大唐双龙传 [Da Tang Shuang Long Zhuan] by Huang Yi

[Ysabelkid]

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[wangxiaohu]

Wow, foxs, need not to say sorry, I was just kidding.. we are the ones who have to say thank you for your endless determination to this story.

[SkyWalker]

Thanks foxs. I thought the fight at the included BFH. Guess I did miss one battle. Too many to keep track of.

[foxs]

Ysabel, you are welcome. Xiaohu, thanks for understanding. Sky, I believe BFH battled Wanwan only once. Anyway, here's the end of Chapter 5.

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He felt as if he was able to penetrate deep into Bian Bufu’s being, inside out. He was even aware that when he mentioned Dong Ming Princess, Bian Bufu’s mind fluctuated slightly.

For a top-notch martial art master like Bian Bufu, he had to guard his heart and mind tightly, and must never reveal the slightest flaw or negligence.

In fights between combatants of comparable skill, often time this kind of slight difference was enough to influence the outcome of the battle.

Seeing this slight opportunity he could exploit, Kou Zhong did not hesitate at all; after taking half a step back, he strode forward forcefully, carrying with him a dense, chilling-to-the-bones, powerful momentum. Recovering the knocked away saber, he seized the opportunity to attack, straight and earth-shattering that no one can withstand, with the awe-inspiring authority of the ruler of the world.

This time Bian Bufu was really shocked, realizing that just now he underestimated the enemy too much, which made him repeatedly missed key moments.

With an angry shout he brandished the pair of silver rings in his hands, creating silvery shadows dancing in the air, which the rushed forward to meet the enemy head on to prevent Kou Zhong from gathering enough power in his saber.

Kou Zhong laughed aloud and changed his style. Now his saber hacked down and swept across in straightforward manner, no more feign attacks.

His target was, surprisingly, the center of the dancing rings, where the momentum was the strongest.

The tea tray was thrown upward, fast as lightning Wanwan traversed sideway, while also sending out ten streams of finger wind to attack Xu Ziling, who was still leaping in the air, while at the same time evading the four streams of water arrow.

In this critical situation Xu Ziling remained calm; with a cold sneer he even said, “You fell into a trap again!”

His toes kicked on the tray, ‘Bang!’ it flew through the roof and fell to the yard outside.

Wanwan has always been extremely shrewd; neither delight nor anger ever appeared on her face. But this time she was so angry that it showed.

Speaking about real skill, she was highly confident that within ten to twenty moves she would be able to take care of Xu Ziling. However, after fighting to this point, she was always at a disadvantage, all because Kou Zhong’s tiresome remark has divided her mind.

Moreover, Xu Ziling’s amazing moves have been growing without restraint, making her unable to regain the initiative, so that in the end she was forced to free herself and ran away.

But when she was rushing toward the front yard to take care of Kou Zhong first, hundreds and thousands pieces of roof tile rained down on her, making it difficult for her to evade.

‘Boom!’

The ring shadow dissipated.

A bold and powerful beyond imagination spiraling energy hacked down on Bian Bufu, forcing him to withdraw two chi back.

Finally, when he was facing a life and death situation, Kou Zhong understood the ‘Escaping One’ concept that Lu Miaozi taught him.

Such a martial art master of Bian Bufu caliber, whether it was the movement of the hands or the feet, there was no gap that could be exploited.

But regardless of the style, any move would have a point where the potential for attack was the strongest. If this point was broken, all the subsequent forces and changes could be broken as well, and thus the potential was lost.

Kou Zhong was able to grasp this strongest point. By concentrating his entire power, with one saber strike he was able to break Bian Bufu’s ring shadow filling the air, which was actually difficult to differentiate between the real ring and the mere shadow. However, if his saber did not carry the extremely strange vortex of energy, it would not be that easy for him to force Bian Bufu to retreat.

Naturally Kou Zhong would not hesitate at all. Taking a stride forward, with a powerful momentum that could easily chop down three armies, he brandished his Moon in the Well again.

This moment Xu Ziling’s long laughter came from high in the air, “I slaughtered Wanwan!” he said with a loud laugh.

An incredulous look appeared on Bian Bufu’s eyes, yet he could not deny the fact that Xu Ziling, with no sign of damage at all, jumped down from the roof above. His spirit was greatly shaken, the Moon in the Well have arrived in front of his chest.

Having failed to guard his heart and mind, Bian Bufu did not dare to block head-on. Urgently he backed off; crashing against the wooden door that it exploded into pieces, he disappeared from the two boys’ sight.

Xu Ziling landed by Kou Zhong’s side. Shaking his head, he said with a sigh, “Only demonic school’s people could be that selfish.”

The two boys turned their head around to look at the house.

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[SkyWalker]

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WOW...I'm surprised Wanwan is defeated so easily. We're talking about one of the best fighters out there.

[wangxiaohu]

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WOW...I'm surprised Wanwan is defeated so easily. We're talking about one of the best fighters out there.

I dont think Wanwan is defeated yet.. I think the boys tried to outsmart Bian Bufu and tricked him to runaway.

[Anh Nam]

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[LuDongBin]

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[foxs]

Ysabel, Jaya, Xiaohu, HPC, Anh, you are welcome. Sky, she was not defeated (yet ...). DongBin, was it Wei Xiaobao who said that?

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Book 13 Chapter 6 – Helping People Like Fighting Fire

Like a specter Wanwan was standing beautifully at the door, her pretty eyes were gleaming with unusual radiance that was hard to explain, as she fixed her gaze at the two boys.

Kou Zhong took a step forward; pointing the Moon in the Well at Wanwan, he said, “Your Bian Shishu has abandoned you and left. Today we are going to settle the old debt and new animosity between us once and for all.”

Wanwan knitted her jet-black eyebrows, her expression was very cute and moving, in perfect harmony with her beautiful and elegant physique, something that nobody could match, the bewitching beauty that came only from a certain school. Even though Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong were standing in opposition to her on the battlefield, they could not but admit that she was extremely moving.

Against his will, Kou Zhong’s murderous intent decreased by thirty-percent.

Wanwan sighed lightly, as if she felt sorry for their ignorance. She said slyly, “How could Bian Shishu be easily deceived like that? It’s just that he saw your extremely flourishing acute spirit, and decided to temporarily avoid you! It was nujia who told him not to show his face, so that nujia can chat with you for a moment!”

Then she burst out into a giggle and said with a tender laughter, “I did not know you wanted to vie over the world like other people!”

Frowning, Kou Zhong said, “Unless you release Yucheng and the others immediately, there will be no talk. We will decide life and death on fists and kicks, saber and sword.”

Wanwan slowly moved forward until she was about half a zhang away from the two boys. With a gentle, captivating laughter she said, “If we can cooperate honestly, releasing those four kids is not a big deal.”

Recalling the Flying Horse Ranch people like Shang Peng, Shang He, and the others, who lost their lives in her hands, Xu Ziling shook his head resolutely and said, “You don’t seem to realize that there is this inextricable deep enmity between us. The only way to settle this is if one side was completely wiped out. Just call your Bian Shishu back! Otherwise, don’t blame us for dealing with you two against one.”

As if nothing had happened, Wanwan simply turned her attention to Kou Zhong, and spoke indifferently, “What do you say?”

Astonished, Kou Zhong replied, “My Xiongdi’s word is the same as my own. Did Miss Wan find out about it only today?”

Wanwan nodded and said, “I understand. There will come a day I will make you regret what you said today. Nujia takes my leave now!”

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling pounced on her together.

Wanwan let out a burst of tender laughter. Producing a ribbon from the sleeve of her right arm, she separately brushed away Kou Zhong’s Moon in the Well and Xu Ziling’s incoming palm strike.

Borrowing the reaction force, like a burst of wind Wanwan flew to the top of the roof.

Kou Zhong laughed aloud and said, “Didn’t you brag a few days ago that you were going to get rid of us within the next seven days? It’s nearly seventy days now! How come your words remained to be unfulfilled?”

The two boys knew that even they fought together, killing Wanwan was still more difficult than ascending to the heavens. If she wanted to leave, there was no way they could stop her. But for the sake of Duan Yucheng, four people, how could they let her slip away?

Xu Ziling added, “Don’t forget that next time you want to kill us, it will be even more difficult than this time.”

With a thousand tenderness and a hundred charms Wanwan laughed sweetly, her beautiful eyes looking deep into their eyes, she said, “Shizun [master] told me that if this time we still cannot get rid of you, she would personally undertake this task. Based on Shizun’s usual practice, chances are at that time you will reach the state of ‘seeking life yet won’t get it, seeking death yet can’t obtain’. Can’t you be a bit more patient?”

Both Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling shivered in their heart.

Wanwan was this formidable, wouldn’t Zhu Yuyan be even more desperately serious?

Suddenly Wanwan sighed grimly and said, “Kou Zhong! If you are willing to work together with nujia’s school, won’t the world be in your bag already? Why do you haggle over every ounce with several human lives? Real men conducting themselves in life, why bother over trivial matter? Besides, when two parties battle each other, there bound to be people injured or even killed!”

Kou Zhong sighed and said, “Obviously you only have regards on my treasure, yet you said you have regards on me. Female demon Wan, why don’t you go back to sleep with your Bian Shishu?”

A murderous aura flashed through Wanwan’s beautiful eyes, which was quickly replaced by a more complicated emotion. Revealing a bitter smile on her face, she suddenly floated away and disappeared behind the roof.

The two boys exchanged glances; they both saw the heaviness in the other’s heart.

The enemy was really too difficult to deal with.

Kou Zhong took a sharp intake of breath. “Did you smell something?” he asked in a low voice.

Xu Ziling nodded and said, “Some kind of a very strange fragrance. Female demon Wan is, after all, a woman.”

Kou Zhong giggled and said, “Whether Yucheng and the others are able to escape this calamity depends on whether the great tracking skill taught by Ol’ Ba is really effective.”

The two boys became the Scarface Hero and the Pockmarked Face Big Bandit, respectively, and changed into warrior outfit commonly wore by Wulin people. They were sitting in a teahouse, sipping tea and carefully watch a magnificent mansion house diagonally across the street at the mouth of the Xinzhong Bridge.

Pointing at the said building, Kou Zhong asked the waiter, “Whose house is that? Looks a bit imposing.”

After casting him a sidelong glance, the waiter replied, “You must be new in Luoyang that you don’t even know the mansion house of the Da Longtou [big boss] of Luoyang Bang [gang].”

When the waiter left to attend to the guest at another table, Kou Zhong leaned over and whispered to Xu Ziling, “Tonight, after meeting the Old Ba, we’ll come here on a rescue mission. You don’t have any problem with that, do you?”

Xu Ziling pondered for half a day; finally he replied in low voice, “I am afraid in her rage female demon Wan might execute Yucheng and the others right away. Do you think it’s likely?”

Kou Zhong said, “This is called anxiety to the level of confusion. Did you notice that? The waiter that talked to us just now is slipping out. Perhaps he is going to tell Luoyang Bang people that we are stepping on their plate.”

“Isn’t Luoyang Bang a big organization within the eight-gang ten-society?” Xu Ziling said, “If we can confirm which side Shangguan Long is leaning to, we might be able to exploit the delicate situation currently going on in Luoyang to deal with him.”

“I can always go back to Wang Shichong to find out the answer to that question,” Kou Zhong said, “Plus I can also take a look whether there is any development concerning Dugu Feng. We’ll meet again at the appointed place we’ll rendezvous with Ol’ Ba! Ay! I wish I don’t have to leave you alone.”

Xu Ziling burst out laughing, “Screw you!” he cursed, “Since when did I become your girl? Get lost!”

After Kou Zhong left, Xu Ziling pondered over a lot of things.

Ba Fenghan once mentioned that Yin Gui Pai had a man in Luoyang, someone who, on the surface, is an important figure [orig. have head, have face], while secretly he was a Yin Gui Pai’s ‘undercover agent’ working in the Wulin of the north, with specific responsibility of intelligence-gathering.

This perhaps explained why Duan Yucheng, four men, could not escape Wanwan’s evil clutch.

Thinking to this point, he heard footsteps approaching. Five big men, wearing blue warrior outfit, were stepping into the teahouse. Their eyes quickly found him, and then they went straight toward him.

Without even casting a glance from the corner of his eyes, Xu Ziling continued drinking his tea.

Upon seeing this, one after another the other patrons of the teahouse paid their bill and left in a hurry. Even the waiters were gone.

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DongBin, that was not what I mean. If you read Deer and Cauldron, you'll know what I mean. Ysabel, HPC, Sky, Jaya, you are welcome.

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Arriving in front of Xu Ziling, two of the men stood behind him, while two others stopped right in front of him, pulled the chairs, and sat down on the table to his left and right. In short, he was surrounded.

The last one, a man who looked like he was in his forties, wearing two slanting moustache above his lips, without any trace of politeness sat down across the table from Xu Ziling. With ominous glint in his eyes, he said, “Xiaodi Chen Lang, the Xiangzhu [fragrant master] of the Xuanwu Hall [Black Tortoise, one of the seven mansions of the north sky (in Daoism)] of Luoyang Bang. I hear that the friend here is inquiring about us. May I ask what is friend’s affiliation?”

Xu Ziling leisurely sniffed the fragrant steam rising up from his cup of tea, glanced nonchalantly at the man, and then said with a smile, “I wonder if Chen Xiong is merely making a big fuss over a minor issue. I was just noticing the particular look of your honorable Bangzhu’s mansion house, and thus I was asking out of curiosity. Is there any crime committed? Are we going to fight just because of this?”

Seeing his calm demeanor, Chen Lang was taken aback. Frowning, he said, “This is not about asking too much, surely friend knows it, right? Currently Luoyang is in an unusual time, if friend does not harbor any evil intention, just report your school or sect, your name and surname. If this is just a misunderstanding, we certainly won’t make things difficult for you.”

This kind of talk came from a Luoyang Bang man, who was used to go on the rampage around Luoyang region, it could be considered very polite. It was simply because Chen Lang noticed that Xu Ziling was carrying himself in the manner of a martial art master of major sect that he spoke those words, to make it easier for both sides to step down.

If Xu Ziling was indeed what he appeared to be, he would definitely take this opportunity to beat the gong to recall the troop, so as not to arouse his suspicions and thus ‘beat the grass to scare the snake’. But now, of course, was another matter.

Xu Ziling’s gaze fell onto the long saber hanging on Chen Lang’s back. Smiling unhurriedly, he said, “My mood today is not too good, I was wondering if Chen Xiong would be willing to lend me your saber, so that I can borrow it to break my vow against killing.”

While Chen Lang and his four men’s countenance changed abruptly, Xu Ziling had already stretched out his hand slowly toward Chen Lang’s throat.

The two big men on his left and right pounced on him angrily. Who would have thought that the table suddenly snapped, and split into two halves, separately knocking against them.

The two men from behind drew their sabers and ferociously hacked down on the back of Xu Ziling’s head. Xu Ziling only smiled. Suddenly the chair he was sitting on shot back like a bullet and crashed against the two men’s legs; knocking them down in a crushing defeat.

Now there was no barrier between Xu Ziling and Chen Lang. The teapot and teacups have been falling to the floor. Using the tip of his toes fast as lightning Xu Ziling kicked, sending the pot and cups safely onto the adjacent table, as if the waiter had carefully set them down on the table in front of the guest. The way he control his power was very ingenious that others could only gasp in amazement.

By this time Chen Lang was miserable.

On the surface there was nothing special in the way Xu Ziling was reaching out to grab him, but the fact was that the opponent’s finger technique was exquisite, carrying with it five strands of swift and severe finger winds, completely sealing off Chen Lang’s escape path.

The most formidable thing was that the opponent’s body emitted a stream of impossible-to-withstand deep, cold murderous aura, making it difficult for him to breathe, increasing his heartbeat, and making the blood in his entire body seemed to freeze, so that his body was unable to move the slightest bit.

In that instant, Xu Ziling suddenly understood that after going through perilous situations for the last several months, he had made an all-around breakthrough in the martial way.

Even Wanwan, while she momentarily lost her spirit and was caught off guard, he had, step-by-step, managed to gain the upper hand.

And his progress could be divided into two aspects.

The first aspect was mental/spiritual.

After undergoing unceasing danger and fierce battle, he had cultivated iron will and steel confidence, and could face anything without any fear.

But more importantly, he had developed the fantastic skill of having foresight.

Every time he was battling the enemy, oftentimes he was able to be one step ahead by grasping the changes of the moves the enemy was using to advance and attack or retreat and defend.

It was an inexplicable thing; he could only give credit to the magical effect of the Secret to Long Life.

The other aspect was the martial way.

Because Kou Zhong’s and his martial art moves basically did not follow any method, they also did not suffer the limitation of a particular set of method.

Each time they were facing the enemy for the first time, their martial skill would progress one layer up. Until now, each move and every style was uniquely directed at the situation at hand, as the moves came out freely, following their hearts’ desire. Even a martial art master of Wanwan’s caliber would find it hard to fathom, causing them to struggle to cope with the two boys.

But the biggest breakthrough was that he was able to control both the speed and the intensity of the spiraling energy.

This has given him the confidence in the ingenious use of this fantastic qi power, so that others were unable to make any sense of logic behind the changes of his spiraling power.

This has been highly beneficial to him whenever he wanted to hide his identity.

Rescuing people are like fighting fire. He did not have the patience to wait until tonight.

“Ah!”

Chen Lang let out a miserable grunt as his throat was grabbed by Xu Ziling, and his entire body was lifted up that his feet were dangling about half a chi above the floor.

Xu Ziling laughed aloud, and then, still carrying Chen Lang by the throat, he went out the back door.

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