Chapter 185: I'm going to beat you to death
One person's duel is about courage, while the comparison between two people's teams is tacit understanding.
Tacit understanding can maximize the advantages of the team, and Xu Changan knows that although the cultivator he has selected is the weakest of the two, he is also stronger than himself.
Cui Xianggong also knew that the one he was targeting was stronger than him, but they did not run away, but fought against him, and even achieved a great advantage in the case of open and secret fighting, which is really rare.
This is not to say that the two fools on the other side have no cooperation at all.
According to the plan and performance they made tonight, the two cultivators in the secret should have cooperated with each other for a long time, otherwise it would be impossible to release arrows at the same time.
This may seem simple to say, but if someone can actually do it, it will be a lot more difficult.
And the tacit understanding between Xu Changan and Cui Xianggong seems to be better.
It may sound unrealistic for two young men who have not been in contact with each other to cooperate well in terms of tacit understanding to outperform two Assassins who have been working together for a long time.
But in fact, they just did what they said in advance, and the conversation between the two before Xu Changan went on the road gave them a lot of help.
It may be tricky to understand the two of them, but in short, you can stop one arrow in the dark, and I only need to help you block the second or even the third.
If there is only one arrow from the shadows, I don't care what position or angle it is, and you said you could stop it, then you have to stop it, and I only promise that only one arrow will be shot at you.
Cui Xianggong did guarantee tonight, and Xu Changan also guaranteed that he could stop an arrow.
Some people love to tell lies, and some people love to tell nonsense.
Cui Xianggong is not a talkative person, so every word he says has a meaning that needs to be said.
Just like the one who accompanied him on Taiyin Mountain, he only said those two sentences that had to be said, the dean asked Yang Hejiu to return to the Spirit Academy.
Therefore, neither Xu Changan nor anyone else can perceive this person's ability through words and deeds.
And at dawn that day, after the convoy left, he asked Xu Changan a word.
It seems that they are not worried about Xu Chang'an's safety, and they are just inexplicably worried, but tonight, the two teenagers have achieved a great advantage when they are not defeated by the other party through that sentence.
Cui Xianggong didn't stay for long, holding the bow in his left hand, leaning behind him with his right hand, pinching the bowstring lightly with his fingers, and the whole action was done in one go, and he sent another arrow towards that position like a boat pushing down the river.
There is no doubt that this arrow was blocked again, and the opposite side was also holding a bow and arrow, which means that the understanding of this weapon must have the qualifications to use it.
If you want to hit the opponent again after being hit by an arrow, it is obviously unlikely.
But Cui Xianggong didn't feel sorry, and he couldn't be discouraged, every arrow he shot seemed to pursue the idea that I could hit better, and if I couldn't hit, I just had to shoot it, which seemed a little too casual.
Xu Changan had already gotten up from the ground, and he didn't bother to rub his aching back, but couldn't help but greet Cui Xianggong again in his heart.
Didn't you shoot like that just now? Is this guy reliable?
Xu Changan didn't know if Cui Xianggong's arrow was hit, he only knew that if it was, Cui Xianggong didn't need to shoot another arrow.
Cui Xianggong naturally didn't know Xu Chang'an's inner thoughts, but stared at the darkness tightly, his eyes caught a glimmer of light, and the feather arrow that had been waiting on the string for a long time could always be intercepted seemingly easily.
The inter-field picture looks extremely dangerous, and the slightest mistake will cost the two sides dearly, but this is more like a time contest and pull, testing the ability of both sides to seize opportunities.
It's not easy to get through the opponent's interception and get a direct hit.
Xu Changan's interception was Cui Xianggong in the rear, and the interception of the shooter in the shadows was always the big tree in front of him.
Cui Xianggong's approach has not changed, he still stops an arrow and takes a bow to return an arrow to the place he is staring at, and then immediately takes the arrow and takes the bow at a very fast speed, preparing for the next interception.
And the movements of the man in the shadows have also not changed, and the hunter hiding in the shadows needs patience the most.
He can't help but shoot arrows, because as long as he misses one arrow, Cui Xianggong's arrows will help Xu Changan deal with another person, and the original secret killing is now more like containing Cui Xianggong.
But in fact, this is not the case, his purpose was originally to seize the opportunity to secretly kill Xu Chang'an, so as long as Cui Xianggong did not have time to stop an arrow, then Xu Chang'an would fall into a great crisis.
It can be seen that although Cui Xianggong looks relaxed, his pressure is definitely much greater than himself.
However, due to an arrow in the shoulder, Cui Xianggong's arrow came more frequently, and he often shot an arrow by himself, and the opposite side had already returned two arrows, and before that, Cui Xianggong could only return one arrow after intercepting his own arrow.
These two people were not in the slightest hurry, and no one wanted to change their methods again, or Cui Xianggong joined hands with Xu Changan to deal with another person, or that person wanted to attack Cui Xianggong, his purpose would not be easily changed, and Cui Xianggong's dozen arrows that were blocked proved that such an approach was useless.
Cui Xianggong has already shot more than a dozen arrows at himself, but the real arrow wound is only the time when the other party seized the opportunity just now, just as Cui Xianggong guessed, the wound is in the shoulder.
It's only two inches away from the throat, and it's only three inches away from the heart, but two or three inches away is also a distance, and after all, it doesn't hurt the vital point.
is also using arrows, he is very good at empathy, the opponent's arrows are all blocked by the big tree in front of him, so if I change the target to attack him, it should be the same.
The sky has begun to gray and bright, but these have not had much impact on the situation, Cui Xianggong has always known where the other party is, and that person also knows that Cui Xianggong is opposite him, as long as he shoots an arrow, the other party will immediately stop it, and then in his shoulder, the force causes bleeding, and the pain is so painful that the other party can immediately return two arrows when he grits his teeth and hides his body.
He was willing to admit that the young man's ability to seize the opportunity was better than his own, so he would be more cautious in the future, and it seemed that there would be no more casualties on this side in the short term, because the battlefield was always on the other side.
On the other side of the battlefield, Xu Chang'an's horse sprint is used as a declaration of war, the other party is not unappreciative, and he does not dare to fight with Xu Chang'an, but it is more cost-effective to shoot as many arrows as possible before close combat, once you choose melee, the role of the bow and arrow weapon will become very small.
Now the horse under the crotch has collapsed from the injury, lying on the ground and still performing the last instinctive convulsions from time to time, and a blood-stained feather arrow is deeply inserted into the forehead, which is a fatal wound.
Sometimes a small bloody mouth can always end a life that looks powerful.
Xu Changan didn't know how many feather arrows he stopped with his sword, the collision of the sword and the arrow in front of him, and the two feather arrows behind him got closer and closer to him each time, these sounds were very harsh.
Xu Changan casually spat to the side, his mouth was full of unpleasant blood, and he started running with his sword in both hands.
The man behind the tree slowly stood up after shooting the last arrow, first threw the bow directly towards Xu Changan, and then took out a sharp knife from his waist.
Just after he abandoned the bow, the feather arrow behind Xu Changan, which had been sleepless, suddenly stopped, but Cui Xianggong did not choose to abandon the bow, but took an arrow and shot it at the person opposite Xu Changan.
For the first time, his arrow changed its target, which caught both Xu Changan and the person on the other side a little off guard.
The feather arrow brushed against Xu Chang'an's shoulder, and the sharp arrow directed the man wielding the knife.
In the dungeon of Yingdu City, Dasi Nong Huaxuan once told Xu Changan not to doubt his partner easily, although Xu Changan did not suspect Cui Xianggong, but he never really believed him.
They have known each other for a short time and are not partners, and the more hypocritical statement of sharing life and death and suffering needs to wait for this danger to be counted together, and it is too early to say that it is a little early in front, so it seems that their relationship may just be Xu Chang'an's cheating and slippery friendship.
Therefore, Xu Changan is still a little afraid of this arrow, if the other party's arrow is slightly offset, he may be able to easily cut his throat.
If Xu Changan could see this arrow, even if Cui Xianggong shot it, he would definitely choose to stop it, but he didn't have eyes behind him, and he didn't take a closer look behind him when he was rolling on the ground, so he couldn't feel a trace of coldness until he rubbed his shoulder.
Xu Changan thought that another person had missed at the time, but when he saw the person in front of him, he realized that the arrow should have been shot by Cui Xianggong.
The question is, why did Choi Sang-gong choose to change his goal this time?
That's because that's all he has to do.
Across the road, the cultivator behind the big tree could no longer shoot an arrow.
To put it more accurately, people are dead.
He may not understand how he died, not only the person who died, but also Xu Changan and the other person opposite him will not understand why the other arrow suddenly stopped.
Of course, it can't be painful to death, and it can't be that the injury is aggravated.
He has been enduring severe pain in his shoulder, but he has never used his other hand to pull out the feather arrow, which will take more time is a reason, and more importantly, as long as the blood is shed for a long time, people will always die, he just came to kill someone, and he did not want to pay for his life, so he can endure an arrow stopping at his shoulder for a long time.
There wasn't anything scrawled on the arrow, but the man was dead.
The fatal wound was not in the shoulder, but in the chest.
There was blood oozing from the small hole in the chest, and the blood was oozing and flowing, mixed with many small pieces of wood.
The wound looked like there was only one arrow, but there were many sharp arrows in the wound, and the arrows of those arrows were piled up inside his heart, about to fill up.
In the shooter's eyes, Choi Sang-gong's arrows after arrows seemed to be just futile, but this young man would not choose to do such a futile thing all the time.
In order to verify this, he paid with his life.
An arrow piercing a tree is something that few people can do even in this world.
Choi Sang-gong couldn't do it either, but he used a lot of arrows.
One arrow stayed on the tree, and the next arrow continued to look at that position, piercing the tail and striking the arrow, each time pushing the sharp arrow inward by half an inch.
And that person will not choose to change his position, he has always relied on the big tree in front of him, especially after being seized by the opposite side and hit an arrow in his shoulder.
He knew that the young man had seized the opportunity in such a clever way that he thought it would be perfectly safe for him to hide behind a tree all the time.
To be precise, it is safe for a short period of time, and there is no absolute safety in this world.
You're just sitting in your house and having breakfast, when someone suddenly comes up behind you and hurts you so badly that you vomit blood and almost die.
On New Year's Day, you just want to eat a full meal in an inn and open a mountain around the stove in the hope that you can practice as soon as possible, but you will be forced by an uninvited guest to the point that you have to risk going to the dungeon to rob the prison.
You return home safely, and you can finally go to the capital thousands of miles away to find your biological father, but you don't expect that there will be so many people secretly watching you along the way.
Many seemingly simple and ordinary things come with a lot of danger.
The flowers that depend on the big tree to survive will always be affected by the drainage of the big tree branches in a wind and rain and threaten themselves, but they can't notice it, and it is almost too late to notice it.
Now the assassin also didn't realize that the big tree in front of him that had blocked many arrows for himself was actually hiding a great danger, and he handed over everything he had blocked in front of him at once.
It looks like it's really a little family.
There is no such thing as absolute safety, and conversely, there is no such thing as absolute danger.
It's just that the situation is not on their side.
The itinerary that originally seemed to be full of dangers is now accompanied by Cui Xianggong's arrow, which is already in a good situation.
Speaking of which, what made Xu Changan speechless was that he finally ran in front of the other party and forced him to give up the arrow and face him face to face, but it was not himself who shot first, but it was Cui Xianggong.
Cui Xianggong's arrow grazed his shoulder, and the person on the other side had already noticed the abnormality when only one arrow hit on the opposite side.
Turning sideways, the feather arrow brushed by.
But this time he had lost the opportunity, although Xu Changan felt the danger, he did not stand in place and was stunned, but just swallowed his saliva with difficulty.
He had been running forward all the time, and when he saw the other party dodging sideways, he saw the opportunity to step forward with an arrow step, and swung his sword from the bottom up.
This method of combat can be considered to have been figured out by him...
In the inn in Yingfu Town, Yan Weichu at that time neglected himself because of the attack of Lin Ying and the monk, and the sword he crouched down at that time was carefully studying where to attack, and through Yan Weichu's reaction, he knew that attacking this position was definitely a fairly correct decision.
Even the great cultivators can feel the attack that they are afraid of, who dares to underestimate it?
If Xu Changan returns to that day now, I am afraid that a few people in that inn will now have a lot higher than Yu Ming's kid.
And the palace in Yingdu City will also have an additional eunuch in the realm of a great cultivator.
In the face of Yan Weichu, he didn't dare to really swing that sword, but this little minion in front of him who couldn't shoot himself to death, could I still dare to hit you?
Due to the difference in size, he couldn't slash the opponent's head with a sword and give a heavy blow, and the sword in his hand was okay to block the damage, even if he stabbed the opponent's chest, it couldn't leave an injury, let alone be fatal.
And Xu Changan didn't forget why he lured the other party to do it along the way, it was all because of Cui Xianggong's way, Cui Xianggong thought that Xu Changan wanted to find the assassin and ask something.
Although Xu Changan didn't have this idea, but since he did so, it should be to catch him alive, Cui Xianggong has already shot one, and this attack on the crotch will not cause death, on the contrary, it will definitely make the other party lose his combat effectiveness in a short time.
From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with Xu Changan's choice.
The man had just dodged an arrow sideways, when he suddenly noticed a chilling sensation from the bottom up.
The corners of his eyes were down, and he was so shocked that he couldn't even hold the knife in his hand.
I never thought that a teenager who seemed harmless to humans and animals would be so ruthless.
Subconsciously clamped his legs and blocked the black sword with his knees, because Xu Changan was afraid that he would not be able to stab it, so he did not stab it directly, but swung it from the bottom to the top.
Swinging from the bottom to the top, the sword body is blocked by the opponent's knees, so the tip of the sword is tilted upward, which is already a threat.
... Well, this approach is also correct, and he is more self-aware, so he was actually quite surprised that Cui Xianggong could intercept so many arrows.
Xu Changan would not let go, and the man also did not dare to let go of his legs, the scene looked like it should be so deadlocked, but the man knew that he couldn't stop there, because he knew that with the first arrow, there would still be a second arrow.
He threw the knife in his hand as fast as he could, then twisted his legs quickly, trying to break away from his opponent's entanglement with force.
It was not in the dark at this time, so when the other party raised his hand, Xu Changan was already aware of his attempt, and immediately put away his sword to block the knife, looking at the other party's empty hands, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Without knives, what are you going to do with me!
The other party was not in a hurry, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, turned sideways slightly to dodge the oncoming arrow again, and took out another handful from somewhere, looking at the corner of Xu Changan's mouth and also returning a smile.
It seems to be saying that such a thing, Lao Tzu has!
Xu Changan licked his lips, he almost forgot what he was doing, the assassin naturally didn't only carry a knife.
The two sides have already made a move, but this time the battle has really begun, it seems that the other party has lost a knife, but in fact, Xu Chang'an's situation just now is much more dangerous.
If it weren't for the fact that the other party reacted too quickly and immediately clamped his legs after realizing that he swung his sword, his black sword just now must have left his hand.
The reason is that the other party reacts too quickly, if the reaction is a little slower, instead of using the knee position to block the upward swing of the black sword, but using the kneecap to clamp it, then it will be a different situation now.
As the saying goes, the arm can't reach the thigh, and the opponent just now twisted himself and couldn't draw the sword, he must not be able to wrestle with the other party, so the only way to choose is to abandon the sword.
In this kind of close-range duel, the opponent's knife can be found from the body if it is gone, and if the sword is gone, it will not be easy to pick it up.
However, in the situation just now, even if the other party's brain was unusually fast and thought of the next step, it was impossible to gamble with his own life that he would just clamp the black sword with his knees, so the faster the action, the better, who would dare to think about the next step?
Block it first before you can have the next step.
The other party did not stop after dodging Cui Xianggong's arrow, and the knife he was holding instantly came out of his hand, easily piercing a fallen leaf that was outside the game, flashing his fangs and rushing towards Xu Changan, and at the same time rushing forward with arrows, approaching Xu Changan.
Xu Changan was already ready for battle, and when he saw the other party attacking, his slightly squatting figure suddenly tensed, raised his sword with both hands, turned the sword slightly, and slapped it towards the knife, and then withdrew his left hand and pressed it against the sword that had not been withdrawn.
It's still a racket, but the most threatening thing is not the knife, Xu Changan knows that the knife is just used to cover up.
The next moment, a fist appeared on the sword.
Xu Changan couldn't dodge this fist, so he could only use the black sword to resist it in advance, which is also the main reason why he just blocked a knife but needed to squat slightly and then tense up and then use his left hand to resist the black sword.
The fist and the sword collided, this time Xu Changan obviously suffered a lot of losses, he couldn't win in terms of strength, his legs quickly swapped positions, his right foot was forced, and he stepped on a large piece of dead leaves, so he was difficult and steady.
There was only one punch on the other side, but his body had already retreated more than ten steps.
The other party did not give up, took out a knife from his body again, and forced Xu Changan again with a cold mang.
Of course, Choi Sang-gong will not sit idly by, and he will face another arrow.
This time, he didn't choose to dodge sideways, instead of retreating, he advanced instead, and cut off the swift feathered arrow with the extremely skillful ease of the seemingly small knife, without slowing down the slightest.
Xu Changan didn't have time to adjust his state, because the other party came too fast.
What should I do if the other party comes again?
Xu Changan swung his sword again, and the collision between the knife and the sword implicated a string of sparks.
Xu Changan held the sword in both hands, gritted his teeth and struggled to support it, while the other party's small knife was on the sword, and he couldn't stop using his strength.
The next moment, he would use his other hand to grab the seemingly innocuous black sword, making it impossible for the other party to escape, and the knife in his own hand would easily take down the young life.
Unlike those great cultivators' battles, which look quite imposing and spectacular, powerful cultivators usually do not fight to the death, and often choose to overwhelm the opponent with momentum and aura fluctuations, causing them to be injured and admit defeat.
But in this duel of life and death, it is so simple and direct, there are not too many bells and whistles, and there will not be too many aura fluctuations to be revealed, if I attack you with aura, you may just be injured.
But if I take you by one hand, and stab you in the chest with the other hand when you cannot escape, you will surely die.
It's that simple and straightforward.
This may look unsightly and unsightly, but it is.
It's not rough, but it's not ornamental, and it's even a bit of a street fight.
But on the other side is an Assassin, and what the Assassin needs to do is not to put on a show for people to watch, but how to kill people without making a big noise, so as to complete his mission.
If it weren't for that, when he walked out from behind the tree, he shouldn't have taken out a knife, but he should have taken out a long sword or a simple knife to cut Xu Changan against each other.
Punching the master to death, relying not on ornamentation and beauty, or with the idea that I want to kill you.