Wuxia: An Immortal Taught Me Scientific Martial Arts Training

Chapter 48 The Evil Golden Buddha

"The merits of the Six Elders?"

Xiao Xuan stopped in his tracks, wondering why he had never heard of this kind of internal skill before.

This name?

The sixth elder? The sixth one?

Could it be that Zhou Renjie made it up too?

Deng Fei once wrote that the golden finger of Emperor Ning Taizu Zhou Renjie was obtaining martial arts techniques from other worlds.

Furthermore, most of the martial arts techniques he acquired came from the world of Jin Yong and Gu Long, and their levels were not low.

Xiao Xuan seemed to have discovered an unexpected surprise and immediately jumped towards the carriage that originally contained the golden Buddha and the monk Shishan.

There were two open boxes in the carriage, each containing Buddhist scriptures. The Namgyal Sutra mentioned by the system was just one of them.

Xiao Xuan picked up the Namgyal Sutra and put it directly into his pocket.

"Consider this your payment to me."

Xiao Xuan collected the Buddhist scriptures and then followed the arrow in the direction it pointed.

Before he had gone three hundred steps, Xiao Xuan saw the monk Shishan, who was about to be caught up.

At that moment, he became unsteady on his feet and was shot through the calf by a soldier with a crossbow.

"what!"

The monk Shishan shouted.

"Do you know whose this is? It belongs to His Highness Prince Chen! Taking it means certain death!"

The four soldiers sneered a few times, and without further ado, they raised their swords and slashed down.

Xiao Xuan wanted to hear the villain's evil plan, but the other party suddenly acted in accordance with common sense, which made him somewhat disappointed. He had no choice but to rush out to save Monk Shishan.

Fortunately, the distance was sufficient, and Xiao Xuan's sword flashed, allowing him to ambush and kill the soldier who was wielding a knife.

"Is...it you?"

The monk Shishan never expected that the young man would come to his rescue.

The soldiers hadn't expected that their brothers at the post station wouldn't be able to hold off this strange swordsman.

"How is that possible?!"

"How exactly did you get out?"

Xiao Xuan chuckled. You didn't say a word before you killed him, but now you're trying to stall for time.

Xiao Xuan thrust out his sword swiftly, and these shieldless soldiers were completely unable to stop it, with another soldier dying on the spot.

The remaining two exchanged a glance and immediately fled in different directions.

Xiao Xuan used his Snow-Treading Skill to quickly catch up with a person and pierced his heart from behind with a sword.

Only one person remained who was relatively young. Seeing that he couldn't outrun Xiao Xuan, he immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Great hero, spare my life! I was only following orders, and I don't even know why I'm here. If you spare my life, I'll repay you by serving you like a slave!"

The young man begged for mercy loudly, and even the injured monk Shishan, standing nearby, spoke up to offer advice:

"Benefactor! Killing one less person means less sin!"

Xiao Xuan cursed inwardly, ignoring the foolish monk, and said coldly:

"Think about why you killed those servants and the shopkeeper, and you'll understand why I can't let you go today."

Having said that, Xiao Xuan slit the throat with his sword, sending the other man away without pain.

"You! You are a sinner!"

The monk Shishan shook his head sadly, while Xiao Xuan said indifferently:

"I killed those people to save you, so these lives should be attributed to you."

"you..."

The monk Shishan was not good with words and naturally could not win against Xiao Xuan, so he could only slowly get up while holding the golden Buddha.

But his left leg was already injured, and his body was already weak and frail, so how could he possibly lift the golden Buddha weighing dozens of kilograms?

Seeing that he would rather bleed profusely than give up the golden Buddha in his hand, Xiao Xuan was immediately puzzled.

"For a master, is it gold or Buddha that matters?"

Even the slow-witted monk Shishan could hear the sarcasm in Xiao Xuan's words, but he remained calm and composed, responding indifferently.

"What I am holding is not gold, nor Buddha, but the lives of all the monks of Nanfa Temple."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xuan stepped forward and helped the monk Shishan up.

"Since it's so important, why not send a highly skilled monk who knows martial arts to escort it?"

"Of course I didn't want to, but the prince specifically asked me to go alone. Perhaps he didn't want a monk with martial arts skills to get close to him."

"What kind of reason is that?"

Xiao Xuan was puzzled, but since it was the prince's order, how could these monks dare to disobey it?

The two walked towards the post station. Seeing that the monk Shishan regarded the golden Buddha as his life, Xiao Xuan did not offer to carry it for him.

But when Xiao Xuan observed the golden Buddha up close, he discovered that the Buddha statue was extremely eerie, with a terrifying third eye between the Buddha's eyebrows.

Xiao Xuan felt that he could not see any Buddha-nature in this Buddha statue; on the contrary, it was full of evil energy.

"What kind of Buddha is this?"

"It's better that you don't know."

The monk Shishan pretended to be mysterious and resolutely refused to tell Xiao Xuan.

Xiao Xuan was not surprised, because before Zhou Renjie appeared, the Buddhist beliefs of the Liang Dynasty in the previous dynasty seemed to be different from those of today.

Perhaps this Buddha statue is something left over from the previous dynasty.

Xiao Xuan didn't ask any further questions. He didn't want to get himself into such a big mess right now, since detoxification was the priority.

The two returned to the post station, and with Qu Lingyan's help, Lin Xiaodi finally succeeded in killing the two soldiers, and all the enemies in the post station were killed.

At this moment, Lin Xiaodi's attitude was also very different. Originally, she thought that Xiao Xuan and Qu Lingyan were just arrogant unorthodox martial arts practitioners.

But the other party not only had real skills, but also saved their entire Fuyuan Escort Agency.

"This is Lin Xiaodi from Fuwei Escort Agency. Thank you, Brother Xiao."

As soon as Xiao Xuan entered, Lin Xiaodi greeted him with a deep bow of thanks.

"If it weren't for Brother Xiao and Sister Qu's help, our Fuyuan Escort Agency would have been destroyed today."

Xiao Xuan listened to Lin Xiaodi's words and looked at Qu Lingyan behind her. He didn't expect that the two of them would start to treat each other as sisters in such a short time.

"No need to be polite. If the two of us don't take action, these people might not let us go either."

After a few words, Lin Xiaodi began to wake up the others from Fuyuan Escort Agency.

The head镖师 (bodyguard/escort) Fu Lianzhuang woke up groggily, looking at the scene before him in disbelief.

"How...is this possible?"

With corpses scattered all over the ground, the crowd drugged, and the testimonies of Lin Xiaodi and Monk Shishan, the facts were right before Fu Lianzhuang's eyes, leaving him no choice but to believe it.

"Why would they target our security escort agency? These people are equipped with military gear."

Even though he escaped death, Fu Lianzhuang was still full of worry.

Offending the officials is no small matter; a slight misstep could implicate the entire escort agency.

"Xiao Di! Go back immediately and tell your father about this!"

Fu Lianzhuang sent men to gather all the corpses inside the post station, intending to burn them down to eliminate all traces.

He looked at the wounds on the corpses; the vast majority of them had been fatally slit in the throat with a single sword strike.

This young swordsman actually possesses such strength?

"This matter arose because of our escort agency, and we are truly sorry to have implicated you both."

Faced with Fu Lianzhuang's apology, Xiao Xuan said calmly:

"I have killed all the robbers I could see. If none of them send a message, the person who planned this will not know the outcome for a while."

"Thank you for your guidance, brother. Once we arrive in Hangzhou, I will seek help from the local Guangtong Escort Agency. With their forces joining us, unless we have hundreds of soldiers charging into the enemy lines, we should have no chance."

After listening to Fu Lianzhuang's words, Xiao Xuan tilted his head and looked at the old man who was so frightened that he had lost his soul.

"And what about him?"