Chapter 13: The Power of a Sword
Although the Great Wei is still martial, but Anyi City, as the capital of a country, has always managed the civil security very well, and there have been few incidents of murder on the streets in the past, after all, how many people in the world dare to act recklessly at the feet of the Son of Heaven like Qiu Hong?
Therefore, when Qiu Hong took out his long knife and made a move against Xiao Bai, the whole road exploded in an instant.
When the pedestrians saw this, they screamed and fled, for fear that one of them would be implicated by accident.
Although there was chaos all around, and exclamations and howls resounded through the streets, the warring sides were indifferent.
Master duels, life and death are often only between the first line, so it is especially important to pay attention to the heart without distractions, for this, the two who have been fighting for a long time will not understand.
It can even be said that maintaining this state of mind has become a kind of instinct of theirs.
But even so, if you really want to distinguish between the two of them in their state of mind at the moment, I'm afraid Qiu Hong is even better than Xiao Bai.
He was already obsessed with martial arts and didn't care about the world, but after taking Xiao Bai's sword, he only felt that his whole body was hot and dry, and his heart was already full of fighting spirit, and he only wanted to fight happily, so that even the target he wanted to assassinate this time, the third prince Liu Yu, had been completely forgotten by him.
At this time, Xiao Bai, although he also focused almost all of his attention on Qiu Hong, but because of his identity, he always had to be distracted and worried about the safety of His Royal Highness. That's it, the most terrifying thing is that since Qiu Hongfang revealed his true face, Xiao Bai has had a trace of imperceptible retreat in his heart, you know, he and his friends learned Qiu Hong's knife technique back then, and in the end, he was lucky to survive Qiu Hong's knife, or rely on his friend's sacrifice to fight.
Although he has been smooth sailing on the road of martial arts over the years, and has broken many barriers one after another, he still doesn't think that his current self can steadily overwhelm Qiu Hong back then, not to mention that Qiu Hong has been concentrating on cultivation in the past few years, and his realm will only be higher than at the beginning.
Cowardice before fighting, this is a taboo in the rivers and lakes, of course Xiao Bai also understands this, so he constantly warned himself in his heart that the current situation does not allow him to take half a step back, because today's battle is destined to divide both victory and defeat, as well as life and death.
After some self-psychological suggestion, Xiao Bai finally completely dispelled the distracting thoughts, he took a deep breath, and began to mobilize the true qi of his whole body.
As the true qi in Xiao Bai's body operated, his surging sword intent could no longer be restrained, and it scattered from his body in an instant, and the sword intent was like a dense silver hair, condensing but not dispersing, like substance, and began to circle back and forth around Xiao Bai's body. Where the sword intent passed, small sword marks were drawn on the ground, which showed how amazing the power was.
"Well, yes, it's a little decent."
Seeing Xiao Bai like this, Qiu Hong couldn't help nodding slightly in approval, he held the knife in both hands, and nodded a few times at Xiao Bai's emptiness, signaling the other party to hurry up and draw the sword.
Xiao Bai didn't pay any attention to Qiu Hong's provocation, he just stared at his opponent, and the sword intent around him suddenly increased by more than 0 points again.
Suddenly, when Qiu Hong thought that Xiao Bai's momentum had reached its peak, the sword qi that was haunting Xiao Bai dissipated in an instant, and Xiao Bai did not hand out a sword as he thought at this moment, but began to calmly put the sword into the sheath.
Qiu Hong originally only said that Xiao Bai was playing tricks, but when the long sword was pushed back into the scabbard by Xiao Bai inch by inch, the smile on Qiu Hong's face began to gradually converge, and he felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart for no reason.
In the end, the long sword in Xiao Bai's hand was completely returned to the scabbard, and in the next moment, his whole person disappeared from the spot out of thin air!
"Not good!"
Qiu Hong's heart sank when he saw this situation, and he hurriedly ran light exercises and swept backwards.
It's a pity that his reaction was a little late after all.
When Xiao Bai's figure appeared in front of him again, the long sword wrapped in brilliant sword qi was only two inches away from his chest.
"So fast!"
Qiu Hong secretly exclaimed, it was obvious that this sword had completely exceeded his expectations, but even so, his figure was not messy in the slightest, and it still flew backwards in an orderly manner.
But even though Qiu Hong made a light effort, Xiao Bai's sword was always a few points faster, and at this time, the distance between the tip of the sword and his chest was not only not widened, but was getting closer and closer.
"Huh!"
Seeing that the tip of the long sword was about to touch Qiu Hong's clothes, he suddenly burst into tears, and his breath skyrocketed in an instant, and the whole person did not retreat but advanced, and actually tried to slam into the long sword that broke through the air with his body.
"Bang!"
I only heard a loud bang, and a strong True Qi centered on the place where the two were fighting, violently spreading out to all sides, and the place where the True Qi passed was even more stirred up bursts of dust, and even the disguise hanging high above the tea shop in the distance was blown violently.
After a while, the smoke and dust that filled the air slowly dissipated, and Xiao Bai found that the long sword in his hand did not pierce Qiu Hong's chest as expected, but instead stopped abruptly in front of his chest, as if blocked by an invisible object, no matter how hard Xiao Bai exerted his strength, he could not penetrate a little more.
Xiao Bai saw that the sword could not succeed, and he had no idea of dwelling on it any longer, he quickly jumped backwards and reopened the distance between the two sides.
At this moment, Qiu Hong's face looked a little pale, obviously Fang Caisheng took Xiao Bai's sword and made him suffer a lot.
But instead of being annoyed, he felt very happy, and the trademark smile returned to his lips.
"Hahaha, happy! Joyfully! I haven't felt that much in a long time! Xiao Bai, you really didn't disappoint me, I didn't expect that in just a few years, I would have cultivated to the realm of the unity of man and sword! If I hadn't taken a few steps back in advance and unloaded some of your strength, I wouldn't have been able to stop this sword anyway! ”
Although Qiu Hong was full of praise for Xiao Bai's sword, Xiao Bai felt that there was nothing to be happy about, because the shock in his heart at this time was already beyond measure.
He never expected that Qiu Hong would be able to block his powerful sword with only his true qi protection.
What's even worse is that although he seems to be safe now, in fact, just handing out that sword has already consumed most of his true qi, not only that, but after colliding with Qiu Hong's extremely strong body protection qi this time, he has also suffered a lot of backlash. Now don't talk about stepping forward and fighting Qiu Hong again, it's hard to say if you can even raise the hand that holds the sword.
Xiao Bai forcibly transported a breath of true qi at this moment, pretending to be unscathed as much as possible, he knew that the sword would not succeed, and it would only be a dead end if he continued to fight, so he had to bluff and delay the time as much as possible until the forbidden army came to the rescue.
So his mind turned sharply, and he asked in a deep voice:
"Qiu Hong, don't you boast that you only want to reach the top of martial arts all your life? Why is it that now he is willing to live under the people and start killing people and goods? ”
Qiu Hong laughed when he heard this, he seemed to have seen through Xiao Bai's thoughts, and asked rhetorically:
"Xiao Bai, don't you boast of being above board? How come you are now learning to bluff? ”
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Bai's face immediately became extremely ugly, and he had mixed feelings in his heart, he couldn't imagine that the martial idiot madness in the mouth of this world would be so insightful.
In fact, he was wrong from the beginning, although Qiu Hong is a martial idiot, he is not an idiot. You know, martial arts, like other studies in the world, must pay attention to a comprehension and wisdom, if you are really a stupid person, how can you understand those vast martial arts cheats, like Qiu Hong in the martial arts all the way to the heights? Therefore, it is not that he Qiu Hong does not understand human nature, but he has always been unwilling to spend his energy on these useless things.
Qiu Hong saw that Xiao Bai bowed his head and was silent, so he knew that what he expected was good, he put away his double knives and smiled easily:
"I personally assassinated the three princes this time, not for anything else, just to fight with you again, and I also want to see if it was right or wrong to let you go in the first place, as for the life of the third highness...... To be honest, I don't care. Of course, if you don't have that sword, it means that you are just a waste, and you will kill it. But now that I have this sword, I am suddenly a little reluctant to kill you, hey...... What a dilemma. ”
Seeing Qiu Hong's words, Xiao Bai's originally desperate heart suddenly rose with a glimmer of hope.
He took advantage of Qiu Hong's pretended hesitation and shouted:
"Qiu Hong, as long as you dare not kill me today, my realm will definitely surpass you within five years, and I don't know if you will regret letting me go twice!"
Qiu Hong was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then laughed again.
"Hahaha, it's a good way to provoke, but it's very much to my liking, it seems that you still know my mind very well, okay, okay, I'll spare you today. Five years from now, we're going to have another one. ”
After Qiu Hong finished speaking, without the slightest hesitation, he turned his head and walked away, and disappeared at the end of the street that was already empty in a blink of an eye......
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The third prince and I had been carefully hiding under the table to peek at the battle, and at this time, seeing that the master named Qiu Hong had left inexplicably, the two of us breathed a sigh of relief together.
Although it seems that we are out of danger now, I still feel that the whole person's spirit is a little trance, firstly, the battle between Fang Cai Xiao Bai and Qiu Hong is too shocking, completely beyond my cognition, if I have to describe what Fang Cai has seen and heard, it can only be in response to those four words - "fairy fight".
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, it turns out that the content described in martial arts novels is not only not fake, but may be too conservative.
Another thing that shocked me even more was that if I heard it right, the grizzled little brother next to me turned out to be His Royal Highness the Third Prince of Great Wei!
I don't know whether to be happy or sad at this moment, but I put a handful of mud on his face this morning!
Although he doesn't look like a grudge, I can't guarantee that one day he will be in a bad mood and come to me to settle old accounts......
I was a little hesitant, how should I face the Third Highness beside me at this moment, should I continue to pretend to be stupid, and then Mrs. Ping Ping will receive a reward? Or tell him honestly, leave a good impression on him, and get an official position in his mansion in the future?
Just as I hesitated, a milky voice rang out from under another table next to us.
"Grandpa, grandpa, are the bad guys gone?"
I turned my head to see an old man with one hand behind his back, and a five or six-year-old boy in the other, squatting under the table and smiling apologetically and nodding at me.
I instinctively smiled and nodded at them, but then I wondered why I hadn't seen their grandchildren before. And how do I think this child looks strange, although at first glance he looks no different from ordinary children, but there is always a lack of childlike innocence in his eyes.
My mind was in a hurry, and suddenly the ghost made a loud roar, and hurriedly pushed the third prince beside me to the side.
"Your Highness, be careful!"
Liu Yu was pushed hard by me, his body was unstable, and then he rolled out of the bottom of the table, and at the same time, the grandfather and grandson also took out two small crossbow machines and fired two arrows in the direction where we were before.
In an instant, I only felt a chill in my chest, and my whole eyes went black, and I completely lost consciousness......