Chapter 72

The two swords crossed, and the tip of the woman in red's sword snapped directly.

She withdrew her sword and retreated, looking at Gu Gu Hanyuan with a heavy gaze.

"Divine weapon?"

"The sword is named Hero Sword. Please enlighten me, Senior."

Gu Gu Hanyuan didn't relax his mood at all.

He originally wanted to shatter the opponent's sword into pieces, but it was withdrawn by her at the last moment, only snapping off a piece of the tip.

But for an expert of this level, having a sword tip or not didn't hinder killing.

"Hero Sword? It really is a good sword, but how much ability does the person using the sword have?"

Although the woman in red was somewhat surprised, she was still that indifferent self; after all, the gap in strength couldn't be easily made up by a divine weapon.

Sure enough, in the subsequent exchange, the long sword in the woman in red's hand still kept Gu Gu Hanyuan from raising his head while avoiding colliding with the Hero Sword.

A casual sword strike could force him to abandon offense for defense.

Sure enough, a Grandmaster and a Master were two different things; even if Gu Gu Hanyuan had the exquisite "Mysterious Sword Technique," it only caused her some trouble and couldn't turn into an advantage.

It was only because of the Hero Sword that he avoided fighting internal energy with the opponent, so he was able to remain undefeated.

However, seeing that the opponent hadn't used her sect's martial arts, Gu Gu Hanyuan confirmed his guess.

However, seeing that she couldn't take down Gu Gu Hanyuan after a long time, the woman in red changed her fighting style and turned to attack Little Dragon Maiden and Li Mochou.

This put Gu Gu Hanyuan in a difficult position.

Although Little Dragon Maiden and Li Mochou were not weak, the gap between them and the opponent was too large.

And they were still suffering from the aftereffects of drowning, making even dodging and moving difficult.

Gu Gu Hanyuan was stabbed in the arm again to save Little Dragon Maiden, and he retreated with the weak Little Dragon Maiden to avoid the edge of the woman in red.

Fortunately, the woman in red didn't pursue and instead said leisurely:

"Junior, give up. Your sword technique is indeed powerful; even I cannot easily take you down. But Yu Wanting to protect two women who are unable to resist is impossible. If you leave now, I won't make things difficult for you."

Little Dragon Maiden looked at the scar on Gu Gu Hanyuan's arm from saving her with a heartache.

"Gu Hanyuan, you go. You don't have to lose your life for us."

"Yes, Gu Hanyuan. Leave quickly."

Li Mochou also walked out from behind Gu Gu Hanyuan, unwilling to accept him using his life to protect her anymore.

Although the time of happiness was very short, confirming Gu Gu Hanyuan's intentions was enough.

However, Gu Gu Hanyuan pulled Li Mochou back behind him.

"Heh, if I can't protect the women I like, then what's the use of me learning this martial arts and having this sword?"

Little Dragon Maiden and Li Mochou both looked at Gu Gu Hanyuan with teary eyes, thinking that if he didn't want to leave, they would live and die together.

A smile appeared in the woman in red's eyes, but her words were still very harsh.

"Even if you have the determination to give your life to protect them, what can you do?"

Gu Gu Hanyuan didn't answer the woman in red's words, looking like he was concentrating on circulating his energy.

He saw the steam beginning to rise from his soaked clothes, and his hair also dried instantly.

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

The woman in red hadn't reacted to what Gu 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 didn't expect Gu Gu Hanyuan to be so crazy; breaking through in the middle of a fight almost only existed in legends, and if it went wrong, it would result in severed meridians.

The woman in red suddenly felt some regret.

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

However, just as she wanted to stop Gu Gu Hanyuan, she saw the internal energy surging on Gu Gu Hanyuan's body spread out for a moment and then calm down.

"You broke through to Grandmaster?"

The woman in red was a bit dumbfounded, not expecting Gu Gu Hanyuan to succeed in breaking through right before her eyes.

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

In fact, Gu 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 was it to act out a breakthrough from the peak of the Innate realm to the early Grandmaster realm?

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

"Old Daoist 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 such a forced breakthrough causes so much damage to the meridians; is it really worth it?"

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

Little Dragon Maiden was a bit better, as the gap wasn't that big.

Li Mochou, however, was blushing, because this was completely "an old cow eating tender grass," and 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 Gu Hanyuan didn't care about the age issue; with the system, he would definitely embark on the path of cultivation in the future, so what would age mean then?

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

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

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

Gu Gu Hanyuan stepped forward with his sword again; being able to use Grandmaster-level internal energy, the power of the "Mysterious Sword Technique" 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 Gu Hanyuan's sword technique.

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

The two fought into a ball again; the woman in red couldn't continue to use the sword technique she wasn't good at to fight, and occasionally she used one or two moves of her sect's martial arts to force Gu Gu Hanyuan back.

Little Dragon Maiden watched from the back with a puzzled face, because the woman in red's moves were very familiar, but somewhat similar yet different, so she couldn't recognize them for a while.

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

Since leaving Wudang, his fights were almost all crushing, and there were very few times when they were evenly matched.

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

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

Gu Gu Hanyuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and the scenes of Li Mochou dying for love and Little Dragon Maiden failing to support herself flashed through his mind.

"Grief and Mystery!"

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

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

She no longer hid her strength and unleashed her mid-stage Grandmaster internal energy, swinging her sword to collide with the sword energy of "Grief and Mystery," causing a big explosion.

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

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

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

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

Once used, it was indeed immensely powerful.

At the same time, the ninth form of the "Mysterious Sword Technique" also had signs of appearing, and it wouldn't take long to comprehend it.

"Jade Maiden Sword Technique!"

Little Dragon Maiden finally recognized the moves used by the woman in red.

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

When the smoke and dust from the explosion settled.

The woman in red looked 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!"

Little Dragon Maiden 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 Lin Chaoying enshrined in the Ancient Tomb.

The woman in red was indeed Lin Lin Chaoying.

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

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

He had expected it to be her long ago, but he didn't expect her to look so young, also a beauty with a score of over 90.

Suddenly, he thought of Little Dragon Maiden drinking jade bee syrup to maintain her appearance for sixteen years.

Could it be that Lin Lin Chaoying also maintained her young appearance like this?