Chapter 42: Puppetry, and Transfiguration
The wind was chilling.
The daisy dress raised a graceful arc, but it was soaked in the torrential rain the moment the woman flew off the road. She fell into the depths of darkness without a struggle, like a dead butterfly with broken wings.
Lu Qiming looked at her.
The woman's eyes were closed, her face was snow-white, and she seemed to glow with a soft light in the night, which made Lu Qiming see her demeanor very clearly.
It was a painful dazedness. Her lips were pursed—reminiscent of a sacrificer who had endured with a mission.
This scene made Lu Qiming realize that no matter what the appearance was - Yin Qiushui was really killing himself. Originally......
Sword energy! sword energy!
At the moment when Lu Qiming was about to catch the woman's wrist, countless cold sword qi came towards him in unison!
In the heavens and on the ground, every sword has a dark and rough blade, so that no matter how fast and ruthless the speed is, it will never flash a trace of sharp light. The dark sword roared in the wind and rain, like a snake that had been dormant for a long time.
Lu Qiming's expression did not change at all. Nian Ci's knife suddenly appeared from his hand, the high and low angles were just right, his knife momentum swept and pressed and borrowed force, his body was light and volleyed in the air, and he took the little flute silently over the cliff tip, and stopped steadily on the flat mountain rock behind.
It turned out that he didn't come up to save people at all. He shot it to get out of the knife.
Yin Qiushui, who followed, was just a puppet incarnation - Lu Qiming had known this for a long time, and what surprised Lu Qiming before was another thing.
Thinking in his heart, Lu Qiming didn't pay attention to the group of black-clothed people around him, but turned around and looked in the direction of the cliff again-the figure of the woman in the cloth who was dragged up by one of the black-clothed people-Yin Qiushui's puppet incarnation.
Perhaps because they think that there are many people and everyone has confidence in their hearts, this group of people in black still has time to gossip.
Several of them stared at Yin Qiushui coldly, and one of them sneered: "My good sister, you are here like this?
-- This voice sounded like that of an ordinary young man, but the tone was that of a mean middle-aged woman. This incongruity is uncomfortable to listen to.
Yin Qiushui was silent. Although the puppet clone has a distraction from its master, it cannot speak.
"Stop talking nonsense, deal with him first!" said another man in black.
Lu Qiming raised his eyebrows slightly, and finally turned his attention to the speaker--because the voices of the two were exactly the same! Lu Qiming looked around and said with a smile: "Interesting." ”
Tree shadows, shadows, and forests. Xiao Dizi's eyes could not see clearly, so he asked curiously, "Master, do they have twin brothers?"
Lu Qiming smiled: "More than that." As he spoke, he raised his finger slightly, and silently made a trick -
The sun rises on the ground.
A huge fiery red flame swirled around him, and the heat caused the torrential rain to evaporate into mist in an instant, and then unstoppably spray away in all directions. For a moment, apart from the chaotic white and vivid red, people's eyes could no longer see the slightest.
The light is stronger than the day.
The red flame reflected in the eyes of the little flute, making her gaze as if it had ignited a fire. But the girl didn't pay attention to the gorgeous scenery around her at all, and only looked up at the young man beside her fixedly, her eyes unblinking.
Lu Qiming's trick changed, and he said in a low voice: "Scatter." ”
Suddenly, the firelight condensed, and then in an instant, thirty-two bright small fireballs were divided, and they shot straight towards the black-clothed people around them one by one.
For a moment, everyone thought it was some kind of terrifying attack, and at the same time jumped backwards with a loud shout to dodge, and it was rare that the movements were uniform, but the thirty-two figures were like one person.
However, no matter how they dodged and culled, the fireball was firmly suspended in front of their faces, and even if it was extinguished, it would spawn another one in an instant. The only strange thing is that although this fireball is difficult, it is nothing more than that, neither flying away nor attacking.
Could it be a formation? The man in black was suspicious.
At this time, the thick white mist emitted by the flames had gradually become lighter, and the surrounding scene became clearer. I only heard Lu Qiming chuckle and said, "Little flute, do you see it clearly now?"
It turned out that the thirty-two men in black around were all identical in appearance, fat, thin, tall, and armed with weapons!
Twins are already rare in the world, where can you see thirty-two twins?!
When Xiao Dizi saw such a scene at first glance, he was really curious and rare, and blurted out: "Master, Master, this is so funny, how did they come up with it?"
Lu Qiming replied with a smile: "The Xunzhou Yin clan has two stunts - puppet technique and disguise technique. There were actually only sixteen of them, and they were all the same, and they were the same puppet clones - and they were like this. I've only heard about it before, but when I saw them today, it's really interesting. ”
It wasn't until Lu Qiming finished talking to the little flute unhurriedly that the unbelievable black-clothed people finally reluctantly confirmed what Lu Qiming meant-it was just to illuminate their faces and let the little child watch the fun?!
Now, even if the face is the same, it will inevitably become colorful.
"It's changed, it's fun!" the little flute clapped his hands and laughed.
Children are innocent by nature, but it is this contempt that is most unbearable. For a while, angry shouts rang out one after another.
Xiao Dizi counted with his fingers: "There are six who scold 'looking for death', and eight who scold 'not knowing life or death' - Master, why don't they have any new ideas at all?"
"My hearing has improved, and it seems that I have been working hard lately. Lu Qiming praised with a smile. He glanced at the black-clothed people around him, waved his hand, and changed his technique again.
All the blazing fireworks were extinguished at the same time, and the world was once again in cold darkness.
The flames drawn by the technique were condensed by the pure Heaven and Earth Yuan Force, and they were so bright that they were dazzling, and after adapting, they certainly made people's vision extremely clear, but once they were lost again--the strong sense of blindness brought about by this contrast between light and darkness, even the cultivators of the Xiao Zhou Heaven Realm could not avoid it--Suddenly, everyone subconsciously collected their swords to protect themselves, and slashed hard in front of them.
But it's not over yet.
The strange cold weather came out of nowhere, and it only took a moment to condense a whole layer of extremely smooth and hard ice on the surface of the earth and rock, which had just been solid and reliable. In a hurry, either the puppet or the cultivator himself, there were nearly ten who fell directly.
It seemed that the Yin family was too incompetent and was being played with, but they really had a hard time--Lu Qiming's speed was too fast, so fast that no matter how shallow his technique was to attack, they wouldn't have time to deal with it--how could this be the speed that Xiao Zhoutian's realm could achieve? How could it be?
Seeing this chaotic scene, Lu Qiming couldn't help but sigh.
At this time, he and the little flute were long gone. Higher up on the cliff there was a knotted pine branch that stretched outward, and they stood there overlooking it, like idlers on the outside.
Although the little flute couldn't see clearly, just listening to the noise coming from below, he could imagine a bit of the embarrassing situation of the black-clothed people. She asked, "Isn't that good? Why are you sighing?"
Lu Qiming shook his head and smiled: "I didn't expect that even a person from the Sheng family didn't come tonight." It seems that the Yin family has not even gained the most basic trust. ”
Xiao Dizi sneered: "Dare to betray us, do you think you have gained a lot of benefits from the Sheng family! ”
"If I knew this, it would be better to follow her real body. Lu Qiming was helpless. It's just that these people from the Yin family are really not worth his trip.
Xiao Dizi asked, "Then let's go back?"
Lu Qiming pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "No need. It's okay to think differently. ”
The little flute was curious, and was about to ask again, but was shouted by an annoying voice below. Lu Qiming also looked down when he heard the sound.
Yin Qiushui, you thing that is not enough to achieve and more than to lose!"
It turned out that they had finally discovered the fact that the target was missing at this time, but instead of working together to find it, they vented their anger on Yin Qiushui.
The woman's figure was dragged all the way to the center of the crowd. She hung her head quietly, like a puppet at the mercy of others. Her face was completely hidden in the shadows, and no one could see it.
"Damn, I'm mad at the way you look!" someone spat out.
"It's your family's business, and you're going to be a puppet clone and you're done?" the other asked.
Yin Qiushui bowed his head and was silent. Naturally, the puppet can't speak.
In a few exclamations, suddenly a sword qi cut through the heavy rain curtain, and then slashed the woman's body!
There was a moment of silence in the crowd.
Someone hesitated: "Ah Heng...... Isn't it a bit too much for us to do this? After all, the autumn water ......."
"What's too much? It's just ruining a puppet, what are the consequences?"
"But ......"
"It's already like this, what else are you talking about. Forget it. "There is another humanity.
People once again turned their attention to the woman in Dai Yi -
There was no blood in the body that had been split by the sword, but it rolled up like cracked leather, which made people feel uncomfortable. The aura scattered in sprinkling stars, and it was finally reduced to a shriveled, old blood-soaked humanoid array.
Lu Qiming frowned, flicked his sleeves suddenly, and fifteen ice cubes condensed out of thin air, directly towards the fifteen puppet bodies.
Fifteen screams rang out violently, and the moment the puppet was destroyed, the corresponding fifteen Yin cultivators all spewed out a mouthful of blood!
Xiao Dizi didn't hear the previous conversation of the Yin family, raised his head and asked softly, "Master?"
Lu Qiming said: "It's nothing. I just want to see what happens - destroying a mere puppet. ”
Although Lu Qiming's voice was low when he said this, it reached the ears of everyone in black very clearly. As they looked at each other, they realized that only the one who had spoken out against them had survived. Only then did they understand that the only puppet they were proud of, the disguised and blind method, was of no use to Lu Qiming at all, and they were all a little disheartened for a while.
At this time, the voice of the teenager sounded in their ears again.
"Lead the way, go to your Yin family's land. ”
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