Volume 1: A Sword Comes from the West Chapter 1: Hatchet Boy Li Xiuping
"drive!"
The rain was like a waterfall, and with a clear shout, whips sounded, horses neighed, and a carriage broke through the rain curtain and galloped past.
"How much longer?"
In the carriage, a gorgeously dressed girl asked, looking slightly anxious.
"If nothing happens, we should be able to reach Qingyang County before dark."
The person who answered was a middle-aged woman with a dignified manner. She was looking away from the outside at this moment.
Hearing this answer, the girl was obviously relieved, and then asked: "Is the monster problem in Qingyang County really that serious?"
The woman lowered the curtain, nodded and said: "The two eves have tried all kinds of methods. Not only have they failed to calm down the evil, but they have become more and more troublesome."
The girl curled her lips and said: "Those guys just sound bluffing, what ability can they have...I heard that Li Xiuping is also in the Night Travel Division?"
The woman was stunned and nodded: "According to the information we have, he joined the Night Travel Department last year."
The girl frowned and said: "If a swordsmith doesn't make swords well, but he wants to imitate others in catching monsters, he might get his head caught in the door... By the way, I heard that he has no spiritual roots?"
The woman nodded and said, "I was born without spiritual roots."
The girl sighed, "What a pity."
The woman smiled and said: "Although he cannot practice cultivation, he is Mr. Ouye's disciple after all, which is destined to make his life extraordinary. In many things, God is actually fair."
Just as the girl was about to speak, the carriage suddenly stopped suddenly, and the inertia caused her whole body to fall forward.
The woman supported the girl and asked outside, "What's going on?"
"Demon...demon...demon..."
The driver couldn't speak clearly for a long time, so the woman could only lift the curtain and look outside.
In the rain curtain, on the mountain road that was not spacious, several ferocious-looking monsters blocked the road. Their blood-red eyes stared at the carriage, blooming with a strange and terrifying light.
The woman's expression suddenly changed.
There are three foundation-building monsters!
In the carriage, the girl's beauty turned pale at this moment.
Seven or eight men stepped forward at the same time, drew out their weapons, and stood in front of the carriage, but their burly bodies were trembling.
In the carriage, the woman quickly calmed down and thought about countermeasures.
It is impossible for them alone to deal with the three foundation-building monsters.
Although she has already established a foundation, it is only in the early stages of foundation building. It is impossible to deal with three foundation-building monsters at the same time, let alone protect her own lady.
Although my young lady is a cultivation genius that is rare to see in a century, she is only at the fifth level of Qi training and does not have the ability to protect herself; as for those servants, they cannot be of any use at all.
Running is the only option at this moment.
The key is how to run?
If you run back, the mountain road is rugged, and with such heavy rain, your speed will definitely not be as fast as these monsters. It is only a matter of time before you are caught up; if you run forward, although the situation is similar, after all, the front is Qingyang County, and there will definitely be rescue.
.But in this way, we must confront the three monster beasts head-on and break through the blockade of these three monster beasts.
"Rush over!"
The woman made a prompt decision, took the reins directly from the driver and gave the order.
Without any hesitation, the men took the lead and rushed forward with weapons in hand.
The three monster beasts let out a roar, and one of them rushed towards the crowd along the mountain road, while the other two rushed into the dense forest on both sides, hiding their presence.
Seeing this situation, the woman's face became even more serious, because these three monsters had obviously acquired intelligence and were more difficult to deal with than she had imagined.
Those men had already had a face-to-face confrontation with the monster beast. It was just a face-to-face encounter. The two men died on the spot under the claws of the monster beast. Their blood flowed along the mountain road with the rain.
Although the remaining men successfully attacked the monster, they were unable to injure it at all.
With two roars, the two monster beasts that had disappeared rushed out from the dense forest on both sides at the same time. Unprepared, the remaining men died almost instantly!
The woman waved her riding whip, intending to take this opportunity to rush over, but the horse fell to the ground and kept whining.
"It's over!"
The woman lamented in her heart and had no other solution.
After the three monster beasts killed the men, they had no intention of letting go of the three people on the carriage, so they turned around and approached slowly.
The horse pulling the cart roared and got up from the ground.
The woman was overjoyed, but the next moment, the horse pulled the carriage and crashed into a boulder nearby, killing her.
The three monster beasts kept approaching, and the strong smell of blood could not be washed away by the heavy rain. Fear lingered in everyone's heart.
"Boom!"
The dull thunder roars like a mockery of life.
The woman glanced at the girl in the carriage, then drew out a long sword, intending to make a final resistance.
"Boohoo!"
At this moment, three stones broke through the rain curtain and hit the heads of the three monster beasts with such force that the bodies of the three monster beasts shook.
The woman couldn't help but look in the direction in which the three stones flew.
I saw a young man in black standing on a rock not far away, wearing mango shoes and cloth clothes. He was thin and about thirteen or fourteen years old. He was holding a hatchet in his hand, like a woodcutter in the mountains.
At this moment, the young man jumped down from the rock, like a swooping eagle.
After the young man landed, he began to rush forward, through the forest and rain, and rushed straight towards the three monster beasts.
Seeing the young man's behavior, the woman couldn't help but frown.
This young man didn't have any aura on his body. He was just an ordinary person. Apart from a hatchet for chopping wood, he didn't have any magic weapon with him. How could he deal with three foundation-building monsters?
Could this young man be seeking death?
However, the next moment, the woman was completely stunned.
After the young man approached the three demonic beasts, he jumped up, held the hatchet in his hands, and slashed down on one of the demonic beasts.
The strange thing is that the three monster beasts seemed to be invisible to the boy and did not react in any way to the boy's attack.
The cold light flashed away, and the hatchet was so sharp that it cut the monster's head in two!
At the same time, the other two monster beasts seemed to react and pounced on the boy's slightly thin body. In comparison, the boy was extremely small, and the two huge monster beasts could easily tear him apart.
The young man's body was in the air, with nowhere to focus, and his death seemed certain.
However, the young man's body suddenly fell down, and his toes stepped on the demon beast in the middle that had not completely fallen. The whole body was swept backwards by the force. However, the young man's abdomen was still hit by the sharp claws of a demon beast.
It was scratched, dripping with blood, and shocking.
The young man did not run away due to his injuries. After dodging the attacks of the two monster beasts, he spun his body in mid-air and slashed the back of the monster beast on the right with the hatchet in his hand.
It’s still a clean break!
The woman looked at the hatchet in the boy's hand, thoughtfully.
In almost an instant, two of the three monster beasts fell down, and the boy finally landed on the ground, confronting the remaining monster beast.
The young man who landed on the ground did something that seemed a bit strange to others: he tapped the hatchet in his hand with his fingers. His eyes were fixed on the last monster, and then he continued to move forward with the hatchet in hand.
The girl in the carriage came back to her senses at this time, looked at the battle in the field, and frowned: "Why can't those monsters seem to not see him?"
The woman shook her head. She had already noticed this situation, but she couldn't figure out the reason.
After the young man killed the last monster, he tore a piece of cloth from his clothes, casually bandaged the wound on his abdomen, then used a hatchet to cut off the horn on the monster's head and hung it around his waist.
After doing all this, the young man glanced at the three people on the carriage and said, "Leave quickly. Such a big movement will definitely attract more monsters in a while."
After saying this, the young man was about to leave. He seemed to remember something and continued: "By the way, this thing is called Gou Lian. He is born blind and depends entirely on his hearing. If we encounter him again, he only needs to hit him with a heavy object.
Its vestibule can cause temporary hearing loss."
The woman and girl instantly understood.
No wonder the three monsters couldn't see the boy before. It turned out that they relied not on the eyes, but on the ears. The boy first used three stones to damage their hearing, and then added the influence of the heavy rain before killing them one by one.
The woman was about to thank her, but she found that the boy had disappeared, and only the corpses of three monsters were lying on the road. They were washed away by the heavy rain, and the whole road looked like a river of blood.
After a while, the woman said quietly: "Ye Xingsi, it's really not easy!"
The girl in the carriage frowned and said, "Is he from the Night Travel Division?"
The woman nodded and said: "The only one in this small Qingyang County who can understand monsters so well and take action so quickly and decisively is the Night Travel Division."
The girl nodded and immediately asked: "Aunt Lan may be able to tell what state this person is in?"
The woman was stunned for a moment and replied: "Judging from the breath, it's not yet the Qi refining period."
The girl said in astonishment: "If we don't reach the Qi refining period, then wouldn't it mean that we only have the body training period?"
The woman smiled and said: "If a young man randomly appeared in the Qi Refining Stage, then this practice would be too easy. The young lady can be called the youngest genius in the Qi Refining Stage in the entire Yunzhou in a hundred years.
Makes sense.”
The girl was obviously still a little unbelievable. A guy in the body-building stage could kill three monsters in the foundation-building stage in an instant. It was hard for anyone to believe it, let alone her.
The woman seemed to know what the girl was thinking, and explained with a smile: "Realm is just a standard used to measure strength, and it does not represent everything. In a real battle, there are many factors that make up for the gap in realm, such as the previous battle.
First of all, the monster's hearing is affected, which means that it only has the strength during the Qi training period, and secondly, the hatchet in the young man's hand, although it is not blessed by spiritual power, is far from being comparable to ordinary spiritual weapons in terms of sharpness."
The girl nodded and said: "Indeed, if we had used other weapons, it would have been impossible to break through the defense of the foundation-building monster so easily, and we would not have been able to kill the three foundation-building monsters so easily."
The woman nodded and thought: "This fourteen-year-old boy comes from the Night Travel Division and owns an unparalleled sharp hatchet. Maybe he is the person we are looking for."
The girl was surprised and said: "Li Xiuping!?"
The woman did not answer, but looked ahead.
It rained heavily and the sky and the earth were vast.