My wife is the stand-in.

"Amanosaki's name is being discussed in all the branch halls across the country. Today is a special occasion, and we would like to ask you to teach these juniors a lesson and put an end to their arrogance!"

The Wudang leaders who had previously pretended to be deaf and dumb suddenly became sharp-eyed and started talking to persuade him.

This put Amanosaki in a difficult position.

He had been eyeing it for a long time, and now that he heard the branch leader speak, his fingers were already rubbing together with excitement.

Amanosaki looked at Utaha with his eyes.

He felt that his brain wasn't big enough.

Feeling the man's gaze, Kasumigaoka Utaha scratched her cheek with her neatly trimmed nails.

"Go if you want to."

He spoke casually, but intense emotions surged through Amanosaki's mind:

"Hurry up! I'm stuck on this writer's block; I'm currently writing the part where Icarus battles the Transformers! Make sure you watch carefully how the heroes handle their weapons and the explosion scenes!"

"Icarus and Transformers? What the heck..." Amanosaki muttered, thinking to himself, "This is even worse than 'Calabash Brothers vs. Transformers'."

"What do you know? All the Transformers here have been anthropomorphized into girls... By the way, when you get back from the game, draw me some pictures of mecha girls so I can paste them in."

So Amanosaki agreed.

He picked up the Spear of Longchinus and was about to descend from the platform when a deafening explosion came from the river.

A mushroom cloud slowly rose into the sky. Amidst the cheers of the heroes and the audience, the heroes who had received their ammunition replenishment began to operate their weapons!

"Um...can I go to the restroom first?"

Amanosaki looked at the scene that resembled a battle and turned his head to ask.

His response was met with a group of smiling old men and Shi Yu's indifferent gaze with her chin held high.

"That's impossible..."

Amanosaki shook his head with a wry smile, took a piece of mung bean pastry and put it in his mouth, then disappeared into the noisy crowd.

As if to celebrate his downfall, loudspeakers placed around Taiji Lake blared out rousing suona music!

"Find a few people with good memories and have them write down the entire process of him using the weapon!"

Wang Ze used the excuse of drinking tea to quietly pass a message to the person next to him.

Chapter 119: Brothers, grab your weapons and charge!

Logically speaking, Amanosaki, wielding a large, flashy, and beautifully crafted all-metal gun, should have been the center of attention.

People treat him like a street performer, so it's understandable that they'd give him a few coins as a tip.

But in fact, this did not happen.

Aside from carrying the gun upside down to prevent the tip from injuring anyone, Amanosaki was upright and honest in his conduct. When walking through a crowded place, he would hold onto the shoulders of passersby and push them aside.

Those people looked around suspiciously, rubbing their shoulders and muttering "strange," completely unaware of Amanosaki's conspicuous presence.

Jewel Magic - Stealth

With a casual toss of quartz powder, Amanosaki swaggered over to the riverbank.

Amanosaki's magic trick was poorly prepared, only effective against ordinary people, and wouldn't fool the swordsman. But that suited him perfectly.

Wang Ze, who was on the high platform, saw this scene and felt quite envious.

There is one most significant difference between innate and acquired factors.

That means that most innate abilities are limited; for example, fire-based abilities can only be used to play with fire, and cannot be used for stealth.

The path taken in later generations is more complete and well-established because it is passed down and developed by each generation.

For example, the various schools of Wudang Mountain all originate from Taoism, and their cultivation systems are derived from the same school, but due to their different philosophies, they have developed different focuses.

Some excel at direct combat, their pinnacle of skill being the legendary swordsman Jie Laobin. Others are adept at alchemy and medicine, possessing miraculous healing abilities. Some are skilled in movement and footwork, appearing and disappearing without a trace. Some are skilled in drawing talismans and casting spells, specializing in dealing with spirits and the dead; some even reach the pinnacle of this skill in other provinces, able to command drought demons and vengeful ghosts.

Wang Zegui, as the guard of the Wudang branch and the brother of the Wudang Mountain Master, naturally saw at a glance that Amanosaki's magic was something he had learned later.

With both innate and acquired qualities, the future is promising.

"This is the advantage of having superpowers. Although my own superpowers are a weakness, I can learn acquired techniques to make up for it. It's truly a blessing in disguise."

So he picked up his teacup again, covering his lips with the lid: "Those who leave, put aside your abilities for now, find someone with a calm and detached nature, and don't repeat Zhang Yiyi's mistakes."

"understood."

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As soon as Amanosaki stepped off the breakwater, the soldier who had been recording weapons test data on the embankment immediately stood up tensely, his fingers resting on his holster, one hand raised:

"Military control. Unauthorized personnel are prohibited from approaching!"

The three soldiers and two civilians felt a little deflated when they saw the muscular, handsome man carrying a large gun.

Amanosaki today is a completely different person from what he was ten days ago.

As the old saying goes, one's position influences one's aura. After several days of life-or-death battles and having met three branch leaders and provincial bigwigs, Amano Saki's aura and confidence had greatly increased. He walked with a powerful stride and looked down on heroes with disdain.

Moreover, he was tall and imposing, with a handsome appearance and an air of nobility; standing on the breakwater, he exuded an aura of power.

Amanosaki was slightly taken aback when he saw that the three of them were frightened by him.

He figured they were probably on a military mission, and as a civilian, he had to explain the situation. After all, even on Earth, if he wandered off into the cordon of his hometown's military base, the armed police on duty would stop him.

This is a mission.

So he placed his hand on the gun and shouted out his self-introduction in a clear voice.

He explained his purpose and pointed to Wang Ze on the high platform, "I'm here on that person's orders, you see."

The soldier breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Wang Ze smiling and greeting him: "Do whatever you want, just don't get close to these instruments."

"I understand, I understand."

Amanosaki smiled and nodded, stepping into the river water that smelled of fish and blood.

After standing there for about two minutes, a speedboat stopped in front of him; it was carried by two knights-errant.

“Senior Amanosaki is not from Dongting Lake and cannot cross the river on a single reed. Therefore, the guard specially assigned the two of us to protect the speedboat and send the senior to teach those senior brothers a lesson.”

Amanosaki found this passage, written in a mix of classical and vernacular Chinese, quite unsettling.

He climbed onto the speedboat, pursing his lips, and said, "I'm not some senior, you can just call me by my name."

"Well... alright." The two exchanged a glance, but didn't insist, and quickly started the small boat.

"Wow, so handsome!"

"Look! Look! There's a chivalrous hero on the shore!"

The spectators on the shore spotted Amanosaki and the others, screaming excitedly and taking pictures. Seeing the rows of phones, Amanosaki awkwardly hid behind the two of them.

He still couldn't accept the way the world packaged chivalrous heroes as celebrities.

"Weren't there so many heroes just now? How come you're getting excited again after such a short time?"

The small boat sped off, deliberately circling in place. The two swordsmen, with refined smiles, waved gently to the audience on the shore before departing amidst screams of "Handsome guy, look at me!"

"The day before yesterday, Mr. Tian, ​​you may not know that the heroes of Wudang Mountain rarely come down the mountain. When they do come down, they dress like ordinary people and are hard to distinguish. So even though the people live at the foot of the mountain, they don't have many opportunities to get close to us."

The swordsman sitting opposite Amanosaki explained with a smile, clearly having done his homework and knowing that Amanosaki was a swordsman who knew nothing.

"It's so rare to see Wudang Mountain all out in force, so naturally everyone wants to take as many photos as possible."

"Are you really going to let them film you like monkeys?" Amanosaki was somewhat dissatisfied with their deliberate beating around the bush.

The swordsman chuckled, "Taking a few photos won't hurt me. As a member of Wudang, it's only natural to uphold Wudang's reputation. People don't like me; they like my clothes."

This chivalrous man had a very clear understanding of himself and was proud of Wudang.

The Wudang heroes that Amanosaki met today, from top to bottom, all spoke with great pride in Wudang, something that Yushan and Fengdu lacked.

Amanosaki remained silent. These two specially chosen heroes were also indifferent to fame and fortune and would not fawn over anyone, so the speedboat was exceptionally quiet, giving Amanosaki time to process the information.

As soon as the small boat left Taiji Lake, a series of muffled thuds came from the bottom of the boat.

Amanosaki looked up and met the swordsman's gaze: "So many?"

The swordsman pulled out his phone and started swiping. Amanosaki, watching this handsome man in ancient style carrying a Wudang sword and playing on his phone, felt somewhat out of place.

"According to intelligence from the branch, two Queen Fish have already been killed in Dongting Province, one in Wudang and the other in the Miluo River near Yueyang Tower. With the Queen Fish dead, her tribe's Four-Clawed Scaled Fish have lost control and will retaliate indiscriminately. Moreover, the entire province is in action, and blood is flowing everywhere. It is estimated that the other Queen Fish will also become restless... Be careful!"

The speedboat was thrown into the air by a huge wave. Amanosaki clung to the gunwale, his whole body falling outside the boat, surrounded by the stench of splashing river water and the roar of hundreds of tons of waves crashing in his ears.

He looked down and saw a gaping maw biting at his lower body!

Countless voices of excitement, surprise, envy, and anger resounded around Amanosaki.

"The Queen Fish has broken through the river! Brothers, grab your gear and start earning points!"

Chapter 120: What kind of battlefield atmosphere is this?

The waves crash against the shore, and the Queen Fish breaks through the river with tremendous force.

The rolling waves crashed against the breakwater, shattering the pale red mist mixed with blood, which then clumped together like flower petals.

Thousands of strange fish, disregarding the danger, surfaced and began to squeal and groan.

The spectators on the shore erupted in enthusiastic cheers, and the two groups, one on land and one in the water, roared and faced off as if locked in a standoff.

Dozens of drones took off and circled Taiji Lake and the Yangtze River, capturing the scene of people's frenzy.

"Kill! Kill all these sons of bitches!"

"Charge, Wudang!"

"Avenge the thousand-year-old blood feud of the people of the Yangtze River!"

"Take care of yourself, young man!"

A variety of shouts rose and fell, some fans felt sorry for their idol, some young people who had seen the news and learned about the mermaid's thousand-year-old wish shouted with red faces, and some children who did not understand kept cheering.

Compared to the four-clawed scaled fish that could only squeal, the humans on the other side had a deafening roar of loudspeakers, cannons, songs, and all sorts of cheering noise, giving them a significant advantage in terms of momentum.

Amanosaki gripped the gunwale, his left ear filled with the high-pitched screams of the strange fish, and his right ear with the cacophony of voices. His head was buzzing, and he couldn't find peace.