Book 49 Chapter 8 – To Be One Step Ahead of the Opponent (1/2)
Book 49 Chapter 8 – To Be One Step Ahead of the Opponent
Kou Zhong pulled off his hood and put it inside his bosoht and hearing While shi+ Zhixuan was speaking, he already grasped his own situation, as well as shi+ Zhixuan’s motive
It’s not that shi+ Zhixuan did not want to kill hi hi a sliver opportunity to live, to mistakenly think that it was because shi+ Zhixuan wanted to obtain the ‘Han Lin Qing Yuan Tu’ that he let go of the opportunity before his eyes to take Kou Zhong’s little life
The fact was that he already considered the pros and cons Killing Kou Zhong was really shi+ Zhixuan’s top priority right now, otherwise he would not have taken the risk to follow them into the iainst the was certain that shi+ Zhixuan did not know that they secretly eavesdropped his dialogue with Yin Zuwen Even with shi+ Zhixuan’s ability, killing Kou Zhong was absolutely not an effortless ht that he would not survive, he a he could to escape into the tunnel, or perhaps break through the skylight and charge out of the palace If that happened, even if shi+ Zhixuan had three heads and six ara everywhere inside the Great Tang palace, under the ie
shi+ Zhixuan had extraordinary ability and wisdo to carry Hou Xibai away that Kou Zhong would do everything he could to stop him, hence shi+ Zhixuan would not have to worry that before deciding between life and death Kou Zhong would not abandon his friend and run away
Spiraling energy burst through the saber blade, creating strange hissing noise Before the saber arrived, the qi power already preceded it, enveloping the ‘De’ shi+ Zhixuan head-on
This was a ithin no way shi+ Zhixuan’s Bu Si Yin and Huan Mo were really unfathomable, it made people doubt whether it was real or just an illusion And Kou Zhong was utilizing the supernatural characteristic of his Long-Life Qi, just like he and Xu Ziling were able to probe so the qi power to probe shi+ Zhixuan’s what is true and what is false in advance As long as shi+ Zhixuan generated any reaction, he could draw frole and the strength of the attack accurately
From outside the palace hall ca back and forth andthat the ie-scale mobilization and troop deploy hot However, no one could ihu, one old, the other young, were engaged in life and death decisive battle inside the large palace hall at the heart of the imperial palace
shi+ Zhixuan revealed an indifferent sain, each sway deflected Kou Zhong’s ‘qi force field’ to the side
The saber blade, which had becoenerated reaction; it suddenly accelerated, and turned into the ‘Striking Strange’ of the Eight Methods of the Well Like a thunderbolt or a violent lightning it shot toward shi+ Zhixuan, purely based on feeling, displaying the ‘Shen Yi’Que passed on to hiht it one level up
The saber blade pierced an e to pierce the pit of shi+ Zhixuan’s stomach; even if it missed, it should force hi However, at the moment shi+ Zhixuan was on his left side, he also sent out a horizontal palm strike toward the Moon in the Well Based on his power, such palrab hold of his saber
Kou Zhong understood; not only Bu Si Huan was the fastest shenfa on earth, in terenerate illusion in the opponent’s mind Were it not for the spirited senses of the tip of Kou Zhong’s saber has reached the level where he could distinguish the real fro his Bu Si Huan
Fortunately, he learned fro Que that in every saber strike he y, so that in this critical juncture, when he was facing an urgent change of enerate a change, it moved in the opposite direction to poke the hollow of shi+ Zhixuan’s palm
“Good!” shi+ Zhixuan shouted in low voice His paler jab, it hit the saber blade squarely A terrifying, as well as highly concentrated burst of inner power struck the tip of the saber, creating a light ‘whoosh!+’ noise as the qi power clashed against each other Kou Zhong was shocked that his blood and qi were surging, he was nearly unable to hold on to the Moon in the Well Feeling as if he was electrocuted, he relied on the priht in shi+ Zhixuan’s pair of eyes was flaring greatly, as if he was about to attack with all his strength
Kou Zhong cried ‘Not good!’ inwardly Hastily he unleashed his reversing-true-qi-within-his-body technique, converting his backwardthe ‘No Attack’ stance
He appeared to be attacking but not exactly attacking, he appeared to be defending but not exactly defending
In the past, when he was in decisive battle against Funantuo, he used ‘No Attack’ during a powerful attack to pressure Funantuo so that he was helpless tothe retreat and defend, he again exercised his former wisdom, the purpose was not to allow shi+ Zhixuan to strive for the upper hand advantage
Sure enough, shi+ Zhixuan’s eyes revealed an astonished expression He nodded and said, “Thatthat, his palm turned into a punch, he sent out a blast of punch over the empty air; violent and ferocious-without-hesitation qi power co cried ‘Not good!’ inwardly; the arteries and veins [ie overall context] of shi+ Zhixuan’s punch clearly grasped the qi power’s strength or weakness, light or heavy, the angle, the changes, everything, within it He knew that his intention was not to break his ‘No Attack’ at all, but to use Bu Si Yin Qi to sense Kou Zhong’s situation fro the opti the saber qi to explore the opponent’s foundation It’s just that shi+ Zhixuan’s unique school’s method was able to detect the state of thehad hadto research the ways to break the Bu Si Yin; although they have not found a solution, but fro hand to hand with shi+ Zhixuan, they did obtain precious enlightenment, hence the reason he was able to differentiate the purpose behind shi+ Zhixuan’s punch
One wronghi did not panic, his hed aloud and pulled his saber back to protect his body, while holding his true qi without releasing it The man and the saber become one entity, with no crack to be exploited, it was a variant of the ‘No Attack’
‘Bang!’
Like a kite with cut string, Kou Zhongspot was precisely by Hou Xibai’s side, so he kicked lightly, trying to unseal Hou Xibai’s acupoint Whether he was a dragon or a snake, it would depend on whether his Life-Long Qi was miraculously effective or not
shi+ Zhixuan has never expected that not only Kou Zhong, using the concentrated saber qi as the true qi to protect his body, was able to endure his punch, he was also this cunning; thereupon shi+ Zhixuan revealed an angry and be, like a shadow attached to the shape, he chased over, his two hands were transfor the sky and covering the earth, co, while it was as if his body has turned into a phantom without any substance, empty and real difficult to tell, so that it was beyond others’ capability to grasp
Kou Zhong pulled back his right foot that was kicking Hou Xibai, instead, he stepped out to the left and shrank it to beco aloud, he said, “This is called foot cheat! Xie wang fell into the trap!”
Suddenly he evaded shi+ Zhixuan’s frontal assault and shi+fted to shi+ Zhixuan’s right side Without even looking, he casually swept his saber around In his heart, he saw the bitter scene ofagainst each other on the battlefield, where blood was flowing like a river, where the sun and the enerated an intensely-cold, ice-freezing saber qi, carrying a sweeping-a-thousand-ar what is true or was just an illusion in shi+ Zhixuan, treating shi+ Zhixuan just like Wanwan’s Tianht, swiftly sweeping across
shi+ Zhixuan’s pal to kick sideways at the Moon in the Well In a very tight space where neither side was able to spin around at all, the two , both the person and the saber, was kicked that he staggered sideways, however, he was delighted inwardly Up to this point of the hand-to-hand fight, this was the first tih to force shi+ Zhixuan to be willing to meet his attack head-on
shi+ Zhixuan’s upper body slightly swayed, his eyes emitted aalready used his reversing true qi technique to bounce back, and shouted coldly, “Watch Laozi’s ‘Square and Circle’!”
Even with shi+ Zhixuan’s skill and insight, he stillwas able to recover this quickly after receiving such a heavy blow Moreover, he had never expected thathis retreat, he could convert reverse into advance Giving hi’s sile saber strike was about to arrive, unexpectedly it generated a qi wall, which enco down on hireatest threat was that the saber blade emitted a colu toward the pit of his stomach
shi+ Zhixuan shouted coldly, “You are asking for death!”
Suddenly he spun swiftly and turned into a man-made violent cyclone to take the saber blade’s ‘square and circle’ qi power head-on, and forcefully shook the spinning qi power co a violent explosion and sharp whistle that pierced through the entire palace hall’s space
Kou Zhong did not expect the opponent to have this ht absorb his wall of true qi and use it back against hi situation, one move could take his little life away
He had never thought that ‘square and circle’ could be broken by the opponent just like this Fortunately, as a veteran of a hundred battles, he had deep understanding of when-all-exhausted-change-will coh principle He forcefully pulled the wall of qi back, the square was gone, the circle rehly concentrated level, so that the opponent was unable to absorb and digest the qi power Under the Moon in the Well’s yellow light flaring greatly, he changed the ‘Square and Circle’ to ‘Rapid Battle’ The saber following the person, it heavily struck the opponent
shi+ Zhixuan, as turning like a tornado, did not dare to challenge the law by using Bu Si Yin to deflect and neutralize Kou Zhong’s saber qi, he changed his move to a flick of his sleeve to !’ while his other hand waved his sleeve to brushed away at Kou Zhong’s face The spinning movement came to an abrupt end, as if it had never happened
Kou Zhong’s Moon in the Well see mountain No matter how he applied his power, he was unable towas that the opponent’s light sleeve brush not only succeeded in shaking and dispersing his qi pohich he thought it would definitely -with-evil, icy-cold true qi even invaded his body along the saber’s blade, attacking hisand small, in the past, there has never been anybody who could subdue and control his Moon in the Well, which was as ni nearly wanted to abandon his saber and run for his life, yet he knew that such an unwiseable to think fast in an e manner, he si-the-soul sleeve brushi+ng toward his face, using the power of his entire body and his entire spirit to withstand shi+ Zhixuan’s other absorbing-the-soul-striking-out-the-spirit sleeve pressing on the blade of his saber
Spiraling energy, like h the saber to strike back
‘Boom!’
In the end, half of shi+ Zhixuan’s poas no th counterattack, the sleeve wrapped around the saber loosened, while his body refused to follow its master’s order, it recoiled nearly half a step back, while Kou Zhong, like a windround, away fro laugh, he soared into the air and pounced toward Kou Zhong