Chapter 33: The Last Breath of the Qi Refiner
The night is dark and the wind is high.
Outside Nanyang City, hundreds of miles of wilderness, waist-high wild grass covers the earth, undulating and swaying in the cold wind.
A thin figure dressed in black, carrying luggage on his back, bent down and lowered his figure, sneaking through the long barren grass.
Although according to the meaning of the team, Li Xiaozhu can hide in the Jingwei yamen first, and then leave if he feels that the situation is wrong.
But she left that night anyway.
Li Xiaozhu understands that he is too weak, and staying is a drag, dragging down those who want to protect him.
The team was seriously injured this time, and they were still saved, but if they continued to fight against Deng Fu for her sake, they would definitely cause death.
"I want to heal soon." Li Xiaozhu thought silently in his heart.
"Dad, mother, do you remember the person who often comes to pay New Year's greetings and always has a straight face? Bless him also. ”
After running for a long time, she stopped to rest, squatted down, and hid herself in the wild grass.
Looking back, the tall Nanyang City was only a blurry black shadow in the dark night.
The wilderness in the dim moonlight, the atmosphere is quiet, only the sound of the wind can be heard, the chirping of relatives and insects, and there are no other abnormal sounds.
In this escape, Li Xiaozhu has been as careful as possible.
Disguised himself, he walked around the city a few times, taking advantage of the crowd to hide himself and make sure that no one was following him, before sneaking out at the time when the city gate was closed.
She knew that there were risks in this move, but she still had to bear the risks she should take.
Fortunately, it seems that it should be safe now.
She breathed a sigh of relief, and finally glanced at her hometown with a nostalgic gaze.
This escape, he will not come back in the short term, even if the team is healed from his injury.
You have to be promoted to at least three realms before you are eligible to go home.
If you can become a Grandmaster of the Four Realms, and then return to Nanyang, it will be the entire Deng Mansion, and you have to admit it obediently.
Now in the second realm, she can only flee in a hurry like a lost dog.
"It's still not enough to cultivate." Li Xiaozhu regretted a little, her life had been quite comfortable in the past two years, and she was a little tired of her practice.
It was only at this moment that I deeply realized the importance of cultivation.
Each time you ascend to a realm, your fate will be very different.
"Let's go, go to Xingyang, and find a place where you can cultivate with peace of mind."
After the break, Li Xiaozhu wiped his sweat and prepared to continue to set off.
Behind him, there was the sound of wings fluttering, getting closer and closer.
Li Xiaozhu hurriedly fell to the ground and looked back.
I saw a gray finch fluttering its wings, and instead of continuing to fly, it began to hover above her.
"Suffered ......"
Her heart sank, and she immediately realized that something was wrong.
Small demon birds of birds and finches, many of them are not very ferocious, and the relationship with the human race is also good, those powerful families and sects, they like to raise a few, carefully cultivated, and can be used for transmission and tracking.
There are also two hummingbirds in the Jingwei Yamen, which are taken care of by special personnel, and Li Xiaozhu has seen them.
They have a high level of intelligence, can speak demon language, can communicate with people simply, release them to perform tasks, and with extremely keen vision, they can easily lock on to targets in the vast sea of people.
The light size of the birds and finches and demon birds has created an amazing flight speed, even if the Qi Refining Grandmaster walks against the wind, he may not be able to catch up.
Li Xiaozhu pursed his lips, quietly took out a handful of steel needles from his backpack, found the right time, and threw it out into the sky.
Hmmm-the gray shadow flashed, and instantly appeared three feet away.
"Chir, twitter." The grey finches danced in the air, making crisp and cheerful calls, as if mocking the little girl below.
Li Xiaozhu tried again, but the steel needle didn't even touch the shadow of the gray sparrow.
She shook her head helplessly, in the second realm of qi refining, the aura can only cover the surface of the body, used to protect her body, and has no attack power.
If you can promote the "separation of the body" of the three realms, the aura will come out of the body, and the speed will be many times faster.
Now, she couldn't help the agile Sparrow, so she could only keep running to see if she could escape into the mountains and forests ahead before the enemy caught up.
Li Xiaozhu stood up, no longer bent down to cover his whereabouts, straightened up and ran wildly, using all his strength, and fled into the distance.
The grey finch didn't attack her, it just hovered above, chirping incessantly, as if it was a merciless mockery.
As time passed, the moon rose in the east, and the moonlight gradually brightened, illuminating the wilderness clearly.
Li Xiaozhu was alone, running for his life in front.
A team of more than 20 people in the back, all riding fast horses, galloped in pursuit, and drew the distance closer and closer.
"Go up to one, tease her, remember not to hurt your face, Childe still has to enjoy it." Someone laughed.
As if a predator was playing with its prey under its claws, a big man showed a cruel smile, flicked his whip, and rushed forward at an accelerated pace.
Li Xiaozhu turned around and threw a steel needle over, and more than a dozen needles glowed with cold light in the moonlight, instantly enveloping one person and one rider.
Phew-
The horse neighed and almost fell, and the strong man screamed in pain and rolled to the ground.
"Haha, useless guy." Everyone laughed and rushed past the strong man.
These people are all martial arts practitioners, they are thugs raised by Deng Mansion, their martial arts are good, and their ability to play hidden weapons is still above Li Xiaozhu.
After learning the lesson of the strong man, they will attack from a distance behind them, using the little girl as a live target.
The sharp flying knife spun away, easily cutting the package on Li Xiaozhu's back, and all the things inside fell out.
Several locust stones whistled out, striking first in the right shoulder and then in the left, destroying both of her arms.
The last two locust stones hit the knee sockets of both legs with precision.
In the blink of an eye, Li Xiaozhu's joints were scrapped everywhere, and he fell to the ground, no longer able to resist, so he could only roll around in pain in the barren grass.
"What a stupid girl, how could Deng Gongzi have treated you 'nurses' badly, lying on the bed with one leg, and the elixir will be in hand - what a beautiful deal, Lao Zhang I want to do it and I am not qualified, you don't want to."
The man at the head shook his head and smiled, holding a circle of hemp rope in his hand, and slowly stepped forward.
The rest of the people also laughed lewdly, and surrounded them while talking about all kinds of meat jokes.
Li Xiaozhu stared at them, his eyes were red, and his eyes were about to split.
She is not capable of killing these bad guys one by one, as a "chivalrous man", she is still too weak and weak.
Disappointed by the expectations of his parents and brother.
Still, she still has one breath, one last breath.
Maybe before biting his tongue and killing himself, he can take one person away.
Qi refiners, the body is full of qi, suddenly tightens the chest and abdomen, and presses out, and can exhale and hurt people.
If you can hold stones and iron pellets in your mouth, it is also a very lethal hidden weapon fight.
However, this move has too short a range and is not easy to hit, so it is often used as a killer weapon in hand-to-hand combat.
Li Xiaozhu wanted to find a harder stone and rolled it on the ground a few times, but unfortunately he could only see some broken sand.
But there was something hard between the collar, and it smacked her.
Li Xiaozhu suddenly lay on the ground, looked at the starry sky above his head, and a trace of nostalgia flashed in his eyes.
"Help me one last time, brother."
"The 'flying sword' you sent, although it is fake, may not be able to kill the bad guys."
She rolled deep into the grass, endured the sharp pain in her shoulder, took out the pocket-sized wooden sword, bit off the rope, and held it in her mouth.
When the man in charge came closer.
"Ho!"
The last breath in the refiner's chest, violent and resolute, pushed the pocket wooden sword, turned into a cyan phantom, and shot away in an instant.
The man, however, had expected it, and lay directly on the horse's back, letting the cyan phantom pass overhead and disappear into the distance.
"Hehe, little girl, this trick of the Qi Refiner is no secret."
Li Xiaozhu bit his tongue and was a little sad.
It's still a little bit off.
However, at the last moment, exhaling the sword and facing the enemy in the air, it also has a bit of the appearance of a female swordsman, which is quite good.
This made her feel a little relieved, and she felt less regretful.
The man on horseback sat up straight again and sneered, "No tricks now, right?" ”
Everyone also laughed expectantly, "Quick, hurry up and knock out and carry it back." ”
The gray finch in the sky suddenly screamed sharply at this time, and its voice was almost deformed, and it was extremely panicked.
In the air, there was a faint strange sound, which was endless.
Everyone looked up suspiciously, the smile on their faces instantly stiffened, and they lost their temper on the spot, and they screamed one by one.
"How so!"
The man at the head turned pale with fright, frantically twitched the horsewhip, and desperately turned around and fled.
At night, there is a long blue light, soaked in moonlight.
The cold wind howled, and a pocket wooden sword, going and returning, with a suffocating coercion, like a green thunder among the clouds, suddenly fell from the sky.
The edge flickered, like a dazzling electric light, and it was cold and could not be looked at directly.
The weeds are toppling, and the horses are screaming.
This vast wasteland seems to have surrendered to the sword at this moment.
In an instant, the cyan sword light illuminated the night, and also illuminated Li Xiaozhu's dirty little face.
She stared blankly at the sky, shocked, and tears suddenly welled up in her eyes.
"My brother never lied to me, this is really a flying sword."