Chapter 40: Fighting Feng Pinghuo Again

  At the intersection of the twenty wooden men and the ten wooden men alley, a young man stood there.

  That young man was unremarkable in every other way, but his horse face really stood out.

  The horse-faced youth looked at Gu Chao, and a gloomy light flashed in his eyes: "Gu Chao, it seems that you and I have a fate, and old and new debts can be settled together." The horse-faced youth was none other than Feng Pinghuo, the third of the three Feng brothers. The three Feng brothers had a deep grudge against Gu Chao, having clashed twice before: once over the Moonlight Grass, and again on the Challenge Stage. In their first encounter, Feng Pinghuo had emerged victorious, while in the second, Gu Chao had won.

  Finally, it's third gear now.

  Feng Pinghuo looked at Gu Chao with a bone-chilling hatred, and this time Feng Pinghuo was also full of confidence.

  He had an encounter in the 13th dormitory not long ago, and that encounter was like this: At that time, Feng Pinghuo found a knife move on the bed, which was strange but extremely wonderful. There was also a sentence left on it: "I combined six knives from the seventy-two roads of knife skills into one knife, engraved here, waiting for someone with fate in the future, Chu Zhongtian."

  Chu Zhongtian is actually one of the inner disciples of the current Taishan Sect, and he is a top five master. Gu Chao has seen Wei Qingqing, who ranks tenth among the outer sect disciples, and feels that Wei Qingqing is exceptionally strong, but compared to Chu Zhongtian, the top ten masters of the outer sect are far inferior.

  Chu Zhongtian is a genius, who actually rose from being an outer door disciple step by step. He happened to sleep in the same dormitory as Feng Pinghuo's number thirteen. When he was still an outer door disciple, he showed incredible talent and even thought of merging the seventy-two routes of knife techniques into one move. However, this attempt failed, as it is extremely difficult to merge the essence of all seventy-two moves into one. Nevertheless, he managed to combine six moves from the seventy-two routes of knife techniques into a powerful technique.

  He heard many legendary stories from the rivers and lakes, so he carved this move on the bed board and wrote: "I combined six knives into one knife from the 72 routes of knife method, engraved here, waiting for the people with fate in the future, Chu Zhongtian." Some imitated the style of predecessors in Jianghu legendary stories. Before many years had passed, he happened to meet Feng Pinghuo, who accidentally turned over the bed and saw this knife move.

  Feng Pinghuo was so confident in challenging Gu Chao because of this six-in-one knife move.

  Feng Pinghuo had once used this move, the Six Harmony First Strike, to try out his skills against his fellow disciples. None of them could defend against this strange move and ended up suffering greatly. After several battles, Feng Pinghuo became even more confident, thinking that his Six Harmony First Strike was very powerful. The two opponents he met at the intersection in front of the Wooden Man Lane were both defeated by Feng Pinghuo's Six Harmony First Strike.

  ……

  Feng Ping's red copper long knife suddenly came out of its scabbard, the snow-white blade lightening as it emerged. With a single swift motion, he launched a direct attack on Gu Chao: "Gu Chao, you relied on your strange knife skills to defeat me at the Challenge Platform; today I will use an even stranger knife skill to counterattack you."

  This knife of his was strangely wonderful, as if it contained many changes within a single move.

  Gu Chao saw this move was quite powerful and couldn't help but flash a hint of surprise, while also observing Feng Pinghuo's move.

  Feng Pinghuo struck out with another move.

  Gu Chao dodged another move with a flash of his body.

  Feng Pinghuo saw Gu Chao's ancient super flash, and his two moves were fundamentally powerless to truly resist this powerful move. He couldn't help but feel extremely pleased in his heart: "Gu Chao, you're only at this level? You can only dodge? Where is the majesty of the challenge stage? Now that you've encountered my powerful move, you must be desperate! Today, you will lose to me!" He continued to attack with a series of moves, and this six-in-one strange move kept striking out. This move was indeed very powerful, equivalent to concentrating the strengths of six moves into one. Ordinary moves only had one direction, but this move had six directions, making it difficult for people to judge the next direction.

  "Am I just going to dodge?" Gu Chao's lips curled up, and he let out a faint sneer, actually being looked at as someone who only knew how to dodge.

  Gu Chao had actually already seen through Feng Pinghuo's moves.

  The opponent's move was quite strange, but after a careful look, it turned out to be six moves from the 72 Road Knife Method combined into one. Gu Chao's current knife method level is already impressive, so he recognized the six moves after two glances: the third move "Tai Shan Pressing the Top", the twenty-sixth move "Mountain Without Tigers", the thirtieth move "Mountain Peaks Piled Obstacles", the forty-ninth move "Tai Shan Three Peaks", the seventieth move "Heavy as Tai Shan" and the twenty-second move "Mountain Trend Continues".

  This move is indeed powerful, but to block Gu Chao's true power is not possible. Gu Chao has long practiced these knife techniques to the point of no moves and no styles. Your combination may be more powerful, but the pros and cons, the flaws, Gu Chao sees them all clearly. Seeing Feng Pinghuo use the Liuhe Yi move again, Gu Chao raised his hand and the red copper long knife changed in mid-air, blocking six consecutive attacks.

  Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang! Six resounding clangs, two knives clashed six times in mid-air.

  Blocked!

  Feng Pinghuo was taken aback, it must be a coincidence, it must be luck, he struck out the Six Harmony First move again, but Gu Chao changed his knife light and blocked this move once more. Blocking once could be said to be lucky, but blocking twice couldn't be called lucky anymore.

  How is this possible! His Six Harmony Unity Blade technique was incredibly powerful, but Feng Pinghuo didn't believe it and launched another attack. However, Gu Chao's blade of light made a slight mistake and easily cut into the midst of Feng Pinghuo's blade of light, passing through it and leaving a long gash on his body with a loud "ka" sound. The first time was a block, the second time was a block, but the third time was a broken technique!

  Three moves!

  In the last round on the challenge stage, Feng Pinghuo fought against Gu Chao and used eight moves.

  This time, Feng Ping was full of confidence, learned the six-in-one knife move, thought this move was super powerful, but ended up encountering Gu Chao and lost in three moves.

  Feng Ping almost couldn't believe this result.

  But the bloodstain on his chest reminded him it was real.

  Ancient Super held a long red copper knife horizontally at Feng Pinghuo's throat, the icy blade pressing against that hot throat: "Just three moves."

  "You've already lost to me once, and those who lose to me can't turn the tables. The distance will only grow further apart. Because I'll keep advancing in martial arts, advancing, and advancing again, at a speed that you can't catch up with." Gu Chao said coldly, but this sentence was not just directed at Feng Pinghuo, it was Gu Chao's declaration of his martial way.

  Yes, strive forward with all one's might and advance at the fastest speed in martial arts to become a true martial arts master who doesn't yield to anyone, this is Gu Chao's goal.

  This goal is far away, with great difficulty and huge obstacles.

  But what does it matter! The goal is set there, keep striving for it yourself!

  Feng Pinghuo was eliminated, while Gu Chao has entered the fourth stage of Mokuyoku - the tenth Mokuyoku, in one of the ten Mokuyoku.

  At this time, there were not many people left in Mugong Alley who had not been eliminated.

  The year-end mid-term exam is still in full swing.

  At the same time, outside Mugenkan.

  Nangong Yuan and Bai Xiaosheng, the two elders of the Taishan Sect, were still drinking tea, specifically Mengshan tea brewed with Tiger Hill water.

  Nangong Yuanzhang was waiting for the results of these seven months.

  Bai Xiaosheng was waiting for news from Murong Ying.

  These two elders basically didn't notice Gu Chao, and his current achievements have indeed not yet entered their eyes.

  Three rivers are done, three rivers are done, and three rivers are a pretty good recommendation. Uh-uh, asking for three rivers' recommendation votes, asking for three rivers' recommendation votes. There's still one more chapter to be updated around 12 tonight. Since the previous three rivers were finished, this book has entered an era of explosive chapter releases. In the new week, everyone will have a great time reading it. Please stay tuned.