"Muzhi, how are you?" Nanzhu came over and asked immediately.
Gu Pinglin felt Jun Muzhi's pulse and said, "Internal injuries."
"It's okay, I..." Jun Muzhi had just said a few words when he vomited blood again.
"Heal your wounds first." Nanzhu stopped him in a deep voice, summoned the ice wheel boat, helped him onto the ice wheel, then turned to look at Pinglin with a hesitant look on her face.
Gu Pinglin understood what he meant: "I will protect Brother Nan."
After all, Zhou Yi was not one of them. Nanzhu put her worries aside after hearing that. She asked another personal bodyguard to cooperate with Gu Pinglin, then sat down and circulated her true energy to help Jun Muzhi heal his wounds.
Gu Pinglin looked up at the battlefield.
Qi Wan'er, Duan Qingming and Bu Shuihan were all belligerent, so Yao Feng quietly stepped back and helped the others with Jiang Ruoxu. Duan Qingming was as daring as ever, and he attracted most of the attention of the turtles alone, looking extremely dangerous. However, Gu Pinglin knew that he was just testing his sword and was not trying his best. On the contrary, Qi Wan'er and Bu Shuihan were fighting with courage and passion, which was more worrying.
Several Penglai guards cooperated well, and the Qi monks also opened a large sword formation. Although they had not yet formed an outer elixir, they had all received special training, and the power of their sword formation was no less than that of an inner elixir monk.
Zhou Yi was just watching indifferently at first, but gradually, his expression became serious and he stared at Yao Feng closely.
Qi Wan'er, Bu Shuihan and Jiang Ruoxu all used their own swordsmanship, Duan Qingming hid his strength, and only the Yao family's swordsmanship outside the mountain seemed particularly special.
The poisonous fog released by the Li Turtle is getting more and more, and everyone's vision is blocked, making movement more difficult. Fortunately, the situation on the battlefield is relatively stable for now, and everyone is safe. Nanzhu has already spread the news that the other guards from Penglai Island will arrive soon, and by then the Li Turtle will be suppressed and will escape - everyone is not strong enough to kill the intermediate beast, and can only drive it away.
Gu Pinglin took the time to look at the brother and sister next to him.
Noticing Gu Pinglin's gaze, the girl couldn't help but shrink back while hugging her brother. After all, in the sea, it was not surprising for any dirty things to happen, and people's hearts were treacherous.
Gu Pinglin wanted to ask about the man’s injuries, but when he saw this, he didn’t say anything.
He and Zhou Yi stood by and did not take any action. The girl was worried about her savior and could not help asking, "That beast was very powerful. Will they... be in trouble?"
Gu Pinglin looked at her sideways again: "The ones who saved the girl must be the Thirteenth Young Master of the Qi Clan and Young Master Yao."
"Ah, it turns out to be the Beiqi clan." The girl exclaimed, her vigilance fading away. The Beiqi clan was very famous and was a righteous sect, and they had dealings with her family.
She couldn't help but look up at the person in the air, becoming even more worried and hesitant to speak.
Following her line of sight, Gu Pinglin said calmly, "Young Master Nan of Penglai is here. They just need to hold the Ligui back, and someone will be here later."
The girl blushed slightly, straightened her clothes, and knelt down to greet him: "My second brother's name is Ji Chengfang. Thank you for saving me. I will report to the elders in my family and come to thank you."
"Ji?" Gu Pinglin was really surprised. He looked at her for a few seconds and asked, "The girl is ranked seventh?"
"How do you know?" the girl asked in surprise.
Gu Pinglin couldn't help but look at Nanzhu.
If nothing unexpected happens, this Ji Qiniang is Nanzhu's wife in the previous life, the lady of the island owner of Penglai Island. Unexpectedly, the journey to the sea realm in this life would be brought forward, and the two of them would meet under such circumstances. It is truly fate.
However…
Gu Pinglin looked at Ji Qiniang, and then at Qi Wan'er, who was mastering the sword technique with great vigor and was completely unaware of all this. He didn't know what to say, and after a while he said, "I am Gu Pinglin from the Lingxin Sect. I just happened to bring some healing pills. Should I give them to your brother first?"
The Lingxin Sect is a second-rate sect, but it has a good reputation. The girl was overjoyed, but couldn't ask him how he knew her, so she could only thank him and take the pill and feed it to her brother.
Gu Pinglin turned his attention back to the battlefield, thinking that the Penglai guards would be arriving soon.
At this moment, something unexpected happened!
The black fog swelled, and a curtain of water broke through the sword formation. Li Gui suddenly raised his head and slapped out several water blades with his front paws.
"Hmm?" Gu Pinglin frowned.
Duan Qingming, Qi Wan'er and Bu Shuihan formed a united force thanks to the cooperation between Yao Feng and Jiang Ruoxu, and the Penglai guards also had their own tacit understanding. However, a problem occurred on the Qi family's great sword formation's side, as a Qi family cultivator accidentally misplaced his position, causing a gap in the great sword formation.
It was normal to make mistakes in a hurry, and no one found it strange. It was just that the timing was a bit bad - Duan Qingming had just thrown out a sword, and at this moment he was closest to the Li Gui, so he had no time to dodge. Moreover, from his position, those water blades blocked all his escape routes, and the Li Gui opened its mouth and bit him!
One mistake and the situation on the field changes drastically.
Qi Wan'er was the first to react. She pointed at the Qi monk and shouted, "What are you doing!"
"Junior Brother Duan!" Bu Shuihan and Jiang Ruoxu rushed to rescue him.
Yao Feng had already taken the lead.
The Xugu sword was hanging high in the air, the sword shadow extended like a line, and the extraordinary sword energy truly revealed its famous style!
A truly righteous martial art, it is profound, gentle, and broad. Air currents within a mile radius will willingly follow it and be attached to the sword force!
This is a "trapped" sword move. Under the cover of sword energy, the poisonous fog solidified and Li Gui's movements were stagnant.
Just a pause.
Yao's top sword move was unable to exert its corresponding power due to the shallow cultivation of the person who made the move. However, this delay successfully bought a moment of precious time for the person in danger.
This sword shows Yao Feng’s true strength.
Everyone was very happy.
“Good!” Duan Qingming looked up at the sword shadow, unaware that he was in danger. His handsome face, which was covered with frost, was stained with an unusual glow. “Good move!”
"What are you still standing there for!" Qi Wan'er cursed angrily.
Bu Shuihan and Jiang Ruoxu also shouted "Retreat quickly".
The sword's power was exhausted, the black mist floated again, and the turtle escaped. A good chance to escape was missed, and exclamations rang out around.
The tip of the sword slowly dropped. Duan Qingming seemed not to hear the crowd's shouts. He looked up at the sword moves, then at the Li Turtle in front of him, and suddenly lowered his head slightly, as if thinking about something.
Qi Wan'er was so angry that she jumped up and down: "Hey, Duan Liu, you are stupid!"
"Brother Duan!" Yao Feng was also dismayed.
"Junior brother!"
Finally, the turtle opened its mouth and bit down!
At this moment, all the screams disappeared, and everyone's faces turned pale, staring over there.
Originally, he only needed to use the "Goose Shadow in the Clouds" move to escape easily, but now the opportunity has passed, and it seems that he is doomed to die in the mouth of the beast! With sweat on his clenched palms, Gu Pinglin hurriedly took two steps forward: "Duan Qingming!"
The sound was not loud, but the surroundings were extremely quiet at the time, so the sound was particularly clear.
The sword intent surges!
As if waking up from a dream, Duan Qingming raised his head and moved.
Between the dark water and the black fog, a pure white crane gracefully took off!
It is a person, and also a sword light.
The sword followed the man, and it was impossible to distinguish the sword from the man. Gu Pinglin looked at the snow shadow, his heartbeat suddenly quickened, and his clenched fingers loosened.
Only this sword can reverse the situation and regain the last chance of survival.
——The dancing crane shadow, originally the sixth move of “Gu Ying Sword Technique”.
This is a rare slow sword move in "Gu Ying Sword Technique". It is called slow because of its effect in the eyes of outsiders. But if anyone really thinks it is slow, they are wrong. Gu Pinglin tried to deduce it in his previous life. The starting part alone contains ninety-six possible changes, and each change will lead to more changes.
An imperfect slow move with surprisingly agile body movements.
The last moment, the man was clearly in the Li Turtle's mouth;
The next moment, he floated out incredibly and lightly.
The crane shadows slanted across the water, rising and falling, with a light posture, leaving behind airflow shadows wherever they passed, like a group of cranes dancing, the scene was extremely beautiful. The Li turtle chased closely behind, biting them one by one, and the airflow shadows exploded one after another, a small piece of blood mist dispersed, and the Li turtle shook its head continuously, it seemed that it was injured.
Everyone stared at all this in a daze.
The cold wind blew in from the depths of the Black Sea, lifting the black cloak and blowing the black hair in front of his forehead. Gu Pinglin stood in the wind with deep eyes.
The appearance of "Giant Crane Shadows" did not bring too many surprises. From the beginning of "Goose Shadows in the Clouds", he had a vague premonition that all the sword styles of "Gu Ying Swordsmanship" would eventually be unveiled one by one.
However, witnessing the entire process with my own eyes and changing from an insider to a bystander, the feeling is very difficult to describe.
To live again, just to witness the growth of your old enemy
Gu Pinglin looked down at his hands.
He was a swordsmanship genius. He could still compete with him for now, but what about in a few years or decades? His training was difficult, and he had to force his way through each level. The gap between him and him would only get bigger and bigger.
He clenched his fists again, and his knuckles made a slight sound.
God, since you allowed me to be reborn, why did you play such a trick on me, making me better than in my previous life, but I have to be trapped by my obsession
Even if we each go our separate ways and seek our own paths, it would be fine even if we never meet again.
--"In this life and in the next, you will always be the loser, Gu Pinglin." You have already won in the previous life, why do you still let me have an obsession and hinder my path in this life
…
"ah!"
“Go!”
The exclamation dispelled the demons in his heart, and Gu Pinglin suddenly came back to his senses. He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and he immediately raised his eyes to look over.
He Ying brought Li Gui and rushed towards several Qi clan monks!
Duan Qingming was too fast, and the turtle could not find him, so it started to attack the people around it in a rage. The poor Qi family cultivators never expected that it was Duan Qingming who was unlucky, but how could it be their turn in just a moment. Because of the previous mistake, the great sword formation had been dispersed. They were only at the Qi Refining Realm, so they could not withstand the turtle's attack, and they had no choice but to flee in panic.
"Oh no, no, everyone, hurry up and run!" Duan Qingming realized something was wrong and hurriedly turned around to rescue, but he was obviously exhausted and his moves were weak and did not have much effect.
When escaping in a critical moment, he naturally couldn't care about many things. What's more, he was implicated by these people, so no one could blame him.
But Gu Pinglin didn't believe that he didn't do it on purpose. This man always got more and more excited as the battle went on. He could fight back even when seriously injured. Moreover, the capacity of his dantian was more than twice that of an ordinary cultivator. How could he be half-dead like this!
Pretending.
Gu Pinglin's mouth twitched, and he couldn't bear to watch it anymore.
Everyone was shocked by the gorgeous sword moves the moment before, and was frightened by the consequences the next moment. A Qi family cultivator was injured and fell into the water. Li Gui turned to another Qi family cultivator. Qi Wan'er rushed over to save him. Yao Feng also drew his sword to restrain Li Gui. Bu Shuihan deliberately fell behind, obviously because he felt sorry for Duan Qingming.
Gu Pinglin saw it clearly and did not have much sympathy for the Qi clan monks. They had asked for it, and Duan Qingming did not take them seriously. But if someone really died at this moment and angered the Qi clan, they would probably be in trouble along the way. Gu Pinglin looked at Nanzhu and Jun Muzhi on the ice wheel and hesitated.
There was a faint voice behind me.
Gu Pinglin immediately put aside his worries and raised his hand to strike.
Seizing the fortune of heaven and earth, the upper and lower air currents converged, and the black and yellow true energy condensed in the palm with the power of yin and yang, hitting the fierce turtle.
This palm strike was for saving people and could not cause any harm to the Li Gui. Gu Pinglin expected that the Li Gui would turn to attack him. Fortunately, the other Penglai guards had arrived and it was not difficult to suppress it.
unexpectedly--
The Li Turtle seemed stunned. It raised its head to look at Gu Pinglin, then suddenly turned around and swam away.
"Young Master!" The Penglai guards surrounded Binglun and were about to step forward to ask questions, but were stopped by Gu Pinglin.
Ming Gongnu, Qu Lin, Leng Xu, Gan Li, Xin Ji and others also came. Seeing Nanzhu treating Jun Muzhi, Ming Gongnu did not interrupt and turned to look at Duan Qingming. Qu Lin hesitated for a moment and walked to Gu Pinglin, who had already turned to talk to Leng Xu.
A dozen figures descended from mid-air. Some were regulating their breathing, while the injured were healing on the spot.
Bu Shuihan strode over, his breath still unsteady: "Miss Qu, why are you here?"
"We all came here after receiving the message." Qu Lin explained, and asked him with concern if he was injured.
Qi Wan'er put away her sword and looked in the direction where the Li Turtle disappeared, still puzzled: "How strange! Why did it run away?"
Zhou Yi suddenly said: "The new technique of Lingxin Sect is not bad."
No one knew the Creation Art, and Gu Pinglin tried to control it, so the palm didn't exert much power. Hearing him say this, everyone remembered the Lingxin Sect's improvement of the technique and praised it.
Gu Pinglin shook his head: "It left for another reason."
Even if an external alchemy cultivator has the Creation Art, it is impossible for him to drive away a mid-level beast. Everyone understood the difference and did not doubt Gu Pinglin's words. Bu Shuihan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it was tired after fighting for half a day, and when it saw that we had helpers, it left."
The logic made sense and everyone nodded in agreement, except Duan Qingming, who narrowed his eyes and looked at Gu Pinglin thoughtfully.
A Qi clan monk came over: "Thirteenth Young Master..."
It would have been fine if he didn't say anything. As soon as he spoke, Qi Wan'er got angry and exploded on the spot: "I haven't asked you what you were doing just now!"
The Qi clan cultivator hurriedly said, "It's all my fault that I failed and put Young Master Duan Liu in danger."
"Accident?" Qi Wan'er sneered, not buying it at all, "I don't think you did it by accident, you did it on purpose."
Gu Pinglin couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.
Qi Wan'er is really a quick-witted person, so open and aboveboard. As the saying goes, family disgrace should not be made public. If others encounter such a thing, they will deal with it privately. He investigated it in public and did not give his people any face. No wonder he was so famous in his previous life, but he did not become the head of the Qi family.
"You deliberately withdrew from the formation. What do you want to do?" Qi Wan'er pointed at him.
Bu Shuihan was furious when he heard this: "Sure enough, it was intentional! I have long suspected that Qi had ill intentions and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to harm..."
These two straightforward people are probably not chaotic enough. Gu Pinglin quickly stopped him from talking and stepped forward and said, "Since everything is fine, why not go back and talk about it in detail."
"No, make him explain clearly!" Qi Wan'er didn't understand what he meant at all, and was still furious. "My Qi Chaoge swordsmanship is upright and aboveboard, and we are the noblest among swordsmen. I don't think highly of Duan Liu, but to plot against him from behind is not what a swordsman does!"
Gu Pinglin coughed twice.
When it comes to backstabbing, who can compare to Duan Qingming? This should be an insult to him, but... I seem to have been insulted as well.
Looking at Qi Wan'er who was furious, Gu Pinglin felt a little emotional. He bowed and stopped trying to stop her.
Looking at the world of cultivation, everyone is calculating, who can be as clear as him? He is exactly the person that the master admires, not necessarily lovable, but admirable.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the Qi family cultivator was even more depressed. He dared to do this, of course, someone instructed him to do so. Duan Qingming died in the sea realm, and the Qi family got rid of a major worry. Even if others saw this, they would not point it out. But this little ancestor of his family was so simple-minded that he exposed it in public. How could he tell the truth
He gritted his teeth and knelt down in front of Duan Qingming: "It was indeed a mistake. We will let Sixth Master Duan deal with us."
"What are you talking about?" Duan Qingming smiled and helped him up. "Relatives shouldn't doubt each other. It's my fault. I'm ashamed that I caused the two Qi brothers to get hurt."
Everyone knew about the problems between Qi and him. He was almost killed. He was generous enough to give up the pursuit. Everyone admired him. Bu Shuihan patted him on the shoulder. Qi Wan'er seemed ashamed and hesitated to say anything.
Lady Ming smiled and said, "Mr. Duan is very generous."
Xin Ji also laughed: "Being implicated by others, what's wrong with doing it to save his life? Master Duan is very magnanimous, I really admire him."
Gu Pinglin remained silent.
Duan Qingming really didn't suffer any loss. He mastered the sword moves and was unharmed. He almost wiped out all the Qi family cultivators. In the end, it was the Qi family that was blamed.
"You are not using the Lingxin School's sword moves." Zhou Yi suddenly spoke, pointing at Duan Qingming.
"Brother Zhou, you have good eyesight. This is Duan family swordsmanship." Duan Qingming remained calm.
"No wonder," everyone exclaimed, "The Duan family is indeed the number one family."
"You are flattering me," Duan Qingming bowed modestly, "There are many noble families in the north and south, and each has its own strengths in swordsmanship. How dare the Duan family claim to be the best?"
Qi Wan'er was suspicious: "Why haven't I seen this trick before?"
Duan Qingming smiled and said, "Hey, cousin, you have been in seclusion since you were young, how did you know the Duan family's top swordsmanship? This move was newly created by the elder of the family. I will teach you another day."
"Do I need you to teach me?" Qi Wan'er snorted coldly and turned away.
The pharmacist from Penglai was already helping to check on Ji Chengfang's injuries. Ji Qiniang tidied up her appearance and walked in front of Qi Wan'er: "Qi... the Thirteenth Young Master?"
Qi Wan'er just remembered her and asked, "Is your brother okay?"
"Thanks to Master Gu for giving us the medicine, the pharmacist said that our lives are safe," Ji Qiniang said softly, "If Master Thirteen and his friends hadn't come to our rescue today, my brother and I would have died long ago."
Qi Wan'er has been popular with girls since she was a child. She didn't care much about such affectionate words. She waved her hand and said, "It's good that you are fine. You can stay with us for the time being until your brother recovers. If you need any help, you are welcome."
The more indifferent he was, the more Ji Qinnan was moved, and she thanked him with a red face.
An unexpected event, the future wife of the Penglai Island Lord actually fell in love with Qi Wan'er. Although Gu Pinglin felt sorry for Nanzhu, he didn't want to meddle in other people's business, so he said, "You all might as well rest here and wait for Young Master Nan and Envoy Jun to recover before making any plans. Senior Brother Bu and I will go to the front to check in case Li Gui comes back again."
This arrangement was very appropriate. The Penglai guard captain nodded and went to arrange the defense.
Duan Qingming said, "Senior Brother Bu is a little tired, Junior Brother Gu and I will go, Junior Sister Qu, you follow Senior Brother Bu and don't walk around randomly."
Cheng entrusted Qu Lin to him, so he was responsible for her safety. Qu Lin quickly agreed, "Don't worry, Senior Brother Duan."
Bu Shuihan naturally had no objection to being able to get close to Qu Lin: "Thank you, Junior Brother Duan."
Gu Pinglin frowned.