Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 337 Heavenly Sword
Huang Sixi killed Chang Shumou with one sword, and then fell back and stepped on a log.

The little dragon was lurking beside the log, growling at him.

Just now, the little dragon received instructions from Huang Sixi and launched a surprise attack on Chang Shumou, causing Chang Shumou to be poisoned and dizzy, and losing the ability to dodge and respond. Only then was Huang Sixi able to hit him in the vitals with one blow.

The Little Dragon must have been the main reason why he was able to kill Chang Shumou so cleanly and efficiently. However, as a surprise attack, the Little Dragon could only launch a sneak attack on a master like Chang Shumou.

Qu Ao's internal strength is too profound, and his mental perception has reached a subtle level. No matter how the little dragon attacks, it is difficult for it to hurt Qu Ao with its poison attacks. Instead, there is a great possibility that Qu Ao will capture him on the spot.

In order to prevent the little dragon from never coming back, Huang Sixi will not let the little dragon participate in the auxiliary battle during the battle with Qu Ao.

At this time, the warships of the Jianghuai Navy had returned to the shore dock, and the Sui army's five-tooth warships were also retreating away.

The river center, which was originally filled with ships, soon became empty, leaving only the two lonely figures of Huang Sixi and Qu Ao.

The two men were standing on logs and broken boards, among dense floating objects within a radius of several miles, and were carried away by the surging river, drifting towards the east.

Qu Ao stared at the corpse of Chang Shumou floating at Huang Sixi's feet, and thought of his own son Ren Shaoming, his second disciple Hua Lingzi and his third disciple Geng Ge Huer, all of whom died at the hands of Huang Sixi.

This was tantamount to the annihilation of the entire clan and sect, which filled Qu Ao's heart with hatred and boosted his fighting spirit.

He suddenly shouted, leaped into the sky, and took the lead in attacking Huang Sixi.

He condensed his palms into claws and pushed them forward. The energy from his claws rolled up the surface of the river, raising waves several feet high that pressed down on Huang Sixi layer by layer.

The place where he was standing was originally more than ten feet away from Huang Sixi, but his internal strength was profound, and he pushed the waves forward without any effort.

The process of his life-long cultivation can be summarized by the three words "seven, eight, nine", namely the three innate qigong he created, "Seven Turns of Wild Waves", "Eight Folds of Violent Tides" and "Nine Changes of Condensing Truth".

This also represents the three stages of his achievements in martial arts.

An ordinary martial artist only needs to use the true Qi to clear all the blockages in the meridians in the body, complete the circulation of internal breath, and reach the point where he can control his Qi and send and receive strength from his heart, then he can become a congenital master.

If you want to continue to enhance your martial arts skills, you must practice the acupoints in your body which are the hubs of your meridians. If you can use the acupoints as the source of controlling the transmission of true qi, allowing the true qi to be supplied to the body inexhaustibly, then you will reach the level of a first-class master.

Qu Ao is a martial arts genius. At the age of 23, he mastered seven acupoints and created the "Seven Turns of Wild Waves". Later, he practiced one more acupoint and created the "Eighty Folds of Violent Tide".

By the time he reached the age of forty, all the acupoints in his body had been trained and he could stimulate true Qi in any acupoint at will. By that time, the concentration of his true Qi was already the highest among all the countries in the Western Regions.

Later he created a set of Qigong called "Nine Changes of Condensation of Truth". The "nine" here does not refer to nine acupoints, but means endless.

At this point, his martial arts skills had reached the level of a master, so he left Tiele and headed for the northern grasslands to challenge the Turkic martial arts master Bi Xuan. Unfortunately, Bi Xuan's qigong 'Yan Yang Da Fa' was better, and he was defeated regretfully.

He had been fighting outside the domain for sixty years and had only been defeated once by Bi Xuan. Even after being defeated, he still retreated calmly.

This time, when facing Huang Sixi, after a series of exchanges, Qu Ao believed that he had already figured out the depth of Huang Sixi's martial arts skills. Huang Sixi had excellent qigong, and his internal strength was even stronger than Bi Xuan's.

But Qu Ao also clearly realized that Huang Sixi was not good at practicing the secret spiritual techniques and was unable to inflict a strong mental shock on him.

Even if he is defeated in martial arts, he can still escape unscathed by relying on his advantage in spiritual realm.

It is precisely because of this assessment of Huang Sixi's cultivation that Qu Ao became proactive and bold in his attacks.

He used all his strength, pushing up waves several feet high and crushing towards Huang Sixi.

Huang Sixi had already used his spiral energy to erect a defensive column of air outside his body.

The waves rushed in like a tsunami, hitting the air column. The two powerful forces collided with each other, making a rumbling sound that sounded like a thunderstorm.

Huang Sixi was concentrating on resisting the tsunami, but he saw several giant claws suddenly extending from both sides of the gas column. The claws were as dry as branches and did not look like human palms.

Huang Sixi knew that Qu Ao was using secret mental techniques while manipulating the waves, hoping to take advantage of a gap in his luck to launch a sneak attack.

But Huang Sixi was protected by the "Secret of Immortality" and his mind was extremely stable. With Qu Ao's spiritual realm, he could not be shaken at all.

The immortal energy in his body turned, and all the illusions disappeared, except for a palm still stretched out above the water column. This was Qu Ao's real attack.

The waves pushed up by Qu Ao were just a cover to create an opportunity to make a feint to the east and attack in the west.

Qu Ao flew in front of Huang Sixi's head, simplified things, and put all his strength into one claw, grabbing Huang Sixi.

This grab may not seem surprising, but the force is fierce and powerful. The five fingers each emit a strange power, which is unpredictable and difficult to defend against.

Huang Sixi felt the claw force coming down from the sky, but remained calm.

It was not until Qu Ao was several feet away from him that Huang Sixi suddenly used his palm, secretly performing the "Six Dragons Spinning", and fiercely rushed forward to slap Qu Ao's claws.

Qu Ao's expression obviously froze for a moment, because when his claws touched Huang Sixi, the claw force was suddenly lost in an instant, and no one knew where it flowed to.

"What a weird palm technique!"

He couldn't help but think of Bian Bufu and Wen Caiting's terrified shouts of "Heavenly Demonic Technique" just now, and guessed that Huang Sixi's internal strength contained the key to absorbing the Heavenly Demonic Technique.

He changed his tactics decisively, and his claws grabbed the Jingji Knife at a speed so fast that it was difficult to see with the naked eye.

Huang Sixi did not dodge or evade, allowing him to take the knife.

There was a sound like a firecracker, and the moment the blade and claws touched, a spiral of true energy instantly poured into Qu Ao's body.

Qu Ao suddenly felt an extremely cold air current rushing into his meridians, and his whole body stagnates, and the true energy in his body seems to be frozen.

He was slightly stunned, his claws quickly broke away from the Jingji Sword, and he jumped quickly and retreated into the air.

He had fought with Huang Sixi before and was invaded by spiral energy many times. Since Huang Sixi's spiritual realm was weaker than his, he only needed to circulate his true energy gently to easily dispel the spiral energy invading his body.

But this time the spiral energy is obviously different in power.

Huang Sixi used the last move of the Jingji Sword Technique, 'Lengmei Leng'. This sword move originally contained the spiritual power of freezing the meridians.

Back then in the Iron Cavalry Gathering Hall, Huang Sixi had used this move to subdue Ren Shaoming and block the flow of Ren Shaoming's true energy.

If Huang Sixi still uses the previous true energy to perform "Leng Mei Leng", he will definitely not be able to do anything to Qu Ao.

However, Huang Sixi changed his attack method and used the longevity energy to drive the sword force. The "Hengmei Leng" was strengthened by the extreme cold of the spiral energy, and its power was increased several times.

Although the mental shock of "Heng Mei Leng" did not hurt Qu Ao's meridians, it did make Qu Ao's luck bad, so that his speed of performing "Eagle Transformation Thirteen Styles" was also slowed down. Huang Sixi would naturally not allow him to escape safely, and the claw force absorbed by his left palm "Six Dragons Spinning" struck his ankle like lightning.

It seemed as if his feet had eyes. He turned in the air and avoided the palm wind.

This is the advantage of the spiritual realm. Martial arts masters can use their senses to be extremely subtle. Even without using their eyes, they can clearly sense the opponent's every move, especially the opponent's true energy fluctuations, which are all under sensory surveillance, and they can also calmly avoid any attack from the opponent.

If Huang Sixi did not use the 'Sword Heart Clear' spiritual realm of the Dragon Sword, it would be very difficult for him to hurt Qu Ao.

But it is not absolutely impossible.

Huang Sixi saw that Qu Ao's foot speed was as fast as the wind, so he changed his tactics immediately, swung his left palm slightly, and used his unique wind and cloud skill "Mahayana".

In an instant, the wind and clouds above the river surface changed rapidly, and the wind within a radius of more than ten feet blew back and formed a tornado that enveloped Qu Ao in one fell swoop.

Qu Ao sensed the violent fluctuations in the air flow around him. The wind force suddenly increased several times, making him feel as if he was in the eye of a storm. His breathing was difficult, his internal energy was blocked, and his skin felt as if it was being cut by a sharp blade.

He couldn't help but be shocked, wondering what kind of palm technique was this, and how powerful it was? Even Bi Xuan's "Yan Yang Dafa" would be eclipsed.

He knew that it was a life-and-death moment, and the true energy in his body began to circulate rapidly. Half of it was released in an instant and gathered in the space a few feet outside his body, forming an invisible and tangible aura.

His aura suddenly took shape, and 'Mahamutama' could no longer restrain him. He immediately jumped up, trying to get away from Huang Sixi to avoid being hit hard by 'Mahamutama' on the spot.

"what?"

Huang Sixi was very surprised, "The martial arts master's skills are really strong!"

But Qu Ao's aura is quite weak. Although it can help Qu Ao break free from the tornado, it cannot resist Huang Sixi's "Six Dragons Spin".

Huang Sixi just jumped up with his feet, used the "Catching Wind and Shadow" of "Wind God Leg", and slapped Qu Ao with his palm.

Originally, Qu Ao relied on mental perception to avoid Huang Sixi's palm power, but Huang Sixi used "Mahamutic" to lock the space of more than ten feet in radius, and could attack from any angle in all directions.

As long as Qu Ao is within the reach of Mahamutdam, he will have no chance of escaping.

Although Qu Ao condensed a protective aura at the cost of sacrificing his internal energy and broke free from the shackles of 'Mahamutromanta', it would take time for him to escape.

He had just escaped from the edge of the tornado when Huang Sixi's dragon-subduing palm power caught up with him.

With a "bang!" sound, the palm force penetrated the aura and hit Qu Ao in the back.

The sound of bones breaking was heard instantly.

Qu Ao uttered a muffled sound, and with the help of the recoil of his palm, he flew forward in the air and landed on a square wooden board more than ten feet away.

When landing, he first practiced the "Nine Changes of Condensation" Qigong. The true Qi was transmitted to the broken bones in the back, and the pain was immediately relieved, and the injuries to the internal organs were also suppressed.

Qu Ao quickly regained his composure.

When he attacked Huang Sixi just now, he only used his claw force on Huang Sixi. When he saw that his claw force was sucked away by Huang Sixi, he immediately retracted his claw when he saw that the situation was not good.

If he had used his two claws in a row and was carried into the 'Six Dragons Rotation' by Huang Sixi, he would definitely be seriously injured and unable to withstand it.

Although his injuries were not fatal, his expression became extremely heavy.

He just approached Huang Sixi and launched two claws, which were actually the result of his life's skills. However, not only did he fail to hurt Huang Sixi, but Huang Sixi broke several bones. It is really difficult to estimate how much of a blow this was to his confidence.

The key point is that Huang Sixi has just used a new spiritual secret method and a powerful palm method, which caught him off guard. If Huang Sixi still has a killer move that he has not used, how should he deal with it?

At this moment, Qu Ao felt that Huang Sixi was as unfathomable as the Yangtze River under his feet. Not only did his internal strength have bottomless depths, but his martial arts were also so superb that Qu Ao could not fathom.

He had already begun to think of retreating and did not want to continue fighting with Huang Sixi.

If he continued to fight, then the half of his internal strength left would not be enough to support him to escape.

Thinking of this, he decided to use the same trick again, first pushing up a wall of waves and water to press down Huang Sixi, and then taking the opportunity to escape.

As a result, he had just exerted force and the waves had not yet formed.

Huang Sixi suddenly swung the Jingji Knife, using it as a sword and performing the eighteen moves of the "Holy Spirit Sword Technique". The knife energy split and rolled up the river water, forming hundreds of water blades, which split the air more than ten feet away and launched a rain of arrows towards Qu Ao.

Water blades landed around Qu Ao, like a dense net of blades, blocking all of Qu Ao's escape routes.

Qu Ao tried his best but still couldn't break through Huang Sixi's tight net of blades. He immediately decided to dive underwater. He had already practiced his internal strength to the level of fetal breathing, so he had no problem sneaking at the bottom of the river for several hours. He could still escape through the river.

Unexpectedly, Huang Sixi had already predicted all his plans.

Before Qu Ao could fall, the twenty-one moves of the "Holy Spirit Sword Technique" had already been moved into the river. The sword energy merged into the water and condensed into several meters long water blades, which chopped out from under Qu Ao's feet, forcing Qu Ao to jump up to avoid it.

When Qu Ao leaped to a height of three or five feet in the air, Huang Sixi suddenly whistled coldly, stepped on the waves and rushed forward, then suddenly leaped up.

When Huang Sixi's figure was in the air, he drew out the Dragon Subduing Sword with a "swish!" sound, and the sword light flashed instantly, emitting a dazzling brilliance.

Qu Ao was blinded by the sword light and saw Huang Sixi charging towards him, but he was not afraid at all. As long as he did not stay to fight, even if Huang Sixi used both sword and saber, he could definitely escape the sword blockade by exerting all his strength.

Unexpectedly, when Huang Sixi got close to him, he felt an extremely powerful spiritual aura moving across and lightly covering him, and his previous spiritual perception disappeared completely in an instant.

Huang Sixi's whole body of true energy was also locked at the same time, and he could no longer feel anything.

Once his mind lost touch, he was like a blind and deaf man. No matter how Huang Sixi attacked with his sword, fists or feet, he could no longer respond effectively.

His pupils shrank immediately, and he shouted in shock: "You have been hiding your abilities! How could a martial arts master use such a sinister method!"

Huang Sixi ignored him, knowing that Qu Ao was on the verge of despair and was speaking ill of him out of unwillingness. If Huang Sixi had used the Dragon Subduing Sword when entering the river, Qu Ao would have fought more cautiously and escaped more promptly, instead of waiting until now when he was in danger and it was too late.

Now Qu Ao had already used all his strength, but Huang Sixi's magical power had just begun to unfold. He held a sword in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and rushed to Qu Ao. He broke Qu Ao's Qi defense with a single knife, and with a "puff!", the blade slashed into Qu Ao's shoulder, chopping him down in mid-air.

The Dragon Subduing Sword took advantage of the situation and slashed across, cutting off Qu Ao's head with one blow.

Huang Sixi landed on the river in a rain of blood, and the first martial arts master in the world surrendered himself in front of him.

At this moment, tens of thousands of people watching the battle on both sides of the strait realized only then that Huang Sixi was not just a swordsman, but an expert in both sword and saber. He was able to kill Qu Ao with one sword, so his sword power must be no less than that of Lingnan's 'Heavenly Sword' Song Que. At the very least, he should be a 'Heavenly Sword'.

(End of this chapter)