Chapter 667: Wuxia: Even Arch-Enemies Can Become Lovers 01

This is a martial world of swift gratitude and vengeance.

The myriad sects under heaven all take the Heaven Sword Alliance as their leader, faintly showing signs of wanting to dominate the martial world.

The villain Mu Huaizhi is the son of the former Grand Elder of the Heaven Sword Alliance, and the foremost of the Four Young Masters spoken of by the well-informed of the jianghu.

Speaking of Mu Huaizhi, before this everyone in the jianghu praised the spirited young lad, not only handsome as orchid and jade tree, but his swordsmanship was divine and marvelous.

Mu Huaizhi obsessed with the sword way, already an outstanding among his peers, upholding justice, and the young master of the Nine Abyss Demon Sect, Jin Chen, are irreconcilable arch-enemies.

The two became enemies due to differing paths; Jin Chen committed countless evils, and is the certain next sect leader, they almost fight upon meeting, yet the outcome remains unclear.

He should have lived a life of swift gratitude and vengeance, but Mu Huaizhi happened to learn that the Young Alliance Leader he was to assist, Fu Zhiyuan, harbored wicked intentions, plotting to seize the alliance leadership through evil arts.

His father, serving as Grand Elder, also fell victim to Fu Zhiyuan's poisonous scheme while trying to intervene.

When the protagonist attacked Fu Zhiyuan and discovered his own secret exposed, he flew into a rage and preemptively framed Mu Huaizhi with the Blood-Colored Begonia.

The Blood-Colored Begonia is a heretical technique despised by all in the jianghu, created by the first leader of the Nine Abyss Demon Sect; it requires consuming the heart's blood of seven youths within ten days to master.

Fu Zhiyuan even produced evidence of the youths' deaths, leaving Mu Huaizhi unable to defend himself, and sent his covertly cultivated assassins to hunt him down, determined to leave him without a burial place.

Mu Huaizhi had already been poisoned, then pursued; after escaping with severe wounds, he was seized by his arch-enemy Jin Chen.

Jin Chen helped him mend his severed meridians, letting him go take revenge, restore his strength, then fight openly to decide the victor.

I thought they were sympathetic rivals, but it turned out to be the start of a nightmare; after Mu Huaizhi recovered from his injuries, he went to look for his old friend Fang Xun, only to discover that Fang Xun had already become Fu Zhiyuan's bedmate.

The protagonist trusted Fang Xun's evidence without doubt, and firmly believed that Mu Huaizhi was colluding with the demonic sect, secretly practicing heretical arts.

At this moment, strange occurrences frequently happened in Yunshu Town; Mu Huaizhi went to investigate to prove he was not a demonic heretic, but just as he was about to uncover the true culprit, he was framed by the wary Fu Zhiyuan.

Mu Huaizhi has always been single-minded, knowing only the sword way with no scheming; thus he discovered he had been possessed, becoming the demonic fiend who caused nearly half of Yunshu Town's inhabitants to perish.

He exhausted himself trying to prove his innocence, yet unintentionally unleashed demonic techniques while fighting the various sects.

Mu Huaizhi went from being the leader of the Four Young Masters of the jianghu to topping the jianghu's wanted list, everyone entitled to kill him.

Jin Chen reappeared at this time, snatching Mu Huaizhi back to the Nine Abyss Demon Sect.

Only then did Mu Huaizhi understand everything: Jin Chen was not a sympathetic rival but had deliberately done this; even while treating his meridians, he had planted a gu poison, so that any use of inner strength would turn into demonic technique.

And the reason was supposedly "delighted in him"—how ironic.

Jin Chen bound Mu Huaizhi inside the demonic sect, abolished all his martial arts; after years of bodily and mental torment, Mu Huaizhi suffered endless torment yet never wavered in heart, instead finding a chance to kill himself.

Thus a generation's youthful hero withered away.

Jin Chen, anguished over losing his beloved and indignant to the point of despair, ascended to sect leader and mobilized the entirety of the Nine Abyss Sect against the Heaven Sword Alliance and the sects that had previously hunted Mu Huaizhi.

But by then Fu Zhiyuan's mastery of the Blood-Colored Begonia was complete; even Jin Chen was no match for him, and while the martial world and the Nine Abyss Demon Sect were locked in conflict, he covertly used evil arts to control the leaders of the major sects.

Jin Chen died, and by the time the various sects reacted, it was too late; thus Fu Zhiyuan became the martial world's alliance leader, the jianghu unified, with no demonic sect remaining.

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After receiving the memories, Jin Chen leaned against a tree, eyes open, still chewing a stalk of dog-tail grass.

"Grass."

Jin Chen sincerely cursed.

With the original host pursuing his wife like that, catching her would be a ghostly feat, yet binding her back to torture her body and heart—who gave him the gall!

【0731, how far has the plot progressed?】

【Hehe, it's exactly when Mu Huaizhi escaped after his injury; he'll pass by here shortly!】

The timing is perfect! 0731 claps for himself.

That'll do; Jin Chen put the porcelain bottle back and swapped in a bottle of golden wound medicine.

He even planted gu poison—does he still want a wife!

Not long after, Jin Chen heard a faint breathing from the woods, his steps urgent yet mixed with substance and emptiness.

"Running so urgently, where to?"

Mu Huaizhi heard the sound, instinctively looked up, and saw a man in dark robes leap down from the tree.

The black-and-scarlet gold mask covered the upper half of his face, his thin lips were bright red, and beneath the mask his icy black eyes were now full of mockery.

Mu Huaizhi knew that mask all too well—it belonged to his countless sparring partner, the undefeated rival, the Young Sect Leader of the Nine Abyss Demon Sect, Jin Chen.

【Detected world's plot villain, current Blackening Value 70; mission: clear Blackening Value to zero, alter the villain's tragic ending.】

"Tsk, it's only been a few months since we parted—how did you end up like this?"

Jin Chen spat out the dog-tail grass, hands behind his back, and walked a circle around Mu Huaizhi.

Still very much in need of a beating.

Mu Huaizhi twitched his fingertips, already wanting to grab his sword and slash, his brows and eyes cold and stern: "It's none of your business."

"You could fight me to a draw, yet you lost to that sort of trash."

Jin Chen was clearly unhappy, grabbing Mu Huaizhi without a word and dragging him deeper into the woods.

He possessed immense strength; moreover, Mu Huaizhi at this moment was severely wounded, each breath tugging at his injury, already seeing black spots—how could he break free?

When Mu Huaizhi regained consciousness again, he found Jin Chen had brought him to the stream, washed his wound, and even applied medicine.

Mu Huaizhi lowered his head, touched his chest wound, furrowed his brows slightly, and looked at Jin Chen leaning against the tree.

"Why save me?"

"Oh, you're awake."

Jin Chen withdrew his gaze from the distance and sized up the youth before him.

Even though he is now down-and-out and injured, his bearing remains undiminished, his outstanding brows and eyes clear yet dazzling; at this moment his phoenix eyes lock onto him, unusually cold.

"You can only die by my hand."

Jin Chen tossed him another bottle of golden wound medicine, his tone unrestrained: "So before we decide the victor, you are not allowed to die."

Sure enough, it's the familiar domineering pattern—he even wants to control others' life and death.

Mu Huaizhi withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes to stare at the clear water, feeling only irony.

In the end, the person who saved me turned out to be my sworn enemy.

"Hey, I at least saved you, and you won't even give me a glance?"

Jin Chen rubbed his arm, sat down beside him, and muttered complaints.

"You jerk, your meridians and bones are really hard to reconnect—I almost wrecked my arm trying."

Mu Huaizhi finally felt a stir, sensing his internal energy flowing again through the severed meridians; although there was some stagnation, it was much better than his half-dead state.