In the Western Tribulation Land, in a hidden cave.
Xia Ji sat cross-legged, surrounded by talismans one after another.
On the leather rug in front of him, Xiao Su was covered in blood.
Whoosh!
Whizzing!
The talisman fell towards her.
But it doesn't have much effect.
This talisman can obviously revive the flesh and bones of dead people, but it has no reaction at all.
In an instant, more than ten attacks were carried out, but it was still useless.
For the first time, he hurriedly and tremblingly bandaged someone's wound, but the wound still couldn't stop bleeding.
There was her blood, and there was his own blood.
A hole was penetrated in his left shoulder. The hole could not be healed, as if a force was repelling it.
With such strength, the two extremely strong men suddenly became ordinary people and endured the pain of ordinary people.
Xiao Su opened her eyes weakly.
Xia Ji said gently: "It will be fine."
Xiao Su glanced at his brother who was also bleeding profusely, and said weakly: "It is the power of the stars. If the wound is not treated, it can only scab slowly. We can only rely on the most ordinary human strength to heal, and if we are disabled , just really disabled.”
"There will be a way."
Xia Ji endured the pain in his left shoulder and gently bandaged Xiao Su's broken left wrist and almost completely disabled left leg.
"Brother...I'm sorry."
Xiao Su suddenly turned pale and said these five words in agony.
Xia Ji grabbed a handful of porcelain bottles from his arms and stuffed various elixirs into her mouth.
Xiao Su turned her head sideways in extreme pain, and her raised right palm suddenly dropped.
Xia Ji's heart suddenly dropped following this palm, but fortunately Xiao Su still had breathing as thin as a gossamer, so he breathed a sigh of relief and fell asleep.
He sat down at the entrance of the cave.
Outside the cave, there are many little birds flying in the sunset.
For a moment, he forgot the pain on his shoulder and smiled to himself, "Xia Ji, Xia Ji, why do you underestimate those beings who have lived for more than ten thousand years
You have adventures, you have hard work, you have plans, but others don’t? "
Su Tian, the ancestor of the Wu family, flashed in his mind, and the Supreme Being under the starlight flashed in his mind. Are there any fools? Are there any weak people? These have survived twelve calamities, they stand out from so many people in ancient times, and they are existences that have planned for another three thousand years in this world.
They are getting stronger all the time.
Because, to a certain extent, they are the strongest in ancient times, and naturally, they are also the ceiling of power in every calamity.
Xia Ji stared quietly into the distance and slowly closed his eyes.
At this time, he will always remember this unforgettable pain.
…
The brother and sister went all the way north.
He also encountered some fire demons on the road, but these fire demons were nothing to Xia Ji.
The weather is getting colder,
There are also fewer and fewer fire demons.
Gradually, the world became a world of ice and snow, and it has entered the periphery of the country of ice and snow Rakshasa.
Xia Ji was wrapped in a dark golden velvet cloak, and Xiao Su was like a pale doll wrapped in a warm cloak. Her body had lost a lot of weight, there was no flesh on her face, and her hair was bifurcated and hanging down like withered yellow hay.
After all, both of them are beings with extremely powerful vitality. The wounds have scabbed over, the power of the stars is slowly fading, and new muscles and nerves have been woven into the wounds.
Xiao Su's left leg is also recovering extremely slowly, but his left wrist is completely broken.
At this time, the two of them were walking in the ice and snow.
Xia Ji shrugged his shoulders, tightened Xiao Su on his back, and stepped into the snow in front of him step by step. He had slowed down at this time, raised his head and glanced at the snowflakes in the sky, and said: "I guess there's still a long way to go."
Xiao Su said: "Let's take a rest first. There is a place in my memory called Wangjia Town. That town is in the north. The residents there should be our friends."
"Wangjia Town?" Xia Ji couldn't help but read the name of the place that was incompatible with the surrounding painting style, and nodded, "Okay."
The bonfire went up.
Xia Ji mixed Ganoderma lucidum, ginseng, and spiritual grass to make some tonic soup. He drank a bowl of it himself, then picked up another bowl and placed it on the stone slab.
Xiao Su moved her body to stand up, leaned over, grabbed the spoon with her pale and thin right hand, and drank sip after sip.
After drinking, her face became a little rosy, and she lay on the wall, her eyelids slowly drooping.
The jumping flames gave the cave a warm color. Their voices fell on the wall, and the cold wind howled outside the cave.
The land of the Rakshasa Kingdom in the North is very large, and the population is very sparse. Although there have been several bandits and robbers encountered, these earthly existences can be wiped out by Xia Ji with just a breath, and they will not pose a threat at all.
Xiao Su obviously couldn't sleep. Her eyelids kept dancing, and then she suddenly said: "Brother, let's talk for a while."
Xia Ji didn't sleep either, so he responded: "Okay, what do you say?"
"Tell me something about my sister-in-law."
"Where is my sister-in-law?"
"Ah~~ Not yet?" Xiao Su was a little disappointed, "Let's go find one. I want to see my nephew or niece as soon as possible."
"Do it yourself."
"I have never thought about finding a man, nor have I ever thought about having children." Xiao Su glanced at Xia Ji, "Even if I am an elder brother, I will not have any unnecessary feelings between men and women."
Xia Ji couldn't help laughing: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Xiao Su said: "So, hurry up and find a sister-in-law. The burden of reproducing our family will be in your hands."
Both of them suddenly fell silent.
It seemed that after the battle with the Mother of Stars, they were all a little decadent, and they all understood that this was destined to be a protracted battle, not a battle that could end quickly in the short term.
This battle may take hundreds, thousands, or even longer...
The family naturally needs it.
Xiao Su suddenly said: "When I find the other ten golden statues and build a powerful area, we can be invincible in that area.
At that time, we can build our own family. I'll find it soon. "
The two of them talked and fell asleep in a daze.
While he was half asleep and half awake, there was suddenly a "bang bang bang" gunshot in the distance.
The sound was extremely urgent.
Continuing among them were the sounds of running footsteps and horse hooves.
The country of ice and snow Rakshasa has muskets. Xia Ji knew this before, so he was not too surprised.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the person who came seemed to be aware of the light here, and rushed in immediately. He was a young man wearing a red uniform, with a lotus-like ice and snow pattern carved on the left shoulder of the uniform.
The young man's skin was very white, and his pupils were gray-blue. At this time, his gray-blue eyes were staring at the two people beside the campfire with vigilance. Then he raised his gun, pointed the muzzle at Xia Ji, and shouted "I don't know" What words.
But just by looking at the body movements, you can guess that it's something like "Don't make a sound".
The man quickly stepped forward to extinguish the bonfire.
Xia Ji snorted lightly.
Suddenly, the airflow around him rolled, and two flying snakes flew out of his nose and shot directly at the young man.
The powerful force made the man feel like he was struck by electricity. He fell to the ground and fainted at the entrance of the cave.
Xiao Su also woke up. She raised her weak eyes, glanced at the ground, and then closed her eyes again. With her brother here, unless she met one of the nine people or strayed into some desperate situation, she would not be able to do anything. Something will happen.
Xia Ji searched between his brows and found a few language skill beads, which he used instantly.
In an instant, Rakshasa language was also under control.
Not long after, there were many dense footsteps coming from outside, and soon there was the sound of a gun being loaded, and then the foreign sound of "chirping" came from outside the cave.
Xia Ji found that he could already understand it.
The man was letting the man get out on his own.
So he raised his voice and spoke in Rakshasa language: "The person has fainted."
The person outside the door was stunned, and then waved. Behind him, a soldier-like man came out, holding a bladed spear and pushing through the green vines. He walked in. When he saw the fainted person on the ground, he turned around and said : "Sir, the person has fainted."
Immediately, a middle-aged man with a mustache walked in. He glanced at the people on the ground, then looked at Xia Ji, and then said, "Thank you for your help. Are you from the south?"
"good."
"I am Ifa, the inspector of Ice Lotus Fortress. This is our deserter, so I came to hunt him down. If you have nowhere to go, why don't you come with me to the fortress?"
The middle-aged man with a mustache also saw that the Xia Ji brothers and sisters were luxuriously dressed and had rich faces. They were obviously nobles from the south, and their actions were extraordinary.
Most of the people from the Southern Central Plains who can come here are very capable beings, and the fortress happens to be encountering difficulties now. If he can meet such a strong person, he will naturally extend an invitation.
Xia Ji pondered for a moment.
Su Tian once said that there are no nine people in the Rakshasa country. The main reason is that "the frozen soil of the far north is a barren land with no spiritual energy. They look down on them and don't bother to come."
So a place like this is actually very suitable for him and Xiao Su to settle down. Since they want to settle down, they must naturally be involved in the cause and effect here.
Now that we have this opportunity, we can just take advantage of it.
So, he nodded.
The middle-aged man with a mustache smiled and brought a horse to Xia Ji.
Xia Ji held Xiao Su and sat in front, then skillfully rode forward.
Yifa's eyes narrowed. He didn't even have a saddle or stirrups. How could this man ride a horse so freely
He couldn't help but take another high look. Only because of his equestrian skills, he must be a noble among nobles.
The sound of horse hooves echoed in the ice and snow.
Xiao Su was like an old, pale doll, huddled in her cloak, looking only at the icy land, and the white-covered trees turned into swift shadows and swept back quickly.
About an hour later, these ten horses had entered the ice and snow mountain pass.
The icebergs on both sides are Cuiwei, and like a long and narrow dark well mouth, you can only see a line of sky with heavy snow falling continuously.
Behind the fortress is a medium-sized town, and in front is a tall pass. On the pass, soldiers can be seen patrolling in the wind and snow.
Yifa asked: "I don't know what to call you?"
Xia Ji thought for a while and said casually: "The down-and-out nobles, the Ji family. My name is Ji Qi, and she is my sister, her name is Ji Su."
Xiao Su couldn't help but be stunned as she listened to her brother's extremely skilled nonsense.
Ifa led the two of them into a large house, went upstairs and took them into a wing.
The flames in the fireplace in the room are burning brightly, illuminating the exotic murals on the walls and bringing warmth to the place.
Yifa said: "You two will rest in my house first. I will report to Princess Ice Lotus tomorrow, and then the princess will choose a time to receive you two. In recent days, people from the south of you come here to take refuge from time to time. I heard that they were encountered A great calamity."
Xia Jidao: "It's a fire disaster coming from the west."
Ifa sighed with emotion: "Thank God, we are a country of ice and snow."
Xia Ji smiled. No one in the Nine Bad Omens seemed to care whether it was the land of ice and snow. In the next five hundred years, there was no guarantee that the fire disaster would come.
Yifa asked curiously: "I heard that you in China have magical powers. You can hurt people from a distance, and you can split iron and rocks with force, right?"
Xia Ji glanced at him and guessed in his heart that the Rakshasa Kingdom had added all its skill points to the "gun technology tree", so he asked: "What kind of power do you like?"
Ifa immediately took a stance, punched a few times, and then roared again.
Xia Ji grabbed a skill book he wrote when he was bored from his arms and threw it out.
This is a green skill book, titled [Thirteen Fists of Tiger Roar], which contains boxing techniques and a simple introduction to Qi.
"This is a set of boxing techniques that you can practice by turning them over."
Yifa took it, flipped through a few pages, and saw that the patterns on it corresponded to the essence of boxing skills that he usually studied by himself. He found that it was much more advanced. He was immediately ecstatic, thanked him hurriedly, and then went out as if he had found a treasure. .
Later, a maid with fair skin and blue eyes served a fruit plate, sparkling wine, and a freshly baked bread. The cake was topped with gravy and steaming minced lamb.
Xia Ji knew that this was the supper offered by Nayifa as a thank you.
The maid left another key, "Sir from the south, the wing next door has been sorted out. You can use it at any time."
"knew."
The maid slowly retreated.
Xia Ji turned his head and saw Xiao Su lying in front of the arch-shaped window. Because her left hand was broken, her hands were tucked into her sleeves, and because her left leg had not fully recovered, she wrapped her cloak tightly.
Xia Ji followed her gaze and said,
It was a snowy scene thousands of miles away.
It is the snowy white where the world has returned to silence.
…
…
The next day.
Yifa took Xia Ji and Xiao Su in a carriage to the castle.
The castle is located on a cliff in front of a glacier, and the princess living here is obviously eager for talents, especially those from the south.
Therefore, Xia Ji barely encountered any interrogation and entered smoothly.
As soon as we entered the castle, the temperature started to heat up. There was a throne at the end of the red carpet.
Sitting on the throne was a young princess, tall and full of fiery figure, with pure white skin, long legs covered in a blue gauze skirt, an exotic beauty on her face, and gray-blue eyes like the surface of an icy lake. , with a sparkling pearl crown on her short blond hair.
She was obviously still young, but she allowed herself to show an aristocratic smile and said: "Friends from the south, please take a seat."
Wait until the fragrant tea is served.
Princess Binglian said: "I heard that there are many capable people and strangers in the southern land, who can give birth to phantoms and even dharma. I wonder if Mr. Ji is such a person?"
As she spoke, she looked at Xia Ji curiously.
After all, she was still a girl. Although she had more experience, she had never seen a man like Xia Ji.
He is a man who is full of unique courage and makes people unable to help but be in awe and fascinated.
Xia Jidao: "I know a little about these."
"There are very few southerners with such a pure Rakshasa accent." Princess Binglian couldn't help but praise, and then clapped her hands.
There were footsteps from behind the house.
Princess Binglian said: "Then please let another friend from the south give Mr. Ji a try."
Xia Ji said: "Okay."
Not long.
A calm middle-aged man walked out, carrying a long sword on his back and looking a bit arrogant.
However, the moment he saw Xia Ji, his arrogance disappeared instantly.
Before Princess Binglian could speak, the middle-aged man had already bowed his body, lowered his head, lowered his eyes, and stammered: "Shen...King Shenwu?"
Xia Ji drank tea and casually responded: "Yes."
The middle-aged man was so frightened that he froze. After a while, he turned around and said to Princess Binglian: "Your Highness, I... am not worthy to test him."
The Rakshasa man on the side translated, and Princess Ice Lotus was suddenly shocked.