Relief

At the end of the woods, at the bottom of the slope, the valley is filled with silver frost. A simple wooden house faces the woods. The wooden door is wide open, and the room is dark and dull.

The moment he appeared from under the canopy of trees, Xie Zhixu noticed countless hidden sightlines in all directions.He didn't look around, holding the sword hilt at his waist in one hand, and went straight to the wooden house.

When he was approaching the door, he paused, drew his sword to block it, and stopped the sharp steel claws flying down with a clang.The man who made a surprise attack was not wearing night clothes, but was using the same weapon as the previous man in black, with a wide forehead, round ears, shorter limbs, and a sinister grin.

"The lookout said that Young Master Xie came here alone. How about it? It seems that Zhao Feng has been killed by you? You are brave enough, let me try your sword!"

The man's two paws flashed lightning, and he lowered his front body, assuming the attacking posture of a jackal before predating.

Xie Zhixu didn't intend to fight him, and said coldly, "I'm here to find Hou Chengtang."

Hearing this, the man showed a bored expression, retracted his sharp claws, tapped twice on the door frame, and said to the room: "Zhuangyuan Lang, your guest is here."

There was silence in the dark wooden house, and after a while, a dancing lantern lit up.

"Please." The man humorously made an inviting gesture, and closed the door of the wooden house for Xie Zhixu.

The cabin was completely silent.

The man neatly made a few run-ups in the valley, and jumped up to the crown of the tree.There are still many killers wearing steel claws in the canopy of the tree, and they gave way to the man one after another, asking: "Boss, what a good time now, don't we want to catch that guy in his urn?"

Zhou Cai squatted on a treetop, grinding his claws, licking his teeth, and asked, "Did you fart what I said before I set off? What is our task today?"

The subordinate immediately replied: "The first task is to make sure that Xie is killed."

"anything else?"

"Uh……?"

Before the uh was over, he got a headshot from Zhou Cai: "You are a fish brain, you are an undercover agent sent by Ximen?"

The whole tree suddenly let out unscrupulous laughter.Someone answered Zhou Cai's question for the one who had been taught a lesson: "The other thing is to examine Hou Daizhao's loyalty and supervise him to do it himself."

Zhou Cai made a gesture, and the subordinates quickly quieted down and got ready to attack at any time.

Under the bean-sized oil lamp, in the halo of yellow light, the silver spear lying across the knee was wiped with a silk handkerchief, giving off a little inconspicuous reflection.

Half of Hou Daizhao's face was covered with shadows, he looked up at Xie Zhixu calmly.

Xie Zhixu stared at the silver spear in his hand, and squeezed out a question word by word from between his teeth: "How dare you!"

Hou Daizhao didn't answer, and lowered his head again, wiping the skin as gently as touching a lover's skin, put away the silk handkerchief, and stomped the spear on the ground.

"Is there anything else you want to ask?"

The narrow leaf spear pointed against the light, swayed past Xie Zhixu's tight cheeks, and swayed the clean sky with sharp blades shining from his waist.

"Okay," Hou Daizhao stood up, smoothed his robe, and lifted the spear, "It seems that you have found the answer, enough to judge me."

"Let the teacher test the results of teaching you over the years."

There was a sudden alertness in the wind.

The wooden houses in the col exploded in vain, and the hurricane force engulfed the broken wood and shattered them to pieces.

The tree crowns on all sides are about to move, and the hidden killer polishes his steel claws.

"Wait." Zhou Cai gave instructions and narrowed his eyes.

The flying dust was pierced by a sharp light the size of a grain of rice, and then the sharp point pierced at a high speed, weaving into a net of light, in which only figures were seen moving and dodging, but there was no return attack.

As the dust settled, the two figures separated, Hou Daizhao stood with his spear, and Xie Zhixu's chest heaved on the opposite side, without the blessing of internal strength, relying on physical strength to avoid the attack caused severe physical exhaustion.Qingjingtian was held in his hands, but he had no chance to shine.

Hou Daizhao nodded: "Understood, you don't want to use your sword against this spear."

He held the spear a foot below the tip with one hand, and with a wrong thumb, he broke the spear and threw away the handle.

"Is it okay now?" Hou Daizhao held the tip of the spear as if holding a sword, "Let's have a good fight."

A dark cloud blocked the moonlight, and when the cloud broke, Xie Zhixu had disappeared in place, and the pure sky appeared in Hou Daizhao's eyes like a flash of lightning, full of anger.

The aura of the sword's edge and the inner strength released by Hou Daizhao offset each other, and immediately formed a confrontation between the two.Although he had never practiced it before, Xie Zhixu understood almost instantly that this was the curved surface of the air barrier mentioned by Wu Li, and the Qingjing Tian tilted and slid out along the curved surface.

Hou Daizhao was doing his best, raised the spear to the sword, but the sword edge suddenly disappeared in front of his eyes, the next moment the hair on his neck stood upright, he turned his head instinctively, and Qing Jingtian wiped a not deep and not shallow bloodstain on his neck.

So fast?

Hou Daizhao was surprised.

Too fast to win.The killers who were dispatched several times reported such content when they came back.Although I was mentally prepared, I really didn't expect it to happen so quickly.Xiao Douding, who he watched grow up by himself, is able to take charge of himself after all.

"You go down with this broken spear, and repent to Brother Xiaotao."

The bloodstain was on the left, the sound had reached the right, but the next sword wound appeared on the side of the calf.

"This sword is for my parents."

Qing Jingtian picked up a string of blood beads.

"This sword is for my brother."

Hou Daizhao finally caught the trace of the blood bead, caught another sword with the tip of the spear, and asked suspiciously, "Your brother?"

Xie Zhixu's face appeared in front of his eyes, and a sword slashed towards him, making a cross with the tip of the spear: "13 years ago on Taihu Island in Suzhou, you led a group of kidnappers to cripple his right leg."

The broken spear was danced into a round shield by Hou Daizhao, and sparks flew everywhere.

"Suzhou Taihu Lake? Oh," Hou Daizhao remembered, "it's the Liang family. There is no difference between the Liang family and your Xie family. Both are roadblocks that need to be removed."

The sword light surrounded Hou Daizhao's body for a week, sealing off all his escape routes and gradually reducing the range.Hou Daizhao was calm and composed, and the round shield made of broken spears blocked the attack, and his movement was not fast, but the advantage was that it had a large area and could always block the sword's edge just right.

Even if the sword seal was shortened from one foot to an inch in length, Hou Daizhao was still able to block it, but he immediately realized that something was wrong—two full moons appeared in the sky and on the ground——Xie Zhixu's sword was almost connected into a plane.

How many swords did he make?

Against the Xie family, it is most taboo to give him a chance to develop in the long run.Hou Daizhao poured his internal energy into the shield almost at the same time as the blade pierced through the air with the 33-style buzzing. Pushing the shield and attacking, Xie Zhixu and his sword were pushed fifty steps away.

The air around Xie Zhixu's body became stagnant and heavy, collapsing towards him, suddenly as heavy as a mountain.Actions are restricted, and the most important thing about superimposed swordsmanship is that it cannot be interrupted.The scene of Xu Hui swinging the Eight-Level Ruler on the Daguan Buddha Divine Path suddenly appeared in front of Xie Zhixu's eyes. At this moment, Xie Zhixu's figure overlapped with Xu Hui's, smashing his breath with anger, and sweeping across with his sword.A narrow passage appeared in the air, and Qingjingtian was stuck in the crack, like a sharp arrow approaching Hou Daizhao's palm.

"Not enough." Hou Daizhao said, grabbing the tip of the sword with his bare hands.

Under the pressure of the front and rear forces, Qingjingtian expanded the crack and broke with a clang.

However, Broken Sword shattered the tip of the sword with an indomitable momentum, pierced through Hou Daizhao's palm, and forced towards his throat like a broken bamboo.

The moment the blood gushed out from the palm, all movements slowed down.Hou Daizhao let go of his hand and let the Broken Spear fall, turned his palms together and hit Xie Zhixu's dantian with all his strength. Xie Zhixu used his hands as armor, and quickly blocked back, but his inner strength was drained at a strange speed, and he was killed almost without a pause. Hou waited for Zhao to fly.

At this time, the broken sword was only a hair away from Hou Daizhao's throat.

Ruined.When flying upside down in the air, Xie Zhixu thought of this.

He heard something break in Dan's house.

Hou Daizhao blasted him to the edge of the woods, and on his back were countless steel claws and jackals staring at him behind the steel claws.

Zhou Cai licked his paws, and said hello to Xie Zhixu: "Have you finished fighting, little brother?"

In the distance, Hou Daizhao withdrew his palm and looked down at his pierced wound under the moonlight.

Xie Zhixu supported his body to get up, spit out a mouthful of blood, and felt severe pain in his abdomen. He had calculated that he still had the power of a blow, but Hou Daizhao's palm seemed to open a gap in his alchemy mansion, and his internal force was like a reservoir with a gate on it. It was empty.

He gritted his teeth, unable to think of what to scold.

"Brothers," Zhou Cai said from the tree, "Master Hou has sent all the prey to his eyes, so why are you being polite?"

The remaining half of the sword was cut off by the steel claws in the blink of an eye. Zhou Cai flew down the tree with a grin, forced Xie Zhixu to the trunk, and pointed the claws on his eyeballs: "Why, are you bored?"

Xie Zhixu turned his head, and his sharp claws grazed the corner of his eyes, leaving a slanting wound.

The wolves on the tree are ready to share their food.

The col suddenly vibrated.

The source of the earthquake was gradually approaching, and the ground visibly shook. Hou Dai in the open grass and Zhou Cai under the Showa forest raised their heads at the same time——

A mountain rises from the forest, rushing towards it, and the trees are broken at the foot of the mountain like bamboo chopsticks.

Zhou Cai was stunned, Xie Zhixu took the opportunity to tease his feet, and then grabbed the joint of his arm stuck in front of him and fell down instantly.

Zhou Cai barked in pain, "You're courting death!"

The subordinates on the tree wanted to rush down to rescue the boss, but the mountain had already moved in front of them—wow!The fourth child's giant palm parted the bushes, and the birds and people in the canopy were shaken down together.

"Xiao Wu!" Wu Li's shout came from above his head.

"I'm here!" Xie Zhixu replied, triggering the internal injury of his dantian, he coughed violently.

The huge figure of the fourth child covered the moon, and in the shadow, a black shadow fell from his shoulder.

Don't jump down suddenly, brother!Xie Zhixu was shocked, but upon closer inspection, the black figure turned out to be a wheelchair, which was separated from the person sitting in the wheelchair during the fall.

"Second brother!!"

Xie Zhixu rushed forward to catch Feng Zhichang, but was pushed back on the ground, bang, and was punched in the face.

Tasted a little blood in my mouth.

"Second, second brother...?" Xie Zhixu was stunned, staring blankly at Feng Zhichang's face burning with anger.

——Squint your eyes and say that you want to sacrifice yourself to lure away the enemy and save Baixuelou?

Feng Zhi often rode on Xie Zhixu's body, grabbed his collar and pushed him to the ground, the veins on the back of his hands were exposed.

—he knows shit!You just don't think it looks good to hide behind Xiaoyunwei and Yueguan Mountain!Not backbone enough!Do you think you are strong?You can repel the jackals and defeat the Hong Leopards, and you can also be the one man who is in charge of the others, and you can solve the problem by yourself and wait for Zhao and Zhou Cai!

Steel claws came from behind Feng Zhichang, Xie Zhixu hugged him and rolled away, with his palm resting on the back of Feng Zhichang's head, and one foot on the wrist of the man in black, a dozen or so people suddenly appeared in the woods following the footsteps of the fourth child The figure, one of them swooped forward to knock down the person who was sneaking up on Xie Zhixu, and then shuttled among the men in black with strange movements, one palm at a time was very neat.

Who are these people?

Before Xie Zhixu had time to think about this question, Feng Zhichang yelled at him.

The tone of this voice was very thin, but it was like a volcano erupting, full of uncontrollable anger, and all the suppressed emotions poured all over Xie Xu's face.

Xie Zhixu was stunned, he had never heard Feng Zhichang speak, even that night at the Grand View Tower, he missed it because he lost consciousness.At this moment, the incomparably delicate and mellow voice contained the anger that had accumulated for a long time because it could not be uttered, overwhelmingly drowning Xie Zhixu, making him feel an extreme contrast, and in this contrast, he felt a wonderful and hearty pleasure.

——You think you have realized the meaning of the quick sword, and you think that you can fight Hou Daizhao when you become stronger, so you dare to come here to die!Mr. is right, if you hadn't wasted your effort back then, you wouldn't have known how many times you would have sneaked back to Jiangling and died in the hands of Hou Daizhao in the past two years! !

The fierce battle happened right next to him, but Xie Zhixu turned a blind eye to it, and was completely focused on the information that Feng Zhichang revealed unintentionally.

'What did you say?Who wasted my effort?Yes, sir? ! '

——What happened to your waste of effort?Don't do it right?You look at what you look like now!You dare to go into the tiger's den alone after a little improvement. You don't need to think about how aggressive and aggressive you used to be!

'It's my husband who ruined my kung fu! Xie Zhixu grabbed Feng Zhichang's shoulder, and the two gasped for each other.

After asking, Xie Zhixu noticed it.He left the mountain villa two years ago, met Mr. at the foot of the mountain, and was taken all the way back to Jiuzhezaka. There was indeed a brief subdued coma in the middle.

However, after learning that Chang Jing was quiet, Xie Zhixu suddenly had a terrible premonition in his heart.

—is your mother.

Xie Zhixu froze on the ground, and heard Feng Zhichang slowly say in his heart:

——It was Mrs. Yu who saw your eyes when she sent you down the mountain, and knew how her son was born to be the pride of heaven, fearless of heaven and earth, and dared to do anything for revenge.The fish lady wanted you to survive, so she drove the embroidery needle into your dantian, destroying your unique physique of using the Xie Shiji sword.The inner strength leaks out through the eye of the needle, which is only enough to support your three swords time, and it takes twelve hours to reunite in a cycle.The pinholes in your belly are smaller than a hair, and you don't even know it.In fact, what has troubled you for so long is your biological mother.Everyone in the villa knows it, only you are kept in the dark.

Feng Zhichang looked at Xie Zhixu's expression and mocked:

——Why, can't you accept mother doing such a thing?If it wasn't for her to make you understand that you can't do anything, wouldn't you have come out on a rampage like this tonight, and you've been in such a mess!

It's like carrying a bucket of ice water in your head, pouring Xie Zhixu chills all over.He thought of the pain of losing all his martial arts skills, and the many times he was in danger at the hands of the enemy, it was all thanks to his mother.His wisest and most sensible mother.

"Yeah!" He yelled at Feng Zhichang, "What I want to do is worthless in your eyes... You all think it's okay to spend your whole life in a daze, why does this kid always do such dangerous things? I would rather deprive me of my ability than stop me by all means! Cough cough cough... why is it that you are the only one who can face the grudge from 13 years ago, and I will be a useless person! I will be a useless person for the rest of my life!"

He grabbed Feng Zhichang's hand and pressed it against his alchemy mansion. The severe pain from being injured by Hou Daizhao's internal force came one after another, and he spoke intermittently: "According to this position, give me another punch! Just now Hou Daizhao's blow was fatal. A useless person who can shrink back and spend the rest of his life as you wish—"

Pa, Feng Zhichang pulled his hand and slapped him.

The beating was really hard, Xie Zhixu turned his head, half of his face sank into the soil, and his ears were full of noises.Suddenly felt that Feng Zhi, who was sitting on him, was often trembling, and the fingers holding his collar, the nails dug deep into the flesh.

"You... are lying to me..."

His voice was trembling, and because of that unique tone, questioning was like complaining about grievances.Xie Zhixu listened to the emotion in that voice, and suddenly realized what he had just said.

"Surviving well, cherishing what is in front of me, you are all lying to me... You still want me to take you to the snow mountain hut, and you promised to learn how to make tea... I will never believe you again!"

Feng Zhichang's eyes were full of disappointment, he loosened his collar and wanted to get up, Xie Zhixu grabbed his hand: "Second brother, I..."

Knowing that Chang was about to leave, Xie Zhixu held his wrist, hooked his calf, and pushed him over quickly.

"I'm sorry, I..." He pressed Feng Zhichang firmly, met those shocked beautiful eyes, and thought that there was any way to express his attitude quickly. If Feng Zhichang left like this, he might never get it. Forgive me.

Feng Zhichang rested his hands on Xie Zhixu's chest, feeling the pressure of the person on his body, his already sincere face was full of guilt, and his own panicked figure was reflected in his eyes for a moment.

"Second brother, I was wrong." He said, and pressed his soft lips together.