Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 96 Mutation (1)
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As Feng Yiming said, Xu Mizi, an old monster, really regards the majestic Ningnan City as his own back garden.What he is good at is definitely not the ability to manipulate corpses. At least every time he sneaks into the fourth prince's mansion without anyone noticing, no one will be able to detect it.He also browsed the noble tombs of noble families in Ningnan City like shopping, and found many rare items that the tomb robbers couldn't find.

"You should really be a tomb robber," Feng Yiming said, "If you did that, you would have become the richest man in Kyushu."

"I don't treat money like dung. People always need money to live," Xumizi said leisurely, "It's just that money can't buy the happiness I need, and corpse dance can provide it. Besides, These things I made are not for money, but they can all help your cultivation."

"Using the things buried with the ancestors to practice the evil corpse dance technique," Feng Yiming made a face, "If my family finds out, they must arrest me and cut off my hands and feet."

At this time, he has been practicing with Xumizi for more than two months. Xumizi usually has very strict requirements on him, and he hardly smiles, but he is very satisfied in his heart.Feng Yiming not only knows how to manipulate power, he has made great progress in the practice of corpse dance, and can endure any strict to almost cruel requirements and training without any complaints.Although Xu Mizi always has a straight face, he occasionally sends out a rare compliment or two, but such compliments are absolutely unheard of by normal people.

"Perhaps in the future, I may really die by your hands." Xumizi's highest praise is like this, "In that case, I have finally taught a decent apprentice."

The time has entered December, and the temperature in Ningnan City has dropped sharply, and there have been several snowfalls.Xumizi was very happy, because when it snowed, he could make a good job of his good apprentice.At this moment Feng Yiming is kneeling in his own room, completely naked without any clothes, but covered with snow.Xu Mizi sat on the side, drinking hot tea and warming himself by the fire comfortably, "The snow can't be completely melted within 10 minutes, otherwise the penalty will be half a clock."

Feng Yiming clenched his teeth and tried his best to activate the secret technique to lower the temperature of his body surface so as to ensure that those snow blocks would not melt quickly in the warm room.He was shivering with cold, but wished that his body could be a little colder, because he knew that Sumeru would not show any mercy, whether it was for an apprentice or a child, if he could not meet the master's requirements, he would suffer even more. Severe punishment and even being kicked out.

After a quarter of an hour with great difficulty, more than half of the snow on his body has melted, but there is still a small part left, which can be regarded as fulfilling the basic requirements of the master.Despite this, Xu Mizi is still very picky: "There was about a quarter of the snow left yesterday, but today it is less than a fifth, which is a step backward."

"That's because the charcoal fire in the brazier is burning enough today!" Feng Yiming hummed, shook off the snow, and pulled a blanket to wrap himself.Xumizi sneered: "Is the charcoal burning enough?"

He spread out his palms, and a ball of snow that Feng Yiming shook off the ground just now floated up into the air and landed in his palms.Xu Mizi pinched the ball of snow, and put his hand directly above the jumping flames in the brazier, but the scorching flames couldn't hurt him at all.After a long time, he withdrew his hand and spread it out again. The ball of snow just now was still in the palm of his hand, and it hadn't melted at all.

"Practice slowly, no skill can be achieved in a day," Xumizi threw away the snow ball, "but next time you dare to make excuses, I will peel you off."

Feng Yiming stuck out his tongue, not daring to say more.At this moment, a sound of footsteps came towards his room.

"Didn't I already order people not to come near?" Feng Yiming's expression changed, "Could it be my father? Master, I'm afraid your old man has to stay away for a while."

"No, I already heard who it was from the sound of footsteps," Xu Mizi said, "It's an acquaintance, it's okay. Go and open the door."

"You come to hang out, your acquaintances also come to hang out, it has really become a back garden..." Feng Yiming threw down the blanket, got dressed in a hurry, and opened the door.A beautiful blond woman appeared in front of his eyes. Although he had never seen it with his own eyes, he had already guessed who it was with his clever mind.

"Is it Miss Xuehuai Qingxue?" Feng Yiming said with a smile, "Please come in."

Xue Huaiqing nodded and walked in, Feng Yiming closed the door again.Xu Mizi glanced at Xue Huaiqing: "Are you making trouble for me again?"

Xue Huaiqing sighed softly: "I know, you won't get close to me just because I am Master's apprentice, and if it is not a last resort, I will never come to beg you. But now, apart from you, I can't think of anyone else Who has the ability to help me."

She seemed to have said these words unintentionally, but the sentence "I can't think of anyone else who has the ability to help me" obviously suits Xu Mizi's appetite.His originally tense face also relaxed a little: "Is that little baby named An causing some trouble again?"

"To be exact, he himself is in trouble now." Although Xue Huaiqing frowned slightly, she spoke calmly and did not seem flustered, "He has fallen into the hands of Tianqi."

With a "snap", Xu Mizi dropped the teacup in his hand to the ground, and the teacup immediately shattered into pieces, and the tiles splashed everywhere.Feng Yiming knew that something was wrong, and immediately shrank into a corner, not to touch Master's bad luck.

"A trash who does more than succeed at success!" Xu Mizi scolded in a low voice, "It will only cause trouble for me! Do I have to put you in the cradle to save yourself some trouble?"

"What qualifications do you have to put us in the cradle?" Xue Huaiqing took a step forward, stood in front of Xu Mizi, and looked directly at him, "You just want to find my parents through me and get Cang Yin Zhiyue, you don’t really care about our life and death. Why do we have to give you peace of mind? Who are you to us?”

This chick is going to die!Even Feng Yiming was a little overwhelmed with fright.Although he had never seen his master get along with other people, he could easily imagine that this old monster would never allow anyone to disobey him, and right now, Xue Huaiqing dared to point at his nose and accuse him, It's like putting a rope around your neck by yourself.With Sumeru's strength, probably one finger can kill her.

"No one has ever dared to talk to me like this," Xu Mizi's tone became calm, but his face seemed to be covered with a layer of severe frost, and an invisible murderous aura slowly permeated, "You really think you are Her apprentice, I dare not kill you?"

"I've said it before, I never thought you would treat me and An Xingmian any special because of my master," Xue Huaiqing still showed no fear, "So your purpose of coming to Ningnan City is Originally it was only for Cangyin Zhiyue, and you tried to save me for Cangyin Zhiyue before, and you didn't care about my life or death. Could it be that the majestic strongest corpse dancer dare not even listen to the truth? What's more, you may not be true is the strongest corpse dancer."

You may not really be the strongest corpse dancer.To Feng Yiming's ears, these words were like an earthquake.What Xu Mizi couldn't tolerate the most was not that anyone dared to be his enemy, dared to challenge him, but that someone dared to doubt his strength.Now that Xue Huaiqing dared to say such a thing, did he think he lived too long?

Sure enough, a cruel sneer appeared on the corner of Xumizi's mouth, which was a sign that he planned to kill someone.His eyes were shining brightly, as if his pupils were burning: "What did you say? I may not be the strongest? Say it again?"

"I was at sea, and I met a merman who was driving a ghost ship in the mist," Xue Huaiqing said, "He may not be as good as you."

The murderous aura all over Xu Mizi's body suddenly dissipated.He looked at Xue Huaiqing, his expression was a little surprised, but there was also some incomprehensible joy: "You met that person? You mean, he is a mermaid?"

"So, you've seen him too?" Xue Huaiqing asked back, "Then you should know that I didn't exaggerate indiscriminately, he can manipulate hundreds of walking corpses at a time."

"Hmph, if you say he is a mermaid, then you can't understand it," Xu Mizi actually smiled, "The mermaid has a way of expressing emotions, called the mermaid song, which uses the cartilage of the throat to vibrate, which can It makes a very special sound. This method of sounding is somewhat similar to the death song of the corpse dancer. If you can combine the shark song and the death song, you can amplify the effect of the corpse dance. This is what corpse dancers of other races do. If you can’t, only sharks can do it.”

The more he talked, the happier he became: "So it's not surprising that he can control more than a hundred walking corpses. It's just a trick based on the special physique of the mermaids. It's just an irreversible racial difference, just like people's strength is always greater. But Kuafu, in terms of real corpse dance skills, he should still be inferior to me, definitely not as good as me. Haha! Hahaha! Hahahahaha! He is not as good as me! He is not as good as me!"

Feng Yiming stared dumbfounded at the master laughing so forgetfully, fearing that the laughter would attract the family members, but couldn't help thinking that this old guy really still has a heart for the past 20 years ago.It was a great humiliation for him to admit that someone in this world could beat him, and now that such humiliation was gone, it was no wonder he was so happy.And this person was murderous one minute ago, and he was about to let a beautiful woman die without a place to bury him, but one minute later, he immediately smiled and became pregnant. He is really moody, and he is really worthy of his monster name.

"It seems that I still have a long way to go before I want to become a monster like you." Feng Yiming whispered to himself.

"Very well, since you have brought me good news, while I am in a good mood, I will pay you for your hard work," Xu Mizi seemed to have completely forgotten how he almost killed him in a fit of anger just a moment ago. Xue Huaiqing, "I'll find a way to get that boy out. Tell me the details of what happened."

"I really shouldn't beg you to save people," Xue Huaiqing gave him a sideways glance, "If I had known that I should have spoken up, I would have been the emperor of Kyushu. Anyway, you would agree to any request now."

two

When Xue Huaiqing was imprisoned in Ningnan City, An Xingmian couldn't help but imagine what kind of life she was going through. Now, he finally had the opportunity to experience the life of a prisoner himself.

But in comparison, Ningnan City is the capital of the big city-state after all. Although Xue Huaiqing was imprisoned, her living conditions were actually very good, but it was just a house arrest with restricted freedom. The Yu people also spent a lot of precious medicinal materials to heal her injuries.Right now, An Xingmian's treatment is not very good. He is locked in an underground cell without even a skylight to see the sunlight. There is only darkness around him, and there is a musty smell of straw.Every day, the celestial spirits would bring him some simple water, just enough to keep him alive, but kept him hungry all the time in order to consume his energy.

At last, it's not bad, An Xingmian thought to himself mockingly, looking at the hateful eyes of that woman, he once thought that he was going to be skinned and disemboweled soon.It's strange to say that when I met this female celestial being for the first time, although she tried to assassinate me as soon as she made a move, but after the assassination failed, she could still talk and laugh with me like friends, but this time the meeting seemed to be different. Dai Tian's feud was the same, not only did he not give himself a good face, but he was beaten and kicked frequently on the way back to this stronghold when he was escorted back to this stronghold.He even suspected that he could only eat some fresh water steamed buns here every day, and it was probably because of this female heavenly driver who made things difficult behind his back.

It turned out that these were the things hidden under the righteous appearance of the Celestial Drives, he thought, so ironic.

Ten days ago, when they were ambushed, An Xingmian and the other three reacted quickly, using the corpse servant Xue Huaiqing brought with him as a meat shield to block the sharp arrows, and then abandoned the boat and went ashore.While escaping for their lives along the coast, they found out the opponent's strength. A total of eleven people came, all of whom had extraordinary skills. There was no way to win with only three people.And An Xingmian recognized a familiar figure from the chasing soldiers. Although the sky was dark and the opponent's face was covered with a black cloth, his posture would not change.

"If I'm not mistaken, that person is the female Tianqi who once assassinated me in the middle of the night," An Xingmian said, "that is to say, this group of people is Tianqi."

"This doesn't look like a sky drive, but a robber." Xue Huaiqing commented.

"Don't think that Heaven's Exorcism represents justice. Sometimes they are not as good as robbers," Mr. Yuwen said, "Let's go in two ways. The opponent's number is not large, and it is more beneficial for us to divide our troops into two ways."

"Actually, it's safer for you to get rid of us," An Xingmian glanced at him, "You and Tianqi have no direct conflict of interest, and it's dangerous to be with us."

"That's why I said that it is more beneficial for us to divide the troops into two groups," Mr. Yuwen said without the slightest bit of shame, "At least I can live one more life."

"Let's go," An Xingmian said helplessly, "With you, I have more to worry about."

"Smart choice, we will meet later." Mr. Yuwen smiled slightly, and rushed out in another direction.Sure enough, the Sky Drives did not chase him, and still followed An Xue and the two with all their strength.The two relied on the corpse servant to resist arrows and other hidden weapons all the way, and were chased to a mountain road unknowingly.The mountain road is rugged and winding, and they don't know where the front leads, but the two have no choice but to bite the bullet and continue moving forward.After all, the night is dark now, and if you flee for your life in the dark mountains, it may be easier to get rid of the pursuers, provided you don't get yourself into a dead end.

However, it seemed that God was going against the two of them on purpose. After running along this mountain road for a while, An Xingmian heard a faint sound of water in his ears.He groaned secretly in his heart, but he didn't dare to stop. After running for a while, he suddenly saw a clear vision - he actually ran to a cliff with a deep pool at the bottom, surrounded by mountains.In addition, there is a path on the edge of the cliff that can hardly be considered a road, leading to the top of the cliff at the other end, which must be a dead end.

To make matters worse, there were too many blows along the way, and the three corpse servants brought by Xue Huaiqing couldn't support them anymore.Because the body was covered with wounds, the medicine to maintain the body's movement was almost drained along with the black blood, and Xue Huaiqing did not have the powerful corpse dance technique like Sumeru.Seeing the corpse servants fell to the ground one by one, the two of them didn't even have a meat shield now, and it seemed that they had fallen into a desperate situation.

"There is another way." Xue Huaiqing looked at the deep pool under the cliff. "This cliff is not too high. If you hide at the bottom of the pool for a while, after the pursuers leave, you can climb up the same way to escape."

"Impossible," An Xingmian looked around, "this is almost the only hiding place nearby, and we are not mermaids, so our ability to hold our breath is limited, and Tianzhu will find us soon. "

"Both of these points are not difficult," Xue Huaiqing said, "Ever since I met the ghost ship at sea, I have been thinking that if I want to fight against sharks in the water in the future, breathing is a big problem. Question. So when I was on the pirate island, I made a medicine according to the prescription left by my master, which can make people breathe in water for a short time."

"However, if we disappeared suddenly, they would definitely suspect that we were in the pool." An Xingmian said.

"I haven't finished talking yet, why are you so anxious," Xue Huaiqing flicked An Xingmian's forehead again, as if every time she made such an intimate move, it was when the two of them were on the verge of desperation , "It's the first time I tried this kind of medicine, I have no experience, and I only made one after a lot of work. So it's just right, you swallow the medicine and hide, and I will climb the path above the cliff to lure them away .You are more capable than me, and you have more friends than me. Rather than asking me to spend time and effort trying to find a way to save you, it is better for you to save me. I am just lazy. Don’t dawdle, I have heard their footsteps sound."

After finishing speaking, she stretched out her hand, and a pale pink pill spread out on her white palm.An Xingmian nodded, and took the pill with his left hand: "That's the only way to go."

(End of this chapter)