Chapter 50: The Fall of Wudang
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When Shangguan Xiong's hand knife was about to slash Ebony's right arm, he suddenly felt that the wrist in his hand was soft and boneless, extremely slippery, and suddenly grew out, and the sound of "Peng" hit his right shoulder arm. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The strength of this palm was not heavy, and it immediately pushed him staggering and taking three steps backwards.
"Taiyi Mianzhang!" Shangguan exclaimed in his ambition, and before he could stand firmly, a figure had approached like a ghost.
Shangguan Xiong was horrified, and he was busy defending his body tightly with the method of "wind and rain".
"Push the clouds!" Ebony calmed down, his hands were like holding a ball, pushing up, down, left, right, and forward, and falling on him like a rolling stone.
Shangguan Xiong felt a soft but irresistible force chasing after him like an avalanche on a thousand high mountains, how could he still stand firmly? Immediately forced to stagger and retreat. He was flustered, and he could hardly believe that the most ordinary Wudang Cloud Pusher was as powerful as Si Da in the hands of Ebony.
"Shake the mountain palm!" Ebony seemed to be teaching Shangguan Xiong a lesson, asking him to know what the true power of these Wudang Peerless Sects that he couldn't look down on in the past was, and at the same time, he also wanted him to understand how vulnerable his invincible Iron Palm Divine Skill was in front of the real Wudang Peerless Sect.
While shouting, the ebony right palm suddenly grew like lightning, and suddenly pierced Shangguan Xiong's seemingly impenetrable palm shadow, and hit him on the chest with a "bang".
Shangguan Xiong suddenly felt like a middle iron pestle, the Venus in front of him sprung up, he snorted, flew out of the zhangyu outside, fell heavily to the ground, and spewed out a mouthful of blood arrows with "wow".
"Wudang big monument wrestler!" Ebony drank violently, and rose up like a flying crane, his palms condensed twelve into nine yang divine skills, and slapped him on his chest.
Ebony's counterattack was as powerful as a rainbow, as fast as a galloping horse, and the onlookers were stunned, and when they could react, they couldn't be rescued.
Shangguan Xiong wanted to rise up and leap out with all his life's strength, but he felt that a domineering and unrivaled palm power was pressed down like a thousand-foot waterfall, pressing his chest to crack, how could he still move?
On the Huangquan Road, Ebony will definitely regret that his intestines are blue: Why did he look at Shangguan Xiong before splitting his palms? Why didn't he close his eyes and seize this fleeting and once-in-a-lifetime opportunity -- this was the real mission of his own solo challenge, and he would have been directly shocked to death?
It was a pale and sweat-stained face, with blood stains on the corners of the mouth and the placket of the clothes, a mixture of fear, frustration, despair, and other emotions, staring helplessly at the hands of death that could not be escaped, and closing his eyes in despair.
Ebony's heart trembled: this person who was about to die under his palm was originally a handsome and elegant young handsome face, but now, although the outline of his face has not changed much, but unconsciously, the black and shiny sideburns of the past have now become gray, and the forehead and the corners of the eyes, which were originally as smooth and white as porcelain, have also been quietly engraved with some shallow folds, recording the hard work and hardships of these years.
In the past, all kinds of intimate scenes when the two were studying together suddenly came to mind. He has always been very fond of this bright and strong little junior brother, even in the twenty years since he left Wudang, he has been silently paying attention to it in secret, diligently chattering, if it were not for his outrageous behavior now, he would never have the idea of taking his life.
Before his palms were a foot away from his chest, Ebony suddenly softened his heart, and his heart was sour: "Over the years, he has not had a good time!"
As soon as he thought about it, he paused his palms stiffly, and he couldn't help but fall down.
"How can you spare such a wolf-hearted beast!" Ebony woke up suddenly, and shot down with a crushing palm.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of the wind behind me, and it was vaguely a knife and a stick that came from the air. If he chooses to continue to split and parry after shaking Shangguan Xiong to death, he will definitely suffer heavy injuries and lose his combat effectiveness immediately.
At that moment, Ebony didn't care about hurting the enemy, and his feet quickly and unrivaled a horizontal cut seven feet away, avoiding this fierce knife and stick attack, and suddenly his waist tightened, followed by a sharp pain, which had been pierced by countless thorns.
With a "boom", two short silver spears stabbed him in the shoulders with the cold wind, and at the same time, a three-edged rhomboidal tip burst into the right ribs.
Ebony shouted, and the probe grabbed the double snatch, and the Jinyi Wei surnamed Lan was immediately like a Chinese electric shock, and the two guns were taken off. Ebony held two guns upside down, knocking Luo Junfeng's three-edged rhombozenge tip with one shot, and sealing Qiu Qiyuan's green bamboo cane with one shot.
With a whistling sound, a meteor hammer had reached a foot in front of his chest, and was picked up by Ebony with a vertical shot.
With a "boom", the two short guns in Ebony's hands came out of their hands and pinned the two brocade guards who were approaching to the ground.
The rest of the people were creepy and retreated in surprise.
"Don't be afraid, everyone, he has no weapons! Let's go together!" Bai Zhanhong reacted first, and while encouraging everyone, he danced the Tang knife in his hand with a cold light and took the lead in pounce.
"Lie down for me!" the brocade-clothed guard who made the chain shouted violently, and pulled violently.
As soon as the words fell, a blue-gray figure had already pounced, and before he could react, he had already received a kick on his waist and crotch with a "peng". Rao is his skills are profound, but he can't stand it, and immediately knelt on the ground.
"Second Brother Zong!" The brocade-clothed guard surnamed Lan hurriedly went over to hug him, but when he saw that his face was pale and his teeth were clenched, he had already fainted. So he gritted his teeth with tears, turned around and pulled out a short gun from the chest of the two brocade guards who had been crucified, and pounced viciously at the ebony.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of masters had surrounded the ebony, shouting in surprise and retreating, and the heavy cold light wrapped the ebony figure. The rest of the gang wanted to go up to the battle, but one of them was not good at martial arts, and the other was too crowded to intervene at all, so they had to shout and cheer with everyone and wait for the opportunity to go up again.
"Bang", the ebony will win the iron chain dance like a burst of dark clouds, "sonorous" chaotic blade collision sound, dark clouds flying vertically and horizontally, invincible, from time to time someone wailed and fell to the ground, but then someone made up.
A large group of nervous helpers helped Shangguan Xiong to the corner of the courtyard and guarded him to heal his injuries.
Fortunately, before he was hit by the palm, he had already carried twelve percent of his body protection skills, and Ebony's internal strength was only slightly stronger than him, so this palm was not enough to kill, and it didn't even stun him.
After pranayama cross-legged for a while, although he still felt pain in his chest, he no longer had the feeling of chest tightness, and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
He urged the True Qi to run for a short week, and found that the internal breath was not blocked, knowing that the meridians had not been damaged, he relieved his heart and breathed a sigh of relief.
The gang saw that his face was gradually ruddy, and slowly opened his eyes, and the hanging heart finally let go, and his face was happy.
"Don't stand in my way, I'm going to watch the battle!" Shangguan Xiong commanded in a low voice.
The surrounding crowd hurriedly dispersed, allowing his line of sight to see the battle situation at a glance.
He could see at a glance that after a long time, although Ebony would never escape the fate of being killed, his side would definitely suffer heavy losses. What worries him the most is the dead wood and the group of Wudang disciples who have not appeared for a long time, if they kill again, what the chances of their own victory will be, he really has no bottom in his heart.
He was depressed and regretful.
Frustrated, he thought that even if he was defeated by Ebony, he would be only slightly inferior at best, and it should not be a problem to protect himself. But he really didn't expect that Ebony's martial arts were really high enough to reach the peak and do whatever he wanted, and once he saw the opportunity to launch a killing move, even if he was in such a passive situation, he would not be able to resist at all.
"The position of the head of Wudang is indeed his!" he secretly thought convincingly.
At the same time, he regretted it very much, not only regretting that he did not listen to the persuasion of everyone, but also regretting that he sent Yu Huantie to Shudi.
He hated himself for having done so much so that he was now seriously injured and putting the lives of thousands of his brothers at risk.
He regretted it very much, he shouldn't have sent Yu Huantie to Shudi, but should have sent Xi Fenglie to go. If Xi Fenglie is sent there, he should be able to take Chaotian Fort and Divine Arm City, and he will not be seriously injured.
If Yu Huantie was here, although he was seriously injured, with his martial arts and wisdom, he would definitely be able to control the situation. And to deal with Ebony, you only need to join forces with Bai Zhanhong and Tian Kunpeng, and at most add two or three Dharma protectors, you will definitely be able to take Ebony's life without any casualties.
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After twenty or thirty of his companions were killed and wounded and fell to the ground, the remaining enemies were also killed and killed.
In the enemy formation, Bai Zhanhong, Tian Kunpeng, the three protectors and several Jinyi guards had the strongest martial arts, and he was able to deal with eight points of energy, and the remaining two points of energy to deal with the rest of the enemy.
After fighting for half an hour, Ebony had already suffered thirteen wounds all over his body, covered in blood, and his previous cheetah-like swiftness gradually slowed down.
In the battle, after Ebony swept down an enemy, he just knocked Tian Kunpeng's copper stick, and with a "click", the iron chain in his hand was cut into two pieces by Bai Zhanhong, and then he had a sharp pain in his lower back, and he was shot by Luo Junfeng's three-edged rhomboid.
Ebony endured the severe pain, a leopard's tail foot flashed out, and with a "peng" sound, it was kicking on Luo Junfeng's lower abdomen, and immediately flew upside down two feet away, and collapsed to the ground.
With a "bang", a meteor hammer slammed into his left chest, and Ebony snorted, bleeding from the corner of his mouth.
Half of the iron chain flashed out, and in the splash of flesh and blood, Teng Haiming's left arm had been swept off his shoulder, and he immediately fainted to the ground.
"Use a rope net!" Bai Zhanhong shouted.
A huge rope net flew down, covering the ebony squarely.
"Quick, tie it with a cow tendon rope!" Bai Zhanhong motioned to the besieging people to step back and commanded loudly.
Eight gangsters worked in pairs, holding four thick ox tendon ropes, and quickly pounced, and in the process of turning, they had tied the ebony into a strong knot.
"Let's go together, and divide the corpse with a knife!" Bai Zhanhong took the lead in jumping up and slashed down at the ebony neck in the net.
Ebony screamed violently, and struggled to move sideways a foot away, and the few blades of the attack were all missed, and the eight gang members were immediately pulled to stagger, almost unable to grasp the rope steadily.
"What are you doing in a daze? Hurry! More people are going to pull the rope!" Bai Zhanhong shouted anxiously when he saw that Ebony was about to break out of the trap.
Dozens of people swarmed up, their dense hands grasping the cow tendon rope, blushing and shouting and pulling hard, and the ebony suddenly couldn't move.
With a "bang", a piece of iron chain broke through the net, blood splattered, and several gangsters were beaten to a blur of flesh and blood.
With a whistling sound, a short silver spear "snatched" into Ebony's left arm. Ebony's eyes were red, his wrist flicked, and a black whirlwind swept through, instantly beating the brocade guard surnamed Lan to the point that his brain burst.
Ebony's left arm has been tied, only his right arm can still move, he just used the iron chain in his hand to hold Bai Zhanhong's sharp knife, "Peng", and on the back of his left shoulder, he was hit by Tian Kunpeng's powerful stick, his eyes were black, and he blurted out a mouthful of bloody arrows.
Several enemies took the opportunity to bully him, and several more wounds were added to Ebony's body, which immediately stained the fishing nets and cow tendon ropes red.
Ebony took a breath of true qi to protect his heart, his feet were stunned, and in the shattered masonry under his feet, he had already stepped into half a foot, and then he sank his waist and twisted his waist, and more than ten gangsters were pulled by this huge force, and immediately turned into rolling gourds.
After Ebony kicked down these sneak attackers with a sweeping leg, he suddenly rose diagonally like a projectile, and with a "peng" sound, his left shoulder hit Tian Kunpeng's right arm heavily, and with a "click", the arm bone was broken. Tian Kunpeng snorted, flew out upside down, and fell heavily on his back, his hands covering his broken bones and dripping with cold sweat.
Ebony tried his best to resist the blades of the crowd, and at the same time he leaned down and pulled the ropes that bound his body, and after a while, the more than thirty staggering gangsters could no longer pull.
Shangguan Xiong saw that his masters had fallen one after another, and Ebony was about to get out of trouble, so he was in a hurry, and he couldn't care about pranayama at the moment, so he snatched the long sword of a subordinate next to him and flew towards Ebony.
Ebony had just broken through the net, and suddenly saw a sword light slashing head-on, and he was busy sealing it with an iron chain in his right hand, and then his vest hurt, and he was slashed by Bai Zhanhong.
The iron chain in Ebony's left hand swept away, forcing Qiu Qiyuan and several other sneak attackers to retreat, and the iron chain in his hand came out of his hand and smashed straight to Bai Zhanhong.
Bai Zhanhong shouted, a cold light flashed in his hand, and the iron chain was split into several pieces. Suddenly felt a gray shadow approaching, and then the lower abdomen was in severe pain, and he was hit by an elbow, and immediately fell to the ground.
Shangguan Xiong chased after him, slashed his sword on Ebony's right shoulder blade, and immediately removed his right arm.
Ebony let out a heart-rending roar and turned abruptly, his left hand struck at his throat like lightning.
Shangguan Xiong's face turned purple, he clenched his steel teeth, stabbed with sword power in both hands, and inserted it into the ebony chest with a "brush", reaching the handle.
"Rotten wood, hello ......" Ebony glared at Shangguan Xiong angrily for a moment, blood surging from his mouth, and he slowly fell to his knees.
Shangguan Xiong didn't dare to look at his eyes again, he felt that Ebony's eyes before he died were very complicated, with both heart-rending grief and indignation, helpless sadness, and a hint of exhortation from the prodigal son to turn back.
Somehow, after killing Ebony, he was not as happy as when he killed Shang Xiaotian that day, on the contrary, he had no happiness at all in his heart, and even a trace of sadness.
Deep down, he had to admit that Ebony had always treated him well. But before, he was not satisfied with the ebony inheritance of the head of the house, and the other felt that he seemed to be loyal, but in fact, he was scheming, and he played all the conspiracy methods against his biggest opponent who succeeded to the throne.
But in the title of "rotten wood" before he died, he suddenly understood that in his mind, he had always been the rotten wood junior brother of Wudang.
He drew his long sword, stared blankly at the bloodied and slowly fallen ebony, and suddenly his knees went limp, and he sat down on the ground. For a moment, he was very confused and lost, and suddenly he had a feeling that he had committed a terrible crime, and tears suddenly blurred his eyes.
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"Leader, how is it?" asked a few helpers who stepped forward to help him, and asked with concern.
"It's fine. Shangguan Xiong came back to his senses, pretended to wipe his sweat, and wiped the tears from his eyes, "Don't help me, you can go and take care of the other injured brothers!"
In this battle, a total of seven Jinyi guards and eighteen Chu Xiangmeng hardmen were killed, including Shangguan Xiong, and 37 people were injured to varying degrees. Among the masters, Teng Haiming, Luo Junfeng and the Jinyi Wei surnamed Zong were the most seriously injured, and they had not yet woken up at this time, Bai Zhanhong and Tian Kunpeng were slightly less injured, and their internal strength was also relatively deep, and they could still support them to get up slowly.
The crowd was in a hurry, wrapped up the wounded, and laid the dead side by side.
"Bury the dead around here!" Shangguan Xiong sighed with a sad expression.
"Alliance leader, what to do with the corpse of this old miscellaneous hair?" one of his subordinates asked cautiously.
"Old Zamao, this is what you can call?!Bastard!" Shangguan Xiong was furious and slapped the gang to the ground. Everyone didn't know why he suddenly became so angry, and they all looked at him in amazement.
In fact, even he didn't know why he was so angry, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him suspiciously, he explained: "People are also the head of a generation of Wudang, and now they are dead, how can they do this!"
After a pause, he ordered: "Use the best coffin and tombstone to bury him in the cemetery of the heads of the Wudang dynasties on the east side of Zixiao Palace...... The tombstone is engraved: the position of the seventh generation head of Wudang Ebony. ”
Although everyone was surprised that he respected Ebony so much, they thought that this person was his senior brother, and although he later became an enemy, in the end, it was understandable that he was buried in his old love, and no one objected for a while.
The arrangement was completed, and Shangguan Xiong led everyone out of Zixiao Palace and went to the square to meet Ma Mingshan and his party.
Ma Mingshan and Leng Jingtian saw that there was no signal in the Zixiao Hall for a long time, and they were anxious, when they suddenly saw Shangguan Xiong leading the crowd out, their hearts were overjoyed, and they hurriedly stepped forward, and shouted respectfully: "Alliance leader!"
Shangguan Xiong waved to the gang in the square, and slowly walked down the stairs, Ma Mingshan saw that his expression was blank, and he was unpredictable, and asked eagerly: "Alliance leader, how is the situation inside?"
"In the entire Zixiao Palace, there is only one ebony. He has been ambushed. Shangguan Xiong glanced at him and said lightly.
"Congratulations to the alliance leader for taking revenge!" Ma Mingshan was overjoyed and arched his hand.
"Hey, our price is not small!" Shangguan Xiong shook his head.
Ma Mingshan saw that his face was slightly pale, Bai and Tian also looked aggrieved, limping behind him, and then looking at the more than ten people carrying the stretcher behind him, Teng Haiming and Luo Junfeng were also impressive, and couldn't help but sigh heavily.
When the gang outside heard that Ebony was dead, they were all overjoyed and gathered around to find out the details. The people who came out all looked embarrassed, and quietly looked at Shangguan Xiong, squeaking and prevaricating.
"What is there to hide!" Shangguan Xiong said calmly, "Brothers, listen up: the leader of this alliance first fought alone with that ebony and was defeated, and then we went up together, and it was only after we went up together that he died...... However, with so many brothers killed and injured so much, the leader of this alliance is really guilty!" At this point, his eyes were red.
When everyone saw him admit that he was invincible to Ebony in public, they admired his open-mindedness, and saw that he cared so much about the lives of his brothers, they were all thrilled and eager to serve him to the death.
"Alliance leader, why is there only Ebony alone?What about Deadwood and those Wudang disciples?" Leng Jingtian asked.
"I don't know what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd!" Shangguan Xiong shook his head, "Maybe he didn't want those Wudang disciples to make any more senseless sacrifices, so he let them hide somewhere in Wudang Mountain, and stay alone to die in the palace!"
"This person is really respectable!" Ma Mingshan admired, then shook his head and said: "Wudang Mountain is so big, it really takes a lot of effort to find those remnants!"
"There's no other way, just take your time. Shangguan Xiong smiled bitterly.
After four days in a row, the Chu Xiang League helped the people search all over the area around Wudang Mountain for two or three hundred miles, but found nothing.
"How can this be?" Ma Mingshan's face was solemn, "Alliance leader, do you think it will be like this: long before we went up the mountain, Ebony had already let Deadwood lead most of the Wudang disciples to escape?"
"It's very possible!" Shangguan Xiong stroked his palm, "Ebony, ebony, I'm getting more and more obedient to you! Let me waste a few days in Wudang Mountain in vain!"
"Where are they going to flee?" Ma Mingshan groaned as he tapped his finger on the table.
"It's not difficult to guess, it should be to go to the west, to Huashan or to Quanzhen!" Shangguan Xiong sneered.
While the two were discussing, a Jinyi guard who claimed to be surnamed Wu came to report: "Shangguan League Master: Today, we found traces of dead wood and his party in southern Shaanxi......
"Oh!" Shangguan stood up violently, "how many are there?"
"There are not many people, only seventy or eighty Wudang disciples. The surnamed Wu said: "Those ordinary Wudang disciples have been sent home, and the ones led by the dead wood are all Wudang elites...... Master Miao asked me to consult the alliance leader's opinion, should I exterminate those Wudang disciples who were sent home?"
Shangguan Xiong pondered for a while, and said: "Please tell Master Miao: once the ebony dies, the dead wood will not become the climate, and those ordinary Wudang disciples, I don't think there is any need to exterminate them...... As for the dead wood and the group of Wudang elites it took away, I will eradicate them all in the next step!"
Precisely:
Ups and downs of the world,
Grievances and grievances.
Life and death are destined,
Who can tell right from wrong?
(At the end of the first volume of "Bright Gun", please see the second volume of "Dark Arrow")