Chapter 43: The Number One Martial Artist

  A loud "clang" sound, two large guns collided together.

  Yang Zai Xing suddenly felt his chest churning with blood and energy, a sweetness in his throat, and a mouthful of fresh blood spurted out.

  After all, being at different levels in physical training, the two went all out and the gap was immediately revealed.

  At this time, Yang Zaixing's horse head had already surpassed Yue Fei.

  Yang Zaixing no longer surrounded Yue Fei in a circle, but instead slowed down his speed, dragging his long spear behind his horse as he went forward, and even turned back to wave at Yue Fei.

  Yue Fei understood, Yang Zai Xing wanted him to try out one of the Yang family's most famous killing moves: "The Reverse Spear".

  This should be the final move of the two men's duel.

  Yue Fei's martial arts skills were high and his courage was great, he mounted his white dragon horse and followed them.

  Yang Zaixing retreated, his large spear striking the ground several times, a cloud of dust rising up and lightly blocking Yue Fei's line of sight.

  Yue Fei paid no attention to him, spurred his horse's belly and accelerated to catch up.

  Suddenly, without seeing any movement from Yang Zaixing's body, a large spear suddenly appeared out of the dust, shooting up from below and stabbing straight into Yue Fei's lower ribs.

  Yang Family's Surefire Shot, "The Reversed Spear"

  This big gun appeared so suddenly, as if it was born out of thin air. The people around watched as Yue Fei charged towards the big gun, their hearts were grasped tightly and lifted to their throats.

  At this time, everyone saw a very strange scene. Yue Fei's whole body was like a pile of sand, and he suddenly fell to the ground.

  Taizu Changquan: "Qiu Liu Shi".

  The Yang family's Returning Horse Spear is indeed formidable, but back in Qilin Village, Master Zhi Ming specially taught Yue Fei the Five Tigers Eight Trigrams Wheel's killing moves "Poisonous Python Sneak" and "Retreating Step Luring Shadow". These two moves are actually just variations of the Yang family's Returning Horse Spear. Therefore, Yue Fei can take precautions and respond accordingly.

  Yue Fei did not want to entangle with Yang Zai again. Yue Fei knew his own strength, and if he went a moment later to treat Yang Zai's wounds, Yang Zai's injuries would be even more severe.

  Yue Fei fell to the ground, didn't even want his large spear, and with a burst of strength from both legs, his entire body leapt into the air, flying over to Yang Zai Xing's horseback. His left hand pinched a sword finger technique, tapping several times on Yang Zai Xing's back, stabilizing his body, then he hugged Yang Zai Xing down from the horse. It turned out that Yang Zai Xing had already fainted.

  The scene was chaotic.

  Han Xiao led the way in front, Yue Fei carried Yang Zai Xing into the room and laid him on the bed. Then he took out seven silver needles from his bosom, had someone bring a candle holder, lit the candles, heated the silver needles over the fire, undressed Yang Zai Xing, and slowly inserted the silver needles into the seven major acupoints on his back.

  "Mt. Hua's Seven Star Needles".

  A wisp of fragrance passed through time, Yue Fei took out the silver needle, and Yang Zai Xing had already come to.

  Yue Fei held down Yang Zai Xing, not letting him get up. He then pinched three silver needles between his fingers, formed a symbol, and slowly waved it in front of Yang Zai Xing's face while muttering incantations under his breath. In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Yang Zai Xing fell fast asleep.

  Huashan Sleeping Dream Therapy's "Three Hand Techniques of the Earth Immortal"

  Yue Fei came out of the house, and Han Xiao asked: "What's the situation with Yang Xie?"

  Yue Fei replied, "Brother Yang was injured by my move 'Taking Kan to Fill Li', and later he forced himself to use 'Returning Horse Gun', which caused his internal organs to shift. I've already treated him with the 'Hua Shan Seven Star Needle' combined with the 'Earth Immortal Three Hand Technique', and he's now fine. Later, I'll write you a prescription, drink two doses of medicinal tea, and ensure absolutely no problems."

  Han Xiao couldn't help but praise: "I didn't think that Lord Yue had such a move."

  Yue Fei smiled but did not speak.

  The two returned to the front hall, where Luo Yangqing and Niu Gao had been waiting for a long time, still discussing the battle that had just taken place.

  Yue Fei sat down, took a sip of tea, and asked Han Shizhong: "The third condition that Brother Yang mentioned earlier is quite strange, what's the reason behind it?"

  Han Xiao smiled and said: "Yue Xianzhong has fallen into Yang Xianqi's trap this time."

  Yue Fei asked: "What does this mean?"

  Han Xiao said: "The court has been using the country's strength to attack Liao for more than half a year, and the losses are quite large. The emperor has already issued an edict, this year's Wu State champion will directly become the rear general of the army attacking Liao, responsible for the transportation of food and grass for the whole army. The second place and third place will go to the front camp, becoming the first vanguard and deputy vanguard. As soon as one becomes a champion, they become a second-grade official, which has never happened before. What's most important is that being in charge of transporting food and grass, controlling logistics supply, this is the biggest fat position in the army. All the big officials are eyeing it covetously."

  Yue Fei sneered: "The champion of the martial arts examination was originally one in ten thousand, each relying on their own abilities. What's there to worry about?"

  Han Xiao hastily explained: "Yue Xian has something to know, this year's martial arts champion is too fat and surprised someone. This person surnamed Chai named Gui, 20 years old, is the descendant of the former Da Zhou Emperor. After the "Chenqiao mutiny", Taizu Emperor sympathized with the lonely children and widows of the Chai family in the Zhou Dynasty, and ordered to give the iron token Dan book to the descendants of the Chai family - unless it is treason or rebellion, anyone, including the Zhao family and the Song imperial relatives, cannot harm them. If they are harmed, they will be treated as treason."

  Chai Gui was born with a clever nature and was extremely good at fawning and flattering, which made him liked by the current emperor. He was granted the title of Prince of Liang. This young Prince of Liang also took Eunuch Li Xian as his teacher and learned from him the art of being subtle and cunning, making his martial arts skills immeasurable. He once followed Tong Guan on a campaign against Western Xia and single-handedly killed the Western Xia general Wei Ming Shouquan in front of the army, making his name famous for a time.

  Xiao Liang Wang has already spread the word, he must get this year's Wu Ju number one. Among the four examiners of this Wu Ju, except for the old marshal Zong Ze, the other three examiners: Zhang Bang Chang and those two Wang Duan, Zhang Jun are all disciples of Grand Preceptor Cai Jing, and Cai Jing is on good terms with Tong Guan. Therefore, in this Wu Ju, heroes from all over the world can only compete for the second and third place...

  Han Xiao's words were endless, and the more he spoke, the more energetic he became. Yue Fei listened with a frown on his face. After Han Xiao finally finished speaking, he asked in response: "Your meaning is that if someone can defeat Little Liang Wang, it would be an insult to Emperor Taizu's Iron Sword Manual; if you don't want to insult the Iron Sword Manual, then you can't touch Little Liang Wang? So Little Liang Wang has already been chosen as the number one martial arts champion?"

  Han Xiao stroked his long beard and said, "That's exactly the reason why I say that this time, Xian is being schemed against by Yang Xianqi."

  Yue Fei smiled and asked: "So, even Uncle Han thinks that I will definitely lose?"

  Han Xiao saw Yue Fei calm and composed, with a confident look on his face, which was somewhat strange, so he asked: "Could it be that my nephew has some extraordinary skill?"

  Yue Fei said calmly, "Has Uncle Han ever thought that if Little Liang Wang suddenly disappeared; or suddenly died before the exam; or suddenly fell ill during the exam; or even if Little Liang Wang was so impressed by my heroic demeanor that he voluntarily handed over the title of Wu State Champion to me..."

  Han Xiao's stomach heard Yue Fei's strange talk, and he was tongue-tied, unable to respond. In his heart, he thought: "What does Yue Fei mean? Is he going to assassinate the young Emperor of the Liang State? According to the previous actions of Zhou Tong and his disciples, this is entirely possible..."

  Han Xiao's stomach was getting more and more anxious, the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, and he even broke out in a cold sweat. Looking at the sun, it was already noon, so he made an excuse to arrange lunch and left.

  Yue Fei saw Han Shizhong's reaction and didn't think much of it either.