Taiping Inn

The knife was not used after all, because an old man fell from the sky.

The old man had an ordinary appearance, and his clothes were nothing special. He did not wear any weapons, but held a bamboo stick in his hand.

But this bamboo stick, at this time and place, was much more important than the two swords "Qingyun" and "Miaofa Lotus".

Because the person who came was "Sea Dry and Stone Rotten" Zhang Haishi, who ranked sixth on the Taixuan list, even higher than Wuzhen.

The Taixuan list is very famous, but because the people on the list often change, not all people in the world can know the people on the list. Some are very famous and everyone knows them, such as "Heavenly Sword" Qin Qing and "Blood Sword" Ning Yi, as well as the leader of Qingwei Sect and the old man Zang. There are also those who are not very famous, and even do not walk in the world for many years. Many people only know a name. Zhang Haishi is one of the representatives of such people.

After Situ Xuance's death, Zhang Haishi rarely appeared in the martial arts world, so that newcomers in the martial arts world rarely knew about him, let alone what the four words "seas dry up and rocks crumble" meant.

In fact, not to mention ordinary people in the martial arts world, even the young disciples of the twelve sects of the righteous way and the ten sects of the evil way knew little about this sixth person on the Taixuan list who had been away from the world for many years. They only knew that this sixth person on the Taixuan list often drank and got drunk. For ordinary people, practicing martial arts and refining qi is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. But Zhang Haishi did the opposite. He was still singing and advancing in a drunken dream, which made people puzzled.

Previously, the old man Zang did make a move, but he didn't make any contribution.

After all, the gap between the fourth and the sixth is really not big. At most, it is the gap between victory and defeat, far from the gap between life and death. After experiencing a series of changes, the old man Zang lost two incarnations and "White Bone Mysterious Venerable", and his vitality was seriously injured by activating the blood formation. How could he defeat Zhang Haishi in his prime?

The two of them only fought briefly, and the old man Zang withdrew very straightforwardly. Zhang Haishi was just as he said. He did not come for the old man Zang, so he did not get too entangled, but floated down from the top of the mountain and blocked Tang Han.

As a small group of people who have already stood at the top of the martial arts world, Tang Han naturally knew many secrets of the martial arts world. As for the old man in front of him, he had already guessed it just by seeing the bamboo stick in his hand.

So he was silent, holding the "Zanpaku" in his hand, but he was still unable to deliver the knife.

The thirteenth in the world against the sixth in the world, what is the outcome?

He was not sure, there was a threshold between the black and white spectrum and the Taixuan list, and there were two worlds inside and outside the threshold.

If it was his brother, Tiangong General Tang Zhou, who ranked eighth on the Taixuan list, he might have already drawn his knife, because the gap between the sixth and the eighth, like the gap between the fourth and the sixth, is only the difference between victory and defeat, not life and death.

But he still had a huge gap from his brother, so how could he compare with the sixth in the world.

Although Zhang Haishi was old, he still stood straight. Apart from his gray hair and wrinkled face, he could hardly be seen as an old man. He looked at Tang Han in armor and slowly said, "Are you Tang Han? Four years ago, I met your elder brother Tang Zhou in the capital. He was a straightforward man."

Tang Han smiled and said, "There are three of us brothers. My second brother is good at strategy and is a military strategist. My eldest brother is a heroic man and a talented commander. I am the third brother. I don't have the skills of my two elder brothers, so I can only be a pawn in the charge."

"A pawn." Zhang Haishi smiled without comment.

"Yes, little soldier." Tang Han looked at Zhang Haishi deeply and said slowly: "A soldier who crosses the river cannot turn back."

Zhang Haishi held the bamboo stick in front of him: "What a soldier who crosses the river, what a soldier who cannot turn back."

Tang Han said calmly: "A soldier who crosses the river cannot turn back, and he cannot retreat even if he crosses the river."

Zhang Haishi sighed and said: "It is true that a soldier who crosses the river cannot turn back, but he can move left and right after crossing the river. Can you take a detour for my sake today? After all, walking in the rivers and lakes, you also have to pay attention to human relationships. Today you give me three feet, and tomorrow I will give you ten feet. General Tang, do you think this is the truth?"

"That's the truth." Tang Han nodded slightly: "Since the senior said so, then I...what else can I say."

While speaking, Tang Han put the "Zanpaku" in his hand back into the sheath at his waist, and then began to retreat step by step.

Zhang Haishi poked the bamboo stick in his hand into the water surface under his feet and just looked at Tang Han.

Just when Tang Han was about to leave the pool, he suddenly stopped, grabbed the "Zanpaku" on his waist, and drew his sword again.

This time, drawing the sword meant striking out, and striking out the sword meant a killing move.

Everything happened in a flash, and he rushed straight to Li Xuandu with a sword.

He bet that the corpse pill was on Li Xuandu's body.

He guessed right, the corpse pill was indeed on Li Xuandu's body, but he bet wrong on one point, that is, the relationship between Zhang Haishi and Li Xuandu.

Zhang Haishi came this time, and no one else could care less, whether it was Yan Feiqing, the head of the Zhengyi Sect, or Su Yun'an of the Cihang Sect, in his opinion, they were no match for Li Xuandu.

Besides, Tang Han's unexpected trick did not fool him.

So he took action naturally.

In front of the old man, ripples suddenly appeared on the water, like stepping into the water.

The next moment, the old man appeared in the path that Tang Han had to take when he drew his sword, and he took the lead in making a move with the bamboo stick in his hand. It was unclear whether it should be considered as a spear technique, a stick technique, or a sword technique.

The bamboo stick instantly broke Tang Han's sword, then pierced Tang Han's armor and penetrated his body. Then Zhang Haishi grabbed the bamboo stick and lifted it up suddenly, lifting Tang Han up into the air.

However, Tang Han had expected this, and instead of retreating, he advanced, sliding down the bamboo stick that had been pierced by the bamboo stick, and the "Zanpaku" in his hand slashed straight at Zhang Haishi's face.

Zhang Haishi directly reached out and held down the sword, allowing the sword to shine brightly and fiercely, but it could not hurt his palm at all.

There was no mysterious trick, just one force defeated ten skills.

Zhang Haishi looked at Tang Han who was close at hand and said, "General Tang, why do you have to do this?"

Tang Han pursed his lips lightly, without saying a word, and flew up, breaking away from the bamboo stick that pierced him. Regardless of the injury on his chest, he stabbed again.

Zhang Haishi stretched out his hand and separated the bamboo stick, and the sword was hidden in the bamboo.

Then the old man held the bamboo sword, which did not seem to contain too much, just a simple sword, and went straight to the knife.

Two majestic auras of the heaven and man realm collided with each other, and the sound of Huang Zhong Da Lu suddenly rang out between heaven and earth.

In a flash, after the sword and the sword collided, Tang Han, who was following the sword, was hit on the forehead by Zhang Haishi. His body suddenly leaned back, and then his feet stood on the ground for more than a foot, and flew backwards twenty feet away.

After Tang Han's feet landed, he did not even wait until the residual force of the sword was completely removed. His feet paused, his body swept up, and he slashed again.

Zhang Haishi's figure flashed away.

The next moment, the two met in mid-air. Zhang Haishi used the bamboo sword in his right hand to resist Tang Han's "Zanpaku", so that its edge was completely suppressed before it was fully bloomed, and then his left hand broke through the heavy aura, strangled Tang Han's neck, and pulled it hard.

Tang Han's figure fell from mid-air and slammed into the ground fiercely.

It was like a rock from outer space falling to the ground.

A muffled thunder shook people's hearts and minds.

A bowl-shaped pit more than ten feet deep appeared on the ground.

However, as a great master of the Heaven Realm, Tang Han was much more tenacious than the masters of the Return to Truth Realm. After a moment, he jumped out from the bottom of the pit and crossed his sword again.

But before he could speak, Zhang Haishi, who was also unwilling to waste words, flew over with his sword like the wind.

Zhang Haishi's sword was so fast that Tang Han didn't have time to react and defend himself.

This sword hit Tang Han's body, as if a bell hammer fell hard on a big bell. The mighty bell sound suddenly resounded through the mountains, as if a real sound wave swept through, and all the grass and trees bowed their heads.

Tang Han flew backwards and crashed to the ground dozens of feet away. He crashed into countless trees along the way. Finally, he crashed into a tree that was so thick that four people could hug it together, and broke the trunk in half. Only then did he stop.

Zhang Haishi didn't look at Tang Han, who had no strength to fight back. He put the bamboo sword back into the sheath and turned to look at Li Xuandu.

Li Xuandu bowed and said, "Second Brother."