Chapter 3: Cold Toad Skill
ten minutes later.
Cao Jinxing walked out of the darkroom with a knife in hand, locked the door, and began to look for the room of the third in command Wang Xuanying based on his memory.
"Wang Xuanying, a disciple of Luoyang Golden Sword Sect, has never learned any poison skills. His heart-piercing poison insects should be spoils of war obtained from the robbery..."
People who don't practice poison skills and don't know how to ward off insects can't carry a lot of insects on their bodies. There is a risk of backlash, and there is no need to carry all the antidotes around.
There must be some left!
Cao Jinxing ran away.
Perhaps because they trusted the mountain road mechanism too much, the three men led a large group of people to Tizikou to set up defenses, and only a few people were left behind in the mountain village.
But Cao Jinxing did not take it lightly.
He carefully performed the "Lightning Steps" to bypass the crowd and quietly arrived outside Wang Xuanying's room.
Two bandits were drinking wine and eating meat at the stone table in the yard, chatting as they ate.
"I really don't know what they are guarding. The village is impregnable. Who can break in? Really! They don't allow people to get close... Do you think the third in command has a mistress hidden in his house?"
"Nonsense! The eldest is devoted to martial arts training and has no interest in women, and the second in command is dismissive. The two elder brothers don't fight for it, so what can the third in command hide? Who is he hiding it for?"
“That’s right…”
"Besides, the first and second in command know about this. I've seen them go in. It's probably poisonous insects or something like that. Be careful."
"Poisonous insect? Hiss! Is that the one that the Jinyiwei spy ate? How come the Third In Command is also playing with poison?"
"I don't know either. It's been like this since we robbed the Changfeng Escort Agency a month ago..."
"Robbery?"
Cao Jinxing walked out from behind the wall, looked at the two bandits, and asked with a smile, "What do you mean by robbing a caravan?"
"It's you?!"
The two bandits were shocked. One of them immediately picked up a knife and the other opened his mouth to call for help.
Cao Jinxing swung his hand casually, and the long knife stabbed into the throat of the bandit with his mouth open, suffocating his screams in his throat, and then cut off his entire head with the remaining force!
The head rolled to the ground like a ball, and blood gushed out!
The knife drew a line of blood in the air and penetrated deeply into the wooden door, all the way to the end of the handle!
This terrifying and domineering power frightened the remaining bandit silly. His hand holding the knife froze in mid-air and his face turned pale.
"I'll ask again, what is this robbery?"
"That's right... yes, yes..."
The bandit's teeth were chattering, and he trembled and said "yes" for a long time, but he couldn't utter a complete sentence.
Cao Jinxing waited patiently, and after a while he finally heard him tell the whole story in bits and pieces.
A month ago, Changfeng Escort Agency was invited by Mr. Zhang, the boss of Datong Money House, to escort 5,000 taels of silver to a place in western Hunan.
But when passing through Binzhou, the Crouching Tiger Gang unfortunately found out.
How can you refuse the money that is delivered to your door?
On that day, the three bosses came together, slaughtered the entire escort team, and returned with a great victory!
This incident was known far and wide, and it was also the lead to the Binzhou prefect's another crackdown, another major defeat, and even having to ask for help from the Jinyiwei.
Cao Jinxing also knew it.
But there is one thing that is different from his information.
According to the bandits, that cleanup was not a great victory, but a tragic victory!
Not only were all the more than 80 elites in the team killed, but Wang Xuanying was seriously injured, Han Dang was seriously injured, and Yan Baihu had seven broken ribs...
It's incredible!
The leader of that escort team was only at the peak of his acquired talent. How could it be possible for three against one to end up like this?
The minions were also very curious, but the three bosses were very secretive about it, so no one dared to talk about it.
Anyway, from that day on, no one was allowed to approach the third in command's yard.
"interesting……"
Cao Jinxing's brain was working at high speed. He lowered his head and thought to himself, "There should be a true disciple of the Five Poison Sect in the team... Maybe the escort money is just a cover, and escorting the true disciple is the mission... Then his situation is not optimistic, and he needs to use the escort team to cover up his tracks... If it is an injured post-natal peak, two against three is impossible to hurt them like this... He can break seven ribs of the Nine-Layer Golden Bell Cover, his martial arts may be stronger than poison... Combining all the speculations, it is very likely that he encountered a seriously injured innate... Then this room..."
Cao Jinxing looked towards the door.
The bandit next to him turned around and tried to run away when he wasn't paying attention, but Cao Jin didn't even turn his head back and stabbed him in the back of the head with a chopstick!
The bandit fell to the ground.
"Go in and take a look."
Cao Jinxing strode forward, drew his knife, pushed open the door, and said in a louder voice: "No matter who you are, I am only here to find medicine, and I have no intentions towards you. It is best for us to live in peace, and don't force me to set fire to this house!"
Look around.
The room was large and empty, but there were only a few tables, chairs and beds scattered around, and other than that it was all empty space.
There were no serious injuries or prisoners.
There is no antidote either.
Damn it!
Cao Jinxing cursed inwardly, this room was too clean, there wasn't even a bottle or jar that looked like an antidote.
"Do you take me for an idiot? If there's really nothing, then there's no point in guarding it!"
Cao Jinxing sneered. He stood at the door, his sharp eyes sweeping across every inch of the room like an iron comb.
I quickly found a floor tile under the table that had a slightly different degree of wear and tear. The sand on the edge had fallen off, probably because it was often turned over.
He walked over, dug it out and saw that there was a rope hidden under the brick. He grabbed the rope and pulled it up, and a small hole only half a person's height appeared in the wooden wall at the northeast corner.
Cao Jinxing rushed in with a knife.
Inside was a damp, dark dungeon.
Facing us stood a wooden cross with a man tied to it with iron chains. He had his head lowered and his hair was grey. He looked quite old and his body was covered with scars.
It seems like he has stopped breathing.
Cao Jinxing was full of alert.
No matter if he was pretending to be dead or really dead, he would never come close.
Looking around, I finally saw a table and chair by the west wall of the dungeon. There were white papers scattered on the ground around them, all covered with black words and big crosses drawn on them with a red pen.
The black characters are neat, and the red crosses are messy.
It is not difficult to guess that he should have finished writing the black words first, and then felt that something was not satisfactory, so he used a red pen to cross it out to vent his anger.
On the table were the four treasures of the study, a red porcelain vase, and a black wooden box containing poisonous insects. You could hear the sound of the insects gnawing on the wood.
Cao Jinxing breathed a sigh of relief.
Finally found it.
He walked over quickly and saw dozens of strange golden insects entangled and wriggling in the box. He quickly looked away and picked up the porcelain bottle to observe.
"Antidote for insecticide... just to be on the safe side, let's try it on these insects first..."
He poured out a pill, put it to his nose and smelled it. He didn't feel anything unusual, but instead had a pleasant medicinal fragrance. He then crushed some of the powder and sprinkled it on the poisonous insect.
squeak--
After the sharp sound of insects chirping, the poisonous insects immediately lay still.
The other insects smelled the scent and immediately crawled to the side.
"It's fine if a person holds it, but the bugs will die if they touch it. This must be it... It's a pity that we can't do any tests, so we can only take the risk..."
Cao Jinxing's face was uncertain: "I don't know if those three bastards will activate the poisonous insects. If the thing in their stomach bites me during the battle, then there's no need to fight this battle..."
He gritted his teeth, took out a pill and swallowed it, while secretly practicing "Bao Yuan Jin" just in case.
Fortunately.
After less than thirty breaths, Cao Jinxing clearly felt that the vague foreign body sensation in his abdomen disappeared, and the poisonous insect that had drilled into his heart died!
"call……"
Cao Jinxing breathed a sigh of relief. The safety hazard had been eliminated and he felt much better. His eyes inadvertently fell on the white papers on the ground.
Looking closely, each page is carefully numbered. One of the pages has a noticeably large font, with only three words, but it takes up the entire page.
——"Han Chan Gong".
"as expected."
The only thing that could make those three guys covet it was the martial arts skills of this innate master who beat them violently with his seriously injured body.
But why destroy it after getting it?
Did this expert trick them with fake stuff, or... did those three idiots fail to master it?
Cao Jinxing became interested.
He found the first page and read it quickly. It seemed to be the general formula. He felt that it was not as good as Bao Yuan Jin. There were too many empty words. He took the second page and looked at it. Hmm? It seemed to be interesting. It was actually ice attribute. He took the third page and looked at it. It seemed to be consistent with the first page. Then he took the fourth page, the fifth page...
Other people read books more and more carefully, for fear of missing a word, but he is just the opposite, reading faster and faster.
Because I read the first page carefully, I later found that every page had something similar to it.
They even found a lot of mistakes in this "fake secret book". They guessed that the master had tricked them by burying them in inconspicuous places, but going against the original path. If they really practiced that way, they would be courting death!
"There's nothing wrong with the first page of the general rules..."
He thought to himself, "The whole book is about how to condense Qi and accumulate strength. It's like a spring. The more you squeeze it in normal times, the stronger its explosive power will be during a battle... Long-term practice can condense Qi and turn it into the coldest and coldest energy... This "Cold Toad Skill" seems to be a pretty good mental method. How about giving it a try?"
He only knows one set of "Bao Yuan Jin" and his knowledge of internal energy is very limited. He doesn't know what grade this thing is, but it is definitely much stronger than "Bao Yuan Jin".
With a thought in his mind, he subconsciously circulated the Qi in his body according to the description of the mental method, and immediately a chill radiated from himself!
Ice flowers condensed under my feet!
The temperature in the dungeon dropped suddenly!
“Stop, stop, stop!”
Cao Jinxing stopped talking quickly. He suddenly remembered that there was a prisoner beside him who was not aware of his own life or death. He quickly threw away the pages of the book, picked up the box of poisonous insects and walked out.
Before going out.
He looked back at the old man and felt that he was just like himself when he first came to this world, alone and helpless...
After thinking for a while, he threw the knife over. With a clang, the blade broke the chain on the old man's left hand.
"Just consider it as repaying your favor."
After saying that, Cao Jinxing quickly distanced himself, rushed out of the dungeon, and disappeared without a trace.
Next second.
The "corpse"'s eyeballs moved slightly and opened their eyes.
He smiled.
A powerful icy force spread out from his heart and lungs, rushing to his limbs and bones, frosty wind filled the air, and his clothes fluttered!
Even if he is wearing tattered clothes, it is difficult to conceal the bearing of a master!
At the same time , his internal energy rapidly rose, from the acquired realm to the innate realm, to the spiritual realm, to the Dharma realm...
All the wounds healed instantly!
The dungeon turned into an ice cave in the blink of an eye!
Suddenly, the old man frowned slightly. For some reason, his state of mind dropped again. He sighed:
"It's still a little bit short... But, there is an unexpected surprise."
He looked in the direction Cao Jinxing left, with a warm smile, as if he had found a treasure lost for a thousand years, and said softly: "Silly child, you can't run away, hahahahahaha..."
He laughed wildly.
The laughter was endless and lasted for a long time!
