Chapter 15: The Eighteen Arrows
Sima Qingfeng asked the Chishui Demon General for advice on the practice method of the "Three Corpse Demon Skills" on the building boat, and repeatedly begged for tricks to obtain the refining method of the "Corpse Demon Pill" from the other party's mouth. After running the "Three Corpses Demon Skill" for a long week, he left the beauty reef pier and made a detour from the north gate into White Deer City. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was not yet thin, and the disciples of the Kuocang Sect who assisted in guarding the north gate of White Deer City were none other than his personal disciple Wan Dahai and his second senior brother Qiu Jiantong's younger disciple Pan Changzheng.
Wan Dahai couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised when he saw the master flying to the city, and stepped forward to greet him: "The master was injured and captured by the magic weapon of the demon, and the disciples and others are very worried. Now that Master is auspicious and has returned safely, we will be greatly boosted. ”
Pan Changzheng also stepped forward to pay a visit.
Sima Qingfeng helped them up and said, "Chang Zheng is on duty here. The sea and went to Dongou Wangfu with the teacher. ”
Walking on the cold streets of White Deer City, Sima Qingfeng felt something in his heart and said: "The human race is too small, and when there is any wind and grass, they will tremble and walk on thin ice. Look at the noisy street market of the past, but now it is like this. You can see how important it is to be a strong race. ”
"Master used to teach us that Xiuzhen enjoys the best resources and treatment of the human race, and that we must uphold justice and help the weak with our hoes. Now is the time for us to step forward and protect the safety of the human race. Wan Dahai said respectfully.
"Our cultivation is like flying ants in the ant population, how can we have lions and elephants like demons and immortals?" Sima Qingfeng said coldly.
Wan Dahai stopped in amazement.
It just so happened that a six- or seven-year-old child ran out of the small alley, and he couldn't close his legs and was about to bump into Sima Qingfeng, who was walking in front. The true qi in his body was born, and the child who bumped into him bounced back, and fell to the ground crying in pain.
Sima Qingfeng snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and walked away.
Wan Dahai stepped forward to pick up the fallen child and comforted the other party. Then he looked at Sima Qingfeng's back that made him feel unfamiliar, and felt a chill for a while.
Dongou Wang Shang Wuwei was overjoyed when he saw Sima Qingfeng return safely at first glance, and after he heard the news that the Yuan Ying of Jiuzhou had been stolen, he was stunned for a while. Between joy and sorrow, it took him a long time to come back to his senses, and he said to Sima Qingfeng in a dejected manner: "The situation is a hundred times more serious than the worst I expected. ”
Sima Qingfeng said: "The demon clan is powerful, and I have agreed with the lady of the head and Cui Fengfeng to temporarily avoid its edge. The demons gave us a three-day time limit, and we evacuated early tonight, and the gods didn't know, the ghosts didn't know, I don't know what the prince thinks?"
Dongou Wang Shang Wuwei said: "The demon clan is menacing, and Bailu City is the first to bear the brunt, but it only suffers the people in the city." Now that the general trend is like this, we can only arrange the evacuation in advance, and those who can survive are always the hope of the human race. I will send someone to ask all the immortals of the Kuocang faction who are guarding the city to come back, and this king also wants to see you. ”
When they learned that the mountain gate of the Kuocang faction was attacked and the head of the sect was injured by the demons, the disciples were shocked and changed color, and they couldn't wait to fly back to Kuocang Mountain with long wings.
"Uncle Shi, Bailu City is surrounded by mountains in the northwest and the sea in the southeast, and it is indeed the best choice to go out of the city and enter the mountains from the west gate and the north gate. I don't know which gate is the most convenient way to get out of the city?" Lu Dewang, the eldest disciple of the Kuocang Sect, asked respectfully.
"The west city gate leads to the deep mountain path, and the north city gate leads to the mountain post road, in order to meet the head faster, it is naturally the most convenient and fast to take the north city gate. Sima Qingfeng said with a smile.
Lu Dewang looked at Dongou Wang Shang Wuwei meaningfully, and said, "Please make a decision." ”
Shang Wuwei got up and said, "This king immediately arranged with the county guard Lord Xie and General Cheng to go out of the city. ”
He summoned Shang Leyi, who was among the disciples of the Kucang faction, and took him into the study of the inner mansion of the palace.
The study was a little messy at this time. The armor that had always been shelved appeared on the desk at this time, and was placed together with the palace seal letter. Some of the books that were on the desk were thrown to the floor at random, and they no longer received the same attention as they used to. When the war starts, the only way to stop fighting is to calm the world.
He lifted a landscape painting hanging on the wall of the study, opened a dark compartment between the walls behind it, took out a book with a yellow silk cover and an emerald green porcelain vase, and cautiously handed it to Shang Leyi, saying, "Today's Emperor Tianlong is the most important cultivator of the true exercises. Although I am a prince, I have been in the meridians since I was a child, and it is difficult to practice the royal cultivation method, and I am regarded as a waste material among the princes, so I was divided into the southern barbarian land of Ouyue Prefecture, and built a city and a county here. Your two brothers, your eldest brother has a strong temperament, and you are suitable for cultivation, and you seem to value power quite a lot. Therefore, I can't decide whether my original arrangement is right or wrong. Now that you have cultivated the Tao, and passed on a volume given by the royal family to the Dongou Palace, and there are six Zhengyuan Divine Pills, if you cultivate with your heart, you will have great success. In the future, you will have to rely on yourself, and you can do it yourself. ”
Shang Le took the scriptures and the pill bottle, knelt on the ground, and wept: "Please evacuate with me." The imperial grandfather will be able to understand his father's difficulties and will not blame more. ”
"This king is the son of the human emperor. Although he is considered to be the son of the most wasted human emperor, he has the glory and dignity of being the son of the human emperor. There must be a bloody battle under Dongou City, fighting for the dignity of the human race and the emperor. Dongou Wang Shang said inactively.
The king of Dongou put on the battle armor that he had not worn for a long time, put on a black cloud-piercing bow on his back, hung up the quiver and sword, said goodbye to the princess and came to the front hall, and said to Sima Qingfeng: "Sima Xianchang will go to the school with this king and General Cheng, and we will send troops to escort the gentry and people in the city to evacuate tonight." ”
The corners of Sima Qingfeng's mouth conjured up a subtle sneer, and said, "Qingfeng is willing to follow the prince and escort the prince to send the people out of the city safely." ”
For the rest of this afternoon, Sima Qingfeng was taken to the General's Mansion by Shang Wuwei, the king of Dongou County, and finalized the details of going out of the city with Cheng Guangyuan, the general of Dongou County, before going to the school to beat drums and gather troops.
At dusk, 700 soldiers lined up on the school field and were ready to go. Sima Qingfeng looked at the teams of Mo sword soldiers, spearmen, and archers, who looked majestic and high-spirited, but they were all ordinary martial artists and soldiers. And the fifty demon soldiers of the Demon Stage dispatched by the Demon Clan tonight can at least be the initial cultivation of the Enlightenment Period or the Spiritual Intelligence Stage of the enemy clan's cultivation, and there are also the Golden Fork Demon and the Silver Light Demon, two masters of the Intermediate Demon Realm, plus more than a hundred "Eastern Pirates" to help, the outcome has already been decided.
He urged in the ear of King Dongou : "Lord Wang, it's not early, should we send troops to guard the city gate as soon as possible, so that the people in the city can evacuate in an orderly manner?"
"No hurry, no hurry. Dongou King smiled, "This king still has a soldier and horse in place." ”
Sima Qingfeng said in surprise: "Isn't it a violation of military law to hear that the general will light the soldiers and drums three times and not come?"
Dongou King said with a smile: "Don't be afraid of Sima Xianchang's jokes, this is the personal guard of this king that has not been established for a long time, and it is not under the control of the Ministry of War." ”
Sima Qingfeng said in surprise: "The prince's personal guard should be extraordinary. ”
"The emperor sympathizes with me, a prince who does not have any cultivation skills, and not long ago sent two arrow guards in the palace to protect me. "Dongou Wang said," this king appointed two arrow guards as commanders to help this king train a sixteen-person arrow guard. ”
The corners of Sima Qingfeng's eyes twitched, and he said, "I heard that there are no more than 100 arrow guards in the palace, and all of them are elite disciples selected by Luoyan Palace, one of the six major cultivation sects, to be sent to the palace. Luoyan Palace ranks among the six major sects of cultivation, its "ecstasy arrow" is famous all over the world, in the Xiuzhen Conference 20 years ago, the former palace master of Luoyan Palace, Nangong Wucheng, nine arrows in a row, the self-proclaimed "Western Sage" Tianzhu Fanxin Temple's Chidan Grand Lama was defeated under the arrow, and the scenery was unparalleled for a while. The Arrow Guard, which was composed entirely of disciples of the Luoyan Palace, was also the only guard in the palace composed of disciples of a single Xiuzhen Sect. It can be seen that the current emperor has trust and importance in Luoyan Palace and the arrow guard. Now the emperor specially sent arrow guards to protect the prince, which shows that the prince's holy family is long. Congratulations. ”
King Dongou looked at Sima Qingfeng seriously and said, "Heh, the matter of Vanity Fair, let's talk about it after tonight." This king has pressed all his family background, and he is fighting for the dignity of the human race. ”
Sima Qingfeng smiled and scolded in his heart: "Old fox." ”
After the tea cup work, the dust outside the gate of the school field was flying, and two teams of cavalry galloped in. The guards guarding the gate seemed to have been ordered to let them gallop in without hindrance. They were dressed in black armor, with a jet-black cloud-piercing bow on their backs, and a tall black horse under their crotch, young and heroic, and their momentum was extraordinary.
Dongou is mountainous, and cavalry is a rare type of troops. Although the two teams of cavalry were only eighteen riders, the sound of thunderous hooves and the neat galloping queue still boosted the morale of the school field.
The two teams of cavalry galloped directly to the front of the martial arts stage, got off their horses in unison, knelt on one knee, and said, "See the prince." ”
"The guards have worked hard. Luo 18, Luo 19, this king wants to see what is so good about the guards trained by your palace archery guards. Dongou King said loudly.
"Yes. At the front of the two groups of cavalry, two young men in their twenties led a gesture, and the horsemen behind them mounted their horses together, urging their horses to sweep in front of the shooting range that was not far away. At a distance of 100 meters from the arrow target, all the horsemen took the bow, drew the arrow, drew the bow, and shot the arrow together, and the movements were neat and uniform, and they were all done in one go. When the sharp arrows are flying, they are like plum blossoms in full bloom. In the sound of "whoosh" entering the target, three long arrows were inserted into each of the six arrow targets on the shooting range.
A soldier ran forward to inspect the arrow target and came back to report: "Tell the prince that the six arrow targets have hit a total of eighteen long arrows, and all eighteen arrows have hit the bull's-eye." ”
There was cheering on the school grounds.
Dongou King laughed and said, "Good, good, good." This is the king's eighteen arrows. ”
But everyone saw that the two young commanders of Luo 18 and Luo 19 urged their horses out again, and each took three long arrows from the quiver, and the three arrows were combined with their bows. As Pegasus galloped, six sharp arrows made a soul-grabbing whistling sound, shooting at six targets at a speed that was difficult to see with the naked eye. "Bang Bang Bang-" There were six strange noises in a row, and the six arrow targets seemed to explode like sawdust flying, and they were smashed by sharp arrows full of qi.
"Mighty, mighty, mighty—" shouted the archers around them, raising their bows in unison.
The seven hundred soldiers who were stunned had just come back to their senses, and they couldn't help but shout in unison. The shouts on the school field shook the sky, and the morale was like a rainbow.
Dongou King shouted: "It deserves to be called the 'Ecstasy Arrow'." I have eighteen arrows guards with such miraculous skills, and all the soldiers who are not afraid of death are ordered together, and they will see demons and kill demons. Come on, beat the drums of war, defend the country, and defend the human race, right now. Let's go. ”
Amid the sound of war drums, Sima Qingfeng looked at the two arrow guard commanders of Luo Eighteen and Luo Nineteen, who were at least high-level cultivators in the ablation period. Although they have just passed the age of weak crowns, their unpredictable and earth-shattering archery skills make people feel chills. When Sima Qingfeng thought of their divine arrows containing cultivation exercises, passing through the throats of the demons, how could there be demons who would not die?