Have You Met My Brother?[Comprehensive Martial Arts + Sword Three] Chapter 22
byChapter 22 Baiyun City Lord Xie Donghai: I am such a kind person.…
From “patient” to “guest” is the result of Xie Donghai’s initiative.
A few days ago, he expressed to Shaoyao, the maid in white, that he wanted to thank the “City Lord” in person, but nothing happened after Shaoyao agreed.Naturally, he would not stay in the hospital pretending to be sick. He lay there for a day or two, and after getting some information from the doctors and medicine boys at the hospital, he walked around Baiyun City with an umbrella – he didn’t bring Bairenyu with him because he disliked it as it was too annoying, noisy, and prone to bad things.
Hundreds of people protested in the language, but ordinary people couldn’t understand the bird’s language, and those who understood it pretended not to hear it, so the cursing little show parrot was still left in the medical center that smelled of herbal medicine.
One morning, Xie Donghai, who was wandering around, “happened” to bump into Ye Gucheng who was practicing swordsmanship on the coast. The real non-human watched with interest how Lord Baiyun, who had the ultimate sword skill of “Flying Immortal from Heaven”, used this sword technique that was sharper than the last.Naturally, Ye Gucheng would not miss such a blatant peek. He quickly drew back his sword and turned to the outsider coldly.
Xie Donghai bowed politely to those eyes that seemed to contain a cold light: “May I ask if the city lord is in person? Penglai Xie Donghai, thank you for the rescue.”
Ye Gucheng’s eyes never left Xie Donghai. Hearing this, he asked lightly: “Penglai? Are you from the Sea Fairy Mountain?”
Xie Donghai smiled and said: “The so-called ‘Penglai’ is just that our predecessors fled to the sea to avoid the war. They met an island and settled on it. They named it ‘Penglai’ and regarded it as a legendary fairy island. If I really am a true fairy on the fairy island, how can I be separated from my loved ones due to a shipwreck?”
Of course he knows that Penglai is indeed Penglai, but this is a matter of another world. Even if there are rumors of fairy mountains on the sea in this world, it may not be able to give birth to a fairy island that truly possesses the spirit of the fairy. Even if there was once, I am afraid that it has either disappeared now, or the gods have obscured themselves and their traces are hard to find.
Ye Gucheng had already learned about the fact that Xie Donghai was exiled to Feixian Island due to a shipwreck and separated from his relatives and friends from the mouth of his maid Shaoyao.However, the exact origin of Xie Donghai has not yet been found.Just by looking at his appearance and the large silver-white umbrella he carried with him, he could guess that this person was probably not a simple person.
However, if such a figure had appeared in the world, it would be impossible for him to leave no trace.Now we can only speculate that the other party is either a newbie or a reclusive person – or both.
In fact, Feixian Island has picked up people who came to the island for various reasons over the years.Some of these people stayed and some left. As long as they did not disturb or affect Baiyun City, Ye Gucheng would not pay too much attention to them – unless the other party was a swordsman worth fighting.
“No need to say thank you, it’s just a chance encounter. Even if the whale is stranded, you will push it back into the sea when you see it.” At this point, Ye Gucheng, who had been observing Xie Donghai for a long time, suddenly asked, “Do you practice swordsmanship?”
Xie Donghai didn’t show any strange expression on his face, and replied with a slight smile: “The City Lord has a keen eye. I have indeed learned swordsmanship, and I have seen many people who practice swords. Among them, the City Lord…may be ranked in the top ten.”
Ye Gucheng, who was originally interested in trying the martial arts of the person in front of him on a whim, heard these words, and his eyes suddenly froze: “Top ten?” He admitted that there are many strong people in the martial arts world, but in terms of swordsmanship alone, he boasted that he could be in the top three, but this person actually thought that it would be difficult for him to even enter the top ten?
Xie Donghai, who compared Ye Gucheng, who was in his early thirties in another world, with the peerless swordsmen who had appeared in his own world for hundreds of years, looked calm. He even looked at Ye Gucheng with a bit of approval in his eyes: “I have never seen the swordsmanship of the city lord before, and today is an eye-opener. I believe that in time, if the city lord can break through the bottleneck, you will definitely have a place at the top of the sword.”
“…” Ye Gucheng didn’t respond immediately – he noticed a subtle strange feeling.In terms of appearance, Xie Donghai looks a few years younger than him, who is fair-faced and slightly bearded – about twenty-five years old, but when the other party talks, he seems to be standing in the position of an elder.
Ye Gucheng is not only a swordsman, he is also the Lord of Baiyun City, and he has another identity. He is a little more thoughtful than ordinary people. For a moment, he doubted whether there was a problem with Xie Donghai’s origin.However, on the surface he was still calm, but his hand holding the sword tightened: “You just took one look and saw that I have a bottleneck?”
“Too perfect is actually a kind of imperfection, because you can never find a way to the next level.” The smile on Xie Donghai’s lips never faded, even if he felt a flash of murderous intent in Ye Gucheng opposite him for a moment. The Taoist elder who had seen many amazing talents in Penglai for hundreds of years continued with emotion,
“In the journey of martial arts, there is no highest, only higher. Only by advancing all the way can you see more different scenery. However, no one can always have smooth sailing. When a bottleneck comes, if you can get over it, the sky will be brighter. If you can’t get over it, you will only waste your life in vain… At the age of the city lord, he encountered the first big bottleneck so early, which can be said to be a genius.”
Ye Gucheng frowned slightly: “…Have you ever seen many warriors who encountered bottlenecks?”
Xie Donghai nodded: “I’ve seen it before. Some of them crossed over, and some didn’t – it’s difficult for others to help with this kind of thing, unless it happens to be an opportunity for the other party to break through.”
Ye Gucheng was silent for a moment: “I suddenly became curious about what kind of place you call ‘Penglai’.”
The smile on Xie Donghai’s face deepened a little: “Penglai is a good place, very nurturing, but it is too far away, and going to Penglai requires the right time, place and people to cooperate. I won’t be able to go back for a while. If the city lord is curious, I can have a small exchange with the city lord.”
“Okay!” Ye Gucheng didn’t think deeply about whether it was true or not that traveling to Penglai requires the right time, place and people. But when Xie Donghai said that they could discuss things, he immediately agreed and took the lead in drawing out his sword – the slender sword body was like thunder and lightning, covering a distance of several feet in the blink of an eye, as if it was about to pierce Xie Donghai’s throat!
Facing this rainbow sword light, Xie Donghai seemed particularly slow, as if he was frightened and stood still.However, just when the tip of the sword seemed to be about to touch his skin, he completely disappeared – no, not missing, but “flying”!
Ye Gucheng raised his eyes and looked at Xie Donghai who suddenly jumped into the air. The long sword in his hand kept moving, but he changed his moves temporarily. He stepped a little closer to the sand and jumped into the air.The cold sword light seemed to cut through a perfect arc and struck directly at Xie Donghai’s right hand holding the big umbrella!
It’s a pity that Xie Donghai could be touched by him so easily.He seemed to need no help at all, his body was as light as floating catkins, like a real immortal in the sky, floating through the air with ease, easily dodging the pursuit of sword after sword.
Even though Xie Donghai didn’t fight back throughout the whole process, even Ye Gucheng, who was excellent at lightness and good at high flying, was still unable to stay in the air for as long as the former, so he had to try to change his breath and change his moves.
However, just as Ye Gucheng’s temporarily turned sword hit the beach below him, stirring up huge waves of yellow sand, allowing him to use the grains of gravel to maintain his offensive, Xie Donghai suddenly closed his big umbrella – the long and heavy umbrella was like a strangely shaped sword or a long wooden barn, and was held by its owner in his hand and thrust towards Ye Gucheng without any further delay!
Its speed was so fast that Ye Gucheng only had time to block it with his horizontal sword. The next moment, his whole body seemed to be carried away by an incomparable force.He was shocked and before he could regain his strength, he saw the big umbrella open again, and the silver-iron umbrella hit him directly, leaving him unable to fight back and fell to the sand.
Xie Donghai, who had controlled the city lord for several breaths with a set of small combos, was still holding an umbrella gracefully and easy-going, blocking the weak sunshine, and stretched out a friendly hand to Ye Gucheng, who was lying on the beach: “Sorry, city lord, I have restrained my inner strength, so I shouldn’t have hurt you, right?”
Ye Gucheng looked deeply at Xie Donghai for a moment and then stood up from the sand on his own – he was indeed not injured. Even when he was knocked to the ground, there was only a slight pain, which quickly dissipated.If we rule out that the other party is unable to catch it, then it can only prove that the person in front of him has reached the pinnacle of control over his own power, and his vision is extremely strong and accurate!
Such a failure was a very strange experience for Ye Gucheng, who had never failed before.Especially in the eyes of many swordsmen, victory and defeat are naturally related to life and death. In the eyes of some people, they would rather die than lose!
But I don’t know because this battle started and ended suddenly; in addition, Xie Donghai seemed to be using swordsmanship, but the moves and weapons did not seem to be related to swords. At this moment, Ye Gucheng was more puzzled – he didn’t understand how he was defeated, but he didn’t have any other negative thoughts, because he saw the possibility of himself going further!
Therefore, Ye Gucheng was silent for a long time, but the first thing he said was: “Are you using swordsmanship?”
After a brief sparring session, Xie Donghai, who was not stained by any dust on his body, smiled and replied: “It is a sword technique and an umbrella attack technique – this is a move created by Penglai Sect Master who combined many martial arts.”
Ye Gucheng did not communicate more with Xie Donghai that day.But in the next few days, they seemed to have an agreement and would spar on the beach every day.And every day, Xie Donghai used different tricks to build friendship.
On the way, Xie Donghai’s residence was moved from the medical center to the city lord’s palace.At the same time, Xie Donghai naturally expressed his request to Ye Gucheng to help find the person.
Today, Ye Gucheng was once again defeated by Xie Donghai. After learning that the former used the “捭阖剑法”, Ye Gucheng suddenly said: “I have sent my men to find your relatives and friends – if they act too low-key, you may have to wait for a while.”
“It doesn’t matter, I have enough patience and can wait slowly.” Xie Donghai, who has a long life and can’t leave the sea for the time being, immediately replied, and solemnly thanked him again, “Thank you Brother Ye for your help. I have caused you trouble for this private matter of mine.”
Well, “kin” refers to Yan Bugui, and “friend” refers to Liu Yuan. Xie Donghai had thought about leaving behind a certain brother-in-law named Liu, but considering that Yan Bugui might feel embarrassed when he found out later, he “magnanimously” asked someone to search for him together.
In this regard, Ye Gucheng just said calmly: “Since we are friends, there is no need to say thank you. Besides, I have benefited a lot from our discussion, so I treat it as a return gift.”
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