Chen Xiao's laughter stopped abruptly, and his face turned blue in an instant—who gave him the guts?!" He looked at the oncoming heavy sword with contempt, not nervous at all. His Chen family has the best hidden guard in Middle-earth, "Shadow". With a shadow, it is absolutely impossible for that heavy sword to approach itself.

However, until the broken hair in front of his forehead was blown up by the sword qi, the shadow did not make a move! Chen Xiao was shocked and angry, seeing that the heavy sword was about to stab, he hurriedly pushed away the servant girl beside him, and turned off the treasure chariot in embarrassment.

After all, Chen Xiao also has the cultivation of the third order of a martial artist, and Gu Zhiyang has been exhausted for a long time, so this sword did not really hit Chen Xiao. The blade of the sword grazed Chen's body, and slashed heavily in the center of the treasure chariot - with a muffled sound, the extremely luxurious treasure chariot was split in two, and fell to the ground in pieces of wood in the screams of the maid, stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust.

Chen Xiao was furious and was about to question the shadow, but when he turned around, his face was covered with a layer of mist. When he looked at it, his face immediately changed—

The gray-clothed shadow that loomed behind him before had to be revealed, his face was solemn, and he concentrated his energy in his palms, and in front of his palms, it was just an ordinary teacup!

The two powerful forces clashed through this teacup, causing the tea in it to be instantly steamed into mist!

For the first time, a trace of panic flashed on Chen Xiao's face - in addition to the shadow, there were other Xiao Zhou Tian here?!

Under Chen's shocked gaze, the teacup silently turned into powder and drifted away in the air, while the confrontation of the two forces set off a violent wave of qi and rushed in all directions, and where it passed, the gray stone ground and the black iron fence were shattered and skewed, so that the audience in the front row could no longer care about the excitement and fled in all directions.

......

Lu Qiming took a teacup in his hand in advance, just waiting for this moment.

He stood up lightly under Yao Chengxiang's frightened gaze, a harmless smile on the corner of his mouth, and turned back to the two of them in a relaxed, even brisk tone: "I'll go first." ”

Yao Chengxiang looked at Lu Qiming with a dull expression, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, slowly turned his head and asked Lu Ziqi: "Girl, I think you should bring your brother back......"

Lu Ziqi pulled out his saber with a brush, and shouted: "Pull a hair!" Before the words fell, he rushed out like a whirlwind, and after running a few steps, he hurriedly retreated, winked at Yao Chengxiang and whispered: "What I just said, you must not tell my brother!"

Yao Chengxiang watched the corner of the table that had just been crossed by Lu Ziqi's sword blade slowly slipping down, and the cut surface was extremely smooth, he couldn't help swallowing and spitting, and stammered: "You, did you just speak?"

Lu Ziqi threw him an appreciative look, turned his head and left.

Yao Chengxiang watched the two disappear one after the other, his eyebrows trembled, and he stood up with a sad face, "Wait for me!"

......

While the vast majority of people were scrambling to stay away from the arena in panic, the teenager who came against the flow of people was even more conspicuous.

The young man's eyes were as calm as a quiet spring, and there was a slight smile on his delicate face, but it made the people around him scream and make noise unconsciously lower their voices. He walked so leisurely that the crowd along the way did not even touch the slightest corner of his clothes.

Gu Zhiyang recognized him at a glance, and couldn't help but be happy in his heart, and in an instant, he thought that Lu Qiming and Chen Xiao were both children of the family, and they might not be here to help him, so he didn't say a word, just looked at him.

The shadow looked at him in disbelief, then turned his gaze away, trying to find out where the mysterious little Zhou Tian was.

Chen Xiao frowned and looked at his slightly familiar face, and a sense of annoyance surged inexplicably in his heart, and he said coldly: "Who are you?"

Lu Qiming's steps looked leisurely, but he was not slow at all, and in a blink of an eye, he came to Gu Zhiyang's side. Lu Qiming ignored Chen Xiao, only handed Gu Zhiyang a porcelain vase, and said with a slight joke: "I just want to know your location, the movement is so big, it's easy to find." ”

Gu Zhiyang took the porcelain bottle, didn't look at it, opened the cap and poured it down.

Lu Qiming said: "You don't want to ask what it is?"

The corners of Gu Zhiyang's mouth were slightly hooked, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "Anyway, I can't understand if I ask." ”

Lu Qiming blinked and said, "External." ”

Gu Zhiyang was stunned for a moment, his face was a little dark, "You ......"

Lu Qiming shrugged his shoulders slightly and said innocently: "Just kidding." ”

As he spoke, Gu Zhiyang felt a cool and warm medicinal power rapidly spreading in his body, the damaged meridians and dried internal force were instantly restored, and the previously lost power returned to his body again. A trace of gratitude flashed in Gu Zhiyang's eyes, but he didn't say anything.

"I'm not here to catch up with you. Chen Xiao sneered, "Is Young Master Ben's idle affairs also easy to manage?" He waved his hand and motioned for the four guards who had carried the treasure chariot before to step forward and take them down.

Lu Qiming made a pause gesture and smiled gently and politely, "Wait a minute." ”

He has a temperament that people can't help but believe, and the four guards are confused, and they can't help but pause. Tatsumi raised his eyebrows, crossed his arms and waited to hear what he had to say.

Lu Qiming didn't say anything. He unhurriedly took out a few silver needles from his sleeve, and with a slight wave of one hand, he saw four silver rays of light hitting the guard's sleeping hole with great speed; before the guard could react, he felt a heavy sleepiness hit him, and his eyes were black, and he fell to the ground.

There was silence all around.

Lu Qiming nodded with satisfaction and asked Gu Zhiyang, "Can you still fight?"

As soon as he spoke, the people around him woke up like a dream and realized what had just happened.

Chen's face turned blue, and he pointed at him and said, "You, you—"

Lu Qiming smiled at Gu Zhiyang with his chin in the direction of Chenxiao: "He handed it over to you, can you deal with it?"

Gu Zhiyang came back to his senses, raised his sword eyebrows, and said with a long smile: "Then you still need to ask!"

Chen Xiao was furious in his heart, and took a step forward with his sword, but the shadow blocked him behind him, and said in a solemn tone: "Young master, be careful, he is the one who just shot!"

"This can't be!" Tatsumi blurted out. Xiao Zhoutian: How is it possible? He looked at Lu Qiming's face incredulously, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became...... His face became even more gloomy, his chest rose and fell violently, and he said hatefully: "It turns out that you are ......"

The word "Lu" came to his mouth, but he was forcibly held back by Chen Xiao - he knew that as soon as the word "Lu" came out, this battle could not be fought again; he did not allow himself to leave in such a gloomy manner, this breath has not yet come out!

Xiao Zhoutian! He is already Xiao Zhoutian! Jealously, Chen's chest hurts, he takes a deep breath, and he sharply commands the shadow: "You can only win, you can't lose! Win him! I want you to win him at all costs!"

The shadow muffled as it should be. The figure flickered like a wave of water, and then silently melted into the air and disappeared.

Lu Qiming stretched out his hand and made a move, volleying the sword of the fainted guard, his expression calm and serious. He smiled slightly, and casually held a sword flower in his hand - just about to see the means of the Chen family's shadow!

......

Lu Ziqi and Yao Chengxiang are not as relaxed as Lu Qiming. The two of them, who weren't even martial artists, were squeezing around in the crowd, Yao Chengxiang's small round hat had long since been lost, and Lu Ziqi's clean satin embroidered shoes also had two or three more shoe prints.

As soon as they squeezed out of the crowd, what the two of them saw was the scene of four guards falling to the ground with needles.

"Handsome!" Lu Ziqi's eyes lit up, and he said secretly: "I learned another trick, and I will also roar like this when I wait for the clan competition, to see if anyone listens to my ......" She waved her sword, "snapped" and chopped the chair at hand in half, and said loudly: "Brother!

Before she finished speaking, Yao Chengxiang was so frightened that he didn't care about etiquette, he covered Lu Ziqi's mouth and whispered: "Oh, my little aunt and grandmother! Don't you see that there are a bunch of martial artists Xiao Zhoutian on it?

Lu Ziqi was very unhappy, and said, "What should I do then? Don't you dare to stop me!"

Yao Chengxiang's eyes swept around, suddenly his eyes lit up, he laughed twice, lowered his head and whispered a few words to Lu Ziqi.

Lu Ziqi glanced at him strangely and muttered, "I didn't expect you to be such a person...... But—" she dragged out her tone, "I like it!"

The two of them looked at each other, smiling like a stealing fox, one after the other slithering towards the lower level of the arena.

......

Lu Qiming held the sword in one hand, seemingly standing casually, but in fact, there was no flaw in his body, no matter which shadow appeared from to attack, it was impossible to gain a single move. The battle has not yet begun, and the two have reached a stalemate.

The subtlety of Chen's retreat technique is the best in the family. Whether it is a living or a dead thing, there are large or small fluctuations. Chen's Concealment Technique takes advantage of this, and when activated, it can reduce the fluctuation of its own breath for a short time, and in the perception of the opponent, it is no different from a still life, and then with the help of light, terrain and environment to deceive the opponent's vision, the whole person seems to disappear into the air.

It's not a secret, but it's not easy. Other families have been hiding for a long time, but without a secret method, they have never been able to achieve perfection like Chen's.

Lu Qiming recalled the information about the art of concealment in the clan, and secretly admired in his heart—it really lived up to his reputation! His spiritual power was higher than that of the shadow by a whole realm, and he still didn't find any obvious abnormalities.

But it's much easier to have a general direction.

Lu Qiming stood quietly, and all the situations were in his eyes - the shadow is first of all a hidden guard, so there are only four best places to protect Chen Xiao and facilitate the battle; gray clothes, so he will not be reluctant to hide by the mahogany; the pure gray stone slab is not suitable - then there are only two possible positions left!

Thinking is only for a moment. Lu Qiming's strong spiritual power instantly locked on those two positions - he smiled silently, and the long sword in his hand quickly and firmly slashed in one direction, "I found you!"

The shadow was shocked in his heart, how could he see through his own hiding? However, Lu Qiming didn't give him time to reflect - the silver sword light came in an instant, and the figure of the shadow appeared from the air, overlapping the daggers left and right, and hurriedly blocked Lu Qiming's blow.

Lu Qiming had already calculated the angle of his block, he took a wrong step lightly, and the tip of the sword was raised, winding out an arc that silently pointed at the side ribs of the shadow.

Although Shadow misses the lead, Dagger is good at hand-to-hand combat. With a twist of his right hand, he sealed Lu Qiming's sword in time.

Lu Qiming's face was calm, his gaze was not on this sword at all, he pinched the trick in his left hand, and his fingertips instantly turned jade, and he handed it out lightly.

And the shadow exploded - Lu's Yue Shan finger! He hurriedly picked up the tip of the sword, and the left and right daggers worked together to block it—Lu Qiming's fingertips touched the dagger, but there was a sound of gold and iron resonating. The shadow arm was numb, and he took a few steps back - he was also Xiao Zhoutian, he was relatively not good at facing the enemy head-on, but the best escape technique was actually seen through by Lu Qiming, which made him suspicious in his heart, and he couldn't think of a reason.

Lu Qiming forced the shadow back with one sword and one finger, but instead of taking advantage of the victory to pursue, he took a few steps back, calmed down, and gently swung a sword in the air.

This sword looks light, but I didn't expect it to be very light. The shadow was ready to wait, but the sword was like a breeze, and it was scattered at the touch of a button.

Although the sword momentum is light, Lu Qiming's speed of swinging the sword is not slow. The first sword had just passed, and the second had arrived—and this time, the shadow visibly felt its strength increase.

Suddenly, the shadow's gaze froze—the two swords passed, and an extremely faint phantom condensed in the air, vaguely in the shape of a sword! The shadow had a strange face and said in a low voice: "Thirteen slashes of overlapping shadows!"

Lu Qiming unhurriedly swung out the third slash, and nodded with a smile: "Yes." ”

The Thirteen Slashes of Overlapping Shadows is one of the Xiao Zhou Tian's martial arts tips in the Lu family's collection, and all swords can be used. Each slash temporarily replicates power, condensing a layer of phantom in the air, and the power gradually stacks as the phantom solidifies. If you can slash out thirteen slashes completely, the superimposed power is enough to kill the same level in seconds.

However, the Shadow Thirteen Slash is very weak in actual combat - once it is interrupted, the accumulated power will dissipate, and the martial technique will be no different from the power of ordinary moves, but it will consume more internal strength.

After returning from the twilight journey, Lu Qiming went to the clan's library to learn this martial art. He knew its shortcomings, but he had to learn it—because the effect of the Shadow Thirteen Slash was very similar to that of the Lifeless Sword!

As a member of the same family, Shadow has naturally heard of this martial art. He gritted his teeth to himself—too conceited! Thought he couldn't even interrupt? He didn't care to speculate about the reason why the previous Concealment Technique had failed—use it first, and then talk about it—only to see his form twist and disappear into thin air again.

Lu Qiming's eyes were solemn, his spiritual power spread instantly, and every scene and object around him was engraved in his heart. He calculated as quickly as he could, and before it had happened, he had simulated in his mind the trajectory of the shadow's attack at the best angle.

Lu Qiming's figure seemed to be still in place, and Yun Cun had already started, and he smiled slightly—let's see if the "best hidden guard" would choose the best route!

The shadow's breath was constricted, there was almost no fluctuation, and the whole person perfectly integrated into the external environment, and under Lu Qiming's oppression, his retreat technique this time played the highest level ever. He was very sure that even Da Zhou Tian would not be able to find his traces - therefore, it was absolutely impossible for Lu Qiming to see through him!

The shadow cautiously walked towards Lu Qiming—good, he didn't move—good, it's now!The shadow burst out, its blades like electricity, tearing the air in a cross shape, and stabbing at Lu Qiming!

Hit!

However, the moment the dagger touched Lu Qiming, the shadow's face changed drastically - it was a phantom!

At the same time that the shadow realized that something was wrong, he heard the piercing sound of the sword blade behind his ear breaking through the air—behind him! How could it be recognized? The shadow roared silently in his heart, and tried his best to block with his backhand—with a "boom", the shadow only felt a huge force attack, and the tiger's mouth instantly collapsed; he took a few steps back—this was already equivalent to the full force of Xiao Zhou Tian's initial attack!

Lu Qiming said softly: "Fourth slash." He calmly and earnestly watched the place where the shadow had disappeared, his hand gathering momentum, and the cloud moved again.

Fifth slash.

Sixth slash.

Seventh Slash!

Eighth Slash!

With the eyes of the others, they couldn't see the details of the battle between the two at all, and only vaguely saw two figures flashing, disappearing, flashing, and disappearing in various parts of the arena at a dazzling speed...... Lu Qiming's clothes were not even wrinkled, but the shadow became more and more embarrassed again and again, the gray cloth was torn apart, and even the black inner armor was full of cracks.

Chen Xiao forced Gu Zhiyang away with a strained sword, and he couldn't hold back his anger anymore, and said sharply: "Shadow! What the hell are you doing?!"

Again and again, Shadow's confidence in the art of reclusion crumbled, and the composure on his face could no longer be maintained. Tatsuko's rebuke became the last straw that broke the camel's back—the shadow cried out in distraction, "Why did you break my Hidden Technique?"

What?!Chen Xiao was shocked in his heart - he couldn't see where the shadow was suffering, but he never expected that his best hidden technique was broken - could it be that the Lu clan had already researched a way to deal with the hidden technique?!

Lu Qiming naturally didn't answer, he looked at the gradually condensed sword shadow, compared with the lifeless sword, and secretly shook his head and said, "Eight slashes are not enough." He concentrated on his strength and prepared for the ninth slash.

The shadow was confused, but he knew that he still had to do his best to block it, he gritted his teeth, and in some confusion, he used the retreat technique again, but as soon as he moved, he knew that he was wrong—he had chosen a position that was extremely unfavorable to him!

However, to his surprise, as soon as he stopped, he saw Lu Qiming's figure appear directly in front of him - and with his back to himself!

Could it be a trap? Shadow handed out the dagger in disbelief......

Lu Qiming immediately realized that something was wrong-the shadow was behind him! Lu Qiming smiled slightly bitterly, and waved his sword with his backhand to block the shadow's weak blow, and at the same time, the almost condensed sword shadow in front of him instantly dissipated.

Lu Qiming shook his head and sighed, and took a few steps back.

As soon as his hot heart calmed down, he immediately understood the reason - it turned out that Lu Qiming couldn't see through his concealment technique at all, and the so-called "breaking" turned out to be an accurate prediction!

It is precisely because the shadow is an excellent hidden guard that he will choose the best attack route, but Lu Qiming has predicted the location of his landing every time according to this! And the last time he made a mistake, Lu Qiming couldn't determine his true location!

The Shadow figured this out and breathed a sigh of relief, but he was even more vigilant against Lu Qiming in his heart—he had never even dreamed that someone would be able to "predict" it to such an extent!

Lu Qiming's combo failed, and there was no sense of loss - the first time he used the Thirteen Slashes of Overlapping Shadows, it was already unsatisfactory to be able to use enough eight slashes. With this in mind, he once again struck the Shadow Thirteen Slash starting pose, ready to continue practicing.

However, he suddenly paused, and looked at the bottom of the middle of the arena with a smile......