The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 695 Underground Chang'an
The young man learns swordsmanship, Ling Yu Bai Yuangong.

The bead robe is drawn with a brocade belt, and the dagger is inserted into Wu Hong.

The origin of ten thousand husbands is brave, carrying the glory of this life.

Entrust with Jumeng, get drunk and enter Xinfeng.

Laughing out a glass of wine, killing people in the city.

——Excerpt from Li Bai's "A Journey with a Guest"

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The two of them unfolded their movements like a gust of wind, walked through the streets and alleys, and soon came to the most ecstasy place in Chang'an - Pingkangfang.

It was still early at this time, and the Pingkang Square was completely silent, not as bustling and noisy as at night.

Pingkangfang has three alleys in the north, middle and south.The laneway is quite spacious and can accommodate two double-shaft carriages.

Among the three alleys of Pingkangfang, the south alley is full of pagodas and towers, and the practitioners are all prostitutes. Most of the people who come here to sell gold are wealthy merchants; local scholars in Chang'an receive officials from other places who come to Beijing for business, and they often choose Nanqu .

The alleys are full of single-family villas, pavilions, waterside pavilions, and curved water cups, which are quite private.Most of the people working here are official prostitutes who belong to the Jiaofang Division.Many of these official prostitutes are female family members of offending officials and eunuchs.Because of this, most of the people who come and go to Zhongqu are wealthy families, princes and nobles, and romantic celebrities;
In the north alley near the square wall, colorful buildings are decorated with lights and festoons, draped in red and green, noisy and noisy, and most of the traffic is traffickers, ordinary people, poor students who go to Beijing to catch the exam...

The three alleys have different scenery and are clearly distinguished, making them very easy to identify.

Entering Pingkangfang, the girl went straight to the North Alley without turning her eyes.

Entering the North Alley, the girl is familiar with the road, making seven turns and eight turns, and turns into a section of the lane deep in the North Alley.

There are sewer ditches on both sides of the road in Pingkangfang, covered with blue tiles, which is convenient for drainage in rainy days and sewage discharge on weekdays.This alley is low-lying, and the sewage from the ditches flows through here and is discharged into the waterway outside the workshop.Therefore, the sewage in the alley flows across, and the stench is suffocating.

The alleys are full of simple wooden huts and huts, which are connected in a disorderly manner, and the gaps between the huts are filled with sundries and garbage.

These thatched huts are connected into one piece, and the inside is divided into thousands of shanties by wall stacks, which is as complicated as a tunnel maze.

During the walk, it was like walking a ghost, with gusts of wind and darkness, and faint crying and screams could be heard, as if someone was being roasted, skinned and boned.

Bai Fu's hair stood on end, as if he had come to another city of Chang'an.

This underground city of Chang'an was shrouded in darkness, with no light, no law, no morality, filled with blood and tyranny, just like King Yama's eighteen levels of hell.

Only the most cunning and cruel "beasts" can survive here.Even the policemen from Six Doors and the bad guys from Jingzhao Mansion didn't dare to enter easily.

Bai Fu only felt dry throat and nausea in his chest.Looking forward, I found that the girl leading the way moved lightly without any discomfort, as if blending into the darkness.

The girl was familiar with the road, and when she came to a shack, she knocked hard five times.

The door of the house opened a gap, and a young servant looked out.Seeing the girl, the servant seemed to have been stung by a scorpion, he took a step back timidly, hurriedly opened the door, and greeted the girl respectfully.

The servant rolled up the tattered carpet and lifted a board to reveal a spiral wooden staircase.

The two walked down the steps, and there was a hole in the ground of the shed.The underground palace is as deep as three floors of houses, spacious and open, but the light is dim.

There is a huge iron cage in the middle of the underground palace. The railings are as thick as an adult's arm. It is exactly the kind of cage used to keep elephants in Persian circuses.

The underground palace is divided into upper and lower floors. Dozens of people who looked like gamblers were extremely excited and surrounded the iron cage, cheering for the life-and-death struggle that was about to begin.

The girl finally spoke, and said to Bai Fu: "This is the Colosseum, which specializes in training gladiators."

Bai Fu looked stern, and said, "People fight wild beasts?"

The girl calmly replied: "There are people who fight with each other, but it is more bloody. There are no rules, no end time, until one party dies."

Bai Fu's expression darkened, and he said, "How could the government allow this kind of place to exist? According to Tang law, the person who runs such a place should be Ling Chi."

The girl smiled contemptuously and said, "You think you are the only one who understands Tang Law?"

While the two were talking, a gong sounded, and the fight officially began.

A tall and burly young man entered the iron cage. He bared his upper body, wore leather trousers, and a giant ape with blue-faced fangs tattooed on his chest and back. He held a round shield in his left hand and a horizontal knife in his right, staring at his opponent.

The boy's opponent is not a human, but a black bear.The black bear is fierce and aggressive, with a huge body and a voice like a bull.

This is a gladiatorial fight of great disparity.Once you miss, what you lose is not the game, but your life.

The more bloody the scene, the more excited the onlookers were. Like black bears, they roared wildly and cursed the dirtiest slang words.

The black bear stretched out its neck and roared at the boy, with a stench coming out of its mouth.The black bear's front paws kept slapping the ground, threatening and intimidating.

The black bear roared and rushed towards the boy.Although the black bear has a huge body, it moves nimbly. With its weight, once it runs, it will crush the boy like a black yak.

The young man threw down his shield, put the horizontal knife behind his back, and like a gibbon, he climbed on the railing with his hands alternately, swinging back and forth on the iron cage.

The black bear flew forward, wiped the soles of the boy's shoes, and slammed into the iron railing, making him dizzy.

The black bear was obviously irritated by the boy's playful behavior, and turned around and jumped at the boy again.

The boy is as agile as an ape, climbing and rolling, using the height of the iron cage to move and dodge.

For more than a dozen rounds, the boy never challenged.After the onslaught, the black bear was exhausted, bowed its back, and panted with its tongue out.

The gamblers onlookers were dissatisfied with the boy's passive avoidance of the battle, booing and cursing everywhere.

Only then did the boy jump down from the top of the iron cage, carefully bent down, picked up the shield, took out the horizontal knife behind his back, and slapped the shield with the blade, making ear-piercing noises, constantly provoking the black bear.

The black bear was enraged again, regardless of his fatigue, he launched an attack, rushed towards a black tower, and rushed towards the boy.

The boy changed his strategy this time, instead of dodging, his pupils contracted, tightly locking onto the moving body of the black bear.

Just as the black bear was pounced, it was too late, it was fast, the boy suddenly moved his steps sideways, blocked the black bear's waving front paw with a round shield with his left hand, squatted down, and swung the knife with his right hand, cutting the black bear's other sharp paw All cut down.

The young man succeeded in one blow, and he didn't care about fighting. He rolled over and avoided the other end of the iron cage.

The black bear had its palm cut off, the pain was unbearable, and it fell into madness. It stood up and slapped its chest with its uninjured bear paw.

Seeing the black bear showing herringbone-shaped white fur on its chest, the boy sprang out like a cheetah, his movements were so fast that it was tongue-tiring.

The gamblers onlookers felt a flash in front of their eyes, and the young man jumped up and stabbed the horizontal knife into the black bear's heart, blood splattering everywhere!
"Ow!"

The black bear roared loudly, staggered back two steps, and with a thud, its limbs went limp, and it fell to the ground without a sound.

One hit kill!
Bai Fu nodded and said, "What a fast knife."

The gamblers who won were overjoyed and went to the cashier to exchange their chips; the gamblers who bet wrongly were unwilling to accept it, picked up their cups and slammed them in the face of the black bear.

Noisy, one after another.

The girl turned her head and said to Bai Fu: "This man's name is Yaoyuan, 77 battles, 77 victories."

Bai Fu frowned and said, "Have you never lost?"

The girl said calmly, "Here, regardless of whether it is human or beast, it is impossible for the loser to leave the arena alive."

　Ziyan's golden pupils, chirping and shaking green 騣.

　　In Pingming, they will chase each other and meet guests in the east of Luomen.

　　The young man learns swordsmanship, Ling Yu Bai Yuangong.

　　The bead robe is drawn with a brocade belt, and the dagger is inserted into Wu Hong.

　　The origin of ten thousand husbands is brave, carrying the glory of this life.

　　Entrust with Jumeng, get drunk and enter Xinfeng.

　　Laughing out a glass of wine, killing people in the city.

　　Shame and Yi Shuihan, follow the order to pass the rainbow.

　　Yandan's affairs are not established, and the Qin Emperor's Palace is empty.

　　Wuyang Dead Gray, Encore and Success.

　　——Li Bai in "A Journey with a Young Guest"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)