Zhao Zheng felt a strong wind blowing towards his face, and saw a bit of cold light in his peripheral vision. He felt bad and quickly touched the ground and turned over to avoid it.
"puff!"
There was a muffled sound, and the third crossbow arrow was shot empty and inserted diagonally into the ground.
Zhao Zhengzheng raised his hand, raised and lowered several times, and quickly rushed towards the man in black holding a crossbow.
The man in black stood on a branch, pointed the crossbow at Zhao Zheng in mid-air, clicked his fingers hard, and fired the fourth crossbow arrow. He didn't even check whether the crossbow arrow hit, he loosened his hand, and fired the fourth crossbow arrow.
He threw the crossbow under the tree, jumped up again, and faced Zhao Zheng without showing any signs of weakness.
Zhao Zheng swung his sword in mid-air to make a long slash, and cut the tip of the crossbow arrow with one stroke, causing it to fly away with great force.
The man in black put his feet in the air and used his strength to slide forward for a distance. Just by looking at his hands, he knew that he was no ordinary person. He put his hands into the dart bags hanging on both sides of his waist, took out three darts from each, and pointed them at
Zhao Zheng shook his hand and fired out a pair of darts.
The dart carried a strong internal force and emitted a circle of white light, which greatly increased the strike range of the originally small dart and became the size of a palm.
"The darts he shot have such strong internal force. It seems that he is at least a fifth-level heavenly martial artist. I have to be careful not to fall into trouble." Zhao Zheng's eyes flashed, and he quickly used the Thousand Jin Falling Kung Fu to turn his body upside down.
The buoyancy turned the internal force of upward pressure into the internal force of downward pressure. He relied on this force to sink quickly, like a big stone, falling heavily to the ground, his feet sinking deeply into the soil.
The man in black took advantage of the situation to pursue him, shaking his hands, and shot out all four remaining darts in his hand. Each dart was aimed at the vital points of Zhao Zheng's body, with extremely accurate accuracy. Zhao Zheng stood up to dodge, changed his body shape, and shot
Four darts managed to dodge. Some of the four darts penetrated the ground, and some cut off branches. They appeared to be extremely sharp and unrivaled.
One of them was darting, the other was dodging, going up and down, jumping forward and back, fighting together in the woods at night.
Zhao Zheng has always been wary of enemies who are good at darts, and today he met an expert in darts. This man in black can throw out a dart with every movement of his hands, and it is very powerful. As long as he is hit,
His life was in danger at once. Relying on the sharp five senses of a fifth-level heavenly warrior, he was barely able to dodge the darts of the man in black. However, people make mistakes and horses stumble, and over time, there will always be times when he is not careful.
If you want to break the situation now, you can only find a way to get close to the man in black, otherwise you will have to be beaten passively.
After making up his mind, Zhao Zhengyun summoned up all his energy, used his quick movement skills with all his strength, turned into a swift shadow, and rushed towards the man in black.
Seeing Zhao Zheng approaching, the man in black quickly stepped up his offensive and fired out darts frequently. In just a few breaths, he shook his hands and threw out more than a dozen darts. These darts were like a meteor shower, flying towards the direction with a "whoosh".
Zhao Zheng diagonally below.
The closer the distance between the two parties is, the harder it is to dodge. Zhao Zheng waved his tiger roaring sword to protect his whole body. He saw the sword energy lingering and the golden light shining, blocking several darts in succession. He kept shortening himself and the black-clothed man.
The distance between people shortened from five feet to three feet, and then from three feet to one foot, knocking down more than twenty darts along the way.
At this distance, the man in black finally became frightened. He jumped back from the branch, stepped on the branch behind him without looking back, and continued to retreat. During the process of retreating, he shook his arms and slipped out of the two sleeves.
He shot out two trap sleeve arrows and shot them twice towards Zhao Zheng's face and throat.
Zhao Zheng calculated the position of the sleeve arrows and raised the Tiger Roaring Sword to resist. He heard two crisp sounds of "clang, clang" and all the two sleeve arrows were blocked. The two sleeve arrows were so powerful that they actually knocked out two points on the sword.
Scratches.
It seems that no matter what kind of weapon it is, as long as it falls into the hands of Zhao Zheng, it will inevitably suffer the fate of being worn out.
"The little thief is here!" Zhao Zheng jumped up in the air and used the move "One Sword Coming to the West". He thrust out the Tiger Roaring Sword in his hand and drew an arc in the air. The sword energy left the sword and flew diagonally towards the direction.
He caught the man in black, arrived in a flash, and cut the man in black's shoulder.
The man in black screamed in pain, and a ball of blood appeared on his shoulder. He knew how powerful Zhao Zheng was, and he didn't dare to push him any further. He turned around and ran with all his strength.
Zhao Zheng used his sword again, then flew forward and stabbed out with another sword. He still used the simple but very sharp "Sword to the West" move. Unfortunately, the sword failed to hit, and he missed.
The man in black lowered his figure and ran quickly close to the ground. This running method was actually faster than walking up and down. He had a strong posture and agile speed, and looked like a black panther.
Zhao Zheng used Luo Yanbu Qinggong, but he could barely keep up with the speed of the man in black and could not catch up further. Fortunately, the current distance was close enough. He tightened his wrist and prepared to stab forward with sword energy continuously.
, stabbing the man in black into a sieve.
At this extremely critical moment, the man in black suddenly used a powerful killing move. He grabbed a handful of darts from the dart bag, leaned back, aimed coldly at Zhao Zheng, and fired the darts in his hand at once
They were all beaten out. This move is called "Iron Banqiao and the sky is full of stars". It is a move to win from defeat. It is designed to pretend to be defeated first and then catch the enemy by surprise.
Several darts flew out together, like stars in the sky, covering a large area, making it difficult for people to avoid.
Zhao Zheng was so frightened that he danced his sword in a flowery pattern, protecting his whole body, and at the same time leaped to one side to dodge. Thanks to the secret power in his hand just now, the sword energy of the Tiger Roaring Sword became strong, forming a defense like a copper wall.
All the darts were blocked.
He secretly thought it was a dangerous situation. He rolled his eyes and realized that he was clearly not injured, but he deliberately screamed to deceive the man in black.
As expected, the man in black fell into the trap, thinking that Zhao Zheng was injured, so he twisted his body and made a kite flip, stood firmly on the ground, reached out and grabbed a handful of darts from the dart bag, and wanted to throw a baby's breath.
Zhao Zheng seized the opportunity and rushed forward with a single stride. He came from behind and used his killing move, Overlord Chang Tu, to unleash a semicircular golden light sword energy.
This sword energy struck the man in black's arms as he tried to dart, cutting off the flesh-and-blood arms.
The arm holding a handful of darts fell to the ground, and large flowers of blood spurted out from the fracture. The palm of his hand was still tightly held, and not a single dart fell.
"Ah!" The man in black screamed, shaking his severed arms.
Zhao Zheng planned to stay alive. He took a few steps with his sword. When he was two meters away, he stepped on the needle in the sole of his shoe and nailed the other two needles to the knees of the man in black.
The man in black got a needle in his knee and knelt on the ground with one leg.
Zhao Zheng swung his sword, pointed the tip of the sword at the man in black, and asked: "How many of you are there in total? Are there any other assassins around here?"
The man in black screamed and didn't answer.
"Speak quickly! If you don't tell me, don't blame me for being ruthless and punishing you severely!" Zhao Zheng threatened.
The man in black glared at Zhao Zheng fiercely, gritted his teeth, and broke something in his mouth, making a "crack" sound.
At first, Zhao Zheng thought it was some kind of hidden weapon hidden in his mouth. He quickly turned his head to dodge, and at the same time, he slit the neck of the man in black with the Tiger Roaring Sword in his hand.
The man in black died and fell to the ground, bleeding from multiple wounds all over his body, staining the ground red.
Zhao Zheng had no choice but to kill him just now, and he was more or less disappointed because he lost the last tongue he could use to ask questions.
He walked over to the body of the man in black, used the tip of his sword to lift off the mask, and found an unfamiliar face underneath, which looked rather ferocious, with a wide chin, a catfish mouth, and black stubble all over his face.
A stream of black water suddenly flowed out of the corner of the man in black's mouth and fell to the ground along his cheek. The blood had a strong fishy smell.
Zhao Zheng frowned, opened the man in black's mouth with the tip of his sword, and found a broken wax pill inside. The black water flowed out of the wax pill.
This black water is obviously venom. It seems that the man in black didn't just want to spit out a hidden weapon with his mouth, but wanted to bite the wax pill and take the poison to commit suicide!
Failure or failure, this man in black assassin is a ruthless person.
In this world, there is only one organization of assassins who can do this, and that is the notorious Yeyue Sect!
Black attire, careful planning, taking poison and committing suicide when the mission fails, these are the characteristics of the Yeyuemen assassins, and they are inseparable from each other.
"Why did the assassins of Yeyuemen target me? Who prompted them?" Zhao Zheng was very puzzled. He maintained a high degree of vigilance and used his sword to open the clothes of the man in black, looking for clues. He was in black.
A stack of portraits was found in the man's arms, and the portraits were all about beaters. Not only him, but also Mo Yunzi, Jiang Ming, Chu Tian, Kong Yunjie and others were in the portraits.
It seems that this group of men in black from the Yeyue Sect are planning to cast a net to catch fish, looking for potential beaters in a wide area, and kill them in exchange for a high bounty.
This fatwa was actually issued by one of the many challengers, with the intention of eliminating some opponents in advance before the challenge.
Zhao Zheng was hit by an arrow in the chest just now and almost died. He developed a strong hostility towards Yeyuemen and the challenger who posted the bounty. He glanced at his portrait and found that a black line was drawn on his bounty, replacing the original bounty.
Some bounty amounts of 12,000 taels of silver were wiped out, and then a new reward amount of 18,000 taels was written.
It was probably due to some rumors that his bounty was increased a lot, but it was not very high.
He looked at other people's bounties and found that the bounties for Kong Yunjie and Zheng Wuji were all in gold, and they were all above ten thousand taels of gold, which was a bit ridiculously high.
After all this time, there was still no movement around. It seemed that there were only these two assassins. Even if there were others, they must have escaped.
Zhao Zheng checked again and found two trap arrows tied to the wrists of the man in black, some silver coins, a sharp dagger, several bottles of harmful poison, two heavy bags of darts, and a
Set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
The pen, ink, paper and inkstone may have been used to draw the half-moon mark, which further proves that the two men in black are the assassins of the Yeyue Gate.
Zhao Zheng left the man in black alone and walked to the body of another man in black. He rummaged through this man's body for a while, but only found a bunch of useless things and another set of pens, ink and paper.
Inkstone, nothing else to gain.
"These people really have a special liking for painting the moon." Zhao Zheng kicked the pile of rags he had found out, followed the direction in his memory, walked to a tree, and used the dart that the man in black had used.
Picked up the crossbow, his eyes lit up, and he realized that this thing seemed good.
The crossbow is half a meter long and heavy in the hand. There are red cloud patterns painted on both sides. The bow string is taut and requires a lot of strength to pull it. There is a wooden front sight on the crossbow for auxiliary aiming.
The machine crossbow arrow slot is empty, and all the crossbow arrows inside have been shot by the men in black. No wonder they were thrown under the tree just now.
Zhao Zheng played with it for a while, clicked on the system in his mind, checked the crossbow's information, and found that it was called "Huoyun Crossbow" and was a medium-grade concealed weapon with acceptable power and great range.
After turning off the system introduction, he suddenly remembered something.
"Perhaps this crossbow was also made by Tong Wanhua, and it may have been stolen together with the plum blossom arrow. When you see the Wudang people again next time, tell them about this." Zhao Zheng muttered in his heart.
After a few words, he opened the system warehouse and put the Fire Cloud Crossbow in, keeping it for later use.
He returned to the place where the battle took place, picked up a few scattered crossbow arrows, and found a few more crossbow arrows from the man in black, and put these arrows into the system warehouse. Then he took the time to look at the left
The wound on the heart was found to be not deep, so I applied some medicine and simply bandaged it.
After a storm has passed, we have to continue our journey the next day.
Once bitten by a snake, Zhao Zheng was afraid of well ropes for ten years. After the attack, Zhao Zheng became much more vigilant on the road. Not only was he cautious when sleeping, he would also brace himself when passing pedestrians on the road.
, beware of sneak attacks. But on the way, he never encountered a sneak attack from an assassin again. He didn’t know whether the assassins had been killed by him or the other assassins had given up on his tricky idea.
A few days later, he finally arrived at Zhujian Villa!
This villa was built among the mountains of the Wolong Mountains. It looks majestic and majestic like a rainbow. Some of the buildings in the villa are built on flat ground, and some are built along the mountains. They are scattered all over the mountains. As far as the eye can see.
There are more than 500 houses. Among these mountains, there are many mines rich in ore. Many weapons in Zhujian Villa are forged from these ores.
There are several special places in the Sword-Forging Villa, including the "Giant Sword Gate" at the entrance, the "Sword Testing Square" in the Villa, the huge "All Things Furnace", the "Sword Forging Stone" that has been tempered for thousands of times, and the buried sword in the back mountain.
The name "Sword Tomb" is used. These special places are as famous as the Sword Villa itself.
Zhao Zheng followed a winding and upward fork to the entrance of Zhujian Villa, got off his horse, and led the horse forward. He stopped and watched, admiring the buildings in Zhujian Villa and the majestic mountains around it.
After seeing enough, he picked up his steps again and continued walking forward.
Not far in front are two huge sword-shaped stone sculptures, three feet high and as thick as a millstone. The giant swords are carved from large bluestones. There are some stone rings on the sword body, and there are chains on the rings. Several chains extend diagonally.
To the ground, submerged in the earth.
This stone sculpture of a pair of giant swords is the famous "Giant Sword Gate". Although it is a stone sculpture, it also contains the sword spirit like the high-grade swords, and has its own spirituality. The giant sword gate will release an invisible pressure, and
This is to block those who try to get closer. If someone cannot resist this pressure, their heart will beat rapidly, their breathing will speed up, and they may even be in fear of their lives, and they can only retreat backwards.
There is a rule in the Sword-Forging Villa. If anyone cannot withstand the pressure released by the Giant Sword Gate, he or she is not qualified to enter the Villa. This rule applies to both the people in the Villa and the guests from outside.
Now there is a group of people in front of the villa who are blocked by the Giant Sword Gate. Among them is a man sitting on the ground breathing heavily. He is dressed like a rich man, with a hat on his head and two streamers hanging behind his head. He is wearing green soap and is bloated.
An emerald belt was wrapped around his waist, and cloud-head boots were worn under his feet.
A group of people gathered around the rich man, including servants and bodyguards. The one closest to the rich man was a slightly fat young man who looked very similar to the rich man. He was also wearing brocade and jade clothes, with inlaid gems around his waist, carved with dragons and phoenixes.
's sword.
Even outsiders can tell from their appearance and demeanor that they are father and son.
Among the bodyguards surrounding the two rich men, some of them had flashing eyes, long breathing, and heavy and silent steps. At first glance, they looked like extremely powerful warriors, at least fifth-level warriors, or even seventh- or eighth-level warriors.
warrior.
Zhao Zheng recognized the identities of the two rich men at a glance and felt a little surprised and a bit coincidental.
These two local rich people, the elder is called Qian Wankuan and the younger is called Qian Wanjin. Their family runs a bank business. They are rich and wealthy. They are a well-known rich family in Nanfan Province.
Qian Wanjin has practiced martial arts since he was a child and has martial arts skills. Because his family is so rich, he is nicknamed the "little rich man". With his wealth, he invites famous teachers from all over the country to study, and he often takes some tonics to make himself
He made rapid progress and reached the fifth level of heaven in his early twenties.
This time, the competition for Zichu Sword also cost tens of thousands of gold. His strength is very high, and he can be regarded as the middle level among many competitors.
Because of his love for his son, Qian Waguan secretly spent a lot of money to hire assassins to kill other challengers. In other words, all those reward orders were issued by Qian Waguan, and this person was the culprit!
Zhao Zheng was furious when he saw the father and son. If he hadn't been lucky enough to rely on his breast shield to block the crossbow arrows a few days ago, he might have become a rotting corpse by now.
Martial arts competitions must be fair and just. Injuring someone with an arrow in the back is not considered a hero. Moreover, paying someone to kill someone is also a serious crime.
Zhao Zheng had a very bad impression of the wealthy father and son. Although it was not to the extent of hating Master and Disciple Ye Zhiqiu, it was not much different.
Qian Wagguan sat on the ground, groaning for a while, struggled to stand up, looked up at the Giant Sword Gate in front of him, and sighed. He just tried to pass through the Giant Sword Gate, but because of his poor physical condition,
He was timid and was forced to fall to the ground by the pressure on the giant sword door. He wanted to enter the villa to help his beloved son, but he was really unwilling to give up. He clasped his fists at the gatekeeper and said: "This friend, I am old.
I am already old and suffering from illness. I really cannot pass through this giant sword door. I hope you can make it easier for me to bypass this door and enter the villa from another place. If you can appreciate this face, please do it.
It’s convenient. I’m willing to offer you a thousand taels of gold as a gift of thanks. Thank you very much.” (To be continued.
