Zhang An was wearing a cloth suit and riding on a horse, feeling sluggish.

He covered his mouth and coughed twice, and when he put his hand down, his palm was red.

"When is such a day a head?" Zhang An wailed and looked at Lu Bu.

Lu Bu said with a smile: "When your body can completely withstand the rapid growth of qi in your body, you will almost be able to return to normal." ”

Zhang An sighed and muttered, "It seems that it is not a good thing to ascend to the sky in one step." ”

A day after the encounter with the barbarians, Zhang An woke up.

Zhang An can't remember the events before he fell into a coma, and the only vague memory is that he fought hard under the watchful eyes of a group of barbarians.

When I woke up, I found that I had a weakness and coughing up blood at any time.

According to Lu Bu, when a martial artist first induces qi into his body, it is actually very dangerous, because this process is uncontrollable, that is to say, a martial artist cannot control how much qi he absorbs into his body.

The only way to do this is to polish your body to be strong enough to withstand the first intake of your breath.

Even so, every year, there are still many talented martial artists who introduce qi into the body, and the qi introduced into the body exceeds the range that the body can bear, and as a result, the body is forced to burst, and the death is unbearable.

Zhang An is also in a similar situation, except that he is more fortunate that his vitality is strong and his self-healing ability is strong, so that when those qi causes damage in his body, he will be gradually repaired.

The biggest negative impact of this condition is that before the injury is completely repaired, Zhang An will cough up blood due to the impact of internal organs and meridians from time to time, and temporarily become a waste person without a single ability to do it.

If Zhang An forcibly moves when the stage of inducing qi into the body is not completed, each of his attacks will spontaneously beat out a part of the qi in the body, and then absorb more qi into the body, and wait until the damage caused by the qi incorporated into the body exceeds Zhang An's self-healing ability, Lu Bu can go to Zhang An's grave every year to sprinkle a glass of wine and burn a few knives of yellow paper.

However, misfortune and blessing are relied upon, and blessing and misfortune are lurking.

Zhang An's suffering is not without benefits.

In this process of being constantly destroyed and repaired, the strength of Zhang An's meridian internal organs is also improving.

It's just that the biggest problem at present is that two days have passed, and the process of inducing air into the body has not ended.

The strength of Zhang An's body continued to rise at a steady rate, and the amount of qi incorporated into his body was also increasing.

Zhang An seems to be stuck in a dead loop, and can only hope for time.

"When the hell is a head!" Zhang An lay on the horse's back weakly, and coughed again.

"You are in a state that many people can't ask for. Cao Chun said enviously.

"But I'm on the battlefield. Zhang An sighed, "I may be killed by a stray arrow at any time now, and this way of dying is too embarrassing." ”

At the mention of the battlefield, the faces of the three of them all became a little heavier.

The encounter between Zhang An and the barbarians shows that the barbarians have begun to go out of the northern frontier and reach out to the Central Plains.

I don't know how long the remaining border cities can hold out, in case the whole line collapses before Lu Bu and the others arrive, and Cao Cao doesn't lead the army back in time, then the Central Plains will really be in danger.

Lu Bu saw that the atmosphere was a little dignified, so he smiled and said, "Zhang An, don't worry, there is so-and-so, I will ensure that you are safe." ”

He said with some self-deprecation, "Originally, I wanted to find a personal guard for myself, but now I don't know who protects whom." ”

Cao Chun laughed dumbly.

Zhang An said angrily: "I don't know who I am getting to this point now?"

Lu Bu twitched the corners of his mouth, and then said with a straight face, "So-and-so has saved you months of hard work at once, and you are not only not grateful to so-and-so, but you are so evil-looking, you are really an ungrateful villain." ”

Zhang An said helplessly, "Okay, good, you are a general, you are powerful, you can say anything." ”

Then he closed his eyes and said slowly, "I want to replenish my spirit, and I won't quarrel with you anymore." ”

Cao Chun glanced at Lu Bu, who had a smug face, as if he had won a battle, and said with a smile, "Except for General Wenyuan and General Gao Shun, it is the first time I have seen Feng Xian and others make such jokes." ”

Lu Bu glanced at Zhang An, who was lying on the back of the horse and closed his eyes to recuperate, pouted and said, "Zihe, don't laugh, Wen Yuan and Gong Zheng are friends of life and death who can be entrusted with their backs on the battlefield, this kid is just a burden." ”

"Who do you say is a burden?" Zhang An opened his eyes, blushed and shouted with a thick neck, "I killed more than a dozen barbarians the first time I went to battle, isn't it powerful?"

"It's pretty impressive. Lu Bu smiled and said, "But what if someone vomits more than a dozen times after waking up?"

"The first time I killed someone, it's disgusting. Zhang An said angrily: "This is my normal reaction. ”

Lu Bu laughed and didn't speak, the expression on his face told Zhang An that he Lu Bu and Lu Fengxian were not so ugly.

Just when Zhang An wanted to ridicule him, the tiger and leopard cavalry scout who was exploring the road in front came back and reported, "General Lu, Commander Gao, a border city occupied by barbarians was found twenty miles in front of the right, and a large number of corpses of our soldiers and ordinary people were also found on the side of the road. ”

Cao Chun and Lu Bu glanced at each other, and Cao Chun ordered, "The whole army will be rerouted and march towards the border city!"

The three thousand tigers and leopards methodically changed into an attack formation and diverted to the border city.

When he was still five miles away from the border city, Lu Bu's face became ugly, and he exuded a murderous aura that made people tremble.

Not only Lu Bu, but also Zhang An and Cao Chun's faces were gloomy, and the tiger and leopard riders were even more agitated.

On both sides of the road, you can see Kyokan piled up with human heads and corpses that have begun to decompose.

What made Zhang An and others even more angry was that it was not only the generals and soldiers in the army who became the Jingguan, but also women and children.

Looking at the distorted faces that were staring at each other, Lu Bu took a deep breath, and his face slowly calmed down.

"That city, don't want it. He said in an indifferent tone.

Zhang An looked at Lu Bu in surprise, what do you mean that city is gone?

After a brief commotion, the army fell into a deathly silence and continued its march.

As more and more Jingguan appeared in sight, the atmosphere of the army became more and more depressing.

This oppression is more like an impending storm and like a volcano about to erupt.

It contains a deep killing intent.

The distance of five miles is fleeting, and the border city is already in sight.

Seeing an army appear outside the border city, the barbarian soldiers stationed in the city poured into the city.

But when they saw that there were only 3,000 cavalry, the soldiers of the city laughed loudly.

Zhang An squinted at the border city.

The walls of this border city were covered in blood and smoky black, and it was thought that it must have gone through a bitter battle before it fell.

Zhang An, who was looking at the border city, suddenly felt that there was a cold gaze watching at him.

He turned his head to see an old man with a hunched back, dressed in a robe of animal skin, and his face outlined with many strange patterns in oil paint, staring at him.

The old man held in his hand a wooden staff as thick as a child's arm and about a man tall.

At the top of the staff, a gray, inconspicuous stone was inlaid.

When Zhang An looked at the stone, the scroll, which had not moved for a long time, suddenly became hot.

Zhang An was slightly stunned and looked down at the back of his right hand.

The blurred imprint of the scroll gradually became clear, as if it were about to emerge from the back of the hand.

Zhang An looked up at the stone again, thoughtfully.

Could it be that the scroll is giving itself some hints?

It seems that the stone needs to be in his hands on his own.

Zhang An felt that the stone should be one of the flying stones falling from the sky, but what the specific situation is, after getting the stone, he has to study it carefully to have a definite result.

"Fengxian, how's it going?" Cao Chun said after looking at the border city, "It seems that there are at least 10,000 soldiers in this city, so we might as well retreat for the time being." ”

This is not that Cao Chun is cowardly, but a very rational judgment.

After all, there are only 3,000 cavalry on his side, and the enemy not only has 10,000 people, but also a city as a basis, if he launches a strong attack, Cao Chun is confident that he will capture the city in the case of Lu Bu and his own attack, but the tiger and leopard cavalry will reduce a lot of troops, which is extremely unfavorable to the next action.

After listening to Cao Chun's words, Lu Bu laughed.

He turned over and dismounted, and walked to the forefront of the army with Fang Tian's halberd on his shoulder, looking coldly at the city and the barbarians who were still laughing loudly.

"Laugh, laugh, soon you bastards won't be able to laugh. Lu Bu muttered to himself softly.

A little bit of blood-colored aura appeared on his body, quickly connecting them into a line, and then condensed into a set of armor with the pattern of a hideous beast.

Lu Bu took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes.

The eyes of the beast on the armor emitted a fierce blood-colored light.

Dark clouds began to condense in the sky, and the clear sky gradually became darker.

Lu Bu's body was lit with a raging blood flame, and a huge beast shadow lying in the flames appeared on Lu Bu's body, becoming condensed little by little.

Different from when Zhao Yun fought before, the appearance of the giant beast at this time was extremely clear and lifelike.

Lion head, antlers, tiger's eye, dragon scales, oxtail.

It's a unicorn.

It's just that the unicorn, which was supposed to be an auspicious beast, was bathed in blood-colored firelight, giving people a murderous sense of fierceness.

Lu Bu slowly opened his eyes, and the Qilin eyes behind him glowed with a terrifying light, and he raised his head and roared.

Although no sound came out, Zhang An still clearly felt the killing intent that made people want to be terrified.

Perhaps seeing that the situation was not good, the gate of the border city was wide open, and the dense barbarian cavalry swarmed out and rushed desperately towards Lu Bu.

Lu Bu just showed a bloodthirsty smile.

He raised Fang Tian's halberd and pointed directly at the border city.

The unicorn opened its mouth and spat out a blood-colored red light.

When the blood light first appeared, it was only as thick as an ordinary tree, but in the process of flying, the volume of the blood light would double in the blink of an eye.

Bloodlight swept through the barbarian cavalry.

Then he hit the border city unabatedly.

There was no loud roar, no dazzling light effects, and everywhere the blood light passed, everything was blank.

Both the cavalry and the border city were completely wiped out as if they had never existed.

The blood light wiped out the border city, continued to fly forward, and disappeared from Zhang An's sight.

Zhang An looked at this scene in a daze, trembling slightly.

He looked at Lu Bu's back standing with a halberd, and thought of what Lu Bu had said before.

"That city, don't want it. ”

Destroying the city with one blow, is this Lu Bu's real strength?