Misty Rain of the Old Times

Chapter 145 Invisible Sword Qi (Subscribe)

The giant python came to the edge of the convoy and wreaked havoc. The guards who had stayed around did not dare to move forward, as they could not hurt it at all and might even lose their lives.

The others stomped in the car and dared not make a sound. After swallowing one horse, the giant python set its sights on the next one. Its terrifying body, which was eleven or twelve feet long, seemed to be endless. Even though it had swallowed two horses, its stomach did not seem to be much swollen. It was very likely that the powerful muscle contraction had crushed it.

Chen Xuan and his men were only about ten feet away from the giant python, a very dangerous distance. Even if there were several carriages blocking the way ahead, they had to be prepared to abandon their carriages and hide at any time. Geng Hong's forehead was already sweating, and his hand holding the knife was trembling slightly.

Amidst another terrified horse neigh, the giant python bit a horse and shook its head, breaking the reins. The carriage was thrown out and almost fell apart. The people inside covered their mouths tightly and dared not make a sound. They were thrown around and were dizzy, but they didn't care about anything else. The most important thing was to save their lives.

"It's time, everyone disperse!"

When the giant python raised its head and was about to swallow the third horse, a loud warning sounded.

Soon, a man climbed onto the herbal medicine cart and took out a cloth bag filled with lime. He immediately threw it at the python's head and said in a deep voice before letting go, "Someone help me break the bag of lime!"

"I come"

Zhao Qingluan, who was about to rush to the python, fell to the ground when she heard the words. Seeing that the bag of lime was about to be thrown above the python's head, she swept the ground with the spear in her hand, and a stone was ejected and hit the bag accurately.

In an instant the bag exploded, and the quicklime inside spread out on the spot, covering the python's head.

A large amount of quicklime rushed into its eyes, mouth and nasal cavity. Under the stimulation, it closed its eyes, shook its head and neighed, even throwing the horse in its mouth aside.

It is not pleasant to be contaminated by something like quicklime, especially the eyes, mouth and nose. The giant python was in so much pain that it could not open its eyes at all. It snorted in an attempt to feel better. At this time, its vision and senses were almost useless.

Its huge body twisted wildly, causing sand and rocks to fly all over the ground, and the carriages and horses nearby were almost shattered or injured when they touched it.

"It really works," Geng Hong was immediately surprised.

At this time, some people threw hidden weapons and shot arrows at the giant python, but it twisted wildly and could not hit the vital parts, so the effect was almost zero.

By the time the exploded lime dispersed, everyone had already moved away. Even Chen Xuan and the others took the opportunity to get out of the car and keep their distance. The only thing left was the giant python, whose senses were stimulated, rolling and roaring.

Zhao Qingluan glanced around and said in a deep voice, "Kill it while it's sick, otherwise when it recovers, we will all be in trouble!"

"But Miss Zhao, this beast has hard skin and scales, and we can't do anything to it easily. It can't just stay there quietly and let us do whatever we want," Geng Hong said worriedly as he protected Chen Xuan and the others behind him.

Indeed, the python twisted wildly and disorderly, and no one dared to approach it easily.

At this time, Chen Xuan thought that it was easy. If it were him, he would fly over, stand on its head, use a heavy weight to press it to the ground, and then kill it with a sword.

But in the current situation, it is not his turn to be in the limelight.

Zhao Qingluan frowned and looked around. She quickly came up with a risky plan. She looked at the escort leader and said, "Brother Zhan, please do me a favor. Give me a hand and take me to a higher place. I'm 80% sure I can get rid of this beast!"

"There is no time to lose, Miss Zhao, just come, I will cooperate with you," Zhan Biaotou's eyes lit up and nodded, probably guessing what Zhao Qingluan was going to do.

She did not hesitate either. She used her internal energy and performed light skills to quickly rush towards Zhan Biaotou. After getting close, she jumped several feet high and her dress fluttered down towards Zhan Biaotou's head.

When Zhao Qingluan was about to fall, Zhan Biaotou held the copper stick horizontally in front of him with both hands and squatted slightly. At this time, Zhao Qingluan happened to fall and stand on the copper stick in his hands.

"Drink~!"

Zhan Biaotou shouted loudly, and with all his strength from his feet, he pushed Zhao Qingluan up into the sky.

With the help of Zhan Huwei's power, Zhao Qingluan used his own lightness skills and reached a height of more than 20 feet in an instant.

She used up all her strength in the air, turned her body in a parabola, and fell headfirst with a gun in her hand towards the tumbling python. The spear hummed, and the sharp edge flickered, pointing directly at one of the python's eyes.

At this time, many people realized that it was not convenient to approach the giant python on the ground, so she used this method to approach from the air and attack its vital points.

Those who understood the situation all admired her wit and courage, but it also required skills like hers to accomplish it.

The giant python could not see and its senses were limited, so it naturally could not detect Zhao Qingluan attacking in this way.

Everyone held their breath, success depended on this one move.

Chen Xuan glanced around and saw that the giant python was rolling around and its head was not fixed in one place at all. He was afraid that Zhao Qingluan's success rate would be less than half if he took the risk.

'It's not easy for the girl either, so let me help her secretly,' Chen Xuan thought to himself.

At this moment, everyone's attention was focused on the giant python and Zhao Qingluan, and naturally no one paid attention to Chen Xuan behind the crowd.

As Zhao Qingluan fell rapidly, Chen Xuan put his index and middle fingers together like swords in his drooping left sleeve. He instantly gathered 50% of the internal force scattered in his body and condensed it on the finger sword, pointing it at the eyes of the giant python that was rolling non-stop more than ten feet away.

Silently, an invisible sword energy shot out from his fingertips, spanning more than ten feet and accurately hitting the giant python's right eye.

At this moment, Zhao Qingluan in the air also fell down.

The python's right eye was struck first by Chen Xuan's invisible sword energy, leaving a barely perceptible wound piercing its eyeball and pointing directly to its brain. In pain and with its life force fading, it instinctively raised its twisting head, only to collide with the tip of Zhao Qingluan's falling spear. Puff!

The gun penetrated nearly half of the python's eyes. Its head, which had been killed instantly by Chen Xuan's invisible sword energy, fell to the ground and hit the ground with a dull bang.

However, this kind of ferocious beast was not dead yet, and its huge body was still twisting instinctively. Zhao Qingluan landed on its head, and seeing that it was not dead yet, she jumped up again to a height of five or six feet, and dropped with one foot to accurately step on the round head and tail of her spear.

With the force of falling, there was another "puff" sound, and blood gushed out. The spear penetrated the python's head all the way to the handle, and penetrated some of it, as if nailing it to the ground!

After doing all this, Zhao Qingluan's heart beat faster. He never thought that he had really succeeded. He didn't care about the spear and immediately jumped up to create distance.

So in full view of everyone, the huge python twisted and rolled, but the noise became smaller and smaller.

After a while, until the giant python's body completely stopped moving, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled and cheered.

"Success! We successfully got rid of this beast. That's great!"

"That's all thanks to Miss Zhao."

"Yes, Miss Zhao is very skilled. It's amazing. This time, thanks to you, otherwise we don't know how many casualties would have been caused. We might have had a chance to survive only if that beast had eaten its fill."

"Miss Zhao is amazing, no, Lady Zhao"

"The scourge has been eradicated. This road will be safe from now on, all thanks to Lady Zhao..."

Whether they successfully eliminated the evil or survived the disaster, the people's cheers at this moment were from the heart. If Zhao Qingluan was not a girl, everyone would have wanted to surround her and abandon her.

Amidst the compliments, Zhao Qingluan's face turned slightly red. She was excited, not shy, just like she was tipsy before. This feeling was really wonderful.

At this moment, she couldn't help but think in her heart, no wonder so many people like to venture into the world, it turns out that it really makes people so happy. It seems that her decision to run away from home was right. How could she experience all these things if she got married early?

Chen Xuan was also watching this scene with a smile on his face. He had released 50% of his strength to activate the invisible sword energy and then retracted it immediately. No one noticed his little action.

The girl is brave and daring. She is the first to step forward when something happens. She deserves such honor.

The move Chen Xuan used just now was not simple. It was one of the unique martial arts skills left by Liu Changhe. It was a finger technique called "Invisible Sword Finger", which combined acupoint pressing, grappling and close combat. Some of the moves were sword techniques themselves, but were performed in the form of finger techniques.

The invisible sword energy he shot out just now was the application of this finger technique.

Chen Xuan has practiced this finger technique to a superb level. He can release invisible sword energy through the air, just like an innate master using his innate true energy to kill the enemy through the air. What's more, it is silent and hard to defend against.

Of course, Chen Xuan is only in the acquired realm now. Even if most of his body has entered the innate realm, it is still only the acquired realm. Using internal force to activate this finger technique is a world of difference compared to the innate true qi.

If the innate true qi is activated, the invisible sword energy will be continuous and can penetrate iron and stone from a distance of hundreds of feet. It is not like now, where he needs to use 50% of his strength to release a wisp of sword energy to kill the giant python from a distance of just a dozen feet.

There is no way around it, after all, the realm is there.

It was also thanks to his terrifying talent in martial arts that the internal force cultivated from the Ze Yuan Jue was pure, solid and strong. Otherwise, no matter how powerful his unique skills were, they would just be decorations and difficult to activate, let alone release the invisible sword energy.

To activate this invisible sword energy, one must first have strong internal strength, and secondly, it must be extremely pure and condensed. In addition, one must have the internal energy of the unique martial art of invisible sword finger. These three must be combined, otherwise the internal strength will dissipate before it leaves the body within three feet, and it will have no lethality at all.

This is also one of the few methods that Chen Xuan has now that is comparable to the innate realm. He also has more powerful methods, but they cannot be so silent. Fortunately, the distance is not far, otherwise he would be in trouble.

After all, this "roadblock" has been solved.

"Everyone, check the damage and see if there are any casualties," the escort leader was the first to react after the cheers.

The biggest crisis was resolved, and everyone was not as nervous as before, so they began to take a serious inventory.

Chen Xuan and his men naturally suffered no losses. Only Zhao Erhe and Jiang Kai, who participated in the battle, suffered some minor skin injuries. They were covered in dust and dirt, but it was no big deal.

Gao Jingming looked away, scratched his head, and said in confusion: "Did you notice just now? I vaguely seemed to hear the sound of a rushing river."

Chen Xuan's heart skipped a beat. How could this kid's senses be so sharp? However, since he was practicing the superior Qingyuan Liuyun technique, this was normal. It was just that his internal energy was released and then retracted in the blink of an eye, so he couldn't be sure.

"No, Master, you must have heard it wrong," Geng Hong shook his head.

Xiao Cai, who had relaxed, said, "Sir, you must have heard it wrong. You mistook the roar of the giant python for the rushing of a river."

"Maybe I heard it wrong," Gao Jingming shook his head and didn't bother to think about it too much.

Zhao Qingluan, feeling somewhat disoriented at the moment, went to retrieve her spear. While wiping it, she turned back and asked, "What should we do with this giant python?"

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(End of this chapter)