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"Brother, I can't hold it anymore. "A boy of about 14 years old was hanging from the ceiling with his hands in the practice room, his face was covered with sweat, even though it was winter.

The 16-year-old boy who was meditating on the ground next to him opened his eyes and glanced at him expressionlessly, then closed his eyes again: "Go on." ”

"Brother Ziyan. Suddenly, a female voice came from outside the door, and a young face poked in from outside the door: "Hehe, I didn't bother you." ”

"Sister Lingling, why are you here? The boy hanging on the ceiling said in surprise.

"Come and see you, Zifei, why don't you hang on the ceiling with your clothes on?" Lingling asked curiously when she saw Zifei, and put the paper wrapped in her hand on the table in the room.

"I practice, and I'll be as good as my brother in the future. Zi Fei said proudly, his father didn't let him practice martial arts like Ziyan before, saying that he was not old yet, and now he can finally practice martial arts like Ziyan, so he was happy for a while.

"Brother Zifei, you have to come on. ”

"Well, Sister Lingling, what are you?" Zifei said curiously when he saw the paper bag on the table.

"It's delicious, it's specially brought for you and Brother Ziyan. Lingling said and looked at Ziyan, who was still in a meditative posture as when she first entered the door, motionless, as if she was still.

"Hehe, you're welcome. Zifei jumped down, walked to the table and picked up a paper bag, it was still hot, and opened it to see that it was a roast chicken: "Wow, I love this the most." ”

"It's good to like it. Lingling smiled and looked at Ziyan again: "Brother Zifei, how long has Brother Ziyan been meditating?"

"Well, it seems...... It should be half an hour. Zifei thought for a while and said.

"Oh......" Lingling picked up the rest of the paper bag: "Then I'll take it to the kitchen and heat it up, Brother Ziyan must have been meditating for a long time." ”

Lingling said, took the paper bag and walked out the door.

"No need. Ziyan opened his eyes slightly and stood up: "Take it." ”

"Ah, Brother Ziyan, are you meditating?"

"No, it doesn't hurt to eat first. Ziyan took the paper bag: "And I'm a little hungry." ”

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In the North Hall of Wuzong, dozens of disciples are practicing martial arts, practicing the shadow art of the sect, which is the martial art learned by the inner disciples of the martial arts, and it is the predecessor of the Wuzong Shadow Brake Sect, but the exercises that have been handed down are not complete, most of them are the exercises recompiled by Ziqiang and several core disciples according to the previous learning.

Now the martial arts sect of this town is not the only branch of the Shadow Brake Sect, when the Shadow Brake Sect failed in the imperial city, after the major elders discussed with Ziqiang, they decided to divide into several forces and go to the east and west, leaving the jade pendant as a token, that is, the jade pendant that Ziqiang carried with him, to make a guarantee for the future convergence of other martial sects, but they will no longer use the name of the Shadow Brake Sect, and only use it when the future convergence is re-established.

However, Ziqiang already has a rough plan in his heart, among the core disciples brought from the Shadow Brake Sect, some of the strong ones can already be masters, so in this southern frontier wilderness, the development of the Martial Sect is smooth, after all, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and there is still residual strength in the downfall.

Ziqiang is also expanding his strength after taking the people and horses to Anza in the town, and the town has developed smoothly, and then Ziqiang has opened up a trade route, because it is a border place, so there are many thieves in the mountains and wilderness, and the beasts are rampant, and the difficulty is very high, but the advantage is that relying on the power of Wuzong, this town has also become the best choice for multinational caravans to settle down, and the prosperity is no less than those large cities.

225 years of dogs and horses.

Ziqiang took a sip of tea and looked at some information and maps.

In recent years, I don't know which master it is, because of the domestication of the legendary beast swallowing python, defeated the first god of war of the Jiaen Empire in the neighboring country of dogs and horses, since then the beast master profession has been mediocre and famous, and it has also triggered a wave of animal taming, Ziqiang, who was originally a traditional martial arts school, is naturally disdainful, but over the years, one after another beast master strong man has stepped onto the stage of the strong, and recently it is rumored that the trace of the dragon god has been found in the Hoshino Valley near the town, which can't help but make Ziqiang's heart move.

In the empire, the beast master is a total of four levels for the beast, one is the beast, this is the ordinary bird beast, strictly speaking, it is not a beast, but the beast master still made a division, the second is the beast, the beast is mostly huge, agile, very aggressive, generally in the deep mountains and old forests as the top of the food chain, the third is the legendary-level beast, the legendary-level beast comes out, it is basically a local disaster, under normal circumstances, this kind of beast will not be domesticated, but there are special cases, and the fourth is the fierce beast and the divine beast, in the mainland prevails such a sentence:

As soon as the fierce beast came out of a natural disaster, the divine beast descended on the blessed side.

And this dragon god is a member of the divine beast, whether it is a divine beast or a fierce beast, there is no possibility of being tamed, but some lucky people or regions may be blessed by divine beasts, it is said that some powerful beast tamers can communicate with divine beasts or fierce beasts/, so as to get protection, which makes Ziqiang have the idea of wanting to learn the way of taming beasts.

However, even if it is usually dangerous to enter the Hoshino Valley, and now it is a rare winter, and he is no longer young, and now he takes people into the Hoshino Valley and encounters the attack of desolate beasts, which is tantamount to looking for death, and he has to take Zi Yanzi to the imperial city as soon as the sky is warm, and he has no energy to care about this.

"Alas. Ziqiang sighed: "It's really more than enough but not enough." ”

"Why did my father start to fix the ink guy again? The door was pushed open, and Zifei stood at the door and quipped.

"Zifei, why did you come here without going to practice, where is Ziyan?" Ziqiang blew on the hot tea and asked.

"Alas, when he said that his brother was angry. Zifei walked up to his father Ziqiang and poured a cup of tea: "I just heard that there was a gang of horse thieves in the town, so my brother went with my brothers, but I was not allowed to go." Zifei said angrily.

"Oh, that's right. Ziqiang took a sip of tea and said unhurriedly: "Zifei, you are still young, and my father knows that you also want to fight and practice swordsmanship like your brother, and I will send you to the academy in the imperial city next year, and you will study hard there, but before that, you have to protect yourself first, and don't do dangerous things, you know?"

"The academy of the Imperial City?" Zi Fei said curiously, because he had been listening to his father tell the story of the Imperial City, Zi Fei also had a yearning for the Imperial City: "Will you go next year?"

"Well, when the time comes, you will also learn the ability to tame beasts, didn't you say that you always want to learn, Dad didn't learn it before, he can't teach you, and when the time comes, you will learn it yourself......"

Bang - suddenly the door was slammed open: "Oh no! Sect Master!" The man stumbled and fell to the ground.

"What's wrong? "Ziqiang saw that he was an inner disciple.

"There is a gang of horse thieves in the town, and there are awakened masters above the king rank in it. ”

"What!" Ziqiang was surprised: "Where is it?!"

"At the East Side Main Street. ”

"You hurry up and gather all the inner disciples to come over, and then go and inform the viscount who is on a mission outside, quick!" Ziqiang commanded.

"What about me? I'm going too. Zifei shouted.

"No! Zifei, go to your mother and protect her, can you do it?!"

"Of course you can!"

"Okay, let's go. Ziqiang immediately ran out of the house and jumped up, jumped on the roof, and the shadow brake martial arts practiced speed and explosiveness, so the body must be light and powerful, I saw Ziqiang like a rabbit, and flew on the roof with a jump.

East side of the main street.

Damn it...... Why are these boys so strong?

A man in a gray cloth shirt with a scarf panted and looked at the corpse of the fallen horse thief and the corpse in white plain clothes beside him, the blood had already stained the snow red, and not far in front of him stood a young man of about 16 years old and 3 men in the prime of life about 30 years old in white plain uniforms, their feet were also dripping with blood, yes, now it was four against one.

Xiao Xiao, the disciple of the Martial Sect who was the leader, covered the wound on his arm and looked at the young man beside him who was much younger than him:

"Ziyan, are you okay?"

Ziyan frowned, his legs trembling uncontrollably, not because he was afraid, but because the all-out fight just now had exhausted his physical strength, and now he could only hold on to the long sword stuck in the ground to keep standing.

He knew that he shouldn't be reckless, but the other party also looked exhausted, and now one more person standing is more of a deterrent, Ziyan thought so, and nodded at his senior brother, indicating that he was okay.

Xiao Xiao looked at the other two junior disciples again, they were almost the same, they were barely holding on, Xiao Xiao gritted his teeth, he didn't expect this horse thief to be so strong. Xiao Xiao himself is one of the core disciples who came here with Ziqiang after the collapse of the Shadow Brake Sect, he is an awakener, and the other two junior disciples are also awakened, although it is more surprising that there will be awakened people among the horse thieves, but he didn't pay attention to it at first, after all, it is three awakenings to one awakening, and there is Ziyan, a junior brother who is not awakened but also very strong, what he didn't expect was that after the conflict, he found that the leader of this horse thief was terrible, at least he had a strong strength above the king rank, and this kind of strong strength, it is estimated that only the senior brother Viscount made a move。

The viscount is the strongest master of the Martial Sect, it was brought by Ziqiang from the original Shadow Brake Sect, the Viscount was an orphan when he was a child, and he was given the surname 'Zi' to enter the Shadow Brake Sect because of his talent, even in the Imperial City, he is also a first-class master, unlike other core members, the strength of the Viscount can be said to stand out from the crowd.

A horse thief, listening to the voice is still a woman, it is actually stronger than herself, Xiao Xiao seems to have a flame burning in her heart, staring at the horse thief through her eyes.

The leader of the horse thieves also noticed Xiao Xiao's eyes, and couldn't help but feel a little stunned in her heart, and wanted to run away, she didn't know the reputation of Wu Zong, and she wouldn't be stupid enough to bring a group of people to challenge Wu Zong, but there was no way to get here.

"Horse thief, suffer death. Xiao Xiao roared angrily, he had already decided to use his death to protect the reputation of the Martial Sect.

Seeing this, the horse thief stepped back slightly, waving his hand and talking, but Ziyan and the others didn't know where the horse thief spoke, and they couldn't understand it at all.

Xiao Xiao didn't stop, dragging the long sword with one hand, and the other hand was shaking there because of unconsciousness, and rushed straight towards the horse thief.

The horse thief was not stupid, but she was too seriously injured and had no strength to run, so she put the saber on her shoulder on the spot, ready to wait for Xiao Xiao to come over and take the head with a horizontal split.

"Don't go over!" Ziyan immediately stopped when he saw this, in fact, it is best to wait for reinforcements in this situation.

But Xiao Xiao has already killed red eyes, the double limit of mental and physical strength made him fall into a state of delirium, all the way to the horse thief, with habit, aiming at the head of the horse thief is a stabbing blow, and the horse thief's scimitar is actually shorter than Xiao Xiao, plus Xiao Xiao is a front stab, the length of the horse thief is not enough, and there is definitely no chance of winning directly and hard, but the horse thief is not an ordinary awakened person.

The awakened person refers to the person whose body is greatly strengthened beyond ordinary people, and the general awakened person is mostly the awakening of the sixth sense, and the awakening of the sixth sense is also different, but generally speaking, it is the super strengthening of the body, so that the perception ability is greatly improved, and some awakened people will obtain special abilities after awakening, such as Ziqiang's family, their ancestors have inherited an awakening ability called shadow, this ability will enable them to hide in the dark, the lower the visibility in the dark, the lighter their body will be, and the physical strength will be greatly improved, this kind of awakening also has a special awakening ability after the person is called a god-given。

Unfortunately, the leader of the horse thieves is a god-giver, and if the god-giver does not show her special abilities, she will be no different from the Awakened, so everyone thinks that she is just an Awakened One.

The leader of the horse thieves watched the blade get closer and closer to her, and her fear shook her heart.

Originally, she didn't want to use the god-given power inherited from that person, but at this moment, she didn't want to die.

The horse thief's pupils suddenly turned red, his body fell backwards, and he kicked Xiao Xiao's stomach, Xiao Xiao couldn't react, his body was kicked, and he rolled to the ground.

The horse thief panted and looked at the remaining three people, and when he found that none of them could move, he took off his face towel and revealed a beautiful face.

She muttered something in her mouth, walked to Xiao Xiao's side, helped him up, and then showed two sharp teeth in her mouth and bit down on Xiao Xiao's neck, Xiao Xiao was very scared, but she was powerless to resist, and the other people could only watch.

The horse thief sucked/allowed Xiao Xiao's blood, his expression became a little enjoyable and closed his eyes.

After a while, Ziqiang arrived alone, on the eaves Ziqiang saw the corpse on the ground and his face became extremely ugly, when he saw a horse thief burying his head in the neck of his disciple Xiao Xiao, he couldn't help but be furious, aimed at the horse and flew down is a knife, but he didn't want the horse thief to feel a strong killing intent, let go of his mouth and looked up to see Ziqiang, kicked the ground, rolled around on the ground, and avoided the knife.

"Horse thief, suffer death!" Ziqiang was another horizontal split, the horse thief saw this and kicked the knife of the corpse next to him with his foot, caught it with his hand, and then turned sideways to block Ziqiang's horizontal slash with the knife surface, but the force was so great that it also shook the horse thief away and fell to the ground.

The horse thief sat on the ground with his brows locked, looked at Zi Qiang, and suddenly said a language that Ziyan and the others could understand: "Bastard, we just came to take refuge, why do you want to kill us?!"

As soon as these words came out, Ziyan and the two senior brothers were a little surprised, and the horse thief had been chattering, but he didn't know where the language was spoken, and Ziyan and the others couldn't understand it at all.

And Ziqiang's side was furious when he heard this, and killed dozens of people in my martial arts sect to take refuge?

I saw that the horse thief's eyes turned from red to blood red, and some tiny red particles were slowly extracted from the blood flowing from the surrounding corpses and floated.

Ziyan's super high vision observed those blood particles, but looking at his father and son, who only cared about attacking, he didn't seem to notice these things at all.

Ziyan wanted to remind his father, but found that his throat had no way to make a sound, so he could only watch, and on the other side, when the horse thief passed by the blood-colored particles extracted from the blood, the blood-colored particles were automatically absorbed into the horse thief's body.

Finally, after the grappling, the horse thief kicked sharply and kicked Ziqiang away.

The horse thief walked up to Ziqiang, pointed his sword at Ziqiang and said, "You guys are really unreasonable"

"Hehe, shameless horse thief, kill if you want to kill, talk so much nonsense. ”

"Horse thieves, we are a dart team! Not horse thieves!!" The man who looked like a horse thief was furious: "We just came to the town to avoid the cold! But we don't want to be surrounded by your people soon after entering the town, we can't understand your words, we can't explain clearly, and your people are drawing swords against us!"

Ziqiang was also stunned after hearing this, but then felt unlikely: "Don't quibble, you are obviously wearing the clothes of a horse thief, and you can obviously speak our language, why can't you understand it?"

"That's the talent that comes with the young master's bloodsucking!!I'm a nobleman of the Morey family!How can I be a horse thief in your mouth?!" The woman who looked like a horse thief said angrily.

"Then why are you wearing a horse thief's clothes?"

"These clothes were put on when a team of men attacked us when we were transporting supplies, and we counter-killed them, because the weather was too cold here and there was nothing to do. The woman who looked like a horse thief said, and then she heard a sound of footsteps, and looked up to see that many disciples of the Martial Sect were standing on the roof with swords, surrounding themselves.

"Sect Master!" A middle-aged man suddenly flew out from among those Martial Sect disciples and landed beside Ziqiang, and the female horse thief retreated when she saw this.

The eldest disciple Viscount looked at Ziqiang who was lying on the ground and was injured, and then saw the female horse thief, and was furious: "Okay, you horse thief, you dare to kill our martial sect, see if I don't take your life!"

"Wait!" Ziqiang stopped, stared at the female horse thief, and said to the disciples, "Go and see how Xiao Xiao is." ”

Several disciples stepped forward to check: "Senior Brother Xiao Xiao is still breathing, but he has fainted. ”

Ziqiang looked at the female horse thief: "You really didn't lie to us?"

The female horse thief said angrily: "Of course, your martial arts sect is also famous in the business world in this area, why did I bring so many people to come all the way to fight with you? It's just because the weather is cold beyond expectations that it will be dangerous to rush again, so I came to the town to rest, and the translator we brought was killed by the previous group of horse thieves, I can't explain to you, you draw your sword again, can I stand and wait for death?"

Ziyan listened to it and frowned, because the person who took the lead in doing it had himself, calm down and think about it, he also knew that the horse bandits nearby, not to mention whether he had the courage to go against Wu Zong, he was afraid that it would be difficult for those who were awakened, even if there were really talented and intelligent people who awakened on their own, it was difficult to reach the height of the woman in front of him, this woman looked very young, this kind of qualification and strength, there were people who wanted it anywhere, and there was no need to be a horse bandit at all.

And Zi Qiang thought about it in his heart and Zi Yan, but he still had to confirm it.

"Then according to your meaning, you can know our language by sucking his blood?" Ziqiang asked, pointing at Xiao Xiao.

"Of course, it's a gift from our family. ”

"How come I've never heard of such a family, what's your name?"

"My name is Morek, and our Morey family is the number one family in our country. Morek said, absorbing the blood particles of the dead around him and converging them in the palm of his hand, forming a blood cell that flowed in a circle, and then the blood cell flowed down the palm of Morek's hand, through the gap between his fingers, along the skin on his arm to the whole body, until it dissipated.

At this time, there is no longer a single wound on Morek's body, and the originally tanned skin has also become white and smooth/moist at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The people around looked at Morek's strange changes, and all the expressions of surprise appeared on their faces.

Suddenly, the eldest disciple viscount shouted: "Sect Master, I know which family she belongs to!"

Ziqiang nodded: "I also remembered." ”

The other disciples were a little baffled.

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, the viscount explained: "When I was still in the Imperial City, I attended a reception with the sect master to welcome foreign envoys, and I am also a man who can control blood like this. ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, although the viscount is nominally a big disciple, but the age is not much different from the sect master, the current martial arts sect is not much different from the sect master Ziqiang, the highest status is the eldest disciple viscount, and Ziqiang's strength is far inferior to the viscount, so everyone treats the viscount as an elder.

"Tsk, it's a pity that I have damaged so many disciples of my Martial Sect......" Ziqiang looked at the disciples around him, his heart hurt again, and he glanced at Morek again, thinking that although he had lost so many people, as a former great sect, he should be reasonable, since it was his own people who made the first move, Yu Li should not be held accountable.

Ziqiang thought like this and sighed: "Forget it, since it was our Martial Sect that made the first move, I won't pursue you for anything." ”

"Huh??Didn't you do it first?" Morek was angry and funny, the other party made the first move, but he said it as if it was his own fault, and was forgiven?

"Isn't that because you are wearing the clothes of a horse thief, which makes people misunderstand?, so the losses of both sides are borne by each other, and we don't pursue you for anything, is there a problem?" said the viscount as he stared coldly at Morek.

Morek was originally very annoyed when she heard this, but when she saw the Viscount's eyes, she felt the pressure inexplicably, and she dared not speak out, and she was afraid that she could only bear the loss herself.

"Okay, forget it. Morek clenched his fists and said hatefully.

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Inside the Martial Arts Mansion