Chapter 174

Tonight was simply a nightmare for Sanada Yukigen. First, there was a fire in the Kinkakuji Temple, and then Prince Byodoin disappeared. He had planned to hold on to Yang Yue and wait for Pang Jun to fall into his trap, but found that Yang Yue had disappeared without a trace, leaving only the body of her maid and the fainted Waka Rinone. He finally found the missing prince in a wardrobe in the prince's mansion. The people below came to report that they had found the woman who had taken Prince Byodoin away before, but there was only one person, and there was no sign of Yang Yue. While he was racking his brains to figure out the whole story, news came from the Kinkakuji Temple that the only copy of the Indian "Lankavatara Sutra" that was regarded as the treasure of the temple had been stolen.

　　This made him doubt whether the crime was committed by one group or two groups, because according to Hege Lingyin's description after she woke up, the one who defeated her was an extremely beautiful and coquettish woman, and it took less than thirty rounds to knock her down. However, according to the intelligence, there was no woman with such outstanding martial arts around Pang Jun, unless it was the woman they met in Yanzhou. And the woman's behavior in Yanzhou did not seem to be in the same group as Pang Jun, which made him have to suspect that the people who kidnapped Yang Yue and set fire to and stole the scriptures were two different groups.

　　The only clear clue now is that of Wangyue Qianluan, so he can only use this clue as a starting point to track and unravel all the mysteries.

　　He had been following the mark left by Mochizuki Chiluan while thinking about everything that happened tonight. Before he knew it, he came to a jungle. When he was hesitating whether to enter the jungle, Mochizuki Chiluan appeared in front of him and said respectfully, "Lord Sanada, that man has settled in a cave half a mile away. He is very alert and I was almost discovered by him several times."

　　Sanada Yukigen nodded and asked, "Did you see his appearance clearly? What did he look like?"

　　Wangyue Qianluan shook her head and replied, "He has his face covered the whole time, so I can't see clearly."

　　"Forget it. Regardless of whether this man is Liu Jun or not, I will capture the Golden Pavilion's treasure, the Lankavatara Sutra. Let's go." After saying that, he took more than a dozen soldiers from the Martial God Camp and followed Wangyue Qianluan into the jungle.

　　It was the fourth watch of the night. The jungle was quiet and gloomy. Everyone could only see each other's figures through the moonlight. Seeing that the jungle was getting denser and denser, Sanada felt something was wrong after years of marching experience. He suddenly shouted, "Wait, Mochizuki-kun, where are you taking us!?"

　　Wangyue Qianluan did not answer him, but suddenly stopped, then flashed and disappeared into the jungle.

　　Sanada Yukigen already felt very bad, and he shouted without thinking: "There is an ambush, retreat immediately!"

　　It was too late. As soon as he finished speaking, "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" sounds came from all directions. Driven by instinct, Yukio Sanada immediately lay on the ground and avoided this round of murderous intent.

　　However, the others were not so lucky. Several people were killed by the trap and died on the spot. The rest were more or less injured to varying degrees. Before they could react, several cold lights flashed in the jungle, and screams were heard wherever they went. Even Yukio Sanada himself had his arm cut by a ray of cold light.

　　Yukigen Sanada stood up and led the rest of the group to retreat quickly. Of the seventeen people, only nine were left, all of whom were injured to varying degrees. Yukigen Sanada looked at the surrounding woods vigilantly and said, "I never thought that Liu Jun would use a woman as bait. I was careless. Come out, or I will burn this entire forest!"

　　"Burn it? Why not? This jungle is not mine anyway. I won't feel bad if it burns down." Pang Jun walked out from the shadows. He stood on the tree, wearing a strange mask.

　　"Hmph, you cunning fellow, don't think I can't recognize you just because you're wearing a mask!"

　　"No, I don't know who Liu Jun is. I'm just a businessman who saw a business opportunity. If someone can afford the price, I'll do the job." Pang Jun continued to talk nonsense.

　　"You escaped in Songzhou last time. Now that you come to Daying, don't leave again. Even if you let that stinky woman Mochizuki Qianluan help you, so what? Come and die." After saying this, Sanada Yukioka drew out his weapon, the famous sword "Masamune", and rushed towards Pang Jun.

　　"Lord Sanada, aren't you afraid that I have other traps here?"

　　Pang Jun's voice made Sanada Yukio's head, which was already dizzy, immediately alert. He stopped in his tracks and stared at Pang Jun carefully. Seeing his calm look, Sanada Yukio knew that his rhythm had been controlled by the other party.

　　At this time, Pang Jun's hateful voice sounded again: "Actually, I know that Lord Sanada really wants to let me go, but tonight, there was a fire and the Crown Prince disappeared, and now even the Crown Princess is missing. I guess you have no choice but to come to trouble me, right? If you go back empty-handed, I'm afraid your Majesty of Daying will punish you. If you can catch me, at least you can report to your superiors, right? So, I'm afraid there will be no peace tonight."

　　Yukio Sanada looked at the few people around him who were still able to fight, and muttered a few words in Japanese. Then the people from the Martial God Camp picked up their weapons, followed him, and walked towards Pang Jun step by step.

　　"Do you think you can really catch me? Or is tonight your death?"

　　The arrogance in Pang Jun's words made these members of the Martial God Camp who were very respected in the Japanese army feel extremely humiliated. The most irritable one cursed and stood up and rushed towards Pang Jun who was falling from the tree trunk. The Martial God Camp soldier who rushed towards Ye Wudao from the front made a sharp turn and then turned back strangely. He stretched out his hands like lightning and tried to grab the throat of Pang Jun who was standing still and looked very fragile. Pang Jun, with a sinister smile on his face, gently took a step back when the iron claw of his opponent who was secretly delighted was about to touch him.

　　"I'm afraid you can only deal with opponents like third-rate figures in the Central Plains martial arts world. If there is a master who really wants to make a move on you, you will be as vulnerable as you are!" Pang Jun's eyes suddenly changed, and the other members of the Martial God Camp were shocked. They watched this seemingly nonchalant young man slightly sideways as if he was strolling in a garden, and suddenly smashed down the man's arms with his right arm. The force that was strangling the opponent's throat was instantly shattered by Pang Jun's blow. Just when Sanada Yukioka cried out in bad news, Pang Jun had already retracted his right hand and used a backhand punch to hit the man's right temple fiercely. The soldier from the Martial God Camp was killed on the spot.

　　When everyone in the Martial God Camp was shocked, the long-lost Mochizuki Chiluan appeared out of nowhere like a ghost and chopped off the head of the man walking at the end with one knife. Sanada Yukioka's side lost two people in an instant.

　　"I'm very curious about how you killed Yoshikawa Harumitsu. In terms of martial arts, he is not much weaker than you. Once the two of you fight in the city, it will definitely attract the attention of other masters in the city. How did you do it so quietly?" asked Yukio Sanada.

　　"You'll know if you try it."

　　"You were not as good as me in Songzhou, I want to see what you can use to compete with my 'Masamune' today!" There were still six soldiers left in the Wushen Camp. Sanada Yukgen signaled two of them to entangle Mochizuki Chiluan and prevent her from using ninjutsu or stealth techniques to harass and attack her. He drew out his weapon, and the momentum of "Masamune" reached its peak. He attacked Pang Jun together with the remaining four.

　　No matter how conceited Pang Jun was, he did not want to face a master as strong as Sanada Yukgen in the midst of harassment, so he grabbed the body of the man he had just killed instantly and swung it at one of the attackers. When the attacker was trying to dodge the hidden weapon in a panic, he felt his eyes blurred and was hit by the ghostly Pang Jun in the Tianzong acupoint. He immediately lost his ability to fight due to the severe pain in his shoulders.

　　The remaining few people finally launched a collective attack on this evil star before Pang Jun delivered a fatal kick to the man on the ground. Pang Jun had to give up the plan of pursuit and used other people's bodies to avoid Sanada Yukioka's attack.

　　Seeing Pang Jun slipping around like a loach, Sanada Yukigen had no choice but to give the order: "All of you, get out of here!"

　　Pang Jun sneered, "Want to retreat now? It's too late!" He appeared sideways in front of a retreating man like a flash of lightning, and hit him in the heart with his left elbow. The man was caught off guard and had to protect his vitals, but Pang Jun grabbed his right arm and twisted it hard. His body somersaulted three times in the air before falling to the ground. Pang Jun, like a leech attached to his bones, stepped on his head mercilessly. In just a moment, two people were killed on their side.

　　The two who had retreated looked at their fallen colleague, and then looked at Pang Jun with fear. Sanada Yukio said angrily, "I'm still here, what's there to be afraid of?!" Even so, he looked at Pang Jun with caution, because in the flash of lightning just now, he saw that Pang Jun's speed and strength had improved significantly compared to the last time they fought. Could he be a genius like Liu Shengjun? How could he become so powerful in just one year?

　　"The second best sword master in Jianlu and the sixth best sword master in Japan, today I will let you understand what it means that the Central Plains is a land of talented people and beautiful scenery!" Seeing Sanada Yukioka coming, Pang Jun did not dare to delay. He picked up a Japanese sword from the corpse of a Wushenying and rushed towards his opponent!

　　Yukigen Sanada is worthy of being the best in the sword hut, a top master who is well versed in the way of "aggression like fire, movement like thunder". If Pang Jun had not fought with him before and knew his fighting style, he would probably have fallen into his surging sword force, and rows of thick trees would have been chopped off at the waist like tofu.

　　The Pang family's ancestral edgeless sword emphasizes "a heavy sword without an edge, great ingenuity without effort", and Pang Jun took this as the core and came up with a set of fighting methods against Sanada Yukigen. Like a small boat dancing with the waves, he used the slow and sticky soft fighting methods to counter the opponent's hardest and fiercest fighting methods.

　　After dozens of moves, Sanada Yukigen was driven to the point of being unable to bear Pang Jun's thorny fighting style. He was just about to change his tactics to force Pang Jun to fight him head-on to end the battle, but Pang Jun suddenly took the initiative to change, and his originally feminine sword force suddenly became tough. He had just been fed with inertia by Pang Jun's sticky and passive fighting style, and now his opponent suddenly became weak, and Sanada Yukigen's originally aggressive and continuous swordsmanship suddenly froze for a moment.

　　It was at this fleeting moment that Pang Jun seized the opportunity, and the tip of his sword touched the tip of the "authentic" knife like a dragonfly skimming the water. The huge impact caused Sanada Yukio's body to shake violently.

　　Seeing that Pang Jun would seize the opportunity to pursue him and that he would be defeated, he roared in his heart: The rise and prosperity of the Sanada family depends on me alone. I will climb up to the top of my Sanada family and become the top family in Daying! I, Sanada Yukioka, cannot lose again in this life! He actually abandoned his "authenticity" and attacked Pang Jun's chest with both palms!

　　With a "swish" sound, this was the sound of a long sword piercing a palm. The tip of the sword pierced Sanada Yukio's palm, forcing his arm to bend and pierced into his arm.

　　With a "pa" sound, this was the sound of a palm hitting a human body, and the other hand passed through Pang Jun's defense line and hit his shoulder.

　　Just when Yukio Sanada thought that he and Pang Jun would both be defeated and his men would reap the rewards, Pang Jun said with a cold and sinister look in his eyes: "You lose, Yukio Sanada!" After saying that, Pang Jun actually loosened his hold on the hilt of the sword, and with one hand he used all his internal strength to hit the hilt. A fierce internal force went straight through the sword and rushed towards Yukio Sanada's body, knocking him back.

　　What's even more terrifying is that at this time Yukio Sanada realized that he and Pang Jun were fighting in front of a big tree. The long sword pushed him directly, causing his arm to be pierced and his body to be nailed to the tree trunk. Before he or anyone else could react, Pang Jun had already rushed forward and frantically attacked Yukio Sanada's entire body.

　　By the time the remaining two spectators rushed over to rescue, Pang Jun had already completed his final blow, punching Sanada Yukioka in the chest. With a "puff" sound, Sanada Yukioka spit out a large amount of blood, staring at Pang Jun with wide eyes, but there was no hope of life anymore.

　　Seeing Sanada Yukigen being killed, the two people who had planned to rescue him and the two people who were entangled with Mochizuki Chiluan wished they had four legs and fled out of the woods frantically.

　　"Want to run? It's too late..." Following Pang Jun's cold words, the four people who were trying to escape felt their eyes go dark. Their lives were slipping away and they would never be able to get them back...