Volume 1: The Boy Shows His Edge Chapter 53: The Butcher's Identity
"Fishing for the Moon in the Water" is not an empty one, it is the most missing move after the rebirth of the Nine Moon Sword Heart.
After the ninth moon was used, a round of missing moon suddenly fell on the sword head, intertwining and blooming in the dark environment.
Between the trembling of the sword body of the Yuehua sword, the illusory and the real sword light reflected each other, and the cold moonlight had already stung Mu Qing's squinting eyes.
And with Yue Jiu's wrist flicking upward, between the reversal of the galaxy, the round of missing moon hanging on the tip of the sword was like a meteor that started from the earth and then cut through the sky, and finally crashed into Mu Qing with great speed.
However, after a while, Yue Jiu's first move had been made, and the offensive and defensive momentum between the two was immediately exchanged.
The current Mu Qing still continued to maintain the offensive of bending his elbows and stabbing straight at all times, but the alternation of sword light and reality that could only resist him before had already formed a circle of its own, and a cold intention directly broke into his chest from the bottom up.
"Whew-"
The sound of cracking silk sounded, and the tip of Yuejiu's sword had already cut through the hem of Mu Qing's clothes and came to the abdomen.
Yue Jiu seemed to have expected that Mu Qing would bend his elbow and stab straight at such a move, so he switched from defense to attack at that moment just now, and grabbed the gap of Mu Qing's forward stab.
At this time, Mu Qing's feet stepped forward, and his figure rushed forward with difficulty in stopping, and the situation in the field had reached the most dangerous moment.
In the frightened gaze cast by Liu Weirui from afar, Mu Qing seemed to rush forward with the long sword of Yue Jiu, and it seemed that the next moment he would be cut open by the other party from the bottom up.
"Drink!" With a sound of exhaustion, Mu Qing knew that he was reckless, he showed the greatest calmness at the moment of life and death, and the true qi on his body tried hard to change the direction of his use.
Now the solid muscles in his abdomen had felt the cold blade, and this blade was still trying to stab deeper and higher in the chest.
Mu Qing forcibly endured the pain of the reversal of his true qi, and swung the arm that had been stabbed straight out, and the short sword finally pressed down when the tip of Yue Jiu's sword entered the flesh by half an inch, blocking the opponent's continued upward attack.
Yue Jiu felt the resistance on Yuehua's sword, and when a breath of true qi sword yuan was about to be exhausted, all of them urged up and surged onto the tip of the sword, causing the sword qi on the tip of the sword to suddenly grow, and he wanted to pierce Mu Qing in half.
When Mu Qing felt the pain of the muscles in his abdomen being torn by the sword blade, his true qi surged over frantically, and finally caught up with the sword qi on the tip of the Yuejiu sword for a longer minute, and resisted the other party.
The blades of the sword struck each other and sliding, one wanted to advance, the other wanted to block, and no one would back down.
"Bang-" The two swords finally parted in another fierce exchange, and a crisp sound of gold and iron clashing resounded through the forest.
Mu Qing's abdomen and even his upper body were forced, and the whole person flew backwards uncontrollably.
At this time, the other person had nowhere to be forced, and he was shocked, for fear that Yue Jiu still had strength left, so he immediately poured his true qi on his legs, flipped backwards, and sank downward, and then staggered to the ground.
"It's so dangerous!" Mu Qingjian's eyes narrowed slightly, his left hand covered his abdomen and bent slightly, and he gasped for a few mouthfuls of bloody turbidity.
After all, Mu Qing relied on the more majestic true qi to regain his life, but he didn't feel any sense of happiness for the rest of his life after the catastrophe.
It was only because Mu Qing realized that the first time he was lucky to beat Geng Jian gave him a great illusion, and he always felt that sword cultivation was just like that, so after being angered by Yue Jiu's assassination of Liu Weirui, he was a lot less vigilant.
And when Geng Jian was replaced by Yue Jiu, who was also out of the Hidden Valley, Mu Qing found that the other party had become extremely familiar with his movements, and even guessed in advance where his next move was, and the battle between the two was uncontrollably beneficial to the other party.
Mu Qing squinted his eyes, pursed his thin lips, and stared at Yue Jiu's wrist seriously, paying attention to the subtle changes in his movements.
Now to fight again, if he wants to win the other party, Mu Qing knows that it depends on whether he can find an opportunity through continuous consumption.
"Your breath of true air doesn't look like a three-grade Zhou Tian running time, otherwise you would have just died. ”
Yue Jiu squinted his eyes, and his calm tone was just stating one fact.
His gaze fell on the blood that had spilled from between Mu Qing's fingers, and with a little regret he had restored the Zhou Tian circulation of the True Qi Sword Yuan in his body.
The move he had just made had already exhausted a breath of True Qi Sword Yuan, otherwise Mu Qing would only greet him with more Yin Cold Sword Light when he had nowhere to be used in the air.
The leaves fluttered and fell on the ground between the two of them, and the bright red blood overflowed Mu Qing's fingers and dripped at his feet, and this small world in the Starry Great Forest was deep again after being slashed out by the sword light. At this time in the forest, the two people standing opposite each other, while recovering from their breath, were thinking about how to break the situation.
"How do I fight?"
Farther away, a butcher standing tall with a thick tree trunk had his own opinion.
"It seems that Jiang Shangxiu's letter from that kid is not purely fooling me. ”
There was a clear light in his eyes, and even after a distance of nearly a kilometer, the subtleties of the fight between the two still fell on his eyes.
Butcher Hu's heart was a little melancholy, is this the newcomer on the rivers and lakes now?
He focused his scrutinizing gaze on Mu Qing, he really didn't expect that the other party would bring him more surprises than Yue Jiu today.
The small is hidden in the wilderness, and the big is hidden in the court.
The seventh-ranked "butcher" on the assassin list has disappeared from the rivers and lakes for ten years, and just ten years ago, a lonely and gloomy young man came to Qingchuan Guan Town and opened a butcher shop in the east of the town.
He was born in the Hidden Valley Assassin lineage, and he didn't have many options that could be called opportunities, so he cultivated the most basic Shura recipe of the Assassin lineage. In the early years, in order to quickly promote a product, he entered the Tao by killing, contaminated with too much cause and effect, and accumulated an old disease.
Ten years ago, when he was found by the enemy, he happened to be doing a Grade A mission of Liu Yelu outside, which should have been the last mission he decided to wash his hands for his wife and daughter, as the Hidden Valley Assassin.
But when he stepped into the house with a wound and relief, he saw his delicate wife, his lovely and childish daughter, staring at him from behind the threshold with wide, frightened eyes, their headless heads, the picture of hell that he had dreamed of countless times in the middle of the night.
The rivers and lakes are sometimes a circle, he used to kill other people's families, and then he was returned by others with the same ending.
It stands to reason that he should be very comfortable with that kind of picture. But when it was his wife and daughter who died, he realized that he was not much different from the people who knelt at his feet like a dead dog and begged for mercy, and pain and fear pierced all the softness in his heart.
At that moment, his new and old injuries could no longer be suppressed and erupted at the same time, a killing Dao heart that was barely maintained after becoming a family was completely shattered, the true intent of the Great Dao dissipated, and the realm cultivation almost fell into the second grade, and it may be difficult to recover to the peak in this life.
After that, the blood-stained name of "butcher" completely disappeared from the rivers and lakes, and I am afraid that no one would have thought that he would really find a small town to be the butcher who slaughtered cattle and pigs.
Although Butcher Hu's real name has long been unverifiable, he is from Hidden Valley, and he has also entered the list of ten assassins, how can the relationship with Hidden Valley be broken?
Once you step into such a cycle of love and hatred, no matter how the tide rises and falls, the new person replaces the old person, and no one can get out of this circle. All kinds of emotions and desires are intertwined and have long been turned into mud in the water, and when you want to go ashore to seek relief, you will suddenly look back and find that you have already fallen into the mud.
The Grand Elder of the Hidden Valley once said to the Assassins who wanted to defect, "Whoever walks through must have footprints." ”
Therefore, before Butcher Hu's miserable and broken state of mind could be repaired, the assassin of Hidden Valley approached him and asked him to do one thing for Hidden Valley every year, and Hidden Valley provided him with rare elixirs to suppress old diseases and stabilize the realm.
That's why he has been waiting at the inn in the last few days, and he has today's role in the forest.
In Jiang Shangxiu's letter, he was clearly asked to play the role of a yellow finch waiting for food.
When he first received this letter, Hu Butcher thought that he was either confused or that Jiang Shangxiu was deliberately fooling himself.
Because Jiang Shangxiu mentioned in the letter that Mu Qing was only a third-grade poison cultivator, although he vaguely said that he also had the power of an enemy with a second-grade sword cultivator, he didn't believe it at the time, and it was almost difficult to see from his past experience.
What made Hu Butcher a little depressed was Jiang Shangxiu's requirements and arrangements for the results in the letter. Mu Qing, who had already become a thorn in the side of the assassin, if he finally won Yuejiu, then there was still value to polish and use, and if his skills were not as good as others, Hu Butcher would just avenge him. In any case, Yue Jiu has to die.
This kind of yellow finch waited later, and the arrangement of the two of them sharing both victory and defeat and life and death, in his opinion at that time, was just Jiang Shangxiu's request to let the two young people die more "naturally".
What's more, he witnessed Yue Jiu's breakthrough promotion yesterday, so he felt that Mu Qing would die in today's interception, and he would definitely kill Yue Jiu later.
But now, it seems that the direction of the situation is really becoming difficult to figure out.
Hu Butcher looked at it from afar, but under a closer look, Yuejiu's true meaning of the sword path did not seem to be very consistent with the sword moves he made, because it should be after the rebirth of the sword heart, the sword path has changed.
And Mu Qing's true qi still felt quite shocked in the eyes of Hu Butcher, who was still in the first-grade realm, and he always felt that the true qi at the peak of the second-grade was not able to support the fight for so long in one breath.
Butcher Hu's plain brows frowned slightly, his footsteps lightly stepped on the branches, and the figure of the whole person disappeared in an instant, and when he stopped again, his position was already getting closer and closer to Mu Qingyue Jiu and the others.
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The wound on Mu Qing's abdomen was an inch long and half an inch deep, a penetrating wound caused by the tip of a sword.
At this time, because of his ups and downs, blood was spilling frantically between his fingers, and the longer it dragged on like this, the greater the impact on the battle.
His Ten Thousand Poisonous Qing Qi can have a miraculous effect on the symptoms of poisoning, and it is also stronger than ordinary internal force True Qi for removing blood congestion in the body, but when Mu Qing has not yet mastered the cultivation of the Poison Body Chapter, this special True Qi is of little use for pure external injuries. Therefore, Mu Qing chose the most practical method, and his right hand pointed out like the wind, sealing several large points in the abdomen, although luck would be blocked when it reached the abdomen, but the bleeding of the wound was curbed in time.
After doing all this quickly, let go of the left hand that was covering your abdomen. Mu Qing only had a chance to confirm his record. After the stormy melee attack, there was an extra wound in his abdomen, and the other party just gasped a little harder.
The spirit of not admitting defeat rose, Mu Qing's right hand was tight, he held the short sword, raised his chin lightly and squinted at Yue Jiu, and asked in a cold voice, "Come again?"