Chapter 22: The Demon of the Sword
Night falls.
Lin Shouxi closed the curtain and returned to the bed alone, meditating.
Xiao He has finished learning swordsmanship, so he shouldn't come tonight.
True Qi flowed into the spiritual veins and converged to the center of his body, he exhaled evenly, and the scene of the daytime competition was flooded in his mind, he stretched out his hand, and condensed the True Qi to the tip of his fist in the same way as Xiao Jiu.
The true qi quickly turned into a substantial white silk stream, winding up along the texture of the arm muscles, condensing at the joints at the tip of the fist, far purer than Xiao Jiu's.
It's easy to do.
Lin Shouxi roughly estimated that he should be stronger than all the disciples here, but he was still weaker than Yun Zhenren and Deputy Yuan Sun.
The apex of the world in the past is so high, in the end, it can't compare to the people who have been cultivating here for hundreds of years.
It doesn't help to think too much.
Throughout the day, Lin Shouxi felt nameless fatigue, he lay down on the bed, and it didn't take long for him to fall asleep.
In the past two days, he would always dream of the Zhangong Sword.
Ever since he saw it, the sword had lingered in his dreams.
It was like a secret letter, waiting for him to read it.
Then, Lin Shouxi really heard a faint sword sound, faintly, he smelled a trace of danger, and instinctively became alert.
It was this instinct for danger that made him open his eyes with his sleepiness.
He quickly looked to the side.
Then he saw something unbelievable.
The sword he picked up in the Sword Pavilion was called the Bloodsnatcher.
The sword was simple and glowing, and he liked it very much, but the only drawback was that it had only served two generations of masters, and it was very short and unlucky.
At this moment, he finally knew the reason for the short life of the two masters.
At some point, it pulled itself out of its sheath, quietly turned the tip of the sword, and plunged the tip into its own skin with a tiny point of the tip, sucking his blood slowly and methodically while giving itself comfort.
No wonder he wasn't in good spirits all day.
"What a sword lives up to its name...... Are you a sword or a leech? β
In the night, Lin Shouxi opened his eyes and spoke.
It was the sword that startled.
It hummed and retreated suddenly, but fortunately Lin Shouxi reacted in time and drew his arm quickly, otherwise it would have been scratched by the tip of the sword.
"It turns out that your two generations of masters were sucked to death by you." Lin Shouxi grabbed the hilt of his sword.
The sword wanted to escape, but it didn't have the ability to move dramatically, and when it pulled itself out of its scabbard to suck blood, it also took a wriggling style.
The hilt of the sword was grabbed at once, and he could not move.
Lin Shouxi stared at the blade of the sword, which was like a mosquito's blood-soaked abdomen, and the fierce light revealed a deep red.
Lin Shouxi didn't know enough about this world, he knew that the swords here were somewhat spiritual, but he never imagined that they could move freely, and even be smart enough to secretly suck human blood.
This is...... The legendary sword spirit?
Lin Shouxi grabbed the hilt of the sword and injected his true qi into it, trying to probe. True qi is like a needle, and he searched back and forth with the spine of the sword as the central axis, but he didn't get any results.
But he didn't give up, he tried different methods to infuse true qi, trying to find something from this ancient sword.
At first, the sword looked like a thief who had been caught, buzzing from time to time, a little flustered.
But soon, it found that Lin Shouxi didn't seem to be able to discover its secrets, and it also calmed down and calmly accepted the 'body search'.
Lin Shouxi searched dozens of times, but never found any clues, and just as he was about to give up, the white pupils and black phoenix sword scriptures in his body woke up like a beast.
True Qi gushed out from the spiritual veins, and the mental essence of the Sword Sutra spread throughout the body along the straight spine, and merged into the palm with the flow of blood.
It's like a pair of white pupils open in the dark, and the existence hidden in the blade of the sword has nothing to hide for a moment!
Lin Shouxi saw it.
True Qi flowed from the sword and flowed back into his body, conveying a new picture to him:
In the body of the sword, there is a drop of fresh blood, and a pair of young membrane wings grow on its back, and the body writhes irregularly like a bug, and the red blood seems to be the cocoon on its body.
Blood demons?
Such a word popped up in his head inexplicably.
Lin Shouxi observed the tender drop of blood, and urged the true qi to approach it with the sword meridian, as if out of fear, the blood began to tremble, and then the young wings also kept fanning, like a goose that had been caught by the neck.
Lin Shouxi guessed that this should be a monster that was sealed in this sword, and for some reason, it broke free from some of the seals, trying to gain strength by absorbing human blood.
And it is obviously not very sensible, sucking blood and fishing every night, and quickly consumes two masters.
Fortunately, Lin Shouxi found it in time.
The little blood demon sealed in the sword babbled, as if it was intimidating, as if begging for mercy, Lin Shouxi didn't pay attention to it at all, since it had the idea of killing itself, then he had to find a way to erase it, lest it sneak out and suck his own essence blood.
The little blood demon also seemed to be aware of Lin Shouxi's murderous intent, and at the moment when the true qi was about to touch him, the blood demon suddenly let out a fierce roar.
The roar quickly followed the true qi into Lin Shouxi's mindβit was a series of strange syllables, as if they were incantations.
'Death is forbidden. β
Lin Shouxi repeated in a low voice.
It was also at this moment that the spell took effect. It seemed that a knife was inserted obliquely into his mind, and the sharp pain that surged interrupted his thoughts, and cold sweat suddenly burst out of his pores, wetting his black clothes.
The incantation was like a centipede in his mind, the centipede moved quickly, causing severe pain everywhere he went, his lips were closed, his hands covered his head and he kept shaking, trying to shake the centipede out.
Lin Shouxi struggled to maintain his composure, fighting against the intrusive spell with his will.
This spell is certainly powerful, but his white pupils and black phoenix sword scripture is even better, the sword scripture is like a real divine sparrow, singing in the sea of consciousness, constantly erasing the influence of the spell.
Seeing that he had the upper hand, the cold sound of the door opening sounded behind him.
Someone's coming!
This sudden distraction made him unable to control the Sword Sutra, and the spell took advantage of this gap to launch a counterattack, and he snorted softly in pain, this feeling was like piercing an iron cone into his spine, and the cold hair exploded uncontrollably!
The person who came was Vice President Sun.
Ever since Lin Shouxi touched the Zhangong Sword that day, Deputy Yuan Sun has always been staring at this room with a wisp of attention, and tonight, there are obvious abnormal fluctuations in the room, and Vice Yuan Sun sensed it and appeared in his house for the first time.
The dwarf old man stood beside Lin Shouxi's bed, frowned and looked at him for a while before he said coldly:
"You've gone mad."
Fortunately, Deputy Sun did not fall into the well, on the contrary, he also pulled Lin Shouxi at this dangerous juncture.
He pointed out that it was like electricity, and it instantly hit Lin Shouxi's thirteen passes, and in a series of snapping sounds, Lin Shouxi's throat was sweet, and he spit out a mouthful of blood, but the abnormal sound in his brain was defeated, and the spiritual world returned to the precious Qingning.
He raised his head, his face pale from weakness, "Thank you, Lord Vice-Courtyard, for the rescue." β
Deputy Yuan Sun ignored his polite words, and his blazing eyes were like nails piercing through the bones, and they were stuck on Lin Shouxi's body.
"You're still practicing other mental secrets?"
"Yes...... That's what my teacher taught me in the past. β
"Recite the mantra!"
"I ......"
Lin Shouxi couldn't recite the recipe, he used the secret of Vena, and he could only touch the pages of Vena to get the inheritance, and there was no way to dictate it at all.
"I can't remember the cheats." Lin Shouxi immediately had an idea.
"You use this as a mental method to practice, and you say you can't remember it?" Vice President Sun grabbed his shoulder bone, his fingers slammed hard.
"Yes, I can't remember, there is something special about that mental method." Lin Shouxi endured the severe pain and continued: "But the Lord of the Deputy Courtyard can go and see it in person. β
"Personally?"
"Well, it's in the hands of Yun Zhenren now." Lin Shouxi's words were firm, "Since my master's death, I have been carrying that mental method with me, but after waking up that day, I found that it was gone, if nothing else, it should be ......."
"It's just your guess." Deputy Yuan Sun interrupted: "Or ...... Is this your expediency? β
"The deputy courtyard lord will find out if he asks Yun Zhenren himself." Lin Shouxi gritted his teeth and said.
Vice President Sun stared at him, and suddenly asked, "You haven't condensed the pill yet?" β
"Yes." Lin Shouxi replied.
Deputy Yuan Sun would not simply believe it, he pressed Lin Shouxi's shoulders and searched his body with true qi as a medium, Lin Shouxi's body was in severe pain, and even his soul ached.
Vice Courtyard Sun searched for a while in the center of his spiritual vein, and it was indeed pitch black, and there was nothing else.
He let go of his hand, and his interest in the eccentric mind was greatly reduced.
Deputy Yuan Sun couldn't find his qi pill, but Lin Shouxi saw it!
When Fang Cai Sun injected his true qi, he clearly felt that something was rotating in the center of his body, and it was almost indistinguishable from the surrounding pitch black, only extremely faint light and dark.
It was the first time he had seen his own air pill.
It was a black gas pill!
According to Yun Zhenren, the qi pill only has five colors: white, green, purple, gold, and red, what is this black pill?
"You know Xiao He's girl very well?"
Deputy Yuan Sun didn't notice the look of surprise on Lin Shouxi's face, and asked about something else.
"It's familiar." He was determined.
"She usually comes to your room?"
"Well, we'll learn some martial arts skills." Lin Shouxi said.
"Is there anything unusual about her?" Vice President Sun asked, "Anything is fine." β
Lin Shouxi lowered his head, pretending to fall into deep thought, he quickly typed the draft, and when he was about to speak, a knock on the door sounded softly, and the girl's voice came through the thick night:
"Senior brother, can I come in?"
Lin Shouxi frowned, instinctively wanting to refuse, but Xiao He entered his room as if he was entering his own home, and knocking on the door was just out of politeness, where would he give him the opportunity to refuse? She asked, then pushed the door open.
The girl has changed into the tight-fitting black clothes, and now she is beautiful in a green dress.
As soon as Xiao He entered the door, Deputy Courtyard Sun disappeared silently, and he didn't know where he was hidden in the darkness.
"What is my sister looking for me doing so late? If you don't rest earlier, it's okay to talk about it during the day. Lin Shouxi spoke gently.
"Of course I'm here to find my senior brother to review the Sword Sutra."
Xiao He habitually sat down on the couch, gently shook his slender legs under his skirt, and said with a smile.
The Book of Swords......
Lin Shouxi's heart twitched even tighter.