beg for chivalry

Wang Xiaoyuan was tongue-tied and speechless.

Are you similar to Yubai Swordsman?

He had believed earlier that he was just a servant of the Jin Mansion, except for some unknown reason, he had excellent sword skills, and a foundation of lightness skills that could climb walls without any effort, and he had no chance of being able to climb the ranks of heroes.

Meeting Wu Litian, the son of the leader of the martial arts alliance, was purely accidental at that time, and he still doesn't know about his own life experience.

But Yu Jiachen, the current head of the Tianshan Gate, told him: He is very similar to the world's number one swordsman who has disappeared now——Yu Qiuxia!

How is this possible?Wang Xiaoyuan is like Monk Zhang Er who can't figure it out.But after thinking about it, he suddenly realized: Maybe Yu Jiachen became sick from worry, and everything looked like Yubai's sword technique.

Yu Jiachen said. "Although I have never seen the face of my senior brother, but somehow I feel that Brother Wang should be born exactly like him."

As he spoke, he quietly glanced at Wang Xiaoyuan a few times.I saw the young servant tilt his neck for a while in a daze, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly became very interested:

"Is the sect master telling the truth?"

Unexpectedly, Wang Xiaoyuan would have such a reaction, Yu Jiachen said in shock. "It's true, it's true."

"Since the sect master said so...does it really look alike?" Wang Xiaoyuan asked again as if two lamp beans were dancing in his eyes.

Yu Jiachen hurriedly glanced at the young man's hand on his shoulder, and had no choice but to be honest. "I won't lie...it does look alike."

Seeing Yu Jiachen's eyes flickering, Wang Xiaoyuan hastily withdrew his hand, but he blushed and dared not look at the young Taoist priest again.He coughed lightly and faltered.

"Master, please don't blame me for being excited just now. It's because I've loved listening to anecdotes since I was a child, and I have a deep attachment to Yubai Swordsman. What I said just now was too strange, and it made me lose my soul."

This is true.Every human being will always have someone in his heart that he yearns for or loves very much.Some people admire talents, while others envy heroes. Wang Xiaoyuan is a jade swordsman.

"I definitely didn't intend to surprise Brother Wang so much..." Yu Jiachen thought this was a reproach to him, and a blush of shame appeared on his fair face for a moment.

But after hearing what Wang Xiaoyuan said, he suddenly felt a little relieved.If it is said that this young man is Yu Qiuxia's follower, then he may be imitating it intentionally.But he was still puzzled: If he had never met his senior brother Yu Qiuxia, where did Wang Xiaoyuan learn the martial arts that is not far from Yubai's saber technique?

Yu Jiachen was thinking hard, at this moment, he could only hear the young man's low voice coming from his ear. "Sect Master, wait and see, the 'Heroes' Meeting' has begun!"

As soon as the voice fell, the cold wind picked up, and all the lights along the way were extinguished.But for a moment, the side of the long road winding from outside the village to the inside is lit up faintly. This is the brilliance reflected by the light through the embroidered cloth cover. The flames flicker, and the flowers, birds, insects and fish on the cloth are also swimming.At the same time, a stream of graceful cigarettes curls up from under the cloth cover, filling the courtyard softly.Everyone exclaimed in low voices, their voices were like undulating waves.

The two lurking on the house did not dare to be negligent and looked straight at the end of the long and deep road.

Yu Jiachen's face was tense, and his thin lips were pursed.Wang Xiaoyuan was so nervous that he shivered and took a small breath of cold air.I don't know who will walk on the stone road?Is he really the rumored martial arts master, or is he a scoundrel invited by the owner Yin Yuanbao and Tong Kongfang...?

"I'm going to take the liberty to ask, can the sect master distinguish between martial arts practitioners and ordinary people?" The young servant turned his face slightly, swallowed uneasily, and asked.

Yu Jiachen was concentrating on looking at the scene under the eaves, but when Wang Xiaoyuan made a sound, he shivered for a while.He thought hard for a long time before he forced himself to speak. "Of course we can tell the difference! Even if it is a mile away, I can see it clearly!"

Wang Xiaoyuan actually thought that he had a very good chance of winning, so he smiled blankly. "One mile away, the sect master's eyesight is indeed very sharp."

At this time, the commotion in the crowd became more and more obvious, and the commotion was like the ripples after throwing stones into an ancient well, and the lights seemed to flicker because of the restlessness.When one foot poked out from the ink-like night, everyone's discussion suddenly exploded.Two black clouds loomed beside the road, and these were the people who stretched their necks to find out.

"The master is here!"

Suddenly someone yelled, and the elongated necks fell to one side and turned like bamboo bushes blown by a strong wind.Wang Xiaoyuan squinted his eyes and looked there. His eyesight was not healed, and he could only vaguely see someone striding towards the surging wall of people, so he hurriedly turned his head and asked Yu Jiachen. "Master, can you see what that man looks like?"

Yu Jiachen frowned slightly and said. "That man... gave birth to a head, two eyes, a pair of ears, a nose, and a mouth."

His serious tone made Wang Xiaoyuan dizzy.So Wang Xiaoyuan asked with hissing air. "Then according to what the sect master saw, is that person a martial artist?"

"He is a master." Yu Jiachen insisted seriously, "He must have a peerless magic power."

These words made Wang Xiaoyuan sweat coldly.How high is the ability of a "superior" who is called "with peerless magical skills" by the current master of Tianshan Sect?

Just as the hearts of the two were pounding, the person who was called the palm of the wind by others came into the courtyard along the stone road.The crowd consciously divided a lane for him to step onto the high platform in the court.And as soon as that person's feet touched the platform, there was a loud sound of silk and bamboo around him, and the sound of gongs and drums was quite rhythmic.It is a man wearing a beast face and a short jacket, holding a tassel rope in his hand, and the rope is tied to a horse.There are three people behind him, and those three people hold the flute, Xiao and drum respectively, playing the melodious sound.

"No matter how you look at it, this man is a juggler, sect master." After seeing clearly, Wang Xiaoyuan muttered in a low voice.There are some homeless people performing arts near Jinfu, and their clothes are almost the same as these people.

"No, he must be a hero. No matter how I look at him, he should have a peerless magic." Yu Jiachen stared at him stubbornly.

After the animal-faced man stood still and tied the tassel rope in his hand to the wooden stake on the stage, he raised his hands to the people who flocked to the stage, as if to indicate that his hands were empty and there were no utensils.Everyone was wondering what he was going to do—the man with the animal face took out a white cloth from his waist and covered the horse's head, clapped his hands, and walked around the horse deftly a few times.The three accompanying people also played music while swaying around the beast-masked man like a swimming snake. His figure was like willow branches fluttering in the wind.

Suddenly there was a crisp sound, the animal-faced man clapped his palms, and swayed towards the horse path, the white cloth covering the horse's head suddenly shrank, as if the whole head had turned into green smoke in an instant Dissipated generally.Everyone had never seen such a thaumaturgy, and they were dumbfounded for a moment, and their voices rose.The man with the animal face stroked the white cloth a few times, only to see the curtain shaking, he closed his hands, and took out a horse's head in a short while.

Yu Jiachen stared wide-eyed. "This, this is..."

Could it be that the animal-faced man has a pair of sharp palms that can instantly cut off a horse's head?If this is the case, then the world-renowned Nine-Road Qingfeng Palm is nothing compared to it.

"This is the 'head removal technique'." Wang Xiaoyuan smiled calmly while holding his chin.

"'Head removal technique'? So, is it true that the horse's head was removed?" Yu Jiachen asked hastily.He stared intently at the hands of the man with the animal face. The horse's head was placed on the white cloth covering the hands. The cross-section was neat and there was no trace of blood.It doesn't seem like something very human can do.

"That's not the case." Wang Xiaoyuan said. "This is just a kind of illusion. There are people who are good at using illusion in the Shan country in the southwest. They can breathe flames, swallow live donkeys, and can dismember themselves and change their heads. It sounds strange, but there are some things in it. secret secret."

The young servant pointed to the musicians dancing around the man with the beast face, "Master, do you know why these musicians are circling around the man with the beast face? If you want to show the power of your palms, just show off your power in front of everyone. But why these attendants playing flutes and playing gongs and drums? The reason is precisely the 'blurring'."

Dancing around the man with the animal face is to disturb the viewer's sight.The clanging music is to confuse people's minds.It seems that the head has been removed, but the head is actually hidden in the dark and is still intact.

"That is to say, as long as the position where the horse's head was originally located is darkened so that it blends into the night, and then the wooden carved horse's head hidden under the white cloth is taken out to show the public, doesn't it look like cutting off the head with bare hands? Therefore It's just a blindfold, nothing has changed."

"But Brother Wang, wouldn't everyone in the audience notice it? If you look closely, these obstacles...sights should be seen through." Yu Jiachen was still puzzled.

Wang Xiaoyuan shook his head. "Master, do you still remember the scene when the beast-faced man came into the village just now, the lights beside the road were all turned off, the green lights gradually came on, and the strange fragrance overflowed? I heard from Sanniang...another servant of the mansion, Mandala incense will make people feel like they are falling into a dream, and they don’t know where to go. I’m afraid that strange fragrance is that mandala incense. What’s more, there are flutes, Xiaos, and drums dancing on the stage to disturb the eyes. Even if you look closely, you can’t recognize it It is understandable whether the horse head is real or not."

When they said these words, the man with the animal face and the three players who played the flute, flute and drum performed other illusions.It seems to hold clear water in the mouth, spit it out into fire again, turn clouds into fog, cut off the tongue and continue, etc., performing a variety of wonders.After everyone was amazed enough, a few people who danced guns and swords came to the stage and danced in a decent manner. It's a bluff.

Perhaps it was because of the flickering lights and the overflowing fragrance that this playwright who was occasionally seen on the street was regarded by the common people as a rare master with extraordinary achievements, and the voices of admiration and exclamation were endless.It seems that in front of this illusion, the viewers have fallen into a state of dizziness and confusion, unable to distinguish between true and false.

The young servant let out a long sigh and lay down on the roof. "It seems that they are just entertainers, not from the Jianghu." He turned his head to Yu Jiachen apologetically. "I will apologize to the sect master, let the sect master accompany me to climb up to the roof for no reason... Doing these things is not a fair thing."

Yu Jiachen shook his head. "Brother Wang, you don't need to apologize. We have already agreed that it would be best if we could see our senior brother. After the corpse, I will stay."

Hearing his sad and gloomy voice, Wang Xiaoyuan was startled, and went to look at Yu Jiachen's face.I saw that his eyes were slightly red, as if big tears would roll out at any time, but he pressed his lips tightly.Seeing Wang Xiaoyuan looking at him with concern, Yu Jiachen tried his best to smile, blushing on his cheeks, and turned to the dimly lit courtyard.

"Brother Wang, do you think that I will insist that my brother is alive? Even if it is my wish, but at that time, my brother faced the most cruel villain in the world. There is no difference in sword skills and martial arts. The sky mountain cliff is high and dangerous. Even Feihong has no chance of survival, let alone a mere mortal brother?"

The young Taoist sighed. "So after tonight's 'Heroes Banquet', I will stop thinking about looking for my senior brother. After the battle with Hou Tianlou, the Tianshan Gate has been severely damaged. It is really capricious for me to run out to look for my senior brother at this juncture. Show up today The Yubai swordsman is not a senior brother, so I should calm down and return."

In the past two years, he has traveled all the way from the northwest, searching everywhere alone, often sad and with no one to complain to.

And tonight, he was actually disheartened.

The swordsman Yubai was dead, on the night of his confrontation with the black-clothed Rakshasa——Yu Jiachen should have recognized this fact two years ago.In this way, he will not still worry about his brother's life and death like he does now.

"It's a pity that everyone is waiting for senior brother to save the common people." Yu Jiachen smiled sadly. "I have also heard that there is a murderer here, and the people are panic-stricken. They hope to meet Yubai Swordsman through the "Qunying Heroes Meeting" and ask for his protection. If that "Yubai Swordsman" is really a person with martial arts skills, Then he can still make the people feel at ease, but if he is just a juggler like Brother Wang said, what should we do?"

Wang Xiaoyuan immediately understood what he meant.Qian Jiazhuang used the "Heroes' Association" to search for money, so naturally they would not really invite any heroes from the world, at most they would let a few actors set up the stage to put on a show.Pity the people who wanted to escape the murderer, but in the end they couldn't ask the knights for help.

"If only the rumors about the murderer were false." The young servant said suddenly.

Yu Jiachen didn't understand what he meant, and looked at him with puzzled eyes.Wang Xiaoyuan smiled wryly. "I think it would be great if the trick of killing people was like this 'head removal technique'. It looks cruel, but not a drop of blood was shed, and the heads that were removed were also arranged by organs... How wonderful it would be."

"But it's absolutely impossible, but I'm quite fond of tricks like 'head-taking'." Yu Jiachen looked at the beast-masked man and the juggler playing music in the distance, with a slight smile on his lips. "I saw these juggling tricks when I was a kid."

"The door master has seen it before?" Wang Xiaoyuan asked in surprise.

"At that time, a few actors would come to the town at the foot of the mountain from time to time. They would turn into birds with empty poles and step on pills. I would see them occasionally when I went down the mountain." Yu Jiachen recalled the past and smiled bitterly. "Every time I go back to the mountain gate, my brother will catch me asking non-stop—"

During the words, memories from three years ago flooded into his mind like a tide.

Xiao Yujiachen was young and ignorant at that time, and was always teased and joked by his senior brothers.Strange to say, Yu Qiuxia seems to be a serious and serious person who never smiles, but even the elders can't do anything about him when he wants to do bad things.

Before Yujiachen entered the Tianshan Gate, the legend about the Yubai swordsman had been widely spread in the world for decades, and Yujiachen, who was originally a child of a family, insisted on entering Tianshan because of his admiration for the three swords. Door.

Unexpectedly, after entering the Tianshan Gate, he found out that the object he had always admired was a "freak" in the sect—despite his superb martial arts skills, he violated the sect's rules and disobeyed his master time and time again; Too good to be too good, always like to do things that harm oneself and benefit others, but in the end, he is always too busy to fetch water for nothing.

It was such a weird person, such an unattainable character, who suddenly came to talk to him one day.

"—Your name is... Yujiachen, right?"

said the man.