Chapter 288: Two Swords Combine, the Tou Tuo’s Shame
Moonlight spilled down from the gaps in the clouds like silver dust, illuminating an area of several li brightly.
Yang Kang looked at Zhou Yan, who was about to disappear into the distance, with a complex expression.
In life, there are too many things that are unpredictable.
The first time I met Zhou Yan was in Zhongdu City. At that time, he could only block Ouyang Ke’s attack using lime and poisoned iron finger rings.
If Wang Chuyi hadn’t appeared, he would have surely died.
But now, Ouyang Ke doesn’t dare to confront him directly, and Zhou Yan can contend with the Vajra Sect leader and Qiu Qianren.
Yang Kang clenched the folding fan in his hand, took a breath, and calmed his somewhat surging emotions, maintaining them within a controllable range.
He said in a low voice to the more than ten Jianghu experts he had heavily recruited: “Stop him.”
Helian Chuncheng, Yin Kexi, and Ni Mo Xing joined forces because they all had personal grudges against Zhou Yan, so the more than ten experts who had not received orders did not act.
Yang Kang gave the order. The more than ten people roared and attacked Zhou Yan.
Ouyang Ke and Yin Kexi were overjoyed and rushed forward. Helian Chuncheng, who had rolled up from the ground, spat out a mouthful of blood, took out a porcelain bottle to take pills, and rushed forward with his spear.
Zhou Yan, having sustained internal injuries from fighting Huo Gong Toutuo, felt the strong gentle qi emanating from Jade Guanyin and chuckled. He sheathed the Qingfeng Sword with a backhand motion and continued forward. Two experts who had moved to intercept him from the side found that Zhou Yan, who had been seven or eight zhang away just moments before, had covered the distance with just two simple steps, leaving behind his tall back with a longsword. The expert named “Asura Blade” angrily pursued him.
“Where do you think you’re going?” Ouyang Ke, using the lightness skill “Instant Thousand Li,” pursued from behind and threw several silver shuttles. The pursuers and interceptors, seeing this, threw hidden weapons one after another.
Zhou Yan’s forward momentum allowed him to roll to the ground. The mostly poisoned hidden weapons whistled past overhead with sharp breaking wind sounds and embedded themselves in the ground, kicking up clods of earth.
The entire patch of green grass flattened to the ground with Zhou Yan’s sudden sweeping leg. With a “bang,” two intercepting experts were sent flying by the “Whirlwind Sweeping Leaves Leg,” flailing their limbs.
“Kid, don’t be so arrogant.” An expert skilled in “Monkey Fist” moved like an agile advance, leaping into the air, kicking at Zhou Yan’s chest with his feet and striking at his temples with his hands.
Behind Zhou Yan, a big man approached. The already burly man seemed to double in size as his muscles and bones resonated when he was about a zhang away. His fist power, originating from the left and directed to the right, flowed through his entire body, concentrating into a beam and striking at Zhou Yan’s “Dazhui” acupoint on the back of his neck.
Zhou Yan retreated rapidly, unleashing a “Shenlong Tail Whip” with his right hand.
With a loud “bang,” the burly man stumbled backward repeatedly. Zhou Yan, using the recoil force, suddenly floated forward, closing in on the man attacking with “Monkey Fist” using both hands and feet. The man’s technique missed, and as he was extending his monkey fist stance, Zhou Yan struck his “Shanzhong” acupoint on the chest with “Heart Crushing Palm,” sending him flying back.
With a “squeak,” the man curled up and was then violently kicked by Zhou Yan’s knee, flipping him over and sending him flying several zhang.
“Let’s go together and kill him.” The two men had only blocked for a few breaths. “Asura Blade,” who had caught up, shouted at the other seven or eight people, his blade descending like streaks of light with his stride.
Zhou Yan turned, stepped back, and the tip of the blade slashed down past his chest. He grabbed the back of the blade with his right thumb and index finger and pulled, while his left hand grabbed “Asura Blade’s” wrist. With a pull and a twist, “Asura Blade” spun halfway around and fell into Zhou Yan’s embrace. The longsword he had snatched was then smoothly drawn across the opponent’s throat.
“Zhou the villain.” Gongsun Li, whose chest was fractured, rushed forward with disheveled hair, swinging his precious saber furiously. Zhou Yan raised his saber and swung it upwards, and with a “snap,” the longsword was split, and half of the blade flew off.
Gongsun Li was overjoyed and was about to twist his wrist to slash Zhou Yan’s abdomen with the saber, but Zhou Yan stepped forward, grabbed the broken blade with his left hand, and fiercely thrust it down.
“Father!”
“Be careful, Mr. Gongsun.” Gongsun Zhi, several zhang away, looked ferocious. Ouyang Ke, who had rushed forward first, shouted a warning. Gongsun Li dodged to the side with all his might, and with a *thud*, the broken blade pierced the old Valley Master’s shoulder.
Zhou Yan took a step forward and swung the broken saber in his right hand at Ouyang Ke like thunder.
The moment Ouyang Ke unfurled his iron bones fan, it was split by the half-broken saber.
“Your fan is no good,” Zhou Yan said with a smile.
The Young Master of White Camel Mountain reacted quickly. He threw the iron bones fan forward, and while Zhou Yan dodged to the side, a punch imbued with masculine energy enveloped him.
Zhou Yan grunted. Ouyang Ke would have been better off using White Camel Mountain martial arts; at least he wouldn’t be familiar with them and could last a few dozen more moves. Using the “Great Demon Subduing Fist” from the Nine Yin Manual was asking for trouble.
Zhou Yan had not practiced this set of fist techniques, but he remembered the moves clearly. He threw the broken saber at Gongsun Zhi, and with a simple punch from his right hand, like iron cavalry charging, he directly broke through Ouyang Ke’s fist momentum.
Ouyang Ke’s face turned ashen with shock, and he retreated rapidly. However, his hurried steps could not evade Zhou Yan’s seemingly sparse and ordinary stroll. With a “bang,” his fist landed on his face.
An astonishing pain instantly exploded in his mind.
“Ah!” Ouyang Ke let out a scream.
“Ke’er!” Ouyang Feng’s furious roar exploded in his ears. Zhou Yan glanced into the distance; Ouyang Feng was approaching like a flying bolt of lightning, with Huang Yaoshi closely following behind Western Venom.
Qiu Qianren also abandoned Zhou Botong and followed Huang Yaoshi like a shadow. The Old Urchin shouted and chased after them.
He turned and ran wildly.
After a few steps, from further away, a roar came like a thunderbolt.
“Zhou Yan, give up your life.”
“They came out so quickly,” Zhou Yan muttered to himself. He had never expected the crocodiles in Crocodile Pool to swallow Huo Gong Toutuo. After all, even the not-yet-fully-matured Yang Guo in the Divine Condor Jianghu could escape.
The cliff walls around the pool could be climbed, but at seven or eight zhang from the ground, the cliff became smooth as glass. He didn’t know how Huo Gong Toutuo got up. Perhaps Baoshu had brought a rope.
Thinking this, Zhou Yan used the “Golden Goose Skill” cultivation technique, his body suddenly soaring into the air. He dodged the swords and sabers in front of him and flew straight for three zhang. Upon landing, he let out a clear whistle, and in a moment, the sound had traveled over a li away.
Zhou Yan did not rendezvous with Yanbo Diaosou and the others but headed straight for the creek and river direction out of the valley. With Huo Gong Toutuo and Ouyang Feng’s lightness skills, they would surely catch up to the group. Using ropes to climb would take time, and once they were caught, the chance to escape that he had fought for with his injuries would be wasted for nothing.
Zhou Yan’s clear whistle carried far. Huang Rong, after briefly discerning the direction, said, “Head Escort Zhou wants to escape from the valley entrance. There are boats there, so don’t worry.”
Qiu Qianchi was relieved and said, “That’s right, don’t waste the opportunity Head Escort Zhou fought to gain.”
Hearing her words, Yanbo Diaosou, Liu Qingzhou, and Hundred Herbs Immortal felt at ease and no longer had any worries, rushing forward with all their might.
Huang Rong was in a good mood. At the time, she hadn’t clearly seen that Zhou Yan was rescuing Qiu Qianchi; it turned out to be an old acquaintance.
…
On the cliff where the rope was hanging, a figure in green lightly slid down. Just as they were about to move forward, they suddenly heard the voices of Huo Gong Toutuo and Zhou Yan. The green figure rejoiced, “Head Escort Zhou is here too.”
Li Mochou followed the route of Zhou Yan, Liu Qingzhou, and others to the cliff. She heard fighting from afar but was unable to descend the cliff. After searching around, she found a rope.
As a result, as soon as she landed in the valley, she heard Zhou Yan’s whistle. She used the Tomb Lightness Skill and flew diagonally towards the sound.
…
In less than the time it takes to eat a meal, Zhou Yan arrived at the valley. In his sight were seven or eight small boats. He leaped onto one, and in the darkness, a surprised voice called out.
“Head Escort Zhou.”
The moonlight was suddenly broken, and the woman who solidified in Zhou Yan’s vision had a graceful and elegant figure. She was not thin but appeared plump and healthy. Her face was flushed from running, rosy white, white tinged with red. Beneath her curved eyebrows were a pair of watery almond eyes.
“Miss Li!”
Zhou Yan was truly surprised.
“Master permitted me to descend the mountain, so I came to Zhongdu to play. Chief Escort Zhang said you went to Yueyang. Since I had nothing to do, I decided to travel south to see if I could meet you…”
“Little brat Zhou Yan, where do you think you’re going.”
Li Mochou tried to keep her words concise, but she was interrupted by Huo Gong Toutuo, who was approaching rapidly using the lightness skill “One Reed Crossing the River.”
“What is your cultivation level now?” Zhou Yan asked hurriedly.
“The cultivation technique Head Escort gave me has reached the fifth stage of completion.”
Zhou Yan was overjoyed, thinking that it must be the effect of the Cold Jade Bed, otherwise, the progress wouldn’t have been so rapid. With the Two Swords Combine, using the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Sword would be enough to deal with Huo Gong Toutuo.
