Save the Bachelor of Heaven

Xiang Nan returned to the courtyard from the Duke's Mansion and continued to practice martial arts with Xu Ziling.

They practiced until late at night, and then they went to bed to rest.

But at the fourth watch, the night was quieter, and Xiang Nan suddenly heard a very slight sound of sha, sha, sha.

And he knew as soon as he heard it that someone was performing the ultimate light skill.

He used his perspective eyes to look outside the house, and immediately saw a man in black, landing in the yard and walking into the house.

The black-clothed man was obviously a man, and the most obvious sign was that he had a half-mask on his face, covering half of his face, making it impossible to tell what he looked like.

But even so, Xiang Nan easily recognized his identity.

It was Hou Xibai, nicknamed the Amorous Young Master, but this was only his public identity. He also had another identity in secret, that is, the shadow swordsman Yang Xuyan.

Yang Xuyan's father, Yang Yong, was the eldest son of Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, and was once made the crown prince. But unfortunately, he lost the emperor's heart under the calculation of his younger brother Yang Guang, and was eventually demoted to a commoner.

After Yang Guang ascended the throne, in order to eliminate future troubles, he forged Yang Jian's will and sentenced Yang Yong to death. Yang Xuyan was rescued by Shi Zhixuan, who accepted him as his disciple and promised to help him restore his throne in the future. Yang Xuyan was naturally grateful.

But unfortunately, Shi Zhixuan chose to freeze himself twenty years ago and his whereabouts were unknown, which made Yang Xuyan naturally worried.

Because without Shi Zhixuan's martial arts and the strong support of the Demon Sect, he would never be able to overthrow Yang Guang and take back the throne that should belong to him.

So he painstakingly searched for Shi Zhixuan. Until recently, it was rumored that "The Secret of Immortality" could find the tomb of the evil king and release Shi Zhixuan, so he also moved his mind.

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"In the play, you pretended to be a good person and deceived many people. Unfortunately, man's plan is not as good as God's plan. This time it won't be in vain." Xiang Nan thought to himself, and flashed to Xu Ziling's room, cast a daydream spell on him, and then quietly guarded the door of the room.

In the play, Yang Xuyan used Hou Xibai's identity as a cover to nominally help Shuanglong fight against the four bandits of Qianqian, Zhu Yuyan, Yu Wenzhi, and the Demon Sect.

In fact, he wanted to use Shuanglong's power to find Shi Zhixuan, obtain the evil emperor's relics, and destroy the Heshi Bi. In the end, he exposed his ambition and cooperated with Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji to dominate the world and seize the throne.

Shuanglong was deceived by him at first and thought he was a good person, but he was deceived by him a lot.

But in fact, in the book, Hou Xibai and Yang Xuyan are two completely different people, and although they are both disciples of Shi Zhixuan, their martial arts are completely different.

Because Shi Zhixuan has martial arts from both Huajian School and Butian Pavilion, the two disciples only learn martial arts from his school.

Hou Xibai is a descendant of Huajian School. He learned the martial arts of Huajian School. He pays attention to "using art to enter martial arts" and is good at piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and songs.

His school has a long history and belongs to an organization of small craftsmen with artistic attributes. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the art of playing chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs were all privileges enjoyed by the upper class.

However, those who were responsible for painting, playing music, writing and collecting poetry were subordinates of big men. They were both dependent on the mainstream society and marginal figures of the mainstream society.

The Analects of Confucius said, "Even if it is a small path, there must be something to be seen. If it is far-reaching, it may be muddy, so a gentleman will not do it." This means that poetry, poetry, calligraphy and painting, astrology, divination, medicine, agriculture and mathematics are all small knowledge, which are useless for governing the country and ensuring the people's safety. Therefore, a gentleman will not waste energy on these useless knowledge.

Therefore, these small craftsmen who have mastered certain talents and are outside the mainstream society have united together to form the Huajian School, one of the two sects and six paths of the Demon Sect.

Yang Xuyan is the descendant of the Butian Pavilion, and he learned the art of assassination. The Butian Pavilion is the inheritance of the rangers and assassins of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

During the Han Dynasty, all schools of thought were abolished and Confucianism was the only one respected. Since knights violated the law with force, rangers and assassins were also among those who were attacked, so they jointly founded the Bu Tian Pavilion.

Because they were not orthodox and heretical, they were also classified as demons.

In the book, Yang Xuyan secretly joined the Great Ming Zun Sect and became one of the atoms. He practiced the Great Ming Zun Sect's secret book "The Root of All Laws Wisdom Sutra", and combined it with the "Immortal Seal" to create the "Black Hand Magic Skill", which is a very difficult character.

However, in the play, in order to simplify the plot of the characters, Hou Xibai and Yang Xuyan were merged into one person. Hou Xibai also changed from a close friend of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling in the original novel to a treacherous and two-faced villain.

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Yang Xuyan came to the door, drew out the sharp blade, picked the bolt, and then gently pushed the door open, and flashed into the house.

His body movements were extremely light, and the whole process made almost no sound. He really deserved to be called a "shadow swordsman".

But when he entered the door, he suddenly found that Xiang Nan was standing at the door, looking at him with a smile.

Yang Xuyan was shocked.

Because he had not noticed Xiang Nan at all.

As the world's top killer, his five senses were very sharp.

Not to mention that there was someone close at hand, even if someone passed by, peeped, or attacked a few hundred meters away, he would feel it.

This is the killer's intuition.

But Xiang Nan was clearly in front of him just now, but he knew nothing about it. It was really terrible.

"Is he not breathing, heartbeat, or body temperature?" Yang Xuyan was shocked, but out of the killer's instinct, he still stabbed Xiang Nan with a sword.

The sword was as fast as a meteor; the murderous aura was so strong that it was frightening. It is worthy of being an assassin's sword, killing one in ten steps and bleeding five steps.

But there was a clang, and the sword pierced Xiang Nan's body, but it was like piercing a piece of steel, and it didn't even penetrate the skin. Looking at Xiang Nan again, he turned into a golden man with golden light.

"..." Yang Xuyan was shocked again.

Such martial arts, he had never heard of, never seen, and was really unexpected.

And at this moment, his hands were grabbed by Xiang Nan, and his martial arts were sucked away by Xiang Nan.

"Absorbing power?!" Yang Xuyan was shocked.

Absorbing power is also an evil martial arts he practiced hard. To practice this evil skill, he needs to absorb a lot of corpse qi. For this reason, he had to deal with many tombs and battlefields, and practice by absorbing the corpse qi of the dead.

It was precisely with this skill that Yang Xuyan quickly accumulated considerable strength at a young age. You know, when Shi Zhixuan was in seclusion, he was only seven years old.

Therefore, he was nominally Shi Zhixuan's apprentice, but in fact Shi Zhixuan did not teach him much martial arts personally, which was very different from the one-on-one personal teaching of famous teachers such as Xianxian and Shi Feixuan.

But his strength was not weak at all, and was even better than Xianxian. He relied on the power-absorbing method, which allowed him to absorb the power of others and grow rapidly.

But this method was too evil. Even if he practiced it, his life span would be greatly shortened. It was a kind of drinking poison to quench thirst and exhausting the pond to catch fish.

But he didn't expect that Xiang Nan would also know it.