Comprehensive Martial Arts: Relying on Pili Martial Arts to Achieve Dimensionality Reduction Attack

Chapter 192: No, Your Horse Is Gone

They sneak in silently, fight a fierce battle, and finally leave with dignity.

The four of them, riding two horses, left the Xijianliu base and headed towards the previously planned retreat site, the river five miles west of the Xijianliu base.

They also left two horses there.

On the way, Lu Ping asked the three people about the whole process of the operation.

"Tell me, how did you get caught by them?"

"The spy from Hulong Villa is well-known in the martial arts world, but is this all he has?"

Listening to Lu Ping's words which were three parts reproach, three parts ridicule and four parts teasing, Duan Tianya and Gui Hai Yidao felt even more ashamed.

"I'm sorry. At that time, I thought I had found the location of the cell and just wanted to take everyone away quickly. Who knew that the people from the Western Sword School would disguise themselves as Haitang, so..."

I see. It seems these guys fell into the same trap as me.

From this point of view, we can’t blame them for being incompetent.

If you encounter a situation where you are trapped in a jar, it is very difficult to escape unless you have extraordinary martial arts, lightness skills, and reaction speed like yourself.

Moreover, at that time, he was cautious and did not enter the cage and get close to the fake Shangguan Haitang. However, these two people might have rushed up directly, and it would be a sure thing for him to be ambushed.

Lu Ping looked at Murong Jiu again.

"What about you? Did you fall for the same trick?"

Murong Jiu hung his head, looking unhappy: "That's not the case. I was defeated by two Six Divisions using magic and poison."

In the Western Sword Style, among the six tribes, only Izumo Nohuo, Yasha Hitomi and Igawa Murasaki are able to use magic and poison.

When Lu Ping heard this, he knew that Murong Jiu’s loss was not a grievance.

The moves in the Weapon and Armor Martial Arts Manual are indeed powerful, and can greatly help improve the user's internal strength, but its strength is only reflected in the martial arts aspect, while sorcery and poisons are a different system.

If Murong Jiu had met someone else, even Kanda Kyoichi, the strongest among the six tribes, she might have been able to fight him off. Unfortunately, she met an opponent who specialized in using Yin-Yang magic and poison.

Without any training in magic resistance and poison resistance, you would be at a great disadvantage if you engage in a battle with this type of expert.

Even someone as powerful as the One-Eyed Dragon often fails in magic, doesn't he?
Murong Jiu was defeated, and it can only be said that she was just unlucky.

Soon, the four of them came to the river, wanting to follow the previous marks to retrieve the two horses that had been tied there in advance.

However, when everyone arrived at their destination, they found that the two horses had disappeared without a trace, and even the rope tied to the tree was gone.

"Oh, it seems your horse is gone..."

The two horses that disappeared belonged to Duan Tianya and Gui Hai Yidao.

This is simply adding insult to injury.

From falling into a trap at the beginning, to being captured during the operation, and now having finally returned but losing his horse again, annoying bad things kept happening one after another, as if he was being maliciously targeted by fate.

"Misfortunes never come singly..."

Duan Tianya sighed and felt even worse.

"Did he run away?"

Gui Hai Yidao frowned. He really didn't want to ride on the same horse with Duan Tianya. It made him feel uncomfortable.

"It's tied with a rope, how could it possibly run away?"

Lu Ping said affirmatively, pointing to the series of messy footprints beside the tree: "Look at the footprints here, I think your horse must have been stolen!"

Murong Jiu asked in confusion, "How could someone be hiding here in this remote area stealing horses?"

Lu Ping said calmly: "The other party may not be squatting here on purpose. It is very likely that he just happened to pass by and happened to see these two horses. Then he thought that no one wanted them, so he..."

"It's all tied with a rope, how could it be an ownerless horse?"

Not only did the operation end in failure, but more importantly, there was no news of Shangguan Haitang. Gui Hai Yidao was in a very bad mood and took out all his anger on the horse thief.

"I will chase after him, take back the horse, and take the thief to the government!"

"Yidao, you've lost your composure..."

Duan Tianya wanted to persuade him again, but Gui Hai Yidao, who was angry, would not listen.

"If you don't want to come with me, you can dismount here. I can get the horse back by myself."

It is impossible for me to dismount. If you forget about me after dealing with the horse thieves and leave on your own, won’t I have to walk back to Taiping Town?

Duan Tianya sighed and adjusted his posture on the horse: "I'll go with you."

Gui Hai Yidao's body stiffened instantly, and he looked as if he had eaten Olympus.

We can go together, but could you please not get so close to me?
The Heaven and Earth Secret Agents were going to look for their horses, and Lu Ping couldn't possibly let the two of them leave alone.

These four horses were rented at the market this morning when the four of them left Taiping Town. If only two people and one horse were left, wouldn't he have to pay the seller the price of three horses? So the four of them surveyed the direction of the footprints on the ground in the moonlight, and let the two horses smell the surrounding odors, hoping that they could find clues to their companions.

Following the footprints and the faint smell in the air, the four of them ran forward for an hour and came to a gloomy, strange and dim mountain.

The mountain breeze blowing in my face seemed to be mixed with some strange fishy smell, and was accompanied by a faint "woooo" sound, like the terrifying sound of ghosts howling.

"The atmosphere here... is a bit scary."

Murong Jiu was afraid of ghosts, and he was terrified when he saw this. He shrank unconsciously into Lu Ping's arms and asked in a trembling voice, "Where is this place?"

"There used to be a Black Wind Village in Black Wind Mountain, but it was wiped out by the people from the No. 1 Village in the World a few months ago."

Hearing the familiar name, Gui Hai Yi Dao asked curiously, "How do you know so clearly?"

"Nonsense, their boss was defeated by me personally and sent to the government office."

Then, Lu Ping told the story of how the bandit Wang Da and his brothers went down the mountain to Taiping Town to plunder and happened to run into him.

"But it's so strange. I remember that since then, there should be no one in Black Wind Village..."

"Could it be that someone has occupied this place again in the past few months?"

Since it is a den of bandits, there is a high possibility that it is occupied by other underworld forces or ordinary green forest gangs, and it is reasonable for the bandits to do something like stealing horses.

"You...you listen to this 'woooo' sound, does it sound like a ghost taking your life?"

Murong Jiu's face turned pale, and his lips trembled: "Since you have a grudge against them, why don't we leave? At least wait until tomorrow morning..."

"If they want to kill me, go ahead. I didn't kill them anyway."

Lu Ping said indifferently: "Every wrong has its perpetrator, if you really count, the two people next to him have a deeper relationship with the world's number one village, the vengeful spirit should go to them first if it wants to settle the score."

"You can't say that. Even if you reason with others, the vengeful spirit may not reason with you..."

After this trip to Xijianliu and witnessing Yasha Tong's Yin-Yang magic and ghost-controlling spells, Murong Jiu has become a firm believer in the existence of ghosts.

"It doesn't matter. If they are unreasonable, I know a few tricks..."

Murong Jiu's mouth twitched: "Will fists and feet... be effective against evil spirits?"

It’s really hard to say.

Lu Ping hesitated for a moment, but still felt that he could not allow Murong Jiu to continue to have this weakness, otherwise how could he make further progress in martial arts in the future?
"The way of ghosts and gods is indeed difficult for ordinary warriors, but as long as you are in the martial arts world, sooner or later you will encounter such a situation that you can't deal with. Instead of waiting until the real crisis comes and being helpless, it is better to learn to overcome it in advance."

Everyone can give chicken soup speeches. Whether they do it well or not is another matter. At least the logic should be laid out for others to understand.

After listening to the chicken soup, although the fear in Murong Jiu's heart did not diminish at all, he also understood that what Lu Ping said was right.

"How can I overcome this..."

"Psychologists tell us that the best way to overcome fear is to face it."

Lu Ping paused and said, "And in this world, there is actually something more terrifying than ghosts and gods!"

"What...what?"

"People's hearts!"

The conversation between the two attracted the attention of Duan Tianya and Gui Hai Yidao.

If before, their impression of Lu Ping was only that he had an outstanding talent in martial arts, now there is undoubtedly an additional impression of his 'transparency in thinking'.

As spies of the Huolong Villa, they were well-informed and had more or less experienced the saying, "The human heart is sometimes more terrifying than ghosts and gods." However, this was the first time they heard it from a teenager like Lu Ping.

It shouldn't just be about learning how others speak...

After Lu Ping's strong persuasion, Murong Jiu finally agreed to go to Lonely Mountain at night with a few people.

In fact, even if she wanted to refuse, she couldn't, because if she didn't go, she would have to wait alone at the foot of the mountain for the other three to finish their business and come back.

This is undoubtedly a more terrifying thing than going into the mountains with everyone.

Walking on mountain roads at night is several times more difficult than walking during the day.

The moonlight was blocked by the shadows of the tall trees, making it difficult for the four to see the road ahead. In order to avoid accidents such as falling off their horses, the four dismounted and walked into the mountains.

"Look, besides horse hoof prints, there are also human footprints on this path, and these footprints are still very new."

"This means that the horse thieves may have entered the mountain from here. As long as we continue along this road, we will definitely catch them!"

Several people continued to move forward.

Along the way, Duan Tianya and Gui Hai Yidao began to guess the height, weight, gender, and even martial arts style of the corresponding person based on the depth, size, length, distance, and texture of the footprints in front of them.

Lu Ping didn't know whether they were just pretending to be cool, trying to save face for a day of embarrassment, or whether they were really talking about the enemy's situation from the bottom of their hearts. He didn't know what the point of such blind guesses was, but he still chose to respect them.

After a while, they followed the footprints and finally arrived in front of the mountain village.

(End of this chapter)