The opportunity Brahma found for this punch was just right. It happened exactly when neither the Lion King nor Yagyu Munenori had reacted yet and had no time to block it. If this punch had landed, the Lion King probably would not have been as simple as Olivia being badly injured. He would have directly… died!
No one had expected the turn of events to come so quickly.
Facing this sudden crisis, Jiang Fei’s eyelids immediately jumped, and his scalp felt like it was about to explode. He could no longer care about absorbing Tsukahara Bokuden’s internal energy. He turned around and swung out an extremely sharp sword aura, wanting to intercept Brahma’s killing move.
But how could Tsukahara Bokuden let Jiang Fei have his way? His body flashed, and the gang energy within him erupted, forcibly blocking this sword strike.
“Get lost!”
Seeing his attack blocked, Jiang Fei’s eyes seemed about to split open, and the veins on his forehead bulged out. He charged at Tsukahara Bokuden again, pushing the Northern Darkness Divine Art to its limit, preparing to absorb Tsukahara Bokuden’s internal energy.
Tsukahara Bokuden sneered and quickly dodged away, not giving Jiang Fei the chance to fight him up close.
And because of his interference, it was already impossible for Jiang Fei to reach out and save the Lion King.
Then… the Lion King’s fate in the next moment would only be having his head blown apart by Brahma.
The Lion King and Yagyu Munenori had clearly also noticed this crisis, but their strength was not enough. They could sense it but could not stop it. The two of them, masters at the Dan level, were already fighting against Brahma, who was at the innate level, in a way that was not very realistic to begin with. Being able to hold on for so many moves was already not easy.
Because the Lion King had the will but not the power, he could not defend himself. In that entire instant, all he could do was widen his eyes. No matter how unwilling he was in his heart, no matter how aggrieved he felt, it was useless.
“I never thought I would end up dying in this tiny island country, and what I never expected even more was that I would be killed by a guy from India like Brahma. I really… am not resigned to this!” the Lion King roared in his heart.
Brahma’s face was full of a ferocious grin. The killing intent in his eyes had become thick to the extreme. His determination to kill the Lion King and the others was incomparably firm, so at this moment he naturally would not be softhearted.
“Die!” Brahma growled in a low voice.
Boom!
A huge collision sound rang out, like a strike on everyone’s hearts, making their bodies tremble.
But Jiang Fei and the Lion King, whose eyes were wide open and bloodshot, had their pupils suddenly contract at this moment, filled with excitement and joy!
Yes, the Lion King also became pleasantly surprised. His head had not been blown apart by Brahma’s punch, and he had not lost his life because of it!
Because at the final moment, someone had saved him!
It was a wooden branch about three centimeters in diameter. It was not thick. It was about one and a half meters long, which could not be considered long. There were still many uneven places on the branch, and the leaves and twigs had not been cleaned off completely. It was just an ordinary stick, so ordinary it could not be any more ordinary.
But this stick had possessed endless killing power in that instant just now. It suddenly appeared from behind the Lion King, brushed past his head, and struck one end against Brahma’s fist!
After that, Brahma’s punch, one strong enough to split mountains and shatter rocks, one that could crack even steel plates, was forcibly intercepted. At the same time, Brahma himself was also blasted backward unceasingly by the huge force in this sudden stick strike.
The power of this stick was terrifying to such a degree!
This was a stick strike from a distance, yet it could directly repel an upright innate master head-on. Jiang Fei could not do it. Brahma himself could not do it either. Tsukahara Bokuden also could not possibly do it.
Judging this stick strike solely by its killing power, it was absolutely above all three of them.
The Lion King was saved. Both he and Jiang Fei felt the huge stone in their hearts instantly drop, and they turned their heads to see who had just acted to help.
Of course, they were not the only two who turned their heads to look at the same time. The utterly shocked Brahma and Tsukahara Bokuden also looked toward the direction from which the stick had come.
The one who had just intervened was definitely also an innate master, and moreover an innate master especially skilled in attack.
The other party’s traces were not hard to find. Turning back, they immediately saw him. Because the stick that had blasted Brahma backward was at this moment just rebounding back. After spinning rapidly in the air for a while, it was caught by a person slowly stepping over.
The newcomer was a man in a gray robe.
The man caught the wooden branch with his right hand. It was plain and ordinary. His movement of catching the stick was just like the stick itself, with nothing out of the ordinary at all. It was impossible to tell that he had just repelled head-on the number one master of India, an innate powerhouse.
Even the aura on the gray-robed middle-aged man was very ordinary. It was completely impossible to see anything different from ordinary people.
He did not have the appearance of a lofty master of a generation of swordsmanship like Yagyu Munenori; nor the bold and unrestrained air of the Lion King; still less was he like Brahma, resembling a glaring Vajra, imposing without anger; and he was also fundamentally different from the old demon with white hair and a youthful face, Tsukahara Bokuden.
He was like an ordinary old man, not like any kind of master.
In this point, he and Jiang Fei had much in common. In daily life, they both looked like ordinary people and would not deliberately show anything different, but once they erupted, it would definitely shake the heavens and earth, like a rooster crowing and the world turning bright.
However, the reason Jiang Fei had this image of playing the pig to eat the tiger was that he was a cheater who had obtained a game character system out of thin air. His whole body of incomparably powerful strength had not been cultivated since childhood.
But what about this gray-robed middle-aged man?
Could it be that he was also a cheater?
This was of course impossible. The gray-robed middle-aged man clearly would not be a cheater.
The stick, more than one meter and nearly two meters long, was held in his hand and lightly planted on the ground. He walked over unhurriedly, slightly narrowed the corners of his eyes, glanced at Brahma, and said, “After so many years without seeing you, even though you have entered Buddhism, your temperament has not changed at all. I am truly disappointed.”
Hearing these words, Jiang Fei was slightly startled.
This gray-robed man actually already knew Brahma from before. Who exactly was he? But judging by appearances, he should be a friend, not an enemy. Otherwise, he would not have acted to save the Lion King.
As long as this point could be confirmed, the situation would be much more stable.
“After so many years without seeing you, I thought my strength had improved the most, but I never expected you had also stepped into the innate level!” Brahma’s face was gloomy to the extreme as he said coldly.
His right hand was behind his back. This was not him putting on a pose. Rather, although his right hand had gang qi protecting it in that exchange just now, it was still numbed at the tiger’s mouth by the powerful killing force in the stick. At this moment, his entire hand was still trembling slightly.
“This is not strange. Back then I could suppress you. Could it be that now I still cannot suppress you?” the gray-robed man said casually, as if it were only natural.
“You…” Brahma’s face instantly flushed red, and the killing intent in his eyes surged to the extreme.
This killing intent was even thicker than the killing intent he had when facing the Lion King and Olivia, these two enemies who had killed his sworn brother. He narrowed his eyes and only then said coldly, “Do you think that just because you repelled me with that stick just now, you can suppress me? You underestimate me too much, Azure Dragon!”
That was right, Azure Dragon!
This gray-robed man who had arrived with one stick and shocked the entire scene was precisely the former boss of the Four Kings of China, “Azure Dragon,” who was now the Wild Grass Daoist at the foot of Maoshan.
Back then, he had also had a relationship with Aoki Youxue, had been entangled with her, and in the end, because of the blow from Aoki Youxue, had decadently become a Wild Grass Daoist.
“Azure Dragon, when did you arrive?” The Lion King let out a long breath, calmed his state of mind, and only then looked at Azure Dragon with great surprise.
“I arrived together with Jiang Fei.” Azure Dragon glanced at Jiang Fei, then said.
“Then why did you not act from the beginning! Did you have to wait until I was almost killed by this Indian guy?” The Lion King glared, very displeased with this former teammate of his.
The Four Kings of China had once been the best siblings, with feelings for one another even closer than real siblings. Later, mainly because of Azure Dragon, they had collapsed and scattered. So over these years, the Lion King had always held resentment toward Azure Dragon. He knew Azure Dragon was living in seclusion at the foot of Maoshan, and had never gone to visit him.
But even so, although there was resentment between them, it had not yet reached the point of hatred.
“Did I not act in the end?” Azure Dragon said lightly.
After knowing the identity of the gray-robed man and hearing what he said, Jiang Fei was thoroughly shocked in his heart.
This Wild Grass Daoist of Maoshan, the master who had taught Liu Yunduo left-handed swordsmanship, had actually come following behind her, and he had not noticed it at all before! Even if he had not deliberately investigated, this was still enough to show that Azure Dragon was too powerful.
“Why did he follow me here? Why did he track me?” Jiang Fei wondered in his heart.
Then his mind turned, and he thought of Liu Yunduo, as well as the relationship between Liu Yunduo and the Wild Grass Daoist.
“Could it be that, in fact, the one Azure Dragon was tracking was not me, but Liu Yunduo? He actually came to the island country one step earlier than me, came together with Liu Yunduo, and had only been hiding in the dark the whole time. This time, when he saw me come looking for Yagyu Munenori, and then by a strange combination of circumstances came to Tsukahara Bokuden’s place, he followed along?” Jiang Fei guessed in his heart.
This possibility did not not exist. Rather, it was very likely.
After all, although Liu Yunduo and Azure Dragon did not have the title of master and disciple, they already had the reality of master and disciple. Liu Yunduo was still the daughter of his old friend. This time, when he heard Liu Yunduo was coming to the island country to avenge her father, he said nothing on the surface, but he was somewhat worried in his heart, so he followed to protect Liu Yunduo secretly.
Just as Jiang Fei was thinking this, the atmosphere on the scene fell into a deadlock for a time.
Now the situation had undergone a complete one-hundred-eighty-degree turn. Jiang Fei had used some kind of “demon art” and could suppress Tsukahara Bokuden in turn, and suddenly Azure Dragon, also an innate master, had joined, and it seemed he could suppress Brahma.
In this way, the alliance between Brahma and Tsukahara Bokuden immediately fell into a dangerous situation.
They had just been the side with the upper hand, about to kill people. Now it might be their turn to be killed.
