refining sword

Chapter 3
The horse-faced giant naturally did not intend to fight Tie Jian, who was dying, to lose both.

"Puchi", the fireball collapsed into little sparks under the blue sword energy.

As soon as the horse-faced giant fell to the ground, he raised his foot and kicked Tie Jian to the ground, and the half-cut sword in his hand flew out.

Tie Jian turned his back to the sky, the white sun illuminated his face, his chest heaved violently, he gasped heavily, sweat dripped into his eyes, and his vision became a little blurry.

A black shadow flashed, and a giant man stood on top of him, and the scorching sun was replaced by a hideous horse's face.

Tie Jian looked at each other blankly, his face indifferent, without showing the slightest expression.

Seeing this, the horse-faced giant laughed instead of being angry: "Want to die? It's not that easy! You're worth a lot of money while you're alive. I'll break your tendons and hamstrings, so that you can't survive without dying!"

As he spoke, he slung the giant sword to his back shoulder, and with his left hand he pulled out a boning-pointed knife from his waist. His eyes were full of ferocity, and the dazzling sunlight reflected on the tip of the knife, reflecting a chilling light.

Tie Jian was about to struggle, but the giant horse-faced man raised his foot and stepped on his right arm with such force that he felt a piercing pain.

The next moment, the giant horse-faced man raised his sword and dropped it, aiming at Tie Jian's right wrist and slashing it.

At the same time, Tie Jian suddenly let out a hoarse roar, and he did not know where the strength came from. His body suddenly twisted, and his waist twisted like a snake to an incredible extent. The five fingers of his left hand stretched out like lightning. Live the falling boning knives.

The blood spilled out between the five fingers and slipped down the blade and arm, instantly dyeing most of the young man's chest red.

The horse-faced giant smirked, and the strength in his hand increased again, and he was about to stab down the boneless sharp knife.

However, at this moment, Tie Jian suddenly entered a strange state.He didn't seem to be able to feel the pain. The five fingers of his left hand were like iron hoops, and he held the sharp knife firmly, so that he could not stab it, and he could not pull the knife out.

Seeing this, the giant horse-faced man was even more angry. He was about to continue to exert force, but he was suddenly shocked.

"Oh!"

An incomparably clear roar suddenly entered his ears, like the heartbeat of some kind of giant beast when it was sound asleep.

"Boom! Boom!"

The heartbeat sounded one after another, more powerful each time, as if the giant beast was about to wake up.

The giant horse-faced man looked down at Tie Jian, who was still clenching his sharp knife in surprise. His whole body was showing an abnormal redness, and the blood left by his fingertips was faintly mixed with a hint of gold.

At this time, Tie Jian could only feel that the heart under his chest was extremely hot, and then a stream of heat spurted out of it, and then rushed along the muscles in his body towards the palm holding the blade.

"puff!"

A wisp of light golden flame suddenly burst out from the young man's left finger, and dashed to the sharp knife like a thin golden snake. The next moment, with a "bang", it turned into a golden fire wave two feet high and flew in all directions. out.

The giant horse-faced man let out a low growl, quickly released the sharp knife, and shot back with both feet, but it was too late.

"what!"

The giant horse-faced man only had time to cry out, and the whole person was engulfed by the raging fire wave.

But in the blink of an eye, the flesh and blood of the giant horse-faced man was instantly annihilated by this strange flame.Even the giant sword and the boning knife turned into a puddle of molten iron in an instant.

The violent golden fire wave erupted for only a few breaths, and then rolled back silently, turning into a golden flame again, and it disappeared into the young man's fingers in a flash.

Tie Jian raised his left hand tremblingly, looked at him with a strange look, the corner of his mouth twitched, as if he wanted to laugh, but the next moment his neck was crooked, and he fell into a coma.

At this moment, at the junction of heaven and earth in the distance, on the sandy ground that had calmed down, several tornadoes rolled up again, wrapping the sky and sand, like ferocious yellow dragons, whistling and sweeping over. .

The sand and dust in all directions boiled again, and in an instant, the sky was once again covered by the rolled up yellow sand, and it became dark.

Tie Jian's figure was submerged in it in the blink of an eye.

Almost at the same time, tens of thousands of miles away, in the Ning Mansion of the sword-refining family in Tanzhou City, in a pavilion in the middle of a lotus pond.

Ning Fu's daughter, Ning, was holding a black lacquer bait box in one hand and a handful of bait in the other, and was about to throw it towards the dense koi in the pond when her body suddenly froze and stopped moving.

She slowly twisted her body, looked at the high sky outside the pavilion, looked blank, and muttered to herself:

"Target imprint inspired..."

……

In a daze, Tie Jian felt that he was suspended in mid-air at the moment, his whole body seemed to be split open, and there was pain everywhere, especially in the lower abdomen, as if a flame was burning, as if to burn through all the internal organs.

Even in a coma, he could still clearly feel the pain, which almost brought his remaining consciousness to the verge of collapse.

But a subconscious tenacity made him grit his teeth and persist.

I don't know how long it took, just when Tie Jian felt that he was about to endure the limit, this feeling of being burned by the flames gradually subsided.

He breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, his consciousness gradually regained consciousness.The next moment, I felt a jolt in my body.

Tie Jian's eyelids moved, and then he slowly opened his eyes.

The first thing that caught his eye was a long vault supported by a thick layer of cloth. With the sound of horse hooves coming from the surroundings, he immediately realized that he was on a carriage with a space no more than ten feet in size. There are some rubbish piled up around.

But just when he was about to turn over and get up, there was a sharp pain from all over his body, which made him grin, and his heart tightened.

He suddenly found that his hands and feet were bound by hemp ropes as thick as the wrists, and even his body was fixed on a pair of bindings.

"Have you been caught after all?"

Tie Jian forced himself to calm down and tried to recall the situation before the coma. He only remembered that he was fighting to lose both at the time. It seemed that the horse-faced giant who was chasing him in the future was killed. As for what happened after that, he did not remember at all. .

"wrong……"

His eyes swept around, and his heart was slightly relieved.

Because he found that although the decorations in the carriage he was in were ordinary, they were by no means the style of the Great Jin Kingdom, especially the embroidered patterns on the curtains, which looked like they belonged to the neighboring country Yue.

In particular, the clothes that should have been ragged on his body were also changed into a gray cloth robe that looked like a Vietnamese.

And judging from the sound of hooves, it should not be in the Immortal Burial Desert, but on a relatively flat official road somewhere.

It seemed that he was rescued by someone.

Tie Jian let out a sigh of relief, moved his body without hesitation, and tried to break free from the hemp rope tied to his body.

However, the next moment, he discovered a rather troublesome problem.

At this moment, not only did the pain all over his body have not healed, but his dantian was also severely injured, which seemed to have damaged the root.

It would be fine if it was just like that, as long as it took some time to cultivate back, but when he was about to mobilize the mana in his body, he found that the bottom of his dantian was empty, and there was almost no mana.

Tie Jian's heart suddenly tightened, and he couldn't help but feel a little panic.

Even if his mana was exhausted before he fell into a coma, it has been at least a few days now. During this period, did he fail to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on his own to convert it into mana?

As soon as Tie Jian thought of this, he closed his eyes immediately, recited the formula in his heart, operated the mental method, inhaled the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that filled the surrounding void, and guided this energy to slowly return to his dantian.

However, he only ran one big Zhoutian cycle, and then stopped, frowning tightly.

He found that it wasn't that he couldn't breathe out the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but the mana transformed from his introduction into his dantian. Perhaps due to the injury to his dantian, a large part of it would dissipate on its own, and the remaining mana would also circulate and disappear on its own. It is scattered in the meridians of the whole body and cannot be gathered in the dantian at all.

Under such circumstances, if there are other qi-refining cultivators who use spiritual sense to investigate, they will probably only treat him as an ordinary person.

Tie Jian shook his head, closed his eyes, and began to look inside carefully.

"Huh, is this?"

His expression suddenly changed.Just now, Tie Jian actually noticed something strange in the depths of his half-crippled dantian.

There was an extra light golden flame, which seemed to be no more than the size of a little finger. It was very weak, trembled slightly, and seemed to be extinguished at any time.

Tie Jian just thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but think of the mysterious flame that sprang from his fingers before he fell unconscious.

At this moment, the carriage suddenly stopped with the neighing of several horses at different distances.

Then there was a bustling noise from all around, and there seemed to be a lot of people.

Tie Jian listened attentively, and while he was thinking about it, the curtain was suddenly pulled open, and a head with two ponytails protruded from the outside.

This is a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, with a delicate appearance, a pair of round eyes looking up and down at him, and there is a sense of strangeness in his eyes.

"Yeah, awake? Wake up!"

Before Tie Jian could see the appearance of the other party clearly, the girl gave a soft cry out, and quickly retracted her head like a rabbit.

Looking at the still swaying curtain, Tie Jian was slightly startled, and faintly heard the sound of shouting from outside the carriage, followed by the sound of footsteps approaching the carriage, and he immediately became nervous.

Not long after, the curtain was rudely lifted again.

This time, two warriors in soft armor and helmets were standing directly outside the curtain. These two men with slender faces jumped onto the car in a row. Lift, throw out the carriage.

(End of this chapter)