Chapter 226: Meeting Lianxing and Yao Yue Again

Yu Liancheng and Hua Wuque had already heard the voices of Lianxing and Yao Yue, and they both unleashed their lightness skills, darting toward the end of the corridor.

While executing his lightness skill, Hua Wuque's peripheral vision inadvertently swept across the ground; the floor was paved with a layer of white jade-like stone, smooth and solid, with no dust or debris.

Yet this only caused Hua Wuque to knit his brows.

Because this Rat Hole must surely be filled with traps, and since the two masters had come looking for Wei Wuya, they most likely intended to take his life; so why did Wei Wuya not activate the heavy traps?

And once the traps were activated, this place naturally could not be so clean.

Hua Wuque was truly very clever, and in the blink of an eye, he had already guessed the reason.

Given the high level of the two masters' martial arts, Wei Wuya knew that even if he triggered all the traps, it would be useless, and he was afraid of angering them, so he simply chose to be generous.

The corridor grew wider and wider; that big rat Wei Wuya seemed to have hollowed out the entire mountain belly to use as his palace.

Before long, the corridor reached its end.

And Yu Liancheng, whose lightness skill far surpassed Hua Wuque's, was the first to arrive in a spacious palace, where countless small cave chambers had been built on all sides, arranged one after another like a honeycomb.

Lianxing and Yao Yue were in this palace.

They were currently exchanging blows.

The two women's figures were ethereal and agile, like flying celestial maidens from a mural, possessing a charm that transcended the mundane world. But their strikes were fierce to the extreme; each palm strike was like a volcanic eruption, causing mountains and rivers to surge.

Especially Lianxing, who had already reached the Mingyu Ninth Layer; centered on her standing position, a bizarre and peerless aura emerged, like an invisible vortex capable of swallowing any person or object that approached her.

Yu Liancheng could see that Lianxing's strength was even more profound than when she had first broken through to the Mingyu Ninth Layer; clearly, during this period, she had further tapped into the power of the Mingyu Ninth Layer.

Yao Yue's strength was originally inferior to Lianxing's, and now she was a notch worse.

If not for Lianxing holding back, she would likely have been defeated in thirty moves at most.

Besides them, there were two other people in the room.

One of them was a dwarf who looked like a young boy, sitting cross-legged on a vehicle made of glowing metal. He looked malicious and cunning. Yet, he carried a trace of innocence and playfulness, just like a child who had never experienced the world.

His whole person seemed to be made of a mixture of poison and honey; even though others knew he was the leader of the Twelve Zodiacs, the most notorious "Wuya" Wei Wuya, they still could not help but feel pity for him.

And beside Wei Wuya lay another person, who seemed to have had his acupoints sealed; his eyeballs rolled around, incredibly lively—it was the long-missing Xiaoyuer.

Yu Liancheng walked to Xiaoyuer's side and kicked out, unsealing his acupoints.

"Stop." Just at this moment, Lianxing's voice rang out, extremely urgent: "Do not unseal Jiang Xiaoyu's acupoints."

It was a pity that Lianxing called out a step too late.

Xiaoyuer had already had his acupoints unsealed, and like a lively, jumping fish, he sprang up and said with a grin to Yu Liancheng: "Many thanks to Brother Yu for the kick; the feeling of having one's acupoints sealed and lying on the ground is truly quite uncomfortable."

Yu Liancheng waved his hand indifferently.

"You stinking rat, dead rat, you still dare to lay a hand on your Grandpa Yuer? You don't want to live anymore."

With a "bang," Xiaoyuer punched Wei Wuya on the bridge of his nose, followed by a series of crisp "crackling" sounds; he had already slapped Wei Wuya a dozen times, back and forth, and finally made a grimace: "Stinking rat, do you know the power of your Grandpa Yuer now?"

And after Yu Liancheng unsealed Xiaoyuer's acupoints, Yao Yue and Lianxing stopped simultaneously.

Lianxing walked over and sighed lightly: "You really are my nemesis; I was almost about to become the First Palace Master. As a result, because of your kick, I have to spend another three years waiting."

Yao Yue stood to the side and snorted coldly: "You didn't win this round; you cannot be the First Palace Master, you still have to listen to me now."

Lianxing gave a sweet smile, not angry at all: "Understood, sister, I will listen to you. But in three years, if you lose to me, I should still be the First Palace Master, and then you will have to listen to me."

Yao Yue gritted her teeth and said: "Wishful thinking."

Yu Liancheng looked at these two sisters in confusion and asked: "What exactly is going on here?"

"The matter is like this..." Although Lianxing had lost this contest, she was still very happy to see Yu Liancheng, her cherry-red lips carrying a faint smile, beautiful enough to topple cities and states.

Her voice was clear and melodious as she recounted everything that had happened since she parted ways with Yu Liancheng.

It turned out that when Yao Yue left back then, she had actually returned to Yihua Palace, wanting to find the method to break through the Mingyu Ninth Layer from the secret archives of Yihua Palace.

But how could that be so easy to find?

If it was not a great awakening between life and death, then one had to perfect their state of mind.

And Lianxing had also rushed back to Yihua Palace to compete for the authority of the First Palace Master.

Yao Yue naturally would not allow it; she was accustomed to being the only one supreme and would never allow anyone to press down on her, let alone someone like Lianxing, who had lost to her since childhood.

Because of this, the two of them had fought countless battles within Yihua Palace.

Just at this time, Wei Wuya sent someone to deliver a letter.

He seemed to have guessed some of Xiaoyuer's secrets.

The gist of the letter was that Xiaoyuer was in his hands, and if Yao Yue and Lianxing did not come, he would kill Xiaoyuer.

Yao Yue naturally would not allow this to happen; she still wanted Xiaoyuer and Hua Wuque to kill each other to complete this revenge plot that had been laid out for over a decade.

Yao Yue wanted to leave the palace to save Xiaoyuer, but Lianxing would not allow it, stating bluntly that since the matter of the First Palace Master had not been decided, no one was allowed to leave Yihua Palace.

Her martial arts surpassed Yao Yue's, so even if Yao Yue could leave Yihua Palace, it would be too simple for her to sabotage this matter.

After some exchange, both sides decided that the position of "First Palace Master" would be re-determined every three years, and if the Second Palace Master wanted to sit in the position of First Palace Master, she had to win in the duel of the Palace Masters.

This duel was naturally not a comparison of martial arts.

For example, this time.

Whoever could save Xiaoyuer first would be able to sit in the position of First Palace Master for three years.

Lianxing arrived at Guishan first.

Wei Wuya had already set up traps to deal with the two Palace Masters, Yao Yue and Lianxing.

But Lianxing had reached the Mingyu Ninth Layer, and with Xiaoyuer making noise beforehand, Wei Wuya was instead stopped by Yao Yue, who used a heavy technique to seal his acupoints.

Just as Lianxing was about to save Xiaoyuer, Yao Yue arrived, and the two women had a great fight.

And after that, Yu Liancheng arrived...

After hearing everything, Yu Liancheng could not help but laugh dumbly.

Why did the two women with the most profound martial arts in the world, fighting for the supreme authority of the martial arts forbidden land Yihua Palace, sound like two young girls fighting over a toy?

Yao Yue's eyes suddenly became sharper than blades and colder than ice as she looked at Hua Wuque, who had just entered not long ago: "Wuxue, did I instruct you to kill a person named Jiang Xiaoyu with your own hands?"

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