phoenix jiuxiao

Chapter 78

After waiting in the town for a day, the ice on the river was finally broken, and Yiye Ferry took the waiting people to Nanchu.

"Still thinking about the assassin of Phantom Gate?" Su Hailing looked back at Xiangjiang who had been left behind, and asked the people around him.

"I was thinking, who on earth hired the Phantom Gate to kill me." Mei Junhan said, "I am already a public enemy of the martial arts, as long as my whereabouts are leaked, some are heroes who want to eliminate demons and defend the way, why bother? How about hiring a killer at the risk of being discovered?"

"That's true." Su Hailing sighed.

"Who?" Mei Junhan suddenly grabbed her rein and shouted in a deep voice.

Su Hailing frowned, and put his hand on the hilt of the Xie Xie Sword.

It's just that he wanted to take a shortcut and chose this unpassed mountain path. Could it be that those killers could still ambush here in advance?
"As expected of Mei Junhan." With a piercing sound like a broken gong, the two of them were already surrounded.

Mei Jun coldly glanced at the dozen or so men in black who surrounded them. If eyes could kill, those people would have been riddled with wounds.

"It's still broad daylight, why has the night mouse come out?" Su Hailing said lazily.

"My master has invited Miss Su to his house as a guest." The leading woman said.

She was the only one without a mask, but that face was covered with knife marks in a criss-cross pattern, and the original appearance could no longer be seen.

"Me?" Su Hailing raised his eyebrows in surprise, then pointed at Mei Junhan beside him and said, "Did you make a mistake?"

"It's not wrong, the master invited Miss Su Hailing from Haiyue Villa." The woman said calmly.

"Junhan." Su Hailing turned his head and said with a smile, "Why did I, the person who accompanied you in the opera, become the protagonist instead?"

"Let's go." Mei Jun said coldly.

"Stop!" The woman quickly moved to block in front of them: "You want to go, you can. But she can't!"

"Cut! It's been a long time since I've had a good fight, so I just want you to relax!" Su Hailing stretched and got off his horse, "Jun Han, don't be troublesome."

Mei Junhan remained silent, but felt a lump in her heart.With Su Hailing's martial arts at the moment, it is one of the best in the entire martial arts world, there is absolutely no reason to lose to these little hunchbacks.But why... I always have a bad feeling?
"Okay, are you coming one by one, or all together?" Su Hailing didn't draw his sword, but pointed at the person in front of him.

It's not that she is really that big, but she just wants to see if she can arouse the other party's anger.

"To deal with you, I alone is enough." The scar-faced woman walked up a few steps and said in a deep voice.

Su Hailing looked at this person's eyes and footwork, and felt serious, this person is definitely not as simple as an ordinary little hunchback!
Of course, Mei Junhan also noticed this, and was about to remind Su Hailing, but found that her eyes were different from usual, so she gave up with a smile.How could that smart woman need such a reminder?But even though it was a smile, on his face, at best, the corners of his mouth curled up a little bit, that's all.

"Look at the sword!" The scar-faced woman pulled out a soft sword from her waist, even though she was the first to strike, she still gave a warning in advance, showing an upright swordsman's style, which made Su Hailing feel good about her.

"Just showing off these broken sword skills!" Su Hailing still provoked the opponent's anger in his mouth, he didn't move his footsteps, he just tilted his head, and Ren Jianfeng almost brushed his neck, but he didn't even frown.

"You're really brave." The scar-faced woman praised her, and raised her soft sword obliquely, attacking her face.

Su Hailing leaned back slightly, still avoiding the past very dangerously.

However, at that moment, the sword that had been castrated suddenly sank down, and the fierce sword force seemed to split her in two.

"That's all?" Su Hailing seemed to have expected such a change in her early on, exerting force on her waist, her body leaned gracefully to the left, and the edge of the sword just brushed against her shoulder.

The scar-faced woman made three moves, but the opponent stood still without moving a step, and beads of sweat could not help but glisten on her forehead.

"It's my turn now!" Su Hailing shook his hand, Zhu Xie was out of the sheath.

"Sword of Punishing Evil!" The scar-faced woman's eyes darkened.

"Good eyesight." Su Hailing smiled, Qinglian Jiange slowly poured out from the tip of the sword.

The scar-faced woman's heart shuddered, and she immediately cheered up.

It was also the first time for Mei Junhan to appreciate this peerless swordsmanship as famous as his Wanmei Piaoxue with the mood of a bystander. He is indifferent by nature, and he has never known what kind of beauty the so-called "dreamlike" is. .However, Su Hailing's Qinglian sword song made him immediately think of "dream".The magnificent sword dance, coupled with that unparalleled beauty, is so beautiful that one's mind is turbulent, and one would rather die drunk in it.

With Mei Junhan's concentration, he was still affected, not to mention those men in black staring at the duel between the two with wide eyes.Mei Junhan is sure that now he just needs to walk over, and he can solve everything with one punch.

However, being as beautiful as a dream is just the feeling of a bystander after all, and the scar-faced woman who is on the scene is already sweating.

How many swords did Su Hailing make?Eight swords, ten swords, or more?Why is the sky filled with the sword shadow of the Exterminating Evil Sword, which is clearly a gloomy sword edge, but even blocks the light of the sun?

Mei Junhan frowned suddenly, and shouted: "Be careful!"

Su Hailing was taken aback, but her response speed was unparalleled in the world, and she immediately swung the sword in her hand across her chest.Almost at the same time, a silver light hit the sword heavily, so powerful that she almost couldn't hold the evil sword.

The scar-faced woman made a move with her left hand, the silver light circled and flew back again.

"Moon Chasing Dart?" Mei Junhan raised his eyebrows, "You are the number one killer of the Phantom Gate, killing with blood."

"Not bad." The scar-faced woman said.

"Do you still want to try again?" Su Hailing pointed his evil sword directly at the center of her eyebrows.

"In the grove ten miles away, everything you want to know will have the answer." Xuesha left a sentence, and with a wave of his hand, everyone retreated quietly just like when they came.

Su Hailing didn't stop her, she knew that with the Phantom Gate's escape technique, even if she wanted to chase, she couldn't catch up.

"Why, do you want to go?" Mei Junhan walked over leading two horses.

"Go, why don't you go?" Su Hailing raised his eyebrows, "Could it be that they are willing to come to the door automatically, just to make a break!"

"Let's go." Mei Junhan didn't object, he was skilled and bold, and he wasn't afraid of any traps set by the Phantom Shadow Gate.

It takes only a quarter of an hour to gallop a horse for a distance of ten miles.

Su Hailing tied the horse to a tree far away, and walked into the woods alone.

Mei Junhan didn't stop her, walked a few steps, surveyed the surroundings, frowned and said, "Hailing, do you think this place is weird?"

"Well, I always feel that something is wrong." Su Hailing nodded.

"It's too quiet." Mei Junhan said in a deep voice, "In such a big forest, there isn't even a single bird cry."

"I'm afraid, the only living things here are the two of us." Su Hailing laughed, "Don't worry about so much, let's go ahead and have a look!"

"Alright." Mei Junhan agreed.

The two walked side by side to the depths of the woods, not forgetting to leave marks along the way.

Not long after, the sky gradually darkened, and fog began to form in the woods.

"Hailing, although it's afternoon, isn't it a little early before dark?" Mei Junhan said.

"This fog is too strange." Su Hailing replied, while grabbing his hand, but the temperature entering the palm made her frown, "Why is it so cold?"

"Don't pull me, it's inconvenient to draw the sword." Mei Junhan wanted to withdraw his hand a little uncomfortably, but on the other hand, he was thankful that there was a thick fog covering her so that she wouldn't see her flushed face.

"Don't move, it will be troublesome if you get lost." Su Hailing said, holding him tighter.

The warm touch made Mei Junhan involuntarily give up struggling and acquiesced to her behavior, but felt uneasy for a while.

"Look!" Su Hailing suddenly stepped forward.

"What?" Mei Junhan thought for a moment, following her line of sight.

I saw a cross symbol drawn out with a sharp weapon on the thick tree trunk.

"Isn't this the place we just walked by?" Su Hailing brushed his wind-blown hair behind his ears, "So, we seem to be moving forward, but in fact we've been circling in circles?"

"It really is a formation." Mei Junhan stretched out his free left hand and said calmly, "The wind is picking up."

"In terms of formation, even the wind should not be able to enter." Su Hailing doubted.

"Maybe the wind is also caused by the formation." Mei Junhan saw that she couldn't get her hair done well, so she couldn't help but use her left hand to help.

The strong wind messed up Su Hailing's long black hair, like a fairy in the wind, making Mei Junhan's hand stunned unconsciously.

Silver light, lit from the roots of the tree.

"Be careful!" Su Hailing hugged Mei Junhan's waist with his backhand, rolled to the ground, and a row of short arrows flew over their hair, nailing deeply into the tree trunk.

The two rolled a few times on the ground, and when they stopped, it happened that Su Hailing was on top.

"Get up!" Mei Junhan couldn't help blushing slightly, and pushed the person who was still pressing on him with his hands.

"It's not over yet!" Su Hailing stopped his movement, hugged him and continued to roll, another row of silver arrows stuck in the place where they were lying just now.

Su Hailing gritted his teeth, pressed on the ground, jumped up with his strength, and rushed to the left with his sword. The sword light circled around, without cutting off a branch, but split several bows and crossbows hidden inside into pieces. two halves.

Almost at the same time, Mei Junhan also dismantled all the organs on the right.

"Are you okay?" Su Hailing flicked the dust off his clothes.

"They tried their best to lure us here, so it won't end like this." Mei Junhan said while carefully observing the surrounding situation.

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, blowing the sleeves of the clothes wildly, carrying some fine sand and gravel, blurring the vision, hitting the face, and still feeling a little painful, but the thick mist just lingers on. There is a tendency to get heavier and heavier.

Su Hailing raised his sleeves to cover his face, dissatisfied and said: "What the hell formation!"

Mei Junhan walked up to him, and blocked the wind and sand for her without any trace: "Don't let your guard down, it won't be as simple as wind and sand."

"I know." Su Hailing felt warm in his heart.Although Mei Junhan never said it out loud, he always cared about her in his own way.He seems indifferent, but he actually has a heart that is gentler than anyone else.

Seeing that Su Hailing was inexplicably dazed at this moment, Mei Junhan gave a wry smile helplessly.

Just when the two of them were distracted at the same time, another row of sharp arrows suddenly shot out from the grass not far away.Because the wind was too loud, it covered up the sound of the amplifier, and the two didn't react until the arrow was in front of them.

"Get out of the way!" Mei Junhan yelled heavily, and pushed Su Hailing in the opposite direction with his hand, turning himself to one side, but the last arrow still cut through his sleeve.

Su Hailing immediately came back to her senses. Just as she was about to meet Mei Junhan, the towering ancient tree beside her fell down without warning and hit the middle of the two of them hard, causing a burst of dust.

She could only cough while covering her mouth and nose and backed away.However, one after another the big trees fell down one after another. Immediately, the forest was filled with dust, and nothing could be seen three feet away.The loud noise drowned out all sounds.

Finally, when everything calmed down, a large area of ​​the original woods had disappeared, and the sight was blocked by criss-crossed trees all around.However, even without the barrier of the trees, the sky still cannot be seen when looking up, only a piece of white mist.The surrounding places a little further away were also difficult to see because of the fog.

"Jun Han? Jun Han!" Su Hailing frowned and shouted.

There was a dead silence all around.

I don't know if it's because of the formation change, but now there is not even a breath of wind.

Su Hailing lifted his breath slightly, jumped onto a big fallen tree, looked around, the scene was the same as before, nothing changed, except that all the trees fell down, but Mei Junhan was missing!
"Damn it!" Su Hailing couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

Mei Junhan's martial arts is high, she is also very shrewd, and she has a lot of experience in the world, otherwise she would not be able to be the master of Xuanming Palace, making the entire Southern Chu martial arts world famous and frightened.No matter how you think about Mei Junhan, there is nothing inferior to him, but Su Hailing just can't help but worry about him.I don't feel much when people are around, but when we are separated, the seemingly endless loneliness springs up.

This feeling, this feeling...why exactly...

However, staying in the same place is of course not the answer, Su Hailing thought for a while, jumped off the ground lightly, and walked towards the fog.

Surrounded by a vast expanse of whiteness, she could only see clearly within three feet even with all her strength, which made her miss Mei Junhan's ability to see things in fog.

The walk along the way was abnormally peaceful, and it seemed that she didn't circle around in the same place. After a while, the fog around her gradually faded away, and finally disappeared without a trace, and her people were already outside the woods. Not far away, two horses The horse is grazing leisurely.Looking up, the starry sky is like water, twinkling and peaceful.

Su Hailing's brows frowned even tighter. How could she be allowed to leave so easily after such an elaborate plan?There must be some conspiracy in this.In my mind, I recalled Xuesha's words: "In the small forest ten miles away, everything you want to know will have the answer."

Could it be that the other party's purpose was only her alone, that's why they separated?If this is the case, the current Mei Junhan is really dangerous!

Su Hailing had the urge to return to the woods immediately, but the soldier's self-control made her calm down quickly and think about countermeasures.I am not proficient in strange techniques, even if I go back to the original place, I am afraid there is nothing I can do.

Since the Phantom Gate invited her to come here, there must be a backup, so it's better to stop it quietly.And with Mei Junhan's martial arts, there are really not many people in this world who can do anything to him.

"It looks like you are very troubled, Miss Su." Following the crisp words, a beautiful and beautiful girl walked slowly under the moonlight, with an unpredictable smile on her lips.

Su Hailing looked at her coldly, but he didn't show any emotion on the surface.She had seen her before, the girl beside Murong Zi outside the medicine hut, seemed to be called...Qin'er?
"My name is Murong Qin." The girl didn't care about her indifference, and introduced herself with a smile, without the slightest caution like when she was by Murong Zi's side.

Su Hailing still didn't say a word, just looked at her indifferently.

Could it be... behind the Phantom Gate is the Wu Nian Sword School?Then what is their purpose...

Murong Qin also seemed a little embarrassed by her, adjusted her smile and said: "Miss Su, if you want to know the truth, come with me."

Hearing this, Su Hailing finally had some reaction, "Oh", and said again: "Where's Mei Junhan?"

"You'll know if you come with me?" Murong Qin walked a few steps, then turned around and said another sentence.

With a cold smile, Su Hailing followed her without hesitation.

The direction Murong Qin was walking was the forest, but strangely, the fog in the forest had cleared away, and the moonlight shone through the branches, leaving mottled marks on the ground.If the fallen tree was not still there, Su Hailing would almost think that the experience just now was just a dream.

"Here we are." Murong Qin stopped at the place where she and Mei Junhan were separated.

Su Hailing knew that she must still move, so he didn't ask.

I saw Murong Qin did some tricks, and a hole was slowly opened on the ground.

secretly?Su Hailing was slightly surprised.They actually set up such an exquisite mechanism in such an inaccessible place!
"My guidance ends here, Ms. Su, you know yourself." Murong Qin smiled bewitchingly, and jumped down from the gap.

Su Hailing suddenly realized, and immediately jumped down, but, within one step, Murongqin was nowhere to be seen.

The secret door closed overhead, and the secret passage was suddenly pitch black.

Su Hailing took out the fire pocket and shook it, looking at the surrounding environment.Turning his eyes, he was stunned.Isn't it Mei Junhan who is standing not far away?
(End of this chapter)