Chapter 5 Yanmen Inn (Part )

"Miss, the fog is so thick, which direction is Yanmen Pass?"

Xunzhen and three Western Region masters held the "monk" hostage and rushed out of Yanmen Inn, and fell into endless fog. Hearing Su Hu's question, Xunzhen, who had been rushing all the way, slowed down. She looked around and said in annoyance: "Just now I was only concerned with escaping from the inn, but I didn't recognize the direction. This time I'm in trouble."

"I should have brought a few horses with me earlier so that we wouldn't have to waste our energy." Xiao Yang was much shorter than the tall and strong Su Hu. There was a frightening ruthlessness in his triangular eyes. Among the three Western Region masters, he had the best lightness skill. Therefore, after escaping from the inn, he was the one who did the work of finding the way around.

"It's past noon now, the sun is setting in the west. I can vaguely see that the halo in that direction is thicker, it must be the west." Xun Budao, who was wearing a felt hat, was very sturdy. He held a scimitar in front of his eyes and aimed at the sky, saying loudly, "Miss, if we follow the sun to the west, we must be Yanmen Pass."

"Even if we reach Yanmen Pass, how can we get out?" Su Hu asked in a deep voice, "There are a large number of Mongolian soldiers guarding there. If we force our way in, I'm afraid they will be forced to shoot arrows. If we encounter a rain of arrows in such a thick fog, we will surely die."

Xunzhen smiled when he heard that, and took out a fine iron waist badge from his waist and threw it into Su Hu's hand. Su Hu and the other two were stunned at first, and then overjoyed. Xiao Yang said, "It turns out that the eldest lady had stolen the waist badge of the Mongolian leader a long time ago. No wonder she took the initiative to get close to him just now."

"No one can see each other clearly in such a thick fog. When we get to Yanmen Pass, we just need to throw our badges up, and the soldiers guarding the pass will open the gate and let us pass." Xunzhen said, "As soon as the gate is opened, those drunkards will never be able to embarrass us again. Now we just need to go to Yanmen Pass and wait for Abaolu and the others to come back."

After hearing Xunzhen's words, Su Hu and the other two could not help but look at each other, and then they all bowed to Xunzhen and praised her, "Young Miss is wise."

Faced with the complacency of Xunzhen and his companions, the hostage-taking "monk" became increasingly anxious. His eyes moved wildly and a series of "woohoo" sounds came from his throat from time to time.

Xunzhen untied the acupuncture points for him, and the "monk" blurted out a pleading voice full of fear: "What do you want? Money or food, just ask, I will definitely agree to it, as long as you are willing to let me go back."

"We are sorry for wronging you, Lord Jia, along the way." Xunzhen bowed his hands and apologized sincerely, "We did not invite you here to rob you, but to ask for your help. Once you agree to help us, we will naturally send you back to Lin'an safely."

"Who are you?" Lord Jia looked at Xunzhen suspiciously and asked, "If you want something from me, why don't you just give me some advice? Why do you have to treat me like this?"

Xunzhen said, "Lord Jia is a man of high rank and power, so how could he care about strangers like us? So we had to take the risk and take Lord Jia away first. You are an important official of the Song court, and your disappearance will surely attract the full efforts of the Song court's lackeys to track you down, so I had no choice but to resort to this last resort, cutting off Lord Jia's beard and hair, and slightly changing his appearance in order to get away with it."

Although Xunzhen was sincere, Lord Jia still knew that his situation was very dangerous. Therefore, he dared not speak out but was angry. He could only suppress his anger and complained: "How can you ask for help like this? It would be fine if you forcibly cut off my hair and beard, but you even sealed my acupuncture points for more than ten days, making it impossible for me to move at all, and even unable to speak a word..."

"That's to prevent you from talking nonsense!" Su Hu snorted impatiently, "The young lady has already treated you with great courtesy. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will cut off your tongue now!"

Su Hu's eyes glared at him, and Lord Jia was so frightened that he immediately shut up, his face turning even paler. Xun Zhen hurriedly stopped him and said, "Su Hu, don't be rude to Lord Jia. We will need to rely on you a lot in the future, so how can you not know how to entertain guests?"

"Who are you?" Lord Jia asked cautiously, "Why are you looking for me? Why don't you tell me now? Why do you have to run so far?"

"I cannot make the decision on this matter. Lord Jia, please come with us. Someone in the Western Regions wants to see you. Lord Jia will understand everything then." After Xunzhen said this, she no longer paid attention to the unwilling Lord Jia, and ordered Xun Budao to find out the direction and quickly rushed towards Yanmen Pass.

"Since the Minister is unwilling to go with you to the Western Regions, why do you have to force him? As the saying goes, do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you. You are not a gentleman in this way!"

During the journey, a clear laugh suddenly sounded from the fog. Xunzhen and his companions were startled and subconsciously steadied their steps. Su Hu and the other two quickly surrounded Xunzhen and Lord Jia to prevent them from being attacked. But after waiting for a long time, the thick white fog was still quiet and no one was seen.

"Who are you?" Xunzhen shouted, "Is hiding your head and showing your tail what a gentleman does? Why don't you show yourself at once!"

"Who said I was hiding my head and showing my tail? I have been here the whole time, but you just can't see me because of your poor eyesight! Haha..."

Along with a burst of teasing laughter, there was suddenly a sound of breaking through the air in the thick fog. Then, an agile black shadow flashed through the fog and whizzed out from the clouds. The speed was so fast that Xunzhen and others could not help but feel dizzy.

Before Su Hu and the other two could figure out the position of the man in black, a powerful palm wind had already forced its way in front of Xiao Yang. Xiao Yang didn't know the other party's strength and didn't dare to take it head-on. He subconsciously dodged to the side, but unexpectedly the man in black took the opportunity to lean forward and slip into the gap between Su Hu and the other two. Xunzhen saw someone approaching and stabbed with his sword without hesitation, but the palm shadow turned and lightly hit the sword. With a crisp "clang" sound, Xunzhen's sword was shaken away with great force. At the same time, the man in black had bypassed Xunzhen and grabbed the panicked Lord Jia with one hand, then tapped his feet lightly and soared into the sky like an arrow from a string. After a few ups and downs, the man in black had already jumped several feet away with Lord Jia.

Although it sounds slow, the black-clad men's movements were actually as smooth and fast as lightning, and everything was over in a flash.

Covered by thick fog, when Su Hu and the other two wanted to chase them again, they could no longer see any trace of the man in black or Lord Jia.

"What a master!" Xun Budao exclaimed sincerely.

Xunzhen didn't expect that the hostage she had brought to Yanmen Pass with great difficulty would be rescued like this. She felt ashamed and annoyed. Although she couldn't see the man in black and Lord Jia, she still shouted angrily at the thick fog, "You are hiding here and there in the fog. No matter how powerful you are, you are just a coward. If you have the guts, come out and fight us openly. If we lose to you, we will accept your decision if you let Lord Jia take away. But if you use despicable means to steal the person from us, we will not accept it!"

There was no response at all in the fog to Xunzhen's provocation.

"Miss, I think that person should have gone far away..."

"Waste!" Before Xiao Yang could speak to comfort her, Xunzhen glared at him with her beautiful eyes and scolded him with a cold face, "Did I ask you three to come here just to watch the fun? You call yourselves masters, but how come you can't even protect one person? The hostages were rescued by someone single-handedly. Humph!" After saying that, Xunzhen seemed to be still unsatisfied, and shouted at the fog again, "Are you Song people only cowards? The Song people really have no courage and spirit at all. They don't even dare to fight each other. No wonder you can only live in a corner and become a small court in Lin'an. You call yourselves the 'Great Song' in vain, which is really ridiculous! This is Yanmen Pass. You Song people were once known as the Yang Clan's Tiger Generals stationed here. I think Yang Ye and his sons were probably just famous for nothing!"

"You dare to speak so arrogantly without knowing how high the heaven is and how deep the earth is. How can a woman like you slander the Yang Clan's generals?"

I don’t know if he was irritated, but the man in black actually came back, and flashed through the fog like a swift black shadow. In the blink of an eye, a palm wind was blowing towards Xunzhen.

"Miss, be careful!"

Xun Budao reacted the fastest. Before the man in black could succeed, he stood in front of Xunzhen and summoned his powerful internal force with a flip of his hand. He quickly pushed out a palm, which collided head-on with the palm wind of the man in black.

When Xun Budao extended his palm, several golden lights appeared faintly from the palm of his hand. His five fingers were like the golden Buddha's hands in the temple, powerful and endless, with twists and turns and continuous force.

"Kasyapa Palm!"

The man in black was repelled by Xun Budao's palm and flew to a distance of ten feet. But this man was in his twenties, seven feet tall, tall and handsome, wearing a light crown, black hair like a waterfall, face like a crown jade, clear contours, eyebrows like sharp swords, eyes like bright stars, straight nose, thin lips, red lips and white teeth, graceful and elegant, with a majestic charm. In his left hand, he held a sword that had not been unsheathed, and his right hand was across his body. His slightly trembling fingers were obviously still recalling the power of Xun Budao's "Kasyapa Palm" just now.

"You were able to take my Kasyapa Palm without any harm. Who are you?" Xun Budao was also shocked. His Kasyapa Palm was his lifelong learning. After more than ten years of hard practice, he had already mastered it to perfection. But the man in black could take the palm and remain unharmed, which really surprised Xun Budao.

"You can use the Kasyapa Palm. Looking at your facial expression, as I expected, you should be a master from the Golden Wheel Temple in the Western Regions, am I right?" The man in black asked instead of answering, with a look of surprise on his face.

"Stop talking nonsense! If you know what's best for you, hand over the corrupt official immediately, or else I'll make sure you die without a burial place."

Without waiting for Xun Budao to reply, Xiao Yang could not help but take the first step. His footwork was strange, and it seemed that he only took three or two steps, but he had already forced his way in front of the man in black.

Xiao Yang flew up, and his legs overlapped and kicked out like thunder and rain. The man in black did not dare to underestimate him and retreated several steps. However, Xiao Yang's leg skills were amazing. One leg was faster than the other, and not only was the force strong, but also continuous.

“Thousand Illusion Rakshasa Kicks!” the man in black exclaimed again, “You are actually a master from the Western Region’s Sky Burial Peak?”

At this moment, Su Hu could no longer bear it and shouted, "Don't be so arrogant, kid. I will capture you and force you to tell me the whereabouts of the dog official." Then he drew his knife and pounced on him.

Seeing Su Hu draw his sword, the man in black swung his left hand and the sword flew out of its sheath, then he turned around and took the sword in his right hand, and started fighting with Su Hu. Su Hu's swordsmanship was unique, sometimes fierce as fire, sometimes gentle as water, which made the man in black more and more frightened.

"The ruthless sword of water and fire!" The man in black finally recognized Su Hu's swordsmanship and said with emotion, "You are from Linglong Sea in the Western Regions." After that, the man in black forced Su Hu back with one move, dodged Xiao Yang, flew backwards, and finally landed in the distance.

Looking at Su Hu, Xiao Yang and Xun Budao, the man in black couldn't help but laugh. He exclaimed: "Golden Wheel Temple, Heaven Burial Peak, Linglong Sea, I didn't expect that all the masters of the three major sects in the Western Regions would be here today. It is a blessing for me to meet you three masters at Yanmen Pass. I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry!"

Facing the black-clothed man's politeness, Xunzhen's expression was unusually solemn. He said quietly, "Just now, you used the Central Plains Shaolin's Vajra Palm to deal with the Kasyapa Palm, Kunlun's Chasing Cloud Leg to deal with the Thousand Illusions Rakshasa Kick, and Wudang's Changsheng Sword Technique to deal with the Fire and Water Ruthless Knife. One person actually knows martial arts from three sects at the same time. Who are you? What sect did you come from?"

"I'd like to see how many martial arts skills this kid has mastered." Su Hu challenged with interest.

Xun Budao nodded and said, "That's right. Why don't we capture this guy and torture him to extract a confession? Maybe we can get some martial arts from the Central Plains sects from him."

"you……"

The man in black admired Xunzhen's extensive knowledge, but before he could finish his words, he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves in the fog and the noisy voices of people not far away. He immediately changed his mind and said, "I also want to learn the skills of the three major sects in the Western Region, but the timing is not good today. If we have the chance to meet again some other day, I will definitely fight you to my heart's content!"

While they were talking, Abaolu and others who had escaped from the inn came riding over. Before Xunzhen could speak, Abaolu, covered in blood, spoke first: "Xunzhen, the guards of Yanmen Pass have discovered the abnormality of the inn and are sending a large number of soldiers to search everywhere. When we came out, the group of hawks and dogs of the Song court had already dispersed. I believe the Mongolian troops will arrive in a moment. Since Minister Jia has been rescued, we should not stay here for long. It is better to find a way to get out of the pass first."

"That's right, that's right! Leave it to me, Lord Minister, you can rest assured! Haha..." The man in black laughed faintly, glanced at Xunzhen who had an unwilling look on his face again, turned around quickly and flew into the thick fog, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

"Since you haven't even left your name, who should I seek revenge on in the future?" Xunzhen asked angrily from a distance.

"A real man never changes his name or surname. I am the Junior Guardian of Tianji Pavilion in the East Palace of the Great Song Dynasty, Liu Xunyi!"

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(End of this chapter)