Hu Po Counters Yu Ye, Zhong Ning Counters Hei Ying

　　There are a hundred warriors of the imperial court ranked on Liu Shan's Elites Rankings. The twenty-first to one-hundred ranks are conferred Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding ranks, while the top twenty are different. Some in the pugilistic world jokingly call them seven, six, four, three, one brigade.

　　The top three on the rankings are referred to as The Ultimate Three.

　　The three of them possess profound martial arts skills and are in no respect inferior to the top masters of the martial world. It's rare for them to fight, but when they do, they cause the world to tremble. Yan s.h.i.+san was once one of them. That's why the three of them are usually delegated to posts far away where they are responsible for subduing foreign enemies.

　　The seventeen warriors ranked after the ultimate three are known as the seventeen hidden dragons.

　　Among the seventeen of them however, are clear distinctions. Those distinctions being: last-seven, middle-six, top-four.

　　The skill level in each of those ranks is different. Long Zaitian is ranked fifteenth in the seventeen hidden dragons and therefore belongs in the last-seven, and is one of the relatively weaker members.

　　Despite being one of the seventeen hidden dragons, his skills are far inferior to those ranked above him.

　　However, all twenty of them serve the imperial court. Therefore, the nickname seven, six, four, three, one clown brigade isn't without reason.

　　The ultimate three are given aliases based on sacred animals so they're like sacred animals that defend the nation. As long as they're around, the imperial court shall know peace.

　　Flying Fish, Qing Lin and Ying Long are the same. The ultimate three that came after were also the same.

　　The top four whom are closest to the ultimate three are also conferred aliases that are close to them.

　　Hu Po's name contains the "tiger" character within "Hu". That goes to show that the emperor holds his martial skills in high regard.

　　Nan Junfei was aware his opponent was no pushover. He held his breath and then whipped his sleeves out creating a whirlwind of snowflakes that picked up over ten little stones that packed full of power. They were hidden within the snow whirlwind and hard to notice.

　　This Flying Sands and Stones technique was a top-tier hidden-weapon technique that's hard to master. However, it wasn't difficult for Nan Junfei who was a famous skilled-master. The difficult part was forming the attack when waving his hand as it needed to look natural and not give the enemy time to defend. He took advantage of the snowflakes and night sky as cover to bring out the essence of hidden-weapons. That was where his effort was focused.

　　"Insignificant fluffy tricks."

　　Ho Po however, didn't think anything of him. Without even looking, he stepped forth. A single step from him was enough turn the atmosphere around unnatural. Nan Junfei could seemingly see the qi around him suddenly flow erratically. He didn't know what sort of G.o.dly strength was hiding within. One misstep would mean death.

　　It appeared as though an invisible layer of qi flowed erratically around him, pus.h.i.+ng the snowflakes around away. However, the stones that contained Nan Junfei's internal strength could still pierce through the layer of flowing qi and accurately hit him on his body.

　　Nan Junfei was all giddy to himself: Your fault for acting up. You can't blame me for the consequences!

　　He then shouted: "Die, scoundrel!" With that, he rushed him with a palm strike.

　　However, Hu Po's body only stopped for a second when the stones. .h.i.t him. His clothes absorbed the force of the stones so taking one step back was sufficient to dissolve their force. He got his clothes to stand straight up again, thereby bouncing them back at him. The sound of the stones flying through the air was two-times louder than when they flew at him.

　　Being a master at hidden-weapons, Nan Junfei naturally knew how to defend against hidden-weapons as well as strike with them. However, it's rare to see someone do it in an incredible manner as Hu Po just did. Nan Junfei didn't panic as he watched the stones fly back at him. He was skilled at maintaining his composure. He stopped his feet and caught the stones with his hands skilfully.

　　"You want to kill me with that child's play level of skill?"

　　By the time he heard that sentence and looked at Hu Po again, he was already up in his face. While Nan Junfei was catching the stones, he moved to stand within three-feet of him. He wore a cold expression as he raised up one hand and slammed it on Nan Junfei's chest.