King of Hailing

Guo Jing's large hand was about to seize Wanyan Liang by the throat when the elderly monk-robed man beside him suddenly moved, stabbing a finger diagonally at Guo Jing's wrist.

"One Yang Finger?" Guo Jing's gaze sharpened. He was on good terms with Southern Emperor Yideng and knew full well the power of the One Yang Finger. He did not dare let the other man strike his acupoint, so he changed his move and met the finger with a palm strike.

Though the monk-robed elder knew how formidable Guo Jing's Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms were, before their finger and palm had even collided, he felt the palm wind cut painfully against his fingertips. He realized that he had still underestimated his opponent. His One Yang Finger had not yet reached mastery; if this move landed solidly, these two fingers of his would likely be crippled.

In his haste, he could only turn his finger into a palm and use his family's ultimate art to neutralize Guo Jing's surging palm force.

Guo Jing was astonished to find that his palm force was somewhat beyond his control, even nearly injuring himself several times. Greatly alarmed, he cried, "What kind of martial art is this?"

A flash of insight suddenly struck him, and he blurted out, "Star Shifting!"

Noticing the strange looks Wanyan Liang and his companions were giving him, the monk-robed elder's face darkened. He was none other than Murong Bo, the previous head of the Murong Family.

He had assumed the alias Old Monk Li and attached himself to Wanyan Liang precisely to fish in troubled waters. All this time at Wanyan Liang's side, he had never used his true martial arts. The Murong Family's learning was extensive, and after years of hard training in Shaolin's Scripture Repository, mastering the Seventy-two