Chapter 51: Night Raid

The scent was identical to that of the runaway bride hiding under the carriage that day, except today it was a bit strange — it actually carried a reek of goat blood.

When the other party reached the window of the guest room, it was still the same old routine: a poke through the window paper, and then the so-called "Rooster-Crow Soul-Severing Five-Watches Incense."

Wu Chengyu looked speechlessly at the white smoke suddenly billowing inside the room, permeating the entire space in an instant. One must know he once possessed the King of Knockout Drugs, Ci Su Qing Feng; yesterday he just used knockout drugs, and today someone used them on him.

However, the knockout drug before his eyes was clearly low-grade goods; leaving aside its choking smell, the granules were large enough to be seen with the naked eye.

Wu Chengyu ignored the knockout drug. Ever since he cultivated the Turtle Grandson Method, he had discovered one of its major features: it could effectively filter smoke and dust from the air during breathing; with each inhalation and exhalation, things like knockout drugs simply could not be drawn into his body.

Although he dared not experiment with Ci Su Qing Feng, he was full of confidence against this low-end knockout drug before him.

Sure enough, as expected, under the operation of the Turtle Grandson Method, the knockout drug had absolutely no effect.

The other party waited ten breaths after blowing the knockout drug into the room, then took out a dagger to pry open the door latch; in just a few moves, the latch was pried open.

While the other party was prying the door, Wu Chengyu closed his eyes at the right moment, then used his five senses to construct a three-dimensional map of the room.

He saw the other party holding a dagger in one hand and a cloth bag in the other, approaching Wu Chengyu's bed on tiptoe. She first observed carefully, discovered Wu Chengyu was lying face up asleep with steady breathing, and let out a slight breath of relief.

Next she tucked the dagger into her waist, took something out of the bag. Wu Chengyu's three-dimensional map wasn't that clear after all; he couldn't make out what this black mass was, but the heavy scent of goat blood, plus the two horns sticking out, left Wu Chengyu somewhat speechless.

So this young lady sourced materials locally, stealing a goat head from the Inn's kitchen.

But what is she doing bringing a goat head to my bedside in the middle of the night? Wu Chengyu couldn't figure it out at all.

The woman approached step by step, slowly raising the goat head. Wu Chengyu could keep up the act no longer; he quietly opened his eyes and silently sat up, looking at the woman still maintaining her tiptoeing posture, and said: "Miss, during the day I actually wanted to help you, but it backfired. Would you believe me if I put it like that?"

The woman was caught off guard and startled by Wu Chengyu; the goat head in her hand fell to the ground. She retreated a few steps in haste.

"You stinking brat, how come you didn't faint?"

"If I fainted right now and let you have your fun with me, would that dissipate your anger?"

"Pah. This morning you suddenly exposed me, nearly getting me caught by them. I chased all the way here after leaving the city, just for revenge. I originally wanted to put a goat head by your pillow to scare you once and call it even.

But you, this stinking brat, are truly hateful — smooth-tongued. If I don't properly teach you a lesson tonight, it won't dispel the hatred in this young lady's heart."

The woman's attempt to do something bad was caught red-handed, and she finally flew into a rage out of humiliation. She didn't waste words, directly attacking.

Her hands formed orchid-finger pinches, her feet seemed to wander among flowers; in two light steps she suddenly closed in before Wu Chengyu. Her right hand grabbed toward his Jianjing point, her left hand pointed at his Shanzhong point on the chest. Her attacking posture was elegant, seemingly slow but actually fast, utterly devoid of vulgarity — just like two slanting plum branches crossing in the twilight.

If Wu Chengyu hadn't seen Huang Yaoshi practice the Orchid-Brushing Acupoint Hand, he would almost have thought she was someone from Peach Blossom Island.

However, this woman had just passed her Coming Of Age year and was a rich young lady by birth. Although her finger technique was elegant, in terms of actual Martial Arts Cultivation she wasn't much higher than Wu Chengyu.

The killing power of finger techniques, aside from Finger Flicking Skill and One-Yang Finger which prevail through finger force, mostly lies in the precision of the acupoint strikes.

Wu Chengyu certainly wouldn't just let himself be captured without a fight.

He employed his family-inherited Yan Qing Fist, yet his Inner Force still followed the continuous, unbroken characteristic of the Green Wave Heart Method. His feet tread the Linked Step, evading the woman's hands, then using the hand gestures of Eagle Claw Gong to seize the other's slender jade arms, directly targeting the Shenmen and Chize points.

The woman reacted swiftly, immediately changing moves. Her posture remained graceful, yet her hands struck move after move, never leaving Wu Chengyu's upper-body acupoints.

But the faster the moves, the more questionable the precision; it was difficult to unleash the true power of the finger technique. Clearly her combat experience was shallow, not much different from Wu Chengyu's.

At this moment the room was dim; Wu Chengyu's night vision held a great advantage. All the woman's moves were seen clearly by him. His reaction was a fraction faster than hers. He immediately used a Yan Qing Fist move similar to Through-the-Back Fist, extending his reach to strike from afar, not letting the opponent get close, intercepting every single one of her moves one by one.

In just a few breaths, the two exchanged several moves; neither gained an advantage.

Finally the woman grew anxious. Her right hand gathered force and chopped a palm toward Wu Chengyu. After the previous exchanges, Wu Chengyu also knew the other's Inner Force was roughly on par with his own. So he stomped his right foot heavily on the ground; power rose from the earth, and his right fist struck out with the Jian Men Pen, landing squarely on the woman's palm.

A muffled boom sounded in the air. The woman retreated two steps; Wu Chengyu retreated three and a half steps. But Wu Chengyu had just retreated when his body twisted and he surged forward to seize the initiative. The woman, after steadying herself from the two-step retreat, suddenly let out a stifled groan and retreated another step.

Wu Chengyu didn't have many killer moves available now. The Threefold Force in the Green Wave Heart Method had almost been played into infinite variations by him. That all-out strike just now — the first two layers of force made him and the woman retreat several steps each. Wu Chengyu was at a disadvantage, but the third layer of force remained hidden. When the woman prepared to attack again, it suddenly erupted, immediately throwing her offense into disarray and making her figure sway.

One side suddenly pressed the attack, the other suddenly suffered a setback. At this moment Wu Chengyu seized the initiative completely. A flurry of consecutive moves forced the woman into continuous retreat. However, the footwork this woman used was truly extraordinary. Several times it looked like she would be hit, yet she narrowly dodged.

Right then, Lu Dage's voice suddenly came from outside the window: "Little thief, where do you think you're going?"

The woman inside the room was startled; her footwork instantly fell into chaos, her body movement technique stalled. Wu Chengyu's hand happened to be forming a dragon claw, originally aiming for the woman's shoulder. Due to this sudden change, a perfectly good Azure Dragon Reveals Claw forcibly turned into Black Tiger Digs Out Heart.

Wu Chengyu was still fine — not to the point of blushing like a pure-hearted young boy. He just withdrew his hand sheepishly and retreated a few steps, simultaneously sighing inwardly.

But that woman was as if struck by lightning. Instantly her hands and feet went limp. She staggered back, nearly falling to the ground, then suddenly sprang up, cursing "Lecherous thief" from her mouth, turned and smashed through the window, vanishing into the night.

Seeing the woman leave, Wu Chengyu let out a huge breath of relief. At the same time he wondered what was happening on Lu Dage's side, and immediately afterward he heard Niu Dajie's voice.

"Where did this flower-picking thief come from, daring to grope this old lady's window in the middle of the night."

Followed by the whistling of the four-edged Tong Qian and a man's miserable scream.

Wu Chengyu opened the door to look, and just happened to see a man dressed in night-walking clothes, pincer-attacked by Lu Dage and Niu Dajie, currently lying on the ground howling in pain.

Niu Dajie was sharing a room with He Zhiyu and A Ku tonight. This man naturally had designs on He Zhiyu. But this ending was truly miserable. At this moment his tendons were severed and bones broken; his arm had been smashed apart, revealing white bone stumps.

Niu Dajie was currently looking smug. She probably never imagined in this life that someone would climb her window in the middle of the night. An absolutely fresh experience, enough for her to brag about for half a lifetime.

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