In the middle of the night, the moon was dark and the west wind was whispering.On the barren hill, there were still two people standing.The two men, one with a sword and the other with a sword, looked at each other and stood silent.The sword was a Japanese sword, that is, a relatively inferior Japanese sword, which was mostly used by wandering samurai.At that time, the Weihaiwei generation often had pirates or pirates from Dongying, so both the official army and the common people were also very familiar with this kind of knife.Relatively speaking, the relatively high-grade Japanese sword or samurai sword was extremely rare in the territory of the Dashu Kingdom at that time, because that kind of sword was generally only available to the famous nobles in Japan, and those rich and famous samurai had no reason to come all the way to Dashu to be robbers.The sword was a long sword, more than twice as long as an ordinary sword.The person who walks the rivers and lakes with this kind of sword is undoubtedly also a well-known figure."
Heavenly Sword" Fang Jinghai - just looking at his nickname and name, it feels a bit powerful, right?
But it's not......
This Brother Fang is neither powerless nor shocking the sea, his swordsmanship can only be said to be ordinary, barely at the level of the second-rate level.It's just that he has a unique weapon, which may be more difficult to deal with than those swordsmen of his level.And his opponent is different.That "Japanese swordsman", by the standards of the Central Plains martial arts, is at least a quasi-first-class master, and in terms of weapons, he is also superior.Some people may be surprised, didn't he say that he was using a low-grade katana?
How can you still have an advantage over this person's unique long sword?
Ranking, I say "lower grade", that is a longitudinal comparison......
If compared with other weapons, the performance of the sword is much better than those common in the martial arts of the Central Plains, and of course, the cost is much higher - the process aside, just say that the material resources required to make a Japanese sword are enough to make several ordinary swords; In addition, the katana also has a high follow-up maintenance cost, and the exquisite ones have to be regularly applied with pine oil, not just a little water and just grind twice.This kind of weapon, in addition to being a collector's item, is almost exclusively for solo or small-scale infantry combat in actual combat (basically useless in horse warfare, not as good as the most ordinary long-handled weapon), even if it is a low-grade sword, its lightness, toughness, and sharp performance are also incomparable to the ordinary weapons of the Central Plains......
The two compete, and the usual result is that the latter "does not have a long army, does not receive a short army, and has many parts".Fang Jinghai's sword itself was longer than an ordinary sword, but its toughness was not as good as that of a spear or club......
Once you hit the sword, it will definitely be cut off within five hits.Of course......
He didn't know that.If Fang Jinghai had some idea of the strength of the opponent in front of him or the gap in his weapons, maybe he wouldn't have come tonight.He came simply because he thought he was going to win.So you have to ask him if there is any reason why he has to come?
Yes and no...... said no, because he and his opponent have no grievances and no hatred, and they have never known each other.said yes, it is still the sentence "people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves".As a swordsman, you can't just say no when someone asks you to share a high or low with you.Unless the other party's reputation or martial arts are very different from yours, your rejection can be regarded as a kind of retreat, and on the rivers and lakes, sometimes a simple retreat may make you unable to gain a foothold from now on."
You're Kohei Terashima?"
After a moment of confrontation, it was Fang Jinghai who broke the silence first.There was a bit of pride in his tone, and it was clear that he still felt that he was better than his opponent."
Exactly."
Terashima is a native of Dongying, but his days of dealing with the Central Plains people are not short, so although his accent is relatively heavy, the Central Plains dialect is not bad."
I heard......
In the past two months, you have beheaded fifteen swordsmen of my Central Plains Martial Arts, and you have also taken their swords?
”Fang Jinghai said again."
Not bad."
Terashima returns."
May I ask why?"
Fang Jinghai said."
Entrusted by men."
Terashima returns."
Oh?"
Fang Jinghai said, "Then can I ask who you are entrusted by?"
”"I can't."
Terashima said, "Besides, I don't need to say so much about a person who is about to die. ”Fang Jinghai was not as witty as Lin Yuancheng, after he heard this, not only did he continue to set words, but because he was provoked, he snorted coldly and replied: "Hmph......
I'm afraid that you will die in a while, and the dead will not be able to speak again. ”Hearing this, Terashima's expression did not change in any way, after all......
He'd heard something like that at least ten times.After a breath, Terashima still calmly continued: "Today you and I will fight a fair duel, life and death will be in peace, and the winner will get the blade of the dead......
If you have no objections, please feel free to do so. ”"Good!"
Fang Jinghai responded, and then put on a posture, ready to attack.Almost at the same time, Terashima also pulled out the sword at his waist and held it in front of him, staring intently.Whew-dang!
When the killing atmosphere was extreme, the sound of Zheng Gong started.Although the blade of the sword is slow, it has a wide range and is powerful, and can cause damage outside the "intermittent combination" of the opponent's weapon; If the opponent is only defensive, it is to resist the strong with the weak, and the more you fight, the more passive you become, and if the opponent wants to counterattack, you must take two more steps......
The difference in distance between these two steps is enough to make up for Fang Jinghai's lack of speed.However, Terashima did not take these two steps, he chose to stand in place, attacking against attacking, splitting with a blade, and attacking with a sword.The sword rises, the long sword falls, the blade flashes, and the sword is broken in two.Fang Jinghai has also been fighting on the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, and his actual combat experience is not bad, so after the sword was broken, he was only briefly stunned, and then he calmed down, changed his moves, turned around, and slashed again with the edge of the broken sword.Unexpectedly, Naji Island bowed his head, shrank the ground and rushed forward, and with a dodge, he drilled into the gap under Fang Jinghai's armpit, and slashed upwards with his backhand.At that moment, a broken arm, holding a broken sword, rose into the air......
Fang Jinghai screamed, and blood splattered five steps.He instinctively wanted to retreat, but the third knife of Terashima had already caught up, but when he saw the blade passing by, Fang Jinghai was slashed from the ribs to the neck.The instantaneous amount of bleeding caused by this knife was enough to make Fang Jinghai lose consciousness and fall.Terashima, who was standing in front of him, was like a blood bath, and his whole body was dyed red, of course......
He was used to it.After a moment, Terashima looked down at the uncold corpse in front of him and silently took out a white towel from his arms.Instead of wiping his face with the white scarf, he carefully began to wipe the blood from the knife......
His movements were so gentle, as if caressing the skin of the woman he loved.After wiping it and putting it away in its sheath, he walked over and picked up Fang Jinghai's broken sword.For some reason, Terashima actually stabbed the broken sword into the heart of the dead Fang Jinghai, and soaked the sword body with the blood of its previous master before pulling it out and preparing to take it away.And when Terashima turned around, someone had already quietly come to him.This person was born tall and burly, with a fierce face, and he also appeared in the previous book......
Seeing this, you must have guessed that he was the thief leader "Kang Haijiao" who was entrenched in the "Dragon King Cave".The last time we talked about him, this old man was dazzled by Sun Yihuan's use of lime powder, and then Brother Sun threw him into a steep slope with a trick of "burying the ground and topping the sky" in the dragon dog boxing technique.In the Longwang Cave, the fork in the road is complicated and rugged, the height difference is huge, and the place where Kang Haijiao fell is just an ultra-long steep slope that leads directly to the underground river; He rolled all the way down from there, not only did the bones on his body break a dozen or so, but even his skin and flesh were cut off a lot by the raised sharp stones on the slope.But he ......
Miraculously survived.Even though he was covered in bruises after falling, because Kang Haijiao had always insisted on curling up and holding his head, his head was fine.As for the condition that his eyes were fascinated by lime powder, it was no longer a problem in the already dark underground river, and he couldn't see anything when he opened his eyes.So he lay down in the underground river for a day and a night, and the next day he was so thirsty that he endured the pain and felt the darkness, and climbed to the river and drank a few sips of water; Fortunately, there was not so much water pollution back then, and the groundwater was similar to the well water, and the quality might even be better, so it was okay for him to drink it.Of course, take a step back......
Even if the water was dirty, he would drink it anyway - he couldn't see it, he couldn't see it, he couldn't see it, he couldn't be out of mind.Due to Kang Haijiao's multiple fractures all over his body, and the slope he rolled down was very steep, it was basically impossible to climb up from the same road, so he could only prepare for "long-term survival".There wasn't much to eat in the underground canal, and although there were occasional fish in the water, he certainly couldn't catch them at first; Not to mention catching fish in this dark environment, it is difficult to catch fish from the stream with bare hands in broad daylight.So, for the first month, Kang Haijiao basically ate mice, scorpions, and all kinds of insects and mushrooms that he didn't know what kind of mushrooms he didn't know, and they were all washed in water and eaten raw......
If you want to ask him why he didn't die of poisoning or acute gastroenteritis infection, I don't know.Maybe it's because something he eats happens to be a rare "treasure of heaven and earth", or maybe this thing is born with a strange constitution, and its immune and digestive systems are extremely developed, in short......
Not only did he not die, but his body was getting better day by day, and the wounds on his body did not do any special treatment except for cleaning them with water, and the results were all stunned.As for the lime powder on his face, he had already rubbed it off with mucus "extracted" from plants and animals, but in the darkness his eyes were not very useful even if they were open.To make a long story short, after this month, Kang Haijiao's other senses other than vision have begun to sharpen, and its sense of hearing, smell, and touch has ......
All have become extremely developed unconsciously; He was originally a water thief, and he relied on water to eat, and soon after his senses were strengthened, he mastered how to catch fish with his bare hands in the underground river, which can be regarded as improving his own food.Halfway through the second month, his bones had almost grown, and he decided it was time to escape the underground canal.The slope where he fell was too long and steep, it was too difficult to go up without the help of tools, and Kang Haijiao did not have any light work to "swim up the wall", so he decided to go downstream along the river, and if he was lucky, he should be able to find an exit to a well or a mountain stream.However, if you are unlucky......
It's hard to say, some underground rivers can stretch for tens of kilometers, and there are many branches in them, and you may walk along a tributary for a few days before you find that the road ahead suddenly becomes very narrow and difficult to cross.Kang Haijiao walked along a road for more than ten days, and then encountered this "bad luck" situation.As he walked that day, he suddenly noticed a stone wall in the darkness blocking his way, and only a very narrow gap under the stone wall could provide water to flow out.Kang Haijiao, who "hit the wall", was very unhappy, and before turning his head back, he was a little unwilling to clench his fist and hit it on the stone wall, but unexpectedly, he didn't know what mechanism he touched when he knocked it......
The thick stone wall turned over like a revolving door.When the dazzling sunlight outside the stone wall shone into the dark river, Kang Haijiao, who had not seen the light for nearly two months, was almost really blind, but fortunately, the stone wall quickly re-sealed the river and blocked the sunlight after turning over, which made Kang Haijiao, who covered his face and knelt on the ground, eased up.Later, when he "flipped" out of the rock wall and regained his eyesight, he realized that he had stumbled upon a cave in the middle of a cliff.The cave was clearly artificially modified, and the flipping stone wall was made of ordinary stone on one side and carved with martial arts on the other.I think that the person who lived in seclusion here before must be a very cautious person, he has already hid in this kind of place to practice, and he has not forgotten to add an extra layer of insurance; If Kang Haijiao did not enter this cave from the side of the river, but from the side of the cliff, it is likely that he would not have discovered the secret behind the stone wall.Anyway......
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At that moment, Kang Haijiao, who had been blessed by misfortune, couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh, shouting "The sky has eyes".Not only did he survive death, but he also had this kind of adventure.This kind of experience naturally greatly expanded his ambition and pattern, and he could no longer be willing to be an ordinary thief, and he also wanted to make a name for himself in the martial arts.Of course......
Before that, he still had to practice the kung fu in front of him first.So what kind of martial arts are carved on this stone wall?
Superior light power - "climbing the sky".In fact, you should have guessed a thing or two from the location of this cave, this place is ......
People who don't have a certain amount of light cultivation can't even enter unless they use a rope ladder.Just like Kang Haijiao at this time, although he discovered this hole, he still couldn't return to the outside world; For for him, the entrance to the cave in front of him, halfway up the cliff, he fell to his death when he stepped out, and the stone wall behind it, leading to an underground channel, was equivalent to returning the same way as before......
None of them are a way out anyway.So, he cultivated in that cave for several months, and as for the food, he still had to go to the underground river to find it.A few months later......
Like the "red plum sparrow" in the previous book, this Kang Haijiao is also the master who wants to "destroy the hole and destroy the traces" before leaving the land of adventure; At that time, he had already memorized the decision to "climb the sky" and cultivated to a certain extent, so he destroyed the stone wall and ran up the wall from the side of the cliff.You have to ask this man who has only learned the best light skills how he destroyed the stone wall......
Then I can remind you that this guy mentioned it in his first appearance, he is a master who is "born with brute strength", strong enough to pick up the ship's mast and plunge it into the mud.In addition, when he was twenty years old, he had been in the Cao Gang for a few years, and he had learned some fist and foot kung fu, and he already had a foundation, so destroying a stone wall was really not a problem for him, but for a master, it might be done with three punches and two palms, and he had to work harder.The first thing Kang Haijiao did when he saw the light of day was naturally robbery, which needless to say, and after he finished the first vote, he immediately thought of returning to Chenjia Village in Ant Mountain and going to the villagers to "settle accounts".Because in his opinion, Sun Yihui and Huang Donglai, who came to serve their own "business", must have been hired by those villagers.However, he is also coarse and detailed, and he does not do anything about rushing directly into the village to arrest people and interrogate them; Last time, he was a little impulsive and almost died in the hands of Sun Yihuan - people always have to learn some lessons after making mistakes, otherwise they will be stupid.So, Kang Haijiao pretended to be a passer-by, entered the village very normally, and talked to other guests while drinking in the village tavern.Originally, these villagers had never seen this "Dragon King" from beginning to end, so it was impossible for them to know that the person in front of them was the leader of the thieves who had killed them in the first place; And what about the tone of these villagers...... is also really pine, because during this time, it happened to be the time when the "East Harmony and West Poison" became famous, and these villagers of Chenjia Village were helped by Sun and Huang, or they had contact, so they naturally wanted to take it out as a talking point and blow it out, even if Kang Haijiao didn't ask, maybe they would take the initiative to say it.And when this Kang Haijiao heard it, he realized that it was not the villagers who invited someone to come, and the two goods were just passing by here and meddling.When he heard it again, it turned out that in the past few months when he had experienced adventures, Sun and Huang first pacified Shen Youran in Luoyang, and then helped Jinyiwei in Wuchang In addition to the shadow remnants, there were many large and small, true or false, and the anecdotes of the rivers and lakes that were added to the fire by the common people, and it was more scary than one to tell it.Kang Haijiao pondered after listening......
Otherwise, I won't take revenge, right?
I can't afford to mess with this kind of harmony......
Forget about sprinkling lime powder, I've never heard of such a thing as sinking people into a dung pit, as the saying goes, killing people is not a nod to the ground, and these two methods are simply not the work of people.Thinking like this, he really gave up revenge and began to mingle with the rivers and lakes from then on.Up to now, this Kang Haijiao has successfully climbed a "big tree" and has become a subordinate of a certain big man in the rivers and lakes.Of course, it is very difficult for him to be born in the "lower five gates", and he can only be the same as the Japanese Kohei Terashima......
Do some "dirty work" for the big guy, and you can't tell who your master is and what he wants to do."
Jiaojun, I should have said it many times, don't appear behind me silently like this."
After Terashima turned around, he paused for a little two seconds, and then handed the blood-stained broken sword in his hand to the other party."
Hmph......
I've come here in such a normal way that you can't hear it, can you blame me?
”Kang Haijiao replied a little proudly, "Do you want me to bolt two bells to my feet?"
”As he spoke, he took the sword from the other's hand and put it in a long, narrow wooden box that had been prepared."
Then the next time I instinctively slash you because I saw someone suddenly appear behind me, don't blame me for not warning you."
Terashima picks up the road."
Scare me?
Scold......
You can try it......"
Kang Haijiao sneered, it seems that his relationship with Terashima is not good, but he just has to do things together."
I'll remember you."
Terashima returns."
Whatever you want."
Kang Haijiao said, "Anyway, this is already the sixteenth, and there are still four more to deal with the 'master', and you and I may not continue to cooperate after this task is completed." ”"Speaking of which......
I hope you can help me find a better swordsman next time. ”Terashima Michi, "For an opponent like today, the 'purity' of their swords is too low, and I don't think the master will be too satisfied with handing over such a thing." ”"Hah!"
Kang Haijiao smiled dryly with a hint of disdain, "After killing a few second- and third-rate goods, are you still crazy?"
How powerful are you really to be?
If I really go and ask that clever swordsman to come, you are not afraid of death?
”When Terashima heard this, his expression suddenly chilled: "I can't pretend that I didn't hear what you said......
Why don't you try it now?
”"No need, I can't afford to play with you."
Kang Haijiao refused the other party without thinking about it, "You want to be a big-tailed wolf, right?"
Okay, I'll find a great one next time, but if you have to make a mistake, don't blame me......"
"Hmph......"
Terashima also sneered, "If I have a mistake, it will make no difference to you, right?"
Take my sword and my blood to your master. ”