Chapter 22: The Road Is Uneven
Three days later, Luo Chen's injuries were already healed, and his cultivation had also improved, because he had a goal, the whole person seemed to be extremely energetic. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Time is pressing, hurry up and clean up, and go directly to Qixia City to catch up with the entry test of Qixia Sect. The Elder looked at the growing sky outside and reminded.
"That's right, Senior Brother Luo Gang set off to return to the Furious Battle Gate, specifically to pursue the secret of the destruction of the Holy Luo Martial Academy, I'd better rush to Qixia City first now. Luo Chen muttered to himself.
It won't be long before the Qixia Sect holds the test to join the Qixia Iron Guard. This test is done twice a year, and once in June. Qixia Tiewei is equivalent to the outer disciple of Qixia Sect, but he still has to undertake many tasks, such as managing law and order in Qixia Sect's sphere of influence, suppressing bandits, and so on.
If you want to worship the Qixia Sect, the normal channel is to participate in the test of the Qixia Iron Guard.
"This time I went to Qixia City, I don't know if I can see her?"
Half a day later, Luo Chen changed into clean clothes and walked out of the stone house.
The figure flashed, and the illusory figure of the holy elder appeared in front of Luo Chen again.
"Stinky boy, when you arrive in Qixia City, the old man has to sleep for a while so as not to be discovered. So during this time, I can't help you much!"
"Hmm!" Luo Chen nodded, "I'll take care of myself." ”
"Also, you must not use the power of the Golden Conch Swallowing Sea Technique, and don't use the Iron Conch Palm lightly, you know?" said the Holy Elder solemnly.
"I see. Luo Chen nodded again, "There are many masters in Qixia City, maybe someone will recognize the Golden Conch Swallowing Sea Formula." ”
"That's not all. "Stinky boy, think about it, if you rely on strong strength to suppress the opponent every time, is it interesting? Defeating an opponent who is equal to your own strength, or an opponent who is stronger than yourself, is the real skill!"
"Oh!" Luo Chen realized: "I understand!"
The Holy Elder smiled with satisfaction, and his figure flashed back into the golden snail in Luo Chen's dantian. Luo Chen glanced back at the hut and strode towards the outside of the valley.
In the dark night, only the stars twinkled in the sky.
On the banks of the stream, there is a bonfire. An emaciated teenager sat by the fire, closing his eyes and contemplating.
The time was already the wax moon, and the night was cold and wet, and the young man was only wearing a single coat, but he did not feel cold.
Suddenly, the boy opened his eyes and exhaled lightly.
"I'm about to arrive in Qixia City!I wonder if I'll have a chance to meet her?"
Compared with half a year ago, Luo Chen is now half a head taller, and his shoulders are much wider. All this has a lot to do with the improvement of his strength, and of course, the elixir that Senior Brother Luo Gang prepared for him before leaving also played a big role.
Today's Luo Chen has faded away from immaturity and looks calm and capable.
"This time, I must pass the test of the Qixia Sect, and I must become a member of the Qixia Iron Guard!" Luo Chen clenched his fists gently.
Although he already had the cultivation of the sixth level of a martial artist, he still didn't dare to be careless.
......
"Continue to cultivate!" Luo Chen was beside the bonfire, and began to practice the "Heavenly Tiger Fire Fist" again, because the Holy Elder said that because his reputation as the only descendant of the Holy Luo Martial Arts Academy had spread, he was a little hidden when he went to Qixia City, although his name had not changed, but it was no longer suitable to use the "Golden Conch Swallowing Sea Technique", so he needed "Heavenly Tiger Fire Fist" to hide his identity.
For cultivation, he didn't dare to slack off at all, because he had already thought very clearly in the past few days, he would not give up Liu Yuxi, he wanted to protect her like a man and take care of him!
He knows that his current strength is still not Liu Yuxi's opponent, let alone protecting Liu Yuxi.
Therefore, he must have more strength!
After practicing boxing for a while, Luo Chen felt something in his heart, and sat on the ground again, cross-legged and contemplated......
After midnight, Luo Chen fell asleep by the campfire. After only resting for two hours, Luo Chen got up on time, shook his spirits, extinguished the bonfire, and headed in the direction of Qixia City.
From the moment he left the valley, he was like this every day, rushing during the day and resting and practicing at night. Among them, the time for practicing exercises should occupy more than half.
With his current strength, the speed of walking on the avenue at will is also as fast as a galloping horse, and it is naturally no problem to rush to Qixia City before the eighth day of the lunar month.
On the fifth day after leaving the valley, he had already left the Willow Domain and entered the territory of the Cloud Domain. The cloud domain is the place where the Qixia Sect is located, and when you get here, Qixia City is not far away.
When I got here, there were more pedestrians on the road, and there were many strong people with strong breaths. Those weak-crowned young men who were young but had reached the fourth level of martial arts, needless to say, went to Qixia City to participate in the test.
Luo Chen was traveling at high speed on the avenue, when he suddenly frowned slightly and stopped.
His perception ability was much higher than the cultivation level, and he could clearly feel that someone was fighting not far away. Judging from the aura emanating, it should be a strong man at the fourth level of martial arts.
"Go and see!" Luo Chen immediately turned around and turned into the mountains and forests beside the road.
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In the mountains and forests.
"Despicable villain, we are sorry for your juniors!" a young man in brocade retorted angrily, wielding his heavy sword as he tried to fend off the enemy's attack. Next to the young man was a beautiful girl dressed in light green, also holding a long sword, gritting her teeth and holding on.
They were attacked by three middle-aged men with strong bodies. The three war knives were shining brightly, surrounding the pair of young men and women in the middle.
"We are the children of the Zhong family in Sangzhi City, and my father is the lord of Sangzhi City! If you dare to hurt me, my father will definitely not let you go!" the young man exclaimed loudly with sweat oozing from his forehead.
"I'm so scared of the son of the lord of Sangzhi City!" a bearded man laughed, "Your father won't let us go?"
"Hahaha!" The other two big men also laughed presumptuously.
The boy tensed his face and gritted his teeth. At this time, he also secretly regretted that he had to listen to the rhetoric of these three people and come to this deserted place!
The strength of the fourth layer of the martial artist made him extremely confident in himself, and the honest appearance of these three made him have no doubt about the words of the other party.
"Senior Brother Zhong Lin, the two of us are really stupid!" the green-shirted girl waved her sword away from a middle-aged man's sword and said in annoyance.
"Senior Sister Rui'er, I didn't expect it either!" the young man said with a wry smile when he heard this.
It turned out that he and this girl left Sangzhi City together in order to participate in the Qixia Sect test on the eighth day of the lunar month. Entering the territory of the Cloud Domain, he met these three middle-aged people.
The three of them first complimented him and Zhong Rui, what a young hero, the future is limitless. He also said that a desolate demon cave was found in the nearby mountains, and he needed manpower to help encircle and suppress it, and the benefits were equally shared between the two sides.
This place is already in the cloud domain, the closest place to Qixia City, the two of them didn't expect to meet villains here, and after being touted, they followed the three of them here. Unexpectedly, the other party suddenly turned his face, and shot directly at the two.
is also the strength of the fourth layer of martial artists, with three against two, the three middle-aged men quickly gained the upper hand. Zhong Lin and Zhong Rui could only support themselves, and they couldn't escape at all.
"Boy, it doesn't hurt to tell you. The bearded man laughed, "The three of us are the three leaders of the local Axe Gang, and every year when the Qixia Sect is tested, we have to make such a fortune twice. A boy like you, who dares to come out single if he doesn't understand bullshit, dies in our hands, and can't complain about others. Kill you, and the wealth we get will be enough for us to live happily for a while, haha!"
"Hahaha!" the other two big men also laughed wildly.
"Don't ramble with them, settle it quickly!" the bearded man shouted.
The three of them accelerated their offensive at the same time, and in an instant, Zhong Lin's brothers and sisters were in danger, Zhong Lin was even slashed in the thigh, and immediately dripping with blood, and Zhong Rui's shoulder was also stabbed.
"It's over!" both of them were desperate.
Suddenly-
The figure flashed, and a young man flashed out of the mountains and forests, his eyes were full of coldness, and one leg slashed at the bearded man headed by him like a long whip. This leg was as fast as lightning, and the bearded man didn't have time to dodge at all, so he was directly kicked away by one leg, and blood sprayed wildly in the air, and he saw that he was not alive.
The faces of the other two middle-aged men changed drastically, this young man's strength was too strong, and it was not something they could deal with at all.
"This hero-" A middle-aged man reacted, and hurriedly hugged his fists, "I don't know what Your Excellency is-"
"The bandits are damned!" The young man didn't give the two a chance to speak at all, and his fists struck the two middle-aged men like lightning. The two of them roared miserably, and their chests collapsed with banging, and they fell on their backs, and in a blink of an eye, all their vitality was gone.
"Thank you for this senior brother's help, our brother and sister are grateful!" Zhong Lin was shocked, secretly screaming luck in his heart, bowing deeply to the young man, and said gratefully. Zhong Rui also hurriedly bent down and saluted.
"You're welcome!" the young man smiled faintly, "I passed by here, and when I saw these three gangsters robbing you, I solved it casually." ”
"My name is Zhong Lin, this is my cousin Zhong Rui, I don't know who my senior brother is-" Zhong Lin said.
"Luo Chen. The boy smiled.
It turned out that Luo Chen noticed the fighting atmosphere in the mountains and forests next to the road, and when he arrived, he found that the bandits had robbed him. After all, he is a young man, and he hates bandits very much, so he naturally refuses to ignore them. With the strength of his sixth-layer martial artist, it was effortless to kill a few bandits of the fourth-layer martial artist.
The name of the Cloud Domain Axe Gang, Luo Chen also heard Luo Gang say it. Qixia Sect only roughly controls its own sphere of influence, and never asks about the battles between forces within the territory, let alone pays attention to bandits, so even in the cloud region close to Qixia City, bandits still exist. However, when the bandits met Luo Chen, they were naturally unlucky.
"Senior Brother Luo Chen is really powerful, Senior Brother Zhong Lin and I can't beat them, Senior Brother Luo Chen will kill them as soon as he makes a move!" Zhong Rui looked at Luo Chen and said with a look of admiration, "Senior Brother Luo Chen also went to participate in the Laba test, I don't know what level of strength Senior Brother Luo Chen has?"
"Martial artist six floors. Luo Chen told the truth.
"......" The Zhong brothers and sisters were speechless for a moment.
"Huh. Let's hurry up and bandage the wounds!" Luo Chen smiled, "If it is delayed, it will have an impact on this test." ”
Only then did the two of them wake up, and then they felt that the wound was extremely painful, and they couldn't help but gasp.
Fortunately, they are all flesh wounds, and they are not fatal. The two hurriedly took out the wound medicine and sprinkled it on the wound, and after wrapping it carefully, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the avenue. Luo Chen said.
"Didn't Senior Brother Luo Chen also go to Qixia City, why don't the three of us go together?" Zhong Rui's beautiful eyes flashed, and she blinked cutely.
Zhong Lin coughed dryly, and said in his heart, is this unclear asking for protection? After all, he is a man, and he can't say such words. Besides, although this young man is young, he is a strong man after all. Most of the strong people have bad tempers, and he doesn't dare to make this one angry.
Of course, there are still two or three days to go to Qixia City, and if they can go with this strange powerhouse, the two of them can't ask for it.
"It's fine. Luo Chen smiled slightly.
"Great!" Zhong Rui jumped up happily, touching the injury on his shoulder, and immediately frowned in pain.
When Luo Chen saw it, he only smiled faintly.
The three of them walked in the direction of the avenue, Zhong Lin's injury was on the thigh, and it was not very convenient to walk, and when they arrived at the nearest village and town, Zhong Lin also hired a carriage at a high price, and the three of them went together in the direction of Qixia City.
The journey that could have been reached in one day became three days due to the encounter with the Zhong Lin brothers and sisters. Fortunately, there was enough time, and Luo Chen was a kind-hearted person, and he was also relieved to accompany the two of them to Qixia City.
Talking along the way, Luo Chen also knew a little more about Zhong Lin and the others. Zhong Lin's father is the city lord of Sangzhi City, and Zhong Rui's father is Zhong Lin's eldest brother. Sangzhi City is a medium-sized city near the edge of the Qixia Sect's controlled area, bordering the territory of the Qixia Sect's nemesis, the Cloud Breaking Sect, and there is constant war in the area.
Zhong Rui and the others have also fought on the battlefield, they have seen blood, and they are not uncomfortable with the death of the three Axe Gang bandits.
Zhong Lin and Zhong Rui were both just over fourteen years old, Zhong Lin was a month younger than Luo Chen, and Zhong Rui was seven days younger than Zhong Lin. The two of them admired Luo Chen very much, and they all shouted "Senior Brother Luo Chen" all the way. Especially Zhong Rui, a pair of beautiful eyes were always staring at Luo Chen, and her voice was extremely soft when she called her senior brother, and even Zhong Lin couldn't help but smile bitterly when she saw it.
Luo Chen gradually had a good impression of the two, feeling that the two were not as arrogant as ordinary aristocratic children, and they were of the same age, so they soon became friends with the two.
Three days later, Qixia City arrived!
Qixia City is located in the center of the cloud domain, and it is a large city with a radius of more than three hundred miles. There were still dozens of miles away from the big city, and Luo Chen could feel that the vitality of heaven and earth was converging from a distance, and it was constantly entering the city. Obviously, this big city also has its peculiarities.
It is said that Qixia City is covered by a huge formation, of course, it is just a legend, and it is not clear whether there is Luo Chen or not.