Holding the sword, Li Chaoge walked slowly under the noon sun. The village was quiet, with doors and windows closed on all sides, like a no-man's land.
How could this be a living village? Li Chaoge should have thought of it long ago.
Following the guidance of the tracing formula, Li Chaoge walked slowly to a temple. This temple looks like it has been around for a while. The stone pillars outside the gate have signs of damage. It seems that they have experienced several wars. The animal head on the gate has rusted. Only a pair of eyes are still bright, staring fiercely ahead. Li Chaoge opened the door cautiously, and walked in quietly.
The temple was quiet, and the bright sunlight shone on the ground, making it pale. There are four stone statues at the four corners of the courtyard. They are tall, covered with armor, and holding knives, guns, swords and halberds, silently guarding the temple. On the front? There is a wide main hall, in which there are altars and incense burners, and a statue of a god is placed behind the altar.
It was noon outside, but the hall was cold and dark, with no sunlight. Li Chaoge stopped in front of the threshold, raised his head, followed the slow green smoke, and saw a familiar three-eyed and eight-armed statue.
Another Valkyrie. So this is the Martial God Temple
Li Chaoge only glanced at it, and didn't put too much thought into the statue of the Valkyrie. She once again used the Trace Technique, and the red light became bright and strong, and it flew straight behind the Valkyrie statue without stopping.
Li Chaoge walked into the main hall along the silk thread, and when she went around to the statue of the Valkyrie, she found that the silk thread had not penetrated into the wall. Li Chaoge stared at the wall in front of him, and vaguely noticed that there seemed to be gaps between the stones.
It's like a dark room. Where is the mechanism to open the door
Li Chaoge made a tactic with one hand, picked up the Qianyuan sword with the other, and kept beating on the stone. Is Li Chaoge listening carefully? The echo of every stone suddenly shivered, and he turned his head immediately.
The old woman stood at the entrance of the temple, staring at Li Chaoge motionlessly.
At this time, the thread in Li Chao's singer flickered and suddenly went out.
After the interruption of the tracing technique, Li Chaoge never tried again. She turned around holding the sword, staring at the old woman coldly.
"The tracing technique failed at the foot of the mountain, is it your fault?"
When the old lady stepped over the threshold, she ignored Li Chaoge's words, but put her hands together and bowed reverently to the god above. Li Chaoge's eyes were fixed on the old woman, but in fact he was quietly surveying the environment from the corner of his eye. The courtyard is empty, and the surrounding area is also quiet. Could it be that the old lady came here alone
The old lady knew she couldn't beat Li Chaoge, why did she take such a risk
The old woman was muttering something, she finished her prayers, leaned on the mat, and struggled to get up. She stood tremblingly, right? Li Chaoge said: "The girl learns quickly, but unfortunately she is too curious."
Li Chaoge's eyebrows moved slightly when he heard it: "You also know how to trace?"
"People who often go to the mountains, who doesn't want to learn two skills." The old woman stood at the door, her back was facing the sun, and the wrinkled face was always smiling, giving people a warm and kind feeling. But now, her face is expressionless, her face looks like dry skin stretched on her bones, she looks ghostly, "Speaking of which, the girl and our village are really destined. Since the girl has learned the martial art, Then stay and serve the Martial God for life."
After the old woman finished speaking, the whole temple suddenly shook. Li Chaoge pulled out the Qianyuan sword with a bang, stabilized his body, and looked around vigilantly. At this time, she was surprised to find that the warrior she thought was a stone statue moved in the yard.
First the arms, then the neck?, and finally the feet. The stones on the four samurai's body changed rapidly and turned into real armor weapons. They jumped off the stone platform one after another, and when they landed, the ground shook slightly.
The old woman retreated to the corner of the yard and saluted respectfully to the four warriors: "Four warriors, this is the last sacrifice to the god of war. She doesn't listen to you and always refuses to eat the holy food prepared by the old slave." , I can only trouble the four warriors."
Li Chaoge's face became serious. If it's an old woman, Li Chaoge is sure to take it down easily, but unexpectedly, there are four warriors hidden here.
Li Chaoge was wondering before, the people in this village are mediocre in force, where did they have the courage to lure the living and persecute their lives? It turned out that their real reliance was on these four stone statues.
The four warriors each held their weapons and approached Li Chaoge silently. They walked heavily, shaking off a lot of dust with every step they took, and none of the four of them had a piece of skin exposed, and even their faces were firmly protected by masks, with almost no weak spots visible.
Li Chaoge held the sword tightly, and she suddenly made a
Li Chaoge's lightness kung fu was practiced by running against giant eagles, and his foundation is very solid. She landed lightly on one of Valkyrie's arms, not even disturbing the dust on her palm. Seeing that she was disrespectful to the statue of the God of Valor, the old woman shouted, "Presumptuous! How dare you disrespect the God of Valor, come down quickly!"
Li Chaoge turned a deaf ear to it. After she jumped on the statue of the warrior, the other four warriors also seemed to have scruples. The arms of the two warriors were tied into a knot, and the other warrior ran up from behind, stepped on his hand and was thrown high. Holding the square halberd in his hand, he threw it at Li Chaoge heavily. Li Chaoge ducked low, revealing the statue of the Valkyrie behind him. The samurai pulled back his strength suddenly, Li Chaoge took advantage of this gap, and slashed at the samurai's neck with a powerful sword.
The whole body of the samurai is covered with armor, except for a thin seam at the neck. Li Chaoge saw the right moment, grasped the Qianyuan sword tightly and slashed towards the gap. The Qianyuan Sword pierced through the gap exactly, but Li Chaoge tried his best, but he couldn't move it even an inch.
It seems that the neck is not under the armor, but a solid stone, even the Qianyuan Sword that cuts gold and cuts jade can't hurt it. Li Chaoge knew something was wrong, and immediately wanted to draw his sword, but the warrior threw his body violently, and Li Chaoge was thrown to the ground together with the Qianyuan sword.
When Li Chaoge landed, he immediately stood firm, but attacks from all sides followed one after another. These four warriors are extremely powerful, invulnerable to swords and guns, and cooperate with each other tacitly, as if they have been trained for thousands of years. The warrior with the sword slashed at him with a sword. Li Chaoge raised his Qianyuan sword to block, and his arm was shocked to the point of losing consciousness. At this time, another warrior with a spear came from behind and attacked. Li Chaoge's hands were restrained, and he could only Flipping in mid-air, narrowly dodging the spear.
Li Chaoge's body was soft and flexible, and the sharp spear almost brushed against Li Chaoge's back. As soon as the spear passed by, a square halberd was chopped down in midair, and Li Chaoge landed lightly, using the momentum to skilfully pass through the attack gap. She narrowly rushed out of the encirclement, and in just one round, Li Chaoge's clothes were wet on the back.
This is the strongest opponent Li Chaoge has ever encountered in his two lifetimes. Li Chaoge was not optimistic in her heart. She held the sword with one hand, and a majestic fighting spirit swayed from the sword. The four warriors also put away their contempt, formed an formation, and gradually approached Li Chaoge.
Li Chaoge scanned his surroundings vigilantly, looking for an opportunity to attack. She suddenly felt dizzy, and the four armors in front of her shook. Li Chaoge tried her best to resist, but it was of no avail. She quickly lost consciousness and fell to the ground with a bang.
Before losing consciousness, she saw two armors standing in front of her. This kind of armor is already very old. Li Chaoge only saw sporadic descriptions of this kind of armor in history books, but he didn't expect that it actually looked like this.
Li Chaoge felt that someone had snatched Qianyuan Sword from her hand. She didn't want to let go, but her limbs were limp, and she couldn't use any strength at all. Li Chaoge felt her palm was empty, and she exhausted her last strength and fell into the darkness.
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Li Chaoge was practicing in the house, and Gu Mingke wanted to protect her not too far away, but suddenly there was a familiar aura from the forest. Gu Mingke frowned deeply, he didn't disturb Li Chaoge, and went to the mountains and forests to find out by himself.
Gu Mingke was alone? He moved extremely fast, and walked out of a hundred miles in an instant. He searched for a long time, but found no trace of the old man.
Gu Mingke stood in the middle of the mountain, looking at the dead branches in front of him, he suddenly realized something was wrong, and immediately walked back.
But when Gu Mingke returned to the yard, there was no one in the room. Li Chaoge didn't know where she went, her luggage was still there, but Qian Yuanjian was gone.
He didn't bring his carry-on luggage, but he took Qian Yuanjian with him, which shows that the incident happened suddenly.
Gu Mingke stood in the room, the ground and the table corners were slowly covered with frost, twisting into sharp ice edges. The air around Gu Mingke was surging, and his sleeves danced freely without any wind. He slowly raised his eyes, and a thick cold air filled the depths of his eyes, like a storm on a glacier, destroying the world and destroying the earth, unstoppable.
In the woods, a samurai took the lead and walked quickly in the forest. The person behind him is holding a sword upright, and at the end are two warriors carrying a coffin one behind the other. This place is already deep in the mountains, few people come here, the trees and vines are entangled with each other, the roots on the ground are tangled, and the dry grass is everywhere, making it almost impossible to walk.
But the four warriors walked here as if they were walking on flat ground, and their speed of movement was not affected in any way. They hurried on their way with their heads down and muffled voices. Even if there were only four of them now, no one spoke.
Suddenly, the samurai who opened the way at the front stopped. He felt the danger, and his body tensed up instinctively.
Under the bushes ahead, a man in white stood with his hands behind his back. The cold wind was rustling, and his clothes fluttered with the wind, and there was a faint stream of light leaping across it. The trees around him were clawing and clawing, and the branches were savagely twisted together, but he was dressed in white, spotless and out of place with the surroundings.
With his back to them, he seemed to have waited for a long time, and when he heard the sound, he turned around slowly.
When the samurai saw his back, he tensed up secretly. When the other party turned around, the four samurai saw his face, and they were even more surprised and disturbed: "Who are you?"
Gu Mingke's gaze passed through the warrior and stopped directly on the coffin behind him. The coffin remained motionless, but her Qianyuan sword was held by the warrior. If she was still conscious, she would never let the saber leave her hand.
Gu Mingke's gaze unknowingly turned cold. If his indifference in the past was a cold pool of still water, then the indifference at this moment is the formation of sharp ice thorns on the lake, and the howling frost and snow from the sky.
Gu Mingke didn't answer the samurai's question, but quietly looked at the four samurai with a pair of black eyes. A giant iceberg was hidden under the calm surface: "Put her down."
The four samurai looked at each other in an attacking stance. Inside? It is a sacrifice to the Valkyrie, and there is no room for any mistakes. Seeing their attitude, Gu Mingke gently opened his right hand without saying a word.
court death.
The Qianyuan sword held by the warrior suddenly vibrated violently. The warrior was shocked and quickly pressed it down with ? force. But the Qianyuan Sword seemed to be summoned by some kind of call, broke free from the warrior's arm with a buzzing sound, and rushed to Gu Mingke's hand with an indomitable momentum.
The leading samurai suddenly opened his eyes wide. He felt vaguely familiar just now. Now, he finally knows where the inexplicable sense of familiarity comes from.
The leading warrior looked at Gu Mingke and said in horror: "You are..."
However, before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a flash of sword light. The samurai's armor is indestructible. Just now Li Chaoge couldn't cut it with all his strength, but now, the samurai's armor is like paper, and it cracks every inch of it when it touches Gu Mingke's sword energy. The samurai was hit hard in the back? He managed to stop by breaking four trees in a row. The samurai fell to the ground in embarrassment, his perfectly stitched armor was broken into pieces, and the clothes on his chest were clearly not damaged, but there were bloodstains pouring out continuously, making his clothes wet.
It turned out that it wasn't that there were no scars, but that the sword came out too fast, and the wound was too thin, so no traces could be seen. The samurai opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he spat out a mouthful of blood, before he could even utter a syllable, and fell to the ground.
As the samurai fell to the ground, his body turned into pieces of rubble, except for a clean, flat, slightly invisible incision on his chest.
Gu Mingke held the sword in one hand, and was clad in white clothes. The Abyssal Sword in his hand kept humming, which was a natural induction of the Fierce Sword when it encountered fighting intent. The stronger the killing intent and fighting intent, the louder its sword chant.
Now the Qianyuan Sword vibrates much more violently than when Li Chaoge held it. Thin streams of blood meandered down, the spine of the sword flashed a strange red light, and the blood on it quickly disappeared.
The remaining three samurai did not expect that the strongest swordsman among them was killed without even making it through a round. The three of them were shocked and immediately used their full-frame skills. The three of them advance and retreat, cooperate tacitly, and act like one person. It's a pity that in front of Gu Mingke, no matter how precise the coordination was, the other two warriors had their throats cut, and the last one struggled to stop him. He held the square halberd sideways, struggling to support Gu Mingke's sword. The samurai looked at the cold and indifferent face of the predecessor in front of him, with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth, but there was no fear of death in his eyes. He opened and closed his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice: "It is my honor to die by your hands."
The samurai opened his mouth, wanting to call out that name, but Gu Mingke wiped his throat with a sword.
There was a bang on the ground, and the tall warrior opened his eyes and fell heavily on the ground, then solidified into rough stones. The expression on his face? It was frozen, and it turned out to be joyful.
Gu Mingke killed four warriors at once, but there was not a single trace of blood on his body. Since he came down to earth, he has always been a gentle and elegant scholar? He usually talks to people in a calm and orderly manner. Those hands seemed to be born to belong to books and ink, but unexpectedly, when those hands held the sword, they suddenly became murderous, violent and ruthless.
Qian Yuanjian kept chirping, as if meeting an old friend, very excited. However, there was no nostalgia for the opponent, and he threw it into the scabbard as soon as he changed hands.
Gu Mingke moved his wrist lightly, and felt a little rusty after not doing it for a long time. He didn't care about the mess, and immediately walked to the coffin as soon as he put away the sword.
With a flick of Gu Mingke's palm, the coffin lid bounced far away. Gu Mingke lowered his head and saw Li Chaoge lying quietly inside? His eyes were closed, his face was peaceful, and his hands were folded in his abdomen, as if he was asleep. Gu Mingke lowered his head and called softly: "Li Chaoge?"
Gu Mingke called several times, but Li Chaoge remained silent. Gu Mingke didn't dare to be careless, bent over her back and legs, and quickly picked her up.
The Qianyuan Sword was lying alone on the ground, and buzzed when it saw it, reminding Gu Mingke that it was still here. Gu Mingke glanced at it lightly, and said coldly: "Follow up by yourself."
After Li Chaoge fainted, she didn't know how long she slept. She felt the wind and noise around her, but she couldn't wake up. In a daze, she heard someone calling her name, the voice was cold and continuous, very familiar.
Li Chaoge tried his best to wake up after chasing the voice. She struggled to open her eyes, just such a small movement? It almost exhausted all her strength. Li Chaoge touched the surroundings subconsciously, and his fingers unexpectedly encountered a cold metal touch.
Li Chaoge struggled to raise his head, only to find that it was the Qianyuan Sword. She covered her eyebrows in pain, she clearly remembered that before she fell unconscious, those people snatched Qianyuan Sword from her hand.
Why did Qian Yuanjian come back to her? Where is this again
Before Li Chaoge could come up with the result, the sound of walking could be heard outside. A burst of cold air approached from far away, and soon stopped beside her bed.
Li Chaoge saw the familiar white corner, and asked hoarsely, "Where is this?"
"This is a wooden house in the mountains. It should be used by Orion to stay overnight. The back? I don't know why it was abandoned." Gu Mingke sat down gently, helped her to sit up, and asked, "Is it better?"
Li Chaoge leaned on the pillow and nodded feebly. She still couldn't exert all her strength. Those people didn't know what kind of medicine they had given her, but the effect of the medicine was so overbearing. Li Chaoge glanced around, it was a very simple wooden house, there was nothing in the room, but fortunately the roof and walls were still solid. There are half bowstrings and dry animal skins hanging on the wall. It really looks like an abandoned stronghold as Gu Mingke said.
After confirming that the surrounding area was safe, Li Chaoge asked in spite of his hoarse voice, "What's wrong with me?"
"You were drugged by the people in the village." Gu Mingke sighed, and said, "It was me? I was negligent, and I accidentally fell into their plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain, which made you suffer."
Li Chaoge shook his head. No one could have predicted the situation at that time. Even if Gu Mingke hadn't been lured away, the old lady would always find a chance to attack Li Chaoge. Things have already happened, and it is meaningless to pursue right or wrong.
Li Chaoge slowed down for a while, but he still couldn't gather strength. She couldn't help wondering: "What kind of drug is this that has such a powerful effect?"
"This is not an ordinary drug, but an ancient voodoo. It needs to be solved with a special secret recipe." After Gu Mingke finished speaking, he paused for some reason, and said, "The solution is a little troublesome. I don't know if you want it."
Li Chaoge thought that she was already like this, no matter how troublesome she was, she would have to be detoxified, so why would she want to? Li Chaoge asked: "What kind of trouble?"
"We need to use a unique herbal medicine bath, combined with acupuncture, to force the voodoo out of the meridians." Gu Mingke was inexplicably hesitant, and it took a long time to finish a sentence, "The voodoo melts when it enters the body, and it may be necessary to force the poison It takes several times to completely resolve it.”
A medicinal bath is needed... Li Chaoge looked around, frowned and said, "It's already winter, where can I find those herbs?"
"I've already picked the medicine." Gu Mingke pointed out the window and said, "It's drying outside, and it can be used now."
"But there is no thing to boil water here, how to prepare the medicinal bath?"
"There is a natural hot spring not far away. It is probably because of this that Orion built the log cabin here."
Li Chaoge fell silent after listening to it. She watched Gu Mingke quietly, Gu Mingke turned his face sideways, and looked forward with a light breeze, his expression couldn't be more serious. Li Chaoge stared at Gu Mingke's slender and thick eyelashes, and said, "Since you're all ready, then ask me? What are you doing?"
During her coma, Gu Mingke prepared the materials, hot water, and venue. That being the case, why bother to ask her if she agrees or disagrees
Gu Mingke pursed his lips and did not speak for a long time. Li Chaoge moved, but her whole body was still weak. She said helplessly to Gu Mingke: "Okay, don't dawdle, help me? Go to the medicine bath."
Li Chaoge sat in the hot spring, the water was filled with the smell of sulfur, and the hot water activated the blood, Li Chaoge finally felt some strength in his limbs. Li Chaoge sat cross-legged, and said to his back, "I'm ready."
During acupuncture and moxibustion, the meridians are dredged and the blood flow is accelerated. If the heat cannot be discharged in time, it is easy to go crazy. Therefore, during acupuncture and moxibustion, the whole body's clothing is often removed. Li Chaoge is still sitting in the hot spring, and the blood flow will only be faster. But Gu Mingke is a man? Li Chaoge really couldn't take off all his clothes, so he could only leave his undershirt and sit in the hot spring with his back to him.
Drugs were added to the spring water, and the heat surged, and Li Chaoge's slender and tight legs could be vaguely seen. She only wears a tube top on her upper body, and her hair is loosely pulled up, revealing a slender neck, swan-like shoulders, and looming butterfly bones.
Further down, there is a beautifully curved back. She has practiced martial arts all year round, her body is covered with a thin layer of muscles, and slender muscle lines can be seen on her back. The arc suddenly tightened at the waist, and the waist was white and firm without a trace of fat. Further down is the dangling water surface.
Li Chaoge waited for a while, she was already soaked in the hot spring, and she didn't hear the movement of the person behind her. Li Chaoge couldn't take it anymore and asked, "What are you waiting for?"
Gu Mingke endured the embarrassment and walked slowly to the hot spring. After getting closer, her skin became clearer, and Gu Mingke didn't know where to put his eyes. Gu Mingke's voice became low at some point, and he said, "Sorry, I was abrupt."
In fact, Li Chaoge is also embarrassing. If Gu Mingke had a business-like attitude of practicing medicine to save lives, Li Chaoge would be calmer. But he chose to talk about him from left to right, and Li Chaoge was too embarrassed to be taken.
Li Chaoge was only glad that she was sitting with her back to Gu Mingke, Gu Mingke couldn't see the expression on her face. Li Chaoge coughed lightly, and said in the calmest and coldest voice possible, "In the face of life or death, you don't need to worry about details. Let's get started."
Gu Mingke responded, "Okay."
Li Chaoge suddenly realized that this was the hut where Orion temporarily settled down, and he probably wouldn't store needles and threads. Herbs can be collected fresh, and hot springs are also readily available, but needles cannot be replaced. Li Chaoge asked: "What if there is no needle?"
"It doesn't matter." Gu Mingke stretched out his hand to stop on the water surface. Following his movements, a few drops of water rose from the hot spring, swirled in the air, and finally condensed into ice needles. These needles are slender? sharp, with a cold light at the top, and vary in length, short, and thickness, far finer than artificial needles.
Li Chaoge's last doubt? Put it down. She closed her eyes slightly and said, "I? I'm ready, let's start."
Gu Mingke injected the needle very quickly, and his fingers barely touched Li Chaoge's skin. Li Chaoge only felt a prick in the back, and then there was a burst of coolness, and the true energy in the corresponding acupuncture point suddenly came alive. I don't know if Gu Mingke's ice needles are thin enough or his injection speed is fast enough, but Li Chaoge doesn't feel much pain.
Li Chaoge couldn't help being distracted. He heard? It said that as long as the sword is fast and hard enough, the person who is killed will not feel pain. Li Chaoge originally thought it was an exaggeration, but now that he thinks about it, it might be true.
Gu Mingke quickly finished piercing the acupuncture points on his back. Li Chaoge felt the movement behind her stop, she waited for a while, and couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"
I don't know if it's because of the heat, but Gu Mingke's voice is distorted, which is different from his usual cold voice: "If you want to completely detoxify, you need to prick the acupuncture points in front of you."