After the world collapsed

Chapter 47 Lotus Stone Platform
At this critical moment, the knight captain kicked his feet like a conditioned reflex and bounced off the horse.

The huge crossbow arrow fired by Zhen Xiaofan almost brushed past his clothes, and he dodged this extremely fast attack.

He dodged, but the cavalry behind him didn't see the crossbow arrows coming because they kept the column, but even if they saw them, they couldn't dodge.

"Puff puff puff!"

After piercing five knights in a row, the speed of the giant crossbow still did not slow down in the slightest. It is impossible to calculate how many enemy casualties this time caused, because the vanguard of the Izumo Kingdom's assault troops had already been turned on their backs.

The giant crossbow bolt was fixed on the half slope, and there were two people wearing it on the arrow body.This crossbow arrow had frightened the chasing Izumo cavalrymen, and they all got off their horses and hid on both sides of the road.

The Dawn Army has four knights in squadrons, and there are less than a hundred knights in Pingyanyuan, which is only the number of knights in two squadrons.Where did the other two knights go?
Just as the cavalrymen of the Izumo Kingdom got off their horses and ran towards the weeds on both sides, the knights of the two squadrons who had been waiting there immediately attacked. They have a huge advantage in having excellent armor.

There are still a few unwilling knights driving their horses from behind, even wanting to chase and kill Dugu Zhaorong, Zhen Xiaofan also set up the giant crossbow again at this time.

With a "bang", the crossbow arrows flew out, as if the god of death had come, and took their lives away in an instant.

Now, no one in Izumo country dared to approach this side on horseback, and it was impossible to avoid the huge crossbow bolt that was so fast that it could not cover one's ears while riding on a horse.

Dugu Zhaorong and the others did not "escape" any more at this time, but observed the situation on Changqing Slope from the other side of the bend.

All the cavalry of the Izumo Kingdom were blocked on the Evergreen Slope. There was a huge destructive crossbow in front of them. There were dawn crossbows and a large number of ambushes on both sides of the road in the middle. There were two menacing knights behind.

Surrounded on all sides, the captain rushed ahead with his horse leading the way, and the leaderless cavalry fled in all directions. Some cavalry even fled into the bushes on horseback, and they tripped before riding too far. A one-sided situation.

After seeing the silver-white knight on the top of Changqing slope, Dugu Zhaorong drew out his sword and pointed at the enemy army, and the charging horn beside him sounded immediately.

The next moment, many members of the Dawn Army ambushing on the side of the road around her rushed out from the weeds and bushes, and even the late-stage troops of the Sixth Division joined the battle.

Attacking from front to back, blocking from both sides, and enclosing on all sides, Evergreen Slope is the burial place of all the knights of Izumo Kingdom.

In an instant, the two waves of the dawn army's attack started simultaneously, and the cavalry of the Izumo country had no power to fight back.

Dugu Zhaorong and the several knights around her rushed back all the way, like a tiger entering a herd of sheep.When the soldiers of the Daybreak Army saw those red figures joining, their morale was boosted and they accelerated the harvest on the battlefield.

Zhen Xiaofan and Zhang Changchang have never seen this kind of scene when they are so old. Although the fighting of thousands of people on both sides made his blood boil for a while, he was still shocked and at a loss.

Just as they adjusted their status in time and were about to join the battlefield ahead, Zhang Sheng felt a slight noise in the grass beside him.

"No, besides the two recruits of the current Dawn Army, there should be no one hiding in the dark."

He immediately raised his vigilance, subconsciously put his hands on the hatchet in his waist, and coughed lightly to remind Zhen Xiaofan.

But the latter was apparently unaware of the immediate danger.

The next moment, Zhang Sheng saw a long knife protruding from the bushes about a zhang behind Zhen Xiaofan, and then the person holding the long knife rushed out quickly, and went straight to Zhen Xiaofan from behind.

It was the knight captain of the Izumo Kingdom who had escaped the fatal blow.

"Be careful!" Zhang Sheng only had time to remind him, because he had already walked forward for a while to observe the situation on Changqing Slope, while Zhen Xiaofan stayed beside the Poxiaonuo.

When Zhen Xiaofan heard Zhang Sheng's reminder, he didn't have time to think too much, and immediately made an evasive movement.

But still did not escape the sudden knife.

The blade cut into Zhen Xiaofan's right abdomen, and he managed to dodge with all his might and broke free from the blade.

Although Zhen Xiaofan was not hit to the point, but this time he was firmly slashed, and he broke free again, the sudden blood loss made Zhen Xiaofan's eyes go dark.

"Xiaofan!" Zhang Sheng had already run to this side at the fastest speed, and saw that Zhen Xiaofan, who was curled up on the ground, could not make any reaction at this time, and the captain of the knight raised his long knife with red eyes, aiming at Zhen Xiaofan His neck was about to be chopped off.

In Zhen Xiaofan's blurred vision, he saw Zhang Sheng galloping towards him, and Dugu Zhaorong who came behind him on horseback with an anxious expression on his face.

Dugu Zhaorong had long discovered that the knight captain had escaped the fatal blow, and after vaulting, he fell into the grass and disappeared.She knew that the other party would definitely attack her, so she kept vigilant about her surroundings, but she did not expect that the man's target was actually Zhen Xiaofan, who pierced many of his confidantes with an arrow.

The moment Zhen Xiaofan was attacked, she noticed the situation behind her and rushed over immediately, but it was still a step too late.

Seeing that Zhen Xiaofan was about to be beheaded, Zhang Sheng, who was several feet away from the knight captain, had a move in his mind.

He remembered that in his "fantasy", the old man was not dead, and he also taught him a set of powerful saber techniques, the saber-breaking technique.

He didn't want to watch Zhen Xiaofan die in front of him, but at this moment he was helpless, if he could be as strong as he once imagined, then he would definitely not let his friends and relatives around him suffer any harm .

Zhang Sheng's brain, which was already blank, at this moment, many scenes emerged. He remembered, and remembered some things in the "fantasy", but he had no way to deal with the huge amount of information in his mind. At first, he couldn't find such a crucial detail as how to hold the knife.

Almost at the same time, like a layman, he held the handle of the hatchet in a strange posture. His right thumb held the handle of the knife at his left waist upwards, and he pulled out the hatchet suddenly. The rusty hatchet There was a harsh friction sound.It's the mismatch between the blade and the scabbard that does it.

Then he buckled his wrist down, and the blade drew a beautiful arc in front of him, and a powerful elemental force burst out from the arc.I saw that within a circular range several feet in size around him, the ground sank for a moment with a "bang", and time seemed to stop within this range.Then a ring-shaped knife light was drawn from the inside to the outside at the level where he was holding the knife.

All this happened in a split second, the ring-shaped saber light directly split the knight captain who was stabbing Zhen Xiaofan's neck into two.

Accompanied by the knight captain being cut in half by his knife light, the surrounding scene was also cut off. The scattered leaves, gravel beside the road, and lush weeds seemed to be cut off by this knife, and they were all shattered.

After Zhang Sheng used this trick, he finally saw clearly the world that he had chopped into pieces with a single blow, and all the memories in his mind returned to their original places. Almost at the same time, he heard the voice of Senior Xun from the Sea of ​​Consciousness.

"Zhang Sheng? Zhang Sheng? How are you doing?"

It's just that the scene in front of him has not completely disappeared, "Zhen Xiaofan" is still lying on the ground and laughing at him, it seems that there is no surprise in saving him with such a fairy-like method.

He saw Dugu Zhaorong riding straight towards Zhen Xiaofan on horseback, and the knight captain's broken body was also dissipating along with the shattered scene behind him, and the shattered illusion continued to spread, as if the whole world was about to shatter Cracked in general.

Smiling knowingly at Zhen Xiaofan on the ground, Zhang Sheng closed his eyes, and responded to Xun's call in the sea of ​​consciousness.

In the next period of time, he kept recalling what happened in the past few days, scenes flashed in his mind, he wanted to get some key from it, but he couldn't find it.

In the end, he kept thinking about the last knife. Now that he remembered, that knife was subconsciously used by him when he lost his memory, but it was different from Zangfeng Armor Break.

It can be regarded as a sword technique derived from Zangfeng. Let's call it Zangfeng·Huanshi. The actual combat effect is not known, but it should be good for breaking illusions.

Time passed almost, and when he opened his eyes again, the scene in front of him had completely changed.

The first thing that came into his sight was a golden book page floating in the air in front of him. From the page, two words could be seen:

"Cracking Soul".

Stretching out his hand, the golden page unexpectedly flew over and fell into Zhang Sheng's hands. It looked like a reward for passing the heart-training road.

Zhang Sheng was also slightly surprised, he didn't know why he raised his hand just now, it was just a subconscious action of his just now.

The next moment he sensed the aura behind him, he immediately put the pages back into the Qiankun bag, then he turned around and saw a few stunned people not far away staring at him at this moment.

Zhang Sheng laughed twice, and asked, "Who can explain to me what happened?"

He only remembered that the group of them opened the gate of the side hall of the Fengbo Palace, and then Xiao Qi ran in first, and they entered the gate after them, and then appeared outside Fengping City.

From the moment he entered the door, he should have entered the test that Xun said was called the Road of Refining Mind, that is to say, he had fallen into an illusion at that time.

At the beginning of entering the road of refining his mind, he could still stay awake, and he could still look inside or communicate with the sea of ​​consciousness, but as the time in the illusion increased and continued to deepen, unconsciously he had already Gradually merged with the illusion.

Especially after seeing the parents in the illusion, they were almost immersed in the illusion.

In fact, it was just a longing that he had kept deep in his heart all along. It was this kind of longing that made him not want to think that it was an illusion, but would rather believe that everything was real.

After seeing the master's tombstone, he was even more disheartened, subconsciously he didn't want to struggle in the illusion even more.

It wasn't until Zhen Xiaofan's life was threatened in the end that he had no choice but to forcibly wake up his dormant consciousness and regain the strength of a cultivator that originally belonged to him.

Coincidentally, at that critical juncture, he seemed to have inadvertently comprehended a new style of saber-breaking technique, which helped him break the illusion.

"Have you passed the heart-refining road?" A familiar voice came, Zhang Sheng looked back, and found that it was Lu Qiuqin, a disciple of the Gu Yue Sect whom he had met before, and there were several disciples of the Gu Yue Sect standing behind her .

At this time, she was standing under a gate in the distance, looking at him incredulously. Obviously, the passage behind that gate was connected to the main hall.

Ignoring her question, Zhang Sheng let go of his spiritual sense and observed the place where they are now.

They are now in a huge circular pool. There is a huge lotus-shaped platform in the middle of the pool. Each lotus flower emits a faint blue light, and each lotus-shaped platform has a The steps go up to the center lotus center.

Zhang Sheng and the others are now each stepping on a giant petal.The petal where Zhang Sheng is located is the largest and the closest to the stamen in the center.

Looking across the large black water surface around the lotus, the outside of the pool is paved with bluestone, the road surrounds the entire pool, and the entire road is engraved with strange runes.

There are two passages on both sides of the outer circle of the road, one of which is where Lu Qiuqin and others appeared, and a familiar gate can be seen not far from the other passage.

There was the gate through which they entered the side hall.

"Could it be that the golden page just now was a reward for passing the Heart Refining Path?"

Seeing that Zhang Sheng and the others ignored her, Lu Qiuqin asked unwillingly.

She thought that after entering the main hall of the Palace of Storms in advance, she would naturally obtain the inheritance here, but who would have thought that the main hall was only a place for decoration and welcoming guests of the Palace of Storms.

There was no inheritance there at all, and after some searching and exploration, the group of them finally discovered the instructions of the main hall.

Following the guidance of the main hall, they learned that the side hall has the path of refining the heart and the entrance to the second floor, and then came to the side hall where Zhang Sheng and others were, but they did not expect that someone was already here, and she As soon as he came in, he saw Zhang Sheng collecting the golden pages.

There is no need to hide this question, she has seen it anyway, Zhang Sheng nodded to Lu Qiuqin.

The next moment, a familiar figure appeared on the lotus petal platform closest to him.

The moment Qi Mo opened his eyes, he saw Zhang Sheng not far away on another lotus petal table waving to him.

He immediately released his consciousness and briefly observed the environment, then raised his hand and put away the pair of bright purple light boots that had been floating in front of him for a long time.

As the last two to appear, Zhang Sheng and Qi Mo asked Xiao Yicai with some doubts:

"Are you waiting for us? And what is this huge lotus for?"

"Of course I'm waiting for you, waiting for you to enter the second floor together." Xiao Yicai replied.

"There is a second floor here?" Hearing that there is a second floor, Zhang Sheng was a little surprised.

He hasn't had time to read the golden pages rewarded by the first level of Heart Training Road, but it must be a good thing, and it won't be too late to read it after he leaves the Palace of Storms.

(End of this chapter)