Chapter 213
Prince Qin's Mansion is located in the center of the city, so it is not difficult to find. Of course, Qiao Mu understands the principle of capturing the king first before catching the thief.
But the "king" of the Great Qin Mansion is actually not the King of Qin, but the immortal cultivator behind the King of Qin.
This has nothing to do with strength, but that King Qin is essentially a Taoist soldier. No matter how strong he is, he will eventually be inferior to a true immortal cultivator.
So the "king" that Qiao Mu wants to kill first is actually Daoxu.
..
Half a day later.
Qiao Mu was sitting in a wooden house with his eyes closed and meditation, sitting cross-legged.
It seemed that he was concentrating with his eyes closed, but the strange thing was that the flesh and blood all over his body was squirming slightly, rising and falling slightly with each breath, and a ball of hot air spread out from the top of his head.
After a long time, he opened his eyes.
"The internal injuries to the meridians caused by the demon's disintegration have almost recovered." Qiao Mu breathed a sigh of relief and clenched his fists.
Now that the body has recovered, it means that the disintegration of the demon can continue.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door of this small house, and two guests in bamboo hats pushed in the door, it was Hu Han and his daughter.
"Mr. Qiao, I have found the trace of the 'Iron Wolf'." Hu Han took off his bamboo hat, but his face was a little solemn.
"His people are hiding in a mansion bought by Li Gongde in the east of the city."
Relying on the "scented insects" he prepared in advance, it was easy for him to find his former rival Tie Lang.
It's just that Daoxu's existence was unexpected by him, so he didn't act rashly, but quickly contacted Qiao Mu according to his previous agreement.
"Is this really related to Li Gongde?"
Thoughts flashed through Qiao Mu's mind, but he just nodded calmly.
The time came just in time, and his injury had just healed, when news came about Daoxu. Just as he was about to hang himself, someone handed him a rope, which was very considerate.
"Is there any news about the Daoxu Daoist sect? Is he with the Iron Wolf?" Qiao Mu asked.
Hu Han had a troubled look on his face:
"I heard that a strange person has appeared before, but I have been keeping tabs on him for the past few days, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes."
Qiao Mu nodded in understanding.
"It's better to hit the sun than to choose another day, so I'll go." Qiao Mu stood up decisively.
"Wait a minute." The speaker was Hu Wan, the daughter of Hu Han. She suddenly said at this moment:
"It is naturally very dangerous for a warrior to be an enemy of a stranger. Although I am low in strength, I do not want to see the Qiao family excel in their beauty."
"Mr. Qiao, let me go with you."
Before she finished speaking, Hu Han's expression changed next to her:
"Nonsense, this is a narrow escape... Your martial arts skills are still low, what will happen if you die?"
"It's precisely because of my narrow escape that I want to go." Hu Wan gritted her teeth, her expression firm, as if she was determined.
Qiao Mu quietly watched the father and daughter arguing and yawned.
He actually had some impressions of Hu Han's daughter...
"Kid, this is not how you die." Qiao Mu suddenly interrupted.
Hu Wan was slightly startled.
Hu Han's life was saved by the Qiao family in the past. Both father and daughter admired the Qiao family very much, so as soon as Qiao Mu spoke, they temporarily stopped arguing.
Just listen to Qiao Mu continue:
"Before, I was frightened by the Arhat's stone in the imperial capital. I felt that I was scared in the face of a life-and-death crisis, so I felt ashamed?"
Hu Wan opened her mouth but was speechless and did not refute.
"What an easy-to-understand kid." Qiao Mu shook his head.
This little girl is just brave and wants to prove her courage again, so she plans to follow him and break through the ghost gate of the alien world.
"Why are you coming with me? Do you want to punish evil, promote good and save others, or do you want to prove your bravery and satisfy yourself by acting as a knight?"
"If it's the former, you shouldn't have come." Qiao Mu's eyes were slightly dazed, filled with memories.
Originally, he was just old in appearance but young in heart, but now in front of this little girl, he really recalled the past events in Yancheng like an old man.
When he kidnapped Mr. Guo and charged at Guo Yan, and when he fought bloody battle to his last breath, he aimed his fatal blow not at Guo Yan, but at a servant who carried the coffin into the house, just because he wanted to deal with the aftermath of Old Huang.
"It's harder to save people than to kill them."
"Instead of satisfying your own desire for expression, why not take more women and children out of the city with your father these days."
Hu Wan pursed her lips, as if she wanted to argue, but in the end she said nothing.
prove yourself? Satisfy the dream of being a knight?
With the status and reputation of the senior Qiao family, she would not contradict him like she contradicted Hu Han.
Qiao Mu didn't expect that a single word could change the child's mind. Anyway, he was not a sage who taught the world, and he didn't care to be a life mentor.
He said it, whether he wanted to hear it or not, he would not let this little girl go with him.
Iron Wolf should have become a Taoist soldier and is no longer something Hu Han can deal with.
The warrior's body of flesh and blood cannot stand up to the Immortal Jin Tiegang. I think he can only rely on Qiao Mu's strong inner strength to cooperate with the demon to disintegrate...
So let alone Hu Wan, even veterans like his father and Hai Siyuan found it difficult to help.
After briefly asking Hu Han about the information about Iron Wolf and the mansion, Qiao Mu took Hu Han's scented insect bottle and left alone.
.....
The moon is dark and the wind is high, in the middle of the night.
On the edge of Li Gongde's mansion in the east of the city.
A black shadow flew across the eaves, moving as fast as the wind, but its footsteps were a little heavy, breaking a tile, and a slight sound under its feet spread in the night.
With Qiao Mu's already perfected Hidden Shadow Step, he had already reached the state where he could step on the snow without leaving a trace. If he had the intention to hide his figure, not a single sound would be heard.
In fact, he did it deliberately, playing the role of a fisherman in the middle of the night.
Hu Han's bottle of scented insects can help him find traces of Tie Lang, but what Qiao Mu wants to find is actually the unknown Daoxu behind Tie Lang.
So he prepared to play the role of a stupid thief and try to lure Daoxu out.
Not long after, a powerful figure quietly jumped onto the eaves in the night.
He was a man of lean stature, not as tall and exaggerated as an iron tower like a bronze-bodied Arhat, but his slender eyes were quite deep in the night, as if glowing like a beast. He was exactly the iron wolf Hu Han mentioned.
"Where did this gentleman from Liangshang come from to steal something on my head?" Iron Wolf seemed to be smiling but not smiling. He stood on the eaves four or five steps away from Qiao Mu. He glanced at Qiao Mu several times and suddenly handed over his hand in a serious tone:
"Mantis Fist, Iron Wolf."
Still doing this?
Qiao Mu also casually handed over his hand:
"Longevity Fist, Qiao Shui."
Before he finished speaking, the iron wolf's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he swooped over while Qiao Mu was replying.
Only a crisp sound was heard.
The flesh and skin of his hands and wrists were separated, and a long blade popped out from the flesh, shining with a metallic cold light under the moonlight. It was like a mantis, and the blade was pointed directly at the throat of the tree.
"How can a cyber warrior pretend to be a traditional boxer?" Qiao Mu cursed.
Chapter 236 Exploring the Lower Limit of Martial Arts (4k
The long blade in Iron Wolf's wrist flashed with cold light, streaking across the night sky like thunder, pointing towards Qiao Mu's throat.
Similar to the previous bronze-bodied Arhat, his long blade is simply fast and powerful, and does not contain any inner strength.
After giving up his ordinary body, Iron Wolf used his second-level martial arts cultivation to control his current iron-bone body, which was actually much stronger than when he was an ordinary martial artist.
It's just that although he is fast, Qiao Mu has also entered the second level of God Refining.
Although he took the opportunity to make a sneak attack, Qiao Mu also had a flash of intuition in his heart. He had predicted his sneak attack in advance and jumped back a few steps to avoid the flash of lightning.
"Is it faster than the original bronze-bodied Arhat? Is this the characteristic of a second-grade iron-bone Taoist soldier?"
This thought crossed Qiao Mu's mind.
The bronze-bodied Arhat was extremely strong, and his body was made of cloud-patterned orichalcum. It was extremely hard, almost equivalent to a piece of human-shaped immortal magic weapon. Even he could not confront the demon head-on before it was disintegrated.
But the speed of movement is average... a little faster than the ordinary god-refining martial artist, but still not able to catch up with him.
But the Iron Wolf in front of him was not like that.
Although it was a sneak attack, his movement speed was only about the same as that of Qiao Mu.
Everyone was at the second level of God Refining, and their movement speeds were similar, which meant that Qiao Mu couldn't escape as easily as he did when he faced the bronze-bodied Arhat.
"It's not yet time for the demon to disintegrate..."
The tree's consciousness was empty, and its figure flickered back and forth on the eaves like a ghost, as if blending with the breeze in the night.
The disintegration of the demon cannot last long, and Qiao Mu has no intention of exchanging his own life for that of a Taoist soldier.
What if he acts too strong and scares Daoxu away?
His target is Daoxu, a cultivator of immortality, so his plan is... to alert the snake.
First fight with the iron wolf, and without the need for the demon to disintegrate, it will appear as a powerful enemy that the iron wolf cannot deal with. If you think about it, the people behind the iron wolf will be alarmed.
"It's a bit difficult to handle..."
Qiao Mu dodged sideways, but his waist was barely scraped by the long blade in Tie Lang's hand, leaving a long blood mark.
The injury was only minor, and there was no direct hit, but it sounded an alarm in Qiao Mu's heart.
"His speed is similar to mine, but since this Iron Wolf is an iron-bone Taoist soldier, it is probably even higher than that of the bronze-bodied Arhat... In other words, as an ordinary martial artist made of flesh and blood, he probably can't stop him head-on. "A few knives."
Before the demon was disintegrated, Qiao Mu fought a dangerous battle. He just relied on his intuition to keep dodging. Occasionally, he would volley a broken virtual finger in the air to burst out his inner energy, and hit the iron wolf from the air, but it only made a few ping ping ping ping ping ping pings. The sound was muffled, but it didn't work.
Fighting with them is equivalent to dancing on the tip of a knife, but the battle between the martial arts warriors is not only a competition of skills and moves, but also a battle of mind and will.
"What an iron wolf, it turns out to be the mantis of a praying mantis."
"Take a good look at yourself. You have given up your physical body and your inner strength of hard training is gone. What kind of martial artist are you? You have gone astray." Qiao Mu shouted.
But Iron Wolf didn't take it seriously.
"The way of a martial artist is too narrow." The corners of his mouth slowly raised, almost reaching the base of his ears, and he gave a big smile.
"The human body is too fragile."
"The skin is not tough enough. As we get older, our blood and qi will decline, our strength will fail, and our body will not be as good as before."
"After practicing martial arts for decades, in the end, you will age and become weak like ordinary people, and one day you will lose all your teeth and be unable to walk."
Under the moonlight, his upper body clothes ripped apart.
Under the powerful body, long blades alternately poked out from under the skin, flashing with a cold light.
Not only did he have two long blades on his wrists, he actually had ten long blades all over his body, distributed in various parts of his body.
"What I'm exploring is the lower limit of martial arts! How do you, a conservative old man like you, understand this?"
"My current majestic and beautiful posture..."
"This is the symbol of martial arts in the new era!"
Iron Wolf jumped up, his body as fast as the wind, and spinning like a top, with ten long blades slashing out alternately.
"New Mantis Fist·Cross Hand Knife."
His ten long blades were not swung randomly, but had a vague pattern, cooperating with each other, chopping from different directions, and surrounding the trees.
For a moment, Qiao Mu felt as if he was not in a one-on-one duel, but was surrounded by seven or eight people. The long blades that alternately slashed out made him exhausted. His side was scratched again, and there was another bloody mark.
"Tie Lang, do you know what you are? You are just a Taoist soldier in the hands of the cultivators!" Qiao Mu shouted while dodging.
"What? I'm just a Taoist soldier?!"
Tie Lang was suddenly shocked and confused by Qiao Mu's words. He looked down at his hands that were beyond recognition, and belatedly realized that he was an inhuman being. His face was shrouded in the shadows of the night, and he couldn't see. Clear face.