Gu Xi had been waiting quietly for a long time. His hands behind his back sleeves had cast numerous talismans in an instant. The most amazing thing was that the casting sequence of these talismans seemed to be carefully calculated. The conflicting talisman meanings did not cause absolute chaos or even self-annihilation. Instead, they overlapped until they finally broke out, tearing the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the quiet winter courtyard into a terrible turbulent ocean.
The turbulent Qi of Heaven and Earth formed by countless talismans was like a violent ocean, shrouding the entire courtyard. Talisman meanings were used to cut off the connection between the cultivator's Psyche Power and the talisman paper or Natal Item. This kind of talisman casting technique was extremely marvelous. It could be imagined how long Gu Xi had been immersed in Talisman Taoism and how powerful he was.
Fortunately, the turbulent Qi of Heaven and Earth rotated rapidly, and its speed was not fast on a large scale, so it could not hurt Ning Que's body immediately. However, Gu Xi had successfully prevented Ning Que from casting talismans. From this point of view, from the beginning, he had guessed that Ning Que's real killing move was not the podao, but the brocade pouch.
The talisman in the brocade pouch could only be cast by Psyche Power. Ning Que seemed to have no choice but to be captured. However, his expression did not change. He turned his wrist, and the podao, which seemed to have fallen into a swamp, began to buzz. The fine talisman lines on the surface of the podao began to shine.
The Divine Talisman left by his master was separated by the brocade pouch, so he could not communicate with it through Psyche Power. However, he had been holding the podao tightly in his hand, so he could naturally communicate with it through skin contact. In an instant, the talisman lines carefully made by the Academy's Senior Brothers began to show their real power. The blade cut through the turbulence with a swish and chopped toward Gu Xi's face!
Ning Que, who was waving the podao, had no expression on his face.
There was no expression on Gu Xi's face either. He looked at the podao coming toward him, as if he could not feel the cold aura carried by the blade. His right hand, which was behind his back sleeves, appeared between the two of them. The seemingly ordinary finger, like the snowflakes falling in the courtyard at this time, gently fell on the surface of the podao.
The podao's talisman had just been formed, and it had just cut through the mud-like turbulent ocean, so its speed was slow. That was why the finger could so easily fall on the surface of the podao. But what could a finger do to this soul-devouring cold podao?
His finger stroked across the surface of the podao. As his finger moved, the complicated seal lines on the surface of the podao suddenly dimmed. Those powerful seal essences then disappeared without a trace. There was actually an extremely small seal paper under his finger, and that seal paper was continuously releasing powerful seal essences as his finger moved!
That finger finally came to the hilt of the knife. The formation lines on the slender and long knife lost their original bright luster, turning into an extremely ordinary iron. It no longer had the power to push forward.
This battle was very strange. Ning Que's state and strength could not be fully displayed at all before he was defeated by his opponent. Whether it was the brocade pouch in his left hand or the podao in his right hand, it seemed that his opponent knew all his fighting techniques and had prepared them in advance, so that he could not use them at all and could only wait for death in silence.
Gu Xi's eyes narrowed into two slits. He quietly looked at Ning Que's face close at hand and said, "You're dead."
Ning Que felt that the podao was as heavy as a hill, but he did not speak.
Gu Xi looked at him and calmly said, "That spring at the entrance of Northern Mountain Road, you killed three of my subordinates, so I knew you had three podaos. I prepared a lot of talismans and means for it, so even if you had more podaos, it would be meaningless. In addition, I was very clear that you were the successor of Master Yan Se. Although I did not know whether the master would give you a few Divine Talismans, I naturally had to make some preparations. I even sent someone to investigate which Taoist temples, Buddhist temples, and pavilions Master Yan Se had taken you to when he took you to study, in order to evaluate your state of Talisman Taoism. Believe me, although you had not yet displayed those poor little fireballs, I had also carefully prepared for it."
Ning Que silently looked at him.
"Your Psyche Power is strong, but your Ocean of Qi and Snow has only opened ten apertures. Your cultivation is in the lower state of Seethrough, and your control of the Qi of Heaven and Earth is very poor. You come from the frontier fortress of City of Wei, and your bladesmanship is fierce and accurate, like the style of the military. You have a tough temperament and are good at close combat. You are the successor of the Divine Talisman Master, but because your enlightenment time is too short, you are not good at Talisman Taoism."
"So I let you get close to me and let you use your podao as a camouflage to move talismans, so that I could take all the opportunities."
Gu Xi sincerely regretted and said, "The battle between two people is like the war between two countries. It needs the most perfect and accurate information. The more prepared you are, the easier it is to win. You don't even know that I am also a Talisman Master. How can you kill me? But I know everything about you, so you can't even play 10% of your real strength in front of me. How can you not be killed by me? "
Ning Que looked at his eyes and suddenly asked, "Why do you know so much about me?"
"Because I am a military counselor. What I am best at is collecting, sorting and analyzing information. As long as I start paying attention, there are no secrets in this world that I don't know."
Gu Xi finally said, "In fact, what makes me most vigilant about you is the iron box that few people have seen. But I don't know why you didn't take it with you today. Or do you think that a military counselor who only knows how to play tricks is not enough to make you reveal all your secrets? As a military counselor, I very much welcome any underestimation of the enemy. "
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In a corner of the Winter Garden of the General's Mansion.
After a moment of silence, Xiahou slowly said, "After the 15th, you should return to the capital city immediately. Don't delay. Ask your mother to go back to her hometown and clean up the old yard. Take out the pickles in the cellar and dry them to reduce the bitter taste. It will taste good to cook white meat in the next winter. But you can't leave the capital city. Stay in the mansion and don't contact those princes and ministers. Don't even go to the prince's mansion."
Two young generals were kneeling in front of the desk. They were his two sons, one called Xiahou Jin and the other Xiahou Duan. Under the strict upbringing of their families, the two of them were as obedient as their names, completely lacking the slightest domineering and arrogant attitude.
Usually, the two of them didn't even dare to breathe heavily in front of their father. But today, they heard the disheartened tone in their father's words and guessed that their father was going to resign and retire. They couldn't help but be shocked. Thinking of the mysterious carriage that came to the Winter Courtyard today, they couldn't help but ask, "Father, who are those people today? How dare they …"
Xiahou looked at the cup of thick tea on the table and said expressionlessly, "Don't guess and don't be meddlesome. The return of the two of you to the capital city is my promise to the Headmaster of the Academy and His Majesty. If you don't want the family to be destroyed, behave yourself."
Suddenly, his thick eyebrows that were like silkworms frowned.
A few very fine lines appeared on the cup of thick and mellow black tea on the table.
Xiahou turned his head and looked out of the window. He knew that Gu Xi should have taken action at this time.
He didn't know how Gu Xi had arranged it, just like he didn't know the details of the grassland Horse Gang's attack on the grain team. He only knew that although Gu Xi had some ideas that even he didn't know, he was absolutely loyal to him and could ensure that he wouldn't be implicated after Ning Que's death. But would Mr. First really make a mistake?
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In another corner of the Winter Courtyard of the General's Mansion.
Eldest Brother looked out of the window at the north and then lowered his head to continue reading.
Shanshan sat quietly at the other side of the desk and wrote small regular script.
Just as Gu Xi had calculated, Eldest Brother thought that Ning Que was killing people at this time. He didn't expect that Ning Que was being killed. The reason why he was so sure was not because he had made a mistake like Xiahou thought, but because, as he had said to Shanshan before, he trusted Ning Que's choice very much.
A few days ago, when he traveled around with his teacher, he once passed by the City of Wei and made a home visit to his Youngest Brother. He knew his Youngest Brother's growth experience, so he believed that although his Youngest Brother's strength was indeed a little bad, his sensitivity to danger and grasp of timing were definitely the best in the back of the mountain. He would never take action unless he was absolutely sure. Now that he had taken action, he would definitely win.
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The powerful talisman intent emitted by countless talisman characters turned the courtyard into a raging sea. The Qi of Heaven and Earth was torn into turbulence. The cultivator's Psyche Power could not penetrate through it, let alone use the Qi of Heaven and Earth to fight against the enemy.
The Divine Talisman in the brocade bag could not be activated at all. The talisman lines on the podao were gathered into ordinary patterns by the Fu paper under the fingertips. His body was surrounded by dangerous turbulence of primordial Qi. An ordinary person's body would split open and spurt blood as long as he touched it. No matter how one looked at it, Ning Que had become a moth in a net and could no longer survive.
However, the military counselor Gu Xi did not know another thing. Ning Que indeed could not control the Qi of Heaven and Earth in the courtyard, but his own body had enough Qi of Heaven and Earth, the Great Spirit!
In the cold wind and snow, Ning Que took a deep breath. His mind turned slightly in his sense of perception, and the Snow Mountain on his waist suddenly warmed up. The Great Spirit accumulated in the passage in his abdomen instantly gushed out and poured into every part of his body.
The podao's momentum had been exhausted, so he did not choose to transfer the Great Spirit to the podao. Instead, he loosened the hilt without hesitation and tightened his five loose fingers into a fist.
Ning Que punched out.
Gu Xi squinted his eyes and looked calm and confident. He did not know which cultivator in this world dared to use and could use a fragile body to forcibly break through the dangerous turbulence of the Qi of Heaven and Earth between two people.
A gust of wind suddenly appeared on Ning Que's fist. Countless airflows violently gushed out from his fingers and the pores on the back of his hand, easily tearing the turbulence of primordial Qi into pieces!
There was a world in the world, and there was a world in the body. The aura between the two worlds was the same and there was no difference at all. Therefore, when the Great Spirit gushed out from the fist, the turbulence disappeared without a trace like a whirlpool being flooded by a flood!
Gu Xi's squinted eyes suddenly widened. He was shocked but also had a touch of expectation.
Because no matter how strong the fist was, it was not enough to annihilate all the turbulence of primordial Qi in the space. There were still some dangerous turbulence. He wanted to see the next moment when the fist was cut into pieces.
However, he was disappointed.
Ning Que's fist was not a fist, at least not the fist of an ordinary person.
Because his fist was very hard now.
It was so hard that those fragments of primordial Qi that could cut the body of a cultivator could only leave some very shallow wounds on it.
Gu Xi stared at the fist that was getting closer and closer and found that he could not make any response at all, because the speed of the fist was faster than his reaction speed.
He only had time to show panic in his eyes.
Because at least he had time to figure something out.
In this world, there was a kind of cultivator who could fight without the Qi of Heaven and Earth.
In this world, there was a kind of cultivator whose body could be strong enough to ignore the turbulence of primordial Qi.
Ning Que's fist fell on Gu Xi's face.
Gu Xi's head burst in an instant.
A headless body fell into the thin snow.
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The talisman intent in the courtyard gradually faded, and the fine turbulence of primordial Qi disappeared at the same time.
A piece of Fu paper fell on Gu Xi's body. Ning Que silently looked at the gradually burning flame.
"Information is very important in a battle, but you can't rely too much on it. Because people living in this world have their own secrets, which are often hidden in the deepest part of their hearts, and no one has ever known."
"My biggest secret is not the iron box, but something else."
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