Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 26 The King (5)
"Corpse dancers are also human beings," Xue Huaiqing repeated what he said before, "What's more, for corpse dancers, it is a big taboo to pry away other people's apprentices. Apprentices are not just passing on the mantle. He is the only person who can collect the corpse of a corpse dancer after death. No matter how disrespectful the corpse dancer is to the corpse, he still hopes that he can go to the ground after death."

"I think the prefix 'not to mention' should be: the relationship between Mr. Yang Zhong and Wan'er is obviously not an ordinary teacher-student relationship," An Xingmian sighed, "The corpse dancer is indeed a human being."

He watched as the corpse dancer whose name was not mentioned was eroded to the bone in the poisonous mist, and finally turned into a puddle of pus and blood.Beside them, all the corpse dancers calmly watched this commonplace scene, but the master and apprentice Yang Zhong who succeeded in revenge had long since disappeared.

In the next few matches, there were finally no deceitful tricks, and the fights were all lively and beautiful.Corpse dancers practice in different directions, some focus on cultivating corpse servants into warriors, some turn corpse servants into moving poison sacs like Xue Huaiqing, and even more advanced ones can use formations to amplify themselves The infused spiritual power enables the corpse servants to work together to release powerful mystic techniques, almost like a mystic.Once the corpse dancers started fighting, they didn't care about their lives at all. At noon, three more corpse dancers died in the fight, and two were seriously injured.

This was a rare and exciting scene, even Xue Huaiqing watched it very attentively without knowing it, but An Xingmian was a little absent-minded.He was still thinking about everything that happened in the first match.Just because of a few verbal insults a few years ago, Yang Zhong was able to remember five years of enmity, and acted together with Wan'er to sneak up on the opponent. It can be seen that the corpse dancer is not flattered or humiliated on the surface, but I am afraid that there are more or less dark things in his heart things exist.They can kill others for trivial reasons.

Based on this inference, perhaps it was not because of any major event that Xu Mizi attacked the thirty long-door monks, but because of some reasons that may make outsiders laugh and cry, and he may not be against the long-door monks. Interested in keeping secrets.In short, Xu Mizi may not even know what the secret of Tianzangzong is.This guess made his heart inexplicably heavy, and he even hoped that Xu Mizi would not show up, so as not to hear him give a negative answer.

In the evening, the first day of the seminar ended, a total of seven corpse dancers were killed in this friendly-sounding conference, and even more were injured.But Xu Mizi never appeared.

The fight on the second day became more intense, with more and more masters appearing. An Xingmian even witnessed a fierce battle between 36 swordsmen and [-] gunmen. Each of these [-] corpse servants could be taken to the rivers and lakes. They can be regarded as first-class masters, and their battle was really tragic and bloody. In the end, only five corpse servants were still intact, and the rest were basically useless.

These corpse dancers recklessly sacrificed their hard-earned corpse servants, and even their own lives, just to get a moment of pleasure in victory at the seminar. This may just explain how deep their inner repression is.An Xingmian even felt sorry for them, but when he turned around, how much difference could there be between a group like Changmen monks who are desperate for their beliefs and them?Maybe the corpse dancer still secretly feels sorry for the Nagato monk.

An Xingmian was thinking wildly, with a stiff expression on his face and dull eyes, but he looked like a perfect walking corpse, and survived the second day without showing any flaws.However, Xu Mizi was still nowhere to be seen.

"He probably won't come." Xue Huaiqing said, she didn't seem too disappointed, maybe this was already in her expectation.

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In the blink of an eye, it was the third day, which was also the last day of the workshop. After a corpse dancer with nineteen corpse servants behind him defeated an opponent who could manipulate twenty, there was a long period of confusion in the arena. silence.No one dared to show up to challenge easily, because no opponent at this level was easy to provoke.Although the corpse dancers come here to seek blood and excitement and risk their lives, no one is willing to die in vain.An Xingmian also continued to put on a dumbfounded expression, constantly thinking about what to do next if he couldn't see Xu Mizi.Maybe I can only pin my hope on Bai Qianyun, I hope he can directly find out the true thoughts of the emperor Lao Tzu, or else, simply find a mystic to steal the memories of Tianzang sect members?or……

It wasn't until a loud noise reached his ears that he came back to his senses and looked around. The expressions of the corpse dancers were different.The faces that were originally as insensitive as zombies and would not frown when they saw someone being killed showed more or less excitement and anticipation.

He hurriedly looked on the earthen platform, and found that there were already two corpse dancers standing on it. They were both elderly people. One had long hair and beard, but both his beard and hair were as black as young people, and his face was full of vigor. Only the unconcealable wrinkles on his face can tell that he is an old man; the other is old and dry, the top of his head is completely bald, standing trembling on the earthen platform, it seems that he may be blown down by the wind at any time.But all the corpse dancers looked at these two with a certain respect, or rather, awe.

Because they each carried more than twenty corpse servants behind them.There are 24 long-haired old people and 25 bald old people. These are two very shocking numbers, which shows that they are already the best among contemporary corpse dancers.Xue Huaiqing sighed: "My master was able to bring seventeen corpse servants when he died, but her goal in this life is only to bring twenty. She is not even as good as these two people, and she is still wishful thinking to defeat Xu. Yako."

"As you said, corpse dancers live such a boring life, they always need to find some targets. Who are these two?"

"I guess they are the No. [-] and No. [-] among the corpse dancers of this era, after Xu Mizi, or tied for No. [-]," Xue Huaiqing said, "The one with black hair is called Xuanyuan Wuxin, The bald one is called Tan Xiao, they are all people who are considered to have the hope to compete with Xu Mizi, and they really think so."

After the two stood on the stage, their auras were quite different. The corpse dancers also returned to calm after a short noise, waiting for the two to speak.The two looked at each other, Tan Xiao nodded, Xuanyuan Wuxin took a step forward and cleared his throat: "You have been waiting for three days, it is estimated that it is neither old man Tan nor me, but another person Right? Every corpse dancer wants to see that person with his own eyes, right?"

This opening speech greatly exceeded everyone's expectations.As Xue Huaiqing said, Xuanyuan Wuxin and Tan Xiao had always hoped that they could defeat Sumeru, and because of this, they rarely mentioned this person's name verbally.Now Xuanyuan has no intention to get straight to the point and make Sumeru the topic, what is he trying to do?Open challenge?

No one answered, everyone was waiting for the next sentence.Tan Xiao also came to the front and stood side by side with Xuanyuan Wuxin: "All along, everyone has been rumoring that Sumeru is the best corpse dancer in this era, and may even be the best corpse dancer in hundreds of years .Others may believe these words, but we old brothers just don’t believe them.”

People looked at each other in blank dismay, as if they were a little aware of what the two of them were going to announce, and An Xingmian's heart tightened even more.Listening to the tone of the two, could it be that Sumeru has been folded in their hands, or even died?In that case, it would be too bad.He glanced sideways at Xue Huaiqing, and found that her face was also a little pale, and she must have thought of the same thing.

Xuanyuan Wuxin on the earthen platform continued: "So before this seminar started, we spent a lot of effort and finally found Sumeru in the Ten Thousand Flowers Valley in Leizhou."

As soon as this sentence was said, the crowd was in an uproar.For a long time, Xu Mizi has always been a character who never sees the beginning and the end, so many people are rumoring that this person has died long ago. Now hearing Xuanyuan Wuxin personally say that he found Xu Mizi, it is inevitable that it is a bit itchy. intolerable.

When the crowd calmed down, Xuanyuan Wuxin continued: "We persuaded Xu Mizi to come to this seminar so that we can learn from each other, but he clearly expressed his disdain for the seminar, and said to us, 'A bunch of scumbags are mixed together, still It's just a bunch of offal, and it's impossible to become the essence, so why should I go to the pile of offal?'”

"This is the most typical Xumizi's speaking style," Xue Huaiqing murmured, "my master is the only one who can make him restrain himself a little. After my master is dead, no one can restrain him anymore .”

The words Xuanyuan Wuxin relayed obviously angered the corpse dancers, but they did not start yelling like ordinary people in the world, but remained silent.This may be because the corpse dancers have always admired the strong, and Xumizi's strength makes them feel that it is shameful to speak ill of Xumizi behind his back.

"So you fought him, right?" someone asked from the audience.That was Yun Guhe who presided over the opening of the seminar two days ago.His status was special, he was just watching the battle, he didn't challenge anyone, and no one dared to challenge him.

"Of course, we can't allow someone to insult us like this," Tan Xiao said angrily, "We old brothers have long been displeased with Xumizi's arrogance, so we took advantage of Huatou to challenge him to a fight. Three days Afterwards, we had a duel in the Valley of Ten Thousand Flowers. Hehe, I really didn’t expect that Xu Mizi is so arrogant and conceited on weekdays, thinking that he is the number one corpse dancer in the past and present. When we fought with him, we found out... ..."

Speaking of this, he purposely kept his mouth shut, and An Xingmian thought to himself, what did you find?Xu Mizi is actually strong on the outside but weak on the inside?But Xue Huaiqing had seen Xumizi's supernatural powers with her own eyes, so could it be that Xumizi was just cheating at that time?

People almost held their breath, waiting for Tan Xiao's next words.What's hateful is that he just dawdled and stopped talking, Xuanyuan Wuxin stood side by side with him, also with a mysterious smile on his face.

"Yes, we fought Xumizi," Xuanyuan Wuxin finally said, "and then we found out..."

He paused, and suddenly raised his voice: "Then we found out that Xu Mizi's words were true. He is indeed the emperor among the corpse dancers of all ages! We lost the shit and were convinced!"

"That's right, Xu Mizi easily defeated us!" Tan Xiao followed up and shouted loudly, "Compared to him, we are like the light of a candle to compete with the sun and the moon. We are simply beyond our control!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned. The two had prepared so much before, but what they said in the end was not what everyone thought. The too strong contrast left them stunned and speechless.An Xingmian almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Are these two old men crazy?" He suppressed a smile and said to Xue Huaiqing, "This is almost like talking about cross talk."

"They might really be crazy," Xue Huaiqing didn't laugh. "After these few days, you should be able to see that the Corpse Dancers are a group with extremely strong self-esteem. Even if they are really defeated, they will not Probably deliberately humiliating myself in front of so many people like this."

"Maybe they were poisoned or something, so they had no choice but to save their lives?" An Xingmian guessed.

"Then they should choose to be poisoned to death, even if they become corpses, it's better than being humiliated like this," Xue Huaiqing said with certainty, "What's more, Xuanyuan Wuxin and Tan Xiao are two stubborn people, Xuanyuan Wuxin was once alone Killed seven Tianluo killers who were originally hired to kill him. Tan Xiao was besieged by wolves in the mountains when he was young, and his legs were seriously injured. In the end, he killed the wolves alone, and then crawled to the Yamashita. Two people like this, what death threats are they afraid of?"

An Xingmian stopped smiling.He raised his head, looked at the two master corpse dancers on the stage with a humble face, or to put it bluntly, with a self-contemptuous face, and then looked at the bewildered faces of other corpse dancers around him, suddenly , an idea popped up.

"Then there is only one explanation," he said slowly, "these two people are indeed already dead."

Xue Huaiqing froze for a moment, then frowned, understanding what An Xingmian meant.

"This kind of thing can only be done by this old bastard." She whispered.

As soon as this sentence was finished, a voice came from the earth platform, the voice of a third person who neither belonged to Xuanyuan Wuxin nor Tan Xiao.It was a burst of laughter, triumphant and arrogant, with a strong aura of arrogance, which made people feel very uncomfortable when they heard this laughter.

People looked intently, and the laughter came from a corpse servant. It was a corpse servant standing behind Tan Xiao all the time. He looked ordinary and dull, like a poor old farmer who had been digging in the soil all his life.But the laughter that came out of his mouth didn't look old. At best, he was a middle-aged man with a domineering and soul-stirring voice.All of a sudden, Yun Guhe under the stage was shocked, and shouted: "It's you! It's you! You're here too!"

Yun Guhe's usually ruddy face turned pale in an instant, and his whole body couldn't help trembling slightly.This legendary figure who had no fear in the face of hundreds of enemies and almost protected the Yu Huang with his life, was so frightened at this moment that he kept repeating hoarsely: "It's you! You are here too! "

"It's me. I'm here." "Corpse Servant" replied easily, and strode to the edge of the earthen platform. Xuanyuan Wuxin and Tan Xiao dodged behind him obediently, like two loyal followers.

"Corpse Servant" stretched out his hand and wiped his face. The dull and sluggish face just now disappeared, replaced by an elegant and handsome middle-aged Confucian face. Although there is an old scar on the left cheek, it is still difficult to conceal his demeanor .What didn't match this handsome face were the man's eyes.That gaze was as sharp as a sharp sword, full of the coldness of ice and the aggression of fire, as well as a kind of domineering arrogance that could serve Ni Tianxia.

"I'm sorry, just to make a joke with everyone, to adjust the atmosphere," the man said, but his tone was not apologetic at all, "But I'm not completely lying to you, these two old men did go to me, and They did fight me, but they all lost. So I killed them, made them both corpse servants, and brought them here for you to see."

"That's right, I'm Sumiko," he said in a friendly tone as if greeting a friend for tea, "Hi everyone."

(End of this chapter)