Gu Shenwei lowered his head to read the book, and let the horses walk slowly, the autumn sun was a little dazzling, so he always looked up and rested for a while, and pondered the meaning of the words by the way.

He had read the thin general outline of the book many times, almost reciting it backwards, and every time he still had to take the book and look at it again, he consciously comprehended a lot, but there were still too many contents that he couldn't even understand the surface meaning, and he thought that he had to find a Taoist priest to help explain it.

However, Gu Shenwei can be sure that the Book of Wu Tao and the Book of the Dead must have been written by the same person, and as a general outline, it expounds the mysteries of the two exercises, and the more you understand it, the greater the help it will be for the internal and external exercises.

It was with the help of it that Gu Shenwei had completely integrated the Dead Man Sutra into the sword technique, no longer needed to use the sword, gently stroking the hilt, he couldn't help but think of the lotus girl, and very much wanted to know if his martial arts could surpass her.

There was a carriage parked on the side of the road ahead, and five people stood with their backs to it, staring at him from a distance.

Gu Shenwei put away the books and urged the horse to speed up.

All five of them were tall and short, and the common feature was that they were all strong and young, and the oldest was no more than thirty years old.

The young man in the middle threw a stone casually, Gu Shen caught it, stopped the horse, threw the stone on the ground, and looked back at the five swordsmen.

Their knives were placed behind their legs, which were not particularly well disguised.

"Something?" asked Gu Shenwei.

The swordsmen had a sarcastic smile peculiar to arrogant young men, for whom the rules of the world were simple, there were only two: the sword could solve all problems, and everyone revolved around them.

"Borrow your horse for use. One of the swordsmen said in a lazy tone, not like he was asking for advice.

Two horse-drawn carts, one of which fell to the ground and did not move, Gu Shenwei glanced at it, "Okay, what benefit can I get?"

The five swordsmen laughed together, and one of them took out a knife from behind him, "The advantage is that you can walk to Biyu City and enjoy the beautiful scenery of early autumn on the road." ”

Gu Shenwei looked at the monotonous wilderness and shook his head, "There's nothing to see, are you robbers?"

The swordsman gently patted the palm of his left hand with the blade of the knife, pursed his lips, and asked his companion, "Are we robbers?"

The swordsman in the middle thought for a while, "No, no robbers are allowed in the territory of Biyu City, let's just borrow it, maybe we will meet again in the future, and we will return it to him." ”

The knife-wielding swordsman nodded frequently, "That's right, we're borrowing, boy, come down." ”

Gu Shenwei's suspicion was always very heavy, he asked Han Fen to disguise himself as a retreat, and after changing his appearance, he traveled alone, and he didn't even bring the Wufeng knife, only an ordinary narrow knife was hidden in the package, but when he saw these five people from a distance, he suspected that his whereabouts were still seen through by the enemy.

He looked at the five of them one by one, and couldn't tell who was the master.

He had already observed the nearby terrain and glanced again, but found no sign of an ambush, in fact, this place was not an ideal place for an ambush.

Gu Shenwei jumped off the horse and took three steps sideways to make sure that there was no one in the carriage, could it be that these five swordsmen were really just fanatics who didn't know the height of the sky?

The knifeman walked over, "The boy is good, very obedient, leave the luggage for him." ”

The other four nodded in agreement, as if they had done a great good deed.

Gu Shenwei did not stop the swordsman from throwing his package on the ground, but slowly circled around the carriage, reached the other side of the carriage, and even lifted the curtain to take a look.

The four swordsmen who stood in place were surprised and amused by his actions, but no one asked, not wanting to appear too stupid.

The other swordsman stuck his knife in the ground, had already untied the last parcel from his horse's back, and was about to disassemble the saddle, when suddenly he felt that something was wrong, bent down to pick up the parcel, fumbled for a while, and took out the sheathed narrow knife from inside.

"Hey, he also uses a knife, or is it a narrow knife from Jinpeng Castle. ”

"Uhh

Gu Shenwei just turned back, once again confirming that there was indeed no ambush here, and none of these five people were masters.

"Are you a killer?" asked one of the swordsmen, in a contemptuous tone, apparently thinking it was impossible.

Gu Shenwei was not the kind of person who could be impressed when they met for the first time, and after changing his appearance, he was even more ordinary, even if he was an experienced old Jianghu, he might not be able to see much from this young man.

"Not anymore. Gu Shenwei said.

The five laughed, this time it was normal laughter, because they genuinely thought the answer was interesting.

"So what are you doing with this knife?

Gu Shenwei walked up to the speaker, reached out and pulled out his knife, "Defend yourself." ”

His movements were very simple, but surprisingly fast, and in an instant, the swordsman was left with an empty scabbard in his hand and a package in the other, like a clumsy retinue, unable to figure out his master's intentions in time.

The other four swordsmen were startled, and at the same time grabbed their knives and put on an offensive posture, without the slightest intention of being lazy.

"I can't see that you are still a practitioner. ”

"Lian Jiazi" is not a word commonly used by people in the Western Regions, Gu Shenwei sent the narrow knife back to the scabbard, "You are from the Central Plains." ”

The swordsman holding the scabbard still didn't have time to react, which made him look even more stupid, his face turned red, he threw the narrow knife to the ground, and grabbed his single knife, "Hey, what's wrong with the Central Plains?"

As he spoke, he made a move, slashing at the other party's arm, he didn't want to kill, he just wanted to teach the strange man a lesson and scare him.

Gu Shenwei realized that he might have done a stupid thing, wasting too much time on the five scoundrels, and in a flash, he was already behind the attacker, grabbed it with both hands, and put all the packages and narrow knives on the ground back on the horse, during which the knifeman slashed three times in a row, and he easily dodged it.

"He knows martial arts!" The other four swordsmen swung their swords together to besiege, their sword skills were not bad, but their vision was too different, and they didn't see that they were the weaker side.

Without waiting for the enemy to form an encirclement, Gu Shenwei fired five palms in a row, and the five swordsmen retreated step by step, hitting the carriage almost at the same time, and sat on the ground with a flutter, and couldn't stand up for a while.

Gu Shenwei got on the horse, and finally glanced at the five people, he didn't use a narrow knife, nor did he use the cold ice strength, in order to keep his identity secret, he could only let them go.

He began to understand a little bit of the pain of the old man Mu who couldn't kill people, and he couldn't raise his hands when he raised his hands, just like a naughty boy looking at an insect that had been caught in the net, but he couldn't pull out its wings, which was also a kind of torment.

He can hide his murderous aura deeply, but his murderous intent is becoming stronger day by day.

Gu Shen moved forward for the pat of the horse, and the five swordsmen finally came to their senses and scolded unconvinced.

The scolding gradually disappeared, and Gu Shenwei was indifferent to this, concentrating on thinking about the Book of the Tao and the Book of the Dead, and occasionally one or two unrelated thoughts popped up.

One of the thoughts made Gu Shenwei turn the horse's head and run back, reading the book involved too much energy, and he actually ignored an important flaw.

One step too late, four swordsmen crossed the road, the other was nowhere to be found, the carriage was still parked in place, the living horse was gone, but the dead horse was disemboweled, and the internal organs flowed out of the ground, which was much more tragic than the dead man.

The flaw is this dead horse, but Gu Shenwei doesn't pay enough attention to it, hiding in the belly of the impermeable horse, which is unbearable for ordinary people, even ordinary killers, but Gu Shenwei knows that some people can.

The swordsman died under the knife, and each of them had only one wound on their body, all of which were in the throat, heart and other vital parts.

There was an assassin hiding in the belly of the horse, why didn't he strike at the time, why did he kill four rogue swordsmen and take one alive?

Gu Shenwei didn't move anything on the scene, got on the horse and left again.

This time he sped up his pace and spent more time thinking about things other than martial arts.

He arrived at Biyu City at noon the next day, and was surprised to find that there was almost no change here, and the streets were still bustling with pedestrians, especially in the southern city, where the squalid streets were lined with early openings, and the business of casinos and taverns was also very lively.

Before entering the city, Gu Shenwei changed his appearance again, took the narrow knife on his waist, lived in a knife village on the periphery, and wandered around for two days, mingling with other knife soldiers, looking for ideal jobs everywhere, and observing the surrounding situation by the way.

He was not followed, except that he did not drink, he was no different from the wandering swordsman, and even this was not particularly strange, and the more serious swordsman would quit drinking in the process of finding a patron and in the early days of being hired, hoping to make a good impression on his master, until they found that they were being paid much less than expected, and they would curse the rich man and re-dye their old habits.

One day in early autumn, the three caravans arrived at Biyu City before noon, and before the goods were checked, a large number of buyers gathered around them to ask questions, and the merchants were casually perfunctory according to the custom, they did not care about these individual customers, and in the evening, they would feast on the real rich man, and if they were lucky, they could sell most of the goods at once.

Nancheng is more lively, and the merchants who are doing well have a lot of money, some of them have rented the entire Jiyuan, and many more have rented their own houses according to their financial resources, and they have to dispose of the remaining goods in Biyu City, and at the same time spend all their days and drinks to "return" some or even most of their profits to this [***] city.

Gu Shenwei easily found a temporary job and worked as a nurse in a large mansion in Nancheng for half a month.

The merchants brought bodyguards with them, but they also wanted to enjoy themselves, so they had to hire local people to do their duties.

Lu Qiying hoped that the Dragon King's use of himself would end here, and after the three bandits repaid the money, there were suddenly a few strange-looking guests in the caravan that night, which frightened him, but he could only cover them up and secretly send them to Biyu City as goods, hoping that the Dragon King would take them away quickly.

He knew nothing about the arrival of the Dragon King.

On the night of the third day, Lu Qiying went to the banquet again, and Gu Shenwei joined the others.

Han Wuxian, Old Man Mu, Tu Gou, Shangguan Fei, Nie Zeng, Tie Linglong, a total of six people.

Although there was no competition and killing, Tugou was very satisfied with this arduous trip, and looked at the Dragon King excitedly, expecting more exciting actions to follow.

"Someone betrayed me. Gu Shenwei's first sentence extinguished the enthusiasm for slaughtering dogs.

"Who? one of us? certainly not me. Trying to appear calm, the dog turned out to be even more flustered.

"It's from Xiaowanguo. "Old Man Mu reacted faster," Shangguan Yun leaked the secret and sent it to Jinpeng Castle. ”

"Shangguan Yun can only come into contact with Long Chuanyun and Chu Nanping, and there will never be a third person. ”

Azheba is the person that Gu Shen focuses on guarding, leaving Man and Mo Lin to go to the Naihang clan as lobbyists, maybe someone can guess the dragon king's plan, but there are only ten people who really know, Gu Shenwei is the six around him plus four from Xiao Wanguo.

(To be continued)