Bai Xiu is a perfectionist.
He doesn't like things that are not perfect.
For example, a piece of clothing with a small hole in it, a pimple on the face, a fruit tree that only blooms but does not bear fruit or only bears fruit but does not bloom, a road that does not have an end - these are all very difficult for him to accept.
He likes reading and has read many, many books. But he still feels that he has not read enough and has not read thoroughly enough. So he is still reading until now, reading more and more books and reading more and more thoroughly.
On his way back, he encountered a fight between two people, and a man in black robe dug out a piece of his flesh. These were all very imperfect things for him.
He needs perfection and needs to let his inner thoughts flow freely.
So, he decided to kill the man in black robe.
Bai Xiu, sword in hand, walked towards the man in black robe step by step.
He looked relaxed, as if he was about to pick up a knife to kill a chicken or a rabbit.
He jumped up and flew lightly.
He raised the sword above his head and chopped it off at the black-robed man's head.
Whoosh-----
The soft sword was infused with strong energy, and the sword body emitted a hissing sound like a dragon's roar.
The long sword swung open and closed with great momentum.
The man in black robe didn't dare to take it head-on. He shook his black robe, releasing a cloud of poisonous white smoke to cover himself, while he stepped back repeatedly.
Bai Xiu held his breath and changed his body position in the air to avoid the invasion of the white smoke. He chased the man in black at a faster speed like a roc spreading its wings.
Still holding the sword high, he swung it towards the black-robed man's head.
It looks like this guy has OCD and says that if he wants to chop someone's head off, he has to chop it off. He can't stab someone in the chest, chop off an arm, or blind an eye. He has to chop the head in half.
The man in black robe was still retreating, and with a touch of his toes towards the ground, his body flew backwards.
The black robe whistled in the wind, like a bat spreading its wings and gliding.
Swish!
Bai Xiu swung the long sword in his hand in the air twice, used the force of the sword to adjust his posture, and then swung the long sword again at the black-robed man's head.
Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted.
After three consecutive strikes without success, he should have lost his will to fight. However, Bai Xiu was completely unaffected by this common sense. Each strike was more fierce, more vigorous, and more swift than the last.
Chiba Hyobu's sword moves are risky. Each of his sword moves is tricky and dangerous, each of his sword moves unexpectedly, and each of his sword moves is intended to cause a sudden thunderclap out of the blue.
Bai Xiu's sword was upright, bright and vast. It was not fancy, complicated, strange, or showy. Stabbing straight out with the sword or slashing high up with the sword would double the pressure on people and make them difficult to resist.
A heavy sword has no edge, and great skill is not elaborate. Bai Xiu's swordsmanship has reached a high level, and he can be called a master of his generation.
His body was like a swimming dragon and his sword was like a long rainbow as he charged straight towards the man in black robe.
The man in black robe couldn't dodge in time. Seeing the sword about to chop down on his head, his robe suddenly bulged up.
The man in black robe took the initiative to move towards Bai Xiu's sword, blocking Bai Xiu's entire vision.
hiss-----
The long sword struck the black robe, splitting it in two.
The man in black robe used his black robe to perform the golden silkworm shedding its shell strategy. While the man in black robe was delaying Bai Xiu, he had already flown from the side and pounced on Bai Xiu.
He wore a copper claw on his right hand. The outside of the claw was dark blue, showing that it had been immersed in poison for many years.
The claws stretched out towards Bai Xiu's back, determined to tear a piece of flesh from his body.
Bai Xiu had just cut open the black robe, and his old strength had been exhausted and new strength had not yet been generated. It was extremely difficult for him to change his moves or turn around.
Bai Xiu did not change his tactics.
He still maintained the posture of holding the sword with both hands and slashing high.
The black-robed man increased his speed, and the copper claws in his hand were about to touch the flesh on Bai Xiu's neck.
A ferocious smile appeared on his face, and his only eye was filled with joy of winning the upcoming battle.
He knew the power of his ghost claws. As long as it touched Bai Xiu's skin, his body would rot and die.
Getting closer!
A little closer!
There is only a fine line between life and death.
Bai Xiu's body was falling, and the black-robed man's body was falling with him.
thump!
Bai Xiu and the man in black robe landed on the snow at the same time, their shoes crunching in the thick snow.
Bai Xiu kept holding the sword with his back to the man in black robe.
The man in black robe stood behind Bai Xiu, with an expression of pain and confusion in his eyes.
how so
how so
He had clearly won, and the ghost claw in his hand was about to tear off a piece of flesh on his neck - as long as his ghost claw touched his body, it would be able to tear off a piece of flesh on his neck, and then that piece of flesh would quickly rot, and his flesh, meridians, bones, hair, his entire body would rot into a pool of mud.
Swish!
Bai Xiu pulled out the long sword in his hand.
He held a long sword in his right hand, and he used the sword to cut open the black robe of the man in black.
He also held a long sword in his right hand, and when the man in black robe pounced on him from behind, he used the sword to pierce the man in black robe's abdomen.
Bai Xiu has two swords, two soft swords.
He deliberately showed his back to the man in black robe, pretending that it was difficult for him to turn around and change his moves, luring the man in black robe to attack him actively, and then ending the battle in one fell swoop.
The timing, the acting, and the ferocity of the attack were all impeccable.
Bai Xiu pulled out the sword, and just as the black-robed man's abdomen was about to spurt blood forward, Bai Xiu kicked out, and the black-robed man's body flew backwards.
Bai Xiu doesn't like blood on his body.
Puff------
The black-robed man fell to the ground, then slid on the ice and stopped only when he hit a hard object.
"Master-----" When the current Snake King saw that his master was injured, he quickly rushed towards him.
The current Snake King wanted to help the man in black robe up, but the man in black robe waved his hand to signal him not to do it.
"Master, how are you injured?" The current Snake King looked at the man in black robe with concern and asked.
"Do you remember the first time you were bitten by a snake?" The man in black robe looked at his apprentice with a gentle smile. The ugly face had a touch of kindness, which made people feel more pleasing to the eye. Appearance is determined by the heart. If there is no evil in the heart, a person's face will naturally give people a good impression.
"Remember." The current Snake King said. He and his sister followed the black-robed man back to a dilapidated yard. It was the first time he saw so many snakes. There were snakes crawling on the ground, standing on the wall, coiling on the tree, and even on the wooden door panels. There was no lock on the door, and there was no need to lock a yard like this. No one dared to walk into such a snake den.
He and his sister were terrified, and when they turned around to run away, a green-eyed snake fell on his head. When he opened his mouth to scream, the green-eyed snake bit his lips.
That was the first time he was bitten by a snake, and from then on he formed a lifelong bond with these cute and cold animals.
"Before I brought you back, I didn't think of letting you raise snakes with me. I thought about letting you stay at my place for one night and sending you out the next day. Do you remember your reaction after being bitten by a snake? You picked up the snake and held it in your palm, looking at it carefully. You looked at it curiously, and it looked at you with the same curiosity. At that time, I knew that you were the same kind of people as us." The man in black robe recounted the old events that had been lost in the long river of memory.
"So, I kept you here. I taught you how to raise snakes, how to get close to snakes, how to drive snakes away, how to dance with snakes. You are naturally close to snakes, and they never reject you. You performed very well, and in many ways you did better than me, your master."
"But he found us and asked me to work for them and become his snake slave. If I didn't agree, he would kill us all, including you and your sister. I agreed, dug out my snake eye and gave it to him, and turned myself into a killer without thoughts or ideas." The man in black robe chuckled and said, "Isn't this what we are good at?"
"I have killed many people and done a lot of evil over the years. I am tired and annoyed. When will it end? I kill one person and another one, and I kill one day and another day. As long as I am alive, I have to continue killing people and doing evil. The most important thing is that I don't know who I will kill next, a good person or a bad person, a man or a woman, or even an old man or a child. I don't know them, and they don't know me. I am numb to killing."
"Master, who is it? Who are they? Whose snake slave are you? Who came after you?"
"Aren't they looking for you too?" The man in black robe said sadly, "This is the nightmare of our Snake King clan. It's a punishment. We have harmed many people, so there are more vicious people to punish us. They used your and your sister's lives to force me to work for them, and then when you grow up, they use your sister's life to force you to work for them. As long as our Snake King lineage continues, they will have generation after generation of snake slaves to work for them. We can't resist and become puppets from generation to generation."
"Master------"
The man in black robe signaled his disciple to take off the ghost claw on his hand, stained the wound on his abdomen with blood, and then placed the bloody finger on the disciple's forehead, releasing an S-shaped snake symbol.
The man in black robes grasped his disciple's hand and said solemnly, "In the name of the former Snake King, I pass the throne to my disciple Mu Yi - worship the spirit of the Snake God and protect the people of my clan."
"May the gods protect our people, and let us enjoy dignity in life and death, and freedom from generation to generation. May our flesh not decay, and our snake blood boil."
There is a record of the Snake King in the "Bai Shi Jing Lun": He was born in Xiangxi, the king of snakes. He passed on the torch, and a new one was established after his death.
At this point, the current Snake King is officially crowned. (To be continued)