The one who is best at killing wild beasts has always been an old hunter who has traveled the mountain road for a long time, and the person who is the best at crossing the border has always been another person who often does this kind of thing

Shen Li is undoubtedly that person

"Speak well...... By the way, useless can be saved, say the point"

Seeing that Shen Li had not spoken, Xu Zi'an pretended not to see Shen Li's proud face and said coldly

"You kid, that's all good, why are you so unemotional?"

Shen Li suddenly pulled out the bamboo chopsticks and continued to make the soup

"Although it seems difficult for you to do this, killing people has always been a very simple thing"

Shen Li tapped the edge of the bowl with bamboo chopsticks as he spoke, making a brisk crisp sound

"If you can't kill the other party when he is sober, then don't provoke him when the other party is sober, you can secretly kill when the other party is asleep, kill openly while the other party is drunk, and kill while the other party is looking for fun in the Qinglou and pretend to be a singer and dancer while singing and dancing to kill, of course, this requires certain skills and training, you must know that the position of singer and dancer who particularly needs the cultivation of an actor is indeed not something that anyone can easily control."

Saying this, Shen Li suddenly stopped, knocked heavily on the edge of the bowl with bamboo chopsticks, and looked at Xu Zi'an's eyebrows, with a lewd expression

"Well, think about it, my makeup skills are still very good."

"Roll ............"

Strictly speaking, Xu Zi'an's appearance is not outstanding, not the kind of rumored teenager, because he is often in contact with firewood, rice, oil and salt, so he is not romantic, and there will always be a faint smell of fireworks on his clean plain shirt, which is very light, but it makes people feel very reliable

At most, he can only be described as delicate, and this sense of beauty mainly comes from her very clean eyebrows, which are very long, but not as narrow and sharp as willow leaves, and proud, but a very smooth, natural bending and stretching, just like the spring rain accumulating into a stream at the corner of the eaves, which looks particularly smooth

Therefore, no matter how lightly the young man paints Fandel, even if he changes into a good-looking cloud dress tulle, he can only be regarded as a delicate little girl at most, and he will definitely not be able to enter the eyes of any general

Of course, even if he can enter the eyes of the other party, Xu Zi'an will not really sing and dance lightly, while scratching his head and stabbing the knife into the throat of the general, if Xiao Heizi knows about this, he will definitely crawl out of the ground in anger and climb back again because of shame

Imagining the appearance of Xiao Heizi's already dark face suffocating from shame, Xu Zi'an couldn't help but laugh dryly

"If you don't do any of these methods, there's only one way......

After seeing that his interesting idea was destined to fail to become a reality, Shen Li looked back gloomily, showing great pity

"The avenue is invisible, it is difficult to reach the blue sky" Shen Li knocked on the edge of the bowl again, shaking his head like an old god stick on the street

"Compared with the realm of knowing the truth that has just started, the cultivators of the Tongxuan Realm naturally have a deeper understanding of the laws between the breath of heaven and earth and the changes of all things, but the Tongxuan is also divided into the middle and junior three realms, if the other party is only in the Tongxuan situation and has not yet stepped into the threshold of the middle and upper realm, then this matter will be much simpler" bought a pass, Shen Li continued

"Due to the limitations of the realm, if a cultivator of the Xuan Primal Realm wants to cast a powerful magic spell, he needs a certain amount of time to mobilize the true element in his body, and then use the trembling of the true yuan to arouse the resonance of heaven and earth in the outside world."

"Just like the imperial object you just said, that is, the flying sword and the flying knife and the like, it is a scene generated by resonance, if you can't connect the relationship between the true yuan and the sword, it is impossible to do the imperial thing"

"Therefore, cultivators in the Xuan situation need a period of time to resonate every time they cast a spell, and the length of that time varies from person to person, some cultivators need a longer period of time, such as those cultivators who study the technique of instrument path and rune array, because those cumbersome silver hook and zhu depictions are really troublesome, of course, if they are deployed, the power of these magic weapons will naturally be stronger, and some will be very fast, maybe only a few blinks of an eye"

"Of course, there are also some perverts who can make a sound in an instant, such as some sword cultivators in that sword pool, or those perverted guys in Bailu who make people speechless, but as long as it is not a cultivator from these two places, then there will be no exceptions, because this is related to the current practice route and common sense, no one can break this routine, not even me."

Speaking of this, Shen Li Yuguang happened to see the corners of Xu Zi'an's mouth moving slightly and wanted to ask something, so he hurriedly continued

"You don't have to ask me why those guys in Jianchi and Bailu can do it, I also said, which guys are perverts, I am arrogant, although I have done so many things that shocked the world, but I have never felt that I am also a pervert"

Shen Li paused suddenly, and his gaze inexplicably shifted from the young man's seemingly incomprehensible eyes to the Pu knife that was obliquely inserted on the wooden stake in the firewood room, which was meaningful and unclear

"So if you really want to kill a cultivator of the Primal Realm of Enlightenment, then you can only deceive yourself to the other party's side before the other party adjusts the true element in your body to resonate with the outside world, and then rely on continuous hand-to-hand combat, forcing the other party to have no time to cast those powerful spells, if you can do this, then the rest depends on which of you has the sharper sword"

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At the age of four, he touched the knife, at the beginning he just used the knife to cut vegetables, because he was not tall enough, so he often had to put a wooden stool under his feet, and the bright narrow knife was often stained with all kinds of green cabbage leaves, and there were often unintentional cuts between his fingers.

As he grew older, the wooden stool for stepping his feet was no longer needed, and Pu Dao began to do other things besides cutting vegetables, such as chopping wood, killing pigs, and picking stabs for someone, the blade gradually sharpened, and the young man's hand holding the knife began to gradually become calm, and there were no longer unintentional scratches between his fingers, but more calluses that did not match his age

When he was nine years old, he went into the mountains for the first time to hunt, although the first time he entered the mountain was accompanied and sheltered by the old hunter, but after all, it was a real fight, and it was naturally accompanied by many unexpected dangers

If you want the life of the beasts in the mountains, you naturally have to fight with them, and the most important thing in the desperate life is to fight, in order to survive in the battle, to eat meat after living, and to be able to eat meat while also fantasizing about the cultivation avenue, one of the things Xu Zi'an has done the most over the years is to practice knives

Practice knives when chopping wood, practice knives when chopping vegetables, practice knives when dying and alive in the morning dew in the morning, practice knives in hunting and fighting, even if you are a fish and pick a thorn, you are practicing knives in your mother

It can be said that in Xu Zi'an's dull life for more than ten years, in addition to firewood, rice, oil and salt, the most common contact is knives, and the most indispensable thing is fighting

A battle between life and death

If it was just a fast knife, Xu Zi'an believed that even if his knife was not as good as the legendary Lotus Flower without a trace and without a flow of water, if it was only used to force the other party to blink a few times, it would definitely be enough, even if the other party was a cultivator who had passed through the Xuan Realm

This made Xu Zi'an suddenly feel very confident, and his eyebrows stretched very smoothly

It seems that no matter when, the direction of life and death can be determined in the blink of an eye, the young man raised his head with emotion, only to find that he was the only one left in the empty old courtyard

Shen Li didn't know when he left, although the breeze and moonlight were not taken away by him, but he took away the new cotton jacket, what was left on the ground was a torn old jacket with cotton wool fluttering from time to time, looking at the broken jacket on the ground, the young man opened his mouth speechless, and had to hope that Shen Li could see how much care he took on the cotton jacket that cost him a full seven taels of silver

Reflecting the moonlight, the leftover soup bowl on the table was cleaned, and the old courtyard was cleaned with the help of Xinghui, the young man pushed the door into the house, the old door still squeaked, and the moonlight entered the house with the squeak, and the furnishings in the house were very clear

A few cheap wooden cabinets and desks, a brick and stone floor cleaner than the courtyard, an unlit oil lamp and some simple furnishings, and a wooden bed by the window, with bedding on the bed, neatly folded

Shen Li's bed was on the other side, and the futon on the bed had been put away, and there was a piece of dust, which seemed to have been empty for a long time

Without an oil lamp, Xu Zi'an sat at the head of the bed and habitually took out the old book from under the pillow, opened a page at random, and prepared to take a look at the stars hidden in the ink of the old book through the quiet moonlight, but for some reason he couldn't calm down, so he had to close the illusionary starlight on the old book and look at the real moonlight outside the window and think

There seem to be many meaningful words in Shen Li's words, in fact, since Xu Zi'an decided to avenge Xiao Heizi, he has never told anyone, not that he doesn't believe Shen Li, but that he has always thought that this matter is just his own business, and he doesn't want to implicate too many people, such as Lear, such as Zhu Xiaoyu

The assassination of a serving officer is a very big crime, this is a provocation to the authority of the military department, if everything is done before anyone knows, or if there is no clue left for the other party to find out about him, then this matter can be determined as an accident by the government yamen like the death of Xiao Heizi

Regarding the cause of the accident, naturally Xu Zi'an didn't need to bother anymore, the servants in the yamen have always been very good at making up this kind of thing

According to Xu Zi'an's plan, the day before the departure of the convoy into Beijing is the best time to start, because once you set foot on the convoy into Beijing, you will find out what you have done in the future, and it will only end up because of your absence or lack of evidence, no one believes that an ordinary teenager who can't practice can kill a Tongxuan border general who comes down from the battlefield, this is not just people's fixed logic, but the real fact

Although some of the so-called facts are not particularly believable

After killing people and entering Beijing, after entering Beijing, not only will there be a prosperous avenue waiting for him, but he can also get the justice he deserves for Xiaohezi, this plan does look perfect, so perfect that Xu Zi'an gradually fell asleep unconsciously

As the boy fell asleep, an extraordinarily quiet moonlight sneaked around the mountain forest like a living creature, passed through the eaves of the street, and threw it into the small window of the old courtyard, quietly shining on the old book resting on the pillow, and a piece of ink in the book gradually began to blur in the moonlight, like a star in the night sky covered by clouds

The moonlight gradually gathered on the ink word, more and more, like being sucked into a small whirlpool of river, as time went by, the ink word also seemed to be filled with moonlight and began to gradually brighten, revealing a breathtaking beauty, and even those horizontal and vertical skimming that formed the ink word seemed to have some kind of indescribable rhythm, which seemed very mysterious and weird, and full of incredible

The ink is as bright as copper, and the moonlight is refracted into countless wisps by the ink characters, I don't know if it is coincidental or destined, a refracted moonlight actually shines directly on Xu Zi'an's chest

Where there is a black pendant, it looks like an extremely hard rock in the mountains, glowing under the refraction of the moonlight, as if it can breathe, a faint circle of transparent air gradually swayed, and then another circle followed, like a stone thrown into the surface of a calm lake, spreading out circles and circles of ripples

There seemed to be some kind of vague and mysterious connection between these ripples and wanderings, as if heaven and earth were breathing, and in this breathing frequency, the boy once again saw a small flower blooming in his heart in his sleep, the small flower was white, with an inviolable divine aura, and it did not seem very bright in the oppressive night around it, but it was extremely pleasant

I don't know if the little white flower in the dream is too beautiful, or if this very rhythmic breathing has some kind of miraculous effect to help sleep, the corners of the young man's mouth are slightly upturned in his sleep, his face is peaceful, and he seems to want to sleep

If he knew that for some reason, his whereabouts today were completely exposed to the eyes of a certain general, I wonder if he would have slept so comfortably

............

In the middle of the city, a door and window were closed to block all the moonlight, and in the dark house, the indifferent middle-aged general looked at his subordinates in front of him and asked coldly

"Where did the boy go all day?"

"Returning to the ...... My lord," the person who replied remembered some taboos, and swallowed the army behind him back into his stomach, lowered his head and became more humble, and said respectfully

"The young man entered the city at noon, he has been walking around since entering the city, and he went to Xu Fuji to get a cotton shirt, according to the shop owner, it should have been purchased for a middle-aged man, and then he has been wandering the streets, during which he went to the Shannan Provincial Museum, where he did not stay for long, his subordinates have already inquired, the young man just asked about some specific matters of entering Beijing, and there is no big abnormality, just ......"

After a slight pause, the adjutant who replied suddenly lowered his voice, looking a little cold

"After the young man came out of the gym, he entered the City Lord's Mansion......"

"City Lord's Mansion?"

After repeating a sentence, the general Zhang frowned tightly, and his cold eyebrows were wrinkled into very obvious river grooves

After a while, Zhang Yiran raised his head again, as if he felt that the lights in the house were a little dim, so he walked to the window and gently pushed open the doors and windows, and the moonlight entered, illuminating his face with a heavier chill

"Where did the boy go?"

"Your Excellency knows that the brothers have always been at odds with the people of the City Lord's Mansion, so ......," the subordinate whispered with fear on his face as he felt the sudden cold atmosphere in the air

Stretched out his hand and pinched a moth looking for the moonlight, his thumb and two fingers were slightly forced, and the moth turned into a mess of flesh, and looked at the rotting yellow mud-like corpse in his hand, Zhang resolutely suppressed the dryness in his heart and said

"I can't blame you either, has the owner of the cotton shirt found out who it is?"

"I found out, it was a middle-aged man who lived in Yuzhen with the boy, the man's name was Shen Li, but the young man was very alert, it should be because he had been hunting in the mountains all the year round, and his subordinates only dared to probe from afar, for fear of disturbing the other party."

"Continue to investigate, mainly to find out which middle-aged man is with the teenager, by the way, don't startle the snake"

"Yes, my lord," the lieutenant general Weng Sheng replied, but did not leave the room immediately after answering, and suddenly said after hesitating for a long time

"After the young man came out of the City Lord's Mansion, he went to a place where he shouldn't go......"

"Where should I not go?"

"East Frontage"

There is a small courtyard on the east side of the street, and there is a stall next to the small courtyard that buys hot and sour noodles, and the women who live in the small courtyard like to eat hot and sour noodles

When he is not on official business, he will stay somewhere