Chapter 254: Fierce Rival
At the same time, the woman was like a fish on the ice, rowing forward along the plank path, and the long sword in her hand slashed at Xiaoxiao's feet.
One up and one attack together, and at this time, it was the moment when Xiaoxiao used all her strength to break through the strong man's defense, swept him away and threw him off the cliff. Her strength has been exhausted, and her back strength has not been born, and this gap connection is attacked by two supreme masters, and she can't help but feel a pang in her heart.
Not to mention anything else, just the ability to seize the moment of the attack is enough to see that the martial arts of these two people are really incredible.
However, what made her even more unexpected was that the young strong man who was caught by her legs and thrown into the air suddenly grabbed her long embroidered robe, and suddenly borrowed a belt, flipped back from the air, and slashed at her waist.
And this sword is actually similar to the martial arts that attacked her before, if the previous martial arts are only among the first-class masters, then this sword is enough to reach the peak.
It turned out that the previous state was reserved, and now it is fully implemented.
Xiaoxiao suffered attacks from the upper, middle and lower directions at the same time. Two directions are ahead, one direction is air, and she has nothing to retreat.
Obviously, these three people have already figured out how to deal with Xiaoxiao, and they have also found the right target, once Xiaoxiao is solved, the rest of the people are fish on the board.
The long sleeve of Xiaoxiao's left hand flew out like a spiritual snake, enveloping the long sword of the old man in the air, and when it came out, the sword was deflected. This sword is cold and light, and it can't pierce the sleeves of the robe that are as soft as water, just because the sleeves of the robe are infused with strong strength.
The old man couldn't imagine that Xiaoxiao's martial arts were so fast and sensitive, and he rolled his blade with one move, and then shook it and pumped it heavily on the old man's wrist.
The old man's palm was numb, and the long sword couldn't hold it and took it off.
At the same time, the woman flew past the ground. The long sword in his hand was supposed to stab Xiaoxiao's leg, but Xiaoxiao just slid lightly to avoid the sword, but the sword went up the river and stabbed Xiaoxiao's lower abdomen.
Xiaoxiao tried to avoid the sword, but the ghost head knife in the back slashed at her waist, unable to dodge at the same time.
Xiaoxiao's right hand with a long sleeve was grabbed by a strong man in the air. And take the opportunity to reverse the attack. Xiaoxiao's eyes flashed, her right wrist shook slightly, and with a snap, the long sleeve broke, and a slender hand like a petal suddenly poked out of the sleeve, like a willow spring breeze, head-on, snapped, and pumped on the knife surface of the ghost head knife that was split.
The knife was like a cat that had been kicked hard. Flipping and bounced, slashing at the strong man's erect neck.
The strong man didn't know that Xiaoxiao had such a strange trick, and in shock, he didn't have time to dodge, and with a click, the blade cut half of the strong man's neck. Blood shot out like a fountain, and the corpse fell heavily to the boardwalk.
At the same time, Xiaoxiao only felt a slight pain in the inner side of her right leg. It turned out that she was going all out against the carers and the strong men in the air. The woman's sword still made a cut in her leg.
When the woman succeeded, she didn't have time to take back her sword. Because Xiaoxiao had already kicked off her long sword with one corner.
Like a tanuki, the woman flipped and jumped off the boardwalk with a whoosh, holding the short sword with only the hilt in her hand.
After the woman fell off the cliff, she swished twice and disappeared into the jungle under the cliff.
And the old man who was once robbed of the long sword by Xiaoxiao. It also quickly flew backwards, quickly disappearing into the depths of the cliff jungle.
The three of them never said a word from beginning to end, they fought when they came up, and left after the fight, except for the strong man who died on the spot. The rest had fled quickly. They knew that it was impossible for Xiaoxiao to pursue, because they had to protect Lu Jinping, so they were not panicked when they retreated, they were calm and chic, fast and fast, and the escape route was very clear, obviously carefully planned.
Xiaoxiao slowly bent down, picked up the broken sword, looked at it in the sun, and sniffed it on the tip of her nose, and couldn't help but change color slightly on her face.
Her gaze quickly swept over the long sword of the old man who was wrapped in the long sleeve of her left hand, and the single knife that fell in the hand of the dead strong man on the plank road, both of which were blue and watery, emitting an oozing luster, and she couldn't help but have a stronger melancholy between her eyebrows.
She turned her back to Lu Jinping, and Lu Jinping couldn't see his face. Lu Jinping walked over quickly and asked, "Xiaoxiao, are you okay?" β
Xiaoxiao's long-sleeved clothes blocked the wound on the right leg of her thigh, and in order to hide her identity, all of them changed into uniform black shirts, including Xiaoxiao. Therefore, the blood under the cover of a black shirt is not very eye-catching.
Xiaoxiao turned around and looked at Lu Jinping as if nothing happened: "I'm fine, I already know who these three people are." β
Lu Jinping said: "You are so powerful, you can recognize their identities from such a few tricks?" Who are they? β
"The old man who was robbed of the long sword by me is named Duguke, and the woman is his junior sister, and her nickname is the female scorpion. The strong man I killed was their junior brother, these three senior brothers were originally from the Tianshan faction in the Western Regions, and later rebelled out of the sect because of their teacher's annihilation of their ancestors, and became a lone wolf on the rivers and lakes, doing some business without capital. β
"Their martial arts are not particularly high when they are separated, among them, the old man Duguke is a lot higher than the other two, but the three of them are together, because they are senior brothers and sisters who often train and cooperate together, and they often use the method of sneak attacks, so even if they are super first-class masters, they often suffer under them."
Lu Jinping said: "Do the three of them have an enmity with you or with me?" Or do you have a grudge against whom? Why attack us? β
"They only recognize money, whether they have grudges or not is secondary, as long as they have money, they dare to move. This time, someone must have paid a lot of money to assassinate them. β
Speaking of this, Xiaoxiao turned around and looked at the sea of fire in front of her, and the original struggling catcher in the sea of fire had been buried in the sea of fire, and there was no movement anymore.
Lu Jinping said: "Who is that child? β
Xiaoxiao shook her head and said, "I don't know." But he's not a child, he's supposed to be a dwarf, which I determined later. I really didn't see it at the time. β
Speaking of this, Xiaoxiao's body shook slightly, and immediately stabilized.
But at this moment, it had already met Lu Jinping's eyes. He is the most observant, with a top master like Xiaoxiao, it is impossible for his body to shake for no reason, he immediately stepped forward and looked Xiaoxiao up and down.
However, Xiaoxiao's injury had been blocked by her sleeve, and she was wearing black clothes and couldn't see the blood, so she didn't find anything unusual, but she felt that Xiaoxiao's face was very bad, so she said with concern: "Are you really okay?" β
Xiaoxiao smiled and shook her head, but did not speak.
At this moment, I saw Xiong Zhutou and two plum blossom guards patrolling the mountain quickly coming down from the mountain, and when they arrived in front of Lu Jinping, they hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, are you okay?" β
Lu Jinping shook his head.
The reinforcements of the two plum blossom guards were late, and they were very frightened, and they clenched their fists and confessed, saying that they had not found any trace of the enemy.
Lu Jinping shook his head and said: "No wonder you, you are only responsible for searching for whether there is an ambush above, and they are very cunning and have already seen our plan, so they came from behind along the plank road, and there was a sea of fire in front, blocking our retreat. β
Xiong Zhutou said: "The old man and the old lady have been restrained by me, and they are over there, but how can they pass now?" The plank road has become a sea of fire, and I am afraid that the fire will not burn for a while and a half. β
Lu Jinping shook his head and said: "Judging from the current situation, this old couple should have been used by them, and it is unlikely that they are the accomplices of the attack on our people." Now, we can't wait for the fire to go out and get around. ββWhat about the opinions of the two adults? Lu Jinping asked Dali Temple.
The two Dali Temple Men were already trembling with fright, where else did they have any ideas. Of course, obey the arrangement of the prince. Although the two of them didn't know martial arts, with the help of the Catcher Kuai and the Plum Blossom Internal Guard, they also went down to the bottom of the cliff safely, and then went around and climbed back to the other end.
After counting the personnel situation, it was found that there were a total of six catches in the sea of fire, and the plum blossom internal guards were mainly concentrated around Lu Jinping, so they avoided this catastrophe in the sea of fire.
After going up to the opposite plank road, Lu Jinping interrogated the two old men, and the old men were so frightened that they couldn't even speak. In Lu Jinping and Yan Yuese's inquiry, they gradually calmed down, saying that someone gave them this package, sent them home, and asked them to take this child to the other end of the Sword Pavilion, and someone would pick it up.
Of course, the two old men were happy to get so many clothes, so they took the child along the plank road, but they didn't expect that the child was actually a gang of robbers, although they didn't know Lu Jinping's identity. However, I also roughly guessed that they should be people from the yamen, and if they were involved in it, they would only be afraid that they would not be able to get out of it, so they were very afraid.
Lu Jinping didn't arrest them, and asked Ye Qingqing to give them some silver money as comfort, and then took the people away. The two old men wept with gratitude and prayed to God to bless these well-wishers.
Originally, there is a small village in the middle of the plank road for more than 100 miles, under normal circumstances, go on the plank road in the morning, and before dark in the afternoon, you can go here to rest halfway. The next day, we will continue walking. After all, it is still a little dangerous to walk the plank road at night.
But their journey was delayed for more than an hour, and they could not reach the post station before dark. Because they were accompanied by two Dali Temple Cheng and several scribes who didn't know martial arts at all, there was no way to speed up the march.
When the last rays of the sun sank into the mountains and the sky gradually darkened, Xiaoxiao instructed the Meihua guards to strengthen their vigilance and pay attention to whether there was an ambush.
Xiaoxiao didn't let the torch or lantern be lit, and groped her way forward, so that she could avoid being in the light and the enemy in the dark, although the travel speed was further reduced, it would be relatively safe.
However, in this way, the possibility of the enemy approaching and sneaking up on the night has increased a lot, so Xiaoxiao was very nervous all the way, paying attention to any possible movements around. (To be continued.) )