At night, the moon is bright and the stars are scarce.

Outside Pingling City, a group of soldiers dispersed according to Li Qiu's order, and dozens of people stood around each village, each team with ringing arrows, once they saw the Yin Ghost, they immediately shot the Ringing Arrow, marking the location of the Yin Ghost.

Li Qiu took Guo Hao and some soldiers to stay outside the city in the center of the city, which was suitable for galloping to help the Quartet.

On a high slope, Li Qiu stood at the top of the slope, looking into the distance, always paying attention to the movements in all directions.

Guo Hao stood behind him with a respectful expression.

Guo Hao is the first in the martial arts strength of Pingling City, and only the city lord Xie Ming can suppress him in his official position, but because Xie Ming has no power to restrain the chicken, he is just a weak scholar, so usually Guo Hao can't talk about how respectful Xie Ming is, and sometimes Xie Ming even orders Guo Hao not to move.

But he didn't dare to be so presumptuous about Li Qiu Guo Hao, no matter his strength or official rank, Li Qiu was far above him.

Dozens of soldiers stood neatly behind the two of them, and they were a little surprised to see Guo Hao, who had never been so respectful to people as he is now, but they didn't dare to make any sound from ear to ear, like silent stone statues standing in place.

Li Qiu ordered them not to make any noise.

Although the sound of the arrow itself is very loud, and the sound will appear louder in the silent night, but the area outside Pingling City is vast, and the villages are scattered in all directions, and the sound of the sound of the arrow is difficult to envelop the entire area outside Pingling City.

It's better to say that Li Qiu is not only in the late stage of the visceral cultivation period, his hearing is far beyond that of ordinary people, but also he has practiced Aoki Duel, qi and blood nourish the viscera, and he is more clear than martial artists of the same level, and the sound of arrows at a closer distance is not difficult to hear.

I was afraid that the Yin Ghost would attack the village in the marginal area, and the sound of the arrow would shoot from there, even for Li Qiu, it would be a small sound, so there should be no interference.

In the darkness of the night, only the moonlight brings a glimmer of light.

Next to a silent mountain village, dozens of soldiers lay in ambush in the mountains and forests next to the road at the entrance of the village, looking in the direction of the village entrance from afar.

The middle-aged soldier led by him had a resolute face, a beard like a steel needle on his chin, and his eyes were full of vicissitudes of the world, and he looked at the entrance of the village calmly, frowning slightly.

He felt that it had been some time since the last expedition, and was ready to order his soldiers to go to the village again.

He stared at the entrance of the village with his soldiers, because there was a high probability that the ghosts would enter the village from the entrance and slaughter the villagers.

However, it is not ruled out that the Yin Ghost may enter the village from other directions.

The process of the Yin Ghost slaughtering the villagers was silent, so it was necessary to send soldiers to the village every once in a while, just in case.

The middle-aged soldier was just about to give an order, when a dark shadow suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village.

It's a ghost!

When the soldiers saw the figure at the entrance of the village, there was a commotion.

The middle-aged soldier looked calm, lowered his voice and scolded.

"Calm down! It doesn't have to be a ghost, maybe it's a thief who steals at night. ”

"Observe and observe first, and then make sure that if you make a mistake by releasing the arrow, it will not only alarm the real yin ghosts, but also make the adults run away in vain, and then we will feel better!"

Hearing the words of the middle-aged soldier, the soldiers calmed down and carefully observed the figure that appeared at the entrance of the village.

The dark shadow entered the village and leaped over the courtyard wall into a house......

Jumping one person high, it is almost certain that the shadow is a yin ghost!

After a while, the shadow left that house and leaped into another.

Seeing that another family was killed, a young soldier next to the middle-aged soldier looked anxious and urged.

"Commander, this must be a Yin Ghost, let's fire the arrows!"

"Let the adults sent by the imperial court to kill the Yin Ghost come early, and fewer people will be killed!"

The middle-aged soldier frowned and shook his head firmly.

"No!

"Why?" the young soldier was puzzled.

"At this time, the sound of the arrow will alarm the Yin Ghost and may let him escape. ”

"Wait a little longer. Speaking of this, the middle-aged soldier paused for a moment, and then said, "Wait until this yin ghost has killed enough people and lost its sanity, and then we will fire the arrow!"

The young soldier looked shocked, and said urgently: "But when the Yin Ghost loses his mind, more than half of the villagers in the village are estimated to have been killed, are we here to watch that Yin Ghost slaughter the villagers?!"

The young soldier was emotional, and his voice couldn't help but be a little higher.

"Silence!"

The middle-aged soldier turned his head and glared at him viciously.

"If you can't kill this yin ghost today, there may be ten times more people killed in the future than today, do you know!"

With that, the middle-aged soldier turned his head and ignored him, and continued to observe the yin ghost who was quietly slaughtering the villagers in the village.

The young soldier looked annoyed, opened his mouth, and instinctively wanted to say something, refutating the cold-blooded ruthlessness of the middle-aged soldier, but was pulled by the soldier next to him.

The soldier said in a quiet tone.

"This Yin Ghost came to our Pingling City area and killed the villagers of several villages. ”

"Do you know why the city lord knew that the people outside the city would be attacked by Yin ghosts, but he didn't move the people outside Pingling City into the city to protect them?"

The young soldier was stunned, he had never thought about this problem.

After being reminded by the other party, he remembered this question.

Why didn't the city lord take the people outside the city who were likely to be poisoned by the evil spirits to the city?

"Because the city lord is not sure whether he will retreat or directly attack Pingling City after moving the people outside the city into the city and leaving this yin ghost unkilled. ”

"If it chooses to attack Pingling City, and there are no warriors in Pingling City who can resist it, all the hundreds of thousands of people in the city will be in danger, including the people who stayed outside the city before!"

The soldier replied.

"But......" the young soldier looked stunned.

"No, though, it's a bit ruthless, but it's the most appropriate way to deal with it!" the soldier interrupted the young soldier.

"Just like just now, if the commander does what you say, he may save the people in the village, but he will probably kill more people!"

The young soldier lowered his head and said no more.

"Get ready!" After a while, the middle-aged soldier whispered, his voice louder than ever.

"What preparations?" asked the young soldier instinctively, looking puzzled.

The middle-aged soldier ignored him, stood up and took down the ringing arrow behind his back, put it on the bow to pull the bowstring full, and shot it into the night sky!

Arrows shoot into the night sky, making a sharp and piercing sound, breaking the silence of the long night!

The middle-aged soldier looked solemn, threw the bow in his hand aside, slowly drew the sword at his waist, and said firmly.

"When the arrows are fired, the villagers are woken up and scattered. ”

"The ghosts may hunt down the villagers and leave the village. ”

"All we need to do is drag this yin ghost through the village before the others who hear the arrows rushing here. ”

"We may not be the match for the Yin Ghost, but we can drag it with our lives, and even if we all die, we will drag the Yin Demon in this village. ”

"If you let it escape tonight, not only will the villagers who die tonight die in vain, but it will be very difficult to kill it in the future. ”

"In order not to let another person be mutilated by it, brothers, kill me with me!"

The middle-aged soldier shouted.

With a sword in his hand, he rushed towards the yin ghosts in the village.

"Kill!"

Dozens of soldiers, including young soldiers, raised their spears vigorously, and in a tragic atmosphere of seeing death as home, they followed the middle-aged soldiers to kill the Yin Ghost.

On the high slope, a faint sound fell into Li Qiu's ears.

His ears moved, and he immediately turned his head to look in the direction where the arrow had been fired.

The ghost is in that direction!

Li Qiu's eyes moved slightly, he stepped heavily under his feet, his figure disappeared in place, and he took more than a dozen steps in one step and rushed in that direction.

Guo Hao only felt that his eyes were flowering, the wind suddenly rose, and there was no figure of Li Qiu in front of him, and he turned his head to see that Li Qiu was dozens of steps away.

He didn't hear the sound of the arrows, but he knew that Li Qiu must have heard it.

"Quick! The Yin Ghost is in the direction where Master Li went, let's go!"

Guo Hao shouted loudly, and led the soldiers to quickly chase in the direction where Li Qiu disappeared.

Li Qiu's figure swept across the earth like a gust of wind, bringing up the wind and rolling up smoke and dust.

A moment later, he arrived at the village where the Yin Ghost was.

In the middle of the village, there are more than 100 soldiers fighting against the Yin Ghosts.

It is better to say that it is a fighting than a massacre on the one hand.

The yin ghost covered in blood had nearly a hundred soldiers lying at his feet.

The Yin Ghost, like all the Yin Ghosts, had a thin body, pale skin, dead eyes, a hideous mouth that grinned to the base of his ears, and a body covered with the blood of soldiers and villagers.

Li Qiu's eyes were cold, and he drew his knife out of its sheath, and at the same time, his blood and qi were like a red snake clinging to the slender blade of the Yetan Knife.

He jumped several people tall with a single step, crossed the soldiers surrounding the Yin Ghost, and slashed at the Yin Ghost with a sword.

The delirious Yin Ghost let out a roar at Li Qiu, and also jumped up from the ground, and billowing black gas came out of his hands, like two iron claws, grabbing at him.

In the cold moonlight, the blood-colored sword flashed in the air.

Swish!

The ghost let out a terrible scream, and its body fell from the air to the ground.

A hideous knife wound in front of his chest almost cut his upper body in half, and even the internal organs could be seen directly through the gap between the wounds.

Next to the knife wound was a wound that seemed to be burned by flames, and the flesh rolled and twisted.

The ghost screamed incessantly, was seriously injured, and finally regained a trace of sanity.

It got up from the ground, looked at Li Qiu with fearful eyes, and let out a terrible roar, as if intimidating Li Qiu.

Li Qiu, who landed firmly on the ground, looked at it with an indifferent expression, and just wanted to step on it and attack it again.

Billowing black gas came out of the Yin Ghost's body, like a black wind crashing through the encirclement of the soldiers, and fled into the distance.

The soldiers who were hit by the black ghosts fell to the ground and their flesh was shriveled and shriveled, as if the blood of the whole body had been drained and turned into a dried corpse.

The yin qi that could match the Yin Ghost of the Cultivator Cultivation Period could not resist at all.

If you touch it, you will die, even if it is just a rubbing.

Seeing the Yin Ghost erupt and flee with Yin Qi again, Li Qiu's expression was calm.

He had expected it, and he stepped towards the Yin Ghost as soon as he stepped down.

The strength is comparable to that of the Yin Ghost in the early stage of the Visceral Cultivation Period, and the speed after the Yin Qi burst out is very fast, but it has not yet reached the point where Li Qiu, who has the peak strength of the Visceral Cultivation Period, cannot catch up, and the distance between him and the Yin Ghost is rapidly narrowing.

It's close!

Swish!

Li Qiu slashed out again!

The evil wind hit behind him, and the yin ghost turned to resist, and his two arms were directly cut off by the extremely sharp Yetan knife.

Where the neatly wounded arm fell, the wounded Yin Ghost screamed in misery, and dark red blood gushed out from the severed arm like a spring.

Li Qiu's eyes were indifferent, and he slashed out again.

The ghost's hideous and terrifying head flew sideways, and the headless corpse fell to the ground.

Billowing black gas emerged from the corpses scattered by the ghosts......

The yin ghost that terrified the hundreds of thousands of people in Pingling City, Li Qiu killed it in succession, but it only took three knives.

However, it is also normal, with the strength of Li Qiu who has already stood at the peak of the realm of the visceral cultivation period, it is strange to kill this yin ghost who only has the strength of the early stage of the visceral period and is delirious, and it is strange to use more moves.

Source force: 28

The 10th layer of the Black Tiger Curse, the 10th layer of the Barbarian Elephant Gong, the 9th layer of the Cangshan Qianyuan Gong (Ascension), the 9th layer of the Aoki Duel (Ascension), the 9th layer of the Spirit Snake Gong (Ascension), the Qingshuang Sword Technique Consummation (Derivation and Ascension), the Secret Method: Burning Blood (Deferred and Ascension), ......

Li Qiu summoned out the panel and found that the source power given to him by killing this yin ghost was not particularly much, and it was similar to the source power obtained by killing Cao Shao in the first place.

However, although it is not much, it should be enough for him to raise all the other exercises to the tenth level.

Ascension, the tenth layer of Cangshan Qianyuan Gong!

Ascension, Aoki Decisive 10th Floor!

Ascension, the tenth layer of the Spirit Snake Skill!

As the remaining three exercises were all raised to the tenth layer, Li Qiu's qi and blood in his body skyrocketed, and his strength also increased by several points.

He felt that he should have recovered his combat strength to fight across the border now, and he could fight against the martial artists in the early stage of the blood coagulation stage with the realm of the late stage of the cultivation period.

If the Black Tiger Gate wants to take revenge on him for saving He Lingfeng and Jude from their pursuit, then come on.

In fact, if Heihumen doesn't retaliate against him, he will find him if he can't do it.

Because it was possible to be retaliated against by the Black Tiger Gate, so on the way to Pingling City after leaving the inn, Li Qiu deliberately inquired about some things about the Black Tiger Gate.

One of the things that surprised Li Qiu was that the Black Tiger Gate's town sect exercises were called the Black Tiger Sect.

At the beginning, he felt that the Black Tiger Charm and the Black Tiger Gate both had the word "Black Tiger", and whether there was any connection between them, but after some inquiry, it was really true.

Although I don't know, how did the Black Tiger Sect of the Black Tiger Gate of Jiezhou run to the area of Shangjiang City in Gongzhou, so that Yan Zhenbei could get it.

But this is not important, the important thing is that this matter is great news for Li Qiu.

If he could obtain the complete Black Tiger Demon Sect from the Black Tiger Gate, then the source power that originally needed to be derived from the eleventh and twelfth layers of the Black Tiger Demon Classic would be saved.

That's a lot of money, and it would be nice if you could save it.

And......

Li Qiu remembered that he fought with Chen Jianye, and the fierce knife technique that Chen Jianye used.

Although that sword technique may not be as good as the Gale Strength Extreme Knife, it is far superior to the Qingshuang Sword Technique, and its power is also the top among the superior sword techniques.

If you can get that knife technique, and finally fuse it with the Gale Strength Knife and the Qingshuang Knife to derive a new knife method, I believe it must be very amazing.

At least it is one of the top few knife techniques in the world, and it may not even be without a chance to fight for the name of the world's first knife technique.