The Sword And The Exquisiteness by GU LONG

[Charlieboy]

I will accept you as my disciple from now on you'll my the head disciple. I will of course not treat you in the way like master Nu. (Perhaps a bit more like Miejue Shi-Tai. )

Lady Athena, may I respectfully shout 'NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!'
You can't be like MieJie, you're much more beautiful and considerate - but I won't go on, I think master-husband-who- doesn't- wear- the- trousers may get angry

Charlieboy - You can call me master-husband! haha. Although my wuxia knowledge is nowhere near my wife's, it's still passable so maybe I can teach you a thing or 2. Plus, I think my ROTK knowledge is a bit better than hers anyway.

sound like someones trying to compete with their other half

[someguy44]

Originally posted by Charlieboy
Lady Athena, may I respectfully shout 'NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!'
You can't be like MieJie, you're much more beautiful and considerate - but I won't go on, I think master-husband-who- doesn't- wear- the- trousers may get angry



sound like someones trying to compete with their other half

I don't wear the trousers huh? Well, that depends on what you're talking about?

When it comes to gaming, ROTK, Marvel Comics, cartoons, English tv shows, Tennis, not aiming at the toilet when I have to take a leak (too much info... haha), and useless stuff like that, I wear the trousers around the house.

But... when it comes to JY, GL, Journey to the West, Fencing, looks, piano, and everything else, she wears the trousers.

Btw, master-husband sounds so strange. What did that guy, who was a disciple of the Kun Lun leader's wife, call He Tai Chong?

I don't compete with my other half. She's better than me at almost everything, except for the few that I've mentioned. When it comes to ROTK, I am the Janitor Monk of this forum! :

However, that is only if Lav doesn't want to challege me! hehe. If he does, then I'm just going to be YG and he can be GJ.

[eeyore]

Originally posted by someguy44
I don't wear the trousers huh? Well, that depends on what you're talking about?

When it comes to gaming, ROTK, Marvel Comics, cartoons, English tv shows, Tennis, not aiming at the toilet when I have to take a leak (too much info... haha), and useless stuff like that, I wear the trousers around the house.

I still imaginaning you two like YG and XLN.. one is rascal the other is elegant... ha,ha,ha,ha...

Oh, I saw your posting about your relationship with Athena in NYC, I don't thing that's really nice to be too open about it. But that's just my opinion...

Bur above all couples in this forum you two are my favorite.. Jason and Lin...

[Anonymous]

Hiya gys,
Thx Athena for this small update.
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Observations:
1. Feng San and his technique: Bone Deliquesent Pellet
"Anyone who has been hit by my [Feng San] Bone Deliquesent Pellet cannot be revived."
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2. Another girl [Zhu Lei'Er] being scared to death when we thought she's heartless ... previously was SilverBlossom [and the graveyard thing].
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Interesting Line:
1. A chinese cat called Floret ...
Yu Peiyu sighed:"Old Madame, I really respect you for your story about your kitten Floret.

[Athena]

Do you remember I belong to the E Mei School? http://www.spcnet.tv/forums/showthre...0&pagenumber=3

You were the sworn brother of Qingfeng Zi (WCY of this forum).

[Athena]

Thanks for your kind words everyone!
To Jason: That disciple, Xihua Zi called He Taizhong, leading martial arts uncle.

Feng San opened his eyes and looked fiercely at granny Hu and asked:"You're the sister of granny Hu?"
Granny Hu said:"She is me, and I am her. She is granny Hu, I am granny Hu too. The two of us were always one."
Guo Pianxian thought:They're twin sisters, no wonder! That's why granny Hu's whereabouts were a mystery. Sometimes martial arts experts would see a granny Hu in the south but two days later she is said to be wandering in the western regions of China."
Granny Hu cried:"You old fiend, you killed my sister! You might as well kill me too."
Feng San said calmly:"You want to die? Is that the reason why you came here? If that is really want you desire come over here and I will send you to your sister."
Granny Hu yelled:"Listen everyone! Did you hear that? He killed my sister now he wants to kill me too."
Feng San said coldly:"If you want to live, LEAVE!"
Granny Hu said:"I'll leave, I can't kill you so I will have to leave."
Yu Peiyu was worried, because he knew if she would leave he had to carry her out of here. Probably he will be killed as soon as she leaves the house.
But granny Hu used her foot to kick Yu Peiyu in the stomach, making him dash forward. She grabbed his arms and used his arms to push out towards Feng San.
She wanted to use Yu Peiyu's hands to kill her enemy.
Granny Hu calculated that Feng San couldn't move and she used Yu Peiyu as her weapon. If Yu could kill Feng San, which would be excellent. She will simply kill Yu Peiyu when Feng San is dead. But if he failed and Feng San counter-attacked the only person to be killed would be Yu Peiyu. And she could quickly get off his back and escape.
Either way Yu Peiyu is bound to get killed, or is it?

Zhu Lei'Er shrieked, Feng San raised his palm and used his palm to receive the blow of Yu Peiyu. Yu Peiyu felt a strong powerful energy coming through the palm of Feng San. Suddenly that strong energy was gone, but energy was flowing out of granny Hu's palms. Her energy travelled through Yu Peiyu's palms and into Feng San.
Yu Peiyu understood what Feng San did. He used Yu Peiyu as bridge to absorb the internal strength of granny Hu.
Granny Hu begged:"Feng San.......old Mr. Feng......Please spare me!.......old Master Feng......have mercy on an old woman......"
Feng San said slowly:"I do not take the internal strength of other people that casually. However I do want to take your life."
Granny Hu begged:"Have mercy! Please spare an old woman."
Yu Peiyu was surprised and happy, Guo Pianxian was stunned that the infamous granny Hu was begging for her life.
Granny Hu bit her own hands and straighten her legs a strong force suddenly send her flying of Yu Peiyu's back. She hit the ceiling and fell heavily down on the floor again.
She was panting and coughing, but didn't get up. She quickly composed herself and kowtowed to Feng San and begged:"I know my mistakes now, please spare me."
Feng San said calmly:"Not bad of you! Few can escape from my hands. Go!"
He turned to Yu Peiyu and smiled:"You gained quite a bargain."
Yu Peiyu was still a bit woozy, that sudden surge of energy was quite overwhelming.
Zhu Lei'Er smiled:"A large portion of granny Hu's internal energy has stayed in your body."
Yu Peiyu was a bit bemused by this situation, he suddenly gained extra internal energy. But it was still "taken" from somebody else and Yu Peiyu didn't feel to comfortable about that.
Granny Hu staggered to the stairs with difficulty and was secretly giving Yu Peiyu and Feng San a mean look.
Feng San called:"Wait!"
Granny Hu stopped and respectfully said:"Mr. Feng, what can I do for you?"
Feng San said:"I hardly interfere with affairs of Wulin anymore. And if you leave now you'll think that I killed your sister for no reason."
Granny Hu lowered her head and said:"I wouldn't dare."
Feng San said:"I will tell you why I had to kill her."
Granny Hu said:"Thank you for telling me." But she hoped he would hurry up so she can leave this awful place.
Zhu Lei'Er said:"Third uncle, rest for awhile. I will tell the story."
Feng San asked:"Do you still remember what happened that night?"
Zhu Lei'Er said resolutely:"Although I was very young, I will never forget what happened that night."
Everyone knew that night was the night she lost her parents.
Zhu Lei'Er looked granny Hu and asked:"Do you know who I am?"
Granny Hu said:"Miss Zhu is the daughter of Lady Zhu."
She gave her a cold look and said:"That night my mother was making a new dress for me. She was embroidering a Chinese unicorn on my dress and told me that she hoped that soon I would have a little brother."
Zhu Lei'Er's face looked happy, the memory of her late mother made her look sweet and innocent.
She continued:"I was very happy and I wanted to put on the dress immediately. So I couldn't sleep and stayed at the side of my mother."
Granny Hu smiled:"The dress made by Lady Zhu must be beautiful."
Zhu Lei'Er said:"My mother did everything in the house, cooking, cleaning, She was the perfect wife and mother."
Granny Hu said:"But of course."
Zhu Lei'Er said:"During that night my mother felt very restless. She felt something was amiss and couldn't focus on embroidering. Suddenly a few crows flew up and made a horrible shriek. I quickly ran to my mother's arms. She stood up and threw her needles towards the noise."
Granny Hu said:"Those crows must have been startled by unwanted visitors. Lady Zhu is a skilled expert and immediately counter-attacked. I wonder who the idiot was that stood outside the window."
Zhu Lei'Er said coldly:"It was your sister, granny Hu."
Granny Hu swallowed and said:"Oh.....was it?"
Zhu Lei'Er said:"My mother saw that her needles were being caught by the adversary easily. She knew that the attackers were experts. She wanted to wake my father....."
She took a deep breath and continued:"My mother woke Dongfang Meiyu and wanted him to take me to safety. But suddenly my mother's face changed. She looked very pale and afraid. Dongfang Meiyu on the other hand was exhilarated to see the attackers."
Yu Peiyu thought:That Dongfang Meiyu is a piece of scum. Not surprising that Miss Zhu doesn't see him as her father anymore.
Zhu Lei'Er said:"At that time a voice outside said [Very good, The Silver Needles And Flying Petals Over The Sky technique! However it is a shame that granny isn't afraid of this skill.] Needless to say it was granny Hu."
Everyone here looked at this granny Hu, granny Hu laughed dryly:"How old were you at the time, Miss Zhu?"
Zhu Lei'Er said:"I was very young. I was seven at the time."
Granny Hu smiled:"Amazing that a seven year old girl can remember the words of others that clearly."
Zhu Lei'Er said coldly:"Some people are still muddle-headed fools when they are seventy or eighty years old and others are smart when they're just children."
She looked at granny Hu and said:"Furthermore if someone would kill your mother when you're seven. You will remember everything thing those murderers did and said too."
Granny Hu shivered when she saw Zhu Lei'Er cold look and laughed dryly:"That sister of mine is a muddle-headed busybody."
Zhu Lei'Er grunted and continued:"My mother said that there were no animosities between her and granny Hu. And she questioned the motives of Granny Hu. At this point another 20 men entered the house, the doors were opened and they surrounded my mother."
Granny Hu sighed:"So about 20 experts were standing in your house?"
Zhu Lei'Er said:"They surrounded my mother and blocked all the doors."
Granny Hu asked:"How did these people look like?"
Zhu Lei'Er said:"The leader of this group was an elderly man. He looked very distinguished and wore a expensive brocade. His beard was long and refined, very similar to Taoist immortals in portraits. But....but he was the most despicable of all."
Granny Hu said:"That must be lord Dongfang of the Nocturne City."
The second one was a tall man, looking robust and had a big beard. He had a strange weapon, a mace that resembled a pagoda."
Granny Hu exclaimed:"Heavenly King Li."
Zhu Lei'Er said coldly:"The third one was an old woman with white hair and looked like a friendly old woman. But her heart was rotten to the core."
Everyone knew that must be the twin sister of this granny Hu, granny Hu.
Granny Hu smiled dryly:"Well said! If I was there I would have scolded her myself."
Zhu Lei'Er continued:"When my mother saw them she was shocked, but remained calm and asked them what they wanted."
Granny Hu said:"Although these experts were formidable, but Lady Zhu shouldn't be afraid of them. They are hardly a threat to her."
Zhu Lei'Er said:"That Dongfang Daming started yelling at my mother for abducting his son, her words were very nasty. But my mother didn't retort back because this Dongfang Daming was her father-in-law. She waited till he was finished and thought Dongfang Meiyu would explain this matter to his father. However Dongfang Meiyu quickly walked to his father and turned around and started cursing my mother too. His words were even more horrible than Dongfang Daming."
Granny Hu sighed:"Men are such heartless creatures."
Zhong Jing who was awake for some time now started to weep.
Zhu Lei'Er had tears in her eyes too and continued:"At that time my mother saw what kind of man Dongfang Meiyu was. Her heart was broken and didn't say anything else. She just begged Dongfang Meiyu and Dongfang Daming to take care of me."
Zhu Lei'Er stopped for a minute to wipe her tears even Silver Blossom was crying. Everyone was saddened by this story and lowered their heads.
After some time Zhu Lei'Er resumed her story:"Dongfang Meiyu immediately said he would take good care of me. Because I was his.....daughter too. My mother took out a sword and was planning to commit suicide. I knew something was wrong and was very afraid. So I started crying loudly, but my mother didn't look at me and was about to slit her throat."
Everyone shrieked for a moment, because they knew there was something else to it.
Zhu Lei'Er said:"At this moment granny Hu took swiftly moved to my mothers' side and took away the sword from my mother."
Granny Hu said:"Although my sister is a fool and a busybody but she is quite benevolent."
Zhu Lei'Er grunted.

End of chapter 19

[Charlieboy]

Wow, the all-knowing Athena doesn't seem to forget anything! Better not diss her then

I'd much rather think of you as a Zhou ZiRou than MieJie though

that link, check out the names of all the Elders of this forum, they've all gone on exile or something

this story has sooo many experts and specialists and some kickass women, I think just the first few chapters introduced more Wulin fighters than a whole JY novel!

BTW, Athena, do you know if the Phoenix Dancing move is the same one that LXF uses?

[Goofy]

I find it rather illogical that Hong Lian would befriend with the fake Yu Fanghe since he knew pretty much about background and such. His attitude seemed to change toward this mastermind matter as if he is not on its track anymore.

Or it could be that he wanted to observe the old Yu in pretense of lending hands.

I wonder if one of ten great masters would be Yu's real boss.

So far we have:

Taoist Nu (alive)

other great masters (dead) are: Dongfang Daming, Granny Hu.

did I miss anyone?

the story is getting more intrigued. Keep on, Athena.

[Demitre]

I think the mastermind wants to draw out the 10 experts and take care of them one by one. He's probably not one of them.

[someguy44]

Originally posted by Charlieboy
Wow, the all-knowing Athena doesn't seem to forget anything! Better not diss her then

I'd much rather think of you as a Zhou ZiRou than MieJie though

Yeah, that's not exactly good news for me either.

If she is Zhou ZiRou, then am I CMK? I hope not. I don't want Zhao Min if if I already have my ZiRou.

Btw, you can call me martial-arts uncle

Bur above all couples in this forum you two are my favorite.. Jason and Ling...

Thanks eeyore for the compliment (I think). And of all the donkeys in the forum, you're my favorite. Of course, there's only one donkey in this forum.

Lin' Er

Thanks again for my daily dosage of medicine. I don't know what I do without you. Life would be so vague and meangingless without you and your translations.

[Charlieboy]

Btw, you can call me martial-arts uncle

yessir! BTW, you can call me someboy if you like even though age-wise I'm probably old enough to be your grand-uncle

[Charlieboy]

Goofy, Feng San mentioned Heavenly King Li as one of the experts he killed - *suspense*and then there were six

I think the person throwing the bark to save Yu Peiyu has to be one of the 6 remaining experts *unless* another superior fighter beyond the level of the ten experts appears

Damn, so damn unpredictable.. thats why its so good

[Athena]

To Goofy: Heavenly King Li is also deceased.
Good for him.
To Charlieboy: I don't think there is any connection, at least not mentioned in the novel.

Chapter 20 A Blast From The Past

Zhu Lei'Er continued telling this tragedy:"All these years my mohther did her best in becoming a perfect wife and mother. Although her martial arts didn't decline but she didn't improve either."
Yu Peiyu sighed:"Not improving is the same as declining really, everyone else will continue their training and cultivation. Whereas you will remain stuck at the same level of all those years ago."
Zhu Lei'Er said:"At the most critical moment a figure dashed through the roof. The figure looked like a descending phoenix and in an instant this figure stood in front of my mother. Even I at that time knew that this person was superior to my mother."
Everyone thought:That must be Feng San.
Zhu Lei'Er said:"My mother was shocked to see a man suddenly standing in front of her. She raised her palm and attacked but that man casually diverted her palm."
She turned around and asked everyone:"Do you know who that figure was?"
Everyone nodded, because their suspicions were confirmed it was Feng San.
Zhu Lei'Er had a gentle smile on her face and said:"My third uncle
wore a white brocade that night. It made him look like an immortal descending from heaven."
Granny Hu said:"I have admired and heard of the he grace of Mr. Feng too for many years."
Zhu Lei'Er continued:"All those 20 odd experts were shocked, all of them thought they didn't have such martial arts as this man. Dongfang Daming was the first to ask [Who are you, sir?]."
Granny Hu said:"Dongfang Daming lived far away from the central plains. So he isn't really that afraid of Mr. Feng. But Heavenly King Li and my sister are familiar with the fame and abilities of Mr. Feng. They must have guessed who Mr. Feng really was, only the famous Feng San had such amazins skils."
Zhu Lei'Er said:"At that time my mother and carried me and quickly left the house and when she heard granny Hu call out my third uncle's name she stopped running. She went back to the house and knew third uncle could clear her name and help her."
Feng San sighed deeply:"But....I....wasn't......."
Zhu Lei'Er wept:"It isn't your fault third uncle."
Feng San said to her:"Carry on."
Zhu Lei'Er composed herself and said:"My third uncle explained what happened, about the letter the merchant, etc. He scolded Dongfang Meiyu fiercely and everyone remained silent."
Yu Peiyu sighed:"Even if they didn't believe the explanation they wouldn't dare to raise objections."
Zhu Lei'Er continued:"That Heavenly King Li was an arrogant and proud man and Dongfang Daming had heard of my third uncle's reputation a few times. Both of them thought that they had my third uncle outnumbered and shouldn't be afraid. They looked at each other and nodded. Both of them suddenly launched an attack on my uncle."
Granny Hu sighed:"Those two are really ignorant and stupid, haven't they heard of Under the entire sky only the phoenix in the southern provinces is mighty, when he cries heaven and earth will shake on its' foundations."
Yu Peiyu had never heard of this saying before and was wondering whether granny Hu was sucking up again. Nonetheless he was filled with admiration and respect to Feng San.
Zhu Lei'Er said:"I saw them attacking and saw that Heavenly King Li raised his heavy pagoda shaped mace and aimed for third uncle's head and that Dongfang Daming took out his pair of sun and moon wheels and attacked from the side. The powerful force released from the mace was very strong even I could feel it. And my mother and I were standing about 10 metres away from them. I was very afraid and started to cry again."
Everyone was very anxious now and Zhu Lei'Er said:"My uncle whistled very loudly it was not unpleasant. In fact it sounded very melodic."
Granny Hu said enthusiastically:"That is called The Whistle Of The Phoenix can be heard through a thousand miles. Its' Resonance Is As Clear As The White Clouds. When The Phoenix Is Heard, Demons And Goblins Will All Perish. A famous saying when Mr. Feng roamed the realm."
Zhu Lei'Er said:"My uncle quickly disarmed the Heavenly King Li, and struck him aside and easily bent his iron mace."
Everyone was most impressed by this ability, when they heard Zhu Lei'Er saying what Feng San did.
Zhu Lei'Er said:"When Dongfang Daming saw that my uncle disarmed and defeated Heavenly King Li with one stance he was afraid. He quickly retreated back and stood still. My uncle scoffed:[I will spare because of your daughter-in-law.] And he casually threw the mace through the window mace struck a tree down a tree metres away. At that point no one dare to attack anymore."
All of them felt relieved but wondered how Zhu Mei died in the end, and how was Feng San injured.

It was dusk now.
Yu Peiyu asked:"What lead to the terrible change of events, Miss Zhu?"
Zhu Lei'Er helped Feng San to a cup of tea first and said:"My mother thanked my uncle for his help and kowtowed to him. My uncle asked my mother how she wanted to punish Dongfang Meiyu."
Yu Peiyu sighed:"Lady Zhu still loved him, right? And didn't want to see Dongfang Meiyu hurt, did she?"
Zhu Lei'Er sadly nodded and said:"Women are always too sentimental for their own good."
Guo Pianxian smiled:"Some can be very ruthless, too ruthless."
Zhu Lei'Er looked pensive and continued sadly:"My mother cried sadly when she heard my uncle's question. My uncle asked her whether she wanted Dongfang Meiyu dead. My mother cried even harder and shook her head. My uncle asked her whether she wanted Dongfang Meiyu to leave now. But my mother shook her head again."
Yu Peiyu asked:"What did Lady Zhu want?"
Zhu Lei'Er said softly:"She....she.....she..."
Feng San said:"Rest now. I will finish the story."
Zhu Lei'Er wiped her tears and nodded.
Feng San said:"At that time I was very confused, suddenly that granny Hu asked if Zhu Mei wanted to reconcile with Dongfang Meiyu."
Yu Peiyu smiled sadly:"Only women will understand women."
Feng San said:"Before I could say anything else, granny Hu asked Zhu Mei again whether reconciliation is what she wanted. I was very angry and said that was impossible, Dongfang Meiyu couldn't be forgiven for his deeds. But Zhu Mei sobbed again and granny Hu turned to me and said:[Master Feng, you can see for yourself what Lady Zhu wants?] So I asked Zhu Mei again but she didn't say yes or no."
Silver Blossom said:"Silence gives consent."
Feng San said:"I was very confused but if that's what Zhu Mei wanted I couldn't object. But I did feel that Dongfang Meiyu got out of this too easy."
Yu Peiyu sighed deeply.
Feng San said:"All those people saw that I had no objections anymore were relieved. Dongfang Daming and Dongfang Meiyu both aplogized to Zhu Mei."
Yu Peiyu asked:"How did Dongfang Meiyu act?"
Feng San said:"He looked very remorseful of course, Zhu Mei was still looking a bit angry in the beginning, but after awhile the anger was gone too. Granny Hu was mediating between them. Granny Hu also came up with another idea."
Yu Peiyu frowned and asked:"What kind of idea?"
Feng San said:"Granny Hu felt that Zhu Mei and Dongfang Meiyu should have a proper wedding ceremony. Before they got married without consent from Dongfang Daming. Now they could officially get married and those experts and I would be the guests."
Granny Hu laughed:"That is a good idea."
Feng San said coldly:"I thought the same thing, we organised the ceremony in this house and were about to toast the newly-weds."
Yu Peiyu exclaimed with surprise:"A toast?"
Feng San nodded and said:"A toast."
Yu Peiyu said calmly:"There was something wrong with the wine, wasn't there?"
Feng San sighed:"Even a young man has such insight. I was too negligent and stupid."
Yu Peiyu thought:Master Feng was very confident about his own martial arts and thought no one could or dared to use this kind of trick on him.
Of course he didn't say that, but Feng San said:"You must think that I was too confident about my martial arts and didn't anticipate a trap. But you weren't there at the time, everyone was happy and glad. You wouldn't have suspected a thing."
Yu Peiyu said:"But if they were planning something against you, they will conceal their true faces and intentions."
Feng San remained silent. Yu Peiyu has become more vigilant and cautious over these few months. His mystious adversary is a very intelligent fiend so in these few months he learnt to become extra careful.
Feng San on the other hand relied on his practically invincible martial arts to roam the realm. He had never suffered a terrible defeat before and was therefore too confident and not as cautious as Yu Peiyu.

[BluLotus]

Oh no, there's something in the wine !

Yummy pills, thanks Athena !

[TigerWong]

Originally posted by Goofy
I find it rather illogical that Hong Lian would befriend with the fake Yu Fanghe since he knew pretty much about background and such. His attitude seemed to change toward this mastermind matter as if he is not on its track anymore.

Or it could be that he wanted to observe the old Yu in pretense of lending hands.

I wonder if one of ten great masters would be Yu's real boss.

So far we have:

Taoist Nu (alive)

other great masters (dead) are: Dongfang Daming, Granny Hu.

did I miss anyone?

the story is getting more intrigued. Keep on, Athena.

Here are others that have already been mentioned in Athena's translation so far:

Heavenly King Li
Celestian Nun of Fenglai Isle, Yinghua Shi-Tai,
Flying Hunchback, Yue Kun.
The Divine Dragon Swordsman

[someguy44]

Originally posted by Charlieboy
yessir! BTW, you can call me someboy if you like even though age-wise I'm probably old enough to be your grand-uncle

Really? I kind of thought I was pretty old, but if you're even older than me, then that makes me feel a hella lot better!

[Anonymous]

Thx Athena for another 2 updates. I can see why TigerWong and SomeGy44 and others say this is like DGSD. lots of top fights and top dogs.
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To TigerWong: Thx for your comments.
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"He's not necessarily better. Yu PeiYu had to hold back."
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--- However, this is what Yu Peiyu thinks:
"Yu Peiyu who felt confident about his martial arts before, was now quite disappointed. In one day he saw two young martial arts experts who were better than him. Because of his disappointment his power also dropped a bit.
Although Tian Jiyun was gaining the upperhand but he couldn't defeat Yu Peiyu either."
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To Goofy:
Gu Long seems to like sudden twists and turns.
It's as if his drinking bout made him forget the previous scene, and then later backtracking using character conversations [ie. Zhu Lei'Er retell] to reconnect/re-explain the previous scene. Kinda like cut/paste different events and unify them [ie. good explaination]. Comments anyone?
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Observations:
1. Feng Shan and indirect energy absorption:
BeginQuote:
She [Granny Hu #2] grabbed his [Yu Peiyu's] arms and used [empower] his arms to push [attack] out towards Feng San ...
Yu Peiyu felt a strong powerful energy coming through the palm of Feng San. Suddenly that strong energy was gone, but energy was flowing out of granny Hu's palms ... He [Feng San] used Yu Peiyu as bridge to absorb the internal strength of granny Hu [#2].
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2. Yu Peiyu gained more internal energy [2 gains in one day. ]
Zhu Lei'Er smiled:"A large portion of granny Hu's internal energy is left in you [Yu Peiyu's] body."
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3. Feng San [aka "Pheonix"] is better than the 10 top experts in the past too.
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All those 20 odd experts [3 of 10 top experts] were shocked, all of them thought they didn't have such martial arts as this man [Feng San] ...
My uncle [Feng San] quickly disarmed the Heavenly King Li, and struck him aside and easily bent his iron mace." ... with one stance.
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4. A wedding ceremony just after being betrayed ... good grief. o.0
BeginQuote:
Feng San said:"Granny Hu felt that Zhu Mei and Dongfang Meiyu should have a proper wedding ceremony ...
Now they [Lady Zhu and Meiyu] could officially get married and those experts and I [Feng San] would be the guests."
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5. Traps = bane of martial artists.
Feng San said:"... I was too confident about my martial arts and didn't anticipate a trap.
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6. Other Feng San arts:
--- whistled very loudly it was not unpleasant [melodic] ... called The Whistle Of The Phoenix can be heard of a thousand miles.
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Interesting Line:
1. Yu Peiyu sighed:"Not improving is the same as declining really, everyone else will continue their training and cultivation. Whereas you will remain stuck at the same level of all those years ago."
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2. Silver Blossom said:"Silence gives consent." Comments anyone?

[TigerWong]

Originally posted by Anonymous
Thx Athena for another 2 updates. I can see why TigerWong and SomeGy44 and others say this is like DGSD. lots of top fights and top dogs.
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To TigerWong: Thx for your comments.
Quote:
"He's not necessarily better. Yu PeiYu had to hold back."
EndQuote:
--- However, this is what Yu Peiyu thinks:
"Yu Peiyu who felt confident about his martial arts before, was now quite disappointed. In one day he saw two young martial arts experts who were better than him. Because of his disappointment his power also dropped a bit.
Although Tian Jiyun was gaining the upperhand but he couldn't defeat Yu Peiyu either."

I did not interpret that as meaning they were necessarily better than Yu PeiYu when I read the story. Perhaps in terms of martial arts techniques, they were slightly better (consider who their masters were), but there are many factors that determine the victor in a fight. Determination, strength, natural talent and skill, intelligence, etc. I can give a number of examples of wuxia characters who were not as skilled technique wise or inner-power wise but still stronger than their opponents.

Remember, it was also said that Yu PeiYu could have countered their moves, rather easily in some cases, if he had used his Pre-Heaven Martial Arts. As is, just by re-using one move, he was able to hold them off for that long. Imagine if he had pulled out all the stops. But I guess one can choose to interpret it either way, which was why I said "not necessarily better". However, in my opinion, Yu PeiYu was the stronger fighter overall and I would place my money on him in a fair fight.

[JiaMoZhi]

Personally I feel that for the moment Tian JiYun > Yu Peiyu simply because Yu would have died at the hand of Tian's diving attack without outside help.

I don't think any of the moves taught by Yu FangHe could have countered the diving attack, Yu PeiYu seemed pretty helpless when confronted to it.

But yeah without that trump card Tian JiYun would probably lose to Yu PeiYu, but the fight would be a long one in my opinion.

I'm pretty surprised that Silver Blossom could cry for someone else. She's not as evil as the evil twin, just more greedy. I think the female characters of this novel are very interesting, Jin Yanzhi is real nice, Silver Blossom is real smart, seductive and manipulative without having slept with anyone and the evil twin is very crafty and cruel.

[ChronoReverse]

In any case, it doesn't matter anymore since with the new power boost, Yu Peiyu's stronger than either of them now for sure.