Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 290: Sacrifice of the Sword Master
Soon, Huang Sixi followed Xiao Jin to a farmyard at the east end of the village.

Xiao Jin shouted a few times, but no one in the yard answered.

He rushed into the house, but still didn't see his mother, Aunt Gong.

At this time, Huang Sixi, Yu Yue and Chu Chu had already entered the yard and were looking at the beautiful house.

Xiao Jin came over with a sad face and said, "Mom is not at home, and I don't know where she went!"

Huang Sixi pointed at the kitchen and said to him, "The smoke from your kitchen just died down a while ago. Lunch is ready. If you don't come home at lunchtime, your mother must have gone out to look for you."

Xiao Jin slapped his forehead immediately and said, "That's right! When I went out this morning, I told my mother that I was going to Tiedan's house in the west to fight Ququ. My mother must have gone to Tiedan's house. I'll go and call her back now!"

After he said that, he ran away.

When he ran out of the door, he stopped in his tracks and shouted to Huang Sixi through the fence, "Brother, uncle, sister, if you are hungry, you can eat first. My mother is a great cook."

Huang Sixi waved at him and told him to go and call for help.

Only then did he run away in a hurry.

Chu Chu looked at his back and shook her head slightly: "Xiao Jin is really disobedient. He actually lied to his mother and secretly went into the mountains to hunt. If his mother knew, she would be very worried!"

Chuchu was a soft-hearted person and sympathized with Aunt Gong's hardship in raising Xiaojin alone and worrying about Xiaojin all the time. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart that being a mother was really not easy.

Soon, Xiao Jin returned home with Aunt Gong.

Aunt Gong is a middle-aged peasant woman wearing coarse cloth and a very simple dress. Perhaps because she has been doing farm work all the year round, her face is slightly tanned, but her facial features are quite delicate, and she must have been quite pretty when she was young.

Her eyes were slightly red, obviously she had just cried.

When she entered the yard and saw the wolf's corpse on the ground, the tears that had stopped flowing began to flow again.

She also knew that there were distinguished guests at home, so she quickly wiped away her tears, walked up to Huang Sixi, Yu Yue, and Chu Chu, and was about to kneel down to pay her respects, but Chu Chu held her back first.

Chuchu smiled and told her that Huang Sixi and the other two would be staying here for some time and would inevitably bother her in the future, so she should not be polite.

She immediately said that it would be no problem no matter how long the three of them stayed at home, and then invited the three of them to sit in the main hall, and she went to the kitchen to prepare the meal.

After lunch, Huang Sixi asked Aunt Gong about the long sword used by Xiao Jin.

When Aunt Gong heard Huang Sixi asking about the sword, she felt sad, as if she had something to hide. She only said, "This sword was given to me by an old friend more than 20 years ago!"

I don't want to mention anything else.

Huang Sixi saw that she was unwilling to reveal the truth, so he did not ask any further questions.

Afterwards, Huang Sixi, Yu Yue and Chu Chu stayed in the farmyard. They planned to find a suitable place to live in seclusion in the mountains, and move out of the farmyard after building their residence.

When Xiao Jin heard that the three men wanted to stay with him for a long time, he begged them to teach him martial arts.

Yu Yue had nothing to do, so he agreed to teach Xiao Jin some basic Kung Fu. There happened to be a threshing ground to the east of the yard, which was currently idle and unmanned, and the site was wide, so there was no need to worry about affecting the villagers.

As it was approaching the beginning of winter, every household was preparing rice cakes, and Aunt Gong was no exception. Chu Chu was much more interested in cooking than practicing martial arts, so she stayed with Aunt Gong to help make cakes.

Huang Sixi was going to settle the Fire Qilin and Roaring Sky Dog, so he left the village after lunch.

He met up with the Fire Qilin on the mountain behind the village.

The two beasts had already found a cave on the mountainside, so Huang Sixi didn't have to bother looking for a place for them to live.

Huang Sixi was not in a hurry to return to the farm. He found an open space outside the cave, took out the two relics seized at the dock, and read them with relish.

The first relic is the Xiaolongquan of the God Catcher.

This magical dagger contains the lifelong martial arts of the God Catcher. His internal strength cannot be said to be outstanding, but his magical skill of "Soul Locking Ring" is unique. The family sword technique "Severing Emotions and Loyalty" can further enhance the power of Huang Sixi's "Flying Fairy from the Sky".

Back in the Tianlong martial arts world, Huang Sixi had integrated the "White Rainbow Palm" into the "Flying Fairy from the Sky", and in one fell swoop mastered the flying sword skill. Within a space of three meters outside his body, the flying sword could turn at will, hit whatever it pointed at, and fly back to his hand instantly.

Ever since he cultivated the innate true qi, the distance of his flying sword has doubled, but he has never been able to emit sword energy through the flying sword.

After he finished reading the God Catching Sword Technique 'Severing Emotions and Loyalties', he raised his hand and threw out the Little Dragon Spring, which began to fly around his body.

With his body as the center, within a radius of sixty or seventy feet, Xiao Longquan can turn at will and be steadily controlled by him to fly. If it goes farther, it will be out of the reach of his palm and cannot be brought back.

However, the true energy infused into Xiaolongquan can be exhaled, condensed into sword energy, and then splashed outwards with the dagger as the center, like flowers scattered by fairies.

Although his control over Xiaolongquan was only about sixty or seventy feet, his sword energy could cut at a greater distance. If he used the sword energy to launch a sneak attack, it would definitely catch the enemy off guard.

At first, when Huang Sixi performed the "Fairy from the Sky", he had always treated it as a hidden weapon. Now he put all his strength into launching the Xiaolongquan in a straight line, which could hit at least fifty feet away. Since all his true energy was used to support the throwing of the Xiaolongquan, he naturally could not release the sword energy.

Therefore, his "Flying Fairy from the Sky" can be thrown like a javelin from a distance, and can be driven like a flying sword at close range. These two attacking moves, one long and one short, are enough to ensure that he can deal a fatal blow to the enemies within a few dozen feet away from him.

After he had mastered the sword energy of 'Flying Fairy from the Sky', he carefully looked at Xiao Longquan again and thought: "Xiao Longquan is also a magical weapon in the world of martial arts, but it is not one of the 'Nine Magical Weapons' that can be used to cultivate a clear sword heart."

That day outside Lingyun Cave, he killed Jian Pin and seized the Flying Dragon Sword that Jian Pin was wearing, which revealed the sword text of "Sword Heart Clear". So far, he has only found three magic weapons, the Flying Dragon Sword, the Snow Drinking Knife, and the Wushuang Sword. The whereabouts of the remaining magic weapons are still waiting for Huang Sixi to slowly investigate.

Huang Sixi thought again: "There is a sword pond in the Tianxiahui headquarters, which contains weapons from famous masters that Xiongba has looted from all over the place. Maybe I can find the magic weapon I want in the pond!"

Thinking of this, Huang Sixi took back the Xiaolongquan and took out a folding fan from his waist.

This fan is a relic that Huang Sixi found from Qin Shuang's body.

He unfolded the fan and saw that it contained Qin Shuang's internal energy and the boxing manual of "Heavenly Fist".

Qin Shuang's "Sky Frost Fist" was taught by Xiongba, but Xiongba had no trust in his disciples. Any superior martial arts taught to his disciples, Xiongba retained the most essential skills.

So Qin Shuang did not learn the complete "Sky Frost Fist".

This style of boxing originally had ten moves, but Qin Shuang only learned the first eight. The last two moves, 'Frost and Snow Iceberg' and 'Proud of Snow and Frost' were concealed by Xiong Ba and not taught to him.

Naturally, Qin Shuang's folding fan did not have the key points of the last two boxing moves.

However, Huang Sixi did not feel any regrets.

Because the power of the complete "Sky Frost Fist" is not much stronger than the Nie family's "Six Cold Secrets", the two martial arts are at the same level, and both are weaker than "Tathagata Palm".

It can also be said that Huang Sixi does not take "Heavenly Fist" seriously.

He only valued Qin Shuang's internal skills, and this skill was exactly the Frost Qi in "Three-Part Return to Origin Qi".

Xiongba divided the "Three-part Return to Origin Qi" into three parts, and taught them to Qin Shuang, Bu Jingyun and Nie Feng respectively. He also passed down the "Heavenly Frost Fist", "Paiyun Palm" and "God Wind Leg" based on the three internal forces. In order to firmly crush the three disciples, Xiongba did not teach them all, and kept the unique skills of "Heavenly Frost Fist", "Paiyun Palm" and "God Wind Leg" instead of teaching them all.

However, Xiongba taught all the internal skills for practicing these three superior martial arts in full. He was not worried at all that the three disciples might exchange their internal skills for study, because "Three-Part Return to Origin Qi" had another general outline that could complement each other and merge the three internal forces of different natures into one, ultimately reaching the state of endless and inexhaustible perfection.

Without this general outline, even if someone has gathered the three sets of internal skills, they will never be able to practice "Three-Point Return to Origin Qi".

Huang Sixi knew that the overall outline was only in the hands of Xiongba, but he still decided to practice the frost internal energy on the folding fan.

Ever since he inherited the Buddhist inner power from Shi Wu Zun, he has made some achievements in infusing internal energy, but his self-cultivated internal energy is very shallow. "Three-Point Return to Origin Qi" is a superior internal martial art that he had long planned to practice. Although he has only obtained one third of it now, he is unwilling to miss it.

After practicing like this for an hour, Chuchu came up the mountain carrying a lunch box.

When Huang Sixi heard her cry, he sent Roaring Sky Dog to lead her.

She didn't know that Huang Sixi was practicing martial arts, and thought that Huang Sixi was taking care of the residence for Fire Qilin and Roaring Sky Dog.

She was worried that Huang Sixi was hungry, so she brought over the freshly made rice cakes.

Huang Sixi tasted a few bites and thought it tasted good, so he asked her, "Is this Aunt Gong's cooking?"

Chu Chu didn't answer, she just smiled and said, "Brother, do you think it tastes good?"

Huang Sixi nodded: "It suits my taste!"

"Then eat more. This is all made by me. I didn't ask Aunt Gong for help!" Chuchu had already made up her mind before she came. If Huang Sixi thought the food was unpalatable, she would say it was made by Aunt Gong. If Huang Sixi thought it was delicious, she would admit that it was her own cooking.

"I didn't expect that you are so young, but you are so good at making dim sum!" Huang Sixi immediately praised her.

"I actually learned it through practice!" Chuchu sat next to Huang Sixi, took out a teapot from the lunch box, poured tea for Huang Sixi, and said:

"My mother passed away early, so I started cooking when I was young. I also like to cook. Whenever other people cook something delicious during festivals, I must learn to cook it, and it tastes better than what others cook!"

Huang Sixi teased her: "Is it true?"

She immediately made a face at Huang Sixi: "Brother, please don't disbelieve me!"

It is absolutely true that she has cooking skills, and she has always been confident in her cooking skills. However, when she was in front of Huang Sixi, she suddenly became anxious and worried, always afraid that Huang Sixi would not like what she cooked.

She wanted to prove her ability: "Take rice cakes for example. I can make rice cakes, fish cakes, milk cakes, and I am proficient in boiling, frying, and deep-frying. It's just that Aunt Gong's family doesn't have all the ingredients, so I can't make any fancy dishes! But when we have a place to live in the mountains, I will go to the market in the town outside the mountains to buy them and make all these rice cakes. Then you will believe in my skills!"

Huang Sixi smiled and said, "Okay, let's go into the mountains and find a suitable place to live."

Chu Chu was even happier, and she and Huang Sixi rode on the Fire Unicorn to go into the mountains for sightseeing.

It was not until after dusk, when it was getting dark, that the two returned from the mountains.

They planned to send the Fire Qilin and Roaring Sky Dog back to the cave first.

Unexpectedly, when they reached halfway up the mountain, they looked down at the village below and suddenly found a ball of fire shining on the threshing ground east of the village.

The fire was not caused by someone lighting a fire, but by Yu Yue using his Qilin Arm. It seemed like he had met some uninvited guest, so a fight broke out.

Chu Chu asked suspiciously, "Dad has been teaching Xiao Jin martial arts this afternoon. Could it be that there are villagers in the village who know martial arts and came to the threshing ground to spar with Dad?"

Huang Sixi, however, felt that the fight in the threshing ground was not a competition.

In a desolate mountain village like this, even if the villagers knew some basic kung fu, they could not force Yu Yueyun to use the Qilin Arm.

What's more, Yu Yue was retreating step by step on the threshing ground, and it seemed that he was just defending in a desperate manner without any strength to fight back.

Yu Yue's opponent's military force is very powerful.

"Let's go down the mountain!"

Huang Sixi suspected that some expert had tracked them down into the village, so he took the Fire Qilin and Roaring Sky Dog and rushed to the threshing ground together.

It was already dark at this moment. As long as the Fire Kirin was not burning with flames all over its body, the villagers would not be able to see its full appearance and it would not cause panic.

Huang Sixi and Chuchu had just arrived at the threshing ground when they saw Yu Yue fall to the ground. Xiao Jin screamed, "Uncle!"

He stepped forward to help Yu Yue up, then looked at the burly old man with white hair and beard not far away, and cried, "Uncle didn't provoke you, why did you hurt uncle? Why did you grab my mother, let my mother go!"

The white-haired old man had a face like a sculpture, without a trace of emotion, like a walking corpse without any emotions.

He ignored Xiao Jin's questioning, turned his head to look at Aunt Gong, whose wrist he was holding, and asked woodenly, "Gong Lan, isn't that man your husband?"

Aunt Gong shook her head bitterly: "My husband has been dead for several years. He is just a guest staying overnight!"

The white-haired old man said in a cold tone: "No matter who he is, since he lives in your house, he must die!"

"Ah! He saved Jin'er's life and is my family's benefactor. You can't kill him!" Aunt Gong suddenly became excited:
"Master, more than 20 years ago, you drove me out of Wushuang City and sent me to this mountain village, forcing me to marry. I did not resist and let it go. Aren't you satisfied? You are a world-famous swordsman, why do you have to embarrass a weak and insignificant woman like me!"

Yu Yue was extremely surprised to hear the word "Sword Saint". He had talked about the Sword Saint with Huang Sixi during the day, but he never expected that the Sword Saint would come to such a small mountain village in person.

Huang Sixi was originally going to rush to the white-haired old man to rescue Aunt Gong, but suddenly stopped where he was.

After listening to Aunt Gong's complaint, the Sword Saint said calmly, "Your grandfather Gong Ping taught me the sword. Before he died, he asked me to take care of you. But in order to climb to the top of the sword path, I gave you to someone else. I still regret it today."

Aunt Gong smiled bitterly, "You started learning swordsmanship at the age of five, and you were already better than your master at the age of nine. My grandfather said that you understood the true essence of swordsmanship when you were thirteen and had the power to defeat him. Your talent is rare in a century, so he can't teach you at all, so there is naturally no grace to pass on the sword skills. I am even less worthy of you to take care of me. As long as you are more tolerant and let me live and die peacefully in this mountain village for the rest of my life, I will be grateful!"

The Sword Master fell silent.

After a long while, he said his intention: "I have been in seclusion for ten years to practice swordsmanship. When I came out, my life span was over and my time was up. However, I still have three wishes that have not been fulfilled. I came to you this time to fulfill one of them."

Aunt Gong didn't understand: "Why do we have to fulfill our wish? It's nothing to take it with you to the grave after death!"

The Sword Master shook his head: "You don't understand! I have a life-and-death duel in a few days. I need to put aside all distractions and fulfill all wishes so that my swordsmanship will not leave any flaws and I can kill my opponent with my sword!"

Aunt Gong still looked confused: "We haven't seen each other for more than 20 years. I am of humble status. What qualifications do I have to be your unfulfilled wish?"

The Sword Master said to her word by word: "I must take back what I have thrown away. If I cannot take it back, I can only destroy it. Destroy it completely. Then I will have no regrets and no worries about death!"

Aunt Gong finally understood that the Sword Saint came here to kill her and use her as a sacrifice to the sword. She couldn't help but show shock: "Dugu Jian, you are so cruel!"

The Sword Master said casually: "My whole life is all about swordsmanship! It doesn't matter how you look at me!"

After saying that, he put two fingers together and was about to scratch Aunt Gong's neck.

(End of this chapter)