A young man sitting on a tall horse looked calm, but that was only on the surface, and his heart was extremely nervous.

Nervousness is not due to the fact that it has been confronted with danger, but on the contrary, it has not yet been encountered.

This is a perfectly normal thing, after all, no matter who faces a cultivator who is hiding in the shadows, it will not be easy.

He had traveled unusually steadily along the way, but he sat on the back of the horse and was carried by him and staggered northward, without speeding or galloping on the road.

After all, the faster you run, the farther away from the reinforcements from He'an County, and if you go backwards, it is better to go with the convoy to ask for help a few days ago, there is no need to drag on for a few days and then turn back, in fact, Xu Changan greeted Cui Xianggong from the bottom of his heart along the way.

Cui Xianggong naturally couldn't know what he was thinking, and Xu Changan didn't even know where the other party had gone these days.

Today is the last night, counting that the days will be about a few hours before the reinforcements of He'an County will arrive early tomorrow morning, although Xu Changan doesn't know what He'an County is, but how do you think that a county should be able to send a lot of troops to escort them back to the capital.

And as long as reinforcements arrive, no matter how powerful the cultivators hidden in the shadows are, they will not be able to do it again under the heavy guard.

Whether it can be done or not is one thing, the real reason is that it is in the territory of the Dachang Dynasty, which is a bit too bold.

In fact, attacking the convoy participating in the building test was a bold thing, but killing Xu Changan was not counted.

As Cui Xianggong guessed, these were two assassinations, and there was no rain of arrows in the sky, and there was no sudden large group of people rushing out of the surroundings with knives and guns, so it can be seen that the person who came to kill Xu Changan should be just that kind of cultivator.

The assassination only sent one person, which sounded a bit contemptuous of Xu Changan.

However, counting the dozen or so people who had died in the Xu Mansion, plus the great cultivator who couldn't make a move for some reason disguised as a braised pork seller in Ancheng, even if he went to another country to assassinate a lord in this kind of battle, he already looked at the other party.

Not to mention that the target of the assassination was just Xu Changan, a young child who had just started his mountain and practiced for only three months.

This matter itself is a bit unreasonable, if he encounters this kind of battle in the Qi State, Xu Changan may think that Jiang Shui'er, the king of Qi, wants to avenge his son, and if it is in the Chu State, it may be because of his participation in the robbery.

Even if he was in Wangshu Tower, Xu Changan would not wonder why someone would go to such great lengths and manpower to kill him.

Although he was born in the territory of the Dachang Dynasty, no one seems to be able to have done such an assassination in this place.

It should be the State of Qi, the State of Chu, the State of Taiyin, and the Wangshu Tower, not this country.

A great cultivator that even Yun Wangshu couldn't perceive, a dozen or so cultivators who had died, and there was one in secret.

These people all have one thing in common, they are all practitioners.

Although Sifang City is only a small city, it also has a population of more than 1,000 people, and among those more than 1,000 people, Xu Changan has never heard of anyone who can become a cultivator to practice, but now the lineup that came to assassinate him is full of cultivators.

Could it be that except for the city where he lived, cultivators in other places grabbed a lot of them like this?

Or is it that only a few people can practice for the city where they are located?

Xu Changan kept telling himself in his heart that as long as he survived tonight, Lao Tzu would be able to go to the capital with the convoy all the way, without having to be exposed to the wind and rain.

In order to survive tonight safely, he made a lot of preparations, just now, he ate two mouthfuls of dry cakes and drank a few sips of water.

Of course, the state is not the best, after all, it is late at night, and it is the most stressful and relaxing time.

The nervous thing is that you don't know when and where an arrow will come in, and the relaxation is that as long as you wait until dawn, reinforcements from He'an County will be able to meet him.

Looking up at the moon above his head, Xu Changan never hoped that Yun Wangshu would fall from that moon more than now, and it would be cold, which was much better than being cold.

The moon can't fall on the clouds, and even if it falls, the other party will probably not care about himself.

The only thing he could trust was the sword he held tightly in both hands.

Looking down, he knew that no matter what angle he looked at, if the other party hadn't given up on assassinating him, this should be the best time.

With such a strong lineup and scheming, the other party will certainly not give up.

Xu Changan's eyes didn't have time to be raised, but his brows were furrowed, and the roots of his teeth were even oozing blood because he was too hard.

An extra feathered arrow appeared on his chest, blocking his view from looking down.

Almost at the same time, there was the sound of a flock of birds flying up in fright in front of him, and before that, a glimmer of light flashed away in the position behind Xu Chang'an's side.

The pain passed from that point to his body, from the top of his head to his heels, and he felt a tearing pain.

The feathered arrow slipped from his chest and landed on the back of the horse under his crotch, but did not penetrate his chest.

This arrow, without an arrow.

It seemed that the other party had changed from assassination to blocking, but Xu Changan knew that if this arrow had an arrow, he would definitely be able to see it in advance when it was fired, and then intercept it, because although he lowered his head, his eyes were still fixed on the changes around him.

He couldn't foresee where the danger was, but it wasn't too difficult for him to see the glimmer of light reflecting the moonlight in the face of an arrowhead at night, and his eyes had always looked far away.

But now there was no movement of the arrow before it landed on his chest, not even the slightest sound of breaking wind was not easily noticed, and there was no fleeting glimmer of light in the faint moonlight to catch him.

This arrow came from such a strange way.

Xu Chang'an frowned, and he didn't have time to rub his chest, although there were still six golden cakes there, but it was obviously of little use for impact injuries.

I'm afraid he never dreamed that someone would use a feathered arrow without an arrow to kill him like this.

He knew that after the arrow that was shot at him, Cui Sang-gong followed suit, although he didn't know where Choi Sang-gong was at this time.

Judging from that arrow, although Cui Xianggong was in secret, it seemed that he did not relax his vigilance at all, so that he could immediately respond after perceiving the change.

A few days ago, Cui Xianggong asked him if he was sure that he could stop another arrow, and his original answer was extremely confident, but now he didn't even notice it.

But Xu Changan did stop it, after all, he blocked it with his body, didn't he?

He didn't know where Cui Xianggong had gone since then, he felt that he should be accompanying him not far away, but even if he occasionally remembered to look back, he never noticed the person's location.

If you want to hide it from others, you must first hide it from your own family, which Cui Xianggong has done quite well, so good that it even makes Xu Changan think that the other party has already abandoned himself and fled.

Xu Changan didn't dare to relax his vigilance, he was hit by an arrow, but it was not clear whether the one shot by Cui Xianggong hit him.

Xu Changan was still sitting on the horse's back, and the horse was still walking forward unfast, as if he didn't know what was going on, and the young man seemed to be an immobile target in the dim moonlight.

Xu Changan's eyes narrowed slightly, almost closed, and he wanted to see where the next arrow was coming from.

There was not too much time in time, and the next feather arrow immediately arrived as scheduled with the momentum of piercing stones and breaking gold.

This shows that Cui Xianggong's arrow did not hit, at least it did not hit the vital point, otherwise this arrow would not have come so quickly.

Xu Changan's eyes suddenly dilated, and he shouted in his heart, here!

This time he could see a little more clearly, in fact, he had already seen the arrow, but he didn't swing his sword to stop it, nor did he dodge it slightly, but once again resisted the arrow with his chest.

With a hint of disdain at the corner of his mouth, he spit blood to the side at random, coughed heavily, and couldn't help but want to cough twice, but he couldn't help but hold back and stop talking, and then wiped the blood stains from the corners of his mouth at will.

Feeling the feathered arrow that returned from behind him, he lightly clamped his legs on the horse's back, and continued to walk forward slowly at the same speed as before.

There was still a hint of disdain at the corner of his mouth, and there was even a faint smile.

The illusion that these two arrows give each other is that there are no arrows, and there is no trace of light shining on the moonlight, Xu Changan can't detect it, and he can't stop it.

However, Xu Changan is not trying to bring such an illusion to the other party, he is not a person who likes to harm himself, and it is better to suffer more than to suffer less from injuries.

The reason why he resisted the second arrow was because he found that the first arrow was a little different.

Feeling the surging qi and blood in his body, he calculated that he could probably resist another arrow, and couldn't help but scolded Cui Xianggong in his heart, Lao Tzu is a live target, and you don't know how to fight for some qi?

Walking forward not fast or slow, no one knows when the next arrow will fly from and where it will be shot, those two arrows seem to have a soft spot for the position of the chest, if it is a killer, it is indeed the first choice, but it is impossible for them to know that Xu Changan has hidden something in this place, and it has already cut off some of the damage.

If the damage can't be blocked in advance, a little less is a point.

The person hiding in the shadows no longer seems to be obsessed with the position of his chest, or guessing that if he attacks the same position twice, the other party should be on guard even if he is a fool.

So the next arrow, for the center of the eyebrows!

In fact, Xu Changan is still defenseless about the position of his chest...

Xu Changan did not choose to resist this arrow again, but lowered his head as fast as he could, and climbed down.

The arrow came quickly, but fortunately, the distance was far enough and the reaction was fast enough, so when Xu Changan lowered his head and climbed down, the feather arrow passed by a hair floating on the top layer and was easily cut off.

That's right, it's cut-off!

It is impossible for an ordinary person to shoot an arrow without an arrow, the center of gravity of the arrow determines the direction in which the arrow falls, and a feather arrow without a center of gravity is not enough to hit, let alone cut off a person's hair with a wooden stick.

Although this arrow was shot by the practitioner, it was not enough to cut off a weak, flexible strand of hair that fluttered in the wind.

It's something that's even better than wallgrass, and its swaying in the wind makes it difficult to cut it off if it's not a sharp object.

That's right, it's a real feathered arrow, with a sharp arrow, so it can easily cut off that strand of hair.

The biggest advantage of an ambush in the dark is nothing more than confusion, so that the other party can't tell which arrow is deadly.

At the moment when Xu Changan lowered his head, he seemed to have guessed that the corner of the archer who was hiding in the secret to shoot this arrow should have a hint of evil and a smile that was about to succeed. What's more, Xu Changan also guessed that the other party should now be preparing to collect the bow and go back to report to the work to receive his own bounty.

Since this arrow was missed, why did Xu Changan have such a conjecture? Could it be that the other party was so confident that he thought that this arrow would inevitably hit?

Of course not, that's because there was one arrow on his side, two to be exact.