Tong Xiangyu held her sword like a flower, jingling and clanking away several arrows that were shot at Qu Wuming's back. She raised her foot and kicked hard. She kicked out a horse head like a cannonball and hit a sand bandit with a bang.
Chest.
There was a muffled cracking sound, and blood spurted from the mouth of the sand bandit. His sternum was smashed by the horse's head, and he fell upside down. However, his feet were entangled in the stirrups, and his body hung upside down behind the horse's butt.
The horse seemed to be frightened, and immediately started running wildly, knocking over several horses that were also running wildly, and disrupted most of the formation of the sand bandits who were circling and shooting arrows.
At this time, Ding Xian, Mo Heng and others who were trapped in the middle saw the opportunity and jumped out one after another, each holding a sword and killing the sand bandit.
"Kill!"
"You bastard, you dare to shoot me!"
"If you still have magic power, I will crush you to death with one finger!"
Ding Xian and Mo Heng, who had been frustrated for a long time, were like powerful tigers at this moment. They raised their swords and killed all the sand pirates. Although the two of them were not as powerful as Qu Wuming, they also practiced physical skills.
A person who masters the sword skills can be regarded as a master level among ordinary warriors. Taking advantage of the chaos to attack at this time, he is even more brave and unstoppable.
As for Master Hu Ba, the three brothers from the Chen family, the three brothers from the Hou family, and other tomb robbers, they were no ordinary people. They all rushed out with weapons, and most of them were able to fight one against two, catching the thieves off guard and knocking them off their horses.
This battle was extremely bloody.
After half a stick of incense, a scream came from the oasis and a figure fell from the horse, and the battle finally ended.
Qu Wuming squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, and saw that the man who fell from the horse was motionless. Then he slung the long bow across his body, picked up an arrow pot and hung it on his waist. Looking to the left and right, there were only people standing there.
Only his own people were left. The fifty or so sand thieves had now turned into corpses on the ground. Looking around, the yellow sand was dyed red with blood. The huge sandy ground was like Shura's blood domain.
Looking at Hu Baye, Hou Jinhai and others who were cleaning the battlefield, almost everyone was injured at this moment. However, fortunately, except Zuo Songchan, who was shot dead at the beginning, no one else died.
"Are you okay?" Seeing that Han Ling'er's face was a little pale, Qu Wuming hurriedly took two steps to rush over.
"It's okay. I was stabbed just now and lost a lot of blood. I have already taken the elixir." Han Ling'er shook her head and said, "The healing effect of the elixir seems to have slowed down, but fortunately the bleeding has stopped."
"That's good. Don't make any moves later. Just rest in the carriage." Qu Wuming carefully helped Han Ling'er towards the cart.
"I'm here!" Tong Xiangyu also came over and held Han Ling'er's other arm.
"Thank you, Sister Tong." Han Linger smiled slightly and said, "I'm fine."
"You have such a cut on your back, and you still say it's okay?" Tong Xiangyu opened the carriage door and said, "Even if you have closed the door, you still have to change clothes. Okay, Brother Qu, go and do other things.
Just don't let anyone else in."
"Your skills are quite good. There are so many people here, but you are the only one who can keep up with my speed without getting hurt!" Qu Wuming turned his head and looked at Tong Xiangyu and said.
Tong Xiangyu was not modest and said with a slight smile: "They are just ordinary sand thieves. If there are no bows and arrows to suppress them, I can kill ten of them each."
"Sister Tong is too modest," Han Ling'er wanted to hide her smile, but accidentally touched the wound that had just begun to heal. She grinned in pain and said, "Those who died under Sister Tong's sword just now were almost all killed with one move.
I think even without our help, the ordinary ten or twenty sand pirates are no match for my sister. By the way, my sister’s sword is also extremely sharp. Is it either made by a famous master or a fairy sword of a Taoist?"
"Sister guessed it right. This sword was left by the old shopkeeper of Longmen Inn, and he said it was an immortal sword." Tong Xiangyu replied, "It's a pity that I don't know magic, so I can only use it as an ordinary sword."
"Eh? Why are you following me quietly? Don't follow me?!" At this time, Han Ling'er was helped into the carriage by Tong Xiangyu. When she looked back, she saw that Qu Wuming was about to climb up and said hurriedly.
When Qu Wuming saw that he had been seen through, he did not argue. He smiled, turned around, and gently closed the compartment door. Seeing Wei Yixian being supported by Mo Tong as he walked towards the oasis, he followed him in two steps...
"Have you been here before?" Qu Wuming asked.
"Yes, I've been here before." Wei Yixian nodded and answered truthfully.
"What's next? You'd better tell us clearly in advance." Qu Wuming said to Wei Yixian with a serious look on his face that was rare on the road.
"The place to go is right behind." Wei Yixian replied, "I've only been there once."
"Is it still impossible to use magic over there?"
"right."
"knew."
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After everyone cleaned up the battlefield and counted the remaining supplies, everyone's faces looked a little ugly.
Five sand camel beasts died, which is not important.
But there were three buckets in total, and two were broken. Fortunately, I picked up dozens of water bags left by the sand pirates, and could barely hold more water. Now, Qu Wuming and other cultivators are just like ordinary people.
, if you don’t drink water for a long time, you won’t be able to survive either.
The amount of dry food they brought had been reduced by half before, and a lot of it was spilled during the battle. Even if the dry food brought by the sand bandits were added, it would be difficult for the eighteen people to carry them back to the Longmen Inn.
Fortunately, the two chefs came up with the idea to cut the horse meat that died in the battle into strips, sprinkle it with salt, and put it on the
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After drying on the roof of the carriage, a lot of dried meat was made in less than two days. When Qu Wuming and others tasted it, they found it tasted pretty good. However, they made them more thirsty after eating, so no one dared to eat more.
After leaving the previous oasis, there was only yellow sand left along the way.
Even the desert lizards, snakes and insects that were occasionally seen before were hard to find.
After a few days, the water bladder he carried gradually became empty, and even the sand camel beast, which is always known for its thirst, showed some signs of dehydration...
The group of eighteen people had lost interest in chatting at this moment. Except for two or three people who were responsible for leading the sand camel beast forward, the rest of them mostly hid in the carriage and did not dare to show their faces, for fear that they would suffer if they were exposed to the sun for a while.
Please drink more water.
Nowadays, everyone has a limited amount of water. Only by finding the last oasis can we get supplies.
Qu Wuming was sitting in the carriage, leaning on Han Ling'er who was drowsy on his shoulder, while Tong Xiangyu hugged her knees and took a nap. Suddenly they heard shouts for help coming from outside, Han Ling'er and Tong Xiangyu woke up immediately, and got out together with Qu Wuming
The carriage looked towards the source of the sound...
"Stop quickly, back up quickly! Back up quickly!!!"
At this time, Mo Heng, Ding Xian, Hu Baye and others also got out of the carriage, jumped on the several sand camel beasts in front, and dragged the sand camel beasts back.
Qu Wuming found a rope from the cart, tied one end to his wrist, and threw the other end forward.
From the time Qu Wuming and others heard the sound and took action until everyone rushed out of the carriage and took action, it only took a breath or two.
However, in this short period of time, the sand camel beast that was originally walking at the front of the team had only one head left on it - the whole body, together with the rider on it, had already fallen into the quicksand.
Hit! And the one that was originally walking behind it has disappeared now, and only an hourglass-like cone is left on the ground, which is still sinking...
The third sand camel beast was also sinking rapidly, but at this time, most of its neck was still exposed on the ground. The knight on it saw something was wrong and jumped down early, but still could not escape the fate of falling into quicksand. At this moment
Most of the body has been swallowed up by the yellow sand, and even breathing has become difficult.
Just when the yellow sand was about to cover his mouth and nose, the rope thrown by Qu Wuming accurately landed between his stretched out hands. The man hurriedly grabbed the rope, struggling to avoid the fate of being swallowed by the yellow sand.
"Hold the rope and stop moving!" Not far away, Wei Yixian shouted anxiously, "The more you move, the faster it will sink! Don't move!"
However, at this life-or-death moment, the instinct to survive had long overtaken the man's reason.
He held on to the rope as tightly as he could while twisting his body as hard as he could to free himself from the quicksand.
On the other end of the rope, Qu Wuming struggled to pull back, but his body was involuntarily pulled forward. Tong Xiangyu and Han Ling'er also got out of the car at this moment. Seeing this, they hurried over to help, but they felt as if they were pulling someone else.
, but a huge beast from ancient times. No matter how hard a few people tried, not only did they not retreat, but they were dragged and slid forward!
Suddenly, the three of them felt their hands loosen. They stumbled back a few steps and fell to the ground. They struggled to sit up and looked forward. Where was the shadow of the man in the distance? There was only one left on the ground.
A huge hourglass formed, still sinking downwards...
At this time, Hu Baye, Mo Heng and others had driven all the remaining sand camel beasts and carts to a safe area. Hu Baye walked slowly and cautiously, pulled up Qu Wuming, who had a bad look on his face, and said, "No
We have a solution. Let’s go.”
Qu Wuming glanced at the hourglass again, helped Han Ling'er and Tong Xiangyu up, and walked towards the cart in silence...
Two days later.
"Where is the next oasis?" Beside a large car, the remaining dozen or so people gathered around Wei Yixian, licking their chapped lips, staring at the handful of copper coins Wei Yixian had just thrown away, and asked with hope in their eyes.
"The hexagram says it should be in the southeast direction." Wei Yixian also looked haggard, raised his finger and pointed in a direction.
"But yesterday you were talking about the northwest direction!" Hou Jinhai was a little angry, "If you go to the southeast, won't you go back again?!"
"I don't know why!" Wei Yixian said with some helplessness on his face, "It is indeed like this in the hexagram..."
Everyone first broke out into a brief quarrel, and then fell into a deathly silence.
"Southeast is southeast!" Qu Wuming stood up and walked towards a sand camel beast, "If you don't listen to Wei Yixian, is there a better way?!"
"Let's go!" Hu Baye seemed to have accepted his fate.
Everyone stood up listlessly and set out on the journey again.
Half a day later, Qu Wuming, who was walking at the front, looked up at the scorching sun in the sky. He raised the withered water bag in his hand and took a long time to pour out two drops of water, finally moistening his dry lips.
Just when I was about to throw away the water bag, I suddenly saw a small dot in the distance that seemed to be different...
Qu Wuming put up a pergola with his hands, watched intently, and shouted in surprise: "Oasis, it's an oasis!"
Hu Baye behind him looked in the direction of Qu Wuming's finger and shouted: "It is indeed an oasis! We are saved! Let's go!"
The group of people seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw. Their already somewhat despairing hearts now had renewed hope of life. They struggled to drive the sand camel beast away and rushed towards the oasis.
However, after walking for about two hours, what I saw in front of me was still just a long stretch of yellow sand. The oasis that was originally in front of me seemed to
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It seemed to evaporate and disappeared before everyone's eyes.
"I'm afraid I encountered a mirage..." Qu Wuming murmured.
"Mirage?" Hu Baye asked.
"It is said that there are often such illusions in the desert or the sea. It seems to be in front of you, but in fact it is all illusory. If you run after the mirage, you may be trapped and die halfway..." Qu Wuming replied
.
"Then what should we do..." Hu Baye licked his lips and said feebly, "I feel like these sand camel beasts won't be able to be reduced for long... If we can't find an oasis again, we can only kill them.
The sand camel beast drank blood..."
"I have a way to try!" Tong Xiangyu rode up from behind on a sand camel beast.
"What can we do?" Qu Wuming and Hu Baye asked in unison.
Tong Xiangyu turned over and got off the sand camel beast, and with three strokes, she removed the reins and saddle from the sand camel beast, and then gave the sand camel beast a hard slap on its butt.
The sand camel beast felt the pain and jumped out a long way away. He looked back at the crowd and saw that no one was chasing him. After standing there hesitating for a moment, he raised his head and turned around twice, then took a slow step.
Walked in one direction.
"Everyone, follow it from a distance and don't disturb it!" Tong Xiangyu climbed onto a big car and whispered.
Everyone has no better way at this moment. Since Wei Yixian's divination technique failed, everyone has no way out. Even if someone says that they can return to Longmen Inn by digging down, I am afraid everyone will try it.
Give it a try.
The group of people followed the sand camel beast from a distance and advanced slowly in the desert. They even saw an oasis again halfway, but because the sand camel beast did not go there, no one rushed to check it out.
Three hours later.
The scorching sun in the sky was about to set, and the sand camel beast in front suddenly snorted and ran, its steps moving happily as if it was about to fly.
Everyone cheered up and drove the other sand camel beasts to catch up.
"It's an oasis! I really found an oasis!" Qu Wuming said happily.
“It is indeed an oasis!”
"There is help! There is help!"
After running for several miles, everyone finally arrived at the oasis!
This oasis is very different from the ones we passed along the way. In the oasis, there are only a few sparse tawny bushes, growing half-dead next to a small pool. It is surrounded by a large circle of seemingly messy khaki rocks.
, it managed to block the invasion of the surrounding yellow sand and protected this not too big oasis. However, at this time, everyone no longer had the intention to appreciate the scenery here, let alone study whether the water in the pool was clean.
Those who were unclean rushed to a small pool in the oasis, fell down and drank. After everyone had finished drinking, they remembered that they were drinking together with more than a dozen sand camel beasts, and they couldn't help but feel sick.
.However, after being thirsty for so long, no one can bear to drink the water and spit it out again...
"I said fortune teller, is this the last oasis you mentioned?" Qu Wuming asked.
"Yes, yes, this is it!" Wei Yixian stood up and walked around the pool a few times, as if he was silently calculating something in his heart, with a look of excitement on his face.
"Then what should we do next?" Hu Baye asked from the side.
"The next step is to find the entrance." Wei Yixian suddenly stood on the edge of the pool, then turned around and walked back seven or eight steps to an earthy yellow rock.
"Mo Tong, come here!" Wei Yixian waved to his disciple Mo Tong, and whispered instructions to Mo Tong. Mo Tong nodded obediently, took out a dagger and held it in his hand.
It flowed out immediately.
"This is it!" Wei Yixian stood nearby and pointed at a circular depression in the rock.
Mo Tong placed his hand over the depression and let the blood in his hand flow into it.
After a while, the circular depression was almost filled with blood, like a small blood pool.
"Continue, don't stop!" Wei Yixian stared at the blood pool and said slightly nervously.
Mo Tong did not dare to disobey and continued to pour the donated blood into the blood pool. However, what was strange was that no matter how Mo Tong's blood flowed, the blood pool never overflowed - it seemed that the excess blood had seeped into the rocks.
, or disappeared out of thin air.
Gradually, Mo Tong felt that he was a little weak. He swayed and almost fell. Wei Yixian who was on the side rushed forward to support Mo Tong's body, grabbed his hand firmly, and said loudly: "Continue, don't stop!"
"Yes, Master..." Mo Tong felt a little dizzy, and the scenery in front of him became dim.
After an unknown amount of time, Mo Tong's vision went dark and he fainted completely.
At this moment, everyone suddenly felt their feet shake.
Immediately afterwards, the shaking in the ground became more frequent, and there was a rumbling sound from the rock in front of Wei Yixian... With a burst of sand and dust rolling, a dark hole appeared behind the rock, a damp and cold
The breath suddenly hit my face!
"It's open, it's finally open!!" Wei Yixian was overjoyed when he saw this. He threw Mo Tong aside and walked towards the entrance of the cave.
When Tong Xiangyu saw this, she frowned and hurried over in two steps. She pulled off a piece of cloth and bandaged Mo Tong's hand. Then she dragged Mo Tong to the pool, then stood up and looked towards the entrance of the cave.