Chapter 191 – Battle of Two, Battle of Two Kingdoms (X)

After the two riders entered the alley, the horses’ hooves slowed down.

The lights in the city are fading, and it looks more and more like the moonlight is thick.

Li Mibi laughed softly, ”Surname Xu’s hindsight finally realized that it was that woman’s strong sword aura that gave away the two of them, which allowed her to take the lead in moving away from Snow Lotus City. Within a hundred miles, that big cool dragon sparrow even if the hidden sword in the box, in my eyes is still that ten feet away shaking firefly, vaguely visible. But this can be seen, although the West Chu Jiang mud is a hundred years of sword embryo, but from that legend to reach the realm of the world’s co-owner, still missing some of the fire. Without Jiang Nai from the side of the pressure, that young man absolutely no chance of victory, the key depends on God to give him the good luck to escape from life again.”

All the way to the cat and mouse, his side holds the absolute initiative, at this time the death battle is imminent, Xu Fengyen even hastily appeared a hand of stupid moves, self-folding wings, but Tuoba Bodhisattva’s face does not seem to be easy, “should not be so simple, these years a fight for his life, the fifth raccoon, Yang Taiyang, Han Shengxuan, Wang Xianzhi, Huang Qing plus the bronze master ancestor, but also all the situation is a sure victory, but the last to survive is his Xu Fengyen, but he is the only one who has survived the battle. In the end, the one who survived was him, Xu Fengnian, this is not something that can be explained by simple luck.”

Speaking here, Topaz laughed, “If not for your timely arrival, I would have been another stepping stone for Xu Fengyen. For tonight’s battle, sir might as well hide in the shadows, I’ve recovered almost, enough to have a hard fought fight with Xu Fengyen, no matter if Xu Fengyen and Jiang Nai are hiding any backhanders, or if he thinks he’s desperate and only wants to die with me, sir will be able to deal with it calmly.”

Li Mibi thought briefly and nodded, without dragging his feet, his figure flickered away on the back of his horse. In the view of this spy ancestor who had been perched in the center of the spider web in North Mang for many years, the battle between Xu Fengyen and Tuoba Bodhisattva, if he didn’t intervene, in terms of life and death, it was Xu Fengyen who won, but in terms of victory and defeat, it was actually Tuoba Bodhisattva who always had a slight advantage. Therefore, Tuoba Bodhisattva for his own shot, and there is no knot, the perfect and flawless immaculate state of mind has not cracked the cracks, Li Mibi himself is away from the Yang Han Sheng Xuan after the death of the first finger Xuan, more than anyone else is aware of the truth of the broken mirror is difficult to be rounded, not everyone can like Li Chun Gang as the state of mind after the fall to recover the peak, which is the so-called “qi can be completely absent, delayed for a few days of work. The state of mind can not lose a trace, a hundred years is difficult to complete.” Moreover, Xu Fengyen’s injuries were far worse than Topaz’s, so he thought that the speed of qi overflow and physical healing would be much slower than Topaz’s. In the battle of Snow Lotus City, Li Mibi could not find any reason why Xu Fengyen could win by a fluke. However, if Xu Fengyen insisted on avoiding the battle and fleeing, Li Mibi was still not so conceited as to think that he could let Xu Fengyen have no chance of survival. Not into the first grade, even the first grade of diamond realm, will always be a frog in the well, can not see the sky outside the mouth of the spectacular scenery, martial arts only successfully among the finger Xuan realm, to detect the pulse of the operation of the world, is considered to be a person on the well, so that you can follow the trend of movement, such as a swimmer in a wide range of nets of the law at will, as for the heavenly phenomenon of the realm and the more free of the land immortal, then it is more can be with the God to sit down and pay the price. Li Mibi has some regrets, because it is the shadow prime minister of the North Mang, this life has done too many things that may be in line with their own hearts, but certainly against the “way of the world”, has not dared to enter the realm of the heavenly image, for fear that when the time comes, but instead of cocoon, Li Mibi believes that Han Shengxuan lifetime has not really crossed the threshold of the heavenly image, it should be the same level of concern. Li Mipil believes that there is a heavenly will in the underworld, and that the Yin Yin is too heavy, and will certainly be forbidden by the heavenly way.

Li Mibi God out of nowhere to a high-rise building of the eaves at the corner of the feet of the eaves of the ridge, not carved with such common unicorn to ward off evil spirits and pray for blessings of the beasts, but a lively carp, probably sent to the Central Plains building unique waterfront and living in the water, the wind wind chimes under the eaves of a rope hanging a lamp, with the wind and move, tinkling dong dong, mellifluous and light spirit. Here and the alley that hut is only 500 paces away in a straight line, from the top, the view is wide, Li Mi Pil can be on that side of the situation at a glance. The battle that didn’t alarm Snow Lotus City was about to start, and apart from focusing on the battle between the two sides, who were both Grand Masters at the top of the battlefield, Li Mipil kept his eyes on the direction where Jiang Nai’s sword was going.

Li Mibi suddenly laughed out loud, a time of great emotion. Today is the unprecedented “big year” of Jianghu, masters like clouds, even if the older generation died a lot, but the younger generation emerged faster, is undoubtedly the most prosperous situation of the millennium! Martial arts evaluation of fourteen people, the four great masters and ten masters, these fourteen people, even without exception is a great heavenly image or even land immortals, not to mention the sword of a thousand miles of Jiang Nai, on the stream of Xuanyuan Qingfeng has been the real heavenly image of the realm of the stream, put aside in the previous jianghu, it is absolutely not only into the top ten masters, will also be ranked among the top, but unfortunately crashed into such an era, if you add the white monks qi dangxin these If you add the white monk qi dangxin these deep hidden river dragon lake scaly, xuan yuan qingfeng afraid even within the top twenty have not a place. In addition to these well-known masters, there is the “world’s first beauty” who is in the territory of North Mang like nobody’s business after the devil Luoyang, the unpredictable young Wudang master Li Yuaxe, the Jiang Axe Ding who is standing at the head of the East China Sea’s Emperor Wudi Castle to beat the tide, the Zhao Ningshen who is the third-generation ancestor of the Lung Fu Mountain who has come down from the Heavenly Master’s Mansion and who has been traveled by the folk Qi Xianxian, the sword warrior of the Swordsman and the sword warrior of the Swordsman. Qi Xianman who traveled in the folklore, Sword Mound Sword Crown Wu Liuding and that Sword Servant Woman, and even Xu Fenian’s three disciples are gradually coming into their own.

If the world’s masters choose two people to kill each other, Li Mibi in front of this North Mang military god versus the king of North Liang two people battle, I’m afraid that only the Confucian saint Cao Changqing and the sword fairy Deng Tai’a peak of the battle, can be comparable.

Li Mibi somehow bent over and sat cross-legged, no longer paying attention to the movement in the alley of that scene, closed his eyes, and the fresh wind brushed his face. The old man with a head full of frost and snow pulled out a dry cake from his bosom, leisurely and gently chewing, listening to the wind chimes tinkling close at hand, the old man shook his head, as if he was enjoying himself. Finished eating the dry cake, wiped his mouth, the old man slowly got up, looked up at the moon starry night sky, openly laughed and said: “Yeehaw (噫吁嚱)! This world, this scene, dangerously high!”

Distant alley.

The dry and eloquent a knife waiting for guests to greet Topaz Bodhisattva.

Thunder rises from a silent place, and moonlight rises from a flat earth.

Tuoba Bodhisattva pulled away from his horse and leapt up high, almost at the same time, Xu Fengyen chopped the high horse jogging in the alleyway in two, after passing through the corpse of the horse, his toes pointed at the wall, and lifted up another knife at Tuoba Bodhisattva who was more than ten feet above the ground, it was hard to tell whether it was the blade or the moonlight, the sky above the secluded alleyway was white and blank. Tuoba bodhisattva hands clenched fist to do whacking gesture, towards the snow bright blade and bright blade hammer down, Xu Fengyen both hands and hold the old-style Beiliang knife did not resist this hammer blow, along the trend of even people with a knife a turn, spinning a big circle, the two people swapped positions in an instant, came to Tuoba bodhisattva behind the higher part of Xu Fengyen a knife chopped downward to the back.

Tuoba bodhisattva gas sinking downward, body falling speed is actually faster than that knife awnings, feet touch the ground, keep crouching position of the north courtyard king that has been separated from the fist on the ground each knock, is also the body a turn, in that knife gas exhaustion a few minutes, head on, back to the ground, a foot like a whip, smashed to the move has been old but still not willing to close the knife for a new trend of Xu Fengyen. The latter loosened his grip on the sword and put it on the back of the sword, slightly twisted, the blade turned sideways, and Tuoba Bodhisattva’s whip leg blasted together, and there was a sound of gold and stone, like a huge bell ringing.

Xu Fengyen and Tuoba Bodhisattva at the same time as two meteors falling diagonally to the ground, coincidentally one person stood at the head of the alley and one landed at the end of the alley.

At the same time, they rushed forward.

Xu Fengyen was running without any disheveled demeanor, he was full of energy, and he was glowing. Where is the kind of exhaustion when Jiang Nai was around earlier, it is even more difficult to believe that this guy would stagger when walking and need to hold on to the wall.

When the two of them were ten steps apart, Xu Fengyen’s body twisted and turned, his sword following his body, adding plenty of momentum to that diagonal slash in a short period of time. Even Tuoba Bodhisattva did not face this sharpness, his back was against the wall, his footsteps did not stop, when he brushed against Xu Fengyen, a palm was launched and pushed towards Xu Fengyen’s solar plexus. Xu Fengyen lowered his head and bent his waist, spinning in place, a knife cut across his waist, a punch fell short of Topaz Bodhisattva did not do entanglement, continued to charge forward, still did not resist that knife. Xu Fengyen chased his tail, his left foot slightly aggravated force, diagonally rushed to the wall, stretched out a foot stepped on the alley wall, the next instant the figure crashed on the other side of the wall, and so on and so forth, forward tailing and swept, he and Topaz Bodhisattva in this unknown alley a high and low, launched a silent killing.

Starting from the collision after both sides landed, Xu Fengyen’s two swords did not leave any traces on the floor and walls of the alley, and Topaz’s punch did not leave any holes on the wall, not even a finger-sized crater appeared.

The next is still so unusually warm and treacherous situation, only two riders side by side in the narrow alley, Xu Fengyen although rolling knife and walk, but did not blossom any blade aura, occasional moonlight irradiation on the cool knife, only to reflect a touch of white light. Clearly can play the kind of air swallowing heaven and earth momentum Topaz Bodhisattva attack less defense more, but Xu Fengyen also did not have the kind of jade and stone when fighting with people in the past, the two in addition to out fast, closing even faster, as fast as lightning thunder, and then there is no take advantage of the highlights of it. This kind of implicit to the extreme killing, simply not compared to the fight between the two hero state county second grade small master, two qualified with the king of heaven and earth do not have to talk about rituals of the great masters, in this alleyway, courteous and polite, put and take a measure, neither a little bit of over the limit but also not the boundary of an inch, such as a gentleman to talk about.

There is no force to pull mountains and rivers of majestic, not open and close the hearty, only a little to the introverted, but as a woman needle embroidery, only a hair of the fight.

But once accomplished, the world may have to lose a great master.

Two people are very tacit understanding to draw a prison.

The alley is the cage.

A cage fight.

Both sides only seek to stab each other in the mirror of the other’s state of mind.

Today the world’s four great masters, in addition to the two they are fighting, the Confucian saint Cao Changqing to the king into the hegemony, clearly is the way to death, four chairs placed at the apex of the martial arts, Cao Changqing, so he stood up and left the seat, then there is only a little left to the sword of Teng Tai’a, who can win tonight, not only is the division of the victory or defeat between the two people life and death, but can be a large extent to grab grab each other’s realm, and the future with Teng Tai’a, and then the other side of the realm, and then the other side of the world. In the future, if you fight with Teng Ta’a in the future, you will undoubtedly have a head start. Therefore, it can be said that this night’s battle can almost decide who will be the world’s first person in the future.

At this moment, each of the two men turned their heads sideways, Tuoba Bodhisattva’s fist looked like it was resting on his left shoulder, and Xu Fenian’s cool sword looked like it was being picked up by Tuoba Bodhisattva’s shoulder. Xu Fengyen’s hair on his temples did not move, and the tip of the cool knife in his hand appeared to have been pressed against the wall, but in fact it did not penetrate the wall even a tiny bit.

In the next moment, Tuoba Bodhisattva’s knee slammed into Xu Fenian’s abdomen, Xu Fenian also struck Tuoba Bodhisattva’s heart with a fist, both of them slammed backward respectively, their footsteps sliding out on the green stone floor, Tuoba Bodhisattva’s right hand pressed downward, and in the moment when his back was about to be pressed against the wall, he stopped the trend of backward retreat. Xu Fengyen held his sword with a flick of the wrist, also in the same way, without making contact with the wall. Tuoba Bodhisattva swung out with one hand, swinging at Xu Fenian’s side.

At the same time, Xu Fengyen slapped his sword on the side of Tuoba Bodhisattva’s face.

Both of them fell out together and then stood on their own, Xu Fengyen pulled the corner of his mouth, Tuoba Bodhisattva’s face was expressionless, but the mark on his face that was slapped by the knife was clearly visible.

Li Mi Bi was asking him to die.

Tuoba Bodhisattva was asking him to lose and then die.

Just as the young girl had guessed with her intuition, Xu Fengnian was cheating. At that time, the spy report received from six years phoenix, not at all the good news that Xu Yan Bing will arrive soon, but in that the imperial decree that permits 10,000 Shu soldiers to leave the country to pacify the rebellion has only entered the territory of Xishu, Beiliang whisking the water room has already confirmed that Chen Zhi Bao and Xie Guanying have already quietly appeared in the Qingzhou water division. This is to follow the King of Jing’an Zhao Xun traveled Shu Shy secretly passed out the spy. This means that Chen Zhi Bao will be able to have a direct impact on the Guangling River battle before explicitly leading the Shu soldiers to join the battlefield. At such a time, with or without Jiang Nai, who had his qi in his body, sitting in the army, the entire Western Chu statehood would be very different.

Xu Fengyen had been lying to her except for the pre-flight period when he came to his senses, and with the chicken soup monk gifting that qi absorbing Buddha mantle, Xu Fengyen’s recovery speed was not only not slower than that of the lighter-handed Tuo Bao Bodhisattva, but it was even faster. Without this secret report, Xu Fengyen would have continued to cheat, pretending to be half dead, pretending that he needed her to carry him on his back all the way to escape, uprooting together, pretending that without her, he wouldn’t be able to hold out for half a moment of time with Tuoba Bodhisattva and Li Mibi’s pursuit. And that never smart little mud person, also indeed be kept in the dark, do not ask why every time will have a surprise escape from the interception, why he every time just right to see through Li Mi Bi’s killing moves, in the side pointing, and every time after the review of the gains and losses, in a few words can make her in the sword Dao attainments by leaps and bounds.

He had wanted to fight Tuoba Bodhisattva squarely in Snow Lotus City, in addition to letting her benefit from watching the battle from the sidelines, it was more like fulfilling that wish he had when he was a teenager, proving one thing to her.

What? Are you saying that I will only bully you? That’s impossible! As long as I really want to learn martial arts, not to mention what the top ten masters, even Wang Xianzhi dare not claim to be the world’s first, it is also a bag of tricks.

When the time comes to separate again outside the city, he can send out the snow lotus plant when he said, “This is the world’s number one expert to reward you”.

On a high building in the distance, Li Mibi’s mood had changed from being relaxed at the beginning to becoming more and more serious.

He looked at the sky, it was almost dawn.

For three whole hours, the two people in the alley still did not distinguish between them!

It wasn’t that Li Mipil didn’t want to intervene, didn’t want to take advantage of the fire, even if it angered that Great King of the Northern Courtyard, Li Mipil didn’t care about Topaz’s opinion as long as he was able to kill Xu Fengnian. But Li Mipil left the high building several times to approach the alley, but did not find out half a crack. After repeating this several times without any success, Li Mi Bi had to stand patiently on the roof of the building, and several times looked out at a certain place dozens of miles outside of the city, becoming even more worried. The sword aura, he first was able to capture within three hundred miles, half a decade later it could only be shortened to within two hundred miles, and before arriving at Snow Lotus City, it was only one hundred miles. Now it was only fifty miles, and it had all become ambiguous.

It seemed that it wouldn’t be long before a woman Sword Immortal would truly appear in the world.

Li Mibi continued to wait.

Waiting until the sky was slightly bright, the sky and earth gradually opened up to green and white.

Li Mi Bi sighed with some regret, swept down the stairs and landed at the end of the alley.

Xu Fengyen and Topaz Bodhisattva just happened to pull away once again, Xu Fengyen knelt on one knee, his cool sword cutting a long groove in the ground in front of him. Tuoba Bodhisattva was not feeling well either, just sitting on the ground, breaking into a big breath.

Li Mibi, on the other hand, stood not far from Topaz Bodhisattva and did not speak.

Topaz Bodhisattva let out a soft sigh, stood up, and calmly said, “There’s no point, let’s go.”

Li Mi Bi nodded. If he continued to waste any more time, by the time Xu Yan’s soldiers arrived, he would be reduced to the point of giving people a turtle in a jar.

Before turning around, Tuoba Bodhisattva looked at the young man who had also stood up and laughed, “Even if the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry dies to the bone, and no matter how you are at the end of your rope, as long as you, Xu Fengyen, speak up, I can fight with you alone!”

Xu Fengnian stood with his sword, silent.

When Tuo Bai Bodhisattva and Li Mi Pi both left the city and returned north, there was also a purple rainbow outside the city moments later heading far to the east.

After the big battle, the cool sword in Xu Fenian’s hand was overwhelmed and broke into two, after bending down and picking up the broken sword, he took the lead and put it into the sheath.

After traveling more than thirty miles straight north of Snow Lotus City, the two of them turned to the west, Li Mibi finally opened his mouth and shook his head and laughed, “This Northern Liang King is young, but his heart is deep.”

Topaz Bodhisattva suddenly asked, “Does sir know why he had to not fight for his life last night, but only do a battle of mind with him?”

Li Mibi thought about it and still couldn’t figure it out or wasn’t willing to believe that truth.

Tuoba Bodhisattva laughed, “Taking qi and turning it into strength cultivation that has nothing to do with realm, Xu Fengyen who is in Treasure Mountain can spend it recklessly anytime he wants to, but he is still very measured and only managed to ensure that he doesn’t die, Xu Fengyen’s slash at the beginning of that in the alley was meant to tell me that fact, so that we don’t push people too far. If only to fight for his life, than to compete in qi consumption, he Xu Fengyen not only will not lose, and between you and me, maybe one will be left behind. It’s just that he was probably thinking of leaving more of his family behind for his faltering Northern Liang.”

Li Mibi sighed, “The qi, the qi of Northern Liang.”

Tuoba Bodhisattva said in a deep voice, “I won’t go to Liuzhou first, I’ll go back to the Southern Dynasty with sir and remind His Majesty and the Order of Taiping.”

Li Mibi suddenly sneered in annoyance, “Always say that my North Mang jianghu can’t be counted as a real jianghu, then he, Xu Fengyen, as the premier great master of Liyang, even fighting a fight is so unpleasant, how has he ever acted dashingly? Cao Changqing Gu Jiantang and the others are also like this, there is only a Deng Tai’a left who is still worthy of the name.”

Tuoba Bodhisattva’s face remained unchanged, reaching out to wipe away the blood flowing from his nose, he blandly said, “The pitiful have their own hatefulness, the ridiculous have their own respectability. That’s why I hope Xu Fengyen dies in my hands, not under the hooves of the chaotic army like the Sword Emperor of Western Shu.”

In Snow Lotus City, a young man wearing a sword stood in front of a small store selling meat naan with a sad face.

The shopkeeper waited for half a day and didn’t see this guy pull out his money bag, rolling his eyes, and over time, he didn’t pay attention to this shy, poor man. What, I a big man, but not those who are young and foolish little girl and like a wolf like a tiger woman, you think look like a dog can eat white food? You think you can eat for free just because you look like a man? You think you can be a warrior and a master with a sword on your waist? Who are you trying to scare? But not long after, rushed to the store to help the daughter-in-law and daughter, want to talk more shyly to steal a glance at the young man, so that naan seller a headache plus toothache, just want to take the smallest naan to send off this guy, so that he hurriedly get out, but their own that cheeky and shameless loser woman, has preempted the daughter of his own daughter gave two pieces of lamb diced the most generous portion of naan, made a wink, and then The daughter is not ashamed to shake her waist, standing in front of that young son of a bitch, timidly handing out the meat naan, smiling and saying that she will not charge him copper money. The Hanzi turned his head fiercely, and his eyes did not see the heart. Damn, I was much more handsome than you when I was young, OK! Just as the young man smiled brightly and reached out to pick up the meat naan, an indignant voice rang out beside him, “Do you want to be shameless?!”

Then she glared at the store girl, “How much?”

The maiden replied in dismay, “Six Wen for one lamb naan, five Wen for two.”

She turned around, her back to the young man, and carefully fished out a handful of about seven or eight Xiangfu Tongbao from a brocade money bag, with a majority of small one-wen coins, two folded two-wen coins, and not many large sample coins. In the xiangfu year issued Tongbao, are considered to be new money, and those available for collection of the previous dynasty “famous spring” eight pole not, she muttered to herself there, and finally was really not willing to hand over the five one Wen small spring, also can not take out that the nominal value of ten Wen copper, because her money bag is only such a two, paired, split up! It was not good to break them up. In the end, she had to frown and hand the young girl a small spring and two folded two coins, just five coins, to buy two mutton naan. The tangled look on her face, as if she had watched her daughter get married in general, see the store girl and woman crying and laughing, just five yuan, as to be so difficult to part with?

The young man stopped her, softly laughed: “Okay, okay, no need for you to spend money, put it away.”

This sword-wearing male turned his head to look into the distance and beckoned, soon a stout man with a reverent demeanor came running at a fast pace, the young man asked, “Do you have any silver on you?”

That person is also considered a number of first-class experts in Snow Lotus City, the face of this person is still trembling and nodding, a brain to all the silver on the body to pull out, can not wait to hand over the life of the respectful posture.

The young man as long as a grain of broken silver, handed over to the young girl, took the meat naan, smiled and said: “no need to find.”

The young girl whose heart was swaying for that smiling face daintily said, “Thank you, sir.”

The girl beside him turned her head away and put back the coins, her lips slightly moving, full of disdain, judging from the shape of her mouth, it should be exactly the three words, “Thank you, sir”.

The young man smiled and gave her a freshly baked fragrant meat naan, and then said: “I will not see you off, remember not to use the sword to leave the city, it is also very scary in broad daylight.”

The young woman carrying the purple box took the meat naan and turned straight toward the city gates.

He waited until her figure slowly disappeared from his eyes, and only then did he walk behind her.

The burly man, the dead man of the water whisking room who was in Snow Lotus House as Lady Song’s personal escort, had kept his eyebrows low and did not dare to look at them more than once.

He lowered his head and opened his mouth to bite on the meat naan.

The meat naan was filled with scarlet blood.

In the distance, above the clouds as high as the nine heavens, the haze was bright, and the woman with the fluttering clothes stood on top of the Great Liang Dragon Sparrow, riding the wind.

Bathed in a golden color, she pinched a copper coin with both fingers and held it above her head, staring in fascination.

He lied to her, she knew.

Suddenly a little chagrined, she jerked her imperial sword up an unknown thousand feet and indignantly said, “Should have retrieved some copper coins!”