Alienated Martial Arts

A palace deep in the Imperial Palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty had a solemn and dull atmosphere.

Even the most favored eunuchs were cautious and did not dare to make any sound.

He was afraid that he would make some noise that shouldn't be there, thus alerting the old eunuch Feng who was guarding outside the imperial study, or even His Majesty the Emperor who was reviewing memorials while sick inside.

The sky is getting dark and the cold wind is rising again.

The imperial dining room brought a sumptuous banquet, but it was brought out intact shortly after, except for a bowl of bird's nest porridge.

Until the zenith of the moon, approaching midnight, the imperial study room was still brightly lit, and from time to time violent coughs could be heard coming from it. The eunuchs and maids waiting nearby were so shocked that they felt cold all over, and they did not dare to be careless in the slightest.

Suddenly, the old eunuch Feng who was guarding the door suddenly opened his eyes and glanced at the night outside.

Then he looked at his nose with his eyes, his mouth with his nose, and his mind with his mouth, and began to wander outside.

After a while, soft footsteps sounded.

Approach from far to near.

A figure appeared quietly in front of the imperial study room.

"Eunuch Feng is guarding me tonight, I feel relieved all of a sudden."

Shang Zongfeng glanced into the imperial study and said, "Your Majesty, haven't you rested yet?"

The old eunuch slowly shook his head and said, "The war in Mozhou is not going well, and the chaos in southern Xinjiang has begun again. In addition, there are some Jiedu envoys who are disobedient and disobeying orders. Your Majesty has not been in a good mood these past two days."

Shang Gongfeng sighed, "I heard that Mozhou's rebellion is closely related to the Qinglian Demon Sect. I never thought that after a vigorous eradication more than 20 years ago, this group of demons could actually resurrect."

"There is no way. Last year there was a severe drought in Mozhou. His Majesty issued an order to mobilize grain and fodder support from other states. For several festivals, the envoys were procrastinating and moving slowly. In addition, water far away could not quench the thirst of people nearby. As a result, the people's hearts changed. Only then did the demon sect regain its strength. space for survival.”

When Old Eunuch Feng said this, he also sighed, "There are also the various ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang. A hundred years ago, His Majesty Emperor Wu opened up the territory and included it in the territory of this dynasty. However, those people only knew how to fear power and did not know how to be virtuous. It seems that there were still fewer kills back then.”

Shang Gongfeng was about to say something, but suddenly fell silent.

Together with old eunuch Feng, he turned his head and looked into the darkness.

A figure was rushing from a distance, and its clothes were flying violently, rustling in the night wind, giving people an inexplicable nervous atmosphere.

The man quickly came closer, "Urgent report from the border, there are signs of large-scale troop mobilization by the Northern Desolate Tribe, and their final destination is unknown!"

"Are you sure everything you said is true? Is there any accurate follow-up news?"

Old Eunuch Feng's face suddenly became even more ugly, "If your Majesty is disturbed, you know what the consequences will be!"

"Back to my father-in-law, according to the secret report, the old king of Beihuang is dead, the new king has ascended the throne, and all the ministries have sworn allegiance to him.

It's just that this information is extremely tightly sealed, and quite some time has passed since our spies went to great lengths to transmit the information. "

Feng Gonggong's face was as dark as water, digesting what he had just heard, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly asked, "How is the weather in Beihuang lately? Some time ago, they said they encountered a large-scale white disaster. Now that the wind has stopped and the snow has stopped, it has improved. ?”

"Going back to my father-in-law, according to the news from the border, the Northern Wilderness White Disaster stopped for less than ten days before it started again, and it was even more serious than before."

Old Eunuch Feng was silent for a long time, "So, now that the new king of the Northern Wasteland Palace has ascended the throne, and coupled with the White Disaster attack, it is very likely that he will go south again and invade the territory of this dynasty?"

Speaking of this, he slowly exhaled a breath, "Since the founding of the country by Taizu of this dynasty, the Great Zhou Dynasty has fought with Beihuang several times. Until His Majesty Taizong personally conquered the Northland and penetrated thousands of miles into the north, defeating the main force of the foreign races in the Great Wilderness. This is how The border was kept safe for tens of thousands of people.

A hundred years later, Beihuang once again marched southward. Fortunately, the Emperor Wu of this dynasty came out of the blue and broke through the Huang clan's golden tent one after another, almost severing the inheritance of the Fan monks, leaving them with a broken heart and gallbladder, and fear of trespassing for a whole generation. . "

"Then forty years ago, the Huang tribe successfully raided the Kengguan Pass and spread the war to several prefectures such as Qizhou, Mozhou, Lingzhou, Yuanzhou, etc., causing devastation and deprivation of life for the people. Are the past events going to happen again now? "

Gonggong Feng's face was as dark as water, and he turned around and entered the royal study, "We are going to meet His Majesty right now. Don't go anywhere. Just wait here for His Majesty to summon you for questioning."

Outside the door, Shang Zongfang looked up at the thick clouds above, feeling a little gloomy for a while.

Two days later.

Everyone in the Yuan Dynasty declined Prince Cheng's request to stay, packed their bags and returned north.

Wei Tao originally planned to stay in the capital for a longer time to see if he could have a chance to find out about "The Book of Shocking Worlds".

But when he suddenly heard the news about the changes in the Northern Wilderness, he immediately gave up the idea and even postponed his plan to go to Mozhou for the time being.

The accident happened suddenly and was so serious that the group of people just left without stopping. They galloped towards the north at high speed.

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On the ground in Qizhou, the snow has lasted for nearly half a month.

From time to time, a cold wind howled by, rolling up a layer of floating snow from the ground, and mixed it with the snowflakes falling from the sky, leaving a vast expanse of white everywhere.

A caravan carried a flag and marched hard on a slippery dirt road mixed with ice and snow.

The size of the team is not small. There are more than 40 large trucks pulling goods, plus more than 100 guards and workers, stretching a long distance from beginning to end.

The leader was a fat, white, middle-aged man who always had a smile on his face. Even if the trip was delayed due to wind, snow and muddy roads, he did not show any signs of anxiety or anger.

However, at dusk that day, his smile disappeared and his face was filled with worry.

All the caravans and vehicles stopped, not daring to take another step forward.

All the guards and store clerks drew their swords and stared nervously at the sparse woods ahead.

The shadowy knight is hiding among them.

Just half a quarter of an hour ago, the leader of the company thought they had encountered horse bandits blocking the road, so he asked a guard who was good at martial arts and astute to negotiate.

First, find out where the other party came from. If it is a copycat bandit that you have had contact with before, then you can say anything. If you just leave some tribute money, the whole team can be released directly.

Even if you meet a stranger, you can still spend money to eliminate the disaster. At most, the cost will be slightly higher, and it will not lead to a bloody battle here. After all, neither party actually wants to see such a situation.

However, the guard who went to negotiate had just walked a dozen steps away, and before he could even say anything about the situation, his throat was pierced by an arrow fired from the scene, and he died tragically on the spot.

Just this one arrow made everyone's heart sink to the bottom.

The company leader has traveled all over the country for so many years, but he has never encountered such a situation.

Whether they are horse thieves who come and go like the wind, or bandits in Luocao Mountain Forest, when they encounter a large-scale caravan, they always seek money instead of killing people as their main purpose.

As long as the money is negotiated or the relationship is established, the two parties will leave peacefully.

Even if we encounter the worst case scenario, we will have to fight with each other only after the negotiation has completely collapsed.

There has never been a situation where someone was shot dead without even saying a word.

The caravan guys were all silent, not knowing what the murderer hiding in the darkness was planning.

Until the sun is about to set, and the last ray of light shines on the earth.

Chief Zeng, who was guarding the caravan, suddenly saw a flag raised high in the distance.

His pupils suddenly shrank, and his complexion instantly turned pale.

"Shopkeeper Qin, something serious has happened..."

The fat white man suddenly became excited and turned to look at this old man who had cooperated with the caravan many times.

He asked subconsciously, "With the strength of the escort leader Zeng, even if he encounters a vicious horse thief..."

Chief Zeng interrupted him, even his voice was trembling, "They are not horse thieves, but the foreign tribes of the Northern Wilderness. These are the cavalry of the foreign tribes of the Northern Wilderness!"

"This place is hundreds of miles away from the border of Northland. How could they appear here!?"

Shopkeeper Qin murmured to himself, and couldn't help but think of the rumors he heard from the old man.

Only this group of guys can kill without any inhibitions. Regardless of whether they are resisted or not, they will often kill everyone without leaving any one behind.

Even when there was not enough food and grass, people would be tied together with ropes to make two-legged lambs to supplement consumption.

Zeng Biaotou on the side was filled with fear and despair. When he saw the somewhat broken beast flag, he even completely gave up the thought of surviving.

All I can say is that this time the escort trip was like eight lifetimes of bad luck. Not only was it not as safe as expected, but it even cost them all their lives.

Facing the fierce and brave alien cavalry, with the strength of these people, there is definitely no hope of winning.

Even if he turned around and ran away immediately, he still couldn't outrun these guys who were walking on the ground on horseback.

To put it another ten thousand steps back, even if they wanted to sacrifice all their belongings to ensure safety, it would not be feasible at all among the alien races who looked like beasts.

Breathing out a heavy breath, Zeng Biaotou wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, his body was trembling slightly.

He gritted his teeth suddenly and touched the dagger hidden in his sleeve. He had already made up his mind to fight for one, and if he could kill two, he would make a big profit.

When the situation is bad and the situation breaks down, you must not hesitate at all. You must give yourself a knife quickly and neatly, so as not to be kidnapped by the aliens and then cut up and drink him alive.

However, at the next moment, when he was thinking about where to kill him with the least pain, he suddenly saw a person who appeared in front of the road out of nowhere.

He seems to be a frail scholar wearing a long gown.

Chief Zeng watched him coming from a distance and soon arrived at the sparse woods.

Then he stood there motionless, as if waiting for something

Chief Zeng was about to give a warning, but when he thought of the aliens from the Northern Wilderness hiding in the darkness, he immediately gave up the idea and closed his mouth that he had just opened tightly.

They are all going to die anyway.

It was better to let him die under the hooves of a horse in a daze than to endure a moment of pain and suffering after knowing the truth.

The ground shook slightly.

With the last ray of light, the alien cavalry began to charge.

They rushed out of the woods in an instant. The leading man had a ferocious look on his face, brandishing his thick-backed saber and slashing at the man without even looking.

The speed of the war horse is very fast, and the power of the sword is also extremely fierce.

It even tore the air apart, emitting a harsh whistling scream.

Zeng Biaotou stared at the leader of the foreign cavalry with wide eyes, trying to estimate the strength level of the opponent from the entire process of his attack.

Shopkeeper Qin lowered his head early, not daring to look at the bloody scene that was about to appear.

boom!

The loud sound made people's scalp numb.

Shopkeeper Qin's heart trembled. This was the first time he knew that a human body would make such a deafening sound when it was knocked away by a war horse.

A suppressed exclamation sounded in his ears, causing him to raise his head suddenly and gasp involuntarily.

Shopkeeper Qin's eyes widened, his mouth opened, and he stared blankly at the frail scholar standing there motionless. He just reached out and pressed lightly, causing a war horse that rushed to him to be torn into pieces, and he slashed with a knife on the horse's back. The alien cavalry also had their flesh and bones separated, turning into a rain of blood flying all over the sky.

The next moment, dust was flying beside the forest.

Blocking the view of everyone in the caravan.

I could only hear people screaming, horses neighing, and pitiful howls, mixed in the cooling night wind, and carried from afar.

In no more than ten breaths, everything returned to calm, leaving only the swirling smoke and dust, still flying in the wind and slowly drifting away.

Shopkeeper Qin pinched his thigh hard, feeling like he was hungover and having a nightmare related to blood and killing.

As a result, before he could recover, a gentle male voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

The frail scholar was already standing next to the car at some point, his body spotless and not stained with blood.

"I would like to ask you all, as you came all the way south, have you found any traces of the warriors of the Northland Desolate Tribe in other places?"

Shopkeeper Qin's mind went blank.

I have no idea what I said.

All I knew was that the other person responded politely with a thank you, and then disappeared before my eyes without any warning.

"Boss Zeng, haven't we seen a ghost?"

A gust of cold wind blew by, and shopkeeper Qin shivered, his upper and lower teeth stumbling as he spoke.

Zeng Biaotou looked at the corpses lying on the ground in front of him, smelled the strong smell of blood, looked solemn and shook his head, "He is not a ghost, but a real disciple of a great sect with the inheritance of Quanzhen inner training."

After thinking silently for a moment, Chief Zeng continued, "A long time ago, I was fortunate enough to have contact with a great master of Zang Zang realm. This young master gave me a feeling that he was very similar to that senior, so he should be a similar practitioner." for levels.

However, he looks so young and has reached a height above the sixth level of Qi and Blood. This is simply unimaginable for warriors like us who practice heretic and residual methods. "

Several young escorts nearby listened silently, feeling a little dazed for a moment.

Shopkeeper Qin was the first to react, urging, "Quick, quick, cheer up, hurry up and leave this place southward!"

"The faster we go, the farther away the danger will be. Anyway, I don't dare to hope that when we encounter the foreign cavalry again, we will have such an expert come to rescue us!"

Deep in a wilderness of stone hills, two bonfires were burning.

Several strong men gathered around the fire, drank from large bowls, ate meat, and burst into loud laughter from time to time.

There were many leftover bones scattered on the ground nearby, and from time to time crows with black jade and red eyes would drop down to eat, scrambling for the few scraps of meat left on the bones.

Looking carefully, there are even some human bones mixed in among the pile of animal bones, shining with a dense white light under the firelight.

Sitting on the stone not far away was a tall and muscular man.

He didn't speak the whole time, nor did he sit around the pot eating meat. He just kept pouring strong wine into his mouth.

After a while, the strong man suddenly ejected a handful of stones and killed all the black-feathered crows that were fighting for food not far away.

"Please restrain yourself and don't make this place too messy, lest it attract too many crows circling in the sky and expose our traces.

After all, we are going south this time to explore information, not just to kill people and eat meat. If you want to have a good time, just wait until you complete the mission and return to the Northern Wilderness. "

A man next to the fire spit out a finger and stepped it into the ground with his foot, "Lord Yuanze, after this investigation, the leader of this department can really make up his mind and raise his troops to go south.

Having seen the fertile land here, I don’t want to go back and suffer the horrific white plague. "

The strong man raised his head, revealing a ferocious face. "Don't worry, wait until the master sends all those people on Qinglin Mountain to meet the gods and save us from worries, then the troops will move south in large numbers."

Having said this, the strong man tightened the seal of the wine bag and turned his head to look into the distance.

"Chagan's gang has been out for a few hours. Even if they dismount and crawl in the snow, they should be able to crawl back."

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed and he looked in a certain direction.

Where the light of the bonfire met the darkness of night, an extra person appeared out of nowhere.

He stood there in silence, watching them drinking and eating meat around the campfire.

this person……

When did it come close?

How long he has been standing here! ?

Snap!

The animal skin wine bag slipped from the strong man's hand and fell to the gravel-covered ground with a soft sound.

He stood up slowly and held the broad sword at his waist.

"Who are you?" the strong man asked, his voice cold and stiff, like the howling cold wind in the north.

Although he spoke in the official dialect of Zhou Dynasty, it sounded like he had an inexplicable and weird accent.

Several eyes were focused on it at the same time, and the originally bustling Rock Hill suddenly fell into a dead silence.

"You shouldn't ask this question, but I should ask you." The figure walked slowly, leaving a clear line of footprints on the snow.

As he spoke, he threw the round thing in his hand over, and it just landed next to the bonfire.

The strong man looked down and saw only a solitary head, which looked extremely ferocious under the firelight.

The sound of the warehouse is continuous.

Everyone around the bonfire drew their weapons, and their bodies tensed up, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

The strong man let out a heavy breath and stared at the face that flickered in and out of light under the bonfire. All the wine he had just drank turned into cold sweat, and his whole body was cold when the wind blew.

He gritted his teeth and said word by word, "You actually killed Cha Gan!?"

Wei Tao stepped forward from the intersection of light and darkness to the bonfire.

His eyes swept over the strong man and then landed on the faces of the people behind him.

"I went down the mountain on the order of my teacher to look for traces of the master who had sneaked into Beihuang, but all I met were trash like you. It's really disappointing."

boom!

The bonfire that was burning quietly suddenly suddenly swelled.

The strong wind howled and exploded, sending large and small gravels flying everywhere.

A muffled thunder seemed to explode in the rocky hill.

Huge shock waves spread in all directions, flattening and destroying everything in their path.

There were also chaotic roars, howls, screams and cries of pain.

After just a few breaths.

All the sounds suddenly subsided, leaving only the sound of wind like ghosts crying still echoing in the wilderness.

"You are amazing, beyond my imagination."

The strong man struggled to get up from the messy pile of rubble, with a desperate expression on his face.

Around it, scraps of bone and flesh were scattered all over the ground.

The only ones that were intact were a few heads that had been removed by neck-breaking, and they were lined up in a row in front of the strong man, with their eyes wide open and fixed on his body.

Wei Tao walked slowly from the darkness, took a deep breath of the rich burnt smell, and sighed quietly.

"The information I got is that you are inquiring about Qinglin Mountain from various sources. So now that I, the Yuan Daozi, am standing here, it is difficult to find your so-called guru."

"Do you know where the master is hiding? If you can lead me to them, I can spare your life.

Although the Taoist master emphasized that you only need to explore information and not really be an enemy of your master, I still want to take a look at the differences between the masters of the Beihuang tribe and the martial arts masters of the Great Zhou Dynasty. "

The strong man used his hands and feet to move backwards.

Suddenly, without any warning, he jumped up and plunged into the depths of darkness like lightning.

Wei Tao remained silent and allowed the man to escape desperately.

He stood there and waited for a few more breaths, then followed the traces slowly.

Yuanze went all the way north, and soon he had already traveled dozens of miles until he came to a piece of frozen water.

He stopped here, turned his head and looked back, with a ferocious expression on his face.

A breeze blew by, picking up flakes of snow.

"Yuanze, why are you back alone? Where have the other warriors of this clan gone?"

A hoarse, dry voice sounded slowly, and an old woman in complicated clothes appeared quietly next to the strong man.

Yuanze Ji Lingling shuddered and suddenly knelt down on the ground, "Reply to the master, they, they were all summoned by the gods and went to the Great Brahma Heaven."

boom!

Suddenly a large amount of snow fell.

Yuanze's bones all over his body were rattling, but he still struggled to hold on, not daring to make the slightest move.

"Do you know who did it?" the old woman asked slowly.

"That man said he was Yuan Daozi."

"The Daozi of Qinglin Mountain?"

She laughed softly, "I haven't heard this title for a long time, and it made me a little uncomfortable for a while."

"I still remember that forty years ago, when I fought with Yuan Yiyi with my master, I watched with my own eyes how the female Taoist named Yu was heartbroken, but she could only let us chop her lover into pieces with one knife. But he didn’t even dare to look back.”

"Now that I meet Yuan Daozi again, I have already reached the realm of my ancestor, but I want to see which little guy is so unlucky that he insists on bumping into my hand and reappearing forty years. Old things from before.”

Suddenly, her ears covered with pendants twitched slightly and she listened intently.

The next moment, the old woman took a step forward and stood on the rocks a few steps away, looking far ahead.

Boom!

At this moment, the ground shook.

There seemed to be muffled thunder rolling past in the distance.

I also saw snowflakes fluttering high and blooming in the sky.

Boom!

The vibration came much closer.

The old woman's expression changed slightly and she narrowed her eyes, "Yuanze, can you tell me again, that person is just a sect disciple?"

No response.

She frowned and turned to look back.

But all he saw was a strong figure running wildly into the distance without even looking back.