Chapter 195: Cognitive Gaps Can’t Be Bridged By High Martial Art Alone
A fist gleaming white like jade pierced out from the back of the strong man’s head, and only then did those present discover that before this, a lot of brain matter had already splattered out first, spraying everywhere.
This was entirely in line with physical laws, after all, with such a large fist needing to pass through a person’s head, the original contents inside the head would certainly have to shift.
Seeing a punch that conformed to physical laws, Yun Ce’s suspended heart finally settled.
As long as a person’s actions still conformed to physical laws, Yun Ce felt there should be a way to cope, what he feared was if the things this person did didn’t conform to physical laws, casually sending a flying sword thousands of li to take heads, or using some talisman paper and chanting a spell to make someone die unnaturally—if that were the case, Yun Ce planned to take his two wives and hide back in Tianzhu Mountain to live as wildmen, never coming out again.
When one strong man was killed, a group of strong men would pounce forward—this was one of the few things Yun Ce was satisfied with about the Great Han people; under clearly divided class barriers, the guards were truly willing to risk their lives to protect their master.
And the first strong man being killed meant that the newcomer posed a threat to the lives of all the nobles in the restaurant.
Yu Sang’s speed in killing was very fast; in the previous instant, they had only seen him clench his fist, and in the next instant, his fist appeared at the back of a strong man’s head—no one could see the process in between clearly, and neither could Yun Ce.
Speaking of which, this guy Yu Sang’s striking speed was very fast, extremely fast—one punch per strong man, and in moments, the fat strong man corpses blocked the gate.
Ordinary strong men were killed by Yu Sang with one punch, even Hundred-man General level experts were still killed by Yu Sang with one punch, as if those three Hundred-man Generals’ martial arts had been practiced in vain.
Yu Sang casually kicked the strong man corpse at his feet, and Yun Ce saw the pile of corpses blocking the doorway scatter open, as if those twenty-odd strong men had left on their own, each finding a comfortable spot to lie down again.
1 Almost in the instant Yu Sang kicked out, a hole appeared in the floorboards under Yun Ce’s buttocks; Yun Ce fell down along with the cushion, and Yu Sang, who instantly appeared in front of Yun Ce and reached out to grab him, collided with Yun Ce’s fist. After a muffled “bang,” Yun Ce’s figure had already vanished from the third floor.
1 Yu Sang glared angrily at Yun Ce, who had crashed through the second-floor boards and continued descending, then shook his sleeves and cast a pair of grayish-white, emotionless eyes onto Cao Kun.
1 Cao Kun’s knees went weak, and with a thud, he knelt on the ground, raising a black box high with both hands as he said: “Spare me, senior.”
1 Yu Sang, who had already raised his hand to slap Cao Kun to death, paused for a moment and didn’t strike Cao Kun’s head, instead smoothly taking the box.
1 Pressing the mechanism on the box produced a click, and a small window opened on top of the box, casting an emerald green glow onto Yu Sang’s face.
1 That feeling of penetrating through his limbs and bones came again, warm and cozy; Yu Sang contentedly closed the lid and said to Cao Kun kneeling on the ground: “Do you have more?”
1 Cao Kun trembled as he said: “There are three more boxes, but they are all in Qiu He Prefecture. If senior wants them, this junior will immediately send someone on an albatross to fetch them as quickly as possible.”
1 Yu Sang’s gaze swept over the faces of the nobles, and with a light sigh, he said: “Very well, having obtained treasure today, it’s not suitable to create more killing.”
1 With that, he turned and walked out the gate.
1 Confirming that Yu Sang had left, Cao Kun’s trembling hands couldn’t manage to bring the wine cup he had just raised to his lips no matter what.
2 Cao Ling picked up the wine pot and poured wine into Cao Kun’s mouth like watering flowers; after Cao Kun drank a full pot, he roared in fury: “Beast—”
2 Coming to Yujin Pass, Yun Ce was there to confirm two things. The first was to see if Yu Sang had been drawn here by him—now it seemed the goal was achieved.
2 For the second matter, Yun Ce wanted to test this expert’s skill through Yujin Pass’s martial power, to see just how high it was. Now he had seen it—his skill was truly very high, as high as an entire mountain; judging from that hurried punch exchanged with Yu Sang just now.
2 To kill him, Yu Sang would need at least three punches: the first, dragon scales would block it, then the dragon scales would shatter; the second, Doggy would block it, then Doggy would flee; the third, a hole would appear in Yun Ce’s occiput.
2 Yun Ce couldn’t understand why Yu Sang’s strength was so great; from that punch he had just taken, he felt like he wasn’t exchanging fists with a person, but colliding with the rammer on a large forging machine—if he hadn’t borrowed the force to fall downward, his arm bone might have pierced through the skin at the back of his elbow and emerged.
2 “Doggy, help me find out why Yu Sang can accurately locate me.”
2 “Can’t do it. If you hide and he can’t find you, do you believe he would immediately return to Yun Clan Villa and slaughter wildly to force you to appear?”
2 “Never mind, my survival comes first.”
2 “Really?”
2 “Fake. Damn it, I should just be a heartless bastard.”
3 Even at night, the red date horse ran as fast as lightning, almost flying over the ground; each time its hoof landed, its body would leap far forward. To reduce wind resistance, Yun Ce clung tightly to the red date horse’s back, and in the time it took to burn one incense stick, they had run over a hundred li away.
3 Even so, the familiar pressure appeared again; Yun Ce gritted his teeth and had the red date horse plunge headlong into the dense forest.
3 To prevent Yu Sang from locating him, Yun Ce had no choice but to have the red date horse carry him darting around in the forest, constantly changing positions so Yu Sang couldn’t leave that eagle and land to pursue.
3 “Tsk, you have a fine thunder smoke beast; this thunder smoke beast is full of spirit and has the potential to become the king of thunder smoke beasts. I must say, your luck is extremely good.”
3 “Judging by this alone, you are indeed stronger than Yu Zhu.”
3 Yu Sang’s slightly hoarse voice fell from overhead; Yun Ce said while running: “Lucky enough to be pursued and killed by senior?”
3 Yu Sang sighed and said: “Yu Zhu encountering you was his fate; you encountering this old man is your fate—the two cannot be confused.”
3 Yun Ce continued: “I killed Yu Zhu in formation battle; if I didn’t kill him, I would be killed by him. And for those who take the battlefield, to survive, it all depends on how sharp the blade in their hand is.”
3 “Before this, Yu Zhu and I had no personal grudge; senior coming now to seek revenge is utterly unreasonable.”
3 Yu Sang laughed: “Gui Fang and Great Han have fates entangled for thousands of years; talk of hatred is long past—we two races can only have one survive. That is the prevailing truth.”
4 “A master like you should match against a master like Liu Changsheng; chasing and toying with a junior like me—aren’t you afraid of damaging your lifetime of fame?”
4 “Hahaha, this old man has lived in seclusion for many years and long stopped caring about fame or not; after I take your head, it won’t be late to go to Chang’an and visit Liu Changsheng.”
4 With that, Yun Ce heard the intense flapping of wings from a hawk in the sky, and at the same time, heard Doggy shout loudly: “Left side, into the water.”
4 The red date horse seemed even a step faster in reaction than Yun Ce; it lightly turned its steps to the left. With the Qingshui River glimmering black under the moonlight right before them, it leaped and jumped into the water.
4 Man and horse hid submerged in the water, not daring to surface, only struggling to paddle their limbs in the water, wanting to leave the danger zone sooner.
4 “Paddle faster; water is different from air, two different materials. I believe Yu Sang’s perception will be greatly reduced in water—run farther, and he won’t sense you.”
4 “Doggy, is your brain full of shit? This river is no more than two hundred meters wide and no more than ten meters deep, with only up and down directions. He’s riding an eagle—how long do you think we can hide?”
4 “Also, we and our red date horse—one person, one horse, not fish—can’t dive for too long.”
4 “I’ve prepared it for you early; hum hum hum, without me, you’d be dead long ago.”
4 As two tentacles paddled over, a hood appeared on Yun Ce’s head, and at the same time, a larger hood was placed over the red date horse’s face. Two finger-thick tentacles bobbed leisurely on the water surface, continuously supplying air to Yun Ce and the red date horse.
5 A white line suddenly appeared not far to Yun Ce’s left; a large fish swimming there was instantly pierced by the white line. Watching the fish flip belly-up and start floating, more white lines appeared around Yun Ce and the red date horse.
5 “This dog-forsaken stones he throws have more kinetic energy than bullets fired from a gun; in water, beyond one meter, bullets lose killing power.”
5 “This old guy’s thrown stones, at one and a half meters, can still pierce large fish—be careful, dive a bit deeper.”
5 The underwater world was bizarre and varied; Yun Ce finally groped his way to a boulder with a large cave scoured out in its center by the current, hiding inside with the red date horse, thus avoiding the increasingly dense stone attacks.
5 Yu Sang, riding the eagle flying over the Qingshui River, was truly a bit angry now; what he thought would be a hand-to-catch little grasshopper had actually made him spend an entire night without catching it.
5 If he’d known, he should have killed him the first time they met.
5 As soon as this thought arose, Yu Sang was immediately stunned, to the point that he didn’t continue throwing the pebble in his hand—regret, this kind of negative emotion, shouldn’t appear on someone like him at all; Yun Ce dying was inevitable, not dying was heaven’s will.
5 This was the proper way for someone of his status and cultivation to view things—why regret?
5 As soon as the question arose, a drop of blood fell without warning from his nostril; Yu Sang, with extremely sharp senses, caught the drop with his hand and examined it closely before his eyes for a long time.
5 Another drop of blood fell, equally without warning; Yu Sang hurriedly circulated his internal breath to inspect his body interior—he hadn’t bled in a very, very long time.
6 Now, blood kept falling, and in moments, it had gathered into a small blood lake in his palm.
6 After inner observation, Yu Sang’s heart reached the extreme of fear; he didn’t understand why his originally healthy body had begun to decay in such a short time.
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