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Chapter 59: Demons are created by humans
She didn't waste any more words. She leaned over and drew out her sword, which suddenly stabbed out like a silver snake spitting out its tongue.
The red line from the sword's tip pierced through the enemy's neck like a flying bullet, leaving a small hole with blood gushing out. Du Xuanang covered his neck and opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end he could only collapse to the ground.
A few servants followed behind, but they did not dare to come forward and stared at the courtyard from a distance.
Xi Heng stepped over the man's body and continued walking forward without hesitation.
As soon as she approached, the frightened servants fled in panic.
Walk through the front courtyard and around a stone pond surrounded by rocks, bamboo groves and small trees. There is ice on the surface of the clear water in the pond, but you can still see carp moving below.
She met two or three guards who knew some martial arts, and their necks were all cut off by her sword.
Xi Heng didn't stop until he was near the largest hall of the Liang family. He grabbed the collar of a young man he had caught on the road and asked him:
"Is the so-called eldest lady you mentioned here?"
"That's right, lady, please spare my life! Lady, please spare my life!" The man no longer dared to struggle hard and could only beg for mercy in panic.
Xi Heng suddenly raised his right hand, and then threw the thing in his hand directly over like throwing a ball.
click-
The door shattered, and a figure rushed into the long house amid screams.
The bright candle in the room flickered violently, hitting the head of the young master who had entered the long room and smashed it onto the ground. He fainted and no one paid any attention to him.
There were many wooden memorial arches placed on the table. Under the big table with white candles on the candlesticks, someone slowly stood up from the cushion.
This man's face was full of wrinkles and he was wearing a rough white shroud, with a long sword hanging from his waist. His sword spirit and temperament were many times more profound than those of the ordinary warriors who practiced martial arts in the courtyard.
“If my Liang family had kept half of the warriors at home instead of joining the army, how could we be so arrogant and bully by you two little thieves!” The eldest lady turned around, her eyes filled with hatred.
"Give me the secret book of Hua Jin and I'll spare your life." Xi Heng drew his sword.
The other party's eyes narrowed and he asked, "How do you know that?"
"If you keep talking nonsense, I will kill your entire clan from top to bottom." The sword pointed in front of the enemy, spreading out a red line.
"Are you descendants of the Bloodline Sword Sect?" The other party saw it and suddenly understood: "Did you kill Liang Mangchen?"
Xi Heng did what he said and immediately attacked with his sword after hearing it.
The opponent also drew his sword to block, but Xi Heng suddenly changed his move and switched from sword moves to a sudden kick with his left leg.
flutter--
The enemy was kicked four or five meters away, and his body hit the long table behind him, toppling the tablets, candles and offerings on the table like a bowling ball, which fell to the ground with a crash.
The lady of the Liang family did not fall backwards. After stabilizing her body, she raised her sword to resist when she saw the enemy coming again.
The sword hit the sword body that was emitting black gas. Xi Heng felt that the object he was stabbing was extremely hard and it was difficult to move forward any further.
The black sword suddenly swung out, sparks flew everywhere, and a sharp sound was heard.
Xi Heng turned his wrist and pointed the sword again, and the opponent also chopped at him quickly with all his strength.
The violent aura with a strong sense of destruction made her heart tremble - Xi Heng saw clearly that although her sword could pierce the neck of the woman in white first, she would also be cut in the waist by the opponent's sword afterwards.
At this moment, Xi Heng finally understood why his senior sister often said that it was easy to die by sacrificing one's life with a sword. It was because as long as one encountered a warrior with similar strength and who had also disregarded his life, the two would almost certainly die together in a fight.
Just like now, as long as she continues to stab with the sword, she will be seriously injured even if she doesn't die!
Xi Heng was unwilling to die, so he raised his straight sword and blocked it to the side.
Clang——
The collision of weapons produced sparks and the sound of swords was sharp.
Xi Heng barely blocked the attack, and the sword in his hand trembled constantly, as if he was frightened by the black energy on the enemy's sword.
Before he could steady his hand again, the opponent's thick sword continued to rush towards his chest.
She had to continue blocking, as the initiative in the duel had been given to the opponent.
The powerful and murderous evil energy continued to rush towards her, making it increasingly difficult for her to hold the sword in her hand.
The Red Line Sword Technique and the Demie Sword Technique are both for attack and not for defense. When the two swordsmen, whose martial arts skills are almost the same, confront each other, generally speaking, whoever takes the initiative will win.
But this is not an ordinary situation, she is not alone.
"Senior Sister, help me!" Xi Heng shouted, and immediately saw Senior Sister Hong Miao out of the corner of his eye.
Before she could say anything, Hong Miao had already arrived behind the enemy. Upon hearing the sound, she drew her sword and stabbed the enemy in the abdomen from behind, then pierced out from the front with blood gushing out.
The surging sword moves and sword intent stopped before his eyes. Xi Heng deflected the opponent's final attack and let out a breath.
It’s much easier with my senior sister around.
"Despicable..." The other person spat out blood from his mouth as he spoke, and a red mark appeared on his snow-white shroud.
Xi Heng was shocked and said, "When I was besieged by your warriors before I came here, why didn't you come out and say it was despicable? Well, where is the Huajin technique? Tell me and I won't kill the rest of your clan."
She used the hilt of her sword to strike the opponent's elbow, causing the heavy black sword to slip out of her hand and fall to the ground.
The enemy was silent for a while, and finally said in front of Xi Heng: "There is only a fragment of the Qimie Sword Technique, which cannot reach the level of Huajin, so just put it aside in the family tree..."
"Fragments?"
She came here from afar to look for the method of Hua Jin, but still couldn't cultivate Hua Jin, which really disappointed her.
“Please… spare my family.” After saying this, the woman ran out of breath, all the strength in her body suddenly relaxed, and she collapsed to the ground, her eyes dim and she died with her eyes open.
"Only fragments?" Xi Heng didn't care about the man's death. He put away his sword and asked his senior sister, "When the Liang family took away this sword technique, was it a fragment or the complete version?"
The senior sister just said: "My master never let me see this sword technique at the beginning, so I don't know the details of it."
"Senior Sister, how come you don't know so many things?" Xi Heng complained in a low voice.
"There's nothing I can do. I'm not a strange man with supernatural powers." Hong Miao waved her hand.
The girl shook her head, went back to the side where the fainted young master of the Liang family had been thrown around like a ball, and kicked him awake with two kicks.
"Where is your family tree?" she asked.
The young man who had just woken up was confused. When he saw Xi Heng's appearance, he seemed to remember something quickly, but suddenly became panicked again.
"Family, family tree?" he answered in a trembling voice.
"Tell me within five seconds." Xi Heng simply stepped on the stone slab with his toes, creating spider-web-like cracks on it.
"Yes! Right here! In the wooden cabinet behind the tablet... the table for the tablet, where is the table..."
The table had fallen over and the wooden signs were scattered all over the floor.
"Thank you." Xi Heng responded politely.
Walking around the scattered wooden boards on the ground and coming to the cabinet at the back, the first thing I saw was the Ben Liang family tree, which also contained many precious jewels made of gold and white jade.
Xi Heng first took out a few pieces of light jewelry and put them into his purse, then took out the family tree.
There is another book hidden further inside the family tree. When it is taken out, it is found to be an old book without a cover.
The cover was wrinkled and yellowed due to moisture, and the words on it were just barely legible.
She took a quick look and saw some strange and bizarre moves, or some powerful and straight-forward moves. Comparing them with the sword moves used by Madam Liang just now, she was almost certain that this was the Qimie sword technique.
"Is this the one?" Xi Heng handed it to Senior Sister Hong Miao who had been following him, and asked her to confirm it.
"It does seem familiar." Hong Miao nodded slightly.
"Now that we have got what we need, let's go." Xi Heng left the main room where candles were scattered all over the floor and walked towards the courtyard gate.
The square courtyard in the snow was neat and tidy. The only thing that didn't catch the eye was the bloody corpses on the ground.
In the courtyard, the tiny plum blossoms flutter in the bitter cold, and fish swim in the small rock pool.
When walking between the clean corridors, there are no warriors or servants clamoring to disturb you, so it is quiet.
Xi Heng wrapped himself in his black robe again, and pulled his hat down to slightly cover his face, making him look even more mysterious.
After a while, I arrived at the front yard and turned around, and suddenly I heard a shout.
"stop!"
A Tianliang soldier wearing armor and holding a long spear had come into the yard with a large group of people at some point. He smashed the floor tiles with the handle of the spear in his hand.
With the support of the soldiers in the rear, the little leader raised his hand and pointed directly at Xi Heng, scolding:
"How dare you enter General Liang's courtyard and kill people? You are simply lawless! Follow me to the yamen to be tried!"
"Lawless?" Xi Heng thought the word was ridiculous: "You Tianliang people are the most lawless bastards."
"How dare you! Catch her for me!" The man waved his hand, and dozens of soldiers behind him rushed over.
Xi Heng neither fled nor hid, but charged into the soldiers' gun formation with a sword.
Once you set foot in it, it will cause a bloody storm.
Her advanced martial arts skills made it unnecessary for her to even use much strength as she slaughtered this group of weak soldiers directly. Wherever her figure passed, the rebel soldiers were all left with bloody heads and died.
The rebel soldiers stretched out their guns, but they were cut off by the sharp red blades.
The paper and vine armor could not block the sword blade, and the vital part of her neck was unprotected. She didn't even need to use any moves to deal with these soldiers, and she didn't even need to think. She just swung the sword at will and blood would gush out.
The sharp blade chopped off the heads with ease. As Xi Heng continued to swing the blade, before he had finished killing to his heart's content, the surrounding soldiers no longer dared to approach.
The black robe was stained with blood, turning from pure black into a dark red that looked like a rich, bloody color.
When the weather is cold, the freshly spurted blood emits a faint white heat, like the wandering soul of a human.
Xi Heng looked around and found that the enemies had retreated to a far distance and dared not attack anymore.
But she still wanted to see blood, so she stepped on the stone slab with her toes, cracked it, and rushed forward again.
The soldiers did not dare to fight back and could only flee in panic.
But how could they escape the warrior's lightness skill? A red light flashed, and three or two more heads flew high into the air.
A soldier collapsed to the ground, clasped his hands together and begged for mercy in panic. Before he could utter a few words, a flash of sword light pierced through his head and into his lower body.
After killing all these people, Xi Heng turned around and saw more rebel soldiers with seemingly better equipment running towards them in an orderly manner.
The dozens of miscellaneous soldiers just now could not be compared with the hundreds of neatly dressed and roughly formed rebel troops.
They either held shields or swords or held spears. Facing Xi Heng, who was covered in blood and looked like a god of death, they formed a shield and spear formation to deal with the warriors at a loud roar.
"Junior sister, it's time to go." Hong Miao reminded from behind.
She saw dozens of meters away, there were many rebel soldiers holding bows and crossbows, which were the weapons that posed the greatest threat to warriors.
"Why leave?" Xi Heng found a random excuse for his subsequent killing:
"This group of rebels and rebellious troops bullied the people of Great Zhao. As the princess of Great Zhao, how could I not kill them?"
The soldiers holding strong shields smashed the shields to the ground, and the sound was like the sound of war drums.
The spearmen placed their spears behind their shields, the crossbowmen and archers stood in the distance, and the formation advanced step by step towards Xi Heng.
These hundreds of Tianliang troops are not all there are, and there are still soldiers on the way.
Xi Heng looked at the front array approaching step by step, and without retreating a single step, he went straight forward.
She walked across a field, the cold wind making her black robe whistle and blowing her hat away, causing her long black hair to flutter.
First, there was a round of inaccurate arrows. Among dozens of arrows, only three or four seemed to hit her. She just turned around suddenly and dodged these few.
No matter whether it was a crossbow or a bow and arrow, as long as she was not entangled, she could easily dodge it.
He landed on his toes and stepped forward again, kicking forward fiercely. His right foot instantly hit the large shield in front of him. The blood in his body surged, and a thousand pounds of strength roared out with this kick.
The muscles and bones within the flesh vibrated, causing the force of this move to increase several times.
The thick shield was hit with a loud bang, and the next second it was knocked back several meters as if it was hit by a running bull.
Seeing that there was a gap in the array, Xi Heng instantly entered, and the red sword energy swept across the armor and penetrated the human body.
The sword energy swept through, cutting open the abdomens of more than a dozen people within a five-meter radius, and they collapsed to the ground screaming in pain.
The spearman on the other side was stunned, apparently unable to react.
