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Drak, that seems to be the recurring theme here. DongBin, Ysabel, Komeng, Jaya, HPC, Anh, you are welcome. Laoren, Sky, LOL ... your exchange was so funny. Bocah, here's some. Xu Xiong, is that a spoiler?

Tuoba Yu laughed aloud and said, "Your precious country has a saying, ‘one does not visit a temple without a cause' [fig. to visit with an ulterior motive (esp. to ask for something)]. Xiaodi [younger brother, referring to self] this time came from a thousand li, on my master's order to borrow from the two gentlemen the Taoist treasure, the ‘Secret to Long Life'. The journey was hard, so please two Xiongtai, do not disappoint Xiaodi!”

After a short pause, he laughed and continued, "I don't know the three renxiong [friend, honorific address, see also Book 3 Chapter 6] are which heroes? Why don't you let Xiaodi get acquainted as well?”

Everybody was shocked. Just from the keenness of this man's ears, it was obvious what kind of first-class master the opposite party was.

Liu Heita replied, "Just nameless soldiers, not worth Tuoba Xiong's hearing.”

Tuoba Yu laughed three times.

The first laugh, he was still some distance away from the building. The second laugh, he was already at the door. By the third laugh, Tuoba Yu has already stepped over the threshold of the door to their room; calmly and leisurely as if he was exploring a friend's house. His left hand carried a lantern.

This man looked around twenty-five, twenty-six years old, his hair was tied in a warrior bun, he was dressed in warrior outfit with a leather vest on top of it. His appearance was attractive and intelligent, on his shoulders hung a pair of flying hooks. He looked a bit like a pampered son of a wealthy family; at first glance it looked as if he was too weak to stand up to the wind.

Everybody's eyes fell onto the flying hooks on his shoulders. In Jianghu, this type of weapon was rarely used; the two hooks were shaped like eagle talon, with a thin rope about a zhang long; with just one look people would know that this weapon was extremely hard to control.

When Tuoba Yu's eyes were sweeping across everybody's face, no one did not feel strange feeling. It felt like the opposite party's eyes carried some kind of formless, yet plain, unusual power.

Liu Heita took a step forward, laughed aloud, and said, "Let me get acquainted with Tuoba Xiong first.” His right hand reached behind, the iron cane left his back and rose up; immediately a cold ray radiated all around, a dense cold air swamped everybody, but the target was Tuoba Yu's chest, the momentum was swift and powerful, it was indeed the air of a great general.

Kou Zhong and the others did not expect Liu Heita to make his move as soon as he saw the opponent; they were all delighted. Except for Susu who cried out in alarm and closed her beautiful eyes.

Tuoba Yu laughed aloud as he traversed sideways as fast as lightning, while his right palm shot out.

‘Whoosh!' The edge of Tuoba Yu's palm sliced down on the cane's head. Liu Heita's earth-shattering move vanished instantly. It appeared he suffered loss; fast as lightning he changed style, and retreated backward.

Tuoba Yu's handsome face turned cold, as he sneered and said, "We have not gotten acquainted yet!” While speaking, fast like a whirlwind he suddenly moved to the blind spot on Liu Heita's left. It was unclear what kind of technique he was using, one of the flying hooks on his shoulder took off from the shoulder and flew like an eagle talon, creating a whistling noise as it split the air; swift like lightning bolt it circled around toward Liu Heita's groin. A very sinister technique indeed.

These two exchanges happened like lightning flashes, dazzling the eyes of those who watched the fight.

Liu Heita was an outstanding character as well. In the critical situation, he did not panic. Knowing that the opponent did not give him the opportunity to take a breath, he spun his body around toward the door, and then brandishing his cane, it followed the flying hook like its shadow.

‘Dang!' Following the clear ringing sound Liu Heita let a stifled grunt as he was pushed back half a step and crashed against the broken wall by the door.

Tuoba Yu let out a cold snort of contempt. His right hand reached toward the middle of the rope connecting the flying hooks; with a slight shake, the eagle talons on both ends immediately turned into thousands of dots of light, which, like a splash of mercury, stormed toward Liu Heita, who was leaning against the wall. At the same time, his left hand tossed the lantern, and it landed neatly on the horizontal beam above, not missing a single fen [1 fen is approx. 1/3 of cm or 1/8”].

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling watched with mouth agape.

Liu Heita's cane skill was brilliant; the technique, the vigor, the proficiency, all have reached first class level. Rarest of all, he had guts, bold and daring spirit, and did not have much regard for life and death; once he took out his cane, a ‘sweeping thousand army' might took shape immediately. Who would have thought that this disciple of Bi Xuan was able to break through his defense and counterattack? In just a few moves he had him brought to a disadvantageous position; surely it was extremely shocking.

From this fact, it could be clearly seen that Bi Xuan was able to gain fame, to rise among the three top martial art masters inside and outside the Great Wall, everything was not for nothing.

Liu Heita let out a sudden roar; his cane withdrew and became a circle of rays of light, protecting all vital points on his body, from top to bottom, as he shifted sideways while still sticking close to the wall. The body followed the cane, just waiting to mount an offensive.

Suddenly the cane ray was muted; turned out the iron cane was caught by the eagle claw's ‘five fingers open wide' from one of the two Tuoba Yu's flying hooks, while the other eagle claw shot toward Liu Heita.

Nobody had ever expected that the opponent's eagle claw had this kind of freedom of action; they were all shocked by this extremely weird phenomenon. As Susu was screaming, like howling wind and torrential rain Zhuge Dewei and Cui Dong stormed toward Tuoba Yu. Seeing the critical situation, they disregarded Jianghu's rule and threw themselves into the battle.

Tuoba Yu laughed grimly; his left hand waved slightly, the eagle claw at the other end of the rope immediately turned into dots of sharp rays, like a tidal wave storming toward the two men. At the same time his leg flew up to kick Liu Heita's lower body; all his movements were calm and smooth, making the observers gasped in amazement.

Liu Heita unleashed his hidden ability; below he met the leg with his leg, above he seized the opportunity while the claw intertwined with the cane, to meet Tuoba Yu's internal energy head-on, trying to engage the opponent so that Zhuge Dewei and Cui Dong would have a chance they could exploit.

Amidst the sound of internal power collided and the continuous ringing on weapons clashing, Tuoba Yu did not hesitate to let the iron cane off, and released the full potential of the flying hooks, rolling up the three martial art masters inside the dots of sharp rays of the eagle claws. Every single move was an exquisite, beyond compare, consummate skill.

Although the battle inside was fierce, the enemy outside did not make the slightest noise; which was quite baffling.

With his right hand on the handle of the iron [see my note above], Kou Zhong stood outside the edge of the circle, watching Tuoba Yu's hooks with rapt attention.

Xu Ziling also focused his attention to the hard fighting of the four people; the astonishment in his heart was hard to describe.

Speaking about martial art skill, Liu Heita was definitely a level above Shen Luoyan. Even if he came across Du Fuwei, he would still have a chance to give a strong resistance. Zhuge Dewei and Cui Dong were also first class masters. Yet right now with the three's combined power, they were barely able to fight Tuoba Yu evenly. It is thus clear that one random disciple of Bi Xuan was already about the same level of martial art experts of Du Fuwei's caliber; how could Xu Ziling not be shocked?

Right this moment, Tuoba Yu suddenly let out a long laugh, and retracted his claws. It looked like a defensive move, yet it engaged the three men so that they all felt there was a formidable killing move within his move; unexpectedly, as if by prior agreement all four men leaped backward in four directions.

Merely based on this one move, where he was able to make the three opponents feel the threat of the flying hooks at the same time, it was clear that he had reached the ‘using one move to communicate intention' level, a state of mind in which he relied purely on his qi power to control the enemy's mind.

Tuoba Yu's eyes shone with cold light, the flying hooks intersect; it turned into a column of rays, shooting in full power toward retreating Liu Heita. Shockingly, it was even a tad faster than the retreating opponent.

Zhuge Wude and Cui Dong cried out in alarm. [Translator's note: at the beginning, it was Zhuge Dewei, but somewhere in the middle it changed into Zhuge Wude. At first I thought it was a typo, but after several ‘Zhuge Wude', I decided to follow the text.] But because they had withdrawn some distance away from each other, plus they were still being carried away by their retreating momentum, there was no way they would be able to render any assistance.

Tuoba Yu's battle strategy was indeed ingenious, his method was very ruthless, and his technique fantastic and mysterious; everything about him wowed the onlookers that their throat could not even cry out.

While it appeared that Liu Heita was about to injured by this full-powered attack, Kou Zhong suddenly shouted, followed by his body moved sideways to the left to bump into Tuoba Yu.

For the very first time that night Tuoba Yu revealed an astonished look on his face, and was forced to abandon his attack toward Liu Heita. His flying hooks, one held back the other released, changed course to meet Kou Zhong's attack.

Against all expectation, like a fish Kou Zhong suddenly traversed diagonally for three chi, so that he was face to face with Tuoba Yu, and thus he was right in between Tuoba Yu and Liu Heita; proximity transformed complexity into simplicity, with just his head he struck toward Tuoba Yu.

Again for the first time that night Tuoba Yu revealed a serious look on his face; his hook became thousand shadows, he blocked Kou Zhong's simple, nothing-out-of-ordinary move.

‘Pow!' The hook shadows dispersed, Kou Zhong let out a stifled groan, and was pushed three steps back.

On the other side, Tuoba Yu's entire body shook, he was also pushed half a step backward, his eyes were shooting deep murderous look as he stood face-to-face with Kou Zhong, who by this time was standing with his back bent down slightly like a crouching tiger who was unwilling to back off.

Everybody else stopped; nobody made any noise. The only thing audible was Susu's nervous breathing.

Among these people, Xu Ziling was the only one who understood that Tuoba Yu has incited Kou Zhong's fighting spirit that he forgot about life and death, and has entered the ‘moon in the well' realm, which was far higher than his normal level of achievement. Combining the shenfa [pose or motion in martial arts] he learned from the swimming fish with the fantastic internal energy from the ‘Secret to Long Life', he challenged Tuoba Yu's ferocity.

"That martial art was from the ‘Secret to Long Life', right?” Tuoba Yu asked in heavy voice.

Kou Zhong smiled slightly, "How did it feel? Not bad, huh?”

Xu Ziling shouted, "The ‘Secret to Long Life' is not in our possession. If Tuoba Xiong insists on getting it, we will rather die than submit. If that happens, not only Tuoba Xiong will not obtain the ‘Secret to Long Life', people might get hurt. Would Tuoba Xiong please think it over?”

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