Pawn Crossing the River

Qi Xuansu jumped from a height of ten feet and landed with a crash. Although he had slowed down his fall with his true energy, he still had to release his force when he landed. Qi Xuansu's knees were bent and his body's center of gravity sank, causing the ground beneath his feet to stir up a circle of smoke and dust that spread around, and even slight cracks appeared where he landed.

Qi Xuansu could clearly feel that his knees, calves, and feet had been damaged to a certain extent. However, due to the flesh and blood, they were able to recover quickly, which would not affect his combat effectiveness.

At such a height, those living corpses could not jump down. Qi Xuansu, who had temporarily escaped the living corpses, finally faced the strange man head-on.

"Who are you?" Qi Xuansu asked, his voice echoing at the bottom of the empty pit.

The man didn't answer and took a few steps back. Under the firelight of the alchemy furnace, it can be seen that his face is pale, and the eyes in his eye sockets have disappeared, with only a little flash of red light. He is very similar to many living corpses, but his expression is not dull, and even reveals a bit of ferocity.

This is an alchemist, and an alchemist who is good at manipulating living corpses.

It just so happened that Qi Xuansu's warrior spirit was best at restraining the alchemist.

The two took action almost at the same time.

Qi Xuansu held a dagger and used the "Dayan Spirit Sword" sword move.

One knife seemed to shrink the ground into an inch.

I saw a flash of bright white light, and the sword edge of "Qing Yuan" had already arrived in front of the alchemist. If it had been a person with a weaker realm, he might not know how he died until his head fell to the ground.

The alchemist used his fingers to write, four horizontally and four vertically, and drew a nine-square grid in front of him.

"Qingyuan" stopped abruptly when it was only three inches away from the alchemist's forehead.

A cage appeared out of thin air, trapping Qi Xuansu in it, and Qi Xuansu could not pass out the sword in his hand.

As the saying goes, when the fake becomes the real, the real is also fake. The magic is between the real and the illusion, and if you believe it, it will be effective.

Spells can be roughly divided into three realms.

The first level is to make falsehoods come true, which is not much different from deception. It is suitable for deceiving people but not for killing people. It is not difficult to make ordinary people see the false scene of immortals descending to earth, but it must not be used when fighting on the battlefield, because of the warrior's Blood energy and the evil energy of weapons on the battlefield are the most disruptive to spells.

When powerful ghosts harm people, they mostly do so in this realm, causing all kinds of illusions to appear before the eyes of the people they harm, causing their minds to be taken away, and they either die of fear or commit suicide.

If you encounter a person with strong blood energy or a person with strong murderous aura, the illusion will be disturbed or even broken. Most of the people who can do evil are physically strong or have blood stains on their hands. Therefore, the saying that evil ghosts are afraid of evil people comes from this. Come.

Spells that can truly be used on the battlefield belong to the second level, such as calling wind and rain, thunder and fire, which fall into this category. They are half-true and half-false, and can only be barely touched until the stage of returning to the true state.

As for the third level, you can already use human power to change the weather, turn yin into yang, illusion into reality, virtuality into reality, and even more real than the real thing. The magical power of the immortal family is nothing more than this.

The three realms progress step by step, eventually turning falsehood into truth, which is one of the origins of the word "cultivation".

Spells can be said to support the alchemist lineage, and the reason why Wufu can overpower the alchemists in terms of combat power is because the spells are restrained by Zhiyang Zhigang's blood.

However, everything is relative. Although water can overcome fire, if water is weak and fire is strong, fire can also overcome water. The same is true between a warrior's blood energy and an alchemist's spell. If the spell is stronger than the blood energy, it can also suppress the blood energy.

At this time, the "cage" painted by the alchemist was a lie, but Qi Xuansu really felt that he was trapped in it, and could not break free. This was the fact that falsehood trumped truth, and Qi Xuansu's blood energy could not break it. .

Just like evil ghosts harm people, some evil ghosts will melt into ice and snow when they meet a Taoist priest who catches ghosts, but some evil ghosts can in turn harm the Taoist priests who catch ghosts. This is the difference between the depth of Taoism and the shallowness of Taoism.

Qi Xuansu worked hard to activate his blood energy and true energy, causing the cage that trapped him to twist and deform slightly with his movements, and "Qingyuan" in his hand could slowly move forward.

The alchemist did not sit still and waited for death. He drew circles on his chest with his hands, and a harmonious atmosphere emerged on his own, stirring up layers of ripples outward, like the ebb and flow of the tide, layer upon layer.

The two wear each other out and compete with each other to see who loses his momentum sooner.

The alchemist's clouds were calm and the wind was gentle, and beads of sweat rolled down Qi Xuansu's face.

In this fight between the two, Qi Xuansu was already at a disadvantage.

At this moment, Qi Xuansu's anger dropped from his Dantian, and then his face showed an angry look, like a Dharma Protector in a temple, and then he let out a loud roar like thunder.

Led by the whistling sound, the billowing blood energy rushed out of Qi Xuansu's body and turned into a white mist visible to the naked eye, like boiling steam, which was comparable to the blood energy of a martial artist in the stage of returning to his true form.

Break out of the prison and ascend to Kunlun.

The alchemist was shocked, feeling that only a vast expanse of white remained in his "bright Dharma Eyes".

Qi Xuansu's aura quickly fell after a very short peak. Forcibly breaking the spell in this way of sacrificing blood and vitality was his ultimate at this time.

However, after Qi Xuansu got out of the cage, he immediately stabbed out with his sword.

The alchemist's expression finally became solemn. He waved his two sleeves, and there was a huffing sound between his sleeves. Countless white talismans flew out from the vast white field, like paper money, accompanied by the howling wind. Time is like rain of paper money, filling the sight, like countless white butterflies, and also like the sight of rich people using paper money to pave the way when they mourn.

Form a formation with talismans.

Qi Xuansu stepped into the talisman formation with one step, moving with the sword, spinning like a top, and the sword energy shot out in all directions.

The talisman array stirred and shook endlessly.

The sudden burst of sword energy intertwined into a killing net in the blink of an eye, cutting the talisman array into pieces from the inside out.

After the talisman array was broken, countless broken talismans floated in the air. Qi Xuansu did not stop and followed the sword.

The alchemist directly held a spiritual talisman between his two fingers, and with just a slight shake, the spiritual talisman turned into blue yin fire, wrapping his entire palm and half of his arm without damaging his skin or sleeves.

There was a wind blowing, and the sound was like the hoarse cry of a dying person, or like a ghost roaring in the dark wind.

Immediately afterwards, all the floating broken talismans burned on their own, but it was not a red flame, but a biting blue flame with a biting coldness, and connected into a piece, it was a sea of ​​​​blue fire.

Qi Xuansu knew that these blue flames were yin fire, so he retreated hastily, not daring to be contaminated at all. Seeing these blue flames sweeping towards him again, Qi Xuansu simply used poison to fight poison, took out a "Phoenix Eye Yi San" and threw it, red red The flame spreads rapidly, but the flame of the firearm is Yang fire, not inferior to the Yin fire, and can compete with it.

It's just that the flame of "Fengyan Yisan" is destined to be difficult to last and can only be resisted for a while.

Just when Qi Xuansu was at a loss what to do, a sudden change occurred, and the two flames strangled each other, but invisibly activated the huge alchemy furnace at the bottom of the pit. In an instant, the alchemy furnace produced a suction force, like a giant whale sucking water, sucking all the The flames were all sucked into it.

After the Yin Fire disappeared, the alchemist was stunned for a moment, and then showed a look of horror.

This is like a confrontation between a strong man and a young man. Both sides have guns and no one dares to act rashly. The strength is irrelevant. But if two people lose their guns at the same time, whoever is stronger will have the advantage.

In close combat, how can an alchemist be the opponent of a martial artist? Even if we look at the six major inheritances, including Sanren, alchemists are at the bottom. In this case, there is no doubt that Qi Xuansu has the absolute advantage.

Qi Xuansu held "Qingyuan" in hand and approached without hesitation.

The alchemist, who had not felt the difference between life and death for many years, was in chaos.

One wrong step and every step is wrong.

He never expected that he would be defeated by the alchemy furnace.

"Qingyuan" just chopped straight down without any fancy.

A head soared into the sky, and after landing, it rolled out far away. The red light in its eye sockets slowly dissipated.

As soon as the alchemist died, the living corpses stopped moving. It didn't look like they were dead, but rather they seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.

Qi Xuansu came to the headless body and searched it over.

There were no Xumi items, but Qi Xuansu found two stacks of unused talismans in the sleeve pockets of the corpse. They were both made of white paper, and their power was quite average. The advantage was that the quantity was large enough, and it was free to use.

In addition, Qi Xuansu also found a jade plaque around the body's waist.

There are three characters embossed on the jade plaque: Bai Yutang.

It was the place Qiniang wanted Qi Xuansu to look for.

Qi Xuansu immediately realized something was wrong.

Qiniang asked him to look for Bai Yutang. He always thought that Bai Yutang was a place name. Now it seems that Bai Yutang is not a place name, but the name of an organization, similar to the Taoist Tiangang Hall, Beichen Hall, and Huasheng Hall. Although there is a Yashu Hall Yu, but the key is the people in it.

No wonder Qiniang could only provide an approximate range but not an exact location. After all, people are not dead things. They can move around and will not stick to one place forever.

In this case, the alchemist he killed was a member of Bai Yutang. Judging from his method of controlling living corpses, he was probably not a good person.

It's just that Qi Xuansu has never heard of Bai Yutang's name, and Bai Yutang does not exist in the list of Taoist secret societies. Is Bai Yutang a subordinate organization of some secret society? Judging from its method of controlling living corpses, the Zhiming Cult is quite suspicious.

Furthermore, what role does "Shangui Yao", who is also a member of the Qingping Society, play in Bai Yutang? Is he a member of Bai Yutang? Or the leader of Bai Yutang?

Another point is that Qiniang once said that in addition to collecting debts, she also left some things in Bai Yutang for Qi Xuansu to take as he pleased. Because she won't go to Bai Yutang again for a while, instead of taking advantage of "Shan Gui Yao" or anyone else, she might as well give it to Qi Xuansu, which will be regarded as a deposit for the time being.

The implication of this sentence is that Qiniang and Bai Yutang also have some kind of relationship. Is it an alliance and partnership? Or was Qiniang once one of them?