Chapter 996

If he allowed this second old monk to join the battle, he would surely be defeated.

His thoughts flashed like lightning, and he suddenly seized the moment when the first old monk was straining to dodge his Seven Sha Hand.

He shifted his technique, switching from striking to grappling.

With one hand he executed the Nine-Style Grappling Method of the Intercepting Hand, and taking advantage of when the old monk couldn't see clearly, he finally caught hold of the old monk's robe hem.

"Since your Yunzhou Shaolin treats guests this way, then this Daoist will be on his way."

Satisfying his craving with a few more words, Seeing Gu Hongzi suddenly employed a Thousand-Pound Drop technique.

Using his true essence to tug at the old monk's sleeve, he pulled the old monk entirely out of the Damo Hall.

Being abruptly dragged out of Damo Hall, the old monk was utterly astonished, yet still went with the flow and deployed the Thousand-Leaf Hand once more.

Beneath the sunlight, a thousand, a hundred palms could be seen, enveloping Gu Hongzi within them.

Gu Hongzi also unleashed the Seven Sha Hand once more, meeting this Thousand-Leaf Hand head-on.

In a one-on-one, although this old monk was a Gao Seng of the Liao generation, he still couldn't gain the upper hand.

But once he showed himself, the other old monk naturally wouldn't hide inside Damo Hall any longer.

Following right behind, the two of them also came outside the hall.

With one hand, a Shaolin Jiang Fuhu Fist came smashing over, full of tiger-like vigor.

The Jiang Fuhu Fist may look like an introductory skill of Yunzhou Shaolin Temple, but if practiced over time, it actually contains a deeper Famen within.

This old monk had been steeped in the Jiang Fuhu Fist for who knows how many years.

Once unleashed, it was not only full of tiger-like vigor, but faintly carried the might of a tiger's roar.

It shook Gu Hongzi, who was already locked in full combat, so much that he felt a stinging pain in his eardrums.

With this strike carrying full power, Gu Hongzi could only bring out seventy percent of his ability.

After just a few exchanges, he fell into a disadvantage.

"Senior brother, I'll help you!"

The moment Gu Hongzi fell into a disadvantage, he saw Abbess Extinguisher draw her sword and charge in to kill.

She and Gu Hongzi were not only senior brother and junior sister, but childhood companions who had grown up together and trained in Wu Gong together.

Having been together day and night, the two's Wu Gong had long complemented each other.

Therefore, the moment she joined the battle circle, Gu Hongzi, who had just fallen into a disadvantage, instantly turned defeat into victory.

The senior brother and junior sister joining forces instead beat the two old monks into continuous retreat.

"You vile thieves, you truly came prepared! Senior brother, strike quickly—let us use the Three Talents Formation to capture this treacherous pair."

The old monk wielding the Thousand-Leaf Hand, the moment he fell into a disadvantage, immediately called out viciously.

"Amitabha. What the two of you are using seems to be Emei Sect Wu Gong.

My Yunzhou Shaolin and Mount Emei both belong to the righteous Bada Sect.

All along, we have kept to ourselves, not interfering with one another.

Why then have the two of you come to the forbidden grounds of Damo Hall to show off your might?"

As he spoke, an old monk with brows and beard both white appeared at the door of Damo Hall.

He did not strike directly, but instead began to question them.

Seeing that all three old monks had now appeared, Gu Hongzi couldn't help feeling great joy in his heart.

As long as he and Abbess Extinguisher pressed on, entangling these three old monks.

Zhou Zhiruo, hidden in the shadows, would be able to obtain the Sky Fragrant Cardamom.

Once the Emei Sect completed the Qinglong Society mission, their group could retire in triumph.

Thinking of this, Gu Hongzi gave Abbess Extinguisher a meaningful look.

Abbess Extinguisher understood, immediately extended her other hand, and with both hands and twin swords, unleashed the Extinguishing Sword and the Absolute Sword she had created herself.

Ever since Zhou Zhiruo separately wielded the Extinguishing Sword and the Absolute Sword and defeated Master Yeyu.

She had felt that although the Extinguishing Sword and the Absolute Sword looked like two separate sword arts, combining them into one actually made them far more powerful.

Therefore, during her time at Shuiyue Nunnery, she had used her own trump cards to deduce a combined-strike sword art.

Later, when Abbess Extinguisher came looking for her, in order to raise Abbess Extinguisher's combat power, she passed the Famen of this combined-strike sword art to Abbess Extinguisher.

What Abbess Extinguisher was now using was precisely this combined-strike sword art.

Once unleashed, the power of the Extinguishing Sword and the Absolute Sword indeed increased considerably.

A single person with twin swords actually wrapped both old monks within them.

Seizing this Chenciji Society, Gu Hongzi's body suddenly swelled in size as he executed the Emei body technique Divine Dragon Three Manifestations.

With a speed nearly like teleportation, he charged toward the old monk at the hall's entrance.

"Alas, alas, it seems the Daoist has fallen into demonic ways; this old monk can only send you on your way."

Although Gu Hongzi's body technique was fast, the old monk was ultimately no ordinary man, and at a glance saw through Gu Hongzi's landing point.

His right hand flicked, and his sleeve swelled out of thin air, as if transforming into a python, coiling toward where Gu Hongzi would land.

This technique was precisely the Kasaya Demon-Subduing Art, one of Yunzhou Shaolin's Seventy-Two Supreme Skills.

With one sleeve flung out, if it struck, Gu Hongzi would surely be injured.

Gu Hongzi saw the extraordinary power of this sleeve and didn't wait for his body to land.

He suddenly twisted sideways in mid-air and kicked out several rapid, consecutive kicks.

This technique was actually the Emei supreme skill Spirit Ape Leg Technique.

Not only was it agile, it could also be kicked out in an unbroken chain.

"Good!"

Seeing this, the old monk couldn't help but praise aloud.

Both hands thrust forward, unleashing a palm technique.

In midair, he crossed techniques with Seeing Gu Hongzi's Spirit Ape Leg Art.

785 Bi Xuan?

With this, Gu Hongzi and Extinguishing Abbess together held off the three old monks.

The three old monks were of the "Le" generation of Gao Seng, and had mastered no small number of Yunzhou Shaolin's Seventy-Two Absolute Arts.

Moreover, the three had long trained together and long ago perfected a Three Talents Formation.

Between them, they could not only exchange qi, but further enhance each other's offense and defense.

But Gu Hongzi and Extinguishing Abbess were no weaklings either — not only childhood sweethearts, they had grown up together.

The Wu Gong they practiced were all Mount Emei's supreme learnings.

Moreover, the two held each other in their hearts, their bond extraordinary.

Once they began fighting, they complemented and aided each other all the more.

Even though the three old monks' divine skills emerged one after another, their attacks flowing on without end.

The two could still, beneath the three Gao Seng's frenzied assault, struggle to hold their ground.

For a time, the front courtyard of Xue Damo Hall became a complete mess.

Zhou Zhiruo, seeing her plan succeed, was overjoyed.

At once, from a window on the side of Xue Damo Hall, she leaped inside in a single bound.

The Buddha statue enshrined in Xue Damo Hall was precisely Patriarch Damo.

At this moment, the three old monks stationed in the hall had all had their attention drawn away by Gu Hongzi and Extinguishing Abbess.

The hall was utterly empty, not a single shadow of a person to be seen.

Zhou Zhiruo, in a few bounds, arrived before the Damo statue.

Sweeping her gaze across, she truly saw a faint glimmer of light emanating from the palm of the Damo statue.

Her heart stirred; she guessed that was most likely the Heavenly Fragrant Cardamom.

So she leaped up, landing on the arm of the Damo statue.

Leaning down to look, she truly saw a crystalline, translucent object, about the size of a pea seed, lying quietly there.

Zhou Zhiruo's heart rejoiced; she reached out to scoop it up.

In one grab, she scooped the miraculous thing into her palm.

The moment this thing reached her hand, the miraculous power that had been lodged in Zhou Zhiruo's Eight Extraordinary Meridians, suppressing the free flow of her true essence, was suddenly driven off in part.

"What a miraculous thing — this is the Heavenly Fragrant Cardamom?"

Zhou Zhiruo's heart filled with astonishment; she grew all the more convinced this was the Heavenly Fragrant Cardamom.