After Ji Tianxing left Qingyun Palace, he walked out of Lingyan Palace in the cool night breeze and stepped onto the carriage parked on the roadside.
Without him having to give orders, the coachman Lao Lei naturally understood and drove into the darkness, returning to Ji Mansion.
Ji Tianxing sat in the carriage, pulled a strip of cloth and simply bandaged the wound on his calf, then frowned and thought about what had just happened.
After a while, the carriage drove into a dark and lightless bluestone path.
Although the path is a bit remote and there are only a few houses nearby, it is the only way to return to Ji Mansion from Lingyan Palace.
There were big trees on both sides of the path, which looked dark and depressing in the night.
The carriage drove slowly and slowly, and the only sound of horse hooves could be heard in the night sky.
Suddenly, a sharp sound broke through the air.
The coachman, Lao Lei, let out a muffled groan, rolled off the carriage and fell to the ground.
Ji Tianxing woke up instantly, immediately opened the curtain of the carriage, jumped out of the carriage and rushed to the coachman's side.
I saw the coachman, Lao Lei, lying motionless on the ground, almost dead.
There was a sharp arrow stuck in his chest, and blood poured out from the wound, staining his clothes.
Ji Tianxing's face became very gloomy, and his eyes flashed with cold murderous intent.
He knew that there were assassins here to ambush and attack.
Sure enough, footsteps sounded immediately on the path ahead, and two figures in black were galloping towards them.
Ji Tianxing rushed into the woods on the side of the road without hesitation and ran towards Ji's mansion.
The dense branches and leaves were knocked open by him, making a "crash" sound.
The two vigorous figures rushed towards them like a gust of wind and pursued them into the woods without hesitation.
The two men ran with murderous intent, and the swords they held in their hands shone coldly in the night.
Although Ji Tianxing ran as fast as he could, his left calf was injured and he couldn't go any faster.
After just a few breaths, the two vigorous figures chased behind him, shouted low and launched an attack.
"Whoa! Whoa!"
Two swords radiating cold light were raised high and struck at Ji Tianxing's head almost simultaneously.
The branches and leaves that stood between the two killers and Ji Tianxing were instantly chopped into pieces by the sharp sword energy and splashed in all directions.
At the critical moment, Ji Tianxing could only stop, holding the Blood Dragon Sword in both hands, turned around and swung the sword across to resist the opponent's assassination.
"Dang! Dang!"
The three swords collided fiercely, emitting a crisp metallic sound.
The powerful impact came from the Blood Dragon Sword, making Ji Tianxing's arms numb and he couldn't help but take several steps back.
He could tell in an instant that the other party was a warrior in the True Yuan Realm.
Sure enough, when he took a closer look, he discovered that the swords of the two killers were covered with a faint layer of true energy brilliance.
Judging from the red and yellow true essence brilliance, the opponent should be at the first or second level of the true essence realm.
"Do those with the first or second level of True Yuan Realm also want to assassinate me?"
"However, we are still not sure how many killers there are, so I must deal with them carefully!"
Ji Tianxing sneered secretly in his heart, with strong murderous intent surging in his eyes.
He pretended to be defeated and continued to run away in a hurry.
The two masked killers dressed in black were indeed fooled. They rushed forward without thinking about their own safety and stabbed him in the back with their swords.
Perhaps they were too confident, or they were eager to kill Ji Tianxing and left here as soon as possible to avoid exposing their identity.
Both of them used their unique moves to assassinate Ji Tianxing, but they neglected their own defense, leaving the middle door wide open and revealing many flaws.
Just when the two of them were filled with excitement and thought they could kill Ji Tianxing on the spot, they saw Ji Tianxing suddenly turn around and reveal a teasing sneer.
"die!"
Ji Tianxing let out a murderous roar, suddenly bent down and crouched down, narrowly escaping the assassination blows of two swords.
Both swords passed over his head, only two inches apart, but they missed at the same time.
Moreover, the vital points on the chest and abdomen of the two masked killers were also displayed in front of him without any defense.
This is the moment Ji Tianxing has been waiting for!
He put down the Blood Dragon Sword without hesitation, raised his palms and struck the chests of the two killers with all his strength.
"Bang bang!"
With a muffled sound, his palms hit the two killers firmly.
Two dark golden sword energy burst out from his palm and penetrated into the hearts of the two killers without any hindrance.
The two masked killers suddenly shook their bodies and stopped in their charging footsteps.
The two of them turned around, staring at Ji Tianxing with their eyes wide open in disbelief, and made inarticulate low sounds from their mouths.
"You! You are not..."
"How...how is this possible?!"
Their eyes were full of fear and anger. They couldn't believe that they were defeated by a useless person who was at the "third level of body refining".
They knew they were bound to die, so they waved their swords unwillingly and stabbed Ji Tianxing in the head.
But Ji Tianxing had already grasped the Blood Dragon Sword, waved his sword and swept it out, then bounced the two swords away.
The two killers took a few steps back, holding on to the tree weakly. Blood poured out of their mouths, soaking their masks.
They could no longer say a word, there was a "gurgling" sound in their throats, and the life in their eyes quickly disappeared.
In the blink of an eye, the two of them fell down softly and lay in the grass, making no sound anymore.
Ji Tianxing quickly opened their veils with his sword, and after seeing their faces clearly, he revealed a sneer that was true.
"Hmph! Ling Yunfei, you really still refuse to let me go!"
Because he recognized one of the killers, who was the guard who often followed Ling Yunfei.
He was worried that there were killers ambush nearby, so he didn't dare to stay and turned around to continue running away.
After passing through the dense woods, he fled along the path towards Ji Mansion.
A quarter of an hour later, Ji Tianxing returned to Ji's Mansion without any danger, without encountering any further ambush on the way.
After returning to his room in Qingfeng Xiaoyuan, he asked Huan'er to get the medicine box and carefully treat the sword wound on his calf.
After taking care of the injury, he asked Huan'er to retreat and rest, while he entered the secret room and went into seclusion to practice again.
Several things that happened tonight made him realize that his opponent couldn't wait to get rid of him.
Now not only can he not leave the city, even the imperial city is not safe, and he will be ambushed by killers on his way home.
He couldn't help but wonder, would his opponent send someone to sneak into Ji Mansion to assassinate him next?
With this thought, his desire to improve his strength became even stronger.
"Practice! We must condense the sword embryo as soon as possible and return to the true essence realm!"
Ji Tianxing soon entered a state of cultivation, focusing on practicing the way of sword heart and condensing new sword energy.
The night passed quickly.
By the early morning of the next day, he had condensed two more sword energy and stored them in two acupoints in his body.
He recovered the strength of the twelve sword qi, endured the pain of Ling Chi, and tried to move the sword qi and gather it in his dantian.
The result is obvious, he failed again.
Twelve sword qi are stored in twelve acupoints in his body, which are distributed on the back of his hands, arms, shoulders and chest.
It is almost impossible to transport all the sword energy to the Dantian in the abdomen!
His weak meridians could not withstand the tearing and cutting force of the sword energy!
Ji Tianxing had no choice but to suspend his practice and lay down in the secret room to rest in frustration.
He lay on the ground with his eyes closed, thinking constantly in his mind, what went wrong?
Why did he try more than a dozen times after mastering the twelve sword qi, but he still couldn't condense the sword embryo?
Is there something wrong with my cultivation? Or is my cultivation method wrong?