Chapter 17: Ambush
The rain gradually stopped, and when the first rays of sunlight shone in through the window, the woman's closed eyes moved slightly, and then a spirit, sitting up, looked to the side.
Seeing that his sword brother was breathing steadily, and his face had returned to blood, he put his mind at ease and looked at the scene around him, still in the ruined temple, everyone else was gone, only Dao Gu was still sitting cross-legged like last night.
"He is very seriously injured, fortunately, I still have a few pills to treat external injuries here, I have already given him one before, remember the red external application, the white internal application!" After speaking, two bottles of pills were thrown from the direction of Dao Gu, and it turned out that it was this Dao Gu who saved the two last night.
"Thank you Daoist for saving your life!" Tang Yanran said gratefully, although she didn't know what happened after last night, she thought it was just this Daoist who saved herself.
"Well, your qualifications are not bad, are you willing to go back to the mountain with me to practice?" Dao Gu opened her eyes and looked at Tang Yanran and said.
Although Tang Yanran didn't know the identity of this aunt, she didn't think it was a crooked way, and her martial arts were not under the "Bamboo Mother-in-law" she saw last night, she should also be a congenital master, and she was very excited at the moment.
"Thank you, Dao Chief, is Brother Jian with me too?"
"I only accept female disciples, but men can't!" Dao Gu replied.
After listening to Aunt Dao, Yanran looked at the man who was still unconscious next to her, and it was difficult to decide for a while.
A quarter of an hour later
"Thank you Dao Elder for saving my life, I still have to stay and take care of Brother Jian. The girl bowed.
"It's okay, so I wish you good luck!" After speaking, Dao Gu got up and slowly walked out of the broken temple.
Outside the west gate of the mountain city, a carriage walked slowly into the distance, followed by more than a dozen people, each of whom was calm and calm, and his steps were steady and powerful.
In the carriage, the painting sat quietly on one side, while Xiao Yi closed his eyes and recuperated, his breathing became deeper and lower, and his true qi flowed naturally, while his thoughts continued to extend, experiencing the unique scenery of spring.
Ten zhang away, under a banyan tree, hundreds of ants are busy. A hundred feet away, in a mountain forest, a fox seemed to have found something interesting and pricked up its ears. Three hundred feet away, a small fish in a small stream jumped out of the water, took two breaths of air, and then rushed into the water.
As his thoughts became more and more integrated with the outside world, Xiao Yat only felt that his mind was clear, as if he had forgotten everything, and he just continued to feel the vitality of heaven and earth.
At the same time, the true qi in the body was running rapidly under the drive of divine thoughts, as if the bottleneck in the body was becoming weaker and weaker.
The painting that was also meditating in the carriage, opened his eyes, looked at his young master curiously, and only felt that the young master's temperament was more and more ethereal, as if he was about to disappear from the world, if he didn't open his eyes, the painting would not feel the existence of the young master.
Hua'er knew that this was the "unity of heaven and man" recorded in Taoism, and it was also called "meditation" in Buddhism, which was something that could not be encountered.
Hua'er didn't dare to slack off, quietly got out of the carriage, drove the coachman down, drove himself away, and walked slowly.
"Taishang Thirteen Classics" is a Taoist classic made by the Taoist Confucian Confucianism many years ago to sort out the thirteen classics of Taoist sages, a total of 13 books, Xiao Yi carefully wrote down in the Taoist temple, these days and days to understand, combined with their own situation, but also quite touched.
"The form wants to be quiet, the heart wants to be quiet, the qi wants to be quiet, it is necessary to seek tranquility in practice, and it should also be quiet in ordinary times, and it should also be quiet in the noise, quiet and can give birth to stability, and determination and wisdom can be born!"
This is the truth that Xiao Yi realized by reading the "Thirteen Classics of Taishang", and today on the way to the salt field in the mountain city, he actually entered the realm of "the unity of heaven and man", which is a real fluke.
However, when it comes to "the unity of heaven and man", Xiao Yat is actually no stranger, because in the past ten years, Xiao Yat has also inadvertently entered this realm twice. This is also the reason why Xiao Yi can quickly break through the realm without the guidance of a famous teacher.
Half an hour later, as the carriage entered the salt pan, Xiao Yi's consciousness regained his clarity.
"It doesn't matter before the congenital, and it will enter the congenital within two months. This is what Xiao Yat naturally knew after waking up from "the unity of heaven and man".
Xiao Yi opened the curtain of the carriage, got out of the carriage, took a deep breath, and felt that the world around him was getting closer and closer, and there seemed to be a steady stream of "qi" flowing around him.
"I've seen Lord Xiao!" Huang Yi, the commander of the mountain city salt farm, led dozens of people behind him to pay a visit.
"You're welcome!" Xiao Yi said after glancing at these people.
Then Huang Yi introduced to Xiao Yi that in addition to a few Si Cheng and officials from other salt farms in Qingzhou who came to study, the rest were the stewards and officials of the Shancheng salt farm.
With the breakthrough in martial arts, Xiao Yi was in a good mood, greeted these people one by one with great interest, and then visited this salt pan in the mountain city together.
On the other side, not long after Xiao Yi entered the salt field, the news about Xiao Yi leaving the city also reached the ears of the head of the Tang family. Although Xiao Yi deliberately kept a low profile, for the Tang family, as long as Xiao Yi was not traveling alone in disguise, it was not difficult to find out Xiao Yi's news.
Xiao Yi now has a special identity, he has just been reused by the imperial court, and now no matter who makes a move on Xiao Yi in the mountain city, he will face the responsibility of the imperial court, so Tang Biao immediately realized that this is an excellent opportunity to get rid of Xiao Yi.
In the hall of the Tang family, the two brothers of the Tang family bowed their heads to discuss, and there was a guard half-kneeling in front of the door.
"Brother, since the little cub of the Tang family only brought more than a dozen guards, why should my brother go in person, I will take someone on a trip!" Tang Bao said.
"Don't be careless, the opportunity is rare, be sure to hit it with one hit!" Tang Biao was more cautious, although he knew that the highest cultivation in Xiao Yi's guards was the sixth layer of the day after tomorrow, and the others were only four or five layers of cultivation, but Tang Biao never underestimated Xiao Yi, not to mention anything else, that is, the maid who picked up his own trick in the Xiao family last time was very good.
"Brother, after the death of Xiao Qian and Xiao Jian, only Xiao Hong, the old guy in the Xiao family, can be regarded as a master, and the others are just local chickens and dogs, don't worry!"
"It's better to be cautious, after all, the Xiao family has a deep accumulation, so Xiao Yi is not a fool, how can he easily get into danger, and he thinks he has done a good job of defense. Doesn't he have more than a dozen guards, so you can bring all the six or seven layers of masters in your family, and then bring thirty or forty guards, so that you can be safe. Tang Biao said.
"Okay, without further ado, I'll go and prepare!" Tang Bao finished speaking and strode away.
On the evening of the second day, in a mountain forest dozens of miles west of the mountain city, dozens of people separated and hidden, waiting quietly, led by two masters of the eighth layer of the day after tomorrow.
Tang Bao glanced at Ji Shaoyan beside him, he didn't expect his brother to say that this young master of Wangyue Sect would participate in this ambush, but this is a good thing, not to mention that this young master of Wangyue Sect is not under his own cultivation, even if he can pull Wangyue Sect to attack Xiao Yi with ups and downs, it is also excellent, so even if Huangfu Gao is dissatisfied later, he has to accept the reality, after all, Wangyue Sect is a behemoth that can go hand in hand with Haoran Academy, and naturally it is not something that an ordinary county guard can deal with.
"Second Uncle Tang, if you want me to say why should we be so troublesome, I heard that this Xiao Yi is only five or six layers of cultivation the day after tomorrow, and the highest guards around him are only six or seven layers, I can intercept and kill them alone, but I have to ambush them in advance, it's really boring!" Ji Shaoyan said casually shaking the paper fan in his hand.
"I also think my brother is too worried, but before I go out, my brother instructed that everyone must be wiped out, and no one can escape," Tang Bao threw down a piece of flower and branch that he picked casually, and said fiercely, "In addition, virtuous nephew, start in a while, you are responsible for chasing and killing the fish that slipped through the net, and you must not be in danger!" Tang Leopard knew the severity and did not dare to let Ji Shaoyan get into danger.
Ji Shaoyan casually agreed, but he didn't listen, after all, because of Yang Yan's matter, he had long been holding back a fire, the last time he besieged Yang Yan, because of his lack of cultivation, he didn't do anything, this time with Tang Bao came out, he also had to kill a few people to vent his anger.
A few miles away, Xiao Yi's returning team slowly moved forward. In the carriage, Xiao Yi was reading the classics of the *** family, and the painting was making tea for Xiao Yi on the side.
"Painting, when will a few of our salt masters from Qingxian County arrive?" Xiao Yi asked casually.
"Childe, the letter was sent out a few days ago, and I think it should arrive in a day or two, and then I will let them come directly to the salt farm. The painting replied.
"Hmm" Xiao Yi agreed and stopped talking, and after a while, Xiao Yi opened his eyes suddenly.
"Stop, be on guard!" Xiao Yi finished speaking, and more than a dozen guards stepped forward to protect the carriage.
"Xiao Quan, prepare to fight, there is some trouble, and there are quite a few opponents. Xiao Yi Zhengse said.
As Xiao Yi and the others stopped to be on guard, Tang Biao and the others in the distance knew that they had been discovered, so they no longer hid, and showed their bodies one after another, and later killed Xiao Yi in the carriage where Xiao Yi was under Tang Biao's beckoning.
Seeing that there were two eighth-layer masters and four seventh-layer masters in the other party, and he couldn't hide his strength no matter what, Xiao Yi picked up the long sword beside him and greeted him with Xiao Quan and the others.
Xiao Yi's cultivation at this time also had few opponents in the ninth layer, and it was not a problem to have one enemy and two enemies in the same level. Therefore, with all their strength, Tang Biao and Ji Shaoyan only had the ability to parry and had no power to fight back.
Xiao Yi's divine thoughts shrouded the battlefield, and he saw that not far away, Xiao Quan was in danger of falling under the attack of two seventh-layer masters, Xiao Yi's body shook, and he got rid of the entanglement of the two eighth-layer masters with Qingluo step, came to Xiao Quan's side, and stabbed one of the seventh-layer guards with a sword, Xiao Yi's sword was fast, and the seventh-layer cultivation was already difficult to resist, not to mention that Xiao Yi was a surprise attack, and the person was instantly pierced in the chest.
After that, Xiao Yi stabbed at another seventh-layer master, that person had already taken precautions, returned to the sword to defend, and was repelled by Xiao Yi with a sword.
At this time, Tang Bao and Ji Shaoyan also surrounded them, and for a while, the three of them fought together. However, even the three of them combined still fell behind. Xiao Yi was able to easily dodge the weapons of the three with the help of Shen Nian, and the sword technique of splitting the light in one hand turned into pieces of sword light, which made the three of them cry bitterly.
Just because the sword light from the splitting sword method is only an auxiliary role for masters above the ninth layer, because there is divine thought assistance above the ninth layer, and it is difficult to distinguish the true or false sword light with the naked eye, so several people are extremely passive when fighting.
After Xiao Yi controlled the situation here, he saw that Hua'er was constantly retreating under the siege of a seventh-layer master and two sixth-layer guards, so he simply shrouded the seventh-layer master in the sword light, and shared a lot of pressure for the others with one enemy and four.
"Second Uncle Tang, didn't you say that Xiao Yi doesn't like to practice martial arts, how can it be so difficult?" Ji Shaoyan asked loudly after blocking Xiao Yi's palm.
"It seems that he is a master of the Xiao family's secret cultivation, no matter what, you can't let him go, brothers, kill this person with me!" Tang Bao finished shouting, and more than a dozen people from other battle groups rushed over to besiege Xiao Yi together.
Seeing this, Xiao Yi did not retreat but approached, Qingluo stepped to the extreme, the long sword in his hand became faster and faster, several swordsmanship were used alternately, and the cultivation of the fifth and sixth layers of the day after tomorrow was basically a move to kill the enemy, and only the masters of the seventh and eighth layers could parry.
After another quarter of an hour, gradually, the three people on the seventh floor and the two on the eighth floor of the Tang family joined in the battle with Xiao Yi, and the others joined forces to besiege and kill more than a dozen guards of the Xiao family.
Xiao Yi swung the long sword in his hand, first held Ji Shaoyan's long sword, and then dodged the attacks of several other people in the change of body shape, and quickly came to Tang Leopard's approach, looked at the opportunity, and hit a heavy palm with his left palm, that Tang Leopard didn't have time to dodge, so he had to block it with a horizontal knife, Xiao Yi's left palm position changed slightly, missed the long knife in his chest, and hit his abdomen with a palm, Tang Leopard vomited blood and flew out.
Although this palm happened suddenly, it also contained Xiao Yi's eighty percent cultivation, and it was difficult for Tang Leopard to get up to meet the enemy for a while. The long sword in his hand swept and forced the two seven-layer guards to retreat, and then the index finger and middle finger of his left hand clamped Ji Shaoyan's long sword, and the true qi ran to make this section of his long sword, who knew that Ji Shaoyan's long sword was a high-quality sword, and it couldn't be broken with Xiao Yi's strength.
Xiao Yi simply pulled hard with two fingers, brought Ji Shaoyan a foot in front of him, and hit his left shoulder with his left palm, causing him to stagger back a few steps.
At this time, the two seventh-layer guards behind him slashed at Xiao Yi at the same time, Xiao Yi had just injured Ji Shaoyan, and he didn't have time to turn around and return to defense, so he used the national art he had learned in his previous life - close to his body.
The body arched slightly, and then the body suddenly exerted force, the force came from the legs, and the force was diagonally backward, and the whole person crashed into the arms of the two seven-layer guards with great speed.
Xiao Yi's collision was no less than the strength of a running ploughing ox, and the two were slammed into Xiao Yi's shoulders, and their chests suddenly collapsed, and they spat blood and flew out.
This close-fitting lean is a move in the national arts, derived from one of the national arts, Bajiquan, which is known for its fierce and domineering, and several of its moves have been integrated into the military physical boxing used in military training.
Seeing that these people were injured one after another, seven or eight guards nearby rushed up, these seven or eight guards were only five or six layers of cultivation, and they were killed by Xiao Yi in a few breaths.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer enemies but Xiao Yat was becoming more and more uneasy, as if danger was approaching, Xiao Yat had a keen sense of consciousness and did not dare to despise this intuition, so he had to end the battle as soon as possible.
Sure enough, half an hour later, just as Xiao Yi inserted the long sword in his hand into Tang Leopard's chest, a sharp roar came from not far away, and Xiao Yi's divine sense also sensed that a "tower"-like figure was approaching rapidly, and the iron tower was extremely fast.
Xiao Yi's complexion changed greatly, and his shots became more and more ruthless, and after kicking Tang Leopard away, he got up and approached Ji Shaoyan, and Liuyun swordsmanship was used one after another. Without the restraint of other people, but with seven or eight moves, Xiao Yi hit Ji Shaoyan in the chest with a flaming palm, beating him to vomit blood and fly.