919 A Thick Saber (2/2)

After a few moves, the two stopped fighting, put the sabers down and started discussing, with the stone table between them.

”This sabersmanship is somewhat different from the ones we've learned.”

”It's a pity that we didn't find it earlier. We've only been practicing it for a few months and haven't learned its essence yet. Otherwise, those Central Plainsmen wouldn't have acted so arrogant in Golden Roc Castle.”

”That Central Plainsman's swordsmanship is very good.”

”Um. But after we master this sabersmanship, we'll be better than that Central Plainsman.”

The two Green-faced killers started contemplating those patterns on the wall again.

It turned out that this place had never been open to common killers. No wonder Guan Shang had never mentioned this room. Gu Shenwei deduced that the so-called ”a few months ago” probably referred to shortly before or shortly after the battle of Thousand Horsemen Pass. At that time, Prince Xiao had just come up with the idea of selecting the Lord of Jade City via a kung fu competition.

Why had the Unique King asked the Green-faced killers to give up their assassination skills and start learning a completely different kung fu? Had he by any chance known in advance that there would be a face-to-face kung fu competition? Or had he made up his mind to make a radical change and turn the castle into a place the profile of which had nothing to do with killers?

Gu Shenwei was confused.

But what concerned him the most was the current situation. It was not easy to hide above two Green-faced killers. When the two were sparring, he had taken a few breaths, but now he had to hold his breath again.

The two Green-faced killers returned to the stone table.

”This is it,” one of them said. ”Learning is an endless process. We can only make slow progress even if we keep practicing. I think that it's time we test it.”

”Yes.”

Standing there silently, the two seemed to be communicating with each other in a mysterious way. Before long, one of them picked up a thick saber, and the other fished out two daggers.

The new sabersmanship versus the old techniques was the test that they had just talked about.

Strikes made with the thick saber were so ferocious that it seemed as if the stone walls were about to fall apart, which offered Gu Shenwei a chance to take a breath.

The Green-faced killer using daggers swished around the room like a giant insect. Though his strikes were different from those made by someone using a narrow saber, Gu Shenwei could still distinctly tell that his moves were of the Golden-Roc-Castle style.

This was a face-to-face kung fu competition, so the one fighting in the Golden-Roc-Castle style was not at an advantage, which offered Gu Shenwei an opportunity to see the complete sabersmanship of the thick saber. That Green-faced killer was performing this sabersmanship with decent proficiency, but he still couldn't completely rid himself of his previous habits. Occasionally, he would speed up his moves, which, instead of strengthening his attacks, had a detrimental effect on the steadiness of his sabersmanship and thus exposed his flaws.

'The Green-faced killer using a thick saber is going to lose in a few moves,' thought Gu Shenwei, but then he was abruptly startled. The Green-faced killer using daggers rolled on the ground and attacked his opponent from down below, which meant that he might see the intruder near the ceiling at any time.

Gu Shenwei didn't know how to get the better of the opponent after letting the opponent make the first move, so he prepared himself. If the necessity arose, he would make the first move and then immediately run downhill with Old Man Mu. In that case, the plan to steal the golden-crowned rocs would have to be postponed.

All the assassination skills of the Golden Roc Castle focused on swiftness and lightness. When performing these skills, the killers barely touched the ground, which was why their footwork was relatively unsteady. This was an noticeable disadvantage when performing this thick-saber sabersmanship. The Green-faced killer using daggers had discovered this, which was why he chose to attack from below his opponent.

His victory was certain.

During the past few months, these two people had practiced this new sabersmanship almost every day, but they had never seen each other as partners, and they didn't even know each other's names, so they definitely wouldn't show mercy during this test.

When he rolled over on the ground for the seventh time, the Green-faced killer using daggers, who was about to give a lethal strike to finish his opponent, finally discovered that there was a third person hiding near the ceiling. He was surprised but not flustered. Immediately, he switched targets.

Gu Shenwei braced his legs and was about to leap down. He was planning on killing the one using the thick saber first, since this one was still unaware of his existence and thus defenseless against his attack. Then, he would deal with the Green-faced killer using daggers, who had already seen him.

As the only one in this room who was unaware of the situation, the Green-faced killer wielding the thick saber was still performing the immature new sabersmanship, ruthlessly slashing at his companion.

Though the two Green-faced killers were having a life-or-death fight, they were not really enemies. Because of this tiny difference, the Green-faced killer using daggers had overlooked the danger coming from his companion. He had just thought of switching targets when his companion bisected him.

Gu Shenwei hurriedly controlled himself and nearly fell off the stone wall. He tightened the grip of his right hand along the edge of the crack and managed to regain his balance.

The Green-faced killer with a thick saber watched the body on the ground for a while and then looked at the patterns on the wall again. ”It's a little strange,” he said. After putting the thick saber under the stone table, he grabbed the two parts of the body and walked out of the room without putting out the oil lamp.

He would probably come back to clean the blood on the ground.

This was his chance to leave. Pressing his right hand against the wall, Gu Shenwei let go three times before finally landing on the ground lightly. He didn't leave the room immediately, and instead leaped to the rightmost part of the semicircular wall. There were two lines of words there, which he hadn't been able to read earlier.

Big Snow Mountain Luoshen Peak

Tiangang Sabersmanship

Gu Shenwei quickly left the room and he had barely climbed to the top of the wall when that Green-faced killer returned.

There was kung fu from the Big Snow Mountain in the depths of the Golden Roc Castle, and it was a sabersmanship that Gu Shenwei had neither heard of nor seen before. This was too weird. It was even weirder than a large group of Green-faced killers were imitating him and Luo Qikang.

There were only swordsmen in the Big Snow Mountain…