Chapter 25 Passing Through
This scene is strange and ferocious.
Dozens of strong men, including several experts who had already entered the Peiyuan realm, were turned into mummies in an instant.
The guard who had been charging forward like a wolf or a tiger suddenly became docile and hesitant, just like a castrated male cat.
Many captains and strong men slowed down their pace, and the guards were even more shrewd. They shouted loudly, but no one dared to step forward.
As for the ghosts in the ground that were summoned by the guards, they all stopped moving. Lu Yi even saw that some clever ghosts were secretly retreating.
A long roar was heard from afar : "Those who are brave enough to fight will be rewarded! Those who are afraid of fighting will be killed!"
Several captains who had already rushed forward shuddered with fear. They raised their hands and shouted, "Bowmen, gather them!"
On the rooftops of shops on both sides of the street, more than a hundred archers pulled their bowstrings, and a considerable number of crossbowmen also "clicked" on the crossbow triggers.
The next moment, the sound of "swooshing" breaking through the air was heard continuously, and three-foot-long carved feather arrows and one and a half-foot-long pure steel crossbow arrows fell on the red phoenix sedan chair like a torrential rain.
A thin mist shrouded the phoenix sedan chair.
All the arrows pierced through the sedan chair with a dull sound, completely penetrating it.
No matter whether it was the long arrows with carved feathers on iron and wooden shafts or the half-foot-long crossbow arrows forged with fine steel, after penetrating the sedan chair, they were all covered with a thin layer of ice crystals and fell heavily to the ground.
Amid the sound of shattering, the iron and wooden arrow shafts and the fine steel crossbow arrows broke and shattered one after another.
The phoenix sedan chair was pierced by hundreds of arrows and crossbow bolts, without a single hole in it. It was like an insubstantial shadow, crashing straight into the two blue-robed captains who were blocking the road in the middle of the street ahead.
The two captains were stunned and subconsciously separated to the left and right.
Among the white-robed guards behind them, the three brothers of the Three-tailed Black Scorpion, Qiu Da and Qiu Er, who were not injured in the early morning chase, grinned fiercely and strode forward towards the front of the phoenix sedan chair.
It was not known whether these two were truly heartless or just new to the Guardian Prison and were eager to make a contribution, but they actually ignored the dozens of mummies on the ground and rushed forward, shouting and waving two scorpion tail whips.
Someone in the chaotic crowd exclaimed loudly: "What a brave man! I am a palace guard, and there are also brave men of iron and blood!"
Standing back to back with Lu Yi on the street, his arms frozen by ice crystals, Old He shivered as he grumbled, "Stupid, the quicker you charge, the quicker you die. It's not like you're going to raid the house of a criminal official. It's not a profitable business, why are you working so hard?"
Qiu Da and Qiu Er are worthy of having reached the twelfth and eleventh levels of Tuomai cultivation. With this level of cultivation, they would be considered as experts no matter where they are in the present-day Dayin.
The scorpion-tail whips in the hands of the two men swung out black arcs, and the poisoned hooks on the whip tips tore through the air, making a sharp and unpleasant sound of breaking through the air. From a distance of more than two meters, they lashed fiercely at the phoenix sedan chair that was rushing straight towards them.
The curtain of the phoenix sedan chair did not move at all. Two white and delicate little hands penetrated the curtain directly and lightly touched the two scorpion tail whips.
With a very slight sound of tearing cloth, the scorpion tail whip made of two twisted steel wires shattered into pieces, and two pale white cold airs instantly came up along the whip. Qiu Da and Qiu Er cried out in surprise, and their right hands holding the whips were quickly covered with a layer of white ice crystals.
In the crowd, Qiu San, who was slashed more than a dozen times by the constables of Sikoutai and hit by an arrow in the calf, cried out in surprise. He shook his right hand, and several thumb-sized bullets flew out with a slight sound of breaking through the air.
The bullet and the sedan chair touched lightly and exploded on the spot. Large amounts of blue, green and red powder scattered and turned into poisonous gas that enveloped the sedan chair.
Qiu Da and Qiu Er retreated in embarrassment, covering their frostbitten right hands.
In the sedan, a sad laugh sounded: "My ruthless husband, shall we play together?"
Along with the laughter, a small whirlwind of chilling cold blew out from the sedan chair, carrying clouds of poisonous gas into the whirlwind and immediately transformed into a large mist that blew towards the palace guards who were blocking the road.
Qiu Da, Qiu Er and Qiu San ran away.
The captains, strong men, and guards were a little slow to react, and the cold wind carrying the poisonous gas rushed over, covering dozens of people in an instant.
The cold air penetrates the body and the five internal organs become cold.
The guard gecko felt his hands and feet getting cold as the cold wind blew on him, and his movements suddenly became stiff.
Then, a trace of sweet, spicy, or fishy smell rushed into the nasal cavity. Dozens of the guards under the palace gecko, including a captain, seven strong men, and more than thirty guards, staggered and fell to the ground, and the skin on their faces immediately turned black.
"Poison!" A blue-robed lieutenant who was lucky enough not to be caught in the poisonous wind yelled in exasperation: "Who is the one who gave birth to a son with three assholes to use such a method to destroy his own family line in front of his brothers? Antidote, antidote, damn it!"
After cursing, the captain shouted loudly: "However, what a good method, such a strong poison. Bastard, whose subordinate are you? After this incident, how about you follow me?"
Amid the roar, the captain looked at the phoenix sedan chair that was almost in front of him, his body swayed, he gritted his teeth, and let out a hoarse roar. He crossed his palms, making a sharp sound of metal colliding, and faint sparks could be seen flying between his fingers.
'puff'!
The captain struck out with both of his palms in succession, hitting the lifting pole of the phoenix sedan chair hard.
Just like the attacks of the archers before, the captain's powerful palms directly penetrated the lifting pole. A trace of white cold air lingered on his palms. The sparks between his fingers quickly went out, and a layer of ice crystals continued to emerge on his palms.
"What the hell!"
The middle-aged man who had just ordered the guards to attack from a distance, Lu Tianxing's brother-in-law, was like a big bird, stepping on the roofs and rushing over from the direction of Zhenglong Hutong in a few jumps.
Seeing this strange phoenix sedan from afar, the middle-aged man shouted: "Bow and crossbow, shoot!"
The previous round of volleys failed, and the archers who were stunned by the strange behavior of the sedan chair came to their senses. They shouted in unison, and another wave of arrows fell with a sharp sound of breaking through the air.
The middle-aged man's pupils suddenly froze.
With the help of lanterns and torches from all directions, he could see clearly the strange situation that occurred after the arrows landed on the phoenix sedan chair.
The phoenix sedan chair was like a phantom; all the arrows passed through it directly, without leaving any trace on the sedan chair.
Not only that, all the arrows that pierced the sedan were frozen into ice and shattered after hitting the ground.
"cut!"
The middle-aged man let out a long whistle, and a blue-green silk ribbon swept out from his waist. A cold light about three or four feet long came down from a high altitude with a sharp whistle, striking down on the phoenix sedan chair.
Lu Yi had sharp eyes. He saw that the middle-aged man pulled out from his waist a strange-shaped soft sword that was only two fingers wide, as thin as a cicada's wing, and eighteen feet long.
The almost transparent soft sword was stretched straight in the middle-aged man's hand. A cold light shot out from the tip of the sword, which was more than two meters long. The sharp cold air spread everywhere. Within a hundred meters radius, the small snowflakes falling from the sky were like iron filings attracted by a magnet, converging towards the sword light, adding a bit of sharp coldness that could kill all living things.
This sword was as fast as lightning and full of murderous intent.
The phoenix sedan seemed to be aware of the power of the sword. It was originally rushing straight forward along the street, but now it seemed to have no inertia at all. It turned 90 degrees on the spot and accelerated a little bit more as it crashed into a closed and locked shop on the side of the road.
"Where to escape?"
The middle-aged man sneered, and spun the long sword in his hand. The sharp sword light turned into dozens of whirlpool-like sword circles, which fell on the phoenix sedan chair with a "puff".
This time, the Luanfeng sedan chair finally suffered substantial damage.
The sword light shone through the sedan chair, and on this strange sedan chair, dozens of extremely thin, transparent and sharp lines clearly appeared.
Strands of bone-chilling white air continuously spewed out from these cracks. Wherever the white air reached, the ground was immediately covered with ice as thick as an inch.
From the sedan chair, a sad and mournful cry was heard: "What a cruel and ruthless husband!"
The phoenix sedan was moving at a very fast speed. After being hit by dozens of sword lights, it crashed into the door panel of the shop.
Then, in front of hundreds of people, the phoenix sedan chair just passed through the door.
The door panel was intact , and the phoenix sedan chair really went straight through like a ghost in the legend.
The middle-aged man cursed angrily and swung his sword. The door of the shop and half of the storefront building were split into two pieces by the sword. The building collapsed, and broken bricks, tiles, beams, pillars and roofs fell down one after another. However, in the shop full of smoke and dust, where was the shadow of the ghost sedan?
The middle-aged man fell heavily to the ground. With a wave of his right hand, he suddenly retracted the long soft sword, which turned into an egg-sized sword scroll and was casually stuffed into his belt.
He looked at the collapsed store with a gloomy face and said in a difficult tone: "My eyes are not blurry, right? It didn't break through the door and force its way in, but just went in like this?"
Two seven-star generals in red robes, and a large group of captains and strong men in blue and green robes rushed to the scene. They stood respectfully behind the middle-aged man, looking with slightly dull eyes at the store that was split in half by the sword.
They all witnessed what happened just now.
The sedan chair did pass through the door panel, like a phantom, and then disappeared.
"Send someone to report everything that happened here to the warden in detail... I'm afraid we really encountered something weird this time."
The middle-aged man pounded his belt with both hands and shuddered for no apparent reason.
He whispered, "Who sent the distress signal just now? Who was the first to encounter this weird thing?"
Lu Yi and Lao He were brought to the middle-aged man.
Before the middle-aged man could ask, Lu Yi said loudly, "General, please give the order to arrest all the people on the Ping An and Fu Yin. I suspect that the woman in the sedan chair is their accomplice!"
