Chapter 169 Victory and Defeat
Liu Changsheng's pale mourning clothes stood out in the festive atmosphere of Huangtong City.
Many people cast strange glances at him.
Seeing that he was holding a sword, he looked like a chivalrous young man, so they didn't dare to ask more questions. They avoided him like snakes and scorpions, and whispered to each other after he was far away.
Liu Changsheng turned a deaf ear to all this.
Along the way, the prosperity passed by, and the noise and celebration seemed to be beyond his perception.
He held the sword and walked towards the Longxing Martial Arts School.
This was his second time in Huangtong City.
But last time he came here as the "examiner" of the Five Elements Sect's assessment of the subordinate martial arts school, he received all the courtesy, and he himself was also planning to go out for fun.
It was also that time that he met Zhou Heng.
But this time when he entered Huangtong City again, Liu Changsheng had a completely different mentality from the beginning. He came here only to do one thing, that is, revenge.
Revenge for the father who taught him martial arts and raised him up.
Revenge for the father who gave him a rich life, good conditions, and allowed him to grow up without worries.
Also revenge for the father who was so crazy and deserved to die.
Kill Zhou Heng!
In fact, Liu Changsheng had no intention of going back when he came here.
Regardless of success or failure.
If he lost, he was willing to die in Zhou Heng's hands. He was not as skilled as others, so he deserved to die.
If he won, he would commit suicide to apologize and not cause trouble for the Five Elements Sect.
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There was a noisy celebration outside the Longxing Martial Arts Hall, but it was peaceful and quiet inside.
As the owner of the hall, Zhou Heng did not go out, but sat in the training room in the martial arts hall to rest.
These days, he has been practicing martial arts and honing his moves.
Prepare to fight against the people from the Five Elements Sect.
Although his strength is now extremely strong, let alone the eighth-grade martial arts, even the top-level seventh-grade martial artists can't find many who can fight him, but the lion fights the rabbit with all its strength. He did not become complacent because of his sudden increase in strength, and he was still cautiously prepared.
The moment Liu Changsheng stepped into Huangtong Prefecture, Zhou Heng felt that his spirit seemed to be touched, and he suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of Liu Changsheng.
This ability to sense the qi remotely has completely exceeded the scope of the lower third grade. It was obtained after he used the innate pure yang internal qi to warm his spirit during this period of time, and it seemed to be affected by the basic attribute of the spiritual root +3.
The addition of the spiritual root attribute is somewhat related to the strength of the soul and spirit.
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Today's Longxing Martial Arts Hall is really the busiest day in the decades since it opened.
I'm afraid that nearly 10,000 people came to this street to watch, and people were crowded together, shoulder to shoulder, sweating like rain. Fortunately, it is now close to October and the weather is getting cooler, otherwise it is estimated that many people would faint from the heat.
Lei Xiuyuan supported the old master of the martial arts hall, and looked at the lively scene in front of Longxing Martial Arts Hall. The old man was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. No matter where he looked, he was happy.
When he established Longxing Martial Arts Hall decades ago, he never thought that there would be such a grand occasion today.
Moreover, such a grand occasion is just the beginning, just a starting point. In the future, Longxing will surely move to higher peaks and achieve higher achievements.
This is a martial arts hall authorized by Chunyang Palace, and it is a martial arts hall owned by the sixth generation of Chunyang Palace, the master's brother!
In another direction, Lin Cang also brought his wife and children to watch the lively scene in front of Longxing Martial Arts Hall.
This time he can finally let his family rest assured.
Although Longxing has obtained the authorization of Chunyang Palace and reopening is a foregone conclusion, the family has not seen Longxing's real "rebirth" after all. Even if they believe that Lin Cang will not lie, they are still a little flustered.
Now they can finally rest assured.
Pei Luoling and Pei Luoshu, the two siblings, also came here and stood in the crowd, ready to watch the opening ceremony of Longxing Martial Arts Hall.
In fact, they had already arrived in Huangtong Prefecture City. Pei Luoling strongly requested to come here. She wanted to find Zhou Heng to listen to Zhou Heng's stories. Pei Luoshu couldn't persuade him, so he had to follow him. However, he didn't expect to encounter such a grand event.
"Zhou Heng hasn't shown up for so many days. It seems that he is very cautious about the people of the Five Elements Sect." Pei Luoshu looked around and saw that Zhou Heng still didn't come out. He smiled and said, "I really look forward to the next battle."
"Brother, didn't you always say that you are better than Zhou Heng?" Pei Luoshu blinked and chuckled, "By the way, your ranking on the human list is also above Zhou Heng. Do you want to wait until the ceremony is over and compete with him?"
"Go, go, I'll just watch this time and not fight. Watch the competition between the people of the Five Elements Sect and Zhou Heng." Pei Luoshu shook his head hurriedly.
The terrifying strength that Zhou Heng showed in front of the mountain gate of Changxing Sect made him realize that he might not be able to withstand even one move in front of Zhou Heng.
On the street opposite the Longxing Martial Arts School, a new restaurant of the Yu family has recently opened.
At this time, many wealthy businessmen have reserved private rooms in this restaurant, eating and drinking, with maids fanning them, preparing to watch the opening ceremony of the Longxing Martial Arts School in comfort.
At the same time, they are thinking in their hearts, how much gold do they have to pay to send their kid to this martial arts school to learn martial arts?
Five hundred taels?
Or one thousand taels?
This new Longxing Martial Arts School is different from the past. In the past, it only charged about ten taels of silver a year to recruit an apprentice, but now with the name of Chunyang Palace, it is very different.
Although Xinlongxing has land approved by the government office and the Buwusi, and is building a new martial arts school, there will definitely be a lot of apprentice quotas in the future, but it takes time to build a new martial arts school, and Longxing can only run the school in this house for the time being.
This means that the number of apprentices recruited by Xinlongxing must be very limited.
In the eyes of the wealthy businessmen, the significance of this "first batch" is very special, and it must be fundamentally different from the following "second batch", "third batch" and even later batches.
This has driven the "sponsorship fees" for the first batch of admissions to the sky.
"Too much money." Many wealthy businessmen sighed in their hearts. With all these sponsorship fees, Longxing Martial Arts School will make a lot of money.
Moreover, this does not include tuition fees.
I don't know who came up with this thing, it's really a genius in making money.
But they don't know.
In fact, the initiator of this "sponsorship fee" secretly spread this concept, making these wealthy businessmen scramble to pay for it -
It was a young man who was busy in Longxing Martial Arts Hall at this time, receiving guests and handling various affairs, just like a handyman.
Yu He.
He can be said to be the busiest person in Longxing during this period.
In addition to a series of routines such as "limited apprenticeship quota" and "sponsorship money" to increase the income of the martial arts hall's first pot of gold, the entire listing ceremony was also planned by him. The specific process, as well as inviting people to attend, cutting the ribbon and a series of other things are all his responsibility.
If it were someone else, they might have been exhausted from being busy, but Yu He was enjoying it. These are the things he is best at and likes the most. In his words, this is much more comfortable than practicing martial arts.
Yu He had just received a guest and hurried out again, but suddenly heard a commotion in front of him, and then heard a few screams, as if someone was injured.
He hurried over to see what was going on.
This is the first day of the opening of Longxing Martial Arts School. Nothing can go wrong.
As soon as Yu He went over, he saw several men he had hired to maintain order rolling on the ground, but they looked like they were just in physical pain and not really injured.
Then, he turned his eyes and saw a figure wearing pale mourning clothes and holding a sword in his hand.
"You, you, Mr. Liu?!" Yu He was shocked and subconsciously took two steps back. He took a deep breath and said, "What are you doing here?"
"He came to see me." At this time, Zhou Heng's voice suddenly sounded. He didn't know when he had come out of the martial arts school and stood in front of Liu Changsheng.
"Zhou Heng!" Yu He was surprised.
The crowd around was also boiling. The wealthy businessmen in the restaurant stood up and looked at them intently.
Pei Luoling and Pei Luoshu looked solemn. They all felt that Liu Changsheng was unusual. This person's strength was definitely extraordinary, not an ordinary seventh-grade.
"You are here." Zhou Heng looked at Liu Changsheng.
"You should have guessed that I was going to come." Liu Changsheng said lightly.
"Come on." Zhou Heng nodded gently, turned around and walked in front, and came to an empty space in front of the martial arts hall that was specially reserved for nothing.
Many people thought that this was the place Zhou Heng specially reserved for the ribbon-cutting ceremony, but in fact this was the "battlefield" he was going to use to challenge the Five Elements Sect's strong men.
"Okay." Liu Changsheng was very frugal with words, nodded and followed.
The people present were talking about it, and soon they almost understood what was going on. This was the Five Elements Sect sending people to challenge the sect according to the convention of the martial arts world.
However, soon someone pointed out that this Liu Changsheng was the true disciple of the Five Elements Sect and the son of Liu Gaoyang, the former elder of the Five Elements Sect, "Qingmu Divine Sword".
The shocking incident in Yuanhe Prefecture City a few months ago had long been spread to Huangtong Prefecture City, and Liu Gaoyang's death at Zhou Heng's hands was also known to everyone.
Obviously, Liu Changsheng was not only here to challenge the sect this time, but also to find Zhou Heng to avenge his father's death.
This battle was most likely a life-and-death battle.
After understanding this, the people present immediately held their breath and focused their eyes on Zhou Heng and Liu Changsheng.
Lei Xiuyuan, Lin Cang, Yu He and others also gathered together, looking nervous.
Clang!
Suddenly, there was a sound of sword, and Liu Changsheng's sword was unsheathed. The sound was like a dragon's roar, clear and thorough. Under the sunlight, the sword edge was shining, dazzling and dazzling. It was obviously a good sword.
"Sharp weapon level." Liu Changsheng pointed the sword at Zhou Heng and said lightly: "Where is your weapon?"
"This." Zhou Heng raised his hand, indicating that he had put on gloves, and said: "It is also a sharp weapon."
"Then... let's start!" Liu Changsheng's eyes condensed.
After three breaths, he circulated the internal energy full of Qingmu power, and his figure suddenly flashed, and he rushed to Zhou Heng almost instantly.
While the sword tip of his right hand stabbed forward, his left palm was hidden behind. When the sword tip was about to really stab Zhou Heng, he made a feint and slapped out with his left palm.
Making a feint to the east and attacking in the west!
Liu Changsheng knew that his first sword attack would definitely not hit Zhou Heng, so he pretended to sway to cover up the attack of his left palm.
When he slapped out his palm, layers of blue clouds filled the air, and the power was superimposed and powerful, like a vast forest leaning over and crashing into Zhou Heng.
Just this momentum made the ordinary people and the ninth and eighth grade warriors who were watching around feel palpitations, and they couldn't help but want to push back.
This is the seventh grade palm method of the Five Elements Sect, "Thousand Trees Palm".
But this palm strike was nothing special to Zhou Heng. With the refined sword theory of Dugu Jiujian in mind, a seventh-grade palm strike of this level was full of flaws in his eyes.
He could easily break it with just one palm strike.
But just as Zhou Heng raised his palm to hit Liu Changsheng's left wrist, trying to break this palm strike of thousands of trees, the sword that was originally just a fake suddenly became real and slashed towards Zhou Heng's neck.
This sword strike was Liu Changsheng's real purpose.
Just now, he seemed to be faking a sword move to cover up the real palm strike, but in fact, that palm strike was a real fake, and the sword that seemed to be a fake was the real killer move!
The seventh-grade sword strike of the Five Elements Sect, "Leaves Under the Forest Sword".
This set of sword strikes is originally the inside and outside of the palm strike of thousands of trees. When used in conjunction with each other, it can confuse the enemy and hide the real killer move.
Unfortunately, Zhou Heng's spiritual perception was so strong that he realized something was wrong the moment Liu Changsheng's sword moves changed. He immediately raised his left hand, pointed his finger into a sword, and pointed at Liu Changsheng's sword.
Sword-breaking style!
Clang!
Amid the sound of the sword, Liu Heng felt a strong force coming from the long sword in his hand. His internal energy was a little scattered, his tiger's mouth hurt, and his offensive was immediately stagnant.
So strong!
Too strong!
Is this kind of power, this kind of internal energy, this level of grasp and in-depth understanding of the moves really a level that an eighth-grade warrior can achieve?
It's too incredible!
Liu Changsheng was in doubt. Zhou Heng's strength was so strong that he felt the gap in strength after just one encounter.
He, a seventh-grade peak, not only did not have the upper hand, but was at a disadvantage.
However, Liu Changsheng was not panicked, and was even a little surprised.
Because what he wanted was the stagnation of his internal energy at this moment, and he didn't expect it to come so quickly!
The Green God Sword is a powerful and mysterious martial art. If you want to perform it at the seventh level, you need to adjust your body's state and let your internal energy stagnate for a moment.
In this way, you can use this momentary stagnant space to forcibly draw the vitality of heaven and earth, interweave the Qingmu law to strengthen yourself, and achieve the effect of the Green God descending to the world, so that the sword moves contain the power of heaven and earth and increase its power.
Huh!
Suddenly, a strong wind blew, the vitality of heaven and earth was stirred, and the clouds in the sky surged, and the wind and clouds changed color! !
Clang!
The long sword in Liu Changsheng's hand rang, and his whole momentum suddenly rose, becoming solemn and majestic, high above, like a god descending to the world.
Then, a green light condensed on the long sword, containing rich vitality, but also shining with endless sharpness, as if it could destroy everything in the world!
"Zhou Heng! Take my sword!!"
Swish!
The sword light burst out, as if the void was cut open, and a sharp hissing sound was emitted, making the people around couldn't help but cover their ears, and the light was so dazzling that they dared not look directly.
Zhou Heng faced this sword but seemed to have no intention of defending or dodging at all, just standing there, as if waiting for death to come.
"What is he going to do?" Liu Changsheng was puzzled, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a flash of golden light in front of his eyes, occupying all his sight.
Dangdangdang! !
The sound of bells suddenly exploded, and Liu Changsheng felt that he saw a huge golden bell in a trance.
The light of this golden bell actually directly pressed the green sword light and shattered it.
His secret sixth-grade swordsmanship did not cause any harm to Zhou Heng, and it was broken just like that? !
"You lose."
When Liu Changsheng came back to his senses, he heard Zhou Heng's cold voice, and at the same time he found that Zhou Heng's sword finger was already against his neck.
Just send the sword finger forward to know his life.
This chapter has 4,350 words, plus the previous 6,000 words, it can barely be considered a daily achievement, but in fact I still owe one chapter. The next chapter will be updated tomorrow morning... I won't be stupid and write in the early morning.