Liver into a martial arts legend: starting with Embroidered Spring Blade

Chapter 96 The Emperor is critically ill, return quickly! [35]

The next day.

Jiang Xuan and his two companions changed into a carriage, loaded with a large box of gold, silver, treasures, and various martial arts manuals, and quietly left Guan County, embarking on the journey back to the capital.

After running so far, it is impossible to return empty-handed.

Moreover, he did not ask for permission in advance before coming to destroy the Qingcheng Sect. In order to avoid giving people a chance to criticize him, he still had to take care of things when he returned.

I have to say that the Qingcheng Sect is indeed quite wealthy.

In particular, Yu Canghai destroyed the Fuwei Escort Agency and seized most of its property.

This time, not counting other valuables, the total amount of money gained was nearly one million taels.

It was indeed worth the trip.

With so much valuables, Jiang Xuan was worried about being targeted, so he didn't hire anyone to escort them in a high-profile manner to attract attention.

With his current strength, as long as he doesn't encounter a master above the Grandmaster level who comes to rob him, any ordinary thieves who come will be defeated.

In addition, try to take the official road closer to the city when returning. In case you are robbed, you can mobilize officers and soldiers from nearby garrisons to help.

Be careful and nothing should happen.

……

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

this day.

The three of them entered the territory of Pingyang Prefecture.

Since they were far away from the city ahead, the three of them took a rest halfway.

Xu Longqing unloaded the carriage and led the horses to the nearby river to drink water and eat grass.

Lin Pingzhi took this opportunity to pick up a long sword and practiced the Three Talents Sword Technique that Jiang Xuan had taught him.

This kid really has a good talent for martial arts. Before, he practiced the incomplete Sword Manual of Exorcism, which only had the form but no luck. In addition, his family is well-off, and he has the Fuwei Escort Agency's reputation in Fuzhou, so no one dares to cause trouble for him.

Therefore, he only practiced to the entry-level stage, and then traveled around Fuzhou, rode horses and hunted. He also liked to be chivalrous and stand up for the weak.

But now, after experiencing the tragedy of the annihilation of his family and seeing true masters, he has finally tempered his previous free and easy temperament, and is able to seize every opportunity to become stronger and calm down to practice martial arts.

Jiang Xuan taught him this sword technique for only half a month, but he had already vaguely touched the threshold to get started.

Combined with the luck in swordsmanship, he can barely become invincible in the third-rate realm.

Jiang Xuan sat aside and watched him practice sword, nodded slightly, and felt very satisfied.

In terms of martial arts training, Lin Pingzhi did not disappoint his expectations.

If he continues like this, this kid will be able to reach first-class level in one or two years at most.

It should not be a problem to reach the middle and late stages of the innate realm within three to five years.

This sword technique, which cultivates both internal and external strength, involves practicing swordsmanship with breathing techniques to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, sharpen one's qi, blood, tendons and bones, and enhance one's internal strength.

It is equivalent to practicing internal and external skills at the same time, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

This is also the reason why martial arts that cultivate both internal and external skills are extremely rare in the world.

The only drawback is that this sword technique can only exert its maximum power when combined with a special way of luck, and it is impossible to practice momentum and artistic conception.

However, as long as the level of internal strength is improved, and with the experience gained from this sword technique, then when the time comes to practice some other external sword techniques, it will be able to achieve twice the result with half the effort and continue to improve your strength.

This Three Talents Sword seemed to be tailor-made for Lin Pingzhi, and was very suitable for a novice like him who had never practiced internal energy and whose swordsmanship was not very high.

As long as your talent and understanding are high enough, you can quickly improve your strength and help yourself.

After watching for a while, Jiang Xuan withdrew his gaze, leaned lazily against a tree beside the road to rest, and at the same time called out the system panel to check.

[Martial Arts: Rama Internal Power (Great Mastery)]

【Progress: 1822/10000】

……

[Martial Arts: Golden Crow Sword Technique (Perfect)]

【Progress: 2320/8000】

Compared to a month ago, our strength has improved significantly.

Although Rama's progress in proficiency in internal energy has not improved much, he has already opened up four of the twelve meridians, and the fifth will be opened in a few days.

The biggest improvement was in the Golden Crow Sword Technique, which had already reached the perfect level a few days ago.

At this rate, you will be able to master the third sword stance in no more than a month.

In addition, the progress of the Gale Blade Force is also slowly increasing.

[Martial Arts: Embroidered Spring Sword Technique (Position), Wild Wind Sword Technique (Position)]

[Progress: 61%]

After more than a month of practice, the progress increased by another 7%.

But the progress has not stopped, and I don’t know where the limit is.

Jiang Xuan was somewhat looking forward to it. After the Golden Crow Sword Technique was practiced and incorporated into the Sword Technique Panel to share the same progress, he wondered if he could accumulate enough progress to comprehend the sword intent.

Even if the progress is not enough by then, with the support of the three sword styles, there will be a significant qualitative change in strength.

"I don't know what level of strength I have reached at this moment..."

Jiang Xuan pondered secretly.

As early as a month ago, at the late stage of the innate realm, he had the blessing of two kinds of swordsmanship, as well as some other body techniques and changes brought about by Rama's internal strength.

In the Xiantian realm, he no longer had any rivals.

Even those as strong as Mu Gaofeng and Yu Canghai, the masters of second-rate sects, could not withstand a blow from him.

At this moment, Jiang Xuan was eager to fight with a master-level expert to verify his own strength.

It’s a pity that the masters in the world are not cabbages.

Those who have reached this level are generally not short of money, and most of them are the leaders of first-class forces.

People of this level would not be so foolish as to go against the court or do something illegal, so it is difficult to catch them.

They didn't provoke me, so I couldn't just go to their house and cause trouble.

Even if you take the initiative to suggest just exchanging ideas, people will not pay any attention to you.

There is no benefit in winning, and losing is embarrassing.

Therefore, we can only estimate it by slowly exploring it ourselves.

"Being invincible is so lonely..." Jiang Xuan shook his head and sighed.

Ok?
Suddenly, he frowned, turned his head abruptly and looked at the carriage beside the woods.

So brave!

How dare you steal in broad daylight, and you stole from me?!
sigh~
With a move of his body, Jiang Xuan turned into an arrow shot from a bow, suddenly appeared in front of the carriage, lifted the curtain and took a look.

I saw a man in black, about thirty years old, squatting inside. He was taking out silver bills from the box and stuffing them into his breast pocket with a look of excitement on his face.

Hearing the noise, the man in black was startled. When he looked up, he met Jiang Xuan's cold gaze.

The two sides looked at each other, and the atmosphere suddenly became extremely awkward.

"Well, I'm just taking a look. Do you believe it?"

After a moment's silence, the man in black chuckled.

"What do you think?" Jiang Xuan's eyes were cold.

The man in black turned his eyes and suddenly waved his hand. The carriage was suddenly filled with white, probably something like lime.

Jiang Xuan covered his face with his sleeves to protect his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, the man in black was no longer in the carriage.

"Master!" Lin Pingzhi was also shocked. He immediately stopped practicing sword and ran over to check.

There was some lime on Jiang Xuan's hair and clothes, and he looked quite disheveled.

He raised his head and looked at the black shadow running wildly in the distance, his eyes cold: "I wonder where you can escape to!"

It has been so long since they set out from Guan County. Although everything has been safe and sound, Jiang Xuan has not let his guard down.

I didn't expect that there would be a thief who would actually set his eyes on the valuables in my car, and he chose to do it in broad daylight. I don't know where this idiot came from!
sigh~
With a light tap of his toes, Jiang Xuan flew into the air, stepped on the roof of the carriage, and with a little leverage, he leaped out more than ten meters.

Just as the figure began to fall, it suddenly took advantage of the force to fly into the air and cascade upwards.

He took three steps and crossed a distance of thirty or forty meters, appearing behind the thief.

It is the perfect level of 'Dieyun Body Technique'!
The man in black glanced back and was instantly frightened to death.

So fast? !

As early as when Jiang Xuan and his group set out from Guan County with the treasure, he had set his eyes on the car full of treasures, but Jiang Xuan and his two companions were very vigilant, and he never found a chance to take action.

Today he really couldn't help it, thinking that Jiang Xuan and the other two would relax their vigilance during the day, so he took advantage of Xu Longqing unloading the carriage to feed the horses and quietly sneaked into the carriage, intending to steal a little and leave.

A thief never leaves empty-handed; this has always been the rule in their line of work.

He was also very confident in his martial arts skills and thought he would not be caught.

However, he did not expect that this captain of the Embroidered Uniform Guard was so alert, and his lightness skills were far beyond his imagination.

Seeing that he was about to be caught up, the man in black felt a chill in his heart and a bit desperate.

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves came from the front.

The man in black looked up and was overjoyed. He immediately cheered up and galloped towards the two people who appeared at the fork in the road ahead, ready to take the opportunity to kidnap one of them and escape.

This man in black dared to steal in broad daylight, so his skills were obviously not weak. He lightly tapped the ground with his toes and quickly floated in front of the two men and the horse, ready to jump on the horse and take hostages.

"Be careful!" The girl on horseback quickly warned.

choke--

The next moment, the man in the bamboo hat on horseback suddenly drew his sword and slashed.

The man in black who was about to jump into the air and mount his horse was instantly split into two, his eyes wide open, his body separated and rolled onto the road.

Sigh~
The man in the bamboo hat reined in his horse and slowly put the sword in his hand back into its sheath.

Then he lifted his bamboo hat slightly, revealing a face full of vicissitudes and sternness. But his eyes were closed.

Jiang Xuan also flew to the front of the horse, glanced at the corpse of the man in black, then looked at the man in the bamboo hat on horseback, a hint of surprise in his eyes: "Cheng is blind?"

The man in black, wearing a conical hat and holding a three-foot-long sword, was none other than the blind man Cheng, the ghostwriter whom he had met once before in Anyang.

But it was different from the last time when I was alone.

This time, he also brought a pretty girl of about sixteen or seventeen years old.

Tread...  

Cheng the Blind Man dismounted, moved his nose, and holding his sword as a blind stick, he walked over to the body of the thief in black. He scratched the black-clad man's head with his blind stick, then pulled out a wanted poster from his pocket and unfolded it, asking, "Is it him?"

The girl looked at Jiang Xuan and walked forward with some fear. She looked at the wanted poster in the blind man's hand, then at the body of the man in black, nodded and said, "Yes, they look very similar."

"That should be right."

Blind Cheng nodded, then stepped forward and deftly pulled a piece of black cloth from his waist. He wrapped the head of the man in black and brought it to Jiang Xuan. His nose twitched again as he said, "I recognize you. We met in Anyang City. It was you who killed Tian Boguang, the 'Wanli Du Xing'."

Jiang Xuan's eyes flickered as he asked, "How do you recognize me?"

"I can smell murder coming from you."

Cheng Xiazi's face was calm. He raised the head in his hand and said, "This man is the thief who has a bounty on his head from the imperial court, Shi Yaoxian, nicknamed 'Stretching out his hand from the coffin, asking for money even after he dies'."

"I've been chasing him for a long time. He escaped last time in Hanzhong. I knew he was targeting you."

"You even dare to steal my things. You're really reaching into the coffin!"

Jiang Xuan nodded, then asked, "How do you know his target is me?"

Blind Cheng said, "I didn't know it was you. I just heard that someone drove a carriage all the way north, and his route was the same as yours."

Jiang Xuan felt helpless when he heard this.

In ancient times when there were very few routes, it was really difficult to hide your whereabouts!

He thought he was keeping a low profile, but he didn't expect that even a blind man would know that he was driving his carriage all the way north.

I'm afraid other forces also know about it, but they are afraid of their identities and dare not take action.

Only this 'hand reaching out from the coffin' is ignorant of the consequences, and his greed for money has brought disaster upon himself...

Perhaps understanding what Jiang Xuan was thinking, Blind Cheng explained, "We ghostwriters usually have our own sources of intelligence. Don't worry, I only noticed you because I happened to be chasing Shi Yaoxian. I didn't reveal your whereabouts."

Hearing this, Jiang Xuan suddenly thought of Cheng Xiazi's agent, 'Qin Niang', and his expression relaxed slightly, and he felt a little relieved.

It seems that this lady Qin has recruited many beggars as spies.

In the underworld, beggars have always been the most informed.

After all, there are beggars everywhere in the world.

"Master!"

At this time, Xu Longqing and Lin Pingzhi also caught up.

Seeing the situation on the field, both of them were a little surprised.

Then he looked at Shi Yaoxian's headless body, and Xu Longqing's eyes turned cold.

"How dare you steal from us!"

"Sir, do you want to check his identity?"

"No need, just go and get the banknotes back from him."

Jiang Xuan waved his hand and said to Cheng Xiazi, "Since you killed him, you can take the head and claim the reward."

After saying that, Jiang Xuan turned around and prepared to leave.

"and many more."

Blind Cheng suddenly spoke up, walked up to Jiang Xuan, and said in a deep voice, "Are you from the imperial court?"

Jiang Xuan nodded, "Jiang Xuan, the captain of the Right Division of the Imperial Guard in the capital."

Upon hearing this, the girl behind Blind Cheng suddenly looked happy.

Blind Cheng turned around and pointed at the girl, saying, "Her name is Ni Yan, from Liangcheng. Her whole family was killed."

"The other party is the Yuwen family, an underground gang in Luoyang. She plans to go to Luoyang to file a complaint and seek justice for her family."

"But the Yuwen family is extremely powerful in Luoyang. If she goes to the authorities and brings them down, her chances of success are slim."

"Should you be in charge of this matter?"

Ni Yan hurried forward, knelt down before Jiang Xuan, and kowtowed in tears, "I beg you, sir, to seek justice for me and clear my Ni family's name!"

Jiang Xuan frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

Ni Yan quickly explained the whole story.

Half a month ago, on her wedding day, her elder brother Ni Jun returned home to preside over the wedding for her. Unexpectedly, people from the Yuwen family came to her house and killed her fiancé and her elder brother Ni Jun. She was also insulted by Yuwen Ying.

It happened that Cheng Xiazi came here to catch the murderer and encountered this incident. Because he had drunk her wedding wine and felt that she had done him a favor, he decided to help her and took her to Luoyang to file a complaint with the authorities.

"Fuck, how dare a mere underground gang be so rampant?!"

After listening to Ni Yan's story, Xu Longqing couldn't help but curse out loud.

Lin Pingzhi was also a little angry.

How similar is Ni Yan’s experience to his?

The only difference is that his family was wiped out because someone coveted the Sword Manual of Exorcism.

Ni Yan was just an ordinary family, but because of her brother's involvement, she suffered an unexpected disaster and was brutally exterminated and humiliated.

The most hateful thing is that the Liangcheng County Government, fearing the power of the Yuwen family, actually tried to make a big deal out of a small matter.

Seeing that Ni Yan refused, he even turned black into white and prepared to treat Ni Yan as a murderer.

If it weren't for Cheng the blind man, wouldn't there be another injustice in the world?
"In other words, the trouble was brought back by your deceased elder brother?" Jiang Xuan looked at Ni Yan and asked.

Ni Yan nodded. "My eldest brother has been traveling around for years, but I don't know how he offended the Yuwen family. I only heard that Yuwen Ying wanted to kill him for some reason, so he found my eldest brother."

Jiang Xuan nodded.

If nothing unexpected happens, the plot of "Arrogant" has not changed.

The Yuwen family was an underground gang in Luoyang, involved in both black and white. It happened that the third daughter of the Guo family, who had connections in Xi'an, fell in love with Yuwen Ying, the second son of the Yuwen family.

Yuwen Ying's elder brother, Yuwen Xiong, the head of the Yuwen family, wanted to take this opportunity to expand his power to Xi'an, so he tried every means to promote this marriage and climb up the big tree of the Guo family.

In order to please Miss Guo San, Yuwen Ying asked someone to steal a night pearl from a tomb and gave it to Miss Guo San.

Worried that this matter would get out and the Guo family would find it unlucky, Yuwen Ying killed everyone who went to the tomb.

Ni Yan’s elder brother Ni Jun is one of them.

Ni Yan was indeed the victim of an unprovoked disaster caused by his elder brother Ni Jun.

But the whole incident was caused by Yuwen Ying's desire to please the third daughter of the Guo family.

I don't know how many people died for such a small thing.

Jiang Xuan shook his head and sighed.

This is the way the world is. In the eyes of those powerful people, human life is worthless.

With his current status, he didn't take a mere underground gang in Luoyang seriously.

Now that this has happened, it wouldn't hurt to help this girl.

It just so happens that Luoyang is not far from here, only a few dozen miles away, so it won’t take much time.

"Well..." Just as he was about to speak, a burst of hurried horse hooves suddenly came from behind.

Hoof-clack, hoof-clack...

Everyone looked back and saw a horse galloping towards them, with an ordinary-looking man in black on board.

When passing by Jiang Xuan and his companions, he suddenly threw a bamboo tube at Jiang Xuan.

"grown ups!"

Xu Longqing was suddenly startled and wanted to step forward to intercept the pursuit, but was stopped by Jiang Xuan.

Because he saw a special pattern on the chest of the man in black, which was the symbol of "the underworld".

In other words, this man in black is a secret agent of "Underworld", probably here to deliver a message.

Watching the man in black disappear at the end of the road, Jiang Xuan opened the bamboo tube and found a note inside.

He took out the note and took a look at it, his expression changing slightly.

There were only six words written on the note: The emperor is critically ill, return quickly!

The news should have come with drizzle.

Something might have happened in the palace!

Jiang Xuan's heart tightened, his face solemn. He turned to look at Cheng Xiazi and Ni Yan, and said in a deep voice, "I have important things to do. I'm afraid I won't be able to go to Luoyang with you in time."

Seeing Ni Yan's anxious expression, he pulled out his Jinyiwei badge from his pocket and handed it to her, saying, "Take my badge with you to the Luoyang County Government Office and speak directly to the County Magistrate. He will handle the matter impartially."

Upon hearing this, Ni Yan's sadness turned into joy. She quickly took the badge and said respectfully, "Yes, Ni Yan thanks you very much, sir!"

Jiang Xuan looked at Blind Cheng again and said, "Since you're worried about her, then be a good person and go with her. If the Luoyang County Magistrate doesn't give you face, you can find a way to come to the capital to find me. I will send someone to deal with him."

Blind Cheng nodded: "Thank you very much."

"No need, we'll see you later."

After Jiang Xuan finished speaking, he waved his hand, turned around and left with Xu Longqing and the other two, and continued on his way.

Ni Yan looked at the three people's departing backs, her face filled with excitement and gratitude: "This Jinyiwei sir is really a good person!"

"You can't judge a good person or a bad person based on just one thing, but it's a blessing for you that he can help you."

Cheng the Blind shook his head, climbed onto his horse with his blind stick, and held out his hand, saying, "Come up, I'll take you to seek justice."

Ni Yan nodded, took his hand and climbed onto the horse.

The two men and the horse continued to run towards Luoyang.

(End of this chapter)