Traveling through the heavens from swallowing

Chapter 9 Autumn water and long sky
No matter how Zhou Meng feels, Liu Mang will not stop. Since he has decided to kill him, he will do it to the end!

The blade turned and was swung out to the sky. Liu Mang turned into a black shadow and instantly crossed a distance of five meters. The knife in his hand was extremely sharp and slashed towards Zhou Meng.

Zhou Meng knew he couldn't fight, so he dodged sideways and swept out with the Angry Waves Blade Technique. The blade broke through the air with a coldness, and boundless water vapor condensed on it, like waves across the sky. The Angry Waves exploded in the air, and with a bang, Liu Mang was enveloped by the sudden mist, and Zhou Meng's figure disappeared for a moment!
This Angry Wave Sword Technique can actually capture moisture in the air to create fog! Zhou Meng has a great idea! Liu Mang exclaimed, applauding Zhou Meng's ingenious idea, but he kept attacking, pushing the Three Yang Power to its extreme, sweeping out a majestic heat wave, destroying the fog with one knife!

And just as the mist dissipated, a huge hand with the power to tear apart the sky and disperse the clouds came through the air. The scattered mist quickly condensed towards the palm, forming a momentary chaotic airflow, which interrupted Liu Mang's dodging action. He was too late to draw his sword again, so he could only fight back with his palm!
Bang! The two palms met and there was a loud thunderous sound. A figure flew backwards and hit a tree. The huge force directly broke the trunk of the tree, and the tree that the two people hugged fell down!

Shi Biaotou and the others were shocked, because it was Chief Escort Lin Zhennan who flew out! Before they came, they were ordered not to take action without orders, but now the Chief Escort has been hit by this shocking palm, and he must be seriously injured. Do they still have a chance to take action?

Ignoring the escort leader and escorts who were treating him as a formidable enemy, Zhou Meng, who had achieved success with his palm technique, felt heavy-hearted again. His entire right arm was shaking, because the hand that had hit Liu Mang had broken bones and tendons, and the flesh and blood had been turned inside out!
Lin Zhennan's body seemed to be made of black iron, so hard and strong that it didn't seem like flesh and blood. His Cloud-Piercing Palm could leave a three-inch deep palm print on a solid iron pillar, but it was completely unable to shake Lin Zhennan's body, causing his palm to bear an extremely huge reaction force, which directly crippled one of his hands!

The trees in the forest exploded, and a figure flew out of the forest. In an instant, the cold knife light was close to Zhou Meng's neck! Liu Mang gritted his teeth and urged all his internal strength, and fully demonstrated his physical strength, increasing the speed of the knife to an incredible level!
Although Zhou Meng's palm strike did not break through his body's defense, part of the powerful internal force contained in it penetrated his body and directly attacked his internal organs. Although he used his internal force to dissolve it in time, he still suffered minor injuries!
Why does Zhou Meng feel so much stronger than Yu Canghai and his ilk? With such abilities, why are you a bandit?
Zhou Meng thrust his sword forward, but was pushed back more than ten meters by the extreme force. Zhou Meng gritted his teeth and shouted, and all his strength poured into the sword in his hand, barely pushing away Liu Mang who was rushing towards him. His sword was already old, and he would be slower if he drew it again, but he was good at both sword and palm, and his bloody left hand blasted out again, chasing Liu Mang who had not yet landed, and at the same time concentrated all his internal strength into this palm, trying to decide life and death with one palm!
A faint sense of crisis came to his mind. Liu Mang's eyes turned and a palm that came through the sky and clouds came into his sight. It was as loud as thunder and as fast as lightning. The majestic internal force was almost visible to the naked eye! This palm also couldn't break his defense, but it could make him recover from his injury for a month. Liu Mang felt that he couldn't take it head-on!

Although the two had only fought for a dozen breaths, Liu Mang was already tired of the offensive and defensive switches with Zhou Meng, and the ultimate sword move emerged in his mind.

The knife's light was as cold and beautiful as autumn water, and his movements were as swift as a shadow! But this autumn water's light was even faster than the shadow. When the knife came out, the knife and the shadow seemed to separate, as if the shadow was cut open and fell, leaving only the endless coldness!
The autumn sky is long and the sun is shining!

bass!
Time seemed to stop and the noise suddenly faded away. Liu Mang and Zhou Meng stood back to back, and the winner was already known!
"What a great Falling Shadow Divine Sword! My death deserves to be deserved." After he finished speaking, Zhou Meng fell to his knees. His empty eyes still reflected the light of autumn water, which was desolate, yet beautiful!
Liu Mang's long sword was covered in blood. With a flick of the sword, the blood on the sword had already separated and drew a perfect arc on the side of his body.

The blade regained its brightness, and Liu Mang's killing intent disappeared. This was the most difficult battle he had fought since he traveled through time, but also the most enjoyable one. With the blessing of the world's correction force, Zhou Meng's sword and palm skills were both excellent, and he was definitely a master who could dominate the martial arts world. He was probably not much worse than Yue Buqun, who had not yet practiced the Sword Manual of Exorcism more than a decade later. If it weren't for his great horizontal training, he would have died several times!

Liu Mang sheathed his sword, stood tall, and turned his head slightly to look at the group of people from the Tiger Village. Zhou Hu reacted, laughed miserably, and cut off his own head with a flip of the blade, and followed his brother. There were only more than 200 frightened bandits left. Liu Mang didn't want to kill them again, so he asked the escorts who came to watch the show to tie them up and send them to the government, as his contribution to local security.

Liu Mang led the rest of the people straight to the Menghuzhai stronghold. This mountain stronghold had been established for more than 30 years, and countless amounts of money had been robbed, so it was naturally a good deal for Liu Mang at this time.

At last count, they found more than 100,000 taels of silver, packed in boxes. It was a spectacular sight!
This income is really considerable. After all, we have to deduct the consumption. After thirty years, there is still so much left, an average of six thousand taels per year! It's just a local bandit den. It's good to get so much money just by robbing.

But the letter found in Zhou Meng's room immediately made his good mood turn sour in an instant!

The first four words "personally from the leader" made Liu Mang's eyelids jump. After checking the content, his bad guess was confirmed - this Zhou Meng was actually Ren Woxing's man!

The general content of the letter is that the tributes collected by the Tiger Village this year and the income from robbery totaled 18 taels. He expects that by the end of the year, it can reach 30 taels, more than double that of last year! Before the New Year, he will personally escort the silver to Ren Woxing, and ask Ren Woxing to give him the antidote for the Three Corpses Brain Pill in consideration of his good performance. He will definitely work harder to create greater glory!

My goodness, this is a mid-term report. Liu Mang originally thought that the accumulation of 18 taels in 18 years was already good, but he didn't expect that he was too narrow-minded. This taels was only the income for the first half of this year! This income level is more than all the industries of his entire escort agency combined!
But in fact, it is not surprising if you think about it carefully. After all, the Tiger Village is responsible for collecting tributes from the surrounding forces of the entire Sun Moon Sect. In Hebei and surrounding areas, the Sun Moon Sect is the second most powerful force after the imperial court. Any force that wants to survive in this place cannot avoid the Sun Moon Sect. After all, Black Wood Cliff is the location of the Demon Sect’s headquarters. What’s wrong with collecting protection fees from the forces under its jurisdiction? Even if they don’t want to collect it, there are people rushing to give it to them!
In short, people were killed and money was robbed, so Ren Woxing had already offended them. According to his temper, if an apology would be useful, there would be no point in using the Star-Absorbing Art. So he did not apologize, but hurried back to Fuzhou with the silver, and then rushed to the next force to deal with a few more robbers before Ren Woxing received the news.

There were no more accidents after Zhou Meng. For a month in a row, he destroyed more than 6 forces, all of which were copycats, gangs, etc. He killed more than a dozen evil leaders and also subdued decent second-rate players.

These six people were all defeated by him in just three moves and two styles. They deeply admired his martial arts and at the same time were greedy for Liu Mang's in-depth guidance, so they voluntarily disbanded their men and followed Chief Escort Lin to make a living, and became the servants of the Fuwei Escort Agency, or the servants of the Lin family.

Liu Mang was naturally very happy. This was the first time that he had second-rate good fighters under his command, and he had six of them at once. In the future, he would no longer have to bring third-rate escort leaders to support him when he went out!
But along with the excitement came the pressure from Blackwood Cliff. This month he destroyed more than 20 forces, 10 of which were sent out by Blackwood Cliff to make money, including Ren Woxing, Dongfang Bubai, and the various hall masters and elders. This time he really offended all the leaders of the Sun Moon Sect!

But he was not too worried, because Ren Woxing and Dongfang Bubai were both in seclusion and had no time to care about him, and those hall masters and elders were not his opponents, so he dared to stay if they dared to come. And when the two top masters were free, Dongfang Bubai would also seize power.

After much investigation, he learned that Dongfang Bubai of the Sun Moon Sect had been in seclusion for half a year, and would not come out until a year and a half later. When he came out, he took advantage of Ren Wozou's obsession to imprison him and seize power. At that time, the power struggle of the Sun Moon Sect would become their top priority, and they would not spare time to deal with him. When Dongfang Bubai's power was consolidated and he was firmly in power, Dongfang Bubai would start his journey to seize the title of the world's number one.

As we all know, at the beginning of The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, Dongfang Bubai was already recognized as the best in the world, and had been acknowledged by all the masters in both the black and white worlds. However, the original novel did not mention how he determined his status.

But Liu Mang knew that this number one in the world could not have fallen out of thin air even if he used his butt to think! There must be a record of battles recognized by the world to support this. If there is no corresponding record, the unruly people in the world will not recognize him as the best in the world.

This is different from the title of the best sword in the world that he is almost going to get. Not to mention that no one has said that he is the best sword in the world. Even if he really is, it is completely different from the title of the best sword in the world without the suffix.

Since ancient times, there has been no first in literature and no second in martial arts. Those who practice martial arts all strive to be the best in the world. Countless masters standing at the top of the world yearn for this unattainable title. The unfounded title of being the best in the world is undoubtedly an insult to the pursuits and dreams of martial artists all over the world. No one will agree to it!
Therefore, Liu Mang boldly guessed that Dongfang Bubai should at least defeat Shaolin Fangzheng and Wudang Chongxu.

These two people are masters of the previous generation of Ren Woxing, Dongfang Bubai, Zuo Lengchan. In their era, except for the missing Feng Qingyang, the two of them were the strongest people in the world!
If Dongfang Bubai wants to become the best in the world, it is naturally impossible for him to be invincible only among his peers. Fang Zheng and Chongxu, the two martial arts monuments of the previous generation, are also opponents he needs to overcome!

Moreover, these two people already have very exaggerated battle records. If he defeats them, he will be able to directly obtain the record of the two people suppressing the martial arts world for decades. When the time comes, let the facts speak for themselves, who can deny that he is the best in the world?

All this takes time. Dongfang Bubai, who just came out of retreat, does not have the strength to be invincible. He can only suppress Ren Woxing when he is possessed by the devil. He may be stronger than Ren Woxing, but he is also extremely powerful. There is a big possibility of a big overturn when fighting two old coins. It is likely that he will need several months to improve the Sunflower Manual until he can truly achieve great success and enter the peerless world!

So, he probably still has more than two years, which is enough for him to improve the Thirteen Guardians' horizontal training to the highest level. He may not be able to defeat Dongfang Bubai by then, but he can make him doubt his life and disgust him away!
Besides, Dongfang Bubai might not come to kill him. This guy had some psychological problems after he castrated himself. In the original novel, after becoming invincible, he was lonely as snow. He felt that his life had reached its peak. All his ambitions were swept away, and he was only interested in embroidering and flirting in Heimu Cliff. He just killed his people and robbed his money, but he didn't burn his embroidery or kill her husband. He wouldn't run all the way from Heimu Cliff to kill him, right?

Liu Mang was laughing in his heart, all the pressure was gone. It was obvious that he was relying on luck!

The subsequent battles became increasingly simple. With six second-rate fighters of decent strength, he divided his troops into three groups, one himself and the other three of the six priests.

The notorious and vicious ones were handed over to the two groups of priests, who beat them to death.

If they have a bottom line and a decent reputation, he will personally go to their homes to beat them into submission and take them away, regardless of whether they are willing or not. If they don't serve him, they will eat his knife. It is impossible for them to leave. They want to leave after offending your chief escort Lin? Fortunately, everyone is very sensible.

Another month passed, and Liu Mang completed the cleansing of the people on the list and recruited 16 second-rate priests. At the same time, the reputation of Lin Zhennan's Luoying Divine Sword became even more famous. In the past two months, he fought in ten provinces, and countless famous masters died in his hands. His record was so brilliant that even the heads of the Five Mountains Sword Sects combined were not as good as his. He deserved the title of the best sword in the world!

Lin Zhennan's two bloody crusades also let the people of Jianghu know his vengeful character. Many forces just collected his tolls. He took the initiative to send them the gifts during the New Year and other festivals. Now he actually came to kill them. He was really unkind! Fortunately, he killed the evil gangsters, otherwise he would have been labeled a thief of the evil sect!
At a time when the Luoying Divine Sword was at its peak, the ten major branches of the Fuwei Escort Agency simultaneously announced to the outside world that an open challenge competition would be held in Fuzhou City on October 10. Lin Zhennan, the world's number one swordsman, would personally defend the ring and welcome challenges from masters from all sides. If one gained the favor of the chief escort, he could become a servant of the Fuwei Escort Agency and receive personal guidance from the chief escort, as well as enjoy an additional monthly salary of one hundred taels of silver!
As soon as the news came out, the martial arts world was in an uproar! For most people below the first-rate level, the personal guidance of the world's number one swordsman is extremely precious, and they are happy to pay one thousand taels for one guidance.

And Fuwei Escort Agency not only does not charge money, but also gives money!!!

Shit! This isn't a worship, this is clearly a disciple! Why don't you hurry up and grab a position?

As a result, on October 10, the city of Fuzhou was blocked by water.

I can't find out how Dongfang Bubai became the best in the world, so I made it up (ω)

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