Chapter Twenty-Six: The Battle of the Villa
The copper mountain collapsed in the west, and the spirit bell responded in the east.
Not only did Mrs. Fang's heart ache and cry incessantly, but the brothers and sisters Fang Yi and Fang Ru also felt inexplicably sad, and their chests were congested. It wasn't until she arrived at Duanjiazhuang that Mrs. Fang slowly stopped her grief.
A middle-aged chubby man hurriedly greeted him while tying his robe belt, shouting: "I didn't know that Mrs. Zhu and her party were here, I was slacking!
Mrs. Zhu tearfully told the owner of Duan Zhuang about the situation of Cherry Mountain Villa and her intention, and the owner of Duan Zhuang was in a hurry and wanted to bring his family to help.
Yin Tianjin stopped him, saying that those enemies were not only strong in martial arts, but also vicious in secret, and these family members had mediocre kung fu skills, and not only could not help much, but gave their lives in vain.
Mrs. Zhu also persuaded: "Yes, that's what the master meant." He said that the enemy was ruthless, and asked me to tell the owner of the village that I must not help him, so as not to cause trouble to the owner. As long as the owner is willing to provide the horses, we are grateful!"
When the owner of the village asked people to prepare horses, he personally sent Mrs. Zhu and her party on the road, and said: "You can go with confidence! When the day comes, Duan will go to the yamen and let the people from the yamen clean up the bandits!"
Shen Lingxiao hugged Rui'er in his arms and walked at the end with one hand holding the reins of the horse. Both Madame Zhu and Shuzhen were not used to riding horses, and they rode very slowly. So they all slowed down, and after about half an hour, they had traveled less than ten miles.
Shen Lingxiao suddenly rode up to Yin Tianjin, handed Rui'er who was sleeping in his arms to him, and said in a low voice: "Senior Brother Yin, the heavy responsibility of protecting them will be handed over to you!
Yin Tianjin was stunned. The rest of the people heard him, and Zidhu slowed down his mount and looked at him in disbelief.
"The enemy is outnumbered, I want to go back and help!" Shen Lingxiao seemed to have this idea for a long time, "The enemy didn't notice that we had fled and wouldn't catch up." ”
"That'...... I'll go back too!" Yin Tianjin hesitated for a moment and said in a deep voice.
"No!" Shen Lingxiao shook his head, "Senior Brother Yin, if there is really any danger ahead, who will protect you?"
"It's ?...... Senior Brother Shen, if you don't stay and protect, I'll go back. Yin Tianjin proposed.
"Hehe, Senior Brother Yin, don't fight with me!" Shen Lingxiao turned his horse's head and said, "Take care all the way!"
Although there was no enemy chasing after him, neither Mrs. Zhu nor Shuzhen knew martial arts, and now seeing Shen Lingxiao returning, thinking that the dark long road ahead was without the protection of a master, the panic in his heart was even greater.
The remaining four people also felt somewhat similar, and they were all nervous for a while. So Yin Tianjin traveled at the end, carefully protecting along the way.
The lonely Yue'er hid behind the light veil-like floating clouds, and shyly peeked at Shen Lingxiao speeding on the avenue.
In the night, Shen Lingxiao couldn't distinguish the direction of Cherry Villa, so he had to return along the same road, and returned to the door of Duanjiazhuang after a pillar of incense. So he dismounted, stroked the horse's mane, tied the reins to a bamboo stick outside the village, walked along the hillside to the river, and walked back along the path from which he came.
He had been mindful of the road when he came, and without difficulty he returned to the back of the village, and walked lightly along the mountain path to the back door.
Suddenly, he heard a light cough, which startled him, and he hurriedly lay down in the grass beside the road.
I only heard a rough man whisper: "Brother Gao, the sect leader is really, sending us to such a gloomy place to peep, why don't you send those guys from the Tang Sect?"
Another person said in a shrieked voice: "I heard that they are tired in the past few days, and the sect leader told them to rest and rest, recuperate their spirits, and wait for dawn to attack the decisive battle in Zhuang." ”
The man from before: "With such a big manor, how can we monitor a dozen of our brothers?"
"There's no way, the sect leader has ordered, and we'll just do it. The screaming man said, "It's really strange, that old miscellaneous hair led people to kill for a while, and then withdrew to the village, what do you mean?"
"Who knows?...... I guess I want to escape!" said the rough man.
"Maybe, let's go, there's no movement here, let's go somewhere else!" said the shrieked man.
With the sound of footsteps, the two slowly walked away. Shen Lingxiao slowly walked out of the grass, arrived at the back door like a raccoon cat, stretched out his hand and pushed it, but he couldn't push it open, thinking that it was someone from the village who came to the latch. So I looked up at the wall, although the height is less than two zhang, but there is a section of iron cable more than one zhang high above the wall, criss-crossed, and the cold light flashes on it, and it is vaguely a sharp thorn.
"Hey, I can't jump over!" Shen Lingxiao thought to himself, so he pulled out his long sword lightly and inserted it into the crack of the door to pull the latch.
Fortunately, it was finally pushed away, Shen Lingxiao let out a sigh, dodged into the door, and closed it with his backhand.
Walking through the quiet Zhu family's room and coming to the inner courtyard, Jiang Lingxiu, who was on guard, looked at it and exclaimed in surprise: "Senior Brother Shen, why are you back?"
Kou Lingkong ran out when he heard the sound, hugged him, gently slapped his chest, and said with a smile: "The brothers were still talking about you just now, blame you for not being interesting enough, and you didn't come to say goodbye to the brothers before leaving...... I thought you were going to come back, and you did!"
Shen Lingxiao said with a smile: "I have a great opportunity to kill the enemy, but I won't be allowed to stay, how can I be willing, junior brother?"
"Let you protect them, but you are derelict in your duties!Who let you run back!" Zhenguan was very angry, slapped the coffee table violently, pointed at Shen Lingxiao's nose and scolded.
He estimated that once it was dawn, the enemy would attack, and the enemy would be strong and weak, and there was no certainty that he would be able to hold it. If it weren't for Zhu Dongfan's unwillingness to give up, he would have already led the crowd to break through. He asked Yin Tianjin and Shen Lingxiao to protect their families and escape, in fact, the main thing was to save Shen Lingxiao's life and leave a fire for the Qingcheng faction, but he didn't expect Shen Lingxiao to run back.
"I'm not leaving!" Shen Lingxiao stood still stubbornly, "Master, the enemy didn't notice it, and with Senior Brother Yin's protection along the way, they are very safe!"
"You foolish boy, get out of here!" Zhenguan strode forward, slapped him in the face, and pushed him out the door.
Zhu Dongfan and Kou Lingkong in the room saw that Zhenguan was so angry, so they hurriedly stepped forward to hold Zhenguan and persuade him, and persuaded Shen Lingxiao: "Let's go! We can deal with the enemy here!"
Shen Lingxiao was beaten so much that he staggered a step, hurriedly grabbed the door frame with his hand to resist the thrust of the master, stared at the angry Zhenguan, and said firmly: "Master! I will never leave! If the apprentice can't stay and fight the enemy together this time, he will be uneasy for the rest of his life!"
Zhenguan gasped and stared at him fiercely, and sighed in his heart when he saw that he would not leave even if he was killed.
He knew that this apprentice's temper and humble appearance hid a stubborn heart, and once he decided on something, it would be the king of heaven, and he would not be able to change his mind.
Zhenguan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, pressed his anger back into his chest, turned his head, waved his hand weakly, and said in a low voice: "Okay, stay!"
"Master Xie!" Shen Lingxiao was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly.
"In less than an hour, the sky will be dawn," Zhenguan sat back at the head of the bed, "Ling Xiao, Ling Kong, you go and inform everyone: Tianming will be decisive! Except for the seriously injured Zhu Yong, everyone will participate in the battle!"
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The sun and the moon push together, and the day and night change. There is no eternal darkness, nor eternal light.
The night is coming to an end, the sky is gradually whitening, the red light of the eastern mountains is faint, and the bright red sun is slowly poking its head out.
The back pillow is surrounded by the mountain, the water mill river in front of the village wants to go and back, and the mountain villa and the flat land in front of it are leisurely embraced, and they are reluctant to go with the mountain.
The glow of ten thousand roads, from the eastern sky spread out, the layers of forests are dyed, like the brocade laid on the earth.
Bright red cherries hung from the branches, like countless rubies falling in the wilderness. The chirping of birds sets off the tranquility of the four fields.
Eight archers guarding the village have been killed and one wounded, and the remaining five rabbits and dead foxes are sadly guarding the arrow tower, arrows on the string, waiting for the battle.
Shen Lingxiao, Kou Lingkong, Jiang Lingxiu, and Yu Shangwu were in front, and Xuan Lingyu, You Xiong, and Yu Shangwen were wrapped in bandages, all holding swords in their hands, silently waiting for the big battle.
One of the four martial artists in the nursing home has been killed and one seriously injured, and the remaining two are protected by Zhu Dongfan's side and accompany Zhenguan to the gatehouse.
Zhenguan raised his breath and shouted: "Double cultivation teaches heaven and earth and two monsters, come out and speak!"
Heaven and Earth Shuangzun proudly walked out of the cherry forest, and the Earth Zun crossed his waist and shouted: "Zhenguan old miscellaneous hair, let go of a fart quickly!"
"I heard that you killed Qingcheng Mountain and killed my master and them, but is there such a thing?" Zhenguan shouted angrily.
"Hehe, of course there is such a thing! Let me tell you, Lao Zamao, on Qingcheng Mountain, we have killed the chickens and dogs!"
"You ...... Too vicious!Brute!" Zhenguan trembled with anger, angrily pointing at Shuangzun and scolding.
"Zhenguan Lao'er, the deity is not as vicious as you think!" Tianzun sneered, "Daoyi Lao'er and Zhenheng, we did kill them! As for your precious apprentices, they are well-behaved and obedient, and they have long worshiped the deity as a teacher, how can the deity be willing to kill them? hahaha!"
Zhenguan said loudly: "Is this true?"
Tianzun rolled his strange eyes and sneered: "The deity has never told lies! However, Zhenguan Lao'er, today is your death!"
Zhenguan Senran said: "Dao Ye is waiting for you!"
Qiu Ling suddenly stepped forward, pointed at Zhu Dongfan and shouted: "Master Zhu, do you know the origin of these people you are desperately protecting? Maybe you are still in the dark and tell you that they are thieves in the imperial court! Give you a chance, as long as you no longer resist, the contemptible promise that you will never harm you and the people of the villa!"
Zhu Dongfan seemed to have heard a big joke and laughed.
Qiu Ling's face was ugly, and he said coldly: "What's so funny? Hmph, I see that you don't cry when you don't see the coffin!"
Zhu Dongfan said sharply: "Stop wasting your tongue on it! How can I, Zhu Dongfan, be greedy for life and afraid of death, and betray my friends for glory? Let the horse come over!"
Zhenguan also laughed and said: "Anti-thief? I Qingcheng sent everyone to abide by the morality of the rivers and lakes, obey the law and obey the law, and I was actually called an anti-thief by you! Phew! I miss you 'Thunderbolt Knife' Qiu Ling, who was also a good man back then, but I didn't expect it to become so despicable and shameless now!"
Qiu Ling said angrily: "Everyone has their own ambitions!
The three of them rushed first, and the Sha brothers led the crowd, holding shields made of tree branches, and then followed.
The bowstring sounded, and five arrows were shot down left and right. Shuangzun pulled up the wall, Zhenguan flew out of the door, the sword light was cold, and stabbed Tianzun's throat.
The disciples of the Tang Sect hated these archers very much, and while resisting with shields, they fired back with hidden weapons, and finally shot down these five archers after killing and wounding four brothers.
Qiu Ling and the Sha brothers jumped into the village one after another. Ling Xiao and volleyed to grab it, and fought against Qiu Ling. Zhu Dongfan and the two martial artists of the courtyard fought against the second boss, and Jiang Lingxiu led the rest of the people to fight the sand boss.
The two were determined to take Zhenguan's life first, and the two joined forces, one up and down, and the four claws flew over, forcing Zhenguan off the wall, and jumped down in pursuit. Zhenguan sword contains Taihe internal strength, stepping on the three steps, the sword is like a match, wrapped in the body to attack the double statue.
Qiu Ling opened and closed, and the sword shadow was vertical and horizontal, attacking Ling Xiao and volley. Ling Xiao remembered the master's teachings, no longer panicked, and unfolded the nine-star pace, sometimes advancing and sometimes retreating, sometimes left and sometimes right, specifically looking for Qiu Ling's flaws to attack, and from time to time forcing Qiu Ling to return to the knife to parry. For a time, the two sides were attacking and defending, and they couldn't hold each other.
Sha Lao's double hook flew up, "Keng" and "Keng" blocked everyone's attack; Sha Lao Er's hook shadow circled, with a strong attack, and after a while, a martial artist was cut through the lower abdomen and fell down screaming.
Tang Yi led the rest of the people to jump into the village one after another, intercepting more than a dozen Zhuang Ding who came to participate in the battle, and in the midst of the flying of hidden weapons, the Zhuang Ding screamed and fell to the ground, frightening the remaining Zhuang Ding and the maid to flee to the back mountain.
Tang Yi sent several brothers to pursue, and the rest of them took the blades and joined the battle group.
More than a dozen disciples of Shuangzun surrounded Zhenguan, waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack. Zhenguan shook his spirit, wandering around, Qingcheng swordsmanship was fast and powerful, most suitable for group battles, and after a while, Zhenguan sword slashed and killed three double cultivation disciples.
"Get out of the way!"
All the disciples hurriedly dodged away and went to assist Qiu Ling in the air and in the sky. The two of them circled with their swords and fought hard.
The last martial artist of the courtyard died tragically with a flying knife in his heart, and several Tang Sect disciples who helped each other united with Sha Lao Er and quickly killed Zhu Dong Fange.
You Xiong and Yu Shangwen also fell one after another, and Jiang Lingxiu, Yu Shangwu, and Xuan Lingyu were scarred and struggled to resist.
"Volley! Lingxiao! Hurry up!" Zhenguan shouted loudly, gave up his double respect, turned around and pounced, the sword light flashed, the two double cultivation disciples fell, Qiu Ling turned around, and blocked Zhenguan's sword.
Kou Lingkong and Shen Lingxiao were like crazy tigers, knocking down the two Double Cultivation Sect disciples, Sha Lao Er couldn't stop the two, and watched them fly up the wall.
"Where to go!" Dizun rushed to catch up, Zhenguan gave up Qiu Ling, and the lightning shot out, and the long sword flew to the back of Dizun's heart. Dizun turned around and pulled out the short stick, blocked it "dang", and took a step back.
Kou Lingkong and Shen Lingxiao flew up and jumped out of the village.
Zhenguan did not stop, jumped over the wall like a peng, and went out of the village.
Shuangzun, Qiu Ling, and Sha Lao Er chased after him and jumped out, but saw Zhenguan's eyes red, and the sword marquis was outside the village. Kou Lingkong and Shen Lingxiao have already drilled into the cherry forest.
A small crystal axe slashed down like lightning in the air, Kou Ling's reaction was quite fast, and he moved half a foot sideways when he fired a thousand equals, and with a "whoosh" sound, he slashed on his right leg, and blood splattered immediately.
Kou volleyed a sword and stabbed Ruan Xingang to death, staggered two steps, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat, holding down the wound and snorting in pain.
"I'll carry you!" Shen Lingxiao put Kou Lingkong on his back, pulled out his feet and ran wildly in the direction of the back mountain.
Running halfway up the mountain, seeing that no one was chasing him, Shen Lingxiao put down Kou Lingkong, tore his trousers with a "bang", hurriedly poured the gold sore medicine on his wound, tore off a piece of his robe and hastily wrapped the wound, and ran forward with him on his back.
After a while, I arrived at the slope I had walked on last night, and I was busy running down. After running a few steps, he felt that it was still easy to hide on the wooded mountain, so he turned back and ran towards the ridge.
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The two deities glared at Zhenguan angrily and flashed their short sticks. They didn't expect that Zhenguan would be even more difficult to deal with than Daoyi.
"Brother Qiu, Brother Sha, you go after him, we will deal with him!" Tianzun commanded.
Qiu Ling and Sha Lao Er bypassed Zhenguan and jumped into the forest.
"Don't think!" Zhenguan jumped and stopped the two with a horizontal sword.
"Let's kill him together!" Tianzun flew to catch up and commanded.
The four of them surrounded Zhenguan, Zhenguan burst out, and stabbed Sha Lao Er with a sword. Seeing that the tip of the sword reached his throat in an instant, Sha Lao Er hurriedly leaned back, dangerously held it horizontally with a double hook, and fell to the ground on his back.
The two monsters screamed and pounced, and in the sound of the howling breaking through the air, the sticks and claws waved together, falling towards the Zhenguan cover. Qiu Ling's long knife slashed horizontally and slashed towards Zhenguan's lower plate. Zhenguan stepped on the seven stars upside down, avoided the long knife, and waved his sword and palm in unison to defuse the attack of Shuangzun.
The three of them tumbled and rolled, fighting for more than twenty rounds in the blink of an eye. Sha Lao Er couldn't intervene, and retreated to the side with his eyes.
After all the people in the village were killed, Sha Boss and Tang Yi led everyone to jump out one after another, watching the three of them fight for chastity.
Qiu Ling shouted: "What are you doing in a daze? Brother Sha and Brother Tang! Two of them have escaped, why don't you bring someone to chase them soon!"
"Huh," Sha Lao Er woke up from a dream and waved his hand: "Boss, Brother Tang, follow me!"
Only seven Tang Sect disciples and five Double Cultivation Sect disciples were not injured, and at that moment, Tang Yi led three male disciples of Tang Sect and followed the Sha brothers into the forest.
Shuangzun scruples about Zhenguan's long sword, and did not dare to grasp it hard with his claws, and at the moment the short stick circled and expanded, looking for a flaw and waiting for an opportunity to send out a steel nail at the end of the rod, and after breaking Zhenguan's anger, he would kill Zhenguan.
Qiu Ling shouted endlessly, and the bright sword light chased after Zhenguan's figure, but Zhenguan advanced and retreated, his body was ercareless, and he couldn't do anything for a while, but blocked the opportunity for Shuangzun to launch steel nails several times.
In the middle of the fight, Tianzun finally found an opportunity, and when he pressed the machine spring, the steel nail at the end of the rod flew out like lightning. The two were too close to each other, and when Zhenguan found out, he couldn't dodge and plunged into his lower abdomen with a "poof".
Zhenguan felt pain and numbness in his lower abdomen, knowing that there was poison on the steel nails, he was busy protecting his heart, roared wildly, and the long sword went out to sea like a dragon, slashing at Tianzun.
Qiu Ling grabbed it and sealed the Zhenguan long sword with a horizontal knife. The steel nail at the end of the Dizun rod burst out, and with a "bang", it was nailed into Zhenguan's left chest.
Tianzun rose up in the air, his right claw grew violently, and with a "roar", he tore through the void and grabbed it violently towards Zhenguan Tianling. Zhenguan took half a step back, and dissolved the earth-shattering claws with his "silk hand", and suddenly felt that his legs were tight, and he was firmly held by Dizun, and his claws were embedded in his calves, and he could no longer stand unsteadily, and fell on his back.
Qiu Ling slashed down at Zhenguan with a knife. Zhenguan struggled to roll, and rolled out three feet with Dizun, dodging the fatal knife. There was a muffled sound of "sand", the soil splashed, and Qiu Ling's long knife sank into the soil halfway.
Tianzun is like a goshawk fighting a rabbit, his right paw is grabbed like lightning, and with a "poof" sound, it is inserted into Zhenguan's right chest.
Zhenguan let out a heart-rending scream, worked hard for his life, and saved his left palm, and the heart-destroying palm trick "Poisonous Dragon Out of the Hole" hit Tianzun's left chest like lightning. With the sound of "Peng", Tianzun was shocked and flew out upside down, spurting blood in mid-air, and fell on his back. If it weren't for the fact that Zhenguan had been seriously injured and his skill was only half of usual, this palm would have cost Tianzun's life.
Qiu Ling drew his knife and slashed it down, Zhenguan struggled to move half a foot, and with a "click", he slashed firmly on his left shoulder, and his shoulder blade and collarbone were immediately broken.
Dizun turned over and got up, his claws were inserted into Zhenguan's lower abdomen, Zhenguan screamed, and he was immediately angry.
Several disciples of the Double Cultivation Sect and the Tang Sect who were watching from the sidelines were shocked when they saw it, and Tang Zixuan and Tang Jing couldn't bear to see it, so they turned their faces away.
Dizun didn't know how badly Tianzun was injured, pulled out his bloody claws, reached out to grab the knife in Qiu Ling's hand, and shouted angrily: "Give it to me!
Qiu Ling refused, and persuaded: "Everyone is dead, forget it!"
"Senior brother, forget it!" Tianzun slowly sat up, the corners of his mouth were dripping with blood, and he stroked his chest and gasped: "Leave him a whole corpse!"
Dizun stepped forward to support him and asked, "Senior brother, what do you think?"
"I can't die!" Tianzun smiled bitterly, "If you raise it for ten days and a half months, you can be fully healed!"
Qiu Ling suddenly shouted: "Oh no! Why didn't you see Fang Xiangju's wife and children!"