Volume 1: Once Upon a Time Chapter 10: The Black Valley

Liu Ruyan tightened the reins, and the white horse gradually slowed down. Slowly paced towards the entrance to the mountain pass. The pass was a hollow hill clinging to the mountain wall, and the road was less than a meter wide, with a high cliff on one side and a misty ravine on the other. The entrance to the mountain is like a tiger's mouth open, waiting to devour its prey, and it looks extremely hideous and terrifying. On one of the cliffs of the mountain pass are written three strong and flowing cursive scripts: "Black Valley".

Liu Ruyan raised her head and stared at those words, her sword eyebrows furrowed, and she muttered silently: "It turns out that this is the Black Valley." Seeing the three words of the Black Valley, he suddenly remembered what the master had said to him before leaving, and thought for a while: "Alas, how did I get on this road? The most terrifying thing is that there are often robbers. Don't make a mistake...... "At this moment, his master's advice to him before leaving echoed in his ears. Now, I carelessly chose the wrong fork in the road, and I couldn't help but stomp my head and feet, feeling annoyed in my heart.

Liu Ruyan thought about it for a long time and decided to bite the bullet and enter this dangerous place. If you turn around and return to that fork in the road, you will have to delay a lot of time.

Now that he has arrived at the front, it is better to make a mistake and make a mistake, and what if he breaks through! He wants to see which fierce and evil gods are hidden in this legendary terrible "Black Valley"?

Immediately, he let out a soft cry and hit the road on his horse. The trail, which is less than a meter wide, is covered with large and small gravel, and the road is lined with old trees with tangled branches and huge trunks, which look like they are some years old.

The white mist of the early morning floats among the trees, and under the sunlight, it gives birth to wisps of cold colorful light! Walking in the process, people feel a sense of trance out of thin air! As if entering another mysterious and unpredictable world. He could only walk cautiously, the mountain path was rugged and extremely difficult.

The horses' hooves made a "click" sound on the gravel pavement, and the horses walked slowly. He simply jumped off his horse and led the horse on foot, and before he knew it, he had walked for an hour, and he had not yet traveled many miles. If it was on a flat road, I was afraid that I would have already traveled dozens of miles.

Liu Ruyan led the horse and climbed the mountain road cautiously. The further you go, the steeper the trail becomes. Before he knew it, he had come to a mountain pass, and he felt a little tired and stopped, his chest rising and falling violently, and he was panting for breath in his mouth. The horse's mouth was also spitting, and he seemed to be tired. He sat on a boulder on the side of the road, couldn't help but let out a long sigh, stretched out his hand to stroke the horse's mane, a trace of pity appeared in his eyes, and said to the white horse: "Xiaobai, follow me on such a road, but it hurts you!" The horse seemed to understand the master's words, sneezed in his mouth, and shook his head.

He estimated in his mind that it would take about two or three hours to cross the mountain, judging by the current footsteps. He suddenly remembered that there were still a few uneaten steamed buns and pheasants left in the baggage, so he took them out and fed them to the horses. Although the road is difficult, when it comes to such a situation, it can only rise to the occasion.

After resting for a long time, I got up and continued to walk, walked along the mountain road for a while, and turned into a mountain pass. Walking further, the front suddenly opened up, and I saw a wide flat land in front of me. There is a land temple built on the flat ground, and the eaves of the land temple are somewhat collapsed, and it looks dilapidated.

He led his horse to the temple, where the door was open, and a statue of the god of the earth was enshrined, and in front of the stone statue was a broken incense burner. The incense burner was deserted, and it seemed that no one had come to worship and burn incense for a long time. He strode into the temple, clasped his hands in front of the statue, and paid homage to the deity.

At this moment, four big men with long knives suddenly appeared behind him, standing in front of them with a string of golden Buddha beads hanging on their chests, a messy long hair draped over their shoulders, a pair of big eyes like copper bells, a big copper ring hanging from their ears, a beard on their faces, and a distorted nose, looking hideous and terrifying, extremely ugly.

The other three people scattered and stood behind the man, the one on the far left was quite tall, with a horse's face, yellow and thin muscles, as if he had a serious illness, and had just come back from a circle of the ghost gate, and looked very scary, and he held a long saber in his hand.

Standing in the middle, he was of medium height, but he was bald, with a huge round head growing on his neck, like a leather ball on his neck, and his ears were shrugged, like a Maitreya Buddha. He looked very funny in a red short-sleeved shirt and held a nine-section whip in his hand.

On the far right was a short man, with a full forehead, a haircut, a pair of triangular eyes set in a broad forehead, a large nose that looked very uncoordinated, and a heavy axe in his hand. The three of them seemed to be the man's followers, standing behind him, their eyes staring straight at Liu Ruyan. The look was like a tiger staring at its approaching prey.

The leader smiled coldly, and suddenly spoke: "May I ask who your Excellency is?"

Liu Ruyan was shocked, and said secretly: ""It's not good!" Then he calmed down, turned to look at the man, raised his sword eyebrows, and said quietly: "In Xia Liu Ruyan, may I ask what your Excellency is called?"

The man said, "Your Excellency doesn't have to know who I am?" He paused and said coldly, "I know, it's not good for Your Excellency!"

Liu Ruyan smiled faintly: "Oh, how do you say this?"

The man walked back and forth in place: "Do you know what this place is?"

Liu Ruyan raised his eyebrows, and said quietly: "What do you know?

The man sneered: "Since Your Excellency has come here, you must also know the rules here?" He said quietly, "If Your Excellency really doesn't know, then I might as well tell Your Excellency that this is the Black Valley, and the road Your Excellency took was carved out by my brothers and other brothers with hard work, and if you want to pass from here, you have to leave some money for the passage!"

Liu Ruyan was horrified, and said secretly: "I really met a robber." Immediately, he smiled and said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency said that this place was opened up by you, do you have a certificate?"

The leader raised his head and laughed, and said arrogantly: "My brothers are proof." He said faintly, "What I just said, the knife in our hands is all evidence!" With that, another burst of laughter rose to the sky, and the laughter was sharp and piercing, echoing in the valley for a long time.

Liu Ruyan raised his eyebrows, calmed down, and said slowly: "I'm just a passer-by, I don't know you, but I have no grudges with you," he snorted, "If you are going to be embarrassed, then first ask me if I agree to this sword in my hand?"

As soon as the words fell, the sword was already in his hand. The long sword was clearly on his back just now, but somehow it suddenly arrived in his hand. When everyone saw it, their faces showed surprise, and they immediately took a few steps back, and secretly beat a drum in their hearts: "What kind of way is this young man?

These people were stunned on the spot, you look at me, I look at you, and their faces became solemn. It seems that I can't make up my mind for a while, how to deal with it.

The big man headed by him calmed down, cleared his throat, coughed dryly twice, stared at Liu Ruyan with slanted eyes, and said slowly: "Do you know who we are?"

Liu Ruyan's eyes rolled around, and he said leisurely: "I have already said it below, and I don't recognize you!" He turned around, glanced at the white horse tied in front of the temple, sighed, and said, "If you finish asking your questions, please get out of the way, and you will be in a hurry to get on the way, so I will not accompany you!"

The three people standing behind were about to pounce up, but they were stopped by the man who was in the lead, who rolled his eyes, and then said, "Your Excellency, have you heard of the name of the Four Monsters of Black Mountain?"

Liu Ruyan's heart sank, and he thought secretly: "I once heard the master talk about the four monsters of the Black Mountain, these four people have been entrenched in the Black Valley all the year round, specializing in those things that steal chickens and dogs, and rob houses! In the martial arts, it can be said that they are notorious. He thought for a moment, and then said: "I am lonely and unheard, and I have never heard of any strange mountains!

The leader snorted coldly, and it seemed that he couldn't hold his breath anymore, and said fiercely: "My brothers and I are the terrifying four monsters of Montenegro!" He smiled suspiciously: "Today, if your Excellency doesn't hand over some treasures, don't want to leave here! Our brothers will definitely let you have no return! If you don't believe it, let's try?" He stopped talking in circles, and went straight to the point to block the road and rob.

Those few people stared at Liu Ruyan directly, and the blades in their hands were gesturing back and forth, intending to fly and pounce.

Although Liu Ruyan was a little frightened in his heart, he pretended to be sophisticated on his face, and he didn't take them seriously.

Where could those people stand such a behavior, they were already enraged, and the person in the lead immediately waved his long knife, flew up, and slashed at Liu Ruyan's head in the air.

It's too late, it's too soon. I saw that Liu Ru's cigarette butt was deflected, and the long sword was unsheathed, and a white light volleyed up. In an instant, the swords struck each other, sparks splashed, the two turned over in the air, the sword made a burst of "crackling" sound in the air, the big knife instantly changed into a cross-cutting, lightning swept towards Liu Ruyan's waist, Liu Ruyan volleyed the waist and cleverly avoided it, and then the long sword reversed, and danced out of more than a dozen sword flowers in an instant, the long sword stabbed to the man's chest like a match, only to see a flash of white light, fleeting, the tip of the sword has pierced into the person's left chest, only to hear the man's muffled snort, the person has fallen from the air. A blush erupted from his chest, and in a moment, blood stained his entire chest.

Seeing that the boss was injured, those people hurriedly helped him up, and then, the three of them shouted violently and quickly rushed towards Liu Ruyan.

When the first to chop is a long saber, the knife flashed, has been split out of fourteen knives, each knife is straight to Liu Ruyan's whole body, although the long knife is bulky, but in his hand it is as light as a thin slice, the blade is fast, fierce and domineering, in an instant, Liu Ruyan's whole person has been surrounded in the knife light, he only dodges left and right, his body moves and jumps, and he avoids the blade in a thrilling way.

Before he could catch his breath, the nine-section whip rolled into the air again, like a poisonous snake rolling towards the thirty-six big points in his body, and the nine-section whip rolled gracefully, making a "crackling" sound in the air. At the same time, an axe spun like a wind wheel and flew towards him, and the axe circled around him so fast that his path was almost completely blocked.

Seeing the blade, the long whip and the axe attacked him together, suddenly, his body soared into the air, pulled up two zhang high on the spot, the long sword brush waved, only to see countless sword images a dense net quickly spread to the three people's long knife, axe and nine-section whip, the blade hit each other heavily, making a piercing sound, sparks flew between, the nine-section whip has been broken into several pieces, the long knife was actually entangled by the broken nine-section whip, the handle of the axe has been broken, and they have fallen to a zhang away, the two people volleyed over and fell diagonally, for a while the horse pile was unstable, and he took more than ten steps back one after another, and sat on the ground heavily。 The two of them were as dead as ashes, and they were inexplicably frightened.

When the man with the axe shook off the axe, he stood by the boss's side and helped him to heal his blood. Liu Ruyan also landed in the air, almost unsteady on his feet, and rolled after taking a few steps back before he stabilized his figure.

A wisp of blood slowly flowed down his left arm, and he couldn't take advantage of the combined attack of the long knife and the nine-section whip. Fortunately, in that dangerous moment, he used the tenth move of the Liuyun Sword Technique, this move is called "Rain in the Sky", which is known for its spicy and unpredictable appearance, and the master once warned him that when he is in danger, he can use this trick to save his life! Although it is not as good as the essence of the "One Sword Flying Immortal" one move to defeat the enemy, it can also protect himself without hindrance.

After Liu Ruyan landed, he no longer paid attention to them, his chest rose and fell violently, and his mouth was whirring, obviously, the fierce battle just now had consumed a lot of his physical strength. At this moment, he was slightly tired, but those people were still on the spot, and he could only pretend that nothing had happened in order to intimidate them.

The majesty of those people just now was gone, and they all looked frightened, and before they could even react, they fell from the air in a daze. Liu Ruyan's sword move was too fast, so fast that they were dazzled, they couldn't tell where the sword was, they only saw the sword shadows flying all over the sky, and then heard a series of blades clashing, and the blades in their hands were knocked to the ground. It was all changing so fast, it was so fast! They were almost frightened.

A few people were stunned on the ground for a long time, and then they came back to their senses, and they didn't bother to pick up the blades, helped the boss, turned around and limped away.

Liu Ruyan looked at their disappearing figures, let out a long sigh of relief, and then took out the golden medicine given to him by the master from the baggage and applied it to the wound to stop the bleeding, and then tore off a strip of cloth on his body and bandaged the wound.

At this time, the sun had already set westward, it was already afternoon, under the sun, his figure was stretched long, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the land temple, emitting a golden light.

He slowly rolled over his horse and walked down the narrow, rugged mountain road facing the setting sun. Before sunset, he had to get out of this terrifying valley, and then, on the flat Yangguan Avenue, he would ride another twenty or thirty miles to reach Cuihua Mountain.