The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS
Chapter 164 - 158 Sword Fight

Chapter 164: Chapter 158 Sword Fight

After the arson incident, it was the third night.

At midnight,

Only the night watchman was still striking the gong, walking around.

While at the Six Gates Dungeon, the lights were still bright; even at night, there were four people guarding the entrance.

Yet in this same night, more than twenty figures, taking advantage of the darkness, stepped on the roofs of residential buildings from all directions, converging towards the dungeon.

Clearly, they were planning to raid the dungeon.

However, this intention was thwarted even before the raid began. Suddenly, a firework rose from the top floor of a restaurant not far from the dungeon, bursting into brilliant colors in the night sky.

"Enemy attack!" the guards cried out piercingly, their collective voices instantly drowning out the remaining echoes of fireworks exploding.

"Detected, attack forcefully!" one of the black-clothed men shouted upon seeing the alert.

The more than twenty black-clothed men ceased to sneak and erupted in speed to storm the Six Gates Dungeon.

At the same time, within the Six Gates department above the dungeon, dozens of constables clad in black hemp robes emerged, clashing fiercely with the night raiders.

On the second floor of one building within the department, Qing Yu and Luo Yan were leaning on the railing, observing the fight below.

"Brother Meng, your method was quite effective, managing to detect the attackers so easily," Luo Yan noted, seeing the constables downstairs who were prepared in time and not caught off guard by the night attackers.

"Just a small trick," Qing Yu waved dismissively.

He had merely exploited a slight blind spot in the psychology of the attackers. Attackers always consider themselves as the ones lurking in the shadows, having the initiative, deciding when to strike, while the other party can only defend passively.

And Qing Yu took advantage of this, after the attackers focused their attention on their target, not realizing that there were eyes also watching them from behind.

Surrounding the Six Gates department from various directions, at a slightly distant range, there were people secretly watching. While the night attackers were intently focused on the department, unwittingly crossing right before the eyes of the covert observer, they didn’t realize that at that moment, both sides had become equals, making a surprise assault impossible.

"The enemy is not weak, Brother Meng, I’ll join in too," Luo Yan said, then took the lead by leaping into the battlefield, followed by his faithful black-clothed knife-wielder F4 also entering the fray.

Black-clothed knife-wielder F4, Luo Yan’s right-hand men, had participated in attacking the City Lord Mansion in Yang City and battling Han Wenxin in Divine Capital, most skilled in group combat technique. Qing Yu still didn’t know the names of these four.

Qing Yu remained standing on the second floor, leaning on the railing, watching the progression of the battle.

Tonight’s attackers were not weak, but that was their limit; wanting to break through the defense of Six Gates and enter the dungeon to kill or silence someone was a tall order.

What’s most crucial was that their weapons included both swords and knives; Japanese do not use swords, although they always talk about Sword Dao. In fact, they have always treated their knives as swords; the swords from the Central Plains do not exist in Japan.

Therefore, Qing Yu decided to watch the changes quietly, since Luo Yan and the others were still able to handle the current situation.

"Uh!" Suddenly, Qing Yu looked towards a corner, where a shadow just flashed by very quickly, but Qing Yu still made out his outfit.

Clad in black night clothes and holding a dagger coated with dark light-absorbing material, he dressed just like the Japanese ninjas he had encountered numerous times before in the Central Plains, as if it were the standard uniform for these ninjas there.

Qing Yu immediately leapt up, his two long swords unsheathed and combined in his hands as if they melded into one blade.

"Taiyi Splitting Light Sword・One Origin Rebirth Void."

His long sword thrust towards the space under the eaves, seemingly empty shadows. The shadows were empty, but Qing Yu’s sword did not hesitate, and just as the sword edge was about to reach, there was finally movement in the shadows.

It seemed as if the shadows were undulating and twisting, as a dagger pierced through the shadows to meet the oncoming dual swords. Looking down, another piece of cloth, identical to the shadows, lay on the ground—a tool used by the Japanese ninjas to perform their so-called Invisibility Technique.

The dual swords truly chopped down on the dagger and, due to the miraculous nature of the "Taiyi Splitting Light Sword," each strike contained the full force of Qing Yu’s arms. The dual swords pressed down together, overpowering the Japanese ninja, leaving two sword marks on his shoulders.

Had it not been for the technique’s need for space to recombine, Qing Yu would have simply pressed down and killed him outright.

Feeling the force against his dagger decrease, the ninja struggled to open a gap, rolling sideways, trying to escape.

However, Qing Yu was not about to just stand there idly; he instantly executed "Wind and Cloud Change Color and Fill the Sky."

The sword, like blinding lightning, aimed for and reached the target in an instant, threatening to end his life.

Just as the dual swords were about to behead the Japanese ninja, a bright sword Qi flew out of the darkness, attacking Qing Yu.

This sword Qi was a sure rescue. The person who executed it, knowing they could not match Qing Yu’s sword speed, aimed not just at saving the ninja but at forcing Qing Yu to retract his own sword.

"Ha," Qing Yu chuckled lightly, his dual swords unabated, slashing across the rolling ninja’s nape and back, leaving two bloody wounds.

On the back, the sword cut was two inches deep, reaching the internal organs, and even more lethal was the neck—had the angle been slightly different, it would have beenhead. Such injuries left the ninja dead instantly.

And that flying sword Qi, sharp and forceful, broke through Qing Yu’s "Innate Gang Qi" and still had enough momentum to leave a mark on Qing Yu, but it met another invisible Gang Qi.

"Qi Dual Flow・Innate Gang Qi."

It was not about increasing the thickness of the Gang Qi but about maintaining another layer of "Innate Gang Qi" beyond the first, the dual layers of protection rarely broken in a single strike by anyone within the Innate Realm.

"Sir, you truly are powerful!" spoken in stiff official Central Plains language by the person emerging from the darkness.

However, facing someone whose face was covered by a cloth, Qing Yu could not read their lips. To avoid exposing his hearing issue, Qing Yu could only stare coldly at the other, remaining silent.

The person who stepped out of the shadows was also clad entirely in black, but after stepping out, he removed his cloth mask, apologetically saying, "Wearing a mask violates the warrior’s code. I now face you with my true face."

Fragmented speech like this made even Qing Yu’s lip-reading feel awkward.

Fortunately, the other person had no intention of wasting time. He stood sideways, both hands holding a blade horizontally at the temple, the blade tip pointing towards Qing Yu, "Liusheng New Yin Style, Heiqi Longzhi, please enlighten me!"

"It’s either your death or mine, where does enlightenment come into play?"

Qing Yu struck first, his form like a phantom, disappearing without a trace.

"Colorless Transformation."