Lu Xiao had just jumped off the beam and was about to clean up the mess. Suddenly, there were rapid footsteps at the door of the hall. At this time, Lu Xiao had no time to dodge, and happened to meet the third Gu Yingzhong who entered the door.
"you!"
Seeing the dead body, the solitary figure immediately threw a large number of shurikens at Lu Xiaofei.
Lu Xiao used his hidden sword to deflect several shurikens that enveloped his body, and rushed towards the opponent without retreating.
When we meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins. Although there is a bit of a surprise that there is a third Lone Shadow with hidden aura nearby, but at the moment we can only fight quickly and kill him as quickly as possible.
Lu Xiao, who was accelerating to the limit, pulled out an afterimage in the eyes of this lonely shadow. Seeing that the hidden sword was about to penetrate the opponent's neck, Lu Xiao suddenly stumbled, lowered his head and coughed lightly.
"cough!"
Lu Xiao: “???”
'wdnmd! How long have you been acting alone, you idiot? Are you going to die now? And why is it me? How could it be me?'
Dragon Cough is a disease caused by the death of the person blessed by Long Yin, who absorbs the life force of the people around him.
Lu Xiao, whose vitality was locked by the Staff of Hermes, should not have become a victim of Dragon Cough, but he happened to be caught.
Currently in the middle of a battle, Lu Xiao couldn't help but be distracted too much.
A moment of coughing interrupted Lu Xiao's attack, and the third Gu Yingzhong, who misjudged the enemy's strength, got a moment of respite.
The shocked Gu Yingzhong immediately took out his poisoned left hand from his chest, and used a set of specially trained vicious moves to hit Lu Xiao, whose movements were slightly slowed down.
Gu Yingzhong's left arm moves are very strange, and the angle of the move is contrary to common sense. If Lu Xiao's dynamic vision hadn't been amazing, he might have been tricked by the opponent's sudden move.
"Kowtow and fist!"
He extended his elbow to deflect Gu Yingzhong's poisonous hand move, and with the second blow of the kowtow fist, Lu Xiao straightened his arm and hit the opponent's chest.
"clang!"
Guyingzhong barely blocked the impact of Lu Xiao's kowtow fist with the sword he held in his right hand, but the huge force still pushed the blocked sword against Guyingzhong's chest.
"cough!"
At the same time that the thin sword broke, the solitary shadow coughed up a mouthful of blood due to the trauma to his chest.
"Kill demon!"
The secret of the Kowtow Fist is the final push of the shoulder that adapts to the body's posture and strength, similar to the Iron Mountain Back of the Bajiquan.
"boom!"
The lonely shadows with the middle door wide open were completely knocked away by the fierce impact and hit the wall behind them heavily.
At this point in the battle, Lu Xiao had won 80%, but he still did not let down his guard. The last blow of the kowtow fist was unable to be concentrated in one place because he was suppressing a cough, giving the opponent the last chance to risk his life.
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"drink!"
Gu Yingzhong endured the pain and jumped up, quickly kicking Lu Xiao multiple times in mid-air.
‘Xianfengjiao? You’ve come just in time.’
In order to express his sincerity to the inner government, the Bald Donkey of Xianfeng Temple taught the secret skills of the temple to Guyingzhong in advance. At the critical moment, Guyingzhong finally used this set of ferocious kicks.
Lu Xiao used the same force-generating technique to bounce up from the ground. With his higher agility attribute, he struck first and came first, breaking the opponent's posture head-on.
"Die!"
The last move of the Immortal Peak Kick was a vertical kick aimed at the lower section. The Gu Yingzhong, whose move was broken, was kicked in the head by Lu Xiao and was forced back to the ground from the air. Before he even hit the ground, he lost his life due to a fractured skull.
breath.
"Ahem!"
After the battle, Lu Xiao couldn't help coughing twice more.
As usual, he closed the eyes of the corpses of the three lonely figures.
Entering the inner hall again, he ordered Kotaro to bury the three people in peace. Lu Xiao coughed and ran up and down the King Kong Mountain.
"System, come out!"
"Host, please speak."
"Why am I affected by Dragon Cough? Isn't my life force locked?"
System: "The host seems to have misunderstood dragon cough. The absorption of vitality is only one of the causes of dragon cough. This twisted disease cannot be completely avoided if the vitality is intact."
"The host's vitality has not declined. The symptoms of dragon cough will not worsen on you. What you show is an ordinary cough."
Lu Xiao shook his head speechlessly: "Sure enough, it is difficult to fully understand the rules of this magical world. Forget it... Anyway, let's go back and take a look at the situation."
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When Lu Xiao returned to Ashina City, many residents were weak and leaning on the roadside, lowering their heads and coughing violently. Their symptoms seemed much more serious than Lu Xiao's.
Black smoke came out of the upper floors of the castle tower. Apparently someone set a fire upstairs. Genichiro seemed to have stayed in the Valley of the Fall and failed to return in time. Ashina Castle was in chaos.
"Ahem~ Someone attacked the castle tower?"
Lu Xiao jumped on the city wall and headed towards higher ground. On the way, he saw the corpses of many Lone Shadows and Yiyings, and some Black Jackets Luanbo were also mixed in among them.
"ha!"
Loud shouts came from the martial arts training ground on the top floor of the castle tower. A giant man who was more than 2 meters tall raised his Odachi sword and split the wolf's body from the shoulder.
"Well!"
The wolf that fell to the ground was twitching slightly, and his injuries were recovering quickly.
'I see.'
Seeing this scene, Lu Xiao finally understood the origin of Longcough.
This white-haired giant is the adoptive father of the wolf, Ashina's son who faked his own death and escaped three years ago - the giant ninja owl.
All the wolf's skills were taught by Xiao. Of course, a father beating his son would lead to a one-sided situation. Before the wolf could figure out the opponent's attack patterns, it would be a matter of course for him to be killed again and again.
However, the wolf is an undead possessing the power of Dragon Yin. Every time he dies, he will absorb the life force around him and resurrect, so the Dragon Cough spreads.
Without alerting the two father and son who continued to fight, Lu Xiao concealed his aura and bypassed their fighting area, entering the lower level first.
Kuro is hiding in a corner of the castle tower under the protection of Nagama, and the Kurokasa no Tanuki is also guarding the two of them to fight against the solitary shadows who invaded the castle tower.
It seemed that the people closest to the battlefield were not affected by Longcough. Lu Xiao didn't know why she got hit by such a coincidence.
‘Is this a fictitious luck factor? Is this the reason why I can’t draw cards?’
Shaking his head and throwing away the messy thoughts, Lu Xiao used the Shukuchi technique given by Yiji Zhan to teleport behind Yongzhen, and killed the Lone Shadow soldiers who appeared behind her with a straight slash of Immortal Zhan.
Shaking off the blood on the knife, Lu Xiao asked Jiulang, who looked surprised: "Ahem~ How is the situation? Has the inner government launched a large-scale attack?"
"That's not true."
Yongzhen retracted the dagger in his sleeve, sighed and said: "These Lone Shadows were brought by Xiao, and they plan to kidnap Yuzi away forcefully."
Unlike the three Gu Yingzong who were killed by Lu Xiao before, these Gu Yingzong under Xiao were all ordinary soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of their leader.
However, Xiao, as the leader, stumped Jiuro and others. Although the wolf, who had just returned from the dungeon investigation, temporarily blocked his adoptive father, judging from the scene, the wolf was no match for Xiao.
"Ahem, we can't let the wolf continue to die. The dragon cough caused by his death is spreading rapidly in Ashina. Let me go."
Lu Xiao casually killed the last person who invaded the castle tower. "Kurokasa no Tanuki, I leave Miko's safety to you."
"yes."
"Yongzhen, with the information on dragon cough left by Lord Daoxuan, you should be able to come up with a treatment plan, right?"
Yongzhen nodded solemnly: "Dragon Cough is my master's greatest regret. I will definitely do my best to fulfill his last wish."
Jiulang reminded with some worry: "Your Excellency Lu Xiao, please be careful and don't underestimate Xiao Xiao because of his bulky size."
"Xiao can be said to be a ninja among ninjas. Whether it is his combat ability or his cold heart without any emotion in his tasks, I suspect that he was behind the Hirata Residence massacre three years ago."