Lu Chen took a step back, looking as if he had been frightened. His face was tense, and he had one hand in front of his chest while the other hung by his side. Then, he quietly reached behind him in the shadows, as if he had grabbed something in the dark.
At that moment, the sword light was like a bright moon, its splendor illuminating the entire forest, the wind howled like a surging torrent, but in the next moment, the sword blade in the light suddenly stopped, stopped inches in front of Lu Chen.
The sword light that filled the sky sprinkled down like a shower of stars, gradually converging, and finally quietly converging into the longsword that was as bright as autumn water. Darkness swarmed over, drowning the figure opposite him in the same shadow.
It was vaguely a woman.
Her face could not be seen clearly, the only light in the dark forest was the sword in her hand.
The wind rose again in the forest, faintly blowing past, the pattering from the sky, was dark red blood.
…
A drop of blood, landed on the tip of the sword, gently trembling, with a soul-stirring and strange beauty.
Lu Chen felt a chill between his brows, as if an invisible sword had already stabbed down in that instant. That sword stopped in front of him, silently in the darkness.
"Why didn't you dodge?"
A calm but pleasant female voice came from the shadows in front of them.
Lu Chen took a deep breath, said, "Your skills are too high, the sword force is too fast, I can't dodge."
The woman in the darkness snorted, said, "Since it is so, why are you secretly holding a weapon behind your back, what is your intention?"
Lu Chen immediately raised his right hand that was hanging by his side. Without any hesitation, he threw out the black short sword that he was holding in his hand. After a while, there was a muffled "pu" sound. The black sword was stabbed into a nearby tree trunk.
Lu Chen spread out his hands, indicating that he was unarmed, and then slowly put them down. That bright long sword still stopped in front of him, did not waver in the slightest, and also did not have any intention of withdrawing.
The night wind blew, that drop of blood on the sword tip trembled and twisted a few times, suddenly split into two, quietly drifting from the two sides of the blade to the dark ground.
In that instant, the long sword's light seemed to brighten a little, the sharp sword tip also seemed to slightly raise its head. The surroundings were silent, in the depths of Lu Chen's eyes, his pupils also slightly contracted.
But that instant passed in the blink of an eye, the long sword suddenly retreated, silently submerged into the darkness, returned to the woman's side, and then disappeared.
There was a bit of light in the shadows, as if it was her bright and clear eyes. She glanced at Lu Chen, without saying anything, turned and left, disappearing into the darkness in the blink of an eye.
And at the moment when she turned, the darkness surged, suddenly there seemed to be a faint red light flickering in the shadows. Lu Chen saw that moment of light, although it was a bit blurry, but he still saw that the woman's shoulder was draped with a scarlet feather shawl.
Like the wings of a bird, it spread out behind her in the night, soaring in the night, floating into the distance.
Lu Chen stood in place for a while, his eyebrows gradually wrinkled, as if thinking about something. After a while, he walked to the side of the tree trunk and took back the black short sword. It was unknown what movement his hand made, but after a slight tremble in the darkness, the black sword disappeared.
Then, Lu Chen took a few steps forward, and then half-squatted down. The surrounding smell of blood began to diffuse, and blood dyed the ground in the forest red. Not far away, a terrible demon beast's body was split into two and fell to the ground.
"Black Demon Bear …" Lu Chen said in a low voice, then walked over and fiddled with the remains of the demon beast with his feet, "The demon core is gone, it should have been taken away by her. That sword was so powerful … it should be 'Moonlight Chop'? "
He was silent for a moment, then stood up, looked into the depths of the darkness in the distance, and said to himself in a low voice, "When did the Kunlun Party have such a powerful young genius?"
"But, about that shawl …" Lu Chen paused, shook his head, and said nothing, then turned around and walked back the way he came.
Just for a moment, the darkness followed him like a shadow, and in the blink of an eye, he also disappeared into the shadows.
…
The next morning, after Han Nanzu and the others woke up, the group of four continued on their journey to the Black Armor Mountain.
Perhaps it was because they were gradually entering the depths of the Disorienting Lands, they encountered more demon beasts today than yesterday. But under Lu Chen's lead, they still avoided most of the dangers along the way, and after half a day, they finally saw the peak of the Black Armor Mountain.
Because it was almost impossible for ordinary people to enter the Disorienting Lands, most of the people who came here were human cultivators. Therefore, there were many places in the wilderness where there were no people, and of course, there were no roads.
But there were exceptions to everything. For example, some popular places, human cultivators would come here many times, and some roads would appear after they stepped on it. For example, Lu Chen's group of four was currently standing on a small hill, and there was a three-way fork in the road.
Lu Chen pointed in the southwest direction, and said to Han Nanzu and the others, "If we go in this direction, we will reach the Black Armor Mountain in an hour at most."
Han Nanzu nodded, and looked at the seemingly inconspicuous mountain in the distance, a trace of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Standing to the side, Yi Xin looked around curiously, and finally her gaze fell on the road under her feet, and she asked Lu Chen, "Brother Lu, did you say that this road was formed by many people?"
Lu Chen said, "Yes."
Yi Xin said, "Could it be that everyone is going to the Black Armor Mountain? Doesn't that mean that all the spiritual materials on the mountain have been collected by people? "
Lu Chen said with a smile, "That's not it. Although there are evening fog flowers and some other spiritual materials on the Black Armor Mountain, they are almost the lowest grade of one-mark spiritual materials, so they can't attract too many people. The cultivators who often walk here go to another place. "
"Another place?" Yi Xin's gaze drifted to another intersection, where the road meandered forward, leading to the southeast, "What is that over there? Is there any good place to go?"
Lu Chen thought for a moment, and said, "Hundreds of miles south from here, there are quite a few famous spiritual material production areas, such as' Green Sunflower Cave ',' Five Peaks Mountain ',' Yellow Mud Pond '. Usually, many cultivators go there."
"I see." Yi Xin nodded, and said with a smile, "Brother Lu, you are really knowledgeable."
Lu Chen shrugged, and said with a smile, "Don't forget that this is what I do for a living."
Yi Xin smiled sweetly, but He Gang looked a little unconvinced, and snorted, "In my opinion, although there are several places here, the most famous ones are clearly not those."
Yi Xin was stunned for a moment, and said, "Senior Brother, what do you know?"
He Gang said with an arrogant face, "Before coming here, I have done my homework. Eight hundred miles south from here is the battlefield of the righteous and demonic path ten years ago, which is also the location of the famous' Barren Valley '. That is the place that countless cultivators want to go to the most."
"Brother Lu, am I right?" He Gang squinted at Lu Chen.
Lu Chen was silent for a moment, and then said with a calm face, "Yes."
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