Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 77: Different local customs will lead to many misunderstandings
Challenge. When Liu Ran heard the word "challenge", he was a little slow to react because he had never been challenged before.
Ever since he became famous, he has specialized in painting. Most of the things he is praised for in the martial arts world are his paintings rather than his martial arts.
In addition, he used a unique weapon, which made it less likely for people to come and challenge him.
So after hearing the woman's words, he stood in front of the door for a while, and then seemed to react, standing in the door as if preparing to close it again.
"Then you've come to the wrong place. I don't accept people from the underworld here."
As he spoke, he was about to push the door shut.
But at this moment, a woman's voice was heard from outside the door again.
"I've often heard that you Tang people value courtesy. Is this your etiquette? "
Liu Ran's hand paused slightly. He was a man who could distinguish right from wrong. It was not uncommon for people to come to someone's house to challenge them. Logically speaking, the host should also perform due courtesy.
Although most people in the martial arts world are too lazy to pay attention to this etiquette, Liu Ran is Liu Ran, he is not a martial arts person.
After a while, he sighed, opened the door again, looked at the woman and said.
"Leave after the fight, and don't disturb my peace again, do you understand?"
"Of course." The woman answered solemnly, holding the sword.
Liu Ran shook his head, turned sideways, and led the woman into his yard.
In the yard, he cleared away the tables and chairs, took out an iron pen from another room, stood in front of the woman, spread out one hand, and spoke with great dignity.
"Liu Ran, please teach me."
In fact, he himself didn't know how long it had been since he had fought with others, and the iron pen in his hand made him feel much more clumsy.
However, if you just demonstrate one or two moves, it should be fine.
He doesn't care whether he wins or loses, he doesn't care about these things anyway.
The woman held up her sword and gave her name.
"Shuhu girl, please teach me."
After saying that, she swung her rather broad sword towards Liu Ran.
The sword's movement was very special. It did not resemble any of the sword moves in the Tang Dynasty, but it was extremely sharp and mixed with an especially fierce murderous aura.
Once he strikes, it's a killing move that leaves no room for maneuver.
Before the sword arrived, Liu Ran already felt as if needles were pricking his back and a chill was blowing in his face.
His eyes became serious, because this sword fight didn't seem like a martial arts competition at all, but rather like a life-and-death duel.
The iron pen in his hand immediately blocked the blade of the sword.
There was a dull thud as the two objects collided, and Liu Ran had already retreated several steps.
This woman has great strength.
Liu Ran frowned and looked at the tiger girl, his right wrist was numb from the shock.
But the tiger girl had no intention of letting him regulate his breathing. She turned the sword in her hand and chased after Liu Ran again.
If the previous sword was powerful and heavy, then this sword was mysterious and unpredictable. A long sword sprang out like a spirit snake, winding towards Liu Ran.
Liu Ran frowned, and he gathered his internal energy and injected it into the iron pen, then stabbed the sword into the blade.
He originally planned to use only 70% of his strength to compete, but now, he has already used all his strength because the woman opposite him looked like she wanted to kill him.
"when!"
The stylus pen stabbed the long sword, but the long sword moved around it the next moment, swam up along the pen shaft, and chopped towards Liu Ran's palm.
Liu Ran immediately let go of the iron pen and raised his palm to avoid the sword of the Tiger Girl. At the same time, he bent down, caught the falling iron pen with his left hand, turned around and used the iron pen to whip towards the Tiger Girl's waist.
This is a heavy blow. If it happens, the tiger girl will be unable to move for a while.
What Liu Ran didn't expect was that the tiger-manager's body movements were also very special. She lowered her eyes, stepped on the ground with her right foot, and then her body moved sideways several meters out of thin air, avoiding Liu Ran's move.
At the same time, she turned around and stabbed with a sword, and before Liu Ran could react, the blade went into his arms.
If this sword had hit him, Liu Ran would have been seriously injured even if he didn't die. Fortunately, he dodged at the critical moment.
But the sword still cut through his clothes on his chest, tearing a hole and leaving a shallow blood mark on his chest.
The sword of the Tiger Girl is wider than ordinary Tang swords, which makes it a lot heavier, but the force when swinging it is also several times greater.
The sword was swung with gusts of wind, and the wide blade made it difficult to dodge. Combined with her sword skills, which were completely different from those in the Central Plains, Liu Ran was exposed in just a few moves.
However, Liu Ran had not yet grasped the characteristics of her swordsmanship. He had not fought with anyone for many years. This sudden fight with no way of retreat really caught him off guard.
But this woman had no intention of stopping. Liu Ran at least understood this. He took a deep breath and clenched the pen in his hand.
He didn't know what this woman was here for, or why she wanted to take a competition to this extent.
But at least he knew that he couldn't hold back anymore, otherwise he might lose his life because of carelessness.
The woman's sword caught up with Liu Ran again, and Liu Ran also picked up the pen to meet it.
“Dangdangdang!”
There was another burst of intensive sound of metal clashing in the yard.
After probably dozens of moves, Liu Ran revealed a flaw again. After all, he had been away from the world for too long and did not practice martial arts on weekdays, so his martial arts had become very rusty.
But the tiger girl would not care about these things. She would certainly not let go of this flaw and stabbed Liu Ran's abdomen from top to bottom with a sword.
Liu Ran's iron pen had no time to defend itself and could only watch the long sword fall.
At this moment, there was a sound of breaking air, and a stone shot out from the corner and hit the sword of the tiger girl.
"when!"
The stone shattered at the moment of collision, breaking into small particles that splashed all around.
The sword in the tiger girl's hand was also shaken by the impact, and the sword tip deviated a little, brushed past Liu Ran's body, and stabbed into the ground beside him.
Liu Ran took half a step back in a daze. He knew that it was the stone that saved his life, but he didn't know where the stone came from.
But then, as if he had thought of something, he looked in the direction where the stone came from.
On the other side, the tiger girl also turned around and asked to the corner with a slightly gloomy expression.
"Who?"
You must know that in the Jin Dynasty, interrupting a competition between two people in this way is absolutely not allowed .
This is not only an insult to her, but also an insult to the other person in the competition.
As the tiger girl's voice fell, a somewhat casual reply came from the corner.
"It's just a competition, why do you have to go to such lengths?"
After saying that, a person appeared there. It was a man in white clothes. He had a pair of eyes that were familiar to Shu Hu Nu, slender and frivolous. Under the corner of his right eye, there was an inconspicuous mole.
However, the Tiger Girl did not think much about it at this time, because people with moles at the corners of their eyes were not uncommon, and she couldn't just treat every person she saw as the person from that year.
She simply pulled her sword out of the ground and answered the man.
"Since it's a competition, we should go all out. This is a sign of respect."
In the Jin Dynasty, whether it was a challenge or a daily fight, neither side would hold back until one side admitted defeat.
Because in their view, this is respect for the opponent, and also respect for themselves. Even if they die, they can only blame themselves for not being good enough in martial arts, not others.
Therefore, it is natural for a tiger girl to strike without leaving any room for others to escape. Most of the scars on her body were left in this way.
On the contrary, she felt that what the person in front of her did was inappropriate. What on earth was he trying to do by interrupting a competition like this?
