Chapter 991

He saw Liu Ruofei still calling himself "old senior," and found it amusing in his heart, while on his lips he gave a faint, casual pointer,

"This old monk's Wu Gong is rooted in compassion.

Your Wu Gong, on the other hand, is rooted in the killing and treachery of unorthodox, crooked paths.

When compassion meets treachery, naturally compassion has the upper hand.

If you wildly attack like this, it'd be a wonder if you could win."

"Please, old gentleman, give me some pointers."

Liu Ruofei naturally noticed the problem, but he truly had no way to deal with it.

His entire Wu Gong happened to run into someone who countered it perfectly — what could he possibly fight with?

If not for the mission weighing on him, he would have withdrawn long ago.

Hearing now that Chi Laowen seemed to be giving pointers out of goodwill, he could no longer care about the grudges of years past, and earnestly asked for guidance instead.

"You're really stupid! A gentleman may be deceived by what is proper.

Since this old monk is so rigid, and his Wu Gong is rooted in compassion,

then just take compassion as your breakthrough point — wouldn't that work?"

Chi Laowen laughed and cursed once, then laid out a string of reasoning.

Liu Ruofei, scolded head to toe by Chi Laowen, was so angry his teeth itched.

Yet he knew he couldn't beat Chi Laowen, so he could only endure.

After Chi Laowen finished laying out the method, his mind went completely blank.

Suddenly he caught sight of Benefactor Guihai, whom Liao Jie was holding down with one hand, and his heart stirred — in an instant he understood.

"Thank you, old gentleman, for the pointers!"

Only then did Liu Ruofei understand; his blade art shifted, and he no longer attacked Liao Jie, instead striking every blade toward Benefactor Guihai.

"Hey, what are you doing? Why must you insist on killing Benefactor Guihai?"

Liao Jie was indeed thrown into disarray, no longer the composed, unhurried figure he had been before.

"Ha ha! Old monk, I'd like to see whether you can save Benefactor Guihai."

Liu Ruofei saw Liao Jie in such a state, and his heart rejoiced; his assault grew fiercer and fiercer.

Liu Ruofei's cultivation realm was, in truth, no lower than Liao Jie's.

The reason his wild assault had dragged on so long and instead put him at a disadvantage was simply that the natures of their Wu Gong countered each other.

If he insisted on forcing the issue, his cultivation realm would have to surpass Liao Jie's.

At this moment, having received Chi Laowen's pointer, he suddenly switched his target of attack.

Liao Jie, in trying to deliver Benefactor Guihai, ended up tying up his own energy instead.

So much so that the balance of offense and defense shifted dramatically in the blink of an eye.

After another twenty moves, a great flaw opened in Liao Jie's Great Compassion Palm.

Liu Ruofei, overjoyed, drove one blade straight at the flaw in Liao Jie's defense, while with his other hand he drew the short blade at his waist and thrust it instead toward Benefactor Guihai's back.

This move, on the contrary, posed Liao Jie a dilemma.

If he kept stubbornly trying to deliver Benefactor Guihai, then Liu Ruofei would surely seize the chance to break through the Great Compassion Palm, and Liao Jie would fall completely into the passive.

Defeat would then only be a matter of time.

But if he abandoned Benefactor Guihai, not only would it go against what Liao Jie cultivated, but more critically, Benefactor Guihai might well lose his life because of it.

After all, Benefactor Guihai had long been under Liao Jie's Buddhist deliverance, and had temporarily lost all ability to resist.

Suddenly faced with Liu Ruofei's lethal strike at this moment — how could it not be the gravest danger?

"Amitabha!"

At this moment of peril, Liao Jie loudly intoned the Buddha's name, and suddenly withdrew the Great Compassion Palm.

He pressed his palms together before his chest, placing Benefactor Guihai behind him.

For a moment, he seemed to be meeting Liu Ruofei's two lethal blades with his very flesh.

"This old monk is really that rigid? He dares, for the sake of Benefactor Guihai, to put himself beneath my two blades?"

Liu Ruofei was startled in his heart, but now there was no time to think it over.

He could only drive those two blades to their absolute limit.

If he really killed Liao Jie here and now, then killed is killed!

The original mission was, after all, nearly the same.

Only, before his two blades had reached within three zhang of Liao Jie's body, he suddenly saw the muscles on Liao Jie's chest bulge.

The next instant, he saw Liao Jie's mouth open wide, and a tremendous wave of sound burst forth from his throat.

Liu Ruofei's two blades, which he had been certain to land, were shattered into pieces by this massive wave of sound — the moves were no longer moves at all —

and even Liu Ruofei, whose cultivation was no mean feat, could not keep his footing at this moment, driven back step after step by the shockwave.

"This is…"

Liu Ruofei was seized with absolute terror.

He had already recognized it — this unique Wu Gong was none other than one of Yunzhou Shaolin's Seventy-Two Supreme Techniques: the Vajra Lion's Roar.

He could not fathom why Liao Jie's Vajra Lion's Roar could possess such terrifying power.

The sound wave blasted even a top expert like Liu Ruofei into retreat after retreat —

and even Chi Laowen in the distance felt a tremor of dread in his heart, not daring to face that lion's roar head-on.

He abruptly leapt up, dodging to the side before he could evade it.

The sound of the Vajra Lion's Roar spread far into the distance.

It not only made Liu Ruofei and Chi Laowen retreat three houses away,

It spread from the back mountain of Yunzhou Shaolin to the Shaolin Temple, and then to the halfway point of Mount Shaoshi.

For a moment, countless people of the Wu Lin were startled, wondering which Gao Seng of Yunzhou Shaolin could possibly possess such terrifying power.

Liaofan, who was hurrying from the Shaolin Temple toward the back mountain, was also dumbfounded, his heart filled with astonishment.

"When did Junior Brother Liaojie's Wu Gong cultivation reach such a terrifying realm?

And who is his opponent, that they should warrant him striking with such force?"

With doubt and alarm in his heart, his footsteps quickened as well.

Although he somewhat blamed Benefactor Guihai for taking Guihai Yidao away, they were ultimately brothers of the same sect.

He worried that Liaojie had encountered a powerful enemy and been taken advantage of.

On this side, the roar of the Jin Gang Lion's Roar finally gradually subsided.

The trees on the back mountain of Yunzhou Shaolin, which had never been many to begin with, were all snapped by the blowing wind.

Liu Sheng Dan Ma Shou gazed at the ravaged back mountain, feeling as if his entire life had been a lie.

Just now, he and Liaojie had fought viciously for several hundred moves — had Liaojie been toying with him?

With lingering fear in his heart, he no longer dared to provoke Liaojie.

Just as he was preparing to abandon the mission and leave at once.

"Ah…"

Suddenly a startled cry rang out, and Liu Sheng Dan Ma Shou immediately followed the sound with his eyes.

He discovered that Liaojie, who had slowly ceased his voice and gathered in his true essence, had a Mu Daoren piercing out through his chest.

"This…"

Liu Sheng Dan Ma Shou was utterly shocked and looked closely.

He saw Guihai Yidao with an evil aura all over his face, holding the hilt of that blade in his hand.

Clearly, the one who had killed Liaojie was none other than Guihai Yidao.

"Ah! Liaojie!"

Just as Liu Sheng Dan Ma Shou stood in astonishment, he heard a distant shout and saw a human figure rapidly drifting over.

Liu Sheng Dan Ma Shou knew this was a Yunzhou Shaolin expert arriving.

At this point the mission could be considered complete, and Liu Sheng Dan Ma Shou chuckled inwardly, immediately employing You Dongying ninjutsu to vanish his form.

On the other side, Chi Laowen, who had witnessed it from afar, also clicked his tongue in wonder.

Not wanting to invite trouble upon himself, he moved his body and likewise vanished.

The instant the two had just disappeared, they saw Liaofan arrive riding the wind.