Chapter 160 – The Rainbow in the Twelfth Year of Nanqing (II)

The rain slowly beat on those hats and caps, the ascetics kneeled on the wet ground with pale faces, staring blankly at the blind boy in the center covered with a black cloth, unable to make any reaction for a long time. They were Emperor Qing’s last defense force, when more than ten ascetic monks joined hands, even Fan Xian and Shadow were nearly killed, so it was obvious that their power was strong, however, at this moment, facing the Five Bamboo, would they fight back?

His Majesty the Emperor stood under the long corridor in front of the temple, the subtle cold rain in the sky was blown by the wind to where he stood, dampening the beard under his jaw, one by one. His eyes narrowed slightly, the coldness in his eyes grew, and he spoke indifferently, “Useless things, one traitor in the temple makes you all scared like this.”

Strangely enough, His Majesty the Emperor didn’t seem to be worried that these ascetics would betray him at this moment. Many, many years ago, the messenger that walked out of the temple had hitched some sort of agreement with the emperor in order to remove all traces of Ye Qingmei’s stay in this world, and it was after that day that the ascetics from the Qing Temple who walked in the southern part of the continent viewed His Majesty as the true Chosen One.

What choice should be made between the Chosen One and the Temple’s emissary? The ascetics were silent at least for this moment, already growing old, they naturally knew of the oracle issued by that messenger many years ago, and knew that a messenger had already fallen, but they didn’t know if that messenger was the person in front of them.

His Majesty the Emperor also didn’t bother with these ascetics kneeling in the rain, he just quietly looked at the Five Bamboos in the rain and said after a moment of silence, “There is no god in the world. I am not …… old five, and neither are you.”

Five Bamboo’s legs have been smashed, with an extremely heartbreaking gesture, barely standing body. The temple people reappeared in the world, facing the most powerful force assembled on earth, he killed with bravery and valor, but still paid an extremely heavy price. His Majesty the Emperor was right, he himself was not a god, so he had been betrayed one after another in this year, hurt by weapons that did not belong to this world, and had lingering injuries that had long since fallen short of what he had been at the peak of his powers back then, and yet at this moment, the Five Bamboo had also reached its most crippled and powerless stage.

Such a duel between two worldly powerhouses, who would win and who would lose? What’s more, at this moment, Ye Chong had already led his troops and surrounded the Five Bamboos, would the Five Bamboos still be able to break through the siege and stab the brazier in his hand into Emperor Qing’s throat?

The Emperor’s cold gaze fell on Five Bamboo’s tattered to the core clothing and the left leg that had been broken and was only held together by some skin, there was not a trace of emotion in his eyes, but in his heart, he was thinking, at this point in time, you’re still not coming out?

Gradually, a complex emotion rushed into Emperor Qing’s eyes, it was a wave of self-deprecation, a hint of admiration, and a hint of resignation. Now the five bamboo has been caught in a heavy siege, again how powerful, also can not just hand over the sky, favor at this time, Fan Xian still did not show his form, this kind of cold stoicism, is really very terrible.

Wearing a eunuch costume of Fan Xian, at this time from the main door of Taiji Hall seems to be extremely far, actually very close, he carefully hid his own trail, by virtue of these two years in the hammer to the ultimate mind, control their own breathing, through the sky leisurely rain and wind and countless people in the field of the heavy and nervous breathing, slowly to that side of the close.

From the moment he saw the emperor s old man coughing, Fan Xian confirmed the top secret information he had learned on the road south, that His Majesty s body …… seemed to be really failing. It had been almost a year since I had seen this mighty monarch, and today, looking at him from afar through the rain, it seemed that his face had grown much older, the beard under his jaw had grown much longer, and his demeanor seemed much more tired.

His Majesty had already stepped down from the altar of the gods, yet he stood calmly like that under the eaves of the Taiji Hall, looking at Five Bamboos, who came step by step, yet he still appeared to be so powerful, so powerful that any people who tried to challenge him subconsciously lost a third of their confidence first.

Fan Xian of course saw Wu Zhu’s miserable state, he had never thought that Uncle Wu Zhu would also have a day when he was injured so badly, just as he had never previously dabbled in the thought that there was someone in the world who was able to break through the defenses of the Southern Qing Palace head on and directly kill all the thousands of troops and kill the Qing Emperor’s face. His eyes flicked from Uncle Wu Zhu’s broken leg, forcibly suppressing his violently beating heartbeat, forcibly suppressing the trace of panic and worry as well as sadness and sorrow in his heart, still hiding in the shadows of this Taiji Palace, coldly and forcefully waiting for the opportunity to strike.

Uncle Five Bamboo had already reached the most dangerous moment, he still didn’t make a move, because he knew that before His Majesty and Five Bamboo charged head-on, any of his own moves would be meaningless, the war of the great masters was not something that these mortals like himself could arbitrarily intervene in, he didn’t want to let down Uncle Five Bamboo in this earth-shattering and overwhelming battle, so he had to hold back.

Ye Chong was still there, Eunuch Yao did not know where he was, those ascetic monks did not know if they would make a move, the palace was still full of experts, Fan Xian must put his hope of attracting the attention of all people and depleting the strength of the emperor’s old man on the body of Uncle Five Bamboo, who had already fallen into a state of degradation and suffered a terrible physical trauma.

Regardless of anyone, including the three old monsters who have already died and left, if you suffer such a serious injury as today’s Five Bamboo, I’m afraid that there is only one way to die, however, Five Bamboo is still standing, which gives Fan Xian confidence, but also gives the people in the palace infinite oppressive force.

Five Bamboo looked at the bright yellow figure on the stone steps more than ten feet away through that square of black cloth, the man who was already much older than he remembered, and for some reason, his heart welled up with endless sourness, endless chu, endless loathing and disdain.

Yes, after the matter of Da Dong Shan was over, after listening to Fan Xian’s night of drunken madness on the roof of the Fan Mansion in Kyoto, Five Bamboo set out in silence to find himself, and because he wanted to know who he was, he returned to the temple.

Right at the moment he entered the temple, he remembered many, many things, and naturally judged many things, although in that next moment, the temple forcibly erased those memories of his, however, as Fan Xian came to the temple, although Five Bamboo’s memories had yet to be fully restored, the deepest emotion that he had felt prior to the erasure, remained.

This emotion was stronger and more direct than his feelings for Fan Xian, directly attracting him to look at this palace quietly for two days, directly attracting him to kill directly from outside the palace’s square, directly into the palace. Even if he didn’t remember those things back then, he still remembered the man in the dragon robe on the stone steps, and remembered the killing intent in his heart for this man.

Fan Xian wants Wu Zhu to follow his heart, Wu Zhu’s heart is endless sourness, especially now after seeing Xiao Li Zi, this sourness seems to have found a channel to vent.

He wanted to kill him, he only remembered this thing.

So Five Bamboo moved, dragging that broken leg, relying on the support of the brazier in his hand, with immense difficulty, but with a murderous spirit, dragging step by step, brushing against the rain on the ground, the intact foot impatient, as if it wanted to jump, toward His Majesty the Emperor on the stone steps!

The moment Five Bamboo moved, the Qing army experts surrounding him also moved, Shocking Tianjie’s bellowing kill, countless long weapons stabbed towards his body!

Those ascetics who were originally kneeling beside Five Bamboo finally couldn’t withstand this strong pressure and moved as well, only some of them drifted back into the wind and rain, while some of them stopped in front of Five Bamboo’s body.

From this fragment, we can see that Emperor Qing’s supreme position in the hearts of these ascetics, even though they knew that Five Bamboos was the messenger of the temple, but Emperor Qing’s sentence of traitor, there were still ascetics who chose to believe in His Majesty.

Five Bamboo moved, the situation between the field suddenly moved, just who did not notice, in those sandwiched between His Majesty and the five Bamboo ascetics, most of those drudges, most of the drift back to the wind and rain, let the five Bamboo directly facing His Majesty’s channel, there is a wear a hat, wearing hemp clothes ascetics, but is diagonally drifting to the side of the back, intentionally or unintentionally, to disrupt the military masters of the attack.

Concentration of Qi in the whole body, such as a god of martial arts sitting on the horse with a gun Ye Chong, when the five bamboo move the moment, the killing intent in the eyes, a catalyze the horse’s belly, the horse hissed, the lance like electricity, stabbed at the back of the five bamboo tilted a little.

Of those people in the field, probably only Ye Chong had experienced those things in Kyoto of Qing many years ago, so he knew more than anyone else about Five Bamboo’s frighteningness, that was a peerless powerhouse who had fought head on with Uncle Liuyun without losing any ground. Once he made up his mind and the Protector Saint struck out, he gathered his entire body’s power and did not leave a bit of backstabbing behind, because he knew that facing the Five Bamboo, there was no way to stop the other party’s seemingly somewhat staggering footsteps, except for the Bi Bi shot.

With a bellowing cry, a silver-colored spear awn that was washed like water stabbed at the back of the Five Bamboo’s back, Ye Chong cast the most powerful shot he had ever seen, his whole spirit and qi were focused on this shot, so he didn’t notice that the Bitter Cultivator, who was lightly drifting back from the wind and rain, seemed to be a little too close to his body.

Bitter Cultivators had always not used weapons, but this Bitter Cultivator, who was closest to Ye Chong, had taken out a dagger fed with poison from his sleeve at an unknown time, and silently, like a raindrop hidden in the rain, he gently stabbed at Ye Chong’s waist and abdomen!

Ye Chong stabbed Five Bamboo’s back, and that ascetic stabbed his waist!

With a rustling sound, Ye Chong’s spear, which had been stored up for a long time, stabbed out without any frills, and then ignored any resistance, directly stabbing into the stone surface of the palace, which had been washed extremely clean by the rain, as if stabbing into a piece of bean curd, with the tip of the spear ruthlessly piercing into the earth, penetrating several feet deep!

The black dagger that fed the poison, however, had pierced into his waist and abdomen at the moment before his gun’s momentum was exhausted!

Ye Chong’s gun deflected, rubbing the strands of cloth by the broken leg of the five bamboo and stabbed into the ground, followed by an extremely mournful bellowing sound in the rain, he abandoned his gun and returned to his palm, slapping his palm onto the ascetic’s shoulder, and once the Great Splitting Coffin was released, the ascetic’s shoulder was immediately shattered!

However, that bitter cultivator did not grunt and did not feel any pain, but was like a wooden man without consciousness, he took the palm of Ye Chong, the strongest person of the ninth grade, and in the midst of the blood spraying wildly, he poked the dagger in his hand forward again, completely breaking the defense of Ye Chong’s armor, and severely hitting his abdomen!

A wave of power fluctuations between the two exploded, exploding the two beside the Qing army experts fell to the ground, the two are like a big bird and its shadow, swiftly swept out from the horse, disheveled into the rain, do not know how many layers of rain curtains, cast into the distance……

Ye Chong is ruined, at least for today. The one who shot out to assassinate was Shadow. When that bitter cultivator silently concealed himself from the eyes of the many experts of the Southern Qing in the field, and approached Ye Chong’s rear through the rain, Fan Xian, who had been hidden in the shadows watching everything in the field, immediately smelled a trace of a bizarre atmosphere, which was a kind of innate acumen of those in the Supervisory Yuan, and probably only he and Shadow could do so to such an extent in the world.

Fan Xian hadn’t contacted the shadow after entering the capital because even he didn’t know where the shadow had been hiding this year, but he knew that the shadow must be unwilling, this world’s number one assassin, must avenge Chen Pingping’s death, so there was a big mess in the palace today, and Fan Xian knew in his heart of hearts that the shadow, who didn’t know where he was, must be foraging for an opportunity to strike, only how could he have never imagined that the shadow was even mixed up with the ranks of the Bitter Scholar.

A year ago, the two of them had engaged in a great battle with the Bitter Cultivators, how the shadow was able to blend in was something Fan Xian could not figure out, however, at least at this moment, the shadow had managed to cut down the number one expert beside Emperor Qing nowadays, pulling the victory and defeat towards his side by quite a bit.

If it was any other action in the past, the one who could make the Shadow take action would definitely be the most important target in the mission, and this was something that Fan Xian could not even compete with him for, just like the last sword of the last assassination in the palace. However, today, the shadow was silent and stepped back, taking the initiative to choose Ye Chong, that was because he found out that the first Supervisory Court Tisan Five Bamboo had come, and the shadow, who had always idolized the Five Bamboo, naturally chose to cooperate with the Five Bamboo.

This, in fact, was also a kind of trust.

Fan Xian’s gaze merely brushed over the two of them, Ye Chong and Shadow, who had crashed through the rain curtains and kept rushing back away from the battlefield, before turning back to the sandy field in front of the Taiji Hall.

The moment Ye Chong was assassinated, the crowd in front of the Taiji Hall inevitably panicked a bit, and the attack on Five Bamboo’s immobile body was slightly disorganized. The only one who was not disorganized was only His Majesty the Emperor, who did not bother with the ascetic’s strike at all, but only stared at Five Bamboo’s hand with a deadly stare.

There was only Five Bamboo in the Emperor’s eyes.

The incomparably hard iron brazier had already bent and broken and smoothed out at this point, looking like an extremely ordinary burning stick, while this burning stick was driving the rainwater in front of the Taiji Hall, waving in the air to its heart’s content.

With a snap, the iron brazier swung away a long spear in front of him, and then in the shortest possible time, along the most reasonable direction, it slapped onto the wrist of the person holding the spear. In that instant, the skin of the gun holder’s wrist blossomed, sinews and flesh shattered, bones and joints stabbed out, no longer able to hold the gun.

With a click, the brazier slid up along the face of a sword, the heavy pressure pressed the sword to lower its head, and the no longer sharp brazier touched the protrusion of the sword, jumped violently, and then landed heavily, striking the small arm of the sword holder, directly turning this small arm into twisted firewood.

An ascetic monk blocked up with a swing of his palm, the head of the brazier that had been sharpened into a flat surface ruthlessly dug into his palm, rooting his palm into the rain-filled ground, and then the brazier swung up, striking the top of the ascetic monk’s head heavily, the hat snapped with rainwater and shattered into countless fragments, and a clubbing mark congealed with blood and water appeared on the top of the ascetic’s smooth head, and with a khakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkakkak, he fell limply into the rainwater.

Every swing of the iron brazier, are so accurate, so heavy, long ago no blade of the iron brazier, at this point in time changed into five bamboo hands of an iron stick, knocked away the dense sword in front of, smashed countless joints, by the blood and water mixed with the rain, in the air in front of the splash.

The iron brazier could no longer pierce into the throats of the countless experts in the palace, but it could smash their throats. The Five Bamboos that were struggling to move forward in the rain seemed like they might fall at any time, yet the ones who eventually fell were those experts who bravely stopped in front of the Emperor!

At this moment, the Five Bamboos seemed to have turned into the unsmiling teacher on the cliff, each of his clubs would fall accurately on Fan Xian’s body, and no matter how much Fan Xian tried to dodge, he would still never be able to avoid it, except that today that wooden club had turned into an iron rod.

With a muffled sound, one of the inner court guards had the cartilage on his knees shattered by the brazier, and fell to his knees beside Five Bamboos, and the brazier swung down once more, directly smashing the man down under the stone steps, shaking up a field of rainwater.

Five Bamboo, finally stood in front of the emperor.

Without pause, without cursing, without eye contact, Five Bamboo raised his hand, and the brazier in his hand struck down towards His Majesty’s face.

There was no one in the world who dared to strike His Majesty the Emperor’s face, but Five Bamboo did so, and did so rightfully, as if he were teaching an unfilial son a lesson, or as if he were about to beat up a heartless man.

When Five Bamboo stood in front of His Imperial Majesty, His Imperial Majesty’s pupils narrowed slightly, and a certain luster suddenly bloomed on his slightly aged face, and then he raised his hand as well.

In that instant when the rain could not even tremble, His Majesty’s left hand, which had been hanging down by his side, suddenly appeared on the side of his face, palm facing outwards, stopping the iron blow!

In the same instant, His Majesty the Emperor’s right hand clenched into a fist and ruthlessly smashed it on top of Five Bamboo’s chest!

His most terrifying pair of hands, white as snow, hands that seemed to be forever untainted by dust and did not cause blood breath, stopped Five Bamboo’s brazier and struck Five Bamboo’s body!

The first time the last two supreme powerhouses in the world of man, who had transcended the realm of mankind, exchanged hands was such a simple matter, each just swinging, stopping a palm, and throwing a punch.

Yet in the place of anyone other than the two of them, they would not have been able to stop that brazier and strike that punch.

That terrifying fist of the Emperor’s slammed down hard on Five Bamboo’s chest!

The air seemed to condense even at this moment, and Five Bamboo’s body seemed to hover strangely in the air at this moment, and then, like an arrow, it was smashed out viciously, like a heavy and hard meteorite, and flew out from under the stone steps!

Five Bamboo was sent flying body, all the way do not know how many chasing and intercepting the South Qing experts crashed, in front of the Imperial Palace Taiji Hall can only see the black shadow over, blood and flesh flying!

With a muffled sound, Five Bamboo’s body finally landed dozens of feet away, falling heavily to the ground, shaking the heavens and earth around him with a tremor.

The field fell into a strange silence, not many people were still alive and standing at this point. At His Majesty’s Taiji, on top of the stone steps, in the midst of the light rain, His Lonely Majesty, His Proud Majesty, still maintained his stance with one palm protected in front of him and one fist stretched out in the air.

Knocking down Five Bamboo with one fist was something that Emperor Qing should be proud of, yet his face did not show the slightest emotion, instead, a hint of coldness appeared in his eyes.

That brazier strike from Five Bamboo shattered Emperor Qing’s majestic true qi attached to his palm and struck Emperor Qing’s face viciously.

Emperor Qing’s face was pale at the moment, but his left cheek was red and swollen, and blood flowed down from the corner of his lips, as if he had been slapped heavily.

He slowly retracted his left hand and looked down at the traces of the iron rod on his palm, then it occurred to him that Five Bamboo’s brazier had been bent.

The five bamboo in the middle of the blood and rain, suddenly moved a little, then unusually difficult rickety body stood up, the brazier in his hand trembled and stood on the ground, supporting his shaky body, stood up in the rain.

It had been incredibly difficult to walk that far, to the front of the Emperor’s body, only to be knocked back by the Emperor with a single punch, this was something that was enough to cause everyone to despair. However, there was no change in Five Bamboo’s face, he just dragged his even more tattered left leg once again, and with an even more difficult stance and even slower speed, he once again marched towards that bright yellow figure under the Taiji Hall.

Right at this moment, the heavy, light rain that had been falling in the morning suddenly stopped, and the clouds in the sky gradually thinned out, and the line of sight in the palace gradually became clearer, as if it was about to clear up.