The 31st Move: Water and Fire Churning Blade Waves

  Sun Jian stared at the ugly big man who suddenly appeared halfway, and a sense of crisis suddenly rose in his heart. Although the opponent's "war qi" was earth attribute, which was just restrained by his own wood attribute, Sun Jian still faintly felt that the opponent's strength was above his own!

  There are many brave generals in this land!

  "Hey kid! Hand this guy over to a certain family! You go gather those Han soldiers!"

  Dian Wei's loud voice rang out, and Zhou Cang's mood suddenly relaxed. He had a clear understanding of his own strength and would never do things that exceeded his abilities. Now, with Dian Wei taking on this troublesome opponent, Zhou Cang also felt relieved, let out a loud roar, and charged towards the "Mighty Tiger Heroes" direction.

  Perhaps this is Zhou Cang, an important reason why he can never reach the level of a first-rate general. If there was no arrogance in his heart, how could he break through the limitations of martial arts and enter the first-rate?

  Even a second-rate general is undoubtedly a great savior for the Tianping Army soldiers who are being oppressed by the "Mighty Tigers".

  A forty-year-old "Tiger Guard", was just about to kick a wounded Heavenly Balance soldier off the city wall, when he saw the enemy's fierce general step forward, not daring to slacken his pace, holding his sword and shield, forming a tight array.

  Zhou Cang's big knife was longer, and before entering the opponent's attack range, Zhou Cang had already cut out with one knife. This knife, there is no name, it's just fast and accurate.

  However, the mature "Mighty Tiger Hero" didn't dare to be careless at all. His battlefield experience told him that this simple knife strike was actually achieved after tens of thousands of repeated practice swings, reaching a state of extreme familiarity and fluidity. Although it looked ordinary, with this one knife's speed and power, he cut off his own possibility of dodging.

  The only effective countermeasure is a hard connection!

  Lao Chengyi flashed a red light from his left hand and activated the "War Qi" at the bottom of the box. Although the shield was facing the big knife, it was deliberately placed at an angle. This posture allowed the blade to cut onto the shield at a sharp angle with the shield surface when it hit, so as not to harden the enemy's force.

  "Thud..."

  The old man's calculation was indeed correct. This knife cut onto the shield, and with a single stroke, it was deflected along the top of the shield, slanting away. However, from this moment on, Old Man Yi's mood had no joy at all!

  Even if he had relaxed his six-part force, the arm of this righteous man still hurt, feeling as if it had been smashed by a large iron hammer. Lao Cheng was shocked in his heart:

  This person's power is actually so strong?

  Before he could think further, Zhou Cang suddenly kicked out with one foot, heavily stomping on his opponent's shield. This kick was unexpected. The old man didn't even know what had happened before his body flew up like a cloud, soaring into the air, and "thud" - he came into close contact with the city wall.

  If it weren't for the strict supervision of the county magistrate during the renovation of the city wall, that heroic soldier might have fallen off the crumbling parapet and outside the city.

  Kick away the guy who blocked his line of sight, and Zhou Cang's eyes suddenly opened up. The battlefield around him was suddenly laid out before his eyes.

  The Heavenly Army's situation is not good. The fighting strength of the "Fierce Tiger Heroes" cannot be compared to these new recruits of the Heavenly Army. For example, in a short section of the city wall, there were actually three or four Heavenly Army soldiers who fell into danger at the same time!

  Zhou Cang took a glance, strode over several steps, and arrived at the side of a Heaven's Chosen soldier whose life was in imminent danger. With one sweep of his long knife, he eliminated the calamity that threatened to take the soldier's head.

  The one who was fighting against the soldier was a young "Mighty Tiger Hero" of 18 or 19 years old. He had been studying under Zu Ma for several years and had already mastered 60-70% of Zu's knife techniques. The double knives in his hands danced with elegance, truly a beautiful sight to behold. However, after just a few rounds of fighting, this young "Mighty Tiger Hero" had already torn open two or three wounds on the soldier's simple hemp armor.

  Now, although he saw a very powerful enemy general charging towards him, this nameless warrior showed no fear at all. As the saying goes "a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger", with his pair of knives in hand, like playing a pipa, densely slashing out, just in an instant, on Zhou Cang's large knife, four or five knives were cut off.

  However, Zhou Cang's large knife was unaffected by the enemy's move and came whistling, just one knife cut off the young hero's arm!

  How could it be...?

  The young hero's heart was shouting wildly. Then, a sentence that his master had said to him many times before suddenly emerged from the depths of his heart. It was a solemn warning about his infatuation with knife techniques and neglect of other practices:

  One strength can subdue ten times of gathering!

  He suddenly had an epiphany and broke through a bottleneck in his martial arts training. Even with only one hand left, he was confident that he could still practice his martial skills to be even stronger than before, and maybe even reach the level of his master, Zu Mao. A new world of martial arts was beckoning him...

  But all of this is premised on his ability to survive under Zhou Cang's knife.

  "Stop!"

  When Zu Mao shouted this sentence, Zhou Cang had already raised his knife and cut the young hero who didn't know high or low from head to toe, cutting him into two pieces. Seeing that his most valued apprentice died tragically with his internal organs flowing all over the ground, Zu Mao was furious!

  "Come and take my life!"

  With one slash, he cut off the leg of a Heavenly Army soldier. Zu Mao took big strides and charged forward. The double knives in his hands flew out with a flash of light, forming a dark cloud in mid-air. This dark cloud suddenly transformed into a fierce wave, sweeping towards Zhou Cang with a force that seemed to swallow him whole!

  This is the ultimate skill of Wu County's "Fu Chun Zu Shi", extended from the "Sacred Fire Dance" of the Western Territory's "Bai Huo Jiao", it is the "Giant Wave Swallowing"!

  Originated from fire, but spread through water!

  Zu Mao is thirty years old this year, the same age as Sun Jian. He has been practicing his family's double knife technique since he was ten years old and has practiced for twenty years. He has practiced this move eighty-seven times and succeeded fifty-two times. However, this time, Zu Mao felt that when he made a move, his movements were smoother than ever before, and under the blessing of good fortune, the power of this move had already surpassed any previous practice!

  The key to this move is to transform one's anger into a massive tidal wave!

  At the moment when his move succeeded, Zu Mao suddenly felt enlightened.

  So how did Zhou Cang respond?

  Zhou Cang's response was simple. Just one knife.

  One sword sweeps horizontally.

  However, the bright green light emanating from the sword indicates that this is not a simple ordinary sword. To counter the enemy's "Battle Qi" Black Tide wrapped in the sword light, Zhou Cang has already mobilized all of his remaining 70% "Battle Qi"!

  This knife will decide victory and defeat.

  Other soldiers fighting on the side, regardless of their camp, were shocked and temporarily stopped fighting, staring at this collision of blades. Many years later, some soldiers still remembered the scene they saw with their own eyes, and when they were surrounded by their grandchildren, they boasted about what they had seen in vivid detail.

  Zumao's blade is a giant wave, it is a fierce wind.

  Zhou Cang's blade is horizontal boat, is big tree.

  Huge waves surged up and capsized the boat, tossing it about as if they would sink it entirely. The fierce wind whipped through the branches, swaying them like grass, as if they would be uprooted altogether.

  However, no matter how big the waves are and no matter how strong the winds are, the boat will never sink and the tree will never fall!

  Zu Mao's flying spinning wheel knife was surprisingly ineffective against Zhou Cang's brute force.

  However, if a so-called "ultimate skill" can be broken down this simply, then it doesn't deserve to be called an "ultimate skill".

  Zu Mao's attacks were like a torrential downpour, striking the blade of Zhou Cang's sword with over ten blows, yet every single one was a feint meant to deceive!

  Every time the blade was bounced back by the opponent, it was equivalent to borrowing a bit of force from the opponent's weapon. The force borrowed by Zǔ Mào, after turning a circle in mid-air, would again strike Zhōu Cāng's blade. When Zǔ Mào felt that the borrowed force could no longer be controlled, his body suddenly made a 360-degree spin, and he launched the final blow with great agility!

  This strike, Zu Mao's two hands, swung out with just one knife.

  But this knife is made up of two blades combined together.

  No one would have thought that two ordinary-looking knives could transform into a pair of soft, flexible blades made from the finest steel, and when combined, they become a single, extraordinary blade capable of cutting through gold and jade as if they were mud!