Chapter 12: The Birthday Banquet (Part II)
Huangfu Bohu obviously moved his true character, he approached Hao Zhao step by step, standing ten steps away from Hao Zhao, just when Hao Zhao was secretly on guard, thinking that this prince was going to make a killing move, he only heard him read: "Where is the shadow of the White Tiger Guard?" β
As Huangfu Bohu's words fell, the space in front of him began to fluctuate, and then two warriors in black armor walked out of the void, all of them were shrouded in a black cloth, only two eyes flashing green were exposed, and a white hideous tiger head was engraved on his chest.
They stood still in front of Huangfu Bohu and said respectfully: "Here! β
"As the crown prince of the White Tiger Empire, I order you to kill those who insult my royal family!"
Huangfu Bohu said word by word, and the scene suddenly became tense.
The crowd was in an uproar, the White Tiger Guard was the most elite unit of the White Tiger Empire, and the Shadow was the elite of the elite, just like the Jinyi Guard of the Ming Dynasty, Huangfu Bohu's words were equivalent to directly announcing Hao Zhao's death sentence.
"The prince of the dignified White Tiger Empire, his strength is inevitably too small, to deal with a small child, he actually summoned the shadow..."The person who spoke before said again.
"I said you should be quiet, Brother Wan, the lowest level of the Shadow members is also the cultivation of the foundation building period, and the old and the young are old, but I don't want to die with you."
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The two black-armored guards appeared beside Hao Zhao in a flash, and the spiritual pressure of the foundation building period was released, and their faces were expressionless, as if they were waiting for Hao Zhao to be destroyed by the powerful spiritual pressure.
All of them held their breath, and although the fall of a genius boy was a pity, no one was willing to offend the lord of the empire for someone they didn't know.
If you want to blame, you can only blame him for not measuring himself and offending an unattainable existence. That's what almost everyone here thinks.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...... Ten seconds passed.
The smile on Huangfu Bohu's face froze, standing on the edge of the ring, he could feel the strong coercion of the two foundation building period monks, why did Hao Zhao, who was in the middle of the coercion, look like a person with nothing to do?
The faces of the two black-armored monks also showed a different look, and then use their spiritual power to probe, that's right, it is the first order of the body refining period, the two glanced at each other, nodded, and each grabbed a black long-chain hammer with a hook from the void.
Hook the soul and kill the lance, and the mind points to the place!
The crowd of onlookers exclaimed, the Soul Snatching Lance is the Shadow's killer weapon, and every time you shoot, you will inevitably drink blood. Hao Zhao seemed to be more auspicious, but this was at Shen Lao's birthday banquet, and some of the intellectuals had quietly left, leaving only a few supporters of Huangfu Bohu to watch with interest.
They waved the long-chain hammer in their hands, as if they had the strength of ten thousand catties.
The iron hammer was surrounded by a trace of spiritual power, flashing with a faint black light, like the soul hook of the hell demon, and the iron chain was flying, if it hit Hao Zhao, it would definitely leave his bones gone.
Hard connection is definitely impossible, Hao Zhao can only use the law of space.
The spiritual pressure did not exist, but the airflow driven by the swing of the hammer became more and more, scraping on the face like a blade, faintly painful.
"Damn, it's really a tree that wants to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop, and I'm still afraid that you can't do it." Hao Zhao's inner worship is communism, and he still remembers that a great man said that when the wolf comes, we have a butcher's knife, and in the face of oppression, as long as we resist.
"Hidden in the void..."
"Stop!"
Before Hao Zhao could finish his incantation, an angry voice sounded out of thin air.
Immediately after that, a middle-aged man with thick eyebrows and big eyes came out of the crowd, wearing a white purple-edged gold carving robe, Hao Zhao recognized that it should be an official uniform, and unlike the Qinglong Empire, the white purple-edged gold carving robe was engraved with a golden eagle.
"The crown prince and master Shen Yueyang are here, there is no drama now." I don't know who muttered, and the rest of the onlookers dispersed.
The shadow's movements did not pause, the White Tiger Guard belonged to the imperial royal power and only listened to the command of the imperial family, so the shadow would not pay attention to Shen Yueyang's words at all.
"The White Tiger Order is here, and the Shadow retreats!"
Shen Yueyang took out a golden palm-sized token from his arms, and an imposing white tiger was engraved on the front.
Everyone's faces changed, and they all knelt on one knee, including Huangfu Bohu,
"Meet His Majesty the Tiger Emperor!"
"Father is above!"
Seeing the White Tiger Order is like seeing the White Tiger Emperor!
The hammer that flew halfway back into the shadow's hand, and the two of them shook their bodies as the figure gradually disappeared into thin air.
Shen Yueyang's face was pale, even though he knew that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was perverse, and he didn't want to be arrogant to this extent, what the Tiger Emperor once said to him came to his mind, "Bo Hu Handao was born and has been smart since he was a child, but he was born in the emperor's family, and his temperament is perverse, and I hope that Mr. will try his best to teach him, if he succeeds in the future, it will be the blessing of my white tiger!" This piece of white tiger is a gift to you! β
The words were still in his ears, and he didn't want to use this thing today, he said to Huangfu Bohu: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the shadow is the most mysterious power of the imperial family, if Your Majesty knows that you have brought him to my Shen family to show prestige, I am afraid the consequences will be very serious." β
Huangfu Bohu's face changed, if others complained to his father, he would not be afraid at all, but his own teacher really made him cold, he stood up and saluted the middle-aged man, "Teacher, I was wrong, I am willing to be punished!" β
"Humph!"
Shen Yueyang didn't give face to His Majesty the future Tiger Emperor, snorted coldly, looked at the bewitching girl, and said slowly: "Miss Youyue, this matter is ...... the queen's mother."
"What the gentleman said is very true, and the little woman is also wrong!" The bewitching girl said obediently.
Shen Yueyang took back the White Tiger Order, held his beard with his right hand, and nodded with satisfaction, "Everyone is gone, today is my father's birthday, thank you for coming, you must have fun!" β
"Lord Shen is polite!"
Everyone dispersed, and Huangfu Bohu glanced at Hao Zhao, and then left with his arrogant aunt.
The cold eyes of the Tiger Emperor Prince reminded him of poisonous snakes, he always felt that this matter would not be settled, just as Hao Zhao was about to leave, he was stopped by Shen Yueyang,
"Want to leave when you're in trouble? Don't want to explain something? β
Hao Zhao smiled awkwardly, and just wanted to explain, he heard Shen Yueyang ask, "How old are you this year?" How is it cultivated? β
"14 years old, conjoined first order." Hao Zhao still has a good impression of Shen Yueyang, because his serious face reminds him of the upright Bao Zheng.
Shen Yueyang was expressionless, nodded, and said to Hao Zhao, "Come with me!" β
Looking at the prince and master in front of him, who everyone was in awe of, Hao Zhao sighed, is it a blessing or a curse, it is a disaster that can't be avoided, and what should come is still here after all!
Bypassing the strange flowers and plants arranged according to certain rules around him, Hao Zhao followed Shen Yueyang into a golden hall, just looking at this magnificent building, he could feel the extraordinaryness of its owner's house, but there was nothing to see outside such a huge building, it seemed that those seemingly randomly placed plants were still a formation, and although this place was much smaller than the inner courtyard, it was more exquisite.
Walking into the hall, facing a bronze giant tower standing in the center of the main hall, dragons, tigers, birds and turtles are all prostrate under the pagoda in the center of the hall, two rows of low tables are split left and right, and there are people sitting on them, and there is a larger low table on the top position.
There are all kinds of delicacies on it, there are countless strange flowers and fruits, but only one person sits, only to see that the person only saw that he was wearing a crescent-colored dress, and the clothes were embroidered with gorgeous patterns with green silk, and there were vaguely two big characters of "Xuanwu".
There were about ten people in the hall in total, and in the surprised eyes of most people, Shen Yueyang brought Hao Zhao to the center,
"Father, he's coming!"
As soon as this remark came out, it shocked everyone. Hao Zhao didn't expect that his appearance would be treated like this, he caught a glimpse of Danzhou beside the old man, at this time she was wearing a golden tuck and mopping the floor's long dress, holding the head of the heavenly girl, two strands of hair hanging down on both cheeks, Gu Bo flowed, bright eyes and bright teeth. She nodded at Hao Zhao and smiled slightly.
Hao Zhao looked around, all the people looked at him with a strange look, the top was an old man with gray hair, his eyes were deep, Hao Zhao didn't dare to look directly for too long; followed by Shen Yueyang, who has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his eyes are as calm as water, and there is only a trace of fluctuation when he looks at Danzhou; There is also a middle-aged couple who looked at Hao Zhao with very complicated eyes. There were more than ten other men and women, looking at Hao Zhao with different eyes, curious, disdainful, provocative... And so on.
What made Hao Zhao most uncomfortable was a young man about the same age as him, I saw that he had red lips and white teeth, but when he watched people eat, he had a tiger and wolf atmosphere, surrounded by his provocative eyes, Hao Zhao felt that he might be regarded as a prey.
Just when Hao Zhao was very puzzled by what had happened, the gray-haired old man drank a glass and said with feeling: "That's it, since you are a distant cousin in Xiaozhou who has been separated for many years, then I will allow you to enter the Shenwu Sect to study." Anyway, because of you, Xiaozhou came to see me. β
Hearing this, Danzhou's mature and beautiful face showed a trace of girlish guilt.
The Shenwu Gate is the Shen family's private armament, and it is also the place where Danzhou painstakingly let Hao Zhao enter, because once he enters the Shenwu Gate, he not only has the guidance of a famous teacher, but most importantly, he also has inexhaustible cultivation resources.
If it were someone else, he would definitely be crazy when he heard this, but Hao Zhao was not an ordinary person, he didn't feel a little excited when he heard this, but a trace of worry.
"Hey, little brother, call me sister, and I'll cover you in the future." At this time, a delicate girl ran to Hao Zhao's side and said with a smile, completely forgetting that she had just abandoned Hao Zhao in the inner courtyard.
"Thank you for your kindness," Hao Zhao ignored Chu Ruxue and said respectfully to the old man, "But the kid is used to it, and if you stay in the Shen family, you will only be afraid of disturbing you, so I won't stay in the Shenwu Sect." β
"Oh?" The old man frowned, glanced at Danzhou with some surprise, only to see Danzhou nodded a little embarrassedly, and the old man said angrily: "Nonsense, Xiaozhou, do you know the consequences of stealing martial arts?" β
Danzhou's face changed, and he quickly knelt down and pleaded: "Stealing martial arts, don't worry about killing, if you are not of my race, your heart will be different!" How could Zhou'er forget, but father-in-law, Hao Zhao is not an outsider..."
"Don't be naΓ―ve, Xiaozhou," At this time, a middle-aged beautiful woman next to Shen Yueyang stood up, her face was full of excitement, and said, "If he is not an outsider, how can he not want to stay in Shenwumen?" β
I saw that the beautiful woman had a snake face and wore a very revealing red corset dress.
As soon as the words fell, a woman with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who was very fierce, stood up again, with an expression of hatred that could not be made of steel, "Xiaozhou, you haven't come back for so many years, and as soon as you come back, you will mess around, can the family martial arts be passed on?" The rules were set by the ancestors, do you want your father to bear the eternal charges for you? β
Danzhou was stunned when he heard this, and his mature and beautiful face was full of helplessness.
Chu Ruxue's little face was also full of doubts, and she hurriedly asked with big eyes, "Why don't you want to stay?" If you stay in the Shen family, you won't be able to steal martial arts, so you won't have to die. β
Hao Zhao shook his head, did not speak, and once again ignored the girl's kindness, so anxious that the girl wanted to hit someone.
"Good, good!"
The old man said three good words in a row, and then his face was horizontal, his hand pinched the magic trick, and he didn't know what he said in his mouth, and the colorful glazed tower flashed, and Hao Zhao's figure disappeared in the hall.
Danzhou's face turned pale instantly, and he hurriedly cried: "Father-in-law, father-in-law, mercy to his subordinates, it's all my fault, it's all my fault......"
"Hmph, it's such a big person, and it's still so willful to do things! I don't have a long memory at all, I'm really angry, I'll clean you up later. The old man said angrily, and then with a wave of his hand, the colorful glazed pagoda was full of light, standing in the center of the hall, and the dragon, tiger, bird and turtle surrendered to the surroundings, only Hao Zhao was gone.
Danzhou breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Hao Zhao was not immediately executed, there was still hope of survival.
Danzhou still wanted to speak, but the old man waved his hand and interrupted her, "There are guests coming, let's all go out!" β
After speaking, the old man shook his body and disappeared,
Everyone also hurriedly followed, Danzhou glanced at the glazed tower standing in the hall, and followed out with a sigh.
When the big people in the holy realm descended on the Shen Mansion, it was naturally indispensable to raise a glass and talk about the situation.
Speaking of the vision of heaven and earth some time ago, everyone sighed again, because they were all deputies of the four major sects, so they could not directly get the will of the three major bishops, and could only say their own conjectures.
Someone said, "Troubled times are coming!" β
Someone said, "My generation should stand!" β
Someone else said: "Warcraft turns into a god!" β
And so on......
It will not be listed here.
And our instigator is now locked up in a fantasy world.
It takes ten people to embrace the towering trees to shade the clouds, countless exotic flowers and plants are intertwined, and the broken branches and fallen leaves all over the ground exude the smell of decay, this is a primeval deep forest, dense trees, damp smell, but there is no trace of life.
The silence around was terrifying, closing his eyes, everything around him disappeared, Hao Zhao could clearly feel the void he was in, thinking that this was the space of the colorful glazed tower.
Just as Hao Zhao was thinking, a dark black figure appeared in the void, tiptoeing, looking nervous, Hao Zhao's heart moved, this person was not the killer sent by the old man?
Hao Zhao opened his eyes, surrounded by lush trees, but when he closed his eyes, he could accurately see the location of that person, so as soon as he closed his eyes, he directly locked on to a towering tree ten meters away.
He, hiding behind the trunk of the tree, was now cautiously peeking at himself.
Hao Zhao pretended not to notice anything, like a person with nothing to do, full of curiosity about everything around him.
The black shadow dodged left and right, slowly approaching, but Hao Zhao couldn't help laughing, and just begged him to come over quickly.
Just when Hao Zhao didn't know what to pretend to admire, a black shadow finally appeared behind him, and Hao Zhao took a closer look and found that he was actually a tiger and wolf boy sitting next to Shen Yueyang, looking burly, but at the moment he was like a thief, which was really funny.
"Can you move faster?" Hao Zhao turned around and said impatiently.
The boy took two steps back and exclaimed, "You found me?" β
"How good do you think you are?" Hao Zhao pouted.
The tiger wolf boy raised his eyebrows and said proudly, "What kind of thing are you, dare to talk to the master in such a tone?" β
Hao Zhao was not angry, and said, "If I guessed correctly, you are Shen Yueyang's son, right?" β
The tiger wolf boy laughed and said, "I didn't expect you to have a little eyesight, I am Shen Guang Chenyang, the young master of the Shen Mansion, do you know why I came to you?" β
Hao Zhao: "Nonsense, I'm not your father, how do you know?" β
"Looking for a fight!" Shen Guangchenyang's tiger eyes were lifted, and he said abruptly: "I want to see if your mouth is powerful or my fists and feet are powerful!" β
From the aura he released, Hao Zhao could clearly feel his strength, the fourth order of the refining period.
Hao Zhao didn't pay attention to it yet.
"You're not my opponent." Hao Zhao shook his finger at him.
"You... Look at the moves! "The tiger wolf boy is sixteen years old this year, he is Shen Yueyang's second son, he has an arrogant personality, where can he stand this kind of provocation, he saw that Hao Zhao only had the strength of the first order of the body refining period, but his tone was still arrogant, so he had the heart to teach him a lesson.
"It's good to come!" Attracted by the momentum of Shen Guang Chenyang's Nine Waves, Hao Zhao's Nine Waves Heart Formula quietly operated.
The two of them went back and forth, fists to flesh, fighting for dozens of rounds, and the trees around them had been destroyed for many days, until Hao Zhaoli was unable to catch it and gradually fell behind.
The third-order tempering heart in the conjoined stage has a strong explosive power; The conjoined phase of the four sections of the liver is tempered, with extraordinary resilience.
Shen Guang Chenyang's attack with one hand, Hao Zhao needs two hands to catch it, and Hao Zhao's nine-fold wave, Shen Guang Chenyang can always dissolve it at the third time, and that feeling is like punching cotton with a fist.
It seems that the Nine Waves still have a back-move, Hao Zhao thought to himself, if there is a spear, there must be a shield, which is worthy of a big family.
After ten moves, Shen Guang Chenyang smiled proudly, "It turns out that you only have this level, the first order of the body refining period, haha, I thought you were so powerful, little brother, let me show you what the real mad technique Nine Waves is." β
After speaking, Shen Guang Chenyang jumped up, hit Hao Zhao in the abdomen, Hao Zhao pressed down with both hands, blocking Shen Guang Chenyang's attack, Shen Guang Chenyang retreated, and his feet relayed to the tree next to him,
"Bang!" The trunk of the tree cracked in response.
Shen Guang Chenyang rushed towards Hao Zhao at a faster speed.
The second of the nine waves!
This time, the fist went straight to Hao Zhao's immature and handsome face.
"No, we can't let him borrow anymore." Hao Zhao thought for a moment, then closed his eyes, and the surrounding scenery disappeared, leaving only Shen Guangchenyang's figure attacking him in the void. Hao Zhao pulled back, and at the same time gathered enough strength, and slammed a fist on Shen Guang Chenyang's fist, the fists of the two were together, and they quickly separated with a "boom", Hao Zhao took advantage of the momentum to retreat, and the corners of Shen Guang Chenyang's mouth showed a wild smile.
Dumbfounded, don't you know that the harder you work, the more powerful I will be?
Another tree trunk broke in response, Shen Guang Chenyang's strength had increased by more than five times, and the huge fist was unstoppable, with a full strength of five thousand catties, it is estimated that even the people of the fifth order of the body refining stage would not dare to make a hard connection.
"It's time." Hao Zhao still closed his eyes, his mind moved, and then he took two steps back.
Shen Guang Chenyang watched in disbelief as Hao Zhao disappeared into the trunk of a towering tree, but the rapid attack couldn't help him think about it, gritted his teeth, and slammed his fist on the trunk.
"Buzz!" The towering giant tree that needed to be surrounded by ten people shook for a moment.
"Bang!"
Falling leaves are flying in the sky!
"Who the hell are you?" Shen Guang Chenyang stopped, wiped the blood on his fist without a trace, the attack of the Nine Waves was certainly fierce, but in the face of the absolute defense of the towering tree, Shen Guang Chenyang was still shocked.
What puzzled him now was why Hao Zhao disappeared out of thin air and escaped the lock of his Nine Waves, he was obviously only at the first order of the body refining stage!
Hao Zhao walked out from behind the tree slowly and teased, "Don't you disdain that you know my name?" β
"Humph!" Shen Guangchenyang snorted coldly, "I don't believe you can hide every time." β
"Breeze Thunderstep!"
Walking like a breeze, elegant and hard to find, like thunder, breathtaking, Shen Guang Chenyang slowly said the martial arts mantra, took an elegant step, and attacked Hao Zhao mercilessly, the distance between the two was not far away, so in less than a breath, Shen Guang Chenyang's palm thunder appeared in front of Hao Zhao.
Hao Zhao was not in a hurry, closed his eyes, and calmly retreated, there was nothing in the void that could stop his steps, so no matter how mysterious Shen Guang Chenyang's footwork was, the palm thunder could not hit Hao Zhao's body.
After electrocuting more than a dozen trees, Shen Guangchenyang stopped panting, "Second stunned, are you like a mouse, can you only hide?" You have the ability to fight with me in a dignified manner. β
In Shen Guangchenyang's view, Hao Zhao's strange performance was just a martial art, because he found the biggest flaw in Hao Zhao's body technique, that is, he could only defend, not attack.
There are thousands of martial arts in the world, and he can't know them all, but he knows one thing, Hao Zhao's martial arts are useless!
"If you want to provoke me, there is no door!" Hao Zhao sat on a high tree branch, looking down at Shen Guangchenyang.
Shen Guangchenyang was stunned, how could he feel that this kid in front of him was like a human essence?
"Come down, let's stop fighting, I want to have a good talk with you." After pondering for a long time, Shen Guang Chenyang took the initiative to speak.
"I'm not going to come down, just tell me something, I'm listening here." Hao Zhao clasped his hands on his chest, leaned against the trunk of the tree, and looked at the angry young master for a long time.
If you want to yin me, no way!
Shen Guang Chenyang was helpless, and sat under the tree, "If you steal the Nine Waves of Martial Arts and refuse to stay in the Shenwu Gate, aren't you afraid that we will kill you?" β
Hao Zhao blinked, "Who said that after learning martial arts, you must stay in the Shenwu Sect?" Is there no other way? β
Shen Guangchenyang smiled and said, "You want Aunt Zhou to intercede for you, right?" You are so naΓ―ve, she is now crossing the river in mud and sand, and it is difficult to protect herself, how can she control you? β
Hao Zhao smiled: "Who said that she was asked to intercede?" There is another way. β
"What?" Shen Guangchenyang was puzzled, and then jumped up from the ground as if he remembered something, pointed to Hao Zhao on the tree, and said suspiciously: "You won't, you won't want to, challenge my brother, right?" β
Hao Zhao nodded seriously.
I didn't want Shen Guang Chenyang to burst out laughing, "You can't even beat me, and you still want to challenge my brother, it's really a fool's dream." β
Hao Zhao didn't answer, and began to close his eyes and recuperate.
Shen Guangchenyang was helpless, and sneered: "As soon as you get into the golden ring, life and death are up to you." I don't know where you know this method, since ancient times, few people have been able to succeed, but they have achieved my brother's prestige, I advise you not to send him to death. β
"According to you, if you go, you will die, and if you don't go, you will die, so why don't I try?" Hao Zhao said.
Shen Guangchenyang choked, and said, "It's really courageous, young man, my trip is not in vain, you are indeed a little interesting." By the way, what's your name? β
"Hao Zhao, Chi Er Hao, Ri Zhaozhao."
"If you don't die, we might be able to be friends." Shen Guang Chenyang said, and his figure gradually disappeared in place.
The birthday banquet of the Shen Mansion has finally arrived*. In a festive atmosphere, everyone enjoyed this gluttonous feast to the fullest.
At the same time, out of the sanctuary came an old man with a stiff figure, the old man's beard was all white, his long beard was fluttering, tied with a ribbon at will, there was no tube or hairpin, and a few strands of hair on his forehead were blown by the wind, and the silver ribbon was intertwined and fluttering, which looked quite light. I saw that he was wearing a snow-white straight-placked robe, the drape of the clothes was very good, and the waist was tied with a wide belt of golden giant tower pattern, and only a piece of ink jade of excellent jade quality hung on it, the shape seemed to be rough but simple and gloomy. There is no momentum on his body, just like an ordinary person.
Seeing the old man come out, the four sculptures at the gate of the giant tower actually came to life, turning into four coercive middle-aged people dressed in gorgeous clothes, they hurriedly got up from the ground and said respectfully to the old man: "Pope, what does Allah say?" β
The old man's eyes were deep, he looked into the distance, and said slowly: "The Chosen One has appeared. β
The four of them were startled, and asked in unison, "What should I do?" β
The old man shook his head, but without speaking, the four of them left happily.