Chapter 5: Cracks
This group of menacing sand bandits soon surrounded Qi'an. Qi An could clearly see that the tall man named Long Wu was the leader of everyone, and even the fat man was very respectful to him, so he stared at this person, and found that this person had strong bones, full muscles, sharp eyes, long breathing, and explosive power hidden everywhere in his body, and he was definitely a master among the masters.
"You are the leader of this group of sand bandits?" Qi An asked unhurriedly as he stared at Long Wu.
Long Wu didn't reply, turned over and jumped off the horse, walked to Qi An three steps in front of him and stood still, only then said gloomily: "The dying person is not afraid, it is really a newborn calf who is not afraid of the tiger!"
As Long Wu approached, the momentum of his whole body exploded, like a mountain and a prison, which suddenly made Qi An feel an unprecedented strong threat. He frowned slightly, and was about to probe the other party's reality, but saw that Long Wu had already attacked first, and he threw three punches in a row, and the speed was staggering.
Qi An frowned, and hurriedly dodged sideways. Long Wu's three punches were faster than one punch, Qi An relied on his body to avoid two punches in a row, the third punch was really difficult to dodge, and he could only stretch out his palm in a hurry, only to feel a monstrous force surging from the palm of his hand, and he couldn't resist it at all, and instantly shook Qi An's thin body back more than ten steps, and Long Wu only took one step back to firmly stand firm.
"It's not good, it's the Innate Martial Sect?" Qi An had quietly unloaded his strength when his body retreated, although he was not injured, his face was a little unnatural, and he couldn't help but lose his voice.
"Huh, it's already rare to become a martial artist at such a young age, you can take a punch from me without hurting me, and you can force me to take a step back, you really have some strength!" Long Wu was also a little surprised.
As a martial artist, it should be a crushing victory against the martial artist, don't look at the fact that there is only a realm between the martial artist and the martial artist, but the actual combat strength is as different as a world, strength, speed, dexterity, endurance, etc., there is an extremely obvious gap, under normal circumstances, ten martial artists in peak state can't beat a martial artist together, but the young martial artist in front of him like a beggar took the dragon Wuyi punch but didn't do anything, just was only shocked back more than ten steps, which is obviously very abnormal.
"Boy, your arm strength is good! a few more moves!" Long Wu's eyes showed a fierce light, and he deceived himself, and did not give Qi An a chance to breathe, punch after punch, attacking Qi An like a stormy wave. Qi An didn't dare to slack off, and tried his best to parry and dodge, but fortunately, he reacted quickly, his body was sensitive, and he was born with divine power, so he couldn't dodge and could fight a few tricks, plus his moves were mixed and changeable, and he knew the way to unload his strength, although he was suppressed by the other party, but he was also in danger for the time being.
Helplessly, no matter how powerful the martial artist is, it is difficult to match the martial arts, the more Qi An fights, the more frightened he becomes, and he has already retreated, thinking in his heart: "This bandit leader is so powerful, I can't be his opponent at all, I have to find a way to escape quickly!"
So Qi An gradually retreated towards the side of the stone mountain while parrying and dodging, he knew that the other party had horses, and he would definitely not be able to escape on the flat avenue, so he could only find a way to go to the rugged and difficult place.
Originally, those sand bandits surrounded Qi An, but the leader's fists and feet were too powerful, and the strong wind was howling, stirring up the sand and gravel on the ground, and the sand bandits were afraid of being injured by mistake, so they gradually retreated, which made Qi An take advantage of the loophole.
Seeing that he was about to withdraw from the sand bandits' encirclement network, Qi An stuck his toes into the sand and kicked him suddenly, and suddenly flew sand and stones, and the smoke and dust obscured his eyes, making Long Wuyi unable to see the reality clearly, and his hands eased down. Qi An didn't pay any attention to him, turned around and ran, turned around and ran wildly in the direction of the boulder, the surrounding area was flat, only there were a few gravel mountains on the other side, and there was probably hope of escape.
"Want to run?" Long Wu reacted quickly, and without waiting for the smoke to dissipate, he chased in the direction of Qi An's escape. He galloped faster than a galloping horse, and it was obvious that he would soon be able to catch up with Qi An.
Qi An was originally quite confident in his speed, but when he looked back, he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly touched his hand into his pocket, pinched a few copper coins, and threw his luck behind him.
Long Wu's speed was fast, and the copper coin was also fast, almost instantaneously in front of him, and he didn't have time to dodge at all, so he had to stop suddenly, his arms were staggered to block, and there were a few shallow blood marks on his arms.
If these copper coins hit the fat man, it is estimated that they may not be able to break the skin, after all, the fat man's practice is more focused on defense, almost copper skin and iron bones, although Long Wu is more powerful, but he pays more attention to the attack, and his protective ability is average, so he will be cut by the copper coin, but it is only a small injury to the flesh, and it has no impact on the combat power at all, but it makes Long Wu have more precautions in his heart, and he does not dare to chase too quickly, for fear that there will be a hidden weapon sneak attack.
Although Long Wu's pace slowed down slightly, it was still a step faster than Qi An, the distance between the two was getting closer and closer, Qi An hurriedly threw out a few copper coins behind him, but this time Long Wu had taken precautions, and directly slapped the copper coins away, and the speed barely slowed down.
Qi An swept back to the foot of the stone mountain along the same path, his hands formed claws, and he quickly climbed to the top. Long Wu followed closely behind him, didn't use his hands at all, and directly connected the points on the mountain wall with his toes, and stepped onto the stone mountain, almost reaching the top of the mountain at the same time as Qi An.
"So fast!" Qi An was surprised and sighed, and before the soles of Long Wu's feet touched the ground, he spilled out another handful of copper coins, and at the same time swept towards Long Wu's plate with one leg.
Long Wu's foothold was unstable, so he could only temporarily avoid the edge, took two steps back to the side, and waved his palms again and again, knocking all the copper coins that came into the air.
Qi An didn't continue to attack, but turned around and ran, and as soon as he took a few steps, he felt a strong wind behind him, and hurriedly dodged to the side, and Long Wu took this opportunity to go around in front of him to block the way.
"Stinky boy, look where you're going!" Long Wu didn't panic anymore, just stared at Qi An and sneered, like a cat scratching a mouse.
Qi Anxin screamed badly, quietly looked at the surrounding environment, and suddenly saw a crack on the cliff next to him, about five or six feet wide, no more than half a foot high, obliquely downward, the inside was dark and bottomless, there was a wind penetrating through, it seemed to connect somewhere, and he suddenly had an idea in his heart.
Long Wu had no fear, originally holding the cat to play with the mouse, but when he saw Qi An's eyes rolling around, he couldn't help but think in his heart: "This kid is quite slippery, it's better to take it early, so as not to cause more trouble!"
Long Wu advanced his punches, making moves to press, Qi An dodged left and right, occasionally parryed, and retreated towards the cliff with cracks, intentionally or unintentionally. Although Long Wu's combat power is much stronger than Qi An, if he wants to take down Qi An, it still takes a lot of effort.
The two fought very quickly, and it was only a few breaths, Qi An retreated to the side of the crack, and after just a few hard moves, he was shocked by the strength of the opponent's fist, and the situation became more and more critical. At this moment, Long Wu saw that there was no way to retreat behind Qi An, so he made a trick, and a pair of hands conjured up thousands of fist shadows, enveloping Xu Fangyuan, who was centered on Qi An, no matter how he went up and down, left and right, he couldn't completely avoid it, and there was a mountain cliff and stone wall behind him, and there was no other way than hard connection.
"This trick is amazing!But the master won't play with you!" Qi Anxin secretly praised, but without the slightest panic and fear, he rolled backwards, and his already thin body used the method of shrinking bones, and just rolled into the crack in the gap, and Long Wu's killing move suddenly hit the mountain wall, causing countless gravel to collapse and fall off.
Qi An took advantage of Long Wu's failure to react, used his hands and feet together, and quickly crawled deep into the gap, and sure enough, he got into a narrow stone cave.
Long Wu also wanted to follow, but he was tall and strong, more than twice as big as Qi 'an, where could he drill into a gap that was only two palms high? In a hurry, he bombarded the mountain rock at the edge of the gap with an iron fist, and the boom sounded, widening the half-foot-high gap more than doubled, barely squeezing in, and then bombarding continuously. But after all, the space is too small, pinned arms and legs, can't be used at all, ten percent of the strength can only be used at most two or three percent, often several punches to open up a little bit of space to move forward.
Qi An heard a banging sound behind him, and he didn't need to look back to know that Long Wu was opening a way with rubble, for fear that he would really catch up, so he didn't dare to slack off, and crawled into the depths of the narrow stone cave with all his might. However, Qi An is not worried, because it will not be long before these abrasions and scratches will return to their original state, and there will never be any scars, but he has an innate ability to heal himself with extreme perversion.
The stone cave in the depths of the crack twisted and turned, and he didn't know where it led, but Qi An could clearly feel the wind flowing, proving that it was not a dead hole.
Qi An didn't care how Long Wu tossed in the back, he just moved forward. This stone cave is wider on the left and right, tight up and down, can only crawl forward, the deeper it is, the darker it is, and then it is directly pitch black, reaching out and not seeing the five fingers, only crawling by touch.
The further the stone cave went, the more rugged it became, and many places were too narrow for even the head to squeeze into, so Qi An could only use his strength to open up the passage with his palm, and then continue to drill ahead. Fortunately, there is always a passage ahead, not a dead place, and Qi An has gradually become accustomed to this gecko crawling state, and his travel speed has increased a little. Later, Qi An's eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and he could vaguely see some of the situation in front of him, and he could roughly judge that the direction of the crack in this stone cave was inclined downward.
Qi An crawled all the way, at least a distance of hundreds of zhang, and he couldn't hear the sound of Long Wu smashing the hole, and his heart also settled down.
He estimated that he had entered the underground, after all, the stone mountain he entered was less than ten zhang high from the ground, and the general direction of this stone cave gap was to gradually descend obliquely, if it did not fold upward, I am afraid it would be difficult to return to the surface.
Fortunately, Qi An can still vaguely feel the air flow, proving that the road ahead is open. Originally, he was still wondering if he should turn back and wait until Long Wu gave up and left, and then escaped from the same way, but at this time, due to his youthful temperament and curiosity, he had the idea of exploring and hunting for curiosities, even if there was no threat from Long Wu in the rear, he had to find out.