Ma Jiamen: I was forced to fight for supremacy

"Beautiful sister, I'm going to beat up your nephew again."

After a short rest, I came to Dajianping for another horse battle and flirted with my sister as usual.

Lu Zhu sighed softly, "Be gentle."

"Haha, okay, I'll be gentler."

Seeing Ma Zhan's lewd smile, Lu Zhu suddenly felt something was wrong. Shaking his head, he hovered over the Great Sword Terrace and announced the start of the competition.

With Wang Yi's experience as a lesson, Li De's fighting style became much more cautious. He used the same three flying swords, but instead of using them as the primary attack, he kept avoiding the cavalry's sharp edge and chose to attack from the side.

Li De's sword was slender and swift, and with his skilled swordsmanship and the cover of his three flying swords, he repeatedly attacked Ma Zhan by surprise. After a few moves, he forced Ma Zhan to the corner of the big sword field.

In Ma Zhan's opinion, Wang Yi, whom he had previously fought, played the Qi Zong style, emphasizing the importance of heavy swords without edges and great skill without effort. Li De, on the other hand, played the Jian Zong style, emphasizing the invincibility of speed.

The two men have distinct swordsmanship and each has its own strengths.

Lu Zhu curled her lips, "That's it? What big talk!"

If Ma Zhan retreated further, he would fall off the Great Sword Terrace. Li De finally forced Ma Zhan's weakness and stabbed him in the throat with his long sword.

Ma Zhan pointed his left hand like a sword, preparing to use his two fingers to counter Li De's sword.

Li De had seen Ma Zhan use his two fingers to explode the head of the golden-armored general. The power of wind and thunder that burst out was too terrifying.

Li De did not dare to fight with him, and quickly withdrew his attack. All three flying swords flew to his feet. He used the force continuously to avoid the direction pointed by Ma Zhan's left hand.

After Ma Zhanjian pointed his finger, there was no wind and no thunder.

Li De did not wait for wind and thunder, but what he waited for was a tiger head with a tiger roar.

Li De had no chance of avoiding the tiger's head, so he could only block his long sword in front of his chest. The tiger's head came suddenly, smashing Li De's long sword into an excessive arc.

The tiger head was still as powerful as ever, and it used the long sword as a cushion to smash into Li De's chest.

Ma Zhan's powerful blow caused Li De's blood and qi to surge, and his spiritual energy was temporarily disrupted. Li De quickly retreated, trying to temporarily distance himself from Ma Zhan.

After launching a strike, Ma Zhan pulled back the tiger's tail, rotated his body, crossed his legs, held the tiger's head with his hands, and thrust the tiger's tail backwards.

"A stunning return shot, great spearmanship." Luzhu was amazed by Ma Zhan's elegant spear.

"Ding~" The tiger's tail cushioned Li De's sword and hit his chest again. After being hit hard in the chest, Li De felt a sweet taste in his throat.

Ma Zhan sat cross-legged on the ground in a strange posture. When he was retrieving the tiger stick, Li De discovered his biggest flaw. He gave up retreating and chose to fight.

Li Deqiang took a deep breath, and the long sword in his hand, like a spirit snake, pierced towards Ma Zhan's back.

"Flaw~That's a trap." Lu Zhu didn't believe that the cunning Qing Hu would leave such a big flaw.

At this moment, Ma Zhan stopped turning around and turned his back to Li De. There was an extra hand at the back of Ma Zhan.

"Ding~" Ma Zhan's left hand, which was behind his back, happened to hit the tip of Li De's sword. A flash of purple lightning flashed, followed the long sword, and climbed onto Li De's body.

Li De twitched violently, and his sword-holding hand was deflected by the purple lightning. At the same time, a wind blade knocked Li De's sword away.

Li De had just stood still when he saw Hu Wei pointing at his eyebrows. Hu Wei, who ignored the protective true qi, made Li De despair.

Finally, the tiger tail stopped an inch away from Li De's eyebrows. Ma Zhan removed the tiger stick and smiled at Li De, "Brother Li De, do you still want to fight?"

Li De saluted Ma Zhan with his sword, "I admit defeat."

"Qinghu, wins."

Ma Zhan ran up to Lu Zhu with a grin, "Beautiful sister, am I very light?"

Luzhu thinks Ma Zhan is being a hooligan, but she has no evidence.

"Which move just now was good?"

To receive a compliment from the Green Sleeve Sword Master is enough to make a Sword Pavilion disciple happy for a whole year. But for Ma Zhan, the Green Sleeve Sword Master is not important. The compliment from Sister Green Bamboo is what makes him happy.

"A divine move, just realized."

Lu Zhu said disdainfully: "How dare any random person call himself a god? The initial defense without attacking was probably just a preparation for that move."

"As expected of the Green Sleeves Sword Master, she is both beautiful and intelligent."

Ma Zhan's initial passive defense was to understand Li De's attack patterns and habits. Otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to turn his back on Li De and blindly guess at that fatal sword move.

Zheng Xiaoqiao faced Lin Yueshu, who was already injured, and gave up after just a few moves.

Now, the top three places in the competition have been announced, with Qing Hu and Zheng Xiao Qiao, two of the most experienced talents, occupying two of the top three spots. This has somewhat embarrassed the Shu Kingdom's martial arts community.

Everyone could only place their hopes on Princess Nange. Only if Liu Nange won the championship could the Shu Kingdom's martial arts world retain its proper dignity.

In a three-way battle, one of them always has to fight two rounds. Liu Nange glanced at the two masked men proudly, stepped on the yellow crane, and was the first to step onto the big sword platform.

Ma Zhan said to Zheng Xiaoqiao, "I'll go first. I'm almost certain I can't defeat her. Nan Ge is very skilled. Her formations are definitely more than just warriors attacking a city."

I'll force her to use a few more formations. Pay attention to how she sets up her formations. Use the water from the Forgotten River and the Snow Toad when the time comes. Don't let her formations take shape, and you'll be able to defeat her."

In such a major matter, Zheng Xiaoqiao chose to follow Ma Zhan's arrangements. She nodded and reminded Ma Zhan, "Be careful."

On the Great Sword Terrace, Liu Nange held the imperial seal, not concealing the existence of the defensive formation at all. Ma Zhan, carrying a tiger stick on his shoulder, spoke to Liu Nange inside the defensive formation.

"Mengyao once told me that to break a formation, one needs to find the center of the formation, or the person in charge of the formation. However, for a warrior, a defensive formation, especially one with two arms and the center of the formation, is located within the formation and can only be broken through by force from outside.

I can't break your defensive formation, but I can prevent you from setting up other formations that threaten me."

Ma Zhan was trying to adjust Liu Nange's mentality. He told him Meng Yao's understanding of the formation, making it seem like he knew a lot about it.

Liu Nange chuckled, "Mengyao, your mask was made by her, right?"

Ma Zhan frowned, feeling a little unhappy about Liu Nange investigating the people around him, "Princess Nange, you really care about me."

"That's right. How many people in the world would leave a message on the Great Wall of Qi? Liang State always causes trouble for Master Ma. We in Great Shu are looking forward to Master Ma very much."

Liu Nange's words were full of hidden meaning. "You even know about my assassination attempt. What else do you know?"

“Basically everyone knows.”

Ma Zhan's face twitched. Could it be that there was a traitor in the Ma family, or was it Chun Xiaoman and the others... Impossible, absolutely impossible.

Seeing that Ma Zhan was silent, Liu Nange continued, "Don't even think about it, Master Ma. If I don't investigate you thoroughly, how can Nange feel at ease eating the food you cook?"