Chapter 28: The Sword Under the Moon
The moonlit night was hazy, and the quiet street was empty, Liu Xunyi and Tang Afu stood in the air, looking at each other solemnly, looking at each other and beware. The four mottled characters written on the archway "wind and rain are smooth" have become a bit ironic in this situation.
Tang Afu's eyes raised slightly, his eyes stared at Liu Xunyi coldly, a breeze blew, bringing up a few strands of black hair lingering in front of his eyes, and said, "You are also Shen Dongshan's lackey?"
"Zai Xia is not Shen Dongshan's person, but he is a friend of the white girl. Liu Xunyi replied lightly, "I can see that Your Excellency has a grudge against Shen Dongshan, but the white girl is innocent." Although you can't kill Shen Dongshan, you don't have to embarrass a woman. ”
"Shen Dongshan's lackey, the guard of the Lu family in Jiangnan, is stupid and dull like a pig nine times out of ten. Tang Afu said coldly, "There are so many people, only you can find me, you have the ability." ”
Liu Xunyi was praised in such a cruel tone for the first time in his life, and he couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and said: "Your Excellency, don't misunderstand, you and I have no grievances when we meet in Pingshui, and I am not here for you, but for the white girl." As long as Your Excellency is willing to let the white girl go, he will never interfere with the grievances between you and Shen Dongshan. ”
Liu Xunyi's words made Tang Afu let out a cold snort, then looked down at Baishuang, and turned to Liu Xunyi and said, "Could it be that she is your concubine?"
Liu Xunyi frowned, and said: "Why did Your Excellency speak ill of you? Why do you say so ugly? I am innocent friends with the White Girl, and the White Girl is not Shen Dongshan's woman, Your Excellency must not kill a good person by mistake." ”
"Hmph!" Tang Afu sneered and said disdainfully, "You are better at rhetoric than Shen Dongshan, thinking that you want to trick me into letting people go based on three or two nonsense words, and you can't treat me as a three-year-old child?"
Seeing that Tang Afu was so unreasonable, Liu Xunyi couldn't help but lose a little patience, and said in a deep voice: "I have already said everything I should say, and Your Excellency does not have to be angry with innocent people for your resentment against Shen Dongshan, please let them go!"
Tang Afu's eyebrows furrowed, a hint of provocation flashed in his eyes, and he said, "What if I don't let go?"
"Let go of the white girl, you and I will go half of the road. Liu Xunyi's face was fearless, and said, "If Your Excellency is stubborn, then don't blame you for being rude." ”
Tang Afu seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world, looking at Liu Xunyi's solemn appearance, he couldn't help but sneer, pointed forward with the ruthless sword in his hand, and said with a smile: "I heard me right, right?
"I have heard for a long time that the ruthless swordsman is famous, and he is a first-class master in the rivers and lakes. But if you have to do it, you can only ask for advice as much as you can. Liu Xunyi stared at Tang Afu without squinting, holding his chest with both hands, and the sword was never unsheathed.
Tang Afu's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said: "It's a pity to kill yourself at such a young age!"
Before the words fell, Tang Afu kicked the tiles violently under his feet, and his figure suddenly burst out, waving his sword blade in mid-air, and in an instant, a fierce sword qi swept out, stirring up a ripple of energy that was difficult to see with the naked eye in the night sky.
Faced with the sudden killing move, Liu Xunyi tapped the eaves under his feet, and his body rose to the sky. Just after Liu Xunyi's feet flew away from the archway, a fierce sword qi cut off the eaves on the archway, and even left a deep sword mark on the plaque, cutting the four big characters of "wind and rain" in half horizontally.
Liu Xunyi couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this, he never expected that Tang Afu would be a merciless killer to someone who had never known him, but fortunately, Liu Xunyi had just seen Tang Afu's methods in the Sushui Pavilion, so he mentioned the spirit of twelve, and he didn't dare to be careless, and now he couldn't help but secretly rejoice, if he was a little negligent just now, he was afraid that he would be in a different place now.
Shock followed by anger, Liu Xunyi conceded three points to Tang Afu, but he was killed, how could this make him not angry? In mid-air, Liu Xunyi flung his right hand, and the scabbard flew high, accompanied by a light sound of "poof", the cold light came out of the sheath, and as soon as he came up, he performed a cross chasing soul. This was a sword move that Liu Xunyi had figured out by himself, but he saw two rays of energy swept out from the blade of the sword, and shot at Tang Afu who was rushing towards him.
"Good time!"
Tang Afu praised loudly, and then the ruthless sword in his hand danced out several sword flowers in a row, and with a few "whoosh" sounds, Tang Afu's sword actually cracked Liu Xunyi's cross soul chasing instantly. Tang Afu's attainments in swordsmanship far exceeded Liu Xunyi's expectations, facing the tip of the sword that shot straight like a meteor, Liu Xunyi, who was caught off guard, had to turn his waist strongly, stepped on his right foot with his left foot, borrowed from each other, and his body turned out obliquely, and he flipped more than a dozen somersaults in mid-air before he could avoid Tang Afu's sword.
"Where to run!"
Looking at Liu Xunyi, who was constantly flashing back, Tang Afu became more and more excited, and his body chased straight after Liu Xunyi. The two of them landed on the archway one after another, the narrow archway is no more than six or seven meters long, and the width is not more than one foot, Liu Xunyi and Tang Afu stood on it and fought each other in short arms, and the sword shadow was not fierce.
The white frost in the attic couldn't move because it was spotted in the acupoint, so he could only lie quietly in the distance and look at the two people fighting on the archway, with an indescribable worry in his eyes.
"Your swordsmanship is so strange. Tang Afu asked while fighting, "The first move is still exquisite, but the latter move has become bland and mediocre, like a tiger's head, is it because you are not proficient in learning skills? A good set of swordsmanship can only learn the sword momentum, but you can't understand the essence of the back? Or does your master have reservations when teaching you?"
Tang Afu is a master of swords, and he can see through the advantages and disadvantages of Liu Xunyi's swordsmanship at a glance. In fact, this can't be blamed on Liu Xunyi, when he fought with Tang Afu, he didn't dare to use the swordsmanship of any sect, so he could only figure out the sword by himself, which naturally caused such a ridiculous scene now.
If Liu Xunyi only had this kind of half-hung swordsmanship, he should have died under Tang Afu's sword a long time ago. Fortunately, Liu Xunyi's martial arts foundation is deep, and the foundation of internal and external kung fu is very solid, but in the seemingly clumsy sword moves, he inadvertently shows some exquisite body techniques, footwork, fist techniques, and leg techniques, and miscellaneous together, although they look very clumsy, but the actual power is not weaker than Tang Afu's ruthless sword.
"Since Your Excellency can't kill me, then why don't you agree to let the white girl go and turn the war into a jade silk?" Liu Xunyi sincerely admired Tang Afu's martial arts, so he opened his mouth to propose.
"My ruthless sword will see blood after it is unsheathed, and now you let me collect it, it's a big joke!" Tang Afu said that the sword move in his hand changed, turned into a stab, and swept the sword in Liu Xunyi's hand away, and then Tang Afu followed, and the ruthless sword in his hand was sent forward, and the tip of the sword pierced the robe on Liu Xunyi's chest between the lightning and flint, but fortunately, Liu Xunyi reacted quickly enough and fell backwards in time, so that the sword did not hurt the flesh and blood.
Liu Xunyi's leaning back body was almost parallel to the archway, his feet quickly retreated again and again, and the sword in his hand flew over and over, blocking Tang Afu, who was getting tighter and tighter.
In a moment, Liu Xunyi had retreated to the end of the archway, and there was no way to retreat. Seeing that the situation was not good, he had a sense of desperation, immediately buckled his left hand down, and inserted five fingers directly into the plaque, and then turned his body violently outward with his left hand as the center, and the whole person flew around the eaves at the end of the archway 360 degrees, and then kicked out a leg in the air, and went straight to Tang Afu's ankle, Liu Xunyi wanted to kick Tang Afu off the archway.
At the moment when Liu Xunyi came out of his legs, Tang Afu had already jumped up with both feet, and then turned over with a harrier in mid-air, his body turned upside down, and his head and feet fell straight down like a meteorite, and at the same time, the ruthless sword was also aimed at Liu Xunyi's shoulder, and in the blink of an eye, Tang Afu was able to cut off Liu Xunyi's left arm that was used to support his entire body.
"Not good!" Liu Xunyi saw that he was in danger again, and he was immediately horrified, and said secretly, "Isn't it necessary to force me to show my usual martial arts to save my life......?"
Liu Xunyi wanted to have reservations, but Tang Afu obviously didn't intend to leave him with life, and in an instant, the ruthless sword was already attached to Liu Xunyi's arm. At the last moment, Liu Xunyi had no scruples about others, and he tried to save his life with a heart.
"Whoosh!"
At this moment, a sound of breaking the air suddenly sounded from mid-air, and then when the ruthless sword pierced Liu Xunyi's sleeve, a black shadow the size of a projectile had accurately shot the blade of the sword, with a light sound of "ding", the ruthless sword suddenly stabbed out, taking this opportunity Liu Xunyi hurriedly flew up and flew down on the archway again.
"Who?"
Tang Afu's right hand holding the sword only felt a tingling pain, obviously there was a huge internal strength hidden in the sudden secret weapon just now.
"Wonderful! Wonderful!"
With a hoarse laugh, I saw a short, thin old man in black in the far side of the street riding a donkey, "clucking" and slowly approaching. The old man was about sixty years old, and he was not good-looking, with bald eyebrows, triangular eyes, rosacea, a chin that could barely be found under a large mouth, and a handful of white and gray hairs on his head, which were wilted and stuck to his scalp, and looked like dead grass, lifeless.
The old man was still holding a wine gourd in his hand, and Rao is Liu Xunyi and Tang Afu stood on top of the archway, and they could also smell a pungent smell of wine.
"Child, I just saved your life, and you still don't give back the old man's gourd cover?"
Hearing the old man's words, Liu Xunyi was stunned at first, but soon he realized that the "child" in the old man's mouth was talking about himself, and he couldn't help but feel stunned, but out of gratitude to the old man for his timely action, Liu Xunyi still lowered his head to look left and right for a few times, and sure enough, he saw a wooden plug the size of a fingernail under his feet, thinking that the "hidden weapon" that bounced the ruthless sword just now was exactly this thing.
Liu Xunyi threw the wooden cork down the archway, and the old man took it and covered it on the wine gourd, which is also strange, he covered it lightly, and the rich taste of wine between heaven and earth disappeared without a trace in an instant.
"Thank you seniors for coming to the rescue!" Liu Xunyi said to the old man.
But the old man didn't seem to pay attention to his meaning, he still looked up at Tang Afu drunken and hazy, and said in a leisurely manner: "Today's Quanzhou is full of decent children, and the people of the Valley of Despair should not appear here, and it will be a dead end if they are forced to stay!"
"Old fellow, your tone is too big, isn't it?" Tang Afu looked contemptuous, pointed the ruthless sword in his hand downward, and said coldly, "I want to see how much ability you have to dare to boast about this Haikou!"
Just as Tang Afu was about to provoke the old man, there was a faint light in the distance of the street, accompanied by a bustling noise, but he saw dozens of figures rapidly approaching here. Obviously, the masters of the Jiangnan Lu Mansion and Shen Dongshan's guards heard the sound of fighting here and were quickly rushing to help.
"Let's go!"
Without waiting for Tang Afu to speak, Liu Xunyi suddenly spoke: "No matter how powerful you are, you are definitely not the opponent of many masters in the Lu Mansion, not to mention Shen Dongshan's guards. Maybe they will raise their arms and shout, and all the martial arts people in Quanzhou will hunt you down. Rather than stay here and be brave for a while, you might as well leave early!"
Liu Xunyi's advice made Tang Afu stunned, he looked at Liu Xunyi suspiciously, and said, "You say that you want to let me go?"
"I have no grievances with you, and I don't have any friendship with Shen Dongshan, so there is no need to help him or harm you. Liu Xunyi said, "You go quickly!"
"Child, if you promise to give the old man a jug of wine, I will keep him for you. The old man riding a donkey said to Liu Xunyi, "If you kill him, tomorrow your name will spread all over the rivers and lakes, this is a good opportunity for many people to dream of becoming famous, you have to think clearly! hehe......"
"Thank you seniors for your kindness, but I don't have a grudge against the ruthless swordsman, and I don't want to use the hands of my predecessors to deceive. He may be full of sin and deserves death, but he should not die at my hands. As for the grievances between him and Shen Dongshan, it has nothing to do with me, and it should be up to them to make a decision. Liu Xunyi bowed his hand and thanked him, and then said to Tang Afu, "Although you killed me, you mistakenly thought that I was the person sent by Shen Dongshan to kill you, and it was just a misunderstanding." I said that I came here only to save the white girl, she, like me, is also a person who was misunderstood by you, so she should not die under your sword for Shen Dongshan. As for Your Excellency...... It doesn't matter to me whether you go or not, please take care of yourself!"
After that, without waiting for Tang Afu to answer, Liu Xunyi had already jumped to the attic and made a move to unlock the acupoint for Baishuang.
Tang Afu first glanced at the old man riding a donkey, then raised his eyes to look at the approaching crowd in the distance, and finally set his eyes on Liu Xunyi, muttered for a moment and then turned around and jumped, and disappeared at the end of the night with a few flashes.
When Liu Xunyi rescued Baishuang and was about to thank the old man riding the donkey again, he found that the old man was already humming a little song by himself, shaking his head and riding the donkey away.
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