As He Qizhou expected, Lu Hongwen abandoned the two Jinling disciples, flew up, stepped on the shoulders of the officers and soldiers, and chased after He Qizhou, sneering viciously: "Little bastard, even the King of Heaven and I can't save you this time.
Got it!"
After Lu Hongwen chased He Qizhou, the two Jinling disciples who were fighting hard were instantly surrounded by officers and soldiers, but the pressure was obviously less than when they faced Lu Hongwen just now. They let go of their hands and feet and swung their swords to kill up the hillside.
"Are you also from Yueyin?" He Qizhou stepped on the gravel by the lake and ran away quickly. After hearing Lu Hongwen's ridicule, he asked in a deep voice.
"I am Zi Yue! I am Yue Yin's first and number one killer!" Lu Hongwen said with a cruel smile.
"You also went to ambush my adoptive father outside Yanmen Pass?" He Qizhou finally filled in the last unknown murderer.
"How could I not go? Don't worry, you are going to see him soon!" Lu Hongwen continued to close the distance with He Qizhou. He Qizhou needed to step on rocks when he was running, but Lu Hongwen could quickly fly by just stepping on the water.
Okay. After a few ups and downs, the distance between the two shortened from ten feet to about five feet.
He Qizhou originally wanted to circle along the lake shore, but his dexterity skills were obviously not as good as his opponent's, especially with the terrain under his feet. What's even worse was that around the stone platform on the north shore of the small lake, the crossbowmen of the Royal Forest Army had set up a formation and spread out in a fan shape along the lake shore.
Just as they were waiting for themselves to fall into the trap, a few impatient soldiers did not hear the order and started firing arrows from a distance of fifty or sixty feet. Several crossbow arrows fell into the lake in front of He Qizhou.
He Qizhou knew that he had reached the point of death and did not want to run any more. He jumped onto a huge rock on the lake shore that was halfway into the lake, and turned around to face Lu Hongwen, who was chasing after him.
The stone is nearly spherical in shape, with a length, width and height of about four feet. Only one person can stand on the stone surface at most. Lu Hongwen already knew that He Qizhou was wearing treasure armor, and suspected that he had some backup plans, so he did not dare to rush directly to the stone.
, but jumped onto a smaller stone, one foot away, and faced He Qizhou with his sword in hand.
"Bitch thief, you are already the leader, why do you still bully your master, destroy your ancestors, and betray the Jinling Sect?" He Qizhou, standing firmly on the stone, said angrily.
"Huh, leader? As long as Li Jichen is alive, I have never been the real leader for a day." Lu Hongwen shouted, but his men did not stop. He swung his sword in the air, and the sword energy went straight to He Qizhou's neck, who had nowhere to retreat.
Lu Hongwen had already thought about choosing this stone. Standing here, he could hit the opponent, but the opponent was unable to counterattack, which was enough to make him invincible.
Of course, He Qizhou did not dare to use his neck to catch the opponent's sword energy. The opponent's sword was very fast, and there was no way to dodge in the small place. He could only block it with his left arm armor, which was still intact. The sharp sword energy hit the arm armor and turned into countless pieces.
A thin needle penetrated into He Qizhou's arm through the gap between the scales.
He Qizhou immediately used Huazhen Gong to force the sword energy out from under his feet. Although he also wanted to use force to fight back, after all, he was still unfamiliar with the technique of using force to fight. He was more than ten feet away, so he knew that he didn't have much power, and he had to rely on both hands.
He used his arms to block the sword energy that came like a rainstorm, so he just tried his best to direct the opponent's true power to the stone surface under his feet. After a few moves, the severe pain from the swelling of the meridians made the expression on his face look a bit ferocious.
Lu Hongwen only said that He Qizhou was in so much pain that he could hardly resist, so he stopped sparing no effort and attacked He Qizhou in the air with one sword move after another. After dozens of sword blows, He Qizhou could still survive except for a few more sword wounds on his body.
He calmly blocked his attack, the expression on his face even became relaxed, and he actually still had the energy to ask questions.
"Old Thief Lu! You chose this time to carry out the assassination. Did you already plan to enter the mountain and attack Migu?"
"We won't be able to defeat that idiot Long Yin in a hundred years!" Lu Hongwen said proudly.
"It must have been you and your son who caused Mr. Li to be imprisoned the year before last, right?" He Qizhou recalled that during the Jiangling grain case, Li Jichen took on the charge of beating people to force donations for his disciples.
"You brat wants to delay time!" Lu Hongwen quickly noticed something strange. The wild slash from the air just now consumed a lot of energy. Even in the wind control realm, there are times when the true energy is exhausted, not to mention that the injuries on his body are not minor.
Especially the punch that Li Jichen turned around before he fell down. It seemed soft, but in fact it was powerful. At that time, he only used four forces to deal with it. The wisp of true energy that broke into the body had no time to force it out at first, but now it cannot be completely forced out.
, still tossing the internal organs and meridians.
As the top master in the world, Li Jichen, even if his skills were greatly damaged and he was fatally injured, the blow he delivered before his death was still so powerful. Liu Mian's pure palm power could not even be felt by Lu Hongwen, who was from the same lineage as the Wind Control Realm.
It was extremely uncomfortable. On the contrary, the sword was injured by He Qizhou and Lu Zhenyao. Although there was a lot of blood and the appearance was a bit ugly, it was just a skin injury and did not affect the performance of the skill.
Lu Hongwen had already seen that He Qizhou was not afraid of the sword energy attacking from the air. Although he did not know how the other party did it, it would be quite detrimental to him if he continued to use it like this, and it might also allow Li Jichen and others to escape, so he no longer hesitated.
, kicked off his feet, and jumped towards He Qizhou, shaking a sword flower from the long sword in his hand, and the move he used was the extremely domineering "Shocking Waves Crash on the Shore!"
He Qizhou just looked at the way Lu Hongwen raised his sword and knew that he would not be able to take the sword no matter what. If he retreated further to the lake shore, whether he could dodge the opponent's sword moves or not, there were hundreds of crossbows behind him.
He was really aiming at himself. As soon as he entered the shooting range, with his current strength, he would undoubtedly be shot into a hedgehog, so he turned over and fell into the lake without thinking, and quickly dived down!
Lu Hongwen was not surprised by He Qizhou's move. He had already been prepared. He jumped up behind the big rock where He Qizhou was standing. His originally straight sword move suddenly went downwards, following the direction of He Qizhou's fall into the lake. The dense sword energy was flowing in the direction of the lake.
Countless waves rolled up on the water where He Qizhou fell, and the water surface with a diameter of three feet suddenly seemed to be boiling!
Lu Hongwen then jumped out from the boulder again, because he had already seen He Qizhou diving to the northeast, and this time he stabbed him straight in! The long sword passed through the three-foot-deep lake and stabbed He Qizhou accurately.
The back of the heart, and then tap the water with the left palm, the body bounces up gently, the posture from head to toe, elegantly turns into feet stepping on the water, the magical power of the wind control realm is vividly displayed in one move.
The officers and soldiers who surrounded most of the lake shore burst into applause, and hundreds of people shouted at the same time. Although Lu Hongwen was proud, he was not careless at all. Although the sword struck solidly, it did not penetrate the opponent's back armor.
The water in Wanghu Lake should be extremely deep. He Qizhou disappeared after diving into the water, so Lu Hongwen stepped on the water and kept turning around to observe where He Qizhou emerged from the water.
After having the experience of escaping from being thrown into the water by his opponent in the Yalong River, Lu Hongwen no longer took any chances. He would never leave the lake until he saw He Qizhou's body with his own eyes this time!
Sure enough, after half a cup of tea, He Qizhou came up for air six to seven feet directly east of Lu Hongwen. Although he only showed his mouth, it did not escape Lu Hongwen's eyes. By the time he flew away, He Qizhou had already dived down again.
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"Who is the leading officer? Send soldiers with good water skills into the water to force him out!" Lu Hongwen shouted angrily.
There were thousands of people on the shore, a small half of them were crossbowmen from the Royal Forest Army, and the other half were officers from the Southern Zhili Army and officials from the Wucha Division. The leader of the group was none other than the Zhili Chief Inspector, Qianshi Guanlong.
Groan!
No one in the Royal Forest Army responded to Lu Hongwen's call. They were all from the north anyway. Even if they could swim, they would just use the excuse that they were landlubbers. Most of the people in the Imperial Forest Army knew that He Qizhou had killed Xu Xuan, so who would dare to risk their lives underwater?
But Long Yin had no choice. Qimen Mountain could not be conquered for a long time, so he relied on Lu Hongwen to break through this time. He was one of the very few people who knew Lu Hongwen's identity, and he was only informed of it when he chased him out of Jinling City. Lord Governor
The order given by him personally was to unconditionally obey the orders of Head Lu, so Long Yin could only wave his hand and said to the dozens of guards around him: "Everyone who knows how to swim, get down! If you can help Head Lu kill He Qizhou,
You will share the imperial court’s 50,000 taels of silver reward equally!”
Long Yin didn't want to provide the money himself, so he came up with this idea. He was also worried that Lu Hongwen was also thinking about the red reward, so he added at the end: "Master Lu, do you think it's okay?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Get into the water quickly!" Lu Hongwen, who was floating on the lake, said angrily.
"Hurry! Hurry! That kid is unarmed and can't throw a punch in the water, so what are you afraid of? Those who go into the water will be promoted to a higher level and each will be rewarded with another one hundred taels! Those who can swim in the water but do not go down to hunt down the murderer will be dismissed from their posts and investigated!"
Seeing that no one was entering the water, Long Yin shouted again, but Lu Hongwen missed He Qizhou who was breathing with his head exposed, and angrily slashed into the water.
This time, many people were tempted. More than ten Longyin soldiers took off their armor and boots one after another, holding swords in their mouths, and jumped into the water. Jinling is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and most men can swim. Lu Hongwen, who has the Wind Control Realm, watched on the water.
Such a good opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune has impressed many people.
Besides, He Qizhou in the water was really miserable. He had already been slightly injured by the two swords he had just hit. Although he was in the water, the opponent's sword energy was not as strong as in the air, but it was difficult for him in the water to be as strong as he was just standing there.
As on the boulder, if you use Huazhen Gong to instantly expel the opponent's sword energy, you can only dissolve 30% of the sword energy at once, and the rest must be slowly released; after entering the water, in order to prevent the opponent from seeing it, you can only swim deep,
Swimming in deep water two or three feet below takes far more energy than swimming on the surface, and you have to keep swimming to find a chance to breathe.
We floated three times, and twice we were almost pushed back by Lu Hongwen. The last time we got close to the shore, we were even spotted by several crossbowmen. If the crossbow arrows hadn't entered the water and slowed down, and just missed their scalp, they would have been hit hard again.
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If I could rely on the excellent water quality before, I could still support it for a while, but now it is completely different. After a series of "plop-plop" sounds, people kept jumping into the water and swimming from all sides to the middle. The lake is deep in the south and deep in the north.
Shallow, He Qizhou could only move closer to the deeper south shore, which is the direction where he and Lu Hongwen were facing each other on the boulder by the lake. He Qizhou himself didn't know how deep the water was there, but one thing was for sure, the steep shore was not
The archers were in ambush, and depending on the depth of the water, there was still a little room for maneuver.
Among the people chasing after him in the water, there were also masters of diving. At this time, they seemed to have discovered traces of He Qizhou, and he was swimming quickly towards the south bank.