Kaifeng Bistro

Soon, someone brought a tall war horse in front of Xu Gan.Xu Gan got on his horse, took the bow and arrow from the man, urged his horses, and rushed towards the row of targets on the edge of the martial arts field.Everyone held their breath and watched carefully, and saw that he drew the bow like a full moon, and shot an arrow from a distance. Before anyone stepped forward to check, he took three arrows at the same time, and aimed at several nearby targets respectively. A volley shot in the past.

The onlookers applauded in unison, lit the torches and stepped forward to see that all the arrows hit the red heart exactly.They became even more excited immediately, shouting: "Quick! Let the prisoners go quickly, and only if they shoot the living ones can they be regarded as really capable!"

The Xixia soldiers next to them raised their knives and cut off the ropes that bound the Song Dynasty captives.Immediately, the dozen or so people fled in panic along the edge of the martial arts field.But those Xixia soldiers surrounded them, and when they saw that they were about to escape from the training ground, they stepped forward to stop them with punches and kicks. Several of them were scarred and their running speed was obviously slow.

Amidst the cheers that shook the sky, Xu Gan turned his horse's head and slowly rode over from the other side of the martial arts field.Chen Qing was still watching anxiously beside the martial arts field.He saw that Xu Gan's eyes swept over those Song people who were desperately fleeing. His eyes were bloody and murderous, but there was also a trace of helplessness and bewilderment.

Chen Qing turned to look at those captives again. Some of them could not run anymore and collapsed on the ground panting. The Xixia people urged: "Shoot quickly! If they don't run away, what is there to see?" ?!"

On the high platform, the expression on Li Yuanhao's face gradually became gloomy.He whispered to Bo: "Go and order the archers to get ready, if he refuses to kill those Song people later, shoot all the arrows and shoot him to death here!"

Bo responded to the sound and walked down the stage. At this moment, Xu Gan urged his horse to run slowly around the martial arts field.He bent down to grab the arrow in the quiver, but his hands trembled uncontrollably.The red color of the target that he just hit became more and more obvious under the light of the torch, like patches of bright red blood spreading in front of his eyes.But in the depths of this sea of ​​blood, wisps of bright white filaments are quietly stretching and blooming. The white and pure brilliance is accompanied by the bright moonlight, like the misty mist leading to a fairyland, and the dazzling red light Little by little to disperse around.

Xu Yan's heart was shocked. He looked up and saw a faint brilliance rising in the sky in the direction of Huaiyuan City in the southwest. This brilliance rotated and spread, illuminating the entire sky brightly and gorgeously.It was as if the warm spring sun was shining, the breeze was blowing, as if the clear spring water was slapping the surface of the stream along the mountain stream, and the pieces of ice were finally washed away and melted, and flowed down the mountain with the water.

"Zhifeng, what's wrong with you! Open the door quickly!" In Huaiyuan City, Yiyi and Zhuozhuo took turns tapping on the door of Tan Zhifeng's room. Tan Zhifeng sat on the couch, but he didn't know what happened outside.Since Li Weiming's death, he has clearly felt that the dragon scale in his soul is constantly agitating, and with the change of this breath, the spiritual power in his body is also wandering around, as if to find A way to let off steam.The shock of these two forces made him more and more unable to bear it. He simply shut himself in the room and quietly recited the few Buddhist verses that Wen Hui had taught him. This made him feel better at first. But as the sun set and the sky darkened, his spiritual power kept rushing along his limbs and bones like a storm. He seemed to clearly see that the dragon scale was flashing alternately in the storm. The blood-red and pitch-black light, these two kinds of light finally intertwined into a raging fire, burning desperately in his body.

Tan Zhifeng was still sitting quietly, but his soul was moaning in pain.As the fire spread, many scenes that he hadn't seen before began to appear in his mind. What he saw were towering and desolate mountains, and the time that had been silent for thousands of years, he gradually began to feel the coldness of the night. , because loneliness seems so biting, so unbearable.He felt wind, frost, rain and snow falling on him without warning, but he couldn't avoid it, and he had nowhere to hide.He watched the surrounding vegetation wither, and watched the new vegetation sprout and grow painfully. He watched them endure loneliness like him, wasting their lives in aimless waiting.

The flames burned more vigorously, and his spiritual power drifted away like pure white snowflakes, and it became more and more difficult to compete with the raging fire.The despair and fear pierced his heart, making his soul tremble along with the dragon scales.The familiar slender and powerful fingers dangled before his eyes, and huge divine power flowed out from the fingers, shaking his unformed soul and his weak unconscious life.

However, all this brought him only resentment. What appeared in front of him was the night of lightning and thunder in the mountain gorge. He begged in a low voice, but the green dragon beside him spread its wings and led him down without hesitation. up the cloud.In the layered palace rooms, he tried his best to search again and again, opening one closed palace door after another, but he still couldn't find that tall figure.He was sitting in the corner, sitting on the couch, listening to the deep voice uttering intimate words, he saw himself trying to raise his hand to touch the cheek that was close at hand, but his hand was always like a breeze, Without touching each other, he disappeared without a sound.

He knew that none of this had happened, and all of this was his illusion, but he still watched as he pulled the boy's sleeve and leaned on his chest, letting the giant sword pierce both of them at the same time body of. "I'd rather be like this." He heard himself say, "I'd rather die with you."

Somewhere, he seemed to have walked through a long tunnel.He saw many frightening and disturbing images that he hadn't seen before. He saw the distorted face of a woman in childbirth, the poor old man moaning in the hut, the sallow faces looking at him listlessly, and There were the sad eyes of countless people that night holding up the soul-calling flags.He saw himself wandering blankly on an unfamiliar street, looking for the shadow of the person he missed from the faces of everyone passing by, and he saw the panic and gradually spreading fear in his heart when Bo approached him.When all this began to blur, he found that the flames ignited by the dragon scales had almost swallowed his entire body.His spiritual power became negligible, and the last snowflake slowly fell, but it also turned into a drop of water that was about to disappear under the burning of the flames...

Tan Zhifeng watched all this silently, he was not afraid, he thought, it could finally be over.

But at this moment, the last picture appeared in front of him - in the lush green forest, the breeze in the forest was blowing on his cheeks, bringing a pleasant coolness.However, the successive kisses that landed on his lips were so hot and sincere.He raised his arms to cover the few rays of sunlight that came through the gaps in the leaves, his body was trembling, and when he opened his lips, he suddenly felt that his spiritual power that was about to disappear was a little bit more. 's back.

"No, it can't end." He murmured: "The spring is late, the harvest is late Qiqi...Ying Long, this is not what you promised me...In the Saha world, everything is suffering, but it is precisely this... Endless suffering can produce the world, all things, and creatures like you and me...Seeing that the five aggregates are empty, we can overcome all hardships...with no worries...stay away from upside-down dreams...final nirvana!"

For a moment, the dazzling white light on the martial arts field flashed across the sky like thunder, and Li Yuanhao backed away in panic, and waved to Bo: "Shoot the arrow!"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Gan drew his bow and urged the horse. The horse neighed and raised its front hooves. The arrow in Xu Gan's hand shot towards the high platform like a shooting star with a white spot of light.Li Yuanhao dodged sideways, but the arrow still penetrated his armor and hit his shoulder.

Immediately, the black air on the high platform rose into the air, Li Yuanhao swung the cloak behind him, and the diffused black air rolled with terrifying killing intent, bit by bit it turned into a thick purple-black.The Xixia soldiers just watched their emperor roaring and roaring angrily on the high platform surrounded by black air. He made a hoarse and crazy voice that they couldn't understand.

Bo Wang, who had already walked down the stage, dropped his bow and arrow, and pulled out Kunwu's Xu Gan with his backhand, gritted his teeth, and gave an order to the guards beside him: "Let the arrow!"

Arrows flew towards Xu Gan like rain. Xu Gan reined in his horse and waved Kunwu in his hand calmly.It was like a huge flaming shield that melted all incoming arrows to ashes.

Xu Gan rode his horse and rushed out of the martial arts field. Under the gaze of the dumbfounded Xixia people, he rushed into the tent, put his sword back behind his back, picked up Ling'er in one hand, and held Changshang in the other, and said to them: "Go! Let's go Find Zhifeng."

Changshang nodded happily, but at this moment, Ling'er's body disappeared in Xu Gan's arms.He turned into a cloud of silver-gray mist, slowly drifting towards the martial arts field.Chang Chang shouted anxiously: "Ling'er... Ling'er is back!" However, when he rushed out, he only caught a silver light and shadow.He burst into tears, clung tightly to the curtain, and refused to leave with Xu Gan no matter what he said.

"It's too late." Xu Gan sighed, picked him up involuntarily, and ran towards the gate of the camp under the torn tent.On the martial arts field, Li Yuanhao's angry roar was still echoing. A mountain-like beast was rushing towards the camp amidst his roar. Along the way, it swallowed several Xixia soldiers who hadn't had time to escape. In the belly, every time it swallows a person, its body becomes even bigger.

"Gaotie." Xu Yan said with cold eyes, "We must leave quickly."

Fortunately, the war horse he used was a rare and good horse, but after a while, the horse had already led them out of the barracks. Under Xiping City, the heavy city gate was split in half by the sword energy of Xu Gan Kunwu's sword. Seeing the fallen city gate and the rising waves of yellow sand, their figures quickly disappeared in the desert in the northwest.