Chapter 7 - The Tragedy of Lingjian Mountain
Yuejian's murderous aura skyrocketed, and she shook off the enemy who was entangled with her, and flew in the direction of Chi Mudie, but it was too late, just before the sword touched Chi Mudie's body, a bright red giant sword suddenly appeared between them, and the hand holding the red giant sword gently picked up, and the attacking sword was broken in two.
Yuejian saw the person who came clearly, and his expression was relieved, and at this critical moment, fortunately, the president arrived in time.
"If such a good Miao Miao is bitten by the mad dogs raised by your group of paper tigers, even if he picks up his tiger skin, he can't afford to pay for it. ”
Chi Mudie was surprised to see a red giant sword that suddenly appeared in front of her at a critical moment, a loud and rich voice sounded above her head, she was obviously frightened, and looked up at the middle-aged man who was protecting her blankly.
The man looked to be in his thirties, and he also looked down at her, with a handsome face, sharp eyes, and no anger and self-authority. The man looked at her small hands holding the double blades trembling slightly, smiled comfortingly at her, and bent down to pick her up with one hand and put it on his shoulder.
"Sit down, watch my big brother pull out their dog's teeth. Before he could finish speaking, he swept over the two black-clothed men who rushed over with a sword.
At this moment, two more civets the size of a panther rushed out from behind the man, one left and one right, and pounced on the besieging enemy, and then two more women followed.
Chi Mudie sat quietly on the leader's shoulder, she was surprised to find that no matter how many black-clothed people besieged her, the place where she sat did not shake in the slightest, and this man could always easily repel them with his other hand. And the two women who had summoned the civet cat just now also rushed to the other children at this time and gathered the children together.
The tide of the battle suddenly turned, and the man in black turned around and fled when he saw that something was wrong, and the rest of the people wanted to catch up and kill them all, but they were stopped by the president.
"Leave them alone, let's see if there are fewer children. The president lowered Chi Mudie from her shoulders and asked her to stand with the other children.
Chubai came over and confirmed it seriously, shook his head at the president, and said that there were no fewer children, and the president was relieved, and then explained a few words to Chubai in detail, and then left in a hurry with the two people who came.
After the president left, Hatsubai looked at the mess all over the ground and the black-clothed people lying upside down, and then looked at the frightened children, and sighed deeply, it seems that today's training can't be carried out, so he asked Yuemi to take the frightened children back to the village to rest, and he, Xiao Yao and Dakui began to clean up the mess together.
Tsukimi took the children back to the tree house and briefly told them about the incident, and Granny Ryu comforted the children while using a calming spell to calm them down.
That night, Granny Liu let the children rest early, and the fright during the day also made them feel tired, so they also fell asleep quickly, leaving six adults around the table worried.
"Where did those crazy people come from today? Hatsubai, didn't you say that you had already checked that there were no teleportation array markers around here? Xiao Yao frowned and asked.
Chu Bai also frowned in confusion, "We have indeed confirmed it, and if there is really anything abnormal, how could Chi Muyan not find out?"
Xiao Yao thought for a moment and muttered, "Yes, how could that sister control tolerate anything abnormal around her sister." So the way they play is too strange. ”
Tsukimi nodded silently, and asked Hatsubai again, "What did the president tell you today?"
Chu Bai shook his head, "No, the president just said that he would send more people over tomorrow to take care of safety, and let us speed up the training progress of those five children." Speaking of this, Chu Bai paused, and looked out the window with his eyes full of worry, "The chairman also said that they were divided into three ways, one side went to the ancient ruins, and the other went to Lingjian Mountain, and they couldn't break the seal of the ancient ruins for the time being, and Taoyuan Village only came to some shrimp soldiers and crab generals, so the enemies of Taoyuan and the ancient ruins are likely to just transfer the tiger away from the mountain, I'm afraid that something has happened to Lingjian Mountain." ”
When everyone heard this, their backs were cold, and Xiao Yao stood up even more excitedly, "How is it possible! There is a Sword Saint Master Hong on Spirit Sword Mountain!"
Chu Bai's face was also extremely heavy, "I'm afraid that they will play some despicable tricks." ”
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At the same time that the president rushed to Taoyuan Village with Chi Muyan's teleportation array, Chi Muyan also rushed to Lingjian Mountain with seven people as fast as possible, but they were still a step too late.
Lingjian Mountain is in the southernmost part of Jianling Island, the mountain is surrounded by steep cliffs on three sides, almost vertical, the road up the mountain, there is only one stone ladder with no end in sight, and at the end of the stone ladder is the original sword school created by Master Hong, the sword saint Hongmen, it stands to reason that this kind of easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain is the best natural defense of Lingjian Mountain, but when eight people rode their mounts and galloped up, they saw the most tragic scene.
When the eight people came to the foot of the Spirit Sword Mountain, they found something unusual, the common egrets, cranes and other birds that were flying and hovering over the Sword Spirit Mountain were all missing at this time, and the entire Spirit Sword Mountain fell into a strange dead silence, as if someone had used a spell to stop time, and everyone was nervous, and strengthened their vigilance and continued to move forward.
At the place where the stone stairs were about to approach the entrance of Hongmen, Chi Muyan and his party saw stains of blood on the ground, so they urged the mounts under them more urgently, and after running forward, they saw that the original magnificent archway with the word Hongmen on it had become dilapidated and dilapidated, and the plaque of the word Hongmen also fell to the ground, falling apart, and there was a severed arm on it.
Listening carefully, there was no sound of fighting and * from all around, and this unusual silence made everyone's faces pale and their hearts swelled with chills. The eight people didn't dare to slack off, and continued to move forward, and before they went far, they saw many people wearing Hongmen disciple uniforms falling to the ground, no longer breathless, the smell of blood was everywhere, and even some disciples' stumps were hanging on the pine trees on the side.
Chi Muyan asked the other seven to strengthen their vigilance and search separately to see if there were any living disciples, and he walked into Master Hong's dormitory.
Said to be a dormitory, in fact, it was just a very simple thatched hut on high ground, Chi Muyan pushed the door and entered, and found that the elegant furnishings in the house were all turned into a mess, the wooden tables and chairs were smashed, the bedding on the bed was torn and thrown aside, the bookcase was also overturned, and the books and swords were scattered all over the ground.
Chi Muyan frowned and thought about it, this scene seemed to be someone looking for something extremely important, but he didn't know if he was found.
At this time, I suddenly heard someone shouting from the direction of the martial arts practice ground outside the house: "I found Master Hong!" The three people who were searching nearby, including Chi Muyan, immediately rushed over when they heard the sound, but the scene they saw made their faces instantly pale.
Master Hong was originally a spirit clan, small in size, with a pair of big rabbit ears, always with a smile on his face, all the people who have come to Hongmen to learn swordsmanship will remember that he danced a sword with that pair of big ears, he is a kind and lovely old man, but such a kind elder is now killed in an extremely cruel way.
I saw Master Hong lying face down in a pool of blood, his face was covered by hanging rabbit ears, and there were sword wounds everywhere all over his body, and in a few places even the belt flesh was rolled up, and the bones were deeply visible. His outstretched limbs were firmly pinned by four sharp swords, and his usual saber Hong Yu was broken by his life, and then the broken sword was plunged straight into his chest from behind.
No one knows what happened, what kind of deep hatred the person had with Master Hong to be so ruthless, and how Master Hong, who has always been kind, offended such a ruthless person.
Seeing this tragedy, the few people who rushed over were all red-eyed, they were all people who had learned swordsmanship in Lingjian Mountain, and their relationship with Master Hong was naturally very deep, of course, including Chi Muyan, although he had only been here for four months, but in these short four months, it was enough to understand the old man's personality. Chi Muyan still remembers that when he was practicing swordsmanship here, there were a few rather naughty children who always liked to play with Master Hong's big rabbit ears, and Master Hong always pretended to be angry and gently slapped their hands away, and then frowned and picked up crutches to drive them to sword practice.
Several people quietly surrounded Master Hong's corpse like this, and the first to break the silence was Chi Muyan, who ordered the other three to pull out the sword on Master Hong's body, turn him over and lie up, and urge the spell himself, the white light wrapped Master Hong's small body softly, and the wound gradually healed.
When the white light dissipated, all the injuries on Master Hong's body had disappeared, and Chi Muyan asked one person to go to Master Hong's bedroom to find a piece of clothing to change for him.
As soon as Chi Muyan finished giving the order, he heard someone shouting from the direction of the kitchen: "Come on, there is a child who is still alive here!"
Hearing this shout, everyone had a glimmer of hope in their hearts, at least there were still people alive here, and they would know what had happened here. So Chi Muyan hurried over and saw the child who was hidden in the pyre.
Chi Muyan recognized this child at a glance, he was the grandson of Li Laohan, who was in charge of the meal in Hongmen. Because this child is short, a little fat, and likes to wear green clothes, he is like a green plum rolling on the ground when he runs, so everyone who practices swordsmanship here calls him Little Plum.
Xiao Lizi was obviously frightened, and covered his mouth with a pair of chubby little hands to prevent himself from making a sound due to fright, and his little body was curled up in a ball, hiding in a pile of firewood in the corner of the firewood room, shivering.
Chi Muyan first used a calming spell to calm Xiao Lizi down, and then slowly began to ask him what was going on here, and Xiao Lizi also slowly began to narrate.
Xiao Lizi said that everyone got up as usual to practice swords this morning, only the second senior brother Yin Mo didn't know why he had an argument with Master Hong, as if he was asking Master Hong for something, but Master Hong didn't give it to him, so he angrily took a black stone and went up the cliff of broken love. Xiao Lizi also quietly followed because of curiosity, and he found that Yin Mo had been fiddling with the stone in his mouth, and then with the stone as the center, a black teleportation array appeared, and a woman dressed in black walked out of the teleportation array with a man and a woman.
Then a brutal slaughter began, and when Xiao Lizi recalled this terrifying memory, his body that had been settled down began to tremble slightly, and he paused for a long time to calm down and continue to tell everyone.
The man and the woman seemed to be the subordinates of the woman in black, the man was huge, wearing battle armor and looking ugly, and the woman was dressed in red and had a bewitching figure. After they rushed down from the cliff of broken love, they killed people when they saw them, and the Hongmen disciples resisted desperately, but they were all killed by the woman who led them. It was at this time that Xiao Lizi was stuffed into the pyre by Lao Litou, and because the firewood room happened to be facing the martial arts training ground, Xiao Lizi witnessed all this with his own eyes. The woman in black originally had a draw with Master Hong, but her subordinates captured the last two remaining disciples of Hongmen as a threat, asking Master Hong to give up resistance and hand over the secret book of Hongmen.
After killing Master Hong, the woman had no intention of letting go of the two disciples, and just as she was about to kill the two of them, a disciple on the side who they thought was dead suddenly got up, snatched the two children from her hands, and pulled them to jump down the waterfall of the cliff of broken love.
The woman chased to the edge of the cliff and glanced down, then sneered and told her subordinates that there was no need to chase anymore, and then went into Master Hong's bedroom, rummaging around, but finally found nothing.
Before leaving, the woman glanced at Master Hong's corpse again in frustration, and then instructed Yin Mo to take out the black stone again and open the portal, and the original three, along with Yin Mo, disappeared in the same strange way as when they came.
After listening to Xiao Lizi's narration, the same question appeared in everyone's hearts, what was the black stone he was talking about?