Chapter 2: Ambush outside the city

Lu Tianwang waved his hand to let his subordinates carry away Guanshi Wu's body, and stood alone in front of the fishing pavilion in deep thought.
No one knew the wound on the corpse, but he did. In other words, only he knew the entire Lu family-this was the first day of Wanqiu City, Lu Tianbo, who created his own close combat ~ sword technique.
At the beginning, I even laughed at him as a cultivator, even going to do some close combat.
Now Lu Tianbo has long since become dead bones in the mound, but this sword technique has reproduced the world.
Suddenly, Lu Tianwang thought of Lu Pingan.
But this little evil animal was obviously abolished, and even if he knew how to use this sword technique, there was no way he could kill Wu Guanshi, a triple-layered martial artist! Is it true that after a genius is still a genius, is there really a genius bloodline?
This is incredible!
"All these years have passed, Lu Tianbo, why are you still lingering!" Lu Tianwang murmured.
In the family competition that year, he lost to this so-called genius and lost his face. This humiliation was carved into his bones.
At this time, a breeze blew, pulling Lu Tianwang's thoughts back.
As soon as he turned around, he saw Lu Qianqiu in white walking towards the fishing pavilion not far away.
"Qianqiu, why are you here?"
"Uncle, I'm here to say goodbye to you. I will set off for the National Education Institute in a while." Lu Qianqiu replied with a respectful gesture.
"Well, Qianqiu, uncle, I have no children, and always treat you as if you were my own. This time you can win the favor of the Patriarch and give you the only place recommended by the family. You must cherish it."
"Yes! Uncle, please don't worry, Qianqiu knows. It's just that Lu Ping'an?"
Lu Qianqiu took a peek at Lu Tianwang. He wanted to get an affirmative answer before he left. Before that, his uncle had just abolished Lu Ping's cultivation base, and he was still uneasy.
"For Lu Ping'an, leave it alone. I will take care of it. I hope that you will not indulge in the calculations of these fly camps in the future. If you want to get out of Wanqiu City and go to a bigger world, you should keep your eyes open. far."
Lu Tianwang stroked his beard lightly with one hand, and preached to Lu Qianqiu earnestly.
Hearing this, Lu Qianqiu nodded and left. Uncle he knew too well, since he said he would handle it cleanly, then Lu Ping's death is not far away.
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In the afternoon, warm and breezy
Lu Ping'an stood at the gate of Lu Mansion, stretched lazily, and then left the Lu family leisurely and walked towards the City Lord's Mansion in Wanqiu City.
He had a personal friendship with Tian He, the Young City Lord of Wanqiu City, and today he was invited by Tian He to go to the City Lord’s Mansion to meet.
Because he accidentally harvested a spirit beast core last night, Lu Ping'an felt particularly comfortable all day long.
Along the way, he was still thinking about how to share his happiness with Tian He.
However, just as Lu Pingan walked through a remote alley, bang! boom! boom!
Several bursts of sound came from behind.
"not good!"
Lu Ping's scalp exploded, and the secret path was not good.
Suddenly, the two sleeve arrows clung to Lu Ping'an's back and quickly passed.
Lu Ping'an curled up and rolled, avoiding the arrow feathers. After the light, he saw two men in black quickly escape into the surface of the ground and disappeared.
"Escape technique!" These three words flashed quickly in Lu Ping's mind.
Although the escape technique is a very common technique, it is not difficult to learn, but it requires the realm of the technique to reach the fifth level of the martial art realm.
Different from the martial arts realm four levels, which can only release aura outside the body indiscriminately, after reaching the martial arts realm fifth level, you can purposefully gather the aura in the palm of your hand and use it for attack.
To be able to hit the open palm and make the sword slash out of the sword aura requires reaching the fifth level of the martial art realm.
And now Lu Ping'an is no more than four levels of martial arts realm, coupled with the fact that he has fewer enemies and many enemies, and he was unprepared before, so he hastily challenged him.
"Third brother, this is different from what he said. This kid doesn't look like an ordinary person in no way."
Just as Lu Pingan was thinking about how to get away with the enemy, a man in black who had just escaped underground appeared out of thin air behind the man riding a horse under the tree and asked in surprise.
"Whether it is or not, he must die!"
The person under the tree squinted his eyes and stared at Lu Pingdao.
All of them were dead men whom Lu Tianwang had trained for many years. The leader was Zhang Xuan, and it was the man under the tree. At this moment, their faces are covered with human skin~masks, even their master cannot easily recognize them.
"Jin Biao, you and the old fifth are covering underground, and I will deal with him personally."
After saying this, Zhang Xuanfei dismounted and pulled out a pair of six-sided plum blossom Emei thorns from his sleeves and charged towards Lu Ping'an.
The shape of Emei thorn resembles a woman's hairpin, and it is often said that it was created by a woman, but it is not. In fact, the Emei thorn was created by the Taoist Baimei on Mount Emei 400 years ago.
Because of its short size and strength, it is easy to be contained, the Emei stab is very suitable for assassination, assassination, underwater combat, or when used in conjunction with the escape technique.
And Zhang Xuan's pair of Emei thorns is even more poisonous. Under normal circumstances, as long as it is slightly contaminated, the cultivator below the sixth level of martial art will undoubtedly die.
However, just when Zhang Xuan thought he had a chance to win, a vision happened.
"This……"
Zhang Xuan was surprised to find that his arm, together with the Emei thorn, pierced Lu Pingan's chest. However, the feeling of the sharp blade piercing the flesh did not come.
"Not good! Phantom!" Zhang Xuan scalp exploded and shouted eagerly, "Jinbiao, fifth, come out!"
"Three brothers, what's the matter?" Hearing Zhang Xuan's shout, the shaved old fifth quickly escaped from the ground.
"Oh! I was careless. I didn't expect him to have such a thing."
As Zhang Xuan said, he slammed on the ground with one foot, and as the aura spread, the sand on the ground vibrated violently, and a scroll was seen rolling out of it.
Immediately, the illusion of Lu Pingan disappeared.
"Tsk, you deserve to be Lu Tianbo's son, there are so many good things on him."
Zhang Xuan bent down and picked up the scroll, tut, his eyes full of envy.
This is a spell scroll. Various spells can be stored inside. When used, it can be triggered by injecting a small amount of aura.
Although it is only a one-off, the magic scroll is extremely expensive, and even the most common type can start with hundreds of yellow-level spirit stones.
Because theoretically speaking, if the magic spells stored in the scrolls are strong enough, let alone the difference of one or two small realms between the two sides of the battle, even if it is a big realm, it is not impossible to win by weak.
Of course, spells that are extremely lethal like that are extremely rare on the market, because the stronger the power of the spell, the higher the requirements for the scroll, and the cost to build is too large.
"Third brother, what should we do now?" the old fifth asked solemnly.
Once Lu Pingan escaped, they could not explain to the master.
"What else can I do? Chase!" Zhang Xuan replied angrily.
Although the information provided by the master was wrong, since Lu Ping'an chose to escape and also used the precious magic scroll, it showed that his strength was not as good as them.
Therefore, as long as Lu Pingan is intercepted before he escapes back to the Lu family, there is still land for maneuvering.
"Three brothers, there is a series of rapid footsteps in the southeast direction, I guess that is Lu Pingan's." At this time, Jin Biao also escaped from the ground and reported to Zhang Xuanhui.
"Southeast?" Zhang Xuanlue hesitated and made arrangements, "Fifth, you go squatting near the city gate, and Jin Biao and I will chase. We will force Na Lu out of Wanqiu City. When we arrived in the wild, I can't help him!"
There is a large open area in Wanqiu City all the way from the southeast. Once there, Lu Ping'an had nowhere to go no matter how to hide.
"Jin Biao, remember not to be careless when you catch up with him later, that kid may still have a back hand, and be careful of overturning in the gutter."
During the pursuit, Zhang Xuan did not forget to remind his companions.
Zhang Xuan, as a dead soldier carefully trained by Lu Tianwang, often participates in assassination operations and can be described as rich in experience.
In his opinion, in addition to the phantom scroll, Lu Ping'an must have other magic scrolls on his body, otherwise this kid could not have slipped away under his nose just now.
In fact, Zhang Xuan's worries were completely unnecessary. Lu Ping'an was already at a loss of skill at this time, and there was no way to get out except for rushing.
Although Lu Ping's mother Duan Murong had mediocre blood and aptitude, she was the daughter of a wealthy businessman in Goose City. The phantom scrolls and invisibility scrolls Lu Ping's used just now were the dowry of his mother's dowry.
On the external price list of the Hedong Chamber of Commerce, the sum of these two scrolls is a full value of fifty low-grade spirit stones, which is enough for a ninth-level martial arts practitioner to advance to the true martial realm, which shows how expensive it is!
But Lu Pingan didn't have time to feel distressed at this time. If his life was gone, then everything would be gone. But he was not blindly running, he saw that Zhang Xuan and others were chasing him all the way to force him into the open space outside Wanqiu City. But after this open space is the border of Dawei Mountain.
Daxu Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, during which monsters are rampant, and the terrain is complex. Although dangerous, it is a good place to chase away. You only need to run fast enough to enter Daxu Mountain to escape the disaster.
However, with Jin Biao using the Escape Technique to chase underground, Lu Pingan couldn't get rid of the two at all.
As time passed, the invisibility technique applied to Lu Pingan gradually disappeared. Lu Pingan finally came out of Zhang Xuan's vision.
"Three brothers, there is a cliff in front of him, he can't run away!" Jin Biao said excitedly from the ground to Zhang Xuan.
Jin Biao and the fifth and Zhang Xuan have teamed up for many years, and each has its own strengths. He himself specializes in listening skills. By releasing a small amount of aura to the surroundings, he can detect the surrounding terrain based on the feedback fluctuations.
Sure enough, as soon as Jinbiao's voice fell, Lu Pingan in the distance stopped running and stood still.
"Who sent you?!"
Lu Pingan turned to face the two slowly approaching, and asked in a deep voice.
Although in a desperate situation, there is no fear.
"Hehe, you are a dying person, you don't need to know so much."
Zhang Xuan stepped forward with a sneer, the Emei thorn in his hand glowing with a cold light.
Although there have been some episodes in this operation, fortunately, the results have not changed.
Seeing that Lu Pingan didn't have any stance to resist, Zhang Xuan thought that he was going to be slaughtered.
But to his surprise, when the two sides were still a few steps away, the corners of Lu Ping’s mouth suddenly rose, and his eyes were extremely firm:
It’s a pity that I am dead or alive, and I can’t help you decide. You are nothing but It's just a dog that Lu Tianwang kept!"
After the voice fell, Lu Ping'an jumped into the cliff without hesitation.
The cliff here is not bottomed, and the chance of surviving after falling with the magical powers that a martial artist can display is very slim.
But Lu Pingan knew that if he continued to stay on the cliff, he would not even have one ten thousandth of hope, so he could only do this.
"Quit!" Seeing Lu Pingan chose to jump off the cliff, Zhang Xuan was shocked.
If you can't get Lu Ping's corpse, I am afraid it will be difficult to deal with the master. Thinking of this, Zhang Xuan rushed to the cliff and threw the Emei thorn in his hand towards Lu Ping, who had fallen from the cliff.
"Jinbiao, you first go back and report the letter, I will check it down."
Zhang Xuan has always acted cautiously, adhering to the principle of seeing people in life and corpses in death. He is going to go around the cliff to find Lu Ping's body.
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At this time, below the cliff.
"Ahem... This ape friend, thank you for your life-saving grace."
Lu Ping'an struggled to stand up and bowed to thank him for the corpse of a macaque that he smashed into meatloaf.
Lu Pingan didn't expect that right under the cliff where he fell, it happened to be the habitat of a group of macaques.
At the moment of his death, he couldn't take much care of it. He grabbed an ape closest to him and used it as a cushion, and finally survived.
There are many spirit beasts in Daxu Mountain, and like human society, there are also hierarchical divisions among spirit beasts.
High-level spirit beasts live in the depths of the mountains and forests, while those living in the outer areas are all non-standard spirit beasts like macaque apes that can't even reach the Huang Tier.
Macaques had low combat effectiveness and average IQ levels, so Lu Ping'an was not worried that the monkeys above would rush down to retaliate against him.
The only regret was that at the moment of falling off the cliff, the brocade box containing the spirit beast core in his arms fell out. I don't know where it fell at this time.
But for Lu Ping An now, it is a blessing to be able to save his life.
"hiss!"
Lu Pingan just breathed a sigh of relief. Suddenly, a sharp pain came from his ankle. When he looked down, he suddenly squeaked.
It turned out that when he jumped off the cliff, the Emei thorn thrown by Zhang Xuan scratched his skin, and the poison at the tip of the thorn plunged into the body. At this moment, the wound had turned purple and black!