Chapter 183: The Realm of Transcendence
As soon as Qiao Feng finished speaking, the members of the Beggars' Sect realized that they had been unable to use their internal energy without realizing it.
Even Qiao Feng, who was a master of martial arts and a top expert in the martial arts world, was tricked without realizing it, let alone them.
"Qiao Feng, you have been hit by my Yipintang's "Sad and Soft Breeze", so surrender immediately."
Seeing this scene, Helian Tieshu, the general of the Yipintang who was riding on horseback, smiled.
It turned out that after entering the apricot forest, the Xixia people had secretly spread the "sad and soft breeze" in the apricot forest.
This is a colorless and odorless poison gas. Yipintang collected poisons from the Happy Valley in the Great Snow Mountain of Western Xia and refined them into water. It is usually stored in bottles. When it is used, the antidote has already been stuffed in the nose of one's own people. When the cork is pulled out, the poisonous water turns into steam and comes out like a breeze blowing on the body. No matter how clever you are, you will not be able to detect it. By the time your eyes start to hurt, the poison gas has already rushed into your head.
After being poisoned, tears fall like rain, which is called "sorrow", the whole body cannot move, which is called "numbness", and the poison gas is colorless and odorless, which is called "clear breeze".
But there were continuous sounds of "gulp" and "ouch" and the Beggars' Sect disciples fell to the ground one after another.
Among them, only Duan Yu had consumed the Manggu Zhuha and was immune to all poisons and was not poisoned.
Although he inhaled the "sad and soft breeze" into his nose, he felt neither "sad" nor "soft". Seeing that the beggars, Wang Yuyan and the two beauties Zhu Bi all looked embarrassed, he did not understand why for a moment and felt a little frightened.
"Tie them all up!"
Nurhai returned to Helian Tieshu and immediately gave the order.
The warriors of Yipintang of Western Xia began to take action and tied up all the members of the Beggar Gang.
When he saw the three stunning beauties, Ah Zhu, Ah Bi and Wang Yuyan, he immediately became interested, especially Wang Yuyan. He had never seen such a beautiful and extraordinary woman.
Nurhai thought to himself: "If I capture such a beauty and present her to the general, he will be very happy."
He immediately walked towards Wang Yuyan, grinning and ready to capture her.
"what are you doing?"
Duan Yu, the flower-guarding messenger, became furious when he saw that his "Fairy Sister" was about to be defiled by another man.
In a hurry, sword energy shot out from his fingers with a hissing sound. It was the "Six Meridians Divine Sword" of Dali Duan family.
Nurhai didn't know that Duan Yu was not affected by the "Sad and Soft Breeze", and he didn't know the power of the "Six Meridians Divine Sword", so his arm continued to reach out to Wang Yuyan.
Nurhai's arm was suddenly struck by lightning. There was a crisp sound of fracture. Nurhai's arm fell down and he let out a miserable scream.
Duan Yu picked up the fallen Wang Yuyan and was about to escape from the apricot forest.
His elder brother Qiao Feng has been poisoned, and if they stay any longer, they will be captured.
"You weren't poisoned?"
Just then, a voice full of shock and anger came from behind.
Duan Yu recognized the voice as Helian Tieshu's.
He immediately glanced behind him, but this glance made him unsure whether he should continue to run away or stay and observe the situation!
Because among all the people in this apricot forest who should have been poisoned, there was only one person who was not poisoned, and that person was Chu Yuan.
Not only that, Chu Yuan also went straight to Helian Tieshu.
As fast as lightning or a meteor, he was rapidly closing the distance between himself and Helian Tieshu.
"It's just poison gas, it's useless to me!"
Chu Yuan said as he ran towards Helian Tieshu.
As soon as he saw these Xixia people appear in the apricot forest, he quietly activated his protective qi to isolate himself from the outside world.
Because he vaguely remembered that Xixia Yipintang had a kind of poisonous gas that could temporarily make the enemy lose the ability to move, make their whole body limp, and make them unable to use their internal strength.
Unexpectedly, my caution worked and saved me from being poisoned.
"Stop him quickly."
Helian Tieshu on horseback was horrified and shouted.
Just now, Chu Yuan killed four First-Class Hall warriors in an instant, which made Helian Tieshu realize that Chu Yuan's martial arts skills were by no means ordinary.
Although he is the General of the Southern Expedition of Yipintang, his martial arts skills are not very high and he is not even considered first-rate in the martial arts world.
Following Helian Tieshu's order, more than a dozen Xixia warriors rushed towards Chu Yuan from all directions, wielding swords, spears, halberds and other weapons in their hands, all slashing at Chu Yuan, hoping to stop him.
But a scene that stunned everyone in the forest happened. The weapons of the dozen or so Xixia warriors, when they were still ten feet away from Chu Yuan, were like hitting an invisible piece of iron stone.
There was a sound of metal striking each other, sparks flew, and the weapons in their hands were also shaken and flew out of their hands.
"what!"
Everyone who saw this scene was shocked, even Helian Tieshu was not surprised.
Chu Yuan walked through the encirclement of these Xixia warriors, his palms flying, opening and closing, and using palm techniques such as the "Heart-Destroying Palm" and the "Heavenly and Earthly Evil Palm" alternately.
These dozen Xixia warriors were knocked two or three feet away by Chu Yuan's palms.
There was no movement after he landed on the ground, and he died.
Leaving a trail of afterimages on the spot, Chu Yuan had arrived in front of Helian Tieshu. He tapped the ground with his right foot, then leaped up, his body suddenly rising nearly a meter, and landed on the head of the warhorse that Helian Tieshu was riding.
But what was strange was that the warhorse did not seem to feel Chu Yuan's weight at all, and did not make any move of resistance. Chu Yuan was like a weightless feather, standing on the horse's head, looking down at Helian Tieshu.
The twenty or so Xixia Yipintang warriors who gathered around later did not dare to act rashly and could only stand around and surround Chu Yuan.
"I never thought that the Beggars' Sect would have such a master besides Qiao Feng. Who is this person?"
Duan Yanqing, the leader of the four evil men in the world and the one who has committed many crimes, saw this scene and muttered to himself using ventriloquism.
At the moment when Chu Yuan made his move just now, he had already seen from Chu Yuan the world's top-notch lightness skill, as well as the martial arts that could withstand attacks that he had never seen or heard of before.
"What kind of martial arts did you just use?"
Helian Tieshu was still silent about the scene just now, when more than a dozen Xixia warriors with outstanding martial arts skills besieged Chu Yuan together, but were blocked by an invisible shield around Chu Yuan's body.
"Nine Heavens Qi!"
Chu Yuan looked at Helian Tieshu in front of him and responded.
"If you let me go, I will lead my men out of the apricot forest!"
Chu Yuan was standing in front of him, only a few inches away. Helian Tieshu felt as if a sword was pressed against his throat. The arrogance he had just had was gone, and he spoke in a low voice.
"Why bother? I can just kill you all."
Chu Yuan looked at Helian Tieshu and said.
Helian Tieshu wanted to say something, but Chu Yuan stretched out his right hand and performed the "Tian Gang Di Sha Palm". With the power of his palm, he sucked Helian Tieshu into his hand through the air, and then suddenly exerted force, and with a crisp sound, he broke Helian Tieshu's neck.
Helian Tieshu, who was appointed as the General of the Southern Expedition by Western Xia and commanded the Yipintang, died at the hands of Chu Yuan.
Chu Yuan threw Helian Tieshu's body to the ground like a rag bag, startling some apricot petals on the ground.
More and more people gathered around, with a total number of nearly a hundred Yipintang warriors. They could only watch their general being killed and did not dare to go forward.
"Four evil villains?"
Chu Yuan stood on the horse and looked at Duan Yanqing and others who had also stopped not far away.
The commotion caused by Chu Yuan just now was so loud that Duan Yanqing and others did not have time to capture the poisoned Qiao Feng.
"Are you Chu Yuan, the Green Lotus Messenger of the Beggars' Sect?"
Duan Yanqing's lips clearly did not move, but the sound was clearly heard by Chu Yuan.
Chu Yuan knew that this should be the ventriloquism that Duan Yanqing mastered. It could not only be used to pronounce words, but also to make the other party confused and die.
"That's right." Chu Yuan looked at the four people and said.
In Chu Yuan's opinion, these four evil men are all real evil men.
Although he is not a righteous hero who advocates justice, since he has encountered them, he might as well get rid of these four people together and consider it a good deed.
Duan Yanqing was silent for a moment, thinking back to the time when Chu Yuan had just taken action. After weighing the situation in his mind, he gave the order:
"Come together and kill him."
Although he felt that Chu Yuan was so young but his martial arts were so powerful, the four of them were not weak either.
Especially now that everyone in the Beggars' Sect has been affected by the "Sad and Soft Breeze", as long as Chu Yuan is captured, the entire Beggars' Sect can be captured.
After hearing the order from their eldest brother, the four evil men including Ye Erniang, Yun Zhonghe, and Yue Laosan all surrounded Chu Yuan.
At the same time, nearly a hundred Xixia Yipintang warriors who surrounded Chu Yuan took the lead in rushing towards Chu Yuan, slashing at him with swords in their hands.
Chu Yuan stood on the horse's head, still motionless.
These first-class warriors still found it difficult to break through his protective aura.
Chu Yuan once again used the "Tian Gang Di Sha" palm to take objects from a distance and snatched an iron sword from the hands of a Yipintang warrior.
The warrior didn't even have time to react, and the sword in his hand slipped out of his hand and fell into Chu Yuan's hand.
"I haven't used a sword in a long time!"
Chu Yuan held the sword upright in front of him and said as he looked at the sword in his hand.
This long sword is of ordinary quality, but it is enough to kill these Xixia warriors. Chu Yuan waved the long sword in his hand. In the last world, he only used a bamboo stick, which replaced the sword.
When he got the sword again, a sense of familiarity came over him, and all his previous insights into swordsmanship burst out in his mind at the same time!
After a while, apricot blossoms were flying in the apricot forest and sword energy was everywhere.
The whistling sword light was as dazzling as lightning, causing many people in the Beggar Gang to close their eyes.
However, the screams of the Xixia warriors that kept ringing in their ears aroused their curiosity, and they couldn't help but open their eyes to see what was happening in the apricot forest.
These Xixia warriors, whose martial arts were not weak, fell to the ground and died one after another like wheat being cut.
Chu Yuan's figure was like a ghost, with an afterimage of his body, as he shuttled among the Xixia warriors. His sword was so fast that it could not be seen clearly.
Wherever he passed, there were only the fallen bodies of Xixia Yipintang warriors.
His swordsmanship is extremely sharp.
The bodies of the Ippin-do warriors found underground all had sword wounds in the throat, heart, and between the eyebrows.
Almost all people were killed by Chu Yuan with one sword. If Chu Yuan could kill someone with one sword, he would never use a second sword.
In the eyes of others, the swordsmanship displayed by Chu Yuan was simply an art of killing.
"I didn't expect that my second brother's most powerful skill is not his palm technique, but his sword technique!"
Seeing this scene, Qiao Feng, who was poisoned by the "Sad and Cool Breeze" poison and did not collapse to the ground like the ordinary disciples of the Beggar Gang, was still standing there struggling to use his internal energy to support himself. He was surprised to see this scene.
This means that in the previous competition, my second brother concealed his abilities.
"It seems that I still underestimated my brother."
Qiao Feng thought to himself.
"The Green Lotus Envoy's martial arts skills are surprisingly so high. We are saved."
The Kung Fu Transmission Elder Lu Zhang said happily.
They just thought that the Beggars' Sect was going to be wiped out.
"He actually has such a powerful swordsmanship?"
Ma Dayuan was also extremely surprised.
He really didn't know how Chu Yuan had mastered his martial arts.
Even if it was true as Chu Yuan said, that he had an encounter and obtained the martial arts secrets, but no matter how powerful the martial arts were, it would still take time to practice, right?
But after only a short period of time, his disciple seemed like a completely different person, he could almost be said to have been reborn.
"Put me down!"
Duan Yu was watching intently when he was awakened by the embarrassed and angry voice of the woman in his arms.
Duan Yu then remembered that he was still holding Miss Wang in his arms. In his panic just now, he wanted to take Miss Wang and run away.
Duan Yu quickly put Wang Yuyan down. He explained with an awkward look: "Miss Wang, just now I saw that the Xixia warrior wanted to harm Miss Wang, so I wanted to take Miss Wang and run away. I didn't expect that my second brother's martial arts is so powerful. Now we don't have to run away."
"If you only take Miss Wang away, what should we do?"
Just then, a sarcastic voice came from the side.
Duan Yu turned around and saw that the person who spoke was Feng Boye, which made Duan Yu a little at a loss.
"Master Duan, didn't you say you don't know martial arts? And why weren't you affected by the poisonous gas just now?"
Wang Yuyan spoke up at the right time to help Duan Yu out.
Although she felt a little embarrassed and angry because Duan Yu wanted to run away with her alone in a hurry just now, she had to admit that she felt quite happy about it.
Duan Yu was a little confused when he heard Wang Yuyan's question, "I don't know how I developed this martial arts skill. As for why the poison doesn't work on me, it may be because I ate the Manggu Zhuha before, so I am immune to all poisons."
At this moment, Ah Bi, who had collapsed to the ground, looked at Chu Yuan, who was holding a long sword not far away and looked like a living sword god, and said, "Is this young hero Chu really the disciple of Deputy Gang Leader Ma? I'm afraid that no one in the whole martial arts world can match his sword skills."
A-Bi's words attracted everyone else's attention for a moment.
They thought about it carefully and realized that in today's martial arts world, if it came to swordsmanship alone, no one could match Chu Yuan.
In the martial arts world, there is a disciple of the Yizi Huijian Sect named Zhuo Bufan, who is said to call himself the Sword God.
Although he killed several famous fighters in Hebei in one breath, he had some fame in the underworld.
However, this Sword God is at most a first-rate master in the martial arts world, and his reputation is really overrated.
He was completely incomparable to Chu Yuan, who killed more than a hundred Xixia Yipintang warriors with just a long sword in his hand.
"No matter what, the Beggars' Sect has two top masters, Leader Qiao and Young Master Chu. I'm afraid their future will be even brighter."
Bao Bu Tong said with a complicated expression.
In the past, the Beggars' Sect had a leader named Qiao Feng, who made it the largest gang in the world.
Now that there is another top master who is no less capable than Qiao Feng, I am afraid that no sect in the world can compare to the Beggars' Sect.
While everyone was talking, more than a hundred Xixia Yipintang warriors were killed by Chu Yuan in just a dozen moments.
At this time, the ground in the apricot forest was littered with corpses, and the blood of the Xixia people even gathered into streams, forming a picture of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood in the forest.
The "Four Evil Men" led by Duan Yanqing were stunned for a moment when they saw the scene in Xinglin.
They originally just wanted to find a flaw in the process of the Yipintang warriors besieging Chu Yuan, so as to kill Chu Yuan with one blow.
As a result, Chu Yuan's swordsmanship had reached the level of transcendence. More than a hundred Xixia Yipintang warriors were killed by Chu Yuan in a very short time.
By the time they wanted to take action again, it was too late.
"Let's withdraw!"
Duan Yanqing acted decisively and gave the order immediately.
Now the General Helian Tieshu who conquered the south is dead, and more than a hundred warriors of Yipintang have also died. This time Yipintang has suffered heavy losses.
But it’s still not too late to leave now. If they delay any longer, the four brothers might die here today.
The swordsmanship that Chu Yuan had just displayed had already given him the feeling that even if the four evil men joined forces, it would not necessarily be Chu Yuan who would take action.
Following Duan Yanqing's words, the four evil men immediately displayed their lightness skills, leaped into the apricot forest, and disappeared without a trace.
Seeing the four evil men retreating, Nurhai, who was injured by Duan Yu, immediately turned around and fled.
Just when Helian Tieshu entered Xinglin, those who were holding chess pieces and blowing horns quickly fled like a mob.
Chu Yuan did not stop him. After all, his goal had been achieved by saving the Beggar Gang disciples.
When all the people from Yipintang were evacuating Xingzilin, Chu Yuan just happened to kill all the Xixia warriors who had just besieged him.
When Chu Yuan casually threw the sword in his hand, and the sword shot out like an arrow, piercing the chest and killing the last Xixia warrior, he looked at the people from the Beggar Gang and the Murong Family who were lying on the ground.
Chu Yuan then remembered: "Oh no, I seem to have forgotten to ask Duan Yanqing and others to leave the antidote for this poison gas."
Just when Chu Yuan was considering whether he should use his Qinggong skills to catch up and snatch the antidote from Duan Yanqing and the others, a Xixia warrior from Yipintang came back and threw a small porcelain bottle in his hand to Chu Yuan.
Then the warrior said, "Here is the antidote for 'Sad Breeze'. Put it on their noses and let them smell it, and they will be detoxified."
Seeing Chu Yuan take the small porcelain bottle in his hand, the Xixia Yipintang warrior turned around and walked deep into the apricot forest and disappeared.
"Murong Fu!"
When Chu Yuan saw the last warrior from the Xixia Yipintang who appeared, he already had some guesses about his identity.
It seems that Murong Fu once joined the Xixia Yipintang under the pseudonym Li Yanzong, served as an undercover agent in Yipintang, and used Yipintang to achieve his own goals of restoring the country.
He was able to deliver the antidote at this time, probably because of the help of Wang Yuyan, A'zhu, A'Bi, Bao Bu Tong, Feng Bo'e and others.
These thoughts flashed through his mind. Chu Yuan took the small porcelain bottle, opened the cork, put it to his nose and tried to smell it. As a result, an indescribable stench rushed straight to the top of his head, and Chu Yuan almost vomited.
Then he put the antidote at the tip of everyone's nose and let everyone smell it.
"I can't be the only one suffering, and if I want to detoxify, I have to go this way."
Chu Yuan said in his heart.
He first detoxified the high-level members of the Beggars' Sect and the people of the Murong family, and then handed the detoxification task over to other people.
Qiao Feng, who had just been detoxified, burst into tears for a while, but gradually regained his ability to move.
Qiao Feng looked at the direction where the Xixia Yipintang warrior had just left and asked, "Who is this person, and why did he give us the antidote?"
Chu Yuan shook his head and said, "It could be that the imperial court or gang that is undercover in Xixia Yipintang is a spy who is loyal to the Song people."
He did not reveal Murong Fu's identity.
Qiao Feng thought about it and said, "That's right."
While Chu Yuan was talking to Qiao Feng, everyone in the Beggars' Sect and the Apricot Forest had already been detoxified using the antidote given by Murong Fu.
(End of this chapter)