Chapter 887 Backstab (1)
When the Luo family knight who broke into the Big Sword Workshop was shot and fell, in a distant mansion, on the watchtower, two men were leaning on the railing and looking out.
One of them is Qin Mi, the current head of the Qin family in Luoyi.
A man named Lin Qun was the current head of the Lin family in Luoyi.
When the Luo family's team of knights appeared, both of their faces became slightly solemn.
But when they saw that several of these murderous and majestic knights were knocked down so easily by a hail of arrows from the Zhou family, they both couldn't help but clap their hands and chuckle at the same time.
"Interesting!" Qin Mi sighed: "Who is behind this Zhou family?"
"No matter who he is, at least it's good that we are not unlucky." Lin Yu smiled brightly: "At least, it's a good thing for us!"
Qin Mi tapped his fingers on the window frame and smiled thoughtfully, "So, the Luo family is so anxious to frame the Zhou family. Did they realize that there is someone behind the Zhou family supporting them? Do they want to cut off the other party's claws?"
Lin Yu raised his eyebrows and nodded slowly: "It's possible...but what does it have to do with us?"
The two looked at each other and laughed together.
Then, they both turned around at the same time and whispered a few words to the stewards of the two families standing behind them. As the figures flickered, their wills were quickly transmitted back. Soon, two teams with auras similar to those of the Luo family knights, but with much fewer numbers, and the two families together had only more than 60 elite soldiers, quietly gathered in a house somewhere in the old city.
As their stewards continued to send back news, Qin Mi and Lin Qun's faces became slightly flushed.
"Zhou Laodao, Zhou Laodao... do your best!" Qin Mi muttered to himself subconsciously: "Kill as many as possible, kill as many as possible. The total number of veterans of the Luo family who have retreated from the border town is only about 150. If you can keep all of this team of hundreds of people here, Luoyi City will be in a state of complete change, it will be a state of complete change!"
Lin Qu took a deep breath, with his hands behind his back, his fingers clasped together, and his knuckles turning white.
The arrow flew through the air, and under the sunlight, the rapidly rotating three-edged arrowhead reflected a dazzling cold light. The arrowhead hit the armor of the Luo family knight fiercely, making a harsh sound and splashing a large number of sparks.
With Zhou Changgong's shout, hundreds of Zhou family members holding strong bows gathered in this direction. Hundreds of strong bows shot in succession, and the overwhelming arrows made these knights quite embarrassed.
The leading Seventh Uncle had great cultivation, and he chopped with his long sword continuously, and had already chopped away at least two hundred powerful arrows that were falling towards him. However, the hundreds of Zhou family members had endless physical strength and had no worries about exhaustion. Their arrows shot forward in waves, one after another.
Especially Zhou Changgong, as he kept drawing his bow and shooting arrows, as he kept reciting the Indestructible Diamond Sutra, his cultivation level was slowly rising while he was drawing his bow. His strength was constantly increasing, and each arrow he shot was more powerful, faster, and more penetrating than the previous one!
Seventh Uncle was moving forward in big strides, roaring in a low voice. It only took him a few breaths to cover a short distance of one or two miles.
He was almost about to rush to the gate of the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall when a loud shout was heard. Zhou Laodao, wearing heavy armor made by Lu Yi and holding a long sword forged for him by Lu Yi, flew out like a whirlwind.
When the knife was about to fall on his head, Seventh Uncle instinctively held the knife with both hands and blocked it with one blow.
'choke'!
A sharp collision sound was heard, and Zhou Laodao chopped down with the long sword in his hand, making a soybean-sized gap in the long sword in his seventh uncle's hand, while the blade of the long sword in his hand was not damaged at all.
The Seventh Uncle screamed in shock, while Zhou Laodao laughed wildly, smug and unyielding. The long sword in his hand brought up a flash of snow, and it kept falling with a "chi chi" sound. In an instant, he chopped down with all his strength in a series of eighteen consecutive strikes.
Seventh Uncle had no time to dodge.
With the support of Lu Yi, Zhou Laodao's cultivation has broken through, and he uses his sword quickly and fiercely. Before Zhou Laodao's breakthrough, Seventh Uncle could still suppress Zhou Laodao steadily, but now... Zhou Laodao's combat power has surpassed Seventh Uncle.
The Luo family knights who followed closely behind were roaring and trying to besiege Zhou Laodao.
There was a sharp cracking sound, and the long sword in the seventh uncle's hand was cut off by Zhou Laodao. Zhou Laodao laughed wildly and chopped the seventh uncle's body seven times in a row. There was a continuous sound of metal collision. The armor on the seventh uncle's body was broken and splashed. The blade entered the body, cutting the flesh and blood, breaking the tendons and bones, making a sharp and terrible sound of tendons and bones breaking.
Seventh Uncle roared and spun around, and was chopped into the air by Zhou's old knife. Blood spurted out in circles, and a broken arm flew up with him.
In the back, Luo Bo and a group of Luo family executives exclaimed in unison.
In the distance, Qin Mi and Lin Qun, who were watching the fight, stomped their feet suddenly. There was no way to escape. There must be a powerful external force supporting the Zhou family - otherwise, how could such a sharp knife fall into Zhou Laodao's hands?
You know, Seventh Uncle is a veteran soldier who returned from the border town after many battles. The long sword in his hand is the standard weapon for the border town garrisons. Its quality is at least twice as good as the so-called heavenly soldiers in Luoyi City!
It has always been the case that Seventh Uncle relied on the advantage of his weapon to chop off the enemy's weapons. Who would have thought that someone could use a long sword to chop off the standard long sword of the border town in Seventh Uncle's hand?
"Your and my two families must join forces, and we must ask the adults behind the scenes to come forward..." Lin Yu looked at Qin Mi very seriously: "Otherwise, I'm afraid this is a powerful dragon crossing the river. If you and I can't suppress it, even our two families will be swallowed up."
Qin Mi nodded slowly: "You have to be careful... Tsk, I hope their appetites aren't too big!"
In the big knife workshop, Uncle Seven was chopped off and flew up, one arm was broken, one leg was chopped off, and only a piece of skin was left hanging crookedly on his body. Uncle Seven screamed in pain: "Surround!"
Behind the Seventh Uncle, three knights waved their swords and charged towards Zhou Laodao together.
Zhou Laodao suddenly raised his head, his eyebrows raised and his eyes suddenly opened wide, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
Around Zhou Laodao, wisps of spiritual energy from heaven and earth vibrated rapidly, accompanied by the sharp sound of metal clanging. Wisps of white Xinjin energy condensed into six palm-sized thin blade beams around him, which suddenly flew forward with a sharp sound of breaking through the air.
With a "puff" sound, three huge human heads wearing helmets and hideous visors flew up together.
The six small blade beams were much more powerful than the long sword in Zhou Laodao's hand. The three Luo family knights who were about to attack Zhou Laodao never dreamed that Zhou Laodao would be able to "awaken his spirit" successfully, and were caught off guard!
In such a life-and-death battle, being caught off guard means death!
The three knights' necks were spurting blood, their bodies fell heavily to the ground, and their three heads hit the ground heavily, rolling far away with a "bang".
Dozens of Luo family knights were charging, twenty or thirty Luo family knights were shot by arrows in their legs and feet and were struggling on the ground, and hundreds of elite veterans who had experienced many battles all lost their voices and their movements suddenly froze.
With the sound of "Puchi Puchi" continuing, a dozen Luo family knights who were in the front were hit by a group of Zhou family members who rushed out.
These Zhou family members held 18-foot-long spears, the spear heads were shaped like long swords, and were three feet long. The spear heads were shining with cold light, and they were extremely sharp. With a strange flash, these Zhou family members, with strong impact, stabbed the spears fiercely into the waist and ribs of these Luo family knights.
The spear heads broke through the armor and passed through the bodies, piercing these Luo family knights through.
Blood spurted along the blood grooves on the spear heads. More than a dozen Luo family knights who were shot roared angrily. They steadied their bodies, gripped their long swords tightly with both hands, and slashed fiercely at the Zhou family members who were charging in front of them.
In the back, the Luo family knights who were shot and fell to the ground exclaimed in unison.
At such a close distance and with such a fierce chopping, anyone who was hit by the sword would definitely die. They knew that the long swords in their hands were the real weapons of heavenly soldiers, and the armor used by ordinary people in Luoyi City, even the so-called "weapons of heavenly soldiers", were all low-quality rotten goods, and their defense was far inferior to the real standard weapons they carried.
The long sword whistled down, and the Zhou family's subordinates had no time to dodge. They could only watch the long sword fall on their helmets and shoulder armor. The heavy impact shook their bodies and staggered back. Sparks flew in the harsh collision, and a trace of white marks appeared on their helmets and shoulder armor...
It's just a white trace!
These old soldiers of the Luo family tried their best, and even though they were seriously injured, they used all their strength to hack and chop desperately, but only such insignificant marks were left on their armor.
"I..." Several Luo family knights spoke in a foul language.
On the arrow tower, Zhou Changgong laughed wildly, the longbow in his hand vibrated, and arrows fell like lightning, piercing through the visors of more than a dozen Luo family knights who were shot, and piercing through their heads.
The terrifying shock force from the arrows exploded, and more than a dozen heads turned into blood plasma, which flowed down through the gaps in the armor... This scene can only appear in nightmares!
There is a small square in front of the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall.
At this moment, hundreds of Zhou family subordinates lined up in three rows, holding long spears and heavy swords, blocking the gate of the ancestral hall.
Dozens of Luo family knights who were still able to move roared, formed a triangular charging formation, and fiercely attacked the horizontal column of Zhou family subordinates. The seventh uncle who was lying on the ground was still roaring: "Kill them, can they be more powerful than the wild monsters? You bunch of killer embryos, can't you kill these ordinary people?"
A cold light flashed in Lu Yi's eyes.
'Wild monster'?
Hmm, is this the enemy that Uncle Qi and his friends had faced before? Very interesting, there is a lot of information contained in it!
But, you regard these Zhou family members who have received the skills and methods from Lu Yi, and have been infused with the spiritual wisdom of heaven and earth, and have successfully awakened their spirits as "common people"? Are you guys mistaken?
Wearing the fine armor refined by Lu Yi, holding the powerful weapons refined by Lu Yi, and practicing the "Indestructible Diamond Sutra", the members of the Zhou family, whose physical strength has been greatly enhanced, are naturally not as powerful as the knights of the Luo family in terms of individual combat power.
Whether in terms of their own cultivation, combat awareness, or combat experience, they are far behind the elite veterans of the Luo family who have experienced hundreds of battles!
But armor and weapons have an absolute advantage.
Behind them, there are hundreds of strong archers cooperating in the battle, and there are also fierce leaders like Zhou Laodao, who is one of the best masters in the wilderness... Well, of course, there are also big cheaters like Lu Yi who are hiding behind them quietly!
Something even more shameless happened.
As these old soldiers of the Luo family rushed forward, Lu Yi began to recite scriptures.
This scripture is not a serious mantra.
These are not the authentic Buddhist scriptures that are used to exorcise demons and appease the souls of the dead, but rather the evil scriptures that come from some Buddhist scums in Liangyi Heaven who use the name of Buddhism to deceive people and make them lose their minds.
Lu Yi's voice was very soft.
A hundred feet away, you can't hear him chanting.
The 'buzz buzz buzz' sound of the Buddhist mantra was like the buzzing of ten thousand flies, penetrating directly into the minds of all the Luo family knights.
These Luo family knights rushed to the front of the Zhou family. They raised their long swords and were about to chop, but suddenly they heard a buzzing sound in their heads, their bodies suddenly felt numb, and the strength in their arms disappeared.
Their bodies were shaking, their internal organs were paralyzed, and the blood in their blood vessels became stagnant.
Their bodies were shaking, their minds were in a mess, their thoughts were almost frozen, and they almost forgot who they were, where they were, and what they were about to do...
In this state, they are on the battlefield!
The Zhou family's warriors showed no mercy and showed no hesitation. They stabbed with spears, chopped with heavy swords, and even used crossbows to almost hit the faces of the Luo family knights.
The spear pierced the armor.
The heavy sword broke the armor scales.
The heavy crossbow was fired at the point of the visor, and the vibrating bowstring almost swept across the visor.
Dozens of Luo family knights who rushed up howled in pain. Some were pierced by spears, some had their arms and chests chopped off by heavy swords, and some were shot in the face by heavy crossbows. Their visors and heads were exploded at the same time by crossbow arrows that were almost as thick as a small egg.
In just a few breaths, more than a hundred Luo family knights fell to the ground.
Seventy or eighty people died suddenly, and thirty or forty people fell to the ground with arrows in their legs and feet. The ground was covered with blood, and the howling and cursing of Seventh Uncle resounded through the sky.
"Chop them off!" Zhou Laodao raised his sword and chopped off three heads. He was so excited that his whole body was burning hot. There was almost smoke rising from his head. He roared in a hoarse voice: "Chop them off...Haha! Is this the so-called border garrison? The so-called elite who have experienced many battles? Ugh!"
Zhou Laodao stared at the elite members of the Luo family who were lying on the ground.
Ordinary people in Luoyi City are not qualified to know the existence of these elite members of the Luo family... However, as one of the few true masters of Taoism in Luoyi City, Zhou Laodao has dealt with these elite members of the Luo family before.
These dealings were unfriendly and unpleasant.
It was nothing more than some high-ranking members of the Luo family who sent these people to pressure Zhou Laodao intentionally or unintentionally during his growth and rise, using coercion, inducement, intimidation and intimidation to make Zhou Laodao, along with the entire Zhou family, involuntarily join the Luo family's camp.
Why can Zhou Laodao only sell the good goods he obtains at the Luo family’s old store every time he goes in and out of the wilderness at the risk of his life?
Why did he still only trade with the Luo family's old store even though he knew that more than 90% of the profits were taken away by the Luo family's old store?
Isn’t it because, in the past, these old soldiers of the Luo family had fought with him, Zhou Laodao... Zhou Laodao knew the true strength and confidence of the Luo family. Doesn’t he have the courage to lead the Zhou family to resist the Luo family’s plunder?
But today...it's different!
With Lu Yi's help... Old Zhou has truly taken over and become the master!
A large group of Zhou family troops went up and brought down all kinds of weapons. They ignored the curses and threats from the Luo family knights and directly slaughtered more than a hundred people!
The armor and weapons were all blown away, not a single piece of armor was left.
The corpses were stripped clean and neatly lined up on the road in front of the ancestral hall.
The sun shone brightly on these bodies that had been stripped clean. The bodies had lost too much blood and their skin had turned deathly pale. They reflected a white light in the sun, just like dead pigs floating on the river, which had absorbed enough water and become a little bloated!
Everything happened very quickly.
Originally, even if the Zhou family had the ability to kill these old soldiers of the Luo family, they would have to pay a certain price and spend a lot of time.
But with the big cheater Lu Yi here... before the scripture was even finished, these old soldiers of the Luo family were slaughtered by the Zhou family without any resistance... and Luo Bo and others who were standing outside the big knife workshop watching the battle with a smile didn't even know what was happening and had no time to react!
When the head of the last old soldier of the Luo family was chopped off and placed neatly next to his corpse, Luo Bo's body shook violently and a mouthful of blood spurted out far away.
From all directions, the heads of various households, leaders, private soldiers, slaves, etc. who were summoned by the Luo family to besiege the Big Knife Workshop, all changed color and retreated quickly for several miles, as if there was a flood or a beast ahead, staying far away from the Big Knife Workshop.
Outside the huge sword workshop, only the Luo family's private army soldiers were left surrounding it.
The Luo family's private army soldiers all had distorted faces and looked pale, and had completely lost their will to fight.
The Luo family's private army soldiers are all family members. They and their knights who rushed into the big knife workshop are all relatives, whether close or distant. They know all the uncles, the third uncles, and the like!
Of course they knew how powerful these knights were who were killed like chickens!
They didn't even manage to cause any casualties to the Zhou family before being killed so easily!
How strong is the Zhou family's hidden foundation?
How terrifying is the force behind them?
Everyone in the Luo family had a blank mind, including Rama, who had been calm and composed, standing in the backyard of his "father-in-law" watching the battle. Now he was completely dumbfounded and had no idea what to do next!
The area around the Big Knife Workshop fell into an eerie silence.
Only the smell of blood spread in the air.
Only the buzzing sound of mosquitoes and flies flying around could be heard.
As time passed, the Luo family's private soldiers surrounding the Big Knife Workshop gradually became agitated.
At some point, Rama had arrived at the scene in person with a group of Luo family elders.
Standing outside the original main gate of the Big Sword Workshop, on the other side of the moat, Rama, who was also wearing helmets and armor, Luo Bo, who was also wearing helmets and armor, and a group of elders, deacons and other senior officials of the Luo family, who were also wearing helmets and armor, had bloodshot eyes. When they looked at people, the human outlines in their eyes were rimmed with blood.
The sound of low wheels was heard, and several carriages with extremely luxurious furnishings slowly arrived outside the Big Knife Workshop.
Rama and others personally went to greet them, respectfully opened the car door curtain, and helped out a dozen old men who had incomplete bodies, trembling steps, and looked quite old, with white hair and beards.
In this world, the life span of the people is extremely long.
Even ordinary civilians who have not practiced anything, as long as they do not suffer from unexpected disasters or are not hunted by ferocious beasts, can live to a lifespan that would amaze and even shock powerful cultivators in the heavens such as Liang Yi Tian.
Not only do the people of this world live long, but their quality of life is also exceptionally high.
During their long life journey, they maintain the appearance and physical strength of youth and middle-aged people for most of the time. Only when their lifespan reaches the final end will they suddenly fall into a state of rapid aging in just a few thousand years.
These dozen elderly people look so old. Logically, they should have reached old age a long time ago.
But in fact, although they are the elders of the Luo family, they are not much older than the seventh uncle...
A dozen Luo family elders stood trembling by the moat, sneering as they watched the entire place go by in complete silence, save for a few wisps of smoke rising from the large knife shop near the ancestral hall - well, it was already noon, and Zhou Laodao and others were having the women of the clan wash rice, cook rice, and smoke and roast meat.
As a standing combat fortress, the Zhou family's ancestral hall has open and underground ditches, extremely clean water sources from wells, and a large underground space that stores enough food and supplies for the clan members to survive for several years.
So, eat when you should, drink when you should.
The Zhou family was not the one that suffered heavy losses, but the one that gained a lot. From Mr. Zhou down, all the Zhou family members, including the servants and maids, were in a very good mood and had a good appetite.
A breeze blew through the Big Knife Shop, and the laughter and joy of the Zhou family spread far away in the wind, and naturally could be heard clearly by the dozen or so old men.
The one who looked the oldest, with his entire right arm broken at the shoulder and his legs missing below the knees, was skinny and shriveled like a small ball. His entire body looked less than five feet tall, and his white hair had even turned yellow. He looked like an old man who might fall to the ground and die at any time, suddenly sneered.
"Hey, hey, for so many years, our Luo family, ever since our ancestors took root in this wasteland... from the original Luo family enclosure, to the Luo family town, and later on the city of Luoyi... hey, this city, this water, this soil, this piece of sky, this piece of land, all belong to our Luo family."
"If the people of our Luo family want to kill a few of those little minions who jump up and down, they should just stick out their necks and wait for death!"
"Since when did our Luo family want to wipe out a family in Luoyi City, but we had to lose so many soldiers and generals, and so many members of our family died and injured?"
The old man turned around and slapped Rama twice on the face with his left hand: "Ram, you didn't handle this matter well, you should be punished... Think about how to give an explanation to the tribe."
"However, you have done well in other things over the years. Although you are not as heroic as our great ancestor, the Luo family has indeed grown a lot over the years... So, it is a good thing to suffer a loss and fall now!"
“This is the wasteland!”
"In the wasteland, there are no families that will prosper forever, and no surnames that will prosper forever... In the wasteland, this is a place where people eat each other and don't even spit out the bones after eating them."
"Remember this lesson. Look at the color of the blood of those tribesmen, especially your seventh uncle!"
"Next time, when you deal with someone, you must be more careful, more thorough, and more... foolproof!"
Rama, Luo Bo and others burst into tears, fell to their knees with a thud, and kowtowed to the old man to apologize.
"Alright, alright, stop being childish." The old man waved his hands and said calmly, "So many members of the clan were killed or injured, it's okay... As for the members of the clan, just marry some more pretty girls and have more children... Losing so many masters is okay, it's just spending the emperor's money, right? Take out the emperor's money that has been surplus in the clan over the years, and it's easy to get one hundred, two hundred, three hundred people to practice Taoism."
"hehe!"
The fine lines between the old man's eyebrows suddenly split open, revealing a two-inch long, blood-red vertical eye.
His eyes flickered, opened and closed, blood gushed out three feet away, and the old man shouted sternly: "In this case, let them... die miserably... Let everyone in Luoyi know that my Luo family still has the final say in Luoyi, and no one can dare to touch my tiger whiskers!"
Rama raised his head as if he wanted to say something.
The old man poked Rama's forehead heavily with his finger and said coldly: "The higher-ups asked us to send a group of criminals over there. Which family can't be used to pay the debt? Must it be the Zhou family? Come on, the whole family of Zhou, young and old, male and female, all will be skinned and hung on the city gate!"
Rama exhaled heavily and hit his head on the ground.
More than a dozen Luo family elders laughed grimly in unison, with fine cracks on their brows and their eyes flickering with blood-red light. Along with a low roar, a large amount of blood-red mist rose into the air around them, quickly condensing into blood-red fireballs the size of water tanks, rising and circling rapidly, and bombarding the big knife workshop with a rumbling sound.
In front of them, several large stone structures, extremely solid houses blocked the path of the blood-red fireball. Then they heard loud noises and groups of flames with a diameter of more than ten feet rose into the sky. The houses were built with heavy stones with a radius of three feet. Now they were shattered like tofu and were easily blown into countless debris.
Houses collapsed and fell to the ground, and huge pits with diameters of several or even dozens of feet appeared on the ground.
Hot air rises from these large pits , and there is even molten magma flowing slowly along the pit walls.
More than a dozen old men from the Luo family roared in low voices, with veins bulging under their skin. They put all their strength into activating their eyes between their brows and condensed blood-red fireballs to bombard the Big Knife Workshop.
In this way, from the main gate of the original big knife workshop to the main gate of the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall, in just a meal time, a thoroughfare dozens of feet wide and full of potholes was opened up.
During this period of time, muffled explosions as loud as thunder could be heard throughout Luoyi and beyond.
From all directions, the Luo family's private soldiers raised their weapons and cheered at the top of their lungs.
And those people from the big and powerful families who had originally fled, under the leadership of the heads and leaders of each family, came back with flattering faces and giggles, putting on an appearance of loyalty and courage, ready to stand by the Luo family through thick and thin.
Rama slowly stood up, looked at these people and sneered, pointing at the main gate of the Zhou family ancestral hall not far ahead: "Everyone, please help me to kill all the members of the Zhou family, young and old!"
