Chapter 157: Defeating the Grandmaster
"Huh", the hidden bat sighed in his heart, surprised at Li Rong's sensitive reaction and weird body, it was a bit weird, but of course it was also very effective.
The sword qi slashed across Li Rong's ear, and a strand of long hair broke in response to the sword, flying with the wind. The sword qi fell in the air.
At the same time, Li Rong's wrist shook continuously, and the dragon sword was like an arm and finger, as if it had been injected with stimulants, beating happily, breaking free from the shackles of the blood sword, and a wisp of snake-shaped blade shot out from the tip of the knife, cutting through the air, and stabbing the throat of the hidden bat with a tooth for a tooth.
Unlike the technique of the Hidden Bat using the flexible characteristics of the blood sword body to entangle the opponent's weapon, Li Rong purely shook his wrist to make the Dragon Yin Knife move from different angles in a very small range, emitting a twisted sword like a snake, and the difficulty was still above the sword skill of the Hidden Bat.
This style of knife is the essence of Li Rong's "dragon and snake style", and it is also influenced by the purple knife technique in the daytime, which is even more unpredictable.
The Hidden Bat Sword Qi was in vain, and the Blood Sword had just been shaken open, and it was too late to block Li Rong's sword. However, after all, he is a seven-rank innate grandmaster, and he is not alarmed, one leans back to avoid the sword, takes advantage of the situation to withdraw the blood sword, his body is strangely like a big bat, and he actually moves a few feet sideways in a state of supine, and the blood sword changes with his body, swinging several sword lights, due to the peculiar posture, the attack angle of the sword qi is quite unexpected, which is not easy to guard.
Li Rong forced the retreat of the hidden bat with a knife, and was about to take advantage of the situation to pursue, but the other party fought with a counterattack, taking retreat as advance, and counterattacking from an incredible angle.
"Lightning type," Li Rong's heart moved, his body was like lightning, around the arc, flashed the sword light of the hidden bat, the dragon chanting knife slashed obliquely, and suddenly slashed out a golden electric dragon, roaring towards the hidden bat.
The two fought only two tricks, and the changes in recruitment and the speed of the response were breathtaking. Jiang Cheng, who retreated to the side, Fan Li was dumbfounded, and couldn't help but secretly ponder how he should deal with it in his shoes, and whether he could handle it.
In the face of the roaring electric dragon, the hidden bat felt that the electric dragon contained a strange will, different from the usual opponent's spiritual lock, it seemed to come straight to his center of gravity, all kinds of dodging methods were of little use, they would only increase the power of Li Rong's sword technique, and he could not cope with the subsequent moves.
"Could it be that if I fight head-on, I will lose to you, a six-rank martial artist?" In the heart of the hidden bat, the blood sword danced, the sword light flickered, turning into a slowly blooming blood-colored lotus, instantly blooming with dazzling light, like a bright light in the dark night.
The blood lotus blooms and devours the golden electric dragon into it.
There was a loud bang, the lotus flower shattered, and the petals flew and hit the surrounding ground and walls, splashing dust.
With the fall of the blood lotus, the golden electric dragon disappeared into invisibility.
The hidden bat is like a lightning strike, and the true qi in the body is like heavy snow and gradually melts when it encounters the noon sun, which makes people feel a sense of prostration. The other party's true qi obviously restrained his own cold true qi.
The exercises he learned came from the Tianwu Sect and accidentally got a secret book called "Youminglu", the founder Liu Yiqing was born in the royal family of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, and the nephew of Liu Yu, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, was talented and horizontal, and created another great master in the Southern Dynasty after Xie Xuan, creating a treasure book of heavenly skills such as "Youminglu", which was rampant in the world.
The Tianwu Sect had a huge influence in the south, and took advantage of the change of the Song and Qi dynasties in the Southern Dynasty to obtain this secret codex.
As the saying goes, "the Tao is not passed on without a scripture, and the scriptures are not passed without a teacher", after the Tianwu Sect succeeded, the master of the sect consulted and enlightened, and let the disciples practice, after several generations of nearly a hundred years of hard work, it was not until the generation of the hidden bat that someone cultivated to the realm of the grandmaster.
The exercises contained in the "Youminglu" are different from the concept of the "Five Beasts and Seven Stars Method" of the Heavenly Witch Sect, and the cultivation methods are also different, and it is not easy to cultivate to the realm of the grandmaster without the guidance of the predecessors.
Li Rong's cultivation of the Vajra Demon True Qi, the soft water True Qi is the top of the two Buddhist and Taoist exercises, and he was born to restrain the cold true qi of "Youminglu", not to mention that Li Rong practiced both the two exercises, and practiced the sword technique of combining rigidity and softness, shaped like thunder and lightning, which was much more powerful.
The countershock force of the true qi shook Li Rong back a few steps, Li Rong took advantage of the situation to turn his body, turned to the side of the hidden bat, and slashed again, and the thunder and lightning light knife went straight to the hidden bat.
As a seventh-grade innate grandmaster, although his true qi was highly restrained, his skill was undoubtedly superior, and after taking three steps back, the blood sword struck back, and the blood sword faintly flickered, swinging out a ripple-like sword qi, blocking Li Rong's thunder and lightning light knife.
The sound of "bang" true qi is endless, although Li Rong's true qi is not as deep as the hidden bat, but the speed is extremely fast, without waiting for the hidden bat to react, giving full play to the advantages of high realm and wonderful body technique, he slashed out dozens of thunder and lightning light knives in an instant, and fused the "lightning style" knife technique, Li Yuanfang's luck acceleration technique, and even Lu Ying's breathing secret method into one, and the knife technique was really as fast as lightning.
The more the hidden bat fights, the more aggrieved he becomes, the other party doesn't know how to cast a secret technique, the speed is surprisingly fast, and the power of thunder and lightning is hidden in the knife, not only restraining his true qi, but also faintly locking his own body, avoiding it, can only fight hard, what is more terrifying is that the opponent's knife is heavier than a knife, like being able to superimpose attacks, and a knife can absorb the knife qi scattered last time, and the power has increased a lot.
Despite displaying the various body sword techniques in the "Secret Demon Sutra", the hidden bat still couldn't escape Li Rong's attack and fell into a state of passive beating.
"Thunder and lightning dragon, eight veins vibrating strings, incense elephant crossing the river," Li Rong shouted in his heart, his legs instantly doubled in size, and he stepped heavily on the ground, causing the whole street to be shaken, and the right arm holding the knife also became a thick pillar, swinging an extremely fierce knife, and the dragon sword turned into a golden dragon, and rushed towards the hidden bat.
Accumulating dozens of sword lights, the thunder and lightning dragon blew and generally increased to the size of a human body, whistling and letting out a thunderous roar like a dragon's groan, which shocked Jiang Cheng next to him, Fan Li's face changed, and his qi and blood were stagnant.
"I can't take it, I definitely can't take it." Jiang Cheng and Fan Li glanced at each other and read the meaning in each other's eyes.
If it weren't for the mask, everyone would definitely be able to see the frightened expression of the hidden bat, as a generation of grandmasters, he was forced into such a situation by a six-rank martial artist.
"The light changes, the shape changes," the hidden bat said secretly in his heart, the blood-red robe swelled up in a breath, and the blood sword danced wildly, and the sword light shone brightly, covering the middle of the body.
The sword light and the electric dragon met, like fireworks lit up in the night, and golden light splashed everywhere.
"Ran!" Jiang Cheng and Fan Li said in surprise when they saw that the field was empty, and the figure of the hidden bat disappeared.
"Curious and strange!" Li Rong sighed.
The full force of his sword did not hit the true body of the hidden bat, and the opponent's qi surged and broke away from his own spiritual lock. The qi machine and the sword struck each other, instantly turned into invisible, melted into the void, and the body of the hidden bat also escaped a few zhang away, this kind of martial art that turned the tangible into the invisible, Li Rong had not yet met someone who performed it so exquisitely.
"The hidden bat practices the secret biography of this sect, "Youming Lu", which describes the way of tangible and invisible transformation, and the body method is strange and unpredictable, which can be called a must." Jiang Cheng next to him listened and said.
In both previous and future lives, the representatives of the government always came after the fact, and the officials who exercised the power of the police once again came in fear after the thieves had run away.
"Yuan Ming, Li Zhen came against the party to make trouble?" Zhang Qian came over in his underwear and asked.
"Maybe, the identity of the person who came is unknown, but the martial arts are skillful, ordinary officials are not opponents, there is no need to send someone to hunt them down, let them go back to rest, and step up the investigation tomorrow." Li Rong said.
Zhang Qian nodded, seeing Li Rong fighting with others during the day, that kind of destructive power is indeed not something ordinary people can handle.
Li Rong didn't tell Zhang Qian the identities of Jiang Cheng and the two beside him, and Zhang Qian didn't ask much in a knowing way.
With Fan Li, Jiang Cheng returned to his residence, called Qianqi to take out the medicine for the treatment of external injuries, soaked it in wine, steamed a fine linen white cloth, applied the wound medicine, and wrapped the two people with wounds everywhere on their bodies like wrapping zongzi.
"The Hidden Bat is not an elder in the same column as you, how could he come and kill you?" Li Rong asked.
When he was in Yangzhou, although Li Rong did not fight with the hidden bat, he still saw the hidden bat standing with Jiang Baiqing and others, and after hearing Liu Xuan and others mention it, he knew that the blood-clothed man was the mysterious hidden bat elder of the Heavenly Witch Sect.
"I don't know the truth, I've never seen him before, to be honest." Jiang Cheng shook his head and said.
"He doesn't want to kill you and seize the position of the future Sect Master of the Heavenly Witch Sect, right?" Fan Li said, "Then again, did you deliberately lure the hidden bat to the rudder of our society, and the water of disaster will flow to me." ”
Fan Li purely encountered the disaster of the pond fish. After he saw Jiang Cheng, he returned to the rudder to rest, and suddenly heard the sound of fighting outside at night, went out to take a look, and found that Jiang Cheng was being chased and killed, so he helped, but the two were not the opponents of the hidden bat, so they could only flee in a hurry.
"The tutor is in good health, and it is not a problem to last for a decade or two, and the hidden bat is not the opponent of the tutor." Jiang Cheng snorted, did not respond to the matter of the trouble, and changed the topic.
The Hidden Bat is a seventh-grade grandmaster, but the Holy Lord Jiang Baiqing is an old eight-rank grandmaster, and the realm of the two is not much different, and under normal circumstances, the hidden bat will not be Jiang Baiqing's opponent.
Another meaning Jiang Cheng didn't say, the strong are admired within the Demon Gate, if the hidden bat kills Jiang Cheng, with the current situation that there is no grandmaster-level master in the Tianwu Sect, it is not impossible for the hidden bat to ascend the throne and take over as the sect master, at least Jiang Baiqing is unlikely to intervene. In other words, if Jiang Cheng was able to take out the Hidden Bat, it would also mean that all the obstacles to the sect master had been cleared.
"Your master is over eighty years old, the path of martial arts has been exhausted, you want to take advantage of the rebellion of King Yue to expand your territory, and you encounter such a blow, and you will lose your ally Heavenly Corpse Sect, I am afraid that there will be no enterprising heart in the future, and it is imminent to choose a suitable successor, presumably the hidden bat saw this point and blatantly attacked you." Li Rong analyzed.