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Chapter 90: Invitation to Duel

  Under the leadership of Bao Zhan, everyone entered the city and settled down. In order to welcome the envoys from various countries who came to congratulate him on his birthday, the Xiongnu had obviously made careful preparations, specially vacating a large area of the city as a place for foreign envoys to stay.

  Xu Haifeng and others lived in the first courtyard of Dongshou, of course, more than 3,000 people could not enter the city at the same time, so only over a hundred black flag army guards and several generals followed them into the city, while others were stationed outside the city under Zhebie's leadership.

  All the way, Xu Haifeng suddenly realized that Jiang Koming had been gloomy all along, and he couldn't help but wonder who had offended this jinx. However, past experience told him that someone was bound to be unlucky, for anyone who provoked this eccentric guy would not be let off until they were thoroughly dealt with.

  "Why is the military advisor so troubled, with such a worried and bitter face? It's not like your usual style. Rarely do I have this opportunity, and it would be a waste not to tease you a bit after several months of your wise teachings, Jiang Gongming."

  Jiang Kongming looked at him with a flickering gaze.

  Xu Haifeng inexplicably shivered and a thread of ominous foreboding rose from the bottom of his heart.

  He smiled and turned around, wanting to leave, but unexpectedly was caught by Jiang Kongming.

  "What else do you want, military advisor?" A cold sweat trickled down the side of Xu Haifeng's face as he regretted provoking him when he was in a bad mood.

  Jiang Kongming asked in a low voice: "My lord, have you seen that Bao Diao's gaze at you just now?"

  Xu Haifeng shook his head dazedly and thought to himself: "Bao Bao is not an absolute beauty, why should I pay attention to him?"

  "That Gao Duanbing heard that the master is the leader of the Black Flag Army, and actually dared to be disdainful, showing that he looks down on you, Master." Jiang Gongming said indignantly.

  "What's wrong with that? Didn't you say to keep a low profile, isn't this just right?" Xu Haifeng shrugged his shoulders. This young eagle was not much older than himself, but he was already a top-notch master, and in the Central Plains martial arts world, no one among the younger generation could rival him, indeed having the qualifications to be arrogant.

  Jiang Kongming shook his head and said, "It won't do. As I, Jiang Kongming, claim to be the reincarnation of Zhuge Liang, how can I let my lord be looked down upon? I must think of a good plan to make you show off your divine might and dampen the Xiongnu's morale."

  Xu Haifeng secretly sighed, and the expression of Huabu Eagle had nothing to do with him. How did it end up being calculated on his head later? He held a glimmer of hope and explained: "Military strategist, that Huabu Eagle is one of the two great masters of the younger generation of Xiongnu, and being arrogant is normal."

  "What's so special about that? We also have two young masters in our Han Dynasty who are not inferior to them, but they don't show such arrogance." Jiang Gongming said disdainfully.

  Xu Haifeng thought about the young masters he knew, and apart from Cheng Yingtao, whom he had defeated in the palace examination, the others were far inferior to a first-rate master. Even Cheng Yingtao hadn't reached that level. He really couldn't think of two young masters who could compare with Bao Yueying, so he asked: "I wonder which two people the military advisor is referring to?"

  "Xu Haiming and Xia Yajun." Jiang Kongming replied calmly.

  Xu Haifeng murmured a response, turning his head back in surprise. He saw that Jiang Kongming's normally calm face had cracked a hint of a self-satisfied smile, seemingly extremely pleased with his own performance.

  "Is the military advisor saying that Xia's kung fu has also reached the level of a top-notch expert?" Xuhai Ming was able to join the ranks of top experts purely due to the effects of the Blood Wine, but Xia Yakun actually being praised by Jiang Kongming in such a way was beyond his expectations.

  "The student is still young and not yet blind to the world, but that little girl's martial arts skills are unfathomable. Among all the top-notch experts seen so far, she should be the most revered. If Master wants to get along with her harmoniously, he will have to make a lot more effort."

  Xu Haifeng was silent, always thinking that Xia Yajun was a weak and feeble woman, but unexpectedly she had such a powerful skill. He really underestimated her. However, when Jiang Kongming said she was the top among all first-rate masters, it was indeed somewhat unbelievable.

  Seeing that everyone was ready, Bao Gan bowed his hands and said: "Su Shilang, Modu Chanyu has heard that the princess is visiting, and has been waiting for a long time in the palace. Shall we let the princess enter the palace to pay her respects?"

  Su Chunwei hesitated and did not speak. According to the etiquette of the Great Han, the request made by Huo Qubing was simply unreasonable, but this was the territory of the Xiongnu. If he were to refuse bluntly, he feared that something unexpected would happen immediately.

  He hesitated here, anxious to the side of Xu Haifeng. If Su Chunwei agreed, Liu Ting would have to enter the palace immediately. This time it was like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth, and thinking about coming out again would be as difficult as ascending to heaven.

  Just as Xi Hai Feng was about to open his mouth to refuse, he heard someone outside the door shouting loudly: "Han Envoy General Xi Hai Feng is here, Kayser Adistar has come to challenge him."

  Kwak and others' attention was drawn by Adidas at the same time, and they all looked towards the gate.

  Xu Haifeng was overjoyed and couldn't help but want to hug him and kiss him on the mouth to express his gratitude.

  He hastily stepped out, and saw a tall man standing upright like a javelin at the gate of the courtyard. Just by looking at his high nose bridge and sky blue eyes, it was clear that he was a native-born Caesarean.

  "This general is Xu Haifeng. May I ask who you are?" Xu Haifeng was overjoyed and his words became much more polite.

  "I am Adis, the deputy commander of Caesar's fifth legion. This... this time I came here is to challenge you." Adis' Chinese just now was quite fluent, but at this moment he revealed his true form. It turned out that although he had a slight understanding of Chinese, he wasn't very familiar with it after all. The first few sentences were memorized, but when it came to real communication, he still needed to think for a moment.

  Xu Haifeng smiled slightly, just about to respond, when someone behind him said in a cold and gloomy tone: "My family's general is of what status, how can you, a small broken team leader, compare? Wanting to challenge the general is possible, but wait until you become Caesar before coming back."

  Needless to say, the one who can utter such unbridled and heaven-defying words with such fluency is probably none other than that Jiang Kungming who has never put class status in his eyes.

  Adis was stunned for a long time, carefully savoring the meaning of Jiang Kongming's words. After a good while, he finally understood. Suddenly, he burst into anger and shouted loudly: "Who are you, insulting our country's Caesar? I want to challenge you!" He then took off his right-hand glove and threw it at Jiang Kongming.

  Jiang Kongming smiled and took over his glove, saying: "I've long heard that people from your place have a habit of throwing things around randomly, and indeed, today I picked up a leather glove. Wow, it's made of alligator skin, quite valuable! I'm telling you, who was it? Ah yes, you, stop looking around and give me the other glove on your hand too."

  Adis listened as he spoke quickly and urgently, but couldn't understand what he was saying at all. He regretted not bringing a translator with him.

  Jiang Kongming saw Adis standing there with a mysterious expression, suddenly smiled strangely, and turned to the crowd: "Gentlemen, the Caesars are actually quite stupid. Look, I've tricked him into giving me his other glove."

  After finishing, under the gaze of everyone's astonished and uncertain eyes, he suddenly spoke a large amount of strange and absurd words.

  The people around were all shocked, just by looking at Adis suddenly listening to him with rapt attention, they knew that what he was saying must be in the language of Caesar. Who would have thought that this sudden appearance of a person could actually speak Caesar's language so fluently?

  Su Chunwei stole a glance at Xu Haifeng, but saw that he was not surprised at all. His heart skipped a beat as he thought that General Xu's command had an endless supply of strange and talented people, and with the Fang family as his backing, he would definitely report back to his father and make sure to handle their relationship properly. This person could only be a friend, not an enemy.

  He didn't know that Xu Haifeng was also feeling a sense of wonder, this Jiang Kongming was indeed a born genius, having interacted with him for so long, he had never seen him learn the language of Kaisa, how could he suddenly speak it so fluently. However, regarding his various strange abilities and performances, Xu Haifeng had already seen too much, some were not surprising to him, so he didn't think it was unusual.

  After a while, Adis nodded in response, took off the glove on his left hand and threw it to Xu Haifeng, then stepped back, made a standard knight salute, and walked away with big strides.

  Including Bao Xueying, everyone saw that Adis had indeed dropped another glove, and they all felt incredible. Their gaze at Jiang Kongming also became a few points more profound and mysterious.

  Jiang Kongming burst out laughing and said, "I once interrogated a captive from Caesar's side and learned about their so-called chivalrous spirit. If a knight proposes to duel another person, he must throw his own glove at the opponent. I told him that if he wants to duel, it's fine as long as Wuduan Khan agrees, we can have a duel according to Caesar's rules. However, his letter of challenge should be handed over to my general, so he sent over the other glove as well."

  He took out two gloves, and said with a self-satisfied smile: "These two gloves are made of genuine alligator skin. I have no idea where he got them from, but they're really valuable."

  Seeing their puzzled eyes, Jiang Gongming explained: "Crocodiles are a kind of biological specialty on their side, with skin as thick as iron. If these gloves are specially treated, except for some divine weapons that can cut through iron like mud, ordinary swords and knives will find it difficult to hurt them in the slightest, let alone rare ones."

  Everyone who heard this couldn't help but burst out laughing. This guy was too fond of playing tricks on people, and he had actually used such a method to swindle a pair of such precious treasures. They were extremely puzzled, however - if these things were so valuable, why would that Roman casually discard them?

  They never thought that this thing, although precious, still needs to go through several processes to avoid being cut by swords and knives. These knowledge are only known to Jiang Gongming, so he tried every means to deceive them, of course, also calculating Xu Haifeng in, this is called killing two birds with one stone.

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