The winter months are cold, the north wind is bitterly cold, silvery grey clouds gallop across the sky, the cold currents roll and sprinkle untold amounts of goose feather snow.
The whole world was coloured pure white by the snow.
It was on this cold, snowy day that a group of Daoist priests and nuns in Daoist robes trekked along the frozen Luo Shui, against the cold, chilly wind, towards the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the north.
Qingming took several fierce steps against the wind and called out against the snow-laden north wind, “Senior Brother Qingxu, Chen Qinglin can hardly hold on, should we find a place to rest first.”
For Chen Qinglin, who was considered a traitor, Qingming actually didn’t value his life, didn’t he see that he didn’t even bother to call out for his senior brother? But after all, Chen Qinglin was the one whom Senior Uncle Xuan Ming had explained that he would take care of, and it would be unattractive if he really lost his life.
When Qing Xu heard this, he turned his head and called out, “Senior brother Qinglin, can you still hold on a little longer?”
Although his words were not sullen, Qing Ming, who was close to Qing Xu, could see the impatience on Qing Xu’s face. Originally, all of them were at least fifth level martial artists, and although the snow was cold, it could not penetrate the true qi of martial artists at their level. Even with such harsh weather, they should have been able to move forward normally.
But it happened that in this generally Innate 5th level or above group, there was a Chen Qinglin of Innate 2nd level mixed in, which greatly slowed the group down, causing them to not even enter the territory of Northern Zhou until this moment.
“Senior brother Qingxu, please rest a*sured that senior brother will be able to hold out and see Gongzi Yu’s death.” A little weak, but more uplifting words were spoken in reply.
Chen Qinglin had entered this pursuit of Gongzi Yu on the grounds that he wanted to witness Gongzi Yu’s death in person, and at this moment, despite the freezing weather, his body was still striding with perseverance.
This perseverance also made the other fellow disciples have a slightly better view of this traitor who had betrayed his master’s mastery.
But those True Martial Sect disciples who had changed their minds would probably not have thought so if they had seen Chen Qinglin’s uplifting eyes aimed at He.
After hearing Chen Qinglin’s reply, Qing Xu said, “Very well, not far ahead should be Baihe Town, the town in front of Linchuan Prefecture, so we will settle in Baihe Town and wait for this heavy snow to pa*s before setting off for Northern Zhou.”
This angler had cut an ice hole in the frozen Luoshui River and was sitting on the ice near the riverbank, fishing.
The north wind brought countless flying snow, a scene that should have made people feel the harshness of the weather, but the addition of such an angler between the harshness of heaven and earth at this time made people feel a strange sense of harmony.
When Qing Xu saw someone, he went up to him and asked, “May I ask you, brother, how far is it before we reach Baihe Town?”
“Oh? How do you know that I am a brother and not a grand master?” The angler returned in a clear, strong voice.
“In the cold winter months, when it is freezing cold, you are still able to fish on the ice with only a light shirt, but I do not have such a body.” Qing Xu pointed to the black shirt exposed under the angler’s straw coat and said.
“What else? If you are strong in martial arts, not to mention the grandfather, even if you are old and dying, you may not be able to defy the cold. If you don’t tell me the truth, I won’t tell you the news.” The angler asked with interest.
“Senior brother Qingxu, we still need to hurry, it is not advisable to waste time.” Seeing that Qingxu still had the interest to continue answering, Qingming could not help but go forward and advise.
In Qing Ming’s opinion, with their martial arts skills, whether they were far or near, they could undoubtedly arrive in a short time, so asking for directions was really unnecessary.
However, Qing Xu did not think so at all, and waved his hand, “Master Qing Ming, this is not a waste of time, on the contrary, asking for directions will allow us to save a lot of time and reach our destination earlier.”
Saying this, Qing Xu pushed away Qing Ming who was a bit unsure and continued, “If you were dying, you wouldn’t have such a straight back, and if you were using your true qi to protect yourself from the cold, I would be able to feel it.”
“And ——” Qingxu strolled closer to the angler, “I also know that you are here, not for fishing, it is cold and windy, the ice cave may be blocked by the wind and snow later, ordinary people do not have that kind of good mood to come here for fishing. ”
“You say, am I right ——-”
Qing Xu’s body fiercely bloomed with four colours of light, four elephants flowed, gathered all the true qi, a palm imprinted at the angler whose back was facing Qing Xu, “Gong Zi Yu!!!”
The name that made Qing Yu gnash his teeth, Qing Xu almost roared out like he was out of control.
“Right, and wrong.”
At some point, the angler had stood up and side-stepped a palm against Qing Xu’s incoming move, the bronze mask beneath his bucket hat glinting with a grim light against the wind and snow.
“You were right about me not being a grand master, and you were right about me being Gong Zi Yu,” the originally clear voice had turned into an eerie voice with several overlapping tones, “but you were wrong about one thing ——”
“I have indeed come to fish, but not for the fish in this river, but for the big fish that is you. Now, the big fish has taken the bait.”
It was obvious that Qing Xu clearly heard lightheartedness and smugness in the other party’s odd tone, and this contempt for himself as if he were a fish in a pond filled Qing Xu’s heart with a sense of humiliation.
“Then let’s see who’s the fish that’s caught!
With an angry shout, the four colours of light symbolising the four elephants on Qing Xu’s body suddenly returned to one, transforming into black and white, but this black and white remained for an instant before transforming into the colours of the four elephants again.
This time, however, the four elephants were rounded as never before, as if they had all merged into one, no longer like before, when the four elephants were circulating, but each was distinct from the other.
“Gong Zi Yu, die! Heavenly Derivative Four Elephant Palm.”
The Qi of the four elephants converged to form an earth-shattering palm seal, within which the four elephants flowed, concealing yin and yang, and the unprecedented oppressive force crushed fiercely against Qing Yu, who was facing Qing Xu with his palm.
The sudden and powerful palm strike caught Qing Yu off guard, and the solidified Qi in all directions left Qing Yu with nowhere to dodge.
“Daoist Master Qing Xu, you have made great progress.” Faced with such a difficult situation, Qing Yu still had the leisure to laugh, which made Qing Xu’s heart even more furious, and his true qi was pushed to the extreme, “Tian Yan Four Elephants Palm” was fiercely pressed down, with its master’s incomparable hatred, to crush this enemy who had brought shame several times to slag.
“Boom…”
“The entire icy surface of the river was cracked by this powerful strike, and as Qing Yu’s main target, a huge palm mark was struck on the ice surface.
The solid palm strike not only showed the outline of the palm print clearly on the ice surface, but also emptied the river water beneath the ice surface, so that no river water entered within the outline of the palm print from the ice surface to the bottom of the river.
