Chapter 18 Chapter 10 The Shadow of Water

When Xiao Yunting rushed to the ferry, he saw Shi Yu in the bow of the boat fighting the group of assassins who came suddenly. The person who has been in charge of Chuhua Xiaozhu for many years is usually indifferent to his emotions and anger, even if he is caught off guard by an attack, he will not be in the slightest.Several disciples in the building who followed him to Miaojiang also drew their swords following his accusation, and fought with the group of assassins who emerged from the bottom of the water. Xiao Yunting didn't wait for the boat to come to a complete stop, he tiptoed up and drew his sword.

The place at the bow of the ship is small, it can only accommodate five or six people, and with a single swing of the knife, the entire bow of the ship can be covered.As soon as the Xiying knife appeared at this moment, someone was injured and fell into the water. "Don't worry, the landlord." Shi Yu fought and retreated, his voice was calm, "These guys are nothing at all." He nodded slightly, but his heart was not relaxed yet, suddenly he felt the whole ship sinking! "The boat is going to sink." Shi Yu continued, his voice still not fluctuating, "Hurry up!"

Xiao Yunting frowned, and the woman in scarlet clothes in the cabin seemed to have heard this sentence, she straightened up as if she was about to get up and get out of the cabin, and just as soon as she started, she coughed a few more times, and stretched out a hand, as if she wanted him to help her. A hand, so that I can get up from the cabin - that hand is as delicate as jade, although the poisonous blueness has faded, it is pale and bloodless. "Take Miss Su away!" Shi Yu protected the cabin without looking back, "I'll break the queen!" "Okay!" Seeing the critical situation, Xiao Yunting didn't have time to say more, and quickly stretched out his hand to support Su Wei in the cabin.

That hand was cold and soft, as if it had no strength at all.At that moment, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.Just when his face changed slightly, the wind behind his ears moved slightly, and a steady and sharp sound of a blade piercing the air came——Xiao Yunting didn't have time to turn around, his shoulders sank, and he dodged sideways like lightning. However, when he moved, his wrist pulse felt a slight pain! The hand protruding from behind the curtain, so slender that it seemed to have no strength, suddenly flipped over and firmly rested on his wrist! Xiao Yunting felt a sudden shock in his heart, knowing that something was wrong.However, it was too late to dodge the moment of lightning, and at the moment when the knife was slashed at the back, out of the corner of his eye, he saw that the taciturn Shi Yu made a move when he was caught off guard!He didn't have time to shake off the hand that was clasping him, he could only take a deep breath, pour his true strength into his left shoulder, and unexpectedly received the knife abruptly.

Shi Yu chopped it down with a knife, blood spattered, but his face remained expressionless. At the same time, the disciple who had just tied the cable straightened up suddenly, let go, untied the cable, clicked the pole, and set sail—this series of actions were too fast to be followed by the eyes. In just a moment, the boat suddenly started, carrying Xiao Yunting straight like an arrow. Go across the river! It's the ghost! After dealing with the two ambushes with all their strength, everyone thought that the crisis was over, but unexpectedly there was another lore waiting for him on the river!If Shi Yu has rebelled, if the woman in scarlet clothes on the boat is not Wei Er, then—where is the real owner of Xue Wei?

Has she already encountered an accident now? When he thought of this, his heart felt cold, and he felt an uncontrollable uneasiness.The knife wound on his shoulder was painful, just now he concentrated his whole body's energy on his shoulder and suffered the knife forcefully. Although he didn't cut off the meridian, it inevitably hurt the skin—what's more frightening is that he could feel the pain near the wound. A sense of paralysis spread quickly. poisonous!Shi Yu's knife was actually smeared with poison! "Lord!" Seeing this, the disciples on the shore turned pale with fright, and jumped onto the boat one after another.

However, seeing the fellow disciples chasing up, those Tingxuelou disciples who were punting the boat suddenly pulled out their swords from under the sleeves of their robes, and mercilessly slashed at the chasing fellow disciples head on! The five or six Tingxuelou disciples who jumped onto the boat were fighting with the people on board, but at this moment, the boat had already left the shore quickly. "Shiyu?" Xiao Yunting scolded sharply, turned around to meet the enemy, raised the saber in one hand, and slashed at the hand holding his veins.However, the hand protruding from behind the curtain is still tightly grasping his wrist at this moment, and facing the sharp blade that is slashing down, it doesn't move at all as if invisible!

Without hesitation, he slashed it down. With a click, the wrist bone was broken, but what was surprising was that the person behind the curtain didn't seem to know the pain, and the strength of that grip did not weaken.He waved the man away, and the severed wrist was still tightly held in his hand, and it penetrated into the wrist as deep as a finger! At this time, the second blow to the ear was imminent. "Shi Yu!" He blocked the knife with one hand, and shouted, "Are you crazy?" However, that cold-faced subordinate was still expressionless, and a series of attacks followed, fierce and fierce, and all his moves were all attacks of the same end——At that moment, Xiao Yunting understood, this...is Puppet art!Shi Yu has been manipulated!

With this in mind, he no longer hesitated. The lonely severed wrist was still tightly held in his hand, pale and slender.In the blink of an eye, he didn't care about the blood splattering half of his body, and immediately used the Xiying knife with all his strength, blocking Shi Yu's attack three feet away from him. At this moment, the boat has reached the center of the river. Luoshui is vast, and the sunset on the half of the river is as red as blood, and there is an ominous atmosphere. "You..." Xiao Yunting glanced over, and suddenly his heart skipped a beat. The killing is still going on - Ting Xuelou's two disciples are killing each other, everyone is merciless, each other is red-eyed, the narrow side of the boat is already spattered with blood.

Shi Yu was also attacking non-stop, every move was desperate, as if he was desperate to die with him--however, at that moment, Xiao Yunting found another expression in the opponent's eyes, that is He is familiar with the eyes of this real Shi Yu who has been with him for many years. He was looking down the gunwale. The situation at this moment is very strange. The person who seemed to be possessed by a war demon was attacking almost crazily non-stop, but there seemed to be another person hidden in his eyes, who was extremely anxious but couldn't make a sound to remind him. He kept looking down the cabin.

Suddenly, a resolute light flashed in Shi Yu's eyes, and a mouthful of blood spewed out from his mouth, biting the tip of his tongue abruptly!While waving the knife, he turned his other hand back and punched hard in the middle of his chest. There was a crackling sound, and his chest was slightly sunken. The blood in his lungs rushed out of his throat with such force. "Let's go!" As if the severe pain temporarily made him sober, Shi Yu and Xue spit out a short shout, "There is an explosion in the cabin——" However, before he finished his sentence, there was a deafening explosion. "Hahaha...hahaha!" The old man in the tavern laughed wildly, watching the grand firework bloom, disappear and sink on the water.Everything is just a moment.The smell of blood and gunpowder permeated the entire waterside, and the beams of the dilapidated tavern were shaken. No one expected such a drastic change. The boat carrying Miss Su turned back suddenly, and exploded immediately after leaving the shore, bringing everyone on board into the bottom of the river—including the owner of Tingxuelou. The power of the gunpowder in the bilge was so strong that the whole ship was wiped out after an instant explosion. The setting sun soaked half of the river like blood. The place where the ship sank diffused soundlessly, spreading round and round, staining half of the river blood red. Such a strange and tragic scene, as if possessing the power of a demon, made everyone hold their breath instantly. "No!" In the silence, only an exclamation was heard.Zhao Bingjie rushed out of the tavern like crazy, but her eyes were no longer visible, and when she couldn't reach the water's edge, she stumbled and fell to the ground: "No!" "No...no," she knelt on the ground and muttered, "No!" At that moment, tears welled up in her eyes.She raised her hands to cover her face, crying so much that her whole body trembled and could not be restrained—for many years, no one had ever seen the cold and subdued Director Zhao cry so recklessly, as if suddenly a cold and strategist turned back into a weak woman. At the moment when the manager cried out, he seemed to finally understand that everything in front of him was beyond doubt—the shocking tragedy had already been cast, and the landlord had already died in the bottom of the river.All the disciples of Tingxuelou were stunned, looking at the deserted river, it took a long time before they let out a cry.Immediately, someone jumped down the river desperately, trying to salvage something. However, the bottom of the water was filled with blood, and there were broken limbs everywhere, which was horrible. After a long time, a disciple suddenly emerged from the water, grabbed something, and exclaimed. It was a severed limb, snapped at the elbow, blasted to pieces—and yet, even though the hand had only two fingers remaining, it was still clutching an empty scabbard. This... this, seems to be the landlord's knife? Everyone in the house was taken aback, but no one dared to speak the first sentence. However, the silence was quickly broken, and another Tingxuelou disciple who dived into the water and searched surfaced immediately, also exclaiming in surprise, but holding a light blue knife in his hand. "Xiying Knife!" Seeing the knife, all Tingxuelou disciples changed their expressions and finally shouted. ——Xiying Dao and its owner have always been inseparable. Since the owner inherited Tingxuelou, no matter what the situation, Human Dao has never been separated for a moment.Now that the knife has sunk to the bottom of the water, one can imagine where the owner is. The Ze of the Gentleman, will be cut for the fifth generation. For a moment, an inconceivable sense of desolation and fate rose in the hearts of Tingxuelou's disciples.Facing the surging Luoshui, those young people knelt, wailed, and kowtowed until they bled. When everyone was crying more and more loudly and their emotions were almost broken, they suddenly heard a scream from the tavern on the shore.Others had no time to take care of it, but Zhao Bingjie, who was in grief, was startled, and supported a subordinate tremblingly to prop up his body. At this moment, he still restrained his emotions, turned around and took a look in the tavern. As soon as the subordinate entered the tavern, his face changed drastically: the laughing old man was lying in the corpse room, his eyes were wide open, his face was smiling, but his gray head was stained with blood—who would have taken advantage of the other party's confusion for a moment? , the killer who killed the mouth! Zhao Bingjie's face became even paler, her fingers trembled slightly, and she groped to pull out the hidden weapon in Jiugong's head. She gritted her teeth and remained silent for a moment, holding her head with her hands, as if thinking about something in extreme pain.She suddenly struggled and rushed out of the door, slapping the disciple in the building who was kneeling on the ground in pain. "Everyone get up!" She looked in the direction of Luoyang City, gritted her teeth, and said sharply, "There is no time to cry here! Get up!" Everyone turned around in shock, and heard that the headmistress of Xuelou had stood up again, she was holding the Xiying knife salvaged from the bottom of the water, her face was as pale as death.She bit the corner of her mouth tightly until a line of blood slipped from between her lips and teeth, bright red and glaring.Send it with a smile.However, what she said was still as calm as usual - in just a short moment, she had already controlled her collapsed emotions. "Listen, now that the enemy is pressing down on the situation, the main building is at stake! We can't love to fight, we must retreat!" "Leave a group of ten people and continue to search and rescue on the water—the rest of them, immediately withdraw to the main building with me to help the four guardians! We must not let those people enter the main building!" "But..." The disciples looked at the empty river, still reluctant to part with themselves. Could it be that this is how the landlord will sleep forever at the bottom of the river? "But what?! Now that the landlord is not here, everyone should hold their breath!" The blind girl who had been quiet all this time seemed to be crazy, and said hoarsely, "First keep the main building! Then seek revenge!" "Blood debts must be paid with blood!" "Anyone who harmed the landlord today, no one will be let go!" Zhao Bingjie turned the Xiying Knife horizontally and drew it out slowly, the light of the knife reflected her pale face. "I, Zhao Bingjie, use the Xiying knife as my proof, and I swear here: As long as I live for a day, even if there is only one Tingxuelou disciple left, even if I go to heaven and earth, I will destroy the Heavenly Dao League and let them shed their last drop of blood!" "If you don't keep this covenant, you will be punished by all gods!" She cut her finger with a knife, dripped blood into Luoshui, and swore sharply.The woman's voice is cold and weak, but there is a blood-boiling power in the voice.All the disciples of Tingxuelou looked at her fixedly, as if seeing an irresistible force from the woman's pale and thin face, they couldn't help raising their knives together, and shouted sharply: "Revenge for the landlord!" "Swear to live and die with Tingxuelou!" "eye for eye!" On the seventh day of June, Luoyang Tingxue Building suffered a severe blow that had not been experienced in thirty years. The Tiandao League, who thought it disappeared, made a comeback, and unexpectedly bought the elite killers of the Fengyu Organization, launched a huge force counterattack, and raided Tingxuelou.This attack was obviously carefully planned. Taking advantage of the fact that Xue Wei's owner was not in the building, Xiao Yunting was lured out of the main building, and the attack was launched from three directions at the same time.Those three attacks were one after the other, and they almost spared no effort to put Ting Xuelou to death. Although Xiao Yunting also anticipated this attack and made arrangements in advance, he did not completely decipher it.With the help of Manager Zhao, he escaped the previous two rounds of ambushes, but in the end he never escaped Jiang Xin's suicide bombing, and was buried at the bottom of the lake with everyone in his clothes, with no bones left. After that, Tingxuelou fell into an unprecedented predicament—— In the main building, although Xiao Yunting invited four guardians out of the mountain to sit in town, they successfully repelled the attack headed by Yuan Qingfeng, the boss of the Wind and Rain Organization on the day of the big change, annihilated the main force of the opponent who came to attack, and protected the Luoyang main building. , but after this battle, the building was exhausted for a while, unable to take care of the sub-rudders scattered all over the country. In addition to the Chang'an sub-rudder, more than 20 sub-rudders located across the country were attacked at the same time.The killers were well-trained and cruel. Sixteen rudder masters were killed or injured, and many sub-rudders were destroyed. For a while, Tingxuelou disciples scattered all over the country and were unable to contact the main building. And at such a moment, Xuewei's owner is still missing.Counting that three months have passed, since Shi Yu, who went to southern Yunnan, did not bring back the real Su Wei, then, it is estimated that she is already living alone in a foreign land. The Ze of the Gentleman, will be cut for the fifth generation.Now that the souls and figures in the building have all passed away, will the Tingxue Building, which has been passed down for five generations, be destroyed when foreign enemies come under pressure?However, what is surprising is that Tingxuelou, which has lost its soul, has not lost its footing during this time of internal and external difficulties. ——No one thought that that blind woman would resist everything at such a critical moment! Manager Zhao.silver wolf. That blind woman with no martial arts actually sat in the white building, and with the support of the four guardians, she took all the burdens off--although she was powerless, she was extremely sharp and fierce. Sticking to the main building, repelling several attacks by the opponent, using all means to summon the scattered troops to withdraw to the headquarters, but on the one hand, they flew pigeons to pass letters to the allies in Tingxuelou, to the Mobei Shenfengtang, the Longjia in the South China Sea and Lingnan The Ye family of Luofu Mountain Villa asked for help. Most of the people in Jianghu think that those allies are just in vain, and they will just stand by in this situation-however, what is surprising is that, after some secret discussions, those sects have all agreed to Mr. Zhao's proposal. Request, send troops north to Luoyang. In this way, precarious forms are moderated. The Wind and Rain Organization is good at assassination, but it is not good at fighting people overtly for a long time.The attack that was caught off guard at the beginning certainly caused Tingxuelou a lot of damage, but since then, they have been repelled by Tingxuelou after months of attacks, and there are not a few people from the Fengyu organization who have suffered losses.After hearing that experts from other places will arrive in Luoyang to support Tingxue Tower, Boss Yuan finally gave the order to evacuate. Just as they appeared overnight, those mysterious killers withdrew overnight. The city of Luoyang was peaceful, as if nothing had happened. When the shocking attack in Luoyang City happened, people thousands of miles away did not notice it. The world is turned upside down outside, but Tengchong in the deep mountains of southern Yunnan is peaceful. Sunrise and sunset, chickens and dogs hear each other, quiet and peaceful. It has been two months since I came back from the Moon Palace. Su Wei lives very comfortably in this ancient border city. Chonglou worked as a helper, taught Mi Danyi to speak Chinese, and occasionally went to the mountains to pick herbs and sell them in pharmacies when he was free, and inquired about the whereabouts of the master along the way-the life was full and comfortable, and even the sleep was much calmer and sweeter. . Gradually, she forgot the man she fell in love with for the first time, she forgot that she had shocking martial arts skills and a world-class weapon called "Xuewei Sword", and even more forgot about the bloody rivers and lakes. The years in the mountains are as clean and peaceful as a clear spring, passing silently. After leaving the rivers and lakes, her heart has undergone subtle and profound changes. She is no longer the girl who came here on a rainy night with a sword in her hand and entered the rivers and lakes for the first time.However, when she thought she could choose another life, she didn't know that many things were already predestined. No matter how she tried to escape, struggle, or fight, it was nothing but nothing in the end. And this point, she didn't really understand until late at night many years later, when she was drinking alone by Luoshui. (full text)