Chapter 10: Invitations
"Isn't it a blame for not talking to you for two consecutive days?"
At the end of dusk in the desert, Su Shiyan walked into the barracks of Hao Qi and Zhang Heng lightly, and happened to see Hao Qi and Zhang Heng eating barbecue. Both of them were surprised when they saw Su Shiyan. Hao Qi and Zhang Heng quickly set a seat for Su Shiyan. Su Shiyan didn't care about sand or something, and sat down to the ground cheerfully. At the same time, he reached out to take a knife and cut off a piece of meat. While chewing it carefully, he also asked this question.
"How is that possible?" Hao Qi handed Su Shiyan a bottle of wine, and at the same time cut a piece of meat himself, then said: "You have your difficulties, you don't have to explain anything. I won't care about the silence these two days. I trust you to understand."
"I'm talking nonsense again." Although Su Shiyan said that, she laughed. She took the bottle and took a sip, then said: "I'm here to tell you that the next trip will probably start to be a bit difficult. From here, I have entered the desert inland, and from here it is an illegal area. I hope you don't show mercy when you are attacked."
"Hahaha, it depends on what you said." Hao Qi laughed, but did not explain. He just raised the bottle and signaled Su Shiyan, and then drank it all in one gulp. Su Shiyan also drank it all in one gulp. It was not until this time that Hao Qi continued to say, "It's not just this matter, come to me, right? Just say anything, you don't need to be perfunctory or conceal it from me."
Su Shiyan silently put down the bottle of wine. She looked directly at Hao Qi for a while before saying, "Compet with me once, I want to see your combat power, and... verify my combat power."
"...Use a sword?" Hao Qi looked at the long sword that was brought by Su Shiyan's hand.
"Well, use a sword."
In this world, due to the existence of internal power, there are often very few warriors who use weapons. In fact, this problem appears in the martial arts novels of Hao Qi's previous life. In the martial arts novels written, the earlier the martial arts novels, such as the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, etc., the earlier the martial arts novels, the stronger the combat power of the characters and the stronger the internal strength. At the same time, most of the masters in it are against the enemy with empty hands, and the later the era, the weaker the internal strength, and most of the masters in it are using weapons.
This is roughly speculated in the martial arts forum in Hao Qi's previous life, that is, as the era gets closer to modern times, the more difficult it is to cultivate internal strength. Even after the cultivation, the power becomes weaker. Therefore, the martial arts masters there will start to use weapons. In the era of strong internal strength, in order to make internal strength more convenient to use and fight against the enemy, bare hands are more powerful at that time.
The same principle is also true in this world. The internal strength of this world is a higher level of internal strength than in the martial arts novels that Hao Qi read in his previous life. Once he has internal strength, his combat power will simply rise sharply, which is almost the endorsement of humanoid Gundam. Therefore, after Hao Qi has internal strength, among the powerful internal strength whom he fights, only Wang Diao used a bow and arrow when he first attacked him. The enemies in the internal strength realm he encountered were all empty-handed against the enemy. Perhaps among the warriors he knew, only Su Shiyan used a sword, and only Zhang Heng used a bow to practice martial arts. In addition, almost all of them were empty-handed against the enemy. This was determined by the strength of the internal strength realm in this world.
"Do you know?"
Hao Qi stood up slowly, and he said as he stood up: "While I traveled, I have been looking at the collections of various countries. It is introduced in the books. Generally speaking, when I see the opponent using weapons, there are generally two possibilities. One is that the opponent is very weak, and the other is that the opponent is very strong. To be honest, I have never fought against the internal force realm of using weapons. Another question... Is your sword extremely rare? A sword made of metal that can transmit internal force, right?"
Su Shiyan immediately smiled and said, "No, but this sword is also a treasure of the famous craftsman. Cut iron like mud and breaking steel like powder, so... be careful."
Hao Qi laughed, then clasped his fists and said solemnly: "Hao Qi, please."
Su Shiyan also clasped her fists and said, "Su Shiyan, please."
The two looked at each other and then, the two of them took off Zhang Heng's retina. A flash of his eyes and the two lost their traces. Zhang Heng hurriedly ran out of the barracks. Sure enough, he saw Hao Qi and Su Shiyan standing on the sand dune in the distance, about thirty meters apart from each other, standing quietly with each other without any movement.
This action not only caused Zhang Heng to get out of the barracks, but also the Su family members in the distance were also alarmed. After a burst of noise, everyone in the Su family came out of the barracks.
In fact, the Su family members are not as arrogant as Zhang Heng thought, or look down on Hao Qi or something. You should know that Hao Qi is the internal power realm. Any internal power realm is the pride of heaven, and it is impossible for a situation to look down on the internal power realm. Even if a strong person in the internal energy realm is, he will never regard the internal power realm as an ant. This is the minimum cognition of both warriors, just like humans who can regard insects, fish and beasts as an ants, but when humans look at humans themselves, they will never belittle humans themselves. They are both internal power realms. If you look down on the internal power realm, wouldn’t you even look down on yourself?
Part of the reason why they are so cold towards Hao Qi and Zhang Heng is Su Shiyan, and it is really the case of aristocratic families as Zhang Heng mentioned, that is, they are hostile to Su Shiyan's obvious affection for Hao Qi. This actually has nothing to do with gentlemen and beauties, but more of the tension that their own internal strength may be abducted. This is one of them.
The second is the superiority in terms of strength and family background. Yes, Hao Qi is the internal force realm, and how could the Su family members not know about Hao Qi's combat information in the Blue Shadow Republic? After all, the Su family had known about what Hao Qi and Su Shiyan knew about it for a long time, but no matter how strong the internal force realm of a new generation cannot be strong. What's more, the Su family's generation started with eleven internal force realms. Although the strength of each internal force realm is slightly weaker than that of ordinary internal force realms, the qualitative change caused by quantitative change still gives all the children of the Su family an inexplicable sense of superiority. The eleven internal force realms families, looking at the entire area of the Blue Ocean, no family can reach it.
Because of these two reasons, the people of the Su family were indifferent to Hao Qi and Zhang Heng throughout their journey. One reason was that they were worried that Su Shiyan was abducted. Although this reason was ridiculous, it was reasonable for the nobles of the aristocrats to be so worried about their own internal power family members. The other reason was that Hao Qi was so strong that he could help them do anything in this industry. At best, it was just a cheering force, so they were so cold and dispensable to him.
Of course, they didn't know what happened in Baicao Kingdom. After all, they gathered together immediately when they got the news of the ruins. However, the information about Hao Qi's underground battle in Baicao Kingdom is still brewing...
Hao Qi and Su Shiyan were quietly facing each other. Hao Qi was relaxing and standing naturally, while Su Shiyan turned slightly and faced Hao Qi with half of her body. One hand was even more empty at the distance between the hilt of the sword. Both of them had no movement, but just looked at each other.
"...Well, let us two older generations see what the husband in the third girl can do."
In the Su family barracks, two oldest Su family members, namely Su Shiyan's two uncles, looked at each other. One of them was talking. At the same time, he took out a gold coin from his arms, which was the national coin of Sabeth, a desert country. He put the gold coin on his thumb and gently flicked it towards Su Shiyan and Hao Qi. The gold coin crossed a very long distance, and the accuracy, force, and landing point seemed to have been accurately calculated. It flashed with golden light, reflecting the last afterglow of dusk, and slowly fell from the middle between Su Shiyan and Hao Qi to the ground...
In an instant, the green light shone like a wave. Although only a little bit, all the viewers felt that it was a green color in the world. Just when Su Shiyan's long sword was unsheathed, it spread out. However, when he looked carefully, there was no blue color, only the light that flashed like thunder. The sky was already dark, but the light that was unsheathed by the long sword seemed to illuminate, no, illuminated the eyes of everyone present.
In an instant, Hao Qi stepped back quickly, and Su Shiyan stood still with a blow. Her figure and movements did not change at all, and even the long sword was still in the sheath, as if the scene just now was just an illusion.
Hao Qi touched his chest and there was a broken mouth on his clothes at the heart, either big or small, like a copper coin, but his skin was not damaged at all, only traces on his clothes.
"Good sword, good sword..."
The meanings of the two swords are different. Hao Qilian said a few words. He touched his chest and said, "Your swordsmanship... is even a little higher than the peak. It's amazing. It's really amazing. Are you and I the same year?"
Su Shiyan smiled sweetly, but her palms didn't even move a millimeter. She said, "Yes, I'm twenty years old this year. I'm a few months older than you. Be careful. I won't stop touching and next time. And, if you don't take out some real materials, my tribe members will probably touch you in the next trip."
"Will it make you very embarrassed? Hahaha..."
Hao Qi laughed, looked at Su Shiyan's quiet gaze, he put away his smile, clasped his fists again and said, "Then, you are careful, it's really a coincidence that I just practiced the Tianluo and Earth Palm to level 5... Forget it, I didn't say this, so..."
Chapter completed!