Chapter 15: The Frost Sword
Since I have no clue about cultivating for the time being, and I am depressed, I plan to come out for a walk from the sky.
There are almost no idlers in Zhuangjia Village, and the young and strong laborers in the village are basically either working in the fields, or going to work in Brahma or go out hunting. The village is small, with only fifty or sixty households, and the houses are basically low-slung mud-walled houses.
came out of Niu's second master's house from the sky, walked around the village, and unconsciously walked to the entrance of the village.
Outside the entrance of the village, there is a dirt road that can accommodate three horse-drawn carriages in parallel, which is rare in the countryside. Because this road is a route for the Brahma sect to transport coal mines, from the town of Chiwu in the north to this road, then south into Pinglin Avenue, and finally west to Linru City, and then to various places.
After living in the village for a few days, Congtian is more familiar with this village. Today is neither a day to go to the market, nor is there a convoy transporting coal mines. However, on the dirt road, I saw many pedestrians of all kinds going in one direction, and the most surprising thing was the group of horses that had just whizzed past. The leader is a tall and rugged man, the man has a huge knife two palms wide behind his back, and his red clothes are particularly eye-catching, and he has a group of more than 20 riders, and he can't help but look at it twice.
The horses galloped past, kicking up a lot of dust that scattered in all directions with the breeze. He retreated from the sky, covered his mouth on the other hand, and stretched out his hand to fan off the dust, but saw Zhuang Xuelong and his party walking out of the forest on the side.
"Congtian! You don't recuperate well, why did you get here?" Zhuang Xuelong stepped forward quickly, took off the prey in his hand and on his shoulder, handed it to the young man behind him, patted Congtian on the shoulder, and asked with a concerned face.
"Ah, Brother Xuelong, it's okay, my wound healed quickly, and I was uncomfortable lying on the bed, so I came out for a walk and changed the air. "I have been taking care of myself in the village for several days, and my heart is warm and I smile.
"I really envy you cultivators! You have been so badly injured and healed so quickly. Let's go, let's talk while walking, are you really a disciple of the Brahma Sect?" Congtian's chest piercing sword wound was shocking, Zhuang Xuelong had been leading the team to hunt alone for two or three years, and he didn't know how this fatal injury was, but Congtian actually got better so quickly, which really made him envious.
"Well, I just didn't expect to be plotted by fellow evildoers. Congtian clenched his fists and said indignantly.
Zhuang Xuelong looked very open, and said: "This world is like this, the weak eat the strong, and the weak can only become the prey of the strong forever." ”
Since childhood, he has received a traditional and decent education from the Brahma school, and for a while it is difficult to accept this law of the jungle, and his expression is both angry and confused.
Seeing that Congtian didn't speak, Zhuang Xuelong's eyes rolled, thinking that he had spoken inappropriately and hurt Congtian's self-esteem, so he changed the topic and asked, "Congtian, do you say I can ...... Alas, forget it. ”
"What?" he was distracted from the moment, but he didn't hear too clearly.
"Nothing. ”
"Brother Xuelong, you saved me, is there anything else you can't say?" stopped from the sky, looked at Zhuang Xuelong's appearance of wanting to speak and stopped, and wondered.
"Alas, I have longed for the outside world since I was a child, and I want to worship the Brahma sect and go to the outside world to explore, but I have no choice but to be poor at home, and my father and little sister need to take care of ......" Zhuang Xuelong said what was in his heart, and with someone to talk to, he only felt that his heart, which had been suppressed for many years, was finally relieved a lot.
"I see...... Brother Xuelong, you are really miserable. Thinking of his life experience from the sky, he also sighed with emotion, "You at least have a father and sister, I don't even know who my parents are......"
The two talked, and each felt pity for each other's background.
At this moment, the sound of galloping horses came from behind him, and when he looked back from the sky, the horse team that had just run on the dirt road turned back under the leadership of the red-clothed man who led the way.
The big man in red reined in his galloping horse and stopped a few feet away from the two of them.
The fierce horse kept snorting, and the big man in red grabbed the reins and comforted the horses, and asked in a loud voice: "Those two boys, come here, the uncle has something to ask you." ”
Seeing that the big man was so rude, his heart was on fire, and he turned his head and was unwilling to step forward.
However, Zhuang Xuelong is crawling at the bottom of the society, and he has a transparent view of human feelings. Seeing that the big man and the horse team behind him were menacing, and he didn't want to be offended, he hurriedly nodded and approached, and asked with a smiling face, "What does this uncle command?"
"Did you see a streamer of light last night?" asked the big man, pointing to the dirt road outside the village, raising his horsewhip.
"What streamer? The little one didn't see it. Although Zhuang Xuelong wondered in his heart, he still said honestly.
"What about that boy? Can you see that?" The big man came over with two more horses, one of whom had a mustache and was short and capable, and when he saw that he had not answered, he drove forward and shouted angrily: "What did Master Liu ask you about!
There were more than 20 horsemen, and although most of them were still waiting on that road, a few tall horses were still extremely conspicuous in the village, and after a while, many unaware women surrounded them, whispering for a while, but no one dared to step forward.
From the heavens to suppress the anger in his heart, he knew that he couldn't be reckless, so he turned around and said, "I haven't seen it." ”
When the red-clothed man saw Congtian's strange behavior, he was furious, shouted, and said, "I really didn't see it?"
"I didn't see it. ”
The thin eight-character Hu Shan observed the words, saw this, raised the horsewhip in his hand, his body was short, and he slammed it into the sky, "Didn't ......you look at it?"
didn't speak, but saw Zhuang Xuelong's body like electricity, and suddenly blocked in front of Congtian's body, how fierce the horsewhip was, and suddenly stirred up a blood mark behind Zhuang Xuelong.
"Ah!" Many middle-aged women in the village suddenly exclaimed, and one of them boldly stepped forward to support Zhuang Xuelong.
"Hmm......" Zhuang Xuelong was whipped, but he gritted his teeth, endured the pain, pushed the woman who stepped forward to support him away, and said in a low voice: "Aunt Lin, it's okay here, you guys go away quickly." ”
turned around, but he still pretended to be smiling, and said with a smile: "Don't be angry with this uncle...... My younger brother is ignorant, and he collided with the uncle, and he hopes that the uncle will atone for his sins! The little brother and his brother really didn't see any streamers last night. ”
From the sky, there was a blood mark on Zhuang Xuelong's back, blood beads seeped out of his clothes, and his eyes were red, but he was fiercely hugged by Zhuang Xuelong's calloused hands, and he couldn't move for a while.
The horsewhip is made of strips of cowhide, and under the wielding of an adult, few people can be forced to be whipped without muffling the sound, let alone a teenager under the age of twenty?
At that moment, seven or eight women couldn't bear it, and suddenly shouted, "Uncles, is there anything that has offended the uncle...... We can't pay you anything here. ”
"Yes, yes, Xuelong is a native of our village, and he will not lie since he was a child. ”
"It's this little brother, the person who Xuelong rescued a few days ago, is he the person you are looking for?"
"Aunt Hu, don't talk nonsense!" Zhuang Xuelong's expression changed, and he shouted angrily at a woman in a Gebu apron in the crowd.
The woman named Aunt Hu knew that she had said the wrong thing, and her face turned red at the moment, she took two steps back, her expression was stagnant, and she didn't dare to speak again.
The big man in red, who was annoyed by the chatter of a group of women, was already planning to leave, but after hearing this, he immediately stared at Zhuang Xuelong: "Is what she said true? This kid is not your brother?
Zhuang Xuelong was in a dilemma, and he was afraid that he would not be able to be good, but he still tried his best to hide it, and his pretended smile was more ugly than crying: "Uncle! Don't listen to these aunts' nonsense, he is really my younger brother ......."
The big man in red no longer paid attention to the two, turned his head to the thin eight-character beard and said, "Eight-character beard, the two are tied together, take them away!"
Thousands of miles to the east of the Brahma sect, there is a swampy area known as the Land of Doom.
It was a foggy swamp, almost uninhabited for a hundred miles.
But today, a few uninvited guests shattered the former tranquility of the swamp.
The swamp was almost barren, and the five men faced each other in five directions, and in the swamp between the five people, there was a sword stuck diagonally.
The sword was unsheathed, emitting a faint blue light, and it seemed to be bubbling with a cold air, freezing the surrounding mud so that it would not fall.
It turned out that since Meng Ni was separated from Congtian, she had been chasing this blue frost sword, and the sword had passed through the mountains, and more than ten days had passed, and after several twists and turns, it had fallen here.
And this chase is thousands of miles, and the crowd of people chasing has changed from more to less, and in the end there are only five people left.
The atmosphere was solemn, and finally, one of the five people spoke to break the silence, "Everyone, the divine sword has a spirit, we have been chasing for many days, and everyone knows it." ”
The person who spoke was a purple-shirted young man with fair skin and a handsome face, and he continued: "The power of one person cannot subdue the Divine Sword, and several Daoists have been like this a few times before, not only did the Divine Sword break free and escape again, but also suffered from the invasion of the cold air. ”
Seeing that everyone's expressions were changing, he continued: "Shangguan Qi in the Lower Blowing Snow Valley." He pointed to a girl in Tsing Yi next to him, "This is Senior Sister Li Yunhui." ”
The purple-shirted young man took the initiative, stood side by side with Li Yunhui, bowed, and said, "I hope to ask for your names!"
"Hmph, Blowing Snow Valley is amazing, why should I tell you?" said a strong young man in a gray cloth shirt in a sullen voice.
The purple-shirted young man was not angry at all, still smiling.
It's just that the temperature around the five people plummeted, the air condensed, and the fog, which had been unchanged for thousands of years, condensed into snowflakes and fell in pieces.
Meng Ni was shocked in her heart, this person's cultivation is so high!
The young strong man's face changed, but because of his face, he snorted coldly and didn't say a word.
"Brother Shangguan has good skills, with only this hand of 'condensing and turning snow', I'm afraid your cultivation will not be lower than the fusion period, right?"
The last person to speak was a petite woman in a floral dress, I saw that she was charming and moving, her expression was calm, and she was afraid that her cultivation was not low.
Shangguan Qi immediately withdrew the spell, and said calmly: "The girl has good eyesight! ”
Hearing that this person majored in magic, Meng Ni couldn't help but think of Congtian, "Senior Brother Congtian should have passed the trial meeting, right? If you apprentice this time, you will definitely have to change your cultivation method, I don't know who to worship as a teacher?"
"Brother Shangguan is polite, the little woman 'Boundless Temple' Jing Shuxue. ”
"It turns out that you are a demon demon girl!hmph!" When the young strong man heard about the "Boundless Temple", he was unhappy in his heart and said angrily.
"It's better than some people, I don't even dare to tell others my name, I only make small moves behind my back, maybe he is the one who is a big traitor!"
"You!" the young man had a violent temper, which gave people a thrill, and he suddenly had a seizure, only to see him rush forward in three steps and two steps, and just like that, he fought with the girl of the Boundless Temple.
The other people watching were dumbfounded.
However, the people who can catch up here, none of them are easy to get along, the strength of the two is not much different, and they are fighting evenly for a while, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser.
"Two Taoist friends...... "Shangguan Qi had something important to do, but he really didn't want to spend it like this, so he said something to stop him.
But where did the two listen to the persuasion for a while?
"In that case, Senior Sister Yunhui, then I have you to lose. Shangguan Qi was helpless, turned his head and said to the woman beside him.
"Wait!" Monila replied to the two of them.
Li Yunhui was about to make a move, but he was stunned, only to see Meng Ni shouting at the two people who were fighting, "Hey! You guys fight slowly! Let's take the divine sword, let's go first!"
The pleasant laughter like a silver bell reached Shangguan Qi's ears, and he noticed Meng Ni at this time, only to see that he couldn't help but let out an "ah", and his eyes fell on Meng Ni, who was dressed in red, and he couldn't move away.