Li Yan's face was distorted and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his face. The sneak attack just now was broken and one of his legs was broken.
Master Ji's face was also ferocious. He felt that he could not hold on any longer. The resentment in his eyes became even stronger. He suddenly pulled back with his right hand, and Li Yan was pulled several inches away from Master Ji's body.
Seeing that it was about to get close to his left hand, Li Yan had just witnessed how Hong Linying died, and he had some guesses in his mind. He heard Dong Fuyi say that Master Ji had practiced several kinds of magic and asked him to be careful. The one he saw just now must be one of them.
Li Yan felt that the pulling force of the big hand pressing on his top of the head had increased a bit. He immediately gathered all his spiritual power and poured it into the top of his head and lower body more frantically.
On the one hand, it allowed more fire spiritual power to penetrate into Military Advisor Ji's body, and on the other hand, it made his lower body heavier. Li Yan hoped that before his spiritual power was sucked away, Military Advisor Ji would be killed by the fire poison in his body.
In this way, the two of them were struggling to hold on. Advisor Ji Jun felt the figure in front of him swaying and felt dizzy, but he was unable to pull Li Yan closer.
He bit his tongue hard, and became a little more conscious. With red eyes, he suddenly released all the spiritual power in his body that was suppressing the fire poison. The spiritual power was divided into two streams, a small stream flowed to his left hand, and the other was all poured into his right hand.
He exerted force with his hands and pulled hard again, while letting out a roar like a dying beast.
"Give me death!"
Li Yan was gritting his teeth and holding on. His whole body felt as if washed by water. The spiritual power in his body was being poured in so desperately that he was about to run out of energy. He could feel his heart beating "boom boom boom..." and stars were appearing in front of his eyes!
Suddenly he felt an even greater force coming from the top of his head. He immediately judged that this was Master Ji's last stand. He made up his mind and suddenly withdrew all the spiritual power that was pouring into his lower body and the top of his head.
Strategist Ji only felt that his right hand suddenly lost all resistance, and Li Yan actually fell into his arms like flying. Although he originally wanted to pull Li Yan over, the sudden change still caught him off guard.
It gave him an uncomfortable feeling of loss of strength, as if he had hit nothing with his full strength, and the coordination of the seal with his left hand became sluggish.
It was said to be late, but it was fast. Li Yan had already fallen on him. The moment he was in his arms, he suddenly raised his head, then quickly and fiercely shook his head, and a cold light flashed under the moon...
It all happened too fast. Strategist Ji was planning to cast the "Fireball Technique" and immediately repel Li Yan, but he hesitated in a trance. He felt a sharp pain in his throat, and then all the strength and blood in his body seemed to have found a vent point and shot out from that point!
At that moment, Master Ji was very anxious and instinctively wanted to pull back his right hand to cover his neck, but the Soul Absorbing Technique was still running slowly, so he couldn't pull it back. In a hurry, the last bit of spiritual power and surging fire poison in his body all rushed to his right hand, gushing out, pushing Li Yan away.
The spurting blood swirled and danced in the night like flowers from the other shore, splashing Li Yan's face with blood, like an evil ghost!
Between his teeth that were splattering with blood, he was still biting a thin blade that was shining with a faint light. In a trance, he felt a stream of spiritual power shooting into his head.
He could feel the fire spiritual power he had previously injected into him, as well as the unfamiliar wood spiritual power, and the fire poison that was several times more concentrated than that in his own body pouring out.
But he had no strength left to resist, as all this power poured into his body in just a breath!
Li Yan leaned against the tree, his breath weak, and the thin blade in his mouth had already fallen to his body powerlessly. Beside him, Master Ji had fallen on the ground covered in blood.
It is said that the life of a monk is much better than that of a mortal. There was a deep bloody wound on the throat of Master Ji, who was lying in a pool of blood. The flesh and blood were turned inside out, and it was a blurry red scene, which was chilling to the sight.
His body was still twitching, his eyes staring upward at Li Yan, his mouth was filled with blood bubbles, and a strange hissing sound came from his throat.
"You practiced martial arts and vomited blood...blood..."
"Haha, you figured it out too? Hiss."
Li Yan leaned against the tree, not showing any fear at all about the bloody scene before him, as if everything in front of him was just a dying monster that he had hunted in the Daqing Mountains before.
He gasped, and waves of piercing pain came from his legs.
"Ever since I knew you treated me like a penned pig, I have been planning how to escape so that you can't hurt me and my family! Hehe, don't make that hissing sound again, it's unpleasant to hear. I know you want to know a lot, a lot...
But if I tell you everything, can you listen to it? So, how can I know your intentions and what immortality you are practicing? You can go and find immortality in your next life!"
Li Yan said weakly, looking at Master Ji's wide eyes and unwilling look, he chuckled.
After hearing what Li Yan said, Advisor Ji's chest suddenly rose and fell rapidly, and a louder hissing sound came from his throat. Li Yan knew that Advisor Ji understood something, which was the meaning of the word "seeking immortals" that he mentioned.
But Li Yan continued to talk on his own, completely ignoring Master Ji's anxious expression!
"I used the books you annotated to practice your handwriting, I used a lot of flower and grass fragrance to cover it, put the scent of 'soulmate bug' on your clothes, and I kept buying all kinds of things to make your consciousness tired.
I told you, don't look at me like that. I can practice other immortal arts, so of course I know the existence of spiritual consciousness. I also know that you are at the peak of the third level of Qi Condensation Stage, and you use your spiritual consciousness to detect me every day.
When you think that the items I bought are insignificant, you will relax your vigilance. I asked my brothers in the Iron Pavilion to make blade boots, a soft sword belt and a very small thin blade that can only be placed in the mouth.
There are also some simple trap-setting mechanisms and tools. Although my brother is only an apprentice and doesn’t know how to do it, his senior brothers and master do, hehe…
Except for the soft sword belt which was placed on the waist and was too conspicuous, you might find it if your spiritual sense passed by it carelessly. As for the other things, after your spiritual sense had scanned me every time I entered the city to buy things, I was too lazy to pay too much attention to them.
I brought some things with me to practice. The Hidden Blade Boots are just a simple mechanism. I just need to get familiar with it a few times. Ahem…"
The fire poison in Li Yan's body was also drawn out by the backlash of wood spiritual power and the fire poison mixed in it. He felt a burning sensation in his abdomen, and even the wound on his broken leg and the other thigh did not hurt anymore. He gasped heavily for a moment.
He could already feel his strength rapidly disappearing, like an old man chattering in a whisper.
"But secretly practicing with this thin blade under my tongue every day has caused me a lot of pain. My mouth is full of blood, and I have to pretend that it is the backlash of the fire poison caused by practicing.
I was afraid that you would discover my secret by accident, but... ahem... it finally worked!
Hehe... ahem... you are wrong about one thing, this is not my last trump card, whether in the mountains or in the woods, the belt and boots are my last trump cards.
Because... because... because I'm not sure which one will kill you, so I kill you with one strike every time, cough cough cough..."
Li Yan slightly tilted his head which was leaning against the tree, and looked at the place not far away where only a small piece of black charcoal was left, and the big man who had turned into a "skewer".
"I just didn't expect Marshal Hong to end up like this. I wonder if the Meng Kingdom..."
At this moment, Li Yan thought of his parents, his third brother, his elder sister, and the small mountain village...his childhood playmates...and the dogs in the village that ran around under his legs with their tails between their legs.
With a loud bang in his head, Li Yan felt as if his stomach had turned into a sea of fire. Before he regained consciousness, he saw Master Ji lying in a pool of blood, his eyes wide open, and he had been dead for a long time.
Half an hour later, several rays of light slid across the sky and hovered above the valley, as if looking for something.
"Brother Wu, here."
After a dozen breaths, one of the rays of light fell into the woods.
The light faded, and a slightly plump young man with a round face and big eyes appeared. He was looking at Master Ji who was lying in a pool of blood at his feet.
Soon, two more rays of light fell down. When the light faded, a dark-skinned young man with a horse face and a gentle young man appeared. All three were wearing dark green robes.
The horse-faced, dark-skinned young man came to the side of the slightly plump young man in a few steps.
"Junior Brother Lu, your 'little exploration technique' has become more and more sophisticated. It's you who discovered it first."
Before the horse-faced, dark-skinned young man could speak, the gentle young man behind him smiled and said.
"Hehe, Junior Brother, I am timid. When I go out, I tend to investigate the surrounding situation more often. I am sorry to make Senior Brother Yu laugh at me."
Upon hearing this, the slightly plump young man turned around and smiled shyly at the gentle young man, but there was already a hint of satisfaction in his expression.
After the three of them stood still, they looked around.
"This is the military advisor."
The black-skinned young man with a horse face who was called "Senior Brother Wu" squatted down and stared at Master Ji in a pool of blood, then said in a somewhat cold tone. After hearing this, the two of them also quickly gathered together and stared at Master Ji's face.
After looking for a while, the slightly plump young man nodded.
"It's somewhat similar to the one in the jade slip sent by the brother from the law enforcement team, but there's too much blood on his face, and it's so distorted. The wound, wow, the attacker was really cruel!"
"I think Senior Brother Wu is right, it must be this person without a doubt. His face is about 60% similar to the one in the jade slip.
Apart from the painful twisting after having his throat cut, the other symptoms are very similar to the backlash of improper entry into the 'Black Night Curtain Green Art', not to mention what Senior Brother Wu is holding in his hand, hehehe..."
The gentle young man looked at Senior Brother Wu, who was holding the jade book that originally belonged to Strategist Ji on his waist.
"Well, this thing is the technique that was taken away by the outer sect traitor. Let's check the paper book on him to see if it is also there."
The gentle young man smiled when he heard the words, and with a flick of his fingers, the black robe on Master Ji's body scattered. He squatted down, and after a moment he took out a book from Master Ji's underwear.
"Haha, he did carry it with him, saving me and my brothers from having to go to his residence to look for it."
The gentle young man handed the book to Senior Brother Wu.
"This person is dead, so he can no longer 'enjoy' the soul-binding silkworms. His disciple should be the one leaning against the tree. It is obvious that he has also practiced the imperfect 'Black Night Curtain Green Art' and is almost dead now!"
After Senior Brother Wu took the book, he looked at Strategist Ji’s body, then turned and looked at Li Yan who was leaning against the tree.
When he saw the thin-blade knife falling on Li Yan's chest, he couldn't help but frown.
"The military advisor should have died at the hands of this person. The two people beside him were hit by the 'fireball spell' and the 'wood spike spell'. What's going on?"
Senior Brother Wu turned his head and looked to the other side, where there was a small pile of coke and the big man who died in a very tragic way. He was unable to understand the situation for a moment.
"Brother Wu, it's clear that the military advisor made a mistake in practicing our sect's technique. What else can his disciple be used for?"
The gentle young man spoke softly at this time, his eyes still on Li Yan.
"Looking at this scene, his disciple must be in cahoots with those two. Maybe his disciple saw their intentions and teamed up with two martial arts masters to surround and kill him, which led to this end."
After listening to this, Senior Brother Wu looked around the scene again, pondered for a moment, and then spoke as if he had realized something.
"Humph! That military advisor is also a fool. He thinks that he can break the fire poison in his body with such a low-level method. It's really ridiculous. What does he think of our sect's skills!"
The slightly plump young man snorted coldly, feeling very disdainful in his heart.
"It's a pity for his disciple. He must have suffered an unexpected disaster!"
The gentle young man shook his head.
"Then let me kill him. There's no need to bring him back to suffer the 'blessing' of the soul-binding silkworms. I'll have to spend a lot of time and effort to treat him, and it would be a pity to waste the medicine."
The chubby young man was about to make a spell with his fingers, and Senior Brother Wu nodded coldly to show his agreement.
"Wait a minute!"
Seeing that the slightly plump young man was about to cast a spell, the gentle young man next to him looked at Li Yan with a fixed gaze and hurriedly stopped him.
The sudden shout in his ear made the plump young man's hand tremble, and the seal immediately dispersed, and he almost suffered a backlash.
"Brother Yu, you can't do this! Yelling and screaming at this close to me is scary, it's scary to death!"
The slightly plump young man grumbled in dissatisfaction.
The gentle young man did not ignore him, but took a few quick steps to come in front of Li Yan, and then released a spiritual sense to sweep towards Li Yan.
The next moment, his face changed, and then he quickly made a gesture, and a blue light from his fingertips hit Li Yan's abdomen.
When Senior Brother Wu heard him scolding the fat young man like this, he just frowned and didn't say anything. The next moment, seeing the gentle young man casting a spell, he also looked at Li Yan intently, and then he couldn't help but let out a light exclamation.
After a few breaths, the gentle young man raised his head and looked at Senior Brother Wu, and the two spoke almost at the same time.
"Poisonous body in pieces!"
"Dismembered poisonous body?"
The slightly plump young man was looking at the two of them in confusion just now, but after hearing what they said, he was also stunned on the spot.
"How can this... this... be killed?"
… …
The sky is bright in the east, and it is another sunny early summer day.
In the early morning, the air at the foot of Daqing Mountain is fresh, and the crisp sound of birds chirping can be heard from far or near above the small mountain village. Smoke from cooking in the village is curling up, and the smoke is drifting away in the breeze...
Outside the village, the lush green wheat fields pass around the village, with layers of terraces extending out one after another. Occasionally, there are a few acres of yellow rapeseed flowers dotted among the green wheat fields, which is so beautiful!
Since spring this year, the weather has been good and the harvests have been good. I believe the consequences of the locust plague will be over in another month.
Chang Bo put down his bowl and chopsticks, wiped the oil off his mouth, and grinned.
Life has been going very smoothly in the past few months, and the family's financial situation has gradually improved. In addition to the money given by the government when the fifth brother joined the army, that little bastard also brings in a dozen taels of silver every month.
In just over half a year, the family has accumulated a lot of money, enough to support them in this remote mountain village for decades.
Another belt was brought back from the city yesterday. The village chief said that the belt was a gift from Lord Ji in the city and should be placed in the ancestral hall in the village.
Chang Bo had many arguments with Li Guoxin over this matter, but he finally agreed reluctantly, but with a very smug look on his face.
Li Guoxin promised that during the ancestor worship this year, his family would be the first in the village to light incense, burn incense, and say prayers.
Chang Bo strolled around the village quite a bit yesterday, just to see the envious looks from the villagers, young and old, and the words of welcome they would come up to him from time to time.
"I won't be working in the fields today. I called some laborers from the village last night. We have to repair the house in this nice weather! We'll start building a few more rooms next to it this afternoon. San'er's wedding can be held in the fall."
After Chang Bo put down the bowl, he stood up and walked out in high spirits. Li Wei scratched his head embarrassedly, limped over, picked up the tools leaning against the wall and followed him out.
Li Yanniang looked at the two men's backs and scolded them with a smile.
"Look at what you two can do. You can even fly. Xiaozhu, we will go cut and wash the half of the pig later so that the people who help to clean up the house can have a good meal and drink at noon. That way, they will work harder when building the house later!"
After a pause, Li Yanniang looked at Li Xiaozhu who was smiling happily on the side, and her expression changed.
"You, how come your in-laws are so useless? It's already spring, but they still don't have the money to marry you! Humph, we don't need you now. After your third brother's house is built, I'll find a matchmaker to find you another family."
When Li Xiaozhu heard this, a blush suddenly appeared on his face. He stomped his feet and ran out!