920 Comprehension of Swordsmanship (1/2)

Seeing the Dragon King jump down from the top of the wall, Old Man Mu was relieved. After they transferred to a quiet place, he whispered, ”I was nearly scared to death. I thought that those two body parts… Fortunately, I didn't fail the good girl's trust in me.”

Gu Shenwei briefly snorted. ”Wait here. I'll be back in a while.”

”Ah? The Dragon King still… ”

Before Old Man Mu could finish his sentence, the Dragon King disappeared.

Gu Shenwei was confused about what he had just discovered. All men from the Big Snow Mountain were swordsmen. Only a few women had some average sabersmanship. How could such a kung fu as the ”Tiangang Sabersmanship” been created and hidden in Golden Roc Castle?

If he was to find out the truth, he would have to check more stone chambers.

There were plenty of unoccupied courtyards. With the experience that he had just gained, he headed directly for the rightmost corner after sneaking into the residential area, groping around for carved words.

Small Sword Peak of the Big Snow Mountain.

Thirteen Saber Attacks to Down Wild Geese.

After feeling out several patterns, Gu Shenwei realized this was yet another sabersmanship.

All of the next few stone chambers that Gu Shenwei went to had kung fu of the Big Snow Mountain inscribed on the walls. The Luoshen Peak, the Danduo Feng, the Huagai Peak, the Big Sword Peak and the Small Sword Peak's names were all there. Sabersmanship, swordsmanship, staff techniques, spearsmanship, fist techniques, palm techniques, leg techniques, and finger techniques were all included, but most of those kung fu were sabersmanship. Gu Shenwei could dimly feel that these kung fu forms were the origin of the swordsmanship of the Big Snow Mountain that used a heavy sword. It was just that the total number of moves of these kung fu was ten times, maybe even a hundred times bigger.

There were approximately fifty to sixty unique skills on the walls of these stone chambers on the south side of that narrow alley, which was more than enough to establish a first-rate prestigious sect even in the Central Plains. But surprisingly, all these kung fus were under the name of the Big Snow Mountain.

Gu Shenwei was becoming more and more curious, and he had almost forgotten about the most important task that he was supposed to fulfill this night. He went to the courtyards on the north side. There were considerably less Green-faced killers on this side, with only four or five of the courtyards being occupied.

The floors of these chambers on the north side were all rectangular. Gu Shenwei also started searching from the rightmost one, but it turned out that there were only patterns. There were no words. Only in the leftmost room did he find the name of the kung fu on the walls.

The first line of words were in a weird language that he didn't know. He speculated that it was some kind of Western Regions language. The second line was in Central-Plains language, ”The Short Blade Technique of Reincarnation Castle on Xuandu Peak.”

'The Reincarnation Castle on Xuandu Peak,' Gu Shenwei pondered over this phrase for a while and then recalled where he had heard this name befpre.

There was a High Priest of Flower Soul in the Land of Fragrance who claimed to be the successor of the Holy King. She had once told Shangguan Ru and Lotus some absurd tales, in which she mentioned that Golden Roc Castle's former name was Reincarnation Castle, and that the mountaintop where the castle was located used to be called Xuandu Peak. And the lord of the castle's surname had been Feng.

It was Shangguan Ru who had told Gu Shenwei this tale. Because it had nothing to do with him, he hadn't paid any attention to it back then. He didn't expect that one day, he would find these words on the walls of a secret room within Golden Roc Castle.

Gu Shenwei then sneaked into several other stone chambers, and there were kung fu skills of the Reincarnation Castle on all of their walls as well, running the gamut from fighting techniques to kung fu skills with various strange weapons. In the eighteenth room, he found the ”Single Saber Technique,” which was the Golden Roc Castle's narrow saber sabersmanship.

It was getting late. Gu Shenwei reminded himself again and again that this was a dangerous place, and that he was no match for a group of Green-faced killers. However, he was still reluctant to leave right away, and was eager to find out what kind of kung fu there was on the walls of the next stone chamber.

He stayed in the stone chamber where he found the Single Saber Technique for a relatively longer period of time. There were many moves in this sabersmanship, some of which were not in the Golden Roc sabersmanship, and some of which were very different from the moves in the Golden Roc sabersmanship.

Apparently, the current Golden Roc sabersmanship had undergone some radical adjustments, which made it simpler and also more practical. However, it had also been deprived of the maneuverability and uniqueness of the original sabersmanship.

All of the next three stone chambers' walls were kung fu skills about a single saber.

Those Green-faced killers who had come here to practice kung fu gradually left. Some of them chose to sleep in their stone chambers. Gu Shenwei did something even bolder – lighting an oil lamp in a stone chamber.

The ”Long Blade Technique” had been carved onto this wall. It was a swordsmanship which Gu Shenwei had never seen any killer perform.

The moves on the wall totaled fourteen, and it was not the complete set of the swordsmanship. The rest must be in other stone chambers.

This was a kung fu that had been abandoned by the Golden Roc Castle, since none of its moves were in the narrow saber sabersmanship. Soon, Gu Shenwei knew the reason for this. Most of the moves on the wall were too weird and too radical. Some of them even went against the basic principles of martial arts. For instance, there was a move which required the user to stab backwards with their back to the opponent, which was almost synonymous with committing suicide.

It was understandable that the former Lord of the Golden Roc Castle had been defeated by his subordinates. The kung fu of the Holy King, whose surname was Feng, was more fancy than practical. The kung fu skills of the Big Snow Mountain, which were recorded in the chambers on the other side, were far better.

It was a pity that there were only patterns and the name of the kung fu on the wall. There were also one or two annotations, but there was no records of the Big Snow Mountain or of Reincarnation Castle.

Unexpectedly, the Long Blade Technique, which had been abandoned by the Shangguan family, took up the most walls. There were seven stone chambers upon whose walls this technique had been carved, with its moves numbering over a hundred. Each move was weirder than the last. In the eyes of a normal kung fu practitioner, more than half of these moves were asking people to voluntarily expose their flaws and invite their enemies to kill them. Apart from that, many of those moves lacked coherence, and it almost seemed as if they were not from the same set of kung fu.

It was in the third stone chamber recording the Long Blade Technique that light suddenly dawned on Gu Shenwei. Not only were the moves carved on the wall eccentric, but some of them even required the user to blindfold themselves, as if to prevent them from seeing the enemy.

What kind of swordsmanship could be performed without vision?