Chapter 70: Only One Step Away from Being a Tyrant

Ou Zanghua originally thought he was going to enter the palace, but unexpectedly the eunuch took him to the Western Garden.

This place is very large and many of the houses can be seen to be newly built.

He knew in his heart that this place was probably the Leopard House.

In fact, the Leopard House was not built by Emperor Zhengde. This place was originally where nobles raised tigers, leopards and other ferocious beasts for entertainment. It is one of the relics left over from the Yuan Dynasty.

As they walked along the road, the eunuch took him to a racecourse.

On the racecourse, two people were fighting on horseback. One of them was wearing a red velvet belt and waist-length armor with fish-scale armor plates and two golden dragons on his body armor. In the middle of his chest was an iron round protective goggle with gold inlay.

You can tell who it is at a glance by the extravagant armor.

The other wore blue armor, a heavy cloth armor with iron plates embedded in it.

Both of them have superb horsemanship. One holds a stick and the other holds a gun. They fight in a lively manner.

In the end, Emperor Zhengde used a trick to find the snake in the grass, disarmed the man's spear, and won the horse battle.

Then, Emperor Zhengde rode his horse to Ou Zanghua, took off his helmet and threw it aside, and asked with great interest: "Does Mr. Ou know how to fight on horseback?"

The general in green armor also took off his helmet and looked at Ou Zanghua curiously while sitting in the carriage.

"Your Majesty, I don't know how to do that." Ou Zanghua bowed and saluted.

"It doesn't matter if you don't know how to do it. You can learn it!" Emperor Zhengde smiled, then he got off his horse, picked up a long sword from a eunuch, threw it to Ou Zanghua and said, "Come, let me see if you have made any progress in these days."

Ou Zanghua caught the sword and asked helplessly, "Your Majesty summoned me to answer your questions, didn't you?"

"Yes!" Emperor Zhengde nodded and said seriously, "I have just learned a set of stick techniques, and I have summoned Lord Ou to answer your questions."

Ou Zanghua took a breath of cold air. It seemed that his boss had become smarter!

"watch out!"

Emperor Zhengde kicked the end of the long stick and rushed towards Ou Zanghua.

After Ou Zanghua dodged sideways, Emperor Zhengde quickly pulled back the long stick and smashed it down with one powerful move.

He swung the sword in his hand, removing the long stick to the side, then swung the sword in his backhand and aimed directly at the chest of Emperor Zhengde.

This move was originally intended to wipe the neck, but Ou Zanghua was afraid that he would lose control and really kill Emperor Zhengde, so he reduced the technique to wipe the chest.

After all, Emperor Zhengde was wearing armor, so a chop would at most produce a few sparks.

This scene made the blue-armored general on the side break out in a cold sweat. Civil officials are different. If they get a chance, they will really chop!

"Hahahaha" Emperor Zhengde took a wrong step to avoid it, then burst into laughter.

This is the feeling he wants!
Upon seeing this, Ou Zanghua used the Hengshan sword technique - Cloud Hand Hanging Sword. The long sword was like willow catkins in the wind, swaying left and right unpredictably and impossible to defend against.

However, Emperor Zhengde swept through the enemy with one move, forcing Ou Zanghua to retreat a few steps. Then he pointed his toes and attacked back at a faster speed, Hengshan Sword Technique: Immortal Pointing the Way.

After Emperor Zhengde used his stick to block, he pressed down, and his powerful internal force burst out, forcing Ou Zanghua to almost kneel down.

He turned his wrist, used the Hengshan sword technique to slash horizontally, forced Emperor Zhengde back, and then flipped back to stand firm again.

Emperor Zhengde did not pursue him, but asked in disappointment: "Mr. Ou, it has been a month, why haven't you made any progress in your inner strength?"

"I am dull and still groping in the dark." Ou Zanghua explained somewhat awkwardly.

"Does the "Five Dragons Magical Art" require qualifications? Wouldn't it be enough to have hands?" Emperor Zhengde looked at the blue-armored general in confusion. He suspected that his beloved minister was lying to him.

The blue-armored general was a smart man. He bowed and replied, "Your Majesty, people are divided into nine classes. Your Majesty is the true Son of Heaven and the descendant of Taizu. Your talent is unparalleled in the world. So what is easy for Your Majesty is something that I need to practice for many years to achieve."

"I see. I was wondering why you haven't made any progress in horse fighting in just a few months. It seems that I'm improving too fast and you can't keep up!" Emperor Zhengde threw the long stick to a eunuch and said with some melancholy: "But I won't wait for you. I will follow the example of Emperor Taizong and go on an expedition to the northern desert and drink water from the North Sea! If you can't keep up, you will miss the opportunity to become famous forever."

The blue-armored general immediately dismounted, half-knelt on the ground and said excitedly: "If your majesty is to go on an expedition to Mobei, I am willing to be the vanguard!"

"Haha." Emperor Zhengde laughed and said, "Then you have to work hard, otherwise you can't even withstand fifty moves from me, so how can you be a vanguard?"

Remembering that there was someone beside him, Emperor Zhengde suddenly looked at Ou Zanghua with a smile on his face and asked, "Mr. Ou, I asked you to come here today, in addition to the duel, there is another more important matter. Have you seen Bai Suzhen?"

What the hell? Ou Zanghua decisively corrected: "Your Majesty, I have never seen him. Bai Suzhen is just a character I made up. He does not exist in the world."

"Hehehe, Lord Ou, you are possessed! Zhang Lun, you come too." Emperor Zhengde raised his head and walked to the palace beside him with his civil and military officials.

Ou Zanghua frowned slightly. He remembered that in history there were many sorcerers who pretended to be mythical figures to cheat people out of money and titles. Could it be that he had encountered one of them this time?

He wanted to see which guy was so bold as to cheat him, the "original".

After entering the palace, the first thing you see is a big tree.

There was a white object entangled on the big tree. Ou Zanghua's scalp suddenly went numb when he saw it.

Zhang Lun wasn't in much better condition either, his face suddenly turned pale.

How the hell is this Bai Suzhen?

This is an albino python!

Judging from its size, it is estimated to be four to five meters long.

It was entangled in a tree and there was no movement.

"Zhang Yong, can my Bai Suzhen eat today?" Emperor Zhengde asked casually.

"Your Majesty, Lady Bai has been practicing and has not eaten." Zhang Yong walked over, bowed, and spoke with admiration.

"You are so diligent!" Emperor Zhengde looked back at his ministers and urged them, "You should learn from Bai Suzhen. How can you not make any progress in just a few months?"

"Your Majesty is right." Zhang Lun bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

Ou Zanghua was still a little confused. How could a python practice without eating?

"Work hard!" Emperor Zhengde said, and prepared to go in.

Zhang Lun was startled, slid down to his knees in front of Zhengde, and shouted, "Your Majesty, it's dangerous!"

Ou Zanghua grabbed Zhengde's sleeve and looked at Zhang Lun with some admiration. It was not easy to slide to his knees so smoothly.

"What's the danger? Bai Suzhen is a very kind person! Ou Qing has written about it." Emperor Zhengde wanted to kick Zhang Lun away, but the other party held his legs tightly.

Zhang Yong, who was standing by, also explained, "Don't worry, Master Zhang. Lady Bai has a very gentle temperament. I found her in Hangzhou and brought her to the capital by boat. Lady Bai has not hurt anyone."

"Did you hear that?" Emperor Zhengde wanted to move forward, but Ou Zanghua quickly said, "But Your Majesty, the Bai Suzhen I drew is actually a white elaphe snake, and this is a python!"

"Isn't a python a snake?" Zhengde asked back.

Could you please stop calling snakes snaking?!

Ou Zanghua's expression froze for a moment before he said, "The white elaphe is not a python."

"Zhang Yong!"

Zhang Yong immediately said, "Your Majesty, the ancients said, a big snake becomes a python, a big python becomes an anaconda, a big anaconda becomes a dragon, and a big dragon becomes a dragon!"

Zhengde looked at Ou Zanghua, his eyes seemed to say "it's your turn".

Ou Zanghua opened his mouth and uttered, "That is the cultivation method of male snakes. Bai Suzhen is a female snake. She does not pursue a large body size and does not follow this cultivation path."

"How did Tanhualang know this?" Zhang Yong asked with a cold look in his eyes.

Seeing the Emperor Zhengde's eyes full of curiosity, Ou Zanghua pretended to be calm and explained: "I wrote in my danci that Bai Suzhen practiced in Qingcheng Mountain for a thousand years. Qingcheng Mountain is one of the four great Taoist mountains, so Bai Suzhen practiced Taoist skills. Taoism is the origin. If you turn into a wild animal or a boa constrictor, what origin can you talk about?"

"Yes!"

Emperor Zhengde came back to his senses and asked somewhat disappointedly: "So, it's not my Bai Suzhen?"

"Bai Suzhen was fabricated by this humble servant!!!"

"What a pity." Emperor Zhengde sighed and turned away disappointedly: "Let's keep him! When he turns into a dragon one day, it will be a chance for me to help him."

Use a shovel, it's almost starving to death!
(End of this chapter)