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Chapter 57: Sword in the Umbrella

After Xing Guolong vomited the first time, he could no longer hold it back and vomited twice more. Then he lay there, staring at the deep darkness at the infinite height with wide eyes. He was only breathing out but not in. After hissing three times, he stopped moving.

Xing Guolong died in a confusing manner - until the end he never figured out how he died.

Lao Ba took a few steps forward, and when the explosion occurred, he felt as if a big hand suddenly pushed him hard from behind.

Even with his strength as a seventh-rate martial artist, he couldn't keep his balance and flew forward, then fell heavily two feet away.

While he was still in mid-air, Lao Ba felt a mosquito bite on his back, and then another, and another...

In the end, he couldn’t count anymore because Lao Ba was hit hard on the back of his head!
A piece of sword ball fragment hit the back of his head.

It penetrated the scalp and lodged in the skull.

The "copper skin and iron bones" of a seventh-rate martial artist are indeed impressive. But even if you forged a suit of armor out of bronze, stood there as a target, and had the Shenji Camp fire shrapnel from their craftsman-made cannons, would the armor hold up?

After the sword ball was integrated with the characteristics of the inner elixir of artillery, its power was far greater than that of ordinary shrapnel.

However, the seventh-rate martial arts practitioners have extremely strong qi and blood, and their vitality is more than twice that of other practitioners of the same level.

Lao Ba fell to the ground, and after a moment he struggled to sit up. He touched his back and saw seven or eight small wounds, which were bleeding.

Lao Ba wanted to close the membrane, but now he felt unable to do so.

Xu Yuan hid behind an umbrella. Although he was more than twenty feet away, he still took precautions.

As expected, this explosion was extremely terrifying. Even at such a long distance, more than a dozen sword ball fragments hit the umbrella surface with a bang.

The blast of air rushed over, and Xu Yuan and his umbrella shook several times before they stabilized.

After the explosion, Xu Yuan remained squatting, hiding himself behind the umbrella, pushing the umbrella forward steadily for ten feet, and the distance between him and Lao Ba was only six or seven feet.

Lao Ba sat up at this time.

After a brief pause, Xu Yuan continued to advance another five meters, leaving less than two meters between him and Lao Ba.

Lao Ba grinned, raised his hand, and pretended to send out another "Wu Mi" attack.

However, he gathered his strength several times, but every time he gathered his strength, it would leak out of his body along with the blood from the wound on his back. He could not gather the strength to emit a "void force" no matter what he did.

The moment Lao Ba made his move, Xu Yuan knew that all his methods were useless against a seventh-rate martial artist.

Only with the characteristics of inner elixir, there is a chance to make an unexpected comeback!

So Xu Yuan didn't care about the sword pill and directly poured nearly half of the inner elixir's properties into it.

It’s not that I don’t want to infuse more, but this is the upper limit that the sword pill can withstand.

If there are more, I will lose control and explode.

So although Xu Yuan seemed to have made comprehensive preparations before the battle, he did not hold the three-barreled gun in his hand. Instead, he quietly put it on his waist so that he could pull it out at any time, but covered it with his clothes.

These people must have investigated themselves and most likely knew that their stepmother was an "old craftsman".

Xu Yuan hid all the "Xinjiang" items on him to avoid any possibility of arousing Xing Guolong's suspicion.

Xu Yuan stretched out a three-barreled musket from behind his umbrella!
The three-eyed fire gun can kill a divine cultivator like Lao Qian, but it cannot penetrate the "iron skin and bones" of a seventh-rate martial artist.

However, Lao Ba now had multiple wounds all over his body and suffered a serious blow to the back of his head. He could not stand up and could not send out any "military secrets". Xu Yuan felt that he could not withstand his three guns.

boom!
boom!
boom!
Xu Yuan faced Lao Ba and emptied his musket.

Lao Ba is safe and sound! I don’t know where the three marbles flew to!

Xu Yuan suddenly felt something was wrong and immediately retreated quickly. At the same time, Pi Dan protected his vital parts and tried to shrink his body behind the umbrella.

A powerful and heavy force suddenly and fiercely hit the umbrella.

Xu Yuan was blown away and rolled twice on the ground. He heard Lao Ba's loud laughter and was shocked.
At such a close distance, it's impossible for me to miss all three shots.

As long as one of the shots hits, Lao Ba can still hold on, or at least he will react, but now there is nothing happening at all.

Xu Yuan was thinking quickly about the reason. Lao Ba had already stood up, and the wounds on his body were still bleeding. His injuries seemed to be getting better, but the speed was slower than before.

Xu Yuan quickly widened the distance between himself and Lao Ba.

But when he moved, he found that Lao Ba was standing in front of him, grinning and punching him again.

Boom!
The punch hit the umbrella and knocked Xu Yuan out again.

Xu Yuan suddenly understood: his father once told him about a very rare kind of legal practice: "breaking" the law!

A "law" that violates all common sense in the world.

There were calligraphy pieces with the words "腾云" and "程风" on Xu Yuan's legs. Although Lao Ba was a seventh-rate martial artist, Xu Yuan had actually verified in the initial battle that Lao Ba's speed was not as good as his.

But although he was clearly keeping a distance between himself and Lao Ba, he was inexplicably approached by him twice.

"Violating" the law changes one's "direction".

Front became back, up became down, left became right.

"The three shots I fired at Lao Ba just now...actually hit me from behind!" Xu Yuan thought to himself, but he still didn't understand: "Since this 'illegal' can reverse common sense, why not just reverse our 'life' to 'death'?
Do you want their people to come in and kill me?
Even though Lao Ba was injured, he didn't just change his status from 'injured' to 'uninjured'."

Xu Yuan gradually figured it out. His strength was not yet at the level needed to perform "illegal" magic.

His "violation of the law" can reverse some common sense, but he cannot do whatever he wants by relying on "violation of the law".

Even the reversal of his own "common sense of position" was only forced upon himself after he had killed one person and seriously injured another.

"If these two had fought, the Fa Xiu would have reversed my common sense of position, and I would have been a corpse by now. What does this mean? It means that this is the true limit of Fa Xiu."

The price of "violating" the law is extremely high. Once it approaches the limit, even the law practitioner may not survive.

Xu Yuan finally understood: "He didn't want to die either, and he thought it was a sure thing for two Seventh Flow warriors to come and kill me, so he didn't use his full strength."

"In that case..." Xu Yuan quickly calculated in his mind.

Lao Ba chased after him with a ferocious look on his face.

Xu Yuan's face showed panic and confusion, and he fled backwards in embarrassment, dragging his umbrella.

As expected, he bumped into Lao Ba again. Lao Ba grinned, pushed the umbrella away with his palm like a palm fan, and punched Xu Yuan in the chest!
Boom!
The punch hit hard.

Xu Yuan spat out a mouthful of blood. Even though Lao Ba was right in front of him, the blood did not spray onto his head and face, but fell behind Xu Yuan himself - Xu Yuan completely confirmed his speculation!
Lao Ba felt something was not right. A mere eighth-rate alchemy practitioner should have fallen down immediately after being hit by his punch. Could it be that his strength had weakened to such an extent after being seriously injured?
However, most martial artists don’t want to think too much. If one punch is not enough, then just punch again!
Lao Ba had just raised his fist when he saw Xu Yuan suddenly pull out the umbrella handle, which contained a rapier.

Xu Yuan stabbed behind himself with his backhand.

laugh!
The rapier inexplicably pierced Lao Ba's left eye!
　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)