Chapter 633 Qingcheng and Penglai

When the group walked into the hall, all the martial artists in the room were stunned.

Ah Zhu, Ah Bi, and Wang Yuyan, all of them are outstanding beauties, especially Wang Yuyan, whose beauty is beyond human.

As for Chai Xin, Duan Yu, and even Yang Guo, they are all handsome.

How could this group of people suddenly gather together without attracting attention?
When the burly old man heard Ah Zhu claiming to be a maid, he seemed to be unconvinced. After a moment's hesitation, he slowly said, "In that case, please ask the master to come out, and I will tell him my purpose."

Ah Zhu shook her head and said, "My old master has passed away, and my young master has gone on a long journey. If you have anything to do for me, please tell me and I will tell you later."

The old man thought for a moment and nodded, "I am Yao Ba Dang, the leader of Qinjiazhai in Yunzhou."

Although Ah Zhu had never heard of this name, she still said politely, "I've heard of you for a long time."

Yao Bodang said with a smile: "You are a little girl, you have never been out of the house, how can you say that you have long admired him?"

At this time, Wang Yuyan, who had read a lot of books since childhood and knew everything about the various factions in the martial arts world, was moved and was about to step forward and speak.

But before her, there was someone who moved faster.

"Of course, I have heard of the Qin family's Five Tigers Gate-Breaking Sword. Back then, Senior Qin Gongwang created the 64-style Gate-Breaking Sword, but five of the moves seem to have been lost."

But it was Chai Xin who stepped out from the crowd, with his hands behind his back and smiled faintly.

He didn't want the little girl Wang Yuyan to be in the spotlight at this time. As described in the original book, it would attract everyone's covetousness, which would never be a good thing.

Yao Bodang was shocked when he heard this, and blurted out: "My Qinjiazhai Five Tigers Gate-breaking Sword originally has sixty-four moves, how did you know that?"

Chai Xin smiled, took a few steps slowly, and continued: "The five missing moves are 'White Tiger Leaping Over the Stream', 'A Roaring Wind', 'Slashing and Flipping with Ease', 'Dominating the Mountains', and 'Crouching Elephant Defeats the Lion'."

These contents are all recorded in great detail in the books in Langhuan Blessed Land.

Chai Xin had a photographic memory, so when he talked about it now, he knew everything by heart.

Yao Bodang's eyes suddenly became more and more surprised. He naturally knew that five of the most essential moves in the Qin Family Village swordsmanship had been lost.

But even he had no idea what those five moves were. Now, when he heard the young man Chai Xin talking about it, he didn't know how to respond.

At this time, among the white-robed people at the west end of the hall, a man in his thirties suddenly said in a sarcastic tone: "Master Yao is really a noble man who forgets things easily. He even forgot which five moves of his unique skills are missing? Young man, I wonder which young master of the Murong family you are?"

Chai Xin shook his head and said, "I am just a wandering man in the martial arts world, and I have no connection with the Murong family. This time I just came to visit you because I admired your reputation, but I missed the chance to meet the host. I am very sorry."

Upon hearing this, the man sneered and said, "Young man, since you have nothing to do with the Murong family, why do you have to meddle in other people's business?"

"I just can't stand a bunch of grown men bullying a few little girls when no one is at home."

The man spoke rudely, so Chai Xin naturally wouldn't be polite to him either.

After hearing this, everyone in the hall became a little agitated.

The man's sneer became more intense, and he waved his hand to stop the people behind him, saying, "Since you have a sharp eye, why don't you take a look at my sect?"

As he spoke, he took out a strange weapon from his sleeves. In his left hand was an iron spike about six or seven inches long, and in his right hand was a small octagonal hammer. The handle was no more than a foot long, and the head was no bigger than a fist.

These two weapons are small and exquisite, and look a bit like children's toys. They don't seem to have any powerful power.

When the many northern men in the east saw these two strange weapons, several of them laughed out loud immediately.

One person even mocked: "You actually took out Sichuan kids' toys and embarrassed yourself!"

Upon hearing this, the white-robed men at the west end all glared at him angrily.

"I was wondering who this hero was. It turns out he is a friend of the Qingcheng Sect in Sichuan's Qingcheng Mountain. This 'Thunder God Bomb' is the unique weapon of the Qingcheng Sect. I heard that the word 'Qing' has nine strikes and the word 'Cheng' has eighteen breaks. It is strange and unpredictable. Is your surname Sima?"

The man originally had a sneer on his face, waiting for Chai Xin to make a fool of himself, but after hearing these words, his expression suddenly changed. He and his three fellow disciples beside him looked at each other in surprise and doubt.

After being stunned for a long time, he said, "You are really well-informed. I am Sima Lin. May I ask, brother, is the word 'qing' really nine times broken, and the word 'cheng' really eighteen times broken?"

Chai Xin thought for a moment and said, "In fact, the name is somewhat misleading. The word 'Qing' is more appropriately called ten dozen. Although the iron bodhi and iron lotus seeds look similar, their uses are very different and they cannot be confused."

"As for the eighteen moves in the word 'city', the three moves of 'break armor', 'break shield', and 'break card' are exactly the same, so it seems that they are just for the sake of numbering. It would be more accurate to call them fifteen or sixteen moves."

His words left Sima Lin and the people from the Qingcheng Sect behind him dumbfounded. They did not expect that a young man who came from nowhere could be so familiar with their sect's martial arts.

After a brief shock, Sima Lin couldn't help but feel angry. He felt it was embarrassing to have his unique skill denounced in public as "making up the numbers".

But it was clearly he who took the initiative to ask for advice before, and it was a bit ungraceful for him to immediately turn hostile at this moment, so he winked at a fellow student next to him.

The junior fellow had been with him day and night for many years, so he naturally understood what he meant immediately. He nodded slightly and walked out from the corner.

This man was actually an ugly guy with a pockmarked face. He looked a few years older than Sima Lin. He was dressed in a white robe that looked like mourning clothes, and he exuded a creepy sinister aura under the flickering candlelight.

He shook his sleeves lightly, and immediately a set of "Thunder God Bomb" appeared in his palms. He said to Chai Xin in a cold voice: "Since you are so contemptuous of our sect, the Qingcheng Sect will have to learn a few moves from you!"

Before he finished speaking, he pointed the tip of the steel spike in his left hand at Chai Xin, and at the same time, he hit the tail of the spike with a small hammer in his right hand.

"boom!"

Following the sound of metal clashing, a sharp sound of breaking through the air was immediately heard, and everyone saw a three-inch long steel nail shooting towards Chai Xin.

"How shameless! If you are asking for advice, how can you use a hidden weapon?"

Those people in Qinjiazhai who reacted quickly shouted out in disdain.

It seems that he is speaking up for Chai Xin, but in fact he is taking the opportunity to ridicule the Qingcheng Sect.

As soon as the two gangs entered Tingxiangshui Pavilion, they started to get on bad terms with each other. If Chai Xin and others had not come, they would have probably started fighting long ago.

Of course, many people in Qinjiazhai were secretly frightened, thinking that if they faced Zhu Baokun's sneak attack with hidden weapons, they would most likely suffer.

The young pretty boy in front of him was even less likely to be spared.

Just when everyone was thinking this, they saw Chai Xin remained calm until the steel nails came in front of him, then he lightly swung his palm. In the astonished eyes of everyone, they saw that under his palm, the steel nails suddenly turned around at a speed ten times faster than when they came, and reflected towards Zhu Baokun!

Zhu Baokun had been sneering with his lips curled up a moment ago, but now the smile froze on his face and he felt cold all over.

Such a swift hidden weapon, even if he had been prepared, he could not avoid it with his martial arts skills, not to mention that this was an unexpected counterattack!

However, when the hidden steel nail was only three feet away from Zhu Baokun, it was suddenly changed in direction by an unknown force and shot straight to the ground.

"Ding!"

Everyone only heard a slight sound, and the steel nail actually stuck to the tip of Zhu Baokun's shoe and sank deeply into the bluestone floor, leaving only a tiny hole.

The three-inch-long steel nail disappeared without a trace!

In an instant, the place was dead silent, leaving only the heavy breathing of the crowd.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have believed that someone could use the power of their palm to easily drive a three-inch long steel nail into a bluestone slab?
Zhu Baokun was so frightened that he was out of his wits. Cold sweat poured down his back, soaking even his clothes.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Chai Xin had shown mercy just now.

Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that the steel needle just happened to stick to the tip of his shoe and pierced into the bluestone floor without any deviation?

If the steel needle had not turned at the last moment, but had always been heading for his chest, what would he look like now?
Even if he doesn't die, I'm afraid he will fall to the ground seriously injured!
"The thunder god's blast is quite powerful. But unfortunately your power is too weak and you have lost the essence of it. You may be able to do something powerful to a lesser master than the first-rate one, but you cannot hurt a true master."

Chai Xin put his hands behind his back again and commented with a faint smile.

"Great!"

Beside him, Duan Yu came back to his senses at this moment. Looking at his graceful and elegant appearance in every gesture, he couldn't help but admire him greatly.

As for Wang Yuyan, Yang Guo and others, there was no need to say more. They all looked at Chai Xin with shock on their faces.

They couldn't even react to the steel needle just now, let alone deal with it so easily.

After a while, Zhu Baokun suddenly woke up, his heart filled with fear.

He knew that Chai Xin had let him go, so he wanted to stand up respectfully and show his weakness. But he was really frightened and his legs were out of control. He could only clasp his fists and said in a hoarse voice, "Thank you for showing mercy, hero."

In fact, he was not the only one. No matter whether they were from Qingcheng Sect or Qinjiazhai, the way they looked at Chai Xin was completely different.

"Brother, you are a martial arts master. I am the one who failed to recognize you. Please forgive me. I am sorry to hear that. I have not asked for your name yet."

Sima Lin knew that he had hit a wall this time, but he reacted quickly and bowed seriously and decisively.

This is how the world is, strength has always been respected.

As long as it is not a life-and-death feud, it is not a shameful thing to bow your head when facing a real master.

"How shameless! Just now you were mocking me and even attacking me with hidden weapons, but now you are showing off your shamelessness. Don't you feel ashamed?"

However, the people in Qinjiazhai would not miss this good opportunity and started shouting with contempt.

The village chief Yao Bodang took two steps forward, clasped his fists towards Chai Xinyi and said, "Forgive my ignorance, I don't know your name, little brother, what school you belong to, and who is your master?"

In his and everyone else's opinion, a person like Chai Xin who is so young and has such great martial arts skills must have an extraordinary background.

It is even possible that he is a well-known figure in the world.

"I've said it before, I'm just an ordinary person in Jianghu, how can I have any master? As for my name, my name is Chai Xin."

After Chai Xin said this, his gaze fell back on Zhu Baokun.

"You are not a ruthless person, so I showed mercy. Otherwise, if you dared to fire twelve of those 'Heavenly King Heart-Replenishing Needles' in a row, I would never have spared your life."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Baokun couldn't help but feel lucky that he didn't go too far. Otherwise, with the martial arts skills of the man in front of him, wouldn't it be as easy as taking something from a bag to take his life?
But just as he thought of this, his expression suddenly froze, and he suddenly realized that something was wrong. He looked up at Chai Xin in surprise.

At the same time, Sima Lin and the other two Qingcheng Sect elders were all startled, and then they all exclaimed in surprise: "What!"

Zhu Baokun calmed himself down and said in a deep voice, "Master Chai, you must have made a mistake. This is not the Heavenly King Heart-Replenishing Needle. This is the fourth level of my Qingcheng Sect's 'Qing' Kung Fu, called the 'Green Bee Nail'."

"Don't you think that I can't tell the difference between the 'Green Bee Nail' and the 'Heavenly King Heart-Repairing Needle'? Even if they are the same steel needles, each school has a different way of exerting force. Who in the martial arts world doesn't know this?"

Chai Xin paced slowly in the hall with his hands behind his back, a faint smile on his face.

"The Qingcheng and Penglai sects are sworn enemies. What you are doing now was attempted by your sect's seventh-generation leader, Senior Hai Fengzi, more than eighty years ago. Are you repeating the same mistake now? Do you think that your wisdom and martial arts are superior to that of Taoist Master Hai Fengzi back then, and that you can definitely complete what your predecessors did not finish?"

Although the Penglai Sect of Shandong and the Qingcheng Sect of Sichuan are located in the east and west respectively, the masters of the two sects formed a deep hatred for each other more than a hundred years ago. Since then, there have been frequent feuds between the two generations, and the hatred has become increasingly intense.

The Hai Fengzi that Chai Xin mentioned was once an outstanding talent of the Penglai Sect.

This man, by his own strength, had already made the Penglai Sect much more powerful than the Qingcheng Sect at that time, but for the sake of his future disciples, he thought about how to completely defeat the Qingcheng Sect once and for all.

So he sent one of his most proud disciples to infiltrate the Qingcheng Sect and secretly learn martial arts, so as to know both himself and the enemy and win a great victory.

It’s a pity that the disciple was later discovered by the Qingcheng Sect and executed on the spot, so Hai Fengzi failed to get his wish.

Moreover, in this way, the hatred between the two sides will naturally become deeper, and they will also be more wary of the other side secretly learning their martial arts.

So much so that later on, the Qingcheng Sect only accepted people from Sichuan as disciples and would not even look at people from other provinces.

The same is true for the Penglai Sect. They only accept people from Shandong. In the end, they even stopped accepting people from western and southern Shandong and basically only accepted people from eastern Shandong.

A person may be able to hide his flaws by disguising himself, but it is extremely difficult to change his accent and intonation.

Especially since Shandong and Sichuan are in the east and west respectively, their accents are not similar at all.

However, Zhu Baokun was from the Zhu family in Guan County, western Sichuan, a prominent family in western Sichuan. How could he become a disciple of the Penglai Sect?
No one in the Qingcheng Sect, including the late leader Sima Wei, had thought of this.

(End of this chapter)