Chapter 72: Crossing the River and Destroying the Bridge
The two people who arrived with Xu Yuanwu were a man and a woman.
The man was tall and strong, with a face full of pockmarks and fat. In the middle of winter, he exposed his chest covered with black hair, and he didn't seem to feel the cold at all.
The woman had a pretty face and was wearing tight clothes. Her figure was well-proportioned and she exuded a unique charm and seduction in the snowy mountains.
When Gong Yangmu saw Xu Yuanwu and the other two arriving, his face darkened. The peach wood sword no longer entangled with Xu Pengkun's powerful whip, but flew back, dancing up and down in the space within four meters around him.
Suddenly, the emerald green sword light surrounded Gong Yangmu, and no water could get in.
Xu Yuanwu, like Xu Pengkun, was also at the Hua Jin realm. He used his strength to transform into a big knife and launched continuous attacks.
The other man and woman obviously did not have such ability. The man held a ghost-head knife and the woman held a silver snake sword. They cooperated with Xu Pengkun and his son to attack Gong Yangmu.
When the two men were brandishing their swords, cold light appeared on the swords, and it was obvious that they had reached the level of exerting their internal strength.
The realm of strength is divided into three small realms: condensing strength, moving strength and transforming strength.
Concentrating strength is to condense the power of qi and blood into strength. At this time, the amount of condensed strength is small and the quality is poor, and it only gathers in the part of the body that is being cultivated.
When a martial artist who has concentrated his strength continuously practices, the amount of strength will gradually increase and the quality will gradually improve. The strength will no longer be concentrated in the part where he is practicing. Instead , it can be circulated to other parts of the body just like the circulation of qi and blood. The attack and defense capabilities of the parts to which the strength is circulated will be doubled. The strength can even be transferred into weapons, making the weapons sharp and powerful, which is the realm of mobilizing strength.
As the amount of accumulated strength increases and its quality becomes higher, the strength will have many more changes. It can be directly transformed into weapons and released to kill the enemy, or even armor to protect the body without the help of weapons. This is called transformation of strength.
The sword light released by the peach wood sword was very powerful. Apart from the powerful weapons of Xu Pengkun and his son that could deal with it, the cold light of power released by the man and woman with the help of the swords immediately dissipated when it touched the sword light. Even when the cold light of power dissipated, the sword light swept across the edge , and a gap appeared on the edge all of a sudden.
Although the sword light of the peach wood sword was powerful, it gradually dimmed under the siege of four people, and was broken through by Xu Pengkun and his son several times.
However, every time this happened, a green light would shoot out from Gong Yangmu's body and turn into a shield woven from green vines to block the attacks of Xu Pengkun and his son.
“Xu Pengkun, you are a treacherous villain who doesn’t keep his word. You said that as long as I helped you refine the Nine-Turn Blood Essence and Bone Strengthening Secret Pill, you would help me establish a branch of the Holy Church in Fangqiao City. Now that I have helped you refine the Nine-Turn Blood Essence and Bone Strengthening Secret Pill, you actually want to destroy my bridge after crossing it and kill us all!” Gong Yangmu saw that he was besieged by four people and his true energy was constantly being consumed. If he continued like this, he would be defeated and killed sooner or later, so he could not help but curse loudly.
"You, the Blood Demon Sect, are cruel and unjust. Even people in the demon world disdain to associate with you. Anyone can kill you. My Xu Family Castle acts uprightly. How can I cooperate with you and help you build a branch? Now that you have surrendered, I can promise to give you a quick death!" Xu Pengkun said with a "righteous" look on his face.
"Haha, what an upright act! You saved me only for the Nine-Turn Blood Essence Bone Strengthening Secret Pill, so that you would have a chance to step into the Bone Refining Realm! Now you want to kill me, just to take my head to ask for credit, so as to get an opportunity for Xu Yuanwu to be promoted!" Gong Yangmu saw that Xu Pengkun was still talking grandly at this time, and he couldn't help laughing in anger.
"Since the Immortal Master understands everything, please be a good person and help my son." Xu Pengkun said seriously.
"Xu Pengkun, do you think you really have no plans for everything? Don't you think that if I, Gong Yangmu, didn't have some tricks up my sleeve, when the Xiyunzhou branch was wiped out the three masters, the four great immortal masters who protected the branch, and many other experts would have all been arrested and killed. How could I be the only one who escaped?" Gong Yangmu sneered.
"How dare I underestimate your abilities and means, Gong Yangmu? But you have been under my nose all these years. What tricks can you play? It was only today that you took advantage of the fact that the Nine-Turn Blood Essence and Bone Strengthening Secret Pill was formed and used some tricks to force me to take care of the secret pill first, and then I let you escape temporarily. But that's all!" Xu Pengkun's face changed slightly when he heard this, but he soon regained his composure.
"Do you really think that what you got is the Nine-Turn Blood Essence Strengthening Bone Secret Pill? It's just a defective product that I deliberately left in the pill furnace. The real Nine-Turn Blood Essence Strengthening Bone Secret Pill had already been secretly taken away by me. It's ridiculous that you thought you had obtained the real Nine-Turn Blood Essence Strengthening Bone Secret Pill and immediately had murderous intentions against me." Gong Yangmu said sarcastically.
"What do you mean by that?" Xu Pengkun's expression changed slightly again.
"My sleight of hand cannot fool martial artists at the Yun Jin realm, but that's when they are not distracted. What if it happens that this pair of lewd and lustful women occasionally can't help themselves and become confused and infatuated?" Gong Yangmu continued with a sarcastic look on his face.
"Lord of the Castle, don't listen to his nonsense. At such a critical moment, how dare Yan'e and I be distracted?" The pockmarked man hurriedly clarified after hearing this.
"Hehe, you dare not be distracted, but what if you happen to inhale something? Do you really think that I asked for virgins born in the yin year, yin month and yin hour and virgin boys born in the yang year, yang month and yang hour just to refine healing pills?" Gong Yangmu sneered.
As soon as Gong Yangmu said this, the pockmarked man and the charming woman, Yan'e, seemed to remember something. Their faces changed drastically, and the power and cold light of their swords began to dissipate.
Seeing this, Xu Pengkun and his son's faces finally changed drastically, and the weapons transformed by the strength in their hands also began to fluctuate slightly.
At this moment, suddenly more than ten points of blood shot out from Gong Yangmu's mouth.
More than ten points of red light shot out, and Gong Yangmu's face instantly looked old.
The more than ten red lights are pills wrapped in bright red blood.
The four men were already a little distracted at this time, and when they saw more than ten blood-colored pills shooting towards them, they stepped back without thinking, while at the same time either swinging their swords or using their great strength to kill.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" The dozen or so blood-colored pills exploded violently and turned into blood mist all over the sky as soon as they were slightly touched by the force.
The surrounding grass, trees and land began to make hissing sounds as soon as they were stained by the blood mist. In a blink of an eye, the grass turned into dripping yellow water, and the ground was corroded into potholes. Black smoke billowed out, emitting an extremely fishy and unpleasant smell.
"Be careful!" Xu Pengkun was the most experienced in the martial arts world. As soon as the blood pill exploded, he realized that something was wrong. While shouting, his strength had already burst out and spread his body, forming an airtight protective shield.
