Chapter 6: Two Seconds
Nightfall.
Crouching Tiger Town, Ping'an Inn.
In the No. 1 room, candlelight was dim.
Three heads were placed side by side on the table. Four people sat around the table, staring at the three heads left and right.
a long time.
The officer with a blind left eye and a lame right leg asked, "How is it?"
"There are witnesses and evidence..."
Another officer with pale skin and a feminine temperament played with his teacup and smiled playfully: "...It must be that this General Cao showed his great power. The question is... how did he do it?"
A Jinyiwei said, "Didn't he say that we should set fire to lure out the enemy and defeat them one by one?"
"stupid!"
Another Jinyiwei mercilessly mocked: "The eighth level of the acquired realm, relying only on a set of Baoyuan Jin and a set of Kuangfeng Dao Fa, you can defeat one of them and let me see! What's more, he only had the fifth level before he killed someone, this is simply impossible!"
"So he's lying to us?"
"It can't be said to be a lie, but there are many key points that General Cao is obviously unwilling to say more about."
The room fell silent.
"Then this credit..."
An imperial guard spoke hesitantly. His intention was not to share the credit for killing Cao Jinxing and the other three, as this was not enough credit for them. Instead, he wanted to do something.
You can't come here for nothing, right?
"no."
The pale-skinned Jinyiwei shook his head and smiled, "I advise you not to attack him. He dared to assassinate the three bandit leaders by himself. No matter his strength or courage, he will rise sooner or later. If he can kill Yan Baihu, he can kill you! Don't forget, the general flag and the centurion are only one step away."
"Old Gu is right, this guy is really cruel! Han Dang's death was horrible! Why not do him a favor? I think he is a man who takes revenge when he has revenge, and repays kindness when he has kindness. If I lend a helping hand today, it may be useful someday."
"Um."
"indeed."
The three of them reached a consensus, and Gu Yanzhu looked at the blind centurion: "Old Zhu, what do you think?"
"Of course I will help."
Zhu Wu picked up the teacup and took a sip, then said, "There is one more thing, don't forget it. If he hadn't killed people to block our way before we arrived at Tizikou, we would have died!"
They have seen how dangerous the mechanism in the last 500 meters is. If they take a wrong step, there will be no recovery!
What Lao Zhu said is not exaggerating at all.
The other three were silent, and then they remembered this huge danger.
A Jinyiwei slammed the table and yelled: "Fuck! I totally forgot! This guy even counted us in. If he had come a step later..."
Gu Yanzhu said, "That means he died before us. This matter is a matter of every second. No matter what, he fought hard to kill the bandits and blocked the way at the critical pass, which helped us a lot... Besides, the governor ordered us to attack! Even if this didn't happen, do you think we can get through the ambush, assassinate the three bandit leaders, and retreat safely?"
The Jinyiwei was speechless: "This..."
Obviously, impossible!
The best outcome is that four people were seriously injured.
"That is the end of this matter."
Zhu Wu interrupted the argument and said to Gu Yanzhu, "Little Gu, you write the document. As for his great improvement in martial arts, just think of it as a natural treasure or a master's teaching. With such great achievements, I'm sure the government won't investigate further."
Gu Yanzhu nodded: "Okay."
Zhu Wu stood up and said, "After this battle, this General Cao will become a Captain Cao. When you return to the capital tomorrow, be careful about your attitude and stop ordering people around."
The other three: "Understood."
…
The Jinyiwei had already left, but Wohu Mountain was still brightly lit - as soon as the Binzhou government troops received the news, they immediately rushed to Wohu Mountain to catch the thieves.
The bandit leader is dead.
There is also a map of the agency.
Facing the remaining few hundred minions, the government troops finally felt proud and worked particularly hard to catch the thieves.
Cao Jinxing wanted to laugh when he saw this.
He returned quietly to the foot of the mountain with a large amount of things looted from the rooms of the three bandit leaders, and sat in the lobby of the inn, openly showing off his spoils.
The shopkeeper and the waiter both hid far away.
They all heard that it was this man who killed the three bandit leaders and hung Han Dang's corpse!
"A set of the secret manual of the Great Vajra Palm, a golden knife, a [Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needle], and a few silver notes. Tsk tsk, I worked so hard to get these few things. It's not worth it."
Cao Jinxing was very disgusted. If it was a game, at least he could get a lot of experience to level up. Unlike now, he still had to study hard on his own.
"There is also promotion to centurion."
Gu Yanzhu walked down from upstairs, sat opposite , and said with a smile: "Suppressing the bandits is a great achievement. Brother, you will be promoted soon. Yanzhu would like to congratulate you in advance."
There was a hint of compliment in his words. Since his superior said this, Cao Jinxing should have been very honored and awed, but he had no idea of this at all.
"Hundred households..."
Cao Jinxing suddenly remembered: "After being promoted to centurion, it seems that I can enter the secret library and pick two secret books?"
"Exactly."
Gu Yanzhu said: "The secret library of the Zhenfu Division is as famous as the Wudang Golden Summit, Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion, Shaolin Bodhidharma Cave and other secret places. It is attached to the imperial power and encompasses all the martial arts in the world. You must seize the opportunity."
"Thank you for the reminder, sir."
Gu Yanzhu sincerely warned Cao Jinxing, and he became more pleasing to the eye. As the topic came to this point, he asked the biggest question he had since they met, "I see that your skin color is peculiar. What kind of martial arts is this? I want to practice it, too!"
white!
Too white!
White is cold and white is evil.
If women practiced this, they would save a lot of cosmetics.
Gu Yanzhu smiled bitterly: "Why are you interested in this? This skill is notorious and not a legitimate martial art. Don't waste your chance on it."
"Then this is..."
“…”
Seeing that he still wanted to know, Gu Yanzhu had to tell him the truth: "This skill is called the Blood Coagulation Sutra, one of the nine evil skills of the Demon Cult. If it weren't for my special body, I would have to use this sutra to control it. I would never practice this kind of martial arts, even if you kill me."
"What's special?"
“…”
"Okay, I won't ask anymore."
Cao Jinxing changed the subject naturally and said, "Sir, you are very knowledgeable. I wonder if there is any ice martial arts that I can practice. I beg for your guidance."
"Ice..."
Gu Yanzhu thought for a moment and said, "The martial arts of the Kunlun Snow Mountain School are pretty good. The Ice Heart Sutra and Snow Mountain Swordsmanship are both sixth-grade spiritual martial arts, which are exactly what you can choose. In addition, the Liaodong Wushuang Sect's Wushuang Fist Sutra and the Tianshan School's Tianyu Qijian are also good. These are all famous skills in the region and must be unique."
"oh……"
Cao Jinxing pretended to be enlightened, and then said nonchalantly: "I think the Heart-piercing Poisonous Insect is also very powerful. It seems that the Five Poison Sect's Kung Fu is also quite good?"
"The martial arts of the Five Poison Sect originated from the Nanzhao Kingdom during the Tang Dynasty. All they learn and practice are the two words 'gu' and 'poison', and there is no ice system. The most famous ones are 'Guide to Gu' and 'Ten Thousand Poisons Sutra'. There is also a fifth-grade 'Golden Snake Sword Technique' in the Black Dragon Pond."
"……Gone?"
"Gone."
strangeness……
Could it be that the "Cold Toad Kung Fu" doesn't belong to the Five Poison Sect?
Cao Jinxing chatted with Gu Yanzhu without changing his expression, but in his heart he was thinking about the origin of "Han Chan Gong".
The more he practiced, the more powerful he felt this skill was. It was more than a hundred times stronger than "Bao Yuan Jin"!
Just with the efforts of Bajiaoting and others, they have easily reached the ninth level of the acquired realm... Whether it is healing, killing, or cultivating true qi, they are all-round crushing!
This kind of martial arts cannot be unknown.
"Let's check it out when we get back..."
The two chatted for a while, then went back to their rooms to rest and prepare to return to Beijing to report on their work tomorrow.
Cao Jinxing flipped through " The Vajra Palm" before going to bed. As expected, he learned it easily and mastered it.
"Shaolin secret technique, the seventh-grade upper-level palm technique... is better than the eighth-grade junk. The "Wild Wind Sword Technique" can be integrated in one second, but this one takes two seconds..."
