Chapter 12: Qi Niang

Qi Xuansu stopped talking, took a step back, bent his knees, and fell down, posing a very ordinary sword-drawing posture.

Zhuge Yongming's eyes fell on the short sword on Qi Xuansu's waist that had not been unsheathed for a long time: "Are you finally going to draw your sword? I want to see what you have in your bottom box that can allow you to cross the border and..."

Before the last word "fight" in "cross the border and fight" came out, Zhuge Yongming's figure had already moved.

This sixth-rank Taoist priest of Quanzhen Taoism had no intention of waiting for Qi Xuansu to draw his sword. He attacked brazenly, and his move was a killing move.

Zhuge Yongming was not a Taoist priest in the study, so how could he wait for others to make a move? In his consideration, whether Qi Xuansu really had a backhand or was bluffing, he would not let Qi Xuansu draw that sword.

Zhuge Yongming rushed forward like a giant elephant. When he was three feet in front of Qi Xuansu, he took a step forward and stepped deeply into the ground. While stopping his forward momentum, his whole body was like a bow and a full moon. The fist shrank in his chest was like an arrow, and then he punched out fiercely, like a crossbow shooting, and the whole action was done in an instant.

Qi Xuansu did not choose to draw his sword at this time, but used the "body protection true qi". There was an external qi around him, which seemed to be there and not there, like virtual and real, like smoke.

In the previous battle at the county government, the reason why Qi Xuansu was able to block the flying sword as fast as lightning in the end was that in addition to understanding the trajectory of the flying sword, he also relied on the "body protection true qi" to slow down the speed of the flying sword. It was just that the heavy rain at that time blocked his sight, and Li Sanxin was distracted by shock and did not notice it.

Zhuge Yongming's punch landed on the mist and was stagnant for a moment.

But that was all. He was not Li Sanxin, who was at the Qi Refining stage. No matter how mysterious his "body-protecting Qi" was, it could not defeat the opponent's cleverness.

After a slight resistance, the Qi was completely dispersed by the punch, and then the fist continued to attack Qi Xuansu's head, obviously wanting to smash his head before he would stop.

Qi Xuansu, whose head was about to be smashed, was not frightened. He lay back like an iron bridge, dodging the punch dangerously, and slapped the ground with one hand, sliding backward.

Zhuge Yongming, who missed the punch, was able to send and receive freely, and took a heavy step forward, but missed Qi Xuansu's body by a hair's breadth, and fell to the ground with a loud bang, shaking countless leaves in the dense forest to fall.

At this moment, Zhuge Yongming suddenly stopped chasing and retreated instead of advancing. When Zhuge Yongming stopped, his throat was bleeding. If he hadn't been alert and retreated in time, he would have been killed by the flying sword hidden underground.

Qi Xuansu, who had slid out, slowly stood up and took back the "green snake" that had not been fully refined, which was a bit regrettable.

When he fell to the ground just now, he took the opportunity to slap the ground with his palm and pressed the "green snake" in his sleeve into the muddy ground. When Zhuge Yongming rushed forward, he controlled the flying sword to fly out from the ground, and took advantage of Zhuge Yongming's forward momentum to stab the flying sword diagonally into his throat.

Unfortunately, Zhuge Yongming was not a rookie who had just started fighting. He had a lot of experience in fighting. He was alert at the critical moment and started to retreat after being stabbed halfway. Therefore, the result of this sword was only scary. For a warrior in the flesh and blood derivative realm, it was only a superficial injury and no big deal.

Zhuge Yongming stroked the wound on his throat with his fingers, and his face finally darkened. He suppressed his anger and said word by word: "What a good trick, good idea, and good calculation!"

Qi Xuansu retreated without hesitation.

Zhuge Yongming, who was really angry, had a blood-red color on his face. He was willing to increase his speed at the cost of losing some blood and qi, making him like a Taoist who could shrink the earth into an inch, and he came to Qi Xuansu in an instant.

Then Zhuge Yongming took a step forward with his front foot, and his back foot followed closely with a step. The back foot did not exceed the front foot. Compared with the one step of the back foot exceeding the front foot when ordinary people walk, it was only half a step.

Then he shrank his fist and sent it out from the middle of his chest and abdomen. Its shape was short and its force was fierce, like a collapsing arrow piercing the heart, like a mountain collapsing and the ground splitting. This is the "collapse fist".

Half-step collapsing fist.

When using the ordinary collapsing fist, the front hand hooks the enemy's hand, and the back hand exerts force to penetrate and collapse. Because Zhuge Yongming's realm was profound, coupled with the right timing and fast steps, Qi Xuansu was instantly hit by the half-step collapsing fist, and the force penetrated his chest and back, and his body flew backwards again.

The "body-protecting true qi" condensed by Qi around Qi Xuansu's body had completely dissipated and disappeared. After being hit in the chest and abdomen by this punch, no matter how strong Qi Xuansu's physique was, he could not be safe and sound. He only felt that the blood in his body was boiling like a river pouring back, and the Qi was rolling like a snowy avalanche.

If other Kunlun-stage casual people were hit by such a punch from a Yuxu-stage warrior, even if they were lucky enough not to die, they would already be dying.

But Qi Xuansu was different. His body had been tampered with by the Qingping Society, so he was not killed by a single punch. After landing, he staggered backwards and finally hit the trunk of a big tree with his back, causing the tree, which was as thick as two people hugging, to sway and shake off countless leaves. Only then did he barely stop retreating.

After using the half-step collapse fist, Zhuge Yongming stopped his body, performed a Qi sinking Dantian closing action, exhaled a long breath of turbid air, and then the bright red on his face began to fade gradually.

The key to a warrior's powerful fighting power lies in the Qi and blood in his body, which can break magical spells and warm up the body. If too much Qi and blood are lost, it is equivalent to damaging one's own cultivation.

If he had not been forced into anger by Qi Xuansu, Zhuge Yongming would not have sacrificed some of his blood and qi to throw this punch. Now that he saw that Qi Xuansu had lost the power to fight back, there was no need for him to continue to waste his blood and qi.

After Zhuge Yongming finished all this, he looked at Qi Xuansu, his face showing a bit of surprise, and slowly said: "Who are you?"

Qi Xuansu did not speak.

He knew very well that it was probably because of his extraordinary physique that revealed the clues. After all, if it were someone else in the Kunlun stage, even a warrior with the strongest physique would have died twice under Zhuge Yongming's consecutive punches. There was no reason why he could barely stand after being hit by a half-step collapse punch.

Seeing that Qi Xuansu did not speak, Zhuge Yongming had no intention of digging into the matter, so he wanted to kill Qi Xuansu, take the "Xuanyu", and then go back to report.

He was about to make a move, but found that he could not move.

He slowly lowered his head.

Seeing a woman's palm piercing his chest. This extremely unexpected hand knife made Zhuge Yongming not have time to react.

This hand knife not only pierced Zhuge Yongming's heart, but also smashed his middle field, causing his internal energy to begin to dissipate rapidly.

Then he heard a woman's voice before he died: "I wanted to give you a way to live, but you chose to go to the road of death. Well, there is a road to heaven but you don't take it, and there is no door to hell but you insist on breaking through, so I have to fulfill your wish."

Qi Xuansu, who was leaning against the tree trunk, could clearly see the slender figure standing behind Zhuge Yongming.

The sneak attacker was a woman who looked about 30 years old, with a face like a full moon, skin like cream, and a big heart.

She was wearing a dark blue long skirt, a black gauze dress, embroidered with many patterns similar to square-hole copper coins, which was a bit vulgar. There was a long cigarette on her belt, with a dark gold pipe, ebony pipe, jade mouthpiece, and a small purse hanging on it, which was a bit old.

She also had a pair of sunglasses on her nose, covering half of her face.

With the development of the world, sunglasses are no longer a novelty, and they are different from glasses.

Ordinary glasses were introduced to the Central Plains through sea trade during the previous Wei Dynasty. They were originally called "叆叇" and were made of glass. They allowed people with blurred vision to see things. They became popular only more than two hundred years ago.

But according to the "Gui Qian Zhi", sunglasses were already available in the Jin Dynasty five hundred years ago. They were not brought from overseas, nor were they made of glass. Instead, they were polished with smoky quartz or black quartz. Generally, only officials such as Qingluanwei wore them. Their function was not to see things or block the sun, but to block the eyes so that others could not see the reaction when listening to the confession.

The woman stood behind Zhuge Yongming, facing Qi Xuansu, with the corners of her mouth raised.

Although she was wearing sunglasses, Qi Xuansu could imagine that the eyes behind the lenses must be smiling, and it was a sarcastic smile.

She stretched out her hand and pushed, and the dead Zhuge Yongming fell forward to the ground, stirring up some mud.

The woman shook off the blood on her hands, and her palms were like lotus flowers, without a single drop of blood.

She looked at Qi Xuansu again and stretched out a finger: "Tianyuan, one hundred yuan of Taiping money, remember it."

Li Sanxin had a backer, the fourth-rank Taoist Jiang Bieyun. Just as Jiang Bieyun expected, Qi Xuansu also had a helper.

This woman was Qi Xuansu's contact person in the Qingping Society. The name of the ci tune was "Qiniangzi". Qi Xuansu usually called her "Qiniang", and the woman called Qi Xuansu's courtesy name "Tianyuan".

After the death of her master, Qi Niang was the person Qi Xuansu trusted the most. When Qi Xuansu was being hunted by his enemies, it was Qiniang who saved him and brought him to the Qingping Society.

Later, Qi Xuansu joined the Qingping Society and became Qiniang's subordinate, and also Qiniang's only subordinate.

The relationship between the two is more like a partner than a superior and a subordinate.

During the time when the two were partners, Qiniang took good care of Qi Xuansu, like a reliable elder sister. At least in Qi Xuansu's eyes, Qiniang had no shortcomings except greed, stinginess, and meanness.

Qi Xuansu, who had escaped death, breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly felt a surge of blood in his chest, his eyes went black, and then he completely fainted.