33 BROKEN (1/2)
While Charles is at the Pagoda, Liu Yi was like always guarding the courtyard and thinking of a cover story if the monk discovered Charles is missing. He was in his room trying to meditate but to no avail.
The Temple is too boring for him. Every day all he could hear is the chanting of the Sutras and by now he could even recite some of it.
Finding that his effort to meditate is not working, he got up from his cross legged position and walk around the room.
He was about to go out and met some of the Monks from the Vegetable Gardens when suddenly a sound startles him.
a gong was sounded, reverberates through the entire temple and awoken this city of monks.
It startles Liu Yi.
First he thought that Charles has been discovered. But just a moment later, he found out that was not the case. The patrolling Monk shouted
'Intruder! Intruder!'
Liu Yi went out of his room.And then he dashed outside his courtyard. He saw many monks congregated in the entrance so he quickly runs to the entrance.
Arriving at the entrance of the temple he see a person wearing red robe strewn with white on the edges of his clothes
Liu Yi was choked.
The man then flies out from the gate of the Temple. Liu Yi is shocked because he recognize the man.
Lu Dongpo.
Liu Yi once was tasked to seek Lu Dongpo because of the Red Snow palace long before he met Charles.
Looking at that man, Liu Yi is certain he is not mistaken. This man is Lu Dongpo. His face looks a lot like a monkey with a mischievous smile on his face.
His move is like a monkey on a tree; on his hand is an iron staff with an inscription, Walker of the Ten Earth and Nine Heavens.
As the monk is about to attack Lu Dongpo and forces him to get out the Temple, another person fly inside, a sword full of thunder sound resound in the courtyard of the Temple, shocking Liu Yi and almost make him startled enough to fall down in shock.
Light filled the courtyard. The roaring sound is like the sound of thunder in the sky.
'HAHAHAHA!' Lu Dongpo laughs.
'Mad Fairy, you are really stubborn!' Lu Dongpo said as he waved his staff and met that sword strike, as fire sparks and the sound of metal clanging sounded like a bell, waking everybody up.
This city of Monk was on alert and hundreds of monks went out of their halls and march in a uniform manner climbing down the mountain to go to the entrance of the Temple.
On the other hand, ten Warrior Monks fly out into the roof from the nearby Halls after they were awoken from practicing meditation, overlooking the matter but not one dare to enter the battle haphazardly.
They also look toward the junior monk and gesture them to not enter the battle.
The Mad Fairy is known in Jianghu as the Elder of the Red Snow Palace. The fact that she is here and Lu Dongpo is here means the rumors in Jianghu was true.
Lu Dongpo did do something to the Red Snow Palace that causes the Red Snow Palace to send a capture order
'Return back what you stole, you ungrateful monkey!' The Red Fairy once again swings her sword
A light filled attack seems to arrive at Lu Dongpo almost instantaneously as he once again deflected it with his staff, the sound of something hitting metal sounded and a slight shockwave erupted from that iron staff, distorting the air around it.
The Mad Fairy sword moves in a very difficult and cryptic way, but Lu Dongpo movement is even more erratic and even more unpredictable, so much so, he almost look like he was madly swinging his metal rod.
But if that is the case, how does he keep deflecting Mad Fairy attacks? It is certainly not luck
The more Lu Dongpo deflects her attack, the Mad Fairy gets even angrier and her attacks become even faster.
But not only that her movement becomes faster it become even more mysterious, as her sword moves in a way that is akin of a dance of a mad dancer, is influencing the Hearts of the Monks.
Even though the ten warrior monk beforehave gestured for the junior disciple not to enter the battle, a few of the disciple monk was entranced with the sword dance of the Mad Fairy and their bloodlust rises up
They were influenced by the sword dance, raises up their wooden staff and wanted to enter the battle.
This junior disciple all have kind intention, they wanted to stop the battle but one could see that their eyes are dazed and their movement is the Staff Killing The Dragon moves
The ten warrior monk on the roof also saw this.
Liu Yi who also see the sword dance instead took a deep breath and read the mantra of his sect, The Heaven Edge sect
His breath follows the rhythm of the wind, his battle intent, bloodlust and madness is covered by the all-embracing energy of nature, making him one with the Heaven and Earth and dispels his madness and then he opens his eyes, his eyes clear and calm.
'This Mad Fairy thinks this Temple is her for to toy around! Hmph!' One of ten warrior monk snorted,
Then that warrior monk put his palm together, and with comes a buzzing sound because of the internal energy in his palm
Then he inhale the wind and then he shouted
'Junior Disciple, stop your intent this instant!' His voice roar, as a lion roar echoes in the courtyard and forces that junior disciple to move back and break them from their enchantments.
Mad Fairy smirks even as she is in battle. Lu Dongpo on the other hand did not have time to pay attention to the monks.
Mad Fairy and Lu Dongpo was unaffected from the roar as they keep swinging their weapons at each other and deflecting each other moves
With each strikes, sparks of fire would illuminate the night, the furniture, plants, and ground nearby are either destroyed, crushed, or filed with sword marks.
Each time the sword and iron staff met it produces thunder roaring sound.
Lu Dongpo is laughing joyously even though he seems to be in injured in some places and wounds on his body is increasing.
When they find that their movement is limited in the small entrance courtyard of the Temple they changed the venue of their fight.
BOOM! BANG! Their weapons clashed as they jump up.
They leapt on the roof and continue fighting on top of the roof, as the tiles were crushed and destroyed with each step they take.
When they were on top of the roof, with one strikes they were separated by a distance.
They each took considerable distance from each other, staring at each other. The Mad Fairy eye gaze could kill but Lu Dongpo like always have that mischievousness in his eyes.
He laughed and said
'Mad Fairy this is the Righteous Temple. You are of the unorthodox way dares to barge in the most sacred holy land of orthodox martial arts without an army!'
'Hmph!' Mad Fairy snorted, the wind of the night blows her white robe. The moonlight seems to shines over her, making her seems like a fairy descended from the moon.
She then shouted, her voice resounded through this city of monks
'I have a personal feud with Lu Dongpo. Hope the Temple will not take offense. This monkey ran here intentionally trying to pit the Red Snow Palace and the Temple!'
After saying this she did not say anything else.
The Abbott who was in his meditation room was about to send the Golden Monks but then he close his eyes and said nothing.
On the other side of the Temple, an old monk went out of his room, and takes a broom and began sweeping his courtyard in the middle of the night.
But what is terrifying about this old monk is that even as he sweeps the ground, energy seems to be transferred to the edges of his broom.
The smooth and soft thread of the broom could be straighten and become sharper than needles because of the fine control of the internal energy of that old monk.
He looks toward that area where the Mad Fairy and Lu Dongpo are fighting.
'This is truly fate. This is truly destiny. Is this what one called the arrangements of Heavens? In the end even luck will run out'
He thought tonight how he let that young child enter the fourth floor. And now as he just returns, there is Lu Dongpo.
As the years passes by he saw Karma but he also saw that there are thing that are not connected by Karma, that there are things that exist outside the cause and effect.
All of this is connected and all of it is destined.
But of course, that young child could not see the connection. And no one else could see the connection other than him.
He, who was forgotten by death and abandoned by time.
He has lived too long and sees too much. He shakes his head and closes his eyes as he sweeps the courtyard.
On the other hand, on top of the roof, Lu Dongpo looks in the distance and no one seems to be helping him.
He sighed and his face fell down but then he looks back at the Mad Fairy and still retains that nonchalant attitude.
With his face, it only makes other people even angrier. Then Lu Dongpo shouted
'Fine! You want a fight, let us fight! I wanted to know if the Mad Fairy is as formidable as one says! Let see whether you can force me to give back the thing I stole!'
Then Lu Dongpo charged first, his acceleration causes the tile beneath his feet to crack and fly behind him.
His iron staff reverberates and with it comes down a hundred kilogram weight falling down upon the spot where the Mad Fairy is standing.
Lu Dongpo at the last moment channels his internal energy toward the edge of his iron staff. If he channels it a little bit late, even Lu Dongpo could not lift his iron staff.
The Mad Fairy jumped to the side like lightning and that iron staff fall down on that spot shaking the entire hall where they are standing and collapse the entire roof.
The Mad Fairy glided in the air and leapt onto another roof.
Lu Dongpo follows this time with another strike. This time it is targeted at the Mad Fairy head. The Mad Fairy deflected the heavy strikes with her sword.
With her internal energy she channel it to the edges of her sword, and using a rotating spiraling movement around the iron staff, directing and guiding the trajectory of the iron staff.
It lessens the impact and directs the staff to move sideways furthering helping to lessen the weight of the attack.
'You!' Lu Dongpo was frustrated. If his attack succeeded, the Mad Fairy head would explode like a watermelon being smashed by a hammer.
Lu Dongpo face fell but he quickly regains his composure. Usually the Mad Fairy swordsmanship is ingenious and sinister but this time it is calm but deadly.
The moment they clashed, they both found each other in a position to attack each other so dozens of exchanges happens in a few second.
The sword slash, the staff block, the staff strikes, the sword deflects.
Their exchanges is so fast that even the monk below watching this battle is dizzy and unable to see who strikes who or who is gaining advantage.
For those junior disciples that is too weak, they meditate and closes their eyes as to not be influenced by the Mad Fairy sword movement that have the properties of enchantment.