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    Thanks! Suspense...

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    Thanks for another update!

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    Super suspense

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    We r not sick of u at all, Foxs!

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    Thanks, foxs.

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    Haha thks Foxs

    And is LXF going to be found out so soon? the plan was only just executed....

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    You know you're reading Gu Long when you get so surprised you fall out of your seat, drink in hand, and drag your rather costly computer down with you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drowsy Palm Bing Yidao View Post
    You know you're reading Gu Long when you get so surprised you fall out of your seat, drink in hand, and drag your rather costly computer down with you.
    or that may be purely because ur palm was drowsy? hehehe

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    Default Chapter 14 - Part 3

    ycb, szfong, HPC, Jaya, owl, Anh, you are welcome. Clown, thanks. Drowsy, did it really happen, or you were just saying? Earlier this year, I was reading my laptop in bed, when my youngest (4 years old) came to ask something, I don't remember how it happened, but my laptop crashed onto the floor. It was rather costly to get it fixed ... But to get new computer with all the programs and data would be more costly.


    But if there was one person in the world who could escape from this room, this person must be Lu Xiaofeng.

    He suddenly burst out laughing, “Looks like I lose.”

    “Your loss is decided,” Yingyan Laoqi said.

    Lu Xiaofeng said with a laugh, “In all my life I have made a bet with others no less than 800 times, but this time it’s the worst loss.”

    “Bet? What bet?” Yingyan Laoqi asked.

    Lu Xiaofeng said, “Someone bet me that if I could stay in this room for the time needed to drink a cup of tea without being recognized, he would owe me a round of fine wine, otherwise, from now on he would call me an a$$h01e [orig’ ‘muddled egg’].”

    Yingyan Laoqi let out a cold laugh.

    He did not believe this stuff, yet he could not refrain from asking this question, “Who are you betting against?”

    “He himself is certainly an a$$h01e,” Lu Xiaofeng said, “Not only that, he is a super big a$$h01e.”

    “Who?” Yingyan Laoqi asked.

    “Lu Xiaofeng,” Lu Xiaofeng said.

    As soon as this name was mentioned, everybody could not help being excited, “He is not dead?”

    “How could a dead man make a bet with me?” Lu Xiaofeng said.

    “Where is he?” Yingyan Laoqi asked.

    Lu Xiaofeng looked up and beckoned toward the window on the opposite side of the room. “Why haven’t you come out?” he said.

    Naturally everybody could not resist looking that direction, while he himself seized the opportunity to fly out from the other direction.

    The windows on both sides were open, like an arrow he flew out, and kicked the eaves with one foot.

    By the time the eaves collapsed, he had flown five more zhang [1 zhang ~ 3m/10ft] by borrowing the momentum.

    Behind him the people shouted. None of those people’s qinggong was weak, although the collapsed eaves delayed them for a moment, very soon they would be able to catch up with him.

    Lu Xiaofeng did not even dare to look back.

    The Taoist monastery buildings were ancient, tall, open and spacious; although there were a lot of hiding places, he did not dare to take chances.

    Today was already the thirteenth, those who ought to arrive have arrived, and all the guests were martial art experts.

    No matter where he was hiding, he was bound to be found; and no matter who found him, it would be very difficult for him to escape.

    Naturally he should not escape down the mountain, because he should not miss today’s events, nor did he want to miss it.

    After three, five twists and turns, he saw some people went up the roof ahead, while he had no doubt that there were people running after him from behind; left and right he saw shadows appearing, practically he was surrounded on all four sides, there was nowhere to go.

    He could only jump down.

    But there seemed to be more people on the ground, he heard footsteps coming from all directions.

    Rounding two, three corners later, he suddenly saw ahead of him someone looking at him with cold eyes, the horse-face was completely devoid of any emotions; it was none other than Peng Changjing’s younger martial brother, the Vice Manager of kitchen helpers, the Taoist Changqing.

    Lu Xiaofeng was startled. Forcing a laugh he said, “How are you?” [orig. ‘ni hao’ – lit. are you well/good?]

    Changqing coldly replied, “I am not good, you are even worse. I only have to shout, everybody will rush over here. Even if you can knock me down, it will be useless.”

    With a bitter smile Lu Xiaofeng said, “So what do you want?”

    Changqing said, “I just want to make you understand one thing.”

    “I already understand,” Lu Xiaofeng replied.

    “In that case,” Changqing said, “You’d better let me capture you, it would be better for you in the long run.”

    Lu Xiaofeng sighed. “Alright,” he said, “Sooner or later I won’t be able to escape anyway, I might as well obtain your friendship.”

    Changqing’s eyes brightened, he rushed over in big strides.

    Lu Xiaofeng said, “Please be lenient to me, alright?”

    Changqing replied, “Alright.”

    He has just started to talk, in fact, he could only speak one word, suddenly he felt something was stuffed into his mouth. He swung his fists randomly trying to repel the attack, but the acupoints on the side of his body were already sealed. Lu Xiaofeng already turned another corner ahead, but he could only stand still and look on helplessly.

    Yet he knew that Lu Xiaofeng would not be able to escape, because around the corner ahead was the main hall.

    And right now Wudang Sect Leader happened to be in the main hall.

    In front of the main hall, there was an open and spacious courtyard, nobody could hide in there. Inside the main hall, the light was dim, smoke from burning incense curled up; all the dispute and worries of the secular world were isolated outside the doorstep.

    Unexpectedly Lu Xiaofeng fled inside.

    Obviously he was already planning on hiding inside.

    He knew that human beings always have a blind spot, often times hiding in the most obvious place would be more difficult to find instead.

    Right now the morning worship time has already passed, and if there were still people inside, they must have been alerted by the commotion outside and went out to investigate.

    He really never expected that there was indeed someone in the main hall.

    A Taoist priest with an erect stature like jade, was standing silently in front of the altar; it was unclear whether he was praying for the peace and safety of mankind, or he was quietly pondering his own shortcomings.

    On the altar in front of him, a sword was laid.

    A symbol of honor, glory, and power, the Seven-star Sword.

    This man was, surprisingly, Shi Yan.

    Lu Xiaofeng was even more shocked. With the tip of his toe he kicked the ground, his body immediately flew up.

    But the beam of the main hall was ten zhang [about 30m/100ft] above the ground!

    Nobody could leap ten zhang.

    When he leaped up, the tip of his left toes lightly pushed the tip of his right toes, unexpectedly he was unleashing the ‘cloud ladder step’, the ultimate lightness skill, which had disappeared from Wulin for a long time.

    Unexpectedly he managed to reach the beam.

    Shi Yan was still standing there in silence, as if he had already reached the ‘out-of-body’ experience.

    Lu Xiaofeng had just exhaled in relief, Wang Shidai, Gao Xingkong, Yingyan Laoqi, and Xiao Gu of Mount Ba were rushing in.

    “Has anybody come in just now?”

    Shi Yan slowly turned around and said, “Yes.”

    As he heard this single word ‘yes’, Lu Xiaofeng felt like a criminal who had just heard that he had been sentenced to death.

    “Where is he?”

    “Right here,” Shi Yan smiled, “I have just come in.”

    Everybody left. Even Shi Yan also left.

    If Wudang Sect Leader said that no one came here, even if there was someone who saw Lu Xiaofeng in there, he must have thought that his eyes were playing tricks on him.

    There were a lot of people who thought that what Wudang Sect Leader said was even more reliable than their own eyes.

    Naturally Shi Yan would never lie; with his eyes and ears, how could he not know if there was anybody coming in?

    Lu Xiaofeng suddenly remembered children playing hide-and-seek.

    -- A kid was hiding behind his uncle’s chair, another kid came in to look for him, the uncle would say, “No one here.”

    Shi Yan was not his uncle, why did he cover for him?

    Lu Xiaofeng did not want to think about it.

    The accumulation of dust on the beam was very thick, he was still lying down, hoping to get some sleep. Now he definitely could not show his face again, all he could do was to wait in here.

    “Wait till the lamps go out.”

    When that time came, he could make his move from the beam just the same. That was the reason he picked this place to hide, at least there was no salted white radish smell in here.

    Too bad he still could not sleep. He was afraid of falling down.

    Not only he was afraid he might fall, he was also afraid the dust on the beam would fall down, hence he simply did not dare to move at all.

    And then he started to remember that he was hungry, he began to regret; he regretted why he did not just wait in that room quietly? Surely the smell of salted white radish was not as bad as he imagined?
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    Just back from traveling .... well foxs, if you keep translating, we will keep on reading .. thks for the updates.

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    Thanks foxs!

    Can't wait for more!

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    Thanks!!!!

    Error:

    “Your lost is decided,” Yingyan Laoqi said.

    Should be "loss"

    Lu Xiaofeng looked up and beckoned toward the window on the opposite side of the woom.

    should be "room"
    [I see you were having a few glasses while translating...
    ]
    Last edited by ycb5959; 05-11-14 at 10:48 PM.

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    Thanks foxs for the update. Have been away. WE are not tired of you. Will be travelling in the next two weeks. By then, this will probably be finished. Will you be looking at the CLX series!!!! Fingers and toes cross.

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    Thanks, foxs.

    Isn't the "cloud ladder step" Wudang's first generation disciples' qinggong used by ZWJ?

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    Thanks foxs!

    The masses have spoken.....
    CLX? hehehehe.....

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    Default Chapter 14 - Part 4

    DongBin, must be a short trip, I barely realized you were gone. Justin, Anh, HPC, you are welcome. ycb, thanks, it is fixed. (How did you know? We did have a little celebration Saturday, I won't tell you for what though ...) Ysabel, thanks for the heads up. Don't hold your breath for CLX. Two things: one, although I like translating as a hobby, I will have to take a break after this, I need to take an exam in October. Two, even if I decide to continue, I want to see other novels too. I just don't know which ones are easy. Jaya, I think your are right, I haven't checked whether the original characters are identical, but I agree, it sounded so familiar.


    At this moment there were a lot of people coming into the main hall, sweeping the floor, arranging the chairs, etc. And then he heard someone asking, “Who is in charge of the oil lamps?”

    “Disciple, Changshen.”

    “Have you filled up the oil in the lamps?”

    “I did, this morning. Disciple has checked once through.”

    Apparently the person asking the question was very satisfied with the answer, presumably Changshen has always worked prudently.

    The strange this was, how could Wudang disciples be bought by Old Sabre Honcho? How could he know Wudang situation this clearly?

    Lu Xiaofeng did not want to think about it either.

    Recently, he seemed to have been unwilling to use his brains to think about anything.

    Most of the people cleaning up had already left, only a few remained in the main hall, perhaps they were on guard duty or needed to finish tidying up.

    Then, after a long time, Lu Xiaofeng heard them talking among themselves in low voices, commenting about that ‘spy’, who impersonate Taoist priest kitchen helper.

    “I don’t get it, there is no secret here, why did the spy come over here?”

    “Maybe he wanted to steal something.”

    “Stealing from us, impoverished Taoist priests?”

    “Don’t forget that these past couple of days a lot of distinguished guests are coming up the mountain.”

    “Maybe he is not a thief, and he is not a spy either.”

    “What is he then?”

    “An assassin! He came to kill those guests.”

    “We haven’t caught him by now?”

    “Not yet.”

    “I think he has already gone down the mountain. He is not stupid, why would he stay on the mountain waiting for death?”

    “The one with the worst luck is Changjing; I hear it was he who brought the man up the mountain. Right now the Chief of the Twelve-dock Alliance is interrogating him personally.”

    “They say Yingyan Laoqi’s ‘separating tendon, dislocating bones’ skill has other usage; under his ministration, even a dead man cannot keep his mouth shut.”

    Could Changjing keep the secret? But how much did he actually know?

    Lu Xiaofeng was starting to get anxious. Suddenly he heard footsteps, two people rushing into the hall; while gasping for breath, they announced the startling news, “Peng Changjing is dead!”

    “How did he die?”

    “Second Martial Uncle and the others were interrogating him, suddenly a bamboo pole flew in from the outside and nailed him to the chair.”

    “Did they catch the assassin?”

    “They didn’t, Great Martial Uncle has already led Second Martial Uncle and the other on a chase.”

    Lu Xiaofeng sighed. He was not surprised at all. Killing people to shut their mouth has always been their usual style.

    It’s just that the number of people who could nail someone to the chair with a bamboo pole was indeed not many. Even Cousin, Housekeeper, and the other definitely did not have that kind of profound strength.

    Other than Lu Xiaofeng, who else had inflitrated Wudang?

    Wu Hu brothers and Shi He would not dare to go up the mountain this early. Could it be Old Sabre Honcho himself?

    What identity did he assume? Did he also disguise himself as a Taoist priest kitchen helper?

    Suddenly someone down below asked, “Changjing is dead, it has nothing to do with us, why did you have to rush here to deliver the news?”

    “Although it has nothing to do with you, it definitely has something to do with Martial [older] Brother Changshen …”

    “I get it,” another voice interrupted, “Changjing is dead, Changqing is being punished, naturally Martial Brother Changshen will become our new manager; hence you rushed over here to deliver the news.”

    Apparently these six Taoist priest kitchen workers did not have pure heart either; they still scrambled for power and profit, just like common people.

    Lu Xiaofeng was sighing inwardly. Suddenly he heard a sharp, strange sound coming from the outside.

    Even he could not tell clearly what kind of noise was that, he only felt that it pierced his ears and that it was difficult to bear.

    Right in that instant, the main hall was filled with a chain of short, tragic shriek, “It’s you …” The sentence was not finished, all the voices were abruptly cut off.

    Lu Xiaofeng could not resist craning out his neck to look down quietly. Only one look, his hands and feet turned cold.

    There were originally nine people in the main hall; nine living people, but in that split second nine living people had turned into nine dead people.

    Nine people’s throat had been slit, undoubtedly they all died under a sword blade.

    A deadly sword!

    All Wudang disciples had some martial art foundation, yet they were all killed in a flash.

    The sharp, strange sound he heard just now was the sound of sword blade splitting the air.

    What a fast sword! What a deadly sword!

    Even Ximen Chuixue’s sword, which could roam the world unhindered, may not necessarily surpass this sword!

    Who was the assailant?

    Why would he want to kill these insignificant Taoist priest kitchen workers?

    “Because of Changshen,” Lu Xiaofeng suddenly understood, “He already knew that with Changjing’s death, other people would certainly question Changshen; hence he rushed over here to kill Changshen to silence him.”

    Changjing’s killer must be him as well!

    This person unexpectedly was able to come and go into Wudang headquarter and kill people at will; who was this person? What was his capacity?

    “It’s you …”

    Before his death Changshen was still able to say those two words, obviously he knew the person’s identity, but he never expected that this man would be the assassin.

    Lu Xiaofeng started to regret again, he regretted that as soon as the noise was heard, he did not stick out his head to see.

    It could very well be his only chance to see this person’s real identity. A lost opportunity, perhaps it would never come again.

    Dead men tell no tales. It did not matter if Yingyan Laoqi’s ‘separating tendon, dislocating bones’ skill was even more formidable, dead men simply would not talk.

    Therefore, the operation would certainly proceed as planned.

    Therefore, Lu Xiaofeng still had to wait, to wait for the sky to turn dark, to wait for the lamps to be lit, and then to wait for the lamps to go out.

    Waiting is definitely not the most comfortable feeling.

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