Outside of Time

The night wind, like a blood-stained sickle blade, with a fishy smell and a sense of dampness, was carried by the messenger of death and wandered around every corner of the city.

In the darkness, the figure of the messenger of death moved forward wantonly. In the horn of murderous intent, it seemed to merge with all the shadows in the city, constantly gathering and dispersing, as if it was fearless, and it was enough to make all the lives that wanted to struggle despair.

Until... in this diffusion and forward movement, in a dark and distant corner, it met a person.

It was a figure wearing a gray robe. In the dark night, his back seemed to be indestructible by a knife or a needle, and the cold air it emitted seemed to block the starlight in the sky.

It was suffocating.

At this moment, it was as if the rushing river met the sea, as if the greedy jackals met the wolf king.

Its footsteps stopped, and its invisible body was quiet in all directions, and it seemed to be watching in silence, until the gray figure slowly turned his head, and his cold eyes revealed a calmness like a black pool.

It smiled.

As if it had found faith and a fellow traveler, it carried the sickle of death and cheered around the gray figure, lifting his long hair and blowing his robe.

"The wind is a bit strong tonight." Xu Qing whispered softly, turned his head, and continued to stare at the house in the darkness in the distance.

The house in his eyes was like a coffin, heavy at night. It was the residence of the mermaid boy he found during this period.

The other party was different from the disciples of the Seventh Peak. It seemed that he was not qualified to own a Dharma Boat, so he could only choose to stay on the shore and live with his entourage.

Xu Qing watched calmly, not anxious or impatient. In this dark night, his even and slight breathing sounded like ice water winding, long and far-reaching.

He was waiting.

The marked breath accurately told Xu Qing that the person he was waiting for was here.

And judging from the pattern of the other party going out alone last time, it should be almost time for this fish to go out these days, especially today... The other party was in a bad mood.

So, Xu Qing felt that he could wait tonight with a high probability.

Time passed, and an hour later, when the moon in the sky was once again covered by dark clouds, a gust of night wind blew, and the house that had been buried in the darkness heard the sound of wind resistance.

This sound made the coffin-like house even more lonely, like a hoarse hum before death, echoing in the quiet night sky.

A figure appeared from the high wall of the house.

The gray Taoist robe could not cover the fishy smell all over the body, and the green eyes like gems seemed unable to change the sinister nature.

In the wind, the dancing of his wide robe seemed to be a false momentum, turning into an outline, but the thin layer was more like a peeled human skin.

He was the mermaid boy.

Today, he was in a very bad mood, and what happened during the day made him feel greatly humiliated.

"What if you are the princess of the Seventh Peak? Sooner or later, I will cripple you and use your body to feed the ghost maggots!" The mermaid boy gritted his teeth. His unhappy mood made him choose to go out a few days in advance. He felt that he had to vent.

As for the way to vent, he had asked his two sisters to arrange it, not women, but children.

This is a hobby that he cannot let too many people know. He likes to torture and kill children of other races in exchange for his own joy.

At this moment, his body shook and walked into the night.

As he moved forward, his figure gradually blurred and finally disappeared. Whether it was vision or perception, it would lose its lock at this moment, as if he did not exist at this moment.

But the mark of the smell would not disappear.

Xu Qing raised his head and watched the other party's figure disappear. His expression was calm, and he walked silently and walked into the night.

The wind was stronger, like the confrontation between the blade and the air, constantly echoing in this quiet night.

Half an hour later, in the corner of an alley, the nothingness was distorted at this moment, and the figure of the mermaid boy reappeared. At the moment when the figure appeared, he felt the crisis and his body suddenly retreated.

But it was too late. A thick water curtain instantly appeared behind him, and even appeared around him, directly covering the alley. At the moment when it was completely blocked, a low roar came from the water curtain in front of him.

A huge whale formed by magic bulged in the water curtain and took shape rapidly.

It was cold and murderous, and opened its mouth towards the mermaid boy, revealing its sharp teeth, and swallowed him suddenly with an extremely fierce momentum.

The mermaid boy's eyes were sharp.

"It's interesting. I'm in a bad mood today, so I'll play with you."

As he spoke, he raised his hands and was about to make a hand gesture, but at this moment, the shadow that merged with the darkness instantly spread into strips like ropes, and came quickly from all directions, directly wrapped around the mermaid boy's arm, covering his palm, making it impossible for him to complete the hand gesture.

At the same time as covering his palm, the shadow also spread rapidly towards his neck.

Whether it was his hands or the skin touched by the shadow, at this moment, there was a piercing pain, as if it was corroded rapidly. This scene was too sudden, and the mermaid boy's face changed for the first time.

The intense life-and-death crisis and the severe pain made him breathe rapidly. While struggling, the whale transformed from the water curtain in front of him had arrived in front of him and swallowed him directly with amazing momentum.

But at the moment when the whale swallowed, the mermaid boy let out a roar, and a blue light burst out from his body. The beam of light was like a sharp thorn, trying to drive away the shadow on his body while shooting in all directions.

It directly came into contact with the incoming whale. The whale collapsed suddenly, but did not scatter in all directions. The remaining energy still fell like waves crashing and roaring.

The mermaid boy was shocked, his body fell back, and blood spurted out. Taking advantage of the time when the blue light slowed down the strange shadow, his expression showed a ferocious look, and he was about to open the storage bag.

But at this moment, the shadow that filled his body erupted again, entangled his hands again, stopped his actions, and continued to spread rapidly throughout his body.

This scene made the mermaid boy completely horrified. At this moment, a black cold light roared from the darkness and went straight to his eyebrows.

After this cold light, he saw a figure... a gray figure shooting out from the water curtain in front!

The speed was so fast, like a dark lightning.

He was also a young man, with swaying black hair and an expressionless face, except for the light in his eyes, which revealed an incomparable coldness in his calmness.

Surrounding him, the wind seemed to have turned into a sickle, as if there was a messenger of death beside him, lifting his black cloak with a grin, and coming quickly with the figure.

"It's you!!" The mermaid boy recognized Xu Qing. In the crisis of life and death, he suddenly opened his mouth and spit out a silver light between his words.

This silver light was good at catching the wind, and in an instant it turned into a huge flywheel, whizzing towards the black iron sign in front. The two sides touched instantly, and there was a loud sound of weapons clashing.

Because the force involved was too great, both the flywheel and the black iron sign were deflected in the collision. When they were blasted to the side, they could not stop the mermaid boy and Xu Qing's eyes from meeting again.

The moment the eyes of the two parties touched, Xu Qing approached directly. At the same time, the gills on the mermaid boy's face suddenly swelled and turned into sharp thorns on his face, making his expression ferocious. He opened his mouth Quickly spit out a blue bead.

"Die!" The mermaid boy roared, and the blue beads instantly erupted into an even more amazing beam of light, directly covering the approaching Xu Qing.

He was very confident that with his own divine power, unless he was a foundation-building monk, few people would be able to survive even if he reached the Perfect Qi Condensation level, so he revealed a sinister smile on his lips and was about to continue suppressing the strange shadows on his body.

But in the next moment, his expression changed completely with the roar of the blue beam in front of him, and he even showed shock.

In front of it, covered by a blue beam of light, a huge figure stood upright against the light.

The figure was completely black, with a single horn on its head. It was as ferocious as a ghost, and its whole body was covered with rows of sharp thorns, like the head of all ghosts.

At this moment, he was facing the blue light, roaring silently, raising his big hand, covering the light, and grabbing it.

It's... Kui Ying!

Under this huge black shadow, there was Xu Qing, who was expressionless and rushing towards the mermaid boy.

There were many wounds all over his body caused by the beam, but they all healed quickly and visibly, and the murderous intent in his eyes completely exploded at this moment.

Whether it was the mermaid boy grabbing the credit before or the attack in the store, Xu Qing never went all out. The shadow never moved, Kuiying never transformed, and his resilience never showed.

His sharp edge is only revealed at the moment of killing.

"The transformation of Qi and blood! And your cultivation! Impossible, your resilience, this..." The mermaid boy's expression showed unprecedented horror, the life-and-death crisis turned into panic in his eyes, and his words were a little incoherent.

He wanted to open the storage bag and wanted the jade slip to send a message for help, but at this moment the shadow seemed to be alive and could sense his thoughts. It tightly entangled his hands, making him unable to lift or take anything. Qingyou didn't waste any time, he was already approaching, his right hand shone with cold light, and a dagger appeared.

Looking at the dagger, the mermaid boy roared wildly. He didn't care that the shadow was wrapped around his neck, and he didn't have time to care that the covered part was being strongly corroded. At the critical moment, his body shook violently.

His legs were raised quickly, and in a blur, they turned into a black fish tail, and rushed towards the approaching Xu Qing with all his strength. At this moment, his bloodline talent also exploded, and an illusory mermaid figure formed outside his body. , fused with its tail to form a powerful blow.

Xu Qing's expression didn't change at all, his speed didn't slow down, he was approaching in an instant, he raised his left hand and punched away, the Kuiying behind him roared, blended in, and fell at the same time.

The skin is torn apart and the flesh and blood collapse.

The huge fish tail split into pieces, and the mermaid shadow also collapsed and exploded after being punched by Kui Ying.

The ground around him shook violently, and a shrill scream came from the mouth of the mermaid boy, but the water curtain around him was too thick, and his voice was sealed in the alley.

"Curse!!" In this scream, the mermaid boy who had lost his lower body had red eyes. As he roared, his crumbling fish tail flesh and blood seemed to have become active, burning one after another, and rushed towards the place where Xu Qing was from all directions, and in an instant Converging, extremely fast, covering in an instant.

Although the speed of this gathering was fast, it was not as fast as Xu Qing's. Almost at the moment when it was covered in flesh and blood, his body was left with an afterimage that was enveloped by the curse of mermaid flesh and blood due to its extreme speed.

As for his true body, he appeared behind the mermaid boy at this moment. Before the fish tail flesh and blood could be thrown out of the air, he could catch up with him. When the mermaid boy was shocked, a cold dagger had already landed in front of his neck.

"Xu Qing, I..."

The mermaid boy's body was trembling, his voice was sharp and urgent, but he had no chance to continue speaking. After saying three words, with the cold touch of the dagger...

Xu Qing cut fiercely. He was not used to listening to last words.

The familiar sound of cutting echoed.

Blood spurted out instantly, and the twitching of the mermaid boy's body was extremely intense at this moment, like a fish with half of its neck chopped off on a chopping board.

He opened his eyes wide and wanted to look back, but he couldn't do it. After a few breaths like leaking air, before his body fell down and his consciousness was about to dissipate, he finally saw Xu Qing's face above.

"My clothes were stained by you." Xu Qing said softly. This was the only sentence he said from beginning to end.

"You..."

Blood was still flowing from the mermaid boy's neck. He trembled and slowly lost his breath. In his still open eyes, there was still a lingering attachment to the world, and also a lingering disbelief, as if he had never expected that he, a genius, would die here.

Died of suffocation.

Xu Qing's expression was calm. He took off the talisman on his leg that increased his speed, picked up the storage bag that the mermaid boy could never open, turned around and walked out of the alley. The shadow left on the body of the mermaid boy quickly retreated and returned to Xu Qing's feet.

Until he reached the entrance of the alley, Xu Qing did not stop, nor did he look back, but just raised his right hand and squeezed it back hard.

The water curtain that immediately enveloped the alley and sealed this place suddenly trembled and began to move.

From large to small, from outside to inside, with the mermaid body as the center, it compressed instantly at an amazing speed. Finally, with a bang, the water curtain from all around gathered all the pressure on the body of the mermaid boy.

In this sound, the body of the fish man and the broken meat in the alley completely collapsed, without any remnants, and the body and soul were destroyed.

Xu Qing walked away.

The water curtain slowly fell, turned into water drops, fell into this quiet alley, and washed everything away.

Make the ground clean, remove all the blood, and make the early morning sun rising slowly in the distance fall smoothly here, reflecting the puddles on the ground and emitting dazzling light.

From dusk to dawn, for the sky, it is just a moment, and the same is true for people.

Like life and death.