Chapter 126: The young and beautiful Lin Chaoying

Gu Hanyuan did not answer the woman in red's words, appearing to be concentrating on circulating his energy.

Steam began to rise from his soaked clothes, and his hair also dried instantly.

His soft, ink-black hair began to move without wind.

The woman in red hadn't reacted to what Gu Hanyuan was doing at first, but suddenly exclaimed after thinking of a possibility.

"Are you crazy? You want to break through in the middle of a fight?"

She hadn't expected Gu Hanyuan to be so crazy; breaking through in the middle of a fight almost only existed in legends, and if things went wrong, it would result in severed meridians.

The woman in red suddenly felt some regret.

Actually, she was already very satisfied, but she hadn't expected Gu Hanyuan to be so resolute.

However, just as she wanted to stop Gu Hanyuan, she saw the internal energy surging on Gu Hanyuan's body suddenly expand outward for a moment before calming down and retracting.

"You broke through to Grandmaster?"

The woman in red was dumbfounded; she hadn't expected Gu Hanyuan to succeed in breaking through right before her eyes.

A trace of blood spilled from the corner of Gu Hanyuan's mouth, but he revealed a smile.

In fact, Gu Hanyuan's breakthrough in the middle of a fight was completely acted out; he was already at the peak of the Grandmaster realm, so how hard could it be to act out a breakthrough from the peak of the Innate realm to the early Grandmaster stage?

The woman in red's eyes were complex, filled with both admiration and envy.

"Old Man Zhang doesn't know what kind of great luck he hit to have received such an outstanding grand-disciple; an eighteen-year-old Grandmaster. The future will surely be yours. But to force a breakthrough like this, the damage to the meridians is immense—is it really worth it?"

Upon hearing the woman in red mention Gu Hanyuan's age, the two women realized that his age was actually younger than theirs, yet they had been relying on him like little girls.

Xiaolongnu was better; the gap wasn't that big.

Li Mochou, however, had a blushing face at this moment, because this was completely "old cow eating tender grass"; she had actually fallen for a teenager just like that.

But thinking of what he had done for her, she felt it was only natural.

Gu Hanyuan didn't care about the age issue; possessing the system, he would definitely embark on the path of Xianxia cultivation in the future, so what would age mean then?

"There is no such thing as worth it or not, only whether one is willing or not. For Long'er and Mochou, I am willing. Please enlighten me again, Senior."

The woman in red looked at Gu Hanyuan, her eyes filled only with satisfaction.

She thought that if that person back then had had his courage, she wouldn't have had to waste so many years.

Gu Hanyuan stepped forward with his sword again; after being able to use Grandmaster-level internal energy, the power of the "Mysterious Sword Art" increased greatly, and paired with the Hero Sword, he was hard to find an opponent within the Grandmaster realm.

The woman in red was shocked by the power of Gu Hanyuan's sword art.

Fortunately, she was a Grandmaster after all; after the initial surprise, she pushed his offensive back again, but at this moment, she couldn't spare the energy to target the two women.

The two fought into a ball again, and the woman in red couldn't continue to fight with the sword art she wasn't good at, occasionally using one or two moves from her own sect's martial arts to force Gu Hanyuan back.

Xiaolongnu watched from the rear, her face full of confusion, because the woman in red's moves were very familiar, but somewhat off, so she couldn't recognize them for a time.

Gu Hanyuan's goal had actually already been achieved, but it was rare to be able to fight a Grandmaster, so his hands were itching.

Since leaving Wudang, almost all his fights had been crushing victories, and there were very few times when he was evenly matched.

Although his move mastery realm was sufficient, there was still a significant gap in experience.

The exchange with the woman in red, besides increasing Gu Hanyuan's combat experience, also led to a significant improvement in his comprehension of the "Mysterious Sword Art".

Gu Hanyuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and the scenes of Li Mochou dying for love and Xiaolongnu being unable to hold on flashed through his mind.

"Grief and Sorrow!"

Internal energy surged on the Hero Sword, and a large amount of sword qi condensed at one point in an instant, rushing toward the woman in red as Gu Hanyuan swung his sword.

The woman in red was startled; the power of this sword strike had already reached the threshold of a Grandmaster, and even a peak Grandmaster couldn't block it.

She no longer hid her strength, unleashing her mid-stage Grandmaster internal energy cultivation, and swung her sword to collide with the sword qi of "Grief and Sorrow", causing a massive explosion.

Even with the woman in red's strength, she was blown backward by the shockwave generated by the explosion.

"Grief and Sorrow" is a move where the deeper the grief and the stronger the sense of mystery, the more powerful the force; theoretically, there is no upper limit.

It was just that to achieve greater power, it was equivalent to sacrificing one's own life.

Previously, Gu Hanyuan hadn't been able to comprehend its meaning, but after experiencing the matter of the two women, he already had a prototype.

Once used, the power was indeed immense.

At the same time, even the ninth form of the "Mysterious Sword Art" had a sign of emerging, and it wouldn't take long to comprehend it.

"Jade Maiden Sword Art!"

Xiaolongnu finally recognized the moves the woman in red was using.

Although there were some changes in the details, the core essence remained unchanged.

When the smoke and dust from the explosion settled.

The woman in red appeared somewhat disheveled; not only were her clothes somewhat damaged, revealing her fair skin, but even her veil didn't know where it had been blown to.

"Founder Granny!"

Xiaolongnu and Li Mochou exclaimed at the same time.

Because the woman in red's appearance was exactly the same as the portrait of the founder Lin Chaoying enshrined in the Ancient Tomb.

The woman in red was indeed Lin Chaoying.

Although she was somewhat disheveled now, her eyebrows were still like emerald feathers, her skin like sheep-fat jade, and the heroic spirit between her brows was even more unforgettable.

Gu Hanyuan looked at Lin Chaoying with a somewhat strange mind.

He had already anticipated it would be her, but he hadn't expected her to look so young—also a beauty with a score of over 90.

Suddenly, he thought of Xiaolongnu maintaining her appearance for sixteen years by drinking Jade Bee Jelly.

Could it be that Lin Chaoying was also maintaining her youthful appearance in this way? ===== CHAPTER 128 =====