Chapter 20: The Orchid
The setting sun dragged the gorgeous clothes from the city and slowly faded from the city, the continent was filled with blood red, and there were mountains in the north of the distant Altona Sea, spreading for hundreds of miles, and the mountains were sparsely populated with cliffs.
A dark-skinned, shabby little girl, carrying a blackened bamboo basket on her back, was hanging on the cliff and struggling to climb up.
Although her thin body swayed a little in the wind, her hands were like piercing the wind, firmly rooted on the mountain wall, and they were not good-looking hands, like dry and cracked earth, revealing an ugly purple red.
She steadied her toes in the crevices of the rocks, jumped upward, and with her outstretched right hand, she grabbed the cypress that protruded from the mountain above her head, and the gravel under her feet fell into the mountain, until after a few breaths, she smashed the crawling lizards on the ground into flesh.
Her chapped hands were oozing blood again, and she dragged her body hard, and one rolled over and climbed onto the top of the cliff cypress, stretched out her cracked little hand, and carefully plucked a fluffy purple herb from the crack in the rock.
"Great, I don't have to go hungry these days. β
The dry skin on her face greatly limited the joy in her heart, as if the tight skin would tear apart as soon as she grinned.
The little girl placed the herbs in a bamboo basket behind her and continued to climb up the cracked rocks on the mountain.
When she climbed to the top of the peak with the last trace of the sun, her body was crooked and she almost fell off the cliff.
On the top of the desolate mountain sat a man in black, his body exuding a cold and terrifying aura, like a dark and terrifying door, connecting the gray and cold underworld, as if he had swallowed the brilliant sun into his belly.
The little girl's body tensed, standing in the mountain wind clenched her fists tightly, standing motionless for a long time, the sharp mountain wind continued to cut through her thin body, so that she could not continue to hold on, she cautiously raised her eyes to look at the man, and found that his eyes had never opened, so she mustered up the courage to move slowly forward along the edge of the cliff.
When he passed by the man in black, he couldn't help but sneak a glance and found that a gray light rose from his face.
"Is this uncle poisoned?"
The little girl shook her head, suppressed the thoughts in her heart, and walked forward again, but her steps were extremely heavy, as if she had just climbed the cliff with more difficulty, and after taking a dozen steps, she finally sighed and withdrew the foot she was about to take, and turned to walk towards the man.
"Uncle, are you poisoned?" the little girl asked softly, pausing beside the man, poking her head out.
The man slowly opened his eyes, and the gray light around him gradually faded into his body.
"I, I have a herb here, you can eat it first, it can be detoxified. β
The little girl took out the orchid flower she had just picked from the cliff, and after a moment of struggle, she resolutely handed it to the man in black.
The man frowned, a terrifying killing intent erupted from his body, and the little girl sat on the ground in fright, and cried.
"Cry again, kill you!"
I don't know if it was because of fear or what, the little girl really closed her mouth, she sat on the ground and stepped back with her hands and feet together, and even lowered her head and raised the orchid again.
"Eat it, or you'll be poisoned and die, I've seen poisoned people, and they look scary." β
The man in black hesitated, he had killed countless people in his life, and he didn't need a reason, but looking at the thin and not good-looking little girl in front of him, he couldn't even raise half of his killing intent.
"Why?"
"What are the why, aren't you poisoned? This is what I found with great difficulty, and I can exchange it for several days of food, don't worry, I won't ask you for money." β
The expression on the man's face was a little complicated, as if he had fallen into a painful contemplation, and then he restrained the murderous aura on his body, took out a shriveled steamed bun from his arms and threw it to the little girl.
The little girl seemed to be really hungry, so she took the steamed bun and sat beside him and lowered her head to nibble.
"Are you an orphan?"
The little girl didn't look up, and said vaguely, "My parents met the shark tribe when they went out to sea to fish, and my father fought hard to save my mother, and it was the uncle in the village who saved my mother who was pushed to the beach by the huge waves, but she hasn't woken up yet, and it's been almost two years since I think about it." β
The man stretched out his hand and took the orchid that the little girl had stuffed again.
"Uncle should be obedient and eat it quickly. β
The man stared at the little girl for a long time and put the herb in his mouth.
"That's right, don't worry, this herb is very powerful, you will be fine, okay, I'm going home." β
"Wait. β
As soon as the words fell, the man got up and disappeared on the top of the mountain, appearing in the courtyard of Yang Fan's house.
"Han Xiu!"
Qiao Yiyi frowned and lifted her strength, and she was still holding a handful of dripping greens in her hand, I don't know whether to throw it or use it as a weapon, which looked a little embarrassing.
The sky suddenly exploded, and Huang Quan fell between the two of them from the sky.
"Pills. β
Han Xiu stretched out his hand and ignored Huang Quan in front of him.
"Get out of the yard!"
"Get out!"
A sword qi flew out with Han Xiu's words, and he actually knocked back Huang Quan, who had stepped into the Upper Viewing Realm with one foot, more than a dozen steps, and spurted out a mouthful of blood.
Han Xiu didn't speak again, still raising his hand to look at Qiao Yiyi.
"Take it! Hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to leave when Yang Fan comes back." β
Qiao Yiyi said and took out a porcelain bottle and threw it into Han Xiu's hand.
"Yang Fan will eventually die under my sword. β
Han Xiu coldly threw down a sentence and turned around and returned to the top of the mountain in the Odin Continent.
"Are you okay?" Qiao Yiyi threw away the green vegetables in her hand and quickly stepped forward to support Huang Quan, who was almost falling.
"I didn't expect him to become so terrifying!" Huang Quan looked at the place where Han Xiu had disappeared and suppressed the surging qi and blood in his body.
The young man who used to be under him was already a swordsman standing at the peak of the mainland, but he didn't know if it was a curse or a blessing!
"Give it to your mother. β
Han Xiu threw the porcelain vase to the little girl, turned around and pointed to the south and asked, "Is the merman in that sea area?"
"What is this? Is it also a medicinal herb? Uncle, don't go to that sea, the mermaids are very ferocious, they eat people!"
Before the little girl's words were finished, Han Xiu disappeared on the top of the mountain, the girl rubbed her eyes, quickly knelt down and kowtowed to the sky a few times, "It turned out to be a fairy, I actually saw a fairy." β
The moonlight shone on the gently undulating sea, like broken silver plates scattered among the earthly worlds.
The dilapidated fishing boats on the shore were swaying in the gently lapping waves, occasionally clattering against the rock walls on the shore.
Han Xiu fell with the darkness and looked at the bright sea in front of him, and a blood-colored sword light flew out of his body and sank into the bottom of the sea.
On the undulating sea surface in the breeze, a huge bubble suddenly bulged, and the moonlight in the sky was like another bright moon!
A shaking, flowing crack appeared on the bright moon, and then burst, and a column of water 10,000 meters thick rose into the sky, bursting in the night sky, shattering the moonlight.
Tens of thousands of figures flew out of the rough sea, nailed into the sky like sharp arrows, they had human-like upper bodies, smooth skin and protruding bones, scarlet gills on the sides of their faces and necks, and their lower body was a huge fish tail with purple scales.
A tall merman, wearing strange battle armor on his upper body, and his lower body was like a dragon's tail, floated in front of ten thousand people, raising the iron fork in his hand that shone with golden light and pointed at Han Xiu.
"Is Ryan trying to provoke a war between the two races? The temple no longer exists, so don't be too rampant with your Terrans. β
"You are the merman?" Han Xiu asked as he floated into the air and looked at the dense figure in front of him.
"Lowly humans, come here to pretend to be crazy and stupid? We are the noblest Holy Spirit on the continent of Odin, tell me the purpose of your coming here, and this king will leave you a whole corpse. β
The leader of the merman raised the iron fork in his hand, and the sky began to rise and fall, twisting, and thousands of water tank-thick lightning fell in the dark night, converging on the iron fork, illuminating a radius of hundreds of miles!
"Your Majesty, there was an abnormality in the merman clan, tens of thousands of shark clan powerhouses flew out of the sea, and even Hagri, one of the nine kings, also appeared. A knight in cyan armor hurried into the Twin Star Towers and knelt in front of Emperor Ryan.
"You and General Varsa go with the Knights Templar first and try to stabilize the situation. β
"Yes!"
The blue-armored knight shouted and hurriedly withdrew from the Twin Star Tower, although there had been countless battles with the mermaid clan, but at this time, it was different from the past, the temple had fallen, and he was worried that this time it was a real battle of life and death!
Han Xiu looked at the leader of the merman clan in front of him and only said two simple words.
"Extermination!"
He's talked enough today.
Now he just wants to kill!
Haghley held up the lightning in the sky and began to laugh, and the heavens and the earth shook as his body shook and the lightning cut out cracks!
He felt that the human standing in front of him must be a fool, they had been fighting with the human race for nearly a thousand years, and even Emperor Ryan did not dare to speak such wild words!
As Han Xiu raised his hand, a cloud of death qi poured out of his body, and then exploded into countless gray sword qi, and the heaven and earth in front of him became shattered in the flying sword qi!
Tens of thousands of shark clan powerhouses were instantly cut into pieces of minced flesh and fell into the sea like a torrential rain, and a thick layer of purple plasma appeared on the sea.
Hagri, who was as powerful as a god just now, no longer had his hands and feet, and even his soul trembled as he looked at Han Xiu with a frightened expression.
He had participated in hundreds of battles with the human race, and even the eight dukes who were above 10,000 people under one person could only fight him to a draw, but now he was extremely confident, but his limbs were cut off in an instant.
He knew that if it weren't for the demon's deliberate retention, he would have become a mess of minced meat that fell into the sea!
"Who γγγthe hell are you?"
Before Haggrie could finish his words, he was pinched by Han Xiu, who suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Let them come out and die!"
Han Xiu pinched Hagri's face and threw him into the sea with a thud, and the monstrous waves set off by the terrifying power were all shattered by the sword qi floating out of his body.