My heart is getting more and more nervous, my breathing is getting more and more rapid, and I can't escape, but if I face it now, my injury is ......

Tsk, hell, at this time, it is not possible to advance or retreat, I knew that this would be the case, it is better to fight to the death, at least it will not be as embarrassed as it is now.

'Here we are! ’

A tearing sound that pierced the air sounded from both sides, and the ground came together, and the sharp cold light showed the momentum of two daggers stabbing at each other, and the left and right sides were clamped. Li Changyuan couldn't get up for a while, so he had to rush forward and fall to the ground, quickly dodging the pinch.

It was not dangerous, it didn't stab Li Changyuan, and the two daggers were half pierced into the trunk due to their excessive force. For a moment, the two black-clothed men appeared, anxiously grabbing the handle with both hands and raising their legs to kick the trunk of the tree, trying to pull out their daggers.

It was this opportunity that Li Changyuan looked up at this scene, thinking that while their attention was not on him, he hurriedly got up and prepared to escape.

I was in a hurry and panicked, forgetting that there were actually two more people chasing after me!

Li Changyuan dragged his injured right leg before he stood up from the ground covered with dead leaves, and in a moment, the position of the two shoulder blades in his back was cold and piercing-

Two daggers pierced Li Changyuan's back.

didn't have time to react to the pain, and then one person kicked him, and the two men in black kicked Li Changyuan to the ground.

The ankle was injured, and he was stabbed twice in the back, bleeding nonstop, and when Li Changyuan fell to the ground, it seemed that he had injured his internal organs, and a mouthful of thick blood spurted out of his mouth.

At night, I couldn't see what my own blood was stained on the dirt and dead leaves on the ground, but what I could smell on the tip of my nose was the slightly moldy and rotten leaves, and the hot smell of the blood I sprayed.

The consciousness was struggling, intense and gradually trance-like, and the consciousness was about to pass out.

'Return...... Can't die yet......

All you can do is grit your teeth, bursts of heat flow down your back, to your waist, and then from both sides of your waist, and a feeling of dampness and heat, a stream of liquid flows from your back to touch the ground. Li Changyuan felt that he had been relieved for a long time, only to realize that the two wounds on his back were bleeding non-stop.

"It's almost, it's time to finish."

Another man in black sneered and added:

"It's quite able to hide, but it's a pity that we saw the location in advance."

"Play peek-a-boo in the next life, remember to move quickly."

As he spoke, there was a sound of leather rubbing metal from the man in black, who had approached the back of his heels, and Slas pulled ...... that it was the man wiping the blood-stained dagger in his hand with his dagger holster.

Then he felt a cool breeze on his back, and the man in black squatted down, holding the dagger's hand, and unhurriedly stretched out to the back of Li Changyuan's neck who fell to the ground.

Immediately, the head can be cut off.

……

…………

Li Changyuan hated not to admit his fate, but his body was ...... Unable to move, too badly wounded, and conscious,...... Sensation of severe pain all over the body. He knew that in a few seconds, he would die with a whimper, and in the few seconds before he died, Li Changyuan finally figured it out,

It's Huang Qiang...... It's the head snake in Nankeng City, it's he who wants to take Li Changyuan's life, everything, it's for money, for the bet of three hundred taels of gold, one loss of twenty, Huang Qiang can take out six thousand taels of gold out of thin air!

These six thousand taels, in exchange for Li Changyuan's life, are definitely worth it for Huang Qiang.

So......

'Therefore I became a lamb in someone else's abacus......

No, the head and body are getting heavier and heavier, the pain is gradually numb, and the consciousness is becoming more and more blurred. There was a faint voice, and there were some familiar ......, who was talking about something, those people from the Iron Bull Sect?

"No, it doesn't seem to be, there are no women in the Iron Bull Sect......

Thinking hard and thinking, he fainted unconsciously, as if he had lost too much blood, and before the last second of consciousness disappeared, Li Changyuan felt something heavy on his back, and a cold feeling touched the side of his neck...... It's a dagger......

……

Ga –

Ga –

Quack - Quack -

A few long bird calls woke up Li Changyuan, who was lying down in the leaves. Struggling to open his tired and tired eyelids, the blurry blue scene gradually became clear.

Still is...... The woods that night,...... Woods?

I—I'm not dead?

'Ahh......h

I felt as if I was still alive, and I was a little happy, but I was interrupted by a sharp and rapid tingling sensation. Li Changyuan's back was pressed against something, and he turned his head to see that it was the man in black who was chasing and killing him that night, and they ...... They all fell to the ground.

What happened that night?

A man in black pressed on his body, just on his back, and the chest of the man in black blocked the two bleeding wounds on his back, and he pulled out his numb hands with difficulty, pushed the man in black on his back aside, and after pushing it away, Li Changyuan did not dare to slack off, and sat up half with the stinging pain.

I felt that the wound on my back had scabbed, and it would not bleed for the time being, and then I checked the ankle of my right foot, which was also scabbed.

It's not that bad anymore, but ......

Gollum –

My stomach is rumbling with hunger, how long have I been down? At least one day and one night. I don't know if it was a few days later, in the early morning, I raised my hand and looked at my body, emaciated to the point of blue, numb and weak, and hurriedly stood up with the help of the tree, and the sudden dizziness almost made me fall again.

"No, we can't go down again!"

In order to stay awake, Li Changyuan pinched his other arm with one hand.

That night, I felt that the dagger had touched my neck, but why didn't I die, did someone save me? No, if someone had saved themselves, they wouldn't have woken up here. In other words, the voice I heard in a trance that night, the voice of a girl, is so familiar.

Be......

Ma Yuanyuan?

After thinking about it carefully, Li Changyuan probably understood that it was Ma Yuanyuan who saved him, maybe there was some accident on the way, so he didn't move Li Changyuan to other places.

"It's not safe here."

Looking at the man in black who was falling to the ground, the four ...... There is also an alibi.

Li Changyuan limped step by step on the way to escape, sometimes raising his hand to pick up the big tree beside him, and within a hundred meters away, he found the fifth man in black, and the man in black also fell to the ground.

Li Changyuan cautiously stepped forward to check, nodded with his toes, and then turned the man in black over, and after checking, he didn't see any wounds on the man in black.

"Huh, ......, do you want to cultivate, the means of killing people without seeing blood, just looking at it makes me chill."

Li Changyuan muttered to me, but when he reached out and stuck it on the man in black, he was surprised to find that there was still body temperature, this person was not dead! Then he used his hand to probe his snort, and sure enough, it was just a fake death, which frightened Li Changyuan.

In this way, wouldn't the five of them be able to wake up at any time!?

Li Changyuan was suddenly a little scared, and when he was about to turn around and leave quickly, he saw a little light on the ground in a blink of an eye. It was the dagger that fell to the side when the man in black fell to the ground, and the early morning sunlight reflected on the blade of the dagger, and the refracted sunlight shone into Li Changyuan's eyes.

It was slightly dazzling, plucking Li Changyuan's tense heartstrings.

'I'm running away for a while...... Or run away? ’

……

'What am I going to do so that I don't have to run away, I ...... I'm going to end this, no one will help me, I'll help myself. ’

After a short period of ideological struggle, the panicked eyes gradually turned into a cold and fierce gaze, and in return to the dagger, Li Changyuan stepped forward and bent down and picked up the dagger. Walking back to the man in black, his heart was beating wildly, but it was Li Changyuan, who was expressionless, squatted down, pressed the face of the man in black with one hand, and held the dagger in the other, and the dagger rested on the throat of the man in black.

Gritting his teeth, the moment he pressed down, he suddenly pulled it over.

！

A splash of blood splashed on Li Changyuan's face, I don't know whether it was stunned or brave and firm, his eyes didn't blink, looking at the eyes of the man in black who woke up from his dream, his round eyes stared at Li Changyuan, and after a while, his eyes were empty,

Life, death.

The self is firm, but still a little timid and confused, only the mind is constantly alerting itself and doing it!

Gotta do it!

Kill them and you can live!

After getting up, the blood on his hands changed from warm to biting cold, from wet to slimy nausea, and his footsteps came to the place where he had woken up, and the four men in black who fell to the ground here, they-

are like the first man in black, slashing their throats!

Knowing this, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, picking up the burden, Li Changyuan wiped the blood stains on the dagger with the clothes of the black-clothed man on the ground beside him, picked up the leather cover, and put the dagger into the set.

Leave.

I don't know where to go, in short, it is impossible to go back to Nankeng City.

Let's go, the farther the better.

Through the sparse woods, it seems that after walking for five or six kilometers, the sun is already shining, at noon, the road in front of the road is flat, and after walking another hundred meters, you can see some pebbles under your feet, and when you look up, there is a stream in front of you. On the right-hand side, in the distance, there is a high mountain from which a stream flows.

This is the perfect place to rest.

Li Changyuan put the burden next to the stream, took off the clothes that were almost stained with blood but had long since curdled, and sat by the stream to wash, while combing the dust on his body.

happened to see fish coming down from the upstream of the stream, and Li Changyuan, who had been hungry all day, immediately washed his clothes and hung them on the cobblestone pavement by the stream, and went into the water to catch the fish with his bare hands.

Unfortunately, these fish are very flexible, and they have been working in vain for half a day without yielding results.

His right ankle was also injured, and after soaking in the water for a long time, the scab also fell off, and the blood melted into the water, attracting the crab under the stones of the stream to come out and clamp Li Changyuan's heel.

"Ahh

So, the fish were not caught, but the palm-sized crabs were caught.

After finding some dry grass and dry firewood to make a fire, Li Changyuan bandaged the wound on his ankle and his body briefly, then squatted down on the pebble face by the stream, roasting crabs to fill his stomach.

At dusk, we set off to continue on our way.

……

The next day, in Nankeng City, someone was so angry that he slapped the wooden table apart with a strong palm, and scolded angrily:

"I* the horse, take the money to do things, do you do things like this? Yes? What about his horse's people, there was no letter for two days, and he ran away with money, didn't he? What's that?! ”

A middle-aged man at the table was silent, and the skinny scout standing next to him also bent over and remained silent. After Huang Qiang lost his temper, the middle-aged man at the table spoke, and responded in a steady and appropriate tone:

"Huang, there may have been some accidents in this matter, but you can rest assured that the person named Li Changyuan is dead."

"Death, man! Where's the head I want to see!? ”

The middle-aged man glanced at the scout beside him, and the thin scout took two steps forward and replied in a weak voice:

"Early this morning, our people have already gone out of the city to search, and there will be news soon, not until tonight at the latest."

Huang Qiang complained:

"Grass, horses, gave two hundred and fifty taels of gold, sent five people, each of them is an eightfold iron bone realm, and there is a peak of the iron bone realm, as a result, your horse can't handle it for a day and a night, eat fart!"

"Huang everyone!"

The strong man shouted gloomily, Huang Qiang reacted a little frightened, seeing that the other party couldn't scold more, Huang Qiang pretended to cough twice, his eyes drifted to the side, and he muttered in a reluctantly compromised tone:

"Ahem...... Well, I'll give you a little more time, and I'll see the results tonight at the latest. ”

"Well, there will be results soon, farewell."

With that, the man gave the scout next to him a look, and the scout followed the man's footsteps and left.

Huang Qiang looked at the backs of the two who left, and secretly scolded in his heart.

In fact, he had already asked someone to go to his father to receive money, and a person who claimed to be 'Zhang Gongzi's servant' was actually a dog sent by Huang Qiang. Huang Tian saw through Huang Qiang's trick at a glance, and said with a smile:

"Why hasn't anyone ever talked about it, Li Changyuan really died in the ring?"

The dog leg coped with the lines given by Huang Qiang:

"Yes, yes, after the martial arts meeting, Li Changyuan was carried down, and after inspection, he was indeed dead."

"If you live to see people, you have to see corpses when you die, it's not that the old man is unreasonable, six thousand three hundred taels of gold is not a small amount, if you want to take the money, the baby's body has to be seen by the old man."

Huang Tian just relied on not giving money like this, and Huang Qiang really had no choice.

Hehe, how can you see the corpse, others don't know, Huang Tian and his old man know very well, Li Changyuan is dead? Dead in the ring?

Oh, nonsense, the small bag of peak clouds on the wall cabinet could not be sent by a ghost.

Huang Qiang was a little anxious, anxious to receive the large sum of money in his old man's hand, he didn't dare to offend Zhang Gongzi, but as long as this plan succeeded, after Zhang Gongzi came back, Huang Qiang would talk better, and it was a big deal to make a rumor and give Zhang Gongzi more money as compensation.

Nominal landlord, Huang Qiang has done enough.

A landlord who has no money to be a fart, just a fake landlord!

At the end of this martial arts meeting, the process and results of the whole event were all written and recorded. A thick stack of books and papers was handed over to the top of the imperial court, half a meter high, and in this stack of books and papers, the process and results of the martial arts meetings held in various cities in various places on the Qiu Jin continent were recorded.

Nankeng City is also among them.

One of the imperial court compounds, one of the six departments of Shangshu Province,

Ministry of Rites.

In the court of the Ministry of Rites, the second and third officials were busy reading the records played in various places, almost all of which were reports of the recent martial arts meeting. The main information needed to read the process is to see if there are any martial arts wizards who can be recruited.

There may be those good seedlings of small families, or masters of no sects, as long as the court shows goodwill, recruits them in, and works for the court, it can make the court's force against the major sects in the rivers and lakes more stable.

"The martial arts meeting held over there in Barbarian City...... How is it just a piece of paper? ”

One of the censors looked surprised, and shook a piece of straw paper in his hand. When the rest of the civil servants looked at it, there was only half a sheet of handwriting on the papyrus, and the handwriting was very sloppy. Isn't this perfunctory?

"What kind of message was written?"

"I'll take a look, cough, it's roughly written that no one won the championship in the martial arts, and the qualifiers originally used the traditional one-on-one elimination system, but the locals in Barbarian City looked too abrasive, so they ......"

"What's the matter?"

The civil official tilted the corners of his mouth, and his face was gloomy:

As a result, all the contestants rushed to the ring, and instantly turned into a melee of 500 people, according to the records on the paper, it was said that the martial arts of this barbarian city became a melee. lost the rules, the referee couldn't control the situation, so he kept the melee going on for three days and three nights......"

"Then, the last player standing in the ring can always be counted as the leader!"

"No, uh-huh......"

The civil servant glanced at it and felt incredible, so he turned around and read the copywriting word by word, and then he continued:

"There is no leader, it is said that this crowd is fighting, and in the end the ring under their feet is broken and broken, the rules are completely gone, and the referee does not know who to judge and who loses......"

"This ......"

The officials were speechless.

After a while, another civil official who approved the examination and approval said:

"Hey, I saw something new."

"Let's see."

"The martial arts club in Nankeng City recorded and reported that the winner was a woman from outside the city."

"Contestants from other cities?"

"No, after being verified by the data, it is from the Western Regions outside the Qiu Jin Continent, and it is still a cultivator."

"It's a novelty."

The civil servant with the paper file in his hand changed his words:

"What I just said is fresh, not that."

"Oh, what else?"

"I know how this leader came about, I'll tell you about ......it."

After that, I talked for a while, and several civil officials sighed a little, nodding their heads frequently and brushing their long beards:

"This woman from the Western Regions really picked up a bargain, if it weren't for the little baby named Li Changyuan who was seriously injured, maybe the leader would have changed hands."

"It's a pity, it's a pity."

"It's a pity."

After reviewing a batch of reports of the martial arts association, the articles were stamped, and the imperial court would use the seals on the paper to distribute aid to the cities that had passed the examination in various places.

The less is a hundred taels of gold, and the more is a thousand taels.

When it comes to Barbarian City, it is a large city, with a total area four times the size of Nankeng City!

Nankeng City is said to be a city, but in fact, it is more like a larger village, but it is just to give someone face, and the previous 'Nankeng Village' was changed to 'Nankeng City'.

Coming from afar and walking a short mountain road, a boy with a package on his back finally saw the fireworks in the world again.

Ahead, walking out of the jungle, I saw a wider loess road.

As he walked towards him, he soon met someone, a groom leading a horse, and a small cart of goods was dragging behind the horse.

"Yo, little brother, alone?"

The oncoming old uncle in front of him was slightly hunchbacked, with a peaceful look in his eyebrows, and asked Li Changyuan with a smile. Li Changyuan also responded with a smile:

"Yes, may I ask who is in front?"

"Ah, ahead, go along this official road, and you will reach the Barbarian City, which is only two miles away."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, the prices there are a bit high, little brother, look at your outfit......"

"It doesn't matter, thank you."

"Uh, okay."

After asking for directions in two or three sentences, after being polite, he took the wrong way and left, and only after walking not far away, Li Changyuan faintly heard the groom of the merchant behind him muttering in a low voice:

"Alas, it's a mess, and it's such a young age, who is so evil, alas, ......"