Chapter 56 (2/2)

The corners of Chao XiaoShu’s lips slightly stuck up, looking at him he said, “Then today you’ll be the first to die.”

The rain fell as always, following the tiles of the rain-listening pavilion, flowing to the eaves down to become a watery curtain. The copper bowl in front of that ascetic monk constantly bore rainwater, gradually acc.u.mulating – gradually it became a lot, and just in this moment it finally overflowed out.

Chao XiaoShu attacked.

He raised his right arm, parting the heavy curtain of rain, parting those elite Tang troops tightly grasping crossbows waiting, towards that robed swordsman in the rain-listening pavilion far far away.

With just one finger pointing out, in the rainy night suddenly echoed with a shrill cry. That thin blade hidden from beginning to end in the night scene finally revealed a trace, like a flash of lightning piercing towards his own rain-listening pavilion!

The robed swordsman’s pupils shrunk, the middle finger of his right hand hanging at his side tightened once, and shot once. With the short sword at his side already hungrily jumping, with a clear whisper it jolted out, transforming into a clear light guarding in front of him.

Chao XiaoShu said that today the first person that had to die was him – Chao XiaoShu parting the curtain of rain and pointing was also him, but Chao XiaoShu’s first sword’s objective wasn’t him, but rather that ascetic monk at his side!

Although that ascetic monk was silent throughout, but he was constantly alert, watching around for movement and the sound of activities nearby. Overhead the heaven and earth energy had some slight fluctuations, and he plainly knew that Chao XiaoShu was already about to act. Although he didn’t knew that he was a target of the sword himself, however a disciple of Buddha’s instinct allowed his withered up palm to severely beat a board beside him. Within the shock of the smoke and dust of the wooden board, only the copper alms bowl in the front of the wooden stairs was as if it was kicked by someone; suddenly missiles flew up moving in the sky in countless splashes.

The gray light of the sword figure cleaved through the air and arrived, penetrating through that those splashes as sparkling and translucent as glazed tiles, but it was blocked head-on by the copper alms bowl. The high-speed, sharp, and thin sword and the thick and clumsy copper alms bowl viciously collided, issuing a clear and loud sound that made people’s eardrums want to split!

The ascetic monk’s face revealed outside his bamboo rain hat was somewhat dark – at this moment it changed to become extremely pale, obviously he suffered some losses, and at this time, the long gown sword master’s pair of eyebrows jumped. With a strangely mechanical wrist flick, in the two fingers used to eat together executed towards Chao XiaoShu who was standing at the front gates of his mansion. All around his body the short sword strongly flew in a half circle in a dance abruptly canceled its force into a sharp turn, transforming into a single blade of blue light stabbing straight for Chao XiaoShu’s front. At this moment Chao XiaoShu’s flying sword directly collided with the Ascetic monk’s copper bowl, now in what way can he defend his own body?

Ning Que, tightly gripping the long blade and silently standing behind Chao XiaoShu’s back moved, his body rapidly flashed to dodge to the left. Just when he was about to dodge away from Chao XiaoShu’s body, he was forced to halt his step. He didn’t fear that long robed sword master’s methods, and wasn’t afraid of that blue light short sword – rather he now found that as before, it was unnecessary for himself to act.

Because Chao XiaoShu’s flying sword crashed into the back of the ascetic monk’s copper alms bowl, although it didn’t break the alms bowl, but it also didn’t fall to the ground broken. Rather borrowing the strength of the fierce strike, the cracks and streaks with unknown use on the thin blue steel sword, in a split second they abruptly enlarged separating from the sword – extremely fantastically in the sky they transformed into five thin swords – the blades quickly flew and shot out!

In the middle of no way of being able to survive, one becomes three, and three becomes five.

Chao XiaoShu’s one sword transformed into 5.    ……    ……

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