Volume 1 The Wind Rises in Lingzhou Chapter 98 Spring Hunting in the Hundred Mountains (38)
By the time Xu Yan completely recovered from his injuries, it was almost a quarter of an hour later, so he didn't have the strength to stop Wu Hao and Zhou Xian from escaping, and part of the reason for this result naturally had to involve Bai Bing, because Xu Yan had given her the last three recovery pills before.
However, thinking that after this battle, Wu Hao and Zhou Xian should not continue to stay in this mountain and river, Xu Yan no longer had the idea of 'killing them all'.
Seeing Bai Bing, who was limping and pale, walking towards him, Xu Yan finally nodded to her, but didn't say anything more. The reason why he was able to use the strongest move so far in this battle, destroying the mountain palm, was indispensable for Bai Bing to sacrifice himself first to win the opportunity to attack, otherwise according to the previous realm after Wu Hao's cultivation through the elixir, even if his palm was used, most of it would be in the air, after all, Wu Hao, who was only a line away from the seven-grade realm, his speed was too fast after all, far from what he could compare with at the moment.
The master's moves, especially the life-and-death battle between the equal strengths, the slightest gap may be infinitely magnified, and the current ending is the limit of what Xu Yan can do, if it weren't for his incomparably old and rich combat experience, it would be difficult for him to even repel Wu Hao.
Bai Bing felt Xu Yan's gratitude to her invisibly, and didn't care too much, but just looked at Zhou Yu, who was still unable to move not far away, and said to Xu Yan with some regret: "It's a pity that Wu Hao and Zhou Xian ran away." β
Xu Yan saw that she was always focusing on Zhou Yu, and he already felt the strong killing intent hidden in her, and he walked towards Zhou Yu while opening his mouth and replied: "This is also a helpless thing, successfully repelling them is already the biggest limit we can do, and even if we stop them in the end, can we really kill them all?" Killing Zhou Xian's life, you can still find a suitable reason to prevaricate in the past, but Wu Hao's identity is not simple, I heard that he is the biological son of the Chenyang Sect Master, and he is also the young Sect Master of the Chenyang Sect, if the news of his death in our hands is passed on, this may not be a good result for our Lotus Sect. β
Without waiting for Bai Bing to speak, the two of them had already come to the extremely weak Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu looked up at Xu Yan, who was looking at him condescendingly, and he couldn't say anything in his heart, he originally thought that no matter how powerful Xu Yan was, that is, a sword and martial arts double cultivator with a three-story cultivation, plus a four-grade martial arts cultivation at the beginning, it would not be his opponent of sword cultivation who was only the slightest distance away from the five-story building, but now, he saw with his own eyes that the other party had completely defeated Wu Hao, which couldn't help but make him feel a sense of frustration in his heart that he was being played with by the other party.
Seeing that Xu Yan's eyes were always fixed on him, but he didn't mean to take the initiative to speak, Zhou Yu, who had no blood on his face, finally sighed helplessly, and took the lead in saying to Xu Yan: "As long as you can let me go, I can guarantee that the grievances between the Zhou family and you will be written off, and in addition, I can also blame you for killing Zhou Mi from now on." β
Xu Yan heard the other party say this, and pondered for a moment, and then asked curiously: "Why do you think that your Zhou family will sacrifice so much for you?" If I guessed correctly, you are only the second among your own brothers, right?"
Hearing Xu Yan say this, Zhou Yu's already pale face couldn't help but become even colder, and he naturally realized the implication of Xu Yan's words.
His face full of pain and resentment did not hide it in front of Xu Yan and Bai Bing, but said hatefully: "Zhou Xian...... Zhou Xian is just a brute! But as long as I can go back alive, I can explain the ins and outs of this whole thing to the Zhou family, since he can do such a inhumane deed, my father and the ancestors of the Zhou family will naturally not spend any energy to cultivate him, as for my eldest brother, he was sent to Zhongzhou by my family early, and he definitely does not look down on this industry in Wangchuan City. β
Xu Yan didn't hear what he wanted to hear from the other party, so he replied coldly: "You have to figure it out, I'm not interested in understanding the dog-eat-dog between your three Zhou brothers." Seeing that Zhou Yu's face was ugly and silent, Xu Yan continued to say coldly: "And if you only have this set of rhetoric, then you don't want to go back alive." β
Hearing this unquestionable cold tone in Xu Yan's mouth, Zhou Yu immediately quickly thought in his mind about what other conditions he had that could satisfy the other party, after all, as long as there was something to talk about and he could save his life, then no matter what he was, he was willing to exchange it.
Zhou Yu thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't come up with any better way to break his head, but when he thought about it, he suddenly became enlightened, only to see him suddenly take a deep breath, and slowly spit it out, and couldn't help but let out a self-deprecation, and then asked Xu Yan rhetorically: "It turns out that I thought about the problem by myself, let's say, what do you want me to promise you, as long as I can do it, I can rely on you." β
Xu Yan saw that he finally opened his mind, and there was still no trace of emotion in his deep eyes, and he said in a calm tone: "My conditions are very simple, you must kill Zhou Xian with your own hands!"
Hearing that it was such a condition, Zhou Yu's whole face couldn't help but change greatly, but then he combined with what Xu Yan had said to him before, and he suddenly realized.
There is no doubt that Xu Yan is much older than him in terms of the importance of looking at the problem, because if he really wants the Zhou family to focus on him in the future, then the best way is not to prosecute Zhou Xian's evil deeds that he secretly abandoned, but to kill him directly, because as long as the latter is dead, then he doesn't even need to say anything in vain, the Zhou family can only hand over the burden of the family to him, and at the same time, only after he becomes the core disciple of the Zhou family, or the heir of the family, can he have the qualifications to do the guarantee, so that the people of the Zhou family will no longer go to Xu Yan's trouble from now onγ
However, Zhou Yu is not Zhou Xian after all, although the latter not only left him in the hands of Xu Yan and others at the last moment this time to wait for death, but also in the interests of the family all along, he has long had a lot of dissatisfaction with the latter, but no matter how resentful and dissatisfied he is, he has never thought of killing the other party.
It can be intuitively seen that Zhou Yu has a huge sense of contradiction and hesitation in his heart at this moment, because Xu Yan's condition is a moral bottom line that he can't even think of, can he really kill his own brother ruthlessly, even if the other party deliberately sacrifices his life.
Xu Yan saw that Zhou Yu was in a quagmire-like struggle, and he didn't have the slightest mercy, but just left a sentence, "I'll give you another half an hour to think about it, if I still can't get the answer you want after half an hour, then you'd better solve it yourself." Immediately, without waiting for Zhou Yu to make any more answers, he turned around and walked towards Chen Qinghe and the others.
However, just after Xu Yan turned around, he heard a "whoosh" in his ears.
Xu Yan turned around abruptly to look, but saw that Bai Bing had already used the long sword he had obtained, and a sword pierced Zhou Yu's left chest, directly piercing the latter's heart.
Seeing Zhou Yu staring at him in an instant, Xu Yan's face was immediately as gloomy as a dark cloud, he looked at Bai Bing and said coldly, "You'd better give me a reasonable explanation." β
Bai Bing pulled his real name flying sword out of Zhou Yu's chest, and replied in the same cold tone: "I will give you a reasonable explanation, but not now." β
When Xu Yan heard this reply, a trace of anger couldn't help but flash in his deep eyes, but in the end, he still didn't have too much consideration for her, and turned around and left the place.
At this moment, the injuries of Chen Qinghe and the others have gradually stabilized, but there is no doubt that their physical condition is still extremely poor, Xu Yan walked up to him, and after seeing the four people who were all seriously injured and had not recovered, he wanted to speak a little, but in the end he still spoke: "Senior brother, the results of this spring hunt are basically a foregone conclusion, and the three major sects should all be unsuccessful so far, but Senior Brother Qingshan's broken arm injury is urgent, and you must rush back to the sect as soon as possible for treatment, so you should take this opportunity to go back as soon as possible." β
As he spoke, Xu Yan handed over another storage bag, and said in front of everyone: "I still have some elixirs left here that can help recover from injuries, and when Senior Brother Qingshan wakes up, you can choose the right time to give it to him." β
When Chen Qinghe heard this, he was undoubtedly a little hesitant, and he asked suspiciously: "Isn't the little junior brother going back with us, and this elixir ......?"
Xu Yan saw that his face was embarrassed, so he explained: "There are still a few days left before the end of the spring hunt, just in case, I decided to go to the upper mountain range of Huangmaojian with Senior Brother Bai to see if I can find the 'white fruit' in the third task, if I can find it, I can once again increase the victory rate of our sect in this spring hunt, and it will be completely impossible for them to turn over." β
Hearing this, Chen Qinghe nodded without surprise. This spring hunt will evolve into such a situation, which he never expected in any case, almost every disciple sent out by the sect has been killed and injured, especially the entire team from the White Crane Sword Village, and they have all died in an extremely tragic battle early, but it is precisely because of this that they will pay more attention to the final result of this spring hunt, after all, this involves the huge interest relationship between the sect and the sect.
Chen Qinghe opened his mouth and replied: "Since this is the case, then I will no longer dissuade you, you remember to be more careful, as for this elixir, the junior brother should keep it for himself, after all, in the upper mountain range of Huangmaojian, I estimate that the fierce beasts living there are not weak......"
Hearing that Chen Qinghe was still thinking about himself at the moment, Xu Yan's heart warmed slightly, but he still interrupted him directly, and said in an aggravated tone, and said with an undoubted attitude: "Senior brother, when is it, you are still thinking about those unwarranted things, Senior Brother Qingshan's injury is so serious, it is obvious that he needs these pills more than me, okay, don't think about it, take it quickly, Senior Brother Bai and I will be more cautious, besides, if we really encounter a spirit beast that we can't deal with, we will take the initiative to give up at most." β
Seeing that Xu Yan had already stuffed the storage bag into his arms, Chen Qinghe couldn't help sighing, but he didn't insist too much, and then he went to pick up Chen Qingshan, who was still in a coma, and beckoned Gu Xueqing and Qiao Mu, the inner disciple of the Xia Zi Sect, and gradually left this primeval forest.
Seeing their figures gradually disappear into the distance, Xu Yan turned to Bai Bing and asked, "Now Senior Sister Bai can explain the situation, right?"
Bai Bing heard that Xu Yan suddenly changed her name, and she unconsciously remembered that the other party had healed her, and she didn't have to think about it to know that the other party must have completely seen her body, otherwise she wouldn't have woken up in a coma and found that her bloodstained bandeau had been completely untied. Originally, when Xu Yan didn't take the initiative to mention this matter, she didn't think there was anything about it, but this sudden 'Senior Sister Bai' really caught her off guard, and it also made her uncontrollably flash a trace of shame.
Seeing that the other party did not answer after hearing his question, but instead flashed a trace of shyness on that bright and picturesque face, Xu Yan couldn't help but be a little confused, so he had to ask again and said, "Senior Sister Bai, now you can explain what the four words 'Dushan, Nandong' mean, right?"
Bai Bing heard the other party ask this question, and finally reacted from the previous fantasy, and then she couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in her heart, originally she thought that Xu Yan wanted to ask why she killed Zhou Yu, no matter how bad it was, she also asked why she was a daughter or something, but she never thought that the other party actually asked her directly, the root cause of the original team with him.
Bai Bing wiped away the shame in his heart, but instead of answering his question directly, he asked rhetorically, "Junior brother, have you ever heard about some of the life deeds of my fifth-generation sect master of the Lotus Sect?"
Xu Yan couldn't help frowning when he heard that Bai Bing involved the matter on the fifth-generation sect master, he didn't know much about the fifth-generation sect master, except for learning from the cardinal's mouth that this old ancestor was the former master of his sword, and when he heard the latter's deeds, it would be traced back to Zhao Bailian who had said something about the latter, but those information were not enough to make him have any deep understanding of this old ancestor, of course, he also knew about the latter from the mouth of the female sword fairy with the same name as the sword in his own saber, but unfortunately, she was in order for Xu Yan to help her kill this old ancestorγ
So, after thinking for a while, Xu Yan replied truthfully: "To tell you the truth, I don't know much about him, I only know that he is the previous master of this sway behind me. β
Seemingly not surprised by Xu Yan's answer, Bai Bing just nodded slightly, and then took the initiative to take out a codex that looked quite old and extremely old from his storage bag, handed it to Xu Yan and said, "This is a codex I found from the Scripture Pavilion, you can open it first." β
After Xu Yan roughly finished reading and cast an inquiring look, Bai Bing continued: "The result is the same as what you and I saw, this codex should have been written by the fifth generation sect master himself, presumably the junior brother should have seen it written on one of them that he had cultivated in a place called Nandong in Dushan, and also left a cave, right?"
Xu Yan's face was a little ugly and asked, "Yes, but so what?"
After Bai Bing heard this, he said proudly with his hands behind his back: "I think that the fifth-generation sect master of my Lotus Sect used to be the number one master in the Five States Continent, after the junior brother learned the specific location of the cave where he had cultivated, didn't he want to go and see it in person? You know, since the beginning of the sixth generation of sect masters, until now, there are still people who are worried about that sword technique, don't the junior brothers want to get it?"
Bai Bing's incomparably clear and good-looking eyes suddenly stared at him, and continued: "Besides, did the junior brother ever think that Zhou Xianben, as a descendant of the Zhou family, not only did he not go to the Yunlan Sect to practice, but instead took a huge risk to worship under my Lotus Sect, what was he plotting?"
"You have to mean that Zhou Xian worshiped my Lotus Sect in order to find the sword technique of the fifth-generation sect master?"
"Of course, it's not just that, didn't the little junior brother also witness him in this spring hunt, and the disciples of the Yunlan Sect tried to kill all of our Lotus Sect disciples? β
"Even if your guesses are all true, since no one has succeeded in finding that sword technique for a hundred years, how can you be sure that we can find it? And since this codex is stored in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion of the sect, then it is definitely very likely that it has been read by others, so that cave in the south cave of Dushan has already been set foot in, and we are only going now, so it is too late, right?"
Hearing Xu Yan's words, she was so careful and vigilant, Bai Bing couldn't help but be speechless for a while, but she finally replied bluntly: " I really can't give you specific answers to these questions raised by the junior brother, but what I know is that since the fifth generation of sect masters left that Dushan, none of the cultivators who have entered the Dushan range have been able to come out alive, so even if someone has been to that cave, it is impossible to take anything from it, after all, Dushan has been known as the forbidden place of death in the Spirit Beast Mountain Range since then. β
"Since Senior Sister Bai also knows that it is a forbidden place of death where there is no return, then why do you want to go in and die in vain? Is it just for that illusory sword technique? With all due respect, if I had known that Senior Sister Bai was going to do this kind of thing, I would not have agreed to join you in a team to enter the mountain. β
Hearing Xu Yan's words, there was a slight intention to regret it, Bai Bing immediately replied in a deep voice: "Little junior brother, I am too worried, since I dare to enter this Dushan, I naturally found a way to get out safely, you can rest assured of this." β