At the current speed, we meander along the coastline and arrive at the golden beaches of the North Island in about five days.

A fleet of five large ships cleaved the sea, the fleet laden with machinery and jewels demanded by the natives, and the huge wooden oxen occupied most of the deck of a large ship.

What was inside the wooden ox -- Wang Xiangfu was not in the wooden ox, but there were soldiers in ambush? The weapons that were distributed to the soldiers before the blood sacrifice? I chatted casually with the sailors in casual conversation, and they didn't know much. The only information that was known was that the compartment inside the belly of the wooden cow was completely locked, and it was impossible to get out even if there was something inside.

The morale of the fleet was generally depressed. Although the people of the fleet are elite soldiers who are strictly trained by Wang Qinian, but the commander's orders are obeyed, and they have always respected Wang Qitai, but if they are to carry the spitting of the whole town to engage in peace talks close to surrender, the deep resistance in their hearts is actually very strong.

Under Wang Qitai's arrangement, Murong Zhi and I made our first appearance in the fleet of 500 Chinese. He introduced to the soldiers the origin of Murong Zhi and me, the teacher-student relationship with Wang Qinian, and our achievements in snatching Wang Qinian's body. Everyone was impressed by our young age, with both curiosity and admiration.

"Young people are the future of our town, and this peace talk may be temporarily unfavorable to our Chinese people, but it is a necessary peace talk, which can preserve the vitality of our Chinese people and leave time for the growth of the next generation. It's nothing for us to be humiliated, as long as the next generation of young people can carry on our ambition to change our disadvantage. ”

Xueren summed up with the official tone of the Central Plains in a dead voice.

Wang Qitai and him should collude well. He has a bit of an acting skill, and I actually saw that he was really as indignant as the other soldiers in the fleet who were kept in the dark.

-- This deception of the enemy was so wonderful that he was deceived by his own people, and it seemed that only a dozen or so people knew the truth of the operation.

However, because of this official appearance, Murong Zhi's reputation and popularity soared. Of course I like it the most, but Murong Zhi seems to be very satisfied with this situation, she is not the kind of person who is frivolous, and I can't figure out what she is thinking.

On the flagship, I also saw Wang Jing, whom I met when I first landed on the island, he has always been a grain transportation officer, and this time he took on the cargo management of the flagship. I told him about the nameless son, and he realized that it was my impersonation. First complained, and then Wang Jing lamented that a smart child like me hadn't done the town any favor, and Shunshui Town was about to surrender to the natives.

"But it's also the luck you brought, after you pretended to be an immortal last time to give him a blessing, his daughter-in-law finally became pregnant, and this time he took care of his wife in the town and waited for childbirth, so he didn't come. Elder Xiao Wang diagnosed that the doll was a man, and named it Chongyang - alas, life must go on, and I only hope that the child will not change to an aboriginal strange name in the future. ”

――It seems that my dog's mouth can occasionally spit out some good words.

"Uncle, don't despair. I also practiced a skill, and when Wang Mang's child grows up, I will teach him kung fu. Ten years, twenty years, one hundred years, five hundred years, at that time, our Shunshui Town will always exist. ”

"The rise and fall of the ages are all laughed at, and a glass of turbid wine is drunk. ”

Wang Jing suddenly came up with a very profound sentence.

"What?"

"When I was a kid, I read a sentence from a novel. I forgot about twenty years, and for some reason, I met you again today, and I suddenly remembered it. ”

......

Murong Zhi, whose prestige has soared, has become warm up with the people on the ship in the past few days. She was already quite familiar with the four strong generals - all four of them were taught martial arts by Wang Qinian, and she wore them in Nanpo Dazhai for a period of time (during that time Lao Tzu was locked up in a small black house), so all four of them were her senior brothers - and now her deeds in rescuing Wang Qinian's body are known to the fleet, and she was immediately embraced as a hero.

She is well-informed, beautiful but not demonic, good at talking, and graceful, and everyone has a good impression of her.

――In other words, she was suppressed by her popularity compared to me!

Yan Zhili and I are indispensable to have a fight, and the other two athletes are acquaintances with him, so they have to nod politely to me. The soldiers were all their subordinates, and naturally blindly obeyed their leaders, and they were only enthusiastic about me, not submissive.

This group of illiterate soldiers must have been thinking in their hearts - how could a child of mine snatch Wang Qinian's body from Aung San Baoyan of Jindan, it seems that it should be something that only Murong Zhi, a sixteen-year-old adult, can do. After all, she is Wang Qinian's real disciple, and Sijian will personally call her junior sister, and I am just touching this sister's light and picking up the bargain at the scene of the incident.

Within a few days, Murong Zhi had unknowingly become a small center.

She didn't even reveal her martial arts skills to build the lower layers of the foundation. But everyone has already regarded her as a key figure in the revival of Shunshui Town in the future.

Intelligent, beautiful and thoughtful that can be seen at a glance, Wang Qinian's closed disciple, the hero who snatched the body of his master.

- Same as on the pirate ship.

Why was I a young master at that time, but her popularity was higher than mine?

I felt like I was left out in the cold.

My stuff was taken away, and it was someone I liked who took my stuff.

Wang Qinian's corpse was all snatched by me alone.

My skills are higher than hers, and I dare to fight for my life than her.

I'm more sincere than she is.

In fact, you are all tools used by her, and you are sociable on the surface, but you are calculating on the inside. She and I have been growing up and know her essence best!

Die! Die!

-- The anger and grievances I had accumulated rose to the extreme after one incident, and then finally exploded.

On the third day of sailing, a white dolphin jumped onto the flagship and pounced into the arms of Murong Zhi, who was on the upper deck.

One of the soldiers who was on duty at that time cheered, "It's a good omen! Great good omen! The natives will definitely be conquered by us!"

The crowd followed the uproar, and everyone's surprised eyes focused on Murong Zhi, who was holding a white dolphin in her arms like a saint.

Some ask why it is an auspicious sign.

"Our Confucian classics say that the ancient holy king crossed the river to conquer the tyrant, and before the war, a big white fish suddenly jumped out of the river and pounced into the arms of the holy king. This is Fu Rui descended from heaven. After the Holy King Jihe, he defeated the tyrant's army of millions of tigers and wolves with 3,000 righteous kings and pacified the world. This teenage girl...... I don't dare to say that the Holy King is as virtuous, at least he is a person who is favored by God. ”

"Speaking of which, I heard my dead grandfather tell me that he had seen this white fish thirty years ago when he first came to Baiyun Township. I didn't expect to see it again thirty years later. It's so big and fat, it must taste beautiful. ”

The white dolphin's eyes rolled, and the speaker was white.

"This is the Rui Beast, to be released!

Murong Zhi smiled shyly regardless of gossip, kissed the white dolphin on the cheek, and pushed it back into the sea.

The haze of the fleet for many days was swept away, and the eyes of the officers and soldiers were no longer dim, and they regained an unyielding fighting spirit.

They will not surrender.

- I witnessed the whole scene.

I immediately fully understood Murong Zhi's high-profile actions in the past few days.

It's so superficial, how could I not recognize it!

She designed this auspicious birth play with her own hands, and she wanted the soldiers to follow her, and then fulfill her purpose - damn it.

I burst into a foul language that I hadn't said for a long time.

My disappointed eyes occasionally met with Xueren in the distance, and he also heard the commotion and came to the deck to watch. His eyes were as cold as a cold pool in late autumn - as an old scholar of Confucianism, I think he must have understood such a trick.

Gakuin nodded to me and slowly paced back to the cabin in a lonely way.

"What has Xiao Zhi been doing lately?" Wang Qitai, who also came to watch, said dissatisfiedly and lowered his voice to me, "To bully the enemy, you must first deceive yourself, not to move, but to launch on the day of the blood sacrifice." Our plan was disrupted by her in this way, and it was made very passive - and let the three generals pacify the soldiers who had been mobilized to fight in a surging spirit. ”

Wang Qitai's brain really lacked urgency, and it was precisely because the old leader was so cowardly that the soldiers' hearts would be turned to the new leader.

- New leader, yes, that's what my sister is for.

Murong Zhi will imperceptibly affect everyone's psychological changes.

She's just beginning to show her minions.

......

In the evening (the night of October 2), I asked Murong Zhi to meet on the deck of the cargo ship.

It is secluded in the middle of the night, and the cargo ship is extremely sparsely populated. There were just the two of us in the dark cargo area.

"I still have to practice, and I have too much interaction during the day. You can only make up for the lost time at night. Something to say quickly. ”

I suddenly pressed her against the wall of the cargo box.

"Crazy, you?"

She muttered under her breath. Although she looked surprised, she didn't say anything surprised. My eyes swept to her behind her back, and she quietly pulled out the alfonsino seabream.

"I hate your appearance in front of people. Why do you want to make yourself like a god and make some fake runes to deceive those foolish people?"

"Didn't you also pretend to be an immortal in front of the townspeople of Shunshui?"

I blushed,

"That'...... That's what I think is fun. How can you pretend to be a god like this! We pirates rely on fists, not tricks, to make people obey!"

"Hmph, so you don't spend your cleverness on serious things. We are here with a shallow foundation, and we don't need to assume that Shinto's means will quickly win people's hearts, and what means will be used? If you have the martial arts of your father-in-law, I naturally disdain to use trickery. ”

I took a deep breath.

"Smack!"

The first time I knocked the alfonsino to the ground, and the second time I punched her in the stomach.

It's not good to hit a woman - I regret it so far, I haven't done anything rude like that since that time - but I punched Murong Zhi three times in a row that day.

She survived without saying a word.

"Are you done?" she forced a smile.

"It's you, not me, that's wrong. I held the softened Murong Zhi, sat side by side with her, and took out the medicine from the ring to apply it to her.

"First, you monopolized my credit in front of people, Wang Qinian's body was robbed by me, and you advocated escaping at that time; second, you are very low-grade pretending to be a ghost, I have no objection to you being the king of Baiyun Township - but according to our rules, we will beat all the Jindan on this island and do it again. You say that I am inferior to my father, and you are completely irritating me. I'll outdo him. Thirdly, I really don't like the fact that you're interacting with other men these days. Exclusivity, yes, I just want to monopolize you. ”

I poured out everything I could think of in one go. For Murong Zhi, I don't want to hide my views and intentions at all. Bad or good, that's how I am anyway, and I'm never going to change.

"Do you know why someone hates you?"

She sighed.

I'm a little curious, why?

"Because you don't bother to hide your true nature from people except for fun. Since you were a child, you have been a bunch of young masters, high up, and you don't need to worry about bad people coming to frame and slander you. You are very similar to your father-in-law, you think that whoever is pleasing to the eye will be unreservedly good to him, and whoever is not pleasing to the eye, or directly kill him, or beat him like a dog to obey you - unfortunately, there is no one in the world who is accustomed to being looked at by everyone, and the more edges and corners, the more people who are not used to you. No matter how capable you are, this unrestrained personality, everyone sees that you are a stinky child - so I pretend to be gentle and good in front of people, and they are willing to believe that people like me are capable. ”

"You're a bad guy, a bad guy with a good human skin mask. ”

"Since I was a child, I have been bullied by your mother and done hard labor. I can't read words and feelings, how can I survive? When I was a child, I couldn't cook well, and I was scolded by you!"

Murong Zhi bit me on the wrist, I think this is her revenge for my three punches.

"Cultivators are people like you. Therefore the people of the world are envious of them and afraid of them. ”

She said suddenly.

“？”

"They never hide their desires, opinions, and intentions, and they never hide what they are pursuing. If they don't do things according to their own principles, they will not be able to understand their thoughts, and if their Dao mind is not stable, they will die and disappear - no, they have always done things according to their own principles, because their Dao hearts are strong, because they want to have good thoughts. Compromise and deceit are mortal things, and the world despises them—and so I have to stay in this world, because if I want to restore my country, I have to deal with people in the world, and I have to be cunning like a ghost. ”

I let her lean into my arms.

I think that after all the things about the Falling Star Mountain are understood, I will find a way to remove Murong Zhi's delusional intentions, and then what kind of Dao will be cultivated, and then transfer the method of immortality to her, and we will be together for a long, long time.

There are not many people, things, or things that I miss in the world. The gangs of the past are all in smoke, revenge is meaningless, and killing dragons will not bring my parents back to life. If she has delusional intentions, she will diligently pursue Wang Tu's hegemony, and if she is not delusional, she can rest assured that she will be happy with me.

"Sanjian is going to tell me that they want to talk to you tomorrow night. Wang Qitai has been restraining them from doing anything with you for the past few days, and as a junior sister, I have arranged for this place and be your witness. Remember, don't get carried away and reveal your secret weapon, but save it for use against the Dust Eaters and Aung San Baohui. ”

"Good. ”

......

Late the next night (October 3), Sanjian and I met in the cargo hold. Murong Zhi was a witness to our competition. The other people on the cargo ship were told that they were not allowed to leak the fighting situation to Wang Qitai and Xueren, and they pretended not to know no matter how big the movement happened.

The elder brother Lu Kewu is good at tiger claw boxing and has a warm personality.

The third senior brother is limited to the limit, and he is good at spirit snake boxing, and the boxing track is strange and changeable. Deep character.

The fourth senior brother is good at Baji Boxing, with long arms and direct hits, punching all directions. Hard-heartedness.

I kept in mind the information that Murong Zhi told me, and she also introduced my information to the other three athletes "without partiality":

"Yuan Jiankong, ten years of martial arts. Rough boxing blades, good at swords. Character, all the senior brothers see it in their eyes. It's a pity that he doesn't have a weapon to do now, so please put a little water in it. Well, I told him not to use spells, so that the martial arts competition can be more pure. ”

"Senior sister, don't worry, the overall situation comes first, this is not a life-and-death battle, he is not an enemy, we will not beat this kid to death. It's just that he insulted the transmission of the martial arts of the senior brother and the martial arts of our master, and of course the three disciples of the royal sect have to vent their evil anger. When the idea is understood, we will be able to cooperate without suspicion in the future. ”

Rudd laughed.

-- What is the reasoning behind this? You are comfortable beating, but I am uncomfortable when I am beaten, so how can I "cooperate without suspicion in the future." Brainless!

He suddenly threw me a metal blade, and I took it and was stunned for a moment—it was a medium-grade treasure knife forged of pure gold, and it felt heavy to handle, and this one-handed knife weighed eighty pounds.

"This knife was brought by the master from the Central Plains and given to me, an immature disciple. You can't do it without weapons, give it to you. ”

"Hmph," I said, sticking my knife into the hilt of the deck, "it's not fair to you, I'll cut off my hand." Then there will be some more trouble. With my fists, with my fists I'll beat you three. ”

I let out a third of my own gas, and I hid two-thirds of my gas, but I can't let these three uncles pee out of fear.

"Yes, I arrived at Tsukiki at such a young age. You don't use weapons, it seems that there are a dozen. ”

Lu Kewu exclaimed.

"At that time, he was stimulated by the old patriarch to stimulate his potential, I thought it would be gone, two months ago he was still in the middle of internal strength. Fifteen-year-olds have the same qi as we do now. ”

Yan Zhili explained to the other two that they both showed different colors.

"We're going to take it seriously. Yuan Yuan said.

- Hmph, it's too late to regret it.

Yan Zhili took a step, but apologized to me with a fist,

"I really don't deserve to teach you, only a Jindan person like my master is worthy to teach you. Your perseverance in the empowerment of the old patriarch alone is worthy of the admiration of the three of us. Your talents far surpass ours. ”

- I rubbed my fists, I don't listen to soft words.

"Master is gone, and there is no one to teach you. The three of us had to gamble our lives and let you grow up in actual combat with murderous intent. You are the hope of Shunshui Town in the future, and such a top man should undergo the most cruel tempering. ”

The other two looked at me sternly, as if they were looking at a statue.

――Seems a bit too much?

My throat is a little dry.

"Whew!"

Bajiquan punched through my brain, and blood rushed out of my temple.

I drew out the afterimage and narrowly avoided it, and the opportunity was gone.

I jumped back three times in a row, but the old fist did not disappear, and the new fist followed. He relentlessly stepped on a straight line, hitting harder and faster. After a few breaths, I was pushed to the edge of the deck, and I had to jump into the sea.

He is extremely tall, like a wall blocking the way in all directions. My arm span was extremely long, and before I could make a close movement, his fist had already hit me in the face and the vital point, forcing me to scramble to defend the save.

I have no vitality, but I can't play it calmly; I have only martial arts, only dodging skills.

The fist that had been added to the extreme speed was as terrifying as a thousand pounds of sledgehammer, and it was no longer a flesh and blood body that could be hard.

I can't even block.

- This situation is similar to when I faced off against those natives to build a foundation, but at that time, I was the one who lacked vitality and had brains, and now the role is transposed, and it is Yan Zhili who is shining with martial wisdom. His martial arts are beyond the reach of the natives. Yan Zhili's boxing skills and endowment are integrated, and Bajiquan is perfectly matched with the tall body.

I felt the killing intent of Yan Zhili - there was no malice, no mercy, it was purely the killing intent of the martial arts to kill the opponent.

I still owe the last punch to the headshot, and I'll die of humiliation.

If you don't enlighten, you die.

――Do you want to use a secret weapon?

No, it's a martial arts grind, and it's not so desperate.

My bones moved and my muscles were squeezed to the extreme. The surface of my thighs has swelled a little. In fact, all the qi is poured into the feet.

The man was a few inches shorter.

Bone reduction.

"Tong!"

The air was blown up. That's where my head was supposed to be.

Half of his foot was on the deck, and his weight was on the unstepped foot.

"Did the man turn over into the sea?"

He stared down at a footprint on the deck that I had left behind that had sunk inches into the steel plate.

"Be careful!"

"Click!"

One of Yan Zhili's legs standing on the deck was completely broken.

I hit the joint of his standing leg with all my weight, and I had an elbow blow attached to Gang.

I threw him into the sea.

- First shrunk his bones to dodge the fatal punch. He then uses his infused leg to make a rapid subsonic jump, and then takes advantage of his foot in the air to deliver a decisive impact.

Yuan Limit threw down a cable and fished up the broken leg Yan Zhili.

"If you hit him in the lumbar spine, the fourth senior brother will die. ”

Murong Zhi delivered the best golden gun medicine to the three of them, and after two or three days, he could recover from his leg injury.

"Yes. ”

I can't tell if she complains about my soft-heartedness or praises me for my magnanimity.

Anyway, I was busy massaging my backache and restoring my muscles and bones in their original state.

There has been a qualitative leap in the qi of the lower layer of the foundation, but advanced techniques such as bone shrinkage can only be mastered at the level of the middle layer. Yan Zhili's Bajiquan would make his arm grow several inches at the moment of impact, which inspired me to hastily create a way to temporarily compress the bones of the whole body and expand the thigh muscles.

But after all, it is the first time, and the side effects are not only some damage to the body, but also a lingering feeling of fatigue.

"Building the middle layer of the foundation?!"

Yan Zhili's cold sweat was pouring down when he applied the medicine, and his original clothes were also soaked with the ice water of late autumn, but he held back the pain and said nothing, and his eyes were bright.

"Ha, I really underestimated you. ”

"Well, under persecution, I really improved a lot, and I even learned to stretch my skeletal muscles in actual combat. "Lu Kewu came over and massaged me personally, his palms were extremely wide, and the palms of the tiger's claws were as soft as cats, which was much better than my massage.

"Thank you. "I said from the bottom of my heart.

"It's fine. Hurry up, let's hurry up and fight next. How about recovering your muscles?"

"Why not all or ninety?"

I bargained and asked, in fact, it is impossible to restore all of them in such a short time, and what I asked for was eighty or ninety percent of the restoration.

"Hey, we're still enemies. How can there be a reason to help the enemy recover all his blood. This massage is just a reward for what you just watched. ”

-- That's true. We're not done yet. Almost forgot that we were enemies.

"Since it is clear that you are the middle level of foundation building, the requirements for you should be a little stricter. ”

Yuan Limit put on a defensive posture of the Spirit Snake Fist,

"A quarter of an hour is over, boy, go on. ”

――A speech and etiquette are so difficult, do you want to liberate more vitality to deal with the Yuan Limit?

I understand that the so-called strict requirements are that they are fighting against me, and in the process, a third of the energy I release is constantly being consumed. If I win one, the other party can reward me with a little recovery time, but overall my vitality is getting weaker and weaker.

At present, the realm of the middle level of my foundation has been exposed, and the amount of Yuan Qi has been weakened to four-fifths of the Yuan Limit, no, it is three-fourths of his - it is common sense that a martial artist should keep a part of his Yuan Qi as a reserve, and he still has some of his Qi that has not overflowed.

I had the audacity to release a third of the qi that I was ready to use, and in their eyes I was all exposed to the truth and the truth, which was a manifestation of my inexperience.

- What's worse is that I'm familiar with the straight punch Bajiquan, and I only have a slight contact with the Spirit Snake Fist, and I hate to deal with that kind of twisted and crooked fist the most, and he will slowly polish my vitality.

So, I put on the starting hand of the dragon palm "Kanglong has regrets".

Except for Murong Zhi, judging from the expressions of others, their hearts were shocked.

Because this is Wang Qinian's inherited martial arts.

None of them have mastered purity.

"How could you-?!" Yan Zhili shouted first.

"The master once intended to accept my younger brother as a disciple, but unfortunately the master was killed by Aung San Baoyan and did not have time to formally apprentice him. Because there is no formal teacher, I will not inform you about the existence of this disciple outside the door. ”

Murong Zhi interjected without being salty.

"You're not honest as a referee!" Lu Kewu laughed.

"If I tell you, a few senior brothers will be soft on my younger brother. ”

She smiled.

"Good, good. Such a genius deserves to be our junior disciple. ”

Yuan Quan's gaze pressed towards me,

"But an impure Dragon Descending Palm can't beat the Spirit Snake Fist, I want to remind you. ”

"First, the Dragon Descending Palm was won by a bet between me and Wang Qinian! Second, I won't call you senior brother. Third, I'm going to beat you all up. ”

I'm on the offensive.