Chapter 11: Descending the Mountain
Two days later.
Rongguo, Wuchuan Mansion.
A group of knights in black armor and black horses galloped on the official road, guarding a coffin in the center.
This group of cavalry with strict banners and bright armor, even if they galloped for dozens of miles under the sun, both men and horses did not look tired, and at a glance they knew that they were well-trained warriors.
"I have long heard that the newly cultivated Dao soldiers in the spiritual room are very extraordinary, and when I saw it today, it was really true. Senior brother, you carefully look at the movements of their spines when they exert their strength, like a white toad guarding their qi, curling their heads and building their stomachs, if ordinary martial artists were like this, their bodies would have already been bruised. ”
Behind this group of Taoist knights, there were two white horses on their own, but they followed unhurriedly.
The two people on the white horse, one wearing a blue Taoist robe and carrying a sword behind his back, were pointing to the Taoist soldiers in front of him at this time, and they were quite interested in explaining to their companions.
The other person held Zhang Liushi's vermilion lacquer bow in his left hand, held the reins of a horse in his right hand, hung a sword from his waist, and wore a dark water cloud robe, with a leather belt to tie his waist, which made his long figure look heroic.
Chen Heng, who was holding a big bow in his left hand, bowed his head lightly.
He glanced at those Dao soldiers in the direction of Xu Zhi's finger, absent-minded.
"Senior brother, what's wrong with you? It's not easy to get down the mountain, shouldn't you be happy? ”
Xu Zhi scratched his head and said, "I see that you have been looking anxious since you came down the mountain, what's wrong?" Are you worried that Elder Yan is going to trouble you? Don't worry, your descent from the mountain was personally approved by the sect master, and he didn't have the courage to deliberately go against the sect master on the surface. ”
"I'm not just worried about Yan Feichen, but also ......"
Chen Heng clenched his bow and shook his head.
When he left the Biqing Heavenly Palace that day, he packed up some things a little, and he took the coffin of his former brother down the mountain overnight.
After three days of fast horses, there is now less than half a day's journey from the city of Yanliang where the Chen clan is located.
But Chen Heng was still uneasy.
That woman, is she really willing to let herself go because of Chen Yingjiao's words?
So easy?
When the predecessor first went up the mountain, I don't know how many times I begged Yan Zhen bitterly, and the words were sincere, almost like a cuckoo crying blood, but in the end, he didn't die in Xiaoganshan with anger.
People like them.
Can you really be moved by words?
……
"Forget it, people are swords, I am fish and meat, and thinking about it is only in vain to hurt my spirit."
Chen Heng urged him and walked with Xu Zhi: "Speaking of which, I haven't thanked my senior brother for his hard work and came to send me back to my hometown." ”
"Why do you have to say thank you between me, I am also idle in the mountains."
Xu Zhi laughed and said, "You have just become a fetus, and although you have left the mortal body, you have no experience in fighting methods, and you have not yet learned a few Taoist techniques. Senior brother, I am also a monk who practices the sixfold Qi Sect, although my right hand is not good, but this mortal demon is small, if you come to one, you will die one! ”
"However, next year's trip to the abyss will be difficult for senior brother to contribute, don't be surprised."
Xu Zhi laughed at himself:
"You know I'm a cowardly man, and it's the norm. I also know that it is not good, but it is always difficult to change, I have not achieved much in this life, but I can live every day, and I can study and refine medicine, I feel happy, as for a place like the abyss, I really don't have the courage to ......"
"Senior brother is serious, how dare I blame you?"
Chen Heng shook his head gently.
"However, there is something that I have been holding on to my heart for a long time, but I have never understood it." Xu Zhi looked at him, a little hesitant, and spoke carefully.
"Senior brother, please speak."
"Didn't your brother give Yan Zhen advice back then and coax you up the mountain? You hated to kill him with a sword, so why did you send his coffin back to the clan now? ”
"If he hadn't pushed me, I would have been killed by Xu Zhen's sword that slashed at Yan Zhen...... Moreover, who knew that the pill given by Yan Zhen was a poisonous pill that urged life. ”
This body is in memory.
There is still a scene of the former brother vomiting blood before he died, and he wept on his knees to make amends.
Xu Yu's sword slashed everything.
Not only Yan Zhen, but even the accompanying disciples of the predecessor were also in his sword aura full of killing intent, if the predecessor was not pushed away by his clan brother, but died with Yan Zhen.
Under the mistake, can Chen Heng be reborn in Kyushu?
"Yesterday's events can't be traced, my mother and he are dead, and I have been on Xiaoganshan for three years, so now, what's the use of holding grudges."
Chen Heng faintly watched the fog like light smoke in the distant mountains dissipate silently in the sun:
"He saved my life, and I fulfilled his last wish, and that's it."
Xu Zhi looked at Chen Heng in a daze, this young man with a god-like face was driving the horse expressionlessly, there was no sadness or joy on his face.
Everything that used to be has gone with the waves.
Even Chen Heng.
is no longer the original Chen Heng......
"I saw the Dao Heart in the eyes of my junior brother."
He suddenly spoke: "That day, when I was practicing swords, the master ...... Elder Gu Jun suddenly announced that he wanted to take me as a disciple, and that was what he said. ”
"Elder Gu Jun? He is indeed a gentle elder, and if he hadn't asked the spiritual room to allocate to my team of Dao soldiers, I would have been worried about how to transport my brother's coffin. ”
"Elder Gu ......" Xu Zhi smiled bitterly: "He has always been excellent, a pure Dao. ”
The two were speechless for a while.
As if seeing that the atmosphere froze, Xu Zhi turned his gaze to the big bow in Chen Heng's left hand and asked:
"Senior brother is still proficient in archery? It's the first time I've seen it. ”
"The six arts of a gentleman, how can you not understand it?"
Chen Heng smiled slightly, and at this time, the mountains and forests on the left side of the official road suddenly had a commotion of grass and trees, and then a majestic white deer rushed out of it, running with four hooves like flying.
"Coincidentally, it's just time to ask my senior brother to taste my skills."
Chen Heng bent his bow like a full moon, and easily pulled all the six stone bows apart.
According to the archery technique in the memory of his predecessor, he shot an arrow like a meteor to catch the moon, and only heard the sound of the bowstring, the white deer had fallen to the ground violently, his neck was directly pierced, and blood gushed out desperately from the fist-sized wound.
The Taoist soldiers guarding the coffin in front of them all cheered in unison, and Xu Zhi was even more admired.
Chen Heng put down his bow and arrows, and was just about to pick up the deer when there was another shaking in the woods next to the official road, and with countless shouts and chasing, dozens of young ladies in fresh clothes and angry horses appeared.
"Looks like I've fallen for someone else's hunt."
Chen Heng restrained the horses and didn't go over, but just arched his hand apologetically, and urged the horse to leave with Xu Zhi.
"Sister, the deer we were chasing was shot dead."
Among the young boys and girls, a delicate girl with a small short bow pursed her lips: "The person who shot the fawn is really good-looking, but why have I never heard of him in Rongguo, Sister, do you know who he is?" ”
"Isn't that Chen Heng of the Xuanzhen faction? He...... How did you get down the mountain? ”
In this team, the first one is a woman wearing a fox fur, beautiful and picturesque, but with a bit of heroism in her eyebrows.
"Let's go! Maybe he came down the mountain for the trouble of the Chen family! ”
She touched the girl's head, turned the horse's head, and chased in the direction where Chen Heng left:
"Let's catch up together and see what he can do!"
……
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At this time.
Rongguo, Langliang City, Chen Residence.
In the lobby, a group of Chen elders frowned, no one spoke, and the atmosphere was gloomy and miserable.
"Xi'er must not hand it over, if it is handed over, where will it leave my Chen family's reputation? For now, the only way to do this is to take out Chen Heng's father's relics! ”
The patriarch of the Chen family, who had won the top three merits, and then resigned and returned to his hometown, stood up.
He glanced coldly at the many clansmen, and his long white beard trembled:
"Although his father was a wild Taoist during his lifetime, didn't he also have some cultivation in his body? Those relics of his should be able to deal with the Yangshan Dao people, right? ”