Chapter 18: The Great War of the Kunlun School

  In a daze, suddenly, he only heard "ding... ding" two rings, Liu Hei suddenly woke up and saw that his senior brother had already held down the strange sword in the young man's hand, saving his own life!

  Liang Zhu's face was slightly red from circulating his Qi, and the blood vessels were unblocked. He already knew that Wu Gou was not poisonous, and Wu Gou would not use poison anyway. Only then did he feel at ease. His right hand quickly pressed on the four major acupoints around the wound, and the bleeding stopped immediately. Just as he let out a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard his younger brother's terrified cry!

  Lietuo Yan himself raised his head, seeing Ling Kong holding a sword in mid-air, and also saw a drastic change in his face. He, like Liu Hei Meng, had been harboring resentment towards Lin Ruo Chi and Gu Bai Yun's "Xuanyang Tianjian Jue" for decades. Although the two had exchanged blows and each suffered a loss back then, they never expected that this young man would now be able to wield the powerful "Xuanyang Tianjian Jue", with an intensity so great that even his own master couldn't escape!

  Liu Hei Meng was now stunned, unable to save himself. Unable to care about his identity as the leader of a sect, much older than Chujiu, he had no choice but to draw his sword and block Chujiu's strange sword!

  The sweat on her face was getting more and more, and it washed away the black mud used for disguise, now almost restoring her usual appearance.

  That white bamboo leaf on the top of Dian Cang Mountain was attacked by Shen Que's "Xuan Yang Tian Jian Jue". How could she not remember it clearly, that day only she knew that it was Chu Jiu who saved herself; how could she not be clear, if it wasn't for Chu Jiu blocking Shen Que's "Xuan Yang Tian Jian Jue", her own "Five Poisons Blood Weaving Robe" would not have been able to withstand Shen Que's direct slash at her forehead!

  She now sees the face of Chuyi, suddenly remembering past events, and glancing sideways at Lin Meng'er, vaguely recognizing her as one of the two girls who were by Lian Tian's side that day.

  Even in today's precarious situation, with swords and shadows looming, Bai Zhu Ye suddenly remembered that carefree Lian Tian. She didn't know if they would ever meet again. After all, she was still a young girl at heart, and despite the danger surrounding her, she couldn't help but think of the boy she had fallen for. The sound of clashing swords couldn't shake her thoughts one bit. For a moment, she forgot about the peril and felt a sense of romantic longing in her heart!

  Lie Huo Yan saw the increasingly clear youthful appearance of Chu Jiu, and his heart was filled with sorrow. He couldn't help but think that Lin Ruo Chi had been hiding in Diancang Mountain for 18 years, yet he had taught such a good disciple. His own top disciples were also among the best, but compared to this young man, they were far inferior!

  At this point, he decided not to show mercy anymore. The Soul-Searching Ancient Sword was already in his hand. After three moves of probing and testing, the "Seven Sorrowful Seven Mutilated Swords" were launched with a fierce attack. His "Seven Sorrowful Seven Mutilated Swords" were extremely vicious, and his internal energy was also several times stronger than before. In just three moves, the initial nine had already become precarious!

  Just now, I was driving the "Xuanyang Heaven Sword Manual", and I was also startled. In mid-air, when operating the divine technique, it felt as light as a feather. At the moment of clarity and return, the circulation of internal energy throughout my body was actually nearly twice as fast as usual. Compared to ten days ago on the banks of the Yangtze River using the "Xuanyang Heaven Sword Manual" to kill Huang Langzi, I don't know how much its power has increased!

  It was exactly eight days ago that Wu Gou and his wife, Madame Yuanyang, worked together to unblock the Ren Channel!

  He thought of this, seeing Wu Gou Long Lao was seriously injured and about to die, and several of his men were also going to be buried here. With a surge of righteous indignation, the heroic passion in his heart was stirred up. Even if the sky and earth were to collapse today, and the leaders of Shaolin and Wudang were to arrive in person, he would not be afraid. What did it matter whether he was Lie Chi Yan or not? What did it matter whether he was the leader of the Kongtong Sect or not?

  On the other side, Wan Dao Fu Ren suddenly stopped along with He Zhuo Bo. In her madness, she suddenly heard Lin Xiang Er's loud crying and was shocked back to consciousness. She quickly turned around and retreated, now holding her still conscious but powerless husband, and Lin Xiang Er, Bai Zhu Ye, and Xiao Qing hiding in the corner by the window, surrounded by Liu Hei Meng and the remaining disciples, only able to watch the situation on the field through the gaps!

  She now, at the sight of this fierce red flame, disregards her identity as a master and attacks a young man. As she does so, it is suddenly revealed that she is using the "Seven Sorrowful Seven Mutilated Sword". The curved knife lady curses loudly: "How despicable! Shameless! The dignified leader of the Cuihuang Sect uses their ultimate move on a young man, truly the style of the Cuihuang Sect - lowly and sordid!"

  "Hmph, this young man can actually wield the 'Xuanyang Heaven Sword Manual', he must be the culprit who injured several of my disciples on Mount Diancang last month! I'm just teaching him a lesson and avenging my disciple's grievance. Leng Chiyan was still quite nonchalant, speaking while taking action, but his deduction was indeed astonishing, knowing that it was the one who severely wounded Gong Sunli on the ninth day of the first lunar month behind Mount Diancang!"

  It's just that his reason is extremely far-fetched, and to avenge the younger generation of disciples, the master of a major sect in the Jianghu actually had to take action personally, and moreover, he was mercilessly dealt with young and inexperienced disciples, how can this be justified?

  Lin Meng'er shouted loudly with a sob: "You are a disciple of the Kunlun School, and you are inherently unscrupulous. What's wrong with us?" Unfortunately, Lie Chi Yan didn't listen at all.

  At the beginning of the ninth day, there was a bitter struggle to speak out. With his exceptional martial arts skills, he stood out among his junior fellow disciples. However, how could he be a match for Lie Chi Yan? Just now, after using the "Xuan Yang Tian Jian" technique, he was entangled by Lie Chi Yan. If not for his recent progress in gathering internal energy through the "She Tian Xin Fa" method over the past few months, especially the last ten days, he feared that when he landed, he might not even be able to stand steadily to meet Lie Chi Yan's initial probing three moves.

  At the beginning of the ninth move, he dodged the fierce red flame. Within three moves, it was exactly when his internal energy was exhausted. The fierce red flame did not intend to kill the young man with just one thought, so he did not use a killing move. After three moves, Chujiu's "Shooting Heaven Heart Method" had already circulated two large cycles of heaven and earth, and the "Cangyang Xuanqing Qi" shook again! The internal energy in the Ren channel surged, and the internal energy throughout his body was constantly gathering at the Dan Tian. When he struck out, there was no longer a phenomenon of insufficient internal energy! He was also surprised and delighted in his heart, thinking that if he returned to Diancang Mountain in the future, he would definitely ask Shooting Heaven Old Man about the profundity of this "Shooting Heaven Heart Method". However, it was unknown whether he could survive to return to Mount Diancang.

  He was greatly shocked, he had seen the first of the ten great disciples, Shen Que, use the "Xuanyang Tianjian Quan" on Mount Diancang, and his opponent was just a young girl like Bai Zhuyue. He thought that Bai Zhuyue's martial arts were far inferior to Liu Hei Meng's, so naturally this young man's control of the "Xuanyang Tianjian Quan" would be even more severely damaging to his internal energy!

  Now this young man has intimidated Liu Hei, and he doesn't dare to move. This "Xuan Yang Tian Jian Jue" can only be saved by Lie Chi Yan's personal action. It seems that this young man must have used all his strength, and now he should be exhausted!

  But now, such a severe internal injury has only lasted for three moves. It seems that this young man's internal strength has already fully recovered. How can anyone believe it?

  On the ninth move, I didn't feel any joy, only increasingly desperate! Especially after these ten moves, my "Dragon Creek Swordsmanship" hadn't even had a chance to unleash its signature move "Hidden Dragon Emerging from the Abyss", when Leng Chi Yan was already waiting ahead, as if all my sword moves were leading me down a dead-end path. I hastily turned sideways, and just as I switched to the "Myriad Flowers Swordsmanship"'s "Ten Thousand Purples and Reds", those three sword flowers hadn't even been unleashed when Leng Chi Yan's Pursuing Soul Ancient Sword was already coming straight for my chest! It had shattered my previous clever move, and I hadn't expected that Leng Chi Yan would be so deeply familiar with the Pointed Cang Zhong Road Swordsmanship!

  He linked the sixteen roads of swordsmanship, but remained within the inner strength of Lie Chi Yan. The moves were completely sealed off, yet he didn't know that Lie Chi Yan was surprised in his heart, and it was far beyond the initial nine!

  Liang Chi had heard of the ten great disciples of Dian Cang, and knew that the four great disciples were Shen Que, Lu Shao Xiang, Lian Tian, and Yun Yuan. He also knew that the most diligent disciple was Lu Shao Xiang, who was under Gu Baiyun's tutelage, and had learned only a little more than 14 or 15 routes of swordsmanship from Dian Cang. Now, this young man was actually using the 16th route of Dian Cang's swordsmanship! Could he be Lin Ruo Chi's disciple? If so, how could his martial arts skills be so high? How could Lin Ruo Chi possibly train such a highly skilled disciple? If not Lin Ruo Chi, then whose disciple was this on Mount Dian Cang?

  Just now, this young man was able to wield the Qingpai's sect-destroying ultimate technique "Xuanyang Tianjian Quan" with great force. His internal energy surged and his body trembled slightly as he executed a single move, it seems that this young man's internal energy limit is unlikely to be below 50% of his own!

  What was most unbelievable to him was that after the young man had exhausted his entire body's internal energy and finished executing the "Xuanyang Tianjian Quan", his internal energy was fully restored in just three moves, this method of cultivating internal energy was actually not inferior to Lin Ruochi or Gu Baiyun.

  Only Lie Chi Yan knew that Lin Ruo Qi and Gu Bai Yun were able to continuously operate the "Cang Yang Xuan Qing Qi" to control the "Xuan Yang Tian Jian Jue" because they had reached a higher level in the "He Jian Jie" of the Cang Men Xuan Gong Nei Gong Xin Fa, where man and sword had become one.

  But what about this young man? Even if he had been practicing internal energy since birth, it would only be 17 or 18 years, and it's absolutely impossible that he has already reached the first layer of "Hejianjie". At most, he is only in a higher level of "Yunqi Jie". It seems that his method of cultivating internal energy is also practicing another kind of internal energy technique. And this internal energy technique seems to be based on the authentic internal energy technique of the Cangyang Xuanmen sect, "Cangyang Xuanqing Qi". He is so young, how can this be believable? Even with the ability of Liechi Yan, it's impossible to know the "Shetian Heart Method".

  For eighteen years, Lie Chi Yan has been focusing on practicing his "Seven Sorrowful and Seven Mutilated Sword" and the Supreme Taoist Techniques of the Kongtong Sect. After achieving some success, he now senses that a storm is brewing in the Jianghu world. He calculates the overall situation and realizes that next year will be a time of great upheaval. In order to make the Kongtong Sect the number one sect in the world, he must find the next heir to the throne. To benefit the Kongtong Sect, he has come down from the mountain, especially since the demonic cult is stirring again.

  In the eighteen years, apart from this, he also studied and broke down various swordsmanship of Jianghu. As Chongshan Sect had a feud with Kunlun Sect, most of his research focused on breaking down Kunlun Sect's swordsmanship.

  However, he also knew that the current Kunlun School Master "Flying Swordsman" Chu Jingxi had extremely high martial arts skills, and his whereabouts were mysterious. Nobody in Jianghu knew whether he was on top of Mount Kunlun or in the midst of a bustling city. Yet, he was unusually close to Lin Ruoqi of the Diancang School. "Kunlun and Diancang, Flying Swordsman and Slanting Sunset, their swordsmanship is divine, each dominating one side!"

  One day, he himself and the Kunlun School's Chu Xing would turn against each other, and he might still have to face the masters of the Diancang School. The martial arts and swordsmanship of Shan Lin Ru Chi were not inferior to his own, so Lie Chi Yan focused on deciphering the Diancang School's dozen or so routes of swordplay. Over these dozen years, he thought he had made some progress, but he never expected that today, when he encountered this young man, he would discover that the subtlety of the Diancang School's dozen or so routes of swordplay far exceeded his imagination!

  But Lin Meng'er, despite being in danger, saw the sword in Chu Jiu's hand, which was like a dragon, and every set of sword moves was more exquisite than the many senior brothers on the mountain who claimed to be proficient in this sword move. There were also several sets of sword moves that she couldn't even name, but had only seen her father and Master Bo practice before, and only when her father and Master Bo sparred together did they have such a magnificent sword aura! Now, however, she saw Young Master Chu Jiu bring it out, the sword moves trembling, his clothes fluttering, vaguely like Father and Master Bo's style back then. How could she not be stirred up?!

  On the ninth day, he gritted his teeth, knowing that the safety of everyone today rested on his shoulders. However, his martial arts skills were indeed far inferior to Lie Chi Yan's by a huge margin. How could he possibly withstand the "Seven Sorrowful and Seven Mutilated Swords"? If not for Lie Chi Yan intentionally testing his martial arts skills, probing the depths of his swordsmanship, he would have been counterattacked by Lie Chi Yan long ago, and probably would have fallen to the sword already.

  Moreover, if it weren't for the Wu Hooked Elder and the Curved Knife Couple who cleared his meridians eight days ago, allowing his internal energy to flow freely and quickly, he wouldn't have been able to withstand these thirty moves today!

  Suddenly, on the ninth day of the first month, his chest and mouth felt a surge of heat. He was taken aback in his heart, this was the heat emanating from "soul flying and dispersing, Xuan Qing Liu Yang's ring". In an instant, it spread throughout his entire body.

  On the ninth day, it was known that "the soul flew and scattered, the six yangs of xuān qīng" was the treasure of the Diancang school, the supreme method of the Taoist sect. The old man who shot at heaven said that it was only for those who repaired the truth under the heavens, and the five elements had a reaction to the monsters, but why did it have such a violent response to Lie Chi Yan, the leader of the Kuangtong school?