Chapter 1176

One must know that the Guigu Sect is divided into two schools of swordsmanship: the Vertical and the Horizontal.

The Vertical Sword Art and the Horizontal Sword Art!

Not only do their sword principles generate and counter one another, the sword arts themselves are vastly different.

Especially the killing moves — Hundred Steps Flying Sword and Horizontal Eight Directions.

These two moves are each the very essence of the Vertical and Horizontal sword arts respectively.

To have mastered one move is already enough to rank among the famous swordsmen under heaven.

To have mastered both moves makes one a genius-level swordsman already.

Yet these two moves, from sword intent to sword principle to sword technique, are utterly contradictory.

Once Hundred Steps Flying Sword is unleashed, it is absolutely impossible to simultaneously unleash Horizontal Eight Directions.

Likewise, when Horizontal Eight Directions is unleashed, one absolutely cannot employ Hundred Steps Flying Sword!

Yet unexpectedly, at this moment, Wei Zhuang turned the impossible into the possible.

He actually unleashed Hundred Steps Flying Sword before everyone while simultaneously unleashing Horizontal Eight Directions.

At this, not only did the Demon Soldier Wei Zhuang himself freeze in shock.

Even the Vertical Sword Art inheritor Hearing Gai Nie was utterly astonished.

Unlike Wei Zhuang, Gai Nie had never dabbled in the Horizontal Sword Art.

But he too knew that Horizontal Eight Directions and Hundred Steps Flying Sword were incompatible.

Yet now Wei Zhuang had shattered the rumors, simultaneously unleashing both Horizontal Eight Directions and Hundred Steps Flying Sword.

Watching the white and black twin-dragon sword Qi filling the sky, complementing one another.

Gai Nie could not help murmuring,

"Xiaozhuang is truly too much of a genius…"

He had spent the greater part of his life studying the Vertical Sword Art.

Beyond that, the only other thing he had was the Xiao Jingtian Eighteen Swords passed on by his close friend.

He had never touched other sword arts, nor had he ever imagined that the Vertical and Horizontal sword arts could be used in such a way.

For a moment, the look he gave Wei Zhuang held a touch of admiration.

"Ha!"

The black-clad swordsman standing beside him suddenly let out a laugh.

Gai Nie heard his laughter, found it rather strange, and could not help but glare at him,

"Who exactly are you, sir? How dare you mock Xiaozhuang?"

As he spoke, Gai Nie actually gripped the Yuan Hong Sword tightly.

If this man answered wrongly, Gai Nie would strike immediately.

"I am Yan Shisan!"

The man, entirely at ease, spoke a name that shocked Gai Nie.

"Yan Shisan? An altar lord of the Qinglong Society?"

At this, Gai Nie could no longer make a move.

The name of the Qinglong Society was not something ordinary people could afford to provoke.

Moreover, this Yan Shisan was renowned throughout the jianghu.

It was said that his Fourteenth Sword was no longer a sword art of the mortal world.

Only Gai Nie had never witnessed it.

"Wei Zhuang being able to use Horizontal Eight Directions and Hundred Steps Flying Sword together is merely because he took a shortcut!"

Yan Shisan did not truly come into conflict with Gai Nie, and instead offered an explanation.

"What?"

Gai Nie did not understand, and was more than a little disbelieving.

After all, Yan Shisan's swordsmanship was excellent, famous throughout the world, and he was an altar lord of the Qinglong Society.

But so what?

Could it be that your Qinglong Society even knows the secret arts of our Guigu Sect?

Could you possibly understand the Guigu secret arts better than Xiaozhuang and I?

Yan Shisan saw his disbelief and said bluntly,

"Wei Zhuang once returned to Guigu, and obtained the sect leader's Iron Ring, as well as the Guigu secret canon left by Wang Xu, the Vertical Sword Art, and other manuals.

Afterwards, with Mu Honglian's help, he raised three immortal-grade treasure serpents, the Busiqu Snakes.

After consuming the gallbladders of the three snakes, his cultivation finally increased greatly.

Only then did he find, within the Guigu secret canon, a shortcut method to use Hundred Steps Flying Sword and Horizontal Eight Directions together."

Hearing these words, Gai Nie first understood, and then his heart was filled with terror.

Everything Wei Zhuang had done in recent days was not necessarily all that secret.

But Guigu was situated in a remote, secluded place, and was guarded by mechanisms.

None but inheritors of Guigu could know of it.

Wei Zhuang's trip to Guigu clearly would not be told to others.

Moreover, Wei Zhuang's training by consuming the gallbladders of the immortal-grade treasure serpents, the Busiqu Snakes, with Mu Honglian's help, was even more of a secret.

Yet these two great secrets Yan Shisan recited as if they were household affairs, speaking them out directly, as if he had witnessed them with his own eyes.

What did this represent?

Was Wei Zhuang careless in his actions?

Or is it that the Qinglong Society's intelligence capabilities are unrivaled under heaven?

953 Another fine swordsman is born!

"So it was just a clever trick after all? Or was it from the Guigu Secret Canon?

Wei Zhuang, you really are useless!"

On the other side, the Demon Soldier Wei Zhuang naturally also heard the conversation between Yan Shisan and Hearing Gai Nie.

After learning the method by which Wei Zhuang could simultaneously use Horizontal Eight Directions and Hundred Steps Flying Sword, he instead set his mind at ease.

The Wei Zhuang of the Nine Provinces World had gone to Guigu and read the Guigu Secret Canon.

In truth, the Demon Soldier Wei Zhuang had also gone to Guigu and obtained the Guigu Secret Canon.

You've read it, and so have I!

Regarding the records in the Guigu Secret Canon, the Demon Soldier Wei Zhuang had also been full of hope.

He had only felt that this secret canon should be able to help him break through his shackles and ascend to a higher peak of the martial Dao.

But after reading the Guigu Secret Canon, he realized this was nothing more than wishful thinking.

Therefore, he instead focused on searching for the Chiyou Demon Soldier, hoping he could blaze a new trail.

Now, the Wei Zhuang of the Nine Provinces, on the contrary, follows what the Guigu Secret Canon records, so his achievements will definitely be limited.

After thinking it over, he searched his memory for the so-called clever trick Yan Shisan mentioned.

He searched everywhere but could not find it.

But at this moment, the Bai Long sword Qi and the Black Dragon sword Qi had grown increasingly fierce.

The Blood Dragon sword Qi, on the other hand, was gradually becoming impossible to suppress.

The Demon Soldier Wei Zhuang had no room left to think, and could only pour his entire body of unorthodox techniques into the Blood Dragon sword Qi.

In an instant, the originally dim Blood Dragon sword Qi once again raged like a demonic dragon!

"Wei Zhuang, resign yourself to fate! The gap in strength cannot be bridged by any clever trick."

With the full assistance of the Demon Soldier Wei Zhuang, the Blood Dragon sword Qi expanded to an extremely terrifying extent.

For a time, quite a bit of Blood Dragon sword Qi even attacked Hearing Gai Nie and Yan Shisan.

But how could these scattered sword Qi possibly do anything to these two top swordsmen?

Before it could even reach them, it was extinguished by the protective sword Qi of the two.

Looking at the countless Blood Dragon sword Qi filling the sky and covering the ground.

The black and white dragon sword Qi were suppressed to Wei Zhuang's side.

Hearing Gai Nie grew worried once more,

"Hall Master Yan, even if one simultaneously uses Horizontal Eight Directions and Hundred Steps Flying Sword, so what?