Martial Arts Crossover: My Wife is the Top Scholar

Chapter 315 The oriole is behind, Second Brother, I've been waiting for you for a long time!

Tang Que was deeply conflicted.

Both proud and insecure.

Both delicate and sensitive.

Both cautious and impulsive.

His father, Tang Jing, was the third son of the Tang Clan's matriarch, Old Madam Tang. He was a direct descendant of the Tang Clan. Unfortunately, Tang Jing married three wives in total.

Each of the three wives gave birth to a son.

Tang Yu is undoubtedly the youngest brother.

Tang Que and Tang Ao each had their own version of events. Both of their mothers said that their sons were the eldest. On the surface, the two never fought over each other, but in reality, they fought each other to the point of bloodshed.

Tang Ao was known as the eldest son.

Tang Que was known as a "big male prostitute".

In the past two years, Tang Ao has made his debut with a sword and made a great name for himself in the martial arts world, showing that Tang Clan disciples are not only good at using hidden weapons, but are also the best swordsmen in the world.

In the world of martial arts, skill is ultimately paramount.

Tang Ao became the undisputed young master.

Tang Que could only accept the position of the second young master.

Of course, Tang Que was not without trump cards.

The biggest trump card is Tang Ao himself. Tang Ao is skilled in swordsmanship, proud and arrogant, and sooner or later he will challenge the world's top swordsmen, such as Yan Shisan and Ye Gucheng.

If he is defeated and his confidence is severely shaken, for someone like Tang Ao, failure is death.

If you are killed, all is lost.

If Tang Ao is invincible, defeating Ximen Chuixue, Yan Shisan, Xie Xiaofeng, Ye Gucheng, and even Lang Fanyun, would Tang Que need to compete for him?

The path of swordsmanship is inherently difficult, and the martial arts world is filled with the most swordsmen, leading to a diverse and flourishing development of swordsmanship.

Tang Ao is exceptionally talented and blessed with good fortune, but these are all standard requirements to become a top swordsman!

Do you think Ye Gucheng is focused on practicing swordsmanship?

Ye Gucheng's wisdom was sufficient to plan a rebellion.

Do you think Ximen Chuixue only knows swordsmanship?
Ximen Chuixue is proficient in a variety of skills, including light footwork, detoxification, ninjutsu, tracking, investigation, and cooking.

Even those old swordsmen who were overtaken by younger generations and became stepping stones for the new generation were once dazzling geniuses in their youth, all of them all well-rounded warriors.

Following this line of reasoning, the probability of Tang Ao becoming the head of the family is extremely low, far lower than that of Tang Que!

—What a load of crap!
The head of the Tang Clan earned his position through sheer force of fists!
The reason why Old Madam Tang was able to become the head of the family was because of her unparalleled skill in using hidden weapons. She defeated all her peers, killed half of the elders, and wiped out all her opponents. She stepped on the heads of her opponents and successfully took over the throne of the family head.

Only knowing how to use others' strength against them and waiting for the right moment to strike, relying on outsiders to deal with powerful enemies, sounds wise, but in reality, it means being used to taking small advantages and pretending to be weak while actually being strong, which causes one to lose courage and determination, and the future of martial arts is already cut off.

If Tang Que places his hope of defeating Tang Ao on Tang Ao making a foolish mistake, provoking a top expert, and being instantly killed by that expert's sword, he will never become the head of the family.

The head of the Tang Clan can be evil, ruthless, unpredictable, inflexible, and can be associated with all negative traits; he can even become a demon or monster.

The one thing you absolutely cannot... back down!
Cowards will be disqualified from inheriting!

If Tang Que were a coward, even his mother wouldn't help him; instead, she would advise him to give up as soon as possible and become a dissolute playboy who lives a life of idleness and dissipation.

Tang Que is definitely not a coward!

How could a coward dare to challenge Tang Ao when their martial arts skills were worlds apart? Therefore, Tang Que made his move to test whether the three beauties were members of the Great Wind Hall.

Recently, the struggle between the Tang Clan and the Great Wind Hall has reached a fever pitch, with both sides already bloodthirsty.

Shangguan Ren, the second leader of the Dafeng Hall, feared the powerful influence of the Tang Clan. He secretly killed Zhao Jian, the hall master, and used Zhao Jian's head as a pledge of allegiance to the Tang Clan.

Qianjinshigu.

Shangguan Ren became the son-in-law of the Tang Clan.

Zhao Jian's son, Zhao Wuji, succeeded him as the head of the hall, studied martial arts under a master, and vowed to avenge his father.

According to the intelligence Tang Que obtained, Zhao Wuji had been studying martial arts with a mysterious master for a year, had made great progress in his skills, and had made three or four friends. He was about to leave the mountain to deal with the Tang Clan.

Old Madam Tang ordered that all disputes between the Tang Clan and the Great Wind Hall be handed over to Tang Jing's lineage.

Tang Jing entrusted this matter to Tang Que and Tang Yu.

Tang Yu spared no effort in scheming to obtain the Evil-Slaying Sword Manual, and Tang Que personally blocked the path to prevent Zhao Wuji from infiltrating the Tang Clan. The minimum requirement was that Zhao Wuji could not kill Shangguan Ren, who had just joined them.

No matter how much you despise Shangguan Ren, this treacherous scoundrel, he came with a pledge of loyalty. If you can't save his life, the Tang Clan's prestige will suffer a great loss.

By then, Tang Jing's lineage would have lost all its prestige.

Mrs. Tang has several sons.

Who can say for sure who will be the next head of the family?

Given Tang Que's personality, he would never normally make a move in public, but upon hearing Miss Wang's provocation, he immediately threw out the caltrops.

To accomplish great things, you must dare to take action!

Find wealth in danger!
Barbed caltrops are not the same as barbed caltrops.

As a direct descendant of the Tang Clan, Tang Que used the finest iron caltrops, forged from refined iron through a hundred refinements. These caltrops could bloom into thirteen petals, each containing three deadly needles capable of killing a large water buffalo.

The caltrops, the size of peony flowers, are silent and invisible when they are thrown, only revealing their deadly intent when the flower blooms and the petals unfold.

Miss Wang reached out and grabbed the caltrops. A terrifying suction force emanated from her palm, forcibly compressing the caltrops, whose petals were blooming, back into place. She then swung her left hand and slammed it towards Tang Que's chest and abdomen. What a move, "Yang Ge Tian Jun"!
The Tianshan Six Yang Palm is an authentic internal martial arts palm technique.

The number "six" represents the two yang numbers in the I Ching, not a restriction on moves. When making a move, yin and yang flow together, and extreme yin and yang can be transformed at will. The moves are exquisite and can also be used as a basis to perform the infamous Life and Death Talisman.

Miss Wang doesn't know the Life and Death Talisman, but she often spars with Li Zhaoting and knows a lot about Yin and Yang True Qi. When she makes a move, Yin and Yang interact, and before the palm strike hits, Tang Que feels a piercing, bone-chilling pressure that makes his soul fly away.

"Chucky!"

A sound broke through the air.

Tang Que threw out several Soul-Chasing Azure Cicadas.

Legend has it that when the Qingfu gives birth to a child, the mother and child will always reunite after being separated. If you smear the blood of the Qingfu on a copper coin, the coin smeared with the mother's blood or the child's blood will surely fly back.

The so-called "Soul-Chasing Green Coins" are actually mother-and-child coin darts. The sharp-edged copper coins are always thrown in pairs, tracing a hyperbolic arc from both sides of the neck and finally converging at the back of the neck.

One move, followed by three consecutive moves.

Tang Que put on fish-skin gloves at some point and took out darts from his waist pouch. The exquisite Tang Clan hidden weapons were dazzling to behold.

A steel wire as thin as a hair, once fired, can penetrate the blood vessels through the pores and go straight to the heart.

Its scales resemble fish scales with sharp edges, and when it strikes, golden sparks fly everywhere, like a carp leaping over the dragon gate.

The round iron lotus seed, when activated, can eject a poison core containing gunpowder and poison.

The steel nails, over three inches long, are a secondary design. The outer steel nails can penetrate the protective qi, while the inner silver needles are quenched with poison. They are lethal upon contact with blood and can corrode limbs if they rub against the skin.

A clump of greenish-blue poisonous sand, which looks no different from ordinary gravel, is actually priceless. One qian (a unit of weight) of poisonous sand is worth 1,500 taels of gold and can kill three top-notch masters. If it kills an enemy, the Tang Clan will be blamed.

Tang Que is an obese man weighing over 400 pounds.

Because of the excessive fat, the fat man's abdomen was piled up in layers, looking like a lifebuoy. Tang Que's abdomen had four layers, with hidden weapons hidden in the gaps. Each fold of flesh concealed seven or eight hidden weapons.

Fine threads, silver needles, steel nails, lotus seeds, copper coins, scales, triangular cones, poison sand, shuttles... He used each type of concealed weapon with unparalleled skill.

A fat man weighing 400 pounds, a ruthless and sinister-looking tyrant, whose moves possess a strange beauty.

With hands tracing natural arcs, one hidden weapon after another flew out, some in straight lines, some in curves, their movements fluid and natural, forming a formation of numerous hidden weapons.

In an instant, hundreds of hidden weapons bombarded Miss Wang, along with seven or eight kinds of deadly poisons.

If Miss Wang is an enemy, this "Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers" move can kill her. If not, it's purely a misunderstanding. Do Tang Clan disciples need a reason to kill someone?
It was Tang Que's doing that we killed the right person!

It's Miss Wang's bad luck that the wrong person was killed!

This is Sichuan!
The Tang Clan is the local tyrant of the Sichuan martial arts world!
How could an emperor possibly make a mistake?

If the emperor says you deserve to die, then you deserve to die!

Unfortunately, Miss Wang was not a local and did not know the local tyrant of Sichuan. She kicked the iron box, which opened like an iron umbrella, blocking the hidden weapon in front of her. Then, with a series of clicks, the Overlord Spear was combined.

With the divine spear in hand, Miss Wang's aura suddenly increased tenfold. With a swing of the spear, she created a violent whirlwind that swept away all the hidden weapons.

If Tang Que hadn't recognized his opponent upon seeing the Overlord Spear, he would have been killed eight hundred times over!

"Chief镖师 Wang, spare my life! I surrender! I'm willing to offer compensation! I'm willing to be taken prisoner!"

Tang Que knelt down and surrendered without hesitation.

With a thud, her massive body knelt down, her knees creating two large holes in the floor. Miss Wang swept through the enemy ranks with a single move, the Overlord Spear grazing her scalp.

Feeling the immense power of the mountain-pushing and cauldron-lifting force above his head, Tang Que kowtowed repeatedly, his forehead bleeding from the impact.

The two fought with all their might, a desperate struggle for survival. Tang Que recklessly fired his poisoned hidden weapons in all directions. Miss Wang, worried about being caught in the crossfire, would leap to block the hidden weapons. If the tactics were appropriate, Tang Que would have at least a 30% chance of winning. This showed the gambling king's daughter's kindness.

Tang Que dared not gamble!
So what if we beat Miss Wang?
Li Zhaoting blocked the door to demand justice, but his father, Tang Jing, would never say a good word for him. Other branches of the Tang Clan would definitely take advantage of his misfortune, and even his own brothers would betray him and send Tang Que to the executioner's block.

This is a weakness of the Tang Clan.

The internal branches are too numerous and complex, and the inventory of resources has long been insufficient to cover expenses. They can only do their best to protect their own interests. There is no kinship among relatives and clansmen, only selfish indifference. When family members are in trouble, most people think of kicking them while they are down and seizing their resources.

Surrender, and you'll have a chance to survive.

If you don't surrender, you're doomed!

Tang Que held a small purse in his hand.

It looks like he's holding onto a token of love, displaying the tender side of a ruthless hero, reminiscing about romantic moments before his death.

In reality, this was a desperate, all-or-nothing hidden weapon. It was the most powerful hidden weapon that the Tang Clan had spent seventeen years creating by bribing high-ranking members of the Thunderbolt Hall, obtaining the Thunderbolt Hall's firearms blueprints through bribery and marriage alliances, and secretly imprisoning several skilled craftsmen of the Thunderbolt Hall.

The purse has a very nice name.

—The Flower-Scattering Celestial Maiden!
It is not a long-range projectile; its killing range is only one zhang in radius. However, its violent explosion and deadly poison can destroy everything within that one zhang.

If the "Scattering Flower Fairy" is activated, even if Tang Que had an extra 400 pounds of fat, he would be blown to pieces.

This is Tang Que's trump card.

This is the ultimate killing technique of the direct lineage of the Tang Clan.

The resources the Tang Clan expended for this hidden weapon could fill ten houses. Even Tang Que's own sister had to be forced into a marriage with Lei Zhentian of the Thunderbolt Hall. They then publicly claimed that Lei Zhentian had died suddenly, but in reality, they secretly imprisoned him and forced him to make the hidden weapon.

There are no impervious walls in the world.

When the Western Regions Demonic Sect learned of this, Yu Luosha made a casual arrangement, treating it as Li Shengnan's homework.

Li Shengnan infiltrated the Tang Clan, killed all the imprisoned craftsmen, including Lei Zhentian, and stole three finished pieces of the Scattered Flower Fairy set, causing chaos within the Tang Clan.

Not only do they have to deal with internal chaos, but they also have to deal with the questioning from the Thunderbolt Hall. If they are not careful, the strongest hidden weapon family and the strongest firearm family in the world will clash. Poisonous hidden weapons and thunderbolt bombs will bombard each other, which will surely become the most intense family battle in the past fifty years!

At this critical moment, Tang Que was under immense psychological pressure and couldn't help but let his mind wander, becoming increasingly scattered.

Thinking of his aunt who was married to Shangguan Ren, his younger sister who was married to Lei Zhentian, his father's twenty years of perseverance, and his ambition to compete with Tang Ao, Tang Que clenched his fists tightly.

Be wild when you need to be, and be patient when you need to be!
Be sure to hold back.

"How can you be such a coward? You've kowtowed to me so many times, I'm too embarrassed to kill you!"

"Chief镖头 Wang is kind-hearted and generous. How could he stoop to the level of a lowly scoundrel like me? I beg Chief Wang to spare my life. As long as Chief Wang sets the conditions, I guarantee I will do my best to fulfill them."

Tang Que kept referring to Wang as Chief Escort and Wang as Boss, clearly using the rules of the escort agency to pressure people and imply that he could help open up an escort route.

Miss Wang was about to say something when she heard Li Zhaoting's voice and immediately changed her tune: "You're holding a purse in your hand, is it your lover's?"

"If Chief Escort Wang wants to kill me, then let this purse be buried with me. It was given to me by her, and I cannot allow this token of our love to fall into the hands of someone else."

"I never expected you to have a lover. I'll spare your life because you have a shred of conscience. Remember not to be so arrogant and don't kill innocent people indiscriminately!"

"I will follow Chief Escort Wang's instructions and will certainly keep a low profile in the future and will never act recklessly."

"get out!"

"I'll get lost right now!"

"How come you don't understand any rules?"

Miss Wang said coldly.

Tang Que was stunned for a moment, then grabbed his left hand, and heard a crack as his left wrist bone was broken.

Miss Wang said in a daze, "I asked you to compensate the inn for its losses, take away the hidden weapons, and clean up the poison. Why did you break your wrist?"

Tang Que looked up and saw that Miss Wang's eyes were full of sincerity, without the slightest hint of deception.

Tang Que sighed that he had seen too many bad people, and when he occasionally met a good person, he felt uncomfortable. The rule they mentioned was to pay for the meal and clean up the mess. Tang Que put himself in their shoes and decisively broke his wrist.

"I...I'll go clean up the traces right away!"

Tang Que deftly cleaned up the poisoned weapons, confirmed that there was no poison residue, paid the restaurant owner enough money to buy the entire restaurant, and left as fast as he could.

Those unaware of the situation might think that Miss Wang is abusing her power, bullying the weak, and taking advantage of others.

The truth is, this is the most common kind of conflict in the martial arts world, a fight of pride. Once you've started fighting, don't complain. Being spared is already considered lucky.

Tang Que felt very lucky.

He decided to find a brothel and indulge in unrestrained pleasure for three days and three nights before carrying out his family mission after Li Zhaoting and the others left Sichuan.

Li Zhaoting might go to brothels, but he definitely wouldn't go to the brothels that Tang Que likes to frequent.

This is a perfect hiding method!
Aside from some dissatisfaction from the handsome man accompanying him, Tang Que felt that he was perfect...

...His throat was being tightly gripped!
Before anyone knew it, two poisoned needles pierced Tang Que's buttocks, which were even more bloated than watermelons. Tang Que recognized that this was a product of the Tang Clan, knew what kind of poison it was, and knew that only one person could make such a rare poison.

Tang Yu!

My half-brother!
A man with feminine features, bloodthirsty by nature, and skilled in using poison.

This poison was newly discovered by Tang Yu. There is no antidote. Although there is a thick layer of fat as a barrier, the absorption efficiency is higher in the latter part of the body.

Tang Que collapsed, his face filled with despair.

He couldn't even move a single finger.

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(End of this chapter)