Embrace the blade

At the first dawn of dawn, the thousands of criss-crossing strings in the forest have nothing to hide.Those strings seemed to be made of refined iron, but they were dark in color, slender and tough. Jiang Li tried it with an iron sword, and the poured internal force made a small opening in the sword. There is no sense of stagnation when stringing the strings, like drawing a knife to cut off the water.

Thousands of strings were laid for a distance of five feet. Jiang Li followed Qi Zhaoxi. Seeing the last string break, he couldn't help but look at the sword in his hand. Only then did he realize that the flowing brilliance was not an illusion. Really glowing with a cold azure blue.

"What is the name of this sword?" Jiang Li asked suddenly.

Qi Zhaoxi thought about it seriously for a while, then shook her head and said, "I forgot."

"..." Jiang Li silently looked at him.

"I really can't remember what it's called, not to mention that the sword inscription on it has also been worn off."

He handed over the sword casually, and Jiang Li caught it with both hands, seeing that there were indeed scratches near the hilt of the sword, and said in surprise, "You..."

"It's not me. It was already like this when my mother handed it to me." Qi Zhaoxi flicked the blade of the sword with her fingers, and said in a clear voice, "Just use it in your hand. What's the point of a sword's name?"

Not only is it just taking advantage of the hand, it is clearly a peerless and rare sharp weapon, the blade is narrow and radiant.Jiang Li was taking advantage of the sunlight to look at it, when he suddenly heard him ask: "Then what's the matter with you, you pick up the iron sword and throw it away, and you don't even carry a saber when you walk in the rivers and lakes?"

Jiang Li paused.

At this moment, a whip hit the air, and the two separated like lightning, Jiang Li raised his hand and threw the sword back.Qi Zhaoxi took the blue arc, turned his wrist dexterously, the sword energy surged, and the wind swept across in an instant, making the forest leaves rustle.

At the same time, there was a woman's soft laughter: "You two stay for a while, the road ahead may not be very convenient."

After the gust of wind passed, several figures appeared in the forest, blocking the front like a rock, while the speaking woman stood beside her, raised her hand to straighten her messy temple hair, and smiled at them.But it was not the Prajna Sect, but the Seven Killing Gate that should have left Dongting.

"Strange, didn't Clan Master Xiao already got the No Doubt Sword, why didn't he stay in the door to study it, and then turned back to swim in the muddy water?" Qi Zhaoxi said.

"Hero Qi don't want to laugh at me." Xiao Lingyu sighed faintly, "I'm sorry that I worked so hard to plan, but I got a fake in the end."

"Then you should also trouble Wei Min. If you have a wronged person and a debtor, why should you block our way?"

"You've misunderstood me. I'm not here to make a grudge." Xiao Lingyu smiled meaningfully and clapped her hands lightly, "Cheng Nian, let's come out and say hello."

After a moment of silence, a girl slowly walked out from behind the figure. She was wearing a water-red dress and was holding a long whip tightly in her hand. There was no expression on her pretty face, but she just looked away, refusing to look at them.

"...Zhaoyue?" Jiang Li was stunned, and clearly heard Xiao Lingyu calling 'Cheng Nian'.

Xiao Lingyu continued unhurriedly: "I'm here today for something urgent, it's best for you two to stay here for convenience, if you want to break out, I really don't have time to entangle you." He raised his hand and pressed Zhaoyue—or Cheng Nian's shoulder, "I have to let my disciple take my place."

The moment the little girl showed up, Qi Zhaoxi subconsciously glanced in Jiang Li's direction, and then laughed lightly, "You think she can stop me?"

"It seems that we can't reach an agreement." Xiao Lingyu glanced aside.Cheng Nian tightened his grip on the whip, and immediately flew towards Qi Zhaoxi. The whip was shaking, and he rushed out like a spirit snake, but was forcibly intercepted by a cold light in midair.Jiang Lijian was already in his hand, and the long whip was spinning back, and the two of them looked at each other silently for a split second.

Cheng Nian clenched her teeth and didn't back down anymore. With a flick of her wrist, the whip shadow struck again.

As soon as the two of them exchanged a few moves, Xiao Lingyu turned around and disappeared into the forest.Seeing the movement, Qi Zhaoxi changed his mind quickly, and decided to pull Jiang Li and Cheng Nian away first, but his figure moved, and a large shadow rushed towards him, it was the figures in the forest.

Suddenly, there was a loud "choking clang", and half of the iron blade flew out across the air and fell into the forest.Rao Qi Zhaoxi was also startled, hurriedly looked out from the gap between the figures, and saw that only half of the broken sword was left in Jiang Li's hand.

Thinking back to the competition in the arena, this little girl's swordsmanship was only flexible, far from powerful, and her martial arts were completely different from the whip-wielding Cheng Nian.The whip in her hand was danced like a swift and vicious long snake, and Jiang Li's iron sword had already had a crack, and it was naturally unbearable under the violent impact.

This momentary distraction made Qi Zhaoxi lose his chance to get away, and seven figures surrounded him in a blink of an eye.I saw that among the seven people, there were men and women, each with different weapons, knives or guns, they spread out and surrounded him twice, three inside and four outside, it was the frightening formation of the Seven Killers.

Everyone who makes up this formation may not have profound and unpredictable martial arts, but the most important thing is that they cooperate seamlessly with each other. Even if they can't subdue the people in the formation for a while, it is not easy for the other party to escape. In the end, they are often exhausted and trapped. In the array.

Qi Zhaoxi stood in the middle, and lightly tapped the sword on the ground with his hand down.Those seven people didn't act rashly when they saw this, they just stared at his vitals, with a dangerous light in their eyes, almost making people think they were trapped in a pack of wolves.

In the vast forest, only the sound of whips was left, Jiang Li abandoned the broken sword without hesitation, instead of retreating, he rushed into the shadow of heavy whips.This reckless behavior caused Cheng Nian to retreat in shock, and at the same time, he swung the whip horizontally with all his strength, trying to force him back.

The long whip exploded in the air, Li Feng grazed his cheek fiercely, Jiang Li turned his head slightly, and without knowing how to move his hands, Li Feng passed through the phantom and grabbed the tail of the whip.

Cheng Nian's eyebrows twitched, and finally he couldn't help but say, "Let go!"

Jiang Li slowly clenched the whip, no matter how hard Cheng Nian tried, he couldn't pull it back, so he could only stare angrily.

"...I thought you wouldn't go back to Dongting." Jiang Li said suddenly.

Cheng Nian froze, and looked away abruptly: "Yeah, I also thought that I would rather die than come to this ghost place again."

But when Xiao Lingyu found out that the No Doubting Sword was fake, and when she learned of the Prajna Sect and decided to take her back to the Dongting, she suddenly panicked and couldn't care about anything, she just begged Master to take her with her.

Xiao Lingyu was so thoughtful, she smiled at that time: "You don't know about this sword, I don't blame you, and I won't abandon you. This time you don't have to follow, you should stay at the door with peace of mind."

However, the more Xiao Lingyu said this, the more panicked and frightened she became, not only afraid of being left behind, but even more afraid of losing her gaze.

"Cheng Nian?" Jiang Li looked at her with turbulence in his pupils, "Since you changed to your father's name, why did you choose to stay at the Seven Killing Gate?"

"Does it matter?"

"You said at that time that when your mother was seriously ill, you wrote a letter and entrusted your master to deliver it, but in the end you didn't wait for Cheng Daxia..."

"Enough!" Cheng Nian suddenly raised his voice, "It's been so long, why mention it!"

"...that letter may not have been sent at all." Jiang Li still finished speaking.

"..."

"Perhaps everything was planned at the beginning. Because of Cheng Daxia, Xiao Lingyu came to you and became your master."

Cheng Nian silently raised her face, her shoulders trembled slightly, she didn't know whether it was a choke or a smile, and after a while she looked at Jiang Li again, with a complicated and unspeakable expression: "Jiang Li, sometimes you are so straightforward that it makes people annoying. ah."

Jiang Li's expression couldn't help but change: "Have you actually thought of this?"

"You're so smart, do you know why I use a whip?" Cheng Nian asked abruptly, before he could respond, he continued, "Because I hate swords, and I hate having the same name as a sword!"

The strength in Jiang Li's hand couldn't help but loosen, Cheng Nian took advantage of the gap to pull, and the long whip circled back into his hand.She looked down at the whip, and said slowly: "But my mother likes it, because my father uses a sword, and I should practice swords. How could she notice whether I like it or not? But the master found out and said I She can teach me whatever she likes, learn a little swordsmanship, enough to fool my mother."

"I also told you that after my mother died, I held a knife but didn't dare to kill myself. When I only knew how to cry, it was Master who wiped my tears and buried my mother. Only then did I know that there was a The Seven Killing Gate, it is the only place I can go in this world."

"When I first came to the door, I was not well. I would get sick every three to five times. I was still sad, so I hid in the bed at night and cried quietly. Later, Master found out and always came to sleep with me at night."

"You don't understand." Cheng Nian shook his head at Shang Jiangli's astonished eyes, and repeated in a harsh voice, "You don't understand, how could you understand..."

People who walk under the warm sun, how can they understand how cold the winter wind is.

After all, people can't really understand each other, just like he can't understand why such trivial things worth mentioning are worth her to deceive herself and deceive herself.

After a long silence, Jiang Li said with difficulty: "But Cheng..."

"Yes, it's true that Cheng Juxian loves me, but he's already dead!" Cheng Nian couldn't bear to cry out, she tried her best to hold back the spinning tears, her eyes were flushed, "I have nothing... It's too uncomfortable, I don't want to worry about anything anymore. You think I should leave the Seven Kills Gate, but if I leave there, where can I go, and where will anyone care about me?"

Cheng Nian looked at him without evasion: "Jiang Li, will you love me?"

Jiang Li was speechless.

She twitched the corners of her mouth and smiled miserably: "Then don't mention such things in the future."

Finally, there was only silence, and the wind moved the leaves of the forest, rustling.

Qi Zhaoxi sighed secretly, and suddenly realized that she was not the only one who was paying attention to the conversation over there.Although he and the seven people were still in a stalemate and their movements did not change, they clearly saw the woman holding a spear on the west side of the formation stretch her brows.

What broke the silence was a sharp whistling sound, and a cloud of smoke rose into the sky in the distance, exploding a cloud of dazzling blue.

The woman with the gun glanced sideways, and then slightly raised her hand. Qi Zhaoxi stood still and watched, and saw the rest of the people slowly backing away, withdrawing their formation.The woman called out to Cheng Nian, and rushed to the direction where Xiao Lingyu left. Cheng Nian looked at Jiang Li hesitantly, and in the end, without saying anything, he stepped up and caught up with the pedestrian.

Qi Zhaoxi didn't stop them, and let them go away, walked to Jiang Li's side, poked his head to see his expression: "Are you okay?"

There was no emotion on Jiang Li's face, and he said lightly, "It's okay."

"Did the little girl's words hurt you?"

Jiang Li shook his head, stopped answering, and looked at the billowing blue smoke under the clear sky: "What is that?"

Qi Zhaoxi also turned her head to look, and said, "The call for help from the Prajna Sect."