Chapter 1176: Chapter 1176
In Yi Xiang's heart, the intense fear reached its limit, but after a moment, he found that he was still alive, not torn apart by the vigorous Qi that erupted from the Blade Madman's palm. His face instantly turned pale, and he almost couldn't stand, taking a step back and sitting on the ground, his chest heaving violently.
There is great terror between life and death.
He didn't know how much time had passed before he regained his senses. Looking around, he discovered that this place didn't resemble the terrain of Parthia at all. The jade mountains overlapped with greenery, and the birdsong was melodious. Parthia had no such scenery; it seemed more like the interior of the Great Qin. At this time, the Parthian region of the Western Regions was still quite cold, with only a hint of spring.
But here, it seemed like it was already entering summer.
His face was filled with confusion, and a strange thought appeared in his mind.
Could it be that the Blade Madman's strike had indeed teleported him directly into the interior of the Great Qin?
If that were the case, such a method would be too terrifying.
Within a single palm, spanning thousands of miles in an instant.
This was already something that only realms above a Grandmaster could achieve.
Or perhaps the Blade Madman's palm truly knocked him out, and he had been unconscious for at least half a month? And during this time, he was transported from the southern part of the Parthian Empire to the interior of the Great Qin?
The thought of this possibility made Yi Xiang feel quite certain, yet he didn't know what such an effort was for. His expression fluctuated, and as he looked around, he noticed many grandly built structures on the eastern mountain, which seemed to have people there. After a brief contemplation, he came up with an idea.
Regardless, he would first find someone to inquire about where exactly this place was.
At that moment, he leapt up, treading the air and riding the wind. His mood was somber and vaguely violent. He saw not far ahead, a young man lying on a bluestone, looking leisurely with a sprig of willow in his mouth, with tender buds on it. His eyes were slightly narrowed, and his expression was lazy. Yi Xiang landed beside him, saying:
"Hey, where is this place?!"
The young man half-lying on the stone did not respond.
"I'm talking to you; are you deaf?!"
Yi Xiang felt a faint anger rising in his heart. He took two steps forward and raised his hand to grab the young man, his five fingers slightly opening and closing. He was already employing a superior martial arts technique, seemingly real yet unreal, enveloping a part of Heaven and Earth, and then converging, causing the world to contract.
One of the Western Region's peerless skills, the Sky-covering Palm.
His palm tightened due to the residual fear from before, which only fueled his anger, so at this moment, he made no reservation in his strike.
His palm went directly through the young man's body.
Yi Xiang's facial expression froze instantly.
The young man's body seemed extremely real, but at that moment, it suddenly disappeared. Yi Xiang's heart skipped a beat, and as he looked around in confusion, he suddenly saw a figure in black standing proudly at the top of the mountain; it was the same person he had thought was already dead.
His heart was filled with joy, even suppressing his unease and fear. Using his movement technique, he surged towards the mountain top.
On the top of Shaoshi Mountain.
Hong Luoyu's body blurred for a moment, then he looked at the composed black-clad man, pointed at himself, and grinned:
"You mean you want us to follow you out, to be your subordinates?"
"Is that what you mean?"
The black-clad man nodded, calm and even rather sincere, saying:
"With a person of your skills, even though limited beneath the line of a Great Grandmaster, you are already a formidable talent in the vast world. In my humble opinion, there are very few in the world of martial artists who can surpass your speed."
"If you are willing to emerge, I will be ready to receive you with open arms."
Hong Luoyu nodded, smiling politely:
The Ancient Taoist next to him coughed and silently stepped to the left, slightly raising his gaze, pretending not to be familiar with Hong Luoyu. Wu Changqing paused slightly in his beard-stroking action, and at this moment, the kind-looking, forgetful old Divine Doctor finally recalled another reason for Hong Luoyu's fame in the Jianghu.
Just when he thought the Hall Master of the White Tiger Hall would certainly be furious, the black-clad man smiled slightly and said: "That's fine."
"Then I shall call you brother-in-law."
"I just wonder, I have three sisters; which one do you like? Or do you plan to have them all under one roof? If that's not enough, I can even acknowledge a few more sisters. In this vast world, the Golden Tent of the Great Qin, the Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions, there are many beauties. Whomever you, brother-in-law, fancy, I will acknowledge as a sister, how about that?"
Eventually, Wu Changqing, who was old and steady, coughed twice, stopping Hong Luoyu from speaking, and said calmly:
"Let's not joke around."
The black-clad man smiled and said:
"You started joking first."
"Of course, I never lie. If Mr. Hong Luoyu, you desire a princess consort from any of the Western states, I can acknowledge her as a sister too."
Hong Luoyu laughed and said:
"Does your face carry that much value?"
"A consort of a nation, to be seized just like that?"
The black-clad man's eyes glowed deeply, smiling:
"It's simple. Anyone who disagrees just needs to be eradicated completely."
"I will personally propose for you. If she agrees, I'll take her away. If she disagrees, I'll annihilate her entire family before taking her."
Hong Luoyu squinted and said:
"As expected, I still find you displeasing."
The black-clad man smiled, "Yet, I'm becoming more fond of you, sir."
Hong Luoyu chuckled briefly, twisted his wrist, producing a crisp sound, and stepped forward, saying lightly:
"Monk, Taoist, I'll go first this time."
Then he looked at the black-clad man, his eyes clear, smiling:
"Let's see if my so-called 'slightly weaker' is truly 'slightly weaker.'
"Medicine man, let me handle this. Bring out whatever techniques you have."
"Medicine King Valley shouldn't just be about healing, right?"
Hong Luoyu tilted his head, and Wu Changqing chuckled softly, stroking his beard with his left hand.
He then swept his right sleeve dramatically, suddenly shaking it, and chanted softly:
"I suspend the needle of Heaven and Earth."
Condensing qi into needles, the sky suddenly darkened, and then the qi needles all pierced into Hong Luoyu's body. Accompanied by the crisp sound of bones cracking, his body subtly swelled before returning to its normal state, but his qi mechanism was steadily rising.
The man in black had a serious expression.
"Condense qi into needles."
"Using Heaven and Earth as a great tonic?"
Hong Luoyu stepped forward, slightly raising his right hand.
The qi mechanism burst forth.
His black hair at the temples was slightly lifted, and the god-like figure smirked at the corner of his mouth and smiled:
"Hey, have you ever seen the speed of Flying Hong falling without a trace?"
"Falling without a trace?"
Yi Xiang had just leaped into the air and reached the mountaintop when he heard this sentence.
He hadn't recovered from the joy of seeing that man in black.
Then he heard a huge roaring sound, like distant thunder across the sky, rolling past, even piercing his ears with a slight pain. He instinctively raised his hand to cover his ears, and quickly turned to look in that direction, his pupils suddenly contracted, and cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
A visible ripple surged out from that side.
He had never seen such violent qi force, and just the vigorous qi from high-speed movement was enough to tear apart Famous Sword level equipment directly. The overwhelming pressure suppressed his breathing, and the man in black floated forward, shielding him from part of the chaotic explosive qi force, preventing his immediate destruction.
Then, in his pupils, countless illusory shadows were instantly reflected.
All were just that leisurely young man.
But at the moment, he was not leaning against the big white stone dozing off. Instead, he exuded a fierce momentum.
Or flicking fingers, or throwing punches, or the long sword whistling, or the saber drawn.
Yi Xiang suddenly broke out in cold sweat. Although he was a Fifth Rank superior martial artist, extremely proficient in movement techniques, with exceptional eyesight, he immediately realized the number of people appearing just at that moment.
Common sense dictated that there was simply no space to accommodate three thousand people, but they appeared so unreasonably. And by his judgment ability, or as a Fifth Rank martial artist proficient in Qinggong, those three thousand people all truly existed…
They were not illusions, not afterimages, at least not in his perception.
So, to him, they were real.
Each person executed a superior martial art technique.
Each superior technique involved the 'realm' of Intent.
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They had just begun exploring it.
But, those moves had a deadly threat, which was that these moves were simultaneous, and almost no two were the same!
Not a single repetition!
A breath of three thousand techniques!
The whole being of Yi Xiang, who desperately sought to grasp even one technique without success, shook in turmoil, nearly uncontrollable, fracturing.
How could there be such talented individuals in this world?!
This was akin to having three thousand individuals at the threshold of Grandmaster Fourth Rank experts, at the same time, combining in the most flawless state.
Because they were essentially one person.
Wu Changqing's expression changed slightly, looking at the Ancient Taoist beside him whose expression also subtly changed, he murmured: "Could Luoyu do this before?"
The Ancient Taoist's expression turned slightly focused. Glancing at the towering monk, he shook his head and then closed his eyes with a light sigh:
"He should merely transcend miles in an instant, proficient in all martial arts he knows…"
"At least, that was him in the past."
A ripple unable to be rendered in words spread in the air.
Three thousand acted simultaneously.
A sense of disorientation made one think time had solidified.
Heaven and Earth were forcibly opened into an isolated space by the violently shaken qi mechanism, then sword qi and saber light intermingled and slashed across this narrow space. All forces hit a single 'point' with near-perfect precision.
Because it was the same person, the same qi mechanism, the same methods.
So the Three Thousand Strikes continuously stacked, forcibly breaking through the original barrier, reaching a higher degree, this wasn't the true realm of the physical strength, but the pinnacle of techniques, the speed at its limit.
When speed reaches its limit, in that moment, a qualitative change occurs.
It wasn't Confucian School's Heaven and Earth Law, nor was it Zen Buddhism's Cause and Effect, or the Taoist Sect's Yin and Yang, because from a fundamental nature, this wasn't enlightenment, enlightenment takes Heaven and Earth as the root, this wasn't realization.
Instead, with pure speed and the pinnacle of extremity, it pursued Heaven and Earth's law.
In this instant, though it was only this instant.
With this body's arrogance, with this body's honed skills, sublimated into the Laws of Heaven and Earth.
Flying without a trace.
The body of the Hall Master of the White Tiger Hall was instantly shattered.
And the young man's figure returned to be reflected in Yi Xiang's eyes, standing with arms behind his back, the hem of his green robe gently vibrating.
Expression indifferent.
Flying without a trace.
All waters of Ruishui River sink.
Yi Xiang's breath hitched.
PS: Today's update is presented, I promised there would be a reboot, it seems it'll take another day or two.
Because I'm afraid I'll need to rewrite that chapter, there are quite a lot of words, so as not to delay today's update, I have to split it into two days to reboot that chapter.