Swordsmanship, a photo. It's like a streamer, so fast that you can't breathe. In this way, it is a sword, and a sword is a killing move.

Feng Zhan crossed Li Zangjian's defense, but there was a sword wound on his shoulder. The process is barely visible to the naked eye.

"Good guy, I just said that the court inexplicably charged me with a crime, but didn't send someone to arrest me, it turns out that this is the case."

Li Zangjian smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Feng's light skills are the best in the world, the empire, but he is just unwilling to do some meaningless actions. ”

"So, the Empire is not sending you for nothing."

"Not really."

"That sword is fast."

"I didn't expect that such a fast swordsmanship could only rub Mr. Feng's shoulder. Really admired. ”

"Oh oh oh, Uncle Ben can be faster."

"Mr. Wind doesn't have to keep his hands."

Feng Zhan looked back at Akasi, who was already behind him, and stopped.

"You and this sword-wielding guy, I'm afraid I won't be able to leave this time."

Akath shook his head and said, "My competition with you is indeed part of the Empire's plan, but I don't know the details, I don't know why the Empire is targeting you, but ...... I think this contest is very interesting, no matter what benefits the empire promises you, if you can win me, I will ask for it for you. ”

Feng Zhan nodded and said, "You have such speed, I'm sure you must also want to know which of the two of us is faster." ”

Akasi nodded and said, "You are very powerful, I underestimated you." ”

Immediately, Akasi corrected: "It's not just amazing, it's amazing." ”

Feng Zhan frowned and said, "So, aren't you going to save me?" ”

Akasi shook his head and said, "I can't stop his sword with speed alone, but if I use martial arts, it will bring trouble to my country." ”

Li Zangjian said very sincerely: "It's really sad to disturb the competition between the two, and sometimes it's better to have a rival than a confidant." He bowed deeply in apology.

Feng Zhan said: "You came to kill me like this, but it makes the uncle not angry, if it weren't for the fact that your sword is too dangerous, I would have thought you were a scholar, hahahahaha." ”

Li Zangjian shook his head and said: "A layman, although he also reads the books of sages, he still has an obsession, the empire is willing to give up his superb swordsmanship to take Mr. Feng's life, and he can only offend Mr. ”

Feng Zhan didn't care about the danger he was facing, and said, "That shouldn't be your fastest sword just now. ”

Li Zangjian said with a smile: "The lower grade swordsmanship kills the lower grade, the middle grade swordsmanship kills the middle grade, and the upper grade swordsmanship kills the top grade, Mr. The speed just now can be called a masterpiece, but the state is not good, it is really a lower grade, so the Tibetan sword only uses the top-grade swordsmanship." “

"Wen Xuan, I don't understand, Akasi, the uncle is running away, you have to keep up." The aura of the wind exhibition instantly became cold.

Akasi squinted. The broken leaves under his feet have begun to turn and flutter.

Then, both disappeared.

But soon, both of them stopped. The sound of the sword rubbing against the rock was heard. Then a boulder in front of Feng Zhan turned in half, and the cut was smooth.

Swordsmanship, tone cutting.

"It seems to be really troublesome."

"As I said, there's only speed, it's hard to get rid of him."

But this time, the sword qi did not touch Feng Zhan. However, Fengzhan did not cross that line.

Li Zangjian said: "Sir's speed is really fast, the superb swordsmanship is a stunt that makes the sword drawing action simple, even if he hides the sword himself, he doesn't want to take the opponent's sword." ”

Feng Zhan frowned and said, "But I was suppressed by your sword, Uncle Ben didn't dare to move forward." ”

Li Zangjian just smiled.

Feng Zhan has a headache, the person in front of him, even in the face of his own sudden advance, still seems calm and orderly, with a bamboo in his chest, and he faces it with ease.

"Hey, Akasi, I wasn't going to do my best, at least not in this place, but I've stolen so many things, and the Empire can punish me casually. It's a real hassle, and you shouldn't be using full throttle, so let's have a real fight. ”

Feng Zhan bent down and unlocked the second lock on his foot.

In just an instant, the original wheat-colored skin on his legs turned red, and the expression on Feng Zhan's face became extremely painful. Because it was too painful, the smile on his face froze.

Smoke.

Both Akasi and Li Zangjian saw that smoke began to emerge from Feng Zhan's red legs. Smoke was born from the burning heat.

The sound of heavy breathing slowly became steady, and Feng Zhan's originally playful voice became a little gloomy.

"This time, don't look with your eyes, otherwise the sword won't be able to catch up with Uncle Ben!"

When the words fell, a powerful air flow swept in, the wind disappeared, and Li Zangjian made three swords in a flash, but all of them missed. And the momentum of the wind exhibition running was too heavy, and Akasi suddenly found that the Wind Realm could not be opened.

"He ran away." Akasi looked at the wind exhibition that had gone even further, and said to himself that he had really lost his eyes this time.

Li Zangjian frowned slightly, unless he reached the realm of the unity of man and sword, and then used the superb sword technique, he could intercept such a speed, but, as Feng Zhan said, he could only predict, not see with his eyes, otherwise, it would be too late.

Li Zangjian shook his head and said, "He can't run away after all." ”

Then he glanced at Akasi again and said, "You can still catch up with him, don't you chase him, I've seen your speed, it's not slower than this." ”

Akasi said: "Is there any point in such a competition, of course I can catch up, but at this speed, I can't run the whole distance at all and die of exhaustion, and besides, I'm afraid that the empire's interception of Fengzhan is not only yours." ”

Li Zangjian sighed: "He really can't escape." ”

Akath turned around, walked north, and said, "What the Heavenly Machine Pavilion promised is very important to me, since I have become a part of that person's plan, I have nothing to say, but next time, if the empire sends anyone to interfere in my duel, I will kill that person, even if it is you." ”

Li Zangjian nodded and said, "That's really, I'm very sorry not to go." ”

Say no more. Akasi was gone, he was still heading north, and he didn't care about the outcome of the duel at this moment, he wanted to know if Feng Zhan could survive.

Li Zangjian also turned around and walked north. He still has to grasp the wind exhibition.

……

The inn goes all the way north.

In the north of Qinzhou City, to the south of Yeyang City, there is a huge plain land, the name of the plain is very arbitrary, called Qinye Plain, this plain land is enough to be one-fifth of the territory of the empire. In addition to giving advice to Chen Hui, the scholar naturally also served as the common sense consultant of the other three people of the inn, especially Chen Hui.

To the east of Qinzhou City is Lianqing City Donghai City, which goes straight to the north without a pipeline, but through this huge plain, you can reach Yeyang City, where Tiangong Mountain Taoism is located.

The next stop for Chenhui has not yet been decided. His purpose was to find a runner, but he didn't know where the runner was.

So the scholar made a divination, and according to the hexagram, they went straight all the way north.

When passing through the Qinye Plain, Chen Hui was very curious about why such a fertile land, such a flat terrain, was completely deserted, and the empire could build a new city on this land.

The scholar sold a pass, and a trace of pity flashed in his expression. Even a person like him seems to feel sympathy when he thinks of something.

On the second day of crossing Qinzhou City all the way north. Chenhui finally saw a city. He finally knew why the scholar didn't say it.

It turned out to be such a city, it is indeed difficult to describe.

The Last Inn is now docked on the plain, surrounded by wasteland and boulders, if you look at it from a distance, it seems to be a dead land, empty and nothing, and it seems to have experienced an unprecedented baptism of fire.

Everything around is bare, without a trace of life. It was completely different from the other places in the Qinye Plain before, although those places were uninhabited, but the land was always fertile, and as far as the eye could see, it was all green and verdant.

It's like a scorched earth.

Straight away, it was barren, there was nothing, and the distance was hazy, as if there was no end, and everyone in the inn felt shocked, even if the scholar had heard of it, but it was the first time he came.

Everyone is in such a vast desert of scorched earth, small as ants,

But what shocked people was the huge pit beneath their feet.

Yes, it looks barren and empty at eye level, but if you look down, you will feel the real shock.

It was a huge crater thousands of feet deep, standing on the edge of the top, looking down, it was pitch black, like the deep sea, the depths of hell that the sun could not reach.

This pit is very big, and the tribes of the Nanban Secret Realm are no more than that, but the depth of this pit is the most terrifying, even if it is a first-class person with light skills, it takes a lot of strength to climb out of such a deep pit, and ordinary people will never be able to climb out. The highest mountain range in the world is a mountain range to the west of Yeyang City and east of Hongcheng, the Qinghai-Tibet Mountains. The mountain peaks are completely out of reach at the end of the line, and there seems to be a ninefold heaven.

But the depth of this pit even exceeds the height of the Qinghai-Tibet Mountains. Looking up at a mountain only makes us feel awe of nature and the majesty of the mountain.

But if you see a bottomless pit, it often makes people feel frightened.

Zhong Yunxiu was a little frightened, it was the first time she had seen such a huge pothole, here, it was like the entrance to hell. The scorching and dazzling late summer sun could not illuminate the bottom of the pit.

If it's just a bottomless hole, it's just a spectacle.

But the scholar said that in this pit was the third city in the huge plain between Qinzhou City and Yeyang City, a city that the common people did not know existed in, and thousands of celebrities lived underneath.

This is the darkest city in the Empire, Sinkhole.

The origin of Tiankeng City seems to be really providential. Decades ago, after the empire defeated the last forces of the Chu State in the Battle of Anhai, it didn't take long for a spectacle to appear in the sky.

A meteorite smashed into the Qinye Plain. It is rumored that both Ye Yang City and Qinzhou City felt a slight earthquake at that time. The middle part of the Qinye Plain, which was originally fertile for apprentices, became a scorched earth, and the fire burned for half a month before it slowly subsided.

After that, the middle of this Qinye Plain became what it is today, but there was no such pit at that time. Because the sinkhole was filled with huge meteorites. And Master Wuyu, the national teacher of the Qin State, said that this meteorite is the fall of the emperor star, which mostly appears when the rise and fall of the dynasty alternates, which is a good omen, and the fall of the emperor star representing the national fortune of the Chu State means that the emperor star of the Qin State rises.

So on that day, His Majesty Emperor Qin Xianhuang established the Imperial Star Department, which was governed by the Dragon General, and the supreme person in charge of the Imperial Star Department was the Fourth Emperor Star General, which was the same as the Eight Generals of Eastern Chu that year, and was the protector of the country.

In that year, King Qin Xian heard the words of the national teacher Master Wuyu, and asked the four generals of the first emperor star to lead the elite soldiers to coerce the people of Xianchu and the 140,000 generals of Xianchu to the middle of the Qinye Plain, that is, the land of meteorites.

Thus began a long fifteen-year slavery.

The previous Emperor Star generals and the soldiers of the Qin State began to persecute hundreds of thousands of Xianchu people and surrendered troops to begin to reclaim this meteorite as huge as a mountain range. The Outer Stone is a good material for refining weapons, and the Empire will definitely not give up the opportunity to use this meteorite.

So more than 100,000 people cooperated with the tricks of the public losers that year and began to reclaim this meteorite.

With the reclamation year after year, most of the meteorites have been hollowed out, and more and more huge craters that had been filled have been vacated.

Three years later, it has become a huge basin with a depth of 100 feet.

Seven years have passed, and the eyes can no longer touch the bottom of the pit, and how many meteorites have not been reclaimed, in fact, the soldiers of the Qin State do not know.

After another three years, Qin Bing could only transport materials through the lark of the public loser, because they simply could not dive to the bottom of the sinkhole.

Then fifteen years ago, that is, in the fifteenth year of the Qin calendar, a major event happened in the empire, the world's first loyal and righteous general, the previous dragon general Shen Chaoya rebelled, and then there was also the public loser's master Shenjiang Gongwuwu.

This was followed by the Lotus Sky City incident that had depressed the entire martial arts for more than ten years.

From then on, the owner of the public loser became a wanted man, and the lark he provided was no longer available. And the empire seems to have given up more than 100,000 Chu people in the sinkhole after that battle.

Without the Trap Beast Skylark, it would be impossible to travel to such a deep underground to transport meteorite materials, and the Empire would not be able to bring out hundreds of thousands of people.

More than 100,000 people of the Chu State have spent fifteen years serving the empire, and they are waiting for the day when the captives of the former dynasty will become the people of the present dynasty, and they want to live back their original life in the Chu State.

But it took him fifteen years to dig a cage, or rather, a grave for himself that he could never escape.

Although the empire has not forgotten that the hundreds of thousands of Chu people and prisoners of war will put a lot of food into the deep pit at various times every year, they can't care whether the food can be delivered.

However, another fifteen years have passed, and now it is the thirtieth year of the Qin calendar, and the annual funds allocated by the empire to the officials responsible for delivering food have not decreased, but the empire, which has been at ease for a long time, has begun to corrupt. After layers of reduction, the original delivery was only once a month, but it became once a quarter, and then once every six months.

Thirty years have passed, and the people below should have died long ago, and even if they were alive, I am afraid that less than one-tenth of them would be alive.

Every official in charge of food delivery wondered where that group of people could get that amount of food.

At the end of the day, it's just a bunch of tools that can be discarded when they are used.

……

After the scholar finished telling all this, his mood was very heavy, he did not have the righteous heart of the shopkeeper, nor did he have Zhong Yunxiu's heart of hanging the pot to help the world, he has always only looked at the pros and cons, but maybe there is a person involved in this, the scholar who has always been very indifferent to everything When mentioning the story of Tiankeng City, it is also rare to show sympathy for the people of Chu State.

After listening to Chenhui, he looked at the pit under his feet with a complicated and solemn expression.

He didn't speak for a long time, and the three innkeepers stood with him on the edge of the sinkhole.

In the end, Chen Hui replied to a very ordinary tone and asked tentatively:

"Well, if I want to go down and have a look, would you like to come with me?"