Killing and preventing being killed was once the daily practice of apprentices, but since the promulgation of the "ban on killing", killing has become a difficult task, and only once a month test can be done with impunity.

For Gu Shenwei and Henu, who are eager to learn swordsmanship, once a month is not only too rare, but it is also too risky to verify new martial arts in a duel.

Nancheng will pour in a large number of wandering swordsmen that no one knows every day, and by Tie Hanfeng's standards, they have no "relationship", and they are the best target for sword testing, but since that fiasco, Tie Hanfeng has never taken his apprentice down the mountain again.

The master of the lotus girl is a standard killer, and there is nothing worth nostalgia in his eyes except for the knife, let alone take his apprentice into the city.

The two can only look for victims in the fort.

At this time, strange things happened in the fort one after another, providing them with a killing field.

It was one day at the end of February, and an apprentice who had killed an enemy in the monthly test resisted the corpse and went to the cliff to throw the corpse, which was a precedent set by Huan Nu, and now it has almost become a "tradition".

No one knows what happened on the edge of the cliff, and the people of the East Fort only heard a terrible scream, and when the guards rushed over, they found two corpses lying on the edge of the cliff, their eyes were gone, leaving four deep blood holes, and even the most cruel killer was shocked when he saw it.

The corpse had several deep wounds on each body, as if it had been inserted by a row of daggers.

At first, the guards thought that there was an invasion of foreign enemies, but they soon recognized that the killer was not a human, but an animal with furry claws.

Only Gu Shenwei and the lotus girl knew the details of the animal.

The red-capped roc has reappeared, and it seems that it has masterfully navigated the skies and ventured to the place where humans gather, perhaps in search of food familiar to childhood, perhaps to avenge its parents, or to find people.

The third Dapeng bird appeared in the cliff, this news shook the entire Jinpeng Castle, and it aroused the great interest of the Dubu King, Shangguan Fan personally led people to inspect, laid nets in many places, and ordered the master of light skills to climb the cliff to find the bird's nest.

The killers who climbed the cliff all went and never returned, except for the screams before death, no valuable information was transmitted, and on the cliffs like knives and axes, no matter how high the martial arts were, they couldn't fight the big birds soaring in the sky.

The Dubu King had to change his strategy, set up traps on the edge of the cliff, and sent out bait, hoping to outwit the elusive Roc bird.

Huan Nu because he had contact with the Golden Peak Dapeng, the first to be called to act as a bait, he stayed at the Death Cliff for a day and a night, feeling uneasy, for fear that the Red Peak Dapeng would suddenly appear in an ambush, surrounded by first-class killers, he couldn't save it.

As a result, the intelligence of the red-topped roc exceeded everyone's expectations, it did not hit the plan, but surrounded the peak, looking for the weakest place in the defense, and launched an attack unexpectedly, regardless of men and women, old and weak, the first move is to peck people's eyeballs, no one can survive under the sharp claws and long beak, and many people are even taken into the air by it and thrown directly into the abyss.

The Dapeng Bird turned the entire Jinpeng Castle upside down, and the area beyond the stone wall became a forbidden area for the living to hide, and only those killers who were the most daring and hoped to be rewarded dared to set foot in, even they had to walk in groups, and no one wanted to face the "flying killer" alone.

King Dubu issued an order, whoever can catch the Dapeng bird alive, reward 10,000 taels of silver, and give a treasure knife treasured by the Shangguan family.

In the first few days, Gu Shenwei was worried about the fate of the red-capped Dapeng, and after discovering that it was safe, he suddenly thought that this was a good opportunity to practice swordsmanship.

He and the Lotus Maiden targeted those who were left alone at the end of the black market, and then dragged them directly to the cliff at the end of Wooden Knife Alley and threw them down, so that everyone could blame the Roc Bird for their deaths.

The lotus girl killed the first person, it was a slave who didn't know martial arts, came to the black market to sell things, and was killed for no reason.

The lotus girl stabbed the unlucky ghost in the heart with a knife, and they could not find the sword, so they had to use a narrow knife instead.

This is one of the controversies between the two teenagers about swordsmanship, Gu Shenwei felt that the sword stabbed the neck strictly according to the picture, and the lotus girl thought that the "stabbing neck" was just a metaphor to indicate the enemy's vital parts, otherwise, there was no need to emphasize the importance of "qi" in the text next to the picture.

The nameless sword spectrum attaches great importance to the existence of "qi", and with the help of Zhang Ji, the two finally determined that the so-called "qi" here is not internal breath, but the "life qi" that living things have, "qi" has nodes, and a sword can kill the enemy instantly, as for where this node is, they haven't seen it yet, and Zhang Ji can't say why.

After the killing, the two of them should immediately check the status of the attacked, if they are not killed immediately, it means that this trick is not used correctly.

The first few times, the two of them were too nervous to reach the "death" state required by the swordsmanship, and often had to make up for the fatal swordsmanship, but slowly, they found the best feeling, and the swordsmanship became more and more handy.

One person does it, and the other person hides nearby to watch, and after the fact, they give opinions on posture, sword moves, speed, etc., and in this way promote each other.

They found many problems in actual combat, the first of which was the difference between a sword and a sword.

Zhang Ji once elaborated on the characteristics of the two in a letter, the knife is heavy and the sword is light, the knife is also split, the sword is only dedicated to stabbing, and there are major differences in the way of stabbing, the swordsman assassin is concentrated on the knife, and the swordsman stabs the strength of the whole body, so the knife is ruthless, the sword is light and smart, the knife has a mortal sword, but the sword only has a sword.

In Zhang Ji's view, the "steel sheets" used for decoration, juggling, and dancers cannot be called swords.

The Jinpeng Fort narrow knife is lighter than the ordinary knife, and it is still a little heavier than the sword, Gu Shenwei and the lotus girl each secretly polished a knife, filed the back of the knife thin, and sharpened the tip of the knife.

After several assassinations, the two mastered the method of increasing speed in the sword spectrum, and found that the method of turning luck and force can also be used in the knife technique, so in order to hide people's eyes, they applied the sword technique to the knife technique, although the power was greatly reduced, but it would not accidentally leak in public, and it was enough to cope with the next few monthly tests.

After each assassination, they did not move the relics of the slain, but only carried the corpse to the edge of the cliff, leaving boots and socks, disguised as the scene of the attack of the Dapeng bird, and the lotus girl was very good at this.

This was a real assassination, and the two men spent a lot of effort to hide their tracks, each of which was carried out seven or eight days apart, finding good reasons to leave the master, and meeting often with familiar apprentices so that they could provide alibi if necessary.

From winter to spring, in this way, the two assassinated a total of twelve people in nearly three months, six each, including servants who did not know martial arts, apprentices who bought things for the master, and even a real killer, none of them were suspected, and the black market continued as usual, but the location was moved inside.

The killer was in his thirties, still serving his master, and like everyone else, he wore a night walker when he visited the black market, and he was not tall, and was mistaken for an apprentice by two teenagers.

The lotus girl stabbed her hand and stabbed her in the heart, and the two carried the body to the edge of the cliff.

By this time, the two teenagers understood that their swordsmanship had begun to grow, and that they no longer needed to risk killing people in the castle.

The two were mentors and friends to each other in the process of learning swords, and Zhang Ji, who helped them, could never imagine what kind of killers he taught.

Gu Shenwei saw with his own eyes that an apprentice was suddenly speechless when talking to the Lotus girl, and her changes were so amazing that some people compared them to wild horses.

Gu Shenwei focused on "self-death", but the murderous aura became weaker and weaker, Tie Hanfeng was puzzled by this, and even became angry, and used that set of scolding and agitation methods, hoping to rekindle the apprentice's vigorous murderous aura, until Gu Shenwei killed the enemy with one knife in the monthly test one after another, and the opponent was not weak, Tie Hanfeng reluctantly accepted the change of the apprentice.

"How? You used to be like a natural killer, with vicious teeth, and even I was sometimes scared, but now it's good, like a pug, and you can get rid of it with a bone. Alas, I still think you're better off what you used to be. ”

Tie Hanfeng always nagged something similar, nostalgic for that apprentice a few months ago.

After the Dutch girl successfully assassinated a killer, Gu Shenwei seriously considered whether to attack the master and kill Tie Hanfeng, he could directly obtain the title of killer, and after preparing for it a few times, he still gave up, this lame man's skills are not ordinary, much higher than ordinary killers.

But he was restless, and he also wanted to find a real killer to make a move, so as to prove that his swordsmanship was not weaker than that of the lotus girl, or even stronger than her.

The two decided to carry out the last assassination attempt inside the fort.

They waited another seven days before they found a man who looked like a killer at the end of the black market, who came late, bought a few big sips of wine, and ran to the old yard to urinate before leaving, and when he came out, there was no one around.

The killing went well, Gu Shenwei stabbed the opponent's neck with a special "sword", the killer felt like he was bitten by a mosquito, raised his hand to shoot, and then fell down, Gu Shenwei caught the wine gourd.

The swordsmanship of the two of them has been formed, but it has not yet reached the point of being superb, and when the person who is killed is unconscious, it can be regarded as entering the house.

The deceased has the word "absolute" on his body and is a real killer.

The place where the two bodies were dumped was on the edge of the cliff at the end of Wooden Knife Alley.

Neither Gu Shenwei nor the Lotus Girl knew that Jinpeng Castle had not caught a single feather of the big bird for three months, and had changed its strategy, and someone calculated the time and place of each attack of the big peng bird, found out some of the places where it appeared most often, and then set traps in these places.

The cliff of Wooden Knife Lane has become one of the important locations selected because of the death of twelve people under the bird's beak, and several killers are waiting in the shadows.