Life in siheyuan era

Twenty minutes later, Zhou Zhiyuan walked into the high-rise, gradually ascending the stairs. Nearing the seventh floor, he paused, standing on the landing, eyes slightly closed, carefully sensing the surrounding movements.

Then, he retracted his thoughts and summoned the Star Chart. Orange emitted an orange thread, traveling through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians. After three cycles, his body began to heat up, and the chill permeating his bones slowly dissipated.

This warm sensation made him feel comfortable. Just as he was about to cycle it again, the orange thread suddenly flowed towards his right arm. This arm naturally extended, two fingers pinching something.

A feeling of extreme cold surged, instantly freezing his two fingers through the bone crevices. His fingers lost all strength, and a black light flashed from between them.

This was the only light Zhou Zhiyuan could see. Seeing the black light disappear, he immediately released his primary consciousness, and his left fist spun out in a strike.

This strike seemed to break through a layer of film, emitting a "snap" sound as it pierced the air. A blurry figure was rapidly retreating upwards along the stairs.

Seeing this figure, Zhou Zhiyuan quickly followed without hesitation, then sidestepped to dodge. He saw the black light graze his chest, and his left fist swung up and smashed down. *Bang*, the fist struck a hard object, and he knew the opponent was wielding an iron spear, the light emanating from its tip.

The spear tip retreated again, accompanied by a flash of black light, plunging his vision into darkness once more. At this moment, he drew the leather belt from his waist, creating circles in front of his chest.

With a series of cracking sounds, the black light was blocked outside the circles by the belt. In the instant the black light retreated, Zhou Zhiyuan quickly charged upstairs, then unleashed the steel buckle of the belt. *Snap*, a sound of hard objects colliding echoed, and the belt buckle bounced back.

Following the rebounding force, he spun and struck again. *Snap*, another sound of hard objects colliding rang out. His wrist gently trembled, and the wide leather belt transformed into a long snake, entangling the iron spear.

He had mastered this force, transforming the Dragon Spin Force into an Entangling Force. Entangling the iron spear, he tightly held on. When the opponent exerted force to pull the spear, he used the momentum to charge forward, enduring the freezing sensation in his fingers. His right hand flipped, palm facing out, and struck. *Bang*, the back of his hand struck a hard object, the icy sensation feeling like iron.

At this moment, Orange emitted another orange thread, directly entering the Ren and Du meridians. A cold glint flashed in Zhou Zhiyuan's eyes, and the blurry figure reappeared. He saw the opponent clad in black iron armor, a black mask covering their face, two holes in the mask filled with billowing black smoke.

The pair of skeletal hands held a dark iron spear. His backhand strike to the chest forced the figure to retreat. Using this momentum, he forcefully yanked on the iron spear.

The great force surged again, and Zhou Zhiyuan used the momentum to attack once more. Lightly touching his toes, he leaped up, his left leg sweeping against the helmet. A "crack" sound echoed, and the figure's head tilted to the side. Then, the hands loosened, and the figure fell to the ground.

*Clang*, the spear shaft landed. Zhou Zhiyuan gently pulled back the belt, reached out, and grabbed the spearhead. A cold sensation surged, but without the freezing feeling in his right hand.

Rotating the spearhead, he braced the iron spear with his right arm, swung the belt, and entangled one of the figure's feet, dragging the body upstairs.

At this moment, he had to walk backwards, constantly observing the figure's reaction, the Ren meridian between his eyebrows gently throbbing.

Reaching the eighth floor, Zhou Zhiyuan gently exhaled. He stood firm, looking left and right. The strange sound of dragging the figure all the way up had not elicited any reaction from the residents, which he found strange.

With this question in mind, Zhou Zhiyuan turned his face, only to see the figure suddenly sit up, the black smoke in the two holes violently churning.

This scene was quite frightening. A figure with a head drooping to the side suddenly moving could startle anyone, but Zhou Zhiyuan unhesitatingly smashed down the iron spear. *Crack*, another sound of bone shattering echoed, and the figure fell again, two streams of black smoke billowing out, then condensing into a ball.

This ball of black smoke writhed in the air, coming towards him, contracting and expanding as if about to transform.

This scene was also very curious, and should be observed before reacting.

But Zhou Zhiyuan threw away the iron spear with a *thud*, and when the black smoke suddenly accelerated, he stretched out his right arm and grabbed it, then plunged into a mass of darkness, and his clenched right hand made a cracking sound, as if the glass was about to shatter.

At this time, he could only hold on tightly to the writhing black smoke, his left hand tightly gripping the leather belt, but the two orange threads rushing into his fingers could not break through the stiff meridians.

Then the cracking sound of the fingers continued to come, and a burst of severe pain made him want to faint, but this tenacity was still supporting him hard, just to see who could persist to the end.

He concentrated all his last will on this hand, and unknowingly the orange in the starry sky began to spin, and another orange thread rushed into the index finger of his right hand, and then another orange thread entered the middle finger.

One orange thread after another kept impacting the two fingers, and the powerful impact finally broke through the stiff meridians, and then the heat flow poured into the two blood vessels, like a galloping stream quickly flowing.

At this moment, a "pop" sound came from the right hand, as if a balloon had been pinched and burst, the writhing feeling in the hand completely disappeared, and the closed space suddenly changed, and black and white stripes appeared in front of him, and then spread out like ripples.

Putting down his right arm and shaking his head gently, Zhou Zhiyuan was about to retreat upstairs, but his body shook violently, almost sitting down on his butt.

At this time, his right arm immediately stretched out, and his right hand propped up on the wall, and a suction force stabilized his body, and he was exhausted.

Closing his eyes, he took a light breath and exhaled slowly, breathing a few breaths slowly, and raised the starry sky map to see Orange, and immediately knew that it was also out of strength.

Orange protected his right hand with all its strength at the critical moment, and Orange was the first to be credited for his ability to win this battle.

So he exited the starry sky map and chuckled softly, rested for a while and slowly retreated backwards, ga... a strange sound rang out on the stairs, and the friction of the armor against the stairs came again.

But he didn't have time to worry about these, he just wanted to get back to that small house as soon as possible, dragged the figure around the landing, and then saw a light shining, accompanied by Zhang Limin's voice, "What's the situation?"

To him, this voice was extremely kind, and he replied weakly: "I don't know, there is an iron spear below, I really can't hold it anymore."

After saying this, he had exhausted his last bit of strength and sat down on the stairs.

And Zhang Limin ran down from him, and then another light appeared, and a burly figure walked down, Shen Lanbo squatted beside the figure and looked carefully, and asked in surprise: "What is this thing?"

"It should be a skeleton..." Zhou Zhiyuan gasped and replied, "But it almost killed me just now."

This was his experience, and his feeling about this figure was like this, and he didn't know anything else.

So Shen Lanbo exclaimed in surprise: "Skeleton?"

Then Zhang Limin's voice came: "Don't talk, let's talk when we get back to the house."

As the voice came, Zhang Limin walked up with the iron spear, and said in surprise: "Why is this iron spear so cold?"

He was surprised by the temperature of the iron spear. At that time, he grabbed it and threw it away immediately, then took off his coat and wrapped the spear shaft and carried it upstairs, and handed it to Shen Lanbo to carry the iron spear. Zhang Limin dragged the figure's legs and walked upstairs, while Zhou Zhiyuan followed slowly behind.

Ga... this strange sound rang out again in the stairwell, all the way to the end of the corridor. Zhang Limin dragged the figure into the house, and Shen Lanbo and Zhou Zhiyuan walked into the house one after another.

When he came to the house, Zhang Limin immediately took off the mask on the black armor face, and a skull head was revealed.

Zhou Zhiyuan's deduction was correct, this was a skeleton. But the process was too strange, the skeleton actually held an iron spear and wanted to kill him, especially strange was the writhing black smoke.

And Shen Lanbo provided another situation, "Weighing this iron spear is only more than ten kilograms heavy, the spear shaft should not be made of iron, but it is as hard as iron, it should have been specially processed."

After listening to their narration, Zhang Limin pondered for a while and looked up at Zhou Zhiyuan, and asked in a low voice: "What did you feel when you held the writhing black smoke?"

"Alive." Zhou Zhiyuan replied without hesitation.

Zhang Limin asked again: "Feel it again, what is that thing?"

Zhou Zhiyuan raised his right hand and looked at it carefully, pondered for a while and replied softly: "It seems to be a worm."

This answer was incredible, but Zhang Limin and Shen Lanbo believed him. Zhang Limin pondered for a while and turned to look at Shen Lanbo.

Shen Lanbo said in a low voice: "It is this worm that drives this skeleton to kill Zhiyuan."

"It should be like this..." Zhang Limin replied with a thoughtful face: "But the problem is where did this worm go? If it was crushed by Zhiyuan, there should be traces left."

Hearing this, Shen Lanbo looked at Zhou Zhiyuan in horror and asked: "Could it have burrowed into your body?"

Zhou Zhiyuan smiled and said: "I am full of righteousness and invulnerable to all evils."

He had this confidence, the starry sky map was invulnerable to all evils, and the orange thread did not allow foreign objects, but he did not know where the writhing black smoke in the picture went.