Chapter Forty-Six: The Divine Marquis of Junshan
The autumn rain turned the world into a foggy black and blue.
The waves crashed on the edge of the stone platform again and again, hundreds of boats rose and fell with the waves, and the entire lake fell into a dead silence.
Under the gaze of 10,000 people, the flower-haired old man with a naked and sturdy upper body in an armor skirt walked to the towering wordless monument step by step, his face was not happy or angry, but the unicorn with hideous eyes on his waist was like a behemoth entrenched on his waist, staring at the thousands of ants in the audience.
The people who came to Junshantai to see the excitement on this trip were not only the low-level Jianghu pawns, but also the heroes of the rivers and lakes in Zezhou and even the surrounding areas, who were basically here.
On the nearest few large ferries, there are Qianhe Villa in Yanzhou, Xiaoshan Fort in Jiangzhou, and even the martial arts heroes in Tiannan Jianghu.
With the appearance of Xuanyuan Chao, who had been sitting in the position of 'sword leader' for nearly fifty years, everyone walked out of the ship, and the greetings came one after another:
"Xuanyuan Hero......"
"I haven't seen you for a few years, and Shenhou is still like this......"
……
Xuanyuan's long hair moved with the wind, and he didn't respond to the juniors he knew or didn't know, but just stared at the small canopy boat between the cracks with eagle-like eyes.
On the canopy boat, Qiu Tianhe ignored the shocked gazes of a few little cubs, and stood lightly on the bow of the boat:
"Xuanyuan Dynasty, last year, your son bribed the disciples of the Pingtian Sect, sent a message to the imperial court, and put me in the black dungeon, did you ever think that I would be blessed by misfortune, regain my freedom, and stand here openly?"
Boom –
Xuanyuan Chao stuck the Junshan knife on the stone brick on his side, and raised his head slightly in the rain:
"Knife man, speak with a knife. If you want to reason with the old man's rebel son, you can go down and talk to him face to face later. ”
"Buzz ......"
Hundreds of famous people in the rivers and lakes who were not far away were in an uproar when they heard this, and understood that the news of the Wuzhou rivers and lakes that had just been circulated was true, and Xuanyuan Hongzhi should be really dead.
And Xuanyuan Chao's words came out, he was no longer ready to fight, he made it clear in advance that he wanted to kill people, and Qiu Tianhe took the stage again, so he couldn't blame Xuanyuan Chao, who had just lost his son, for being heavy.
Qiu Tianhe is self-aware, he looks down on Xuanyuan Dynasty's personality, but he has never underestimated Xuanyuan Dynasty's sword skills, and he knows far better than everyone present whether he fights or not.
But they have all been targeted, he wants to go to the Xuanyuan Dynasty obviously will not agree, what is in front of him is nothing more than a vigorous death like a swordsman, or before he died, he was in the wilderness and fled to lose an adult.
A vicious battle is destined to be impossible to hide, Qiu Tianhe didn't fight anymore, and his feet flew up and landed on the edge of the Qianzhang stone platform.
The two sides have both new and old grudges, standing in the ring of life and death, and there are not many words.
Rustle~
Under the drizzle, the originally noisy lake surface was completely quiet at this moment.
Qiu Tianhe stood quietly in the rain, staring at the burly figure in front of him who was a head taller than him.
Xuanyuan Chao's long hair moved with the wind, and after glancing at Qiu Tianhe with his sharp eyes, he seemed to have lost interest, and turned his eyes to look at the large and small boats on the lake, as if he was looking for someone.
In the battle of life and death, this careless attitude is undoubtedly a contempt.
Qiu Tianhe shook the knife in his hand and stepped forward:
"Why don't you hang the knife on your back first?"
The essence of the dragon slaying order is to 'retreat and bow to the back to flick the knife', and the same as the eight-step mad knife, the position of the saber hanging is fixed, otherwise it is difficult to start as quickly as possible.
The onlookers were also a little puzzled when they saw this scene.
Xuanyuan Chao did not focus on Qiu Tianhe, and responded flatly:
"In the past, it was a competition to compete with each other, and it was a matter of who had the best moves; Today, the old man wants to kill people, and he doesn't play routines step by step. ”
“……”
Qiu Tianhe frowned secretly, and his pace slowed down.
After all, Xuanyuan Chao's words were not arrogant, but ready to move seriously.
The Junshan knife is too heavy, and only by bowing the back of the knife can it be quickly started, so all the swordsmen are studying how to break this starting style, so that they can press the dragon slaying order to death as soon as they move.
In previous years, Xuanyuan Dynasty accepted challenges on Junshan Terrace, and he never played falsely, so he started with the 'bowing back bullet knife' to make people break.
Xuanyuan Dynasty fights according to the number of ways of the dragon slaying order, as long as the swordsman with a little background can catch one or two knives without dying, after all, the move is clear, and he can hide if he can't fight.
If you don't follow the number of roads, you can't guess how Xuanyuan Dynasty will make a move, you can only fight for comprehensive strength such as explosiveness, eyesight, reaction, and knife understanding, and a little weaker is a knife to divide life and death.
Qiu Tianhe's eyes were slightly condensed, ignoring all the sounds outside the ring, and he was engrossed in observing Xuanyuan Chao's posture, breath and even eyes, wanting to find out the opponent's routine first.
But it's a pity that Xuanyuan Chao is as stable as a boulder, everyone knows that they will die if they hit themselves, but they just can't figure out how this stone will be smashed.
The two were dozens of feet apart, but Qiu Tianhe walked for a long time, and his speed became slower and slower, until the rain became heavier, and he did not move.
The onlookers held their breath, and many of them were red, but no one urged.
After pulling the distance between each other to ten zhang, Qiu Tianhe had already exhausted Xuanyuan Chao's possible knife action, he did not hesitate any longer, and held the handle of the knife with his right hand.
Chokew-
On the stone platform, a white light suddenly appeared!
Qiu Tianhe's figure exploded, dragging a single knife in his hand, but in the blink of an eye, it had disappeared from everyone's field of vision, and when he saw it again, the Xueliang blade had stabbed to the spine from Xuanyuan to the left back.
Boom –
It was also at the same moment that there was a splash of gravel in the ring, and there was a bang.
Looking at Xuanyuan Chao elsewhere, he didn't even look back, his right foot slammed on the back of the knife on his side, and his left hand held the handle of the knife at the same time, and then his waist and abdomen exerted force and his muscles knotted all over his body, and slashed down to the left rear.
Sa –
The ring flew sideways, and the sudden rise of the violent air wave stirred up the rain curtain around the two.
From a distance, it looks like a terrifying Xuanyuan Dynasty, and a backhand knife drove the wind and rain and turned into a huge wave.
And Qiu Tianhe, who is in front of the blade, is like a lonely boat in front of the stormy waves, even ordinary people who have no power to tie the chicken can see that as long as they are hit by the huge waves, they will be torn apart.
Qiu Tianhe has been practicing knives all his life, and he is not caught off guard when he calculates that Xuanyuan Dynasty may start like this.
But calculating and catching are two different things.
Seeing the devastating knife coming, when the knife whip in Qiu Tianhe's hand was beyond his reach, he immediately closed the knife and flashed sideways, holding the back of the knife with his left hand.
The next moment, terrifying energy erupted from the ring.
Bell –
Bang!
Xuanyuan slashed at the Tianhe knife with his backhand, without giving the other party the slightest chance to 'strike backwards', and the force was so great that he directly moved Qiu Tianhe sideways.
The sliding figure has not completely stopped, and the Xuanyuan Dynasty, whose body is like a mountain, has already turned around with the knife, holding the knife with both hands, flying and jumping up, and splitting down again with the momentum of splitting Huashan:
"Drink ——!"
The roar was like thunder.
There was no gap between the two knives, and the terrifying energy that erupted in an instant forced back the surrounding rain curtain and cleared a long groove on the ground.
Although Qiu Tianhe would not be in a mess, Xuanyuan Chao's knife was too strong, and it was almost impossible to avoid it without injury, so he could only block it with a knife and use his strength to move.
Bell –
The heavy knife fell again, and the stone bricks under Qiu Tianhe's feet shattered instantly, and the whole person slipped backwards.
Xuanyuan Dynasty, who was dressed in an armor skirt, waved a Junshan heavy knife like the wind, leaving no gap, almost following Qiu Tianhe out, and the knife fell again, leaving a huge pit on the ground.
Boom –
The top masters who can be seen clearly on the lake, see this scene and know that the victory and defeat have been decided.
Xuanyuan Dynasty's knife technique is so simple that it has nothing to say, it is purely hard power crushing, and it belongs to the fighting style of one force to ten meetings.
Qiu Tianhe used a Tianhe knife, which was strong in predicting the backhand, and at this time there was no chance of even a backhand knife, so naturally there was no possibility of winning.
Qiu Tianhe received three knives in a row, and the tiger's mouth holding the knife had been cracked, and he knew that he had no chance of winning, and he might die violently if he continued to fight, so he immediately flew back and jumped to the shore of the lake.
Although Junshantai is a thousand feet in circumference, the place where the two fought was in front of the wordless monument by the lake.
As long as he gets out of the ring, no matter how thick-skinned Xuanyuan Chao is, it is not good to hunt down and kill the opponent who has already admitted defeat in front of tens of thousands of people.
But it's a pity that Xuanyuan Chao said that life and death are life and death, and seeing that Qiu Tianhe wanted to escape, his figure flashed, and he came to the lake to block the way out.
The onlookers naturally frowned when they saw that Xuanyuan Chao was really murderous.
At this moment, there was a sudden roar between the stacks of ships, accompanied by the explosion of the deck being shattered.
Boom –
The people nearby looked around, but saw that on the lake where thousands of sails gathered, the stern of a small boat suddenly turned up.
And a black figure, with a terrifying and terrifying speed, flew over the calm lake, and the strong wind brought up directly pulled out a white wave more than a foot high on the water surface, and from a distance, it seemed to instantly split the lake in two.
Whoop -
The waves were like sharp arrows, and in the blink of an eye, they crossed a distance of dozens of feet, and the target was directly aimed at the burly old man who had just landed on the shore.
Qiu Tianhe was about to rush, but a flash of astonishment flashed in his eyes when he saw this scene, and he hurriedly stopped.
And Xuanyuan Chao, who was blocking the road, noticed that there was a strong wind approaching behind him, so he also stopped, pointed at the ground obliquely with a knife in one hand, and turned around unhurriedly.
Whoa—
The skyrocketing water was raised and quickly fell back to the surface of the lake.
The black figure before the waves, when he found Xuanyuan Zhao stopping, turned around on the surface of the lake, flew up and landed in front of the wordless monument not far away.
It was not until this time that the countless onlookers saw the appearance of the people who came.
The person who came was a man, dressed in a black robe with the texture of water cloud brocade, with a bamboo hat on his head, quite tall, with a handsome face, eyes as sharp as a sword, and a long black sheath hanging from his waist.
The dress of the person who came was the dress of an ordinary swordsman, but the knife on his waist was very special to the countless swordsmen present.
The knife is three feet three feet long, two and a half fingers wide, the handle is wrapped with a black rope, and the tail ring of the handguard is made of brass, all of which are carved dragons.
This is the saber of the previous generation of sword leaders!
Once this knife was known to everyone, although it has disappeared in the rivers and lakes for nearly thirty years, it is still the fastest knife in the world, there is no one!
The surface of the lake under the rain curtain fell silent the moment the visitor appeared.
Xuanyuan Chao's left hand was behind him, and the one hundred and eight pounds of Junshan knife, as if it had no weight, pointed at the ground obliquely, with an exaggerated body shape of more than two meters, just like an ordinary swordsman, holding an ordinary light knife that matched his own body size.
Xuanyuan Chao knew that this young swordsman in his twenties was the culprit who killed his son, but his eyes did not focus on the face of the person who came, but just looked at the dragon knife on his waist, with a little nostalgia in his eyes.
Of course, this is not to miss Zheng Feng, but to miss Crazy Tooth.
There are many peak martial artists in the world, and there are not a few who are stronger than the Xuanyuan Dynasty, but the only 'swordsman' who can make him an opponent and a target, and do everything to catch up, is Crazy Tooth.
After defeating the Crazy Tooth, Xuanyuan Chao sat in the position of the sword leader for more than forty years, and it seemed that the scenery was infinite, but in fact, his life was far less fulfilling than that before the age of thirty.
Because he didn't have the opponent of Crazy Tooth, he didn't know who he should practice with the knife in his hand in the future.
At that time, Xuanyuan Dynasty was very disgusted with Zheng Feng, and did not spare the slightest mercy, and wanted to let his daughter enter the palace was one of the reasons.
There is another reason, that is, Zheng Feng is too mediocre, and he has even practiced the eight-step crazy knife crookedly, and he is not worthy of this knife that he has been chasing for thirty years!
And the young swordsman in front of him looked a little stronger than Zheng Feng.
After Xuanyuan Chao glanced at the dragon sword, he raised his eyes to look at the young swordsman in front of the wordless monument:
"You're the Night Terrors?"
Night Terror Hall arrived at Junshantai in the early morning, and Fang had been watching the battle in secret, and saw that Qiu Tianhe might be hacked to death if he fell into the downwind, so he came out to stir up the situation.
Growing up listening to the name of 'Xuanyuan Dynasty' since childhood, and now seeing this contemporary sword leader who is more than two meters tall up close, Night Terror Hall did feel the pressure, but his expression was very natural, and he responded calmly:
"Liang Zhou's night terror, my father Zheng Feng."
"Buzz ......"
As soon as these words came out, the famous people on the lake were in an uproar.
Zheng Feng's fame is not very big, but with the name of the three heroes of Yunzhou in the front, and the matter of Qiu Tianhe's marriage robbery team in the back, the original story of the turmoil back then, the swordsmen on the rivers and lakes basically know one or two.
At that time, Xuanyuan Hongzhi secretly provoked the generals, and the Xuanyuan Dynasty killed the younger generations who were obviously far weaker than themselves and came to the door to propose marriage, and they are still shameful.
Now that Zheng Feng's descendants have come to the door, it goes without saying what they want to do.
The celebrities present all focused their eyes, looked at the Night Terror, and quietly asked about the origin of this son.
Although Xuanyuan Chao had killed his son, he did not show anger on his face, but said indifferently:
"I crippled your father, and you killed my son. Do you want to have revenge on each other, or do you want the court to be a peacemaker and write off the past with each other? ”
Xuanyuan Chao's words seemed to be not pursuing his son's death, and wanted to settle the grievances, but in fact, it was not.
Because Xuanyuan Chao knew how his son died - he bought a murder and capsized the night terror, and died because he didn't take the initiative to find fault with his eyes, not the revenge of the night terror, which has nothing to do with the grudge of the year.
The righteous father of the Night Terror Hall was disabled, and he was assassinated by the people of Junshantai, this revenge was not only not avenged, but also deepened, how could he agree to write it off.
Xuanyuan Dynasty said so generously that he would not pursue his son's death, but only told the court in front of tens of thousands of people.
Behind the Night Terror Hall is King Jing, the Xuanyuan Dynasty itself is the founding marquis, and whoever kills it will cause the court to be dissatisfied.
And Xuanyuan Chao first proposed to shake hands and make peace, but Night Terror Hall did not agree to take revenge, and King Jing would investigate Jun Shantai's responsibility afterwards, so it would not be reasonable.
Night Terror Hall has always known that it is difficult for the imperial court to do this, and also understands Xuanyuan Chao's intention to say this, so he said directly:
"You crippled your father until he died young; Your son came to kill me and almost killed me in Wanshui Town. With such a big hatred, how can there be two clear words? ”
"That's revenge."
Xuanyuan's long hair moved with the wind, and he looked at the night terrors, his eyes condescending:
"You, like your father, are too reckless and upright, and if you want revenge, you should have this strength and come later; Now I come to the door, just to pay for my son's life. ”
The night terror hall is coming, and if you don't fight, you won't talk about it first, and the scene is tough, and you said:
"I'm afraid that in another two years, if you can't lift a knife, you won't be able to take revenge."
That is the end of the story, and there is no need to say more.
Up and down Junshan Terrace, it was quiet again.
Qiu Tianhe had already put the knife into the sheath, probably because he was afraid that the Night Terror Hall would be big, and he would end up in the same fate as Zheng Feng, and he came to the Night Terror Hall, and he would fight one if the preparation was not good.
Xuanyuan Chao didn't care about this, and turned his eyes to the lake.
On the lake, the boat that had almost been trampled on the shore leaned against the shore.
An 'accompanying concubine' dressed in white, with a hat on her head, jumped onto the Junshan platform with several weapons in her arms.
Xuanyuan glanced at the weapon a few times, and his eyes first fell on the five-foot long knife, and there was a three-point surprise in his eyes:
"This Muqing knife is a weapon researched by Sun Muqing, a Tiannan knife idiot. Sun Muqing used a light knife at the beginning and was defeated by Crazy Teeth; After changing to a heavy knife, he was defeated by the old man, knowing that he had no hope of becoming the leader of the sword, he lived in seclusion in Huangquan Town, and spent his whole life studying how to break these two knife techniques and created this knife. Are you going to use this knife against the old man? ”
When the night terror hall heard this, he always understood why the shopkeeper said to give him the knife, why the proprietress was very unhappy, and it was no surprise that this knife should be the relic of the old shopkeeper.
He borrowed the knife, really to see if he could study the method of breaking the dragon slaying order, but even if he did, it would be impossible to use it against the Xuanyuan Dynasty with a night's proficiency.
Practicing the knife technique last night, he found that this knife was too long, the knife in his left hand was not smooth enough, and the move to receive the dragon slaying order was too light.
After seeing Xuanji Zhenren's martial arts attainments of 'basic attack is a big move, and he can make his own way with a fox's tail', he thought about it for a long time and felt that this knife should be wrong.
The knife technique is taken to the next level, and the emphasis is on the 'law' rather than the 'knife'.
A really good knife technique should indeed take the golden mean, but it should be 'long or short, fast or slow, heavy or light', holding a wooden stick also has the power to open the mountain, and carrying a heavy knife can also be dexterous like the wind.
To achieve this effect, look at the person using the knife, not the style of the knife.
Seeing Xuanyuan Chao ask, Night Terror shook his head:
"I used to think like the predecessors who cast this knife, I thought that I wanted to break through the world's knife techniques, and the knife was neither light nor heavy, neither long nor short, not fast or slow.
In the end, I found that everything is capable, but everything is not fine.
"You can use this knife to break your dragon slaying order, and you can use the Junshan knife to break the golden body of the Shenchen monk; The eight-step mad knife that can use this knife to break the crazy teeth, and the dragon knife is estimated to be faster than Lu Taiqing.
"This knife is a good knife, but people who don't have the ability to use it can't use it well, and people who can use it well don't need it anymore."
Xuanji Zhenren was originally quietly serving as a vase, but when he heard this, he tilted his head slightly, and his eyes showed a little surprise.
After all, she was just drunk last night and casually said, 'That's not how knives are used', but she didn't expect that when she woke up, Night Terror Hall could really have a new understanding.
Xuanyuan Chao commented:
"Good understanding. However, you haven't practiced to the point of 'no knife is better than a knife', without this knife to take advantage of the trick, what do you use to break the dragon slaying order? ”
Night Terror held the handle of the knife with his left hand and raised his hat slightly:
"Martial arts in the world, only fast is not broken. The eight-step mad knife is the fastest knife technique in the world, and it is naturally the strongest knife technique, there should be no opponent, and it can be interrupted by being targeted, so it can only be said that it is not fast enough, not that the knife technique is not good.
"If you can break the knife of the crazy tooth, it means that the knife of the crazy tooth is not fast to the extreme, not that your knife skills are better.
"I'm different, my knife can be faster than Crazy Tooth."
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This little plot is relatively long, and I haven't finished writing or2 yet
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(End of chapter)