Chapter 292 — A Bolt from the Blue

In Liang Yusheng's novel The Tale of the Dragon and Phoenix Hairpins, Yang Mulou's disciple molests a young girl on a Chang'an street. Duan Kexie sees it and strikes at a point from a distance, hitting the Weilu acupoint, his gate, and destroying his Golden Bell Shield skills.

It was precisely because Yang Ce knew this that he had feigned submission to Tian Long and then bided his time to discover where his gate lay! Otherwise, as the personally taught disciple of the King of Killers, even if he could not defeat this blade-and-bullet-proof monster Tian Long on the spot, there was no way Tian Long could have captured him!

He might not be able to attack, but he was more than capable of defending himself—Yang Ce could easily have escaped! Yet Yang Ce had not fled. He had meekly surrendered! Yang Ce intended to use the time of his captivity to carefully search out where Tian Long's gate was!

Anyone else would likely have searched blindly and never found Tian Long's gate in a lifetime! But Yang Ce was different—don't forget what Yang Ce had built his name on: his special ability.

Yang Ce could use his ability to examine every inch of skin on Tian Long. Because the man had trained in the Golden Bell Cover, which alters muscle and sinew, the muscle structure in the trained areas differed from that in the untrained ones.

Tedious as the work was, Yang Juehuan's careful comparison finally revealed that the muscle around Tian Long's right flank was utterly unlike the rest, and from this he concluded that here lay Tian Long's vital weak point.

And the time Yang Ce had spent obediently in the trunk had not been idleness—he had been using his ability to observe Tian Long. By the time they reached the rubbish dump, Yang Shuo had located Tian Long's weak point and was merely waiting for Tian Long to come humiliate him, so he could deliver a fatal blow.

Of course, Yang Yongjin might have struck directly at Tian Long's weak point, but then Tian Long would surely have been on his guard, desperately shielding it, and Yang Ce's chances of landing a blow there would have been all but nil.

Since martial artists are keenly sensitive about their weak points, Yang Yongjin could not let Tian Long sense that he already knew where it was. That was why Yang Ce resorted to the Yang Family Flying Kick: the first kick aimed near Tian Long's face to distract him, while the second kick in midair was the true strike, aimed straight at Tian Long's weak point!