Chapter 72: Bandits

If you just walk along the long Kunlun Road, it will naturally take a long time, but the Taoist sect has built a winch-controlled hanging basket at several cliffs, which can go up and down directly, saving a lot of time.

Unfortunately, neither Zhang Yuelu nor Qi Xuansu has ever been a celestial being and cannot fly in the air.

According to Zhang Yuelu's plan, after the two of them got off the Yuxu Peak, they first went to the Kunlun Pass, followed the Tongtian River to enter Shuzhou, then went east, crossed Shuzhou, passed Baidi City to enter Huzhou, and finally went to Wuzhou via Huzhou. Just estimating the distance from the map, it is almost more than 6,000 miles away. If the actual distance is more than 8,000 miles, I'm afraid it will be more than 8,000 miles.

Such a long distance, even if Qi Xuansu is an old man, his face turned green at first, thinking that he was really crazy to agree to Zhang Yuelu. But since he has already agreed, there is no reason to regret it.

However, Zhang Yuelu was well prepared. After getting off the Yuxu Peak, he took out a pair of armored horses from the Xumi object and gave them to Qi Xuansu.

The so-called "armored horse" is a kind of magic talisman for traveling. The "Secret Book of Geography" contains the "Cloud-Growing Method on the Soles of the Feet". Take two armored horses, write the four characters "White Cloud Rising" on each, tie them to your legs, and chant the cloud-riding spell: "Please the six Ding and six Jia gods, white clouds and crane feathers fly and travel. Clouds grow on the soles of your feet as fast as the wind, just like me flying in the blue sky. I obey the order of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady!" It can travel 800 miles a day. This is also the most common armored horse, mostly used for traveling.

The armored horse that Zhang Yuelu gave to Qi Xuansu is even better. It comes from the "Shrinking the Earth Method" in the "Six Jia Heavenly Book". The practitioner ties an armored horse to each leg and chants the shrinking earth spell: "One step is a hundred steps, and the ground shrinks. When you meet a mountain, it becomes flat, and when you meet a water, it dries up. I obey the order of the Three Mountains and Nine Marquises!" It can travel a thousand miles a day.

A day and a night is a total of twelve hours, and a day is six hours. In six hours, you can travel a thousand miles. In this way, eight thousand miles is nothing.

Qi Xuansu had heard of the name of the armor horse, which was very expensive on the black market. It was the first time he used it. After putting two armor horses on his legs, the ground under his feet shrank to an inch, which was no less than that of a warrior in the Return to the True Reality stage. He could walk on the rugged mountain road as if it were flat ground.

Zhang Yuelu did not use the armor horse, but walked side by side with Qi Xuansu based on her own cultivation, with fluttering clothes, like the immortal Gushe.

To be fair, Zhang Yuelu was beautiful, but she was not the most beautiful woman in the country. She just had exquisite facial features, especially her noble temperament, which was the same as the Confucian gentleman's emphasis on poetry and books.

When Qi Xuansu talked to Shangguan Dun that day, he said that he did not often move around in the northwest, which was not a lie. Qi Xuansu had only walked the distance from Yuxu Peak to Kunlun Pass twice with his master, and he was still young at that time and did not deliberately remember the way. Now he has little impression of it.

Qi Xuansu could only pray that Zhang Yuelu would not get lost again, and that he would not go to Posazhou instead of Shuzhou. That place was not within the territory of Daxuan, and there were no Taoist flying boats. Moreover, it was not much smaller than the territory of Daxuan. It would be a long journey back then, and the two might not be able to return to Yuxu Peak before the Lantern Festival.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuelu made enough preparations this time, and the two of them arrived at Kunlun Pass smoothly. There was also a Taoist temple here. After resting in the temple for a night, the two of them set off again the next morning.

From the map, the distance from Kunlun Pass to Tongtian River was very short, but in reality, it was necessary to cross a snowy peak, and the mountain road was rugged and difficult to travel. It was necessary to go up the mountain first and then down the mountain. The actual distance was more than twice the distance on the map.

If it weren't for the superior armored horse prepared by Zhang Yuelu, Qi Xuansu estimated that it would take him several days to cross the snow peak. Now with the armored horse, it only took him one day to cross the snow peak and arrived at the Tongtian River in the evening.

The two stood on the high slope and looked down, only to see the flickering bonfire by the river.

There were seven or eight men sitting around the bonfire, wearing dirty sheepskin, with the fur side turned outward, drinking and eating meat. There were many horses beside, and one of the horses had a head hanging on the side of the saddle.

Such a style is naturally not an ordinary businessman.

Zhang Yuelu said: "This place is out of the territory of Kunlun Daofu, so it's not surprising that there are some bandits."

Qi Xuansu took off the armored horse on his legs, carefully put it away, and let out a long breath. In the early winter, this touch of white mist was particularly clear.

Zhang Yuelu didn't mean to take action, but just tightened his cloak.

The next moment, Qi Xuansu rushed down from the high slope, as powerful as thunder.

At this moment, the horse thieves also discovered Qi Xuansu who was rushing to kill. The leader shouted: "Eagle Claw is flooded, shoulder to shoulder."

All the horse thieves drew their swords and rushed towards Qi Xuansu.

However, after just one encounter, someone was snatched the sword by Qi Xuansu, and then Qi Xuansu swept the sword across and directly wiped the necks of three people, leaving only a thin red line. One more point would be heavy, one less point would be light, and it was neither light nor heavy, just enough to kill three people.

This sword was not trivial, and the other horse thieves were terrified and dared not move forward.

Qi Xuansu kept his pace and rushed forward with a sword.

The face of the horse thief leader suddenly changed, and he shouted loudly, wanting to jump out. Suddenly, a cold light flashed, as if a cold wind was blowing past, and then there was a slight sound, and half of the blade fell to the ground, while the handle and the other half of the blade were still in the hands of the horse thief leader. He slowly lowered his head and suddenly felt that the scene in front of him moved for no reason.

Suddenly, the thief leader, from the neck to the ribs, half of his body kept his head down and slid down diagonally, and blood gushed out from the front and back of his body.

Qi Xuansu had no expression on his face and just waved away the blood from the long knife in his hand.

The other horse thieves looked at Qi Xuansu again, their whole bodies trembling as if they were sifting chaff. With a "clang", one person dropped the long knife in his hand, turned around and ran away, and the others followed suit, throwing away the knife and running away.

There were a few more cold rays of light, and blood suddenly burst out from the backs of the thieves' hearts. Their corpses jumped forward for more than ten feet before they fell down. After a while, a pool of blood formed underneath them.

There were two more horse thieves who had climbed on the back of the horse and were about to ride away. Qi Xuansu directly threw out the long knife in his hand and instantly skewered the two of them.

A group of horse thieves were all killed by Qi Xuansu's sword in the blink of an eye.

At this time, Qi Xuansu still looked like a flower garden Taoist?

Zhang Yuelu had known for a long time that Qi Xuansu was very murderous, but it was only today that he saw with his own eyes how decisive and neat he was when killing people.

When Zhang Yuelu came down from the high slope, he found Qi Xuansu pulling on his cloak and looking left and right, and couldn't help but ask: "What are you looking at?"

Qi Xuansu returned to his usual self: "Let me see if there is any blood on the new cloak."

Zhang Yuelu smiled and said: "It's just a cloak, is that all?"

Qi Xuansu said casually: "Of course, if it's dirty, will you wash it for me?"

"You are so beautiful, wash it off yourself." Zhang Yuelu rolled her eyes at him.

Qi Xuansu saw that there was no blood on the cloak, so he walked to the horse with the human head hanging on it, opened the mouth of the skull, and looked at his teeth.

Zhang Yuelu followed Qi Xuansu and asked curiously: "What are you doing?"

Qi Xuansu replied: "Looking at the degree of tooth wear, you can roughly judge whether the deceased was poor or rich."

Zhang Yuelu made it clear: "Those whose teeth are badly worn are the poor, because the food poor people eat is hard and scratches their teeth, right?"

Qi Xuansu nodded and said: "That's more or less the truth. Poor families can't afford white flour and polished rice, and they even have to mix some bran or other coarse grains into the flour. Not to mention the taste, the texture is like chewing wood, which is naturally bad for the teeth. ”

Zhang Yuelu sighed: "Now that the world is peaceful, the livelihood of the poor is still so difficult. If there are wars and natural disasters, I don't know what life will be like."

Qi Xuansu said calmly: "Selling sons and daughters, or even exchanging sons for food."

Zhang Yuelu did not continue this heavy topic and asked: "Did you see it?"

"It's a rich man." Qi Xuansu closed the mouth of the head, and also helped him close his eyes. "But as far as I know, if it's for money, people generally won't do things like beheading."

Zhang Yuelu asked: "Do you think it's a vendetta?"

"It is possible." Qi Xuansu said, "But there is another possibility, that is, hiring a murderer to kill someone. There must be proof, so they can cut off the head and bring it to the employer in exchange for a reward."

"These people are not ordinary horse thieves?" Zhang Yuelu was a little surprised. Although her cultivation level was higher than Qi Xuansu's and her status was also higher than Qi Xuansu's, she had been in Yujing for a long time and her experience in the world was not as good as Qi Xuansu's.

"You'll know at a glance." Qi Xuansu took off his cloak and handed it to Zhang Yuelu. He rolled up his sleeves, tucked the hem of the robe into his belt, and walked towards the corpse of the leader who had been divided into two halves.

It was not that Zhang Yuelu had never seen dead people before, he had also killed people before, but when he saw this corpse, he still looked away silently.

Qi Xuansu squatted down, turning over the body regardless of the blood, and groped around in the middle of his chest: "Found it."

Zhang Yuelu turned around and saw Qi Xuansu shaking open a piece of cloth with his bloody hands. There was a portrait painted on it, which was the head hanging next to the saddle.

"Really hiring a murderer to kill someone? Are there any letters?" Zhang Yuelu asked in surprise.

Qi Xuansu shook his head and said: "Hiring a murderer to buy a life is usually discussed in person and will not be put into writing. Even if there is writing, it will be destroyed after reading it. As for the portrait, because there is a certain degree of distortion, it will be carried with you for comparison at any time. To avoid killing the wrong person.”

After that, Qi Xuansu threw the cloth on the ground, went to the riverside, broke the ice that was not thick, and slowly washed his hands.

Zhang Yuelu remembered that Qi Xuansu once said that he used to work hard to make money in the arena, and couldn't help but ask: "Tianyuan, you are so familiar with these sects, shouldn't you have done this kind of business?"

Qi Xuansu shook his head and said: "I haven't done it, but I have been in

I have been hanging around the inn for a while and have seen a lot of them. "

Zhang Yuelu didn't show it on his face, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Qi Xuansu washed the blood on his hands and shook off the water drops on his hands: "If we are not in a hurry, we can investigate this matter."

"Okay." Zhang Yuelu had this intention and immediately agreed.