Chapter 1070

"Snatching your furnace cauldron was likely the work of that group of wicked youths in Chang'an. They have been clamoring these past few days to offer a gift to the Zhou Liulang Cao. It was also my oversight; I did not know they would be so bold and reckless."

A Yin Spirit great cultivator of the Xue family stood before the Li family's gate and said indifferently:

"That group of wicked youths numbers in the dozens, roaming freely around Chang'an, and Li Xiuzuan is merely one of them! Do you truly wish to pursue this?"

Xue Jinu gripped the iron halberd in his hand tightly and said coldly: "They have bullied me too much!"

In the blink of an eye, he regained his composure: "Moreover, this junior has already interrogated those women who returned, and they all heard the names of the Second Young Master of the Li family and Li Xiuzuan."

"This was reported by that group of wicked youths themselves, likely with the intention of framing others. But after careful calculation, the youth riding the white horse that day bears an eighty percent resemblance to Li Xiuzuan; it must be him!"

"Li Xiuzuan fell out with them for the sake of a group of women, and he must have offended the Zhou Liulang Cao as well. Using him as the first target is the best choice..."

A flash of gloomy calculation crossed his eyes: "If Li Xiuzuan were still in a pack with them, this junior would not dare to provoke him easily. But that group of wicked youths in Chang'an comes and goes without restraint, like a pack of wolves, loving nothing more than to bully others in a group. It was precisely because I had a poor relationship with them that I suffered this humiliation."

"Since it is like this, I must catch one of them alone and beat him severely!"

"That Li Xiuzuan is so tactless that he is bound to be ostracized. If I step on him to get ahead and then go with the flow to present that furnace cauldron to the Zhou Liulang Cao, I should be able to curry favor with that Sixth Imperial Prince..."

Speaking up to this point, a flash of heartache still crossed his eyes.

But in an instant, he suppressed it and said coldly: "Unlike now, losing the furnace cauldron and losing face as well!"

The Xue family Yin Spirit nodded and said: "It is good that you understand!"

"Bring the people up!"

Xue Jinu shouted toward the back, and the head steward behind him lowered his head, a clear five-finger slap mark on his cheek, as he dragged up two women and kicked them to the ground.

Xue Jinu shouted coldly: "Li Xiuzuan, come out!"

Inside the Li family courtyard, Madam Feng heard the shouting and summoned Uncle Zhuang to ask: "What is happening outside?"

The family general Uncle Zhuang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said cautiously: "Perhaps the Second Young Master provoked the Xue family outside, and now they are blocking our gate and cursing!"

"The Master has gone out!" Madam Feng said: "How can a woman like me properly receive guests?"

"You go outside and ask the Xue family to talk it over. Don't make too much of a scene. When the Master returns, he will naturally give them an explanation... This ward is full of residences of imperial court officials. Making such a loud noise will only invite ridicule!"

But before Uncle Zhuang could even step out, he saw an arrow sound from outside the gate; it was Xue Jinu nailing an arrow into the Li mansion's plaque.

He heard him shout sternly: "Li Xiuzuan, you colluded with others to gather in a crowd, taking advantage of my Xue family's lack of preparation to snatch away my newly wedded beautiful concubine. Since you can do such a thing of stealing what others love, why do you not dare to come out and face me?"

Madam Feng was shocked and said: "How could the Second Young Master do such a thing?"

"Quick, don't let the Second Young Master go out!"

At this moment, the Li mansion's gate creaked open, and Li Xiuzuan walked out lazily, holding a saber, and leaned against the courtyard wall.

He raised an eyebrow and said happily: "Yo! Isn't this the Zhou Liulang Xue?"

"Yesterday was the Zhou Liulang Xue's big day, but I heard that the concubine you took was an orphaned branch of the Hedong Liu family. Just because her constitution was pure yin, you forcibly made her practice the 'Pure Yin Jade-Breaking Art' to serve as a furnace cauldron for you, the Zhou Liulang of the Xue family, to perform plucking and nourishing."

"We brothers couldn't stand to hear it, so we went to your door to demand her and have a discussion with you, Zhou Liulang Xue."

"I didn't expect that while you, Zhou Liulang Xue, dance your iron halberd with such majesty and hold the shaft firmly, you are actually just a silver-like wax spearhead. When you saw me alone challenging you to a fight, you didn't even dare to respond, just watching as my brothers and I took away your furnace cauldron."

He glanced at the woman beside Xue Jinu's feet and sighed: "You all were also forced to practice such evil arts as the 'Pure Yin Jade-Breaking Art'. We kindly rescued you from the Xue family manor, so why were you caught back by them?"

"I see that you are all women from good families. For the Xue family to act like this, they are truly not acting like sons of men!"

The officials and their families peeking around, the women secretly stuck to the wall to listen, while the men walked out openly to watch the excitement.

Hearing this, some said that Li Erlang snatching women was not very kind.

But others said that for the Xue family to act like this was also not decent!

Xue Jinu's face flushed red upon hearing this, and he shouted sternly: "You are talking nonsense!"

What Li Xiuzuan said was truly vicious. Just the phrase "silver-like wax spearhead" vividly portrayed his outward toughness and inward weakness.

It even hinted that some of his abilities were not up to par, which was why his beautiful concubine was snatched away.

The phrasing was very punchy!

Xue Jinu could already imagine that by tomorrow, the legend of him being a silver-like wax spearhead would be circulating everywhere in Chang'an!

Li Xiuzuan, however, still tilted his mouth and smiled: "Look, I'm just saying my piece, why are you in such a hurry?"

This is the six-character mantra—"You're anxious!"

"You... you have strength in numbers! Dozens of people rushed into my manor. To protect my family, my two fists could not match four hands. I didn't expect to be mocked like this by you, a wicked villain, today. Since you claim you can humiliate me, then have the guts to try! Let's see if the iron halberd in my hand is harder, or your mouth!"

Xue Jinu felt that the person opposite him was very sharp-tongued and didn't want to drag it out anymore, so he went straight to the point.

He dismounted to issue a challenge.

"Fine! I'll go back and lead the horse..."

Li Xiuzuan was not yet proficient in using the six-character mantra of Luo Tian and failed to use more mantra spells.

Just with the word "anxious," he grasped Xue Jinu's entire aura. Feeling that his chance of winning exceeded ninety percent, he prepared to use him as the first target to step onto the first stepping stone for his path to invincibility.

In this situation where he was essentially an enemy of the world in Chang'an, with Qian Chen's full support, he had the confidence to be an enemy of the world.

As for why he wanted to be an enemy of the world, I advise you not to ask too much!

"Wait!"

Xue Jinu remembered the majesty and power of that white horse the other day, and his heart was both worried and somewhat restless.

"It's not spacious enough to display skills here, we don't need horse combat!"

Li Xiuzuan had long known he wouldn't dare, so he immediately smiled: "You really make me unable to hold back my laughter! We martial artists, not fighting on horseback. Are we supposed to learn from street thugs and roll on the ground to tear at each other?"

The "collapse" character formula was also used, but it was not used well.

From the moment Li Xiuzuan stepped out, holding that saber, he looked lazy, but in reality, he was constantly building up momentum.

His heart was full of Qian Chen's teachings—the so-called "collapse" character formula is like a bow.

It is hard not to be taut when dealing with people; this is a kind of accumulation. When the time comes to be useful, release the bowstring, and the long saber leaves its sheath.

This is the principle of building up momentum!

If you grasp this formula, you will be able to perceive that everyone in the world is taut on that one string.

Holding the "collapse" character formula, one can be tightening that string at every moment during daily walking, sitting, and lying down, accumulating great momentum. Once a move is made, it is like a thunderbolt, unstoppable.

But if the string is always kept taut, it will inevitably be hard to collapse, easy to loosen, and may even lead to the string snapping and the bow breaking.

Therefore, the "collapse" character formula must be supplemented by the "joy" character formula.

"Legend has it that this classic is the most extensive and profound classic after the various masters, and together with the 'Zhouyi Cantongqi' transmitted by another great Daoist sage, True Person Boyang, they are honored as the two kings of Daoist classics! One is extensive, known as the head of classics for a thousand years of the Immortal Dao; the other is profound, known as the king of eternal pill classics."

It is just as the saying goes: the heart and spirit must be collapsed, but the mind must be relaxed!

Similarly, the collapse character formula can also perceive the great momentum that others are tautly accumulating, and then one can use the anxious character formula and the joy character formula to drain the power the enemy has accumulated.

It can even perceive the stagnation at the moment the enemy shifts from storing power to exerting power. This is the evolution of the collapse character formula—"can't hold it anymore!"

This formula, when used on oneself, is to hold taut; when used on the enemy, it can make them unable to hold it... Using stored momentum to strike at those without momentum is like being high above, and one will surely break them!

Xue Jinu unknowingly relaxed the breath in his heart.

He just flushed his face red and said: "I am naturally not afraid of horse combat, but it is not appropriate to fight with such great fanfare at this time."

Li Xiuzuan smiled: "Joy! I, who snatched the person, am not afraid of great fanfare, what are you, the bitter victim who was snatched, afraid of?"

Xue Jinu only felt that the Li Erlang opposite him was exceptionally annoying.

He was already very annoying to begin with!

Today, for some reason, as he popped out word by word, he became even more annoying!

The Yin Spirit great cultivator of the Xue family beside him saw that this clan member was clumsy with his tongue, and secretly thought he was not presentable, so he immediately said coldly: "Li Erlang, I would like to ask how your father taught you. Kidnapping people and forcibly snatching common women is a great mistake! You are here confusing black and white, showing off your tongue, but you cannot overturn the great crime you have committed!"

"If I submit a memorial to report you, your father will have to suffer the consequences!"

After all, these two great divine abilities stand on the shoulders of giants that are too tall; the ones belonging to Qian Chen are relatively small.

Li Xiuzuan was not afraid at all. Do you know how big of a mess my uncle made?

How many children of noble families died? There is no need for you to report it. If no one was covering this up, I wouldn't even need to die if it exploded!

Being refined into a Ten Thousand Soul Banner by someone is just a trivial matter.

"You!"

The Xue family Yin Spirit really didn't dare to report it.

First, there was the precedent of the founding emperor of this dynasty. If it blew up, wouldn't it also dig up the founding emperor's ugly secrets?

Second, that woman was sent to the Sixth Imperial Prince's mansion. In the end, wouldn't it still provoke that person?

He never expected that Li Xiuzuan was so bold that he didn't send the person to the Zhou Liulang Cao's mansion at all. At this moment, it had nothing to do with the Zhou Liulang Cao, and he was clean, not stained by even a bit of filth.

Of course, that might not be the case later!

Li Xiuzuan had already attained enlightenment. The only way for him to survive this tribulation was to stir the water and drag more and more people down.

Seeing Li Xiuzuan's arrogance, the onlookers subconsciously assumed he had three points of reason.

Xue Jinu snorted coldly: "Li Xiuzuan, if you lose in today's battle, you must hand over the person. If you can't hand her over..."

Li Xiuzuan looked at him and said: "You want me to hand over the person, right! Fine, I'll take you there to ask if she wants to go with you, so as not to truly confirm the crime of me forcibly snatching a common woman... Let's see if it was your Xue family that forced a good woman into prostitution first, or if Li Xiuzuan saved someone from fire and water?"

Wait?

Why is it that in both cases, the Xue family is at fault first?

Xue Jinu's brain couldn't quite keep up.

But he knew that he must never expose the fact that this woman was snatched by the Zhou Liulang Cao.

Otherwise, the person they would be facing would not be the incompetent Li Xiuzuan of the Li family, but the Zhou Liulang Cao, who was currently in the limelight of the royal family!

If so many wicked youths were really dragged into this.

Don't look at his Xue family as the victim; they couldn't withstand the hostility of so many noble families.

"Wait! Even if you hand over the person, can this matter just pass like this? You all forcibly snatched his concubine. If you plucked the woman's original yin, isn't that a great humiliation? With such deep hatred, do you intend to just let it pass with a single sentence of handing over the person?"

The Xue family Yin Spirit said impatiently.

The kid opposite him was sharp-tongued and completely unafraid of making a big deal out of things. Now, on the contrary, they were the ones who couldn't get off the stage!

Damn it!

Why doesn't Li Chong come out? Facing such a lazy and wicked youth, many things cannot be said.

"So you admit that she was a furnace cauldron forced by your Xue family?"

"My Xue family never forces anyone, but since the status has been set, we cannot tolerate others talking nonsense. Even if she has the heart to elope, it is still a great crime that needs to be severely punished. Otherwise, can all women in the world run away without notice?"

"If your Li clan cannot hand over a perfect person, this crime is also hard to erase. Even if you hand over the person, shouldn't you apologize to my Xue family?"

"Apologize for what?"

Li Xiuzuan secretly urged the anxious character formula to influence Xue Jinu.

"Of course, apologize with that white horse of yours!"

Xue Jinu blurted out, causing the elder beside him to turn pale.

The onlookers, who were gathering more and more, were all in an uproar. So it was that they were coveting someone else's horse!

It sounded like the Li family kid seduced someone's concubine, snatched her away with a group of wicked youths to elope, and then the victim came to the door, but took a fancy to the horse Li Erlang rode that day.

So the two were entangled, one snatching the person, the other coveting the horse...

What a great drama!

Li Xiuzuan smiled slightly. Having slightly displayed the three absolute formulas of joy, anxious, and collapse, he made the two Xue clan members who came turn from reasonable to unreasonable, draining all the momentum they had accumulated, and moreover...

Li Xiuzuan looked at Xue Jinu, who was red-faced after his slip of the tongue, and shook his head: "Look, you're anxious again!"

"Whether you can get it back, and whether you are qualified to talk to me about these things, must first be discussed on the blade."

As he spoke, Li Xiuzuan slowly drew his saber. Every move he made carried great momentum.

The way he had just responded with understatement, lifting weight as if it were light, his lazy expression, and the impression he gave the onlookers, all turned into great momentum as he slowly drew his saber!

It made people feel that every move he made was calm and composed, while on the contrary, the person opposite was always impatient and very unseemly.

"The onlookers, others are also great momentum!"

"The so-called six-character mantra of Luo Tian has a little trick—compared to facts and information, we have more stable and long-term memories of emotions. If you remember the emotions at the time, then the facts will also fade and be distorted. This is emotion triumphing over words."

"The six-character mantra is the model of emotion triumphing over words. The so-called six characters are emotions, not arguments!"

That gentle and kind aunt, who was ten thousand times better than the monster of an uncle, had pointed out the core essence when the uncle passed down the six-character mantra of Luo Tian.

Because emotion triumphs over words, the "joy" character is first!

"Not good! That kid has some tricks. These words are like knives; he has already taken the upper hand. If he wins, this matter will instead make us look greedy and unreasonable!"

The Xue family Yin Spirit didn't know why things had turned out like this. Clearly, no matter how you looked at it, reason was on their side.

But why...

This person does not understand the power of the six-character mantra of Luo Tian.

He only saw Xue Jinu being forced by the great momentum Li Xiuzuan had accumulated. The great momentum accumulated by the "collapse" character formula poured down like overwhelming pressure, making him breathe with difficulty and feel that if he didn't make a move to meet that shocking strike, he would have no power to fight back.

Thus, the Yin-Yang momentum turned into the Army-Breaking momentum.

He stood in place, one foot in front and one behind, one foot rooted like a root, and the other kicking out like a dragon.

With such a body of malevolent qi, there were also two types of strength and aura, Yin and Yang. One was hard strength, erupting from the leg rooted in the ground; the other was soft strength, using that leg as a fulcrum, the other leg suddenly kicked, turned...

The iron halberd in his hand combined hardness and softness, Yin and Yang rotating.

After exerting all his strength, he also retained three points of change.

The Army-Breaking momentum inherited the Yin-Yang stake, backhanding upward. The iron halberd was like a great spear, bending, erupting!

Through the Yin-Yang momentum, using the Yang of the left hand as a fulcrum, and the Yin of the right hand hidden behind the halberd shaft, he forcibly carried the military malevolent qi like thunder. The rolling thunder turned into a dragon with one halberd, rolling toward Li Xiuzuan!

Heading toward Li Xiuzuan's head.

Military long weapons always overcome short ones, bullying Li Xiuzuan for not holding a long weapon and only being able to respond with a saber.

But, the six-character formula of Luo Tian is all about arriving late but reaching first, the principle of controlling others with a backhand.

Just heard a "Collapse!"

Li Xiuzuan's figure moved slightly, the saber light suddenly expanded like an explosion, bursting outward, like a sea of clouds filling the air, shocking waves hitting the shore. The cloud waves actually rolled up the dragon and turned it into a saber, a thunderbolt, slashing toward Xue Jinu.

"Bang!"

With a crisp sound, the Xue family Yin Spirit's face changed!

Just because that saber actually lifted the war halberd, blocking the first move, completely on par with it, and even the momentum was a notch higher.

Bullying the short with the long, yet being robbed of the first sound.

This is not good!

But Xue Jinu's subsequent response was completely qualified. He twisted the Yin hand hidden at the end of the halberd shaft, and the double crescent branches of the great halberd immediately twisted with this twist, like a greedy wolf opening its big mouth, biting toward Li Xiuzuan.

This is a unique combat skill of the long halberd—Lock!

"Classic!"

Li Xiuzuan shouted lightly, Qian Chen's teachings echoing in his heart again.

"The so-called classic is the classic! It is the routine that has been repeated by predecessors and tempered a hundred times. Therefore, the 'classic' character mantra, when used internally, is to exert the power of the classic and connect with the wisdom of predecessors; when used externally, it is to see through the enemy's routines and the inherent flaws of their cultivation methods."

"This 'classic' character does not need any classic to allow you to connect with the wisdom of predecessors..."

"It can be called an invincible move. Others breaking your moves, predecessors have long been on guard; you breaking others' moves, you will inevitably be able to find the loopholes recorded by predecessors!"

"One character, Classic!"

"No explanation needed, those who understand, understand!"

"Where does the wisdom connected by the classic come from?"

Li Xiuzuan still remembered his inner horror, because he slightly used the "classic" character to bless, all divine abilities and spells had thousands of solutions in his eyes, as if blessed by the wisdom of countless predecessors.

Letting him know what an invincible move tempered a hundred times is.

Qian Chen, with his hands behind his back, said faintly: "Naturally, it's the Luo Tian Dharma Realm opened up by the Immortal Qin! Otherwise, could it be me? The Luo Tian Dharma Realm records countless classics and information of the Earth Immortal Realm. Dealing with such big data, naturally, every move and divine ability of the Earth Immortal Realm has been thoroughly studied!"

"I'll take a shortcut. You don't need to read them all. You only need one 'classic' character to do everything..."

"Classic!"

That light shout awakened countless people, only to see Li Xiuzuan's long saber breaking the greedy wolf in the impossible.

Everything was in the blink of an eye, in the open space of the Chang'an ward.

The Xue family halberd was like a dragon, the Li clan saber blade pointed, once they fought, it was a battle between a dragon and a tiger.

The two's saber and halberd were as fast as dragons, and their footsteps were also moving. Just one exchange shook out shocking movements and attracted more and more people.

But when everyone thought these two young heroes were going to have a big battle, they heard that confusing "classic" character.

Immediately, Li Xiuzuan was like a god helping him, breaking the greedy wolf.

"Stop!"

The Xue family Yin Spirit's face changed greatly, immediately radiating momentum, his spiritual sense pressing toward Li Xiuzuan.

At the same time, Li Xiuzuan shouted lightly: "Anxious!"

It was both to respond to the Xue family Yin Spirit and to urge himself. You're anxious! You have flaws. An "anxious" character is to grasp your flaws, self-evident.

I'm anxious! It's that I caught your flaws, I'm faster!

I have the anxious character formula, do you?

The speed of the saber light surpassed everything in that instant.

Li Xiuzuan turned and spun the saber, his whole body close to Xue Jinu's body, using him to block most of the Xue family Yin Spirit's attack routes, and at the same time, he slashed with his body!

Outside the Chang'an ward, a saber qi flew across the sky, the clouds in the sky were neatly separated to both sides, leaving a mark in the clouds in the sky.

Xue Jinu's face was pale, the iron halberd in his hand had been split in two from the middle,

If Li Xiuzuan hadn't held back halfway, his whole body would have been split in two!

The Xue clan Yin Spirit landed and snorted coldly.

Li Chong landed lightly opposite him and said calmly: "The child naturally has his own count in his heart. It's just a fight between the juniors of two families. Why is Brother Xue so anxious?"

Hearing this "anxious" character, the Xue family Yin Spirit groaned, using his long sleeves to cover a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth.

"Brother Li arrived just in time..."

He said coldly: "Stop embarrassing yourself! Go back!"

Xue Jinu's face was ashamed to death, clutching the broken halberd that had become a double halberd, only feeling that there were mocking gazes from all directions.

"Look, that cuckold!"

"This is Xue Jinu, whose beautiful concubine was snatched away by Li Xiuzuan, right! He is truly a horse slave of someone else. I heard he couldn't even protect his own new concubine. Someone came to the door, and he was disarmed in just two moves. It's a miserable defeat."

"Like this, what face does he have to see people again?"

"Hahahahaha..."

It seemed like there was laughter from all directions, but it was he who had fallen into inner demons. The noble families and officials were very decent and would not do such things as mocking him to his face.

But what they thought behind his back was hard to say.

Li Xiuzuan had no joy, just continuing to ponder the Luo Tian six characters in his heart. I have to say, the six-character mantra passed down by the uncle was actually not a joke, but truly incomparably powerful.

Classic, Filial, Anxious, Joy, Collapse, Win!

Using only four characters today, he easily defeated Xue Jinu, whom he could only defeat with the help of horse power in the past.

And at this moment, the overall situation was set.

The last character "Win" was also blessed, making him feel his momentum rising higher and higher, and even seeming to plant a shadow in the heart of Xue Jinu opposite.

An inexplicable feedback pushed his momentum higher, and it was even transformed into magic power, more effective than eating spirit pills.

The sea of clouds in the dantian was surging endlessly!

"Is this the feeling of 'Win'? Too wonderful! Under the blessing of the 'Win' character formula, my cultivation base is breaking through too fast! The 'Classic' character formula also seems to have made me inexplicably understand many things! Fighting until the pill is formed like this is really not difficult!"

"I want to 'Win', continue to 'Win', and keep 'Winning'!"

Li Xiuzuan felt a shivering sensation rising from his dantian, quickly spreading through his whole body. He didn't know that that feeling was the seventh character formula that Qian Chen had never taught him—"Numb"!

The full name is "Won Numb"!

(End of chapter)