1897: Reminisce this way (1/2)

Song Poxiao laughed coldly. “Repay blood with blood? Hei hei… just relying on you, Lu Buyi, you still don’t have the qualifications to say these words!”

Lu Buyi angrily jeered. With two eyes like copper bells, he said, “Song Poxiao, whether or not I have the qualifications to say these words, I would ask Fourth Old Song to come personally consider!”

As he said up until here, his hands suddenly spread open. With a “ka cha” sound, two thunderclaps echoed in the air. Lu Buyi’s pupils had an electric light explode inside them and shoot out, and with an absolute shout, he said, “Sword come!”

The middle of the sky suddenly surged with wind and clouds. Along with a light echoing clang of metal, a coldly long sword appeared suddenly. Sword qi spread out and crisscrossed the whole sky. It was a sword appearing with one grasp, and without a person operating it, the spontaneous and splendid sword qi had already scattered the clouds to the four directions, clearing the sky.

That Lu Buyi reached out a hand, and that sword that had suddenly appeared dropped peacefully into his hand. He waved the sword effortlessly. “Song Poxiao! Allow me to come forward and receive your death!”

Song Poxiao laughed loudly. “Lu Buyi, don’t think that just because us brothers are giving you face, you can substitute a big clove of garlic in! Come come come, I will let you experience for yourself what is known as the Seven Golden Lotuses!”

With one brush of his sleeve, not even revealing any weaponry, he rushed out empty handed without consulting anyone.

Sword light met fist strength in a thunderous explosion. The two people’s figures were instantly wrapped in a ball of thunder and lightning. Light rays lingered around the middle, making it unclear to see who was who.

Everyone’s dispositions were all of a spicy quality and extremely irritable. After no more than a few words, they furiously came into direct contact, raising hand against one another.

This outcome caused the always old and wise Qin Menghun as well as Yun Duanlu and the rest to mutually look at each other and force a bitter laugh as they watched, speechless.

Fighting hand to hand for no more than a short moment, there suddenly came a sound ringing and exploding through the air. Song Poxiao’s long laugh echoed through the air. “Lu Buyi, if you dare to speak rudely again, we’ll seriously exterminate you!”

Song Poxiao’s figure was astonishingly revealed. It seemed as if he was a bit beat up and in a somewhat difficult situation. One arm was directly exposed to the outside. That sleeve was clearly torn and smashed to bits by his counterpart’s sword qi. However, his whole person was still calm and composed, and he hadn’t suffered serious damage.

“No kidding!” Song Poxiao was furious. “You knew it wasn’t our doing from the beginning! Being here now has as much meaning as a fart that doesn’t smell!”

Lu Buyi snorted and said, “You all fend for yourselves! If we see each other on the battlefield in the coming days, it’s not your death, it’s just my life!”

His speech finished, he unexpectedly didn’t wait to hear whatever replies the Seven Golden Lotuses had. Without even one wave of his hand, he turned around to go.

He actually didn’t turn his head.

Even those ten experts that he brought with him were baffled. They couldn’t figure out what their big commander had even come for in the end. He just turned around and left, just like that. This was too much a case of a tiger’s head and a snake’s tail…

(TN: a strong start and a weak finish)

But, their commander in chief had already left. They weren’t able to say anything, so under this situation and having no alternatives, their only option was to bafflingly follow him.

“This bastard clearly knew it wasn’t our doing,” Song Poxiao angrily muttered, scolding him. “Unfortunately he still wanted to stubbornly come over and seek a scolding!”

Song Poxiao spouted drivel, saying, “I know that this is serious. This time was no more than having my air be stuffy inside. It’s just enough that this old bastard’s heart also had stuffy air, and everyone seized the opportunity to give vent to one’s feelings for a time. It was at least mutually beneficial…”

The few brothers laughed loudly together in chorus.

…

“Big Commander, those few old fogies already personally admitted it, why didn’t you command us to take action?” As Lu Buyi returned on the road, an accompanying expert asked bewilderedly.

“What did they admit? They also took what action?” Lu Buyi grunted. “If we truly wanted to take action as you said, I’m afraid that perhaps the eleven of us would never return again…”

“That…”

“The barracks being seized clearly wasn’t the doing of the Seven Golden Lotuses.” Lu Buyi’s vision was deep and abstruse. “The Seven Golden Lotuses still wouldn’t come out with this kind of shady business… In fact, the Heavenly Emperor and that side also clearly knows that the matter beforehand wasn’t the doing of the Seven Golden Lotuses, merely…”

Lu Buyi’s sentence would not come out, and it turned into a long sigh.

But the Heavenly Emperor from beginning to end only required one excuse to send the troops towards Heaven’s Leaf…