Da Tang Shuang Long Zhuan
/ Da Tang Shuang Long Zhuan Volume 3 Chapter 8 part3
Here is the end of Chapter 8.
Shan Yudie, on the other hand, was a plump butterfly [yu die means jade butterfly]. She was a full head shorter than Shan Xiu, and in term of age, she appeared more than ten years younger than Shan Xiu; her face round like a full moon, giving people the impression that she was warm and affable. It was hard to imagine that she was a leader-level martial art expert of Dong Ming Sect.
But the most noticeable was the flexible steel rope, made of steel pieces linked together, that were hanging loosely on their waists. It was a singular weapon that was very hard to make well. Dong Ming Sect's fame in weapon manufacturing shook the heavens. These two unique flexible steel ropes were naturally not commonplace items.
It was the very first time for everybody in the hall to see the two martial art masters protector of the law, so they all showed the weird expression ‘oh, so this is what they look like' on their faces.
The tall and withered Shan Xiu spoke dryly, "These two boys have shown kindness to our humble Sect by giving us warning, so that our humble Sect escaped the disaster of Yuwen Huaji's sneak attack. If Du Zongguan is willing to be magnanimous, our humble Sect will definitely pay you back.”
This speech was very polite; she was giving Du Fuwei enough face.
Yet without even thinking Du Fuwei sighed and said, "Please forgive the Ol' Du for not complying to your request. Two fairies, please go back!”
Ren Meimei, Xiang Gui, and the others were greatly confounded. It should be noted that Dong Ming Sect wielded tremendous power as the world leading weapon supplier. With their support, Du Fuwei's contention for hegemony over the world would enjoy tremendous boost. However, for the sake of two nameless boys [orig. their names not encountered in the classics] he flatly refused Dong Ming Law-protector Fairy's proposal. This has puzzled them greatly even after they pondered over it hundreds of time in their mind.
At the same time, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling seemed to hear Madame Dong Ming's familiar voice in their ears, giving directions.
Shan Xiu also grimly heaved a sigh and said, "We don't have any choice but to make our move to see your real skill.”
Right this moment, Du Fuwei already made his move. His target was Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling.
After his experience last time, how could he be careless again?
While the solid wood gambling table shattered into small pieces like sand and stones, he darted toward the two boys.
Suddenly thousands of sword tips shot out from Shen Luoyan's hand, she was attacking Du Fuwei.
Among the people present, she was the only one who had clear understanding of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling's real background.
When she failed to subdue the two boys before, she was determined to eliminate them. Simply because she wanted to get rid of the contingency factor, namely the ‘Duke Yang Treasure Trove'.
Speaking about the current situation, among the various militias, Wagang Army held the biggest power. But they let if any other party succeeded in obtaining the ‘Duke Yang Treasure Trove', perhaps the current balance of power would experience huge changes. Therefore, she would rather have the two boys killed and the secret would be like a stone thrown into the sea and sank without leaving any trace.
This moment, other than Dong Ming Sect's strong backing, she also relied on Zu Junyan and other martial experts under her command; how could she let Du Fuwei get hold of the two boys?
In the meantime, Ren Meimei and others were retreating outside the hall.
Du Fuwei already anticipated that Shen Luoyan would try to stop him. His left sleeve rose up; he swept the perimeter of Shen Luoyan's sword tips.
Shen Luoyan's sword tips' shadow disappeared, leaving just one sword. Fast as lightning the sword floated outward, which was blocked and pushed back by Du Fuwei's Qiankun [universe] Sleeve.
Meanwhile Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, together with their chairs, tipped backward and fell onto the floor, and the two of them quickly rolled toward the door on the other side of the room; their movement was so fast than even Du Fuwei was taken aback.
Shan Xiu and Shan Yudie, two great Law-Protector Fairies of Dong Ming Sect, had already flown over. Their hands reached out to their waists, with a flick of their wrist the two flexible steel whips, which were made of eighteen sections of steel pieces as thick as a finger linked together, with total reaching distance about a zhang, shot toward the back of Du Fuwei's head and his back.
As if he had eyes behind his head, Du Fuwei flicked his two sleeves backward, sweeping the tip of the whips.
‘Ding! Ding!' Shaken by the amazing strength of his sleeves, Shan Xiu and Shan Yudie were jolted backward.
Seemingly without any effort Du Fuwei has consecutively forced three martial art masters to retreat. Accelerating his body, in an instant he flew toward the two boys who were still rolling on the floor.
While he was thinking that very soon Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling would fall into his evil clutch, suddenly, ‘Boom!' There was a loud explosion, followed by a big hole appeared on the wall. As if the sand and stones had eyes, they were shooting toward Du Fuwei.
For the first time that evening Du Fuwei showed some concerns on his face. Failed to grab the two boys, his arms swirled around, creating myriad of sleeve shadows, blocking the sand and stones and sending them shooting back toward the hole.
At the same time he pursed his lips to send out a sharp whistle to summon his escorts, the ten martial art experts who were surrounding that place to render their assistance.
‘Boom!' Unexpectedly another explosion on the tiled roof opened up another big hole. A flicker of the sword tip appeared. Like a rainbow the sword shot from above toward the tianling [heaven spirit] acupoint on the top of Du Fuwei's head.
A biting cold sword aura completely enveloped Du Fuwei, blocking his entire advance and retreat paths, the power was extremely overbearing. Even with Du Fuwei's ability, his only way out was to abandon his intention to jump through the hole where Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling escaped, and focusing all his strength to deal with this terrifying sword.
‘Boom!' Sleeves and sword collided, emitting a muffled-thunder like explosion as the qi and the sword force struck each other.
Like a puff of white cloud something swept across the air about a zhang away, before slowly descending into the hall below. It was a stunningly beautiful woman, with the sword in her hand pointing to Du Fuwei's direction.
With jade face and vermillion lips, her tender and beautiful body seemed to radiate youthful vigor. Her shiny, jet-black beautiful hair was in stark contrast to her snow-white skin, so that her jade bone and ice-sculpture muscle became even more prominent; in short, she was extremely alluring.
It's just that her hair was tied into a bun on top of her head like a man, wrapped in a white warrior band; but her countenance, disposition and complexion shamed even Shen Luoyan.
Du Fuwei actually thought that the one attacking him must be Madame Dong Ming, so when he looked closer, he was taken aback. "Attacking Miss, who are you?” he asked in astonishment.
The sound of fighting also came from the middle hall. Evidently his men were also being intercepted by the enemy. Plus Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling has already gone out of the hole and disappeared without any trace. And Shen Luoyan and the two Law-Protector Fairies were standing about three zhang away watching him.
The beautiful woman cast an indifferent look toward Du Fuwei. Soon afterwards her beautiful eyebrows frown slightly; quite naturally her face showed a displeased expression that would make other people not dare to offend her. She replied in gentle voice, "Wanbei [junior/younger generation] Shan Wanjing; much obliged to experience Du Zongguan's ultimate skill.”
A deep, cold murderous aura flashed through Du Fuwei's eyes as he nodded and said, "Turns out it's the Dong Ming Princess; it's not surprising that ypu have such a skill.”
And then he turned his gaze toward the hole from where Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling escaped. "I have long heard that the fame of Madame Dong Ming's Shui Yun Xiu Fa [water and cloud sleeve technique] is resounding far and wide all over the world,” he spoke in deep voice, "Since you have arrived, why not come down to the battle field to let the Ol' Du experiencing it once. Otherwise the Ol' Du will go all-out and offend your thousand-catty gold [i.e. daughter].”
Just by these few sentences, Shan Wanjing was extremely proud. Among the present day Jianghu characters, how many have enough qualifications to make Du Fuwei goes all-out?
Madame Dong Ming's gentle and beautiful, deep and magnetic voice was heard from the hole, "Du Zongguan is angry, but why? My Dong Ming Pai has always been attaching most importance to gratitude and grudges. Gratitude must be repaid, grudges must be avenged. For you to cultivate enmity with us, it will simply bring more harm than good toward Du Zongguan's great undertaking. Besides, Zongguan has made quite a bit of unwise moves tonight, your acute spirit has been broken; won't it be better to transform a thousand spears into jade silk, and we all could end this matter amiably?”
Du Fuwei shivered inwardly; in all honesty, he did feel stupid and was greatly discouraged. Not to mention he had revealed his whereabouts, whatever happened he must not stay too long in this place, where the imperial forces still held much power; yet he must not reveal this predicament. After pondering for half a day, he threw his head backward and laughed heartily, "Very well! I, Du Fuwei, am also a man who is capable to distinguish gratitude and grudges. This matter will be repaid. Madame, please!”
His shadow flashed, he was already in the middle hall, where a series of blood-curling screech was heard, but died down very soon afterwards.
While Shen Luoyan's countenance was changing, the three Dong Ming Sect women leaped up through the roof, and Zu Junyan rushed in. He said with a sigh, "He killed five of our men before running away.”
Shen Luoyan has already predicted this result; her expression stayed the same as she said in low voice, "Notify Duke Mi immediately, if we can intercept and kill him before he reaches River Huai, we will gain at least a quarter of the world [reminder: tian xia - China].
Her beautiful eyes turned toward the hole on the wall, to the rear courtyard outside, where the moon and the stars shone their light. Her mind wandered to the two boys, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, who evoked a faint feeling of compassion and regret like a mist shrouding her thought.
Although she had made up her mind to kill the two boys, it was only for the sake of the present situation; the fact was that a favorable impression had started to grow in her heart. Subtle, but it was there.
These two boys were indeed very special and wonderful people.
Chapter end
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