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Chapter 117 A Flower Hidden Beneath the Leaves!

"Ok?"

Both of their hearts stopped beating for a beat at the same time.

The sound was too close!
The alley was narrow, the wall was low, and the two people were only about ten feet apart.

The two quickly turned their heads, only to see Chen Zhan standing on the wall, staring silently.

Ma San was utterly horrified. When the hell did they arrive?
Even at a distance of one zhang, it couldn't be detected. Is the Transformation Realm truly that terrifying? Who knows how much water Gong Baotian had used back then?
Ma San was horrified, while Hao Mingqi was terrified.

He would never forget Chen Zhan's appearance.

The two brothers, even when they joined forces, were no match for each other. After ten moves, they knew that if they continued fighting, they would surely die. He and Gong Baotian had spent their whole lives together and had sparred countless times, but none of them could match the pressure Chen Zhan put on them.

That's why he disregarded everything, made Hou Fengwu a scapegoat, and then turned and left.

Now they've come knocking again.
What should I do?
Hao Mingqi's old face was full of worry as he frantically thought of ways to escape. He knew he couldn't outrun a Grandmaster of Internal Energy.

He glanced at Gong Ruomei, then looked at Chen Zhan.

The two men, having mingled together and followed him here, thought to themselves, 'Gong Baotian probably told Gong Ruomei about the Eight Pieces of Brocade; the two aren't just after the murder, they also want to steal the credit.'

His mind raced, and he instantly understood the reason and came up with a solution.

He raised the scroll in his hand.

"If you let me go, I promise I will never return to Fengtian. Otherwise, with a single burst of power, this divine skill will shatter into countless pieces."

Hao Mingqi believed his move was incredibly clever; someone as obsessed with martial arts as Chen Zhan would never allow him to destroy the "Eight Pieces of Brocade for Internal Strengthening."

Chen Zhan glanced at it and saw that he was holding something that looked like a scroll in his hand. He thought to himself, "Is this the boxing manual?"
The name "Neizhuang Baduanjin" sounds familiar, but I can't quite place it right now.

However, it's unlikely to be a fake. The two of them took such a big risk; this thing must be useful.

Chen Zhan nodded: "Okay, give me the things, and if you leave Fengtian, I won't hunt you down to the ends of the earth."

Ma San was stunned for a moment. Hao Mingqi had sold him again!

He left, and he knew the two of them were doomed.

"You! That thing is mine!"

Ma San reached out to grab it, but Hao Mingqi took a step back to dodge Ma San's outstretched palm. However, Ma San was proficient in monkey-style fighting and forcibly stretched his arms, extending them to grab Hao Mingqi's wrist.

A hidden force thrust.

Hao Mingqi felt the pain, but he couldn't give up. He switched the scroll from his left hand to his right, making it trace an arc in the air before throwing it to his right hand.

At the same time, he shouted, "If you keep trying to take it, nobody gets it!"

However, as he said this, he felt that the scroll was still in his hand, but at that moment the gun went off!
"Bang! Bang!"

The two men were startled by the two shots fired in the middle of the night, but they soon realized that the shots were not aimed at them. One shot hit the bottom of the scroll, and the other shot grazed the scroll.

The force was just right.

Chen Zhan leaped up, his azure dragon claws reaching out to grab the scroll in his hand.

"Unfortunately, you have no more bargaining chips now," Chen Zhan said with a smile.

Hao Mingqi and Ma San's faces darkened. Ma San didn't move. He knew that running was useless. There were gunmen in the distance with unprecedented marksmanship, and Chen Zhan, a master expert, was nearby.

But Hao Mingqi had already panicked.

He flipped over and left, displaying the agility and movement of the Fanziquan style to its fullest extent, and in the blink of an eye, he had already crossed two alleys.

"This is yours. If you die, everything in the Gong family will be mine." Chen Zhan said to Gong Ruomei, then leaped away and chased after Hao Mingqi.

This person must be killed.

Even if Ma San doesn't die, he will.

Hao Mingqi had already panicked and was going in the wrong direction. He should have run towards the city center, to a place with many people, so that Chen Zhan wouldn't be able to kill him in public.

But at this moment, his direction was towards the outside of the city.

Can you outlast a master of internal energy cultivation?

Chen Zhan even had time to hand the scroll to Ye Ningzhen, turn around and chase again. He lunged forward, covering more than ten meters in one leap. From hidden strength to transformed strength, especially after entering the transformed strength for a long time, he could use any part of his body to exert force at will, a whole force.

It is twice as fast as the hidden force.

I wonder how fast one can leap forward once they reach the Elixir Embracing stage.

However, after running for half an incense stick's time, Hao Mingqi's stamina was exhausted. His heart and lungs were crying for help, and only the will to survive controlled his body. The old man in his sixties had only run more than ten miles in half an incense stick's time.

Chen Zhan was too lazy to dawdle with him any longer, lest things change. He threw a jujube-shaped nail from a flying locust stone and hit him in the back of the knee.

He stumbled and fell to the ground.

Chen Zhanwang descended from the sky, trampled by a divine elephant, which broke both of his legs with a single stomp.

"Don't run away?"

"Can you... spare me? I'll give you all the secret manuals of the sect, and I'll become your informant for the Japanese. Yes, a double agent! I'm useful! I'm useful!"

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Zhan bent down and reached out, unleashing a burst of hidden power that shattered his heart meridian.

They did not choose an overly bloody method.

The murder of Hao Mingqi cannot be kept secret, nor can it be done with the same cruelty as his other identity; the Japanese are not stupid.

Chen Zhan quickly returned, and Gong Er had already engaged Ma San in combat.

Both were dressed in black; Ma San was in night clothes, while Gong Er wore a long black robe. As they fought, the two black figures clashed.

Gong Er's main skill is Bagua, so he uses a rolling fighting style with many footwork movements and flexible hooking and swinging. Ma San's main skill is Xingyi, which emphasizes power, is straightforward, and uses ruthless moves such as drilling, collapsing, cannoning, and horizontal.

Therefore, Gong Er attacked around Ma San, while Ma San focused on defense.

Like a dragon and a tiger clashing their teeth, Ma San suddenly stomped on the cracked bricks with his right foot, and then kicked out with a Xingyi-style foot strike to the shin, while at the same time his left palm bent into the shape of a hawk and pierced straight into the throat.

This is turning a gun into a fist; the sound of the palm cutting through the air is as sharp as the shadow of a gun.

The attack came suddenly, a surprise attack during a defensive maneuver. This is characteristic of Xingyi Quan – quick, numerous, and fierce changes of moves. Gong Er was not surprised. She spun around as if walking on ice, executed the Bagua Palm, and with a flick of her forearm, blocked the spear, which produced a metallic clang.

As the moonlight trembled, the two passed each other. Gong Er's left sleeve swept down to Ma San's front, and Ma San's fingernail scratched the air near Gong Er's ear.

"Dangdangdang~"

The two buttons on Ma Sanjin's jacket rolled off, the sound of which was very noticeable in the quiet night.

Gong Er, on the other hand, lost a strand of hair.

After their exchange, despite the perilous nature of the fight, both fighters were determined to kill each other, yet neither was injured.

"Junior sister, if you want my life, don't blame your senior brother for taking you down with him."

Ma San stomped his right foot on the ground with a loud "thud," causing snowflakes to fall from the wall. Suddenly, his right fist shot out, a half-step Beng Quan (a powerful punch), fiercely aimed at Gong Er's face. The fist, carrying snowflakes, was like a battering ram.

Gong Er neither dodged nor avoided, but instead took half a step forward, taking the initiative to meet the Half Step Collapse.

Chen Zhan taught her how to counter this move!

Dodging is the worst strategy, because the Half-Step Collapse is not just a single move; it can be launched indefinitely. Take a half-step, throw a punch, take another half-step, throw another punch, and each punch reaches its peak, with the momentum building up, making it impossible to continuously defend against.

Instead of dodging backward, Gong Er spun around in the wind of Ma San's punch, using the Mud-Walking Step to form a small circle, and ended up on Ma San's right side.

She slid her right hand out, her palm pressed against Ma San's fist and wrist, gently smoothing along his force, like unwinding a taut string!
An inner force surged forth, his hand transformed into an eagle's claw, and he pulled back with the momentum.

"Tear~"

With this grab and pull, coupled with the surge of hidden strength, if the grip were firm, Ma San's arm would be crippled, or at least his tendons would be torn apart.

But Ma San was also a seasoned fighter, and sensing the hidden force in Gong Er's hands, he quickly changed his move.

With a flick of his wrist, the rooster shook its feathers.

He forcefully flung Gong Er's eagle claws away by half an inch, leaving only five bloody marks, without even drawing blood.

But it was enough to shock Ma San. This move to counter the Half-Step Crushing Fist was indeed powerful, and it probably wasn't Gong Er's idea.

"The Eight Trigrams say to use movement as a means of attack, but I'm going to fight head-on and advance forcefully," Gong Er's voice came from beside Ma San.

Moreover, she didn't stop walking; her strides became smaller and smaller, trapping Ma San in the middle.

Ma San lowered his waist and twisted his hips, changing to a chopping fist. He pressed his fist down, wanting to smash Gong Er's shoulder. Xingyi Quan emphasizes "rising like a steel file and falling like a hook." This punch carried his twenty years of skill, enough to shatter even a stone.

Gong Er stopped dodging at this moment. When Ma San's fist was halfway through the air, she suddenly lowered her body, like a monkey stopping, and became much smaller.

Ma San's punch missed, and Gong Er stood up just in time to meet Ma San's punch before he could retract it, and leaned in to meet it!

She squeezed herself into Ma San's arms.

Gong Er wasn't tall, and when she squeezed into Ma San's arms, it looked like an embrace from a distance, but in reality, murderous intent surged. Ma San didn't feel any sense of having a beauty in his arms; instead, he felt a surging sense of danger.

Gong Er made a sudden impact, which was blocked by Ma San's other hand, but this was not a killing move.

Gong Er exhaled and shouted: "Die!"

Like a fish escaping a net, the Bagua symbol breaks free and shifts in shadow. For some reason, the two are very close, and Gong Er can even take out her hands and, from bottom to top, perform the Heavenly King Holding a Pagoda style!

This is the old ape hanging its seal!

Ma San was very familiar with it! He leaned back to dodge the push from the hanging seal, then thrust his knee to strike, but the old ape turned and struck back!
He can also hang the seal like an old ape, and he's even more skilled at it!

But Gong Er ignored the knee strike.

As he thrust his knee into her abdomen, the force of the blow was immense. Just as the two were about to separate, Gong Er finally unleashed her killing move!
With palms forming rainbows, he gently touched his chest, his hands entering the serpent flower dew—a skillful and ingenious act.

Gong Er's skillful hands, seemingly gently pressing on Ma San's chest, were actually extremely fierce!

Both internal and external force erupt simultaneously.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

Gong Er was sent flying more than ten feet away, but this move was hastily executed by Ma San and the force was not fully exerted.

It only broke two of her ribs.

But she pressed down firmly with both palms.

Ma San's body suddenly dropped, not because he crouched down, but because Gong Er pressed him down with the force of her two palms!
"Pfft~"

Ma San coughed up a mouthful of blood. His sternum was shattered in countless pieces, the fragments piercing his internal organs, including his lungs and heart.

"A flower hidden beneath the leaves! You never intended to use the Old Ape Hanging Seal from the beginning! Hanging the seal was a feint; the real purpose was to hide the flower!"

He instantly understood. If Gong Er was changing her move, she couldn't have been so fierce in such a hurry. This meant that the Hanging Seal Push Neck was a feint from the beginning, waiting for him to lean back and dodge, while the hidden Bagua Double Palm Strike directly pierced through his sternum.

Gong Er had broken her ribs, but she seemed unaffected. She walked forward quietly and saw Ma San lying in the snowdrift.

Blood was coming from his mouth and nose.

“Senior brother, my father taught you the Old Ape Hanging Seal and Looking Back, but you only learned the first half. You don’t know that looking back is the key.”

"That day I understood the hurdle of looking back, so I stopped being bound by formalities. If the Gong family continued down this path, wouldn't it just lead to their doom? It's better to look back."

Gong Er murmured, it was unclear whether she was speaking to Ma San or to herself.

Ma San's chest was caved in, his internal organs were ruptured, he was barely breathing, and his voice was hoarse.

“Junior sister, actually, after fighting Master that day, I understood why he held back. It's a pity, a pity, I can't turn back. Better to be still than to stop, and I can't stop now.”

"I'm leaving now. I'll apologize to my master when I see him down there!"

After saying that, Ma San waved his hand and severed his own heart meridian with a single palm strike.

Chen Zhan and Ye Ningzhen stepped forward. "Let's go, let's get out of the city first. The Japanese are investigating Ma San's death, and you can't escape responsibility. But you should have a way to deal with it, right?"

Gong Er nodded: "It's alright, it's just a feud in the martial arts world, the Japanese wouldn't dare to do anything."

The three of them left the city overnight and found a grove to rest in for the night.

(End of this chapter)