Xuanxia

Chapter 45 Gu Fire
Fu Qingzhou fell asleep without knowing when.

After saying the three words "Qi Ran Jue", Long Dabei seemed to have said a lot more words, but he could no longer remember them. From then on, his eyelids began to droop, his head became dizzy, and his consciousness sank into endless darkness.

He seemed to have slept for a long time until he heard Tang Jiao calling his name, and then he woke up slowly.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a simple little house with flickering candlelight on the yellowed walls. Tang Jiao was sitting beside him, calling him softly.

"Brother, are you awake?"

She smiled sweetly: "It's time to get up and have dinner."

Fu Qingzhou rubbed his eyes: "What's going on? Why did I fall asleep? Where is this?"

"This is Lingxiang Town."

Tang Jiao said softly, "You suddenly fell asleep at the dinner table this morning, and the uncle said you were too tired, so we asked for two rooms in the restaurant, and you slept here for the whole day."

"what?"

Fu Qingzhou slowly sat up and asked in a hoarse voice: "Where did he get the money?"

"I don't know." Tang Jiao asked blankly: "Brother, are you still tired now?"

Fu Qingzhou stretched lazily.

Tired? How could it be possible...

Tang Jiao, who had not yet awakened her martial arts skills at that time in the morning, was not so tired that she fell asleep on the dining table. How could I be so tired that I could fall asleep?

I'm afraid it's because of Qi Ranjue?

Although Fu Qingzhou didn't know why he fell asleep, he could guess that it was related to it... Was it Long Dabei who taught him the technique in some special way? Could it be that this technique had been stuffed into his head?

He was startled and tried to search for relevant content in his mind, but found nothing.

"never mind……"

Fu Qingzhou murmured, "By the way, where are Long Dabei and the others?"

"He's in the next room." Tang Jiao looked a little puzzled. "He said he probably had something to do tonight and asked us not to leave this room. He even asked the restaurant to prepare dinner and send it to the room."

"Something wrong? Don't leave the room?"

Fu Qingzhou was just about to think, but when he took a look at the simple home-cooked meal on the table, his stomach immediately growled with hunger, and he couldn't think of anything else for a while: "Forget it, let's eat first."

But just as he sat down at the table and began to wolf down his food, the wooden window next to him suddenly exploded!
Tang Jiao screamed in fright, while Fu Qingzhou's pupils flashed with brilliance and he swung the bamboo chopsticks in his hand as if they were a knife!

However, the chopsticks stopped halfway through the swing.

The person who broke into the room through the window was none other than Hua Xiaolan.

"It's you?!"

Fu Qingzhou was surprised and happy.

"Nonsense, it's not who I am!" Hua Xiaolan was no longer dressed as a Miao girl from Wandu Mountain. Instead, she was wearing linen clothes of an ordinary farm girl, somewhat similar to Tang Jiao's. However, there was still a smartness in her eyes that no one could match.

She grabbed Fu Qingzhou's wrist and said, "Hurry up, our people are surrounding and killing Long Dabei!"

Although this happened quickly and urgently, Fu Qingzhou reacted immediately. His eyes suddenly lit up, he put down his chopsticks, turned his head and looked at Tang Jiao: "Let's go together!"

Tang Jiao bit her lip: "Okay!"

With his instructions, she immediately forgot Long Dabi's words to "stay in the room".

The three of them joined hands and jumped out of the inn window.

The small restaurant in this town was not very tall, only two floors in total. Even someone like Tang Jiao who had not yet developed her martial arts skills did not even twist her ankle after landing.

After leaving the restaurant, Fu Qingzhou turned around and saw - wow, what a big scene!

Perhaps Long Dabei had arranged something just now, so he didn't hear or sense anything in the room. But when he left the restaurant, he found that the place was already surrounded by people.

There are at least hundreds of people here, including Miao people, secret envoys from Mingjian Pavilion, and even Elder Yu.

She still hadn't recovered and was still sitting in a wheelchair, but at least her complexion looked much better and her eyes were brighter. When she saw Fu Qingzhou escape, she glanced at him and nodded slightly. What were these people doing?

Setting up a large formation.

Oh, no...it should be two large formations.

There were about twenty or so secret envoys from the Mingjian Pavilion here. They held battle flags and stood in different locations around the restaurant. Each of them struck a strange pose, standing still like a statue.

The remaining nearly one hundred Miao people were burying something in the ground.

They looked nervous and moved quickly, working in groups of three. One person held a small hoe to dig the hole, one threw something into the hole, and another was responsible for filling the hole with soil.

"There are people from Mingjian Pavilion in this town. When you arrived this morning, the news spread. We followed them all the way here and they are not far away... Since half an hour ago, Mingjian Pavilion has blocked all sensory flows inside and outside this building."

Hua Xiaolan explained to Fu Qingzhou softly, "Our people are preparing a huge Gu formation... Wherever the Gu flame reaches, the maggots will cling to the bones. It is impossible to get rid of them with ordinary methods!"

Fu Qingzhou frowned: "You prepared so much in advance, can't Long Dabei notice it?"

"Long Dabei has his own sword master to hold him back."

Hua Xiaolan smiled and said, "We evacuated the rest of the people in the building a quarter of an hour ago, and then the adults entered the building."

Tang Jiao, who was standing by, was a little surprised after hearing this: "A quarter of an hour? The uncle came to me a quarter of an hour ago and told us not to leave the room..."

Fu Qingzhou looked slightly strange, and Hua Xiaolan's smile froze on her face: "How is it possible? Master Sword Master..."

Just then, a loud noise interrupted the three of them.

With a loud bang, the entire restaurant seemed to be held down by something heavy. The entire first floor suddenly exploded in all directions. The original two-story building fell down and hit the ground heavily, becoming only a single floor.

Countless broken wood and debris flew everywhere, and the Miao people who were setting up the Gu formation around were startled and drew their swords to resist.

On the other side, Elder Yu saw that the situation was not right and immediately stretched out his hands and made a gesture.

"No!"

A secret envoy from the Sword Pavilion raised his eyes and shouted: "My Lord is still here..."

Wow!
A purple flame suddenly ignited at the place where the Miao people had buried the things just now, and formed a circle around the restaurant.

But just as the purple flame was about to close at both ends and completely block the view, half of the roof of the restaurant exploded, and two figures flew into the sky at the same time. One of them was Long Dabei, and the other one, needless to say, should be the sword master Ning Baimei.

At this time, with the help of the purple flame, Fu Qingzhou was finally able to see what this powerful man who was as powerful as Long Dabei looked like...

Ning Baimei lived up to his name "Baimei". Not only were his eyebrows white, but even his hair and beard were as white as snow.

He looked to be in his forties or fifties, a little younger than Long Dabei, with a slender figure, handsome features, and a goatee, looking like a civil servant.

"grown ups!"

Elder Yu gritted his teeth and shouted: "Don't let this thief leave the Gu formation!"

Ning Baimei's face was as gloomy as water and he said nothing. He turned slightly in the air and slapped Long Dabei, who was half a body length lower than him.

Long Dabei remained indifferent as before and responded with his palm without hesitation.

But at the moment of striking out his palm, for some reason he slightly tilted his head and glanced towards Fu Qingzhou.

Hua Xiaolan's eyes were slightly strange, and she lightly flicked Fu Qingzhou's wrist with her cold fingers.

Fu Qingzhou's full attention was originally on the restaurant. When he was hit like this, he suddenly felt a chill on his wrist. He subconsciously pulled it back and looked at Hua Xiaolan in surprise: "You..."

Before he could finish his words, Ning Baimei and Long Dabei's palms had already touched each other.

In an instant, the purple flames rolled back, the moonlight lost its color, and a huge and terrifying thunder exploded in front of everyone. Fu Qingzhou lost his hearing instantly, and the next second he was pushed away by the majestic air wave, and he only had time to hold Tang Jiao's shoulders at the last moment.

The surging purple flames rolled in like a sea tide, and the eerie aura of the underworld poured into his limbs and bones. He felt difficulty breathing and his internal organs were burning. Tang Jiao, who was protected in his arms, seemed to have fainted.

Before his consciousness faded, he saw Long Dabei.

Long Dabei's body was covered in purple flames, and he flew towards him with an expressionless face...

(End of this chapter)