Chapter 48: Unstoppable

Most of the members of the Chu Xiang League came to Junzhou for the first time, and few people had ever been to Wudang Mountain, but now, they were going to attack this prestigious Daomen faction, and they all seemed very excited.

Everyone has not yet arrived at the foot of the mountain, looking at it from afar, but seeing the peaks and peaks, the momentum is magnificent, the purple gas is dense, the clouds are misty, and the ethereal and ethereal faint Dan wall and green tiles, gold and silver towers, just like a fairyland.

"People say, 'Eternal unparalleled victory, the first immortal mountain in the world', tsk, mysterious and ethereal, mysterious and transcendent, it really lives up to its name!" Ma Mingshan squinted and shook the pu fan lightly, with a breathtaking and intoxicated expression.

"What's the matter?, military advisor, haven't you been here before?" Shangguan Xiong asked Ma Mingshan, who was beside him, with a smile.

"Speaking of which, I've been here a lot of times! It's a pity, it's a fugue in a dream!" Ma Mingshan shook his head a little ashamedly.

"I didn't expect it! You literati, in addition to chanting poems and paintings, don't you like to travel to famous mountains and rivers the most on weekdays?" Shangguan Xiong looked a little incredulous even if he had never been to such a famous place.

"I'm ashamed!" Ma Mingshan sighed gloomily, "Before I met the favor of the alliance leader, to tell the truth, I was really a family with four walls! Even food and clothing have become a big problem, how can I have the money to travel?"

Shangguan Xiong was silent, and after a while, he sighed: "The world is in a high position, and he is handsome and sinks...... However, I do think that in my Chuxiang League, it may not be worse than being an official in that imperial court!

"Of course!" Ma Mingshan nodded repeatedly, "A little person like me, who has no money and no backing, has studied hard for 20 years, and has not even been able to get in, where is the opportunity to be an official?...... What's more, to be in the company of those shameless and insatiable guys, I don't care about it!"

"It's a pity that the military advisor is full of knowledge!" Shangguan Xiong sighed, "However, military advisor, please rest assured, in my Chu Xiang League, you will definitely be able to show your life's ambitions!"

Gossip, Shangguan Xiong has led the crowd to the foot of the mountain, in front of him is a large palace with high vermilion walls and heavy courtyards, and the door plaque reads "Yuxu Palace" three big characters, but the door of the palace is locked, and there is no trace of people quietly.

"Luo Protector, you take someone to take a look!" Shangguan Xiong instructed Luo Junfeng beside him.

Luo Junfeng led dozens of gangsters, and while beware of the shooting of hidden arrows, he cautiously came to the door of the palace, and slammed the door a few times, but there was no reaction from inside.

"Go up and have a look!" Luo Jun was so bold that he jumped onto the high wall and looked around, and the rest of the more than a dozen helpers were doing good work, and they hurriedly jumped up after him.

"Alliance leader, it seems that there is really no one!" Luo Junfeng turned around and reported to Shangguan Xiong.

"Don't look any further, you all come down!" Shangguan Xiong beckoned, "I also expected that there was no one." It's not easy to defend here, and the people in the audience have already retreated to the mountains!"

Shangguan Xiong led the gang to advance to the front of the Restoration Truth Temple in one breath, but he never met a single person who resisted.

"Fuck, where are all these stinky Taoist priests hiding?" Teng Haiming, who rushed to the forefront with double hammers in his hands, had itchy hands, but there was no opponent to vent, and he slammed the gate fiercely.

"Huh!" a feathered arrow flew out and rushed to Teng Haiming's chest.

Teng Haiming knocked the feather arrow away with a hammer, and shouted with joy on his face: "Wow! It's finally here! Turtle grandchildren, just shoot at grandpa!"

Before the words fell, in the sound of "Xiu Xiu", dozens of feather arrows rained down on him.

Teng Haiming danced the double hammer wildly, and the feather arrows flew to the ground, he just wanted to take a breath, but when he saw another large cluster of feather arrows chasing after him, he didn't have the confidence to block them all, and he screamed while blocking and retreating.

"Shieldman, slam open the gate!" Shangguan Xiong shouted.

Dozens of gangsters held shields and carried huge trees, shouting and rushing towards the Fuzhen Guanguan, and in the screams, several gangsters were injured and fell.

"Peng!" and "Peng!", the dust was filled, but the gate was heavy and did not move.

"You stand down! Brother Tian and Brother Bai, you go up! Jump in and open the gate!" Shangguan Xiong saw that the gatehouse of Guanmen was more than two feet high, and it was estimated that there must be a master guarding it, except for himself, he counted them as the highest martial arts, so he asked them to test it first.

Tian and Bai jumped up with feather arrows, and just stepped on the glazed tile surface, more than ten Taoists suddenly appeared behind the roof, and the sword light Huo Huo condescendingly killed the general.

Because the tile surface was slippery and they were outnumbered in a low position, the two of them resisted a few moves, but they gradually couldn't cover it, so they had to jump back to the outside in embarrassment.

Shangguan Xiong pondered: Looking at the height of this gate, it is estimated that only about 300 people can jump in, even if all the 300 people on our side jump in, but there are 6 or 700 people on the other side, how can they deal with it? If the gate cannot be opened, although there are 2,000 people outside, they can only be in a hurry...... It seems that slamming open the door is the only way.

"Shieldman, hit it again! No matter what, you must knock it out of the way!" Shangguan Xiong shouted.

More than 100 shield bearers rushed to the gate of the gate under the cover of the gang carrying two giant trees, shouting loudly and slamming with force. The overwhelming arrows fell, and in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people hung their colors.

After more than 30 bumps, the gate finally opened, and Shangguan Xiong led the crowd to pour in.

Unexpectedly, there were only less than 200 Taoists guarding the temple, and there were very few masters, and it didn't take long for dozens of Taoists to fall, and the rest of the Dao fled in embarrassment, because the terrain was familiar, and they fled without a trace in the blink of an eye.

It was so easy to take down the Restoration Truth View, which was beyond Shangguan Xiong's surprise.

"What tricks is Ebony playing? Could it be that the main force has been withdrawn to Zixiao Palace, waiting for a decisive battle?" Shangguan Xiong pondered.

The fact seems to be as he expected, advancing all the way along the Taizi Slope, passing through the Xiaoyao Valley, until he reached the square in front of Zixiao Palace, and still did not meet resistance again.

Zixiao Palace leans on the back of the banner peak, layers of palaces and pavilions lean on the mountain, the scales are stacked, the houses on both sides are scattered, the Dan wall is blue tile, the carved beams and painted buildings, magnificent.

At this time, the door of Zixiao Palace opened, quietly silent.

"Ebony! Shangguan Xiong is coming to worship the mountain! Come out and speak!" The majestic voice shook the echoes of the mountains.

After a long time, there was still no response.

"Fuck, what kind of tricks are you playing?" Teng Haiming, the pioneer of urgency, rushed up the steps with a roar and strode towards the gate.

"Teng Protector, be careful of an ambush!" Ma Mingshan reminded loudly.

Before the words fell, Teng Haiming had already rushed in, and Ma Mingshan sighed in his heart, listening carefully to the sound of the upcoming fight.

I don't know, after a while, there is still no movement.

Teng Haiming walked out quickly with a double hammer, and shouted angrily: "What's the matter with you?

"Really?" the crowd was in an uproar, looking at each other.

"Hahaha!" Shangguan Xiong laughed, "Okay, you ebony, you really have you!

As he spoke, he strode into the mountain gate, and everyone was afraid that he would lose, so they hurriedly followed him in.

"Leng Protector, you accompanied the military advisor and led a thousand brothers to guard outside. If there is a situation, I will notify you to come in!" Shangguan Xiong turned around and ordered Leng Jingtian to follow.

As a result, the Chu Xiang League gang was divided into two groups, Ma Mingshan and Leng Jingtian led a thousand gangs to guard the square, and Shangguan Xiong led a thousand gangs and the one hundred and fifty Tiqi to enter Zixiao Palace.

After the Dragon and Tiger Palace, passing through the stele pavilion, passing through the Shifang Hall, entering a huge courtyard paved with ashlar stones. Everyone raised their eyes to look, but saw that on the three-layer decorative railing platform, a majestic three-layer heavy eaves of the big wooden hall was solemn, majestic in front of them, a huge plaque with indigo background on the hall, the book "Zixiao Palace".

For a moment, Shangguan Xiong's expression was in a trance, and all kinds of scenes in the past when he was in Wu suddenly appeared in front of him one by one. He thought that he had already forgotten this place that made him sad, desperate and hateful, but he didn't expect that once he revisited his hometown, everything would be so clearly engraved in the depths of his memory. After all, this is the place where he has lived for more than ten years, how can he say that he can forget it?

Quickly, Shangguan Xiong came back to his senses, his face was solemn, and he slowly walked up the stone steps to the platform, in front of the temple gate.

"Ebony, Shangguan Xiong has arrived! Come out!" After a long while, the hall was also silent.

"Hmph! Look at what tricks you play!" Shangguan Xiong was impatient and walked into the hall.

Tian Kunpeng, Bai Zhanhong and other masters were afraid that he would lose, so they hurriedly stepped to protect him and followed him into the Zixiao Palace, while the rest of the people stayed in the courtyard, while being careful and guarding, they were paying attention to the movements in the Zixiao Palace, ready to enter at any time.

The people who entered the hall were on guard, while looking around, the hall was empty, only to see the golden body of the Zhenwu Emperor on the seat of Sumeru in the stone hall and the clay statues of the immortals with different expressions around them.

"You guys go to the apse and have a look!" Shangguan Xiong was slightly surprised and ordered.

At that moment, twenty or thirty masters went to the apse to search, leaving only Tian Kunpeng and Bai Zhanhong to follow Shangguan Xiong.

After about a stick of incense, everyone who searched returned to Zixiao Hall one after another, but they found nothing.

Tian Kunpeng glanced at Shangguan Xiong, who had a blank look on his face, and asked softly, "Alliance leader, what is going on?"

Shangguan Xiong groaned: "What are you thinking...... Haven't figured it out yet. ”

"Could it be that Ebony knew that he was invincible and had led the crowd to escape from the back mountain?" Bai Zhanhong's eyes flashed, and he guessed.

"Big Brother Bai has a point!"

"Probably! probably!"

“......”

Teng Haiming, Luo Junfeng and several others agreed.

"Maybe it's still on the mountain, but it's not in the Zixiao Palace. A horseman in his thirties, with a pair of short iron guns on his back, guessed.

"Brother Lan is right! There is a great possibility!" The man who spoke was burly, with a pimple on his purple face, and he was the man who led the siege of Deadwood the day before yesterday. I don't know if he didn't have more than one chain, or if he had rebuilt one, but anyway, he now had a large circle of thick and dark chains hanging from his right shoulder.

There was a lot of discussion among the people, some of them agreed with Bai Zhanhong's opinion, and most of them agreed with the guess of the Tiqi surnamed Lan.

"However, there are many Taoist temples on Wudang Mountain, and I heard that there are seventy-two peaks, thirty-six rocks, twenty-four streams, and countless deep caves and hidden springs. Where do they hide, the place is so big, how can they find it?" Qiu Qiyuan frowned.

"Yes, yes!"

"What a nuisance!"

"These stinky hairs are too cunning!"

“......”

The crowd sighed.

Shangguan Xiong quietly listened to the chaotic discussions of the people around him, noncommittal, and was silent.

"This group of cowardly and stinky mouses! I'll smash this broken Zixiao Hall first, and see if they are ashamed!" Teng Haiming planned to be a vicious battle in Wudang Hui, but he didn't know that since the small battle of the True Temple, he hadn't even touched the shadow of an enemy so far, and he was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, angrily holding the double hammer and smashing it viciously towards the statue of the True Martial Emperor.

"No!" Shangguan Xiong grabbed his wrist. Teng Haiming struggled for a while, like a dragonfly shaking a pillar, so he had to stop struggling, and said angrily: "You can't fight, you can't smash it, it's really annoying! Alliance leader, you say, what should we do!"

Regarding Teng Haiming's slightly rude attitude, Shangguan Xiong was not angry, and said with a smile: "Teng Protector, you listen to me first, if you think I am unreasonable, it is not too late to smash it." ”

He glanced at everyone one by one and said, "The leader of this alliance also feels that Ebony and the Wudang disciples have not escaped. I guess that Ebony should be thinking that Wudang's strength cannot compete with us, and he is afraid that the Zixiao Palace will be destroyed under the big battle, so he led the crowd to retreat first and went to other places to set up defenses......"

"That's right, destroy this Zixiao Hall first, and don't let the old miscellaneous hair of Ebony get his wish!" Teng Haiming failed to smash the hammer, his heart was unhappy, and he was always worried, and now he heard Shangguan Xiong say that Ebony was also worried about this matter, thinking that since it was such a good opportunity to strike at the enemy, of course he should do it immediately, so he interjected and shouted confidently.

"Yes! Teng Protector has a point! In this way, Ebony and those stinky Taoist priests will be heartbroken and confused, shouldn't they win the game first!" Tian Kunpeng is also a fiery temper, and his mind is not very smart, so he hurriedly agreed.

The rest of the people were more scheming, and several of them also agreed with this approach, but after seeing Shangguan Xiong's expression, they guessed that he was not willing to do this, so they were silent.

Shangguan Xiong glanced at Tian and Teng expressionlessly, and said slowly: "I don't think so." If this is the case, it will only arouse the hatred of all Wudang disciples and increase the resistance...... Perhaps, Ebony thought that since this place could not be defended, there was no need to increase their casualties here, so he gave up...... Perhaps, he also calculated that we would destroy Zixiao Palace, so he simply sacrificed it to enhance the fighting spirit of the disciples!"

After a pause, he continued: "However, that ebony gave up the Zixiao Palace and led the crowd to flee, which is equivalent to abandoning the foundation of Wudang for hundreds of years! How can such a greedy behavior of life and fear of death be worthy of the ancestors and ancestors of Wudang? How can he be worthy of being the head of Wudang?...... The leader of this alliance led you to attack Wudang this time, one is to seek revenge on the ebony, and the other is to discredit the Wudang faction. This time, even if we can't find Ebony and can't kill him, we just need to publicize his deeds on the rivers and lakes, and see what kind of face he still has to be called the head of Wudang in vain?

Everyone said yes, and they all despised Ebony Lang's false name, and Luo Junfeng and several others were busy praising Shangguan Xiong's far-sightedness and extraordinary bearing.

Bai Zhanhong hesitated for a moment, frowned, and said, "Alliance leader, do you mean: are we going down the mountain here, or are we going to continue to search for Ebony them?"

"Since you are here, how can you return empty-handed? Of course you have to continue searching!" Shangguan Xiong sneered, "There are food and shelter on the mountain, what is there to hurry? Hmph, even if you travel hundreds of miles in this radius, you have to find them for me! If you don't kill the ebony and don't destroy the Wudang, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart!"

Everyone is a belligerent, and they are afraid that Shangguan Xiong will accept it when he sees it, and he will never be able to fight again on this trip, so he was relieved when he heard the words.

"Next, how are we going to find them? Alliance leader, you can assign them!" Teng Haiming shouted.

"What's the hurry?" Shangguan Xiong looked at the statue of Emperor Zhenwu, his face was solemn, he straightened his clothes, and said while walking forward: "Since you are here, everyone will pay homage to Emperor Zhenwu with me!"

Teng Haiming was unwilling, and said in his heart: "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, what do you worship? Hmph, Lao Tzu doesn't kneel down to worship the ancestors of you stinky Taoist priests!"

Bai Zhanhong stepped forward and thought: "The leader of the alliance is really a loving and righteous person, he does not forget that he was a disciple of Wudang, although he has an enmity with Ebony, but he is unwilling to lack courtesy to the ancestors of Wudang." ”

Qiu Qiyuan thought as he walked: "The alliance leader did not agree to smash the Zixiao Palace, although there was a reason for the scruples to arouse the hostility of the people in Wudang, but most of them were still reluctant, so they didn't want to destroy it...... Since he wants to worship, let's go and worship! People say, 'It's not strange to worship many people,' and it's better to worship than not to worship! It doesn't matter if you really martial arts Lao Er bless Lao Tzu, anyway, Lao Tzu is so polite!"

"Hmph!" suddenly came from the left side of the hall with a cold snort.

Shangguan Xiong was about to kneel, but he was taken aback when he heard the sound, and hurriedly turned his head to look. I don't know when, a ruddy-faced old Taoist has stood silently on the cedar tree several feet long in the corner of the hall, it is ebony.

The rest of the people were terrified, Qi all turned around, but most of them didn't know him, but when they saw him in a blue and gray robe, a long sword on his back, a crane-haired and childish face showing the fairy wind bones, a pair of toes on the fir wood seemed to be immovable, and it seemed that he would go away from the wind at any time, and a pair of shining eyes stared coldly at Shangguan Xiong for a moment, and seemed to ignore the rest of the people. Everyone was intimidated by his momentum that swallowed the universe, and they all drew their swords and waited for the battle.

Shangguan Xiong quickly regained his composure, met Ebony's sharp gaze, and sneered: "Ebony, you are still here! Otherwise, I, Shangguan Xiong, will also be ashamed of Wudang!"

Ebony sneered, jumped off the cedar tree lightly, and didn't see how he moved under his feet, he was already more than two feet close. Everyone was shocked, Qi Du took a step back in shock, and then he pulled up his spirits and surrounded him from a distance.

Ebony didn't care about the people around him, and glared at Shangguan Xiong angrily: "Shangguan Xiong! You shameless villain who deceived his teacher and destroyed his ancestors and killed his siblings! What qualifications do you have to bow down to my Zhenwu Emperor?!"

Shangguan Xiong waved his hand to stop the subordinates who were about to move, strode two steps forward, his eyes burned, and shouted angrily: "I, Shangguan Xiong, am not a disciple of Wudang, and I am not under your jurisdiction, I want to worship Zhenwu, what do I have to do with you?

"Something that doesn't repent of death!" Ebony opened his eyes angrily, "It's me who is confused, and I have been refusing to get rid of you, which has caused the tiger to be a problem! You're right, how can a wolf-hearted beast like you be worthy of being a Wudang disciple?...... I heard that you have killed my senior brother Shang, haven't you?"

"Yes. Shangguan Xiong sneered faintly: "This kind of despicable villain should have been killed a long time ago!"

Ebony laughed angrily: "Should you be killed? Yes, you really should be killed! Today, I will definitely take the life of your despicable villain!"

Shangguan Xiong said angrily: "How can I be despicable? I, Shangguan Xiong, am one-on-one with him Shang Xiaotian, and I will kill him in a dignified manner without conspiracies and tricks!"

"What a 'dignified'!" Ebony laughed wildly: "I, Ebony, will definitely take your dog's life with dignity!"

"Hahaha!" Shangguan Xiong seemed to have heard a big joke, "You alone want to kill me?...... What about the dead wood?"

"Killing you alone, it's more than enough for one poor person! Why do you need them?" Ebony snorted, "Shangguan Xiong! Do you dare to have a dignified duel with me?"

"What kind of 'dignified' method?" Shangguan Xiong's expression pretended to be relaxed, trying to hide his slightly nervous mood.

"You and I are one-on-one, fair duel," Ebony stared at him with a mocking gaze, and said contemptuously, "Shangguan Xiong, do you dare?"