Ancient Sword II Xie Lelianxin

After the sun went down, the desert suddenly turned cold. It was still midsummer in the evening, and it was late autumn in a blink of an eye. You had to sit close to the fire to dispel the chill from your body.

"I have heard and heard that this method of catching sand chickens with a rope is really powerful, and you can catch one right! Alas, this barren land can only eat dry food, and I am almost starving... You go and rest, I Let's bake."

"It's nothing, it's all taught by my brother, he knows everything." Wen Renyu turned his head and smiled, and released a message firework into the air, "Brother, they left Gumo a few days before us, and they should set up camp near here .He will come to look for us when he sees the fireworks... Anyway, it’s all here, and he has no reason to drive me back to the valley.”

After setting off the fireworks, she went to remove the noose buried under the sand, but was stopped by Le Wuyi: "Let's put it on first, maybe I can catch a few stupid chickens who threw themselves into the net at night."

Wen Renyu hummed, and sat next to Le Wuyi with a gun in his hand, watching him skillfully shaved the game meat, put salt and cumin on it, and strung them on the branches one by one.

The bonfire crackled and danced, and the flame tip licked a quail-sized sand chicken. The skin of the chicken was slightly browned, and the meat was fragrant, and the oozing chicken fat dripped into the fire.Wen Renyu held his stomach and swallowed, and sincerely praised: "Doctor Le, are all doctors... very good at cooking?"

Le Wuyi stroked the roasted sand chicken with a knife, and chopped the steaming chicken into eight pieces: "Not necessarily, the taste made by my master is, um..."

The tip of the knife stopped at the same time as the words, as if it was caught by a chicken bone, the young man threw the knife, tore off a greasy chicken leg and handed it to Wen Renyu, then turned the subject with a smile: "We left together It's been half a year, why are you still Mr. Le's elder and Doctor Le's younger... Are you Tiangang not allowed to call other people's names?"

"My master said that it's disrespectful to call you by your first and last name..." But seeing Le Wuyi shaking her head in grief, she hurriedly waved her hands and said, "Okay, okay, I'll change it! Don't be like three hundred... oh no, one A hundred ducks chatter like that."

The parted piece of meat was still a little hot, Wen Renyu blew it, and she couldn't wait to bite it off. Under the crispy skin, there were plump and tender muscles, and the delicious gravy dripped all over her hands. She sucked her fingers unsatisfied, and just said, "It's good." After eating, I was stuffed with a few pieces of fat and tender chicken breasts.

In the starry sky and wilderness, boys and girls sat side by side to feast, and the unspeakable anxiety was also diluted by the aroma.

The full crescent moonlight enveloped the sand dunes in the distance, Wen Renyu stared at the huge shadow stretching under the moon, rubbed the fur ball on his waist and said slowly: "It's no different, my master said, the Gu king is hiding in this sea of ​​sand... ...is that so?"

"I don't know either. Raising a Gu King is very troublesome. You have to find a damp and spacious place, avoid the sun, and don't get too hot or cold... In short, the weather in the desert is not good."

Le Wuyi took out the butterfly box from the baggage, and then opened the cover, a palm-sized butterfly flew out, and after a while, it folded its wings and rested on his shoulder.The brilliance of the purple butterfly scales flowed like a scoop of spring water under the moon, reflecting the young man's eyes like water.

"Hey, this butterfly... can fly in the desert?" Wen Renyu knew that Le Wuyi had a butterfly with strong vitality. She watched it grow up gradually, and she still couldn't hide her surprise at this moment.

"Half of the butterfly is a Gu worm, and the other half is a butterfly that is used to hot weather. Besides, it has sucked the wood essence of Jumu when it was a child... It must be stronger than other butterflies." Le Wuyi touched the butterfly's body lightly. He let it fly up to his fingertips coquettishly, and sighed, "The first time I saw Master, there was a butterfly resting on his hand. It was so beautiful... I thought he was a fairy."

"Hey, didn't you say that Yaodie doesn't get close to people?"

"Master happened to be wearing a stick of sawdust. Yaodie liked the smell and was very close to him." Le Wuyi smiled mischievously at Wen Renyu, showing a look of nostalgia, "Later...that Yaodie was scared by me. I ran away, and Master asked me what my name was, so I wasn’t angry at all.”

The butterfly danced affectionately around the young man, flying up and down on his knees, as if dancing with strange steps.Le Wuyi felt that it was more lively than usual tonight, and remembering Wen Renyu's words just now, he asked, "You can't even see a living thing in this ghostly place, why does your master think that Gu King is hiding here?"

"When Master passed by to donate drugs, he heard about a nearby place called Wuyan Jialan, which seemed to have some connection with Liuyue City many years ago. He sent a letter saying that he would go to investigate, but there was no news after that."

"The relationship between drug donation and Liuyue City...? Could it be..."

Le Wuyi lowered his eyes, and stuffed the chicken bone into his mouth in a trance.Wen Renyu pulled his hand away: "Wuyi, what do you remember?"

Le Wuyi didn't seem to hear her voice, but he just talked to himself: "The dungeon is underground, and there is no sunlight all day long. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is not easy to be found by passing caravans." He beat his hands hard Heart, jumped up from the ground, and asked anxiously, "Wenren, Wuyan Jialan...does it mean the temple?"

"I heard from the Mohist in the valley that Wuyan means endless, and Jialan refers to the garden of the monks. It should be very similar."

"So...it's really there, so it's like this!" Le Wuyi stood up, threw the chewed chicken bone into the fire, stared blankly at the flame, wiped his hands and took out something from his bosom.Wen Renyu poked his head curiously, and saw an empty waist-round sachet in his hand, with a centipede-like repair stitch winding in the middle of the half-worn cloth, like an ugly scar on a human face.

"But I was too young to remember the way..." Le Wuyi stroked the seam pityingly, as if trying to smooth it out.

"You mean, you... went to Wuyan Jialan when you were a child?!" Wen Renyu immediately stood up.

"I've been there. It was originally a Buddhist temple with a deep underground palace."

Le Wuyi turned his face away when he spoke, Wen Renyu stared at the ponytail on the back of his head, and heard the young man calmly say: "The people of Liuyue City turned that place into a dungeon, and used it to imprison the people who donated drugs for drug testing... Now There are tens of thousands of underworld butterflies, and the Gu king must have grown into a huge body, so he can only be kept in the deepest part of the underground palace."

Wen Renyu didn't know how Le Wuyi knew this, and was about to ask a question when he suddenly felt a black shadow passing behind him.Shocked in her heart, she immediately pulled out the gun and placed it across her chest. The tip of the spear picked up sand and drew a silver half-arc.

"Who is here?!" Wen Renyu yelled sharply, looking around, he saw two horses parked in the distance beyond the light of the bonfire, but there was only one person on the back of the horse.Her heart skipped a beat, she gripped the barrel of the gun even tighter, stepped back quietly, and stood in front of Le Wuyi.

"Wuyi be careful, there should be one more..." Before she could finish her sentence, Le Wuyi trembled behind her——

"Master, master! Why are you?!"

A man in black flashed out from behind the tent, approaching them step by step.The man's handsome eyebrows gradually became sharper in the firelight, and the imprint under his right eye was like a bloody tear.

"...Your master?" Wen Renyu frowned, "You said thank you for your gentleness and kindness, but this person is full of murderous aura... Are you mistaken?"

There was no answer for a long while.Wen Renyu glanced at Le Wuyi, and saw that his mouth was still open, but he could not make a sound as if his throat had been strangled.She pushed him with her elbow, only to hear him hoarsely say: "How is it possible, no one can mistake him if I am wrong. He is my master... Xie Yi."

While talking, the man was already five or six steps away, and his eyes swept over them, as if he was looking at two stones.Before leaving the valley, Wen Renyu often competed with his seniors whose martial arts were far superior to his own, but he never felt intimidated like he is today.This person has a strong figure, and he can tell at a glance that he must be a master, but the unpredictable man in the distance doesn't know when he will make a move.She reckoned that the odds of winning were slim, so she decided to procrastinate and try her best to wait until Qin Yang came to rescue him.

But Le Wuyi bypassed her and walked straight towards the man in black: "It's as long as Master is fine. I haven't heard from you all this time. I'm really afraid that Shen Ye will embarrass you..."

"It's impolite, don't call the owner by his name directly." The man interrupted Le Wuyi coldly, "Your Excellency, you made a mistake. On the seventh day of the second day, you are from Liuyue City."

The long knife came out of its sheath clangingly, and the man's slender fingertips brushed against the shiny blade, and slowly raised the tip of the knife: "This time, under the order of the high priest, I will take the lives of two people. I will not fight unarmed people. Your Excellency, please draw your sword."

"You, what are you talking about, what's the matter with you, Master?!" Le Wuyi was stunned for a while, and ran towards the man, but was blocked by a gun in front of him.

"Le Wuyi, be sober!" Wen Renyu turned his gun pointing at the visitor, and said angrily to Le Wuyi, "He is the killer of Liuyue City, he is here to kill us. If you want to live, draw your sword!"

"However, how can a disciple stand against his master... Put down the gun quickly, he is my master!"

"Senior Xie was born in Liuyue City, maybe there are brothers with similar faces." Wen Renyu waved away Le Wuyi's hand holding the gun, and saw that the tip of the man's knife moved down a few inches, aiming at the young man's heart.

"Say it again next time..."

"Le Wuyi, draw your sword!" Wen Renyu shouted almost at the same time.

"It's Shen Ye...it must be him who made Master like this!" Le Wuyi took a deep breath, turned half sideways to block the man's gaze, motioned Wen Renyu to look at the sand where the noose was buried, and lowered his voice Said, "I want to take Master back, you cooperate with me... Try not to hurt him."

Wen Renyu nodded slightly, glanced at the man sitting on the horse in the distance, and saw that he had no intention of making a move.Le Wuyi pulled out Zhaoming, also wiped the sword with his fingertips, and attacked with a loud shout.

Zhaoming was quite powerful, but when he collided with the man's heavy Tang Dao, he swung away like a willow in the wind.The young man held a sword flower, and the light spirit sword style contained the same simple and simple sword intent as the man's, with a touch of soft sand on his toes, and in a blink of an eye he jumped within two steps of the man, swinging the sword obliquely towards him to hold the knife wrist.The man who claimed to be Chu Qi retreated half a step to avoid the attack, turned around and intercepted the trembling sword tip with a knife, and the two sharp weapons were twisted together, making a teeth-piercing stabbing sound.

The man's eyes turned cold, pouring internal energy into his arm, he flipped the Tang saber to suppress Zhaoming.The edge of the blade was pressed inch by inch towards Le Wuyi's neck, Wen Renyu shouted, and lifted □□ towards the opponent's ankle.The man withdrew his sword to block back, Le Wuyi took the opportunity to withdraw, but unexpectedly the man kicked the gun away, turned around and dodged in front of him like a ghost, pressing forward step by step, chaining swords and knives, every move was aimed at him The chest and abdomen are critical.

"The one who called Yan back just now..." Le Wuyi yelled suddenly, "You taught me before...it was really you!"

In the blink of an eye, the light of the knife came again, this time Le Wuyi did not avoid it, staring blankly at the shining knife point straight to the heart.Seeing that it was too late to push him away, Wen Renyu could only pick up a large piece of sand with the tip of his gun and wave it at the man.The man's sight was blocked, and his footsteps were slightly stagnant. Le Wuyi woke up like a dream, and quickly turned back to avoid it, but it was still too late——

The tip of the knife cut through his front and stabbed his right arm.

bang.

Zhaoming, who flew out of his hand, stabbed obliquely on the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.

The man flicked away the blood on the blade, and when the man in the distance made a gesture, he kicked Zhaoming to Le Wuyi, and said coldly, "Pick it up, the master wants you to hold the sword."

"Master, even if you don't remember me, can't you see that our physical skills are in the same line?" Le Wuyi covered his arms, stooped to pick up the sword staggeringly.His injured right hand couldn't hold the hilt of the sword, so he could only hold the sword with his left hand. The exposed wound immediately bled profusely, and the blood soon soaked through the cuff and scattered on the sand like plum blossoms.

The man in black just looked at him silently.

The young man let out a breath, and slowly straightened his back: "Think about it carefully, my kung fu is much worse than yours, but you can't hit me. This is because I know the back move and every step of your moves. The position of the footwork, you taught me by hand... Even if you don't remember it, isn't it strange at all?"

"...I have served the High Priest for many years, and I have never been out of Liuyue City. It is absolutely impossible to give or accept without authorization."

"Master...listen to me!" Le Wuyi raised his voice, anxiously saying that he was afraid of being interrupted, "the knife in your hand has a small gap three inches away from the tip, which is where you used to make moves. I accidentally smashed it with Zhaoming. If you take a look, you will know that I am not talking nonsense."

Wen Renyu couldn't help looking at Tang Dao, and he saw a small inconspicuous gap on the blade.The gap reflected bright fire, like a tear hanging from the point of a knife.

The young man wiped off the blood from his hands, and spread them out in front of the man: "Also, look at my hands, the nails are a little yellow, that's because of being contaminated by drugs all the year round. You taught me to study medicine, and your hands are the same. You said that life is extremely precious, and it will never come back again. I swear to you the day I become a teacher, that doctors are benevolent and don’t harm others... How can you be Shen Ye’s killer! You, you are Xie Yi!"

"Wuyi, calm down!" Wen Renyu grabbed Le Wuyi, who was about to approach the man several times, and took the opportunity to roll up his sleeves to check the injury.The wound looked terrifying, but upon closer inspection, she realized that no bones were injured. She breathed a sigh of relief, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of the man looking intently at Le Wuyi's bloody arm. Two fire lights fell into the black pupils, like in the dark night. Slight lake.

"I have nothing to do with this young master. You can do your best, there is no need to show mercy."

The man finally raised his sword and stepped forward, his expression still reserved and indifferent, as if the fleeting pity and hesitation were just Wen Renyu's illusion.She didn't know how to comfort her, but Ting Le Wuyi said that there was no pain, and then winked at herself, her expression no longer hesitated.

"Master, please be careful... the disciple is about to make a move."

Le Wuyi held Zhaoming tightly with his left hand, his tense arm was in line with the tip of the sword, and his full-strength posture was like riding the wind and catching the moon, and a dragon emerging from the water, he was a different person from the previous one who was restrained, and occasionally reminded Wenren Yu to avoid it. Use the man's edge, or take advantage of the gap between his moves to attack one after another.The man's attacks became more and more fierce, and he was unknowingly led to the sand where the noose was buried.

The mechanism for pulling the noose was still a few feet away, Wen Renyu left the fight calmly, looked for a gap to glance at the two parked horses, and his heart skipped a beat—the man sitting on the horse disappeared!

She had a bad heart, and when she turned her head, she saw that there was a man in black in front of Le Wuyi.The man didn't approach, he just stood with his hands behind his back a few steps away, and then said something softly.

After a moment of silence, Le Wuyi yelled angrily, ignoring the man's attack, and stabbed at the tall man in black with his sword.Tang Dao, who was chasing after him, pierced Le Wuyi's left shoulder, but failed to stop him at all. The man turned and jumped, and finally blocked the man in black before Le Wuyi.

The young man roared hoarsely, with faint sobs: "How dare you...make my master like this...Master, get out of the way, I'm going to kill him!"

The man didn't answer, he slapped Le Wuyi hard on the chest after Ge Kai Zhaoming, sending him flying more than ten steps away.Before the other person could speak, he was already holding a blood-stained knife, and Le Wuyi couldn't retreat if he couldn't get close.

Wen Renyu, who was hiding behind the mechanism, tightly covered his mouth, felt a faint vibration under his feet, guessing that Qin Yang and others had rushed to help.The man was not far from the sand where the rope was buried, if Le Wuyi could lead him a few steps forward, maybe he could really capture him alive.

The tight rope was slippery with sweat, Wen Renyu stared at the three of them without blinking, Le Wuyi, who was covered in blood, suddenly turned his head and blinked at her, then coughed out a mouthful of blood froth in embarrassment, begging He looked up at the man named Chu Qi.

His lips moved, as if calling for Master.

Wen Renyu's eye sockets suddenly became hot.The next moment the man took a step forward, grabbed the boy by the neck and threw him to the ground.Le Wuyi's face was flushed from coughing, and he struggled with his injured hand into the sand, as if looking for Zhao Ming who had let go - but Wen Renyu knew that he was groping for the position of the rope under the sand.

The man's knee pressed against the boy's injured chest, and he forced his face to one side.Le Wuyi felt a pain in the back of his neck as the cold blade touched his skin, and in a blink of an eye, Xie Yi had turned his head, waiting for Shen Ye's order.

"Don't bother me to do it myself...Chu Qi, kill him." Standing behind the man, Shen Ye raised the corners of his mouth, and his soft voice was somewhat joyful.

In the nick of time, the dead sand suddenly rolled like a river at high tide, and hundreds of ropes emerged from the soft sand, trapping the three of them like spider webs.The man let go of the boy and leaped back, swiping his knife to cut off the rope rushing towards his feet. At this moment, the sound of sharp weapons piercing through the air came from all around, and he immediately turned around and counted his knives, blocking all the feather arrows that shot at Shen Ye.

The two flew on their horses and quickly disappeared into the shadow cast by the sand dunes.

The feather arrows on the ground are all dyed a little red, which is the symbol of Baicao Arrow.Wen Renyu was about to go after him, but when Le Wuyi hissed and called Master behind him, he could only grit his teeth, jump off the horse and run towards his friend who was lying on the ground.

"I couldn't keep him, he left..." Le Wuyi was supported to sit up, looking at the direction in which the two left with red eyes.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't stop them." Wen Renyu sighed, tore off the rag from Le Wuyi's front, and wrapped his bleeding right arm for him.The boy suddenly coughed violently, his pale face was flushed, but he still trembled his lips and wanted to speak.She hurriedly patted his back to comfort him, not wanting to make him cough worse, so she dared not move again, for fear of aggravating his internal injuries.

After holding on for a few breaths, Le Wuyi still passed out.

Wen Renyu helped Qin Yang to lift the fainted Le Wuyi onto the horse's back, seeing a long and narrow cut of fresh blood on the back of his neck, which seemed to overlap with an old wound, a trace of doubt flashed in his heart.

Qin Yang pressed against Le Wuyi's back and lost some internal energy. The boy's breath finally calmed down. Wen Renyu was relieved a little. Seeing that his fist was still clenched tightly, he carefully opened his hand.

Fine grains of sand leaked from between the fingers, and in the blood-stained palm, there was only a severed rope.