The cold river water slapped Lin Yuanqing's face, making the unconscious Lin Yuanqing wake up, and when he opened his eyes, he found that the sky was already bright, and he sat up slowly, and every time he moved, his whole body was torn in pain.

He finally sat up, looking at the wounds and blood stains all over his body, remembering the scene of fighting with the giant sturgeon in the river last night, he was still a little scared, and wanted to stand up, but after a night of soaking in the water, his legs had become numb, and he didn't feel it at all.

He was also frightened, and thumped his legs vigorously, and finally a soreness came from his legs, and he was immediately relieved, and lay down on the ground again.

He looked left and right, and found that the place he was in was a shoal not far north of Qinghua City, and then he thought that this place was not far from the ancestral tomb of the Zhao family.

"Before leaving, let's go and worship Brother Zhao again. Lin Yuanqing thought so.

When he regained some strength, he stood up and limped towards the ancestral grave of the Zhao family, what made him strange was that although there were many wounds on his body, all of them stopped bleeding overnight, and some small wounds were already slowly healing.

The giant sturgeon he encountered last night was an anomaly, the ordinary sturgeon had a maximum lifespan of more than ten years, but it lived for fifty years, such a long time can be regarded as absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, its flesh and blood have the effect of nourishing blood, Lin Yuanqing inadvertently drank a large amount of fish blood when he desperately bit the giant sturgeon last night, it was really a blessing in disguise, of course, he didn't know this, he just thought it was his good health, so he didn't care too much.

He walked for a long time after a short distance, and finally stood in front of Zhao Youcai's tombstone, at this moment his mood was a little complicated, on the one hand, he became a fugitive wanted by the army, and on the other hand, he was afraid that it would affect the people around him, especially Tao Tao.

He said a few words briefly to the tombstone, praying that Zhao Youcai's spirit in the sky could bless Lao Zhang and Tao Tao, and then turned around and prepared to leave.

He suddenly felt a hint of strangeness, turned his head sharply to look at a tree not far away, and shouted, "Who?!"

A figure from behind the tree slowly walked out, and Lin Yuanqing shouted in surprise when he saw the visitor: "Master!", and then his face was like ashes after thinking of something.

"You're finally here. Hong Er looked at him expressionlessly, holding in his hand the short knife that Lin Yuanqing had dropped on the shore.

Lin Yuanqing said unwillingly: "Master, you... With a "bell", Hong Er had already thrown the short knife in his hand and inserted it into the ground in front of Lin Yuanqing.

"Today, let me see what you have learned. Hong Er pulled out the long knife from his waist, and his voice was calm without a trace of emotion.

"Master!" Before Lin Yuanqing's voice fell, Hong Er had already pressed in front of him, stabbing Lin Yuanqing straight to the door, this move was the starting hand in the "Soul Breaking Knife" "Soul Chasing", Lin Yuanqing didn't dare to slack off, pulled out a short knife with his backhand, slanted above his head, and barely parried with a move "Picking the West Star at Night".

Hong Er didn't relent, his arm was straight, he held the long knife straight, turned around in place, and left a silver arc of light in the air with the knife light at a very fast speed, and with a move "mushrooms after the rain", the tip of the knife stabbed Lin Yuanqing's neck from the bottom up.

Lin Yuanqing put the short knife straight to his arm, crossed his chest, his body rotated rapidly, pushed the long knife away, and he also relied on rotation to retreat, widening the distance between himself and Hong Er.

"This trick is good. Hong Er said with a smile.

"It's all taught by the master. Lin Yuanqing smiled helplessly.

"Flim tongue! It's time to fight!" Hong Er attacked again after speaking, Lin Yuanqing respected Hong Er very much, and the two fought more than a dozen moves, all of which were on the defensive, refusing to draw a knife to Hong Er.

After a long time, Lin Yuanqing found that although Hong Er's moves were sharp, he had no murderous aura, although he was constantly attacking, it was more like training and feeding him moves.

With this question, Lin Yuanqing's mind recalled the moves they had just played, "chasing souls", "mushrooms after the rain", "involuntarily self-contained", "drawing a knife and cutting off the water", "before the test", "immortals show the way"... Only did not use the last move to "escape", which is a move to turn defense into attack.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuanqing seemed to vaguely think of something, but he couldn't connect these together, Hong Er's offensive in front of him became more and more fierce, and he could only concentrate on blocking.

Suddenly, Lin Yuanqing saw Hong Er's chest door wide open, revealing a huge flaw, in order to confirm what he just thought, he gritted his teeth and slashed out, and went straight to Hong Er's chest.

Hong Er saw the chopping knife, suddenly frowned, a move "escape", Lin Yuanqing saw that the long knife in front of him seemed to transform into countless knife shadows, wrapping him with the power of thunder, Hong Er seemed to have completely given up the meaning of defense, and wanted to die with him.

Lin Yuanqing stopped the knife in his hand at this moment, closed his eyes, and waited for the knife that ended his fate.

Suddenly felt a pain in the back of his hand, let go of the handle of the knife, he opened his eyes to see, Hong Er had put the knife into the sheath, stood with his back to him, and then looked at the back of his hand, there was a knife mark, blood dripped quietly down the fingers to the ground, he looked up at Hong Er, and said resignedly: "Master... I... ”

Hong Er said sharply: "Have you forgotten how I taught you?! It is taboo to close your eyes and throw away your sword when facing the enemy! Now you dare to commit it again?!"

"Master, Yuan Qing should be damned. Lin Yuanqing lowered his head and said.

"If I slashed it with a knife just now, one of your arms would be useless!" Hong Er turned around and walked towards Lin Yuanqing after speaking, picked up the short knife that fell on the ground, and said to him: "Raise your head! Look at me! Since you can't remember what you said, then I'll use what I did to make you remember!"

As soon as Lin Yuanqing raised his head, he saw the light of Hong Er's knife flashing, and Hong Er's left arm fell to the ground with the blood spurting out.

Lin Yuanqing couldn't believe his eyes, the master actually cut off an arm in front of him! The sound of his brain "buzzing" became blank, his legs were weak, he fell to his knees, and said in a trembling voice: "Master... Master!"

Hong Er stretched out his hand and threw the short knife in front of Lin Yuanqing again, and his fingers were like electricity, connecting a few acupoints on his left shoulder, which stopped the raging blood, and due to the severe pain, beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, and his body became shaky.

Hong Er endured the pain, reluctantly showed a smile and said, "If you don't teach strictly, the teacher is wrong." After speaking, he gritted his teeth and shook his head vigorously and continued: "Yuan Qing, I am not a qualified master, and I have not taught you the martial arts you need every time, don't blame me." ”

Lin Yuanqing only understood at this moment that Hong Er was saying goodbye to him with a knife, and the last flaw was to tell him to flee far away, tears came out of his eyes when he thought of this, biting his lip to prevent himself from choking, he shook his head fiercely, and did not speak.

"I understand that if you do something like this this time, if it were me, I might do the same, so you don't have to think too much about it, do what you think is right. ”

"Pay more attention when you go to the rivers and lakes in the future, people who are good to you are not necessarily good people. ”

"Your grandfather and Tao Tao will be left to me to take care of, oh, and Doctor Chu, Miss Chu is a good girl, don't let people down, if the limelight is too much here, I will find a way to inform you, and ah, this knife now belongs to you completely." Hong Er said with his hand on Lin Yuanqing's shoulder.

"I actually have a lot of things to tell, but it's a pity that I don't have this time, but you have to remember these three things, the first thing, the eldest husband was born between heaven and earth, when he stands up to the sky, he does something and doesn't do anything, remember not to do things that hurt heaven and reason, remember?"

Lin Yuanqing nodded vigorously.

Hong Er nodded with satisfaction and continued: "The second thing is to change your crying problem, you have heard that the hero likes to cry like you, come, laugh and show me." ”

Lin Yuanqing raised his head, already in tears, and grinned hard.

When Hong Er saw it, he laughed and said: " It's a really ugly laugh, the third thing is that I lied to you before, my experience is more complicated, there are some enemies in the rivers and lakes, I think it's still a long time, and I'll tell you slowly, but it seems that it's as simple as I think, don't mention the relationship with me after you go out, and don't say the name of the tricks, the martial arts I taught you have been adjusted by me, no one should recognize it, and the weapons are too, you can use them boldly and with confidence, specific my life experience and experience, and when you come back later, I will tell you in detail. ”

Lin Yuanqing nodded fiercely again.

"Okay, don't be pretentious, and finally let the teacher see how your light skills are cultivated. Hong Er pointed to the east and said loudly.

Lin Yuanqing desperately controlled his voice and said, "Master! Yuanqing is sorry for you!"

"I said don't be hypocritical, I'm going back to Dr. Chu to help heal my injuries, maybe I'll lose too much blood and die later, let me see your light skills." Hong Er pushed Lin Yuanqing like a duck.

And Lin Yuanqing felt a slight tremor from Hong Er's palm, knowing that Hong Er must be enduring intense pain at this moment and pretending to talk to him easily.

Thinking of this, he knelt down to Hong Er again, kowtowed three times, and shouted, "Lin Yuanqing, thank you for the master's teaching!"

After speaking, he wiped his tears, put away his short knife, and ran towards the east without looking back.

Hong Er looked at Lin Yuanqing's back fixedly, until he disappeared, turned around lonely, and at this moment there was a breeze floating around him, Hong Ertou lowered his head and said, "Mr. Zhu." ”

Mr. Zhu didn't know when he appeared by Hong Er's side, and he also looked in the direction where Lin Yuanqing went, and said, "Well, I couldn't find the short knife that Lin Yuanqing left last night, but I didn't expect it to be taken away by you." ”

"The gentleman laughed, I had been waiting for him here last night, and I had never seen any daggers. ”

"I didn't expect the famous Soul Breaker Knife Tang Buji to tell a lie without blinking his eyes. ”

"Oh, sir, you already know my identity?" Hongji heard this, and his hand slowly grasped the hilt of the knife.

"Of course, with Mr. Tang's martial arts, he can deign to be in our army for so long, there must be an ulterior secret, right?" Mr. Zhu said leisurely.

"Now that the gentleman knows, then... Offended!" Tang Bu'er didn't finish speaking, and drew his knife and slashed at Mr. Zhu's chest, only to see that Mr. Zhu had no weapon in his hand, but just raised his hand lightly, and actually used two fingers to clamp Tang Buer's long knife.

"Oh, Mr. Tang is too anxious. Mr. Zhu's tone did not fluctuate in the slightest, as if everything was expected by him, "Mr. Tang of the second knife of the Five Knife Gate, am I right?"

Tang Buer was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Mr. even knows about this?"

"Hehe, it's not difficult to know this, the difficult thing is that Mr. Tang can endure it for such a long time, Mr. Hard. ”

"Since Tang is now subject to Mr., everything is willing to listen to Mr. Tang Buji thought for a moment and let go of the hilt.

Mr. Zhu smiled, and with two fingers, the long knife was broken in two, Tang Buji looked at the broken knife on the ground in surprise, and was even more surprised in his heart, "I didn't expect Mr. Zhu's internal strength to be so strong!"

Mr. Zhu said with a straight face: "Zhu has something unclear, and I hope Mr. Tang will solve his doubts." ”

"Mr. Zhu, please speak. ”

"Mr. Tang's reputation and martial arts are all leaders in the rivers and lakes, I don't know why he is willing to cut off his arm for a little apprentice who has only been teaching for a year?"

"This, maybe I saw my former self from this kid, the stunned young man who wanted to be a hero, I hope he can do something on this river and lake that we have not done and dare not do before, and it is also for this muddy river and lake to bring a clear stream. After Tang Buer finished speaking, he looked in the direction where Lin Yuanqing disappeared.

"Mr. Tang is really a master, if this matter is put on someone Zhu, he must not dare, and he admires it. After hearing this, Mr. Zhu clenched his fists and bowed deeply.

"Tang doesn't dare to be, Mr. is a great man for the country and the people. Tang Buji hurriedly replied, and after speaking, he looked at the broken knife on the ground and said, "Then sir, why is this?"

"Oh, Lin Yuanqing's second son is strong in martial arts, and he was injured by his lieutenant general Shi Honger when he blocked it. After Mr. Zhu finished speaking, he picked up the broken knife, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Thank you, sir. ”

"Chief Hong Wu is polite, let's go and heal our wounds. ”

The two walked away side by side, leaving only the blood on the ground connected in a line.