sharp beak and huge claws, and the divine horse is extraordinary.
But there was no one around the stone fort, and it was empty.
Jiang Xiyi said softly: "You guys are waiting for me outside, and I'll go and see it first." After that, her body moved, rose from the ground, jumped directly over the high wall of the stone castle and entered, where she landed just in a back garden, just when she was not yet steady, a gust of wind swept in, with the wind was a voice that could not hear men and women, and the vicissitudes of life, the voice said: "Who is this little girl of you, dare to trespass into the Vulture Palace without permission!" โ
Suddenly, a gust of cold wind hit his face, and a powerful palm force struck him, Jiang Xiyi had no time to think at the moment, his feet swirled, and he slid backwards for more than four feet, and his back was already attached to the stone wall, but the palm force chased after him, and the palm wind was pressing Jiang Xiyi's eyebrows. Jiang Xiyi's toes borrowed the force, shot out like a projectile, jumped out, and fell three feet away.
Jiang Xiyi seemed to have avoided this sudden palm, but the palm wind had already swept towards her, and just now there was a violent shock on her body, and the blood in her chest was surging, which was very uncomfortable, and it had not calmed down until now.
Only then did she see who the person who shot it was, it turned out to be a child who seemed to be no more than โกโก years old.
The man laughed loudly and said, "Your light skill is very good, grandma has never seen it!" However, when you actually saw me, Grandma gave you two ways to go, one is to stay in the Vulture Palace, and the other is to die at the hands of Grandma. โ
After that, this person turned around and looked at Jiang Xiyi with both eyes, only to see that although she was no more than โกโก years old, her face was delicate and delicate, with an aura, but she was not a girl's face, her eyes were like electricity, she was bright, her voice was old, her expression was old-fashioned, and there was a domineering majesty in her eyes, which made people have to surrender.
Jiang Xiyi steadied himself and said, "I still have a third way to go." โ
The man: "Oh? Why don't I see that you have a third way to go, tell me what else you can take? โ
Jiang Xiyi said: "The road I came on was also a road. โ
The man laughed and said: "You little girl is really interesting, don't worry, seeing that you are so beautiful, grandma will not really shoot you to death, naturally she will spare your life, and let you accompany me to relieve your boredom in this vulture palace!" But if you want to escape, it depends on how good you are! โ
After that, a cool breeze swept in, and in the blink of an eye, the man had already stuck to Jiang Xiyi's side, stepped down, spread his arms, and his fingers were about to touch her shoulder.
Jiang Xiyi immediately leaned over with his shoulders heavy, shrank back, and slipped away.
The cold wind suddenly rose, and I saw the sword light flashing on Jiang Xiyi's waist, and a white rainbow appeared out of thin air, and the sound of the wind blew in the ears of the two of them.
Jiang Xiyi has already played up his spirit to fight against this person at this moment.
This man is a master, a supreme master.
If she is not careful, she will definitely die at the hands of this person.
In master duels, the victory or defeat is often only between one move, as long as there is a flaw, then no one will let go of this flaw. And when people's martial arts practice reaches a certain stage, the speed of the shot is no longer the key to victory, at that time it depends on who is calmer, more composed, who can find out the opponent's weaknesses, who is the winner.
This is what Jiang Xiyi should do now, she must be patient, she must be calm and composed.
When the man saw Jiang Xiyi take out his sword, his tone was very satisfied: "It's really rare for you to have such a realm of swordsmanship at a young age, you have cultivated all the sword and sword intent, and those old guys in the rivers and lakes who are much older than you are not as good as you!" โ
As soon as the words fell, the man jumped and pounced on Jiang Xiyi, and applause burst out.
Jiang Xiyi's body shook, swept in the air, and after avoiding these palms, he rose from the ground, twisted his waist slightly, turned around and waved the long sword, the sword qi poured out, and Jiang Xiyi swept away.
The man folded his waist to avoid the cold light of Jiang Xiyi's sword, she slapped out with her left palm, and with her right palm, she slapped the power of her left palm towards Jiang Xiyi.
Jiang Xiyi saw that her palm power was straightforward, which was really good, but she was very familiar with it, and she didn't have any spare time to think about it at the moment.
Jiang Xiyi's wrist turned, and the hand holding the hilt of the sword tightened.
Then the cold wind tightened, and it swept over the treetops, over the eaves, and over the man's ears.
Jiang Xiyi's sleeves were flying, hunting and flying, and the light in his eyes was even worse, it was sword light!
The man's heart was shocked, such a vigorous sword qi, she had never seen it, the expression on her face suddenly disappeared, and she was concentrating on the next sword.
The sword qi rushed into the sky, and the mist was heavier, no matter how strong the wind was, it couldn't blow away the mist wrapped around Jiang Xiyi's body.
There seemed to be something howling in the air, it was the call of the wind, and it was also the sound of sword qi intertwined.
The man gritted his teeth, she was not absolutely sure that she could catch such a sword.
Strike first.
The man made a palm in one hand and a fist in the other, and after gathering momentum, they attacked Jiang Xiyi together.
Her fist is extremely powerful, her internal strength is covered by her hands, and the internal strength of her left palm is feminine, silent, and looks soft and weak; The right fist was fierce and furious, and it was extremely irritable.
At this moment, a sword suddenly stabbed out, which caught people off guard!
The sword qi pounced on that person like a flying dragon and a tiger, and there was a faint sound of a dragon roaring and a tiger roaring in the air, it was a sword roar!
The soft sword in Jiang Xiyi's hand is like a white practice, swinging and splitting, making people no longer see the sword body clearly.
At first, the person only felt a strong wind blowing in his face, as sharp as a sword, and in the blink of an eye, a gust of wind swept in, and Sen Han's sword qi suddenly entangled her body.
She gritted her teeth and let out a loud roar, her arms stretched out, wanting to unload this sword qi.
But when the wind doesn't stop, no one can stop it.
Suddenly, the man grabbed a stone bench next to him with his bare hands and smashed it at Jiang Xiyi.
Jiang Xiyi's waist swirled, and after avoiding it, he kicked it back with his feet and kicked the stone bench back.
The man slapped his hands and smashed the stone bench directly, the powder flew away, and she sprinkled the powder in her hand directly to Jiang Xiyi, and the powder was like an arrow in her hand, coming quickly and accurately.
Jiang Xiyi slashed down with a sword on the side of his body, ready to cut off this arrow.
The man suddenly split the wind with the force of his palm, revealing a gap.
The gap is small and will soon be fused again, but it will be enough for her!
The man jumped out, with the power of femininity in one hand, silently, and was about to stick to Jiang Xiyi's shoulder.
Jiang Xiyi turned around violently, at this moment this palm was close in front of him, Jiang Xiyi sank his shoulder, lifted his sword and dismantled her palm, and then returned her palm.
The man took advantage of the momentum to flip back, and after standing firmly, he shouted: "Who is this girl of you, why do you have the Six Yang Palms of the Tianshan Mountains?" โ