Taiping Inn

Li Xuandu "supported" the woman to a remote and deserted alley, and leaned the body against the wall. At first glance, it looked like a drunk person.

Li Xuandu weighed the dagger in his hand lightly, threw it casually, and the dagger flew out with a "whoosh" sound, completely sinking into the wall, leaving only the handle exposed. If it were an ordinary person, let alone stabbing the dagger into the wall, it would be difficult to pull it out.

A woman appeared next to the dagger, gently grasped the handle, and slowly pulled it out.

Li Xuandu tapped his belly with a folding fan, turned around and asked, "Who is coming?"

The woman looked at Li Xuandu and whispered, "Bai Mei Niang."

Li Xuandu suddenly realized, "It turns out to be the deputy leader of Tianle Sect."

Bai Mei Niang asked, "Who are you?"

Li Xuandu said calmly, "My name is Li Xuandu, and I am a friend of Chounu'er. I came to Tianle Taoyuan to help her rescue her sister."

Bai Mei Niang's face sank when she heard this. She didn't know whether what the person in front of her said was true or false. However, whether it was true or false, it was not good news for her. If it was false, it meant that this person had other intentions. If it was true, it was not a good thing either, which meant that all her efforts in Zui Chunfeng would be in vain.

Bai Mei Niang was silent for a moment, and then asked, "I wonder who your master is?"

Li Xuandu shook his head and said, "No comment."

Bai Mei Niang stopped talking and retreated silently.

At the same time, many black shadows appeared on the walls and roofs around. They were not holding knives or swords, nor were they drawing bows or spears, but holding crossbows.

Since ancient times, the army has two sharp weapons to suppress the rivers and lakes. One is the organized iron cavalry, especially the heavy cavalry with both men and horses wearing armor. However, it is not easy to use due to the terrain. The other is crossbows. When the Qingluan Guards who escorted Zhou Tingchao faced the gangsters gathered by Zhang Qingshan and Bai Rushuang, they used crossbows to defeat the enemy.

Because of this, the court has extremely strict control over crossbows, and they rarely flow into the rivers and lakes. I never thought that I would see crossbows here. When I think of what Chounuer said about the Tianle Sect clinging to the Silijian, the origin of these crossbows is already clear.

It can be seen from this that the corruption in the inner court is even worse than that in the outer court.

However, there is one thing that Li Xuan does not know. Compared with the crossbows used by the lower-level Qingluan Guards and ordinary troops, these crossbows that flowed into "Tianle Taoyuan" through the Silijian Gate are better. In the ranking of the Ministry of Works of the imperial court, there are eight grades of crossbows. Excluding the first-grade bed crossbows, crossbow carts and foot crossbows, the fourth-grade crossbows are the most valuable. They are made by skilled craftsmen of the Ministry of Works. Shooting arrows with this crossbow machine is silent and fast as lightning, killing people invisibly. Even masters of the Xuanyuan realm are difficult to avoid if they are not prepared. Because the "four" in the fourth grade is homophonic to the word "death", this crossbow machine is named the fourth-grade crossbow.

The crossbows equipped with the fourth-grade crossbows are also good. They are painted with talismans and are quenched with poison. The poison targets the physique of warriors, and the talismans target the magic of alchemists. As long as more than ten fourth-grade crossbows shoot specially equipped poison arrows at the same time, those below the Xiantian realm will have no chance of survival.

However, it takes several rare materials to make a fourth-class crossbow, which is very expensive. Therefore, the annual output is very small, and it is naturally hard to get a hundred gold coins. Even if Tianle Sect takes the path of Silijian, it cannot get it for free. It has to pay a sum of money to the Ministry of Works. That is to say, Tianle Sect is rich and powerful, so it can purchase so many fourth-class crossbows at one time.

In the past few years, all the Jianghu gangsters who dared to make trouble in "Tianle Taoyuan" were either attacked and killed by Tianle Sect's masters or shot and killed by Tianle Sect's disciples. There was a master who had reached the Xiantian realm and wanted to do the freeloading by relying on his own body protection Gangqi. As a result, hundreds of arrows were fired at the same time, and the man's body protection Gangqi collapsed inch by inch, and then the whole person was shot like a hedgehog and died on the spot.

If it was Li Xuandu who was only in the Xuanyuan realm before, he would probably feel very difficult when facing these fourth-class crossbows, but now he is in the Xiantian realm, it is very different.

Without Bai Mei Niang's order, as she retreated, the first round of volleys had already been poured down like water.

Facing the crossbow arrows that were about to attack him, Li Xuandu still held the folding fan in one hand, and then stretched out the other hand.

In an instant, it seemed that he had only stretched out one hand, but suddenly there were countless shadows of palms, all stretched out forward, making people feel that thousands of hands were stretched out at the same time.

Because the hand was extremely fast, the residual image was left behind, making the extremely fast become extremely slow in the vision.

Extremely slow and extremely fast, two completely opposite properties were mixed together, giving people an indescribable feeling. Compared with this hand, the crossbow arrows seemed to become extremely slow at this moment, and then were "picked" from the air one by one by this palm.

Li Xuandu did not have to "pick" all the crossbow arrows, he only needed to "pick off" the more than ten crossbow arrows shot at him, because most of the crossbow arrows were used to block his dodge space, and he only needed to stand still, and these crossbow arrows would fall into the air.

Seeing this, Bai Mei Niang felt a chill in her heart, and whispered, "It's the 'Phantom Yin Hand' of the Butian Sect. Are you from the Butian Sect?"

Among the five sects in Liaodong, the Butian Sect, with "Heavenly Blade" Qin Qing in charge, is the undisputed number one sect. If the Wudao Sect is the leader of the evil ways, and the Female Sect, Yinyang Sect, and Zaoge Sect are the pillars of the evil ways, then the Butian Sect is both righteous and evil. Among the ten evil sects, it is considered an outlier with a relatively relaxed relationship with the twelve righteous sects. If it is really someone from the Butian Sect who came here to "do justice", it is reasonable.

Li Xuandu did not answer, but threw the crossbow arrows back to their original owners. However, he did not kill anyone, but only injured his wrist, so he could not use the crossbow for the time being.

Bai Meiniang knew that this person's cultivation was unfathomable, and using these fourth-class crossbows to test him would only be a waste of money, so she raised her hand and signaled him to retreat.

The disciples of Tianle Sect on the roof and the wall, whether injured or not, retreated into the shadows without any hesitation, but did not really go far away, still waiting for an opportunity not far away.

After a while, only Li Xuandu and Bai Meiniang were left here. Bai Meiniang's eyes were dim, and she said: "You are not from the Butian Sect."

Li Xuandu nodded in agreement.

Bai Mei Niang said coldly: "I don't care who you are, as long as you leave 'Tianle Taoyuan' immediately, I can forgive you."

Li Xuandu shook his head and said: "It's too late."

Bai Mei Niang looked at Li Xuandu and said word by word: "I only have such a good temper in front of my junior sister."

Li Xuandu sighed lightly: "I am willing to learn."

Bai Mei Niang said no more, just waved her sleeves lightly, and seven dazzling lights appeared in front of her and shot towards Li Xuandu.

Li Xuandu waved the folding fan in his hand left and right, knocking the seven lights away, and at the same time, he retreated backwards and smiled lightly: "The 'Seven Phoenix Feathers' of Tianle Sect can't hurt me, just go ahead."

Bai Mei Niang snorted lightly, and her figure jumped to the top of the building. Her two fluttering sleeves were like butterfly wings. As they fluttered, seven cold stars were splashed from her cuffs.

Li Xuandu rolled up his sleeves and used the "Universe in the Sleeves" of the Miaozhen Sect, which was the best way to restrain such hidden weapons, and rolled the stars into his sleeves in one go.

The sleeves were bulging and fluttering.

At the same time, Li Xuandu did not forget "It is impolite not to return the favor", and shook the other sleeve, and a green light flashed out.

The two swords "Qing Jiao" and "Zi Huang" were forged by the contemporary sword forgers in imitation of the "Qing Yun" and "Zi Xia" of the Zhengyi Sect. They can be regarded as perfectly inheriting the characteristics of "Qing Yun" and "Zi Xia". The two swords, "Qing Yun" and "Zi Xia", can only be regarded as semi-immortal objects when separated, but if the two swords are combined, they are real immortal objects, even better than the old sword god's "Knock on the Heaven's Gate". The same is true for "Qing Jiao" and "Zi Huang". They can only be regarded as top spiritual objects when separated, but the two swords are treasures when combined.

Logically speaking, Li Xuandu should have used both swords at the same time, but in the battle in Dongshan Village, after Li Xuandu personally wielded "Qingyun", he became more and more in tune with the "Qingjiao" which was cast in the image of "Qingyun". At this time, when he was controlling "Qingjiao" alone, the sword embryo was perfect, round and transparent. It was no longer just like controlling it with one's own arm, but a state of telepathy.