Volume 17: The Sentimental Swordsman and the Ruthless Sword (Part 2) Chapter 408: Almost Sure
South of the city, Kuiyuan Pavilion.
Although this is a small shop, its business has always been good. The steamed buns and steamed buns sold in the shop taste excellent and are very popular among people.
Sometimes even Shangguan Jinhong would send someone to buy some breakfast.
In the center of the entrance is a large wooden table, which is filled with all kinds of wine and food.
Su Weiyun and Li Xunhuan sat at the table openly.
Logically speaking, they had barely escaped from the siege of the Money Gang and should have left the city immediately, but they seemed as steady as a rock and didn't panic at all.
A big girl with braids was also sitting on the side, staring at Su Weiyun with big eyes, curiously, as if she wanted to dig out some treasure from him.
"You went to the Jinqian Gang alone, and actually brought Li Xunhuan back safely?"
Sun Xiaohong looked at it for a long time before asking this question.
Su Weiyun took a bite of the bun and said with a smile, "I've said it before, as long as I take action, Shangguan Jinhong will have to retreat obediently."
Sun Xiaohong asked in surprise: "Why?"
Su Weiyun said: "Because he got my sword manual."
Sun Xiaohong thought for a while before saying, "He got your sword manual and knows that your sword skills are unparalleled, so he is even more afraid of you?"
Su Weiyun said: "He is not afraid of me. He reads sword manuals every day and gathers many swordsmen to study together. He should know how to crack sword moves better than others."
Sun Xiaohong asked again in confusion: "Then he is obviously not afraid of you, but he let you go?"
"This is Shangguan Jinhong."
Su Weiyun said slowly : "He has obtained my sword manual. As long as he understands the changes in my sword skills thoroughly and figures out a way to break them, what will happen if he comes to deal with me?"
Sun Xiaohong said: "If he fully understands your swordsmanship, he will be able to anticipate every move you make, and naturally you will be sure to win."
Su Weiyun said: "Yes, if you already have a sure-fire method, are you still willing to take the risk?"
"No."
This is how Sun Xiaohong answered.
Su Weiyun said: "Shangguan Jinhong is even more unwilling than you! He is a person who values absolute control, supreme power, absolute initiative, and precise calculations... He will not be stupid enough to put himself in danger unless it is absolutely necessary."
Twenty first-rate swordsmen, Jing Wuming and A Fei, plus Shangguan Jinhong himself, have a very good chance of winning against just Su Weiyun and Li Xunhuan.
But Shangguan Jinhong still refused to take action.
What he wants is not a high chance of winning, but victory in every battle, with no possibility of failure!
As the two were talking, people kept sneaking out of the store, riding on fast horses, and leaving.
Then more guests came in one after another and sat in their seats.
Sun Xiaohong whispered, "These people ordered food but didn't eat it. Why did they leave immediately?"
Su Weiyun smiled and said, "Because they were originally sent by Shangguan Jinhong to monitor us! Every time we say a few words, someone will tell Shangguan Jinhong exactly what we said!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in Kuiyuan Hall changed suddenly and everyone became very nervous.
But no one moved.
Sun Xiaohong pouted and said, "Since you already know their purpose, why don't you leave? Do you think your sword is not fast enough?"
Su Weiyun said calmly: "Because they have already prepared to die."
Li Xun Huan suddenly said, "Perhaps they are not only here to monitor us, but also to see if Elder Tian Ji is with us."
No one knows where the mysterious old man Tianji will appear, and no one knows whether he has completed his meditation and found the path to the realm of "god".
So Shangguan Jinhong certainly cannot be careless.
Sun Xiaohong said: "I know where my grandfather is."
If there is one person in this world who knows the whereabouts of Old Man Tianji, it can only be Sun Xiaohong.
"Oh? Where is he?"
Sun Xiaohong didn't say anything, but had already left.
…
March, Songshan.
Face the wall hole.
The monk guarding the Shaolin Temple recognized Su Weiyun and quickly let them go up the mountain. Su Weiyun and the other two came to the most mysterious and peculiar Bodhidharma Cave on Mount Song.
There stood an old man in front of the cave.
The old man was carrying an ordinary, plain wooden stick in his hand. If you didn't look carefully, you would think he was a water carrier on the mountain.
The old man stood there for a long time, until the sun made his shadow very short, then his hands suddenly moved.
With a wave of his hands, shadows of sticks flew out against the wind, spreading out densely and covering the entire sky in an instant. It seemed that the momentum of an entire mountain could not compare to the stick in his hand.
With just a wooden stick and two experienced hands, they were able to create hundreds of stick shadows that were dazzling and overwhelming. The word "exquisite" could no longer describe it.
The shadows of the sticks overlapped and repeated, and their speed and strength were almost beyond the reach of ordinary warriors.
Although this old man is very old, his skills are no less profound than anyone else in the world.
Of course, he is the well-deserved number one on the weapons list, the old man Tianji!
The mountain walls are steep and the wind is howling.
The shadow of the stick was retracted.
Old Man Tianji stood there, muttering to himself: "That's not right, that's not right!"
He used the same stick move again, but this time the earth-shaking and overwhelming stick shadows were suddenly much smaller and its power was greatly reduced.
As he hit longer and longer, the shadows of the stick became fewer and fewer, until finally, only a lonely wooden stick was left knocking around in the air.
The magic of the Tianji Stick Technique has disappeared.
In just half an hour, his martial arts skills were completely different!
Su Weiyun walked over slowly and looked at Old Man Tianji carefully.
Old man Tianji looked exactly the same as when he first came out of the cave, with messy hair, face covered in dirt, and his clothes were dirty in many places.
But unlike Su Weiyun, old man Tianji's eyes were filled with dejection and loss, without any light.
"I know that among the 72 unique skills of Shaolin Temple, there is a Thousand-Handed Tathagata Palm, which turns one into two, two into four, four into eight, and eight into sixteen!"
As Su Weiyun spoke, he gently stretched out his palms, waved them in the wind, and indeed, he produced layers of palm shadows, the number being exactly forty-four and sixteen.
Then he slowly pushed all these palm shadows towards Old Man Tianji.
Old man Tianji was slightly startled, and raised his hand and stick to block, but after hesitating for a long time, he didn't even use a single move!
All sixteen palm strikes landed firmly on his body.
Fortunately, Su Weiyun had already controlled the power of his palm to the point where he could do it at will, and he withdrew his strength at the last moment, so as not to hurt Old Man Tianji.
Su Weiyun said curiously, "The Thousand-Handed Tathagata Palm is to transform one into many. A person who has mastered the palm technique can even transform it into thirty-two or even sixty-four palms... But in the martial arts world, there are very few people who can transform the stick technique into fewer and fewer, from hundreds of stick shadows to only one."
Old Man Tianji sighed deeply and said, "If it weren't for this, how could I forget it?"
Su Weiyun said: "If you can't forget it, why bother to forget it?"
Old Man Tianji said: "I have already forgotten half of it, it is hard not to forget it!"
Su Weiyun said: "Master Bodhidharma forgot all his martial arts here in the past. You..."
Old Man Tianji suddenly turned around and said, "Come with me!"
He then quickly stepped into the Bodhidharma's wall-facing cave.
