Volume I, Chapter XXVII

Lu He didn't sleep all night, and when he got up the next day, he followed Cheng Tang Master to learn the eighteen palms of the dragon.

This dragon descending eighteen palms is the supreme martial arts in the rivers and lakes, and one palm contains dozens or even hundreds of changes, which is very complicated. Although Lu Ji was talented and intelligent, he couldn't remember that much for a while, and after three days, he only barely learned the simpler three palms. One palm is called "Dragon Teng Jiuxiao", one palm is called "Flying Dragon Transit", and the other palm is called "Dragon Swinging Tail".

It wasn't until the evening of the third day that Lu Ji practiced these three palms skillfully, and he didn't feel embarrassed, and said: "I can only remember so much in a hurry, I'm afraid I won't be able to compete tomorrow?"

Hall Master Cheng smiled: "That's enough! These three palms alone are enough to crisscross the rivers and lakes." When you compete tomorrow, don't use this palm until you have to. so as not to help the disciples to shock the world and be suspicious. ”

Lu He nodded. I thought that this eighteen palms of the dragon descending were the secrets of the beggars, how could they be easily revealed, but I am afraid that your palm method is also not in the right way, right?

Nothing was said all night. On the second day, after the end of the hour, the gang of the Pure Clothes Sect gathered in the rudder hall, and they were all excited, all of them looked like they were ready to try, as if everyone was going to compete on the stage to compete for their skills. Obviously, this position of deputy hall master is a great temptation for them.

Several elders took their places again and sat in the bamboo chairs behind the stage. Master Cheng Tang routinely announced the usual rules and precautions for the competition, and the competition officially began.

Because Lu He was the first person recommended by the master of Cheng Tang, Lu He served as the champion. The Pure Clothes Sect from the Cheng Hall Master and several elders and below, including the incense masters and all the disciples of the Pure Clothes Sect, can come to the stage to challenge, and the final winner can sit on the throne of the deputy hall master.

After Hall Master Cheng finished announcing the rules, Lu He went to Taichung to stand for a while, and the audience was very solemn for a moment, the atmosphere was very tense, the air seemed to be frozen, and the disciples could almost hear each other's heartbeats.

Hall Master Cheng said loudly: "Which disciple came up first to challenge Lu and Lu Shao Hero......

As soon as the words fell, a person said in a loud voice: "Let Zhang come to meet this young hero!"

I saw a blue shadow flash, and one person jumped into the ring. The body method is very fast, which shows that the light body kung fu is very good.

When everyone looked up, they saw that the man was dressed in a blue brocade robe, with a red square scarf tied in a bun on his head, his figure was five short and three thick, his shoulders were broad and his waist was round, and his appearance was very strong. It is Zhang Shengwu and Zhang Xiangzhu among the top ten incense masters of the Lin'an branch rudder of the Pure Clothes Sect.

Someone applauded from the audience and said, "Master Zhang Xiang, it's up to you!"

"Beat that kid down, the deputy hall master is none other than you!"

"Yes, how can the hall master of the Purifying Clothes Sect let outsiders do it?"

Zhang Xiangzhu hugged his fists at the audience and said, "Thank you brothers for cheering." Zhang did his best not to disappoint the big guy!"

Turning back to Lu and clasping his fists, he said: "In the next Zhang Shengwu, ask the young hero for advice!"

In his lifetime, Lu He has devoted himself to practicing art in the Zhenyuan Dart Bureau for nearly nine years, except for the last time when he was forced to fight against the golden sword and horse in the Drunken Immortal Building, he has not yet used martial arts with people face-to-face. He has been pampered like a pearl since he was a child, how do you know that the world is sinister? How do you know that today for the dream of a generation of emperors, he has to win the martial arts again with others, and compete for the short and long. Although he was arrogant in his heart, he was inevitably a little afraid in the face of the aggressive Jianghu in front of him, and his heart was beating suddenly for a while.

Lu He took a deep breath to stabilize his mind, keep his mood not so nervous, and returned the salute with a fist, saying, "I wish to lead Lord Zhang Xiang to teach you!"

Zhang Shengwu said: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say." "Make fists with both hands, hug your chest flat, right front and left back, and at the same time stretch your right leg forward half a step, point your toes to the ground, and squat with your left leg back into a prostrate step. Clear-eyed people can know at a glance that this is the "Fuhu Fist" of Wu Song, a good man in Liangshan.

Seeing this, Lu immediately calmed down, closed his fists at his waist, and his legs straddled half a step, at shoulder level. The left hand stands in front of the chest with a single palm, and the right hand turns into a fist and slowly pushes it out. What is placed is the master's eight winds fist starting hand style "pushing the window and looking at the moon".

Zhang Shengwu said: "Okay." It turned out to be the head of the Eight Winds Fist, and Huo Zong's dart head was high. "He was short and rude in appearance, but he spoke politely, and seemed extremely out of place.

I saw him wave his fists, his left leg secretly exerted force, and suddenly rose into the air, his left arm swayed, and his right arm was strengthened, making a move of "grabbing the tiger and smashing his arm", and he rushed to the land and smashed it head.

Lu He was not willing to show weakness, seeing that he was menacing and like thunder, he didn't dare to take it hard, so he retreated and retreated in his busy schedule, avoiding his edge, and returned a trick "surging in the wind".

Zhang Shengwu failed to strike, and as soon as his foot landed, he counterattacked his chest with a "drunken sideways fist". Lu He shouted: "It's good!" Walking quickly under his feet, his palms were raised, and the shadow of his palms was full of sky, implying the sound of wind and thunder.

The battle between the two can be described as a chess opponent, and they will meet a good talent, and for a time it turned out that the chess and drums were equal, and it was difficult to give up, and it became a stalemate.

Zhang Shengwu saw that Jiu Dou Lu was not down, as the master of incense, in front of the disciples of the Pure Clothes Sect, it was inevitable that he would not be able to hold his face. I thought to myself, no wonder Hall Master Cheng strongly recommended this kid to serve as the deputy hall master, it turned out that he did have some outstanding ability. How do you have to think of a way to defeat him?

However, Lu Ji was also very anxious at this time. As the champion master, if he can't even fight for the first challenger to take the stage for a long time, won't it be more difficult the more he goes forward? Among the so many disciples of the Pure Clothes Sect in the audience, I don't know how many people are still eyeing the position of this deputy hall master? I have to go through one battle after another, and I must always be invincible, so that I can be considered victorious, can I surrender to everyone, and can I sit on the throne of the deputy hall master as a matter of course.

Thinking about it, Zhang Shengwu made a move to "ride a tiger and sweep his legs", hit with both fists, his body turned electrically, and he made progress to sweep his legs to the ground, and went straight to Lu and got off the plate. He saw that when Lu He was wandering away, the lower plate was unstable, and he was clever enough to attack him on the lower plate, as long as he succeeded in one blow, he could fall Lu He down on the stage.

Although Lu Ji is not very experienced in facing the enemy, he is young, and the Shimen Eight Winds Boxing that he is accustomed to practicing is a fist with agile footwork and a palm style that changes without square directions, and his body rotation is extremely sensitive over time. Seeing that Zhang Shengwu swept his legs and attacked, he already knew his meaning. Immediately snorted coldly, the plan was calculated, and when Zhang Shengwu's right leg swept closer, and when he didn't touch it, he suddenly made a "Lingyan side turnover", which could avoid his leg that swept Qianjun, and took advantage of his sweep to fall short, and his leg strength couldn't stop the opportunity, so he took advantage of the momentum to hit and gently pushed on his right shoulder, saying: "Master Zhang Xiang." Take, take!"

I saw Zhang Shengwu's solid body fly out flat, collide on the edge of the ring, and suddenly fall off the stage. Fortunately, someone in the audience reached out to catch it, so that it would not fall to the ground.

Zhang Shengwu's face was swollen and red, and he hugged his fists on the stage without looking back, and said in a deep voice: "Zhang's skills are not as good as others, and he is convinced!" and helped people down, blending in the crowd.

Lu He finally won by luck, and couldn't help but sigh lightly, and his mood relaxed a lot.

But at this moment, I saw a person squeezed out of the crowd and raised his voice: "The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and a generation of new people replace the old ones! It seems that our little tricks are too old to succeed...... Wait for the little old man to dare to meet Lu Shao's heroes. Look at the eight-armed Nezha Huo Zhenshan's famous Eight Wind Fist, how many catties and taels can be weighed?"

When they followed the sound, they saw that the person who spoke was about fifty or sixty years old, with a dirty head, and looked sleepy-eyed and half-asleep, as if he had not slept well for a day since his mother's womb. The clothes on his body were also not buttoned, and he was dressed long on the left and short on the right, unevenly, and I saw that he was holding a large smoking gun about three feet long in his right hand, and he did not forget to put it in his mouth when he spoke.

When everyone was stunned, they immediately came back to their senses, and in an instant there were cheers, whistles, and even high-fives and shouts, which sounded like thunder, one after another. It turned out that this person was Yuan Tiegun, the former hall master of the Pure Clothes Sect.

Yuan Tiegun, formerly known as Yuan Dalong, was handsome and dashing when he was young, and he was deeply favored by many ladies in the market. Therefore, he was nicknamed "Playboy Yuan Iron Gun". Later, with a three-foot smoking gun on the Northwest Road, he defeated the Northwest bandit "Longcheng Sanying" and became famous in one fell swoop, and the people in the rivers and lakes called it "Iron Arm Silver Gun". After joining the beggar gang, he was strongly promoted as the master of the Pure Clothes Sect. thought that he would change his bad habits and get on the right path because of this, but he didn't know that "the country is easy to change, and his surname is difficult to change." "Finally, when he was in a storm with his wife and daughter, he was caught raping him red-handed, and because he couldn't bear to be beaten, he committed murder in a fit of rage, and he was punished by the elders of the beggar gang and demoted to the position of the hall master.

I saw Yuan Tiegun's crooked steps, like a drunk, slowly walked to the front of the stage, threw the cigarette gun on the stage, grabbed the rafters with his free hand, stretched out his right foot on the table, and it took a long time to barely climb onto the stage, and he didn't stand up straight, but because of the floating under his feet, he almost fell off the stage.

Everyone in the audience exclaimed, and then burst into laughter.

Someone said: "Yuan Da smoked gun, you better go home and hug the thighs of other people's big girls and little daughters-in-law, that is your specialty! Don't come here to be embarrassed and blind." “

"Yes, how can you do this Pure Clothes Sect Master?"

"You won't fall down in that job, you may not be able to do it in the ring, so come down, be careful of breaking the iron gun!"

Everyone laughed and laughed, and everyone spoke differently, mostly ridicule and scolding.

Yuan Tiegun didn't think it was angry, and sneered at the audience: "I haven't moved my muscles and bones for a long time, my feet are weak, I see laughter, I see laughter." “

Lu Ji almost couldn't hold back his laughter, and said in his heart: "This person looks like a tuberculosis ghost, and he is actually ashamed to speak out and disdain my master's Eight Wind Fist." Later, I won't be surprised if I don't use the Eight Winds Fist to beat you all over the ground? However, remember not to use too much force when you start, otherwise you will be beaten half to death with a punch, and it will not look good in front of everyone. “

Cheng Tang Master had displeasure on his face, and walked up to several elders and whispered for a while. Several elders exchanged glances with each other helplessly, and they all nodded reluctantly.

Yuan Tiegun stumbled up to Lu He, brought the cigarette gun to his mouth, and took a hard breath. The tobacco in the pipe burned with a "sizzling" sound as he took a breath.

After Yuan Tielan took a breath, he pursed his stubble lips and slowly spit out two smoke rings, and suddenly exhaled with a long breath, and a thick smoke went straight to Lu and rolled up in front of the door.

Lu didn't prevent him from doing this, and suddenly inhaled a big puff of smoke in his snort, and immediately felt dizzy, choking on and almost coughing up tears.

Yuan Tiegun gloated: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry......! No wonder offended. “

Lu He's anger grew, but his face was silent, and he said, "Senior, please!

Yuan Tiegun's eyes narrowed, he shook his head and stared at Lu He for a long time, and suddenly shouted: "Take it!"

At the beginning of the cigarette gun, the strong wind was clamped, and he ran to the land and the "deception" point was reached.