The Counterattack of the Villains

After Li Chungang and Zhao Xituan all came down the mountain, Zhao Danping ordered his disciples to clean up the mess and pick up the swords all over the ground, while he went to the back of Tianshi Mansion.

Arriving at a remote hall, the door opened immediately before Zhao Danping could speak.

A cute and adorable child with red lips and white teeth walked out of the hall.

However, this child, who looked to be only six or seven years old, was wearing a Celestial Master's robe, and it was the most noble "Deluo" Taoist robe with black background and yellow stripes among the Celestial Master's robes.

This child is none other than the founder of Longhu Mountain, Zhao Xuansu, who seems to have regained his youth, but is actually about to run out of energy.

He walked slowly to Zhao Danping and looked at him without saying a word.

Zhao Danping cupped his fists and bowed, saying respectfully: "We tested in front of the palace. Unexpectedly, Li Chungang has returned to the realm of land swordsman."

Zhao Xuansu spoke slowly, with a childlike appearance but an old voice: "Even so, do you still want to kill Xu Fengnian?"

Zhao Danping straightened up and said solemnly: "Unless Xu Fengnian dies, Wudang will surely rise."

"But he must not die in Longhu Mountain, nor can people think that he has anything to do with Longhu Mountain. We will not accept Xu Xiao's anger."

Zhao Xuansu looked at Zhao Danping indifferently and said in a low voice: "All the big troubles are thrown on my head."

"Grandmaster..." Seeing that Zhao Xuansu was dissatisfied, Zhao Danping hurriedly clasped his fists and bowed again, saying: "Grandmaster's skills have become profound and your form has returned to that of a young man. I'm afraid no one in the world will be able to recognize your identity."

Zhao Xuansu frowned, looked at Zhao Danping with narrowed eyes, and said in a serious voice: "Force me to go down the mountain?"

Zhao Danping was frightened and said with some determination: "Grandmaster, the fate of Longhu Mountain for the next hundred years can only be entrusted to the Patriarch."

Zhao Xuansu looked at him deeply, then passed him and walked towards the top of the mountain near the Shejiang River.

…

Since Zhao Xuansu knew that there was a celestial being in Beiliang's team and could easily see through his background, he did not dare to impersonate Xu Xiao's illegitimate son and get on Beiliang's ship as in the original plot.

He just followed them all the way secretly. No matter how he operated, as long as he could follow them to Emperor Wu City, it would be success.

As for killing Xu Fengnian, it was just a matter of convenience. If you have the chance, kill him. If you don't have the chance, just forget it.

Anyway, his main purpose was to break open the Heavenly Gate while Li Chungang or someone else was fighting Wang Xianzhi, and take the opportunity to ascend to the upper world.

The Beiliang team went down the river, went to Shangyin Academy, met Xu Weixiong for a while, and then went straight to Emperor Wu City.

The purpose of Xu Weixiong staying in Shangyin Academy and marrying Xu Zhihu to Jiangnan was to recruit political talents for Beiliang.

The students of Shangyin Academy are different from the Jiangnan Taoist scholars who can only talk. Shangyin Academy pays the most attention to practice, and the students who come out from here are basically doers.

Therefore, Xu Fengnian did not persuade Xu Weixiong to insist on staying in Shangyin Academy. It would not be too late to wait until he officially took over Xu Ziqi to take his second sister home.

Emperor Wu City is located near the seaport of Shejiang River. It was built close to the sea. After more than half a month, you can finally see the outer city wall of the city.

"Borrowing the river and entering the sea, this journey has finally reached its end." Standing on the bow of the boat, Xu Fengnian was filled with emotion as he looked at the majestic city.

He pointed to the various weapons on the city wall and asked Li Chungang: "Old Li, what is the condition of those weapons on the city wall?"

Li Chungang looked at the city wall from a distance and explained: "Over the past decades, countless martial arts masters have come to the city to fight, but no one can defeat Wang Xianzhi. On this city wall are the weapons left by the losers."

Xu Fengnian narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the hundreds of weapons, and said in a solemn voice: "Old Huang's sword box is right there."

Zheng Zha patted him on the shoulder and said: "After entering the city, you can go get the sword box and leave the rest to us."

Xu Fengnian nodded slowly, and Zheng Zha said to Li Chungang: "Old Li, you and Wang Xianzhi are probably even the same."

"Now if you can avoid a big fight, try not to fight. Leave Wang Xianzhi to me. Today I will make him the second best in the world and fully live up to his reputation."

Defeat Wang Xianzhi and become the best in the world. This is an A-level side story mission, so Zheng Zha must take the initiative to take it.

Li Chungang knew that Zheng Zha had good intentions and did not refuse, because it really didn't make much sense for him to fight Wang Xianzhi.

In the original plot, he took action just to restrain Wang Xianzhi so that Xu Fengnian could take away Lao Huang's sword box.

But now that Zheng Zha is taking care of it, there is no need for him to fight this meaningless battle.

In fact, he was able to kill Wang Xianzhi twenty years ago.

It was only out of pity that he did not use the sword to open the heavenly gate, allowing Wang Xianzhi to seize the opportunity to break the wooden horse and the ox in one fell swoop, defeating him.

In terms of comprehensive combat power, Li Chunggang is superior to Wang Xianzhi, but if he only competes in terms of moves, he is not as good as Wang Xianzhi.

To sum up, in a normal fight, he is half as good as Wang Xianzhi, but in a life and death fight, he can kill Wang Xianzhi.

Wang Xianzhi obviously understands this very well, so he always considers himself second in the world.

In the eyes of the people in the world, Wang Xianzhi is deliberately showing off, implying that if he claims to be second, no one in the world will dare to claim to be first.

But in Wang Xianzhi's mind, the real number one in the world has always been Li Chungang.

…

Although Emperor Wu's City is within the territory of the Liyang Dynasty, it is not under the jurisdiction of the Liyang Dynasty. It is independent from the dynasty, and its status is somewhat similar to the Vatican in Italy.

There are no guards at the city gates here. Whether you are a merchant, a pawn or a prince, you can come in and out at will. No one cares about how you enter the city. It doesn't matter whether you ride a horse or walk, jump or crawl into the city.

Since Wang Xianzhi became the city lord, Emperor Wu City has never opened its doors to welcome guests. Even when the emperor who unified the Spring and Autumn Period entered the city, the second best emperor in the world never came out of the inner city to welcome guests.

The streets in the city are bustling with cars and horses, and there is a steady flow of people. There are many shops on both sides of the road.

After entering the city, Xu Fengnian didn't pay attention to anything. His state at this time was very strange, as if there was someone in front of him, leading him somewhere.

It was obviously my first time to visit Emperor Wu City, but I felt inexplicably familiar with this city.

He walked forward along the street step by step without saying a word. Everyone who followed him felt something strange, but no one spoke and just followed him silently.

After walking for about a cup of tea and twisting and turning, they finally came to a wine shop.

Xu Fengnian paused, looked at the wine shop intently, and said without looking back: "Madam, please lend me a few pennies."

Luo Li didn't say anything, she took out a handful of copper coins from the money bag at her waist and put it in Xu Fengnian's hand.

Xu Fengnian held the handful of copper coins and walked straight towards the wine shop, but the others did not follow him because they all understood that he needed some space at this time.

"Your front teeth are broken, and you still love eating peanuts so much. You don't have a good alcohol tolerance. You drank two ounces of yellow rice wine for so long..."

Xu Fengnian was sitting at the table in the wine shop. There were two wine bowls on the table, one in front of him and one opposite.

At this time, it was as if there was another person sitting across from him. Xu Fengnian looked at the empty opposite side and talked nonchalantly.

Everyone in Beiliang listened to his ramble, and their noses felt a little sore without even realizing it.

Xu Zhihu and Qingniao's eyes were red with tears in their eyes. Perhaps they were the only two people present who understood the meaning of Lao Huang to Xu Fengnian best.

Because they are the only ones who have witnessed every detail of Xu Fengnian and Lao Huang from childhood to adulthood.

After a while, Zheng Zha saw that Xu Fengnian seemed a little crazy, so he took the initiative to walk into the wine shop, raised his hand and put his hand on his shoulder, and said warmly: "Old Huang has left, you can't go crazy now."

As if waking up from a dream, Xu Fengnian turned his head and looked around in a daze, then smiled to himself and said sadly: "I know he is gone, I am not crazy, I just want to... take a walk with him after a while."

Zheng Zha nodded and said: "I understand, then do you want to get the sword box back for Lao Huang?"

"Think about it."

"Then tell him."

"Tell who?"

"This is Emperor Wu's City, who do you want to tell me?"

"Wang Xianzhi?" Xu Fengnian said in confusion: "Didn't Lao Li say that you have to go to the top of the martial arts tower to see him?"

Zheng Zha said disdainfully: "Those are Wang Xianzhi's rules, not ours. Now go out and announce our arrival to Wang Xianzhi."

"Okay." Xu Fengnian picked up the wine bowl, stood up and walked out of the wine shop. He took a breath, exhaled and said loudly: "Wang Xianzhi, may I ask why the clouds in the nine heavens droop and why the water in the four seas stands?"

Under the influence of Zhenqi, this loud shout was as loud as thunder, booming in all directions, and everyone in Emperor Wu's city could hear it clearly.

Xu Fengnian once asked Lao Huang what a master's style is.

Lao Huang said that one must be able to make the clouds of the Nine Heavens droop and the water of the four seas stand up. Only those with this ability can be considered a true master. Old Monster Wang from Emperor Wu City must have such an ability if he counts his age.

It is precisely because of Lao Huang's words that Xu Fengnian asked today.

It's a pity that Wang Xianzhi didn't seem to be too respectful and didn't respond to his words.

Zheng Zha teased: "That's it? Others don't seem to like you very much."

Xu Fengnian was furious and shouted in the direction of Wu Lou: "Wang Xianzhi, I don't care about your rules."

"When I come today, I must retrieve the sword box. If you dare to stop me, I will beat you into a sweet potato sooner or later."

During the three years of travel, Xu Fengnian and Lao Huang ate the most sweet potatoes. When they roared in anger, he happened to be thinking about this and shouted out.

Not far away from Beiliang's group, Wei Shuyang said with a smile: "I haven't heard anyone talk like this in Emperor Wu City for many years."

Ning Emei said with bright eyes: "This is the spirit of the Lord of Northern Liang."

Miss Hehe said with a straight face: "Now you have offended Wang Xianzhi to death, so prepare to take action."

Upon hearing this, Qingniao immediately tightened his grip on the instant gun, turned around and looked under the Wu Tower, where six Wu Emperor City Wu slaves were standing or sitting.

These martial slaves are all martial arts masters who had to stay as slaves in Emperor Wu's city after losing to Wang Xianzhi. There are twelve of them in total.

Among the twelve martial slaves, there are four swordsmen, three swordsmen, one gunner, two boxers, one harpist, and one chess player.

Those with the lowest cultivation realm of these martial slaves are also at the peak level of minor masters, and are infinitely close to the first-level grand masters.

The person with the highest level of cultivation can reach Zhixuan, that is, the harp master who uses the harp as a weapon and the sound as a blade.

There are two swordsmen, three swordsmen and a boxer among the Wu slaves staying downstairs at the Wu building.

Fully half of the martial slaves are entrenched under the martial tower. This is not to show hospitality to guests, but to discourage those who want to go to the city.

There is no royal law in Emperor Wu City, only the city rules established by Wang Xianzhi.

The words of princes, generals and ministers have no effect here. No matter who you are, you have to follow the rules, unless you have the force that even Wang Xianzhi must face up to.

While Xu Fengnian was talking nonsense, a middle-aged man with a soft and gentle face who was leading a donkey and carrying a peach blossom at the gate of the city could not help but raise the corners of his mouth in laughter.

The Peach Blossom Sword God Deng Tai'a is also a very interesting person.

He and Wu Su are distant cousins, and Xu Fengnian's cousin by seniority. Wu Su was kind to him when he was studying at the Wu Family Sword Tomb, so he came to Emperor Wu City today to repay his kindness.

The most adorable thing about Deng Tai'a is his unique little arrogance. He keeps saying that he has finished repaying his kindness and will help Xu Fengnian this time.

As a result, whenever Xu Fengnian encounters a crisis, he will always appear in time and help just once. When many "just once" accumulates, it becomes "uncle helps hundreds of millions of times".

…

In the city, just after Xu Fengnian finished speaking, a tall white shadow flew through the sky like a comet and landed on the roof of the Wu Tower.

A mighty voice with its own echo came from afar: "I'm here, who wants to fight?"

The person who came had a white beard and white hair, was dressed in a white robe, and wore white boots. He was covered in spotless white from head to toe. He looked like an indescribable Taoist fairy.

Zheng Zha smiled slightly. An A-level side plot, plus 10,000 reward points, is about to be obtained.

He raised his eyebrows at Xu Fengnian and said, "I'm going to meet Lao Wangtou, and I'll let Lao Li and Ali take you to the top of the city later."

Xu Fengnian patted him on the shoulder and said solemnly: "I'm waiting to see you become the best in the world."

Hearing this, Zheng Zha laughed and raised his foot to step forward. As a result, his foot was half a foot away from the ground, as if he had stepped on the ground without falling to the ground.

Then he lifted up his other foot, stepped forward again, and landed one foot above the ground.

Zheng Zha walked towards Wang Xianzhi with his feet in the void, step by step like walking up a staircase, and said: "Zheng Zha from Beiliang, I came here today to claim the title of No. 1 in the world, which has been vacant for many years."

After hearing Zheng Zha's words, both Xu Fengnian and Xu Zhihu looked happy.

Zheng Zha was born in the martial arts world of Liaodong, but now he calls himself Zheng Zha of Beiliang. It is obvious that he has regarded Beiliang as his home. This is of great benefit to Beiliang.

There was a lot of discussion in Emperor Wu City because everyone was really unfamiliar with the name "Zheng Zha". Not to mention the top ten on the martial arts review list, they had never seen it even among the top hundred.

However, Wang Xianzhi himself was extremely solemn at this time.

What he felt in Zheng Zha's body was an aura of unfathomable terror that was as deep as the ocean.

Even when he faced Li Chungang, he had never felt like this before.

Wang Xianzhi's face was full of wonder as he looked at Zheng Zha, who walked up to him step by step with his head held high and his chest high, as if he were stepping on a ladder to heaven.

"I never expected that such an amazing and talented young man would appear in this world. Little brother, why don't we go to sea and have a fight?"

Zheng Zha secretly smiled, there was more than one young man with amazing talent and beauty.

He said without changing his expression: "I don't care."

Wang Xianzhi nodded to him, turned around and flew towards the outside of the city, followed closely by Zheng Zha.

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