Chapter 186 – Battle of Two, Battle of Two Kingdoms (V)

Across the Western Regions, like a giant sword that cuts the western heaven and earth into two, the mountain range has the reputation of the Mountain of Ten Thousand Ancestors, and the world’s dragon vein originates from here. In a through the western region of the north and south of the treacherous pass, both sides of the mountain dozens of feet high, cliffs, the path is rugged and deep, the gap in the mountain range is connected to the north and south of the western region of the important holes. A team of merchants walking hard in the middle, camel bells burst. Merchants wearing tight waist Hu clothing, foot sturdy leather boots, mixed with some head of the women wearing a tent hat to cover their faces, the body is also strong and tall, in the Central Plains have rumors, the Western Region prefer to use the woman as a man, the man as a beast of burden to use. These merchants from south to north regardless of men and women, each waist wear machete, some brawn outstanding men in the rear hump near also hangs a unique armor bag, the bag wrapped inside the manufacturing of rough iron locks son armor, encountered horse thieves and bandits will be able to camel instead of a horse, armored combat in preparation for the unforeseen. The camel caravan was suddenly far away from a series of sounds like the ground muffled thunder alarm, the caravan suddenly stopped, face changed dramatically, mistakenly thought it was hit in the pass waiting for rabbits and then surging to the large group of horse thieves, more than fifty people at the same time to draw their swords, the young and strong men is the fire out of the armor from the armored capsule armor cloak, but in fact, who are aware of, really encountered the horse thieves to create such a momentum to their poor combat power to hold up to death is only to let the other side take a few lives. However, in the chaotic western region where there is no law for more than two hundred years, as long as there are horses and bows and swords, there is still worry that no one will sell their lives. In the camel has not been neatly arranged when, someone sharp eyes, looked up to see a scene of horror, a touch of figure in the high cliffs “running” came, like an eagle to the ground hunting for food diagonally fast fall, fell in front of the eyes of the people, feet and the ground according to the inertia of the small forward seven or eight steps from the camel caravan is only ten paces away. The caravan of all people are dumbfounded, there are people subconsciously gulp saliva, only to see in front of the guy from the sky has a set of very different from the Western region of people’s appearance, young and handsome, very clean. The young man has a white sheath long sword behind his back, hanging a knife at his waist, his lips are dry, he took a deep breath, stretched out his hand and lifted his arm to make a posture of tilting his head to drink water, and then asked with a smile in the language commonly used in the western region, “Is there any water?”

The camel caravan was silent, not knowing what to do. On the contrary, a woman with a backdrop hat did not hesitate to take off a sheepskin pouch that still had some water left, and threw it high to that guy who was like a mountain monster.

The young man with a sword gave a thank you, quick step jumped up and swept out, catching the water bag in the air, looked back, grinned, stepped in the air, the body shape of the turn, boom crashed into the crags, and then slightly stooped down, take advantage of the momentum forward, continue to come like that “flying over the wall” up and running on the way, lifting the water bag to drink water, after a drink! The water capsule was thrown backward, but it happened to fall on the head of the woman in the backdrop, in the woman reached out to pick up the water capsule at the moment, the camel team in front of the gusts of wind suddenly rose, and then someone fell from the sky, as if a heavenly flying stone smashed in the earth above, the strong wind on the face of the camels, all camels are a few steps backward to exit, the water capsule and the woman lost, gently fell on the sand. Not waiting for the crowd to see the person’s face clearly, it rose up and flashed away.

Many years later, a rumor of a “fairy borrowing water” was widely spread in the western region.

Hundreds of miles south of the mountain range, near dusk, the two forces of the southern part of the Western Region for many years, in order to fight for a woman of far-reaching fame, both sides of the total of more than 2,000 horses, killed in the emerald lake that is known as the Western Region, it is said that the disadvantaged party in the young king of the Northern Liang reputation, hoping to use the clan that the woman of the special to go to the world’s champion of the iron horsemen with the Northern Liang in exchange for three hundred pieces of iron armor, a thousand crossbows, so as to In order to dominate the southern part of the western region, seven hundred knights were deployed to escort the woman to Northern Liang. Then in the emerald lake encounter blockade, fight more than an hour later, the pursuit forces only know that the woman has long been detoured sneak to the north of the Liang, infuriated, vowed to kill that treacherous tribe only the woman left, no able to horseback combat men, then see how they rise in the desert. In both sides will be from horseback charge kill to dismounted combat exhaustion moment, the entire battlefield was a figure torn into two halves, suddenly people and horses, was cut open the line of indistinguishable from the enemy, look at each other, and then at the same time to look at the intrusion of the battlefield guy, only to see that the person bending knees, one hand holding the hilt of the sword, one hand two fingers propped up in the sword tip, cross the sword in the chest, the long sword in front of his body curved out of a semi-circular arc, the dust settles! After the dust settled, the long sword always maintained that treacherous arc and did not return to being flat and straight.

Another lanky figure crossed that gap in the sand, and slammed into the sword-wielding man with a strong and unrivaled momentum. The latter against the tip of the sword fingers along the body of the sword, that punch bent long sword after a long time refused to dissipate the thick qi, and then in the semi-circle rolled away cohesion, coupled with his own qi infusion, and ultimately formed a purple lightning lingering snorting thunder ball, wrist flicked, to “inverted lift the sword” to meet the enemy! The purple thunderbolt as big as a fist leaped and swirled around the tip of the sword. When that seems to be entangled in this stout figure in front of fifty paces, dusty but not a little disheveled look of the young swordsman smiled slightly, do not retreat, Tai Ah inverted hold, square inches of thunder.

This sword, both riding a donkey upside down to see the mountains and rivers of Deng Tai’a rely on the famous “inverted power” style, but also has Gu Jiantang a sword square inch of thunder of the God of abundance.

Tuoba Bodhisattva slapped away the purple thunder that rotated from the tip of the sword to the hilt, and at the same time reached out and pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword to prevent its momentum from continuing to rise, and then swept a whip leg towards Xu Fenian’s neck. When Xu Fengyen’s sword was pushed out of his hand without any force at all, Tuoba Bodhisattva knew that this guy had played a trick again, but he didn’t believe that Xu Fengyen, who had more guards than attackers, could really set up a trap that would put people to their deaths, and that whip leg swept out without any stagnation, and Xu Fengyen, who had let go of his hand and abandoned his sword, raised his elbow and blocked the powerful whip leg, and with Tuoba Bodhisattva as the center of the circle, Xu Fengyen was driven by the leg to circle around a complete circle, and only then did he fly out centrifugally. With Tuo Bao Bodhisattva as the center of the circle, Xu Fenian was driven by this leg to make a complete circle before he flew out of the circle. It looks like Topaz has the upper hand, but when Topaz landed on the ground, Xu Fengyen, who was holding the right waist knife handle with his left hand when he was turning around, retreated and approached, the knife was only half an inch out of its sheath, and between the half an inch, there was a great release of light, and those on the battlefield who looked dumbfounded by the bystanders were blinded by the brightness of this bright shine that made their eyes sting, and they were still in tears even after closing their eyes.

Xu Fengyen holding the knife but not busy complete draw, in the body forward, half an inch half an inch increment, that kind of scattered light like the sun also converge, like water condensing ice, like substance. All these changes although complex, but is Xu Fengyen in and out of the instantaneous effort, well organized Tuoba Bodhisattva squinted his eyes, in order to respond to all the changes waiting for Xu Fengyen probably should be in ten steps after the drawing of the sword, Gu Jiantang famous square inch thunder, finally coming?

As for the purple thunder that did not dissipate after a palm slap, Tuoba Bodhisattva did not see it as a threat at all. Because the flow speed of that purple thunder compared to his body rolling around, slow, too slow. The world of martial arts, as long as it is slowed down by a thread, even if you have the huge might of mountains tumbling down, it is still useless.

Xu Fengyen holding that big Feng famous sword “qiyun” bullying close, as expected by Tuoba Bodhisattva in ten steps away, the sharpness of the front. But Tuo Bao Bodhisattva guessed one thing wrong, Fang Cun Lei did not bloom in the drawing of the sword, but in the re-sheathing of the sword. Between the two, suddenly the ground up thunderstorm, railing Tuoba Bodhisatta real real big diamond realm body, also do not dare to completely hard to resist the rolling thunder, his palms palm outward, slightly upward a support, blocking off half of the strength, body smooth sideways to move away, Xu Fengyen straight that straight line, the sound of the vibration is unceasingly, both sides of the more than a hundred people were the astral wind impact, instantly as the wind for the wind to break the trees rose up and fell backward! The wind is a windy wind, and they all fall backward.

Tuoba Bodhisattva, after avoiding its sharpness, almost instinctively on the flow of qi six hundred miles, to meet Xu Fengyen’s real killing move of the backhand. As expected, Xu Fengyen’s Fangchen Lei was sheathed, and the second blade was completely drawn, a dazzling white rainbow like a dragon winding its way through the mountain range towards Tuoba Bodhisattva. Tuoba bodhisattva this “a qi” started a incense burner ago, qi most strong in the previous fist bumped Xu Fenian horizontal in the chest of the release of sound sword, Xu Fenian into the battlefield, although the momentum inevitably decline, but blowing up this flash of white rainbow is still more than enough to strive to build a fist of Tuoba bodhisattva spared no effort, bending his arm to do the lifting of the hammer gesture, not only smashed apart the white rainbow, and even smashed in the white rainbow. Xu Fengyen tried to exhaust Topaz’s qi, waiting for that fleeting gap to change qi, Topaz was not waiting for Xu Fengyen to exhaust his qi and replace it with a new one, so his punch not only to force Xu Fengyen to exhaust his qi, but also to force Xu Fengyen to replace it with a new one on the way to fall back. But Xu Fengyen’s catch was unexpected, clearly not as desperate as Tuoba Bodhisattva, chose to leave room for manoeuvre, let Tuoba Bodhisattva’s small half of the fist through the blade, bombarded in the chest, Xu Fengyen’s body in the air swirling backward, such as a butterfly, about to hit the ground when the tip of the narrow knife in the hand on the ground gently a little bit, ruffling a large shovelful of yellow sand, the body leaned back, staggered back with both feet, facing Tuoba Bodhisattva, before inhaling the old gas that had not been drained, the old gas that had not been drained. Has not been deflated old gas, all dissipated, followed by a slight movement of the lips, gently a breath out, accurately speaking is trying to one breath, huh into a gas.

Tuoba Bodhisattva face cold smile, where he will give Xu Fenian the opportunity to swing to change gas, while Xu Fenian hurried to change gas gas not rise a short gap, stride forward, double fist swiftly whacked out. Tuoba Bodhisattva although only three points of energy left, but this fist if the hammer, compared to the peak of Xu Fengyen’s qi to carry down their own twelve points of energy also come to immediate effect, such as the skillful strength to hit the snake in the seven inches, surely want this new tricks endless guy to spit out a big bowl of fresh blood.

Life between heaven and earth, from life to death, in fact, are doing one of the most easily overlooked thing, that is, breathing, a breath, so back and forth, waking up to do sleep also do, do not know there are millions of millions of times. Taoist health evidence of longevity of the spitting technique, is to return to simplicity and truth, in this breathing the smallest thing to do the biggest article in the autumn. Purely martial arts of vajra realm, kill the three religions in the finger Xuan masters, not often, but even if it happens, there will be no one fuss, lies in the vajra finger Xuan two realms of the gap is not a gap, the real difficult to cross the threshold, is the realm of the heavenly image, the reason why the cat Han Sable Temple in the river and lake of the Liyang so famous, so known as the first person under the Land Immortal, lies in the finger of the realm of the Xuan, able to fight and even slaughter with the heaven and earth together with a breath of the realm of the Xuan. and even slaughter the Heavenly Symbol Realm Grandmaster who breathed with heaven and earth.

Tuoba Bodhisattva’s eyes were awe-inspiring, and with a furious shout, he actually forced a change of qi, his body stood still, his feet sunk deep into the ground, and his fists that were originally hammered towards Xu Fengnian knocked against each other, his qi skyrocketed.

It turned out that in the instant before this, Tuoba Bodhisattva was shocked to find that Xu Fengyen’s longsword, which had been taken out of his hand, was extremely “coincidental” when Xu Fengyen retreated backward to change his qi, as if it was being moved by the invisible qi, and sheathed on its own. At the same time, the “slow” purple thunderbolt that had been ignored by Tuoba Bodhisattva also exploded with amazing speed and rushed to his back.

Blood seeped out from the corner of Xu Fengnian’s mouth as he silently recited, “Returning home.”

Behind the back of the long sword “release”, in the sheath long whistling more than, such as the last hiss of the autumn cicada, singing on earth. It was also like a late old man who had been away from his hometown for many years and only wanted to die in his hometown.

On the battlefield, more than a thousand people all hold their heads and cover their ears, squatting to the ground, still can not alleviate that burst of sharp needles piercing the eardrums of the intense pain.

Behind Tuoba Bodhisattva as bloomed a two zhang high purple and gold lotus flower, pieces of petals blossomed.

Tuoba Bodhisattva obviously still underestimated the power of this return to the sheath of a sword, after being like a bell, had to step forward, leaning forward, like a hunchback, which can be unloaded that force.

Tuoba Bodhisattva quietly swallowed the mouth of blood that welled up in his throat, expressionless, looking at this coincided with the “Jianghu thousand years not encountered in the great year” and the young man who took advantage of the situation. This North Mang Military God, neither surprised to see the new tricks, nor was he annoyed because he lost the wind.

This way of killing, qi and physique two major underlying slightly inferior Xu Fengyen every change of air, will play one or two enough to become an unusual martial arts master of the bottom of the box master, for himself to pull a large distance for gasping for breath, Tuoba Bodhisattva every time to think that should be the last surprise, but Xu Fengyen always in the desperate situation for their own dark flowers and a village of a picture scroll. Li Chun Gang’s sword Dao, Deng Ta’a’s sword art, Jian Jiuhuang, Lu Baijie, Huang Qing and others’ sword moves, Wang Xianzhi’s fists, Hong Zaixiang’s circles, Artemisia Liu’s heavenly images, Han Shengxuan’s finger xuan, Wang Chonglou’s finger xuan, the qi of the books, the qi of the immortals and the Buddhas …… just didn’t have a stopping point, there was no end to it.

This peak fight between the same one of the four great masters, each other as a grinding stone to sharpen the highest martial way.

In the morning sunlight, a black spot along the snow capped ridge toward the top of the peak wildly running, like a tiny grain of mustard seed in the magnificent sea of snow.

Negative sword and knife he suddenly stopped, crouched down, looked higher and farther away, casually grabbed a handful of snow, haphazardly wiped his cheeks, palms rubbed the stubble on his chin, hesitated for a moment, simply reached out and drew out the chiaroscopic narrow knife, tilted his head, took the snowy blade and shaved his beard. Different from the beginning of those four or five days and fight and retreat, from the day before yesterday late at night that fight, he and Topaz Bodhisattva’s situation is reversed, a day and two nights, hand-to-hand six times, Topaz Bodhisattva took the initiative to retreat four times, but also with the previous killings of the slow you and me different, now both sides are a hit will be one person will choose to retreat, do not want to be sound, and strive for a fatal blow.

After the chicken soup monk gave that Buddha bowl, Xu Fengyen in the western region of the city in the silly waiting for Tuoba bodhisattva, is to borrow Tuoba bodhisattva’s fierce attack, to hammer and forge his absorption of qi after the “sword embryo”, Tuoba bodhisattva and Xu Fengyen each have gained, but obviously Xu Fengyen more with the signs of the latter. Xu Fengyen had pursued Tuoba Bodhisattva for more than two hundred miles after his last ambush failed, until the two of them climbed the majestic snowy peak one after another.

In a battle of life and death, the two had formed a certain tacit understanding, the retreating party did not deliberately hide all their qi, always leaving a little trace for the pursuing party to get to the bottom of the matter.

Topaz Bodhisattva told Xu Fenian clearly and unambiguously that he would be waiting on the snowy peak, as for when and where he would give a killing move without warning, it is up to Xu Fenian to accept it with his ability and gambling luck.

Xu Fengyen finished shaving his scruff, put the knife back into its sheath, and before he got up, he grabbed another handful of ice and snow and put it into his mouth, letting it slowly melt and flow into his throat.

Xu Fengyen stood up straight, one hand went around his back to square up that sword, one hand pressed on the hilt of the sword and raised his head to look out.

Suddenly, heavy snow rolled down, growing in size.

It was clear that Topaz had created a powerful avalanche with his manpower.

Xu Fengnian was certain that Topaz Bodhisattva would be hiding in the snow.

He closed his eyes and gripped the hilt of his sword with four fingers, while his thumb was tightly pressed against the guard of his narrow sword, making a motion of pushing the sword out of its sheath.

The snow crashed down the ridge from the top of the mountain like a torrent, and then diverged on both sides of Xu Fengyen.

Xu Fengyen was like the mainstay of the river, standing firm.

An ice lance infused with abundant qi was as fast as a rainbow, stabbing at Xu Fenian’s heart.

Xu Fengyen pushed out the narrow sword in his sheath and brushed shoulders with the spear and the Tuoba Bodhisattva holding the spear in a flash of lightning.

A piece of flesh was torn off Xu Fenian’s shoulder, but the air on Xu Fenian’s side also left a trail of scarlet blood.

Xu Fengyen turned around, life and death, no palpitations, just some regrets, if Topaz Bodhisattva chose to split the difference at this moment, Xu Fengyen had the certainty that he would be able to briefly suppress the cost of a serious injury, but cut off an arm of his opponent.

But Tuoba Bodhisattva ghostly abandon this battlefield, would rather Xu Fengyen’s hand “qiyun” in his back cut a bloody groove.

After the avalanche, Xu Fengnian sat down on his knees, breathing heavily, believing that Tuoba Bodhisattva would also be at the foot of the mountain to heal his wounds.

Now the two of them were no longer competing for the speed of that breath change, but rather a quick battle, only fighting for one move to determine life and death.

Xu Fengnian lazily lay down in the snow, looked at the sky and muttered, “Life is as lonely as a great avalanche na.”

There was a large river cutting through the canyon, traversing this vast mountain chain that stretched for three thousand miles, and eventually running into the sea within the Nanzhao territory.

Xu Fengnian was poked in the forehead by a finger of Topaz Bodhisattva while drinking at the riverbank and crashed into the bottom of the great river.

As for his ten out of sleeve flying swords, there were six of them, all of which were just an inch and a half away from each other, just all of which were just that little bit away from each other, and they could have nailed into Tuoba Bodhisattva’s temples, eye sockets, and heart sockets respectively.

Tuoba Bodhisattva made frantic punches on the surface of the river, staring at Xu Fengyen who was unable to leap out of the water, smashing his fists in the middle of the river in an attempt to shock and smother Xu Fengyen to death at the bottom of the river.

Tuoba Bodhisattva just “walked” on the river for one hundred and twenty miles.

In the end, not only did his arms droop, but also his ears, nose and mouth flowed with shocking blood as he forcibly reversed his qi.

When Xu Fengyin surfaced like a corpse, Tuoba Bodhisattva, whose arms could no longer move, could only step down.

Knowing that his foot would step on a flying sword that Xu Fengyen had harnessed with his mind alone and would be pierced through the back of his foot by the flying sword, Topaz Bodhisattva still didn’t have the slightest hesitation.

Xu Fengyen was stepped on in his chest, and once again, he was stepped into the mud at the bottom of the river.

Somehow, Topaz Bodhisattva failed to find either Xu Fengyen’s corpse or Xu Fengyen’s residual Qi.

It was as if this young vassal king had evaporated from the earth.

After a night of fruitless searching along the river, Topaz was planning to head back to the Liangmang border, and then at dawn, Topaz saw the young man who had refused to go to Yama’s place to report to the King of Hell, slowly walking out of the water from the other side of the riverbank.

The long sword behind him was nowhere to be found.

He bit the sheath with his mouth and held the sword in both hands.

Neither of them crossed the river to strike, but walked slowly upstream.

Xu Fengyen was recuperating, and Tuoba Bodhisattva was expanding his chances of victory.

Nearly a decade of chasing and killing, both sides running around for thousands of miles, in an extremely rare rainy and dim night in the western region, finally came the final battle.

Simple to the extreme collision, just like the charge of Liangmang cavalry, without any fancy.

Xu Fengyen stabbed into Tuoba Bodhisattva’s abdomen with both hands holding his sword.

Tuoba Bodhisattva smashed fist after fist on Xu Fenian’s forehead on his way back.

In the end, Xu Fengyen first loosened the knife in his hand with one hand, then held the knife with five fingers in one hand, followed by two fingers clamping the knife, and finally could only push the knife with one finger.

When Xu Fenian completely loosened that knife, the Topaz Bodhisattva who had been stabbed through and through in the abdomen fell backward heavily.

The cloaked Xu Fenian, on the other hand, fell straight backward.

Tuoba Bodhisattva lay in the mud, trembling, stretching out a hand, unable to hold the hilt of the knife, he directly held the blade and pulled it out from his abdomen, the other elbow propped up on the ground, before he sat up with difficulty.

Xu Fengnian remained motionless.

Tuoba Bodhisattva was relieved, smiled, clucked blood, looked at the knife in his hand, “Pity.”

Tuoba Bodhisattva looked up sharply, dumbstruck, his face filled with bitterness.

A sword suddenly flew to, cut through the rain.

It was that “Sound Release”!

Until this moment, Tuoba Bodhisattva realized that the disappearing sword was actually waiting for this moment, waiting for the crucial moment when he, Tuoba Bodhisattva, seemed to win by a thread.

To do this, there must be no deviation in time and place, in order to set up this trap, the person must be innately risky, distracted to “hang on” to that “far away” flying sword, in the sword to fight for their lives before the first traction flying sword, and then precise! To kill must be “near at hand” one step can not be more one step can not be less of him.

It is said that back then, Liyang that human cat is so dead ah.

Tuoba Bodhisattva sighed softly, originally as long as he gave him half an incense stick recovery time, he could easily clean up that young man.

Tuoba Bodhisattva didn’t have too many regrets, just some regrets, some suffocation.

Is it too late?

It’s too late.

I didn’t realize that Tuoba Bodhisattva still had a day to pin his hopes on others?

Tuoba Bodhisattva closed his eyes.

Suddenly, an old man with a head full of frost and snow stood in front of Tuoba Bodhisattva and stretched out a finger, just blocking the flying sword.

The flying sword that was unable to take someone’s head looked like it was wailing.

Miserable to the extreme.

Lying in the mud, Xu Fengnian maintained his last trace of clarity and roughly guessed the identity of this person, the creator of the Northern Mang Spider Web, the Shadow Chancellor Li Mibi.

The old man smiled, ”You should know that in order to block Xu Yan Bing and Tantai Ning Jing, so that the old man could arrive here one step ahead of them, he paid the price of more than sixty experts! In the future, the North Mang Jianghu cannot be called a Jianghu.”

The old man appeared to be unenthusiastic in his pleasantries and courtesies, his hands actually did not have the slightest pause, after breaking that flying sword, in the midst of the heavy rain, he went straight to Xu Fenian and laughed out loud, “You, Xu Fenian, can be considered as honorable in spite of your defeat, besides, it is only a loss to Heaven’s destiny, Xu Snapdragon most likely won’t complain to you.”

At this moment, Xu Fengyen only felt a splash in his ears.

Unbeknownst to him, a purple sandalwood box landed heavily near him, a young woman who had finally arrived at this place after six thousand miles of imperial swords, but did not look at Xu Fengyen, she just said in a deep voice, “Don’t die!”