Chapter 3 - The Scholar of the Scrolling Fan
Zhang Xu came down from the top floor of the Yunsheng Juxian Building and quietly returned to his place of residence, once again without being seen by anyone. Zhang Xu had just entered the door, and several of his apprentices rushed up and asked, "Master, have you succeeded?" "Nonsense, looking at Master's face full of spring breeze, can you not succeed?" "Don't talk nonsense, let's listen to Master." These three apprentices are all apprentices that Zhang Xu is more optimistic about, but Zhang Xu saw that these apprentices only knew flattery, but they didn't have any strength, Zhang Xu couldn't help but shake his head, let out a long sigh, and said: "Your master and I still have the ability, don't think that Master Liu Xun has anything powerful." It's just a greedy and incompetent lord. Zhang Xu deliberately looked at it when he said this, but there was no one at the door. That's why Zhang Xu dared to say that. The apprentices hurriedly surrounded Zhang Xu, and one of them asked eagerly: "Master, can you talk to us, isn't it easy?" Zhang Xu happily began to narrate, from his own bribery of the Ouchi guards to the successful bribing of Liu Xun. Speaking of excitement, the voice is a little too excited, causing a slight tremor.
"This is the Jiangnan Martial Arts Conference, you actually bribed Lord Liu Xun! Do such a thing of stealing chickens and touching dogs, Zhang Xu, you are really worthy of the title of Wind and Dust Ranger!" Zhang Xu was talking happily to a few apprentices, and suddenly a voice with a hint of deterrence came from nowhere.
"Who is it that dares to eavesdrop on us?" one of Zhang Xu's disciples shouted angrily.
"Hmph, do you dare to admit it! Zhang Xu, I originally thought that you were a hero in the south of the Yangtze River, but I didn't expect to do this kind of thing that people in the rivers and lakes disdain the most!"
Zhang Xu snorted disdainfully: "People don't kill the heavens and the earth for themselves, this is a matter of course." But who are you? Why did you come to my door to eavesdrop on us? Aren't you committing a crime?" Zhang Xu was not afraid of being known what he had done, but instead asked the other party why he came to spy on his privacy in a tone of righteous words.
"Zhang Xu, I didn't expect that you usually look dignified, but your heart is so limited. There is such an ugly face under your dignified face! You really know people and faces, but you don't know your heart!" The man was still standing outside Zhang Xu's door, and continued to speak to Zhang Xu in a threatening tone, but this time, the person outside the door sarcastically mocked Zhang Xu.
As soon as he said this, Zhang Xu suddenly became a little confused. Knowing people and knowing faces but not hearts, is he my acquaintance?
Zhang Xu frowned slightly, counted his acquaintances with his fingers, and recalled carefully there. Suddenly, Zhang Xu's eyes showed a look of fear, he stood up suddenly, opened the door and looked, and did not see the person he was afraid of, Zhang Xu couldn't help but be shocked.
"It turned out that it wasn't him," Zhang Xu patted his chest gently, "Which little hairy child are you, why are you eavesdropping on our conversation?" Since it is not the person he is afraid of, then Zhang Xu is not afraid at all. has always been arrogant and arrogant, so Zhang Xu has never looked down on others, even if it is the person who makes him afraid, Zhang Xu is unwilling to take him seriously.
Outside the door, a handsome-looking teenager was about twenty-one or twelve years old. He was wearing a showy outfit, and the light blue outfit added a bit of grace to him. A young man with upright facial features, red lips and white teeth, he held a folding fan in his hand, wore a high-topped black Xiucai hat on his head, and pedaled a pair of ordinary boots, showing off the appearance of a weak reader. Although the scholar in front of Zhang Xu heard his speech, he only cared about shaking the fan in his hand, which made Zhang Xu very unhappy. If Zhang Xu hadn't heard the momentum of this scholar's previous words and was worried, Zhang Kexi would have beaten him up a long time ago.
Although Zhang Xu has always looked down on scholars the most, thinking that they are all weak and useless people who need others to protect. But Zhang Xu still had some concerns about what the scholar said earlier.
"Who are you?" Zhang Xu originally wanted to say, "Don't take me in your eyes, you little hairy boy!" but after hesitating for a long time, out of insurance, he still asked.
"You don't seem to need to know who I am," the scholar seemed to finally hear Zhang Kexi's question, knocked the fan in his hand, and continued, "However, I believe that we will see you at the Jiangnan Martial Arts Conference, when the time comes, I will tell all the heroes and heroes what you have done, and when the time comes, you will wait to be expelled." The scholar finished these words lightly, and his tone no longer had the faint deterrence he had before.
"Don't go too far! When did Lao Tzu be spoken in such a tone? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu killed you?" Zhang Xu couldn't help but burst into foul language, it was true that the scholar in front of him was not very old, and his momentum was enough to make Zhang Xu extremely uncomfortable.
"Don't provoke our master, or you'll get hurt. A head poked out of the door and said to the scholar at the door.
"Indeed, our master is very strong, you should be careful of being killed!" the second head poked out and said to the scholar.
"We advise you not to go against our master, or you will die without a corpse. The third disciple of Zhang Xu walked out and looked at the scholar with a kind face.
When ordinary people hear this, they will think that these three people are persuading the scholar to calm down, but the scholar himself knows that the ending of what these three people say is worse than the other, obviously threatening themselves, and at the same time obviously looking down on themselves.
How could a young man with strong blood and strength tolerate such a silent insult? With a shake of the folding fan, the scholar took a few steps back, put the fan on his left hand, and shouted loudly: "Junior Feng Baiyi is not talented, and he is willing to fight with Zhang Kexi's predecessors, I wonder if Zhang Kexi's predecessors are willing?"
Zhang Xu was also angered by Feng Baiyi's tone. "Boy, I'm telling you, don't be so rampant, be careful to pay the price!"
"Please advise!" Feng Baiyi said simply and clearly.
"Okay, good," Zhang Kexi shot out his halberd and said with a sneer, "I want to see, what ability do you have to challenge me?"
After Zhang Xu finished speaking, the two halberds stabbed at Feng Baiyi in one. Zhang Xu is worthy of being called a dust ranger, the speed of the double halberd stabbing out is as fast as lightning, and there is even a trace of faint blue light on Zhang Kexi's double halberd.
The first form of "Wind and Dust Dance": Blue Wind. It can convert the user's own energy to their own weapons, making their weapons more powerful. Now Zhang Xu is using the power of this "blue wind" to bring a faint blue light to his original ordinary halberd, and at the same time increase the strength of the double halberd. At the same time, his footsteps were also trotting forward step by step, and the halberd in his left hand thrust forward, stabbing directly into Feng Baiyi's chest.
Feng Baiyi looked at Zhang Kexi's double halberd stabbed in front of him, the folding fan in his hand slowly opened, his wrist shook slightly, and suddenly a small storm appeared in front of Feng Baiyi, this slight storm guarded Feng Baiyi's body and swept the surrounding air. Although the volume is not large, it is very imposing, and even took advantage of Zhang Xu's inattention to directly shatter the halberd on Zhang Kexi's left hand, forcing Zhang Kexi to take a few steps back before stopping his body.
"Instrument Wind Feather Fan!" Zhang Xu shouted in surprise, but Feng Baiyi didn't react, but just looked at Zhang Kexi with a smile on his face. Zhang Kexi's heart suddenly had infinite fear, because he was sure that this was the legendary wind feather fan. And the moment Zhang Xu saw the wind feather fan, he knew that he was no longer Feng Baiyi's opponent. In order to seek self-comfort, Zhang Xu hurriedly looked at the fan carefully, hoping to find some strange way to win.
There are no patterns on the folding fan in Feng Baiyi's hand, except for some of the original characteristics of the folding fan. There was only a map of the destruction of mountains and rivers and people fleeing, and on this map was embroidered with a string of words in red thread.
"Broken Mountains and Rivers Shi Baoquan, inform me to apprentice Feng Baiyi" Zhang Xu hadn't finished reading the string of words on the folding fan, and when he saw the name Broken Mountains and Rivers, he suddenly gasped. The attack of the double halberd in his hand couldn't help but stop. The whole person stopped straight and straight not far from Feng Baiyi.
Broken Mountains and Rivers Shi Baoquan Zhang Xu's mind suddenly appeared an old man with gray hair and a smile, but Zhang Kexi also knew that behind this smiling face, what a hideous and terrifying face was hidden.
More than ten years ago, Zhang Xu first came out of the rivers and lakes, relying on the strong internal force of his small cultivation place and the power of the double halberd in his hand, he successively defeated many heroes and heroes in the world. Don't look at the current Zhang Xu, who has not achieved his goal and is unscrupulous. But the young Zhang Xu takes chivalry as his goal, robbing the rich and helping the poor, and being a dissolute and unruly teenager is what Zhang Xu wants to do the most.
Who knows, Zhang Xu didn't have much time to become famous. One day, when Zhang Xu was looking for a senior in the territory of the closed country to seek a breakthrough in martial arts, he suddenly ran into this old man Shi Baoquan who had influenced his life.
Shi Baoquan has long been famous in the rivers and lakes, and the age of fame can be traced back to at least Zhang Xu's father's generation. Shi Baoquan relied on his amazing martial arts and legendary ability to control his own weapons to defeat the five masters on the Demon Spirit Continent at that time, while Shi Baoquan showed no mercy and directly killed these five peerless masters. Shi Baoquan got the name of Broken Mountains and Rivers from then on, not only because of his ability to move mountains and reclaim the sea, but because he was friend or foe, as long as that person could provide him with benefits, once he felt that you had lost his effect, he would kill them mercilessly. On the contrary, those he is not interested in may be able to survive. When the older generation of people on the Demon Spirit Continent saw Shi Baoquan, they didn't dare to make any noise at all, they just hoped that they wouldn't do him any good. At that time, when he heard Shi Baoquan's name, even children didn't dare to cry at night. And the people of the new generation are just like Zhang Xu, and they have a little respect for this predecessor of the broken mountains and rivers who dares to fight against heaven and earth, after all, Shi Baoquan was the most powerful existence on the Demon Spirit Continent at that time. And everyone worships the strong, when the young Zhang Xu really saw his admirer Shi Baoquan, the young man's face did not hesitate to show blind admiration. even desperately begged Shi Baoquan to teach him martial arts.
But who knows, Shi Baoquan happened to encounter some bottlenecks in order to cultivate an ability to better control his own weapons, and when he saw Zhang Xu's blind worship of himself, he actually deceived Zhang Xu, watered his weapons with the blood of Zhang Xu and his whole family, and crossed the bottleneck with cruel methods. Shi Baoquan also gained more powerful power as a result. Shi Baoquan has always been untrustworthy, and Shi Baoquan did not hesitate at all when he did such a hurtful thing. As for Zhang Xu, Shi Baoquan hesitated, he did not kill Zhang Xu, nor did he tell him the tragic situation of his family's death. Instead, he easily beat Zhang Xu to a serious injury and left him on the side of the road. Shi Baoquan believes in his own ability infinitely, although he has not been killed, but he believes that Zhang Xu will not be able to return to his home.
I never thought that Zhang Xu would rely on his tenacious perseverance and try his best to crawl back to his home, looking at the tragic situation of the whole family, the young Zhang Xu cried and his eyes reddened, he regretted it! Why should he believe in a famous person. After Zhang Xu finished crying, he faced the sky and made a poisonous oath with his own blood: I will kill Shi Baoquan in this life!
With the help of the villagers, Zhang Xu stubbornly recovered from his injuries, left the village with a simple backpack, and hit the road. Since then, Zhang Xu has been burdened with the blood debt of the whole family and embarked on a difficult road of revenge alone.
Zhang Xu wandered to various places in the Demon Spirit Continent alone, studying martial arts hard while looking for his enemy Shi Baoquan. However, Zhang Xu traveled all over the Demon Spirit Continent and never found Shi Baoquan's shadow. After the baptism of the rivers and lakes, Zhang Xu has changed from a teenager who has been inspirational and chivalrous since he was a child to a person who will do whatever it takes to achieve his own goals.