Under the scorching autumn sun, there were few pedestrians on the long official road, and a frightened bird flew in the air in the woods next to the road, and was about to throw itself into the woods on the other side. At the same moment, a brocade-haired flying squirrel suddenly jumped out of the grass, its wings spread, and its claws bent to catch the bird.

There was a sudden purring sound, and a circle of dark cyan light wheels appeared, accurately hitting the flying squirrel in mid-air.

The blood mist exploded, and flesh and bones splattered.

The birds that had escaped screamed and burrowed into the woods in panic, not daring to show their heads again.

The dark cyan light wheel struck a blow, and flew back to its master's hand, and after a few laps, it stopped suddenly, revealing its true appearance—it was actually a small dark cyan round shield that shone blue.

The round shield is obviously slightly smaller than the average shield, similar to the arm shield of a cavalryman, and the shield surface resembles six blooming cyan petals, each of which has a natural and mysterious texture. The grip of the round shield is connected to a translucent tendon, and the other end is tied to the wristband. In this way, this round shield is integrated in attack and defense in close combat, and can be thrown as a flying shield from afar, sending and receiving at will, and even being able to be whipped like a whip, which contains the performance of almost all weapons, which can be called all-round.

This is Luo Xiao's upgraded version of the "Dragon Scale Flying Shield". Flying shields can be used for long-range attacks just like bows and arrows, but they are more powerful than bows and arrows because they can attack from all directions, making them ideal for group battles when they are surrounded.

Luo Xiao estimated that he would have to walk for at least seven or eight days to go to Baicao City for 1,500 miles, and he didn't want to waste a lot of time, so he could practice flying shields.

Only by seizing all the free time to enrich and improve one's own skills can one go further on the road of cultivation.

After refining the dragon scale shield, Luo Xiao went to the Secret Martial Arts Pavilion of the Martial Arts Hall to apply for two sets of martial arts, namely "Sword and Shield Combined Attack Technique" and "Flying Thallium Twelve Hands", of course, it was indispensable to spend more than a dozen merits. The 12 hands of thallium are actually meteor hammer skills, including winding, throwing, winding, pointing, and shaking...... and so on twelve basic techniques, this martial art is unpopular and obscure, difficult to learn and difficult to master, but once you practice something, it will be elusive and amazing. And Luo Xiao replaced the flying thallium with a flying shield, and the power was even higher.

It takes time to practice this martial art, but fortunately, the most important thing Luo Xiao lacks is time. Along the way, I thought about it carefully, and even tried to rub the secret of the airburst arrow into the flying shield - after all, the flying shield is also a throwing weapon, isn't it?

After such a period of time, he has already gained a lot of experience, and Luo Xiao, who was born in Orion, is naturally keen on throwing weapons, so although he has not specially cultivated whip weapons, his skills have improved rapidly under repeated practice and exploration. During the day, he practiced flying shield skills while riding, and at night he entered the Immortal Stone Cave to practice penance, making this outing a real "practice".

In the past few days of cultivation, Luo Xiao looked at the dantian and found that the Yuan Force Rope transformed by the Yuan Qi had completely wrapped the Yuan Seed, looking like a silkworm cocoon, and the perception Yuan Seed had also shrunk a little. As far as he knew, it would take at least three or five months for the general metamorphosis nucleus. According to Luo Xiao's cultivation in the Immortal Stone Cave Heaven, one hour to arrive in the outside world for a month, as long as there are five or six days in the outside world, he can break through the realm of warriors.

But rejoice.

Luo Xiao's situation is very special, his Yuan species is very different from ordinary martial artists, it is more than ten times larger, that is to say, it has to be added more than ten times more time on this basis, at least two or three months in reality. It's even more exaggerated in the Immortal Stone Cave Heaven, it will take several years......

Thinking about this section, Luo Xiao couldn't help but secretly rejoice, fortunately, the time flow rate of this Immortal Stone Cave Heaven is very different from the outside world, otherwise his giant Yuan Seed would only be able to completely nucleate after getting the Year of the Monkey and Ma Yue!

Luo Xiao had a faint feeling that when this mission was completed and he returned to the Martial Arts Hall, he might be able to break through the realm of warriors. What really made him scratch his head was that what was more difficult than breaking through the samurai was how to get the outside world to accept the appearance of a rule-breaking samurai like him - four consecutive jumps in just a few months, from a second-order samurai to a samurai!

If the samurai could appear at such a rocket-like speed, the entire pattern of the Celestial Mirror Domain would be broken, which was definitely enough to rise to the level of a major event in the domain boundary strategy. If he is known to the outside world, he will never be at peace.

Luo Xiao didn't want to be such a bird, so he decided at the moment that even if he broke through the samurai, he would not submit it for assessment for the time being. It's just that a promoted warrior must have a powerful aura that surpasses that of ordinary warriors, and it is difficult to hide from the same rank and high-ranking warriors, which is a troublesome and nerve-wracking thing...... Forget it, let's take one step at a time, I haven't broken through yet, and it's a little earlier to worry about this.

......

As Luo Xiao traveled all the way west, the scenery along the way became more and more desolate, with fewer and fewer mountains, forests and lakes, and more and more loess sea buckthorn. The howling northwest wind really made him realize that the monsoon was already in autumn.

Luo Xiao was not in a hurry, practicing while walking, even so, more than ten days after leaving Yishui City, on the desolate horizon, a border gate city was in sight.

White Grass City, arrived.

As a frontier town, the buildings of Baicao City are low and sturdy, except for the city walls. The outer city is seven zhang high, which is generally more than two zhang higher than the city in the territory, and the city walls are all made of thick granite boulders. Endless years and violent winds and sand have eroded the hard boulder walls into speckled and uneven walls.

The city gate guards were also significantly twice as many as the city gate guards in the territory, and each guard exuded a faint bloody aura that the domestic guards did not have.

Luo Xiao could see clearly, these guards were at most first- and second-order martial artists, but the razor-like gaze when they looked at people, even he, a quasi-warrior cultivator, felt that his face was tight, and his heart was dark, and he really deserved to be an important border town, and even the guards at the city gate were ruthless people who licked blood with knives.

After paying ten copper entrance fees, Luo Xiao led the horse into the city. As far as the eye can see, it is very different from the castle in the territory. The shops here are generally low and low, basically between one and two floors, and there are few buildings with more than three floors, and most of them are earthen houses. This is probably a phenomenon unique to areas where there is a lack of mountains and forests and where wind and sand are raging.

The streets are also paved with loess mixed with sand, and the people who come and go, mules and horses, camels, cattle and sheep trample the sandy land into potholes, and there are arrows all over the ground, and the wind is all over the sky, the sky is full of dust, and the stench is so bad that people can hardly breathe.

Fortunately, when Luo Xiao entered the northwest territory, he had learned how the locals wrapped their heads and covered their faces with long turbans, which barely shielded them from the smell of wind and sand. With such a harsh living environment, it is not a martial artist who has requirements for the aura of heaven and earth, even for ordinary people, it is not a habitable place.

Luo Xiao shook his head, planning to find a shop to settle down in, and then follow the map to find the intelligence point set up in Yishui City, hand over the information, rest for one night, and return immediately tomorrow. I'd rather grind on the road than stay here for a long time, otherwise I'm afraid that my cultivation will not rise but fall.

The shop is easy to find, as an important border trade town, although because of the environment, there is no high-end, but the middle and low-end streets are all over.

Luo Xiao is also a rich man now, of course he doesn't want to wronged himself. After walking along the street for a while, I found a store with an okay environment and booked an upper room on the second floor. After freshening up, seeing that it was still early, he wrapped the dragon scale shield in a cloth, buckled it behind his back, and walked out of the guest room, intending to follow the address provided on the mission description and go to explore the road first.

Luo Xiao just closed the door, the fragrant wind behind him swayed, two white-clothed women wearing hats staggered past him, and a rough female voice faintly came: "I have heard for a long time that this Baicao City is a border city, Gobi yellow sand, grassland horses, the scenery is completely different from our Heshuo County, let's take the opportunity of this task to take a look, who knew that it was like this! What Gobi yellow sand, the old lady ate a mouthful of mud and sand is true; the grassland herding horses did not see it, only the street was full of horse manure...... It turns out that the imagination is like your cousin, but the reality is me!"

These two people are also from Heshuo County? However, what does that last sentence mean? Luo Xiao was stunned, stared at the back of the second daughter, and slowly smacked his taste, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

Although I can't see the appearance of these two women, the back of the woman who spoke is as wide as a door panel, as strong and fat as a big man, and the back of the other woman is slender and vigorous, although it is not very attractive, but I don't look at the appearance, just the comparison of the backs of these two people really interprets the gap between imagination and reality.

At this time, I heard the slender woman whisper: "Feiyan, don't shout loudly, you despise Baicao City like this, let the locals hear it, I'm afraid it will cause trouble." ”

Feiyan?!This name almost made Luo Xiao laugh, and suddenly felt that this woman's voice was a little familiar, who could it be?

Luo Xiao quickly sifted through the women he knew in his mind - to be honest, there were really not many women he knew, so he quickly locked on, it was her!

The daughter of Yishui City Shou, the black belt disciple of Yanshan Xiuwu Hall, Cheng Feifeng!

She also received a mission from White Grass City, or did she accompany her cousin Feiyan to do the mission?

was told by Cheng Feifeng, and the strong girl named Feiyan also lowered her voice and muttered quietly. Of course, with this person's voice, even if it is quiet, it will not be much smaller.

If Luo Xiao listens carefully, he can vaguely hear some content, but listening to the wall in this way is obviously inferior, and he has met Cheng Feifeng once, and he is still doing business, he can't talk about friendship at all, and the greetings are abrupt. After thinking about it, he stopped, and waited for the second daughter to go far away, and then walked out of the inn.

Zhouji Leather Goods, No. 15, T-shaped Street, Baicaocheng, is a very ordinary fur acquisition and processing workshop, with a shop at the front door and a processing workshop in the back courtyard. There are no less than a dozen such shops in this city, which are very inconspicuous.

Shen Shixu, in front of the Zhou Ji leather shop, a local common dress, wrapped in the head and masked guest lifted the curtain and entered, the clear eyes swept away, the scene in the store was in full view: the shop is not big, black, everywhere hung with fur and tanned leather, the smell is relatively smoky, but the dust is not obvious, it seems that the sprinkling and sweeping is quite diligent.

The shopkeeper in a suede jacket at the counter was settling accounts, and the crisp crackling sound of the abacus beads was extremely loud. On the bench by the door sat a man in the same attire, holding his chin and pecking at the rice, as if he was dozing off.

As soon as the curtain moved, the wind and sand entered the house, and the dozing guy suddenly woke up, and stood up with a grunt, and no one saw it clearly and howled: "Your guest is coming!"

The guest raised his hand to brush away the hanging fur and looked directly at the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper also seemed to be aware of it, and under the dim light of the horse lamp on the side of the counter, the thin and burnt yellow face of the middle-aged shopkeeper was a little gloomy. Not to mention, he really looks like an intelligence chief.

This guest is Luo Xiao, and Zhou Ji Leather Shop is the target location that he came all the way to Baicao City, the intelligence point of Yishui City.