Chapter 16 The Arrow of Darkness
The next morning, a young man with a medium body and very capable figure in his early thirties came to Lu Tong's courtyard to ask for a visit. Lu Tong asked someone to lead him into the living room of the inner courtyard. The visitor respectfully saluted Lu Tong, claiming to be Chu Li, who came to apply to be the captain of the Imperial City Guard for Lu Tong.
Lu Chong understood that it was recommended by Chu Shixiong, and probably decided after a test. Looking at Chu Li's strong and developed muscles and the internal energy of cultivation that was emitted invisibly, he asked, "Do you know the order and the meridians are open?"
Chu Li hesitated and nodded and said, "Master Hui Fazun, I am a four-mere practitioner with both hands and feet."
Lu Chong smiled and said, "Are you a descendant of the state lord?"
Chu Li responded with a red face: "Yes, I am a grandson of the state lord. Please let me go back."
Lu Chong shook his head and said, "I have no other intentions. I will not avoid relatives. My elder brother did it right. Don't care about my swornship relationship with me. I will make friends with each other. You can follow me in the future. You can first form a thirty-person guard for me to review."
"Okay, I'll do it right away." Chu Li said as he ran out quickly, almost colliding with Chu Shixiong who came in.
Chu Shixiong said dissatisfiedly: "This kid is very popular, he is in his thirties." He turned around and smiled at Lu Chong, "Do you plan to use him?"
Lu Chong replied: "It's a good seedling, smart and energetic, I will hone his skills."
Chu Shixiong shook his head and said, "Even if he sends him, I will be very happy if he can become a six-mechanic technician before he is fifty. It's not like me, I can break through to the master of martial arts at the age of forty. Forget it, let's not talk about this, second brother, I will bring you some things." Then he took out a bag and handed it to Lu Chong.
Lu Chong took it and opened it. He immediately opened his eyes widened. There were ten small shiny stones in the bag. Lu Chong already knew that these were martial arts realms and could only use the essence and energy stones. He hurriedly said to Chu Shixiong: "Thank you, these essence and energy stones are treasures."
Chu Shixiong smiled and said, "Let's be spared for you. As for the launching machine, I have someone to refine it for you. It will take some time. However, the machine launched by using the essence stone will fly back in a cycle. You should pay attention to the control skills at that time."
Lu Chong thought about it and said, "Brother, are there two different ways to use the true Qi handprint?"
Chu Shixiong said: "There should be three types that I know, namely the hand seal, the control seal and the Qi control seal. Most martial arts masters in Changguo use the hand seal, which means first forming concentrated true qi in their hands, and then decomposing and firing these true qi. The martial arts masters in Ningguo often use the control seal, which means pushing out all the true qi concentrated in their hands to attack."
"The two types of true Qi handprints are used in the early and middle levels of the martial arts realm. The difference is that the power of the middle level of the martial arts realm is even more amazing. Only after reaching the high level of the martial arts realm can you use the Qi-control seal. The Qi-control seal can be directly launched without concentrating it in your hand, as if your true Qi marble can develop into a direct fire Qi-control seal."
Lu Chong nodded in thought. At this time, someone outside said that Chu Li wanted to see him. Lu Chong didn't expect Chu Li to be so fast. He probably had prepared yesterday, so he invited Chu Shixiong to have a look. Chu Shixiong happily agreed and the two came to a flat ground in the outer courtyard.
Thirty people were standing on the flat ground waiting. Chu Li introduced that they were all craftsmen of the first lineage. Seeing the thirty guards standing in high spirits, Lu Chong nodded and said to Chu Shixiong: "Brother, since I have prepared, I plan to set off tomorrow."
Chu Shixiong replied: "Okay, I'll go to the imperial city to meet you when I finish my business, and the journey is smooth."
In order not to disturb the towns along the road, Lu Chong let Chu Li disguise himself as a transportation team of merchants. Everyone was sitting in six or seven carriages slowly moving forward. Lu Chong also leisurely admired the scenery along the way, while carving some mechanical wood chips in his hand, while chatting with Chu Li in one sentence.
One evening a few days later, everyone came to a small town to stay in a hotel and rested. It was not until it was completely dark that Lu Chong left the town and looked for a forest to start practicing.
In the quiet and dim airflow, Lu Chong's extremely sensitive hearing seemed to feel a little wind sound, so he used his mind to sense it outward. After a while, he finally found two people hidden behind the trunk slightly far away on the right, one on the tree and the other under the tree.
But right in front of him, four people were moving carefully in the direction of Lu Chong. Listening to the steps of the four people walking, Lu Chong judged that these people were all skilled meridians, but Lu Chong did not rush to alarm these people.
Because Lu Chong felt that in his left direction, there was a very terrifying and mysterious force fluctuating, and most of his thoughts were focused on this force. He believed that the main attack power tonight should be in his left direction.
When the four people on the front were about to approach Lu Chong, Lu Chong suddenly said to them: "You don't have to look sneaky, come up just now."
Only then did the four of them realize that Lu Chong had already discovered them, so they had to walk out of the hidden bushes. Seeing Lu Chong standing under a big tree and smiling, they called and rushed towards Lu Chong together.
The four of them were actually five-vein craftsmen, all wearing black robes, constantly swaying their robes during the rapid and violent attack, and the air immediately filled with a foul smell, which was a poisonous powder with extremely toxicity spreading in the air.
Lu Chong slapped out with a big handprint, and the four of them took a few steps in a row. Lu Chong quickly threw out a pack of medicine powder, and then rushed towards the four people who gathered again. His fingers kept clicking quickly. Two of the four people were shot and stood upside down on their heads. One of the other was a bloody mouth cut from the waist, and one of them was hit on his left arm, and a blood hole was gurgling with blood.
The injured two people turned around and ran outside. Lu Chong was about to pursue him when he suddenly heard a broken wind in his ear, so he immediately stood still and bent his body back to the back with all his might. A lightning-fast arrow light flew past his eyes with a broken sound, and returned to the left from the gap of the big branch on the right.
Lu Chong quickly chased to the left, and saw a slightly tall black shadow drifting to the distance and disappeared in an instant. Lu Chong remembered the circular flight of the launching equipment of the essence stone that Chu Shixiong said, and knew in his heart that the man must be a master of martial arts realm, and those who had hatred with him who attacked like a killer could only have one only candidate, which was Wei Fu, the boss of the "Black Star" killer organization.
Lu Chong sighed inwardly and returned to the place where he had just fought. He saw the two Five-Meridians who were hit on the head by the true qi marble and died. He thought that their plan was always perfect, but he was defeated by him every time, as if he was the real killer.
Suddenly, he heard a moaning sound from the big tree on the right, and a thin black shadow fell from the branch. Lu Chong shook his head and walked over. He saw Wei Yunyuan, who was dressed in a very scattered body. He raised his beautiful eyes with tears and looked at him. He covered his right shoulder with his left hand, and some blood was revealed between his fingers. It turned out that the airflow of the black arrow scratched her right arm.
Lu Chong stepped forward and pulled her clothes and applied healing powder to her, bandaged her, and said to the back of the big tree: "Aren't you coming out yet?"
A plump and pretty black shadow walked out from behind the tree. It was Han Xinchen of the Han family. Seeing Lu Tong bandage Wei Yunyuan's wound, her eyes showed a very envious feeling.
Lu Chong said softly: "Go back to the town first, and I will send you back tomorrow."
Wei Yunyuan said stubbornly: "I don't, I will follow you and follow you forever."
Han Xinchen also said: "So too. Except for Master Lu, I will never marry forever."
Lu Chong said distressedly: "Didn't you see the extreme danger just now? That would make you lose your life in an instant."
The two women responded at the same time: "I'm not afraid, I'm willing to die."
Lu Chong lifted their clothes helplessly and quickly jumped towards the direction of the town.
Chapter completed!