The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 426 How do you know Young Master's Star Shifting Divine Skill?
Dense, dark clouds filled the sky, blocking out the sun's intense heat, leaving only a bright patch of light for people on earth to admire.

On the lakeside outside Suzhou, near the pyramid at the feet of the Jade Fairy, where countless people kneel in worship, Deng Baichuan and his three companions surrounded Xu Xingchen, their eyes gleaming and their auras surging, their target firmly locked on Xu Xingchen.

The crowd kneeling on the ground around them, worshipping the Jade Fairy, completely ignored the dispute on their side, staring at the Jade Fairy as if bewitched.

Xu Xingchen remained calm, showing no concern whatsoever for the sudden encirclement by Deng Baichuan and his group, or their aggressive questioning.

His gaze calmly swept across the four faces, finally settling on Gongye Qian, and he asked with a faint smile, "Oh, you want to know the name of my Xiaoyao Sect's Holy Maiden?"

Gongye Qian frowned and asked doubtfully, "You mean... this jade statue is the Holy Maiden of your Xiaoyao Sect?"

“It should be said that,” Xu Xingchen shook his head and said very seriously, “this jade statue was carved in the likeness of our Xiaoyao Sect’s Holy Maiden.”

"Although I do not know the four of you, you appeared because of the jade statue of the Holy Maiden of the Free and Unfettered Sect, and you harbor ill intentions towards me."

"Could it be that you know the Holy Maiden of my Free and Unfettered Sect?"

"But this shouldn't be happening."

After hearing Xu Xingchen's words, not only Gongye Qian frowned, but Deng Baichuan, Bao Butong, and Feng Bo'e also frowned.

After a moment of silence.

Deng Baichuan said solemnly, "Is the Xiaoyao Sect a reclusive sect? Why have we never heard of it? Also, may I ask your name, Holy Maiden of the Xiaoyao Sect?"

"This is very impolite of you. How can we casually reveal the name of our Free and Unfettered Sect's Holy Maiden to outsiders?" Xu Xingchen looked at Deng Baichuan with displeasure and said coldly, "Speak, who exactly are you four? Why did you suddenly attack me? Do you really think my Free and Unfettered Sect is easy to bully?"

"What carefree sect? What saintess? I think it's all nonsense. Let's capture this kid first, then interrogate him thoroughly. We'll use every kind of torture imaginable, and I bet he won't tell the truth."

Bao Butong roared and pounced on Xu Xingchen like the wind. His hand shot out with lightning speed, carrying a powerful and heavy force, grabbing at several major acupoints on Xu Xingchen's chest.
Having roamed the martial arts world for so many years, Bao Butong possessed extraordinary martial arts skills, making him a formidable figure wherever he went.

In his mind, no matter how skilled the young man in front of him was, how skilled could he be?

If the opponent is not a match for me, I can easily defeat him.

If the opponent's martial arts skills are superior to his, he will at most be at a disadvantage; however, at that time, his three brothers will surely come to his aid.

The result was the same: they captured the young man in front of them!

No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't possibly suffer a loss.

However, while Bao Butong's idea was good and his attack was swift, things developed far beyond his expectations.

Xu Xingchen remained calm, and with a flick of her wrist, her hand silently landed on his arm.

With a gentle pull and shift.

Bao Butong's hand, which was reaching for Xu Xingchen's chest, immediately turned around and fiercely struck his own chest.

With a muffled groan, Bao Butong was sent flying backward, crashing to the ground several feet away.

I felt that my breathing was not smooth at several acupoints in my chest, and I could not move my body for a while.

Fortunately, when he made his move, he only intended to grab a few key acupoints on Xu Xingchen's chest and did not use excessive force.

Otherwise, he wouldn't just be lying on the ground unable to move; he would be suffering from a broken sternum and internal organ concussions.

Deng Baichuan, Gongye Qian, and Feng Bo'e, who were standing to the side, saw their brother being sent flying as soon as he made a move; the speed was so fast that they didn't even see what happened in between.

Their expressions changed drastically. They subconsciously realized that the young man they had surrounded was more skilled in martial arts than they had imagined. Without hesitation, they attacked the young man in the middle.

Deng Baichuan's hands, carrying a violent gust of wind, slapped towards Xu Xingchen's shoulders.

Gongye Qianren possessed profound internal strength and extraordinary palm techniques. His body spun like the wind as he struck Xu Xingchen's waist with a palm.

Feng Bo'e's right leg materialized into a shadow as he swiftly kicked Xu Xingchen's knee, while his right hand simultaneously slashed out, aiming directly at Xu Xingchen's neck.

Of the three, Deng Baichuan and Gongye Qian possessed the deepest skills and the most powerful palm techniques, making them comparable to elders of renowned sects in the martial arts world.

Feng Bo'e's martial arts skills were somewhat lacking, but he was still a renowned master in the martial arts world; he was unstoppable in his daily life among those mountain bandits and robbers, able to enter and exit seven times in a row.

When these three attack together, even their young master has to take it seriously.

Facing the young man before them, they didn't think they would fail.

Because there are very few top-tier masters like their young master in the martial arts world.

They wouldn't have expected to be unlucky enough to run into one of them. However, the next moment...
All of their ideas will then change!
Faced with attacks from all directions, Xu Xingchen staggered, her hands moving as gently as if she were catching butterflies or dragonflies fluttering in the air, pulling and shifting, using their strength against them, and shifting between yin and yang.

Immediately afterwards, the dull thuds of fists and palms striking flesh were heard.

See
Feng Bo'e kicked Gongye Qian's right knee, and at the same time struck Gongye Qian's neck with his palm.

Gongye Qian's palm, spinning like the wind, struck Deng Baichuan below the waist.

Deng Baichuan's powerful palm slammed into the left shoulder of his fourth brother, Feng Bo'e.

When these three attacked, they used considerable strength in order to take down the young man in front of them in one fell swoop.

Now, the three of them struck each other's brothers, and the force exploded, sending all three flying three zhang away.

Amidst screams and muffled groans
Gongye Qian's right knee was visibly deformed and twisted; he was struck on the neck by his fourth brother, which made him dizzy, his vision blurred, and he fainted.

Deng Baichuan had several broken bones in his waist and ribs; his internal organs suffered a severe blow, and his face turned red and white in turns. He spat out a mouthful of blood onto the ground beside him.

The clothes on Feng Bo'e's left shoulder turned into fluttering butterflies, revealing a swollen, blue handprint. His entire arm hung limply, unable to move.

In just a fleeting moment.

Murong Fu's four retainers fell to the ground together.

Apart from Feng Bo'e, who injured himself by striking several acupoints on his chest and was unable to move, the other three were all seriously injured.

The astonishing scene of the attack starting suddenly and ending even more suddenly left the group of martial arts masters standing behind the kneeling crowd speechless and incredulous.

Deng Baichuan and his three companions were all locals from Suzhou.

Within a radius of a hundred miles, among the gangs, martial arts figures, and renowned figures in the martial arts world, who doesn't know these four?

Did you not see that they were having dinner at the restaurant last night, and the innkeeper greeted them with a beaming smile?

When the local gangs saw the four of them, they would either avoid them from a distance or offer a few words of flattery, not daring to offend them at all.

Wherever the four of them went, they were always honored guests, treated like martial arts masters who were revered and respected.

Now, these four renowned masters have been defeated in a single move by a young man who appeared out of nowhere.
Such an abnormal event is simply unimaginable, incomprehensible, and unbelievable.

Even after witnessing it with their own eyes, they still found it hard to believe.

They would rather doubt their own eyes and think they were hallucinating than believe the facts before them.

Because, given their knowledge and martial arts skills, it was hard to imagine that anyone in the world could defeat the combined attack of four masters—Deng Baichuan, Gongye Qian, Bao Butong, and Feng Bo'e—in a single move.

This is like a fairy tale, unbelievable!

However, let alone the outsiders in the martial arts world, they couldn't believe what they were seeing.

The four people lying on the ground—no, one of them had fainted.
Even Deng Baichuan, Bao Butong, and Feng Bo'e couldn't believe that they would be defeated in one move.

What shocked, disbelieved, and incredulous them even more was that the one who defeated the four of them was none other than their own brothers' fist and foot techniques.
Deng Baichuan struggled to his feet, his eyes filled with fear, terror, and disbelief as he looked at Xu Xingchen. His voice trembled as he spoke: "The martial art you just used, was it Young Master's 'Using their own methods against them' Dou Zhuan Xing Yi Divine Skill?"

Bao Butong lay on the ground, unable to move, but his expression never stopped changing, shifting like a storm, his eyes bulging as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.

Using his left arm to push himself up, Feng Bo'e's face twitched, his eyes wide with disbelief. He couldn't help but shout, "No, this is impossible! How could you know Young Master's divine skill? Young Master's divine skill would never be passed on to outsiders!"

Xu Xingchen dusted off the dust that wasn't on his body, glanced at the two Murong family retainers lying on the ground and the two who had stood up, and said calmly, "What do you mean by 'using their own methods against them'? What do you mean by 'shifting stars and changing positions'? This is my Xiaoyao Sect's 'Great Shift of Heaven and Earth'!"

"Impossible!" Deng Baichuan's face was so solemn it could wring water out of it, and his voice was out of control, fierce and somewhat arbitrary: "There is no way there could be a divine skill in the world similar to your family's; who exactly are you? What kind of sect is your Xiaoyao Sect?"

Xu Xingchen looked up at the sky with an arrogant expression, his tone calm and composed, displaying Zhuang Boyi's imposing aura to the fullest: "My Xiaoyao Sect is the number one hidden sect in the world."

"The martial arts techniques of our sect are unparalleled in the world; no one can match them."

"Our sect's Langhuan Paradise houses martial arts manuals from all over the world, including even the Beggar Clan's Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, the Shaolin Temple's Yi Jin Jing, and the Dali Duan Family's One-Finger Divine Skill and Six-Meridian Divine Sword."

At this point, Xu Xingchen looked down at Deng Baichuan and the other three, calmly concluding his remarks: "The profound foundation of my Xiaoyao Sect is beyond the comprehension of you insignificant figures who dabble in the martial world."

"Today, considering that the four of you are unaware of the prestige of my Free and Unfettered Sect, I will spare your lives for now."

"You two, take those two and get out of here!"

(End of this chapter)