Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 501: Wang San Shao

The Three-Character King is obviously the most flexible chess piece in today's game.

The information about "Wumingzi is the masked man" was originally told to Shuangxie by him, Linghu Xiang and Qin Feng. He certainly knew how strong Wumingzi's real strength was, and he also knew that... if he wanted to deal with Wumingzi, it would not be enough to rely on just one top-notch master.

It can even be said that in a head-on confrontation with swords and guns, even if you have two, three, or even four such masters... it may not be enough.

However, if there is an opportunity for a sneak attack, that would be a different story.

A sneak attack by a scoundrel can sometimes kill a hero, but what about a sneak attack by a top-notch master?
Therefore, they had already made plans. If any major changes or chaos occurred today, Shuangxie would stabilize the overall situation, while Wu Mingzi would respond with the strategy of "the abbot in the light, the Three-Character King in the dark".

So, there was this sudden attack before our eyes.

Let’s talk about Wu Mingzi. On the one hand, he had to pay attention to the abbot who was chasing him from behind, and on the other hand, he was thrown off balance by the unexpected actions of the young boy Yu Wang... Under these inevitable and accidental factors, he finally revealed his flaws.

As a killer whose specialties are "sudden attack from behind" and "killing with one blow", San Zi Wang will certainly not miss this once-in-a-lifetime and fleeting opportunity.

It happened in a flash. Just when Wu Mingzi had just jumped down from the tree, with his footing unsteady and in a very bad physical condition, and still hesitant in his heart... the figure of the Three-Character King suddenly appeared in Wu Mingzi's sight.

Then a cold light shot out and pierced Wu Mingzi's throat.

Although both attacked the vital part, the sneak attack by San Zi Wang this time was completely different from the previous sneak attack by Wu Mingzi on the abbot in the tent...

When Wu Mingzi launched a sneak attack, the abbot was basically in a state of "waiting for the other party to make a move", and at this moment, San Zi Wang's sneak attack seized a big flaw. Even if Wu Mingzi had great ability, he would have a hard time getting through this level.

Of course...

Wu Mingzi, he really has great abilities.

Every difficulty was difficult, but he overcame it.

The talent of "Lin Yuancheng level" is not just talk.

Sure enough, between life and death, Wu Mingzi suddenly came up with a surprising trick!
He slightly lowered his right hand holding the sword, and at the same time, he bent his left hand and hit the sword with the palm of his hand, causing his sword to swing towards his face with an extremely exaggerated arc and a speed beyond that of normal swinging.

This seemingly inexplicable behavior just happened to turn the sideways sword into a narrow barrier, blocking the Three-Character King's sword path.

Moreover, the bent sword body, with its rolled-up arc and the toughness that is about to rebound, is more effective than just standing there straight.

At this moment, the feeling coming from San Zi Wang's hand can be described this way... It's like you are thrusting forward with a metal chopstick, and it ends up poking the bottom sloped edge of a metal basin.

The sword, which was originally a sure win, actually "slipped" due to this strange defense.

The force of the two swords' contact just happened to relieve and stop the rolling momentum of Wu Mingzi's sword, and in the end the sword did not really hit his face.

"You are so cruel..." Even the Three-Character King couldn't help but mutter this out of frustration.

This is a moment that only true masters can understand.

San Zi Wang knew that Wu Mingzi's response at this moment was by no means a practiced move, but just a momentary inspiration, a reaction produced in panic.

But, that’s exactly why it’s so powerful.

San Zi Wang asked himself, he could not have such a reaction. It had nothing to do with hard work, it was purely determined by talent.

When Xiao Zhun and Dugu Yong were fighting, Dugu Yong had a similar reaction. Xiao Zhun felt the same way when he saw it.

However, for the Three-Character King at this moment, his mood is a little more complicated.

In addition to frustration, he also felt a sense of regret and melancholy.

Because many years ago, he had also witnessed Wu Mingzi's talent and was full of admiration and longing for him...

That year, the Three-Character King was nine years old.

That year, he was not called "Three Character King", his name was Wang Defa.

You can probably guess from his name that his father is a nouveau riche...

Take his father, Old Man Wang, for example. He was poor for most of his life, but once he became rich, he immediately married several concubines. Within a few years, he had several children. As for Wang Defa, he was the first son born to the second concubine and the third child in the family, so everyone called him "Young Master Wang".

Wang Defa was born with a slight stutter, and as Mr. Wang had more and more children, he became less and less welcome. In the end, not to mention his father, even his mother didn't pay much attention to him after she had other children.

However, his family was rich, so Wang Defa received a good education. He started to read and write at the age of four and learned martial arts at the age of seven.

Moreover, what he learned was not some farming skills. The "coach" his family hired for him was a man who really knew internal skills, just like Ma Zhao, the "Yan Hui Yi Zhu", and Zhao Tiaotiao, the "Shadowless Sword", who were the kind of gangsters who worked for the rich and powerful.

Of course, Wang Defa's family is not as powerful as the Song and Xiang families, so his enlightenment master is not as powerful as the two mentioned above. Wang Defa's master is just a third-rate figure in the world, named Lu San.

Although Lu San was not very capable, he had good teacher ethics. He taught Wang Defa for one or two years and saw that the latter had a good talent for martial arts. So he took the initiative to tell Master Wang: It is a waste of your third young master to teach me. If you are willing to spend some money and find a high-ranking sect to send him to train him, he will definitely be a number one figure in the martial arts world in the future.

When Mr. Wang heard this, he thought that no matter how well his stuttering son studied, he couldn't utter a complete word, so there was no chance of him taking the imperial examination. So learning martial arts was a way out. Anyway, he had many children and couldn't take care of them all, so he could just let them go.

So, when he was nine years old, Wang Defa followed Lu San to Kunlun to become his disciple.

Who would have thought that by leaving, he actually managed to escape a fatal disaster...

On the fifth night after Wang Defa left home, his family was robbed by a group of bandits. About 20% of the family’s property was stolen, and the remaining 80% was swallowed up by the local government in the name of "evidence".

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this case was committed by collusion between officials and gangsters...

Our book implies that the mastermind behind the incident was actually a high-ranking official in the imperial court. Wang Defa suffered this misfortune just because his father had offended the other party by speaking carelessly.

The 20% of the Wang family's property that was robbed by the criminals was the "commission" of the criminals, and the 80% that was swallowed up by the local government was divided between the court official and the government offices that were in charge.

On the other hand, Lu San and Wang Defa, who had come to the vicinity of Kunlun, had no idea that such a big thing had happened at home.

However, they themselves encountered robbers on the road and almost died under the siege. Fortunately, a young Taoist priest who passed by saved them.

And that young Taoist priest was Wu Mingzi.

He is Wu Mingzi, a swordsman who became famous at a young age and hates evil.

It was at that time that Wang Defa first witnessed Wu Mingzi's swordsmanship.

That was Wu Mingzi's swordsmanship during his period of pursuing martial arts without any disguise.

For Wang Defa, who had never seen a real master fighting before, this was a shocking scene, so Wang Defa also engraved it deeply in his heart.

This is why, later in the Xunlin, when the masked Wu Mingzi inadvertently revealed his true warrior side, the Three-Character King saw through his identity at a glance.

Of course, San Zi Wang and Wu Mingzi did not end up becoming fellow disciples.

After Lu San and Wang Defa arrived at Kunlun, Lu San took out a letter from Master Wang (written by the teacher at home) and a "gift money", and it was already agreed that they would become his apprentices.

If nothing unexpected happens, Kunlun will hold a formal apprenticeship ceremony for Wang Defa in a few days. Then Lu San and Wang Defa will stay in Kunlun temporarily and walk around and have a look.

After the apprenticeship ceremony, Wang Defa stayed in Kunlun to learn martial arts, while Lu San took the reply letter written by Kunlun's management to Master Wang back to report, and then continued his class to teach other young masters of the Wang family martial arts.

But who would have thought that before the day of becoming an apprentice arrived, a friend of Lu San from the underworld personally rushed to Kunlun and brought him the news that the Wang family had been wiped out.

In this case, I cannot become his disciple.

It was not a good idea to ask for the gift money given to Kunlun Sect back... The two of them could only say goodbye and go back to see the situation.

Fortunately, they still had enough money for the trip.

In this way, half a month passed, and when they finally returned to their own county town, the Wang family’s affairs had already been "dealt with".

After Lu San made some inquiries, he roughly understood that this was a solid case of collusion between officials and bandits. Then... there seemed to be nothing else to do.

In terms of identity, Lu San was just an employee, and there was no master-servant relationship between him and Master Wang. It was not his turn to help the Wang family get revenge.

In terms of mentality, if Lu San was a person with a strong desire to "be chivalrous and righteous", he would not have left the underworld and come to work as a martial arts master for a nouveau riche.

The most important thing is... in terms of ability, Lu San simply does not have the military force and wisdom to deal with such a thing.

So even if he gave up and turned away, it would be only natural.

Fortunately, Lu San was a man with a good conscience. He had taught Wang Defa for two years and they had a strong master-disciple relationship. So in the end, he explained the general situation of the Wang family's affairs to his still young apprentice, and advised his apprentice that it would be best to take a long-term view if he wanted to take revenge. Then he gave Wang Defa two choices.

First, let’s go to Kunlun again, and Master will beg them to keep you as they originally agreed... I guess they won’t refuse, but of course we’ll talk about it later if they really refuse.

Second, you will follow your master in the future. As long as your master has a stutter, you will be there too.

Wang Defa thought about it and finally decided to follow Master Lu San.

There was no particular reason. It was just that as a child, he had experienced such a huge change at the time, so he naturally preferred to stay with people he was familiar with.

After that, the nine-year-old Wang Defa began to wander around the world with Lu San.

As for how he later became the "King of Killers", it's a long story, so we will talk about it later.

For now, this is the reason why there is a connection between San Zi Wang and Wu Mingzi, and why he was able to see through the other party's identity in the first place.

So when he thought of the brilliant swordsman he saw in his childhood, and now had to use the same talent to fight him, he felt a little sad.

Chiying——

The sound of the sword stopped the Three-Character King's thoughts.

Wu Mingzi's counterattack has arrived.

The Three Character King remembered Wu Mingzi, but Wu Mingzi had no recollection of ever saving a "Young Master Wang", let alone knowing that the child had become the Three Character King before him.

In other words, even if he remembered, the current situation would not change.

In the blink of an eye, Wu Mingzi had used the "overturning box and crate" move to force his way in front of the Three-Character King.

This move was whirling and wild, pushing and advancing, and its sword path was just enough to restrain the Three-Character King's rapier skills.

The Three-Character King was immediately put at a loss when faced with this move. He had no choice but to switch from offense to defense. He bent his body and hurriedly flew to a few trees nearby, trying to temporarily slow down Wu Mingzi's attack by circling around them.

"Luckily he's not holding the Canxia Sword now..." Three-Character King thought secretly, "Otherwise I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to withstand even ten of his moves."

His speculation was correct. If Wu Mingzi was using the Chanxia Sword now, he would not even have room for defense or detour.

Of course, the difference in weapons is only one of the factors that determine victory or defeat. The factor that really gives Wu Mingzi this absolute advantage is his own hard power.

Just like how the Three-Character King had seen through Wu Mingzi's identity, Wu Mingzi also gained something from the battle with Xun Lin - he also saw the swordsmanship of Linghu Xiang, Qin Feng and the Three-Character King.

If it were someone else, they might just watch it and not take it seriously. After all, they were just three defeated opponents who were no match for themselves, so there was no need to take them seriously.

But Wu Mingzi's "overly cautious" personality, plus the fact that he is a talented swordsman... he won't look at the math.

After the battle, Wu Mingzi went back and thought: What are the strengths of the swordsmanship of these three people? What are their weaknesses? If I fight them again next time, can I use some targeted methods to defeat them faster?

These questions, of course, have answers.

Wu Mingzi, the top swordsman, naturally wanted to get the answer.

Not only does he want it, he also has the ability to do it.

It's easy to do!

The "upsetting boxes and chests" move he had just used was the answer to what he had thought of earlier - "If I face the Three Character King again next time, how should I counter his swordsmanship?"

“I should have killed you back in Xunlin…” Wu Mingzi had realized belatedly that the reason why Shuang Xiehe and the abbot had been targeting him so early on was probably because his identity had been guessed by the Three-Character King. So he was not afraid to say it out loud, “Perhaps I wouldn’t have come to this point today…”

As he said this, he attacked three more times. His moves were so fierce and his sword energy was so intense that it seemed that he could cut through a tree trunk as thick as a bowl and attack the person behind the tree.

However, it was not the first time that San Zi Wang faced such an outrageous attack from a top swordsman, so he was not too panicked. He still relied on his own lightness skills and the environment to try his best to deal with the opponent.

It was at this moment that another powerful figure in green finally arrived.

In an instant, it seemed as if a mad dragon swam out from the forest, sweeping away the remaining clouds like a whirlwind, and roared as it rained a barrage of bullets towards Wu Mingzi.