Chapter - 35 Vengeance (2/2)

Linghu Chong felt appreciative towards Yingying and he thought, ”For my sake, she agrees to do anything. She knows I'm very concerned about little martial sister so she comes with me to protect her. She really knows me well. I wonder from which of my previous lives did she come from?”

Yingying hurried the mule up and it went quickly for a few miles before it slowed down again. ”We'll protect your martial sister and martial brother in secret. If they meet with trouble along the way then we'll go out to help. It's best if we don't let them know. I think it'll be easier if we disguise ourselves.”

”That's right. Disguise yourself as that big bearded man!”

Yingying shook her head. ”That won't do. Your little martial sister already saw me in that disguise besides the place of worship.”

”Then what should be our disguise?”

Yingying pointed to a farmhouse in front of them with her whip and said, ”I'll go and steal some clothing. We'll change into a... a... two brother and sister from the farm.” She originally wanted to say 'a couple', but as it reached the tip of her tongue, she felt it was inappropriate and immediately changed her word. Linghu Chong guessed it but knew she was very shy, so he didn't dare to make a joke about it and just smiled to himself. But Yingying was just turning her head around and caught a glimpse of his smile, and her face turned red.

”What's so funny?”

Linghu Chong smiled. ”Nothing. I was just thinking, if that family doesn't have any girl, and there's only an old granny and a young kid living there, then I'd have to call you granny again.”

Yingying giggled and remembered the days when she had just met Linghu Chong and he kept on calling her granny at that time. She felt warmth in her heart as she jumped down from the carriage to go towards that farmhouse. Linghu Chong saw her leaping lightly to go over the wall, followed by the sound of a dog barking. But after one bark, it became quiet again, he thought Yingying must've kicked it dizzy. After some time, he saw her coming out with some clothes in her hands. When she reached the side of the carriage, he saw that she appeared to be smiling and she had a funny expression on her face. She quickly threw the clothes into the carriage, jumped into the carriage, then started laughing loudly. Linghu Chong picked up some of the clothes and inspected them under the moonlight. They were the clothes of an old peasant and an old woman. The clothes of the old woman were particularly big, inlaid with green flower laces. It was in an old style and clearly not the clothes of a young farm girl at all. Among the clothes, there was also a man's cap, a head cover for a woman, and a tobacco tube.

Yingying laughed. ”You're Linghu the half deity! You guessed right there was a granny in the farmhouse, but it's a pity there's no kid...” She said till here when she blushed furiously and stopped talking.

Linghu Chong smiled teasingly. ”So they're brother and sister. The two are really good to each other. One doesn't want to take a wife, the other doesn't want to get married, they live till seventy eighty years old and they're still together.”

Yingying bit her lip smiling. ”You know it's not like that.”

”They're not brother and sister? That's really strange.”

Yingying couldn't help laughing. Then at the back of the carriage, she put on the clothes of the old farm woman on top of her gown and she also put on the head cover on her head. Then she grabbed some dirt from the side and rubbed it on her face. After that, she helped Linghu Chong to change into the old peasant's clothes. Linghu Chong was barely a few inches away from her cheek and when he felt her breath caressing his face, he couldn't help feeling moved. He really wanted to just give her a hug and kiss her, but he knew she was extremely stern and wasn't the least bit licentious. If he offended her and raised her ire, then it would be hard to say what would happen, so he quickly collected his thought and didn't dare to move.

He suddenly looked quite strange as he was restraining himself from doing something. Yingying saw him and understood. She smiled. ”Good kid, granny adores you.” She extended her palm and rubbed the dirt on his face. Linghu Chong shut his eyes closed and felt her warm and soft palm lightly massaging his face all over. He felt unspeakable comfort and hoped she could continue doing this forever.

After some time, Yingying said, ”Done. Your little martial will definitely not recognise you at night, but be careful not to speak.”

”Rub the dirt on my neck too.”

”Who's going to look at your neck?” Yingying asked with a laugh. But she quickly understood his meaning. Linghu Chong wanted her to massage his neck. With a bent middle finger, she knocked softly on his forehead and turned around to sit on the driver's seat. With a whistle, she urged the mule forward and suddenly she couldn't help laughing, and she laughed harder as she went on. She was actually laughing till she bent forward and was finding it hard to sit.

Linghu Chong smiled and inquired, ”What did you see in that farmhouse?”

”I didn't see anything funny. That grandpa and grandma are... are husband and wife...” Yingying laughed.

”So they're not brother and sister, but husband and wife instead,” Linghu Chong smiled.

”You're teasing me again, I'm not talking.”

”Alright, they're not husband and wife, they're brother and sister.”

”Stop interrupting me, can you not? I jumped over the wall, and a dog barked, so I gave it a slap and made it faint. But the grandpa and grandma were woken up because of it. The grandma said: 'Amao must've seen a weasel coming to steal the chicken.' Grandpa said: 'Old black isn't barking anymore, it can't be a weasel.' That old grandma suddenly laughed and she said: 'I think that weasel must've followed your example from the past when you visited my home in the middle of the night. You always brought a piece of meat to give to my dog.'”

Linghu Chong smiled. ”This grandma is really bad. She's scolding you and saying you're a weasel.”

He knew Yingying was very shy. She was talking about the private matter between the old husband and wife farmers, so he pretended not to understand. Then, perhaps, she would continue with her story. Otherwise, if he said something a little bit romantic, she would stop talking altogether.

Yingying laughed and continued, ”That grandma was talking about the time before they got married...” She said till here when she straightened her body and lifted the rein high to urge the mule to quicken its run.

”So what happened before they got married? They must've adhered to customs really strictly. Even in the middle of the night, sitting all by themselves in a carriage, they definitely wouldn't dare to hug or kiss.” Yingying snorted and stopped talking.

Linghu Chong continued, ”Dear, darling, what did they say? Tell me please.” Yingying smiled but kept her silence.

In the middle of the night, they only heard the hooves of the mule hitting the road and the peacefulness was really pleasing to the ear. Linghu Chong looked out and saw the moonlight was like water flowing out into the straight and broad road, and the mist enveloped the trees on the side of the road. The mule-drawn carriage slowly entered the mist and everything outside couldn't be seen clearly anymore, even the back of Yingying's body was wrapped around a haze of mist.

It was just at the beginning of spring, so the fragrance from the flowers was sometimes thick and sometimes light as the wind carried it, the pleasure of it all was unspeakable. Linghu Chong had not drunk any wine for a long time, but with this feeling in his mind, it felt just like being intoxicated. Yingying was still carrying a smile on her face as her thought went back to what those two old husband and wife were talking: The old grandpa said: 'That night I didn't have any meat at all, so I killed a chicken from your neighbour and fed it to your dog. What's that dog called?' Old grandma answered: 'Big Flower.' Old grandpa said: 'That's right, Big Flower. It ate half a chicken and didn't bark anymore. Your father, mother, all didn't know. Our Amao must've have gotten the same thing tonight.' Old grandma said: 'You knew you're merry, and paid no attention to others' hard work. Later on, my tummy became big and father hit me viciously.' Old grandpa said: 'Lucky your stomach became big, otherwise why would your father agree to marry you to such a poor kid like me? That time, I was looking forward to your stomach getting big!' Old grandma suddenly got mad and scolded: 'You devil, so you did it deliberately and you've been hiding the truth from me. I... I won't spare you now.' Old grandpa said: 'Don't be noisy! Amao will also bear a kid. What are you noisy about?'

By that time, Yinying was afraid Linghu Chong would be worried, so she didn't listen anymore and stole the clothes before leaving a big silver ingot on the table and going out. She was going around lightly and that husband and wife didn't notice at all. It was because they were already old and slow, and they were talking excitedly, so they didn't feel her presence at all.

When Yingying thought of the conversation between the two of them, her face and ears turned red. Fortunately, it was at night, otherwise if Linghu Chong were to see her face, she would've been totally embarrassed. She stopped urging the mule and the big carriage gradually slowed down to normal speed. They turned around a bend and arrived besides the bank of a large lake. There were willows hanging around the bank of the lake and in the middle of the lake was the reflection of the round moon flickering about as the surface of the lake moved.

Yingying softly asked, ”Brother Chong, are you asleep?”

”I'm asleep, I'm dreaming.”

”What are you dreaming?”

”I'm dreaming I'm carrying a big piece of meat and going up the Dark Wood Cliff to feed your family dog.”

”You're not a proper person. No wonder your dream is also not proper,” Yingying said smiling.

The two of them sat alongside each other inside the carriage, gazing at the lake. Linghu Chong extended his right hand and put it on the back of Yingying's left hand. Yingying's hand trembled slightly but she didn't take her hand back. Linghu Chong thought, ”If only we could be like this forever and not see the bloodshed in Wulin ever again. Even if I were to become a god, I still wouldn't be as happy as right now.”

”What are you thinking?” Yingying asked and Linghu Chong told her what he was just thinking of. Yingying turned over her hand and gripped his hand. ”Brother Chong, I'm really happy.”

”Me too.”

”Even though I appreciated you commanding that group of heroes to attack Shaolin temple, I wasn't as happy as I am now. If I were your best friend, and I was trapped inside the Shaolin temple, you would've also tried to save me because of the code of righteousness of Jianghu. But right now, you only think of me, and are not thinking of your little martial sister...” As she mentioned 'your little martial sister', Linghu Chong's whole body quivered and he blurted out, ”Aiyo, let's go catch up to her!”

Yingying softly said, ”Only now I believe that in your heart, you finally thought of me a bit more, and thought of your little martial sister a bit less.”

She lightly pulled on the rein to turn the mule around. The mule-drawn carriage returned to the major road, and with a crack of her whip, the mule ran quickly. In just a short time, they had covered more than twenty li and their mule had become weary, so it slowed down. After turning a couple of bends, they saw a field of tall sorghum in front of them with the major road running straight through the middle of it. The pale moonlight on the ground looked like a piece of big green silk spreading throughout the ground. As they gazed far away, they saw a carriage at the other end of the road, which seemed to be still and unmoving.

”This carriage looks like Martial Brother Lin's carriage,” Linghu Chong remarked.

”Let's go slowly and take a look,” Yingying replied. She then urged the mule to go slowly as it got nearer to the other carriage. After they had travelled for a bit, they became aware that the carriage in front was actually still moving, but very slowly. They also saw there was a person walking besides the mule, who was unexpectedly Lin Pingzhi. From the shape of the driver's body, they saw it was Yue Lingshan who was sitting on the driver's seat. Linghu Chong was surprised and he extended his hand to the rein to stop their mule. ”What are they doing?” he whispered.

”Wait here, I'll go have a look,” Yingying said.

If they were to catch up with the other carriage, then the other party would have discovered them. So they must use qinggong to secretly peep in on them. Linghu Chong really wanted to go with her, but his injury had not healed yet so he couldn't use his qinggong. He nodded his head and replied, ”Alright.”

Yingying lightly leapt off the carriage and rushed into the thicket of tall sorghum on the side of the road. The tall sorghum had grown very thick so once someone entered it, they wouldn't be seen even in the light of day. But these tall sorghum had not grown very tall yet and their leaves weren't that dense, so your head would still be exposed outside. She stooped down as she went and followed the sound of the hooves, until she was finally alongside Yue Lingshan's mule-drawn carriage.

She heard Lin Pingzhi said, ”My sword manual was already taken by your father a long time ago, and I don't have any other move he doesn't know. Why must you insist on following me everywhere?”

”You've always been suspicious of my father having plans on your sword manual without any reason at all. Listen to your own conscience. When you first entered Huashan School, you didn't have any sword manual, but I've always been... always been good to you, could it be, it all means nothing to you?” Yue Lingshan reasoned.

”My Lin family's Evil Resisting Sword Art is well known throughout the world. Yu Canghai, Mu Gaofeng, they both couldn't find anything on my father so they searched me. How do I know you didn't deliberately treat me well because of your father's and mother's order?”

Yue Lingshan whimpered. ”If you think that way, then what can I do?”

”Did I mistakenly blame you then?” Lin Pingzhi vehemently asked. ”This 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual', didn't your father finally take it from my hand? Everyone knows, if you want the 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual' then you must take it from this little kid Lin. Yu Canghai, Mu Gaofeng, hng hng, Yue Buqun, what's the difference? The only difference is Yue Buqun succeeded, while Yu Canghai and Mu Gaofeng failed.”

”You're slandering my father, who do you think I am?” Yue Lingshan angrily retorted. ”If not for... if not for... hng hng...”

Lin Pingzhi halted his steps and shouted, ”What are you going to do? If not for me being blind, injured, you're going to kill me, isn't that right? My eyes were blinded a long time ago.”

”So when you first knew me and treated me well, your eyes were already blind?” She reined in the mule and stopped the carriage.

”That's right! How would I know you had planned everything? Because of this 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual', you actually went to Fuzhou to open up a small wine shop. When that kid Yu from Qingcheng School bullied you, actually your martial art was much higher than him, but you pretended not to know any martial art and made me helped you. Hng, Lin Pingzhi, you were one blind stupid kid, relying on your three legged cat martial art and actually daring to be heroic and be outraged by injustice,” Lin Pingzhi said. ”You're everything to your father and mother, if not for something big and important, why would they agree to let you show your face in public? Why would they agree to let you sell wine in such a humble shop?”

”Father originally sent second martial brother to go to Fuzhou,” Yue Lingshan replied. ”It was me who wanted to go down the mountain to play, to follow second martial brother.”

”Your father controls the school's disciples so strictly. If he believed it was inappropriate, even if you kneeled and implored him for three days and three nights, he still wouldn't allow you to go. Naturally, it was because he couldn't trust second martial brother that he also sent you to watch over things.”

Yue Lingshan was quiet, looking like she felt Lin Pingzhi's conjecture wasn't completely unreasonable. After a little while, she said, ”You can believe me or not, but before I got to Fuzhou, I've never heard of 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual'. Father only said, big martial brother had beaten up the disciples of Qingcheng so there's a dislike between the two parties. At that time, the Qingcheng School was carrying out a large operation and was moving to the east. So he's afraid it would be disadvantageous to our school. That was why second martial brother and I went to Fuzhou to investigate.”

Lin Pingzhi let out a sigh. It seemed he had softened up as he said, ”Fine, I'll believe you this time. But I've already changed into this. Why are you still following me for? You and I are only husband and wife in names only, we're not real husband and wife. You're still a virgin, you can just go back... go back to Linghu Chong!”

When Yingying heard 'You and I are only husband and wife in names only, we're not real husband and wife. You're still a virgin', she couldn't help being surprised, and she thought, ”What's the reason for that?” She immediately became bashful and her whole face turned bright red. Even her neck was feeling hot. She thought, ”For me to listen to the private conversation of a husband and wife of another family is already very inappropriate, but to think of a reason for that, that's really... that's really...” She turned around to go, but she only went for a few steps before her curiosity got the better of her and she halted to listen for more. But she was afraid of being discovered so she didn't dare to return to her previous hiding spot, and now she was further away from the two of them. However, the conversation between them could still be clearly heard by her. She heard Yue Lingshan quietly said, ”After we had been married for three days, I already knew you really hate me. Even though we were in the same room, you didn't want to be on the same bed with me. Since you already hate me so, why did you... did you... marry me?”

Lin Pingzhi sighed. ”I don't hate you.”

”You don't hate me? Then why did you pretend to be very caring towards me during the day, but at night when we got back to our room, you didn't even want to talk to me? Father and mother have already repeatedly asked how you were treating me. I've always told them you treated me very well, very well, very well... sob...” She said till here when she suddenly bawled her eyes out.

Lin Pingzhi leapt up onto the carriage and holding both of her shoulders, he then severely said, ”You said your father and mother asked you repeatedly wanting to know how I treated you, is this true?”

”Of course it's true,” Yue Lingshan answered in sobs. ”Why do I need to lie to you about this?”

”You know I didn't treat you well, I didn't even share the same bed with you. So how did you answer them?” Lin Pingzhi inquired.

”I was already married to you, so I belong to the Lin family. I was hoping you would have a change of feeling soon. I treated you genuinely, how can I... how can I lay out my own husband's fault?”

Lin Pingzhi gritted his teeth and did not answer her for a long time. After a long time, he slowly said, ”Hng, I thought your father was worried about you so he was showing mercy towards me. Who would've thought the entire thing was covered up by you? If you didn't answer like you did, I would've died on Mount Huashan a long time ago.”

”How can that be?” Yue Lingshan sobbingly asked. ”Newly married couples can be a little bit at odds with each other, how can the father-in-law kill the son-in-law just because of that?”

Yingying heard till here when she advanced forward a few more steps.

Lin Pingzhi said with hatred in his voice, ”He wants to kill me not because I don't treat you well, it was because I learned the Evil Resisting Sword Art.”

”I really don't understand this. These last few days, the sword art that father and you have been using is really strange, but its power is incredibly powerful. Father defeated Zuo Lengchan and snatched the Five Mountains School's headmaster position, while you killed Yu Canghai and Mu Gaofeng, could it be... could it be that sword art is the Evil Resisting Sword Art?”

”That's right! That really is my Fuzhou's Lin family's Evil Resisting Sword Art! Years ago, my great grandfather Yuantu used this seventy two groups of sword moves to intimidate the demonical and created the 'Fortune Prestige Escort House' business. All the heroes in the realm respected and feared him because of this.” When he talked of this matter, his voice became louder and it was full of pride.

”But, you've never told me you've learned this set of sword art.”

”How could I dare? Linghu Chong tried to snatch that Buddhist robe in Fuzhou but he couldn't do it, but this sword manual written on the Buddhist robe instead fell into your father's hand...”

”No, it can't be!” Yue Lingshan sharply interrupted. ”Father said, big martial brother was the one who snatched the sword manual. I begged him to return it to you, but he wasn't willing at all.” Lin Pingzhi snorted and laughed coldly.

Yue Lingshan continued, ”Big martial brother's sword art is very formidable and even my father isn't his match, could it be the sword art he's using isn't the Evil Resisting Sword Art? That it wasn't learned from your family's 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual'?”

Lin Pingzhi again laughed derisively. ”Even though Linghu Chong is sly and deceitful, he's nothing compared to your father. Also, his swordplay is a mess, how can it be compared to my family's Evil Resisting Sword Art? During the fight besides the place of worship, he couldn't even compete with you and was injured heavily under your sword, hng hng, so how can his sword art be compared to my family's Evil Resisting Sword Art?”

”He deliberately let me win,” Yue Lingshan quietly mumbled.

Lin Pingzhi laughed coldly. ”His love for you is so deep!” If these words were heard by Yingying the day before, she would've gotten enraged even though she knew already Linghu Chong deliberately lost that sword fight. But after spending the night together in the same carriage and talking clearly besides the lake, they knew each other's hearts, and she now felt sweetness in her heart instead. ”He treated you really well before, but right now, he treats me much better. You can't blame him for this, it's not because he had a change of heart toward you, but it's because you've been bullying him too fiercely.”

”So big martial brother's sword art isn't the Evil Resisting Sword Art,” Yue Lingshan concluded. ”Then why did Father always say he stole your family's 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual'? That day when Father expelled him from the Huashan School, he declared this to be one of his big crimes. Then, I've... I've been wrongly blaming him.”

Lin Pingzhi laughed mockingly. ”What wrongly blaming? Linghu Chong also wanted to rob my sword manual. He had actually already stolen it. But that bandit met with the grandpa bandit, so after he got injured and fainted, your father took it from his body and took the opportunity to lay the blame on him to cover his track. This is called thief crying thief...”

”What thief crying thief!” Yue Lingshan angrily retorted. ”You're saying such a horrible thing!”

”The things your father did, aren't they horrible? The things he did, am I not allowed to say them?”

Yue Lingshan let out a sigh. ”That day in Xiangyang Lane, that Buddhist Robe was stolen by the bad people from Songshan School. Big martial brother killed these two people and took the Buddhist robe back. This is not necessarily because he wanted to get it for himself. Big martial brother is a very bighearted person. Ever since he was small, he'd never been greedy and never coveted other people's things. When Father said he took your sword manual, I doubted it. But since Father said it, and I also saw how Big Martial Brother had suddenly advanced a lot in his swordplay to the level above that of my father, I believed everything was true.”

Yingying thought, ”You can say these words now, then Chong-lang's love for you wasn't in vain.”

Lin Pingzhi sneered coldly. ”He's so good, why didn't you go with him?”

”Brother Ping, even until now, you still don't understand my heart. Big martial brother and I have grown up together since we were little. In my heart, he's just like my real brother. I love him dearly like a family member and regard him as my big brother. I've never regarded him as my lover. Ever since you came to Mount Huashan, you and I have matched really well. If I don't see you for some time, then my heart becomes unhappy and uneasy. My feeling towards you will never change.”

”Your father and you are somewhat different, you're... you're like your mother.” His voice had become softer as he said this; it was clear his true feeling towards Yue Lingshan was being moved. The two of them didn't speak another word for a long time before Yue Lingshan broke the silence, ”Brother Ping, you have such a deep hatred toward my father, so it won't be easy for the two of you to reconcile. I'm already married... I... I will definitely always follow you. Let's go somewhere far and find somewhere secluded to pass our days happily there.”

Lin Pingzhi laughed coldly and replied, ”What you thought is quite good. But the whole world would've known by now that I killed Yu Canghai and Mu Gaofeng, so your father naturally knows that I've learned the Evil Resisting Sword Art. How can he let me keep on living in this world?”

”You said my father sought your sword manual. Based on the fact, there's nothing I can do to defend him,” Yue Lingshan dejectedly said. ”But you keep on saying that he's going to kill you after you've learned the Evil Resisting Sword Art. What's the logic in that? The 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual' belongs to your family, so it's perfectly justified and totally natural for you to learn this sword art. There's no reason at all for my father to want to kill you, and he won't kill you just because of this.”

”You can say this because you don't understand what kind of person your father is. You also don't understand what this 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual' really is.”

”Even though I'm totally devoted to you, I still don't understand what's in your heart.”

”That's right, you don't understand! You don't understand! Why do you want to understand?” He became really irritable at this point.

Yue Lingshan didn't dare to speak too much, so she said, ”En, let's go!”

”Go where?”

”Wherever you want to go, I'll go with you. I'll go with you even to the edge of the world.”

”What you're saying is true? No matter what happens in the future, you won't regret it?”

”I've made up my mind to be with you, to marry you. I've long ago decided to be with you forever. How can I regret it? Your eyes' injury, whether it's going to heal or not, I'll accompany you always, attend to you, and be together until both of us died.”

These words were said sincerely, and Yingying was moved on hearing them. Lin Pingzhi snorted sounding like he didn't believe her. Yue Lingshan softly said, ”Brother Ping, you still don't believe me. I... I... tonight I'm going to give you everything, you... so you will trust me always. Tonight will be our wedding night, and we'll become real husband and wife. From today onwards, become... real husband and wife...” Her voice became softer and softer as she spoke, at the end it was barely audible.

Yingying became terribly embarrassed, and she thought, ”If I still listen to what they're doing now, how can I still be a person?” She slowly moved away while secretly scolding, ”This Miss Yue really is shameless! They're in the middle of a major road, how can... how can... pei!”

Suddenly, she heard Lin Pingzhi ferociously crying out. His voice was extremely sad and shrill, followed by him shouting, ”Scram! Don't come over!”

Yingying started and thought, ”What's going on? Why is this Lin being so fierce?” This was followed by Yue Lingshan weeping loudly. Lin Pingzhi shouted, ”Go away, go away! Quickly go far far away, I'd rather be killed by your father, I don't want you to come with me.”

”You're being so mean to me... what... what did I do wrong...” Yue Lingshan cried.

”I... I...” Lin Pingzhi stammered. After a pause, he went on, ”You... You...” But he stopped talking.

”Say what your heart wants to say,” Yue Lingshan said. ”Did I do something wrong, or maybe you're blaming my father and don't want to forgive me. Just say it clearly once and then you don't need to do anything, I'll immediately kill myself with my sword.” With a hissing sound, she drew her sword. Yingying thought, ”She's going to be forced to die by Lin Pingzhi, I have to save her!” She quickly walked back and got very near to the carriage so she could rescue her.

Lin Pingzhi again stammered, ”I... I...” After some time, he let out a long sigh and said, ”It's not your fault, it's me who is no good.”

Yue Lingshan cried mournfully. Lin Pingzhi relented and said, ”Alright, I'll tell you.”

”You can hit me, kill me, but don't leave me not understanding anything,” Yue Lingshan said between sobs.

”Since your feeling towards me isn't fake, then I'll tell you everything so your heart can die over this.”

”Why?” Yue Lingshan was perplexed.

”Why? My Lin family's Evil Resisting Sword Art is very famous throughout Wulin. Yu Canghai and your father are both headmasters of a school, their own sword arts are already strong, but they still planned on stealing my family's sword manual. But my father's martial art is useless, and other people can just bully and humiliate him without him being able to fight back at all, now why is that?”

”Maybe because father-in-law wasn't suitable to learn martial art, or maybe his body was weak,” Yue Lingshan guessed. ”From among the school's disciples in Wulin, it's not necessarily true that every one of them has strong martial art.”

”You're wrong. Even though my father's swordplay was no good, it was only because he didn't study it enough. His internal energy was weak, and his attainment of the sword art was also poor. But the Evil Resisting Sword Art that he taught me, the foundation was wrong, and from the beginning to the end, it wasn't right

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Yue Lingshan hummed deeply and said, ”This... This is really strange.”

”Actually, it's not strange,” Lin Pingzhi said. ”Do you know what my great grandfather Yuantu originally was?”

”I don't know.”

”He was originally a monk.”

”So he was a Buddhist. Some heroes of Wulin do a lot of outrageous things in Jianghu, but when they got older, they got quite worn out from all the things happening in the world, so they become Buddhists. This can happen,” Yue Lingshan said.

”No. My great grandfather didn't become a Buddhist when he got old. He was a monk first before returning to secular life again.”

”There were also heroes who were monks when they're young. Our founding ancestor of the Ming, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, he was a monk before he became the emperor.”

Yingying thought, ”Miss Yue knows her husband is narrow-minded. Not only does she not dare to offend him, she keeps trying to reassure him.”

She then heard Yue Lingshan went on, ”Father-in-law must've told you that your great grandfather Yuantu was a monk when he was young.”

”My father never talked about it, I don't think he knew about it. My house at the Xiangyang Lane has a Buddhist hall in it; we went in there together on that night.”

”Yes.”

”Why was this 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual' recorded on a Buddhist robe? It was because he was originally a monk, and when he saw the sword manual, he quickly wrote it down on his Buddhist robe and got out. Once he returned to secular life, he built a Buddhist hall at home and didn't dare to forget about Buddha.”

”Your guess is very reasonable,” Yue Lingshan agreed. ”But, it's also possible that the sword manual was given to Grandfather Yuantu by an eminent reverend, and that the sword manual was originally written on the Buddhist robe. So Grandfather Yuantu may have obtained this sword manual frankly and uprightly.”

”It's not like that.”

”Your conjecture isn't necessarily right.”

”It's not my conjecture; it's what Grandfather Yuantu wrote on the Buddhist robe.”

”Ah, so that's how it is.”

”He wrote this at the end of the sword manual. He was originally a monk, but because of an especially lucky chance, he heard of this sword manual from other people's mouth and wrote it down on the Buddhist robe. He warned that this sword art is too cruel and sinister, and once you learned it, you'll die without an heir. It's already unsuitable for even nuns or monks to learn as it violates the compassion of the Buddha, so for secular people, they shouldn't learn this even more.”

”But he had already learned it himself.”

”At that time, I also thought the same thing as you. This sword art is said to be cruel and sinister, and inadvisable to be practised, but after Grandfather Yuantu studied it, didn't he still manage to take a wife and get an heir?”

”That's right. But it could be that he took a wife and got an heir first before studying this sword art.”

”It can't be,” Lin Pingzhi said. ”Everyone who studies martial art in this world, no matter how heroic you are, or how powerful your martial art already is, once you see this sword manual, you couldn't possibly not practice it because you want to see how the first move goes. Once you've tried the first move, you'll definitely try the second move. Once you've tried the second move, you cannot not try the third move. Even if you haven't seen a sword manual before, once you've seen it then you'll definitely go crazy about it and it's very difficult to free yourself from it, and you'll practice it from top to bottom. Even if you know there's an enormous disaster tied to practising it, you still won't care about it.”

Yingying heard till here when her thoughts turned to her father. ”Daddy once said, this 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual' actually has the same root as our sect's 'Sunflower Manual' and they have the same fundamental principle. It's no wonder Yue Buqun's and Lin Pingzhi's sword art actually looks very similar to Dongfang Bubai's.” She also thought, ”Daddy said, there's something harmful in the martial art contained in the 'Sunflower Manual'. He knows that once a person who studies martial art sees the content of this martial art secret, he would definitely fall under its trap and would find it hard to free himself from it even if he knows it'd be disastrous to study it. So he simply refused to look at the Manual, which was the most sensible thing to do.” A thought suddenly flashed in her mind, ”Then why did he give it to Dongfang Bubai?” She thought till this point, and she automatically deduced, ”So at that time Daddy already saw Dongfang Bubai harbouring an ill intention, so he gave him the Manual to harm him. But Uncle Xiang didn't know anything about this, and Dongfang Bubai was also ignorant of this and was still blissfully unworried. Actually, my father is such an astute and formidable person. How could he have been muddled headed for so long? It's just that a person's thought isn't as good as the thought of heaven. Dongfang Bubai unexpectedly struck first, captured daddy, and imprisoned him under the West Lake. But his heart wasn't especially bad. If at that time, he were to have killed daddy, or may have given an order not to give him food and drink, how could Daddy have the opportunity to take his revenge? Actually, it was a really lucky thing that we were able to kill Dongfang Bubai. If not for Chong-lang's help, Daddy, Uncle Xiang, Shangguan Yun and me, the four of us would've been killed by Dongfang Bubai at that time. Also, if it weren't for Yang Lianting messing with his heart, Dongfang Bubai would still be undefeated.” She thought till here, and she couldn't help feeling that Dongfang Bubai was somewhat pitiful.

She thought, ”After he captured my dad, he treated me generously and gave me a lot of gifts. When I was in the Divine Sun Moon Sect, I was no different from a princess. Today, when my own dad is the Chief, I instead, didn't have the authority I used to have. Ai, now that I already have Chong-lang, why do I still need that authority for?” As her thoughts wandered to the past, she thought her father's scheming was very deep and she couldn't help be frightened. ”Even now, Dad still hasn't told Chong-lang the method of dispersing the internal energy. Chong-lang had already amassed several different qi from other people, and they still haven't been dispersed yet. This disaster will get bigger and bigger as days go by. Sooner or later, he will definitely be in trouble. Daddy said he must join our sect and once he did, not only will he be imparted with this technique, he will immediately be sworn in as the heir to the Chief. But Chong-lang isn't willing to submit and he will be in a great deal of trouble later.” She was half happy and half worried. As she quietly stood in the cluster of tall sorghum, her thoughts wildly went from here to there, but no matter what she thought about, it always returned to Linghu Chong.

At this time, Lin Pingzhi and Yue Lingshan were also quiet. After a long time, Lin Pingzhi said, ”After Grandfather Yuantu saw this sword manual, he of course practised it straight away.”

”If there's really a big trouble associated with this set of sword art, it wouldn't just come out straight away,” Yue Lingshan reasoned. ”It's always after practising for ten years or so that the harm would come. Grandfather Yuantu must've taken a wife and gotten an heir before this trouble manifested itself.”

”That's. Not. It.” Lin Pingzhi stressed each word without any hesitation. After a pause, he went on, ”In the beginning, I also thought the same thing as you did. But after a few days, I found out it wasn't so. My grandfather simply couldn't be Grandfather Yuantu's son. He's most likely adopted by Grandfather Yuantu. Grandfather Yuantu took a wife and got an heir merely to fool everyone.”

Yue Lingshan gasped in surprise and said in a trembling voice, ”Fool everyone? But... why?”

Lin Pingzhi snorted but didn't answer her. After some time, he said, ”When I first saw the sword manual, I was already very close to you. Several times, I thought I should wait till we get married and become a real husband and wife before I start studying the sword art. But it's impossible for a martial art person to resist not studying what's written in that sword manual. I finally... I finally... castrated myself to practice the sword...”

Yue Lingshan absentmindedly replied, ”You... You... castrated yourself to practice sword?”

”That's right,” Lin Pingzhi gloomily said. ”The first sentence in the Evil Resisting Sword Manual is: 'To dominate Wulin, swipe your sword and castrate yourself'.”

”Why... why?”

”To practise this Evil Resisting Sword Art, you must start with the internal energy first. If you don't castrate yourself, once you practise it, you'll immediately feel like you're on fire, fire deviate, and die.”

”That's how it is.” Her voice was like a mosquito and very hard to hear.

Yingying was also thinking, ”So that's why!” Now, she understood everything clearly why Dongfang Bubai, who was such a masculine man with the number one martial art of the world, was wearing woman's clothes, embroidering, and was so crazy about Yang Lianting. So in order to practise this demonical martial art, he had become not a man and not a woman.

She then heard Yue Lingshan sobbed lightly and said, ”Back then, Grandfather Yuantu pretended to take a wife and get an heir to fool everyone, you... you're also...”

”That's right, after I castrated myself, I still married you to fool people. But it's only to fool your father.”

Yue Lingshan wept sorrowfully upon hearing this.

”I've told you everything now,” Lin Pingzhi said. ”You must hate me to the bone now. Why don't you go away?”

”I don't hate you,” Yue Lingshan sobbed. ”You were forced by circumstances and had no other alternatives. I only hate... only hate whoever wrote that 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual' back then. Why... why did he want to harm other people like that?”

Lin Pingzhi giggled. ”This senior was a eunuch.”

Yue Lingshan groaned. ”So... so my father... is also... is also like you...”

”Since he's studied this sword art, how can he be different? Your father is the headmaster of a school, if anyone found out he castrated himself and then spread the word out, how can he not become the laughingstock of Jianghu? That's why if he knew that I've learned this sword art, he must definitely kill me. He's already asked several times how I treated you because he wanted to know whether I've castrated myself or not. If at that time you complained even a little bit, then my life would've been gone.”

”Now he knows.”

”I've killed Yu Canghai, killed Mu Gaofeng,” Lin Pingzhi was brimming with pride as he said this. ”Within a few days, the word would've spread throughout Wulin and the whole world will know.”

”In that case, I'm afraid... I'm afraid my father won't let you go then. Where should we run off to?”

”We? You already know what I am now, you still want to follow me?”

”Of course. Brother Ping, my feeling towards you will always be... always be the same. Your lot in this world is so pitiful...” She had not finished saying this when she suddenly cried out and jumped off the carriage as Lin Pingzhi pushed her out.

”I don't want your pity! Who wants your pity?” Lin Pingzhi angrily retorted. ”Lin Pingzhi's swordplay is complete. I'm not scared of anything. Wait until my eyes are better. Lin Pingzhi will then rule the world. Yue Buqun, Linghu Chong, Monk Fangzheng, Priest Chongxu, they are not my match.”

Yingying inwardly got angry and she thought, ”Wait till your eyes are better? Hng, have your eyes ever been good?” When Lin Pingzhi was injured, she originally felt quite sad for him. But when she saw how uncaring he was towards his wife, how ruthlessly he treated her, and also how conceited he was, she couldn't help despising him.

Yue Lingshan sighed. ”You must first look for a place to hide for a while. Wait till your eyes are better before doing anything else.”

”I have a method to deal with your father.”

”It must be horrible to hear and of course you can't say what it is. Father also doesn't need to worry about you for now.”

”Hng, I understand your father way more than you do. Tomorrow, I'm going to tell the first person I see about this.”

Yue Lingshan worriedly said, ”Is that necessary? Aren't you...”

”Necessary? This is the method to preserve my life. I'm going to tell every person I meet. In no time at all, word would've spread to your father's ear. Then, since Yue Buqun knows it was me who said this, he cannot kill me to shut me up. On the contrary, he must protect my life.”

”Your idea is really strange.”

”What's so strange about it? Whether your father has castrated himself or not, no one would be able to see it. When his beard falls off, he'll glue them on and there will be people who will believe it and those who won't. But if I suddenly die without any reason, everyone will say Yue Buqun is the one who did it. This is called wishing to cover it up but exposing it more instead.” Yue Lingshan sighed and didn't say anything else.

Yingying thought, ”This Lin Pingzhi has a very keen mind, and his method really is formidable. Miss Yue is in a very difficult position here, she's trapped in the middle. Her parents' reputation will unavoidably be destroyed, but if she thought of a way to prevent it from happening, then it'll endanger her husband's life.”

Lin Pingzhi went on, ”Even if both of my eyes can't see a thing from now on, I've avenged my parents and I will never regret it. Linghu Chong told me the last words of my father. He said there's a relic in the old residence at Xiangyang and I should never take a look at it. This was the instruction Great Grandfather left behind. Now, I've taken a look at it. Even though I violated Great Grandfather's instruction, I've taken revenge for my parents. If it weren't like this, other people would've said my Lin family's Evil Resisting Sword Art has an unearned reputation, and that the heads of the Fortune Prestige Escort House had been cheating people.”

”Back then, both father and you suspected big martial brother. You were both saying that he took your Lin family's 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual', saying he fabricated Father-in-Law's last words...”

”Just say I blamed him wrongly. What do you want to do?” Lin Pingzhi interrupted. ”At that time, didn't you suspect him too?”

Yue Lingshan softly sighed. ”Big martial brother and you haven't known each other for a long time, so it's not surprising you suspected him. But father and me, we shouldn't have doubted him. The only person in this world who truly believed him was only mother.”

Yingying thought, ”Who said only your mother?”

Lin Pingzhi coldly laughed. ”Your mother truly adores Linghu Chong. I don't know how many times your parents argued because of this little kid.”

Astounded, Yue Lingshan asked, ”My father and mother argued over big martial brother? My father and mother never argue, how do you know about this?”

Lin Pingzhi laughed coldly and answered, ”Never argue? That's only to put on an appearance in front of other people. For this matter, Yue Buqun put on his hypocrite mask. I heard it all with my own ears, could it be fake?”

”I didn't say fake, but it's really strange. How come I've never heard of it, but you heard of it?”

”I'll tell you now, it's all irrelevant. That day in Fuzhou, two people from Songshan School snatched that Buddhist robe away. These two people were killed by Linghu Chong, so naturally the Buddhist robe was taken by Linghu Chong. But at that time he was heavily injured and lost consciousness. I searched his body, but I didn't know where that Buddhist robe had gone to.”

”So in Fuzhou city, you had already searched big martial brother.”

”That's right, so what?”

”Nothing.”

Yingying thought, ”If Miss Yue follows this cunning and irritable little kid, she'll be miserable for the rest of her life.” Suddenly she also thought, ”I've been here for so long, Chong-lang must be worried.” She tilted her ear to one side to listen but there was no noise at all, so she thought that he must be settled and everything was well.

She then heard Lin Pingzhi continued, ”The Buddhist robe wasn't on Linghu Chong's body anymore, so it must've been taken by your parents. From Fuzhou till Huashan, I quietly observed things. But your father covered up really well and I didn't manage to see anything wrong at all. Your father was sick at that time. Of course, who would've known that once he's seen the 'Evil Resisting Sword Manual', he immediately castrated himself to practise the sword. During the journey, there were a lot people there, so I didn't dare to peep in on your parents. Once we returned to Huashan, I hid on top of the precipice outside your parents' bedroom every night to hear their conversations and to find out where my sword manual is.”

Yue Lingshan asked, ”Every night you hid yourself on top of the precipice?”

”That's right.”

Yue Lingshan again repeated her question, ”Every night?”

Yingying couldn't hear Lin Pingzhi's answer. She thought he must've nodded his head. But she heard Yue Lingshan sighed and said, ”You have a strong will.”

”For vengeance, I had to succeed.”

”Yes,” Yue Lingshan meekly agreed.

Lin Pingzhi narrated, ”I listened in for more than ten nights, but I didn't hear anything unusual. But one night, I heard your mother said: 'Martial brother, I feel there's something amiss with your appearance recently. Did you have some kind of trouble learning that Divine Art of Violet Twilight? Don't seek perfection too much and invite trouble.'

Your dad laughed and replied: 'No, my martial art practise is going smoothly.'

Your mother said: 'Don't hide it from me. How come your voice has changed recently? The pitch of your voice has become higher and sharper, just like a girl.'

Your dad said: 'Nonsense! My voice has always been like this.'

When I heard him say these words, I heard his voice was really sharp just like a girl throwing a tantrum. Your mother said: 'You're still denying it? In your whole life, you've never said those words to me. In the years we've been together, when have you concealed anything from me when something's troubling you?'

Your dad said: 'What's there to trouble me? En, the meeting at Songshan isn't too far away and Zuo Lengchan's intention to annex the four schools is very obvious. I'm troubled by this, that's some of it.'

Your mother said: 'I see that it's more than this.'

Your dad got angry again and in his sharp voice said: 'It's your blind suspicion, what else is there besides this?'

Your mother answered: 'When I say it out, don't get angry. I know you've wrongly blamed Chong'er.'

Your dad said: 'Chong'er? He and his Devil Sect people meddle together, he also has a relationship with his Devil Sect Miss Ren, everyone in the world knows about this already. How did I wrongly blame him?'”

When Yingying heard him narrating Yue Buqun's words, mentioned her own name, furthermore mentioning 'he also has a relationship with his Devil Sect Miss Ren, everyone in the world knows about this already', her whole face slightly heated up, but a soft and tender feeling rose up from her heart. She then heard Lin Pingzhi continued, ”Your mother said: 'You didn't wrongly blame him for making friends with people from the devil sect. I'm saying you wrongly blame him for stealing Ping'er's Evil Resisting Sword Manual.'

Your dad said: 'Could it be he didn't steal the sword manual? His swordplay suddenly advanced tremendously, he's even higher skilled than you or me, haven't you seen that already?'

Your mother said: 'He must've met with something else for that. I'm certain he didn't take the Evil Resisting Sword Manual. It's true that Chong'er likes to make trouble and he doesn't listen to our teachings. But ever since he was little he's always been frank, and he'd never steal anything. After Shan'er became fond of Ping'er and he was jilted, he's still such a proud person. Even if Ping'er gave him the sword manual willingly, he still wouldn't accept it.'”

Yingying heard till here and she felt an unspeakable happiness in her heart. She was hoping she could give Madam Yue a hug right then and express her gratitude. Yingying was thinking it wasn't in vain that you've raised Chong-lang since he was little; from everyone in Huashan, you are the only person who truly understands him. She also thought based on Madam Yue's words, if Linghu Chong had a chance someday, then he must repay her well for what she just said.

Lin Pingzhi went on, ”Your dad snorted and said: 'It looks like you regret expelling this little kid Linghu Chong from our school.'

Your mother said: 'He violated the school's rules, and you carried out our ancestor's instructions and upheld the school's principle, so no one can criticise you for this. But your accusation of him turning over to the unorthodox path is already enough, why did you have to wrongly blame him for stealing the sword manual too? Actually you know this much better than me. You know he didn't take Ping'er's Evil Resisting Sword Manual.'

Your dad shouted: 'How would I know? How would I know?'”

Lin Pingzhi's voice had also become high and acute imitating Yue Buqun's sharp voice in shouting angrily. In the still and calm night, a sharp cry of an owl was heard frightening Yingying. After a pause, Lin Pingzhi continued, ”Your mother slowly said: 'Of course you know, because you're the one who took this sword manual.'

Your dad angrily roared: 'You... You're saying... I...” But after saying these few words, he stopped. Your mother's voice was completely tranquil as she said: 'That day when Chong'er was injured and unconscious, I stemmed his bleeding. At that time, I saw a Buddhist robe on him on which many small words were written, looking like some type of sword art. The second time I replaced his medication, that Buddhist robe had disappeared. At that time, Chong'er was still unconscious. Within that time, there was no else who had entered the room besides the two of us. And I didn't take that Buddhist robe.'”

Yue Lingshan choked and whimpered, ”My dad... my dad...”

Lin Pingzhi said, ”Your dad had already tried to interrupt a few times already, but after saying one or two words, he didn't say anything more. Your mother's voice gradually got softer and she said: 'Martial brother, our Huashan School's swordplay is made by our own school, and the Divine Art of Violet Twilight is an outstanding qigong to fight against other people. Our martial arts reputations have also been well spread in Jianghu, so there's no need to learn another school's swordplay. But recently, Zuo Lengchan's wild ambition has become even more fervent and he wants to annex the four schools. The Huashan School is in your hand. Whatever happens it won't be annexed by Zuo Lengchan's hand. Let's contact Taishan, Heng-Shan, and Hengshan Schools. When the time arrives, the four schools will fight against his school, and I think we'll have a sixty percent chance of winning. If we didn't win, then we'll go out fighting and give our lives at Songshan. When we arrived at the Nine Fountains, we won't have to be ashamed in front of the Huashan School's ancestors.'”

Yingying heard till here and she secretly praised, ”This Madam Yue really is an upper class heroine, she's much stronger in spirit compared to her husband.”

Then she heard Yue Lingshan said, ”My mother's words are very reasonable.”

Lin Pingzhi coldly laughed and said, ”But at that time your father had already taken my sword manual and had already started practising it. Why would he be willing to listen to Master-Wife's advice?” He suddenly called her 'Master-Wife', showing his true heart that he still had not lost the respect he had for Madam Yue. Then he continued, ”Then your father said: 'What you said is from the point of view of a woman boasting the braveness of her husband. After we've given our lives, Huashan School will still be swallowed by Zuo Lengchan. And after we're dead, it's not necessary that we'll still have enough face to see the ancestors of Huashan School.'

Your mother didn't reply for a long time, then she sighed and said: 'If you're really anxious about this and wants to protect our school, then I won't blame you. But... But practising this Evil Resisting Sword Manual will only bring harm. Otherwise, why did the descendants of the Lin family not learn this sword art and were forced by other people till they have no way out? I advise you to stop practising it before harm comes to you.'

Your father shouted: 'How did you know I was learning the Evil Resisting Sword Art? You... You... are you spying on me?'

Your mother replied: 'Why do I need to spy when I already know?'

Your father shouted: 'Say it, say it!' He was hissing at the top of his voice. Even though his shout was really loud, he seemed to be rather discouraged.

Your mother said: 'Everyone already noticed that your voice has completely changed. Couldn't you feel it yourself?'

Your dad was still denying it: 'My voice has always been like this.'

Your mother said: 'Every morning, lots of your beard fall off inside the quilt...'

Your father sharply shouted: 'You saw it?' His voice sounded terrified.

Your mother sighed and said: 'I've seen it some time ago but I've never said anything. You can fool other people with your glued-on beard, but how can you conceal it from your wife who has shared your pillow for dozens of years already?'

Your father didn't deny it anymore seeing that everything was exposed. After a long time, he asked: 'Who else knows of this?'

Your mother answered: 'No one.'

Your father asked: 'Shan'er?'

Your mother said: 'It's unlikely that she knows.'

Your father said: 'Then Ping'er naturally doesn't know then?'

Your mother answered: 'He doesn't know.'

Your father said: 'Alright, I'll listen to your advice. This Buddhist robe, tomorrow, we'll think of a way to return it to Pingzhi, and we'll slowly think of a way to clear Linghu Chong's name. I won't study this sword art anymore starting from today.'

Your mother was jubilant and she said: 'That's for the best. But this sword art harms people, so how can we let Ping'er take a look at it? It's best to just destroy it.'”

Yue Lingshan said, ”Of course father didn't agree. If he agreed to destroy this sword manual, then things wouldn't have come to this.”

”You guessed wrong. Your father said: 'Very good, I'll destroy the sword manual immediately!' I was extremely startled and wanted to say something to stop him. The sword manual belongs to my Lin family, whether it harms people or not, he has no authority to destroy it. At this time, I heard the window creaked open and I hastily pulled my head in. Then I saw a red item which was that Buddhist robe floating down, and the window was closed again. In a moment, that Buddhist robe floated besides me and I tried to grab it but it was outside my reach. At that time, I knew that whether I can avenge my parents or not depended on whether I can grab that Buddhist robe or not. So I disregarded my life and with my right hand I held onto the precipice, and I kicked out with my left feet. I felt the tip of my foot snagging the Buddhist robe and I quickly pulled it in. It was very lucky that I hooked that Buddhist robe in and it didn't disappear into that bottomless Heavenly Gorge.”

Yingying was captivated listening to his narration. She thought, ”The really lucky thing would be if you didn't manage to hook that Buddhist robe in.”

Yue Lingshan said, ”Mother knew Father had tossed that sword manual into the Heavenly Gorge. Actually, father was already familiar with that sword art and the Buddhist robe was of no use to him anymore. But because of this you managed to learn this sword art, isn't that right?”

”That's right.”

”That's really Heaven's will. The gods have arranged everything and they want you to avenge father-in-law and mother-in-law. That... That... That's very good.”

”But there's one matter. In the last few days, I've been racking my brains but I still don't understand. How come Zuo Lengchan also knows how to use the Evil Resisting Sword Art?” Yue Lingshan groaned and her voice was indifferent. It was obvious she didn't care if Zuo Lengchan knew how to use the Evil Resisting Sword Art or not.

Lin Pingzhi said, ”You didn't learn this sword art, so you don't know its obscurity and cleverness. When Zuo Lengchan and your father fought on top of that place of worship, at the end of the fight, the two of them were using Evil Resisting Sword Art. But Zuo Lengchan's sword art was completely false, each of his move was deliberately trying to lose to your father. His swordplay foundation is already very high, every time he was in a difficult situation, he quickly changed his move to avoid it, but at the end, he was finally blinded by your father. If... en... If he used Songshan sword art, and he was defeated by your father, then there's nothing strange about that. Evil Resisting Sword Art is matchless under heaven and the Songshan sword art is a worthy opponent. Zuo Lengchan didn't castrate himself so he didn't complete his practise of Evil Resisting Sword Art; this is also not strange. What I don't understand is, where did Zuo Lengchan learn his Evil Resisting Sword Art from, why was the one he learned was pleasing to the eye but false?” His last few words were said hesitatingly, revealing that he was still thinking deeply about this.

Yingying thought, ”There's nothing to be heard anymore. Zuo Lengchan's Evil Resisting Sword Art is most likely stolen from my sect. He only learned a few moves, but he didn't understand this shameless method. Dongfang Bubai's Evil Resisting Sword Art is much more formidable than Yue Buqun's. If you had seen it, even if you have three heads working together, you still wouldn't have worked it out.” She was just about to quietly step back when she suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from far away. There were more than twenty horses galloping quickly through the main road coming towards them.