Chapter 53 of 125
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When Xuanji fell, she tried to raise her hand to grab the sword, but there were too many strange birds flying around her, pushing and squeezing her, and she couldn’t move a muscle. Her finger hooked onto the hilt, then slipped, falling down.
The only sound she heard was Ling Long’s scream, and she didn’t have time to listen carefully before she fell.
Those strange birds roared and pounced on her, and in an instant she was surrounded in the middle, forming a small sphere. Xuanji dodged attacks from the claws, but there were too many of them and her sword was stuck in her waist, and she couldn’t pull it out. After a few moments. she felt pain in the back of her shoulder, as her arm was caught. Not knowing how covered in bloodstains she was.
The only thing she could do was to hold her head tightly to save it from being scratched and disfigured. There is not enough true qi, and is falling, can no longer call half of the fire dragon, can only barely use the remaining little true qi to protect the body, so that the fall to the ground will not be crippling.
The only fear is that these strange birds will not give up and come to bite her after she falls to the ground, leaving her at their mercy to be slaughtered.
As she was pondering, she suddenly heard someone whistle loudly in the distance, three long and one short, she could barely avoid the claws of the strange bird and looked in that direction, but she could not see clearly. In a trance, she felt a flash of silver light, as fast as lightning, twisting around in the air like a snake.
She was so nervous, but she saw the silver light jumping up and down on the backs of the strange birds, and if they were touched by it, the birds would lose strength and be unable to fly.
The whistle on the other side was still whistling, as if whistling some strange song, long and short, slow and fast, and the silver light would follow this tune, sometimes twisting and turning, sometimes leaping and flying. In the blink of an eye, half of the strange birds circling her were knocked down.
Xuanji finally got free, twisted her waist slightly, and hit her head inadvertently on a strange bird next to her. The jade ring on her head immediately broke off, and three thousand strands of silk fell down in a beautiful arc in the air. She didn’t even bother to tidy up her long hair, so she grabbed it and put her right foot on a tree, which deflected the force of the fall and floated down to the ground.
There were still strange birds pouncing on her and she drew her sword to face them. Unexpectedly, she heard a windy sound behind her, and hurriedly lowered her body to avoid it, and only heard a pounding sound, and an object was pinned into the chest of a strange bird on the other side, shattering its breastbone on the spot.
Immediately afterwards, the sounds of something whistling through the air continued, as if someone was shooting from a slingshot somewhere behind her. n the middle of the night, that person’s eyes were so sharp that he was able to hit one bird at a time. Xuanji didn’t even have to make a move, just staying around and watching. Seeing that the man killed the remaining dozen strange birds with a slingshot in a short time, the ground was already full of the dead bodies of these strange birds. The fishy smell, and the blood smell layered together becoming extremely unpleasant.
Even Xuanji couldn’t stand it any longer, so he hurriedly grabbed the incense bag hanging on her waist and sniffed it, afraid that if she took one more breath, she would vomit all his dinner.
“Miss, are you alright?”
A voice suddenly came out from the nearby forest, and Xuanji hurriedly turned around and saw a man in a blue robe standing behind a poplar tree, holding a black iron catapult twice the size of a normal catapult in his hand. He was the one who just shot the strange bird with the slingshot.
Xuanji shook her head and took a few steps forward, mumbling, “I…I’m fine. Thank you.”
The moonlight was dim, so she took a few steps closer and felt that the man was slender with thick auburn hair, and his voice sounded like a young man, but his face was indistinct.
The man gave her a slight bow and said warmly, “The effort of raising your hand is not enough. I am sure that the lady’s companions will be here soon, so I will take my leave.”
After saying that he turned around, Xuanji raised her voice and said, “Wait… wait a moment! You…turn around…you, you are…?!”
That person turned around and now Xuanji finally saw clearly that he was wearing a mask of Shura on his face! Her body was shaken, and she suddenly raised her finger and pointed at him, but she couldn’t say a word.
The man said, “I am Ruoyu, a disciple of the Li Ze Palace, and I wonder if you have any other questions?”
Ruo Yu? So it wasn’t him…but no matter, it still from Li Ze Palace anyway!
“Where is Sifeng?” She asked a very direct and simple question without even thinking about it.
Ruo Yu was stunned, as if he didn’t know how to answer, and probably didn’t expect her to ask that.
“This… girl you…”
“Do you know Sifeng?” She probably thought she was asking a bad question, so she changed her question.
“Girl…uh…”
“Have you met Sifeng?” Let’s rephrase the question.
“I am…here…”
“It’s Sifeng…you should have seen him before, right?” How come you still don’t get it? She asked the question so bluntly.
There was a sneering sound from the tree. They both looked up and heard the man in the tree say, “That’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone ask a question like that! What a strange person.” The voice was soft and charming.
Xuanji was about to take a closer look when she suddenly saw two figures leaping down from the top of a tree and standing in front of her. They were one tall and one short, a man and a woman.
The woman should be the one who spoke just now, wearing white clothes, wide sleeves, narrow shoulders, pretty face and big eyes, looking at her smilingly.
The man… wears a green robe, is slender, has his hands folded and with his back to her, not knowing what he is looking at.
Xuanji’s heart moved again, and she felt that the man’s black hair, his back, his posture… everything was familiar. She was about to speak, but when she heard the man whistle a few times in the air, and in the blink of an eye, the silver light that had saved her rushed back and was caught by his sleeve, burrowing in without a sound.
The only thing I could hear was a long sigh from the man, who whispered, “I see, you still remember me.
After saying that, he turned around, and there on his face was also a mask of Shura.
Xuanji almost jumped up and rushed over with a quick stride, anxiously saying, “You… that… how did you…”
Yu Sifeng laughed lightly and said softly, “Slow down, we haven’t seen each other for four years. Is it your turn to stutter now?”
She said, “Ah! Sifeng, you can speak the central plains dialect now!” She pointed at his nose and yelled.
I would have said…he retorted helplessly in the pit of his stomach, adding, “Why are you here?”
But Xuanji didn’t hear his question at all. She grabbed his hand and smiled as if a spring flower had opened. “It’s really Sifeng! Why are you wearing a mask again? What if I don’t recognize it?”
Yu Sifeng’s throat trembled for a while before he whispered, “You recognize it after all… don’t you?”
“No! If you hadn’t said anything, I wouldn’t have been sure.” Xuanji held his hand and shook it, just like she did when she was little, without any fear.
Yu Sifeng slowly pulled his hand back, but his ears gradually turned red, and it took a while before he said, “I recognise you, that’s enough.”
Xuanji didn’t listen to him at all, but just kept calling out, Sifeng, Sifeng. Finally, Ruoyu who was next to him grinned, and even the pretty girl beside her giggled and smiled secretly.
Yu Sifeng gently tapped her on the head and said with a smile, “Nothing has changed, just like before, no heart, no soul. Why are you here all alone? Are you also going down the mountain for training?”
Xuanji was about to say something when she heard the voices of Linglong and Zhong Minyan calling her from the back. It turned out that both of them had come here.
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