According to the previous discussion with Xiao Fan, Ling Chen had to return to Lingwu Academy today. After saying goodbye to his nanny and Li Hu in the morning, Ling Chen rushed towards Lingwu Academy alone.
It is worth mentioning that this time before Ling Chen left, Ling Xiao actually came to see Ling Chen off in person. This was something that Ling Chen would not have dared to think about before.
It was almost dusk when Ling Chen left. The Ling family was still quite far away from Lingwu Academy. If you walked, it would take two hours.
When Ling Chen arrived at the foot of the Lingwu Academy mountain, the sky was already getting dark.
At the foot of the mountain of Lingwu Academy is a small forest, with overgrown weeds on both sides of the path and uneven trees blocking the sky.
From time to time, the sound of birds flapping could be heard in the forest, a breeze blew by, and Ling Chen suddenly stopped in his tracks.
Jian frowned, glanced at the woods on both sides with sharp eyes, and said coldly: "Friends in the forest, since we are here, why bother hiding."
As soon as he finished speaking, several figures suddenly jumped out of the forest and appeared in front of Ling Chen in the blink of an eye.
Three well-proportioned men in black were all covered with black gauze, holding a long knife, and exuding a terrifying murderous aura from all over their bodies.
In the Spirit Sword Continent, a continent where sword cultivation was the main focus, Ling Chen rarely saw anyone using a sword.
With a sweep of his consciousness, Ling Chen realized that he could not see through the cultivation level of the three people in front of him. Ling Chen could basically be sure of one thing from their eyes, that is, they were all young.
Although their hands holding the knife seemed to be even and strong, their skin was too delicate and they were not the hands of adults at all.
And from the murderous intent in their eyes, it is certain that these three people must know Ling Chen and are here for his life.
"Who ordered you to kill me?"
Ling Chen was too lazy to talk nonsense and asked straight to the point.
The man in black among the three of them glanced at Ling Chen in surprise and said coldly: "Anyway, you won't be able to walk back to Lingwu Academy alive today. It doesn't matter if I tell you that it's you, the Ling family, who wants to get rid of you. , so we are just following orders.”
A cold light flashed in Ling Chen's eyes, "Ling family? Ha, do you think I can trust you by sowing discord like this?"
"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not. What matters is that you are dead today!"
One of the men in black seemed to be a little impatient. He raised his long knife and came straight towards Ling Chen. When the other two saw this, they stopped talking nonsense and the three of them attacked Ling Chen together.
Facing the menacing three men, Ling Chen frowned. Although he didn't know who wanted to kill him, it was pointless to think about it now.
If you really die here, everything will be over.
The long sword shook, a sword light flashed through, and the nameless sword technique was launched directly.
The man in black who was the first to arrive in front of Ling Chen didn't seem to take Ling Chen seriously at all. He swung the long knife in his hand and a green sword light came straight towards him.
Ling Chen was shocked, this person was at least as strong as the sixth level swordsman!
The sword light and the sword light collided together, Ling Chen did not take a step back, but the man in black was shocked by Ling Chen's sword energy and took two steps back before he could stabilize his figure.
The other two people were shocked, looked at each other, and took action at the same time.
Facing the two men's attack, Ling Chen waved a sword light to protect his whole body to prevent the other person from attacking. At the same time, the sword light in his hand surged, and the unknown sword skill was instantly activated to the extreme.
Two of these three people are at the sixth level of swordsmanship, and the other is at the seventh level of swordsmanship. With the cultivation levels of these three people, any one of them is enough to defeat a swordsman at the third level of swordsmanship!
But the fact is that, faced with the attack from these three people, Ling Chen was evenly matched with each other for a while, which was a bit incredible.
After a hundred moves, Ling Chen gradually fell into a disadvantage!
After all, the cultivation of these three people was much higher than his own, and the three of them took action at the same time. As time passed, Ling Chen fell at a disadvantage.
He felt anxious in his heart, knowing that if he continued like this, his life would definitely be in danger, so he had no choice but to use all his strength to defeat the enemy with one move.
Ling Chen has already mastered the first form of the Wuming Sword Technique, and with all his strength, he will have absolutely no problem dealing with a warrior below the eighth level of swordsmanship.
But if he faced multiple enemies at the same time, it would be a bit difficult for him, and the strength of these three people was not weak. To defeat these three people, it would be really difficult to rely on Wuming swordsmanship alone.
Those three people were also extremely shrewd. Seeing that Ling Chen was at a disadvantage, they naturally took action with all their strength, hoping to completely trap Ling Chen.
Without paying attention, two blood marks were left on Ling Chen's body. One knife cut his right arm, and the other cut his left rib.
Seeing that he was injured, Ling Chen couldn't help but feel angry. A kind of anger he had never felt before suddenly welled up in his heart. The black profound energy in his dantian surged instantly, filling Ling Chen's entire dantian in the blink of an eye.
"ah!"
Following Ling Chen's long roar, a light black aura came out of his body, and the long sword was instantly filled with terrifying sword aura.
Suddenly, Ling Chen felt that the entire set of Wuming Sword Technique's first move began to flash rapidly in his mind. Each bloody villain was magnified several times in an instant, and every movement they made was so...
It was so clear that Ling Chen only had to read it once to remember it.
In this way, the forty-nine sword moves of the first form of the Wuming Sword Technique quickly ran through Ling Chen's mind.
Following the remaining memories in his mind, Ling Chen ignored the injuries on his body and swung his long sword, using the first move of the Nameless Sword Technique to penetrate the river with his sword, finally taking action at this moment!
In an instant, the light burst out, and the sword's power was astonishing.
The three masked men froze, and looked at Ling Chen who was surrounded by thousands of sword lights, and their hearts were filled with shock.
A terrifying sword energy centered on Ling Chen instantly locked the three people's energy tightly.
"Not good, flash!"
One of the men in black noticed something was wrong and immediately shouted to retreat, but unfortunately it was already too late!
Ling Chen suddenly opened his eyes and slashed out with the long sword in his hand with an indomitable momentum.
The three men groaned, and the long swords in their hands made a crisp sound, and were all broken by this powerful sword energy!
And the bodies of these three people were pushed into the air by the remaining sword energy, bringing up three sad lines of blood, and then hit the ground heavily.
The light black sword energy on the long sword gradually dissipated, and Ling Chen returned to his original appearance, standing there quietly, with a terrifying murderous intent exuding in his eyes.
Just now, when he was being pressed down and beaten by these three people, when their long knives scratched Ling Chen's skin, a raging anger suddenly shot up in Ling Chen's body like an unknown fire, and then Ling Chen
It was as if he had changed into a different person, and his strength suddenly surged in an instant!
And when he recovered, he suddenly discovered that he had broken through to the fourth level of swordsman!
The battle just now caused Ling Chen to break through again without knowing it, and the three masked men were also seriously injured.
Seeing Ling Chen approaching step by step, the three masked men looked at each other, swung their right hands at the same time, and three hidden weapons came towards Ling Chen with the sound of howling wind.
Ling Chen was shocked and waved out a sword light, drawing the three hidden weapons aside.
And those three people, taking advantage of this moment, turned around and ducked into the woods, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Ling Chen was about to go forward and chase after him, but he accidentally glanced at the hidden weapon that the three men had just fired.
But this glance made Ling Chen stop abruptly.
"how so?"
Ling Chen stepped forward and picked up one of the hidden weapons on the ground. He looked at the hidden weapon in his hand with a solemn expression.
The reason why Ling Chen was so surprised was because he had seen these three hidden weapons before.
This hidden weapon is exactly the same as the one used by the young man in black gauze who killed him on the cliff behind Lingwu Academy!
"Could it be that the black-shaded boy who killed me last time is in the same group as these three people today?"
Ling Chen frowned. There was no one from the Ling family in Lingwu Academy. He knew this, so the boy in black gauze who killed him at that time could not be from the Ling family.
Today, these three people claimed that someone from the Ling family wanted to kill them, so they intercepted and killed Ling Chen here.
But what they didn't expect was that Ling Chen broke out on the spot and defeated all three of them, forcing them to use hidden weapons and flee.
If what those three people just said is true, then this undoubtedly means one thing, that is, someone in the Ling family is secretly colluding with outsiders!
Only this possibility can explain this strange hidden weapon.
If the black veiled boy from before was the same person as these three masked men, then this matter might not be that simple.
Now all the breakthrough points are the black gauze boy. Ling Chen can only find the black gauze boy hidden in Lingwu Academy to solve the mystery of the other party's identity. Only in this way can he know who the inner ghost of the Ling family is.
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At this moment, Ling Chen suddenly became worried. He was worried that if there was really a traitor in the Ling family, then every move of the Ling family would be under the eyes of others.
Moreover, after Ling Chen returned this time, Ling Xiao also told him some of the current situation of the Ling family, so Ling Chen could basically conclude that his trip to the Ling family must have touched someone's interests, so he suffered the consequences.
To intercept and kill.
Thinking of this, Ling Chen secretly picked up the three hidden weapons on the ground and put them together with the previous hidden weapon. He didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.
"It seems that we need to find some time to inquire about the origin of this hidden weapon. Maybe someone actually knows it. It's hard to tell."
Ling Chen whispered to himself, then glanced at the darkening sky, and couldn't help but quicken his pace.
Although the shape of this hidden weapon is a bit strange and there are no writings engraved on it, Ling Chen still plans to ask Xiao Fan when he goes back, maybe he will know the origin of this hidden weapon.
However, he didn't hold out much hope. After all, many families' hidden weapons were made in secret. Even if they wanted to kill people, they would not use them blatantly. After all, this would expose their identities.
Since it is a hidden weapon, the fewer people who know about it, the better. Therefore, it may not be easy to find out the origin of this hidden weapon.
ps: I just took a look at the updated chapter and found that it was confused with the second half of last night's chapter. It has been reworked now.