Chapter 17: The Wheel of Fate
Chapter 17: Fate Rings
No one knew what Ling Yu was thinking when he stood there at this moment.
Zhou Zi only knew that she had met a noble person today, not only did she chase the goods back, but she also had a wonderful idea!
Ling Yu was silent, slowly walked to the black-robed man's side, and took advantage of his coma to bend down and pick up his storage bag and the horse chopping knife with aura.
Holding the horse chopping knife in his hand, Ling Yu instilled his spiritual power into this horse chopping knife, and the aura on the horse chopping knife became more and more, and the sharp momentum also became stronger, I don't know how many times stronger than it was in the hands of the black-robed man, but Ling Yu's aura infusion has not stopped, and I saw that the horse chopping knife began to tremble faintly, and there was a tendency to collapse!
With a sigh of relief, Ling Yu stopped the transmission of spiritual power, he deeply understood a truth, that is, the importance of weapons, although this horse chopping knife is not particularly suitable for Ling Yu, but at this moment it is better than nothing, and it is normal to look at the appearance of the black-robed man who has been in a coma for two or three hours.
So Ling Yu's face was not red, and he accepted the storage bag and the horse chopping knife without a heartbeat.
But Ling Yu is principled, a wisp of spiritual power was instilled into the black-robed man's storage bag, and he took out the bag, saying that the black-robed man's storage bag is still quite rich, there are more than a dozen weapons alone, but they are all ordinary weapons, Ling Yu can't look down on them, and then there is a pile of meat, fruits and vegetables or something, and there is a small pile of spirit stones in a corner, about fifty or sixty pieces, Ling Yu laughed in his heart, haha!
Ling Yu threw the bag at Zhou Zi, turned around and prepared to leave, not that he didn't want to join "Ziyu", but he understood that it wouldn't be long before the other party would definitely come to invite!
Sure enough, before Ling Yu had walked ten steps away, Zhou Zi upstairs spoke.
"This young man, please stay, can you come up and talk about it. ”
The corners of Ling Yu's mouth turned up, it felt so good to have everything under control, no wonder so many people could give up everything for power.
Ling Yu jumped forward, saving the effort of climbing the stairs, and entered the room directly through the window, looking at the appearance of the room, Ling Yu sighed in his heart, how much effort he had put in to enter such a room.
The room is not big, a bed, two chairs, a coffee table, a cabinet only, it is really ordinary, but after thinking about it, most of the people living in this restaurant are business trips in the past, in a hurry, naturally do not care about these details, as long as there is a place to live, there is a bed to lie on, and there is a morning tea is already very good.
"Thank you Shaoxia for this incident!" Zhou Zi personally made a bag of tea for Ling Yu, and then sat opposite Ling Yu, her delicate body looked bumpy and full of temptation under the wrapping of the tights.
At this time, there were four people in the room including Ling Yu, and Meng Shu did not leave, but entered the room like Ling Yu, and he could probe Ling Yu's details, and the strength he showed just now made Meng Shu feel amazed. The second is to protect Zhou Zi and Zhou Yu, in case Ling Yu is a disciple and has bad intentions, then he will take action even if he knows that he can't beat him.
Of course, Ling Yu understood this Meng Shu's thoughts in his heart, but he didn't know that there was that layer of doll relatives, and the most important thing was that he was not interested in either of them.
"You're welcome, righteous and courageous, the foundation of a practitioner. ”
Ling Yu took a sip of tea and said slowly, his tone was not hurried, although his face was full of childishness, it gave people an unfathomable feeling.
"My name is Zhou Zi, this is my sister Zhou Yu, that is the escort of our caravan Meng Shu, I don't know the name of the young man?"
Zhou Zi introduced their names one by one at this moment, and Ling Yu only knew the origin of this "Ziyu Caravan" at this time, and couldn't help but smile.
"My name is Ling Yu. I don't know what you're going to do with those people downstairs. ”
Ling Yu only remembered at this moment that there were three half-dead guys crawling downstairs, and he couldn't help but blame himself in his heart, he was too irresponsible, and he couldn't deal with others well if he knocked them down!
"I believe that it will not be long before a law enforcement team will find them and take them to prison. ”
Zhou Zi smiled slightly, fortunately I met Ling Yu today, otherwise I might lose a windfall, the so-called possibility, that is, they couldn't take the value of the twelve items, this item was found by them from an old man's house in a small village, at that time, they only felt that this thing was very old, maybe it could be sold for a good price, and the old man was also a kind old man, and the asking price was not high, so they bought all of them directly, and prepared to take them to the auction house in Bagua City for appraisal, and then put them off for auction.
But who wanted to come to Yunshan County and was targeted, but in the end, Ling Yu appeared, and he didn't let things be lost.
"I wonder why Shaoxia wanted to join my caravan in the first place?"
This question puzzled Zhou Zi for a long time, she didn't care about it at first, but the strong strength shown by Ling Yu made her puzzled, does such a strong man need to be a caravan escort to make money?
"I heard that you are going to Bagua City, and I am going too!"
A flash of inspiration flashed in the depths of Ling Yu's eyes, not long ago, the news transmitted by the Yunshan Sect to all the students and disciples, Ling Yu also received it, although he was not interested in that big competition, but he was very greedy for the reward of the first place.
In addition, I originally took a fancy to the "Ziyu Caravan", and it happened that the caravan also went to Bagua City, and it only took about a month to get to Bagua City from here, which was completely in time, and I could earn some pocket money by the way, so why not!
"Oh, Ling Shaoxia is also going to Bagua City! It seems that it is fate!"
Zhou Zi is delicate, of course she doesn't think that the other party simply wants to find a companion on the road, but she won't break it, with such a powerful master escort, all bandits and bandits will come......!
"What does Ling Shaoxia need, what our Ziyu caravan can help. ”
Hearing Zhou Zi ask like this, Ling Yu couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, he actually wanted to have more spirit stones or something, but obviously the "Ziyu Caravan" didn't have many spirit stones, if he just asked for some martial coins, it would be too cheesy.
"Ling Shaoxia is very talented, although my Ziyu caravan does not have many spirit stones, but after all, there are still them, ten spirit stones plus one item in this bag, I hope Shaoxia will not dislike it. ”
Zhou Zi obviously understood that people like Ling Yu were not short of martial coins, what they needed was spirit stones, but the spirit stones were only **ten in the caravan, and most of them were Mengshu, and they were not easy to call the shots.
"What's in the bag?"
Ling Yu's spirit was shocked, there must be some special items in this bag, otherwise it would not be remembered by thieves, and it may be good to choose one.
"Although we don't know what this item does, judging from the wisps of aura emanating from them, it must be something used by cultivators, and there is a strong sense of simplicity in it, which makes people wonder through. ”
Ling Yu took the cloth belt, and there were twelve fragments in it, which were rusty, but it was not difficult to see that the quaint Wenluo carving, and the aura fluctuations that were emitted from time to time, could not be faked.
"Okay!
Ling Yu was confident that his sixth sense was very sensitive, and he faintly felt that one of the fragments had a fate with him.
"Ling Shaoxia is also a cheerful person, I will arrange a room for Shaoxia now, and I will get up tomorrow and leave Yunshan County. ”
Zhou Zi was sure in her heart, there was still a month's journey to Bagua City, and there would inevitably be some accidents on the way, and Ling Yu's presence could reduce this accident a lot, and she made a lot of money on this business.
Ling Yu is not hypocritical, that fragment is a deposit given to him by the caravan, and Ling Yu still understands the truth of receiving people's money to eliminate disasters for others.
"So, it's almost dinner time now, can Ling Shaoxia enjoy it, the little woman ordered a table of food in the restaurant. ”
"Okay!" Ling Yu agreed.
Zhou Zi is shrewd and treats the people in his caravan very well, which is also the reason why these people are willing to follow a woman to go south and north, with the understanding of Zhou Zi, Ling Yu admires her in her heart, after all, a girl wants to support the entire caravan, this courage, not everyone has it.
In the afternoon, Ling Yu was very bored, and it was not good to stay in the room of the two sisters Zhou Zi and Zhou Yu all the time, so he decided to go out and take a look, but in addition to all kinds of cries and places for buying and selling, Yunshan County was a large piece of farmland, Ling Yu sighed for a while, it was really boring.
Time flew by like an arrow from the string, and Ling Yu had dinner with the caravan and the others, and then returned directly to the room.
"I'm now at the sixth order of the Gray Realm, and it doesn't matter if my combat power should deal with the ordinary Yellow Realm Fourth Order, if I come to a stronger Yellow Realm Fourth Order, I can choke on my strength!"
Ling Yu sighed, silently recited in his mouth, and began his boring cultivation.
As for the fragment that is related to Ling Yu, Ling Yu has already studied it when he first got it, but when he looks at it over and over again, it is a fragment, except for the material and the pattern on it is not clear, there is nothing special about it, and it is not even as good as a stone, the stone can be thrown with all his strength to smash others scream, Ling Yu is depressed in his heart, feeling a loss, but it is not easy to throw, the fate is still there in the dark, so Ling Yu threw it into the corner of the storage bag, waiting for the day when fate appears.
There was nothing to say all night, Ling Yu also cultivated all night, but his feeling was that only an hour had passed, and the so-called cultivation without years was just that.
The seventh drop of aura in Ling Yu's body already had a rudimentary form, but this rudimentary form was pitifully small, several times smaller than a sesame seed, and it didn't drive the aura into the rotation, but Ling Yu had finally reached the early stage of the seventh order of the Gray Realm, but where the peak was, it was still far away.
"Ling Shaoxia, you got up really early. ”
Ling Yu, who had just walked out of the restaurant, saw that Zhou Zi and the others on the other side had already prepared and were waiting for him, and couldn't help but have a flash of embarrassment on his face, and Zhou Yu smiled proudly when she saw this, it was the first time she had seen Ling Yu's embarrassing appearance.
"I'm sorry, I've gone too far, I'm rude!"
Ling Yu knew that he was going to spend nearly a month with the nine people in front of him, and if he didn't support each other, then this month would be very unpleasant, so he threw away the cold face he had yesterday and looked more approachable.
"It's the little woman who is rude and disturbs Ling Shaoxia's cultivation!"
Zhou Zi was slightly stunned in his heart, he didn't expect Ling Yu to apologize to them like this, you must know that those cultivators always rely on their strength not to take ordinary people seriously, let alone apologize.
"It's raining, Shaoxia or something sounds too unpleasant. ”
There was no enmity between Ling Yu and them, and most of them were simple ordinary people, so there was really no need to embarrass them with a high opinion of themselves.
"Okay, Ling Yu, everyone will get along for a month in the future, and it is true that Shaoxia is always called. ”
Zhou Zi's mind is lively, and he has the heart to have a good relationship with Ling Yu, so he is naturally not hypocritical at this moment.
Not long after the "Ziyu Caravan" left Yunshan County, two figures followed closely in the distance, Ling Yu felt sensitive, he didn't expect these two guys to be so uncontrollable, he was afraid that his incident yesterday would scare these two people away, but now it seems that there is no need.
"It's good if you have a Yellow Realm master behind you, if not, I don't need to make a move. ”
Ling Yu was in the same carriage with Sister Zhou Zi and Meng Shu, and the three of them were a lot more restrained because of Ling Yu's existence, and Meng Shu was the same, after all, yesterday's scene was deeply imprinted in his heart.
"Ziyu caravan" has a total of five carriages, mainly engaged in all kinds of wood, pottery and other items of trade, occasionally in the small village to look back at the old furniture and the like to sell to Dajia, local tyrants, etc., although the business is not big, but there is a certain security, usually there are no eyeless bandits will target them, but this time their goods are also added to the highly profitable standard weapons, a whole carriage.
And the little thief who followed him for ten miles came for this car of weapons, their gang had just been established, and they just needed weapons to increase their strength, but they didn't dare to rob those caravans with old qualifications, and the ones with little seniority didn't buy and sell weapons, and they investigated for a long time before they set the target on the "Ziyu Caravan".
"The boss should be waiting in the valley ahead, let's make dumplings for him!"
Thief A is the short and stout man with thief eyebrows and rat eyes, and his face is full of evil smiles at the moment, although their gang has not been established for a long time, but their boss is a cultivator of the second order of the Yellow Realm, and more than a dozen junior brothers are all of the ** level of the Gray Realm, and it is not easy to deal with a small caravan.
"yes, we're going to prepare, it looks like it's going to rain on this damn weather!"
Thief B is the tall and thin guy, the sky is gradually darkening at the moment, and it is true that the valley here is the best place for ambushes, but there has been that saying since ancient times, although he has not entered, but he can't help but swallow his saliva when he looks at the dark clouds in the sky.
"Miss, you're about to pass through Kunwei Valley, and it's about to rain. ”
The caravan member of the horse drove said into the carriage with a hint of unease in his tone.
"Keep going, if you get there, it's just a matter of delaying a few hours. ”
Zhou Zi frowned slightly, this is not the first time she has encountered such a thing, she has almost traveled to the entire affiliated land of Bagua City over the years, and it is common for her to strayed into it, as long as she does not leave the city, it will be fine.
"What will happen?"
Ling Yu had originally closed his eyes and breathing, but when he heard this strange conversation, he couldn't help but wonder.
"The so-called Bagua City is because its terrain within a radius of 800 miles is like the Yin and Yang Bagua Array, and the Bagua City is at the point where the Yin and Yang interact, and what we are about to arrive at is the Kun position, which is a canyon, and with today's thunderstorm, it is very likely to enter the Kun City. ”
Zhou Zi patiently explained, she had already defined Ling Yu in her heart as the kind of mysterious sect genius who went out to practice, just now Ling Yu asked many people something that was well known, it was enough to see.
"Kuncheng?"
The Yin Yang Bagua Array within a radius of eight hundred miles is simply beyond the reach of manpower, Ling Yu naturally won't believe it, this is pure nonsense, even the strongest fighter in the empire can't do it, but for this Kun City, Ling Yu is a little interested.
"Kuncheng is located in the Bagua Secret Realm, and the legend is that the ancient power Fu Xi built a secret place for his descendants with supreme magical powers, and this Kuncheng is a foothold evolved from it, also known as the dance field!"
"What!
Ling Yu was shocked, he didn't expect that this Kuncheng was the mysterious dance ground!
"Yes, the reason why Kuncheng is a dance hall is because there is a Fengyue place in it, every woman has a peerless appearance, a shy face in the closed moon, and business travelers in the past flocked to it. ”
Zhou Zi couldn't help but glance at Meng Shu a few times when she said this, and saw that Meng Shu's face remained unchanged, so she put her mind at ease, in fact, she also had this feeling for Meng Shu in her heart, after all, the other party gave up everything to help her, where can this love be paid off.
"Then the Lin caravan is also going for this dance ground?"
Ling Yu didn't have much interest in the Tianzi country in this dance hall, and occasionally going to see it could be regarded as cultivating sentiment, but going too much would confuse his mind.
"No, caravans with great strength like the Lin clan are all heading for a rare metal Void Gold, which is an important material for building storage bags, but that Void Gold only exists in the wild land outside the city, and it is extremely dangerous, even the Lin Clan's caravan does not dare to go much deeper. ”
Speaking of Void Gold, Zhou Zi's eyes were full of longing, a piece of Void Gold the size of a fingernail was worth thousands of spirit stones, although they were all inferior spirit stones, but if converted into martial coins, it was tens of thousands, enough for the caravan's expenses for half a year.
"Interesting, I always thought that the materials of the storage bag were fabric, but I didn't expect that there would be mixed metals, and I was lonely and unheard of. ”
Ling Yu was slightly embarrassed, a guy who even had to be taught by others to open the storage bag and use the sound transmission jade talisman, and he didn't make people laugh out of his big teeth when he said it.
Sure enough, after hearing this, Zhou Yu first couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud, followed by Zhou Zi also covered his mouth and chuckled, while Meng Shu looked at Ling Yu with a look of seeing a ghost, thinking in his heart that this guy should not be an old monster in the deep mountains and old forests! Gradually, the atmosphere in the carriage eased a lot, and the restraint and estrangement between everyone's conversations were slowly disappearing.
And just about a quarter of an hour later, a discordant voice sounded in front of the carriage.
"Well, I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to cross this road, leave the road to buy money!"
The voice sounded full of energy, but it seemed a little awkward when it reached everyone's ears.
"Miss, someone has robbed the road!"
The person who drove the horse was originally a little nervous in driving the horse, but suddenly a reckless man with a big axe in his hand jumped out of the grass on the side of the road, and he opened his mouth to come to such a set of old-fashioned lines, which really startled him, but he was also an old figure in the caravan, and quickly calmed down, although Ling Yu's strength he didn't know but there was a Mengshu, he had seen a lot of these little thieves, which time was not beaten by Mengshu.
"Yes, Mengshu, I'll leave it to you. ”
The corners of Zhou Zi's mouth turned up slightly, she didn't have the slightest worry about this kind of open-minded and brainless robber, Meng Shu can handle everything alone, how can ordinary people with brains rush out like this, anyway, they have to put a smoke or something, it's not professional!
"Okay, leave it to me. ”
Meng Shu was worried that there was no chance to perform, and an uninteresting guy jumped out, and someone gave him a pillow when he was really sleepy!
Ling Yu smiled slightly in his heart, they finally made a move, but this was too blatant.
However, when the curtain was lifted, Meng Shu was stunned, Ling Yu was also stunned, and Zhou Zi and Zhou Yu didn't need to say anything.
At this moment, there are five people in front of him, and there are many more people around him, who have been surrounded, but this is not the point, the focus is on the person who robbed the road.
The robber is strong, burly, with bronzed skin and strong muscles, all showing a strong sense of strength, coupled with the big axe that is enough to open the sky as tall as he is, it is even more silent to tell his powerful strength, but when everyone sees the person's face, what is strong, what is strong, what muscles have become a joke, only to see that the face is full of childishness, and it looks like nothing but ** The appearance of a young child is no less than Ling Yu's immaturity, but such a face has such a strong body, forming a strong impact on the human eye.
I couldn't help but laugh at everyone who saw it, and laughed very presumptuously.
Only Ling Yu didn't smile, he skipped Meng Shu and walked to the carriage to face the strange man, his eyes were full of solemn colors.
Although the man's appearance was indeed ridiculed and ridiculed, Ling Yu clearly felt that the powerful power hidden under the muscles, like a giant dragon lurking in the abyss, could wake up at any time to give those who despised them a head-on blow, and at this moment, the immature face was full of anger, and there was a faint anger burning in his eyes, obviously it was the ridicule of Meng Shu and the others that caused his dissatisfaction.
"Laugh at us, brothers, give them some color!"
"Yes, these guys are really uneducated, they dare to laugh at our boss and kill them!"
The voices around for the strange man came and went, and there were nearly twenty people, and there were only ten people in the Ziyu caravan, including Ling Yu, which was dangerous.
"Don't laugh!"
The man spoke, his voice trembling with anger, and even his body trembling faintly, as if trying to suppress his anger.
These three words are like magic sounds, they can roll up the sand and gravel all over the ground, turn the sand into sharp weapons, and attack the carriage, all this is too bad, Ling Yu's eyes froze, this move seems to be ordinary but contains powerful and profound spiritual power, I don't know how much stronger than the black-robed man in the Jade Ling Mountain, and his strength is only the second order of the Yellow Realm.
Ling Yu didn't dare to slack off, the spiritual power in the dantian suddenly accelerated between rotations, and an equally thick spiritual power exploded instantly.
"Water Wall!"
With a light sound, Ling Yu instantly communicated with the water elements existing in the surroundings through spiritual power, and quickly raised a wall of water, enveloping the carriage to block the sand and stone slam!
It's just that this sand and gravel is a point attack, and there are a lot of them, but Ling Yu's water wall has to take care of many directions, and it is obviously impossible to completely block all the stones.
In the end, at the cost of killing a horse, Ling Yu and the others dodged this attack.
It can only show that all this came too quickly, and everyone except Ling Yu was a little slack at that time, and some looked down on the man in front of them, thinking that with Ling Yu's existence, no danger could shake the caravan in the slightest, but they were wrong!
Zhou Zi was the first to react, pulled Zhou Yu into the carriage, and then asked everyone to prepare for battle, and specially instructed not to underestimate the enemy!
At that moment, Zhou Zi had never felt that she had such a gaffe, and she also thought in her heart that with Ling Yu's existence, she could have a safe journey, after all, yesterday's battle had left too much imprint in the depths of her heart, so much so that it affected her judgment today.
And at this moment, Ling Yu didn't pay attention to these, his eyes were unprecedentedly solemn, the person in front of him was undoubtedly a geek, maybe he was younger than Ling Yu himself, as for why the grass fell, it was not Ling Yu's consideration.
"Hmph, brothers, they dare to laugh at your boss, go on, leave no one!"
The battle was about to break out, although the people of the caravan were intimidated by the strange man's move just now, they would not be caught because of this, and they all had the appearance of the fifth and sixth orders of the gray realm, it was enough to deal with these little thieves, and there were Ling Yu and Meng Shu here, they were not panicked.
Ling Yu bore the brunt of the attack and rushed straight towards the man, his left hand behind him was secretly condensing the elements, and his right hand took out the horse chopping knife from the storage bag.
The strange man looked at Ling Yu who was thinking about himself, and a light flashed in his eyes, he could naturally see that Ling Yu was extraordinary, but he was not afraid, he was born with divine power since he was a child, his fist could break the golden cracking stone, and the open heaven axe in his hand was also a good spirit axe, with great power.
Ling Yu's speed was extremely fast, and a flash of fire in his left hand was thrown towards the man, it was a three-foot-long fire snake, the fire snake's body was agile, as if it had a soul, and finally it became more real with the blessing of Ling Yu's spiritual power, as if it was a real fire snake.
The strange man did not slack off, holding the Open Heaven Axe high with both hands, and under the infusion of ferocious spiritual power, the Open Heaven Axe emitted a burst of golden and iron light, and slashed at the void, this split seemed to cut off the void, and instantly came to the fire snake, and the three-foot fire snake hissed painfully, and it didn't even last for half a breath.
Ling Yu was shocked, the other party's axe was still unabated, and at this moment he was still seven steps away from Ling Yu, but Ling Yu could feel an extremely cold axe as if it was about to cut him open.
Ling Yu could only dodge at the moment, Gu Huangtao's imitation of Ling Yu had been able to do it vividly, but this was not a real martial art after all, and it was still not enough to face this powerful and extremely fast axe.
Supporting the ground with one hand, Ling Yu's right shoulder was grazed by the axe, and the blood flowed, but at this moment, Ling Yu didn't care about this, two guys from the ** rank of the gray realm suddenly appeared at the back of the caravan, and they were sweeping the caravan, but Meng Shu was trapped by five thieves, and his face was full of anxiety at the moment, but the five people cooperated tacitly, and Meng Shu was stunned and couldn't break through the slightest!
A faint evil aura slowly rose from Ling Yu's body.
"I was originally going to protect this caravan, how could a man break his word...... This evil aura became more and more intense, and it had surpassed every unconscious trigger of Ling Yu before, as if a blue beast that had been sealed for ten thousand years was slowly waking up, and Ling Yu's eyes were scarlet. "Do what you say!"
When he said the last six words, Ling Yu's voice was hoarse, faintly carrying a demonic aura from hell, as if he hadn't spoken for ten thousand years!
The strange man's hair stood on end at the moment, and he looked at Ling Yu with disbelief on his face, and Ling Yu was also looking at him at this moment, with a pair of eyes!
The strange man only felt that a person was whipping his soul with a leather whip, his body could not move, and the whole person was put on the scaffolding!
"Roar!"
Ling Yu roared, and under the hoarse voice, this roar seemed to come from hell, from under the Nine Shadows!
The legs suddenly exerted force, and the whole person seemed to have a phantom, which was still a few feet away at the moment, but the next moment it had already come to the front of him!
The strange man didn't have time to react at all, he could only watch Ling Yu's fist hit him, and he could even see that the skin on the fist was shattering little by little, and his muscles and veins were surging blood, but it was such a broken fist that possessed great power.
The strange man was desperate, this punch made him unable to give birth to half of the thoughts in his heart that he wanted to resist, because it was not a level of strength at all, but just when he was desperate, there seemed to be someone watching in the black clouds in the sky, and there was a muffled thunder, this muffled thunder seemed to trigger an ancient formation, and a golden light in mid-air slowly formed a clear formation, and the light of the formation instantly enveloped nearly thirty people below, including Ling Yu.
Then it disappeared in a flash, and all the blood, flesh and even hair that had just fallen from the battle, along with the people and the carriage, disappeared into this formation!
In the dark, a rusty gear began to turn, and the wheel of fortune officially issued its final warning to the continent!
There are still sixty-six years and three months left before the beginning of the immortal relationship!
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