Chapter 9: Killer Imp
After the incident at the General's Mansion on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Ling Nan was originally going to leave! Unexpectedly, Deng Yu actually stepped forward and made a fair ruling! Not only did he appease Ling Nan's depressed and frustrated heart, but also made Ling Nan reposition Deng Yu's bearing and character. Therefore, he decided to stay and be a guard leader in the General's Mansion, which was regarded as repaying Deng Yu for justifying himself that night.
A few days later, it was the autumnal equinox. Early that morning, it was raining lightly. In the morning, he didn't mention anything, but said that in the afternoon of this day, Ling Nan was entrusted by Deng Yu to protect his wife and go to the "Shuiyun Nunnery" ten miles away on the outskirts of the city to worship the Buddha and make incense.
After everything was ready, Ling Nan ordered twenty guards to accompany him in the general's mansion, plus four sedan chair men and five maids, and a group of thirty people crossed the streets and alleys in a majestic manner, and this momentum alone was extremely public.
Shuiyun Nunnery, in the suburbs of Babao Town ten miles, its location is in front of the mountain stream, leaning on the peaks and huge rocks, the four seasons are cloudy, misty and rainy, so it gets its name.
As soon as the group arrived at the gate of the nunnery, two middle-aged nuns were already waiting in front of the mountain gate. After a short time, after the lady got out of the sedan chair, she said to Ling Nan and the other guards: "The Shuiyun Nunnery is a place of cultivation, you don't have to go in if there are many of you......!
The guards promised. Subsequently, under the guidance of the two nuns, the lady took the five maids into the Shuiyun Nunnery first.
Ling Nan hesitated for a moment when he heard this, but still followed......
As soon as you enter the Shuiyun Temple, you realize that there is a unique scenery inside. Although it is late autumn outside, the inside is full of trees, flowers everywhere, the grass on the side of the road is green, and the lotus in the pond is beautiful...... At this moment, the house in the nunnery is still shrouded in a layer of mist, and it faintly makes people feel like they are in a winning place. Shuiyun Nunnery is not big, except for a row of dense bamboo forests and things behind the rockery. Of course, this is only the first time that first-time visitors see what is happening on the outside......
There are many uncertain factors in the things of the world! Beautiful appearances often conceal their dirty nature! There are many people who are sincere on the surface but hypocritical in their hearts! They say all the good things in front of their faces, but they do absolutely evil things behind their backs! It is a pity that the truth, goodness, beauty, falsehood, evil and ugliness in the world can sometimes be distinguished only by appearances and appearances!
It is absolutely impossible for a person who does not have a painful lesson to have these experiences! Ling Nan is no exception. As the saying goes: once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope. He had now developed the habit of being cautious everywhere, after all, his life was still too easy to die. It's just because he still has a deep vengeance and a great hatred......
As soon as Ling Nan followed the group into the Shuiyun Nunnery, he immediately heard a sound of gold and iron and shouting from outside.
Ling Nan listened quietly and knew that it was the shouting of the guards who stayed outside the gate of the nunnery, and he couldn't help but be stunned...... Without thinking much about it, he turned around and rushed out of Shuiyun Temple.
When Ling Nan swept to the gate of the nunnery, he found that the shocking scene was that all twenty guards had fallen to the ground, all of them in a pool of blood......
Who did this? Who had the ability to kill all 20 of these guards in an extreme amount of time?
Ling Nan was shocked, but also puzzled. Suddenly, a woman's exclamation came from the nunnery......
"Oh no, this is a sound ...... the west," Ling Nan thought to himself. Because he had already heard the exclamation just now, it was Mrs. Deng's voice.
Ling Nan could no longer care about the dead guards, and rushed straight towards the nunnery. However, when he returned to the place where he had been separated from Madame Deng just now, he was dumbfounded. Because he searched all the halls and nunnery inside and out, but where was there still half a shadow of Mrs. Deng? Even the nun who had just led the way did not know where to go. Later, he found that there was no one in such a big Shuiyun Nunnery, and he was immersed in a dead silence everywhere.
Ling Nan began to feel a little uneasy, he was not afraid, but worried that Madame Deng had been poisoned, and until now, he didn't even know who the other party was!
Is it for him? Or is there some other reason? He can't tell for sure! He just knows that his opponent is really strong...... In broad daylight, with lightning speed, people are killed without showing traces, and captives are not visible. This kind of opponent, whether in terms of cunning or martial arts, should not be underestimated!
Actually, then again, he could have left...... It's a big deal not to return to the General's Mansion and continue his wandering career.
But once he left, it was not his principle of life!
At this moment, Ling Nan was maintaining a high degree of vigilance, although he knew that he was already in a passive situation, and if he was not calm, he would fall into the trap of the other party...... He also thought in his heart: Since the other party does not choose to blatantly confront himself, it seems that the other party must have concerns!
When Ling Nan thought of this, he was no longer at a loss. He simply calmed down and sat on the futon in front of the Buddha statue in the main hall of Shuiyun Nunnery and closed his eyes to recuperate. Here's what he thinks: instead of blindly looking for a way by himself, it is better to wait for his opponent to come to the door.
About half a meal had passed, and Ling Nan really heard a wisp of piano sound coming from outside the hall...... Then he heard a soft sound of clothes flowing outside the hall, and he knew that someone was coming.
"Your Excellency is really calm?" a man's deep voice came from outside the main hall.
When Ling Nan heard this, he did not answer. When he walked out of the main hall, he found a man in a black shirt and a hooded cloak standing a few feet away.
"Who are you, who dare to kill the court guards and kidnap the general'......s wife," Ling Nan asked.
"It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that you won't be human soon......," the blackshirt replied lightly, his words cold and gloomy, like a judge of life and death who holds the power of life and death.
After listening to the man's answer, Ling Nan wiped a trace of coolness in his heart. He had seen many arrogant people, but it was the first time in his life that he had seen such a confident and arrogant person.
"You're very confident! I'm just afraid of ......" Ling Nan deliberately left half of his words behind.
The black-shirted man really asked, "What are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid you may not have that ability!"
The black-shirted man trembled when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "Ha Luha...... It's funny that one of your little guards is so ashamed to talk so much about his death. Don't say it's you, it's the second deputy general Yang and Wang of your General's Mansion...... It will be easy for me to take their lives. ”
When Ling Nan heard this, he just shook his head and didn't make a sound. He replied wordlessly. Because he knows the Tao, in this world, he relies on strength to speak! If the other party doesn't have some real skills, he won't be so arrogant!
At this time, the black-shirted man had slowly walked towards Ling Nan, and every time he took a step forward, the sword in his hand was clenched. That couldn't have been more evident, for he was ready to draw his sword at any moment......
"You're a killer......" Ling Nan asked.
"You've already known it's too late!" replied the blackshirt.
"There are many famous killers in the rivers and lakes...... But there aren't many killers who are famous and use swords!" Ling Nan said.
The black-shirted man seemed to hesitate when he heard Ling Nan's words. He shot two cold stars from his cloak, and then said, "Oh......?
"Dragonflies, Qingfeng, Little Ghosts, and Heavenly Dao are famous killers in the rivers and lakes...... Ling Nan continued.
The black-shirted man seemed to be shocked when he heard this, and he actually stopped, and asked in surprise: "You are a little leader of the guard, and you know so many things in the rivers and lakes? It seems that you are really not simple...... No wonder they paid me to kill you!"
"Oh......" When Ling Nan heard this, his heart that had been hanging was calmed down a lot, but he still asked curiously, "Who are they......?"
"This is our behavior...... You don't have to know the way! You don't have to know the way. ”
When Ling Nan heard this, he snorted coldly and said, "You are too confident! do you think you will definitely be able to kill me?"
This time, sure enough, the black-shirted killer was surprised, and he suddenly laughed and said, "Ha Luha, it's interesting! If I can't take your life within ten swords, I'll let you go......"
Ling Nan didn't want to talk to him anymore, because he felt that this killer seemed to talk too much nonsense, and he was not suitable for this profession.
"Do it! you're going to be disappointed......"
A hint of coldness flashed across the black-shirted killer's face, and he stopped talking. At the same time as he took a step, the swords of the people came together, turning into a "white rainbow shocking": the long sword was flattened and stabbed, and only a sword attacked Ling Nan in the chest. This sword came extremely fast, and it seemed that it would be in front of Ling Nan in the blink of an eye. Before that, there were at least ten people who died under the sword move of the black-shirted killer on the rivers and lakes......
However, Ling Nan is definitely an exception. Because, he had turned around and dodged easily.
The sword came quickly, and he avoided it faster. The black-shirted killer was even more shocked when he saw Ling Nanshi's body on display. Because this is clearly what only those who have the best light skills can do.
"Hey, you've got a double hit...... the black-shirted killer said.
"You still have the Nine Swords ......"
When the black-shirted killer heard Ling Nan say this, his heart couldn't help but surge with anger. So there was no longer half a minute of delay under his hand, and after jumping in the air, another sword stabbed in the air. This sword is fast and powerful, and the sword is hollow and conjures up three phantoms, attacking Ling Nan in the upper, middle and lower three sets.
Ling Nan also knew that the murderous intent of the black-shirted killer had risen, and he didn't dare to slack off. He finally pulled out the knife at his waist...... Seeing that after he swung the knife and hung it out, a white light appeared from the knife-shaped leakage. The white light made an arc of light from bottom to top, just in time to meet the three phantoms of the black-shirted killer's long sword.
Shocked to hear the sound of "jingle bell" several times, after the sword exchange, the sword light dissolved the three sword shadows.
The black-shirted killer fruit was shocked by Ling Nan's sword, and he retreated, gaining an unstable foothold...... He immediately saw the matching knife in Ling Nan's hand move again, stabbing at his empty door at an incredibly fast speed.
With a knife like a dragon going to sea, the momentum is extraordinary, and the knife seems to be ordinary but fuses the essence of several knife techniques, and the black-shirted killer can't even see the slightest way. This time, he had to reassess the head of the guard of the General's Mansion in front of him......
The blackshirt killer was wrong at the beginning, he made a very serious mistake - he really shouldn't have taken his opponent lightly.
At this moment, Ling Nan's saber stabbed into the cloaked of the black-shirted killer...... It's just that in that moment of lightning and fire, the black-shirted killer cast a "broken chain of iron bridge", and then jumped back and retreated. Just avoided the oncoming knife from Ling Nan, but he avoided it very dangerously......
And Ling Nan seemed to be shaking his arm at the same time, drawing his knife and slashing out diagonally...... At the end of the day, Ling Nan's sword momentum leaked out, and he actually split the cloak on the top of the black-shirted killer's head in half.
When the two-half cloak fell to the ground, the miserable white face of the black-shirted killer finally appeared in front of Ling Nan's eyes.
"Are you a killer imp?" Ling Nan asked.
When Ling Nan asked this, the killer could no longer hold back the horror in his heart.
"You...... How did you know about it?"
"Because among the killers in the rivers and lakes, the dragonfly's weapon is a strange heavy sword, and the killer Qingfeng is known for driving the sword like the wind and being extremely fast, and the killer Tiandao is more easily recognizable, because he is not from the Central Plains but a swordsman from Dongying Ronin...... Therefore, you will only be a killer imp!" Ling Nan actually said the killers that everyone in the rivers and lakes was known about, like a few treasures.
He had to be surprised that he was a killer imp.
"Who the hell are you? you can't just be an ordinary general's palace guard!" the imp asked.
"I'm really just a guard at the General's Mansion right now. Ling Nan replied.
"With your skills, how can you ......," the imp said.
"But that's exactly what happened!" Ling Nan replied.
"Looks like I missed this time...... I can't kill you with my martial arts!" the little ghost was disappointed, and he said lightly.
"Oh, why do you say that?" Ling Nan said.
"If it weren't for the mercy you just had...... I'm just afraid I've actually done it!" muttered the killer imp.
Ling Nan said: "I have no grudge against you, so why should I kill you? I just want to know Lu Dao, who sent you to kill us? Then Mrs. Deng has already been ...... by you?"
The little ghost smiled sadly and said, "Although I can't kill you today. But I still can't break the rules of our business! I can only tell you that Mrs. Deng is not dead...... I've already handed it over to someone else. ”
When Ling Nan heard this, he was really surprised. "It turns out that you are stalling for time......"
At this time, the little ghost actually smiled bitterly: "Plundering the general's wife was originally a matter of their plan. And when I came to you, it was true that someone wanted me to kill you, but I didn't expect that I couldn't kill you, and I asked you to spare my life......"
After hearing this, Ling Nan couldn't help but be very surprised. But he didn't say anything more, and was about to leave.
"Let's ...... slowly," the little ghost said when he saw that Ling Nan was leaving.
"Why do you have to do it?"
"No, I just want to tell you that I owe you my life. You can always come to me if you want......" the imp said.
"No need. ”
The little ghost looked at Ling Nan's back as he left, and he was stunned. He just wondered in his heart: who is he? He can't be just an ordinary guard of the General's Palace!
Bursts of piano sounds came, tactful, light and powerful, and melodious. At this moment, Ling Nan didn't hesitate for a moment, he walked straight to the ......