Da Tang Shuang Long Zhuan Volume 10 Chapter 10 part1

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Book 10 Chapter 10 - Strange Move to Suppress The Enemy

Before Ba Fenghan had any chance to reply, Fu Junyu's voice came from the top of the stairs, "Why is everybody quieted down? What happened here?”

She appeared like an apparition or a demon that come and go without any trace. Although there was no lack of capable people on the upstairs, no one heard any footsteps coming up the stairs.

When things come to a head, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling calmed down instead; they took the stand and were ready to adapt to any circumstances.

Ba Fenghan rose up to his full height; he laughed and said, "Finally Junyu is here; I have been waiting for you for five days!”

While walking over, Fu Junyu swept her gaze around the room.

This Korean beauty was wearing purple-red warrior outfit inside, and purple-red cloak on the outside, in stark contrast with her snow-white skin. Her glamour radiated all around, taking away the limelight from Hua Lingzi.

However, if Shang Xiuxun was willing to reveal her true identity, although Fu Junyu was an outstanding beauty, she would still have to concede to her.

Fu Junyu gaze landed on Hua Lingzi first before moving to Changshu Mou; she said in astonishment, "Unexpectedly it's Tiele's Changshu Mou.”

Changshu Mou immediately rose up to salute and said, "Turns out its Yijian Dashi Old Fu's distinguished disciple Miss Junyu. Changshu Mou is paying his respect.”

With Changshu Mou standing up like this, he was blocking Fu Junyu's line of sight toward Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling.

Ba Fenghan took this opportunity to signal Kou and Xu, two boys; he made a helpless gesture by spreading out his hands with a bitter smile on his face. Obviously he was saying, ‘I already warned you guys, but you did not leave earlier. Now you cannot blame me.”

Fu Junyu halted her steps to return the greeting and said, "Turns out it's the ‘White Clothes Golden Shields' Changshu Mou Xiong. Junyu failed to show her respect.”

The two were so polite and courteous toward each other, so that casual onlookers were unable to make any sense of the tangled and complicated relationship between the two.

Finished with the propriety, Fu Junyu walked over toward Ba Fenghan, who was standing respectively, waiting to receive her. From the corner of her eye she suddenly caught Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong. In shock, she stopped right on her track.

The two boys hastily left their seats and greeted in chorus, "Yu Yi, how are you? Nephews pay you their respect!”

Other than Ba Fenghan, who was still smiling wryly, the others were even more confused.

Fu Junyu's phoenix eyes shot a deep cold murderous intention. "Who's your Yu Yi?” she said frostily, "Watch the sword!”

‘Ring!'

The sword left its sheath.

This moment Fu Junyu was standing closest to Xu Xiling, about a zhang away. Once the sword flashed, immediately it turned into a dozen sword shadows.

Just before the sword momentum reached him, Xu Ziling let out a cold shout and took half a step forward. Unexpectedly his palm cut into the empty space separating the two.

It was such a simple chop with the edge of the palm, but to those who watched the process, there was some kind of extremely bizarre, yet flawless feeling.

First of all, Xu Ziling gave up the impression that this palm chop carried the power of his entire being, yet it also gave up the impression of light, powerless chop. The contradiction was very difficult to explain.

Secondly, the observers clearly saw every detail of his movement from start to finish, yet the entire process felt totally natural, without beginning, without an end. Just like the motion of the stars in the blue dome of heaven, which has no beginning and has no end, just like the flight of a bird, or the path of a swimming fish, unconstrained like a heavenly steed soaring across the skies, without leaving any trace.

Thirdly, the moment his palm cut the empty space, Fu Junyu's suffocating sword qi seemed to be all of a sudden sucked clean by this one palm, leaving only an empty, floating sword shadow, which no longer constitute any killing power.

To experts like Ba Fenghan, Changshu Mou, Shang Xiuxun and others on their caliber, it was even clearer that this one move by Xu Ziling had deadlocked the strongest attack route of Fu Junyu's sword technique. The timing and the position were like seamless heavenly clothes.

None of the spectators was not emotionally moved.

Letting out a muffled groan, momentarily Fu Junyu was unable to alter her sword momentum that she was forced to retract her sword and even took half a step back. With all blood drained from her pretty face, she said in shock, "Yijian Technique?”

Everybody was even more stupefied.

They all knew that Yijian Technique was the consummate skill of Korean's Yijian Dashi [reminder: ‘dashi' - great master, sometimes used to refer to Buddhist monks] Fu Cailing, with which he moved unhindered outside the Central Plains. As Fu Cailin's direct disciple, naturally Fu Junyu was also an expert of the same skill. Therefore, if it were Xu Ziling who uttered that question, everybody would feel it was proper and to be expected as a matter of course, yet now it was the other way around, naturally the spectators were even more confused.

Xu Ziling stood proudly with both hands hanging free by his side, and a faint smile on the corners of his mouth, looking absolutely elegant and outstanding, proud and aloof above the crowd. He said respectfully, "I still need to ask Yu Yi's directions.”

The murderous intent in Fu Junyu's beautiful eyes grew even stronger.

Kou Zhong knew the situation was about to get worse; being a quick-witted person that he was, he suddenly shouted, "Changshu Mou, watch the saber!”

The Moon in the Well left its scabbard and curved toward Changshu Mou, who was standing by the table.

Yellow glow flashed, saber qi filled the air.

"Ah!' Shang Xiuxun cried out. She did not expect that in Kou Zhong's hand, this saber could generate such an unusual glow.

Changshu Mou did not expect Kou Zhong to suddenly make his move to challenge him; the most aggravating thing was that following the opponent's saber, there was a burst of spiraling saber power, so that other than withdrawing from the table, he basically had no other choice.

Right now he did not have time to examine why Kou Zhong's power had advanced by leaps and bounds, and was capable of sending out this kind of unheard of qi power, which was even stranger than the Yuwen Clan's Mysterious Ice Energy.

Letting out a cold shout, the pair of shields moved to his hands, while at the same time he lowered his torso in a horse stance, and in split second concentrated all the power in his body. Right shield moved first, left shield held back, both shield met Kou Zhong's divine - as if it was made by heaven, saber strike.

His tablemates, Genggehu'er, Hua Lingzi and the seven Tiele martial art masters, were completely shrouded by Kou Zhong's saber qi. Their response capability was inferior to Changshu Mou, naturally their only way out was to scramble away from the table to evade.

Immediately chairs were overturned, the people scattered, chicken flew and the dogs scampered.

Kou Zhong's saber strike did achieve what he expected, while at the same time it intimidated Fu Junyu, letting her know that without Ba Fenghan's assistance, basically she did not have any chance to deal with the two boys alone; naturally she must not act recklessly.

Ba Fenghan's eyes lit up. Just now Xu Ziling's palm strike was undoubtedly an amazing move throughout all ages. But the simplicity was in the defensive style. Not only it would not incite the opponent's desire to win, it was also effective in calming down the opponent's arrogance; hence it carried the sense of ‘subduing the army without a fight'.

On the contrary, Kou Zhong's saber strike was completely offensive, a domineering move, a sweeping, insufferably arrogant, something that would not go back unless it sees blood. Immediately this martial art master, who had taken an oath to climb to the summit of martial art study, had his blood boiling.

‘Dang!'

Kou Zhong's Moon in the Well hacked down on Changshu Mou's right shield. Like a mountain flash flood break out the dam, a powerful vortex of energy, resembling a thousand whirlpools all of a sudden rolled toward the iron shield.

Changshu Mou lowered his body even more, using the amazing skill ‘Concentrating Nine Real Changes' taught personally by Qu Ao, within a snap of the fingers he turned the innate true qi within his body into nine sequences to withstand Kou Zhong's invading vortex of energy, also to stop his shield from spinning around like a windmill.

If he was using his former golden shields, due to the exceptionally good metal property, which contained softness in the hardness of the metal, this single clash would not be able to determine victory or defeat. However, this pair of shields had just been forged a few days ago. The pure steel's property was not suitable for Changshu Mou's usage. It was meant to be temporary replacement.

All around the room, only he and Kou Zhong were clear of this fact. The moment the shield and the saber impacted, the shield suddenly became the point of power struggle between the two combatants' true qi.

Kou Zhong's power was trying to spin the shield and wrestle it from Changshu Mou's hand, while Changshu Mou's power was trying to twist it in opposite direction to counteract the opponent's violent spinning force.

The two streams of true energy collided, the iron shield immediately fell apart.

‘Dang!'

Changshu Mou's left shield moved up to fend off Kou Zhong's Moon in the Well. Kou Zhong put his saber back into its scabbard and laughed aloud, "You broke another one. The blacksmiths will have new business. Hee!”

Genggehu'er and the others, including the Tiele martial art masters on the other table, immediately stood up in anger; they all drew their weapons.

Shang Xiuxun also issued her order, Flying Horse Ranch people also stood up from their table with weapons withdrawn; the battle could happen at any moment.

When the guests at the seven, eight tables nearby saw how formidable Kou Zhong's saber was, they were afraid to be the fish in the moat [i.e. collateral damage], and thus scattered everywhere, clearing up the dozen or so tables on this side of the window.

Changshu Mou raised his arm to stop his men from making any move. After looking down at the remainder of the iron shield on his right hand, he casually tossed it to the floor, laughed involuntarily, and said, "Kou Zhong, do you understand Jianghu rules? You mounted a sneak attack like that, what kind of hero are you?”

Chapter end