Chapter 123 – Meeting Higashiyama

In this moment, Gouda thought he flew.

He flew over the layers of green forest between the waist of the Great Eastern Mountain, the light mist between the forests, and flew over the crossbow arrows that shot at him, getting higher and higher.

The higher he flew, the farther he could see, and in that instant, Gao Da saw the mountain gate at the foot of the mountain, the long stone path, the blood stains staining those green stone slabs, the glittering sword lights in the forest, the sword shadows like poisonous snakes beside the stone path.

Then he fell, fell heavily, broke an unknown number of branches, and with a thud smashed into the wetlands of the forest, narrowly missing the steep mountain bank.

With a muffled grunt, Gao Da strongly resisted this impact with the true qi in his body, and his entire body sprang up as if it were fitted with springs, gripping the hilt of his long sword tightly in both hands and lifting his steps, ready to charge once again towards that rocky path of death.

Then a single movement made him feel all the bones in his body break at the same time, a muffled grunt came out of his nose, the pain was unbearable, and at the same time, two streams of blood seeped out of his nose.

Gouda’s legs were soft, subconsciously backhandedly stabbed the long knife into the ground beside him to support his body, but unexpectedly the tip of the knife touched the mud …… crackling and snapping into countless pieces of metal within a split second!

Dang crunching sound, Gundam fell in a sorry state in the mud of the forest, surrounded by pieces of the sword, holding the pitiful remnants of the hilt in his hand, his eyes full of shock and fear, unspeakably pitiful.

He had been decapitated by a single person, a single sword.

As Fan Xian’s personal guard, Gao Da has the strength of the eighth grade, when in the court of Northern Qi, a sword to retreat from the enemy, that is what kind of prestige? Even amongst the palace tiger guards, he was also one of the best, but unexpectedly, he was swatted away by a sword like a mosquito!

Gouda looked at the sword light on the distant stone path with complicated eyes, and his heart was gloomy.

This time, Fan Xian had brought their seven Tiger Guards far away to Tanyu State, but unexpectedly, they were brought by His Majesty to Dadong Mountain, and then they encountered the assassination incident. As a tiger guard, the innate first priority was to protect His Majesty’s safety, and although Gouda was not clear that little Lord Fan had quietly slipped off the cliff at this time, he still led the other six tiger guards, joined the palace guard’s brigade, and began to carry out the most relentless extermination on this steep stone path.

More than a hundred tiger guards guarding a mountain path, reasonably speaking, there is no expert under the sky that can break through up the mountain.

However, in this world, there are always a few existences that don’t really follow reason, such as the great master of Qing country Ye Liuyun who turned into a stream of clouds earlier, such as at this time, holding a sword in his hand, is encountering God on the stone path to kill God, not caring about the front and the back, and the sword intention is poignant and absolutely brilliant already to the peak of the one.

Gouda swallowed the sweet saliva in his mouth, forced to calm his breathing, listening to the sound on the stone path is getting smaller and smaller, knowing that his brothers are afraid to have died in the hands of that great master.

Tiger guards, the most basic requirement is the loyalty to his majesty, knowing that they these people are facing the most pinnacle of power in the human world, but they are still steadfastly blocking the stone path, blocking his majesty’s body, splashing blue blood, cutting open the chest and abdomen, sacrificing their lives and forgetting about their deaths and not retreating a step!

So Gundam …… s first reaction at this time is that he should rush over again, stop in front of that terrible big man again, and act as another wandering soul under the other party s sword.

Even if he had already been seriously injured, even if his sword had shattered into small pieces!

Yet Gouda hesitated at this instant.

On the long blue blood stone path, I don’t know how many tiger guards tried to surround the seven people, using the method of dealing with the masters on the ninth rank in their daily training to deal with that big person, however, all the efforts were futile, that sword that seemed to come from the underworld, carrying an unrelenting momentum, just waved gently like that, flooded with a heavy murderous aura, and then chopped people’s swords off, their arms, and their heads off.

The reason why Gouda is still alive, after the flyover, still alive, is precisely because after these two years and Fan Xian together, he has been affected by Fan Xian too much, he killed the long sword involuntarily with a few points of Fan Xian’s small means of the shadowy mark.

He no longer kills, no longer does not retreat, so even against the big man, Gouda is still no match, his meridians were attacked by the sword intent to crack, but he still survived.

Since he survived, he still wants to die?

No!

The pupils of Gouda’s eyes flashed with a flash of color, Little Lord Fan had said countless times that for anything, you must first save your life before you have a chance to salvage it, with the Great Eastern Mountain under siege, it would not help if he rushed over again and died on the stone path.

He covered his lips with his hand and let the blood flow out from the cracks of his fingers without making a sound. He looked down at the forest, where the rebel defense circle was clearly looking a little lax due to the arrival of two big names in quick succession.

Gouda gritted his teeth, his eyes filled with a look of determination as he decided to find a chance to break out.

From the moment he made this decision, he was no longer just a Royal Tiger Guard. And he didn’t think that this choice of his, after two years, would bring much shock to this world.

Tick tock, blood drops slowly fall, very small sound, in this moment but show so harsh, even let the people in the field feel, the sound of blood drops, even more than the ancient temple behind the sound of the bell can cleanse people’s hearts.

Because …… the blood drops are dripping from the tip of a sword.

This sword slowly rose up and crossed the last stone step, appearing in the eyes of the crowd at the top of Da Dong Mountain.

The sword was very ordinary, couldn’t see anything unusual, even the hilt of the sword, was casually bound with a layer of twine, looked a little worn out.

However it was such an ordinary sword, not very reflective sword surface, but it flashed a hint of strength and coldness that made everyone feel intimidated, especially the blood on the sword body slowly gathered towards the tip of the sword, and then slowly fell down again, it seemed to be making the people who saw this sword feel that the blood at the tip of their heart was also flowing out of their body along with this process.

That’s why their faces all turned white.

Then saw the hand that held this sword, that person.

That person who wore a hat and hat and hemp clothes, who was not tall, but rather looked a bit short.

And Ye Liuyun’s dashing and unblemished image were completely two extremes, this big man looked incomparably trivial because of his short body, his hemp clothes were tattered, his body was covered with cracks of clothes, dust and blood, and in his hand, he was carrying a blood-stained and worn-out sword.

However, no one dared to laugh because of this trivial feeling, because they knew that this big man killed people, desperate to exterminate, in terms of horror, to be even more terrifying than Ye Liuyun.

Elder Eunuch Hong quietly looked at the trivial swordsman who was picking up the steps and smiled faintly, then slowly withdrew the overbearing aura that he had released, and his entire body hunched down again, returning to the appearance of an elderly eunuch.

Emperor Qing was full of indifference looking at the stone steps, looking at Ye Liuyun and the new one, pacing forward gently, calmly said: ”It seems that Yun Rui has put down quite a lot of money this time …… Just Uncle Shiyi, you are also crazy with her? Family country country, treason for the family, is really unexpected to me.”

Since that terrifying big shot stood together with Ye Liuyun, it naturally meant that several of the toughest old monsters under the sky had joined forces to make a decision that they could not let that emperor, who had been the toughest since the founding of the Kingdom of Qing, continue to survive.

Ye Liuyun smiled gently, not explaining or defending himself.

Ever since that terrifying big man with a sword went up the cliff, all the people were quiet for fear of disturbing that person. However, the Emperor of Qing was not afraid at all, staring at the hemp shirt full of holes with a cold smile, mockingly saying:

“Four Gu Swords, you do not retire in the Grass Lodge, what are you doing in this Dadong Mountain? Look at you this mess, kill all my tiger guards, you think you don’t have to pay some price? Idiot is an idiot, my Daqing dynasty cured your dementia, you do not think of repaying the favor is just, have to hold the sword to forcefully kill on the mountain, empty consumption of their own true qi …… It seems that after so many years, your head has not been better some.”

Yes, a short person, a tattered sword, a lousy clothes, just like this kill the killing of the sword to kill the endless stone steps, kill all the more than a hundred tiger guards, the whole world, but also the only one that does not care about the front, wrapped in a forward-looking sword intent, single sword to protect the city of Dongyi and the vassals of the small country of twenty years of the four Gu sword.

No one dared to be disrespectful to the Four Gu Swords, and only the Emperor of the Kingdom of Qing dared to speak to him in such a tone. However, these sarcastic words fell on the ears of those who had the heart to hear them, but they heard a few hints of colorfulness.

No one dared not return the Qing Emperor s question, yet the Four Gu Swords …… was looking at the Qing Emperor and did not bother to look at the Qing Emperor, just staring blankly at the emperor s side of the old eunuch Hong Gradually, the eyes of this great master blazed up, and it seemed to penetrate the shadows under the hat, melting away the old eunuch Hong s pale face.

The short Four Gu Swords opened his mouth, his voice, however, was not like his body, bright as a bell, his voice could crack a pine, but he trembled with excitement.

“It was you just now, wasn’t it, what an overbearing true qi ……,” Four Gu Jian looked at Elder Eunuch Hong in fascination, “I knew that Fan Xian was following this path as well, so it turns out that you were his teacher . …In that case, the person who released the power in the Imperial Palace in Kyoto more than ten years ago was you… the rumors in the world are indeed justified.”

The hall of Qing emperor, was this great master turned a blind eye, although his majesty is not angry, his eyes but gradually cold down, looked at the four Gu sword said: “Your Excellency three times stabbed me, but even I can not see the face of the miserable and retreated …… this time there is some unexpected joy?”

Four Gu sword seems to be at this time only heard the Qing emperor’s speech, eyes slightly turned, looking at the Qing emperor’s face, silent for a long time after suddenly shook his head: “You than your son long far worse, what is good to look at?”

The emperor smiled and said, “This naturally speaks of An Zhi, could it be that you have seen him?”

Si Gu Jian inclined his head and said, “I have a female apprentice grandson called Lu Sisi …… obviously her senior sister was killed by Fan Xian, but after seeing Fan Xian from afar in Hangzhou, this little girl forgot about the grudge and turned into a nymphomaniac, and every day she holds some kind of half-indolent Zhai Book Story in the reading …… In that case, Fan Xian that little white boy is naturally well born.”

As the sea breeze breezed through the mountain tops, Emperor Qing laughed out loud and said, “All of you in the Dongyi City lineage really do have some nymphomania.”

After pondering for a moment, Si Gu Jian said seriously, “I am an idiot, my little disciple is even more of an idiot, and my disciple’s grandson is a nymphomaniac, which is quite appropriate.”

Then this great master who looked a bit foolish suddenly looked at the Qing Emperor and said, “Things like ruling a country and fighting a war, I am not as powerful as you …… under the sky, so I must respect you, just now I was rude to you, don’t mind. ”

“Sir is polite.” The emperor seemed a bit intoxicated and bowed slightly.

Then the Emperor and Four Gu Swords laughed out loud at the same time, and even the increasingly strong sea breeze could not hide the laughter from spreading. Four Gu sword’s laughter is holding pure to the extreme true qi, natural break wind unhindered, while the emperor’s laughter, but he has long been the world’s supreme developed the boldness of unhindered.

Laughter ended abruptly, the scene of an awkward silence, it seems that both sides do not know how to play this absurd drama.

To kill or to be killed, this was a question, not a long drama that required pleasantries and talks with each other, telling history and stories.

And why did Emperor Qing and the Four Gu Swords duo have to clumsily act out this scene earlier?

Emperor Qing slowly put his hands behind his back, sighed, no longer looking at the two great masters at the stone steps, calmly said: ”This game is originally me following Yun Rui’s intention, following the momentum of her layout, with the intention of keeping Shihshu here for a long period of time……. I didn’t anticipate that Yun Rui’s plan was so crazy that she actually disregarded the national body’s safety and security, and tied the Eastern Barbarians’ city with Northern Qi also tied to her chariot.”

He turned back, without the slightest bit of fear, quietly looked at the shadow part of the four Gu sword hat under the hat, said: “The great master long time does not appear in the world, out of the world will cause the world to be greatly shocked. Today the two of you come here, naturally is imperative, although I am not afraid to die, but I do not want to die, so I have to drag …… me really do not know, your honor why but also to accompany me to drag so long?”

Four Gu sword silent for a long time, wrist naturally drooped, look a little anxious, strange smile, said: “Why am I so interested in this eunuch? Because of these four monsters under the sky, the three of us are all considered godly friends, only this eunuch likes to hide in the palace …… precisely because I know Ye Liuyun, so I know his temperament, if he can, he will do it alone, and will not wait for us outsiders to interfere in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Qing. ”

Si Gu Jian calmed down and said respectfully to Elder Eunuch Hong, “Even if the eunuch is here, Ye Liuyun will still make a move.”

He said one last thing as an explanation to Emperor Qing’s question, “Ye Liuyun naturally has his reasons for not making a move, so I also had to …… see exactly why he didn’t make a move right away.”

Ye Liuyun smiled peacefully and sidled up to the Four Gu Swords, “Demented Sword, haven’t you felt it by this time?”

The Four Gu Swords’ body was short, so it appeared that the hat on top of his head was extraordinarily large and shadowed, completely covering his face, but at this time, even though the shadows were extremely heavy, the crowd at the top of the mountain seemed to see a bitter smile at the corner of the Grand Master’s lips and a slight change of color on his face.

The crowd’s hearts were startled, thinking what kind of discovery would make the Four Gu Swords, who had always viewed swords as if they were obsessive and killed people like grass, also be quiet for such a long time.

The Four Gu Swords turned around, very directly behind the crowd, the doorway of that ancient temple lifted the sword a salute, after a long time of silence, said: “Really can’t figure out, these worldly crap, what do you come to join in the fun?”

Those officials and priests who were seen by Si Gu Jian’s gaze were horrified and hurriedly avoided, fearing that they would be touched by the gaze. In this way, following Si Gu Jian’s gaze, the people parted a path, revealing the black wooden door of the last side of the ancient small temple.

As well as the Five Bamboos outside the door who wore all black clothes and seemed to have become one with this temple.

Four Gu Swords’ gazes pierced through the air like two swords, landing on Five Bamboo’s clean face and the black cloth that never seemed to get dusty.

However, Five Bamboo was impassive and did not react in any way.

The Four Gu Swords sighed.

At this point in time, Emperor Qing laughed again, only this time the laughter was self-effacing, “Your Excellency has come, why can’t Old Five come?”

The Emperor restrained his smile and looked coldly at the Four Gu Swords.

Ye Liuyun shook his head with a bitter smile and said to Four Gu Jian, “When the mountain was surrounded, Fan Xian was on the mountain …… He naturally came.”

Four Gu Jian froze, this great master where concerned about the specific process during the siege of the mountain, but after freezing for a long time, he suddenly broke out into curses, completely disregarding a trace of the great master’s momentum and decency, a series of surprisingly, he cursed for a full few breaths of time, cursing all the obscenities that he could think of!

“Dog day …… Yun Zhilan and Yan Xiaoyi these two fools! What’s the point of surrounding that little white boy on the mountain?” Four Gu Swords panted and cursed, “Is this an attempt to shade old me to death?”

He suddenly looked at the Emperor of Qing with a stern look and scoffed, “Bringing Fan Xian to the mountain, you found such a good helper …… No wonder you’re not afraid of …… It seems that I was wrong earlier, I’m not as good as you at ruling the country and marching, and squeezing my own children and relatives, this kind of skill, I’m not as good as you are. your own children and relatives, this kind of skill, I’m even worse than you.”

Emperor Qing smiled faintly and did not say anything.

Obviously, both the Four Gu Swords and Ye Liuyun were powerfully shocked and wary of the Five Bamboos that had suddenly appeared at the Qing Temple on top of the Great Eastern Mountain.

Although they were great masters, past history and the divine chance occurrences in this world had proven many things, or else the Four Gu Swords wouldn’t have shyly sent Wang Thirteen Lang to Fan Xian’s side, and thrown out the shut-in disciple whose heart was obsessed with being the most like his own, but who was extraordinarily gentle.

Wasn’t it because of this blind man?

Four Gu Jian suddenly looked at Five Bamboo and quietly said, “You don’t get involved in this matter, go down the mountain, this emperor is not a good bird …… We old guys give you a guarantee, Fan Xian will absolutely wind up in this life, even if he doesn’t stay in the South Celebration, go to my Dongyi, and I’ll let him be the lord of the city. ”

The crowd in the arena remained quiet, but their eyes began to show expressions of shock and trepidation, they didn’t know who that black-clothed man standing at the temple gate was, how could he make the two Grand Masters stop in the moment before they stabbed the driver, how could he make the Four Gu Swords, that always ruthless Four Gu Swords, make such a big promise.

No one would disbelieve the words of a Grand Master.

That’s why people were even more curious as to what kind of god was that man in black who was closely related to Lord Little Fan?

The Emperor’s brows frowned slightly as he realized that Five Bamboo seemed to be thinking about something with his head lowered.

After pondering for a while, Five Bamboo slowly said, “I’m sorry, Fan Xian asked me to keep the emperor alive.”

Just like Ye Liuyun, Si Gu Jian also opened his mouth wide and fell into that look of even more shock than seeing Five Bamboo before shaking his head a long time later and saying, “After not seeing you for thirty years, I can’t imagine that you’ve become much more talkative …… If I didn’t know that it was you, I was afraid that I would have thought that you were being impersonated. ”

Five Bamboo shook his head, not bothering to answer this boring question.

Four Gu Jian corrected the hat on top of his head and said, “Five Bamboo, we had a love affair back then …… Unless I have no choice, I don’t want to make a move on you …… You have to know that in these two years since Oxen Mountain, I have tolerated Fan Xian for a for a long time.”

Once again, the crowd was shocked, wondering what the affection was back then.

Five Bamboo was slightly stunned, and after thinking for a long time said softly, “You had snot falling to the ground back then …… dirty no way.”

Four Gu Jian laughed out loud, “I’m just as dirty now, I’m still that idiot who still has a runny nose in his teens, how about it? Want to still accompany me to squat?”

The corners of Wu Zhu’s lips curled up, as if he wanted to laugh, but in the end, he didn’t laugh out and just shook his head.

The Four Gu Swords were silent for a long time before they shook their heads and took their swords back into the sheaths beside them. Ye Liuyun was startled and said, “What for?”

Four Gu Swords pointed at Elder Eunuch Hong, pointed at Five Bamboos, and then looked at Ye Liuyun, and said in a good humor, “Two against two, only a fool would do it.”

Ye Liuyun said bitterly, “But are you …… not a fool?”

“I am a fool.” Si Gu Jian said seriously, “But I’m not crazy.”

The crowd in the arena, including the officials and priests of the Qing Kingdom and a few eunuchs, were actually seeing these legendary figures for the first time, seeing the great masters who were like heavenly deities in the hearts of mankind. After the initial awe and fear, at this time, after watching these scenes of dialog, their hearts gave birth to countless absurd feelings. These few old men who fight like children, could it be that they are the great masters who have been secretly influencing the world’s situation for twenty years?

The Emperor watched this scene and waited for the grand drama to come to an end, his heart was serene.

If the Four Gu Swords and Ye Liuyun really retreated, this drama would become a farce. And Four Gu Jian wasn’t really an idiot, of course he knew how horrible the consequences would be if he really let Emperor Qing return to Kyoto alive.

Four Gu Swords pulled his voice and cursed, “Anyway, two against two, I am not doing it, if that thieving bastard doesn’t come out, I will immediately go down the mountain.”

As the Emperor listened to these words, his pupils shrunk slightly and his face was greatly chilled.

There are streaming clouds floating on the mountainside, there are heavenly swords piercing the stone path, there are falling leaves with the wind.

The wind passed through the clouds, and within a whisker, a third person wearing a hat and hat floated naturally to the top of the mountain like a falling leaf.

Bitter Lotus had finally arrived.