Chapter 32 – Eunuch Hong
The oil lamp in the room suddenly jumped out of the flower, which was originally a happy omen, but Hong Si Itchy’s silver eyebrows drifted up, seemingly somewhat dissatisfied. His pale right hand steadily used chopsticks to hold up a grain of fried peanut rice without much movement, slowly swallowed the peanut rice paste in his mouth, tasted the fruity flavor between his teeth, and picked up a cup of wine and drank it before he stood up.
“It’s been many years, no one has come to stroll around this palace anymore.” Eunuch Hong’s eyes were a little cloudy, and he said in a low voice as he looked out of the window with a slight sense of listlessness, but his fingers flicked.
The courtyard door was open.
Like two powerful bows, these chopsticks in Eunuch Hong’s hands were stimulated by the powerful and profound true qi, snorting twice almost simultaneously, instantly shattering the window in front of him and shooting straight at the face of Five Bamboos in the shadowy corner outside the door!
Chopsticks with wind and stabbing, the sound is amazing, if next to the actual, I am afraid that the person who hit the chopsticks will be like being shot by two strong bows in general. This Eunuch Hong’s flick of the finger was so terrifyingly powerful.
I don’t know why, today five bamboo reaction action, but seems to be slower than in the usual to a little, a turn is not as good as, actually was this chopstick tore the right shoulder of the clothes.
Thumb! The chopsticks were inserted diagonally into the mud, the end of the chopsticks moved slightly.
Outside the courtyard, Elder Eunuch Hong looked at this visitor in brown clothes in front of him, his eyebrows slightly trembled, the other party’s head and face were all wrapped up in a hood, so he couldn’t see his appearance clearly at all.
“Who are you.” Elder Eunuch Hong’s face was filled with smiles, looking like a humble servant. But it was obvious that he was much more terrifying than what appeared on the surface.
The brown clothes that Wuzhu wore tonight were brand new, so it felt a little strange. He followed Fan Xian’s plan, his head held flat, as if he was “watching” the other party, and then hissed, “I’m sorry for the misunderstanding.”
“Misunderstanding? Could it be getting lost?” Elder Eunuch Hong laughed even more happily, “Your Excellency is the first person who can get lost and come to the palace, five days ago, you should have come here once, I have been waiting for you, I am very curious as to who you are, I think that, apart from those old friends, no one else would have such guts.”
Five Bamboos forced a sense of trepidation into his voice, only that he was not good at hiding his emotions, so instead, it seemed a bit fake, “Being detained by my family and country, I had no choice but to enter, and it was not convenient for me to salute with my true face. I hope that senior will pardon me.”
Elder Eunuch Hong frowned, no longer smiling, the other party recognized himself as a junior, that is no more than those few old monsters’ disciple generation, look at the other party’s hands, at least is also in the ninth grade of the superb level, only then could sneak into the palace after only being found by himself. Just the other party’s voice is obviously deliberately twisted throat muscles changed, so also can not get useful information from the accent.
“This is the imperial palace, child.” Elder Eunuch Hong sighed, “Could it be that you come when you say so and leave when you say so?”
After saying this, he opened his right hand, but his entire body glided above the ground, swiftly arriving in front of Five Bamboo’s body, and his withered hand then stamped towards Five Bamboo’s face.
Five Bamboo’s face hidden under the black cloth was expressionless, but knew that the other party had misjudged his ability, and now was a great opportunity to kill the other party – to kill or not to kill? It was not a question for the Five Bamboo in the past, but it was a question this night.
His brain calculated extremely fast, and immediately figured out that even if he killed the other party at this time, he would probably pay some price himself, and most crucially, he might startle the other guards in the palace, thus causing a lot of trouble for Fan Xian’s next actions.
So he withdrew his steps, bent his knees, and raised his elbow.
Below his elbow was a very ordinary steel sword, the sword’s awn reversed his elbow and went up, stabbing Eunuch Hong’s wrist straightly, calculating perfectly, and even more crucial was the bewildering sword intent contained on it, which even made the person pointed at by the tip of the sword instantly lose some sense of propriety.
But Hong old eunuch this very person, a grim smile, sharp voice scolded: “Gu left?” Slightly surprised in the words, under the hands is not slow at all, the left hand from the sleeve such as the dragon sprinted out, shot to the chest of five bamboo, this palm with the wind to the palm force, is already the world’s top means.
Five bamboo withdraws another step, straight knee, cross elbow.
The green sword between his elbows was crossed in front of his body, as if he was cutting his own throat, but it just happened to protect his chest, and wonderfully blocked this withered palm of Elder Eunuch Hong.
“Gu Qian?” Elder Eunuch Hong’s voice became sharper and sharper, closing his palm and returning, from the waist upwards, his entire body began to shake, looking very strange, after a muffled grunt, this old eunuch transformed his decades of true qi cultivation into countless streams of qi, spewing out in front of him, wanting to bind the Five Bamboos.
Five Bamboo is simply not give him this opportunity, coldly withdraw two more steps, these two steps seem simple, but in such a top masters of the confrontation, such as idle steps in general, just to avoid the silk of the power of the body of the Yu, just the body shook, apparently by the Eunuch Hong decades of true qi qi interference, a slight lousy.
Eunuch Hong’s wrinkles became deeper and deeper as he looked at him and said coldly: ”Don’t think that just because you changed the direction of your sword, you can hide it from the world. In this forbidden palace, since old eunuch I have my eye on you, you will stay.”
Five Bamboos slightly raised his head to “look” at him, his heart didn’t know what kind of feeling he had, but his next step was to arch his hand.
Elder Eunuch Hong frowned in surprise!
Rustle rustle rustle sound, five bamboo turned his back body, as if the old eunuch Hong behind him does not exist in general, negative sword in the back, then ran over to the direction of the palace wall, the speed of the whole person is very fast, stepping on the grass, transformed into a cloud of smoke and dust.
Negative sword at the back, a very simple gesture, but a perfect defense.
“Gu Hou?” A gloomy light suddenly appeared in Elder Eunuch Hong’s eyes, and without calling out to the palace guards, his arms revived, and his entire body chased after him like a black bird with a thin torso and an extremely wide wingspan.
But in a few moments, the two of them came to the front of the high palace wall one after the other. Elder Eunuch Hong coldly looked at the brown-clothed man in front of him, wanting to see what method he could actually have to leap over the wall.
Five Bamboo directly rushed to the bottom of the palace wall, actually did not reduce his speed at all, his right foot fiercely stepped on the stone below the palace wall, the stone instantly sank into the mud, you can imagine how horrible the power of this foot is. And his entire forward speed was also by this shock into an upward force, the whole person was born to be shocked to fly up, along the dark palace wall in the night, like a ghost floating up.
Just see him this leap will already have a distance of three feet, the potential to fall when the end, snorting sound, his hands of the ordinary long sword somehow actually deep into the wall, his body by the power of the sword, a flip, will be like a stone, was thrown out of the high wall outside themselves!
Hong old eunuch stifled a grunt, only then realized that the other party even early counted all the things, the body of the true qi sprinted out, in the moment before the wall will hit the palace wall also floated up, only the posture is beautiful, all based on a mouthful of true qi casting, than the five bamboo earlier violent, looks to be much more dashing.
Leap to three feet, the thin and dry old eunuch gently extend a finger, in five bamboo left the sword on the hole of a press, leverage and then on, out of the palace wall, like a big bird in the dark night, recluse with the outside of the palace wall of the smooth wall, slowly floating down.
In the process of his floating down, eyes like eagles, dead embellished in front of the Kyoto night, fast and incomparable forward marchers of the brown figure, a grim smile, silently drifting through the forest, drifting through the people’s homes, and followed up.
The contest between the two supreme masters didn’t make much noise, so the palace guards didn’t notice anything.
Fan Xian, who sat coiled like a mouse in the darkness under the palace wall, listened slightly sideways to the faint sound of the wind over there, stood up, gently wiped off the grass scum and dust under his buttocks, and pressed his hands down on top of the smooth palace wall.
He didn’t have a body as strong as Wu Zhu’s, nor did he have Elder Eunuch Hong’s profound and unparalleled internal kung fu cultivation, but his true qi operation method was different from all the martial arts powerhouses in the world, and he was able to climb even the slippery moss-filled cliffs outside of Tanyu City, not to mention this palace wall.
This was Fan Xian’s greatest leverage.
Like a flightless bat, he slowly climbed upwards on the palace wall, slowly but very smoothly, and would never fall down. If this moment suddenly turned into daytime, if someone was watching from afar, they would surely realize that on the vermilion palace wall, there was suddenly an ugly black spot.
Rolling over the palace wall, carefully avoiding any possible hidden sentries, Fan Xian’s feet finally safely stepped on the grass in the palace. While meditating outside the palace walls, he had already reviewed the map of the palace that he had designed in his head several times, and now that he was standing in the middle of the palace, looking at the huge palace complex under the night sky, and listening to the sound of the drums that could be heard faintly in the distance, Fan Xian’s heart was slightly tense and somewhat excited.
The map seemed to have become a passageway that was clearly visible to the eye, and after his last breath, he disappeared into the night color of the palace, and instead of making a single sound, his speed didn’t slow down a bit, relying on the memories in his head, and using the cover of the rockery and flowers, he headed towards his destination. His method was extremely similar to Five Bamboo’s method, but there were also some subtle differences, after all, his ability to calculate was still inferior to Five Bamboo.
The night was already late, and most of the people in the palace were asleep.
Fan Xian hid in the darkness outside the Hall of Containing Light, confirmed that the inner palace did not have any great inner experts, the real guards with swords seemed to be in the front hall and the corner tower, this cognizance made him frown a little bit, the imperial palace’s guard force was so sparse and weak, it was really a very risky thing, if the Northern Qi side sends masters to invade in a big way, what should be done then?
As a thief who breaks into the forbidden palace at night, he still has the heart of worrying about the country and the people, Fan Xian is really a wonderful person, just that his calculations are actually a bit redundant, we must know that in this world, to be able to leap over the five-foot-high wall without disturbing the guards, only the world’s top figures, if really such a master master masters, unusual guards, it seems that it will not be of much use.
He had forgotten that he was the only one who knew Spider-Man’s kung fu.