Chapter 30: The Day of the Duel
In just one day, Liu Ao, who was originally unknown, suddenly became famous.
Half-demon Jia Ming, these four words have spread almost throughout the entire Jiuding Academy.
Under the hype of Li Hong and a group of freshmen, the matter of Liu Ao challenging Li Qing, a disciple of the inner courtyard, has spread throughout the academy overnight.
Hearing this news, most people felt that Liu Ao didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he was asking for hardship.
But Liu Ao made up his mind, and spent all day in the forest practicing martial arts to comprehend the "Sword Technique of Life and Death", trying to learn the first style of swordsmanship.
But this swordsmanship is extremely profound, and after a few days, Liu Ao still can't understand it.
What Liu Ao didn't know was that in order to capture him, the Demon Army had sent a team to Jiuding Academy, in order to get some news about Liu Ao from his cousin Liu Junfei.
"It's obviously like this, but why can't it reach that kind of power!"
Liu Ao was upset, and stabbed the trunk of the tree in front of him with a sword in his hand.
The first form of the sword technique of life and death, called the spirit induction.
As the name suggests, it is to attract the huge aura in the surrounding environment and infuse it into the sword body together with the spiritual power in the body.
And then at some flashpoint, unleash that immense power, powerful enough to pierce mountains and rivers.
Liu Ao's eyes sank, he took a deep breath, and once again attracted the spiritual power in the artery.
Immediately, Liu Ao's eyes lit up, and his right hand quickly sent forward, and he saw that the sword of Ao pierced out a red sword qi, passing through the trunk of the tree in front of him, leaving a mark half a finger deep on a boulder.
Looking at the sword of pride in his hand, Liu Ao pondered.
The past few combat experiences have made Liu Ao understand one thing: the sword of pride is more powerful than he imagined.
Especially in the moment of life and death, the Sword of Pride can take the initiative to burst out with great power to help him escape from death.
What is the secret of the Sword of Pride?How could his father, Liu Qingfeng, get such a treasure?
Putting aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, Liu Ao practiced the first style of swordsmanship over and over again, the spirit induction.
A hundred, a thousand, ten thousand!
There are only three days left before the day of challenging Li Qing, and Liu Ao is also anxious.
Revenge must be avenged!
Liu Ao was ruthless, waved his sore arm and continued to practice his sword.
Suddenly, Liu Ao was keenly aware that the spiritual power around him had a tendency to gather faintly, although it was only a very thin wisp of spiritual energy that was integrated into the sword of Ao, it made Liu Ao excited.
After thousands of exercises, I finally got some results!
"Come again!" Liu Ao recalled the state of the sword just now, and stabbed out a sword again.
But this time, it failed.
For a while, Liu Ao couldn't find the reason.
Three days later.
Liu Ao sat cross-legged on a tree branch, and the sword of Ao was placed horizontally on his lap.
Suddenly, Liu Ao's tightly closed eyes opened suddenly, and a flash of light flashed in his eyes, as if he was the most powerful sword qi.
Seeing that Liu Ao clenched the sword of arrogance, jumped down from the tree, and his expression was still in mid-air, and he attracted the spiritual power of his whole body to gather in his palm, and then transmitted it to the sword of pride.
"Boom~"
The sword body began to tremble and roar, and mysterious runes flashed red light, and the waves of qi that were set off blew the fallen leaves into the air.
At the same time, the surrounding aura suddenly paused, and then contracted violently, gathering towards Liu Ao.
When Liu Ao landed, the runes on the sword of Ao were bright and flashed with a dazzling red light.
"Go!"
Liu Ao's eyes lit up, and he aimed at the boulder three zhang away.
I saw a long sword qi burst out.
"Bang!"
The boulder was pierced and shattered in the blink of an eye.
Liu Ao staggered for a while, supporting the ground with his sword of pride, and kept panting.
The sword just now had almost hollowed out Liu Ao's whole body spiritual power.
In other words, with Liu Ao's current cultivation, he can only use his sword once in his heyday.
The sun began to emerge from the clouds, and a soft glow shone in through the shade of the trees.
There are less than two hours left, and it is when Liu Ao challenges Li Qing.
Liu Ao must recover his spiritual power quickly!
He took out the spirit stones in the storage bag and piled them all beside him.
As Liu Ao used the spiritual power in his body, these spirit stones began to rise up with a layer of white mist-like spiritual power, which actually penetrated directly from Liu Ao's skin.
As if the dry riverbed met the clear rain, Liu Ao's veins were rapidly accumulating spiritual power.
At the same time, the martial arts arena of Jiuding Academy has already been crowded.
The martial arts arena is located on the bottomless cliff at the back of the main peak.
There are dozens of paths wide that spread from all over the main peak, and finally converge on a small platform with a radius of 100 zhang.
At the edge of the platform is a steep cliff shrouded in mist, and inside, there is a natural grotto.
The grotto is a hundred feet high, and a circle of stairs has been built along the cave wall, which is already full of people at this time.
The ground is paved with bluestone, flat and spacious, evenly distributed with a hundred rings of length and width of ten zhang, on the ring, there are already people fighting, looking at the bloodstains, I think there is some deep hatred to solve here.
This is Jiuding Academy, the only place where life and death can be wrestling.
The crowd was noisy, but they were not very interested in the duels in the ring.
What they were really interested in was the duel between the half-demon disciple and the inner courtyard disciple Li Qing.
said it was a duel, but almost everyone knew that they were just here to see how Li Qing killed the half-demon disciple.
"Do you know? That half-demon, I heard that it is the disciple of the outer courtyard who had an affair with Senior Sister Murong. ”
"Impossible!"
Someone's face was full of disbelief, "Senior Sister Murong is such a genius, how could she be entangled with a half-demon?"
Someone sneered, "Half-demon, after all, you can't change the demagogic nature of the demon clan, I think it is Senior Sister Murong who is simple-hearted and has been deceived to win her heart." ”
"Do you dare to say this again!"
The sudden indifferent voice made the male disciple who spoke tremble, and when he looked back, he was so frightened that he hurriedly apologized.
"Senior Brother Song Zhong, I... I said it wrong," the man's face was full of fear, "and you don't want to be like me. ”
The man called Song Zhong had sword eyebrows and starry eyes, but there was a scar on the corner of his right eyebrow, which added a bit of anger to his handsome face.
He is the top fifty genius in the inner courtyard with thirty-five meridians - Song Zhong!
Song Zhong snorted coldly and slowly sat down on the stone steps.
Li Qing stood behind him, holding his long sword, his face full of domineering.
"Senior Brother Song Zhong, don't worry, if that half-demon dares to come today, I will definitely let him die here!"
Don't look at Li Qing's domineering words, but he has already weighed it in his heart.
The one named Jia Ming is a half-demon that everyone shouts and beats, and he has no background, so he will kill him.
If you change to someone with a background, Li Qing is afraid that she will shirk it for various reasons.
Just like he and his cousin Li Hong said, in the academy, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, you usually have to keep your eyes open, stay away from those who can't afford to offend, and it's best to hug a thigh.
Obviously, Song Zhong is the thigh that Li Qing is hugging.
At the entrance of the grotto, Li Hong led people in with excitement on his face, and looked for a long time before he saw Li Qing.
He excitedly squeezed through the crowd and ran over, hugging Li Qing's shoulder, "Brother, I'll see you in a while." ”
"I'll tell you, that kid doesn't know what shit luck he had, and his right arm actually recovered. ”
Li Hong said to himself:
"He still dares to take the initiative to challenge you, isn't this death~"
"However," Li Hong frowned, "According to my observation, Senior Sister Murong seems to be really familiar with him, so you better not hurt his life." ”
Hearing this, Li Qing's face changed, and he hurriedly looked at Song Zhong.
Sure enough, Song Zhong's gaze became more and more cold.
But Li Hong didn't realize it, and still smiled:
"If you want me to say, cousin, you will behave well for a while, maybe Senior Sister Murong will look at you differently when she sees it, if she becomes my sister-in-law, hehe..."
"Shut up!"
Li Qing's face changed wildly, and he slapped Li Hong in the face, "What nonsense are you talking about, don't get out of here!"
Li Hong was completely stunned, looked around, and saw that the people around him were looking at him with sympathy on their faces, and he couldn't help but feel a little weak, "Why are you beating me, I'm thinking about you!"
"Think a fart!"
Li Qing's heart and liver are trembling, you don't look at the occasion when you talk nonsense, don't you see Song Zhong here?
"Senior Brother Song Zhong, this bastard is open-mouthed, I'll go back and teach him a good lesson!"
Song Zhong was expressionless and slowly spoke, "After a while, after solving that half-demon, you can duel with your cousin." ”
Li Qing only felt a chill rising from the soles of his feet, was this to abolish Li Hong by himself?
Li Hong also realized something, and looked at Li Qing as if asking for help.
Li Qing glared at him fiercely, and then smiled at Song Zhong:
"Senior brother, after a while, I will take Li Hong to make amends to you with wine, he is a little open-mouthed, but he is quite thoughtful, when the time comes, let him saddle the horse and help you do some small things. ”
"Yes, yes," Li Hong hurriedly apologized, "Senior Brother Song will be generous, you will be my good big brother in the future, we..."
"Are you qualified?"
Song Zhong glanced at Li Hong and said flatly:
"After a while, you and Li Qing will duel, and only one person can walk out of the martial arts arena. ”
After speaking, without waiting for Li Qing to say anything, Song Zhong waved his hand, and another young man with a sword walked over.
Li Qing hurriedly shut up, obviously afraid of this young man.
"Everyone!"
Suddenly, someone shouted:
"After a while, the half-demon will come, let's start a gambling game, and bet that he can survive a few moves in Li Qing's hands. ”
"Ten spirit stones, I bet he won't be able to hold up one move!"
"One hundred spirit stones, two moves!"
"A thousand spirit stones, I bet he won't dare to come!"
Li Hong, who was originally full of interest, was sitting in the corner with a gloomy face at this time, and cold sweat continued to break out on his face.
If someone hadn't been staring, Li Hong would have run away a long time ago.
He finally realized what it means to be in trouble.
Seeing that the duels in the ring were over, the time had come to noon.
But Liu Ao has not shown up yet.
"I'll just say it, half-demons are demons, they're all rats!"
"Who's farting!" At the entrance of the grotto, Qingshi walked in quickly, and no matter who was talking, he scolded casually:
"What's wrong with the half-demon, the half-demon gave birth to your child?"
This was said harshly, and it instantly made many people laugh.
But those who know it said:
"Hey boy, aren't you on good terms with that half-demon?
Qingshi didn't speak, and even really hoped that Liu Ao would be able to escape.
He had already gone to the place where Liu Ao practiced swords, and Liu Ao was no longer there.
"Don't come!" Qingshi shouted in his heart, "It's better to live than anything else!"
"Look, Senior Sister Murong is here!"
Hearing this, almost everyone's eyes looked at the entrance.
But seeing a shadow rushing in, it was Murong Yue.
It's just that the long skirt on her body is already a little dirty, and her hair is a little scattered, obviously in a hurry.
That's right, since her grandfather Murong Yu said that he couldn't treat Liu Ao's arm, Murong Yue went out alone and went to visit an old friend of Murong Yu, that person was a Dan Dao master, and in terms of level, I am afraid that he is no less than the Dan Hall Master of Jiuding Academy.
Unexpectedly, the master's answer was exactly the same as Murong Yu's, and he concluded that Liu Ao's arm had no possibility of recovery.
Murong Yue came back disappointed, but he heard about Liu Ao's challenge to Li Qing at the foot of the mountain.
She came in a hurry, and she hadn't even sorted out her appearance.
"Qingshi, what about Jia Ming's bastard!" Murong Yue scolded in a rare anger, "Does he really want to die that much?"
Qingshi smiled wryly, "I don't know where he went." ”