Chapter - 367 East And West are Forever APart Like Orion And Antares (1) (2/2)

”Laoye Zi,” Zhao Min said, ”This Mrs. Han's character is similar to that of The Old Man of the Mountain; you treated her with utmost kindness, yet she plotted to harm you.”

Xie Xun sighed, ”It is common for people to repay kindness with evil; what's so strange about that?” he said.

Zhao Min lowered her head and was silent for half a day before saying, “Mrs. Han was the chief of the Ming Cult's Four Kings, but her martial art skill is not necessarily superior to Laoye Zi. Last night, why didn't she use the deathly stances of 'qian zhu wan du shou' [hand of thousand spiders ten thousands poisons] when she fought with the Persian Three Emissaries?”

”Qian zhu wan du shou?” Xie Xun asked, ”Mrs. Han does not know that skill. She is a woman of an outstanding beauty, and she cherishes her appearance more than her life; how could she be willing to practice this kind of skill?”

Zhang Wuji, Zhao Min and Zhou Zhiruo were startled; they thought Jin Hua Popo was ugly. Looking at her present appearance, even if she was thirty, forty years younger, it would be very difficult for them to say that she possessed an outstanding beauty. Her nose was crooked and her lips thick; her face was oval-shaped, her ears as big as a pair of fans. Certainly these features would not change over time.

Zhao Min laughed and said, ”Laoye Zi, I'll say Jin Hua Popo's beauty is nowhere near 'outstanding.'”

”What?” Xie Xun said, ”Zi Shan Long Wang's [purple-robed dragon king] beauty is similar to deities'. Twenty some years ago she was the Wulin World's Number One Beauty. Granted that she is advanced in years now, but her gracefulness in the past should still be there … Ay, too bad I cannot see her anymore.”

Listening to him speaking seriously, Zhao Min had a vague feeling that something was wrong; this ugly, hunched back and sickly woman was the Wulin World's Number One Beauty? Nobody would buy that. ”Laoye Zi,” she asked, ”Your name shook the Jianghu, your martial art skill is high, so nobody would doubt you. Bai Mei Ying Wang [white-browed eagle king] founded a cult. He managed to stand equally with the six major sects, and even fought valiantly against them for over twenty years. Qing Yi Fu Wang [green-winged bat king] comes and goes like a ghost. That day at the Wan An Temple he threatened to destroy my face; hereafter if I think about it, I am still shivering in fear. On the other hand Jin Hua Popo to have a position above the other three is rather unsuitable although her martial art skill is also high and quite resourceful. I wonder why?”

Xie Xun replied, ”That was because Yin Er Ge [Second (older Brother Yin], Wei Si Di [Fourth (younger) Brother Wei) and I, three people were willing to yield to her.”

”Why?” Zhao Min asked. Suddenly she chuckled and said, ”Because she was the most beautiful woman in the world, three great heroes were willing to submit under her skirt?” She was a Mongolian woman, who did not confine herself to senior-junior propriety; whatever came into her mind, she would unscrupulously blurt it out as a joke toward Xie Xun.

Surprisingly, Xie Xun was not angered. He sighed and said, ”Do you think only three people who willingly submitted under her skirt? If I say there were a hundred people inside and outside the Cult who hoped to attain Taj-kis' favor, I am afraid that number is still too few.”