Outside Xiangyang City, on the river, in the middle of a flat boat, Yuan Yao held the whip in his right hand, and struck forward several times in a row, and at the same time, twenty-eight shining runes flew out from the whip, and wisps of golden light emanated from these twenty-eight runes, reflecting the sky and hitting Yuan Yao's front.

At this moment, in front of Yuan Yao, there was only one person standing on the surface of the river.

That's right, there is a middle-aged general in front of Yuan Yao who is holding a long knife, and his feet are fixed on the surface of the river, so that the place where his feet are located is free of wind and waves, and there is not even a trace of microwaves.

Today, Yuan Yao asked Pan Feng, Xun Yan and others to reorganize their armies in Xiangyang City and prepare to attack Jiangxia, while he took Huang Zhong, Li Ye, Yu She, and Wei Yan to the outside of Xiangyang City, so that Huang Zhong could test his combat effectiveness.

Since Yuan Yao swallowed the Nine Turns Golden Pill, not only has his cultivation been promoted to the Condensing Gang Realm and the Void Soul Realm, but his combat power has also advanced rapidly, and with the blessing of the holy weapon of the Divine Whip, Yuan Yao's combat power is no longer comparable to the early stage of the Condensing Gang Realm and the early stage of the Void Soul Realm, Yuan Yao estimates that his combat power should be at the same level as the middle stage of the Condensing Gang Realm, but he does not dare to guarantee it, so this time he called Huang Zhong and asked Huang Zhong to test his true combat power.

Huang Zhong's cultivation has reached the peak of the Condensation Gang Realm, and as Huang Xu's condition improves, Huang Zhong's whole person's spirit has also returned to the peak state, and his cultivation is also in a state of steady progress, according to Huang Zhong's own estimates, his cultivation has reached the bottleneck, and it only takes a little chance to take a step forward and enter the legendary Condensation Gang Realm.

Although Yuan Yao's cultivation combat power at this time is not weak, but in the face of an opponent of Huang Zhong's level, it is completely ignored by Huang Zhong, but Yuan Yao has a life-saving grace for Huang Xu, so Huang Zhong is also grateful to Yuan Yao, and even in Huang Zhong's heart, the importance of Yuan Shu is not as important as Yuan Yao.

Yuan Shu is a nominal lord for Huang Zhong, if it weren't for Yuan Yao's life-saving grace to Huang Xu, Huang Zhong might not have joined Yuan Shu's command. This is not only understood by Huang Zhong, but also by Yuan Shu and Yuan Yao's father and son, but Yuan Shu doesn't care about it, isn't his son's own?

Since Yuan Yao wanted to let himself test his combat strength, there were not many things at this time, so Huang Zhong naturally readily agreed. Since Huang Zhong was about to make a move, Yuan Yao also called Yu Shi and Wei Yan to observe the scene on the side.

Huang Zhong's weapon is a red blood knife, and he is a famous knife master in the world, and his attainments in knife skills are between Guan Yu and others, and even because of the accumulation and precipitation of age, Huang Zhong's knife skills have a little more mystery than Guan Yu.

Wei Yan and Yu She's weapons were also knives, and it was beneficial for them to observe Huang Zhong's battle.

After Yuan Yao and Huang Zhong stood still on the river, Yuan Yao took the lead in launching an attack, and as soon as he struck, he did it with all his might, and all the power of his qi and soul was injected into the Divine Whip, inspiring the twenty-eight runes that he could now use, and blasted towards Huang Zhong.

Unlike Yuan Yao, who needed to use a boat to stand on the river, Huang Zhong's use of Gang Qi can be described as superb, wrapping Gang Qi in the soles of his feet at the moment, making himself feel like he was on flat ground even on the river.

At this time, in the face of the twenty-eight runes shot by Yuan Yao, Huang Zhong showed a smile on his face, and secretly judged the power of Yuan Yao's blow in his heart.

The power is good, it exceeds the limit of the early stage of the Condensation Realm, and it can already be compared to the attacks of the cultivators in the middle stage of the Condensing Realm. However, if the opponent is himself, such an attack is not worth mentioning at all.

Huang Zhong didn't say a word at the moment, his faces narrowed slightly, and then he took a step forward, and slashed sideways, a red-golden knife line manifested in front of Huang Zhong, slashing towards the twenty-eight runes that Yuan Yao had punched. At this time, in the eyes of Yu Shi and Wei Yan, who were watching the battle on the riverbank, Huang Zhong only cut out a red-gold knife line, and it didn't look powerful.

However, Yu Shi and Wei Yan both know what kind of fierce man Huang Zhong is, this is an existence that can fight bloodily with Lu Bu, the number one military general in the world, without dying, how can his attacks be ordinary?

Beside Yu Shi and Wei Yan, Li Ye secretly withdrew his soul power, and unlike the appearance of the red golden knife line that Yu Shi and Wei Yan saw, Li Ye knew with the power of his soul that it was an endless blazing heat. At this time, Huang Zhong was also secretly noticed by Li Yezheng in his heart.

In Li Ye's feelings, although the current Huang Zhongxiu is still at the peak of the Condensation Realm, as long as he continues to develop, sooner or later he will make a breakthrough and become a figure of the same level as his teacher, Yue Lao Master. Moreover, with the strength that Huang Zhong is showing now, in the absence of a powerhouse in the Xuan Transformation Realm, absolutely no one will be able to defeat him, not even Lu Bu.

Huang Zhong's knife line seemed simple, but it was actually a terrifying attack that Huang Zhong used to combine the power of his three-legged golden crow bloodline with his gang qi. However, Huang Zhong was already trying his best to control the power of this knife, so that this knife could break all of Yuan Yao's attacks without Yuan Yao being hurt in the slightest.

The twenty-eight runes that Yuan Yao shot out were constantly cut and broken by that line of fire in the process of expanding with the red golden line of fire that Huang Zhong slashed, but when the runes were broken, the color of the red gold line of fire was also constantly getting lighter. Finally, when the twenty-eighth rune was shattered by the crimson golden line of fire, this line of fire also turned into nothingness in mid-air.

Seeing the twenty-eight runes and the red golden line of fire dissipate at the same time, Yuan Yao sighed slightly, there was still a big gap between his strength and Huang Zhong, and now that he had attacked Huang Zhong with all his strength, he actually cracked it with a knife, which seemed to be that his strength was still too weak.

And just when Yuan Yao wanted to have a verbal conversation with Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong, who was standing opposite the river, suddenly turned pale, and his gaze in the direction behind Yuan Yao suddenly became sharp. Seeing the change in Huang Zhong's complexion, Yuan Yao instinctively noticed some changes, and followed Huang Zhong's gaze to look behind him, but saw more than a dozen ships.

These ships are not large, and according to the scale, there are only a few hundred people on these dozen ships, but Yuan Yao's gaze has become dangerous.

In Jingzhou today, the most powerful on the water is Yuan Shu and Jiangdong, and these dozen or so ships are obviously not either of the two sides, so it may only be a situation.

Yuan Yao was unlucky this time and encountered water thieves on the waterway of the Yangtze River.