Chapter 15: Old Evil Fate [1]

Xing'er's eyes flickered when she heard this, and although her expression was a little lacking in confidence, she still whispered:

"I'm afraid there is no place to practice, if there is a place, my little sister can also act as a protector for my sister and brother even if she fights for her life!"

"The place to practice is not a big problem, there are many hidden places in the world," Yi Hui was inspired by Xing'er's enthusiasm, and couldn't help but analyze the two of them: "Especially near this Mount Tai, I can't find a secret/cave if I don't believe it." As for where it is, we might as well find out for ourselves. ”

Zhong Ming knew his father's intention to pass on his book, and knew the danger of such a book, and the slightest mistake would make people regret it for life, so he immediately nodded in agreement. Since everyone has a common goal to do, they immediately go out together to look for it. In order to save time, Yi Hui looked at the Great Black Mountain on the east side of Taishan Mountain as a good place, so it was recommended to find a place here.

The key to practicing the "shadow in the shadow" practice is to familiarize yourself with the mantra before you can practice in retreat. According to the records on the back page of the book, Ouyang Daxia took three months. Based on this, after preparing the food needed for retreat and cultivation on the mountain, the three of them temporarily kept their horses at the inn at the foot of the mountain and began to go up the mountain to find a place to practice.

On the first day after climbing the mountain, the three of them found nothing, and they were very disappointed. When it was dark, when the three of them came to a cliff on the cliff, Yi Hui and Zhong Ming's light skills at this time were greatly improved, and naturally they didn't see the dangerous places under their feet. But to walk on this steep terrain, it is not so easy for Apricot.

Apricot suddenly slipped under her feet and fell off the cliff at once. Yi Hui was closest to her at this time and hurriedly jumped off the cliff to grab it, but fortunately grabbed one of her arms, and the two of them had fallen off the cliff for more than ten feet at this time. Yi Hui grabbed the apricot with one hand, and pressed it on the cliff with the other hand, trying to flip and jump, but he didn't expect the hand to touch it.

There was a huge natural stone cave where Yi Hui pressed his hand, Yi Hui cheered for this, and then threw the apricot into the cave, and then he clinged to the cliff wall and turned up one after another, and finally turned over and jumped into the stone cave. At the same time, Zhong Ming also jumped off the cliff, and after seeing this, he pressed the cliff wall with both hands and immediately turned over and jumped into the cave. Despite a false alarm, the trio were thrilled to find out.

Xing'er walked in with the fire paper with a portable fire sickle, although the entrance of the stone cave is not big, it is more than 20 meters deep, the height and width of the cave are as much as four or five meters, and the ground is very flat, it seems that there are signs that people have lived. Deep in the cave there was a flat stone that resembled a bed, and there was a lot of hay on it.

On the side of the stone wall hangs an unsheathed dagger and several torches for lighting. Obviously, there were masters who lived here, and Yi Hui thought that the person who lived here would not be able to come back recently, as long as his group practiced "shadow-following", he could leave. So I didn't care, I just took a closer look inside the cave to get acquainted with the situation first.

After Zhong Ming lit the torch, he first took the short sword in his hand and took a closer look, only to see the blade of the sword swimming in blue light, and the cold air was pressing, it turned out to be a rare sword in the world. Thinking that Xing'er would cultivate Dharma protection for herself and Yi Hui in the future, but at the moment she had no protective weapons, Zhong Ming deliberately handed the short sword to Xing'er and said:

"This sword is good, so I'll give it to you. When my sister and I are in retreat, you'd better have a sword to protect the Dharma for both of us, and when we go down the mountain, we'll find someone to make up a scabbard for you. ”

Xing'er couldn't help but be happy after taking it, although she grew up in a martial arts family, most of the things that her father urged her to read and write when she was alive, as for the fists, feet, and sticks, although she also taught her a little, but it was not always the point. Since following Yi Hui Zhongming, he has been constantly getting guidance from the two along the way, and now that he has a weapon in his hand and is more courageous, he naturally can't put it down.

Yi Hui was also very happy to find this cave, the three of them simply rested in the cave that night, it is worth being happy that there is a spring in the depths of the cave, although the spring water is not much, it flows out two or three meters into a cliff crevice and disappears, but it is enough for the people in the cave to drink. It wasn't until the next morning that Yi Hui and Zhong Mingfang began to enter the cultivation according to the requirements of the "Shadow Follows" exercise.

After the two of them entered the cultivation process, time became very boring, but Xing'er sat at the entrance of the cave all day long like a faithful slave to protect the Dharma for the two, although it was very boring, but she was loyal. In order to minimize food consumption, she herself set herself a rule to eat only two meals a day.

Before they knew it, more than a month had passed, and although the two of them had little food to eat after practicing, there was not much food left with them in the cave. Although Xing'er had done her best to minimize her own food during this period, it was really a headache for the food to support the two of them until they finished practicing, and Xing'er couldn't help but be very worried about it.

It was a cloudy day, the air on the mountain was a little overcast, and the sun showed its face at noon. Apricot was at the entrance of the cave to watch how the clouds of the mountain stream were dispelled by the newly revealed sunlight when she suddenly heard a strange noise outside the cave, and then a masked woman appeared in front of her. The woman first saw the short sword in Xing'er's hand, and with a roar, she was in front of Xing'er in the blink of an eye.

Before Xing'er could see what was going on in front of her, the woman's right palm had already slapped down on the top of her head. only heard the sound of "bang", and the woman was shocked by the other party's internal force and couldn't lift her arm for a while. What made her even more incredible was that at the place where Xing'er was, she had changed into a young man at some point, and she slapped her palm on the top of his head.

The masked woman knew how powerful her palm was, and when she saw that the other party looked indifferent, she couldn't help but be shocked and angry, and immediately pulled out a sword from her waist with her left hand and stabbed at her opponent. An even more amazing scene happened in front of her eyes, only to see the opponent in front of her floating with her sword, and the masked woman changed more than ten kinds of swordsmanship in a row, but she could not hurt the opponent in the slightest.

The opponent's figure is like a ghost, always advancing and retreating with her sword, and even if she spends up her swordsmanship, she will never hurt him. It was only at this point that the masked woman suddenly came to her senses, and exclaimed out of the cave:

"Everywhere!"

As she exclaimed, an old man in Tsing Yi suddenly appeared at the entrance of the cave, and this man came and went like the wind, so that it was almost impossible to notice where he came from. It wasn't until he spoke that the people in the cave knew that he had walked into the cave:

"What 'shadow', in this rarely visited ghost place, what else is there?"

At this time, the masked woman had already stopped attacking, and after hearing him speak, she said unceremoniously:

"In addition to your precious son in the world, my mother met a kid who is good at this technique here today, don't you say it's strange!"

The old man stepped forward just in time to meet Zhong Ming looking out, and when the two saw each other, they couldn't help but let out an exclamation of "ah" at the same time. The old man in green clothes seemed to be unwilling to let the other party recognize him, and covered his face with one hand and pulled the masked woman to disappear without a trace in the blink of an eye. Zhong Ming had already sensed that the other party was familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, he confirmed that the person was his grandfather Xiang Batian.

For his companion, Zhong Ming felt that she was somewhat similar to his grandmother, but he recognized that she was by no means his grandmother Mo Xie Shitai. The image of grandma has always been very kind in Zhong Ming's mind, by no means as fierce as this woman, she wants to take people's lives at every turn, if she hadn't been out of the customs in time, Xing'er's life would have been lost to her hands long ago.

While he was thinking wildly, Yi Hui had already walked out of the cave. It turns out that the internal skills of the two of them already have a good foundation, and this kung fu, which is practiced by ordinary people in three months, has matured in more than a month in the two of them. Just as Zhong Ming was about to break through, he happened to meet Xing'er in distress, so he stepped forward. It was only because of the first demonstration that he was also eager to save people's hearts, and he rushed over his head for a while, and he actually slapped Xing'er in the face, so that there was a thrilling scene of Shicai.

When Yi Hui in the cave rushed over to help Zhong Ming, the opponent had disappeared. Zhong Ming couldn't help but think about it for a while, judging from the kung fu of the two of them jumping freely on the cliff outside the cave, they didn't take this cliff to heart at all, which showed how powerful the other party's martial arts were. Yi Hui was surprised by Zhong Ming's stunned eyes at this time. I couldn't help but ask him:

"Are you alright...... Do you recognize who it is?"

Zhong Ming had already struggled out of the chaos of talent at this time, and immediately shook his head and denied:

"No, no, no, how could I know them, if I did, maybe I wouldn't have the right people to fight. ”

Yi Hui saw that he was a little insincere, his eyes flickered, and he knew that he seemed to have something unspeakable, so he didn't ask any more. Xing'er on the side was a little reluctant to take a slap on Zhong Ming's behalf of her, and couldn't help but think of the dangers Zhong Ming encountered in the past to protect her. At this time, the only way to come forward and salute was:

"Thank you...... I slapped my little sister again, don't you care?"

"It's okay, it's okay, kicking and beating people is just a routine thing for me, so what's the harm in asking him to hit him twice if he wants to? Don't you know that I have a nickname called 'Untouchable'!"

Zhong Ming saw that Xing'er looked concerned, and immediately returned to normal. Since the two of them have practiced here as "shadows" and have been tested in preliminary combat, they are naturally in a good mood. Zhong Ming immediately suggested to the two of them to leave here as soon as possible, because he could tell from the demeanor of the two of them that this place seemed to be their territory for a long time.

Yi Hui nodded in agreement with this proposal, besides, the three of them didn't have much food to bring up the mountain, and it was urgent to find a place to eat at the moment, so they had to go to the inn at the bottom of the mountain before making plans. The three returned to the inn that afternoon, but they didn't expect the innkeeper to be very surprised when he saw the three.

He had thought that the three of them would not come back after such a long time, and he had sold their horses. When the boss saw the three of them, he couldn't help but apologize a series of times, immediately confessed to the truth, and promised to be responsible for buying new horses for the three of them, and the inn would eat and stay for free before the horses were bought. Zhong Ming saw that the boss was doing things above board, so he didn't pursue it. I had to promise to stay another day.

Zhong Ming and Yi Hui practiced this skill this time, Xing'er contributed the most, Zhong Ming specially instructed the innkeeper to prepare a table of good wine and food, and the two of them should treat Xing'er well, thanking her for her loyalty to the two protectors. Moreover, Yi Hui and Zhong Ming have been in the mountains for more than a month, and they also need to nourish their bodies now.

Xing'er was very happy during the banquet, and in the continuous toasting of the two companions, she was so drunk that she vomited everywhere, and finally Yi Hui had to take her back to the room to rest. It was only at this time that the two realized that Xing'er was too straight to let the wine, and drank it as soon as she let it, so she drank it to this point.

After Yi Hui picked up Xing'er, the two regretted it, and they wanted to thank Xing'er, but they didn't expect to get her drunk. In the inn as in the past, Zhong Ming rented two rooms here, one for himself, and the other for Yi Hui and Xing'er. In the middle of the night, Zhong Ming was suddenly awakened by the sound of slight footsteps on the roof.

As soon as he got out of bed, he saw in the darkness that the window paper had been gently pierced from the outside with a bamboo tube like a cigarette pouch rod, and then a puff of smoke erupted from the bamboo tube that reached in. Zhong Ming had already known from the strange boss that this was a common method used by thieves in the rivers and lakes, and as long as the people in the house inhaled the poisonous gas in the smoke into their lungs, they would immediately faint.

Zhong Ming immediately held his breath because of this, and he didn't bother to open the door for a while, so he knocked the door panel into the air at once, and his body came out of the door with the door panel. I saw a masked man in night clothes under the window and immediately jumped into the courtyard, and just wanted to jump on the roof, she was forced by Zhong Ming's True Yang Xuanzhi to dodge sideways.

When she just wanted to jump into the room again, Yi Hui was already in front of her, and the man saw that he was surrounded by people and couldn't get away for the time being, so he simply stopped and "hehe" sneered, and shouted to the two:

"Just by the two of you...... I want to stay old too!"