The Legend of the Condor Heroes

Guo Jing saw that there were remains of snow on Hou Tonghai's head and couldn't control himself, he said, "Third master Hou, there's snow on your head." Hou Tonghai angrily retorted, "I am known as the three headed dragon, but I am not third in position, why call me third master? Even if I am fourth master Hou, is it any of your business? How would I not know if my head has snow? I wanted to wipe it away, but now that you asked me to, I will purposely not wipe!" The warm temperature in the room cause the snow on his head to melt and drops of water flowed down Hou Tonghai's head, but he is a stubborn man who keeps to his word, so no matter what, he did not even try to wipe the water off his face.

Sha Tongtian said." My martial brother's skills are rough and clumsy, please pardon him." With that, he stretched his hand into a plate, grabbed some melon seeds, and the seeds were shot out in a straight line with a flick of his middle finger. The seeds were stuck into the snow pile which Hou Tonghai earlier built and formed a 'huang(yellow)' word. The snow pile was quite a distance from Sha Tongtian's seat and yet, he was still able to form a word on it neatly with the mere use of melon seeds. His eyesight and accuracy was indeed amazing.

Wang Chuyi thought, "No wonder the dragon king of the demonic group rules the yellow river, his skills are indeed spectacular." Turning his head, he saw that the snow pile had another wave of seeds, forming a 'he(river)' word and a 'jiu(nine)' word, it seems like Sha Tongtian wants to form four words, reading 'huang he jiu qu'(nine tunes of the yellow river).

Peng Lianhu laughed out, "Brother Sha, I cannot help but really admire your remarkable finger skills. Lets make us make a deal, since this elder Wang wants to study our skills, I will borrow Brother Sha's finger skills to display some of my skills." With that, he flung his body and landed near the doorway. At this time, Brother Sha had already shot out the rest of the seeds to form the remaining 'qu(song)' word, but Peng Lianhu suddenly stretched out both arms to catch the seeds, it looked as if he were picking the seeds from midair. The seeds were very tiny and traveled at an amazing speed, but Peng Lianhu did not miss out a single one and had them all in his palms.

The audience broke into praises and Peng Lianhu retuned to his seat with a smile, Sha Tongtian then only managed to finish forming the "qu(song)' word with the seeds. Peng Lianhu's sudden display did steal away some of Sha Tongtian's limelight, but the two were very close and Sha Tongtian did not seem displeased and even smiled a little. He turned to Ouyang Ke and asked, "What does mister Ouyang plan on displaying so as to enlighten us inexperienced people?"

Ouyang Ke heard the sarcasm in Sha Tongtian's words and knew that he was still sore at him for interrupting his hits earlier on and thought hard on what to display so as to allow Sha Tongtian to admire him. At that moment, the servants brought up four types of dessert and replaced the used chopsticks with clean ones. Ouyang Ke snatched up the used chopsticks and with a wave of his hand; twenty chopsticks flew out at the same time, stuck into the snow and neatly formed four shapes of four flowers. To snatch a chopstick up and stick in to the snow with a wave is child's play, but to form the shape of a flower neatly using twenty chopsticks was very way difficult. This skill was deep and complex, such that Guo Jing and Wanyan Kang were not able to comprehend fully, but people such as Wang Chuyi and Sha Tongtian were secretly in praise.

In view of the high experts, Wang Chuyi thought, "One of them is already a quite a hassle, and yet there are so many grouped here together. Why? Even people like Young Chief of WhiteCamelMountain, supreme virtue, Lingzhi and Ginseng immortal who do not reside in the central plains are here. There must be some suspicious plan going on."

Ginseng immortal, Liang Ziwong laughed as he stood up before acknowledging the rest and reached the centre of the room with light steps. He stretched out his right foot and landed on the chopsticks, which Ouyang Ke had stuck, into the snow. Then he started his display of skills , "hugging the moon", "two gentlemen up the hills", "pulling arrow stunt", "turning without shoes", and displayed his "sparrow light fists". His feet looked like he was jumping one moment and flying at another moment, every step he took would end by landing on top of the chopsticks. After his "giving way to step on a tiger" and "retreating to wrap it up". Liang Ziwong finished displaying his "sparrow light fists" and the amazing thing was that the twenty chopsticks were still neatly in place, as before. With a constant smile on his face, Liang Ziwong retreated back to his seat. The hall exploded into applauses and even Guo Jing gave his praises.

At this moment, the banquet was over and the servants brought up golden bowls of warm water for the guests to wash up a little.

Wang Chuyi thought, "Now, it remains Superior Virtue, Lingzi to display his skills before they all attack together." Wang Chuyi glanced at him only to see him still dipping his hands in the water slowly, disregarding of everything else. After everyone finished washing, his hands were still in the bowl of water, as if thinking of something, everyone was feeling curious and after a while, steam was rising up from his bowl of water, the bowl gave out some noise before bubbles rose from the bottom of the bowl of water, as if water was boiling. Wang Chuyi was secretly anxious, "His internal energy is powerful! I have to grab the chance to attack first."

Seeing that all attention was focused on Lingzi, Wang Chuyi thought, "I have to take them by surprise and make the first move to gain the upper hand." Suddenly, he flew forward, with supreme speed, caught and pulled Wanyan Kang away with his right hand, before sealing the back of Wanyan Kang's accupoints. At that moment, Sha Tongtian and the rest were taken back by surprise and did not know how to react.

Wang Chuyi picked up a bottle of wine with his left hand and said, "To be able to meet up with so many heroes today is my honor, let me give everyone a toast."

Wang Chuyi used the bottle to-serve wine. With that he drank a large mouthful and spat out, drops of wine landing into everyone's cups. No matter whether the person's cup was near or far away from him, whether the cups were half-filled or empty, the wine kept landing beautifully into the cups and every cup had the same proportion of wine, there was not a single drop of wine spilled or wasted. From the way Wang Chuyi spat the wine, Superior Lingzi knew that he had excellent internal energy, and he was still able to carry the wine bottle in one hand while holding Wanyan Kang in another. Although they knew that it was possible to attack Wang Chuyi at this moment, but no one dared to in fear of Wanyan Kang getting hurt. Lastly, Wang Chuyi served wine for himself and Guo Jing, and raising his cup, he said smoothly, "I have no animosity towards everyone and have no strong relations to little brother Guo, but seeing that he is compassionate, heroic and has backbone, I want to plead with all present to let him go on my behalf."

Everyone was silent. Wang Chuyi continued, "If everyone is able to be magnanimous, I will free little prince, a royal descendent in exchange for a commoner is a very good deal right?"