Sorcerer

Wu Maxi stood leaning against the corner, staring at the gate of Fanfan Building.His outline is sharp and cold, his eyes are sunken, and under the faint side light, he looks like two bottomless black holes.

Sharp outlines and deep-set eye sockets are the two major features of the Wuma family's appearance. From the map left by the Wuma family, it can be seen that as early as more than 1000 years ago, on the ancestors of the Wuma family, these two The facial features are already obvious.After more than 1000 years of inheritance, it has not changed much.

At the same time, along with the appearance, the Wuma family's body-removing skills are also passed down.

As an ancient family of exorcising corpses, the Wuma family has been engaged in exorcising corpses for thousands of years.As early as thousands of years ago, in the history of witches moving westward, the Wuma family could already be seen chasing corpses.

The branch where Wumaxi is located is a side branch of the Wuma family. After being separated from the main branch of the Wuma family a hundred years ago, it has always been small in population, far less than the large branch of the main branch.

In a catastrophe eight years ago, all the main branches of the Wuma Clan were wiped out, leaving only this side branch to be passed down, and only Wumashu and his ten-year-old son Wumaxi inherited the lineage of the thousand-year-old family. .Two years later, Wumashu passed away, and Wumaxi became the last member of this thousand-year-old corpse-hunting family.

And the reason why Wu Maxi was standing here at this moment was also because of a business of expelling corpses.

Around the end of June, Wu Maxi received a corpse exorcism business in Luluo City in the eastern part of Quzhen Kingdom. The deceased was a clerk in his 60s. He had lost his sons and grandchildren half a year ago, and the whole family died. He left himself alone, and before he died, he thought of an illegitimate child who was wandering away, so he entrusted the bank to remit all his family wealth, and entrusted Wumaxi with his only old bones, and the destination was Wumaxi now. Xiqu City where it is located.

Xiqu City is located in the western part of Quzhen Kingdom. It is a famous city of boundary cultivation. The population in the city is mainly boundary cultivation and businessmen.Jingxiu is aggressive and barbaric, and merchants are cunning. These two characteristics also constitute the basic tone of Xiqu City's folk customs, so this city of Jingxiu also has another nickname-the capital of barbarism.

When Wu Maxi heard that the destination was Xiqu City, she knew that the business would be difficult, and the remaining money might be difficult to recover.Merchants are stingy, and they don’t want to pull out any money, while the Jingxiu in Xiqu City is famous for not taking their lives, let alone a corpse, and exchanging a corpse for money is nothing to them.

But the conditions given by the official were extremely generous, with a remuneration of 120 gold coins, [-] in advance, and another [-] gold coins to be paid upon arrival.Two hundred gold coins is a sky-high price in the corpse exorcism industry. For Wu Maxi, who is in urgent need of money, this money is enough to make him work hard, and there is no possibility of refusing it.

So Wu Maxi drove the corpse, crossed mountains and ridges, ate and slept in the open, and after half a year, finally arrived at this famous city of realm cultivation.After another day of tossing, I finally found this illegitimate son whose surname was Zhao and who was named Tieban.

Unfortunately, the expected situation really happened. Zhao Tieban didn't recognize the father at all, and naturally he refused to claim the body, and refused to pay the balance.After Wu Maxi entangled for a while, he was kicked from the courtyard to the outside, and lay on the ground for a long time, unable to move.

According to Wu Maxi's estimation, Zhao Tieban, who was able to kick people so far, could only be a form-controlling practitioner.

Today, there are only three main realm cultivation schools on Tianshu Continent, Tianxiang, Yuxing, and Witching Curse.Those like Zhao Tieban who are good at physical strength and close combat are exactly the characteristics of Form-Controlling Realm Cultivator.

Everything is as expected.

According to the information obtained along the way, the debtor Zhao Tieban entered the double building in front of him. After a little inquiring, he knew that this was a casino, and its backstage was the Ross Great Realm Cultivation Group, Xiqu One of the city's three realm repair groups.

The current head of Xiqu City is the Xiqu City Realm Xiutuan Alliance, referred to as the Xiqu Tuanlian.The leaders of the league are Chi Zun, Zi Se You Tong, and Emperor Ross's Three Realm Cultivators.

Therefore, the Fanfan Building under the Ross Group has never dared to make trouble, and occasionally does the business of deceiving customers.

People in the Tianshu Continent generally believe that the body exorcist has bad luck.There is a saying that after coming into contact with the corpse-hunters, you must bathe with grapefruit leaves, otherwise you will be in bad luck, ranging from losing money to losing your life.

It is precisely because of the bad reputation of losing people's luck that the corpse exorcist never enters the casino.It can be predicted that as soon as the exorcist shows up in the casino, both the casino and the gamblers will fight him to death.

Waiting was the only way Wu Maxi could think of.

The cold wind blows from the corners of the eaves, whistling, mixed with noisy and misty human voices, as well as some weird screams and uninhibited laughs, the voice of Xiqu Chengjingxiu is more like a beast than a beast. beast.

Wu Maxi found a place to squat down, tightened her clothes, picked up a branch, and sketched it on the ground. A complicated pattern gradually appeared on the ground, with a rigorous structure and smooth and precise lines.

This is a structure in the curse of the artistic conception handed down by the family. For thousands of years, the Wuma family has relied on this artistic conception to support their families, and they have established a reputation in the southwestern part of the mainland that they will be unlucky if they stick to it.

Wu Maxi has been using this artistic conception for nearly ten years, and he has memorized every structure in the artistic conception by heart. There is no hesitation between flicking his wrists, several lines go hand in hand, and various precise transitions and combinations appear in his pen , the structure on the ground is becoming more and more complicated, and it is a bit dazzling at first glance.

He is not reviewing the artistic conception structure, but practicing and researching on the three-dimensional structure.

Three-dimensional structure is one of the basic courses of artistic conception, but in recent years, this course has been paid less and less attention in the realm of spirituality, and its proportion in the courses of artistic conception college is also getting smaller and smaller.

But this course occupies a large proportion in Wu Maxi's study, because he only has one textbook on artistic conception theory, "Analysis of Three-dimensional Structure".For Wu Maxi, who is determined to become a realm cultivator, this is the only thing she can grasp.For more than ten years, he has devoted all his spare time to this course except for cultivation.

The stories told by her great-grandfather when she was a child gave Wu Maxi an unrealistic dream of realm cultivation.For this dream, he does everything possible, seizes all the time to practice and study, and saves money as desperately as possible.

But the threshold of realm cultivation is still too high for him.If you want to become a Jingxiu, the best way is to enter the Yijing Academy, but in the Yijing Academy I have seen in these years, there are very few tuition fees that are less than [-] gold coins, which is far beyond Wu Maxi's ability to pay.

Eight months ago, in Luyin City, Wu Maxi saw an Ivy Academy, the tuition fee was only 280 gold coins.This is the artistic conception academy with the least fee in Wu Maxi's memory, and it is also the only artistic conception academy that Wu Maxi can possibly afford.But at that time, Wu Maxi only had [-] gold coins in his arms.

That night, Wu Maxi lingered at the entrance of the college for a whole night, and then started to pick up jobs frantically, and then came to Xiqu City because of this order, and then was owed the balance by Zhao Tieban, and finally followed helplessly outside the Fanfan Building , Squat on the ground and draw circles.

With the thumb as the center of the branch, draw a standard arc, and then turn the wrist, the branch suddenly turns upwards, picking out a sharp arc hook.A complicated structure is completely drawn, and when viewed as a whole, it looks like a sickle woven with silk.

Then, Wu Maxi began to analyze the lines on the ground, analyzing the trajectory of each line, the relative distance and change between each line.One formula after another appeared on the ground. He occasionally paused to think for a while, erased some wrong ideas, started a new derivation, and soon devoted himself to it.

While Shen Xin was studying, time passed quickly.

The night gradually became darker, and the voices of people faded away, only the cold wind whizzed past with the news of heavy snow.

"Snapped!"

A crisp sound resounded in front of the door of Fanfan Building, waking Wu Maxi who was immersed in research.He raised his head, and saw Zhao Tieban standing outside the gate of Fanfan Building, his right palm was pressing on the head of a stone lion, his chest heaving.

120 gold coins!

The bursts of pain made Wu Maxi's thoughts completely withdraw from the research.Originally counting the 120 gold coins, he would be able to save enough tuition fees, but this matter came to nothing.Wu Maxi sighed, wiped off the figure on the ground with her foot, and was about to leave.

"Bastard, it's you!" Zhao Tieban's voice came from behind, mixed with anger and resentment.

Wumaxi turned around, and saw Zhao Tieban standing under the lantern with a ferocious face, and his angry eyes had already fallen on Wumaxi.No need to think about it, what Zhao Tieban, who is eager to lose, needs a punching bag now. No matter how you look at it, Wu Maxi fits the role of a punching bag very well.

The corpse chaser is an identity that is easy to attract hatred. Over the years, Wumaxi has traveled around with this identity, and being beaten has become a habit. For the upcoming beating, he has silently prepared mentally.

Zhao Tieban accelerated his artistic conception, rushed over like a wild beast, and kicked Wumaxi's chest.Wu Maxi fell down, and then curled up on the ground, protecting the vital parts of her body with her hands.This is the beating experience accumulated over the past ten years.

"I said why I lost so fast, it turned out to be because of you, a corpse." Zhao Tieban scolded very rhythmically, but his fists and kicks had no rhythm at all.He didn't use the power of artistic conception, but as a form-controlling realm cultivator, years of practice had already built his body into a steel frame.Every time she stepped down, Wu Maxi felt like being trampled by a bull, and even her internal organs were about to be trampled out.

After continuous punching and kicking, Zhao Tieban grabbed Wu Maxi's hair, lifted him from the ground, and kicked him out.

"You son of a bitch, you're still playing tricks." Wu Maxi fell to the ground and suddenly remembered such a sentence.

There was once an old liar who drank and complained to him after being beaten, and Wumaxi, who was full of sympathy at the time, couldn't help laughing when he said such a sentence suddenly.Only when it was my turn to suffer this kind of beating did I realize that this kind of thing is not funny at all.Wu Maxi moved her hands up to protect her head.

Zhao Tieban caught up with two steps, and kicked Wumaxi twice. He wanted to grab Wumaxi's hair, but it was already protected. kick out.

"Hey!"

There was a series of "ding, ding" sounds in his ears. This was the sound of gold coins falling to the ground, densely packed like raindrops. It seemed that every sound hit Wu Maxi's heart, causing his heartbeat to become a little confused.

A total of 350 gold was sewn into Wu Maxi's clothes, which was all his savings.If there is anything more important than Wu Maxi's life at this stage, it is these gold coins.

His face turned pale in an instant, he glanced at the gold coins on the ground, then raised his head, staring closely at Zhao Tieban.

Zhao Tieban was a little startled, and then he was ecstatic. The harvest of beating someone like this should be regarded as a surprise anyway, so he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to start packing.

Wu Maxi rushed up recklessly, and was immediately kicked away.This kick was as fast as lightning, and it accelerated three times in a row in the air. It was the form-controlling artistic conception that is very popular in the world of realm cultivation - stacking waves.It is said that this artistic conception has been practiced to a high level, and it can be folded seven times in the air, with momentum like thunder, and the force is enough to smash the city wall.

Zhao Tieban obviously didn't practice well enough, so Wu Maxi was kicked half to death, and fell to the foot of the wall without moving.

It seemed that Wu Maxi's whole body was shattered, her breath was stuck in her chest, and it took her a long time to recover.Looking at Zhao Tieban, who was lying on the ground and plundering, he was filled with rage, and impatiently weaved a curse to drive corpses away, when the corpse next to him suddenly jumped up and rushed towards Zhao Tieban.

The corpse was brave and fearless, and soon became entangled with Zhao Tieban, tearing Zhao Tieban's clothes tightly.

Zhao Tieban immediately wove an artistic conception of opening mountains, his palms turned like a fan, and he slapped the corpse's chest, and immediately sent the corpse flying, leaning limply against the foot of the wall, half a piece of clothing torn from Zhao Tieban's body followed Fall down and cover its head.

Wu Maxi tried to move it with the corpse-repelling curse, but the corpse didn't respond, obviously the spine was broken.

Zhao Tieban packed up the gold coins on the ground with half of his arms bare. He didn't count them in detail. He walked over and tore off his clothes, and sure enough, he found a few remaining gold coins inside, put them into his arms, turned around and walked towards Fanfanlou.His right ankle was suddenly grabbed by a hand. Zhao Tieban got impatient and stomped his foot hard, "Crack!" The sound of the broken arm bone was very clean, not accompanied by screams. Zhao Tieban Not paying attention, he touched the full gold coins in his arms, and strode towards Fanfanlou.

Wu Maxi watched his back walk into Fanfan Building, her eyes were full of resentment.Those gold coins are the result of his ten years of hard work, and all his dreams of realm cultivation depend on those gold coins.He sat for a long time, his body trembling badly, and when he raised his left hand, it was limp and powerless. There was no doubt that this arm was broken.

Looking around the messy scene, there are scattered garbage.Zhao Tieban's father was leaning crookedly against the foot of the wall, half of his son's clothes covering his face.

Wu Maxi looked at the figure who had been with her for nearly half a year, and didn't know whether to hate or be angry.How hard I have walked for more than ten years, I was beaten back to the original point by their father and son in an instant.

With a wry smile on his face, he kicked the corpse to the ground.

"Tap." A small stone strip fell to the ground, with a little purple color in the dim light, as crystal and attractive as purple jade.