The evening breeze blows, the treetops shake with the wind, and the birds in the sky turn into black spots, and sweep through the sky like arrows. The cries of the night owls made the whole forest seem very silent.

Ling Quanfei thought carefully about what Elder Xu said, wasn't the real enemy Nangong He?

Xu Lao stretched out his right hand, Ling Quanfei was not far from him, so he could see it very clearly. His hands were different from his face, his face looked old, like a seventy-year-old man, but his hands were wide and full of strength.

Ling Quanfei didn't understand why he let himself see these hands, could it be that he had something in his hands? No, his hands were empty.

Old Xu said: "Young Master Ling, what can you see?"

Ling Quanfei shook his head and said, "Is there anything strange about your hands?"

Xu Lao smiled: "Look again." ”

I saw Xu Lao, his left hand holding the wrist of his right hand and twisting it slightly, Ling Quanfei heard a "click", his right hand detached from his wrist! His right hand was now in his left hand, and only an extremely flat incision was left on his right wrist. Ling Quanfei was stunned, he was surprised not only that Old Xu's right hand was fake, but also that he had never found out that it was just a fake hand.

Old Xu put the fake hand back, and with another "click", he had another right hand.

Ling Quanfei was surprised: "Is your hand ......?"

Xu Lao smiled calmly: "That's right, my hand was cut off by someone else." ”

Ling Quanfei couldn't believe it, with Old Xu's skills, who could cut off his hand? Suddenly he frowned and said, "Could it be the guy wearing the mask?"

Xu Lao nodded and said, "I said, he is a very terrifying person. His way is the most mysterious and swift knife I have ever seen in my life. If I hadn't blocked the knife with this hand, I'm afraid it would have been my head cut off. ”

Ling Quanfei said: "You have a grudge against him?"

Xu Lao said: "No, I have never met him. I don't have a grudge against anyone, I love to make friends, but I don't like to make enemies. ”

Ling Quanfei was puzzled: "Then why did he kill you?"

Xu Lao smiled: "Originally, I thought he was going to kill me. ”

Ling Quanfei asked, "Isn't he going to kill you?"

Xu Lao smiled: "That's right, he told me later that he just wanted my hands." ”

Ling Quanfei said: "Why?"

Xu Lao sighed and said, "Because I am a blacksmith, I specialize in making swords for others. When he came to visit him that day, he opened his mouth and ordered me a good sword. ”

Ling Quanfei said: "You didn't agree, did you?"

Xu Lao smiled again, and then jumped off the treetops, Ling Quanfei also got down from the treetops, Ling Quanfei fell to the ground gently like a feather, and Xu Lao was not inferior to Ling Quanfei at all.

Xu Lao looked at Ling Quanfei's feet and said, "Ling Gongzi's light skills are really the best in the world!"

Ling Quanfei smiled modestly and said, "Old Xu's light skills are by no means below me. ”

Old Xu's shoulders shook slightly, and he only heard a "boom", as if two needles had penetrated into his shoulders. Ling Quanfei's heart tightened, could it be that someone had cast a hidden weapon?

I only heard Xu Lao say: "Don't panic Ling, this is just a little trick." Ling Gongzi is alone in the world, and it is just a little trick to show off. ”

Ling Quanfei suddenly said, "Could it be a silver thread?"

Xu Lao said with a smile: "I didn't expect that Ling Gongzi is not only good at light skills, but also has great eyesight! That's right, he just used two silver wires to hang himself down, and it wasn't that his light skills were wonderful." ”

Ling Quanfei smiled, and suddenly admiration arose. The person in front of him is by no means ordinary, the two silver wires on his body can be retracted and released freely, and the prosthetic hand can also work like a real hand, Xu Lao must be a very powerful organ expert.

Old Xu said: "I won't make a fool of myself in front of Ling Gongzi, you and I will go back like this." ”

Ling Quanfei didn't know that he still had to tell himself about the masked man, so he nodded in agreement and walked back slowly with him.

Xu Lao said: "At that time, he asked me to build a superb sword for him, and he seemed to trust my crafting skills, but I still rejected him. Then he said coldly, 'Since this is the case, then Hugh will blame me', before he finished speaking, the knife flashed, I subconsciously raised my hand to block, and when I came back to my senses, my right hand had already flown far away. ”

Ling Quanfei was shocked when he heard this, and said hatefully: "What a vicious knife." ”

Xu Lao looked at him and said, "That's right, it can be regarded as the most poisonous knife in the world." That knife never needed any reason to kill, he, like the knife, existed to kill. ”

Ling Quanfei said: "But he didn't kill you. ”

Xu Lao said: "Yes, after cutting off one of my hands, he smiled grimly, and I can still remember his laughter, like a tree branch scraping the ground." He asked me to leave my other hand. ”

Ling Quanfei said: "Your hand ......"

Xu Lao raised his left hand, squeezed it tightly and let go, and said with a smile: "This is true. I used all my strength to escape, thinking I had escaped his pursuit. But I didn't expect that the knife was poisonous, it was indeed a poisonous knife, and it was that kind of poison that turned it into this. ”

Ling Quanfei felt sympathy for his experience, but Xu Lao said calmly: "Ling Gongzi doesn't have to be sad about it, he doesn't care about these things." ”

Ling Quanfei smiled: "Do you have anything to worry about?"

Xu Lao looked straight ahead and said, "Of course." ”

Ling Quanfei didn't ask, in fact, he also knew that everyone had things to worry about, and he would never snoop on other people's privacy.

Ling Quanfei said: "You said that we are also dealing with that masked man, what does he have to do with these things?"

Xu Lao said: "It's not just a relationship, the whole thing is just a game of chess for him." You, me, and your companions, as well as many other people we don't know, have become his pawns. ”

Ling Quanfei was shocked and said, "According to what you say, this person is indeed very terrifying, so what is his purpose?"

Xu Lao said: "No one will speculate about his purpose, if someone does this, then he will go crazy, he will become a madman, a madman like that masked man." Xu Lao's appearance seemed to become a little excited.

Ling Quanfei sighed and said, "But we don't know his purpose, what way can we deal with him?"

Xu Lao said slowly: "Naturally, there is a way - as long as you do the opposite." Ling Quanfei was silent, and Elder Xu continued: "Since what we are doing now is in his plan, we will do something that he did not expect, which is naturally contrary to the current situation." The more unreasonable, the better. ”

Ling Quanfei said: "Maybe that person is even more terrifying than you think, maybe he already thought that we would do this." ”

Xu Lao said: "He won't know." ”

Ling Quanfei asked, "Why?"

A smile appeared on Old Xu's face, Ling Quanfei couldn't guess the meaning of his smile, but his tone was very confident, and Ling Quanfei couldn't help but believe him.

Qi Ying'er sat on a futon and closed his eyes to breathe, he felt that he once again had a true qi in his body, but this true qi was chaotic and impure. He was trying to use the Phoenix Heart Method to purify the true qi in his body, but he found that the process was not only very long, but also very arduous, and every time he wanted to speed up his movements, the dantian felt as if it was about to explode.

He had been awake for half an hour, and Ziang had been carefully observing him on the side, for fear that something unexpected would happen to him again.

Xu Lao and Ling Quanfei stepped into the door.

When Ziang saw Xu Lao, he immediately smiled and said, "Master, he's about to recover!"

Xu Lao said: "It's still early, obtaining true qi is only the first step, the second step is to keep them so that the body can gradually accept it, and the most difficult third step is to purify it, assimilate it, and let it be used for oneself." ”

Ling Quanfei asked, "Then he is now?"

Old Xu said: "Ziang, now that Little Brother Qi is no longer in danger, let's not disturb him." Ling Gongzi, let's go out and talk. ”

"Hmm. Ling Quanfei still looked at Qi Ying'er worriedly, sighed and turned around and walked out.

Xu Lao, Ziang, and Ling Quanfei sat at the stone table in the small courtyard, on which were three glasses of wine and a few side dishes, and the amber wine was shining in the moonlight.

Ling Quanfei looked at his reflection in the wine glass in front of him, and found that his beard had grown longer, and his face seemed to have become much older.

Xu Lao drank the wine in front of him, and then asked, "Why doesn't Ling Gongzi drink it? ”

Ling Quanfei smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness, it's just that my heart is messy, but I want to live up to Your Excellency's glass of wine." ”

Xu Lao smiled: "Since this is the case, then Ling Gongzi should drink this glass of wine even more." I promise you won't regret it. ”

Ling Quanfei said: "Really?"

Ziang said: "Ling Gongzi, this wine is made by my master himself, you can taste it, you will definitely not regret it!"

"Okay", Ling Quanfei drank the glass of wine under the persuasion of the two. When the sake enters the throat, it is cool and cold like a mountain spring, and the sake slowly flows through the intestines and into the stomach, and you feel a smell of sake gushing out of your body.

Ling Quanfei couldn't help but admire: "It's really good wine!"

Xu Lao and Ziang both laughed. Ling Quanfei asked: "I don't know how Your Excellency makes wine, this wine seems ordinary, but it has an endless aftertaste, although it is cold, but there is no intoxicating meaning at all. I have tasted countless wines, but I have never tasted this wine. ”

Xu Lao smiled: "Poor skills, but I didn't want to be praised by Ling Gongzi." ”

Ling Quanfei said: "Your Excellency is too modest!"

Ziang poured wine for Ling Quanfei again, and said, "Can't even Ling Gongzi taste it?"

Ling Quanfei picked up the wine glass and sniffed it carefully, shook his head and said, "I really can't guess." ”

Ziang said: "That Ziang will give you a hint, the special thing about this wine is the use of water. ”

"Oh, is the water that makes wine wonderful?" Ling Quanfei looked at it for a while, drank it all again, and felt that this wine was not extraordinary, and couldn't help but say: "Little brother Ziang, I can't guess it." ”

Xu Lao smiled: "It's just a clumsy skill, and it's just rainwater in the bottom." ”

"Rain?"

Ziang smiled: "Yes, it's the rain in the sky!"

Ling Quanfei exclaimed: "It's really wonderful! It seems that I am really fortunate to taste the heavenly elixir and jade liquid!"

The three of them laughed in unison.

Old Xu said: "What's the matter, I said that Ling Gongzi won't regret it!"

Ling Quanfei said: "No regrets!"

Ziang poured more wine for the two of them, but he didn't pour wine for himself, Ling Quanfei asked, "Little brother Ziang, why don't you drink it?"

Ziang said: "The master said, I am still underage, I can't drink too much, two cups is enough." ”

Ling Quanfei said: "Huh, this wine is not intoxicating, I don't think it hurts." He looked at Xu Lao, but the latter closed his eyes and smiled.

But he heard Ziang say: "Haven't Ling Gongzi heard the phrase 'if you don't get drunk when you drink, everyone gets drunk'?"

Ling Quanfei was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then laughed, and Xu Lao also laughed, and said: "People are small and ghosts are big, people are small and ghosts are big!"

The three of them talked for a long time, talking about the world, Ling Quanfei had already suddenly become a lot more confused, and his thoughts had dissipated a lot.

Before I knew it, it was already dawn, except for Ziang, who had already gone to rest in the room, and the two people in the courtyard looked at the sky and were silent. Ling Quanfei felt that he had become friends with Xu Lao, just one night. He smiled in his heart: "Where to find a confidant? Maybe a glance can make a friend." ”

The door opened, and Qi Ying'er walked out. The two of them looked back at Qi Ying'er in unison, and the smile on his face was exchanged for surprise and surprise on the faces of Ling and Xu.

Xu Lao stood up with a smile and said, "Two, you need to walk the road ahead." ”

Ling Quanfei also stood up and clenched his fists and said, "Thank you." ”

Qi Ying'er's eyes were full of gratitude, because Xu Lao had helped him more than once, and the sword in his hand was also made by Xu Lao. Xu Lao and himself seem to have a wonderful fate, and he feels that they can still meet wherever the blood is alive in the future.

Ling Quanfei and Qi Ying'er said goodbye to Xu Lao and Ziang after breakfast, and then led the horse on the road. Before parting, Ziang put Qi Ying'er's sword in his hand. Qi Ying'er found that the hilt and scabbard of the sword were completely new. The hilt and scabbard have been replaced with a dark red, and there is a word on the hilt - "heart". It seems to have been written in ink, but it is firmly imprinted on this sword.

The sword has a new look, and so does the man.

Qi Ying'er thanked Ziang, but Ziang said like a little brother: "Don't break it!" Qi Ying'er smiled: "Definitely not!"

Some taverns are lively, while others are deserted. A deserted tavern can make it difficult to whet your appetite and unintentionally make you feel that the food is not delicious.

Sun Qiao'er is like this, she really has no appetite to eat. But Li Yuanchen is different, no matter when, his appetite is very good, because he believes that only when he is full will he have the strength to do things.

It has been almost five days since they set off from Huang'an Town, and they are walking very fast, because Sun Qiao'er is anxious to see Qi Ying'er, and she has no appetite because of Qi Ying'er.

She thought about him all the time, and she didn't think about him for a long time—had he arrived?

On the street, she often mistook others for Qi Ying'er, but then she thought, how could Qi Ying'er appear here?

Today she saw a person who looked very similar to Qi Ying'er on the street again, and she had been mistaken several times before, so she looked carefully this time. found that although the back of that person was very similar to Qi Ying'er, the sword that the person was wearing was indeed dark red. She remembered Qi Ying'er's sword, the hilt was pale and the scabbard was pitch black, so that people would never forget it when they saw it.

So she concluded that she had recognized the wrong person again this time.