Because the boat got here close to the town of Kaifeng

[1], a dialog about fellow martial individuals in Kaifeng began among the many Yue Buqun couple and their apprentices.

“Although Kaifeng is a giant metropolis, there’s not quite a lot of curiosity in martial arts round right here. And for individuals like outdated Escort Hua, senior Grasp Hai, or the Three Elites of Henan, they’ve neither really excellent martial arts abilities nor nice fame. Let’s simply tour round a number of the scenic spots and historic websites. We will skip visiting anybody or any studios so we received’t disturb anybody,” Yue Buqun steered.

“However senior apprentice brother, have you ever forgotten that very well-known determine within the metropolis of Kaifeng?” Madam Yue grinned.

“A really well-known determine? Who who’re you referring to?” Yue Buqun requested.

“‘Remedy one and kill one; kill one then remedy one. Remedy as many as I kill; that exhibits my talent.’ Now who’s that?” Madam Yue gave a touch.

“Aha, you might be speaking in regards to the ‘Killer Physician’ Ping One-Finger. He’s certainly very well-known. However he’s so eccentric that he most likely wouldn’t wish to see us even when we paid him a go to,” Yue Buqun mentioned with a smile.

“That’s true. Or else we may have requested this Killer Physician to try Chong’s accidents since Chong’s internal wounds aren’t getting any higher and we simply occur to be coming to Kaifeng anyway,” Madam Yue agreed.

“Mother, what does the nickname Killer Physician imply? If he’s a killer, how can he be a well-known physician?” Yue Lingshan requested in curiosity.

“Effectively, this Physician Ping is a weirdo properly an odd fellow within the Martial World. He has profound medical data and his magical fingers can carry the dying again to life. It’s mentioned that no matter how unwell or how badly wounded the affected person is, as long as he agrees to work on him the affected person shall be cured for positive. However he has this very odd rule. He says that God of Heaven and Lord of Underworld, after all, each understand how many individuals are there on this world. If he cured too many individuals in order that much less individuals die, there could be too many residing and too few lifeless. Actually the Lord of Underworld isn’t going to be too keen on that. And when his ultimate days come, even when the Lord of Underworld leaves him alone, his officers and goblins would for positive get even with him, subsequently, his days within the underworld in all probability aren’t going to be simple in any respect,” Madam Yue defined with a lightweight grin.

Fairly amused by these phrases, all of the apprentices giggled.

“That’s why he made an oath,” Madam Yue continued, “that as long as he cures somebody, he should kill one other one to even the numbers. And if he kills somebody, he should remedy one other one to make up. He put up this massive banner proper in his workplace, which mentioned clearly, ‘Remedy one and kill one; kill one then remedy one. Remedy as many as I kill; that exhibits my talent.’ He says that due to this observe, the God of Heaven wouldn’t fault him for taking away lives, and Lord of Underworld wouldn’t blame him for taking up his enterprise both.”

The complete viewers burst into loud laughter.

“What a humorous man this Physician Ping One-Finger is! However why does he have such an odd identify? Has he just one finger?” Yue Lingshan requested.

“I believe he has greater than only one finger,” Madam Yue answered. “Senior apprentice brother, have you learnt why he picked such a reputation?” she requested her husband.

“Physician Ping has all ten fingers. He known as himself One-Finger as a result of both to kill or to remedy, he solely wants one finger to do it. If he desires to kill somebody, he simply hits him with one finger, and if he desires to remedy somebody, he solely makes use of one finger to test pulses,” Yue Buqun clarified.

“Oh, I see. Then I suppose he should be an professional in sealing stress factors,” Madam Yue remarked.

“That I’m not too positive. There in all probability isn’t that many who has fought this Physician Ping earlier than. Everybody within the Martial World is aware of how good of a health care provider he’s. In a single’s life, who can say that he’s proof against sudden misfortunes? Possibly in the future he might want to ask for Physician Ping’s assist, that’s why nobody desires to offend Physician Ping. However except it’s completely essential, nobody would simply rashly ask for his assist both,” Yue Buqun mentioned.

“Why’s that?” Yue Lingshan couldn’t assist however ask.

“As a result of at any time when a fellow martial particular person asks him to remedy a wound or illness, he would make this particular person swear an oath forward of time that after the particular person is cured, he should obey Dr. Ping’s order to kill an individual Dr. Ping specifies. That is known as one life in trade for an additional. It’s simpler if the particular person is requested to kill somebody completely unrelated to himself, but when he’s requested to kill somebody who’s an in depth pal of his, and even his father, brother, spouse, or son, then wouldn’t or not it’s actual troublesome?” Yue Buqun defined.

“This Physician Ping is actually odd!” the apprentices remarked.

“Huge apprentice brother, in that case, you may’t actually ask him to work on you then,” Yue Lingshan concluded.

Linghu Chong had been propping in opposition to the door on the bottom, listening to Grasp and Grasp-Spouse discussing the peculiarity of the “Killer Physician” Ping One-Finger. When he heard little apprentice sister’s phrases, he replied with a slight smile on his cheeks.

“That’s proper! I might be very afraid if he asks me to kill my little apprentice sister, as soon as he cures me.”

That introduced loud laughter out from the remainder of the apprentices.

Yue Lingshan additionally grinned. “This Physician Ping has no grudge in opposition to me. Why would he ask you to kill me?” She turned her head and requested her father, “Dad, then is that this Physician Ping a great man or a foul man?”

“Effectively, it’s mentioned that he’s fairly grumpy, and at all times do issues to his liking, generally chivalrous and generally irregular. He’s actually neither a great man nor a foul man. To say it properly, he’s an odd genius. However in plain phrases, he could be a freak,” Yue Buqun answered.

“Right here’s what I believe. Lots of the rumors flowing across the Martial World are actually exaggerations, and this may simply be one in all them. Once we get to the town of Kaifeng, I’d prefer to go pay a go to to this Physician Ping,” Yue Lingshan responded.

“Nonsense! Don’t be mischievous!” Each Yue Buqun and Madam Yue admonished virtually in unison.

Seeing the solemn expression on her mother and father’ faces, Yue Lingshan was barely shocked. “Why?” she requested.

“Assembly individuals like this? Are you out of your thoughts? Hassle will come searching for you if you happen to do,” Yue Buqun reproached.

“Why would hassle come searching for me only for a go to? I’m not asking him to remedy me. What’s the large deal?” Yue Lingshan mumbled.

“We’re right here to get pleasure from visiting scenes, to not trigger troubles.” Yue Buqun pulled an extended face.

Seeing how indignant her father had turn into, Yue Lingshan dared not communicate one other phrase. However her curiosity towards this “Killer Physician Ping One-Finger” solely grew larger and larger.

At early morning the following day, the boat entered the town limits of Kaifeng. However it was nonetheless fairly a distance from the actual metropolis.

“Guess what?” Yue Buqun smiled a giant grin. “There’s this place not removed from right here the place a member of our Yue household as soon as grew to become the middle of the limelight a few years in the past. We’d higher pay a go to there.”

“Yay! I do know! I do know! It’s Zhuxian City, the place Normal Yue, Yue Pengju,[2] kicked Jin Wushu’s

[3] behind massive time,” Yue Lingshan cheered.

Yue Fei, who fought the Jin military and defended China, was a heroic determine all martial individuals admired deeply of their hearts, and Zhuxian City was the place the place Yue Fei had utterly crushed the Jin military. Naturally, everybody within the group needed to test it out.

“Hurry up! Let’s go to the Zhuxian City first. Then we’ll have lunch inside the town of Kaifeng,” Yue Lingshan leapt ashore forward of everybody else and shouted.

The passengers began strolling off the boat besides Linghu Chong who remained sitting by the bottom of the boat.

“Huge apprentice brother, aren’t you going?” Yue Lingshan requested.

Ever since Linghu Chong had misplaced all his internal power, he usually felt weary and drained and didn’t wish to transfer a lot. He figured that since everyone else was going ashore to have enjoyable, it will be the right alternative for him to study that “Music of Peace and Serenity.” Apart from, seeing how Lin Pingzhi stood facet by facet with Yue Lingshan, wanting intimate and affectionate, he felt much more uncomfortable.

“I’m too drained. I received’t have the ability to sustain with you guys,” he answered.

“Alright, have a great relaxation then. I’ll get you some good wine from the town of Kaifeng,” Yue Lingshan replied.

Sorrow swelled Linghu Chong’s coronary heart as he watched Yue Lingshan and Lin Pingzhi stroll away abreast, main the way in which forward of everybody else.

“Even when studying the ‘Music of Peace and Serenity’ may actually remedy my inside wounds, why would I trouble to remedy and why would I trouble to study the music?” he thought to himself.

Staring on the muddy waves of the Yellow River surging east constantly, he abruptly felt that life’s ache and struggling had been actually no completely different from the flowing river – each would come wave after wave and by no means cease. The thought triggered a disruption in his internal power movement. An immense ache from his decrease stomach instantly consumed him.

In the meantime, Yue Lingshan and Lin Pingzhi definitely had been in a very completely different temper. Strolling facet by facet, whispering in one another’s ears, the 2 had been having an exquisite time.

“Lingshan and Pingzhi are each nonetheless younger. A person and a girl strolling collectively like this could be all proper within the countryside, but it surely definitely wouldn’t be acceptable in a giant metropolis. Why don’t we give them some firm?” Madam Yue gave her husband a pull on the sleeve and whispered.

“We’re now not younger. I suppose it will be completely acceptable for us to stroll collectively then,” Yue Buqun joked.

Madam Yue set free a smile after which caught up with Yue Lingshan in fast paces. The 4 of them requested their approach from pedestrians after which headed straight towards the Zhuxian City. Simply after they had been about to enter the Zhuxian City, a giant shrine by the roadside caught their consideration. The signal on prime of the shrine had 4 phrases in golden paint, “Shrine of Normal Yang.”

“Dad, I do know this one. That is the shrine for Normal Yang Zai-Xing.[4] He went to River Shang by mistake and was killed by the Jin archers,” Yue Lingshan mentioned.

“Appropriate! Normal Yang died defending his nation. That’s one thing that deserves nice respect and admiration. Let’s go within the shrine to pay our respects to the spirit of a martyr,” Yue Buqun replied.

On the time, the numerous apprentices had been nonetheless far behind, so the 4 of them determined to go inside with out ready for the remainder of the group. A statue of Yang Zai-Xing occupied the center of the shrine. The person within the statue had a white face and wore a set of silver-colored armor, wanting very heroic.

“This Normal Yang is so good-looking!” Yue Lingshan thought to herself. She couldn’t assist however flip round and solid a look at Lin Pingzhi to match Lin Pingzhi with the statue in her coronary heart.

Out of the blue a voice got here from exterior the shrine.

“I guess you this Shrine of Normal Yang is constructed for Yang Zai-Xing.”

Recognizing the voice, each Yue Buqun and Madam Yue instantly grabbed onto the hilts of their swords and their faces turned pale.

Then one other voice rose, “There are a lot of generals named Yang. How are you going to be so positive that that is Yang Zai-Xing? Why can’t he be Golden Blade Grandpa Yang,

[5] and even Yang the Sixth[6] or Yang the Seventh?”[7]“Simply throughout the Yang Household Corp, there are lots of potentialities. It doesn’t essentially should be Grandpa Yang, or Yang the Sixth, or Yang the Seventh. Who says it may’t be Yang Zongbao[8] or Yang Wenguang?”

[9] one other voice argued.

“Why can’t or not it’s Yang the Fourth?” yet one more voice joined the talk.

“Yang the Fourth surrendered to the overseas invader. Nobody’s going to construct a shrine for him,” the earlier one defined.

“Are you implying that I’ll give up to the overseas invader as a result of I’m the fourth?” the opposite one mocked.

“Positive, you’re the fourth. However what has that gotten something to do with Yang the fourth?” the earlier one argued.

“You’re the fifth. Yang the Fifth ended up changing into a monk on Mount Wutai. Why aren’t you a monk then?” the opposite one challenged.

“If I turn into a monk, you’ll should give up to the overseas invader,” the earlier one responded.

Solely after listening to the primary sentence, Yue Buqun and Madam Yue had already discovered who they had been – the bunch of Peach Valley’s Freaks. Yue Buqun waved a sign; the 4 of them rapidly hid behind the statue, the Yue couple on the left and Yue Lingshan and Lin Pingzhi on the appropriate.

The bunch of Peach Valley’s Freaks saved arguing exterior of the shrine, but neither of them would merely are available to get the reply. Yue Lingshan couldn’t assist however really feel amused.

“What’s there to argue about? Whether or not it was Yang Zai-Xing or Yang the Fourth, why not simply are available right here and have a look? Wouldn’t that save lots of hassle?” she thought to herself amusingly.

Madam Yue listened fastidiously and will solely acknowledge 5 completely different voices. She figured that the sixth one should have died from her sword stab. The explanation why she had left Mount Huashan along with her husband was to avoid these 5 freaks, afraid that they could return for revenge. Who would have anticipated that they might meet proper right here? Although the freaks hadn’t noticed their group of 4 but, the opposite apprentices may present up any minute, and they might don’t have any approach of escaping in any respect. Worries clouded her thoughts.

The controversy among the many 5 freaks grew to become an increasing number of heated, and eventually one in all them steered, “Why don’t we go inside and have a look. Then we’ll see which stinking man this shrine was constructed for.”

The 5 of all of them rushed in alongside, and one in all them shouted excitedly.

“Aha, look right here! It clearly says right here ‘Shrine of Normal Yang Sir Zai-Xing’s Spirit.’ This after all is Yang Zai-Xing.” It was Department Fairy.

Trunk Fairy scratched his head for a quick second after which spoke, “It says ‘Yang Sir Zai’ right here, not ‘Yang Zai-Xing.’ I see. This Normal Yang’s first identify is Sir Zai. Hmm, Yang Sir Zai, Yang Sir Zai, what a terrific identify!”

“This clearly is Yang Zai-Xing. You might be so filled with it. Why are you saying that it’s Yang Sir Zai?” Department Fairy was infuriated.

“Learn the phrases! It clearly says ‘Yang Sir Zai’, not ‘Yang Zai-Xing’.” Trunk Fairy argued.

“Then what do the phrases ‘Xing’s Spirit’ stand for?” Root Fairy joined in.

“Xing means completely satisfied.[10] Xing’s Spirit means the spirit could be very completely satisfied. After this chap Yang Sir Zai died, individuals even constructed a shrine for him, after all his spirit goes to really feel very completely satisfied,” Leaf Fairy defined.

“Precisely! Precisely!” Trunk Fairy couldn’t agree extra.

“Didn’t I say that the shrine was constructed for Yang the Seventh? I’m proper as soon as once more! Man, I’m so sensible!” Flower Fairy mentioned contentedly.

“It’s Yang Zai-Xing. How can or not it’s Yang the Seventh?” Department Fairy requested angrily.

“It’s Yang Sir Zai. How can or not it’s Yang the Seventh?” Trunk Fairy additionally requested angrily.

“Third brother, what’s Yang Zai-Xing’s rating amongst his brothers?” Flower Fairy requested.

“I don’t know.” Department Fairy shook his head.

“Yang Zai-Xing was the seventh little one. He was Yang the Seventh,” Flower Fairy claimed. “Second brother, what’s Yang Sir Zai’s rating amongst his brothers?”

“I used to know. However I don’t bear in mind now,” Trunk Fairy murmured.

“Effectively, I do bear in mind. He was the seventh little one additionally. That’s why he was Yang the Seventh as properly,” Flower Fairy mentioned with a giant grin.

“If this statue is Yang Zai-Xing, then it may’t be Yang Sir Zai. If it’s Yang Sir Zai, then it may’t be Yang Zai-Xing. How can or not it’s each Yang Zai-Xing and Yang Sir Zai?” Root Fairy remarked.

“Huge brother, suppose. What’s the which means of the phrase ‘Zai?’ ‘Zai’ means once more, one other one. This should be a statue for 2, not only one. That’s why it’s each Yang Sir Zai and Yang Zai-Xing,” Leaf Fairy defined.

“That sounds logical!” The opposite 4 Fairies all agreed.

“You say that if there’s the phrase ‘Zai’ in a single’s identify, which means another, then it’s clearly public data that Yang the Seventh had seven sons!” Department Fairy abruptly remarked.

“Following that logic, then if somebody’s identify contained the phrase ‘Thousand,’ he must elevate one thousand sons?” Root Fairy requested.

Listening to that the talk took such odd turns, Yue Lingshan virtually broke into loud laughter. However she bit her lips exhausting and saved her silence.

The 5 Peach Valley’s freaks argued some extra when Department Fairy abruptly blurted out, “Yang the Seventh! If you happen to give blessings to our sixth brother and let him stay, I’m prepared to kowtow to you. Truly, I’m going to kowtow proper now.” He knelt down on the ground and kowtowed sincerely.

Listening to these phrases, Yue Buqun and Madam Yue exchanged a look, every feeling considerably relieved. Apparently that freak was nonetheless alive despite the fact that he took a extreme stab from Madam Yue. These Peach Valley’s Six Fairies’ behaviors had been so exhausting to make sense of; the Yue couple would quite not make an enemy out of them.

“However what if sixth brother dies?” Department Fairy requested.

“Then I’ll smash this statue to bits and items and piss on no matter is left of him,” Trunk Fairy answered.

“Even if you happen to smash the statue of Yang the Seventh into bits and items, after which piss on it and even shit on it, so what? Sixth brother could be lifeless already, and your kowtow would all be wasted!” Flower Fairy reminded him.

“You might be proper! I higher maintain the kowtow for now. Let’s go get a transparent reply, whether or not sixth brother’s wound is curable or not. If it’s curable, we are able to come again to kowtow; if it’s not, then we’ll come right here to piss on him,” Department Fairy agreed.

“If it’s curable, he shall be cured whether or not we kowtow or not. There’s no must kowtow. If it’s not, he received’t be cured whether or not we piss or not. We will skip pissing,” Root Fairy remarked.

“If sixth brother’s wound is incurable, then we simply skip pissing? Aren’t our bladder gonna explode if we skip pissing? We may die!” Leaf Fairy requested.

Trunk Fairy abruptly broke right into a loud cry. “If sixth brother received’t survive this, we’ll all cease taking a piss, even when we’ll all die due to that.”

At these phrases, the remaining 4 fairies additionally broke into loud cries.

“Wait a minute,” Department Fairy abruptly stopped crying and as a substitute, burst into loud laughter. “If sixth brother will be cured, wouldn’t we be simply crying for nothing? Come on guys, let’s get a transparent reply first, after which we are able to cry later.”

“What you simply mentioned doesn’t make sense in any respect. If sixth brother will be cured, then why would we be crying later?” Flower Fairy disagreed.

Amid the continuous arguing, the 5 males rushed out of the shrine in fast steps.

“Whether or not that man will survive or not is of nice significance to us,” Yue Buqun mentioned to Madam Yue. “Let me go look into this. Junior apprentice sister, you, Lingshan, and the opposite apprentices can keep right here and await me.”

“You’ll be able to’t simply go all by your self. Let me go along with you and watch your again,” Madam Yue replied in a decided tone after which ran out of the shrine first.

Previously, when Yue Buqun had essential issues to cope with, Madam Yue would at all times go along with him to assist. Listening to what his spouse had mentioned, Yue Buqun knew that it will be unattainable to vary her thoughts, so he merely adopted quietly.

After the 2 of them went out of the shrine, from a distance, they might see the Peach Valley’s 5 Freaks flip right into a col from a small path. Following the 5 males quietly, they dared not keep too shut and saved a good way. Thanked to the loud and continuous arguing from the 5, it wasn’t exhausting for them to shadow the freaks from an extended distance behind.

Following the mountain path, after passing by a dozen or so massive willow timber, they got here to a small creek. A number of tile-roofed homes stood subsequent by the creek. The arguing sound from the 5 freaks went straight into one of many homes.

“Let’s circle round to the bottom of the home,” Yue Buqun steered.

The couple ran towards their proper utilizing their Qing-Gong abilities and circled again after a few quarter of a mile. A row of willow timber stood on the bottom of the home. The 2 hid themselves behind the willow timber and listened.

Out of the blue, the yelling voice of the Peach Valley’s 5 freaks broke out abruptly.

“You simply killed our sixth brother!”

“Why why did you chop his chest open?”

“I’m gonna kill you son of a bitch!”

“We’ll reduce your chest open too!”

“Oh, no! Sixth brother! You might have died a horrible dying! We we’ll by no means take a piss once more, even when our bladders explode.”

Yue Buqun and Madam Yue had been astonished. “Did somebody simply reduce their sixth brother’s chest open?”

After exchanging some gestures, the 2 of them crept subsequent to the window and regarded inside from a crack of the window.

About seven or eight lights lit the whole room and a big mattress occupied the center of the room. A unadorned man lay on the mattress dealing with up, his chest reduce extensive open and blood gushing in all places. The person’s eyes shut tightly as if he had been lifeless for someday. His face confirmed clearly that he was none apart from the Fruit Fairy who took a stab from Madam Yue on prime of Mount Huashan. The remaining 5 Peach Valley Freaks stood across the mattress, shouting and yelling hysterically at a brief, stocky man.

The brief, stocky man had a larger-than-average head. The sparse mustache on his lips and the way in which he moved his head forwards and backwards added a lot comical impact to his look. Each of his fingers had been lined with blood, the brief dagger in his proper hand additionally had blood dripping down from the tip of the blade. He stared on the 5 Peach Valley Freaks for some time and eventually spoke.

“Are you carried out farting?”

“We’re carried out. It’s your flip now,” the 5 freaks answered in unison.

“This half-dead man took a stab within the chest,” the brief, stocky man replied. “You handled the wound with ointment after which carried him such a great distance right here in order that I can save his life. However you had been too sluggish. The wound had grown again collectively and all of the nerves and inside passages had grown again the improper approach. Simply to avoid wasting his life is simple. However since his nerves and inside messages are all tousled, he is not going to solely lose all his Kung Fu, but additionally turn into paralyzed from waist down. Why would I wish to create such a good-for-nothing?”

“A superb-for-nothing continues to be higher than a lifeless man,” Root Fairy challenged.

“Humph, both I remedy him utterly or I don’t contact him in any respect. How completely embarrassing will probably be if I solely make him right into a good-for-nothing? Sufficient, sufficient! Now take this corpse and get out of right here. I don’t wish to work on him no extra! You guys are annoying me to dying!” the brief, stocky man snapped.

“You mentioned we ‘annoy you to dying,’ why aren’t you lifeless but?” Root Fairy requested.

“You might have already aggravated me to dying. Can’t you inform? How have you learnt that I’m not lifeless already?” the brief, stocky man stared proper into Root Fairy’s eyes and answered in a cold tone.

“In case you are incapable of curing my sixth brother, why did you chop open his chest?” Trunk Fairy requested.

“What does my nickname say?” the brief, stocky man requested coldly.

“Isn’t your stinking nickname one thing like ‘Killer Physician’?” Trunk Fairy answered.

A chill went by way of the Yue Couple’s our bodies as they solid a glimpse at one another, each pondering the identical factor, “Who would have thought that this odd wanting brief fatty turned out to be the world-renowned ‘Killer Physician?’ That’s proper, it’s mentioned all through the Martial World that this Ping One-Finger possesses probably the most wonderful abilities in therapeutic and curing. It will solely be pure that the 5 freaks took their critically wounded brother to him for a remedy.”

Ping One-Finger’s chilly voice rose once more. “Since my nickname is ‘Killer Physician,’ what’s such a giant deal once I kill one or two?”

“What’s so exhausting about killing someone? Even I understand how to do this. However you solely know tips on how to kill individuals, not tips on how to remedy individuals. You aren’t well worth the a part of the identify the place it says ‘physician’,” Flower Fairy joined in.

“Who says I don’t know tips on how to remedy individuals? I reduce open this half-dead man’s chest in order that I can reconnect his nerves and inside passages. After I’m completed with him, each his inside and exterior Kung Fu abilities will stay the identical as if he was by no means wounded. Solely that may present the true abilities of the ‘Killer Physician’,” Ping One-Finger replied.

The 5 Peach Valley Freaks had been overjoyed at these phrases. “So you might be able to curing our sixth brother. We shouldn’t have blamed you,” they responded in unison.

“Why why aren’t you engaged on him? Sixth brother’s chest has been reduce open. He’s bleeding terribly. If you happen to don’t hurry up, will probably be too late,” Root Fairy reminded him.

“Now are you the ‘Killer Physician’ or am I the ‘Killer Physician’?” Ping One-Finger requested.

“After all you might be. What a dumb query that’s!” Root Fairy answered.

“Very properly! If I’m, then how would whether or not it’s too late or not?” Ping One-Finger retorted. “Apart from, I used to be already engaged on him after I reduce his chest open. However how can I get on with my work when 5 wordy creeps merely wouldn’t shut up and depart me alone? Didn’t I let you know to go have enjoyable on the ‘Shrine of Normal Yang’ for a half-day after which additionally take a look at the ‘Shrine of Normal Niu’ and the ‘Shrine of Normal Zhang?’ Why have you ever come again so quickly?”

“Hey, get on along with your work. You’re the wordy one now, not us,” Trunk Fairy responded.

Ping One-Finger gave him a great stare for a second, after which out of nowhere, he abruptly shouted out, “Get me the needle and the thread!”

The sudden shout took the 5 Peach Valley’s Fairies and the Yue couple abruptly; everybody’s coronary heart virtually skipped a beat. A tall and skinny girl walked within the room with a wood basin in her fingers. Quietly, she set the basin on the desk. The girl was in her forties and had a sq. face with two massive ears and a pair of sunken eyes. Her face regarded pale and had little coloration within the cheeks.

“You need me to avoid wasting this man right here. I’ve already advised you my guidelines, haven’t I?” Ping One-Finger spoke once more.

“Positive. And we’ve agreed to it and swore our oath already. Regardless of whom you need lifeless, simply tell us. We promise that we received’t disappoint you,” Root Fairy answered.

“Good,” Ping One-Finger nodded. “I haven’t considered anybody that I would like lifeless. I’ll let as soon as I determine. Now, all of you stand over there and shut your mouth up. If I hear something from you, I swear that I’ll give it up and never give a rattling about this man no extra.”

Ever since they had been children, the six Peach Valley brothers had at all times slept in the identical room and eaten on the identical desk. They by no means stopped speaking. Even of their desires they saved on arguing forwards and backwards. However now all they might do was to stare at one another, every had a abdomen filled with issues he would like to spill out. Once they thought that even a single phrase out of their mouth would get their sixth brother killed, every one in all them bit his lips exhausting to combat the urge to speak, afraid of letting any sound out, not even a heavy breath or a fart.

Ping One-Finger picked up a giant needle from the tray on the desk. After threading within the thick, diaphanous thread, he rapidly sewed Fruit Fairy’s chest again collectively. His ten fingers had been brief and chunky, virtually like ten carrots, but they moved with final effectivity and accuracy. Inside moments, he had already sewed the over nine-inch lengthy wound again collectively. Then he took many sorts of medication, some powder, some liquid, from the numerous china bottles behind him and utilized them to the wound. Subsequent, he pried Fruit Fairy’s mouth open and poured some completely different sorts of liquid down the throat earlier than wiping the blood off Fruit Fairy’s physique with a moist fabric. The tall and skinny girl helped by the facet, generally handing over the medicines, generally holding the needle for him, showing to be very proficient.

Ping One-Finger glimpsed on the 5 Peach Valley’s Fairies. Seeing that each one 5 of them had already opened their mouths and had been in a rush to start speaking, he mentioned, “This man hasn’t come again to life but. You’ll be able to start speaking after he comes again to life.” With their mouths nonetheless open, the 5 freaks’ faces froze immediately with a completely awkward look. Ping One-Finger set free a snort after which sat down by the facet. The girl took the needle, thread, dagger and the remainder of the stuff out of the room.

Hiding exterior of the window, Yue Buqun and Madam Yue held their breaths. In the meanwhile it was utterly silent contained in the room, so any little sound from exterior of the window would, for positive, be a focus for the individuals contained in the room.

After an extended whereas, Ping One-Finger stood up and walked by Fruit Fairy. Impulsively, he struck out together with his palm and smacked closely on the “Bai-Hui” level on Fruit Fairy’s head. “Ah!” six males shouted out in shock. Out of the six males, 5 had been the Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies, and the sixth one was truly the person mendacity on mattress who had been unconscious on a regular basis – Fruit Fairy.

Proper after the cry, Fruit Fairy sat straight up and scolded, “God rattling it! What the hell did you hit my head for?”

“God rattling it! If I didn’t drill open your Bai-Hui level with my internal power, would you could have recovered so rapidly?” Ping One-Finger scolded again.

“God rattling it! Fast or sluggish, my restoration is none of your small business!” Fruit Fairy rebuffed.

“God rattling it! In case your restoration had been sluggish, how would individuals know the brilliance of the Killer Physician’s abilities? And wouldn’t or not it’s annoying to have you ever sleep in my room any longer than essential?” Ping One-Finger replied.

“God rattling it! Are you saying that I’m annoying you? I get out of right here. You suppose I care about you?” Fruit Fairy mocked. As quickly as he mentioned these phrases, he rolled away from bed and headed out.

The opposite 5 Peach Valley Freaks had not anticipated him to recuperate so rapidly and had been in a position to stroll out similar to he mentioned he would. In nice shock and pleasure, all of them adopted him out of the door.

Fully shocked and terrified, the Yue couple all got here to the identical conclusion, “That Ping One-Finger’s medical abilities are certainly astonishing. Apart from, his internal energy is nothing peculiar, both. When he smacked the Bai-Hui level on Fruit Fairy’s head, he should have injected vigorous internal power into Fruit Fairy’s physique to wake him up immediately.” Inside the second of hesitation, the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies had gone distant.

Ping One-Finger stood up after which walked into one other room. Yue Buqun gave his spouse a sign, and the 2 quietly sneaked away. Not till they had been lots of of ft away from the room did they pace up their steps.

“That Killer Physician’s internal energy is just extraordinary. However his habits was certainly very uncommon,” Madam Yue exclaimed.

“Because the Peach Valley’s Six Freaks are round, the town of Kaifeng has gotten to be a spot of hassle. We’d higher depart right here without delay. There’s no want for us to get tousled with them,” Yue Buqun steered.

Madam Yue answered with a hum. All through her life, solely the final a number of months had given her probably the most grievances. Even her husband, the Head Grasp of the Huashan Sword College, a member college of the 5 Mountains Sword Alliance, needed to run round in hiding. And it virtually felt as if there was nowhere secure regardless of the place they went. The couple had by no means saved something from one another, however each time when this subject got here up, each of them would instantly change subject to keep away from the embarrassment. Now after they lastly knew that Fruit Fairy would stay on, each felt nice reduction as if a giant rock had been faraway from their hearts.

The 2 of them went straight again to the “Shrine of Normal Yang” and located Yue Lingshan, Lin Pingzhi, Lao Denuo, and the remainder of the apprentices ready on the again corridor.

“Let’s get again to the boat,” Yue Buqun ordered.

By then everyone had turn into conscious that the Peach Valley’s 5 Freaks had been shut by, so neither questioned the order and all returned to the boat in a rush. Simply after they had been going to ask the boatman to set sail, the Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies’ loud shouts abruptly got here from ashore.

“Linghu Chong! Linghu Chong! The place are you?”

All faces of the Huashan Sword College members modified coloration as they watched six males dashing towards the wharf in trots. Apart from the Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies, there was additionally Ping One-Finger among the many group. The Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies had seen the Yue Buqun couple earlier than, so after they acknowledged Yue couple’s faces from afar, all cheered uncontrollably. Inside seconds, that they had arrived and instantly all 5 of them leapt towards the boat.

Immediately Madam Yue unsheathed her sword and stabbed it ahead towards Root Fairy’s chest. At the very same time, Yue Buqun additionally drew his sword and pushed Madam Yue’s blade down utilizing that of his personal.

“Don’t be reckless!” he whispered.

The bow of the boat sunk barely when the Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies boarded the boat.

“Linghu Chong! The place are you hiding? Why don’t you come out?” Root Fairy yelled loudly.

“Why ought to I disguise? Am I afraid of you?” Linghu Chong roared in fury.

Proper in the mean time, the boat bumped barely and one other particular person had leapt aboard – the “Killer Physician” Ping One-Finger.

Yue Buqun felt a terrific shock inward. “The minute junior apprentice sister and I obtained again this dwarf exhibits up proper right here. Might we’ve left any traces once we sneaked about exterior of his window? Might he have discovered the traces? The Peach Valley’s 5 Freaks alone are already exhausting sufficient to cope with, not mentioning including such a troublesome opponent on prime of that. Alas, maybe our lives are destined to finish right here at Kaifeng at this time.” Then he heard Ping One-Finger communicate.

“Could I ask which one in all you is brother Linghu?”

Surprisingly, his phrases had been fairly well mannered.

“I’m Linghu Chong. Could I’ve your respectful identify? Could I ask what I can do for you?” Linghu Chong slowly walked onto the bow of the boat and answered.

Ping One-Finger regarded Linghu Chong up and down. “Somebody has requested me to deal with your wounds,” he mentioned.

Reaching out and grabbing Linghu Chong by his hand, he positioned his index finger on prime of Linghu Chong’s wrist and commenced checking his pulses. Out of the blue, he raised his eyebrows and uttered a cry of shock. However quickly his eyebrows steadily knitted right into a straight line and one other cry of shock adopted. Elevating his head excessive, he stared into the sky blankly, his left hand scratching his head madly.

“How odd! How odd!” he murmured to himself.

An extended whereas handed earlier than he reached out once more to test Linghu Chong’s pulse from the opposite wrist. However as quickly as his index finger touched Linghu Chong’s wrist, he sneezed hastily.

“That is so bizarre. I’ve by no means seen something like this earlier than,” he muttered.

Root Fairy may now not maintain his tongue and jumped in. “What’s so odd about it? It’s so apparent that he was wounded in his Coronary heart Passage. I’ve already handled him with my internal power.”

“Why are you continue to insisting on saying that he was wounded in his Coronary heart Passage? Clearly he had issues together with his Lung Passage. If it weren’t I who opened his many stress factors alongside the Lung Passage, you suppose he’d nonetheless be alive at this time?” Trunk Fairy instantly rebuffed.

Losing no time, Department Fairy, Leaf Fairy and Flower Fairy all jumped into the large debate, every claiming himself the one one which gave the appropriate and demanding remedy and the one who ought to get the credit.

Ping One-Finger abruptly gave a loud shout, “What crap!”

“Hey! Are you speaking crap, or are we, the 5 brothers, speaking crap?” Root Fairy mocked angrily.

“After all you might be!” Ping One-Finger answered. “Inside brother Linghu’s physique, there are two streams of stronger power movement, which appeared to have come from Monk No Commandment. There are additionally six streams of weaker power movement, which in all probability got here from you guys, you six fools!”

Yue Buqun and Madam Yue shot a look at one another, each pondering, “This Ping One-Finger is certainly unimaginable. It’s not exhausting to detect the eight streams of power movement inside Chong from his pulse, however it’s utterly superb that he’s in a position to establish the origin of the completely different power streams and knew two of them got here from Monk No Commandment.”

“Why are you saying that our six power streams are weaker and the god-damned No Commandment’s power streams are stronger? There’s little doubt that ours are stronger and his are weaker!” Trunk Fairy snubbed furiously.

“What a nerve!” Ping One-Finger sneered. “He was just one, but his two power streams overwhelmed all of the power streams of the six of you mixed. How the hell may yours be stronger, huh? Monk No Commandment the outdated scumbag, he has excellent Kung Fu abilities but no mind! God rattling it! What an fool!”

Flower Fairy caught his finger out and pretended to additionally test Linghu Chong’s pulse. “Effectively,” he mentioned, “it appears that evidently the power streams of the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies are literally in complete management and have utterly overwhelmed Monk No Commandment’s .” Out of the blue he cried out in ache and pulled his finger again rapidly as if someone has bitten it. “Ouch! God rattling it!” he shouted.

Wanting more than happy, Ping One-Finger burst into loud laughter. All people may inform that he should have handed his superior internal power by way of Linghu Chong’s physique and gave Flower Fairy a painful shock.

After some extra laughing, Ping One-Finger put the solemn face again on.

“Pay attention up, all of you! Go wait within the boat’s maintain and be quiet! I don’t need hear a phrase out of you!”

“Wait a minute! What makes you suppose we’d do precisely what you inform us to do?” Leaf Fairy protested.

“Didn’t you swear an oath that you’d kill an individual for me?” Ping One-Finger requested.

“That’s proper! However we solely agreed to kill an individual for you. We by no means agreed to comply with your orders?” Department Fairy answered.

“It’s completely as much as you whether or not you wish to comply with my orders or not. However what if I ask you to kill the Fruit Fairy of the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies? What do you suppose?” Ping One-Finger sneered.

The 5 Fairies all shouted out in protests. “That’s outrageous! You might have simply cured him. Why are you asking us to kill him?”

“Effectively, what sort of oath did you 5 swear to me?” Ping One-Finger requested.

“We agreed that if you happen to can remedy our brother Fruit Fairy, then if you order us to kill an individual, no matter who that particular person is, we should do it. No excuses, in any respect,” Root Fairy replied.

“That’s right!” Ping One-Finger nodded. “Now did I remedy your brother?”

“Sure, you probably did!” Flower Fairy concurred.

“Is Fruit Fairy an individual?” Ping One-Finger pressed on.

“After all he’s an individual. He’s no ghost,” Leaf Fairy answered.

“Superb. I would like you to kill an individual for me, and this particular person is Fruit Fairy!” Ping One-Finger concluded.

The 5 Fairies checked out one another in clean dismay. All felt that this order was unspeakably queer, but neither of them may consider any argument.

“In case you are not prepared to kill Fruit Fairy, I’m positive we are able to work one thing out. Now will you comply with my orders? I’m telling you to go sit within the boat’s maintain and behave yourselves. I don’t need any motion or any phrase out of you,” Ping One-Finger commanded.

The 5 Fairies hurriedly acknowledged the order, and inside seconds, all 5 of them sat down within the maintain, their fingers on their knees and their backs straight up, ensuring that nobody may have behaved any higher than them.

“Grasp Ping, I heard that you’ve got this rule if you deal with your sufferers: after you’ve cured the affected person, he must kill somebody for you. Is that true?” Linghu Chong requested.

“That’s right! I do have this rule,” Ping One-Finger admitted.

“However I don’t wish to kill anybody for you, so please save your hassle and don’t deal with me,” Linghu Chong exclaimed.

“Huh!” Ping One-Finger uttered a cry of shock. He regarded Linghu Chong up and down as if he had seen one thing completely eccentric and irregular. After an extended pause, he spoke once more.

“Firstly, your case is just too extreme and I can’t remedy you; secondly, even when I may remedy you, another person has already agreed to kill for me. You don’t have to fret about it in any respect.”

Ever since Yue Lingshan had shifted her love pursuits to another person, Linghu Chong had misplaced the enjoyment of life. However when he heard from this well-known physician, who had such a terrific status together with his functionality of bringing the dying again to life, that even he couldn’t remedy the injuries, Linghu Chong nonetheless discovered himself swept by utter desolation.

The Yue couple gave one another a stare, each pondering, “Who has gotten such nice due respect that might have made ‘Killer Physician’ to make home calls? What sort of relationship does he have with Chong?”

“Brother Linghu,” Ping One-Finger spoke once more. “There are eight streams of overseas power forces inside your physique that might not be discharged, nor dissolved, nor tamed, nor overpowered, which have brought on all of the accidents and struggling. I used to be entrusted the duty to remedy your wounds. It’s not that I’m holding any effort again from you. As a result of your accidents are associated to internal power, that’s why drugs and medical remedies received’t do you any good. Ever since I grew to become a health care provider, I’ve by no means seen any accidents like this. Alas, there’s actually nothing I can do. I’m so ashamed.”

He took a china bottle out from his chest pocket after which poured ten vermilion tablets into his palm.

“These are ten ‘Coronary heart-Soothing’ tablets. They include many sorts of treasured medicinal supplies and took me a very long time to make. Take one capsule each ten days and it is possible for you to to stay for an additional 100 days.”

“Many thanks!” Linghu Chong took the tablets respectfully.

Ping One-Finger circled and headed towards the financial institution. However abruptly he turned again once more. “There are two extra tablets within the bottle. I’d as properly give all of them to you.” He took out the china bottle and handed it out.

However Linghu Chong didn’t take it. “I can inform that senior grasp actually treasure these tablets very a lot. They have to include nice therapeutic energy. It’s in all probability higher to maintain them with you to avoid wasting another person sooner or later. Even when I may stay ten days or twenty days longer, it’s not gonna do anyone, even I personally, any good.”

Ping One-Finger threw a sideways look at Linghu Chong for a second after which murmured, “Having no regards of 1’s personal life, you do present the qualities of a real man. No marvel! No marvel! Alas, what a pity! I’m sorry!”

He shook his big head, circled, leapt off the boat, after which walked off in massive strides. He got here and went so abruptly and utterly ignored Yue Buqun, the Head Grasp of the Huashan Sword College. Yue Buqun was drastically aggravated. However there have been nonetheless 5 menaces sitting within the boat’s maintain. Eliminating them was not going to be a simple activity.

The 5 Fairies all sat completely nonetheless, their eyes wanting down, their fingers on their knees, as in the event that they had been monks meditating in trance. If Yue Buqun ordered the boat to start out sail, then the 5 menaces would have, for positive, been introduced alongside. If he didn’t order the boat to start out sail, then no person knew how lengthy they had been going to only sit there, or in the event that they had been going to leap up abruptly to assault in retaliation for the stab Madam Yue gave Fruit Fairy. Lao Denuo, Yue Lingshan, and a few extra apprentices had seen with their very own eyes the horrible scene how the Fairies had ripped Cheng Buyou into items. Even now, every of them may nonetheless really feel chills on their again from the worry. They merely gazed at one another in dismay, and neither was even courageous sufficient to solid a look at these 5.

“Hey, what are you doing right here?” Linghu Chong got here again into the maintain.

“We’re simply sitting right here and behaving ourselves. We aren’t doing something,” Root Fairy answered.

“We’re about to start out sail. You’ll be able to return ashore now,” Linghu Chong urged.

“Ping One-Finger advised us to take a seat within the maintain and behave ourselves, no talks and no actions. In any other case, he’s gonna ask us to kill our brother. That’s why we’re sitting right here behaving ourselves and dare not speak or transfer,” Department Fairy replied.

Linghu Chong couldn’t assist however grin at these phrases. “Physician Ping has gone ashore already. You can begin speaking and shifting now!”

“No approach! No approach! What if he sees us speaking and shifting about? That’s not going to be good!” Flower Fairy shook his head frantically.

Out of the blue a croaky voice floated from ashore, “Hey, you 5 ugly goblins! The place are you?”

“I believe he’s calling us,” Root Fairy steered.

“Why do you suppose he’s calling us? Are we ugly goblins?” Department Fairy argued.

The voice shouted once more, “I’ve another ugly goblin right here. Physician Ping has simply cured him. Would you like him or not? If you happen to don’t need him, I’m gonna drop him within the river to feed the fish.”

Listening to these, the 5 Fairies immediately leapt out of the maintain facet by facet and landed ashore. The center-aged girl who had helped Ping One-Finger with the operation stood by the river straight as a ramrod. Together with her left arm prolonged to the facet, she lifted a stretcher in her left hand, and Fruit Fairy lay on the stretcher. The girl regarded unwell from her face but had nice energy. To elevate the over 100 kilos Fruit Fairy plus the wood stretcher utilizing just one arm appeared really easy for her.

“After all we wish him. Why would we not need him?” Root Fairy mentioned hurriedly.

“Why are you calling us ugly goblins?” Department Fairy requested.

“Have a look at your self, you look extra like an unpleasant goblin your self,” Fruit Fairy mentioned whereas mendacity on the stretcher.

It turned out that after Ping One-Finger had sewed Fruit Fairy’s wound again collectively, fed him some miraculous drugs, after which smacked his head to inject superior internal power, he instantly stood up and walked out. However as a result of lack of large amount of blood, he fainted once more after solely a brief distance and was introduced again into the room by the middle-aged girl. Although he was nonetheless removed from recovering, his wounds didn’t maintain him from yielding to anybody orally, and he merely couldn’t assist however contradict the lady.

“Are you aware what Physician Ping fears probably the most in his life?” the lady requested coldly.

“We don’t know. What does he worry probably the most?” the six Fairies replied in unison.

“He fears his spouse!” the lady answered.

“We thought he feared nothing in any respect. Who would have although he truly fears his spouse? Ha-ha! Oh my god! Ha-ha!” The Peach Valley’s Six Fairies laughed so exhausting that they virtually laughed their heads off.

“What’s so humorous? I’m his spouse,” the lady mentioned in a chilling tone.

Immediately, the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies shut themselves up.

“He by no means dare disobey my orders,” the lady continued. “If I would like anybody lifeless, that particular person would be the one he tells you to kill.”

“Sure! Sure! Could we ask you who you need lifeless, Mrs. Ping?” the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies requested in unison.

The girl solid a look towards the boat’s maintain and checked out all of the Huashan members one after the other. Her eyes moved from Yue Buqun to Madam Yue, then to Yue Lingshan, then to the remainder of the Huashan apprentices. Each one may really feel goose bumps throughout his again, all understanding that if this girl with the ugly and cold face had pointed at one in all them, the 5 Fairies would immediately rip that particular person into items. Even first-class fighters like Yue Buqun maybe wouldn’t have the ability to escape from their fingers.

The girl slowly regarded away from the Huashan members after which turned her eyes to the faces of the six Fairies. The six brothers additionally felt their coronary heart pounding of their chests from worry. “Uh,” the lady set free a sound, and the six Fairies instantly answered, “Sure! Sure!” “Hum,” the lady set free a snort, and the six Fairies once more answered without delay, “Sure! Sure!”

“I haven’t considered whom I would like lifeless,” the lady lastly mentioned. “However Physician Ping mentioned that there’s a Younger Grasp Linghu Chong on the boat who he respects very a lot. It’s essential to wait upon him till he dies. No matter he tells you to do, you’ll do it for him with no exceptions. Do you hear me?”

“Wait upon him till he dies?” the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies requested with massive frowns.

“That’s right! Wait upon him till he dies. However he solely has 100 days left on this life. Inside the subsequent 100 days, you should obey all of his orders,” Mrs. Ping defined.

Listening to that Linghu Chong solely had no a couple of hundred days left, the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies all grew to become completely satisfied once more. “Positive, to attend upon him for 100 days shouldn’t be that onerous!” all of them mentioned.

“I’m really grateful for Grasp Ping’s beneficiant provide, however I dare not hassle the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies to look after me,” Linghu Chong rejected. “Will you please inform them to remain ashore? We hereby bid our farewell to you.”

Mrs. Ping saved her chilly face with none signal of pleasure or anger, in any respect. “Physician Ping mentioned that Younger Grasp Linghu’s inside harm is solely attributable to these six scumbags. Not solely would Younger Grasp Linghu die due to that, it additionally made Physician Ping lose nice face from not with the ability to remedy him and provides a passable reply to the one who entrusted him for the duty, that’s why he should punish these six scumbags to a terrific extent. Physician Ping had deliberate to ask them to kill one in all their brothers following their very own oath, however he determined to point out mercy and solely ask them to attend upon Younger Grasp Linghu.”

She paused for a second after which continued. “If these six scumbags don’t comply with Younger Grasp Linghu’s instructions and Physician Ping hears about it, he guarantees to kill one in all them instantly.”

“Since brother Linghu’s harm was attributable to us, it’s actually nothing that we wait upon him for some time. A real man is aware of when to pay again a favor and when to settle a rating,” Flower Fairy declared.

“A real man is prepared to sacrifice himself for the sake of friendship, a lot much less ready upon his accidents,” Department Fairy added.

“My wounds additionally want somebody to attend upon. So I’ll wait upon him and he’ll wait upon me. Forwards and backwards, it’s good for each of us,” Fruit Fairy adopted.

“Not mentioning that we are able to solely wait upon him for a restricted 100 days. How brief it’s!” Trunk Fairy joined in.

Root Fairy smacked his personal thigh loudly and mentioned, “Even within the outdated days individuals may journey a thousand miles to assist on the information of their pal’s hassle. For us six brothers, did we ever hesitate to leap in troubles and assist the wanted ?”

Mrs. Ping shot a look of distain towards the six Fairies after which merely walked away. Department Fairy and Trunk Fairy lifted the stretcher and leapt onboard. Root Fairy and the remainder of the Fairies all adopted. Then six voices shouted concurrently, “Begin the sail! Begin the sail!”

By then, Linghu Chong knew that, for positive, they wouldn’t have the ability to maintain the six Fairies from going along with them, so he mentioned, “Six Fairy brothers! I can allow you to come along with us, however you should present good manners to my Grasp and Grasp-Spouse. That is my first order. If you happen to don’t do as I say, then I don’t need you to attend upon me.”

“We, the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies, have at all times been refined and courteous gents. All people is aware of that. We are going to even present respects to your apprentice or your grand-apprentice, a lot much less your Grasp and Grasp-Spouse,” Leaf Fairy replied.

Listening to that he had known as himself a refined and courteous gentleman, Linghu Chong discovered himself drastically amused. He turned to Yue Buqun and mentioned, “Grasp, these six Fairy brothers wish to board our boat and sail east with us. Do you suppose it’s alright?”

Yue Buqun contemplated. It appeared that, not less than for now, these six wouldn’t make issues troublesome for the Huashan College. With everyone else on the identical boat, they nonetheless remained a severe hidden hazard. However it was in all probability unattainable to drive them away below the present circumstance. Thankfully these six males seemed to be mentally deranged regardless of the excellent Kung Fu abilities they possessed. So it wouldn’t be totally unattainable to include them by technique. At that thought, he nodded.

“Alright. I suppose they will take the boat with us in the event that they insist. However I choose a quiet life and wouldn’t wish to take heed to them argue forwards and backwards continuous.”

“You’ve mentioned it improper, Mr. Yue,” Department Fairy argued. “Why do you suppose an individual is born with a mouth? Apart from consuming, this mouth can be used to speak. And the way in regards to the two ears? After all they’re used to take heed to individuals speaking. If you happen to choose a quiet life, then you might be actually letting the Almighty Creator down for providing you with a mouth and two ears.”

Yue Buqun knew too properly that if he had argued again, when the opposite 5 brothers’ 5 mouths all joined in, that will be like opening a can of worms, and there could be no finish to it. He couldn’t beat them in bodily combat, nor would he have the ability to beat them in a phrase combat, so he merely set free a slight smile after which mentioned, “Boatman, set sail!”

“Mr. Yue, didn’t you simply open your mouth to inform the boatman to set sail? If you happen to actually choose a quiet life, it is best to have signaled him to set sail with a gesture,” Leaf Fairy joined in.

“The boatman is behind the boat, and Mr. Yue is right here within the center part. If he had signaled but the boatman couldn’t see him, then it will nonetheless be ineffective,” Trunk Fairy disagreed.

“Couldn’t he have walked to the again of the boat after which sign the gesture?” Root Fairy steered.

“What if the boatman couldn’t perceive his gesture and thought the ‘set sail’ command was the ‘sink the boat’ command? That may be horrible,” Flower Fairy argued.

Amid the arguments from the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies, the boatman had weighed the anchor and set sail.

Each Yue Buqun and Madam Yue solid a look at Linghu Chong spontaneously adopted by a quick look on the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies. After exchanging some seems at one another, the Yue couple all had the identical thought.

“Ping One-Finger talked about that somebody had entrusted him to deal with Chong’s harm. From his phrases, it appears that evidently this particular person should have been somebody with very excessive standing within the Martial World, that was why Ping thought nothing of the Head Grasp of the Huashan Sword College, but was very well mannered to an apprentice of the Huashan Sword College. Who had entrusted Physician Ping to deal with Chong? Since Ping known as Monk No Commandment a ‘god damned fool,’ then clearly it wasn’t Monk No Commandment.”

Within the outdated days, they might have known as Linghu Chong over and requested him intimately, however unconsciously, a lot misunderstanding had emerged between the grasp and the apprentice. Each of them knew it was not but the time to ask Linghu Chong. When Madam Yue considered that even Ping One-Finger, the primary physician within the Martial World, couldn’t remedy Linghu Chong’s harm and that he solely had 100 days left in his life, disappointment welled up in her coronary heart and tears streamed down her cheek.

Crusing with the wind and downstream, the boat traveled speedily. By night, they had been already not removed from the city of Lanfeng. The boatman anchored the boat alongside the financial institution and shortly had ready dinner. Simply when everybody was prepared for supper, abruptly, loud voices got here from ashore.

“Excuse me! Could I ask if the heroes of the Huashan Sword College are on this boat?”

Earlier than Yue Buqun had an opportunity to reply, Department Fairy had already answered, “Heroes of each the Huashan Sword College and the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies are all on this boat. What would you like?”

“Nice! Nice! Now we have been ready right here for a whole day and night time. Hurry! Hurry up! Take these over!” the person replied gleefully.

Over a dozen hefty wanting males walked out from a straw mat shed falling into two traces, every with a red-lacquered small case in his fingers. An empty-handed man in a blue gown walked by the boat and bowed down.

“Our superior was very involved when he heard that younger hero Linghu was not feeling properly. He actually needed to pay a go to himself however merely didn’t have sufficient time to make the journey again. So he despatched me particular orders by homing pigeons and requested me to current some small items to younger hero Linghu on his behalf.”

One after the other, the dozen of males walked aboard in a file and positioned the over a dozen of circumstances down on the boat.

Completely stunned, Linghu Chong couldn’t assist however ask, “I’m Linghu Chong. Could I ask who the respectful superior of yours is? I’m afraid I’m unworthy of such beneficiant items.”

“Younger hero Linghu is a person of excellent fortunes. I’m positive you’ll totally recuperate very quickly. Please take care!” the person replied. Bowing down respectfully, he led the bunch of males and walked away.

“I’m wondering who’s sending me the items. That is so odd,” Linghu Chong murmured.

The Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies may now not maintain their persistence. “Let’s open them up!” they acclaimed in unison and shortly had opened the entire red-lacquered small circumstances. A few of the circumstances had been stuffed with beautiful refreshments and pastry; some contained smoked rooster or ham that had been nice to go along with wine; some held every kind of costly and treasured medicinal supplies comparable to ginseng, pilose antler, swallow nest, and tremella; the final two circumstances had been stuffed with small gold and silver ingots, apparently for Linghu Chong to make use of alongside his journey. These had been no small items in any respect! As quickly because the Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies noticed the candies, cookies, candied fruits, and the pastries within the completely different circumstances, they wasted no time grabbing the treats and jamming them into their mouths. “That is scrumptious! So scrumptious!” they shouted cheerfully.

Linghu Chong checked the numerous circumstances fastidiously and totally but didn’t discover any notes, seals, or indicators that will give out a hint of the gift-giver’s id.

“Grasp,” Linghu Chong mentioned to Yue Buqun, “I actually can’t determine this one out. These individuals appear to bear no unwell will, and it doesn’t appear to be that they’re taking part in pranks on us both.” Having mentioned these phrases, he put a number of the treats in entrance of his Grasp and Grasp-Spouse respectfully earlier than distributing the remainder of them to his apprentice brothers and sisters.

Yue Buqun solid a look on the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies. All of them had a number of the treats, and none of them had any irregular reactions from the meals. It appeared that the meals was not poisoned. So he requested Linghu Chong.

“Do you could have any martial pals residing on this space?”

“No.” Linghu Chong shook his head after he contemplated for a second.

Sound of hoof beats abruptly rose. Eight riders dashed towards them alongside the river. Somebody shouted among the many riders.

“Is younger hero Linghu of the Huashan Sword College over there?”

“Sure, sure! He’s over right here! What great things have you ever introduced with you?” the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies shouted cheerfully.

“Our chief heard that younger hero Linghu had come to the city of Lanfeng. He additionally heard that younger hero Linghu is sort of keen on wine, so he advised me to place collectively sixteen jars of fantastic mellow wine and produce them right here, so younger hero Linghu can get pleasure from them on the boat alongside his journey,” the person shouted again.

Quickly, the eight riders had arrived, and positive sufficient, every saddle atop the horsebacks had two wine jars hanging from it. And on the wine jars, some wrote “Greatest High quality Royal-Wine,” some wrote “Excessive Grade Fen-Wine,”[11] and a few others wrote “Shaoxing Purple Wine.”[12] These sixteen jars of wine turned out to have contained sixteen several types of wine. In Linghu Chong’s thoughts, there was nothing else that might have been a greater reward than these nice wines. He hurried to the bow of the boat after which cupped his fingers to salute.

“Please forgive my ignorance. Will you please inform me the identify of your respectful clan? And what’s your respectful identify?”

“Our chief particularly advised us time and again to not point out the identify of our clan to younger hero Linghu. He mentioned that these are solely very humble items. It’s embarrassing sufficient. Why embarrass ourselves much more by mentioning our names?” the person answered with a smile. He waved a sign to his companions, and all of the riders carried the numerous wine jars onto the boat.

Yue Buqun gazed on the eight males from throughout the boat’s maintain. Each one in all them was vigorous and nimble. Carrying one wine jar in every hand, they leapt aboard simply. Not one of the eight had any excellent Kung Fu abilities, and it was apparent that they had been all from completely different Kung Fu colleges. They should have been telling the reality after they mentioned that they had been members of a clan.

After sending the sixteen jars of wine aboard, the eight males bowed to Linghu Chong, jumped again onto their horses, and shortly light into the night time.

“Grasp, how unusual that is! I’m wondering who’s taking part in a joke with me and despatched me this many jars of wine,” Linghu Chong grinned.

“Might or not it’s Tian Boguang? Or may or not it’s Monk No Commandment?” Yue Buqun murmured.

“Proper!” Linghu Chong replied. “These two are inclined to do issues the odd approach. Who is aware of, it could be them behind all these. Hey, Peach Valley’s Six Fairies! Now we have a lot nice wine right here. Aren’t you going to have some?”

“After all! After all! We don’t’ see any purpose to not!” the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies agreed wholeheartedly.

Root Fairy and Trunk Fairy every picked up a jar. After opening the seal, they poured the wine into bowls. The fantastic scent instantly stuffed the air. The six Fairies didn’t even fake to be well mannered to Linghu Chong, elevating the bowls up and down, they started swallowing the nice wine in massive gulps.

Linghu Chong additionally stuffed a bowl with wine and took it to Yue Buqun.

“Grasp, please have some. This wine isn’t dangerous, certainly.”

Yue Buqun barely frowned and hummed.

“Grasp,” Lao Denuo joined in, “taking precaution by no means hurts. We don’t know who despatched us these wines. Who is aware of if there’s something odd in these wines?”

Yue Buqun nodded in settlement. “Chong, we’d higher watch out.”

However as soon as the fantastic scent of top quality wine had gone into Linghu Chong’s nostril, he may now not maintain his craving.

“I received’t be residing for much longer, anyway. It’s no distinction for me whether or not the wine was poisoned or not,” he mentioned with a smile.

Elevating the bowl up with each fingers, Linghu Chong poured all of the wine within the bowl into his mouth and swallowed them in massive gulps. “Nice wine! Fabulous!” he praised.

Out of the blue a voice got here from ashore. Somebody additionally praised loudly, “Nice wine! Fabulous!”

Linghu Chong regarded towards the course the voice had come from and his eyes stumbled on a down and out scholar wanting man in shabby garments. The scholar had a torn folding fan in his proper hand. Elevating his head excessive, he sniffed time and again within the air, attempting exhausting to catch as a lot of the nice scent of wine as doable.

“Positively nice wine!” the scholar praised once more.

“You haven’t even tasted it, how would if the wine was good or dangerous, brother?” Linghu Chong requested with a smile.

“As quickly as you scent the scent of the wine, it is best to have recognized that that is sixty-two 12 months outdated Excessive Grade Fen-Wine. Then undoubtedly it must be nice!” the scholar replied.

Linghu Chong had turn into fairly an professional within the topic of wine thanked to the enthusiastic teachings from the Elder Bamboo-Inexperienced. He had already discovered that the wine was about sixty years outdated. However it will be merely unattainable to be so positive that the wine was precisely sixty-two years outdated. The scholar should be exaggerating, he thought.

“If this brother doesn’t thoughts, would you want to affix us for some wine?” Linghu Chong invited with a smile.

“However you hardly know me in any respect,” the scholar replied whereas wagging his head forwards and backwards. “Now we have solely met by probability like patches of drifting duckweed. I’ve already disturbed you adequate by sniffing the scent of wine right here. How can I hassle you even additional by ingesting your wine? I actually couldn’t do this! I definitely couldn’t do this!”

“The outdated saying mentioned it properly: We’re all brothers throughout the 4 seas. From what you simply mentioned, I can inform that you simply should be an professional within the data of wine. I’d like to seek the advice of you on a number of the questions. Come aboard please! Don’t be too modest,” Linghu Chong invited once more with a smile.

Listening to these phrases, the scholar strolled over slowly. After bowing down deeply, he mentioned, “My surname is Zu, the identical Zu that’s within the phrase ancestor.[13] The well-known Zu Di

[14] in historical past who educated on the first crow of a cock was certainly a distant ancestor of mine. My first identify is Qianqiu, which implies a thousand years. This brother! Could I ask what your respectful identify is?”

“My surname is Linghu, and my first identify is Chong,” Linghu Chong replied.

“Nice surname! Nice surname! And your first identify is nice too!” Zu Qianqiu praised whereas strolling aboard the boat from the springboard.

Linghu Chong was amused. “Simply because I’m inviting him for some wine, even my identify is now a greater identify. Go determine!” he couldn’t assist pondering.

He stuffed a bowl with wine after which handed the bowl to Zu Qianqiu.

“Right here you go! Take pleasure in!” he mentioned.

Zu Qianqiu was a person in his fifties. He had a sallow face, a pair of listless eyes, and a brandy nostril. Sparse beard occupied the decrease half of his face. The entrance of his garment had many oil stains. When he prolonged his fingers out, filth may clearly be seen below the fingernails of all his ten fingers. He was a skinny man but had a giant stomach that was completely out of proportion.

Seeing that Linghu Chong had handed over the bowl of wine, Zu Qianqiu didn’t take it from him straight away.

“Brother Linghu, though you could have nice wines, but you don’t have any good vessels of wine. What a terrific pity that’s!” he exclaimed.

“We’re in the course of a visit and solely have a number of tough bowls and cups. Mister Zu, you’ll simply should make do with them,” Linghu Chong replied.

“No approach! No Manner!” Zu Qianqiu shook his head and exclaimed. “Clearly you haven’t mastered the key of the artwork of ingesting; in any other case, you wouldn’t have been so careless in regards to the vessels of wine. The artwork of ingesting should have nice regards to the vessels of wine. The type of wine cup to make use of could be very explicit to what sort of wine you might be ingesting. In case you are ingesting Fen-Wine, then after all we’ve to make use of a Jade Cup. Within the Tang Dynasty, a poet as soon as wrote, ‘

Jade Cups carry in regards to the mild of amber

.’[15] Evidently a Jade Cup might help to good the colour of the wine.”

“Little question!” Linghu Chong agreed.

“Have a look at this jar of the Northeastern White-Wine,” Zu Qianqiu pointed at one of many wine jars and continued, “the flavour of the wine is great, but it surely lacks the candy scent of excellent wine. You’d higher drink it with a Rhino-horn Cup, which can make the wine style simply good. One ought to know {that a} Jade Cup will improve the colour of the wine and a Rhino-horn Cup will improve the candy scent of the wine. Our ancestors child us not. Certainly!”

Again at Luoyang, Linghu Chong had listened to Elder Bamboo-Inexperienced educating and explaining the topic of wine and had mastered quite a lot of data in regards to the origin, the scent, the strategy of winemaking and storing procedures of the numerous sorts of well-known wines, but he knew nothing about wine vessels. And now when he listened to Zu Qianqiu communicate with such fervor and assurance, he couldn’t assist the sensation of abruptly seeing the sunshine.

“As for Grape Wine, the reply is of course the Luminous Cup. The ancients wrote of their poems, ‘

Great Grape Wine stuffed the Luminous Cups; I wish to drink however the sound of Pipa[16] is already calling me to my horseback

.’[17] Grape Wine has this gaudy type of reddish coloration, which doesn’t actually promote the type of heroic spirit us males ought to have proven once we drink it. However after we pour the Grape Wine into the Luminous Cup, the colour of the wine is now no completely different from the colour of blood. Ingesting wine is sort of like ingesting blood. Yue Fei wrote in his poem, ‘

With hovering aspirations I eat my foe’s flesh to rid my starvation; amid my speak and my smile I drink the enemy’s blood to rid my thirst

.’

[18] How courageous and heroic!”

Linghu Chong nodded time and again. He had little or no training in literature, so when he listened to Zu Qianqiu quoting varied poems he wasn’t very clear as to what every sentence actually meant. However when he heard the final one, “

amid my speak and my smile I drink the enemy’s blood to rid my thirst

”, he agreed wholeheartedly that this line certainly confirmed in the end heroic spirit between the phrases, and will invoke nice inspiration from the listeners.

Zu Qianqiu pointed at one other wine jar and went on. “As for Sorghum Wine, it’s the most historical wine in human historical past. Yidi invented the strategy of wine brewing again within the Xia Dynasty when Yu was the king.[19] Yu drank the wine and actually cherished the style of it. Guess what? That wine was none apart from this Sorghum Wine. Brother Linghu, peculiar individuals are so shortsighted. They solely know that King Yu achieved a terrific deal in flood-control, which benefited the whole afterworld, however they didn’t know that flood-control was so insignificant in comparison with the actual accomplishment he had achieved. Are you aware what his actual accomplishment was?”

“Making Wine!” Linghu Chong and the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies answered in unison.

“Exactly!” Zu Qianqiu confirmed, and all eight of them laughed out loud.

“To drink the Sorghum Wine, solely a Bronze Jue[20] can carry out the traditional which means of it,” Zu Qianqiu continued. “And as for the Rice Wine, despite the fact that first-class Rice Wine has a good style, it lacks the suitable quantity of sweetness and appears to be skinny and weak. We must drink it with massive ladlers to point out the lofty high quality.”

“I’m only a man from the wildness. I had no concept that the connection between wine and wine vessels truly requires such cautious research,” Linghu Chong mentioned.

Zu Qianqiu gave a delicate pat on a wine jar that had the phrases “Hundred-Grass Wine” written on it.

“To be able to make the Hundred-Grass Wine, one should gather a wide range of grasses after which soak them in high-quality wine, that’s why it has a type of faint, nice scent, the type you’d scent on a spring outing to the wilderness, that may make you tipsy even earlier than you drink it. To drink the Hundred-Grass Wine, we ought to make use of an Age-old Rattan Cup. ‘Hundred-year-old rattan, carved right into a cup, when used to drink the Hundred-Grass Wine, enhancing the fantastic perfume it does.’”

“Hundred-year-old rattan, that had be treasured,” Linghu Chong commented.

“Brother Linghu, you’ve mentioned it improper!” Zu Qianqiu disagreed with a stern countenance. “In comparison with the hundred-year-old rattan, hundred-year-old wine is much more treasured. Give it some thought, you may simply go to a distant mountain space if you wish to search for hundred-year-old rattan. However in regard to the hundred-year-old wine, everyone desires to drink it. After you drink it, it’s gone, but even after you drink a thousand instances utilizing the Age-Previous Rattan Cup, the cup continues to be there, nothing much less, nothing extra.”

“You might be completely proper! I’m so very ignorant. Thanks for the recommendation,” Linghu Chong replied.

All through the whole time, Yue Buqun had paid nice consideration to Zu Qianqiu’s each single phrase. He may inform that Zu was undoubtedly exaggerating, but his phrases appeared affordable. Seeing how Department Fairy, Trunk Fairy, and the remaining Fairies decide up the jar of Hundred-Grass Wine and splash it everywhere in the desk after they poured it, as if it had been just a few type of low cost wine, despite the fact that Yue Buqun was not keen on ingesting, he may nonetheless scent the pure and good aroma of the wine assailing his nostrils. He knew that the wine should have been high-quality, and it was such a pity for the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies to abuse it like that.

“And to drink the Shaoxing Purple Wine, we ought to make use of an Historic-china Cup,” Zu Qianqiu went on explaining, “and it will be higher to make use of a china cup from the Northern Music Dynasty. A china cup from the Southern Music Dynasty could be alright, but it surely definitely has the signal of waning. As for china cups from the Yuan Dynasty, they’re inevitably uncouth.[21] And for the Pear-Blossom Wine after all it must be the Emerald Cup. Bai Juyi wrote in his poem

Spring View of Hangzhou

, ‘

The pink sleeves of the silk weaving women mirrored the persimmon leaves, and the emerald inexperienced flag of the wine store units off the Pear-Blossom Wine

.’

[22] Give it some thought, the wine store in Hangzhou was promoting the Pear-Blossom Wine they usually had an emerald inexperienced flag hanging exterior, which set off the Pear-Blossom Wine splendidly. Then to drink the Pear-Blossom Wine, after all we’ve to make use of an Emerald Cup. And to drink the Jade-dew Wine, it must be the Glazed Cup. There are a lot of small bubbles within the Jade-dew Wine, and solely by ingesting it with the crystal Glazed Cup can we respect the great thing about it.”

“Toot toot toot! Aren’t you simply blowing your personal trumpet!” a lady’s voice abruptly rose. It was Yue Lingshan, who additionally made a face whereas talking.

“Lingshan, don’t be impolite. What Mr. Zu mentioned could be very affordable,” Yue Buqun admonished.

“How can or not it’s affordable? Wine can add to the enjoyable, and that’s all it’s good for. Ingesting days and nights but with so many guidelines, a real hero would by no means do this,” Lingshan disagreed.

“Miss, you mentioned it improper!” Zu Qianqiu wagged his head forwards and backwards. “Liu Bang, the primary emperor of the Han Dynasty. Isn’t he a terrific hero? If it weren’t as a result of he grew to become drunk and beheaded the white snake, how may he have established the Grasp Dynasty that lasted a number of hundred years?[23] Isn’t Fan Kuai a terrific hero? That day within the Banquet of Hongman, Normal Fan sliced the meat on his defend and drank the wine utilizing a giant ladler. Isn’t that the true show of heroic spirits?”[24]“Mister Zu, these are high-quality wines, and also you simply talked about that heroes additionally love ingesting, then how come you aren’t ingesting?” Linghu Chong requested with a smile.

“I’ve mentioned it earlier. With out acceptable wine vessels we’d simply be abusing these nice wines,” Zu Qianqiu answered.

“You might be actually boasting in probably the most implausible phrases if you talked in regards to the Emerald Cup, Luminous Cup, and no matter else,” Trunk Fairy mocked. “The place are you going to seek out cups like that? Even when these cups do exist, there’s in all probability just one or two apiece. Who’s in a position to gather all of them?”

“A sublime gentleman, who has poetic temperament, who cares about savoring the nice style of wine, would, after all, have them. The best way you guys drink is like cows or donkeys ingesting out of a manger, then, after all, any type of coarse cups or bowls would do for you,” Zu Qianqiu mocked again.

“Are you a sublime gentleman?” Leaf Fairy challenged.

“Effectively, not an excessive amount of, but not too little, I do possess some high quality of a sublime gentleman,” Zu Qianqiu answered.

Leaf Fairy burst into loud laughter. “Then the type of wine cups you simply described for these eight sorts of wine, what number of do you could have with you?” he requested.

“Effectively, not too many, but not too few, I do have one for every type,” Zu Qianqiu answered.

“Braggart! Braggart!” the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies shouted in unison!

“How a few guess?” Root Fairy steered. “When you’ve got these eight sorts of wine cups with you, I’ll eat them one after the other. What if you happen to don’t have them? What’s that going to be?”

“Then I’ll eat all these wine cups and bowls right here on the desk one after the other, additionally, as a forfeit!” Zu Qianqiu vowed.

“Great! Great! Let’s see how he’s going to ,” the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies all cheered.

However earlier than they even completed their sentence, Zu Qianqiu had already reached into his chest pocket and took out a wine cup. Tender and clean, it turned out to be a Jade Cup.

Enormously astonished, the six Fairies swallowed the remainder of the sentence again down their throats. Looking at Zu Qianqiu in shock, they watched him taking out one wine cup after one other constantly. Amongst them had been certainly the Emerald Cup, the Rhino-horn Cup, the Age-Previous Rattan Cup, the Bronze Jue, the Luminous Cup, the Glazed Cup, and the Historic-china Cup. After taking out these eight wine cups, Zu Qianqiu didn’t cease and saved taking out an increasing number of wine cups. There have been the shinning Golden Cup, the exquisitely carved Silver Cup, and the multicolored and naturally patterned Stone Cup. Moreover, there have been the Ivory Cup, the Tiger-tooth Cup, the Cowskin Cup, the Bamboo-tube Cup, the Rosewood Cup, and so forth and so forth. Some had been giant, and a few had been small; every regarded completely different from the opposite ones. All people was dumbstruck; neither had anticipated that the poor and pedantic scholar had so many wine cups hidden in his chest pocket.

“What about it?” Zu Qianqiu requested Root Fairy in a perky voice.

Root Fairy’s face saddened. “I misplaced! Superb, I’ll eat eight wine cups,” he mentioned.

Selecting up the Age-old Rattan Cup, Root Fairy bit it exhausting. Crack, the cup broke into two. He caught the smaller half into his mouth, and after some loud chewing and crunching he swallowed the items down his throat.

No person had anticipated him to actually eat the wine cup, and inside seconds, he had already swallowed down half of the wine cup. Everybody gasped in astonishment. Extending his arm out, Root Fairy reached for the Rhino-horn Cup this time.

Out of the blue, Zu Qianqiu whisked together with his left hand and struck towards Root Fairy’s wrist. Root Fairy dropped his proper hand barely after which grabbed again at Zu Qianqiu’s wrist to counter, however Zu Qianqiu flicked his center finger swiftly towards Root Fairy’s palm. Surprised, Root Fairy drew his arm again.

“Don’t you need me to eat them?” he requested.

“I surrender! You absolutely have gotten the fortitude. Let’s simply say you could have already eaten all of the eight wine cups. I’d quite maintain my cups,” Zu Qianqiu replied. All people laughed at these phrases.

Yue Lingshan had been fairly afraid of the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies, at first, however since they confirmed no signal of vicious or ruthless intentions all through the time they had been on the boat, as a substitute, they at all times talked and behaved in a humorous and affable method, Yue Lingshan’s worry slowly slipped approach.

“Ahoy! Does that Age-old Rattan Cup style any good?” she mustered up her braveness and requested.

Root Fairy smacked his lips loudly after which lapped them together with his tongue. “Yuck! What’s good about it? It’s too bitter!”

“Alas, you’ve actually tousled my plan! You’ve eaten my Age-old Rattan Cup, what cup am I gonna use for the Hundred-Grass Wine now? Guess we’ll simply should put up with a wood cup.” Zu Qianqiu frowned.

He took out a handkerchief from his chest pocket. Selecting up what’s left of the Age-old Rattan Cup, he started wiping it with the handkerchief. After a short time, he picked the Rosewood Cup up and in addition wiped it out and in. The handkerchief seemed to be damp and soiled, so the extra he wiped the cup with it, the filthier the cup had turn into. After spending a great whereas wiping the wood cup, he lastly put the wood cup again on the desk. Lining all eight cups in a row, he put the remainder of the wine cups again into his chest pocket after which started pouring the Fen-Wine, Grape Wine, Shaoxing Purple Wine, and the remainder of the eight completely different sorts of wine into the eight cups. Then he set free a sigh of reduction.

“Brother Linghu, please drink these eight cups of wine one after the other. After you end them, I’ll drink eight cups of wine to accompany you. Let’s savor them fastidiously and see how completely different they’re from the type of wine you used to have,” Zu Qianqiu invited.

“Positive!” Linghu Chong answered. He raised the wood cup after which poured the wine down his throat in a single gulp. Out of the blue, a robust taste of pungency rose from his abdomen and utterly consumed him. In nice shock, Linghu Chong thought to himself, “Why does the wine have such a peculiar style?”

“These wine cups are really probably the most worthwhile treasures of wine lovers,” Zu Qianqiu exclaimed. “I’ve met some cowards earlier than who dared to not drink the second cup after tasting the unusual taste from the primary cup. By means of the ages, I but have the possibility to see one who had the braveness to complete all eight cups of wine.”

“I don’t have many days to stay anyway,” Linghu Chong thought to himself. “Even when the wines had been poisoned, so what? It’s no completely different to die from poison. Why let him have an excuse to mock me?” So he picked up extra cups from the desk and drank two extra cups of wine. One in every of them tasted completely bitter whereas the opposite one tasted completely acerbic; neither tasted like good wine. On the time when he raised the fourth cup, Root Fairy abruptly uttered a cry.

“Oh, no! My abdomen is burning! There’s hearth inside my abdomen.”

“You swallowed half of my Age-old Rattan Cup down, how may it not harm?” Zu Qianqiu grinned. “The age-old rattan is as exhausting as metal. There’s no approach you will digest that. You’d higher take lots of cathartic and hope you will get it out of your system. If that’s not gonna work, you then’d don’t have any alternative however to ask Killer Physician Ping One-Finger to chop open your stomach and take it out.”

A thought abruptly emerged in Linghu Chong’s thoughts, “One thing has gotten to be critically improper with these eight wine cups of his. After Root Fairy swallowed that Age-old Rattan Cup, even when the rattan had been actually that onerous to digest, he ought to have suffered not more than some stomachache. Why would he get the burning sensation? Hum, a real man will look dying calmly within the face. The extra deadly his poison is the higher. What am I afraid of?” At that thought, he slammed one other cup of wine down his throat.

“Huge apprentice brother, don’t drink any extra of these wines! They’re in all probability toxic.” Yue Lingshan abruptly spoke out. “You blinded all these individuals along with your sword, higher watch out. It’s very probably that they might plot in opposition to you for revenge.”

“This Mister here’s a man of the forthright type. I’m positive he received’t be plotting in opposition to me,” Linghu Chong mentioned as a tragic smile flashed throughout his lips. Deep in his coronary heart, he truly wished that the wines had been toxic, in order that they might kill him proper after he drank them. “Would little apprentice sister really feel the slightest sorrow when she sees my dying physique proper in entrance of her eyes?” he questioned as he drank one other two cups of wine. The wine within the sixth cup tasted bitter and salty, along with some type of a stinking odor. The style was not solely removed from the style of nice wine, it didn’t even qualify the style of wine. He couldn’t assist however frown.

Watching Linghu Chong ingesting one cup after one other by the facet, Trunk Fairy was bursting to offer it a attempt himself. “Let me have these two cups!” he pleaded and reached out for the seventh cup.

Zu Qianqiu waved his folding fan and smacked it behind Trunk Fairy’s hand.

“Persistence! Persistence!” he urged with a smile. “You’ll have to attend to your flip! Everybody must drink all eight cups in sequence to actually respect the final word true style of wine.”

Trunk Fairy may inform that the smack from Zu Qianqiu’s folding fan had carried an incredible quantity of pressure. If it had landed on the goal squarely, the pressure in all probability was highly effective sufficient to smash his bones. Flipping his palm over, he grabbed on the folding fan and shouted on the similar time.

“I’d quite drink this one first! What are you going to do about it?”

Zu Qianqiu’s folding fan had been folded into the form of a brief stick, however when Trunk Fairy’s hand was nearly to the touch the fan, it abruptly opened up abruptly, and the sting of the fan shot swiftly towards Trunk Fairy’s index finger. That caught Trunk Fairy by full shock. He drew his hand again rapidly and the shot barely missed his finger, however numbness nonetheless got here from his index finger because the pressure carried by the fan swept by. Crying out loud in shock, he took a step again.

“Brother Linghu, hurry up with these final two cups of wine!” Zu Qianqiu urged hurriedly.

Giving it no extra ideas, Linghu Chong additionally drank up the final two cups of wine. Neither of the 2 cups of wine had that stinking odor. However one was so spicy that it virtually felt as if somebody was slicing Linghu Chong’s throat with a knife, whereas the opposite one had a really sturdy scent of natural drugs. How may these be known as wine when their flavors had been even stronger than the strongest medicinal herb on this planet?

Seeing the unusual expression on Linghu Chong’s face, the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies burst with curiosity! “How does it style after you drink all eight cups?” they requested eagerly.

“Eight cups all collectively, style the final word marvel of the Heaven. That’s recorded in historical scripts,” Zu Qianqiu rushed to reply earlier than Linghu Chong had an opportunity.

“That’s baloney! What historical scripts?” Trunk Fairy rebuffed.

Impulsively, 4 shadows leapt ahead and every grabbed onto one in all Zu Qianqiu’s limbs. No person had a clue as to what sort of odd sign Trunk Fairy should have given out that had prompted the sudden assault. The strategies of the Six Fairies had been lightning quick but completely unusual. Once they abruptly charged at Zu Qianqiu utterly out of the blue, despite the fact that Zu Qianqiu had wonderful Kung Fu abilities, himself, he nonetheless couldn’t escape. Inside a fraction of a second, the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies had already lifted Zu Qianqiu off the bottom by his 4 limbs. Having witnessed the terrifying scene when the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies ripped Cheng Buyou into items, members of the Huashan College couldn’t assist however cry in terror. Within the break up second, an concept abruptly flashed by Zu Qianqiu’s thoughts like a lightning. He shouted out loudly.

“The wine is toxic! Don’t you need the antidote?”

The 4 Fairies that had grabbed onto Zu Qianqiu’s 4 limbs all had fairly some wine. On the phrases “the wine is poisoned,” they had been all seized abruptly.

That temporary hesitation from the 4 Fairies was precisely what Zu Qianqiu wanted. “Farts! Farts!” he cried out loudly.

The 4 Fairies solely felt that one thing hastily began to slide away from their grips. A loud exploding sound adopted instantly after. The following factor they know was {that a} massive gap abruptly emerged within the boat’s mat roofing and Zu Qianqiu had escaped by way of the opening. Each Root Fairy and Department Fairy discovered themselves empty-handed whereas Flower Fairy had a stinking sock and Leaf Fairy had a stinking and muddy shoe of their fingers. The Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies additionally moved speedily. Everybody on the boat solely noticed a blur and the 5 had already leapt ashore. However Zu Qianqiu appeared to have vanished into skinny air. Simply when the 5 Fairies had been about to chase after him utilizing their Qing-Gong strategies, they heard someone yelling from the far finish of the road.

“Zu Qianqiu, you god damned rascal! Give me again my tablets! If any capsule is lacking, I’ll rip all of your tendons out and pores and skin you alive!” the person yelled loudly as he dashed nearer.

Listening to somebody trashing Zu Qianqiu like that, the 5 Fairies felt nice satisfaction and all determined to surrender the chase, so they might take a great take a look at this man who would actually need to be known as a pal. Standing nonetheless, all 5 of them stared towards the newcomer curiously.

A meatball rolled towards them, panting closely alongside the way in which. Solely after it lastly rolled virtually proper subsequent to the 5 Fairies had been they in a position to acknowledge that the meatball was truly a person. The person was too brief and too fats. It will be even beneficiant to name him a human. He had no neck. His broad and oblate formed head simply sat on his shoulders immediately as if someone had smashed his head with a hammer on the time when he was born, which squashed his head down and stretched his cheeks, mouth, and nostril horizontally.

Nobody may assist however snigger inwardly, pondering, “That Ping One-Finger can be a brief fatty, however he would definitely pale into insignificance by comparability with this fellow.”

Ping One-Finger was brief with an ultra-broad shoulder, however this man additionally had ultra-thick chest and again. And on prime of that, his legs and arms had been so brief as if he solely had the decrease arm however with out the higher arm and the stomach with out the underbelly.

The person walked in entrance of the boat with arms akimbo after which requested arrogantly as if he had the final word seniority, “The place is Zu Qianqiu the soiled rascal hiding?

“That soiled rascal ran away. He absolutely runs quick! I guess you received’t have the ability to meet up with him rolling so slowly like that,” Root Fairy answered with a smile.

The person shot a glare at Root Fairy together with his small and round eyes and set free a grunt. However abruptly he began yelling once more.

“My tablets! My tablets!”

Giving the bottom a tough stamp, the meatball sprang onto the boat after which rolled into the boat’s maintain. He first sniffed round a little bit earlier than choosing up an empty wine cup on the desk after which put it subsequent to his nostril to breathe in. Out of the blue, his complexion modified dramatically. Not very complementary to start out with, now after the change, his face had reworked into one thing utterly grotesque and unattainable to explain in phrases. Apparently his grievance had reached the intense. He picked the remaining seven cups up one after one other and gave every one a great snuffle earlier than murmuring, “My tablets!” After he mentioned “my tablets” eight instances, the sorrow on his face regarded so unhappy that nobody may even naked to look into his face. Out of the blue he flopped down onto the ground and burst into loud cries.

The Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies grew to become much more curious. They gathered across the man in a circle and all began speaking without delay.

“Why are you crying?”

“Did Zu Qianqiu bully you?”

“Don’t really feel dangerous. We’ll discover this soiled rascal and rip him into 4 items to vent your anger.”

“My tablets are gone. He blended my tablets in his wine and drank all of them. Even when I may kill kill this soiled rascal, it’s already already too late,” the person replied in sobs.

Linghu Chong abruptly considered one thing. “What sort of tablets are they?” he requested.

“It took me a complete of twelve years to gather the thousand-year outdated Ginseng, Tuckahoe, Shiny Ganoderma, Pilose Antler of younger stags, Polygonum Multiflorum, Bear Gallbladder, Pseudo-Ginseng, Muskiness, and different treasured medicaments. Then after 9 steps of braising and 9 instances of solarization, I used to be lastly in a position to refine these “Life-Extending Eight Drugs” that had the facility of bringing the dying again to life. However who had anticipated that god damned Zu Qianqiu would steal them from me after which mix them within the wine for a drink?” He shed some extra tears.

Linghu Chong was astonished. “Do these eight tablets of yours style the identical?” he requested.

“After all not. Some had a stinking odor, some tasted extraordinarily bitter. Some had been so spicy that you simply’d virtually really feel like a knife had simply slit your throat, and a few had a robust taste of pungency, so sturdy that you simply’d suppose you had been on hearth. If anybody takes the ‘Life-Extending Eight Drugs,’ then regardless of how dangerous his inside wounds or exterior wounds are, for positive he would come again to life,” the person defined.

“Oh, no!” Linghu Chong cried as he struck his thigh together with his palm. “That Zu Qianqiu stole your Life-Extending Eight Drugs, however he didn’t take them himself. As an alternative as a substitute ”

“As an alternative what?” the person requested.

“As an alternative, he blended them within the wine after which fooled me into ingesting all of them down with the wine. I had no concept that the wine had contained treasured medicinal tablets. I truly thought he had poison within the wine,” Linghu Chong replied.

“Poison within the wine? Poison my ass!” the person cursed in fury. “Did you actually take my Life-Extending Eight Drugs?” he requested, his eyes blazing.

“Zu Qianqiu stuffed eight cups with good wines for me to drink. Some did style very bitter, and a few did have a horrible odor, some absolutely felt like someone slit my throat, and a few did have a burning sensation. However to be very trustworthy with you, I didn’t see any tablets in any respect,” Linghu Chong defined.

The person shot a nasty glare towards Linghu Chong and his fats face twitched time and again. Impulsively, he uttered a loud cry as he sprang onto his ft after which charged at Linghu Chong.

Ever because the man put a depraved look on his face, the Peach Valley’s 5 Fairies had been watching out for him. In order quickly as he sprang off the ground, 4 out of the 5 Fairies had reached their fingers out in blazing pace and every grabbed maintain of one in all his 4 limbs.

“Don’t harm him!” Linghu Chong shouted out in a rush.

However the unusual factor was that after the 4 Fairies had grabbed onto his two wrists and two ankles, his 4 limbs truly retracted towards his torso and he regarded much more like a meatball. In nice shock, the 4 Fairies gave a loud shout after which pulled more durable. The extra they pulled, the longer the person’s 4 limbs prolonged, and shortly his higher arms and thighs all prolonged out from inside his physique similar to when a turtle’s 4 limbs had been extending out from throughout the shell.

“Don’t harm him!” Linghu Chong shouted once more.

The Peach Valley’s 4 Fairies relaxed the pulling a little bit bit. The person’s 4 limbs instantly retracted again and he grew to become a meatball, as soon as once more.

“That is so fascinating! That is so fascinating! What sort of Kung Fu is that this?” Fruit Fairy shouted out loudly whereas nonetheless mendacity on the stretcher.

The Peach Valley’s 4 Fairies gave it a great pull, and the person’s legs and arms once more went a number of ft longer. Yue Lingshan and the bunch of feminine apprentices merely couldn’t assist however giggle by the facet.

“Hey, don’t you suppose you look extra good-looking this fashion once we stretch your arms, legs, and your physique longer?” Root Fairy joked.

“Oh, no!” the person screamed.

“Why?” the Peach Valley’s 4 Fairies requested in shock, and naturally their grips relaxed barely from the distraction.

The person abruptly pulled exhausting and his limbs slipped out from the 4 Fairies’ grips. Within the echoing of a loud bang, he had cracked open a big gap within the backside of the boat and escaped into the river. Everybody cried in astonishment, and water immediately gushed out of the opening and into the boat.

“Get the bags and bounce ashore,” Yue Buqun shouted the order.

The opening on the underside of the boat was about 4 ft lengthy and 4 ft extensive. Water gushed in in a short time and solely moments later, the water within the boat’s cabin had already risen to knee’s excessive. Thankfully, the boat was subsequent to the financial institution and everybody made it ashore safely. Watching the boat sink slowly below the water, the boatman didn’t know what to do and solely froze there wanting dreadfully frightened.

“Don’t be anxious. How a lot is your boat price? We’ll pay you double that,” Linghu Chong comforted him. Within the meantime, he was deeply puzzled, “I’ve by no means met Zu Qianqiu earlier than. Why would he steal these treasured medicinal tablets after which trick me into taking them?” He tried to barely redirect his internal power. A heat feeling rose from his decrease abdomen, however the eight power streams nonetheless roamed about inside him uncontrollably.

Lao Denuo discovered one other boat to rent and directed individuals to load the bags onto the boat. Linghu Chong took out a number of of the silver ingots, those he had obtained earlier and had no clue as to who that they had come from, after which gave them to the boatman who had misplaced the boat.

Yue Buqun discovered himself filled with unease at what had occurred. It appeared that there have been just too many eccentrics round right here. Not one of the individuals who had visited had been very frank with them, and accidents simply saved occurring one after one other. It will be the very best for them to depart this troubled place as quickly as doable. However because it was utterly darkish already, and it will be too dangerous to sail within the torrential river at night time, he needed to briefly maintain on to that thought and rested within the boat for the night time.

And as regard to the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies, having failed twice to safe their prisoners and letting Zu Qianqiu and the Meatball Man escape one after one other, they definitely had a tough time. This was one thing that had by no means occurred to them earlier than. So being the Peach Valley’s Six Fairies, the six brothers saved blowing their very own trumpet and tried exhausting to prettify themselves from the incidents. After some nice efforts and nonetheless failing to justify themselves, very unhappily, they drank some wine and eventually went to mattress themselves.

[1] A giant metropolis in Henan Province.

[2] Yue Fei, additionally named Yue Pengju, was one of the vital legendary nationwide heroes in Chinese language historical past. He was the final within the Northern Music dynasty accountable for the Chinese language military that defended Northern Music authorities in opposition to the Jin Empire’s invading military.

[3] Jin Wushu was the final accountable for the Jin Empire’s invading military.

[4] Yang Zai-Xing was a normal below the command of Normal Yue Fei. He died a tragic dying when he took a improper path and located himself proper in the course of the enemy’s entice. He was shot lifeless by the Jin military’s many archers.

[5] Golden Blade Grandpa Yang is a determine from the folklore in regards to the Yang Household Corp. Golden Blade Grandpa Yang was a normal for the Northern Music dynasty. His military was surrounded by the Liao Empire’s military. He refused to give up and dedicated suicide. He had seven sons, and all seven sons grew to become generals within the Northern Music military and fought the Liao Empire’s invading military.

[6] Yang the Sixth was the sixth son of Golden Blade Grandpa Yang. He grew to become the commander in chief for the Northern Music military. He was additionally the one inheritor of Golden Blade Grandpa Yang that lived lengthy sufficient to have kids to hold the Yang Household’s identify down the road.

[7] Yang the Seventh was the seventh son of Golden Blade Grandpa Yang. He was the very best fighter among the many seven sons, however died in a younger age.

[8] Yang Zongbao was the son of Yang the Sixth. He was additionally a normal of the Northern Music military.

[9] Yang Wenguang was the son of Yang Zongbao. He fought within the Northern Music military additionally.

[10] In Chinese language, Xing means completely satisfied.

[11] Fen-Wine is a well-known kind of wine that’s made in Fenyang, Shan-Xi (first intonation) Province. Even at this time, Fen-Wine stays among the finest wine manufacturers in China.

[12] The identical Shao-Wine Tian Boguang talked about in Chapter 9.

[13] In Chinese language, “Zu Zong” means ancestor.

[14] Zu Di was an actual historic determine within the Han Dynasty. When he was nonetheless younger, he obtained up on the first crow of a cock each morning to coach in sword arts. Later his coaching paid off and he grew to become a well-known normal, and the story of the morning coaching additionally grew to become well-known.

[15] That is quoted from Li Bai’s poem:

Written as a Visitor

. Li Bai is probably the most well-known poet within the Tang Dynasty. If you happen to nonetheless bear in mind, his identify was talked about in Chapter 9. The poem described the poet’s deep gratitude towards the host. The complete poem goes like this:

Tulip leaves soaked the fantastic wine of Lanling,

Jade Cups carry in regards to the mild of amber.

If solely the host can get the visitor drunk,

All over the place turns into hometown

.

[16] Pipa is an historical Chinese language music instrument.

[17] That is quoted from Wang Han’s poem:

Poem of Liangzhou

. Wang Han is a well-known poet within the Tang Dynasty. This poem describes the sentiments of troopers earlier than going to battles. The complete poem goes like this:

Great Grape Wine stuffed the Luminous Cups;

I wish to drink however the sound of Pipa is already calling me to my horseback.

If I get drunk and lie down on the battlefield, snigger me not.

From the numerous wars, what number of troopers can truly make it again?

[18] That is quoted from Yue Fei’s poem:

Purple River Poem

(the place Purple River is the identify of a poem fashion). Yue Fei was a legendary normal who fought the Huns’ invading military and defended the Music Dynasty. He was not solely a terrific hero, but additionally a terrific poet, and Purple River Poem is probably the most well-known poem of his. Due to the size of the poem, I cannot embrace the whole poem right here.

[19] Xia Dynasty is the primary dynasty in Chinese language historical past. King Yu was very well-known for his nice achievement in flood-control.

[20] Jue is an historical wine vessel with three legs and a loop deal with.

[21] The explanation Zu Qianqiu mentioned so is as a result of within the Northern Music Dynasty, China had a robust authorities and defeated many overseas invasions. Throughout the Southern Music Dynasty, the federal government’s energy declined an increasing number of and China misplaced many battles with the overseas invaders. Then on the finish of the Southern Music Dynasty, the Mongolian military invaded and took over China and based the Yuan Dynasty. The Han Chinese language overthrown the Mongolian ruler on the finish of the Yuan Dynasty and began the Ming Dynasty.

[22] Bai Juyi is a well-known poet within the Tang Dynasty. This poem illustrated the attractive spring surroundings of the town of Hangzhou. Due to the size of the poem, I cannot embrace the whole poem right here.

[23] Legend mentioned that towards the tip of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang was a Pavilion Officer (the bottom rating official on the time), and he was ordered to escort laborers to Mount Li. However in the course of the journey, most of the laborers died due to the cruel circumstances, so Liu Bang determined to let all of the escorted laborers flee for all times. Solely about ten males determined to remain and comply with him. That night time, Liu Bang drank an excessive amount of and have become drunk. He despatched one man forward of the group to test the street, and that man returned with a report {that a} big snake had blocked the street. Within the drunkenness, Liu Bang feared nothing so he ran ahead and slain the enormous white snake to clear the way in which. Later he fell asleep a little bit additional down the street. An outdated girl started crying at the place he slain the snake. Folks requested her why she cried, and the outdated girl answered that somebody had killed her son. Folks then requested her how her son was killed. She answered that her son was the son of the White Heaven and had reworked into the white snake, and was killed by the son of the Purple Heaven. Later Liu Bang heard the story and his confidence was boosted dramatically, that was when he determined to start out a rebel military to overthrow the present emperor. (Emperors name themselves sons of the Heaven to ascertain the divine standing.)

[24] Hongman is in Shanxi province. In 206 B.C., Liu Bang declared himself the Lord of Hanzhong. Xiang Yu, Liu Bang’s primary rivalry, led his military and got here to Hongman, able to remove Liu Bang’s military. His advisor Fan Zeng steered Xiang to arrange a banquet and invite Liu Bang so they might assassinate him on the banquet. On the time, Liu Bang’s military was no match for Xiang Yu’s military, so he needed to come to the banquet to apologize to Xiang. Solely Liu Bang and his advisor, Zhang Liang, had been allowed into the banquet. Throughout the banquet, Xiang’s advisor Fan Zeng ordered Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Yu’s normal, to carry out a sword dance to entertain the company after which assassinate Liu within the sword dance when he had an opportunity. Liu Bang’s advisor Zhang Liang instantly walked out of the tent and knowledgeable Liu’s normal, Fan Kuai, who in flip, instantly bumped into the tent and interrupted the banquet. Xiang Yu provided Fan some meat, which Fan ate utilizing his defend because the plate. Xiang Yu then provided Fan some wine, which Fan drank utilizing a giant ladler. Xiang Yu appreciated the heroic spirit proven by Fan and known as off Xiang Zhuang, the murderer. Later Liu Bang pretended to make use of the restroom and fled. By risking his personal life, Fan Kuai saved Liu Bang’s life. Liu Bang ultimately destroyed Xiang Yu’s military after which based Han Dynasty.