Chapter 3: Disappearance
Zhao Lin and Zhao Yu at the edge of the bamboo forest knew that something was wrong when the sword rain fell, and after receiving two sword qis, their faces turned red, obviously they had been slightly injured, and they didn't dare to stay for a moment longer, so they hurriedly waved the sword shadow and rushed out of the area covered by the sword rain.
Looking at the rain of swords all over the front, Zhao Lin, who had just broken out, panted slightly, and said to Zhao Yu: "I don't know if the captain can block it, this Cheng Chen actually has such a means, and he also broke our black butterfly in one fell swoop." I really underestimated his formation before, it turned out that his formation was not only for defense, but more for attack, and if we quit, the captain would be to blame. ”
Zhao Yu returned: "Don't worry, the captain's cultivation is much higher than ours, and this should be Cheng Chen's last resort, let's hold it, don't let him take the opportunity to escape, now that Cheng Chen's aura is completely lost, it is a great achievement to be able to catch it." ”
Zhao Lin nodded, seeing that Jian Yu still did not stop, he continued to look at Zhao Yu: "Brother Yu, do you know why the eldest brother came to kill Cheng Chen?" After all, we didn't know each other before, and the door had never given this task, so we wouldn't delay the door in Green Bamboo City. ”
Zhao Yu frowned and replied, "I don't know, but isn't it normal to kill someone in our door?" Don't worry, and don't call the captain big brother outside. ”
Zhao Lin pursed his lips and continued: "This person is not much older than us, but his strength has reached at least the middle stage of the Spirit Pill, which is rare in the Heavenly Spirit Continent. You must know that we started from the foundation building period to wash the marrow and cut the bones, it took about three years to enter the spirit gathering period, and now we have been cultivating in the spirit gathering period for five or six years, but we still can't touch the threshold of the spirit pill stage, and we don't know what year and month it will take to reach a higher level. ”
As soon as he said this, Zhao Yu was also a little silent, the fist in his hand was slowly clenched, he looked at Zhao Lincai and said: "We are not extremely talented people, otherwise we would not have been assigned here by the family, if we want to gain higher strength, we can no longer slack off in our cultivation in the future." ”
After that, there was silence again, and the sword rain in the bamboo forest still did not stop, but the sword qi was visible and transparent, obviously unable to support it for long.
In the sword rain, Cheng Chen stood in front of him with a formation disc in his hand, and the array disk showed a cyan light enveloping his whole body, and the sword rain fell and blended in, obviously he couldn't hurt himself as one.
Seeing that the sword rain was slowly falling, but the black sword shadow was still waving, Cheng Chen also knew that now that his aura was completely lost, he couldn't kill the black-clothed captain alone.
A clear voice came from the shadow of the sword: "This is the treasure you obtained in the Dark Spirit Mountain Range?" It's clumsy to just come in.,This thing is common as a protective formation.,It's good as a means of attack.,But obviously you haven't studied it either.,Let me study that thing.。 ”
Cheng Chen secretly thought that this treasure that was obtained in the Dark Spirit Mountain Range had leaked the news, but no one else had left alive at that time, and those who robbed had already died, but this team of people was good at hiding, maybe they took advantage of the chaos to sneak away at that time.
It's just that this is not the time to think about that, looking at the sword rain that has become transparent in the air, Cheng Chen is still a little helpless in his heart, although the sword rain is all over the range of dozens of zhang, and the lethality is very wide, but the corresponding power is also scattered, and it is impossible to hurt the black-clothed leader, if it can be gathered, I am afraid that it will be able to repel him with a sword.
Thinking of this, I saw a rain of transparent swords within a range of tens of zhang trembling, and then quickly condensed in the air, and in a moment, a giant sword one zhang long and three feet wide landed from mid-air towards the black-clothed captain.
Cheng Chen was stunned, this was a situation he hadn't expected. Seeing this, the black-clothed captain on the opposite side changed his complexion, the shadow of the knife disappeared instantly, and there was a buzz in the dantian, and a black pill trembled and floated a black aura to condense towards the knife body, and the entire knife body instantly churned with black gas, extremely dark, and the giant sword in mid-air had fallen at this time and touched the blade, and the blue light and the black blade made a sneering sound.
Seeing the giant sword and the black aura of the sword body, Cheng Chen's daze expression at this time has been reflected, although he doesn't know what happened, but at this time he seems to have a connection with the giant sword in the air, now is the best time to hit the black-clothed captain hard.
So he shouted and exploded, only to see the giant sword burst with a bang, and the black blade shattered, sweeping out a storm and blowing around. The bamboo forests were shattered under the storm, and the area was full of bamboo leaves and bamboo branches.
And Cheng Chen was caught off guard and was also repelled by the air flow for several steps, fortunately, with the help of the array disk, he did not suffer too serious injuries, thinking of this, his expression involuntarily looked at the array disk in his hand, and found that the blue light of the array disk at this time was no longer there, and it had returned to an ordinary appearance, fortunately, it has always had a protective effect, but this trick just now can no longer be used like this in the near future.
It's just that now there is no aura in the whole body, and I don't know how many people are outside, it is impossible to get out at this time, looking at the array plate in his hand, Cheng Chen crossed a trace of amusement in his heart: They actually think that your protection is very low...
And at the edge of the bamboo forest, Zhao Lin hurriedly retreated at the beginning of the storm in Takeuchi, until the impact was a little less than ten zhang away, and at this time looking into the storm, the original moonlight in the bamboo forest was hazy, and the gray storm that suddenly broke out in Takeuchi was completely unclear at this time.
A few minutes later, the storm stopped, and the area of dozens of feet in the middle of the bamboo forest was blown down by the storm, but the periphery was less affected, and there were still dense bamboo forests towering.
Seeing the situation in Takeuchi, Zhao Yu's face changed drastically and he made a gesture, asking Zhao Lin to stay here alone in case Cheng Chen escaped at this time.
And Zhao Yu himself quickly rushed into the bamboo forest, but saw the black-clothed captain stay in place with his clothes torn, and hurriedly and carefully stepped forward to support the black-clothed captain and asked, "Captain, are you okay?" ”
The black-clothed captain wiped a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth, shook his head and said, "It's just a little injured, Cheng Chenke rushed out?" ”
Zhao Yu hurriedly replied: "I haven't seen it over there, but just in case, I still have to know the situation at the exit as soon as possible." ”
The black-clothed captain nodded and asked him to go to the previous place to check, and he cleaned himself up in place, scanning the surroundings with a look of shock in his eyes, but he quickly cleaned up his mood.
Then he jumped up from the ground and jumped through the top of the bamboo forest on the periphery of the storm to the exit, which was still quiet, and it was clear that the movement had not yet made them appear.
It wasn't until the black-clothed captain flew here that the four of them showed their dark shadows, and the four of them bowed down, and before they could greet them, they heard the black-clothed captain ask, "Is there anyone else coming here?" ”
The four of them shook their heads at each other, only to see one of them reply: "Captain, my subordinates only saw the blue light fluctuating in the distance, and there were fights, but I didn't see anyone else coming." ”
Seeing this, the black-clothed captain ordered: "You don't need to hide, leave one person to guard, and the rest of the people will search for each other along this place, and do not let go of any living creatures." ”
After speaking, the black-clothed captain jumped back to the original place, and at this time, Zhao Yu also walked into the bamboo forest from the left with two people, obviously a team of people who were ambushed on the other side of the valley.
I saw Zhao Yu shaking his head and said that he hadn't found it over there, and the whole team of Lei Leopard had died in the bamboo forest. The black-clothed captain glanced at him, his face was slightly gloomy, and said in a deep voice: "Each person will be left to guard their own exits, and the rest will be searched by me." ”
The people replied yes, and hurriedly separated and searched in the bamboo forest. The black-clothed captain looked ahead, gently stepped on the bluestone path of the bamboo forest, and felt the surroundings with his divine sense, but did not find a trace of it.
Walking through the bluestone path to the bamboo hut in the deepest part of the bamboo forest, due to the distance between them, the bamboo hut was very little affected by the storm, and only the bamboo windows were blown open.
The black-clothed captain entered the bamboo house, and the whole room had already been cleaned up, leaving only a bamboo bed in the room. He frowned, and used his aura to concentrate on everything in the room, the bamboo bed did not feel anything unusual, and there was not the slightest abnormal aura in the room.
The black-clothed captain was silent, came to the window of the bamboo house, and looked out, although they were cultivators, and their eyesight was less limited at night, but in such a dim and hazy moonlight, they could not see completely in the shadows of the bamboo forest.
After more than ten minutes, the searchers reported that they had not found Cheng Chen. The black-clothed captain couldn't sit still and left the bamboo house to go to the bamboo forest.
The moon in the sky has moved westward, and it can be seen that dawn will come soon, the black-clothed captain looked at the remaining bamboo forests on the periphery of the storm, frowned and ordered: "Cut off all the remaining bamboos, and then return to the position you are guarding, don't let go of any movement around, let people go, only you ask." ”
Everyone hurriedly replied yes, and then brushed a few knife lights and cut outward along the middle of the bamboo forest, each time a row of bamboos fell, and after a while, dozens of bamboo forests were all cut down, and only one bamboo house stood in the whole valley.
Looking at the bamboo house, the black-clothed captain walked inward along the bluestone path, and after entering the room, he stood still, slowly using his aura to repair the injuries just now, while secretly guarding and perceiving everything around him, while the rest of the people were guarding all over the valley for dawn.
Soon after, the hazy moonlight faded and the entire sky was pitch black, the darkest moment before dawn. The black-clothed captain closed his eyes and used his aura to scan the entire area, but there was still no movement.
When I opened my eyes, the sky was already white, and after a while, the whole sky began to turn white, but there were still clouds.
When the sky and the earth finally brightened, the black-clothed captain went out of the door and stood on the bluestone slab outside the door, and Zhao Yu in the distance immediately flashed and flew over when he saw it, saying that there was no movement anywhere last night. The black-clothed captain frowned and scanned the entire area, now that the bamboo forest had been cut down, everything was clear at a glance.
Looking back at the room, the aura in his hand was condensed, and a black ball blasted towards the bamboo house, and the boom sounded, and the bamboo house collapsed, but there was nothing abnormal.
Zhao Yu was puzzled: "This is strange, it's not in the bamboo forest, it's not in the room, where is it, did you really run away?" ”
The black-clothed captain shook his head, obviously not believing that Cheng Chen would be able to run out of the encirclement, and ordered: "Let people burn all the fallen bamboo forests, turn over them well, see if there are tunnels hidden, and burn the bamboo houses as well, rummage a few more times."
Zhao Yu replied yes, and hurriedly went out to find someone, and after a while, several cultivators with fire attributes entered the place where the bamboo forest collapsed, and the entire bamboo forest burned in an instant using the aura and using firearms.
Zhao Lin also walked over at this time, and after saluting the black-clothed captain, he took out the red powder and sprinkled it on the collapsed bamboo house, and then the aura in his hand flashed, hitting the powder, and the bamboo house slowly burned in an instant.
At this time, a man in black suddenly ran from outside the valley, and bowed to the captain in black before saying a few words to Zhao Yu. Zhao Yu looked at the black-clothed captain and waved his hand to let this person go back.
Then he said to the black-clothed captain: "Captain, someone just reported that the hall master went to our stronghold outside Green Bamboo City in the morning, and I want to see you to talk about the affairs of Green Bamboo City that were sent from inside the gate this time. ”
The black-clothed captain frowned and replied, "The things in Green Bamboo City are not in a hurry, what is he anxious about, I think he probably received some news last night." ”