Seeking Instruction

"This junior, Brown, sought instruction from all you seniors here today."

Chen Cheng spoke solemnly as he cupped his fists.

"Good lad, this Old Huang had long wanted to weigh your measure. Let me show you what my Five-Lang Bagua Staff can do."

Huang Xiaoren was the first to leap onto the arena. With a flick of the cane in his hand, it transformed directly into a long metal staff.

The Five-Lang Bagua Staff might have entered the public eye because of one of Stephen Chow's films back then, but such a staff art truly existed in reality.

Moreover, it was an exceptionally renowned staff art among the southern schools.

The moment Chen Cheng heard its name, he understood why Huang Xiaoren had stepped up first.

It was likely because Chen Cheng had risen to prominence by challenging the southern schools. And speaking of the south, the Five-Lang Bagua Staff was itself a southern-style staff art. Huang Xiaoren was also a Grandmaster, while Chen Cheng had made his name by defeating more than a hundred southern sects. Naturally, Huang Xiaoren wanted to weigh his measure.

Chen Cheng took a staff as tall as his eyebrows from the weapon rack, leaped onto the arena, cupped his fists to Huang Xiaoren, and assumed the Vanguard Stance.

"You'd best be careful. My staff art has eight times eight, sixty-four variations. Don't let me catch you with a sap."

As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Xiaoren used the Qilin Step to rapidly close in on Chen Cheng. He then gripped the staff with both hands and unleashed the Mountain-Splitting Cut, while keeping strength in his wrists, ready to change at any moment.

When Chen Cheng saw the staff sweeping toward his upper abdomen, he knew it was an upward cut in staff techniques.