Chapter 7 – Mortal Danger, Escape Alive
Book 7 Chapter 7 – Mortal Danger, Escape Alive
Kou Zhong thundered, "Xiao Ling, you go pay your respect to Yu Yi [aunt], leave it to me to accompany Ba Xiong playing several moves!"
Fu Junyu let out a cold humph and said, "This fellow does not know the immensity of heaven and earth. Based on those several tricks of yours, what gives you the qualification to challenge Fennghan? And don’t call me Yu Yi anymore. I have no relationship whatsoever with you."
Ba Fenghan burst out laughing and said, "Although you, these two kids, are quite all right, your level is not enough to play with Ol’ Ba. Just show your real skill nicely, see if you are qualified to have relationship with Junyu! If I made my move, I will not hold my hands at all."
While talking, both his facial expression and his demeanor carried the poise of a man from an influential family, perfectly matching his heroic and grand countenance, which made other people admiring him from the heart. No wonder Fu Junyu was conquered by him.
Xu Ziling smiled faintly and said, "Ba Xiong is too conceited. I am afraid that when you are too full of yourself, when suffering defeat, it would be even harder for you to get off the stage."
It was Fu Junyu who scrambled to take the initiative on Ba Fenghan’s behalf; with her tender voice she scolded, "No need to spout nonsense! Who’s going to go first?"
Ba Fenghan did not take offence at all; he simply sized the two boys up coldly, but in his heart he started to get a peculiar feeling that he had never felt before.
Since making great accomplishment in martial art at the age of eighteen, these past seven years he made it his special purpose in life to fight in one place after another all over the world, to temper himself through real combat experience, so that his spirit, qi and mind were rising into an unprecedented heights. It could even be said that his vigor was simply uncontested.
Upon arriving in the Central Plains, the number of martial art masters from famous schools who fell under his hand was at least forty, fifty people. However, he had never encountered anybody who could talk and laugh as though nothing had happened like Kou and Xu, two people. Apparently these two boys did not think of him as a big deal.
Simply this kind of cool-headed skill was enough to make him to have a whole new level of respect for them. Not to mention Kou Zhong’s innate overbearing character and Xu Ziling’s calm, confident and cool character, which were rarely seen, were enough to make his heart itched. Too bad he already promised Fu Junyu that he would refrain himself and was going to sit on the sideline as a spectator; otherwise, he would have charged forward to try it himself.
The official reason of his trip to the Central Earth this time was to flee from Bi Xuan, but the unspoken reason was actually to actively resisting Bi Xuan. Compared to Bi Xuan, he had to admit that he was still several notches inferior; therefore, he headed east to gain real combat experience before he would attempt to have a decisive battle against Bi Xuan again. And now that he saw a good test object, how could his heart not itch to try?
Meanwhile Kou Zhong laughed aloud and said, "Yu Yi, please keep calm, don’t get excited! If you want to fight then fight!"
‘Qiang!’ The Moon in the Well left its scabbard, and immediately turned into a rainbow, shooting toward Ba Fenghan, who was sitting on the pile of salt sacks.
Almost simultaneously Xu Ziling soared into the air, like a turning wheel his two fists attacked Ba Fenghan’s face.
This move was totally beyond Ba Fenghan and Fu Junyu’s expectation; they had never imagined that the two boys would be so dauntless. Unexpectedly they had the impertinence to make their move against the most overbearing Ba Fenghan first.
Ba Fenghan let out a cold snort. Nobody saw which move he was using, but his body suddenly flew upwards swiftly. His left hand drew the saber, his right hand pulled the sword, which exploded into two blade bursts, separately meeting the two boys’ attacks.
The two boys made a sound like a muffled thunder as the three figures swiftly met and just as swiftly separated.
Even with Ba Fenghan’s ability, due to the fact that he did not anticipate encountering two streams of qi, one cold and one hot, from the ‘Secret to Long Life’, especially because Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling knew how formidable he was and thus they went all-out in this first attack, he could not help suffering a hidden loss. As his body flew backwards over the salt sacks, he made an effort to land behind the pile, and seized that opportunity to neutralize the true qi invading his body.
Actually, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling’s condition was even worse.
The strength of the earthshaking reaction force from Ba Fenghan’s saber and sword was definitely could not be anticipated in advance. Like a sharp blade it penetrated the two boys’ body, so that they immediately suffered severe internal injury.
Although the clash only happened in an instant, there was simple no room for maneuver in this simple, no-fancy moves, head-on clash.
When Kou Zhong’s Moon in the Well struck Ba Fenghan’s sword, he only felt that the opponent’s sword emitted two different streams of power, so that it was difficult for the opponent to pin down. Kou Zhong’s entire body received a thunderbolt strike, which jolted him backwards.
When Xu Ziling’s fists met the blade of the saber of the most formidable opponent in his life, in the split second just before the fist met the blade, the two combatants’ true qi had already clashed heavily against each other. To Xu Ziling’s shock, the enemy’s powerful qi continued to flow along the sword’s edge into his body like hot knife through butter, and he could barely dissolve this qi just before it invaded the arteries and veins around his heart. Immediately his blood and qi surged, he was unable to continue with the follow-up move, and was thrown backwards.
Just before the two boys landed heavily on the ground, like a ghost Fu Junyu floated over with the sword in her hand. The two boys knew that the moment they touched the ground was the critical moment between life and death, hence they swiftly rolled toward each other.
‘Bang!’
When the two crashed into each other, Fu Junyu’s sword has become sword screen that filled the air, hiding the sky and covering the earth, coming down to trap them.
But it never had any chance to hit the two boys.
Right the moment when the two bodies touched each other, their true qi immediately flowed from one body to the other. Not only it healed each other’s internal injury, it also strengthened each other’s true qi.
In the whole wide world, perhaps only these two boys were capable of doing this kind of incomparably fantastic healing tactics.
Kou Zhong’s Moon in the Well soared into the sky, penetrating Fu Junyu’s sword net.
Taking the opportunity while Fu Junyu was impeded by Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling’s body shot up from the ground toward the opponent’s left side, and send out a palm strike across empty air.
‘Ding!’
Although Fu Junyu has already anticipated that the two boys still had strength to strike back, she did not think that they would be able to strike back at full force. In her shock, even though she managed to block Kou Zhong’s saber attack with ten-thousand jun [1 jun ~ 30 catties] thunderbolt force, she was caught off guard by Xu Ziling’s palm wind.
However, she was a martial art master after all. The instant before the palm wind reached her body, she suddenly changed direction midair and moved sideways. But still, the palm wind swept her and made her let out a stifled grunt, while she was thrown far away.