Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 117 The Man with His Own Background Music (Bonus Chapter for 600 Monthly Tickets, Released Early!)

It rang!

The background music started playing automatically!

Upon realizing who this man was, Cha Nan felt as if something in her DNA was about to awaken, and she immediately wanted to go over and unleash a set of the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms herself.

Of course, this time he really can, the kind that can unleash a dragon's roar... cough cough! With Cha Nan's current skill level, it's unrealistic to expect him to unleash a dragon's shadow with a single slap. Being able to produce a dragon's roar is already a testament to the powerful and domineering internal energy cultivated through the Heavenly Water Divine Skill.

The battle not far away quickly became one-sided; although one side had fewer people, the side with fewer people had an absolute advantage.

The Eighteen Riders of Yanyun surrounded Xiao Feng, using the gap they had created to continuously wield their curved swords, expanding their victory and routing the originally formidable Mongol cavalry, sending them scattering in all directions.

It was obvious that these eighteen riders were not only skilled in martial arts, but also very good at teamwork. The eighteen of them were like one, and their combined power was no less than that of hundreds of people.

"With Xiao Feng's martial arts skills, it's not surprising that he could win a crushing battle, but I really didn't expect that the Eighteen Riders of Yanyun who followed him could also cross the boundary gate and have such combat power! Eighteen first-class masters, is Xiao Feng, the Southern King, really that awesome? Or is it that first-class is finally going to become 'more than dogs'?" Cha Nan rode the Cloud Sea Deer, found a high place, and continued to overlook the battlefield situation, without rashly going over to intervene.

Ultimately, setting aside the advantages brought by the mythical beasts, Cha Nan's own strength is still inferior to any of the eighteen riders. He has only just secured his second-rate status!
If he jumps in at this point, it won't help; it will only make things worse.

If Xiao Feng were to casually slap him and kill him instantly, that would be even more unjust!

In fact, Cha Nan's question stemmed from his incomplete understanding of Xiao Feng's background, creating a cognitive blind spot.

Xiao Feng's original identity was that of the leader of the Beggars' Sect. He was the son of an ordinary farmer at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain. Before becoming the leader of the Beggars' Sect, his greatest background was that his master was the Shaolin monk Xuan Ku and the former leader of the Beggars' Sect, Wang Jiantong. However, after returning to the Liao Kingdom, he was surnamed Xiao, the Xiao of Empress Xiao. The Liao Kingdom had a total of nine emperors, and the empresses and empress dowagers of eight of them were all from the Xiao clan. What does this mean?
It is no exaggeration to say that Yelü and Xiao jointly ruled Liaodong.

After all, any emperor with a little political common sense knows that he cannot allow his maternal relatives to grow powerful and seize power. Even so, eight emperors still married daughters of the Xiao family, which can only mean that they had no choice but to do so!

Besides the fact that daughters of the Xiao family usually became empresses, the men of the Xiao family also often held important positions such as prime ministers in the Liao Dynasty, wielding military and political power. The Xiao family's vast fiefdoms and privileges within the Liao Dynasty made them almost like another royal family.

Therefore, Xiao Feng became the King of the Southern Court not only because he saved Yelü Hongji, but also because of his surname and the original identity of his father, Xiao Yuanshan.

Do you really think that you can just pick any Liao person and have a wolf's head tattooed on their chest?

If that were the case, Xiao Feng's identity would have been exposed long ago!
After all, Xiao Feng had killed at least 800 to 1,000 Liao people before, and he had never touched their corpses.
The Beggars' Sect disciples are known for their informality and often play in the mountain streams together. So, did any of them have any doubts after seeing the wolf's head?
It is highly likely that those who can tattoo a wolf's head on their chest belong to a branch of the Xiao clan that is in charge of military power. When Xiao Feng returned to the Liao Kingdom, he inherited this identity.

Without this identity, even if he saved Yelü Hongji ten times, he would never become the Southern King.

It's easy to understand why Xiao Feng's Eighteen Riders of Yanyun were all brave and fierce, and loyal to him.

They were originally from the Xiao clan, and may even have been retainers of Xiao Feng's lineage.

At this moment, Xiao Feng, along with his Eighteen Riders of Yanyun, had begun cleaning up the battlefield. They were erasing their traces, trying their best to prevent anyone who came to investigate later from being able to tell how many of them there were, what their equipment was, or what weapons they used.

Judging from their skillful technique, they have most likely done similar things many times before.

After the battlefield was cleaned up, the eighteen riders took away the warhorses left behind by the Mongol cavalry, leaving Xiao Feng alone on horseback heading towards Cha Nan.

"Here it comes! Here it comes! Swallowing the wind and kissing the rain, burying the setting sun, never wavering, defying mountains and chasing the sea, treading snowy paths, never despairing..." Cha Nan felt like she was about to burst into song!
Gradually, Cha Nan also got a clear look at Xiao Feng's appearance. He was tall and strong, with thick eyebrows, big eyes, a high nose and a wide mouth. He had a square face and exuded a fierce and powerful aura.

If Guo Jing elevated the concept of "chivalry," elevating it to the highest level—serving the country and its people—then Xiao Feng represents the pinnacle of chivalry, embodying the meaning of keeping one's word. For the sake of chivalry, he disregarded life and death, cared little for kings and nobles, and remained unrestrained, upright, and honorable.

"Is that Brother Cha, a disciple of the great hero Guo of Xiangyang City?" Xiao Feng asked, reining in his horse when he was about seven or eight meters away from Cha Nan.

This question surprised Cha Nan slightly. Was he that famous now? Even Xiao Feng knew who he was?

“It is indeed me, Cha Nan. How did you know?” Cha Nan asked.

Xiao Feng laughed and said, "Brother Cha burned down the Nanyang granary and did a great thing. Now, who in this martial world doesn't know about it?"

"I only dared to ask because I heard that Brother Cha can control strange beasts."

Hearing this, Cha Nan felt a little giddy.

There's no way around it; Xiao Feng was a childhood idol, and even if there's some exaggeration in his praise, it's hard to resist.

After all, the succubus in a woman's eyes and the succubus in a man's mind are often not the same thing.

"You're too kind! You're too kind! It was just a tiny bit of help! It's nothing... Haha! It's nothing!" Cha Nan's smile almost stretched to his ears, then he seemed to remember and asked, "May I ask your name, sir?"

Although he knew who it was, he still had to put on a show.

"I am Xiao Feng!" Xiao Feng said, clasping his hands in greeting, without mentioning any of his other identities.

Cha Nan said, "I saw that Hero Xiao was killing Mongol Tartars just now. Since that's the case, we are kindred spirits. I wonder if Hero Xiao would be willing to go to Xiangyang with me to fight against the Mongol Tartar invasion?"

Cha Nan's invitation wasn't something she made on a whim.

He realized that the Beggars' Sect was indeed leaderless. Even if Huang Rong took over as leader again, to be honest, she wasn't a very good leader in the early years. Now that Xiao Feng was there, perhaps he could go to Xiangyang to help manage it. He didn't expect to bring the Beggars' Sect back to its peak, but at least he could prevent it from being as leaky and disorganized as it is now.

Actually, setting aside the beggars' sect's appeal through the lens of heroes and heroines like Xiao Feng, Hong Qigong, and Huang Rong, if we seriously examine this supposedly largest gang in the world, it has always been quite awful!
Whether under Xiao Feng's command or under Hong Qigong's leadership, the Beggars' Clan was always rife with filth and treachery. However, these two periods were the peak of their chivalry.

After all, the basic composition of the Beggars' Sect determines that they cannot be too organized, disciplined, moral, or of high quality.

Huang Rong's so-called leadership of the Beggars' Sect in resisting the Mongols in Xiangyang City was actually more about using the Beggars' Sect's channels to gather information and transport supplies; she was doing logistical work.

The real main force of resistance was the recruited righteous people from all sides, as well as the Taihu group trained by Lu Chengfeng. That group was truly professional and well-trained, from the initial resistance against the Jin to the resistance against the Mongols.

"No need!" Xiao Feng shook his head directly in response to Cha Nan's invitation.

"We can be more effective if we stay outside the city and cause disturbances!" Xiao Feng added.

　I'm still three monthly passes away from reaching 600, and I'm getting impatient waiting, so I might as well post it now, hehe!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)