Mortal Bones

"Since... when I came in, you have been planning this, right?"

Amidst the dust, Shang Jiu slowly raised his head and looked at Xu Taiping, his tone seemed a little labored when he spoke.

"To be precise, it started from when I knew you were Shang Jiu."

Xu Taiping clamped the Chunhu Knife in his arm and wiped off the blood on it.

"Oh? It seems that the old man has said a lot of bad things about me to you."

Shang Jiu smiled.

While speaking, he also took off the long gown, folded it carefully like Xu Taiping, and put it into the ring.

"Old Duan never said bad things about you."

Xu Taiping shook his head, and then wrapped the blood spider silk strip around his hand, and continued: "Throwing the remains of my master and senior sister into the ruins of Yunmengze and letting them turn into ghost zombies, I think it is not too much to guard against people who can do such things."

Hearing this, Shang Jiu's brows suddenly twisted.

But immediately, his brows relaxed again, and he regained his calm look.

"Uncle Shang, I'll help you."

At this moment, the little girl with pigtails ran behind Shang Jiu with her short legs, hugged his thighs, and secretly looked at Xu Taiping.

"Xiao Yuan, you stay aside, it won't take long."

Shang Jiu patted the little girl with pigtails on the head.

Upon hearing this, the little girl glared at Xu Taiping fiercely, and then turned away.

"I have to say that the old man's vision of people is as bad as ever."

Shang Jiu, who took off his clothes, also picked up the knife like Xu Taiping, and looked at Xu Taiping with a faint smile in his eyes.

While speaking, his body also rang with the crisp sound of "crackling" of muscles and bones stretching.

The body that looked a little thin began to stretch and bulge at a speed visible to the naked eye, and every bulging muscle was full of strength.

"As a sword cultivator, how can you not temper your body?"

Shang Jiu, whose figure had also risen by three feet, shook his arms and smiled at Xu Taiping.

Just a few simple arm-shaking movements made a burst of explosive sounds, which showed how strong his body was.

"In order to practice sword, I once practiced for three hundred days in another wild secret land without the need to use the Jiao Order, and killed one hundred wild beasts."

"So if you think you can beat me in a martial arts competition, you are wrong."

Shang Jiu raised his sword and pointed it at Xu Taiping.

Xu Taiping was indeed a little surprised at this moment.

But that was all.

The previous words of the sword ghost, "arrogant and lawless", awakened him.

Since he had picked up the sword and decided to decide the winner, life and death, it didn't matter whether the person standing in front of him was a human, a ghost, a god or a demon.

"There is a place where you and I can have a competition."

Xu Taiping raised his sword and made a crane-like starting posture, staring at Shang Jiu.

Shang Jiu was also a little surprised to see Xu Taiping's reaction.

He felt that the other party seemed to have taken his physique of the Martial Honor Realm into account.

"Interesting."

He muttered to himself, and began to walk slowly around Xu Taiping, as if looking for the opportunity to attack.

Without the Jiao Order, every step they took was actually very difficult.

So every time Shang Jiu took a step, his muscles and bones would make a slight explosion due to the pressure of the mixed air around him.

"Ah... sneeze!"

At this moment, the little girl with pigtails stretched out her head to sniff a lotus, and accidentally sneezed because of the pollen.

"Swish!"

Almost at the same time, Shang Jiu took a step forward, then twisted his waist, and swung his arm holding the knife suddenly, and with a "swish" sound, he slashed at Xu Taiping with a knife.

Compared with the previous gorgeous knife skills, this knife was really too simple.

But he brought speed and strength, accuracy and ruthlessness to the extreme.

As a result, Xu Taiping, who was taking the challenge, had no choice but to swing his sword to meet it.

"Swish!"

As he expected, Xu Taiping did not dodge, but swung his sword to meet it and directly chopped against his blade.

"Bang!"

Amid the violent collision, Shang Jiu's sword was bounced high by Xu Taiping.

Shang Jiu's eyes then showed a look of astonishment.

Because he found that the power that Xu Taiping's body burst out was far higher than his body of martial arts.

"Swish!"

After deflecting Shang Jiu's sword, Xu Taiping forcibly retracted the sword with his own strength, and then turned the Chunhu blade and slashed towards Shang Jiu's chest.

"Swoosh!"

At the critical moment, Shang Jiu's body suddenly leaned back, and then used the sword to hit the ground, barely dodging Xu Taiping's sword.

"Zheng!"

But what Shang Jiu did not expect was that Xu Taiping once again used his own strength to forcibly retract the sword, and at the same time moved, raised his arm, and chopped down with a sword.

If Shang Jiu was hit by this knife, his body would probably be split in two with his belly button as the middle.

"Shua!"

However, Shang Jiu seemed to have anticipated Xu Taiping's knife, and had already shrunk his body and barely avoided it.

With a "bang", Xu Taiping's knife slashed on the ground, leaving a knife mark about ten feet long.

Although Shang Jiu finally avoided the knife, a shallow wound was left on his waist and abdomen, and blood seeped out quickly.

"You have trained yourself to have a physique that exceeds the martial honor realm. No wonder you have the confidence to put down the walking dragon order and fight with me. I take back what I just said."

Shang Jiu changed his evaluation of Xu Taiping.