Chapter 379: Veiled Woman In the Bla k Marshes (3)
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That lady made the diagram on the sand and sure enough, it was as Huang Rong had said. Huang Rong continued, "Each hall of that nine halls diagram can be transformed into 'ba gua' [eight-diagram]. Eight by nine equal to 72 numbers. These numbers: 1 to 72 loop around the 'jiu gong' like wreaths. Each loop consists of eight numbers; each four-loop forms another bigger loop, there are four corner loops altogether, which make the total number of loops to be 13. The sum of the numbers in each loop is 292. This diagram variation recorded in the Luo Shu [luo – name of a river, shu – book] is divinely wonderful; no wonder you are not aware of it." While explaining it, Huang Rong also drew the 72 numbers of the eight diagrams of the nine halls on the sand.
The lady was dumbfounded, she faltered and asked, "Miss, who are you?" But before Huang Rong could answer her, she felt a shot of pain on her chest; her face paled, and anxiously she took a vial from her pocket and swallowed a green pill from the vial. After half a day her face relaxed, she sighed and said, "It's finished, it's finished!" Two drops of tears rolled down her cheeks.
Guo Jing and Huang Rong looked at each other; they thought this lady's behavior was so weird.
That lady had not spoken anything when suddenly there was an intermittent call from the outside. It was the Iron Palm Clan pursuers. "Are they friends or enemies?" the lady asked.
"They are enemies pursuing us," Guo Jing said.
"Iron Palm Clan?" the lady asked.
"Yes," Guo Jing replied.
The lady inclined her ear to listen for a while and then said, "Qiu Bangzhu [Clan Leader Qiu] personally leads his clan to pursue. Who are you actually?" When asking this her voice was stern.
Guo Jing moved forward one step, stood up in front of Huang Rong, and with poise in his voice he said, "We are the Nine-fingered Divine Beggar Hong Bangzhu's disciples. My martial sister is injured by the Iron Palm Clan's Qiu Qianren. We took refuge here. If Senior has a close relation to the Iron Palm Clan and is unwilling to give us shelter; then we will take our leave." Having said this he raised his cupped fist and then turned around to help Huang Rong stood up.
That lady smiled indifferently and said, "You are young, yet so mule-headed. You can survive but do you think your martial sister can? So you are Hong Qigong's disciples, no wonder you have this kind of skill."
She heard the shouts of Iron Palm Clan people were sometimes far and sometimes near, sometimes high and sometimes low; she sighed and said, "They can't find the way, they can't come in; just relax. Even if they manage to enter, you are my guests, how can Divine … Divine … Ying Gu let other people bully her esteemed guests?" She thought, "Originally I was called 'shen suan zi' [Divine Mathematician] Ying Gu; but this young miss' mathematical skill is a hundred times better than mine. How could I call myself 'shen suan zi' anymore?" Therefore, she only said the first word 'shen' but could not bring herself to utter the next two characters.
Guo Jing bowed to express his gratitude. Ying Gu slipped the clothes from Huang Rong's shoulder to see her injury. She creased her brows but did not say anything; she took the vial from her bosom and dissolved the green pill in a bowl of water.
Huang Rong took the bowl but she hesitated, they did not know whether the lady was a friend or a foe; how could she took her medicine?
Ying Gu saw her hesitation, she coldly said, "You are injured by Qiu Qianren's Iron Palm; do you still think you can recover? If I want to harm you, do you think I need to bother myself? This medicine is a pain-reliever; you don't want it? Fine!" She grabbed the bowl back and poured the content on the ground.
Seeing her rudeness toward Huang Rong, Guo Jing was unable to restrain his anger. "My martial sister is seriously injured; how can you be so mad at her?" he said, "Rong'er, let's go."
Ying Gu coldly smiled and said, "Ying Gu's two small huts; do you think two juniors like you can easily come and easily go?" With two bamboo strips in her hands, she stood on the doorway, blocking the exit.
Guo Jing thought, "Talk is useless, must use force." He called out, "Senior, forgive me for being rude." He bent his knees a little bit; making a circle with his arms he launched the Proud Dragon Repents straight to the door. This stance was his fiercest one; he was afraid Ying Gu could not resist it, so he only used 30% of his strength. His intention was simply to clear the way; he did not want to harm anybody. As the gust of wind arrived at Ying Gu's body, Guo Jing watched closely how Ying Gu would block this attack; whether he should increase his strength or retract it immediately. Who would have thought that Ying Gu only leaned her body slightly, her left palm made a diagonal moved to lightly push his arm and Guo Jing's strength was diverted sideways.
Guo Jing did not expect her to posses such a high skill; he was pushed forward half a step from the momentum of his own force. Ying Gu was also surprised that with such strong attack Guo Jing was able to hold his stance firmly on the sand and did not fall down. From this one exchange, both were secretly admiring their opponent's skill.
"Kid, have you learned your Shifu's entire skill?" Ying Gu loudly called out. While shouting out she used her bamboo strip to hit the 'qu ze' [crooked marsh] acupoint on the bend of Guo Jing's right arm. It was a vital acupoint, Guo Jing did not dare to neglect this attack. He counterattacked with another stance from the 18-Dragon Subduing Palms.
After exchanging several moves Guo Jing realized that Ying Gu's martial art was purely 'yin' [negative, female] in character, from the 'soft' side. Obviously she did not have a single frontal strike, but each one of her moves contained a lethal counter-strike; if Guo Jing did not know mutual hands combat, he would have been injured early on.
The more he fought, the more he did not dare to underestimate her; gradually he increased the strength of his palms, but Ying Gu's martial art was one of a kind; her stances appeared to be soft and powerless, yet it was like a mercury flowing swiftly, penetrating every hole, making her very nearly impossible to guard against.
Several moves later Guo Jing was compelled to withdraw two steps back. Suddenly he remembered Hong Qigong's advice when he was sparring with Huang Rong's 'luo ying shen jian zhang' [falling leaves divine sword palm technique]; that regardless of thousands of changes or tens of thousands variations the opponent used, he should ignore them all and keep fighting using the '18-Dragon Subduing Palms' to secure a victory.
Initially he thought he did not have any desire to fight; besides, the lady looked like a good and kind-hearted Senior. But without having any enmity or committing any wrongdoing she had prevented them from going out the gate. Guo Jing still did not want to be entangled or worse, to injure her life; hence he only used 30% of his strength; who would have thought that this lady was very ferocious. If he was being negligent even so slightly, both of them would die in that place.
Guo Jing took a deep breath, raised up both of his elbows slightly, right hand forming a fist and left hand a palm, one struck vertically, the other pushed horizontally, one quick the other slow, both hands moved out. It was the sixteenth stance of the '18-Dragon Subduing Palms', the 'lu shuang bing zhi' [treading on frost to reach the ice], which was taught by Hong Qigong at the Liu ancestral hall in Baoying. Within this stance hard and soft complemented each other, upright and upside down completed each other; its advantage was unlimited.
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That lady made the diagram on the sand and sure enough, it was as Huang Rong had said. Huang Rong continued, "Each hall of that nine halls diagram can be transformed into 'ba gua' [eight-diagram]. Eight by nine equal to 72 numbers. These numbers: 1 to 72 loop around the 'jiu gong' like wreaths. Each loop consists of eight numbers; each four-loop forms another bigger loop, there are four corner loops altogether, which make the total number of loops to be 13. The sum of the numbers in each loop is 292. This diagram variation recorded in the Luo Shu [luo – name of a river, shu – book] is divinely wonderful; no wonder you are not aware of it." While explaining it, Huang Rong also drew the 72 numbers of the eight diagrams of the nine halls on the sand.
The lady was dumbfounded, she faltered and asked, "Miss, who are you?" But before Huang Rong could answer her, she felt a shot of pain on her chest; her face paled, and anxiously she took a vial from her pocket and swallowed a green pill from the vial. After half a day her face relaxed, she sighed and said, "It's finished, it's finished!" Two drops of tears rolled down her cheeks.
Guo Jing and Huang Rong looked at each other; they thought this lady's behavior was so weird.
That lady had not spoken anything when suddenly there was an intermittent call from the outside. It was the Iron Palm Clan pursuers. "Are they friends or enemies?" the lady asked.
"They are enemies pursuing us," Guo Jing said.
"Iron Palm Clan?" the lady asked.
"Yes," Guo Jing replied.
The lady inclined her ear to listen for a while and then said, "Qiu Bangzhu [Clan Leader Qiu] personally leads his clan to pursue. Who are you actually?" When asking this her voice was stern.
Guo Jing moved forward one step, stood up in front of Huang Rong, and with poise in his voice he said, "We are the Nine-fingered Divine Beggar Hong Bangzhu's disciples. My martial sister is injured by the Iron Palm Clan's Qiu Qianren. We took refuge here. If Senior has a close relation to the Iron Palm Clan and is unwilling to give us shelter; then we will take our leave." Having said this he raised his cupped fist and then turned around to help Huang Rong stood up.
That lady smiled indifferently and said, "You are young, yet so mule-headed. You can survive but do you think your martial sister can? So you are Hong Qigong's disciples, no wonder you have this kind of skill."
She heard the shouts of Iron Palm Clan people were sometimes far and sometimes near, sometimes high and sometimes low; she sighed and said, "They can't find the way, they can't come in; just relax. Even if they manage to enter, you are my guests, how can Divine … Divine … Ying Gu let other people bully her esteemed guests?" She thought, "Originally I was called 'shen suan zi' [Divine Mathematician] Ying Gu; but this young miss' mathematical skill is a hundred times better than mine. How could I call myself 'shen suan zi' anymore?" Therefore, she only said the first word 'shen' but could not bring herself to utter the next two characters.
Guo Jing bowed to express his gratitude. Ying Gu slipped the clothes from Huang Rong's shoulder to see her injury. She creased her brows but did not say anything; she took the vial from her bosom and dissolved the green pill in a bowl of water.
Huang Rong took the bowl but she hesitated, they did not know whether the lady was a friend or a foe; how could she took her medicine?
Ying Gu saw her hesitation, she coldly said, "You are injured by Qiu Qianren's Iron Palm; do you still think you can recover? If I want to harm you, do you think I need to bother myself? This medicine is a pain-reliever; you don't want it? Fine!" She grabbed the bowl back and poured the content on the ground.
Seeing her rudeness toward Huang Rong, Guo Jing was unable to restrain his anger. "My martial sister is seriously injured; how can you be so mad at her?" he said, "Rong'er, let's go."
Ying Gu coldly smiled and said, "Ying Gu's two small huts; do you think two juniors like you can easily come and easily go?" With two bamboo strips in her hands, she stood on the doorway, blocking the exit.
Guo Jing thought, "Talk is useless, must use force." He called out, "Senior, forgive me for being rude." He bent his knees a little bit; making a circle with his arms he launched the Proud Dragon Repents straight to the door. This stance was his fiercest one; he was afraid Ying Gu could not resist it, so he only used 30% of his strength. His intention was simply to clear the way; he did not want to harm anybody. As the gust of wind arrived at Ying Gu's body, Guo Jing watched closely how Ying Gu would block this attack; whether he should increase his strength or retract it immediately. Who would have thought that Ying Gu only leaned her body slightly, her left palm made a diagonal moved to lightly push his arm and Guo Jing's strength was diverted sideways.
Guo Jing did not expect her to posses such a high skill; he was pushed forward half a step from the momentum of his own force. Ying Gu was also surprised that with such strong attack Guo Jing was able to hold his stance firmly on the sand and did not fall down. From this one exchange, both were secretly admiring their opponent's skill.
"Kid, have you learned your Shifu's entire skill?" Ying Gu loudly called out. While shouting out she used her bamboo strip to hit the 'qu ze' [crooked marsh] acupoint on the bend of Guo Jing's right arm. It was a vital acupoint, Guo Jing did not dare to neglect this attack. He counterattacked with another stance from the 18-Dragon Subduing Palms.
After exchanging several moves Guo Jing realized that Ying Gu's martial art was purely 'yin' [negative, female] in character, from the 'soft' side. Obviously she did not have a single frontal strike, but each one of her moves contained a lethal counter-strike; if Guo Jing did not know mutual hands combat, he would have been injured early on.
The more he fought, the more he did not dare to underestimate her; gradually he increased the strength of his palms, but Ying Gu's martial art was one of a kind; her stances appeared to be soft and powerless, yet it was like a mercury flowing swiftly, penetrating every hole, making her very nearly impossible to guard against.
Several moves later Guo Jing was compelled to withdraw two steps back. Suddenly he remembered Hong Qigong's advice when he was sparring with Huang Rong's 'luo ying shen jian zhang' [falling leaves divine sword palm technique]; that regardless of thousands of changes or tens of thousands variations the opponent used, he should ignore them all and keep fighting using the '18-Dragon Subduing Palms' to secure a victory.
Initially he thought he did not have any desire to fight; besides, the lady looked like a good and kind-hearted Senior. But without having any enmity or committing any wrongdoing she had prevented them from going out the gate. Guo Jing still did not want to be entangled or worse, to injure her life; hence he only used 30% of his strength; who would have thought that this lady was very ferocious. If he was being negligent even so slightly, both of them would die in that place.
Guo Jing took a deep breath, raised up both of his elbows slightly, right hand forming a fist and left hand a palm, one struck vertically, the other pushed horizontally, one quick the other slow, both hands moved out. It was the sixteenth stance of the '18-Dragon Subduing Palms', the 'lu shuang bing zhi' [treading on frost to reach the ice], which was taught by Hong Qigong at the Liu ancestral hall in Baoying. Within this stance hard and soft complemented each other, upright and upside down completed each other; its advantage was unlimited.
That lady made the diagram on the sand and sure enough, it was as Huang Rong had said. Huang Rong continued, "Each hall of that nine halls diagram can be transformed into 'ba gua' eight-diagram. Eight by nine equal to 72 numbers. These numbers: 1 to 72 loop around the 'jiu gong' like wreaths. Each loop consists of eight numbers; each four-loop forms another bigger loop, there are four corner loops altogether, which make the total number of loops to be 13. The sum of the numbers in each loop is 292. This diagram variation recorded in the Luo Shu luo name of a river, shu book is divinely wonderful; no wonder you are not aware of it." While explaining it, Huang Rong also drew the 72 numbers of the eight diagrams of the nine halls on the sand.The lady was dumbfounded, she faltered and asked, "Miss, who are you?" But before Huang Rong could answer her, she felt a shot of pain on her chest; her face paled, and anxiously she took a vial from her pocket and swallowed a green pill from the vial. After half a day her face relaxed, she sighed and said, "It's finished, it's finished!" Two drops of tears rolled down her cheeks.Guo Jing and Huang Rong looked at each other; they thought this lady's behavior was so weird.That lady had not spoken anything when suddenly there was an intermittent call from the outside. It was the Iron Palm Clan pursuers. "Are they friends or enemies?" the lady asked."They are enemies pursuing us," Guo Jing said."Iron Palm Clan?" the lady asked."Yes," Guo Jing replied.The lady inclined her ear to listen for a while and then said, "Qiu Bangzhu Clan Leader Qiu personally leads his clan to pursue. Who are you actually?" When asking this her voice was stern.Guo Jing moved forward one step, stood up in front of Huang Rong, and with poise in his voice he said, "We are the Nine-fingered Divine Beggar Hong Bangzhu's disciples. My martial sister is injured by the Iron Palm Clan's Qiu Qianren. We took refuge here. If Senior has a close relation to the Iron Palm Clan and is unwilling to give us shelter; then we will take our leave." Having said this he raised his cupped fist and then turned around to help Huang Rong stood up.That lady smiled indifferently and said, "You are young, yet so mule-headed. You can survive but do you think your martial sister can? So you are Hong Qigong's disciples, no wonder you have this kind of skill."She heard the shouts of Iron Palm Clan people were sometimes far and sometimes near, sometimes high and sometimes low; she sighed and said, "They can't find the way, they can't come in; just relax. Even if they manage to enter, you are my guests, how can Divine Divine Ying Gu let other people bully her esteemed guests?" She thought, "Originally I was called 'shen suan zi' Divine Mathematician Ying Gu; but this young miss' mathematical skill is a hundred times better than mine. How could I call myself 'shen suan zi' anymore?" Therefore, she only said the first word 'shen' but could not bring herself to utter the next two characters.Guo Jing bowed to express his gratitude. Ying Gu slipped the clothes from Huang Rong's shoulder to see her injury. She creased her brows but did not say anything; she took the vial from her bosom and dissolved the green pill in a bowl of water.Huang Rong took the bowl but she hesitated, they did not know whether the lady was a friend or a foe; how could she took her medicine?Ying Gu saw her hesitation, she coldly said, "You are injured by Qiu Qianren's Iron Palm; do you still think you can recover? If I want to harm you, do you think I need to bother myself? This medicine is a pain-reliever; you don't want it? Fine!" She grabbed the bowl back and poured the content on the ground.Seeing her rudeness toward Huang Rong, Guo Jing was unable to restrain his anger. "My martial sister is seriously injured; how can you be so mad at her?" he said, "Rong'er, let's go."Ying Gu coldly smiled and said, "Ying Gu's two small huts; do you think two juniors like you can easily come and easily go?" With two bamboo strips in her hands, she stood on the doorway, blocking the exit.Guo Jing thought, "Talk is useless, must use force." He called out, "Senior, forgive me for being rude." He bent his knees a little bit; making a circle with his arms he launched the Proud Dragon Repents straight to the door. This stance was his fiercest one; he was afraid Ying Gu could not resist it, so he only used 30% of his strength. His intention was simply to clear the way; he did not want to harm anybody. As the gust of wind arrived at Ying Gu's body, Guo Jing watched closely how Ying Gu would block this attack; whether he should increase his strength or retract it immediately. Who would have thought that Ying Gu only leaned her body slightly, her left palm made a diagonal moved to lightly push his arm and Guo Jing's strength was diverted sideways.Guo Jing did not expect her to posses such a high skill; he was pushed forward half a step from the momentum of his own force. Ying Gu was also surprised that with such strong attack Guo Jing was able to hold his stance firmly on the sand and did not fall down. From this one exchange, both were secretly admiring their opponent's skill."Kid, have you learned your Shifu's entire skill?" Ying Gu loudly called out. While shouting out she used her bamboo strip to hit the 'qu ze' crooked marsh acupoint on the bend of Guo Jing's right arm. It was a vital acupoint, Guo Jing did not dare to neglect this attack. He counterattacked with another stance from the 18-Dragon Subduing Palms.After exchanging several moves Guo Jing realized that Ying Gu's martial art was purely 'yin' negative, female in character, from the 'soft' side. Obviously she did not have a single frontal strike, but each one of her moves contained a lethal counter-strike; if Guo Jing did not know mutual hands combat, he would have been injured early on.The more he fought, the more he did not dare to underestimate her; gradually he increased the strength of his palms, but Ying Gu's martial art was one of a kind; her stances appeared to be soft and powerless, yet it was like a mercury flowing swiftly, penetrating every hole, making her very nearly impossible to guard against.Several moves later Guo Jing was compelled to withdraw two steps back. Suddenly he remembered Hong Qigong's advice when he was sparring with Huang Rong's 'luo ying shen jian zhang' falling leaves divine sword palm technique; that regardless of thousands of changes or tens of thousands variations the opponent used, he should ignore them all and keep fighting using the '18-Dragon Subduing Palms' to secure a victory.Initially he thought he did not have any desire to fight; besides, the lady looked like a good and kind-hearted Senior. But without having any enmity or committing any wrongdoing she had prevented them from going out the gate. Guo Jing still did not want to be entangled or worse, to injure her life; hence he only used 30% of his strength; who would have thought that this lady was very ferocious. If he was being negligent even so slightly, both of them would die in that place.Guo Jing took a deep breath, raised up both of his elbows slightly, right hand forming a fist and left hand a palm, one struck vertically, the other pushed horizontally, one quick the other slow, both hands moved out. It was the sixteenth stance of the '18-Dragon Subduing Palms', the 'lu shuang bing zhi' treading on frost to reach the ice, which was taught by Hong Qigong at the Liu ancestral hall in Baoying. Within this stance hard and soft complemented each other, upright and upside down completed each other; its advantage was unlimited.
