Sword of Coming

The boy watched the girl approaching. She walked lightly in the dimly lit corridor, like a young elk in the night.

Zhu Lu no longer had the usual bossy attitude, but looked like a childhood sweetheart and the girl next door, smiling and looking forward to it.

Chen Pingan seemed to be in disbelief. He slowed down and stood still. He stared at the unfamiliar and delicate face with wide eyes.

Zhu Lu took out his left hand from behind, waved hello to Chen Pingan, and said as he walked: "Chen Pingan, my father hopes that I can tell you about what happened on the stone flat of Qidun Mountain..."

Five steps away, the girl with the peak cultivation level of the second realm suddenly rushed forward. In just two big steps, she was in front of Chen Pingan in an instant. They almost looked at each other, and the two faces were clearly visible. The girl's face showed ferocity, anger, joy, and relief, which was extremely complicated. The young man's eyes were more stern than gloomy, with the sharp edge of a hatchet sharpened on a dragon-slaying platform.

Zhu Lu punched the boy directly on the forehead with his left hand. This was used as a cover-up. The girl even deliberately slowed down her punching speed slightly.

The real trump card lies in her right hand. After she struck with lightning, she held three sharp bamboo sticks and stabbed them straight into the boy's heart.

Just when the bamboo stick was about to pierce the boy's heart, the murderous girl suddenly blurted out the unfinished words, "I'm sorry!"

At this moment, the girl doesn't have any coquettish expression, only fierceness.

But the next moment, Zhu Lu's face was full of shock, knowing that something was wrong, and he was about to retreat.

Chen Ping'an quickly raised his right hand, not only blocking the girl's left fist, but also taking advantage of her daring to show weakness to the enemy, he moved his arm forward and grabbed Zhu Lu's neck.

At the same time, the young man's left hand firmly grasped Zhu Lu's right wrist, which was hiding murderous intent, and pulled it outward to prevent the three candied haws bamboo sticks from piercing his heart. The hand that gripped her neck suddenly exerted force and pulled the girl towards him. With a pull here, a knee hit the girl's abdomen with such force and force that the girl almost spit out bile and bitter water. Her body couldn't help but bend up, and her whole body suddenly lost her fighting power. Chen Ping'an didn't take anything lightly. Give up, hit him hard on the head, and bump his forehead against his forehead.

The girl staggered back.

Chen Pingan kicked away, and the girl who was severely injured in the abdomen was like a kite with a broken string. She fell heavily on the bluestone floor of the corridor two doors away. After struggling twice, she still couldn't get up. Blood oozed from the corners of her mouth, and her face was as golden as gold. Paper, beautiful face is bleak.

Done in one go, without mercy.

Zhu Lu pressed his elbows against the ground, resisting the heartbreaking pain, and tried his best to move his body backwards, staying as far away from the straw-shoe boy as possible, even if it was an inch or a foot longer.

Chen Ping'an looked around, but there was nothing strange. Then he walked towards the embarrassed girl with almost no fighting power. His muscles were tense and he was still cautious.

Zhu Lu fell into a great panic and did not bother to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. He explained with a cry: "Don't kill me, Chen Pingan, I was just joking with you. I'm not lying to you. If I want to kill you, how can I You know how to use these candied haws and bamboo sticks, and besides, why should I kill you..."

Chen Ping'an hit the nail on the head: "Before we separated on Guanshui Street, you asked your father Zhu He to go visit a weapons store. Do you want to choose a handy weapon such as a dagger? It is easy to hide it in the cuffs. I guess it should be a store. It was closed, so I had to use bamboo sticks instead."

Zhu Lu suddenly laughed, her chest heaved violently, and she coughed violently. She covered her mouth, scarlet blood still seeping out from the gaps between her fingers. She let go of her hand, as if accepting her fate, and looked up at the young man who was looking down at her condescendingly. From top to bottom, she finally saw a pair of rough and low-grade straw sandals. The girl raised her head again, as if she had gone crazy. Instead of crying, she smiled instead. She stared at the young man who was getting closer and closer to her, and said with a hoarse smile: "No. I think you're not as stupid as I thought, but I'm curious, how did you figure out that I wanted to kill you?"

The girl raised her voice, and her originally pretty and pleasant face became distorted and crazy, "Chen Pingan, before you kill me, can you let me die clearly?!"

Chen Pingan kept walking and asked: "Why?"

Just as the girl was about to try to sit up, Chen Pingan stepped on her forehead and hit the back of her head heavily on the bluestone. The girl vomited a large mouthful of blood and gave up her attempt to stand up this time. Although deep in her heart , the biggest shame is to let a young man wearing straw sandals stand and talk to him, while she can only lie down, even sitting up is a luxury.

Zhu Lu wiped away the blood with the back of his hand and said with a smile: "Do you still remember the letter home that my second son sent to the lady? My son is good at playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is especially good at running calligraphy. Just like the man's temperament, he is unrestrained and unrestrained, but Before my son left home and rushed to the capital, he suddenly said that he wanted to learn regular script, because he said that he wanted to learn to abide by the rules of the outside world, and he wanted to start restraining his own mind."

Chen Pingan squatted down, spread her fingers, took out the three bamboo sticks, held them in his hands, and then sat on the bench in the corridor, staring at Zhu Lu expressionlessly to prevent her from causing any trouble. Opportunity. But it is obvious that Zhu Lu killed him without any ambiguity, without any hesitation. But it was difficult for Chen Pingan to kill her without any grudges, because there was a little girl in a red cotton jacket with a cheerful personality in the middle. The man Zhu He, and this second son of the Li family.

Chen Ping'an knew that Zhu Lu had evil intentions from the first moment he saw her walking from the corridor. Moreover, the young man's eyesight was very good, and the girl's concealment was far from exquisite. Her trembling eyelashes , gritting his teeth and puffing up his cheeks, lowering his gaze, Chen Pingan could clearly see the ferocity.

But Chen Ping'an never thought that she would actually kill someone.

When the girl mentioned that "own son", her whole demeanor changed. She turned to look at the straw-shoe boy, as if she were looking at a dog.

"At that time, the young lady mentioned the content of the family letter to me for the first time at the Pillow Inn. The young master said that the Taiping Fire lit by the Great Li Fengsui stretched for thousands of miles and was transmitted from the border to the capital. But the young lady didn't know, and none of you knew. , The young master has never told me about this 'border peace fire, reporting peace to the king' before this. What interesting anecdotes the young master told me, I remember them clearly since I was sensible!"

"So I felt something was wrong at that time and asked the lady for the family letter. Sure enough, I saw the secret of knowledge. In this world, only I, Zhu Lu, can see it!"

Chen Ping'an looked down at the girl with a fanatical face. The boy said nothing.

Zhu Lu was immersed in her own world. At this moment, she turned into the arrogant and arrogant maid of the Li family, a fledgling martial arts genius. She continued: "Then I read it twice carefully. After only two times, I found I came up with the correct answer and solved the riddle that my young master deliberately left for me!"

She looked at the young man's indifferent dark face and sneered: "The young lady is an unstable child. Of course she cannot understand the young master's good intentions, so the young master did not place his hopes on the young lady at the beginning. I was chosen. The letter home contains more than 2,000 words, almost all of which are written in flowing cursive script. Only seven words are in regular script!"

The girl almost laughed to tears and said intermittently: "The surname is Da Li Zhu, the eldest grandson of the Chen family. He killed the horse thief, Tai Ping Huo, reported peace, and got the imperial edict."

Those seven words are exactly "kill Chen Ping'an and get the imperial edict"!

Scholars kill people without a knife.

Chen Pingan frowned.

Zhu Lu covered her cramping abdomen, shaking her head and sweating, but she still said with a sneer: "Have you never heard of the word 'Gaoming'?"

Zhu Lu struggled to lean against the bench opposite the boy, but Chen Pingan did not stop her this time.

She looked at the young man whom her young lady called Junior Uncle, "Do you know what I want to do most besides killing you? Aren't you literate a lot? I just want to put that family letter in your hands." , maybe you will feel ashamed, wondering how there are such beautiful words and such good literary talent in the world. You Chen Ping'an can read it over and over again ten times or a hundred times, but you don't know that the real knowledge is only those seven Words, aren’t they funny? I think it’s so funny that I almost die from it!”

Chen Ping'an sat quietly on the bench. There were those candied haws of apples scattered around him. No one paid any attention to them. The young man looked at Zhu Lu and twitched his lips, "If it weren't for Zhu He, you would have died laughing today." ’.”

Chen Pingan stood up and said slowly: "I know that you actually said these words to your father, and you struggled to get up this time to tempt me to take action against you. You want Zhu He to have no choice. Either I kill you, or he kills me, right?"

Zhu Lu looked gloomy and stopped talking.

Zhu He stood in the corridor at some point, with clenched fists and veins popping out on the back of his hands. His face was full of pain. The man looked at the pair of boys and girls.

One is his beloved daughter, and the other is the junior he admires.

Zhu Lu stretched out his thumb and wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth. He lowered his head slightly, but his eyes were fixed on the boy in straw sandals.

She slowly turned her head, the girl's face was calm for the first time, and she said to the familiar figure: "With our young lady's temper, if I know all this, even if I don't die, I will shed a layer of skin, and there will be no hope in this life. Dad, I’m begging you, don’t be merciful, take action quickly while that A Liang from Fengxue Temple hasn’t come back yet! Young Master said, if you don’t stop, you will be in chaos!”

Chen Pingan suddenly turned around and bent down, picked up a candied haws, put it in his mouth and started chewing it.

Then the young man stood in the middle of the corridor and confronted Zhu He.

The boy whispered to the girl: "You will die."

Zhu Lu's heart sank.

Her father and Chen Pingan were about fifteen steps apart.

Although Chen Ping'an is not at a high level in martial arts, he has a strong figure that the girl has seen before.

She was a little annoyed. Dad shouldn't be so upright and appear so far away.

In the battle of life and death, what is the style of a master? !

Zhu Lu turned around and spat out a mouthful of blood on the ground, "If you have the ability, try it."

She looked at her father and reminded: "Dad, if you don't take action today, I will die for you! No matter what, let's take down Chen Ping'an first!"

As for after taking it, her father didn't want to kill anyone, so she did.

Zhu Lu had already taken a breath and was ready to deal with Chen Ping'an threatening her father with her.

Her father once said unintentionally that once she faced this lowly kid from Mud Bottle Alley, she would have a chance of winning in a martial arts competition, but in a life-and-death fight, she would definitely die. At first she didn't believe it at all, but in the incident that happened on Qidun Mountain's Shipping, when she confronted the white python, Zhu Lu was so frightened that he had no fighting spirit and could only wait to be killed. On the other hand, Chen Ping'an was both brave and courageous, as well as his grasp of the opportunity. , all above her Zhu Lu.

This actually made her desire to practice martial arts almost despair. Once her heart collapsed, the path to martial arts would come to an end.

So even at the border of Qidun Mountain before entering Hongzhu Town, the land lord Wei Bo gave them a parting gift. Under Zhu He's strong request, she got the so-called fairy secret book "Purple Air Book" , a martial arts manual coveted by countless warriors under the mountain, but the girl actually didn't mention it much.

The matter of anger has been easy to fall and hard to mention since ancient times.

How do Zhu He, a rough man, and a pure martial artist obsessed with martial arts climbing know all this?

But the arrival of that letter was like a personal lesson from the young master, a timely help in the snow, which rekindled the hope of the girl who realized the mystery and told herself that she must practice martial arts, or at least become a martial arts master like her father. You must make great contributions on the battlefield, so that the "Mrs. Gaoming" comes as a matter of course.

Especially the two of them, father and daughter, now have the heroic courage of Zhenwu Mountain and the "Purple Qi Book" written by the gods on the mountain. As Zhu He said personally, now he even dares to think about the scenery of the seventh realm. Think about it. So why doesn't she, Zhu Lu, dare to think about the glorious days that she didn't dare to think about before?

It’s just that all bright futures and all Yangguan Avenue are based on a small premise.

Chen Pingan must die.

Therefore, the girl who knew that she was no match for the boy in a head-on fight needed an attack in the dark. As the boy revealed the truth, she needed a dagger. Not coincidentally,

Unfortunately, the weapons shop was closed and I couldn't buy it.

Just as his father Zhu He was talking about apologizing to Chen Pingan, Chen Pingan and his lady Li Baoping mentioned buying candied haws.

A dagger can kill people, and a bamboo stick from a sugar-coated haws of sugar can also be used in the hands of a warrior at the peak of the second realm.

Worried that a bamboo stick would break easily, the girl used the excuse to bring Chen Ping'an two strings of Li Baoping bottles, and held the three bamboo sticks together. She didn't believe it and couldn't pierce the boy's heart.

Linked together.

Zhu Lu's agility and quick wit are evident.

The second son of the Li family, who has never been seen before, is equally obvious in his ability to recognize people and employ them accurately.

Because the real power of Zhu Lu is that she not only found a way out for herself, but also allowed Zhu He, who was in the fifth level of martial arts, to choose a path without turning back for her father.

She dies, or Chen Pingan dies.

Zhu He looked at the poor young man with a hosta in his hair and said three words that should have been said sincerely by his daughter, "I'm sorry."

Chen Pingan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, you choose the path yourself."

The straw-shoe boy's unnatural smile gave people a chilling feeling.

This sense of absurdity is especially clear to the girl not far away.

After sparring with Zhu He in the jurisdiction of Qidun Mountain, the young man noticed that the three qi palaces in his body actually prevented the rampaging qi machine fire dragon from entering. Chen Ping'an didn't realize it until that moment. Those three places contained three extremely small wisps of sword energy, which were implicated in his mind. There was no threshold for using them.

Then the white python's head was blown open, and the young man used up a ray of sword energy.

In order to survive, Chen Pingan felt that it was not a loss to use another ray of sword energy.

But the young man felt that the next time he used his sword energy, he had to make a profit. It was not a problem to always make a profit.

This trap has sinister intentions.

The girl Zhu Lu said a lot.

Chen Pingan only spoke a few times, not a few words in total.

So the young man felt that he wanted to say something, for himself and for the fairy sister who needed him to live so that she could live, otherwise he would feel a little unhappy.

The young man stepped forward with one straw sandal and moved back with the other.

The young man bent his knees, lowered his body, put his fingers together, pointed directly at the man far away in the corridor, and moved his lips slightly.

I don’t know whether it was a telepathic connection or an ancestral blessing. The girl Zhu Lu was filled with fear for no reason and screamed: “No!”

Zhu He's scalp was even more numb. The little grandmaster of the fifth level of martial arts was actually stuck in the mud and couldn't move his limbs at all.

The young man muttered silently: "Here comes the sword!"