Chapter 1259 The Sword God Smiles (Fifteen)

At noon, the sky was gloomy.

The gray clouds blocked the sunlight, and even the sky seemed to be helping to create an atmosphere of impending storm.

At this moment, three figures appeared on the empty street.

The leader walking in the middle was a middle-aged man.

He was dressed in rags, holding a stick-like weapon wrapped in rags in his hand, and walked step by step, slowly.

The two people following him on both sides looked much more eye-catching than him; Oda Ai and Sasaki Ming were players after all, and their appearance and temperament were very different from the general characters in the script. Even if the system had a certain degree of "harmony" on their appearance, they were still very eye-catching.

The three of them walked on the widest main road in the middle of Linlu Town, walking in the silent cold wind, walking in countless sights hidden in the dark...

Swoosh——

Suddenly, a sound of breaking wind broke through the air and the suffocating depression.

Ping!

Oda Ai was quick-witted and quick-handed. With one hand raised, she easily blocked the flying hidden weapon with her wrist guard.

But this was just the beginning...

Before the first hidden weapon landed, the subsequent attacks had already arrived.

In the blink of an eye, black dots like a rainstorm came from all directions of the three people.

Those hidden weapons included darts, knives, needles, bullets... Each type of hidden weapon had its own unique speed, strength, and killing method.

Needless to say, some hidden weapons were poisoned. Some hidden weapons were also added with gunpowder, and they would explode the moment they were blocked; some would split into two or more pieces while moving; there were even things that could suddenly change their flight trajectory.

Facing such a siege in a place without any cover, generally speaking, there was only one way to jump into the sky.

However, the three people... stood still.

"Sick Sword..." At that moment, Sasaki Ming made a move. When he reported the name of the move, he was also in a sickly state, "...Round Brake."

The voice fell, and the sword move appeared.

The next second, a transparent circular force field spread out with Sasaki Ming as the center, covering Oda Ai and the middle-aged man beside him.

I don't know what the principle of his move [Sick Sword·Circle Break] is. His sword is still in the sheath, but it can still create a saturated sword energy force field, blocking all the hidden weapons outside the range of the "circle".

After this round of joint attack, the three were unscathed.

"Ah——"

Unexpectedly, a few seconds later, another change occurred.

But a scream was heard, and then a person flew out of the second-floor window of a building on the roadside.

As soon as the person landed on the ground, more screams and the sound of weapons colliding appeared one after another.

"Huh... Is it starting to bite each other..." Oda Ai looked at the figures that kept flying out of the buildings and dark alleys, and she knew what happened in the place she couldn't see.

Her guess was indeed correct. At the moment, it was a situation of "black eating black".

The first group to attack them were from the "Xiefeng Society".

This sect, to put it bluntly... is an armed theft gang, and the members are all good at hidden weapons and light skills; they are not very strong in a fair duel in broad daylight, but they are good at assassination, ambush, theft and other activities.

Last night, the Xiefeng Society killed many more martial artists than the Kuanghu Gang. Of course... they killed basically all minions, and they failed to deal with a few real masters.

Compared with the shrewd Tu Ji, the leader of the Xiefeng Society was relatively simple-minded, so that after the assassination operation that night, they also suffered heavy losses. By noon today, they only had about 30 people left.

With such strength, it is obviously difficult to deal with "Jianwu Caoji".

So, the Xiefeng Society came up with a simple and direct strategy that is likely to work... strike first.

They deliberately chose an area not far from the town entrance to ambush, and the plan was to take the initiative to take away the people carrying the secret book, and then use their own sect's advantage in light work to take the things and run away quickly.

But they never expected that... the long-prepared and determined attack was easily resolved by the target; not only that, the Beggar Gang, Hailongmen, and Baimei Sect, the three sects that were attacked the most by them last night, had already set up ambushes in more peripheral areas. As soon as the people of the Xiefeng Society made a move, the people of the three sects came "backwards" and surrounded them.

The fight... ended quickly.

Rather than a fight, it was more like a massacre.

More than 140 people killed 30 people, and it was done intentionally. The latter could hold on for one or two minutes. It was good.

After all the members of the Xiefeng Society lay flat on the ground, a group of people emerged from all over the streets and blocked the way of the three people.

There are also three people leading them.

The first one is a man with gray hair and light-colored tights. Judging from his appearance, he is at least sixty years old, but there is no sign of old age in his gestures.

This man is called Luo Can, and he is the current leader of the Beggars' Sect.

As a gang with a long history, many outstanding heroes have emerged from the Beggars' Sect. Unfortunately, Luo Can is not one of them in terms of talent, martial arts, or wisdom.

If there is anything commendable about him, it is that... he successfully restored the unique martial arts that had been lost in the gang for decades - "Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms" with some incomplete and fragmentary forms collected from various places.

If it was put more than a hundred years ago, this would not be a big deal. At that time, there were many external martial arts with higher levels than Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, but in this "post-wulin era", possessing such a set of palm techniques is enough for Luo Can to join the ranks of top-notch masters and be the only one in the world.

Let's talk about the second person...

This person's name is Gu Jiaolong. His clothes are ordinary, and they are also the tight clothes that people who practice martial arts often wear, but his appearance is very distinctive, which can be said to be - tiger back and bear waist, clear eyebrows and eyes.

Yes, you read it right, and I didn't write it wrong, he looks like this; therefore, this young leader of Hailongmen has a nickname like "Jade-faced Jiaolong".

As the name suggests, the Hailongmen sect relies on the sea for its livelihood, and is considered half martial and half business. Unlike other sects, the Hailongmen sect has always had a "good relationship" with the government, because they regularly provide some high-ranking officials and local officials with rare treasures and delicacies from the sea, so they have gained a lot of convenience.

In the coastal area of ​​Jiangnan, the Hailongmen sect is the only one that dominates the area. To give an example that is not exaggerated - as long as it is within their sphere of influence, the private salt business can be done openly.

As for the martial arts of this sect... generally, there is no superior martial arts to show off, but there are several sets of fierce external martial arts in the sect, which are still acceptable in actual combat.

Finally, let's look at the third person.

That is a woman, a woman who is so fat that you can hardly tell her gender.

Maybe it doesn't seem strange now, but in that society based on agriculture and relatively poor material, if you see a fat person weighing more than 100 or 200 pounds, it is also quite rare.

This female head... or... female leader, is named Feng Meiyu; this name was given by herself when she grew up. When she was a child, she had no name, or she had many names...

It may be hard to believe that this Feng Sect Leader was the top player in a famous romantic place in Beijing when she was fifteen years old. At that time, her name was "Feng'er".

Feng'er was a beauty at that time. Even though she was still a girl, her precocious body had conquered countless princes and nobles in Beijing.

Because she was picked up by the brothel madam and grew up in such an environment, she did not seem to reject the idea of ​​selling her body to live a good life.

But one day, she changed.

A woman's transformation is usually related to a man, and Feng'er is no exception.

When she was nineteen years old, she fell in love with a young man from a poor family. She loved his appearance, his talent, and every minute she spent with him; even many years later, she still remembered the warmth.

However, this relationship soon ended with the young man's untimely death.

His death was not an accident, but because he and Feng'er were too close, and Feng'er had the idea of ​​redeeming herself and becoming a good woman; this was obviously something that some people did not want to see, and those "some people" were all powerful figures in the capital. For them, killing a poor scholar was no different from killing an ant.

From then on, although Feng'er did not show any abnormality on the surface, in fact, her heart was completely devoured by the flames of revenge.

She used her own methods to get some martial arts secrets and practiced hard in secret.

Hatred is a terrible motivation, and it will not weaken with the passage of time, but will become stronger and stronger...

Under such motivation, no matter what people do, they are extremely efficient.

Three years later, Feng'er completed her revenge.

It only took her one night to kill all her enemies and set the largest brothel in the capital on fire; she also skinned the madam and hung her body on the archway of the flower street.

After that night, Feng'er disappeared.

It was not until more than ten years later that a sect called "Baimei Sect" appeared in the world. Their leader was a very fat woman who called herself "Feng Meiyu".

Her obesity was not because she was lazy and gluttonous... It was because she relied on her own understanding and worked hard to practice a variety of different internal skills without the most basic knowledge and rules, which eventually led to abnormal meridians and breath. After some years, these abnormalities gradually appeared in her body.

Obesity is just the most intuitive manifestation. She has many other problems that make her suffer; however, in the past ten years, even though she has visited famous doctors and consulted many martial arts masters, no one can cure her extreme "devil phase".

Finally, the physical pain caused her mental problems... She gave up treatment, turned pain into a new motivation, turned killing into a way to release pressure, and turned power desire into her own painkiller... In this way, Baimei Sect was born.

"Beggars' Sect... Hailongmen... Baimei Sect..." After the three men and their gang members stood still, the middle-aged man slowly spoke, "Looking at this situation... are you all joining forces?"

He guessed correctly. Due to the various events that happened last night, the strength comparison between the various sects has changed. After negotiations, the three sects decided to unite to ensure victory today.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Gu Jiaolong is 32 years old this year, which is the age when he is in full swing. He usually speaks out on the territory of his gang and has long formed a habit, so his words and conversations can no longer be said to be "confrontational". Instead, he said, "Hand over the 'Sword Dance Notes' and I will spare your life!"

"Oh?" When the middle-aged man heard this, his tone was still calm, "How did you know... that the 'Sword Dance Notes' is on me?"

Before Gu Jiaolong could answer, Luo Can continued: "'The murderer of the sixty-three members of the Jiang family will appear in Linlu Town on New Year's Eve with a sword dance note; he is about fifty years old. , covering his face with a bamboo hat, holding a weapon wrapped in rags'..." He repeated this piece of information that had already spread throughout the world, word for word, and then said, "At the moment, except for time, It's not yet 'night', you completely fit the description of this message." He paused and moved his gaze to Sasaki Ming, "Besides... we all saw the skill of your subordinate just now. Here we go...that must be the move in Sword Dance, right?"

Their speculation is quite reasonable. Sasaki Ming's "skill" is considered magical by orthodox martial arts practitioners, and this can be explained by "what he learned from the Sword Dance Kusanagi".

"Well... what you said makes sense, but there is one thing, I don't know if you have thought about it..." The middle-aged man still responded calmly, "The 'news' you said seems a bit too much. That’s accurate... isn’t it?”

When he said these words, the two players behind him didn't react at all, because they had already learned the whole story from the middle-aged man's mouth; Huaishang and Kuangshou Jianying are not afraid, but their expressions have changed.

"So what?" Feng Meiyu stood there, like a big meat ball, and it was a bit difficult to even speak. "Now that things have happened, what's the point of you saying this again? Do you still want to deny that things are there? On your body?"

"I don't want to deny anything..." the middle-aged man replied, "On the contrary, I want to admit something..."

"Don't you just want to say... that the news was released by you?" Suddenly, another person's voice joined the conversation.

Everyone followed the sound and quickly found a person on the roof of a house on the street.

"Feng Bujue!"

The moment Brother Jue appeared, these three words rushed through the hearts of other players like a group of people passing by.

"Huh?" The middle-aged man's attention was also attracted by Brother Jue. He raised his head, gently pushed up the edge of the hat with his fingers, and glanced at Brother Jue, "You are..."

"Be careful..." Oda Ai's whisper immediately reached the middle-aged man's ears, "This kid is difficult to deal with..."

"Hey! Who are you?" Two seconds later, Gu Jiaolong shouted to Brother Jue in a loud voice, "Do you have a role to speak here?"

"Ha..." Feng Bujue chuckled lightly and responded, "Young Master Gu, please calm down. I just came to say a few things that may be of interest to you. I have no intention of hindering the leaders."

"We don't have time to listen to your story." Luo Can said, "I advise you to hurry up..."

"Wait a minute." Unexpectedly, the middle-aged man said, "I would like to hear... what he can say."

As soon as he said these words, the three heads were stunned for a moment, and their eyes also changed slightly when they looked at Brother Jue.

Of course, at this time, they still didn't take this young and unfamiliar face seriously. They were just wondering what the middle-aged man was planning.

"Haha... Actually I don't have much to say, I can finish it in just an hour and a half." Seeing that no one interrupted him, Feng Bujue continued, "To put it simply... today's round is yours. Planned by himself." He looked at the middle-aged man and said with a smile, "As expected, you should be the Japanese Ronin who didn't know the true value of the sword manual and took it to the pawn shop to pawn it at a low price. ”

When the words fell, except for the middle-aged man, Oda Ai and Sasaki Ming, everyone present changed their expressions.

Feng Bujue didn't take it seriously and said eloquently: "In fact, you know the value of Sword Dance Notes very well... That's why you used it as 'bait' to set up this trap..." He paused for a second and then said, "First, you deliberately let Jiang San get the Sword Dance Notes, and then you caused the massacre of Jiangjiabao and took back the sword notes; you know that Duan Keyi will definitely come to give it to you. The apprentice takes revenge and gets to the bottom of the matter... Therefore, you just use the reputation of the Diancang Sect to spread the news about the appearance of Jian Wu Cao Ji.

“When people hear relevant news, they will take it for granted that... this is ‘diangcang faction found out’, as if everything is logical.

"But as soon as I heard about this, I felt that something was fishy...

"Not to mention how Master Duan and his disciples came to the conclusion that 'the murderer killed everyone in order to steal a sword manual' from a murder scene with no living people at all... Even if they were sure He found out that the motive of the murderer was 'to take away something important' and used this as a clue to pursue... The possibility of finding the so-called 'Japanese Ronin' and 'Pawn Shop' is really slim. .

“And the news that ‘The Sword Dance Notes will appear on New Year’s Eve’ spread out afterwards made me completely sure... that the perpetrator himself was the one who spread the news.

"As you said... the message was too specific and accurate. Not only the time and place, but also your dress and appearance were all described exactly."

At this point, Brother Jue couldn't help laughing: "Haha... the most ridiculous thing is that since this message has spread all over the world and attracted so many sects and people, then the 'that person' in the message is probably aware of this matter... Under this premise, how could he appear at the time and place mentioned in the message? Knowing that the entire martial arts world is ambushing him, would he still come to die?"

His question was obviously thrown to the heads of the sects and other martial artists lurking around.

"So, there is only one truth." Feng Bujue raised his hand and pointed at the middle-aged man, "The person with the sword dance grass record... the person who released the message... the person who created the current situation through many calculations... does not think he will die."

As he said, he turned around and looked at the three heads of the sects: "The ones who will die... are you."