Chapter Twenty-Four: Embark on the Homecoming

"Heh, Ouyang He, you better go with the envoy obediently, otherwise if you leave a few scars on your body unguardedly, my master will blame me." Xun Xi said contemptuously to Ouyang He.

"Hmph, the little woman doesn't bother Your Excellency, let's make a move!" Seeing that Ouyang He was so unyielding, Xun Xi shook her head helplessly, and then she picked up the Emei thorns in her hands and fought fiercely with Ouyang He, who was still injured. Even if a healthy Ouyang He is difficult to match Zhuoxi in the competition of skills, not to mention that the internal strength of the whole body has not yet recovered, in just a few rounds, Zhuoxi grabbed several loopholes in Ouyang He's defense and knocked her to the ground, and the blood gushing out of her body after being injured also slowly flowed down from her mouth.

Xun Xi proudly walked to Ouyang He's side and stretched out a hand to grab her by the neck and lifted her up against the wall of a house next to her, and then continued to say in a flirtatious tone: "Isn't this obedient, come with me obediently!" ”

"Xiaohe, don't!" Ling Rui hurriedly subconsciously reached out and touched the Qilin Knife inside the package, and suddenly a surging warm current continued to pour into his body, and the pain in his whole body quickly disappeared from his body. At the same time, Liu Yangyang, who was not good at martial arts on the side, also bravely picked up the horsewhip and attacked Zhuoxi from behind, but was discovered by Zhuoxi in advance and struck it away with a palm.

"Ah......h I saw Ling Rui's true qi surging, and the Qilin Knife in his hand was more than twice as long as before, and then he jumped up high and slashed at Turbidity Xi with all his strength, and in an instant, the huge impact force actually made Turbidity Xi, who had made everyone powerless before, fall to the ground after being bounced away by the qi wave.

"This, how is it possible, I can't beat a hairy boy." Turbidity Xi unwillingly used his internal strength and raised the Emei thorn to rush towards Ling Rui again, in the blurred vision of Ouyang He, who was gradually waking up on the side, every collision of the weapons in the hands of the two could emit a strong wave of qi towards the surroundings, and the flying dust and wind and sand shrouded the quiet streets of Victoria. In the face of the increasingly powerful power of the Qilin Knife, Xunxi gradually became difficult to resist even if she used all her strength, and soon she was bounced away again by the powerful air flow evoked by the Qilin Knife and slammed into the stone wall of the house on the side. Seeing that Ling Rui in front of her was becoming more and more courageous and always protecting Ouyang He's side like crazy, but Xunxi's own strength was not much left after the battle, she gritted her teeth with a look of indignation and quickly left along the roof on the side of the street. At this moment, the people from the Black Eagle Village behind him also chased after him, but Ling Rui stood in the middle of the street with a knife in one hand unhurriedly, and when everyone was about to approach them, Ling Ruijuan swung the knife vigorously with the tumbling qi waves around him, and a true qi force like a tornado shocked the masked man in front of him into a scatter and wailed.

"I didn't expect the Qilin Knife to reappear in the rivers and lakes, now we can't fight hard, tell our people to retreat temporarily!" Bai Lichen, who had been preparing to wait for an opportunity in the dark, saw that after Xunxi was defeated, he was a little afraid of the power of the Qilin Sword, so he hurriedly evacuated with Feng Lei Tang's men. At the same time, when the remnants of the Black Eagle Village were also frightened by this sudden force and hurriedly retreated, the angry aura in Ling Rui's body gradually smoothed out, and the Qilin knife in his hand turned into the ordinary short knife before and slipped from Ling Rui's hand, and Ling Rui finally fainted due to physical exhaustion.

"Young Master Ling!" Ouyang He struggled to endure the pain in his body, stood up and slowly walked towards Ling Rui, who was lying on the ground unconscious, at this moment, the young man in red who always had a sunny smile on his face actually made Ouyang He feel the distress and sadness that he had never felt before leaving Yufeng Villa. She silently leaned on the wheel and sat beside Ling Rui, gently stroking Ling Rui's face even though it was covered with dust, and tears couldn't stop flowing from the corners of Ouyang He's eyes, falling lightly on the thin but handsome face in front of her.

"There is true love in the world, and I am crazy about dreaming of plum blossoms. The talented and beautiful woman is a thousand gold promises, and the turbidity world is agitated and thousands of immortals know. ”

When Ling Rui gradually woke up, the three of them were already in the small courtyard where Tong Kun and Liu Yangyang lived outside the city. Ling Rui sat up from the bed with sleepy eyes, only to see Tong Kun looking out the window with his hands behind his back, Ouyang He and Chu Birou were sitting at the table and listening attentively to what Liu Yangyang had to say. It turned out that Liu Yangyang's surname was Ma, and was the third princess of the Chu State bordering Dashu, because the brothers and heirs killed each other for the throne when the first emperor died of illness, she fled from the capital in a hurry under the cover of several palace maids, and then followed the Chu caravan all the way to Victoria, and was rescued by Tong Kun in a situation where he was almost arrested for stealing food because of his hunger. However, the good times did not last long, and Tong Kun gradually discovered that there were many strangers in Victoria who spoke with Chu accents, and it seemed that the killers secretly sent by the Chu Emperor to hunt her down had gradually shifted their attention to Victoria.

"The battle for the throne has always been a matter of life and death, and you don't give in to each other, but this basically only appears between brothers and sisters who can inherit the throne, why would the emperor send people all the way to hunt down Miss Liu?" Chu Birou felt a little confused about Liu Yangyang's situation.

"He's here for this!" Liu Yangyang pulled out an object wrapped in golden flannel from a package.

"Yang, are you really going to show them this?" Tong Kun stretched out his hand to stop Liu Yangyang and whispered to her, "This thing is crucial to the future of the Chu State, can we really trust them completely?" ”

"Don't worry, I know it in my own heart." Liu Yangyang slowly opened the flannel cloth on the table, and a finely carved jade seal appeared in front of everyone.

"It's ...... Heirloom jade seal? Ling Rui let out an exclamation behind everyone.

"Ah, Ling Gongzi, you woke up, how do you feel physically, are you still uncomfortable?" Ouyang He hurriedly sat down beside Ling Rui and gently held his hand and asked.

"It's no big deal, thank you Xiaohe for your concern!" Ling Rui reluctantly squeezed out a familiar smile on his face, "So, Emperor Chu persistently sent people to hunt you down in order to recapture the jade seal of the Inheritance Kingdom?" ”

"Hmm!" Liu Yangyang nodded in agreement, his face was still full of worry, "I thought that I would be able to live a carefree life here with my husband in this life, but I didn't expect that the rivers and lakes are still so big that there is still no place for us, it seems that a person's life cannot get rid of the shackles of fate after all!" ”

"Yang, don't be like this, no matter what happens, I will always protect you!" Tong Kun held the girl who was already crying in front of him and promised affectionately.

Chu Birou sighed deeply, she also felt inexplicably distressed about the situation of the two of them in her heart, and at the same time, she vaguely recalled her similar past to Liu Yangyang, and saw from her the upheaved figure when she fled from the Water Heaven Pavilion that had turned into ruins.

"The little woman has a proposal, I wonder if you two can consider it?" Ouyang He asked Tong Kun and Liu Yangyang after thinking for a while. After receiving an affirmative reply from the two, Ouyang He suggested that they could return to Yufeng Mountain Villa with the three of them to live temporarily. She then explained that the location of Yufeng Mountain Villa was very close to the border of Shu and Chu, and it was very likely that it had been searched in detail by the secret agents of the Chu State a long time ago, and now that these Chu killers had appeared in groups in Victoria, a hundred miles away from the Chu State, then the vicinity of Yuzhou might become much safer than here.

"Indeed, according to ordinary people's thinking, it will inevitably be concluded that you will escape as far away from the Chu State as possible, and I think there is no place to create each other's blind spots more than the border between the two countries." Ling Rui thought about it for a while and agreed with Ouyang He's judgment.

"This, how embarrassing is this, Miss Ouyang has already saved the life of the insider, and now the two of us really can't bear to bother you like this anymore, this heirloom jade seal may also bring you death." Tong Kun and his wife are also kind-hearted people, although they are a little willing to accept Ouyang He's proposal, but they are very afraid of seeing them become the target of the killers of the Chu State because of themselves.

Ouyang He gently took Liu Yangyang's cold hand, reached out to wipe away the residual tears stuck to the corners of her eyes, and said softly: "Aren't we also friends who share weal and benement now?" Seeing that her friend was in danger, how could the little woman stand by and watch? Don't worry, when you return to the villa, as long as I am here, no one will bully you again. ”

"Miss Ouyang......" Although Tong Kun still wanted to refuse in his heart, he wanted to say nothing, he then turned his head to look at Liu Yangyang, and after the two looked at each other, they still gladly accepted Ouyang He's proposal, "Miss Ouyang, no, this great kindness of the owner of Ouyang Zhuang will be repaid in the future!" ”

"So, I'm also fortunate enough to be a guest at Yufeng Mountain Villa?" Chu Birou asked with a joking smile at Ouyang He.

"Hehe, of course, everyone here is a little woman's distinguished guests, how can Yufeng Mountain Villa be lazy!" Ouyang He also said in a joking brisk tone, and several people then agreed to return tomorrow after Tong Kun and his wife packed their things.

When Tong Kun and his wife returned to the room, Ouyang He mentioned to Ling Rui that she was a little worried about Meng Yan's current situation, after all, there had been no news about him from Chengdu for a long time. Ling Rui admitted that he had also realized this problem recently, and after discussing it, the three of them decided to divide into two ways, Chu Birou first went back to Chengdu to find out the news about Meng Yan, Ling Rui and Ouyang He escorted Tong Kun and his wife back to Yufeng Villa and then went to Chengdu to meet Chu Birou, Ouyang He believed that there were Yuxin and other sisters in the villa, and there would be no problems with the safety of Tong Kun and his wife.

At the same time, in a huge stone castle on the outskirts of the "ghost city" of Yudu, a middle-aged man with a long beard wearing a sacrificial dress and silver jewelry walked slowly into a secret room located under the stone castle. When he lit the lamp in the room, the sword hilt was quietly placed on the stone platform in the center of the secret room, the sword hilt was flickering with blue light, the blade was engraved with blue dragon patterns, and the entire sword body exuded a strong true qi from time to time, the head of the four ancient gods in the legends of the rivers and lakes - the dragon soul sword. The middle-aged man sat cross-legged on a circular straw mat placed in front of the stone platform, while at the same time, there were words in his mouth, and the true qi in his body continued to gush out and blend with the dragon soul true qi that overflowed around him.

At this moment, a black-clothed subordinate hurriedly ran up behind the middle-aged man and reported: "Qiqi Sect Master, all the invitations to the Sword Tasting Conference have been sent out!" ”

"Good!" The middle-aged man slowly opened his eyes and stood up and said to the subordinate proudly, "Soon, when the heads of the various sects have swallowed their last breath in this ghost castle, we will no longer have to cower in this small Bashu land. Tell all the people in the ghost castle to evacuate after half a month, and at that time, whether it is the Dragon Soul Sword or the status of the Supreme of the Martial Arts, they will be under our control. ”

In the following days, the major sects in the martial arts, whether good or evil, successively received invitations from the Tang Sect in Shuzhong to bet on the legendary Dragon Soul Sword, the head of the ancient gods, which naturally included the rapidly expanding Wind Thunder Hall and the Yufeng Mountain Villa in the rich world. In the dark and secluded, dark and dark castle, a huge conspiracy to subvert the troubled rivers and lakes is about to be staged, and at the same time, Ouyang He, the owner of the Jade Bee Villa, will also meet a familiar and strange old man here. As she gradually sensed the aura of the Dragon Soul Sword calling to the depths of her heart, the girl who stepped into the chaotic rivers and lakes had already had no fear or regret in the coming bloody storm.