Volume 18: The Third Master's Sword Chapter 431: Sympathy for One's Kindness
Xie Xiaofeng!
This name had shocked the entire martial arts world more than ten years ago, and after the recent battle with Yan Shisan, its reputation had reached an unprecedented peak.
But at this time he chose to cut off his thumb, no longer use the sword, and retired back to Excalibur Villa.
It is said that before he retired, the top sword masters from the seven major sword schools, namely Wudang, Emei, Huashan, Kongtong, Kunlun, Dian Cang and Hainan, once attacked him together, but ended up in failure!
Li Pingzi, the top master of the younger generation of Hainan Sword School and Li Anzi's senior brother, also died in that battle.
However, Mei Changhua, the eldest senior brother of Huashan Sect, survived by chance.
"What does Master Xie's magic sword have to do with you?"
The junior fellow laughed: "It's not me who is asking, but the husband of the new leader of the Seven Great Sword Sects who is asking. I am just following orders!"
"During the battle between me and Master Xie, Alliance Leader Li Zhenzhen was also by my side. Why don't you just ask her?"
The junior brother said: "The leader husband has explained that everyone stands at a different angle, has a different state of mind, and sees different swordsmanship, but these are all very valuable experiences."
"He also said that with your level, you will definitely be able to understand what he said."
Mei Changhua's expression froze. He had never thought that the husband of the alliance leader could speak so profoundly, meticulously and incisively.
This kind of logic is definitely not something that an ordinary warrior can explain.
Mei Changhua's expression changed slightly, then he returned to normal and said, "What's the point of talking? Go tell him that even if he practices sword for another ten years, he won't be able to beat Xie Xiaofeng!"
The junior brother said: "Whether I can beat him or not, I should at least give you an explanation."
"Xie Xiaofeng..."
Mei Changhua stopped talking again. He seemed to become discouraged when he thought of this name and had no intention of mentioning those sad scenes of the past.
"You don't want to tell me?"
"So what if you don't tell me?"
The younger brother's expression suddenly became serious, and he said in a stern tone: "If you don't speak, I will have to withdraw from the sword formation!"
After he said this, he walked towards the door and showed a shining gold medal. He flashed it for a moment and then put it in his arms .
Five nuns immediately walked out of the door, each of them holding a sword, with a solemn expression and no smile. At first glance, they looked like people who were extremely difficult to mess with.
The junior brother bowed and said, "Please ask the masters to help you find out what Alliance Leader Li's husband wants to know."
The nuns moved their feet, lined up and quickly formed a formation, standing in five positions and surrounding Mei Changhua in the center.
Clang, clang!
Five sounds were heard, and five shining swords were pointed at Mei Changhua.
Mei Changhua raised his head and stared blankly at the five nuns, then lowered his head blankly and sighed, "If it were the same back then, even your head nun Miao Yin wouldn't dare to draw her sword against me!"
One of the nuns scolded, "The position of the head has been passed to Alliance Leader Li. Don't speak nonsense in the future, otherwise you will inevitably suffer the pain of having your tongue cut off!"
Mei Changhua said: "Since you don't want me to say anything, I won't say a word."
The junior brother smiled and said, "You still have to say what you should say, and don't say what you shouldn't say."
Mei Changhua asked: "What should I say and what shouldn't I say?"
The junior brother said calmly: "You should say what the leader asks you to say, and you shouldn't say what the leader doesn't ask you to say. It's such a simple truth, you have been the eldest brother for ten years, don't you understand it yet?"
Mei Changhua was silent for a while.
He had never really understood this.
Seeing that he was silent again, the junior brother frowned and asked, "Are you really not going to say anything?"
Mei Changhua still had a bit of pride in him after all, so he said coldly: "What if I don't say it?"
The junior fellow laughed twice and said, "I will always find a way to make you speak! This boy is injured and cannot fully exert his strength. Five masters, please make your move!"
Bang!
Mei Changhua was not someone he would easily deal with, so he immediately kicked over the table and smashed it onto one of the nuns, while he concentrated his internal strength on his feet and flew backwards with a "whoosh".
He was smart enough to understand that the only way to win was to avoid the combined sword formation of the five nuns.
"Hey!"
There was a nun standing in the direction where Mei Changhua was retreating. She did not dodge or give way, but instead swung her sword from bottom to top, aiming at Mei Changhua's crotch.
Although she is a nun, her moves are extremely spicy and vicious!
Upon seeing this, Mei Changhua leaned back and used his legs to clamp the sword. With the sword already in his hand, he used his internal force to generate a pure purple sword energy and stabbed it towards the nun's abdomen.
The junior fellow suddenly shouted: "Master, his intention is not to hurt the enemy, but to break your Emei sword formation!"
The nun looked to be in her thirties and she had experienced many battles, so she could naturally see this. However, she had to hide, otherwise the "Huashan Zixia Sword Qi" would be enough to take her life!
"snort!"
The nun snorted coldly, her eyes revealing a determination and madness to face death. She still swung out with the sword and threw her body forward, but was hit by Mei Changhua's sword energy!
puff!
As if a shriveled water bag was cut open, blood slowly flowed out of the nun's abdomen.
She has been a vegetarian all year round and is thin, so she can't bleed much.
Her expression was still so peaceful and calm, so calm that she almost didn't look like a human.
But this picture looks shocking and extremely terrifying!
Mei Changhua seemed to be frightened by the nun's ferocity, and his movements slowed down a little. It was precisely this little bit that allowed the four people behind him to catch up with him!
Four people and four swords formed the "Four Symbols Sword Formation" of the Emei School. The light was flashing and it was difficult to tell east from west.
In just a moment, the four swords reached Mei Changhua's neck at the same time, intersecting into a square.
Mei Changhua was ready to draw his sword at the last moment, but he hesitated.
"Mei Changhua, you killed our senior sister. Come back to the alliance with me immediately and give an explanation to the leader!"
The innkeeper and the waiter had already huddled together and hid behind the counter. They were so frightened that they dared not move and just kept shaking.
The snow began to fall again, and the world became especially quiet.
Mei Changhua suddenly said: "I won't go with you!"
Bang!
The junior brother rushed over and kicked him on the knee, angrily saying: "Master has taught you and me for so many years, and today you actually killed our allied senior sister. This is really a heinous crime. I can't help but want to kill you to make up for my senior sister's life!"
He spoke with righteous indignation. If everyone didn't know that this generation of Emei sect members are almost all nuns who maintain absolute abstinence, they would inevitably wonder whether the junior brother is having an affair with the senior sister.
The junior brother said fiercely, "If you don't leave, then tell me about your battle with Xie Xiaofeng. If you tell me well, I will help you go to the leader to beg for mercy!"
Mei Changhua suddenly laughed, his smile like a yellow chrysanthemum that was shaky after being destroyed in late autumn, and said, "It's actually very simple. Xie Xiaofeng just pulled out my sword and pointed it at my throat, and he defeated me!"
Junior Brother asked: "Is it that simple?"
Mei Changhua said: "It's that simple!"
Junior brother asked: "What else?"
Mei Changhua said: "There is nothing left. I didn't even see his movements clearly. What can I say?"
The junior brother pondered slowly, as if deciding whether or not to take this simple story back and tell it to his "husband, the leader of the alliance".
After thinking for a long time, the junior brother's eyes suddenly turned, and he caught a glimpse of the inn counter that was shaking slightly. He frowned and jumped up.
"Now that you have heard such a big secret, don't even think about living anymore!"
He stepped one foot on the table in front of Mei Changhua, floated into the air, flew straight away, slashed out with a sword, hit the counter, and cut it in half!
Then he moved his arm and thrust out three swords, very quickly and skillfully!
“Ah! Ah!”
Two screams rang out at the same time.
The shopkeeper and the waiter died instantly under his sword.
They did nothing wrong, but died tragically, without even saying a word in the end.
The only thing they did wrong was coming to Liuquan City and opening the Yuelai Inn.
It turns out this is also a mistake.
…
The master chef also died.
He shouldn't have died. He was not seen in the kitchen. But when he heard the screams of the shopkeeper and the waiter, he felt something was wrong.
He immediately ran out to take a look, and of course he was discovered.
"Did you hear what we just said?"
A nun said, pointing a sword at his throat.
"I ...I...I don't have any."
He was so frightened that he couldn't even speak fluently.
The junior brother came over and smiled, "Master, if you point your sword at him and ask, anyone would say no."
The nun asked, "Then how do you want to ask?"
The junior brother smiled cordially and asked, "Apart from you, is there anyone else in this inn?"
The chef was stunned for a moment, and immediately said, "Also, there is a poor cook named Xiaoyun, who is in the back kitchen... in a daze!"
"Yes, he might have heard your conversation, so he didn't dare to come out!"
When he said this, he suddenly stopped pausing, and there was strong jealousy in his eyes. After Xiaoyun came, he took away his position as the chef!
If he could die, that would be the best! The shopkeeper and the waiter were dead, and if he worked hard and took care of that County Magistrate Gou, he might be the one to take over the inn!
The junior brother patted his shoulder gently and said, "You are fine."
The master chef had just heard the compliment and had not yet even managed to smile when a sword stabbed into his chest.
"you……"
The master chef couldn't figure it out until his death. He told the truth, but why did he still die?
The junior brother walked to the back kitchen and said calmly: "If I don't know whether the answer I ask is true or not, why should I ask again!"
This sentence was not said to the master chef, but to Mei Changhua.
Mei Changhua's expression couldn't help but move again.
Just as the junior fellow disciple was walking toward the back, a man came out from inside.
It was Xiaoyun.
The junior fellow looked at the young man who had just come out and asked, "You know everything?"
Xiaoyun sighed, "Yeah."
The junior fellow asked, "You know everything?"
Xiaoyun said: "Yes. "
The junior fellow laughed and said, "A small person is a small person. He knows nothing, but he insists on saying he knows. Although you heard what we said, you actually know nothing!"
Xiaoyun just nodded: "Yeah."
The junior brother flicked the sword lightly, and blood dripped from the sword. He asked, "Then do you know how you will die?"
Xiaoyun finally said five different words: "I don't know about that."
The junior fellow laughed loudly, leaped into the air, and said, "You don't know what you should know, but you say you know what you don't know. Can a person like you live long in this world?"
He used the Huashan School's "Unrivaled" move, an extremely sharp and powerful sword move, as fast as a lightning bolt in the sky!
clang!
Xiaoyun suddenly moved as well.
No one could describe the speed of his attack, and no one knew what moves he used. They only saw figures crossing each other, Feihong cut off a shadow, and the sword in the hands of the junior brother was already in Xiaoyun's hands.
When his junior fellow apprentice fell, Xiaoyun's sword was pointing directly at his throat, but the look in his eyes became indescribably tired, uncomfortable, and sad.
The four nuns' faces changed, and they repeated their old tricks, changing their steps and forming a square formation, trying to set up the Four Symbols Sword Formation again.
But Xiaoyun gently spun the sword in his hand and flicked it, and the swords of the four nuns were all pushed away by a great force, soaring into the sky and flying out of the door!
Seeing this, the junior fellow couldn't help but ask: "Taiji power? Are you a Wudang disciple? Who is Ouyang Yunhe to you?"
Ouyang Yunhe was originally the most skilled martial artist among Wudang's "Four Spirits and Two Jades", but not long ago, he and Mei Changhua were defeated by the sword of the alliance leader husband.
The junior brother thought that saying the name "Ouyang Yunhe" would make Xiaoyun worried, but Mei Changhua said: "That is not Wudang swordsmanship, that is the unique 'stealing the sky and changing the day to seize the sword' of the third young master."
"Are you Xie Xiaofeng?"
Mei Changhua and everyone else immediately looked at Xiaoyun's palm. The five fingers on the palm were long, strong and intact.
Mei Changhua took a breath, a little disappointed, but also a little relieved, and said, "So he is not."
Xiaoyun said: "I am not Xie Xiaofeng, but I know the sword that Xie Xiaofeng used."
Mei Changhua asked: "How do you know?"
Xiaoyun said: "If you reach this level, you will know."
Mei Changhua asked: "What realm?"
Xiaoyun asked, "Have you ever heard of the state of 'no sword in hand, but a sword in the heart'?"
Mei Changhua didn't expect Xiaoyun to really tell him, and immediately replied: "That is the highest level of swordsmanship that my predecessors from the Huashan Sword Sect dreamed of. I have heard Master mention it before!"
Xiao Yun said: "But above this realm, there is another realm called 'no sword in hand, no sword in the heart'!"
There was a thoughtful look in Mei Changhua's eyes. He had just seen Xiaoyun's swordsmanship and had no doubt that Xiaoyun was talking nonsense and deceiving others.
Xiao Yun continued slowly: "When I don't have a sword in my hand, I still have a sword in my heart. I can still fight the enemy with the sword in my heart; but when I don't have a sword in my hand and there is no sword in my heart, I can borrow your sword to use!"
He spoke very seriously, but Mei Changhua didn't quite understand.
While Mei Changhua was carefully savoring the meaning of his words, Xiaoyun suddenly looked at the four nuns and his fellow apprentice.
"Did you also hear the secret I told you just now?"
The junior fellow didn't dare to speak, but a nun said, "So what if they heard it? Aren't you saying it for others to hear?"
Xiao Yun asked, "Then why did you kill the shopkeeper and the waiter here?"
The nun was speechless. They were used to acting in a domineering manner, so how could they reason with these little people?
So Xiaoyun said, "You think that others who heard secrets should die, then you who heard my secrets should also die."
"You don't reason with others, so now you have no right to reason with me. That's fair, isn't it?"
The four nuns dared not nod or shake their heads.
Mei Changhua responded: "Yes, this is fair, very fair!"
"good!"
Xiaoyun rushed out and killed the four nuns and Mei Changhua's Huashan Sect junior brother with a few casual strikes of the sword.
The door of the inn was closed, and there were dead bodies lying in the lobby. The owner, the waiter, and the chef all died one after another within just one day. The world was changing so fast that it was really hard to know what to do.
Xiao Yun put the sword back into his junior brother's scabbard and said calmly, "You killed all these people. It has nothing to do with me, right?"
Mei Changhua, the only one still alive, understood what he meant and nodded, "Yes, they all died under my sword. It has nothing to do with you, Senior."
Xiaoyun sighed and said, "That's good."
He was about to go back to the kitchen when Mei Changhua suddenly asked, "Why did you save me?"
Xiaoyun stopped and said, "There are two reasons."
"The first reason is that I can't run away. I either use Qinggong to escape or fight back."
"With your Qinggong, it should be easy to avoid them."
“But I can’t avoid myself.”
Xiaoyun said something that made no sense.
Then he continued, "There is another reason. I can't bear to see you die under their swords."
Mei Changhua was stunned: "Why? We have never met before. I am afraid that my name 'Divine Sword Shadowless' is not worthy of your respect. Could it be that my master has some connection with you?"
Xiaoyun turned around and looked at him silently. Her eyes were extremely complicated, showing sadness, sorrow, appreciation, worry, and even a little fear and trepidation.
"You are wounded, in the right side of the chest, isn't it?"
Mei Changhua bowed his head and said, "I was injured by a sword, and my injury has not healed yet. Every time I use the sword, it will inevitably affect my injury. Otherwise, how can these villains be my opponents?"
Xiao Yun suddenly asked, "What if you are injured to the point where you lose all your martial arts skills, your internal energy is wasted, and you can no longer use a sword?"
Mei Changhua was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said honestly: "That would be more painful than letting me die!"
"call."
Xiao Yun let out a long breath and said, "I am destined to be wounded by a sword in the future. When I see you, it's like seeing myself back then."
"People are like-minded, and I can't bear to see you being coerced or even killed by others... Go away now, don't come here again, and don't say you've seen me."
