Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 238: Flying Sword Skills
Before Sikong Xuan was knocked unconscious by the acupuncture, he heard Huang Sixi mention the life and death talisman.

He guessed that Huang Sixi had a close relationship with Lingjiu Palace, so he kowtowed to Huang Sixi and said, "I beg you to have mercy on me and help me break the curse of the life and death talisman. I will never forget your kindness!"

Huang Sixi had inherited the method of life and death talisman from the Xiaoyao mural, so it was easy for him to decipher the talisman.

But Huang Sixi did not agree to help: "Whoever planted the talisman for you, go find someone to untie it. I can't do it!"

Sikong Xuan looked miserable and he didn't dare to beg any further.

But he turned to the next best thing: "Master, is that young lady the Holy Envoy of the Lingjiu Palace? I have offended her, so I am afraid that I will not be able to get the antidote for the Life and Death Talisman this year. Please ask the master to speak up for the young lady and don't cut off my supply of the antidote."

If he couldn't get the antidote this year, he would rather jump off a cliff and commit suicide than endure the pain and itching like being bitten by thousands of ants when the life and death talisman took effect. However, he poisoned the women and no matter what the outcome was, it was all his own fault.

Huang Sixi told him in advance: "Soon, the Lingjiu Palace will summon the thirty-six cave masters and seventy-two island masters to do a confidential task for Tong Lao. This task will take several years to complete. During this period, you can get the anti-itch pills."

He just finished speaking.

Suddenly, a sharp whistle was heard from the northwest. The whistle sound was spreading from the clouds more than ten miles away, and it kept ringing.

Sikong Xuan turned his head and looked into the distance, saying to himself: "That is the summoning arrow from Lingjiu Palace. The Holy Envoy is nearby. I must go to see him immediately. I have to go! I thank you for your guidance!"

He kowtowed to Huang Sixi, and then bowed to Zhong Ling: "I'm sorry for offending you earlier, young lady. I hope you'll forgive me and don't blame me for my offense!"

Zhong Ling was extremely surprised. Sikong Xuan was so fierce and cruel when he caught her, but now he was like a stray dog. She felt both respect and fear for him.

Zhong Ling couldn't help but look at Huang Sixi, thinking that this big brother was really powerful, and he actually scared Sikong Xuan out of his wits.

Sikong Xuan was anxious to see the Holy Envoy of Lingjiu Palace and did not dare to stay for long. He immediately led more than 20 members of the Shennong Gang and rushed to the source of the whistle.

Wait until the group disappears outside the valley.

Huang Sixi also turned his gaze and saw Zhong Ling standing beside him, looking at the lightning marten on his shoulder.

But no matter how Zhong Ling indicated or gestured, the lightning marten never responded. Although the lightning marten would occasionally raise its head and look at Zhong Ling with a familiar look, it was no longer willing to obey Zhong Ling's orders.

At first, Zhong Ling thought that the electric marten had been acupunctured.

Huang Sixi and Sikong Xuan were talking just now, and Zhong Ling didn't dare to say anything.

Seeing Huang Sixi looking over at her, Zhong Ling smiled and asked politely, "Big brother, this mink is my pet. I have been raising it since it was born. I have been raising it for four years. Big brother, can you return it to me?"

Huang Sixi glanced at her and shook his shoulders: "You raised it? Then take it away and see if it follows you!"

"Thank you, brother!"

Zhong Ling was full of joy. She held up the marten with both hands and did not forget to show off to Huang Sixi: "The marten is so obedient and loyal. He only listens to me. My parents can't control him. I tell him to go east but he won't go west. I tell him to bite dogs but he won't bite chickens..."

Before she finished her words, the lightning marten jumped out of her hand with a "whoosh!" and landed on Huang Sixi's shoulder again.

She couldn't help but be stunned and reached out to hug it again. The originally peaceful electric marten suddenly showed hostility, staring at her with fierce eyes, and opened its marten mouth, revealing two rows of thin sharp teeth, as if it was about to bite.

The lightning marten is known for its blazing speed. If it really wanted to attack Zhong Ling, Zhong Ling's body would be covered with teeth marks by now.

It obviously understood that Zhong Ling was its former owner, so it held back and merely made a biting gesture without launching an actual attack.

Zhong Ling was frightened by its gesture and quickly retracted her hand, crying: "Diao'er, I am your elder sister, don't you recognize your elder sister? Why are you biting your elder sister too?"

She called out a few times, trying to reminisce about the past with the Lightning Marten.

But the marten turned a deaf ear to it and deliberately approached Huang Sixi's neck, rubbing against him affectionately to show Zhong Ling that it had found a new master.

Zhong Ling couldn't believe her eyes. She looked at the lightning marten, then at Huang Sixi, and felt a sense of frustration as if she had been dumped.

Instead of comforting her, Huang Sixi teased her, "You don't seem to be familiar with this Diao'er. Don't call yourself its sister anymore, and don't think about it anymore!"

Zhong Ling was only sixteen or seventeen years old. She couldn't stand the grievance in her heart. She suddenly squatted on the ground and sobbed: "Diao'er doesn't want me anymore. I have raised it for so long, and it wants to abandon me. I...I..."

She grumbled and cried for a while, thinking to herself: "Why should I be sad for a beast? It doesn't want me, and I don't want it either, so why should I cry! Besides, this big brother saved my life, so even if I give it to him, it's only right!"

She quickly wiped away her tears and regained her lively spirit: "Big brother, I don't even know your last name?"

Huang Sixi saw that she looked cheerful and thought that this girl had a cheerful temper and did not hide anything, so he introduced his identity to her and handed her the antidote for the "Seven Days Heartbreak Powder".

After taking the antidote, she smiled and asked, "Brother Huang, you and Brother Duan must be good friends, right?"

"You are wrong. Duan Yu and I don't know each other."

"You don't know him? How is that possible? You don't know Brother Duan, so why did you come to save my little sister?"

Zhong Ling was very confused: "Brother Huang, are you a good friend of our Wanjie Valley? But I have never seen you before. Are you friends with my father and mother?"

Huang Sixi asked, "Do you remember the short woman who was walking with me just now?"

Zhong Ling nodded: "Although that young lady is short, she is not short-looking. She is very good at martial arts, much more powerful than my father and mother!"

She recalled how Tong Lao could knock Sikong Xuan immobile with just one palm strike from mid-air, and subdue all the members of Shennong Gang with just a casual swing of her hand. Her movements were like those of a ghost, which made her marvel and admire her immensely.

Huang Sixi couldn't help laughing when she heard her call Tong Lao "little sister". "A few days ago, Duan Yu took away something from this little sister's sect. I came to you and Duan Yu to take it back!"

Zhong Ling exclaimed: "Did Brother Duan steal something? He looks elegant and refined, and doesn't look like a thief!"

Huang Sixi said, "He didn't steal! The place he went to was a ruin. It was originally uninhabited. There was nothing wrong with him taking things from the ruins. But this thing is related to the sect of that young lady after all. I want to find him and take it back!"

Zhong Ling sighed: "Brother Duan went to our Wanjie Valley. He left six days ago. I don't know when he will come back."

She paused for a moment, and then explained to Huang Sixi: "I have only known Brother Duan for six days, so we are not familiar with each other. That day I was watching the Wuliang Sword disciples fighting in Jianhu Palace, and Brother Duan was there. He laughed at the Wuliang Sword disciple Gong Guangjie who fell down and was beaten up by Wuliang Sword's head Zuo Zimu. I saw that he didn't know martial arts, and I was afraid that he would be beaten to death, so I released Diao Er to save his life..."

Having said that, she turned her head and looked at the lightning marten, still feeling reluctant, and sighed secretly.

She continued, "I led him to escape Jianhu Palace, and it happened that the Shennong Gang came to seek revenge on Wuliang Sword. This was a vendetta between martial arts sects, and I didn't want to intervene, but he insisted on meddling in other people's business and came to the leader of the Shennong Gang, Sikong Xuan, to negotiate. Sikong Xuan believed that he was a spy of Wuliang Sword and wanted to kill him. I had no choice but to release Diao Er to save her life again, but I failed to defeat Sikong Xuan, and both he and I were captured."

Huang Sixi knew what had happened, but did not stop her from repeating it.

After she finished, Huang Sixi said to her: "After you and Duan Yu were captured, you asked Duan Yu to go to Wanjie Valley to get the antidote for the mink poison. Even if Duan Yu couldn't get it, he would come back. Tomorrow is the seven-day deadline. Let's wait here and we will definitely wait for him tomorrow!" Zhong Ling said: "I hope so."

After saying that, he secretly glanced at Huang Sixi and thought to himself, "Brother Huang is less bookish than Brother Duan, but he is more heroic and steady. I was worried and frightened when I was with Brother Duan a few days ago. Now I am sitting with Brother Huang, even if the sky falls, I don't feel worried at all."

She touched her belly and asked Huang Sixi, "Brother Huang, are you hungry? I haven't eaten for half a day, and my stomach is empty. I want to go hunt some game."

Huang Sixi said, "Whatever you want."

Zhong Ling was very happy: "Brother Huang, wait a minute. I am the best at barbecue. I will cook delicious food for you later."

Then he turned around and went hunting.

After she left, Huang Sixi took out a dagger from his waist, held it in his hand, and became thoughtful.

That day at Lingjiu Palace on Piaomiao Peak, Huang Sixi observed the Xiaoyao murals and inherited more than ten martial arts of the Xiaoyao School.

These murals may not have been carved by one person. He only learned the martial arts skills but did not gain any internal energy. However, he did not gain nothing.

There is a superior martial art on the Xiaoyao mural, called "White Rainbow Palm Technique". When the power of this palm is trained to the extreme, it can bend or straighten as desired, and can bend and change in any way.

Huang Sixi stretched out his left palm, channeled his internal force into his palm, and with a "whoosh!", he struck out into the air. After the palm force was released, it was originally sliding in the air in a straight line.

He swung his right palm again, and the palm force instantly turned, forming a crescent arc about ten feet away, and finally hit a big rock beside him, leaving a palm mark.

The so-called "curved and straight as desired" means that after the palm force is released, it bends and rotates in the air, moving around unpredictably and making it impossible for the enemy to defend against it.

In the martial arts world, all the superior palm techniques, finger techniques, and leg techniques, even if they are practiced to perfection and can allow the palm force, finger force, and leg force to be emitted from the body, are all straight in direction. Any strength and energy can only rush straight forward.

Only the "White Rainbow Palm Technique" of the Xiaoyao Sect takes a different approach, allowing the internal force to change direction after being released externally.

The Child-like Grandma of Tianshan studied the free and easy murals for many years, but she still failed to master the "White Rainbow Palm Technique".

Li Qiushui was the only one in the Xiaoyao Sect who had mastered this palm technique.

After inheriting the "White Rainbow Palm Technique" at Lingjiu Palace that day, Huang Sixi had a strong idea in his mind. He planned to integrate the "White Rainbow Palm Technique" into his unique skill "Flying Fairy from the Sky".

He had been traveling with Tong Lao these past few days, and had been trying to comprehend the general outlines of the "Eternal Youth Kung Fu" given to him by Tong Lao. He also didn't want Tong Lao to know that he was learning his own new martial arts, so he didn't delve into studying the White Rainbow Palm.

At this time, Tong Lao had already gone far away, so Huang Sixi took out the dagger, poured the Baihong palm power into the sword, swung his arm violently, and the dagger flew out with a whistling sound.

When it moved forward more than ten feet, the dagger suddenly turned and drew a circle in the air. With a "whoosh" sound, the dagger flew back to Huang Sixi's hand.

Huang Sixi could not hide his joy, and said with a smile: "When I created 'Flying Fairy from the Sky', I had hoped that when my internal strength deepened in the future, I should be able to control the dagger to turn in mid-air and make it fly. After so many years, I finally got my wish and mastered the flying sword skill!"

However, although his flying sword could fly more than ten feet away and then turn and fly back, if it hit the enemy on the way or was intercepted by the enemy, he could not retract the flying sword.

Huang Sixi thought, "My White Rainbow Palm Power can only control the flying sword to bend, turn, and turn, but it cannot be used and retrieved immediately. Why don't I add a grappling palm technique to 'Flying Fairy from the Sky'? I should be able to retrieve the flying sword at any time."

Coincidentally, there is a magical palm-like grappling technique called "Tianshan Zhemei Hand" in the Xiaoyao murals. The grappling power of Zhemei Hand is no less than that of the Shaolin Temple's "Dragon Capturing Technique".

After pondering this point, Huang Sixi continued to verify his "New Fairy from the Sky".

He used his left palm to perform the Broken Plum Hand and his right palm to perform the White Rainbow Palm, and sent the flying sword out again.

He moved the sword with his right palm, and when the sword flew forward to a distance of three meters, he grabbed the empty space with his left palm, and the flying sword instantly retracted and was firmly captured by his left palm.

He confirmed it over ten times and found that with his body as the center, within a space of three meters in radius, the flying sword could move freely, hit whatever it pointed at, and fly back to his palm in an instant.

But if the flying sword exceeds three meters, the grappling power of his Zhemei hand will no longer work.

With Huang Sixi's current level of internal strength, after releasing his palm force, it is still powerful even if it reaches three meters away, but it will not be effective further away.

From now on, when Huang Sixi uses the 'New Fairy from the Sky', a three-meter range will be his safe zone. Once the flying sword and flying knife are launched, they can be released and collected at will.

He loved the moves of 'New Fairy from the Sky' so much that he controlled the flying sword and used it repeatedly outside his body.

When Zhong Ling came back with a skinned roe deer, she looked towards Huang Sixi and was immediately shocked to find a dagger circling around Huang Sixi.

The short sword was two or three feet away from Huang Sixi's body, but it was like Huang Sixi's arm. Whenever Huang Sixi's palm force was applied, the flying sword would turn at the same time.

Zhong Ling blurted out, "Brother Huang, can you use magic?"

Huang Sixi saw her coming back, and with five fingers, he grabbed the flying sword in his palm and put it into the sword bag on his waist. Then he said to her: "I didn't use magic, but this martial arts move has the word 'immortal' in it!"

Zhong Ling trotted along and approached and asked, "What is that called a fairy?"

Huang Sixi pointed at the roe deer in her hand and said, "BBQ it first, then I'll tell you!"

Zhong Ling laughed and said, "I'll do it right away!"

Although she was young, she was extremely efficient. She quickly lit a fire and started cooking her delicious food.

She stayed with Huang Sixi all day and lived in the valley at night.

Unexpectedly, when the next day came, she accompanied Huang Sixi and waited until dusk, but Duan Yu never returned.

She said in distress, "Brother Huang, Brother Duan may have met with an accident and can't come back! There is a rule at the entrance of our Wanjie Valley, 'Anyone with the surname Duan who enters this valley will be killed without mercy.' My father hates the Duan family deeply, and Brother Duan has a stubborn temper. I have warned him not to reveal his surname, but he may insist on reporting his name to show his scholarly character. Alas!"

In the original novel of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, after Duan Yu arrived at Wanjie Valley, he did admit in front of the valley master Zhong Wanchou that his surname was Duan.

Huang Sixi waved his sleeves to put out the nearby fire, then signaled Zhong Ling: "Duan Yu may be imprisoned in Wanjie Valley, but he may have met with something unexpected nearby. Let's split up into two groups. You return to Wanjie Valley now. If you meet Duan Yu, give him the antidote for 'Seven Days Heartbroken Powder'! I will search for his traces nearby!"

Zhong Ling asked, "Brother Huang, are you going to say goodbye to me?"

Huang Sixi said: "You go back to Wanjie Valley first. When I finish this matter, I will go to Wanjie Valley to see you!"

Zhong Ling was overjoyed: "Then... then Brother Huang can't break his promise!"

(End of this chapter)