In the wilderness on the outskirts of Xifeng Town, Gu Hong hovered and neighed over the crimson sunset, and a horse prisoner cart was driven by the man in black towards the center of the market town.

The illusion on the prisoner's cart was cracked by one of the girls, and the four Imperial soldiers beside her were already grabbing the shoulders of the ragged middle-aged man opposite.

Almost at the same time, the four Imperial soldiers drew their long swords from their waists and pointed at the sky, and a hurricane rose from their feet, carrying the middle-aged man through the prisoner car, and the girl also flew into the air with the hurricane coat.

Seeing this scene, Zeng Yu realized that this group of Xiduan people were here to rob the prisoners, and the middle-aged man they rescued must be a big man.

A large hole was pierced through the top of the prisoner cart, and the people inside began to stir, and at this moment, the mysterious black-clothed man who was silently driving in front of him rose into the air and landed on the prisoner cart in an instant, standing with his feet apart, and blocking the hole with his body.

Zeng Yu's right hand was always on Jiang Liu'er's left shoulder, ready to find an opportunity to escape at any time, but he couldn't see the strength of this mysterious man in black at all, and acting rashly would only cost him his life, so he could only wait.

The man in black stood on the prisoner cart and didn't pay attention to the movement under his feet, but looked up at the black hurricane above, he seemed to understand that this group of Western Decisive people could not be offended, so he didn't make a move.

The black hurricane swayed upwards after breaking away from the prisoner car, but suddenly swayed violently from side to side, as if the middle-aged man controlled by the imperial army was struggling.

I only heard a "bang", and a bright sword light pierced through the black hurricane, and the Western Decisive Imperial Army bloomed like four petals, and then flew to the ground, and the blood gushing out of the neck stained the sky red.

The middle-aged man stood hanging in the air, his long hair flying, but his eyebrows were full of confusion.

He stood opposite the girl who was chasing him, and the girl bent down and bowed her head and clenched her fists in a very respectful salute.

"Come back with us!"

"You've found the wrong person, my name is Jinyun, and I'm just a beggar in Xifeng Town!"

After speaking, the middle-aged man swung the long sword in his hand vigorously, and the long sword rushed towards a hard stone under him, and it sank into half of it with a sonorous sound, and there was still a sound of blood trembling on the blade.

The middle-aged man who called himself Jinyun released the qi on his body, and then slowly fell in the direction of the prisoner car, and finally landed in front of the man in black, shaking his head and begging for mercy and said:

"Excuse me. ”

The man in black paused, and then silently moved his right foot away, letting go of the big hole under his feet, but he didn't expect Jinyun to jump down, and he was still muttering madly:

"The long sword pulls the moonlight of a thousand rivers, and the passers are lonely. ”

He landed where he had been sitting in the prisoner car, crossed his legs, and tilted his head and squinted his eyes.

The girl in mid-air looked at this amazing scene with a stunned expression, and then saw her roll up her light red sleeves, her dexterous jade fingers buckled the obscure seal, and the high-flying paper kite on her fingertips, pulling the ethereal colored threads, rushed in all directions to the only prisoner cart in the empty field.

The paper kite stopped on the eight corners of the prisoner cart in the four directions, and the girls hooked their fingers, and the prisoners shook for a while, and they were dragged by colored threads and flew away with the prisoner cart.

The man in black raised his right foot and struggled, the eight colored threads condensed by the air broke one after another, the paper kites were all scattered, and the prisoner cart slowly fell under the control of the feet of the man in black and stopped in its original position.

The two horses pulling the cart seemed to be frightened, and at the same time as the prisoner cart fell, they rushed forward frantically, and the man in black rose in the air and dragged the entangled girl.

The prisoner cart went away in the wilderness, and the figures of the man in black and the girl gradually disappeared from everyone's sight, disappearing into the sky......

Zeng Yu originally wanted to escape, but when he saw the sloppy man in front of him, he didn't leave when someone rescued him, so he was also interested for a while, walked over on the rocking prisoner car, and squinted his eyes:

"Hey, do you know where this is going?"

"It's not the same everywhere. Jinyun looked very sad, and he felt that he had trouble even speaking.

"We are being dragged to the duel......" At this moment, a young man wearing a turban next to him spoke with a thick local accent.

"Duel?" Zeng was puzzled and turned his head to stare at him.

"Right...... I've heard for a long time that every year there is a casual gathering in Xifeng Town, and the dismissed cultivators from dozens of villages in the town will come to participate, and they not only compete fiercely in their own martial arts, but also arrest people everywhere and throw them into the dueling arena to play life and death. ”

As for the life and death situation, that is the jargon between the scattered cultivators, the two people who were thrown into the dueling arena, only one of them can come out alive, and the scattered cultivators use this as a game to gamble on life and death. ”

"You know that...... It is difficult for these monks who were expelled from the village to survive in the rivers and lakes without the support of the village, and they took advantage of the life and death situation to make a good living, and they also saved from being hunted down and killed by the enemy by robbing their homes everywhere. ”

The atmosphere in the prisoner's car was lively, and everyone began to talk about the affairs of the rivers and lakes, and the village seemed to be isolated from the rivers and lakes, because it was always a melting pot around the powerful virtuous cultivators.

Jiang Liu'er sat in the corner, listening to the adults pointing out the rivers and lakes, blinking his eyes and incomprehensible, and gradually having doubts in his heart, he wanted to know: Since there is a white village, why do you still need this black rivers and lakes.

After a day's attack, the prisoner cart was pulled to the Jackdaw Valley in the north of Xifeng Town in the evening, and the lights in the valley were suddenly bright, and a large area of scattered cultivators who were mixed with the rivers and lakes poured out all over the mountains, they raised their fires and shouted, and greeted the prisoner carts gathered from all directions with a solemn ceremony.

In the midst of this loud cheer, Jiang Liu'er was particularly soberly aware of his existence, and what was waiting for him was undoubtedly to be thrown into the dueling arena full of blood, and then either you died or I lived.

I've never thought about it so much before, but now I actually have a mind, and although I don't know what life is, I will be hoarse and afraid of death.

Just when Jiang Liu'er was trapped in the prisoner car, he was awakened by a distant piano sound, and there was a graceful and soft accent in the song:

"Who watches over the white village, who sings an elegy in the black rivers and lakes......"

There was nostalgia in the song, Jiang Liuer was homesick, and he felt that no matter how far a person goes, he will always return to the village in the end.

So the long night is at the end of the night, and I will keep watch from tonight until I die.

The prisoner cart was escorted deep into the valley and parked in front of the dark and rancid cell door, where the adults were driven out of the car, while Jiang Liu'er curled up in the corner shivering.

"Little doll, get out of the car, be careful with thin arms and tender legs, I will stew you and eat it at a time. A fierce bearded middle-aged man with a two-plate axe chopped the stakes on the prisoner cart and grinned.

Zeng Yu was startled, and was about to go up and pull him down, but was stopped by Jinyun beside him, only to see him draw out his long sword and point at Jiang Liu'er:

"It's your past that makes you incapacitated, not my sword. ”

After speaking, he threw the long sword at Jiang Liu'er's feet, threw down a sentence and turned around and got into the cell, he said:

"My sword is your sword, pick it up and let it never rust dull. ”

Jiang Liu'er plucked up the courage to pick up the long sword and stepped out of the prisoner car, but he used to only use a dagger......