Chapter 71: Chasing in the Snow
Wuyang Mountain, even just its outer part, is not like Xisheng Mountain.
The outer area alone is full of dangers, with ferocious beasts, pythons and poisonous snakes appearing from time to time. Occasionally, strange beasts will flee from the depths of the mountains to the outer area. It is even rumored that there are monsters that have inadvertently awakened their spiritual intelligence.
Those monsters have the naturally strong bodies of ferocious beasts, but also have intelligence close to that of humans. If you really encounter them in the mountains and forests, sometimes it can be more dangerous than encountering strange beasts.
Therefore, those who dare to hunt in the outskirts of Wuyang Mountain are not ordinary hunters, but groups of leather-membrane martial artists, or even strength martial artists. Most of the latter come for exotic beasts or particularly precious medicinal herbs and ferocious beasts.
Qin Ziling naturally would not join a hunting group, but he would basically not go out during the day, not even his soul would go out. Instead, he would hide in several caves that he had chosen in advance, quietly waiting for the arrival of night.
Wuyang Mountain at night is extremely dangerous even for powerful martial artists, and of course powerful martial artists also need rest.
Therefore, at night, hunters who go into the mountains will generally choose a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack to set up camp, and defend it strictly, and then go out hunting when the sky rises the next day.
But for Qin Ziling, Wuyang Mountain at night is a hunting paradise.
He doesn't have to worry about bumping into or alerting other hunters. If they really alert them, it is also convenient for him to dodge and hide in time.
Having practiced the art of the soul, he has a natural advantage at night.
Suddenly, Qin Ziling saw a figure running wildly on the snow under the moonlight, and behind him, there were four people following closely.
The five of them were moving very fast. Even though the snow was very thick and an ordinary person's whole foot would have sunk into it if they stepped on it, they were not affected at all.
Qin Ziling, who was floating in the air with his soul, saw the night as day. Looking from afar, he could see that the five people's feet were just touching the snow. Then the whole person flew up like an eagle and slid a distance of seven or eight meters in the air, just like the words "walking on snow without leaving any trace" in the novel.
The strangest thing is the person who is running wildly in the front. Once he encounters the trees, his whole body seems to merge with the trees, which creates a visual illusion and makes people unable to see him all of a sudden.
Unfortunately, the four people behind were following too closely, and their aura had already locked onto the person in front. Even though he seemed to have some special abilities, he could not hide himself in the sparse trees.
Under the moonlight, in the blink of an eye, the five people were already not far away.
Qin Ziling only then saw the five people's figures and faces clearly, and his heart was shocked.
Among the five people, the one running in the front was the immortal master he saw in the small building in the main residence of Xu Family Castle that night.
That night, he looked like an immortal, but now his hair was disheveled and his white Taoist robe was stained with blood, which looked particularly dazzling under the moonlight.
The four people who were chasing the Taoist priest, the two who were running in the front were particularly tall men. One of them had a horse face, deep eye sockets, prominent brow ridges, and was about fifty or sixty years old. He was the man Qin Ziling saw that night, Xu Pengkun, the master of Xu Castle.
The other tall man was about thirty years old, with a similar look to Xu Pengkun. Qin Ziling guessed that he should be the tall man riding on a clouded leopard horse that he saw when he first had a spiritual journey that night.
"Yuanwu!" Xu Pengkun suddenly took off into the air like a big bird while galloping, and shouted loudly.
The tall man following closely behind, the young master of the fortress, Xu Yuanwu, strode forward, raised his palms to the sky and slapped Xu Pengkun's falling feet from a distance.
Suddenly, strong winds blew up all around, and Qin Ziling saw two invisible forces rushing out from Xu Yuanwu's palms, rushing towards Xu Pengkun like surging waves.
Xu Pengkun was hit by the "huge wave", and his body, which had already fallen, suddenly rushed forward again in the air, like an eagle spreading its wings and gliding through the sky, and then swooped down and landed right in front of the immortal master who was about to dive into the dense forest.
"Where are you going? Gong Yangmu!" Xu Pengkun shouted sternly.
"Get out of the way!" When the immortal master saw that his way was blocked, his face suddenly changed. He flipped his palm and a green light shot out.
Qin Ziling could see clearly that it was a peach wood sword as big as a dagger.
There are many strange runes engraved on the sword.
The peach wood sword shot out, and swelled in the wind, becoming a three-foot-long green sword in a blink of an eye.
Under the moonlight, the Qingfeng sword emitted a cold green light, and the sword head emitted sword light, and it stabbed towards Xu Pengkun's chest.
Seeing this, Xu Pengkun smiled coldly, the muscles in his right arm squirmed, his blood and energy surged, air flowed around his body, and a long whip phantom suddenly appeared in his palm.
Xu Pengkun shook his arm, and the long whip was like a dragon emerging from the water, nimble and swift, lashing down fiercely at the three-foot green sword that was stabbing at him like lightning.
"Dang!" The shadow of the long whip hit the three-foot green sword transformed from the peach wood sword, and it actually made a clear sound of metal clashing in the dark night.
When the sound rang out, invisible shock waves burst out from the collision point, turning into hurricanes that rolled up the snow on the ground.
When Qin Ziling saw this scene, his soul couldn't help but tremble slightly. He quickly retreated to a tree farther away and watched from afar.
Some of the shock waves formed by the collision between the long whip phantom and the peach wood sword fell on the soul, which actually made the soul feel a little pain, as if a person was blown in the face by a biting cold wind.
It is not difficult to imagine that if the long whip and the peach wood sword really fell on the body, the soul would definitely feel uncomfortable.
"The phantom of the long whip should be transformed by strong force. It can transform strong force into a shape to kill the enemy, and it has many changes. It should be at least in the realm of transforming strong force. The peach wood sword turned into a three-foot green sword, and it can even be controlled outside the body. It should be the Taoist sword-controlling technique. As expected, the art of soul, although mysterious and strange, invisible and intangible, but if it is really hit by strong force or the flying sword of the Qigong practitioner, it will still be injured, and even the soul may be destroyed." Qin Ziling retreated to the crown of a big tree, while staring down at the fight between Gong Yangmu and Xu Pengkun, his mind racing.
In just a short while, the powerful whip and the peach wood sword collided more than ten times.
Each lash of the powerful whip was not only as flexible as water, but also more powerful than the last, and it continued without stopping. To Qin Ziling, it felt like an endless stream of waves, one higher than the last, and one wave closely following the last.
The wave of power!
Qin Ziling suddenly remembered that Zuo Le had specifically mentioned that Xujiabao's wave-dipping power was very mysterious, and his eyes couldn't help but shrink slightly.
Compared with Xu Pengkun's powerful long whip that was as powerful as the waves, Gong Yangmu's peach wood sword was incomparably agile, flying through the air like an antelope hanging on a horn, with tricky angles and no trace to be found, and it seemed that it was not restricted by the inertia of space and force at all. Ordinary people holding swords and knives would definitely be restricted by their own body movements, activity space, inertia and force operation when they wanted to perform sword and knife skills.
Because of this, although Xu Pengkun's powerful long whip was endless and each whip was more powerful than the last, he could not do anything to the peach wood sword.
However, although Gong Yangmu's sword-controlling technique was mysterious, he was still entangled by Xu Pengkun's powerful long whip and could not escape.
Soon, Xu Yuanwu and two others arrived and surrounded Gong Yangmu.
