Chapter 7 Chapter 6 Blade Wind·Dream
The real name of Meixinshu is Meixin.That name was later changed by Master for him when he was in Wudang Mountain.
The former head of Wudang, Tie Qingzi/Gongsun Qing, is his teacher in name.But it is another person who he really regards as a master in his heart.
He clearly remembered the day that changed his destiny: sixteen years ago, on the eighth day of March.
Mei Xin at that time was just a young hooligan in Xiangyang City.He didn't have the aura of today, nor did he have the interlaced scars on his face.
There is only one thing special about Mei Xin: he likes to use ropes and stones when he fights.
It's very simple, a stone as big as an egg is tied to each end of a long rope.On the street, many guys who were taller and stronger than him gave him this simple and rare thing, and they beat him until his head was bleeding and he fell to the ground.
Of course, he also has times when he misses.Sometimes the opponent relied on his strong physique to withstand the flying stones, or successfully avoided the first blow. Once he got close to him, Mei Xin's rope would no longer work, and then he could only be attacked by others. His nose and eyes were swollen.When he was beaten at close quarters, he never fought back, instead he bowed down like a tortoise and let others punch and kick him.
Then when it came to the next fight, Mei Xin forgot about the failure last time, and took out this pair of ropes tied with stones.Everyone in Xiangyang city knew that he was a strange person among the hooligans.
Only a few friends who grew up with Mei Xin know the origin of this zip line: it is the only thing Mei Xin's father taught him before his death.
I heard that his ancestors of the Mei family used to be a prominent martial arts family, he was a military general in the frontiers and a well-known bodyguard in the rivers and lakes, and he was good at several martial arts skills; One-handed zip line technique.Even if you practice this kung fu, you can't beat anyone. In the end, Father Mei has only one way to make a living: use this zipline to climb walls and become a thief.
As a result, when Mei Xin was fifteen years old, Mei's father was caught by the officials by mistake, and then he was falsely accused of being a flower picker.
Mei Xin, who lost her father, has been living on the streets ever since.But he didn't follow Dad's old path.He is determined to practice this family-passed zip line technique into a real kung fu capable of beating people; he wants to restore the prestige of his ancestors; he wants the world to know that the surnamed Mei is not only a coward who is a thief.
Although there are victories and defeats in fights, after a few years, Mei Xin, who is already twenty years old, has finally gained some fame in the streets.Because this zip line technique is so ingenious and beautiful that it is a bit like a juggling show, every time Mei Xin asks someone to fight, it attracts many people to gather around to watch.
On the eighth day of March, he received another 20 Wen, and went out on behalf of others to fight the three famous gamblers in the city, the Mai family brothers.This battle attracted nearly a hundred people from the city to gather on both sides of the street, ready to watch a good show.
It turned out to disappoint a lot of people because the fight was so short.Although Mei Xin made a move, the flying stone smashed the bridge of Mai Laoer's nose very beautifully, but Mai Laosan took the opportunity to rush forward. He knew that Mei Xin was famous for using this weapon, so he prepared a bench , Hold it in front of you to block it.Mei Xin could only aim at the exposed legs of Mai Laosan to hit him, but he had to swing the zip line twice to hit him, and then Mai Laosan threw him to the ground.
The three Mai brothers rushed forward, punching and kicking Mei Xin who was lying on the ground.Mei Xin still didn't dodge the counterattack, but just shrank back, hiding her hands under her body.Tired of the beating, the three brothers spit on him a few times and left.The other onlookers lost interest and quickly dispersed.
Mei Xin stood up slowly, stretched her wounded back, wiped off the mud and saliva on her body, and picked up the zipline that fell to the side of the street. When she was about to go home, she found that there was still a person squatting on the street. looked at him.
Mei Xin looked at this person, he was probably only a few years older than him, and he was wearing a brown robe that looked like a Taoist priest.This person's hair was unknotted even in a bun, and the hair was curly and messed up like layers of waves, and the long hair in front half covered his eyes.
A long thing wrapped in cloth hung obliquely on the Taoist's back. One could tell at a glance that it was a weapon, and ninety percent of it was a long sword.In broad daylight, Mei Xin was very surprised that there were people walking with sharp knives on the streets of this city.
"Your rope is so interesting." The man smiled and said to Mei Xin, "It's really beautiful. It's a pity that you can't kill anyone."
Mei Xin stared at him in astonishment: "Kill someone?" He had always just fought, never thought of killing someone.But the Taoist in front of him said the matter of taking people's lives is very common.
"That's right." The young Taoist grabbed his curly hair, and his posture looked lazy: "Because they can't kill anyone, the two guys behind dare to rush over. If the first blow pierces that person's head, you won't Lost. Because they will all be afraid of you."
Mei Xin stood and looked at the Taoist carefully, as if something shocked her heart.
— This man is right.
"Why did you curl up into a ball and not fight back?" the Taoist asked with his palms in his sleeves.
Mei Xin showed him hands without any scars.
"Because I want to protect my hands. If I wrestled with them, I might win; but if I hurt my hands, I won't need this zipline in the future. I'd rather lose."
The Taoist jumped up and clapped his hands happily when he heard Mei Xin's answer.
"This man is so fun!" He shouted to the back: "Master, I really want to take him back, okay?"
Only then did Mei Xin realize that the place where this man was squatting was in front of a small teahouse.
A figure appeared from the door through the curtain.
All in white.The black and white Tai Chi logo is embroidered on the chest.
With just a few simple words, that Taoist became his senior brother.Mei Xin became Mei Xinshu, the disciple of Gongsun Qing, the current head of the Wudang School.The whole thing seemed very casual, it was just that the "senior brother" thought his zip line was "interesting".Mei Xinshu didn't expect that Gongsun Qing didn't ask a word at that time, and just agreed to the request of "senior brother" and took him back to Wudang Mountain. Twenty-year-old Mei Xinshu is the oldest among all Wudang disciples who have just started at the same time. The aptitude of "innate strength" is usually manifested in adolescence, such as Wudang, which ranks among the "nine sects and six mountains", rarely includes adults to enter, because those who enter too late usually enter the country It is a waste of the painstaking efforts and energy invested by the teachers. But later facts proved that the "senior brother" brought the plum heart tree back to Wudang Mountain not for fun. Mei Xinshu was able to keep up with the rigorous training of Wudang, and quickly mastered the basic skills of Wudang martial arts. This kind of thing can only be achieved by a few people in the world—"Brother" sent a zipline from Mei Xinshu, and he has already seen His martial arts potential.And the master Gongsun Qing completely trusts the judgment of the "senior brother". - He is a very powerful person. How powerful the "senior brother" really is, Mei Xinshu had to see it with his own eyes for the first time after a year of entry: that time the "senior brother" was so excited that he personally went to the "Xuanshi Martial Field" to instruct the juniors of the same sect. Mei Xinshu, who is qualified to train in the martial arts field, watched outside with a group of disciples at the same time.As a result, they were all in a cold sweat. That kind of swordsmanship can no longer be described as "powerful" - because he can't even see it clearly, he only knows that everyone in the martial arts field is like a puppet to him. Mei Xinshu thought at the time: the future head of the Wudang School must be this "senior brother". Two years later, after Mei Xinshu completed the training of basic skills, she will start to choose her own specialties.The Wudang school has been established for nearly two hundred years. Although the sword is the most respected weapon tradition, followed by knives and guns, there are also many foreign weapons of various sizes, such as long soldiers with hooks and sickles and swallows; Hot wheels, strong wooden crutches and double daggers; heavy weapons such as maces and copper maces; hidden weapons such as flying swords and crescent darts; Of course, Mei Xinshu didn't think about it, and his whole heart was to complete the zip line technique in his mind.For this reason, he practiced various Wudang martial arts: the technique of swinging the whip; the change of retracting and releasing the rope dart; flying sori. Because of "Senior Brother"'s sentence "Your zipline can't kill people", Mei Xinshu also suddenly realized: the real martial arts is not a thing for street fighting, but about fighting with one's life.As a result, the weight and lethality of the weapons he used were greatly improved. The ropes were turned into iron chains, and the stones were replaced with a pair of dart blades shaped like animal teeth. ——The pair of scimitar knives with iron rings are left by a senior who missed and died in training more than ten years ago. When Mei Xinshu chose weapons, he chose them at the first sight . But Mei Xinshu encountered a bottleneck in his training journey.Although the Wudang faction has a large number of people, after all, there are still a small number of people who practice this kind of soft weapon throwing.There are few people who practice, and there are naturally few people who practice professionally. There are not many fellow students who can teach Mei Xinshu and hone skills with him. This has become one of the obstacles. But the biggest problem Mei Xinshu faces is not this, but his own heart. For many years in the past, he was used to practicing light and non-lethal stone ziplines; he suddenly changed to iron chains and steel blades, and he still couldn't get rid of the deep fear when he practiced retracting and controlling.Every time he raises the strength and speed of the practice to the highest level, and practice more dangerous moves, facing the sharp steel flying back towards him, he can't suppress the instinctive reaction of closing his eyes and dodging for a short time, and often cannot complete the move because of this . Mei Xinshu was troubled by this.But he is not willing to give up.He has invested too much of his life in this martial arts.But it's just one step away... ——If I can't become a master with this martial arts, I just don't want to be a master at all! The sixth year of going to Wudang Mountain.One night, Mei Xinshu was alone again in the deserted martial arts training ground, practicing this unconquerable weapon. This night, the "senior brother" also passed by and appeared.He was accompanied by four fellow disciples, Mei Xinshu recognized these senior brothers, and this group of people always walked together with "senior brothers", like forming a party.Among them was Wu Jihong, who was surprisingly tall and thin, with a bald head and several incantations tattooed on his face. His appearance was very conspicuous.Mei Xinshu knew that he, like "Senior Brother", also belonged to the "First Snake Way". But no matter who the "senior brother" walks with, the person who catches the most attention at first glance is always him. Mei Xinshu nodded and saluted the seniors, and practiced the iron chain flying blade sweating on his own. "Brother" stopped and stood looking at him.Mei Xinshu was very anxious, and didn't want "Senior Brother" to see his ugly face when he was afraid of the flying blade rewinding - if there was only one person in the world that Mei Xinshu didn't want to disappoint him, that person would be "Senior Brother". After watching for a while, "senior brother" approached with his companions. "Brother wizard, give him a pack of medicine." Wu Jihong beside him agreed, stretched out his big palm, took out a small red paper bag from under his belt, smiled strangely, and handed it to Mei Xinshu. "If you eat it, you won't be afraid." "Senior brother" left with his fellow disciples after speaking. Mei Xinshu opened the paper bag.There are a dozen small pills inside. He picked one up between his fingers.Thinking of the encouraging eyes of "senior brother" just now, he put the unknown pill into his mouth without any hesitation.
In the following three years, Mei Xinshu had more and more new scars on his face, and there was an injury that shaved his eyelids and almost blinded him.People outside of Wudang Mountain would think that these scars were caused by the opponent during the competition, but in fact they were all records left by his own weapon. Two years later, the scars on Mei Xinshu's face did not increase any more.He also put on the black Taoist uniform of Wudang "Bing Crow Road". These days, Mei Xinshu also started to get together with the "senior brother" group.He seldom speaks, just listens to the "senior brother". "Senior brother" often mocks Wudang faction and master Gongsun Qing privately.Mei Xinshu felt very strange. "What's the difference between us and a group of monkeys in the mountains?" "Senior brother" said the most: "Obviously possessing greater power than others, but not trying to win the glory of the world, what's the point?" Every time the "senior brother" said such words, the fellow disciples who followed him were also very excited.From time to time, the group of them quietly gathered in the woods of the back mountain to take those medicines of unknown origin, so they were always in high spirits.It was only later that Mei Xinshu found out that these medicines came from the material transfer prescriptions that the "senior brother" stole from the forbidden warehouse of the "True Immortal Palace", and were handed over to Wu Jihong to secretly prepare them in the pill pharmacy. Mei Xinshu didn't quite understand what "senior brother" said: "Didn't Master say that if our Wudang sect prepares for a few more years, we will declare to the entire martial arts world that we are 'invincible'?" "Brother" stretched out his palm with a strange triangle tattoo, and brushed his wavy hair like a cloud, with an expression that seemed to sneer at this. "Master is an old fool. This world is much bigger than martial arts." Mei Xinshu couldn't help being surprised when he heard that "senior brother" scolded his master Gongsun Qing so unabashedly. "Junior Brother Mei, are we going after to become the strongest person?" "Brother" continued: "Then do you think that if you want to kill someone one day, you should do it yourself; or if you just say a word, someone will kill you." The heads are sent to you, which one is stronger? Which one is the real power?" Mei Xinshu shrugged his eyebrows.He has been on the streets before, so of course he understands this.He himself has fought for money many times to help others.He thought of his father again.None of those officials and local tyrants could beat his father alone, but his father could not resist being beaten to death by these people... that power. "But..." Mei Xinshu asked again: "Isn't this violating our Wudang discipline?" Article 3 of the "Three Precepts of Wudang", "Don't see the lure of fame, wealth and silk... seek the Tao from heaven and earth", prohibits Wudang disciples from exchanging martial arts for secular power, wealth and honor. "Bullshit." "Brother" stood up and said decisively: "When I become the head, the first thing I do is abolish this commandment." The words of "senior brother" are simply outrageous, but the bearing he said made Mei Xinshu unable not to be convinced. "Didn't you say that you want to be 'invincible'? If there is one person in the world that you can't kill; if there is one thing you can't get; if there is one place you can't go to, what is the real 'invincible'?" Mei Xinshu saw the figure of "Senior Brother" standing on the rock, exuding an aura of a king looking down on the world. "Brother, you don't want to...be the emperor, right?..." "What is the emperor?" "Brother" raised his fist towards the sky: "I want to be a god." Wu Jihong, who was beside him, patted his bald head excitedly.At this time, he was already wearing the uniform of "Brown Snake" just like "Senior Brother". "Fulfill my desires." He raised the volume of the material transfer scripture in his hand that was also stolen from the forbidden vault: "The sun and the moon shine together!" "Senior brother" shook his head: "I don't want to wait for 'thousands of achievements' after death. To be a god, I have to live in this life." "Brother" is simply a lunatic, Mei Xinshu thought.But he was an unbelievable lunatic. ——Follow this person, and I will get the glory I want. At that moment, Mei Xinshu made up his mind.
More than two years later, Master Gongsun Qingxian passed away.But in the end, "senior brother" only became the deputy head. Then "that thing" happened.Neither Mei Xinshu nor the group of companions could see the imprisoned "Senior Brother" again. On the same night when the incident happened, Wu Jihong came to look for Mei Xinshu——Mei Xinshu was taken aback at the time, because Wu Jihong was able to sneak behind Meixinshu and attack those within reach with his "brown snake" series of lightness skills. The distance was only noticed by Mei Xinshu. "The others have already left." Wu Jihong said coldly.His face, blackened with charcoal, was half hidden in the darkness, and his big monster-like eyes reflected the moonlight at night. Mei Xinshu, covered in cold sweat, looked at Wu Jihong with the chain flying blade that was about to be fired.I saw that he was carrying the burden of the long journey on his back and waist, and there was a long cloth bag hanging behind him. "I'll just ask once: will you come with me?" When Wu Jihong asked, he stared at the plum heart tree.He who acts a little crazy on weekdays, his eyes are very eager at this moment, and he is really eager for Mei Xinshu to agree. "Does it make sense?" Mei Xinshu lowered her scarred eyes. Wu Jihong took off the long cloth bag on his back, and took off the cloth cover.Mei Xinshu recognized it as the sword of "senior brother". "When we get outside, we will practice what he said." Wu Jihong said firmly: "We will seize the power of the world." "If he can't do it, it's just the two of us..." "Do you think it is his destiny for a man like him to be imprisoned for a lifetime?" Wu Jihong stroked the Wudang sword and said, "I hope that on the day he comes out of the mountain, I have done the best for him." Prepare to let him reclaim these lost days." Mei Xinshu was moved when he heard that.He recalled the first time he met his "senior brother" in Xiangyang.I also thought of the arrogant figure standing on the rock that day, raising his fist to the sky. Mei Xinshu stretched out his hand and held Wu Jihong—later the Bolongshu King—firmly. "Do you want to take anything away?" Wu Jihong asked. "I can wait for you to clean up." "It's enough to bring this." Mei Xinshu raised the iron chain in his hand. "Anyway, when I came to Wudang Mountain, I only brought this one thing with me."
At this moment, Mei Xinshu took the only thing brought out from Wudang Mountain, and walked towards Jingli step by step, until it stopped about two feet in front. Jing Li was still half-kneeling, hanging the heavy Japanese sword to the ground, trying to give his left leg a moment of rest.At the same time, he adjusted his breathing, trying his best to recover the strength he had consumed in the blow he gave up just now. Jing Li watched closely the approaching Plum Heart Tree, and at the same time kept an eye on Xue Jiuniu lying between them from the corner of his eyes.He caught a glimpse of the boy struggling on the ground so slowly that he couldn't even sit up.There was a sound like vomiting in the painful cough, and it could be heard that he was vomiting blood. Jing Li had seen Mei Xinshu's flying strike before, and knew how fierce and heavy it was.Even if Xue Jiuniu was not hit critically, his body could not last too long. ——The longer he dragged on here, the slimmer his chances of returning to the county alive. But precisely because of the urgency, it is even more impossible to write anxiety on your face.That's why Jing Li didn't look directly at Xue Jiuniu. "You just said that this is what I hope, what do you mean?" Mei Xinshu asked coldly from a distance. "Since last night, you have wanted to fight me one-on-one." Jing Li replied: "Otherwise you wouldn't have just asked those two guys to fight." "I don't want to fight you one-on-one. I just don't think it's worth joining the fight." Mei Xinshu couldn't help but fell silent when he said this.Facts proved that his judgment was wrong: he thought that there was only an enemy with half a life left in front of him, but in the end, two subordinates turned into dead people, while the opponent was still breathing normally. "Is this the same thing?" Jing Li gritted his teeth: "I know why. Because you are always a Wudang disciple in your heart." These words hit Mei Xinshu's deepest thoughts, and he couldn't deny it.It has been a long time since anyone called him "Wudang disciple".There was a strange feeling of nostalgia in his heart. After Mei Xinshu left Wudang Mountain, he occasionally heard the news that Wudang's "Soldiers and Crows" went on expeditions.He was not without regrets in his heart for not being able to follow them to confront the warriors of the world. "But I don't understand." Jing Li said again: "You don't seem like someone who would follow this group of people to do evil. For what? Money? Women?" This deeply stimulated Mei Xinshu.He helped his senior brother Bo Longshu King to expand his power. Although he has never personally participated in activities such as burning, killing, looting, extorting money with "fake fairy powder", collecting "you slaves" heads, etc., he is not so naive as to think that his hands are clean .He did not deny that he had fallen, but he kept in mind a good reason. ——All of this is to prepare for that person's rejuvenation.As long as it's for him, I don't care if I'm regarded as a devil. —But don't measure my deeds by those petty desires.It insulted me, and it insulted him. "There are some things that I don't intend to let people understand." As Mei Xinshu said, he swung the iron chain and curved blade with his right hand, and made small circles around his side, gradually speeding up. Jing Li knew that the conversation was over.Dragging the Japanese sword, he slowly straightened his legs and stood up. The plum heart tree, waving its iron chain, stepped forward again. The most overwhelming advantage of the chain flying blade is naturally in the long distance.Jing Li had received two attacks from him, and he knew that he chose to launch it at a distance of about one and a half feet, which should be the longest killing distance of this weapon - even if he missed a hit and the enemy rushed straight, he still had more room to attack. The time distance for the second attack. ——Jing Li's estimate is very close to the truth: the iron chain of the plum heart tree is seventeen feet long, and about three feet are reserved for manipulation between the hands. Adding the length of the curved blade itself, there is also an attack of about fifteen feet. scope. Jing Lie also used a similar weapon, but it was far from being as powerful as the Plum Heart Tree. The iron chain spear head was mainly used to harass the enemy.He thought that this person must have devoted himself to training this weapon for a long time to achieve such accomplishments. Even Mr. Feihong's "Heartbreaking Feiluo" in "Eight Great Skills" did not know if he could compete with this flying blade. At this moment, he only has a Japanese sword in his hand.Although the length of the machete has increased by a bit compared to the previous machete, it is still far from the long iron chain of the enemy in front of it. If Jing Li had two weapons, he could sacrifice one to wrap around the iron chain, and then rush in to win with the other, but now Jing Li only has one arm left; dodging is even more impossible, he only has one leg , unable to balance while moving, dodging will only die faster. Jing Li carefully looked at the iron chain between Mei Xinshu's hands, it was actually a circle thinner than the little finger - seventeen feet long, of course it couldn't be made too thick, otherwise it would be too heavy to fly far, and the length would be lost meaning. Jing Li thought, with such a thick and thin body, it is not impossible to sever it in the air with the power of the sacrificial knife just now... But no.The skill of sacrificing everything that gambled on did not continue.Either don't use it, and if you use it, it must be used to kill the enemy and win the battle.It cannot be used to cut iron chains, but only on enemies. How to counter Mei Xinshu's long-distance first strike has become a big problem for Jing Li. And the attack is almost here.Mei Xinshu took another step forward. It was as if there was an invisible and invisible killing circle of one and a half meters around him, and the edge of this circle was gradually approaching the thorn crack. Mei Xinshu was not at all impatient.He knew the situation was on his side.Just get the pace and distance right, hit the tricks he's honed from childhood, and it'll be over. ——You didn’t fall to your death from the cliff, and you died in my hands until here, which is considered a kind of happiness. Already close to eighteen feet.Jing Li squatted down and leaned forward again, with his arms hanging under the knife, and assumed the same preparation posture as before. Mei Xinshu looked at it, but didn't raise a brow. ——It's the same with whatever posture the other party puts on. Jing Li took a quick look at Xue Jiuniu.I saw that the breathing ups and downs of his back were very weak.A large pool of blood came out from under his body. At this moment, there are only two points that Jing Li can call "advantages": one is to get back the longer weapon that he is familiar with; How did the call come out. These two points were all exchanged by Xue Jiuniu with blood. ——For him, we must win. This is the first time in Jing Li's life that he has such a strong desire to win because of another person. It was obviously a very dangerous disadvantage, but Jing Li felt an unprecedented peace and security in his heart. Because this time, he wasn't just fighting for himself. Plum Heart Tree approached again.Seventeen feet.The iron chain spinning in his hand accelerated again. Jing Li's squatting body posture, like a wild beast poised to kill in the wild, has no traces of daily hard-working moves, it seems to be completely out of wild instinct. A saber gesture that blends naturally with the heavens and the earth. But this does not mean that Jing Li has nothing to think about.His strongest weapon ever was not on his hands or feet, but hidden in those braided heads.Wisdom and experience. He kept thinking and evaluating Mei Xinshu's fighting style, looking for a narrow path to victory. No one guarantees that this path will exist.But if you don't look for it, you will never find it. The cracked eyes suddenly lit up at this moment. ——It's like seeing a ray of light at the bottom of an abyss. At the same time, Mei Xinshu quickened his pace and ran forward, completing the remaining two feet. He took advantage of this run-up momentum to lean up, turn his waist, and pull his arms. fifteen feet.Just right. Jing Li was already in the invisible killing circle. He kept his posture unchanged. --bring it on! Spinning the iron chain that has stored energy for a long time, it slipped out of Meixinshu's right palm, and shot out almost in a perfect straight line! The ferocious curved blade, because of its speed, could no longer see its shape, as if it had turned into pure energy. At the same time, Jing Li raised his Japanese sword to meet him! But his movement of raising the knife was very strange, it was not like usual whole body moving to block it, but only the shoulder, elbow and wrist joint of one right arm moved, while the legs, feet, waist and neck were frozen in place, completely motionless. ——In general martial arts, it is not easy for the whole body to move and coordinate in unison, so as to achieve "vigorous energy"; but it is also extremely difficult for him to be able to independently activate one limb without affecting the rest of the body. The performance of a deep workout. Jing Li tried his best to maintain his original posture, so that he could launch that sacrificial saber technique at any time. The fierce iron chains flew towards him! The sharp sound of metal interlacing. The root of the blade body near the hilt of the Japanese sword, from bottom to top, resists the front end of the flying iron chain for five inches! If this is a stabbing spear stick, this block is enough to eliminate it upwards; but what is encountered is this iron chain and soft weapon, this block cannot offset all the energy.The tooth-shaped curved blade at the front still crossed the Japanese sword and cut towards the cracked face! In order to maintain his posture, Jing Li kept his upper body and head leaning forward, facing the blow with the courage of a mountain! —a huge gamble. The curved blade slashed fiercely, scraping across the slanted line between the eyebrows and the bridge of the nose, and several braids were cut off in the air. In the center of his face, a trail of blood erupted from the top of the left eyebrow to the belly of the right eye! Because the Japanese sword blocked the iron chain, the sharp edge of the curved blade only cut half of the flesh.As long as it goes deeper, it will be fatal! Jing Lie accepted the slash of the cold blade with his face, his head and neck didn't flinch at all, his eyes were still looking straight ahead.There are few people in the world with such a steely spiritual will. The bloody curved blade continued to fall, wrapping around the Japanese sword twice before it stopped. Mei Xinshu used a soft weapon, and he couldn't tell the depth of the hit from the touch of his hands. He only saw the blood splattered on Jing Li's face, and then the iron chain wrapped around the opponent's weapon. He ignored the opponent's life and death, and sank down. Pulling hard, he wanted to snatch Jing Li's knife in the same way as last night. And what Jing Li waited for was exactly this. started. The three major joints of Jing Li's left leg exploded with a huge instantaneous force, which was transmitted upwards, and his body immediately ejected forward! This time it was a little different from the previous ones: Jing Li's jump was also matched with the power of Meixinshu to yank the iron chain! ——Using the power of the enemy is the inspiration that Jing Li drew from Wudang "Tai Chi".The techniques are different, but the principles are the same. Jing Li had tasted the pulling force of the plum heart tree last night, and because of this he had to give up the Yanling Saber, knowing that his arm strength was very strong; at this moment, he used this strength to jump forward in coordination with the launch, and his speed and momentum were comparable. Much faster the first time! But no matter how swift and violent it was, this strength was not enough to send Jing Li's sturdy body to the plum heart tree half a meter away in one breath. Mei Xinshu had never seen Jing Li's jump before, and was greatly surprised by this one.But he is extremely calm - his set of iron chain flying blades, which dominates the enemy first, has its own tactics. Jing Li flew over, and at the same time brought back the large section of iron chain released by the plum heart tree. In other words, he can throw the other side again. Jing Li jumped this time, and his body was also spinning.The difference is that last time it was left and right; this time it turned up and down! I saw his body shrunk into a ball in the air, turned forward to his head and feet, and his entire back was exposed in front of Mei Xinshu.From the point of view of any kind of martial arts, there is no worse bad posture. The enemy showed himself in the weakest posture, and Mei Xinshu, out of the reaction of a warrior who has been tempered and tempered, without hesitation, also launched the curved blade in his left hand, hitting the back of Jing Li within seven feet! This was not an emergency response, but the second attack that Mei Xinshu had already prepared.Although it didn't have the power of the longest first blow, but the distance has been reduced by half at this moment, this second blow can be more precise, and the action of firing is less ominous. A powerful first strike to suppress, and a precise second strike to kill.This is the essence of the flying rope technique passed down by his Mei family, and it is also the perfect combination of moves for Mei Xinshu to win. However, he underestimated the power of Jing Li's sacrificial sword move. Although the force of this leap could not send Jing Li to a distance enough to cut the plum heart tree with a knife, the speed at which his whole body rolled was astonishing. Its momentum is like a raging wave. Although Jing Li was in a field without a drop of water, in this short moment, in his eyes, everything around him seemed to have turned into deep blue. He "borrowed" from the huge waves of thousands of hectares, and his body seemed to be weightless, riding the waves. ——Its aura is so fierce that even Plum Heart Tree can faintly feel his phantom of the sea tide! When the second curved blade flew two feet in front of Jing Li, he had completely turned back.The curved blade turned and flew towards him. Jing Lie had already taken advantage of the rolling momentum to raise the Japanese sword with his right hand to the position behind his left shoulder. Jing Li's body and Plum Heart Tree's flying blade, the two exchanged at high speed! Such a short moment cannot be captured by anyone's eyes—even those who possess the realm of "Yaoxuan Sword" are impossible. Even if Jing Li could do it, he couldn't see it at the moment.The blood between the eyebrows seeped into the eyes. But he doesn't have to look.Because he trusts the plum heart tree. Trust his warrior qualities.There is also a yardstick. Jing Li firmly believed that Mei Xinshu's second curved blade must be aimed at him.No warrior can resist such a temptation. So Jing Li only did one very simple thing: without even looking at it, he slashed towards the direction of the vest that he had just revealed! Very big gamble.But it was also a calculated gamble. The sacrificial knife this time is more mature than the first time: the transmission of strength is more sufficient, and the muscles that are not used are more relaxed-in short, the human sword is one. In the simple and unpretentious knife, Jing Li gave up all skills.But it is also the sum of all the skills he has learned. The blade light of the Japanese sword disappeared again due to the extremely high speed. Even under the sunny afternoon, the sparks that exploded were still bright and clear.Just like another fleeting sun under the sun. The curved blade shot by Mei Xinshu was accurately slashed by the Japanese sword, and suddenly flew back in the opposite direction! Mei Xinshu practiced the iron chain flying blade, and faced the risk of the blade rebounding towards him countless times, leaving scars on his face one after another.But no matter how experienced he was, it was impossible for him to react at this moment. too fast. Mei Xinshu's scarred eyelids didn't even have time to blink, and the curved blade with the chain had already sunk into his chest! Jing Li fell to the ground before the plum heart tree.This time he flew more violently and fell harder. He was cut obliquely just now, and his bloody face hit the sand, and he almost fell into a coma. His Japanese sword was also like last time, unbearable to the blow and flew away.The long knife still wrapped in the iron chain fell to the ground, and there was a curl on the edge of the blade, which shows how fierce the volley strike was just now. Mei Xinshu, who was defeated by his own weapon, fell on his back stiffly.The curved blade penetrated into the chest, heart and lungs of his black clothes, until it reached the handle.Blood gushed out of his mouth like a spring. Jing Li struggled to get up, but didn't even look at this formidable enemy who had been beaten so hard, and walked half-hopped to Xue Jiuniu on his legs. Kneeling beside him, he carefully lifted Xue Jiuniu's body with one arm. Jing Li felt that the kid's body was completely limp and paralyzed, and he didn't respond at all. If it wasn't for the weak breathing ups and downs, he would have thought he had turned into a corpse. Xue Jiuniu opened his eyes slightly.The mouth moves slowly. Jing Li put his ear to his mouth. "Win...?..." Jing Li nodded abruptly. Xue Jiuniu smiled and closed his eyes wearily. "Don't sleep! Let's go home!" Jing Li shouted excitedly.Xue Jiuniu opened his eyes slightly again when he heard that, but he didn't have the strength to nod, so he could only raise the corners of his mouth slightly again. Jing Li thought for a while, and found a way to bring Xue Jiuniu back to the city on horseback.He picked up the Japanese sword and scabbard left on the ground, and went to get the long iron chain from the plum heart tree. Only then did Jing Li look down at the plum heart tree that was still alive.Mei Xinshu's eyes were out of focus, as if he didn't see him. Jing Li was about to pull the curved blade out of the plum heart tree's chest, but when he looked closely, he found that the connection between the iron chain and the handle of the curved blade was a loose iron ring.It seems that this curved blade can also be removed at any time and used as a short knife, it is Mei Xinshu's last resort. ——If he hadn't had too much confidence in the flying chain and kept this curved blade as a short soldier, I would be the one who fell to the ground at this moment. Jing Li unfastened the buckle and took away the iron chain, leaving the curved blade in Mei Xinshu's body, giving him a longer life. ——If there is an afterlife, stop being such an idiot. Jing Li stuck the Japanese knife on Xue Jiuniu's back, and wrapped the man and the knife tightly with an iron chain, which supported and fixed his body.After lifting him onto Mei Xinshu's mount, Jing Li also stepped up on his back, and then used the remaining iron chains to wrap Xue Jiuniu and his weak left arm together, holding him tightly in his arms. “不要死啊。”荆裂说着，将夺来的一柄砍刀插在鞍侧的革绳之间，就催马往西北全速离去。 梅心树仍旧躺在旷野上，等着呼出最后一口气。夏风带着细细的沙土，吹拂在他脸上。他仰视晴明的天空，弥留的意识却回到了离开武当那个晚上。 下了山后已是黎明。梅心树回头，最后一次看见武当山那泛着曙光的崚线，想到被囚禁在山里的那个人，想象将来有一天迎接他复出的光荣。 将来有一天。再踏武当山。 梅心树安慰地合上了眼皮。
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With just a few simple words, that Taoist became his senior brother.Mei Xin became Mei Xinshu, the disciple of Gongsun Qing, the current head of the Wudang School.The whole thing seemed very casual, it was just that the "senior brother" thought his zip line was "interesting".Mei Xinshu didn't expect that Gongsun Qing didn't ask a word at that time, and just agreed to the request of "senior brother" and took him back to Wudang Mountain. Twenty-year-old Mei Xinshu is the oldest among all Wudang disciples who have just started at the same time. The aptitude of "innate strength" is usually manifested in adolescence, such as Wudang, which ranks among the "nine sects and six mountains", rarely includes adults to enter, because those who enter too late usually enter the country It is a waste of the painstaking efforts and energy invested by the teachers. But later facts proved that the "senior brother" brought the plum heart tree back to Wudang Mountain not for fun. Mei Xinshu was able to keep up with the rigorous training of Wudang, and quickly mastered the basic skills of Wudang martial arts. This kind of thing can only be achieved by a few people in the world—"Brother" sent a zipline from Mei Xinshu, and he has already seen His martial arts potential.And the master Gongsun Qing completely trusts the judgment of the "senior brother". - He is a very powerful person. How powerful the "senior brother" really is, Mei Xinshu had to see it with his own eyes for the first time after a year of entry: that time the "senior brother" was so excited that he personally went to the "Xuanshi Martial Field" to instruct the juniors of the same sect. Mei Xinshu, who is qualified to train in the martial arts field, watched outside with a group of disciples at the same time.As a result, they were all in a cold sweat. That kind of swordsmanship can no longer be described as "powerful" - because he can't even see it clearly, he only knows that everyone in the martial arts field is like a puppet to him. Mei Xinshu thought at the time: the future head of the Wudang School must be this "senior brother". Two years later, after Mei Xinshu completed the training of basic skills, she will start to choose her own specialties.The Wudang school has been established for nearly two hundred years. Although the sword is the most respected weapon tradition, followed by knives and guns, there are also many foreign weapons of various sizes, such as long soldiers with hooks and sickles and swallows; Hot wheels, strong wooden crutches and double daggers; heavy weapons such as maces and copper maces; hidden weapons such as flying swords and crescent darts; Of course, Mei Xinshu didn't think about it, and his whole heart was to complete the zip line technique in his mind.For this reason, he practiced various Wudang martial arts: the technique of swinging the whip; the change of retracting and releasing the rope dart; flying sori. Because of "Senior Brother"'s sentence "Your zipline can't kill people", Mei Xinshu also suddenly realized: the real martial arts is not a thing for street fighting, but about fighting with one's life.As a result, the weight and lethality of the weapons he used were greatly improved. The ropes were turned into iron chains, and the stones were replaced with a pair of dart blades shaped like animal teeth. ——The pair of scimitar knives with iron rings are left by a senior who missed and died in training more than ten years ago. When Mei Xinshu chose weapons, he chose them at the first sight . But Mei Xinshu encountered a bottleneck in his training journey.Although the Wudang faction has a large number of people, after all, there are still a small number of people who practice this kind of soft weapon throwing.There are few people who practice, and there are naturally few people who practice professionally. There are not many fellow students who can teach Mei Xinshu and hone skills with him. This has become one of the obstacles. But the biggest problem Mei Xinshu faces is not this, but his own heart. For many years in the past, he was used to practicing light and non-lethal stone ziplines; he suddenly changed to iron chains and steel blades, and he still couldn't get rid of the deep fear when he practiced retracting and controlling.Every time he raises the strength and speed of the practice to the highest level, and practice more dangerous moves, facing the sharp steel flying back towards him, he can't suppress the instinctive reaction of closing his eyes and dodging for a short time, and often cannot complete the move because of this . Mei Xinshu was troubled by this.But he is not willing to give up.He has invested too much of his life in this martial arts.But it's just one step away... ——If I can't become a master with this martial arts, I just don't want to be a master at all! The sixth year of going to Wudang Mountain.One night, Mei Xinshu was alone again in the deserted martial arts training ground, practicing this unconquerable weapon. This night, the "senior brother" also passed by and appeared.He was accompanied by four fellow disciples, Mei Xinshu recognized these senior brothers, and this group of people always walked together with "senior brothers", like forming a party.Among them was Wu Jihong, who was surprisingly tall and thin, with a bald head and several incantations tattooed on his face. His appearance was very conspicuous.Mei Xinshu knew that he, like "Senior Brother", also belonged to the "First Snake Way". But no matter who the "senior brother" walks with, the person who catches the most attention at first glance is always him. Mei Xinshu nodded and saluted the seniors, and practiced the iron chain flying blade sweating on his own. "Brother" stopped and stood looking at him.Mei Xinshu was very anxious, and didn't want "Senior Brother" to see his ugly face when he was afraid of the flying blade rewinding - if there was only one person in the world that Mei Xinshu didn't want to disappoint him, that person would be "Senior Brother". After watching for a while, "senior brother" approached with his companions. "Brother wizard, give him a pack of medicine." Wu Jihong beside him agreed, stretched out his big palm, took out a small red paper bag from under his belt, smiled strangely, and handed it to Mei Xinshu. "If you eat it, you won't be afraid." "Senior brother" left with his fellow disciples after speaking. Mei Xinshu opened the paper bag.There are a dozen small pills inside. He picked one up between his fingers.Thinking of the encouraging eyes of "senior brother" just now, he put the unknown pill into his mouth without any hesitation.
In the following three years, Mei Xinshu had more and more new scars on his face, and there was an injury that shaved his eyelids and almost blinded him.People outside of Wudang Mountain would think that these scars were caused by the opponent during the competition, but in fact they were all records left by his own weapon. Two years later, the scars on Mei Xinshu's face did not increase any more.He also put on the black Taoist uniform of Wudang "Bing Crow Road". These days, Mei Xinshu also started to get together with the "senior brother" group.He seldom speaks, just listens to the "senior brother". "Senior brother" often mocks Wudang faction and master Gongsun Qing privately.Mei Xinshu felt very strange. "What's the difference between us and a group of monkeys in the mountains?" "Senior brother" said the most: "Obviously possessing greater power than others, but not trying to win the glory of the world, what's the point?" Every time the "senior brother" said such words, the fellow disciples who followed him were also very excited.From time to time, the group of them quietly gathered in the woods of the back mountain to take those medicines of unknown origin, so they were always in high spirits.It was only later that Mei Xinshu found out that these medicines came from the material transfer prescriptions that the "senior brother" stole from the forbidden warehouse of the "True Immortal Palace", and were handed over to Wu Jihong to secretly prepare them in the pill pharmacy. Mei Xinshu didn't quite understand what "senior brother" said: "Didn't Master say that if our Wudang sect prepares for a few more years, we will declare to the entire martial arts world that we are 'invincible'?" "Brother" stretched out his palm with a strange triangle tattoo, and brushed his wavy hair like a cloud, with an expression that seemed to sneer at this. "Master is an old fool. This world is much bigger than martial arts." Mei Xinshu couldn't help being surprised when he heard that "senior brother" scolded his master Gongsun Qing so unabashedly. "Junior Brother Mei, are we going after to become the strongest person?" "Brother" continued: "Then do you think that if you want to kill someone one day, you should do it yourself; or if you just say a word, someone will kill you." The heads are sent to you, which one is stronger? Which one is the real power?" Mei Xinshu shrugged his eyebrows.He has been on the streets before, so of course he understands this.He himself has fought for money many times to help others.He thought of his father again.None of those officials and local tyrants could beat his father alone, but his father could not resist being beaten to death by these people... that power. "But..." Mei Xinshu asked again: "Isn't this violating our Wudang discipline?" Article 3 of the "Three Precepts of Wudang", "Don't see the lure of fame, wealth and silk... seek the Tao from heaven and earth", prohibits Wudang disciples from exchanging martial arts for secular power, wealth and honor. "Bullshit." "Brother" stood up and said decisively: "When I become the head, the first thing I do is abolish this commandment." The words of "senior brother" are simply outrageous, but the bearing he said made Mei Xinshu unable not to be convinced. "Didn't you say that you want to be 'invincible'? If there is one person in the world that you can't kill; if there is one thing you can't get; if there is one place you can't go to, what is the real 'invincible'?" Mei Xinshu saw the figure of "Senior Brother" standing on the rock, exuding an aura of a king looking down on the world. "Brother, you don't want to...be the emperor, right?..." "What is the emperor?" "Brother" raised his fist towards the sky: "I want to be a god." Wu Jihong, who was beside him, patted his bald head excitedly.At this time, he was already wearing the uniform of "Brown Snake" just like "Senior Brother". "Fulfill my desires." He raised the volume of the material transfer scripture in his hand that was also stolen from the forbidden vault: "The sun and the moon shine together!" "Senior brother" shook his head: "I don't want to wait for 'thousands of achievements' after death. To be a god, I have to live in this life." "Brother" is simply a lunatic, Mei Xinshu thought.But he was an unbelievable lunatic. ——Follow this person, and I will get the glory I want. At that moment, Mei Xinshu made up his mind.
More than two years later, Master Gongsun Qingxian passed away.But in the end, "senior brother" only became the deputy head. Then "that thing" happened.Neither Mei Xinshu nor the group of companions could see the imprisoned "Senior Brother" again. On the same night when the incident happened, Wu Jihong came to look for Mei Xinshu——Mei Xinshu was taken aback at the time, because Wu Jihong was able to sneak behind Meixinshu and attack those within reach with his "brown snake" series of lightness skills. The distance was only noticed by Mei Xinshu. "The others have already left." Wu Jihong said coldly.His face, blackened with charcoal, was half hidden in the darkness, and his big monster-like eyes reflected the moonlight at night. Mei Xinshu, covered in cold sweat, looked at Wu Jihong with the chain flying blade that was about to be fired.I saw that he was carrying the burden of the long journey on his back and waist, and there was a long cloth bag hanging behind him. "I'll just ask once: will you come with me?" When Wu Jihong asked, he stared at the plum heart tree.He who acts a little crazy on weekdays, his eyes are very eager at this moment, and he is really eager for Mei Xinshu to agree. "Does it make sense?" Mei Xinshu lowered her scarred eyes. Wu Jihong took off the long cloth bag on his back, and took off the cloth cover.Mei Xinshu recognized it as the sword of "senior brother". "When we get outside, we will practice what he said." Wu Jihong said firmly: "We will seize the power of the world." "If he can't do it, it's just the two of us..." "Do you think it is his destiny for a man like him to be imprisoned for a lifetime?" Wu Jihong stroked the Wudang sword and said, "I hope that on the day he comes out of the mountain, I have done the best for him." Prepare to let him reclaim these lost days." Mei Xinshu was moved when he heard that.He recalled the first time he met his "senior brother" in Xiangyang.I also thought of the arrogant figure standing on the rock that day, raising his fist to the sky. Mei Xinshu stretched out his hand and held Wu Jihong—later the Bolongshu King—firmly. "Do you want to take anything away?" Wu Jihong asked. "I can wait for you to clean up." "It's enough to bring this." Mei Xinshu raised the iron chain in his hand. "Anyway, when I came to Wudang Mountain, I only brought this one thing with me."
At this moment, Mei Xinshu took the only thing brought out from Wudang Mountain, and walked towards Jingli step by step, until it stopped about two feet in front. Jing Li was still half-kneeling, hanging the heavy Japanese sword to the ground, trying to give his left leg a moment of rest.At the same time, he adjusted his breathing, trying his best to recover the strength he had consumed in the blow he gave up just now. Jing Li watched closely the approaching Plum Heart Tree, and at the same time kept an eye on Xue Jiuniu lying between them from the corner of his eyes.He caught a glimpse of the boy struggling on the ground so slowly that he couldn't even sit up.There was a sound like vomiting in the painful cough, and it could be heard that he was vomiting blood. Jing Li had seen Mei Xinshu's flying strike before, and knew how fierce and heavy it was.Even if Xue Jiuniu was not hit critically, his body could not last too long. ——The longer he dragged on here, the slimmer his chances of returning to the county alive. But precisely because of the urgency, it is even more impossible to write anxiety on your face.That's why Jing Li didn't look directly at Xue Jiuniu. "You just said that this is what I hope, what do you mean?" Mei Xinshu asked coldly from a distance. "Since last night, you have wanted to fight me one-on-one." Jing Li replied: "Otherwise you wouldn't have just asked those two guys to fight." "I don't want to fight you one-on-one. I just don't think it's worth joining the fight." Mei Xinshu couldn't help but fell silent when he said this.Facts proved that his judgment was wrong: he thought that there was only an enemy with half a life left in front of him, but in the end, two subordinates turned into dead people, while the opponent was still breathing normally. "Is this the same thing?" Jing Li gritted his teeth: "I know why. Because you are always a Wudang disciple in your heart." These words hit Mei Xinshu's deepest thoughts, and he couldn't deny it.It has been a long time since anyone called him "Wudang disciple".There was a strange feeling of nostalgia in his heart. After Mei Xinshu left Wudang Mountain, he occasionally heard the news that Wudang's "Soldiers and Crows" went on expeditions.He was not without regrets in his heart for not being able to follow them to confront the warriors of the world. "But I don't understand." Jing Li said again: "You don't seem like someone who would follow this group of people to do evil. For what? Money? Women?" This deeply stimulated Mei Xinshu.He helped his senior brother Bo Longshu King to expand his power. Although he has never personally participated in activities such as burning, killing, looting, extorting money with "fake fairy powder", collecting "you slaves" heads, etc., he is not so naive as to think that his hands are clean .He did not deny that he had fallen, but he kept in mind a good reason. ——All of this is to prepare for that person's rejuvenation.As long as it's for him, I don't care if I'm regarded as a devil. —But don't measure my deeds by those petty desires.It insulted me, and it insulted him. "There are some things that I don't intend to let people understand." As Mei Xinshu said, he swung the iron chain and curved blade with his right hand, and made small circles around his side, gradually speeding up. Jing Li knew that the conversation was over.Dragging the Japanese sword, he slowly straightened his legs and stood up. The plum heart tree, waving its iron chain, stepped forward again. The most overwhelming advantage of the chain flying blade is naturally in the long distance.Jing Li had received two attacks from him, and he knew that he chose to launch it at a distance of about one and a half feet, which should be the longest killing distance of this weapon - even if he missed a hit and the enemy rushed straight, he still had more room to attack. The time distance for the second attack. ——Jing Li's estimate is very close to the truth: the iron chain of the plum heart tree is seventeen feet long, and about three feet are reserved for manipulation between the hands. Adding the length of the curved blade itself, there is also an attack of about fifteen feet. scope. Jing Lie also used a similar weapon, but it was far from being as powerful as the Plum Heart Tree. The iron chain spear head was mainly used to harass the enemy.He thought that this person must have devoted himself to training this weapon for a long time to achieve such accomplishments. Even Mr. Feihong's "Heartbreaking Feiluo" in "Eight Great Skills" did not know if he could compete with this flying blade. At this moment, he only has a Japanese sword in his hand.Although the length of the machete has increased by a bit compared to the previous machete, it is still far from the long iron chain of the enemy in front of it. If Jing Li had two weapons, he could sacrifice one to wrap around the iron chain, and then rush in to win with the other, but now Jing Li only has one arm left; dodging is even more impossible, he only has one leg , unable to balance while moving, dodging will only die faster. Jing Li carefully looked at the iron chain between Mei Xinshu's hands, it was actually a circle thinner than the little finger - seventeen feet long, of course it couldn't be made too thick, otherwise it would be too heavy to fly far, and the length would be lost meaning. Jing Li thought, with such a thick and thin body, it is not impossible to sever it in the air with the power of the sacrificial knife just now... But no.The skill of sacrificing everything that gambled on did not continue.Either don't use it, and if you use it, it must be used to kill the enemy and win the battle.It cannot be used to cut iron chains, but only on enemies. How to counter Mei Xinshu's long-distance first strike has become a big problem for Jing Li. And the attack is almost here.Mei Xinshu took another step forward. It was as if there was an invisible and invisible killing circle of one and a half meters around him, and the edge of this circle was gradually approaching the thorn crack. Mei Xinshu was not at all impatient.He knew the situation was on his side.Just get the pace and distance right, hit the tricks he's honed from childhood, and it'll be over. ——You didn’t fall to your death from the cliff, and you died in my hands until here, which is considered a kind of happiness. Already close to eighteen feet.Jing Li squatted down and leaned forward again, with his arms hanging under the knife, and assumed the same preparation posture as before. Mei Xinshu looked at it, but didn't raise a brow. ——It's the same with whatever posture the other party puts on. Jing Li took a quick look at Xue Jiuniu.I saw that the breathing ups and downs of his back were very weak.A large pool of blood came out from under his body. At this moment, there are only two points that Jing Li can call "advantages": one is to get back the longer weapon that he is familiar with; How did the call come out. These two points were all exchanged by Xue Jiuniu with blood. ——For him, we must win. This is the first time in Jing Li's life that he has such a strong desire to win because of another person. It was obviously a very dangerous disadvantage, but Jing Li felt an unprecedented peace and security in his heart. Because this time, he wasn't just fighting for himself. Plum Heart Tree approached again.Seventeen feet.The iron chain spinning in his hand accelerated again. Jing Li's squatting body posture, like a wild beast poised to kill in the wild, has no traces of daily hard-working moves, it seems to be completely out of wild instinct. A saber gesture that blends naturally with the heavens and the earth. But this does not mean that Jing Li has nothing to think about.His strongest weapon ever was not on his hands or feet, but hidden in those braided heads.Wisdom and experience. He kept thinking and evaluating Mei Xinshu's fighting style, looking for a narrow path to victory. No one guarantees that this path will exist.But if you don't look for it, you will never find it. The cracked eyes suddenly lit up at this moment. ——It's like seeing a ray of light at the bottom of an abyss. At the same time, Mei Xinshu quickened his pace and ran forward, completing the remaining two feet. He took advantage of this run-up momentum to lean up, turn his waist, and pull his arms. fifteen feet.Just right. Jing Li was already in the invisible killing circle. He kept his posture unchanged. --bring it on! Spinning the iron chain that has stored energy for a long time, it slipped out of Meixinshu's right palm, and shot out almost in a perfect straight line! The ferocious curved blade, because of its speed, could no longer see its shape, as if it had turned into pure energy. At the same time, Jing Li raised his Japanese sword to meet him! But his movement of raising the knife was very strange, it was not like usual whole body moving to block it, but only the shoulder, elbow and wrist joint of one right arm moved, while the legs, feet, waist and neck were frozen in place, completely motionless. ——In general martial arts, it is not easy for the whole body to move and coordinate in unison, so as to achieve "vigorous energy"; but it is also extremely difficult for him to be able to independently activate one limb without affecting the rest of the body. The performance of a deep workout. Jing Li tried his best to maintain his original posture, so that he could launch that sacrificial saber technique at any time. The fierce iron chains flew towards him! The sharp sound of metal interlacing. The root of the blade body near the hilt of the Japanese sword, from bottom to top, resists the front end of the flying iron chain for five inches! If this is a stabbing spear stick, this block is enough to eliminate it upwards; but what is encountered is this iron chain and soft weapon, this block cannot offset all the energy.The tooth-shaped curved blade at the front still crossed the Japanese sword and cut towards the cracked face! In order to maintain his posture, Jing Li kept his upper body and head leaning forward, facing the blow with the courage of a mountain! —a huge gamble. The curved blade slashed fiercely, scraping across the slanted line between the eyebrows and the bridge of the nose, and several braids were cut off in the air. In the center of his face, a trail of blood erupted from the top of the left eyebrow to the belly of the right eye! Because the Japanese sword blocked the iron chain, the sharp edge of the curved blade only cut half of the flesh.As long as it goes deeper, it will be fatal! Jing Lie accepted the slash of the cold blade with his face, his head and neck didn't flinch at all, his eyes were still looking straight ahead.There are few people in the world with such a steely spiritual will. The bloody curved blade continued to fall, wrapping around the Japanese sword twice before it stopped. Mei Xinshu used a soft weapon, and he couldn't tell the depth of the hit from the touch of his hands. He only saw the blood splattered on Jing Li's face, and then the iron chain wrapped around the opponent's weapon. He ignored the opponent's life and death, and sank down. Pulling hard, he wanted to snatch Jing Li's knife in the same way as last night. And what Jing Li waited for was exactly this. started. The three major joints of Jing Li's left leg exploded with a huge instantaneous force, which was transmitted upwards, and his body immediately ejected forward! This time it was a little different from the previous ones: Jing Li's jump was also matched with the power of Meixinshu to yank the iron chain! ——Using the power of the enemy is the inspiration that Jing Li drew from Wudang "Tai Chi".The techniques are different, but the principles are the same. Jing Li had tasted the pulling force of the plum heart tree last night, and because of this he had to give up the Yanling Saber, knowing that his arm strength was very strong; at this moment, he used this strength to jump forward in coordination with the launch, and his speed and momentum were comparable. Much faster the first time! But no matter how swift and violent it was, this strength was not enough to send Jing Li's sturdy body to the plum heart tree half a meter away in one breath. Mei Xinshu had never seen Jing Li's jump before, and was greatly surprised by this one.But he is extremely calm - his set of iron chain flying blades, which dominates the enemy first, has its own tactics. Jing Li flew over, and at the same time brought back the large section of iron chain released by the plum heart tree. In other words, he can throw the other side again. Jing Li jumped this time, and his body was also spinning.The difference is that last time it was left and right; this time it turned up and down! I saw his body shrunk into a ball in the air, turned forward to his head and feet, and his entire back was exposed in front of Mei Xinshu.From the point of view of any kind of martial arts, there is no worse bad posture. The enemy showed himself in the weakest posture, and Mei Xinshu, out of the reaction of a warrior who has been tempered and tempered, without hesitation, also launched the curved blade in his left hand, hitting the back of Jing Li within seven feet! This was not an emergency response, but the second attack that Mei Xinshu had already prepared.Although it didn't have the power of the longest first blow, but the distance has been reduced by half at this moment, this second blow can be more precise, and the action of firing is less ominous. A powerful first strike to suppress, and a precise second strike to kill.This is the essence of the flying rope technique passed down by his Mei family, and it is also the perfect combination of moves for Mei Xinshu to win. However, he underestimated the power of Jing Li's sacrificial sword move. Although the force of this leap could not send Jing Li to a distance enough to cut the plum heart tree with a knife, the speed at which his whole body rolled was astonishing. Its momentum is like a raging wave. Although Jing Li was in a field without a drop of water, in this short moment, in his eyes, everything around him seemed to have turned into deep blue. He "borrowed" from the huge waves of thousands of hectares, and his body seemed to be weightless, riding the waves. ——Its aura is so fierce that even Plum Heart Tree can faintly feel his phantom of the sea tide! When the second curved blade flew two feet in front of Jing Li, he had completely turned back.The curved blade turned and flew towards him. Jing Lie had already taken advantage of the rolling momentum to raise the Japanese sword with his right hand to the position behind his left shoulder. Jing Li's body and Plum Heart Tree's flying blade, the two exchanged at high speed! Such a short moment cannot be captured by anyone's eyes—even those who possess the realm of "Yaoxuan Sword" are impossible. Even if Jing Li could do it, he couldn't see it at the moment.The blood between the eyebrows seeped into the eyes. But he doesn't have to look.Because he trusts the plum heart tree. Trust his warrior qualities.There is also a yardstick. Jing Li firmly believed that Mei Xinshu's second curved blade must be aimed at him.No warrior can resist such a temptation. So Jing Li only did one very simple thing: without even looking at it, he slashed towards the direction of the vest that he had just revealed! Very big gamble.But it was also a calculated gamble. The sacrificial knife this time is more mature than the first time: the transmission of strength is more sufficient, and the muscles that are not used are more relaxed-in short, the human sword is one. In the simple and unpretentious knife, Jing Li gave up all skills.But it is also the sum of all the skills he has learned. The blade light of the Japanese sword disappeared again due to the extremely high speed. Even under the sunny afternoon, the sparks that exploded were still bright and clear.Just like another fleeting sun under the sun. The curved blade shot by Mei Xinshu was accurately slashed by the Japanese sword, and suddenly flew back in the opposite direction! Mei Xinshu practiced the iron chain flying blade, and faced the risk of the blade rebounding towards him countless times, leaving scars on his face one after another.But no matter how experienced he was, it was impossible for him to react at this moment. too fast. Mei Xinshu's scarred eyelids didn't even have time to blink, and the curved blade with the chain had already sunk into his chest! Jing Li fell to the ground before the plum heart tree.This time he flew more violently and fell harder. He was cut obliquely just now, and his bloody face hit the sand, and he almost fell into a coma. His Japanese sword was also like last time, unbearable to the blow and flew away.The long knife still wrapped in the iron chain fell to the ground, and there was a curl on the edge of the blade, which shows how fierce the volley strike was just now. Mei Xinshu, who was defeated by his own weapon, fell on his back stiffly.The curved blade penetrated into the chest, heart and lungs of his black clothes, until it reached the handle.Blood gushed out of his mouth like a spring. Jing Li struggled to get up, but didn't even look at this formidable enemy who had been beaten so hard, and walked half-hopped to Xue Jiuniu on his legs. Kneeling beside him, he carefully lifted Xue Jiuniu's body with one arm. Jing Li felt that the kid's body was completely limp and paralyzed, and he didn't respond at all. If it wasn't for the weak breathing ups and downs, he would have thought he had turned into a corpse. Xue Jiuniu opened his eyes slightly.The mouth moves slowly. Jing Li put his ear to his mouth. "Win...?..." Jing Li nodded abruptly. Xue Jiuniu smiled and closed his eyes wearily. "Don't sleep! Let's go home!" Jing Li shouted excitedly.Xue Jiuniu opened his eyes slightly again when he heard that, but he didn't have the strength to nod, so he could only raise the corners of his mouth slightly again. Jing Li thought for a while, and found a way to bring Xue Jiuniu back to the city on horseback.He picked up the Japanese sword and scabbard left on the ground, and went to get the long iron chain from the plum heart tree. Only then did Jing Li look down at the plum heart tree that was still alive.Mei Xinshu's eyes were out of focus, as if he didn't see him. Jing Li was about to pull the curved blade out of the plum heart tree's chest, but when he looked closely, he found that the connection between the iron chain and the handle of the curved blade was a loose iron ring.It seems that this curved blade can also be removed at any time and used as a short knife, it is Mei Xinshu's last resort. ——If he hadn't had too much confidence in the flying chain and kept this curved blade as a short soldier, I would be the one who fell to the ground at this moment. Jing Li unfastened the buckle and took away the iron chain, leaving the curved blade in Mei Xinshu's body, giving him a longer life. ——If there is an afterlife, stop being such an idiot. Jing Li stuck the Japanese knife on Xue Jiuniu's back, and wrapped the man and the knife tightly with an iron chain, which supported and fixed his body.After lifting him onto Mei Xinshu's mount, Jing Li also stepped up on his back, and then used the remaining iron chains to wrap Xue Jiuniu and his weak left arm together, holding him tightly in his arms. “不要死啊。”荆裂说着，将夺来的一柄砍刀插在鞍侧的革绳之间，就催马往西北全速离去。 梅心树仍旧躺在旷野上，等着呼出最后一口气。夏风带着细细的沙土，吹拂在他脸上。他仰视晴明的天空，弥留的意识却回到了离开武当那个晚上。 下了山后已是黎明。梅心树回头，最后一次看见武当山那泛着曙光的崚线，想到被囚禁在山里的那个人，想象将来有一天迎接他复出的光荣。 将来有一天。再踏武当山。 梅心树安慰地合上了眼皮。
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