Chapter 822: The Carefree Marquis

Early autumn, a bright sunny day.

Sunlight shone in through the thin window paper, illuminating her skin, which was as smooth as satin.

The water temperature was just a little warmer than the sunlight; she lay lazily in the water, lifting her slender legs high to let the soles of her feet receive the gentle caress of the sun.

It was as light as a lover's hand.

But Feng Siniang was not happy in her heart.

After more than half a month of galloping, being able to take a hot bath could be considered the most pleasant thing in the world.

Yet now, her mind was completely filled with another kind of emotion.

Not only was it full, it was almost overflowing.

Therefore, she did not feel any joy.

Even though during these days, she still rode the fastest horses, climbed the highest mountains, ate the spiciest food, drank the strongest wine, wielded the fastest blades, and killed the most ruthless people.

She was still enjoying life.

But no matter what, she could neither be happy nor drive away the loneliness in her heart.

A loneliness that went deep into her marrow.

Sometimes, she felt that the loneliness was like flesh and blood, propping up her skin and filling her entire being.

But at other times, she felt that the loneliness was like termites, having already hollowed her out completely.

"Yu Liancheng, you dead man..." Feng Siniang cursed in a low voice, her palms slapping the water spray hard.

Although the time they had been apart was not long, after separating from that annoying guy, she discovered that the other party had already become an indispensable part of her.

If a woman does not have the man she loves by her side, even in a crowd of thousands, she will feel just as lonely.

But she was Feng Siniang, so she would never wash her face with tears.

She would cross mountains and ridges, swearing that as soon as she saw that guy Yu Liancheng, she would definitely bite him and leave seven or eight tooth marks on his body.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open.

There was no knocking, the door was just pushed open.

Feng Siniang did not scream like a delicate girl; she merely flicked her hands, and two silver lights flew out from between her fingers.

She hoped all men would understand one principle.

—Peeking at a woman bathing will give you styes.

"Don't mess around, it's me."

Fortunately, Yu Liancheng was looking openly and honestly.

So he did not get styes, and the two silver needles lay quietly in his hand.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Just as Yu Liancheng's words fell, a cluster of silver light exploded toward him.

If she had only wanted to poke out a blind man before, now she truly wanted to pierce him into a sieve.

"I already said it was me, why are you, this woman, so unreasonable."

Yu Liancheng shook his head; all the silver needles suddenly stalled when they were about three feet away from him, and then "clink, clink, clink" they fell to the ground.

Feng Siniang in the wooden tub sneered: "I knew it was you, that's why I attacked. Who told you to go out fooling around, saying you'd come soon, and only now coming to find me." Although she wanted to appear very angry, an emotion called joy surged into her heart. She needed to be very serious to keep a straight face.

Yu Liancheng laughed: "Your man went to do serious business, not to engage in petty mischief."

Suddenly, a splashing sound of water rang out, and a snow-white figure darted out of the wooden tub, wrapping the bath towel nearby around her body. Immediately after, Feng Siniang darted to his side in a flash, her small nose sniffing at his clothes, and she snapped: "There is clearly the scent of a woman, and it is neither Bingbing nor Young Master Xiao. Did you find another woman?"

"Are you jealous?" Yu Liancheng looked at Feng Siniang with a smile.

When a woman likes a man, she cannot help but be jealous for this man.

If this man also happens to like that woman, he will definitely think that the way this woman looks when jealous is extremely cute.

At least, Yu Liancheng thought Feng Siniang's jealous look right now was very cute.

"Jealous, my foot." Feng Siniang's pretty face flushed, and she stretched out her foot to kick Yu Liancheng.

"Sigh, as soon as we meet you release flying needles, and use your foot to kick me." Yu Liancheng sighed leisurely: "You don't know, to see you, I resisted how much temptation."

That was the number one beauty in the martial arts world, after all.

To see Feng Siniang, he had let go of the fat meat that was hanging right by his mouth.

In the end, he still did not make a move on Shen Bijun.

Of course, part of the reason was because he wanted to come see Feng Siniang, and the other part of the reason was because he did have a bottom line after all.

The women with whom he shared intimacy, if there were no true feelings, it was a matter of exchanging benefits. In general, it was all mutual consent.

However, he invited that number one beauty of the pugilistic world to drink wine and view flowers; he wondered if any ripples were left in her heart.

"Hmph, who believes your ghost stories." Feng Siniang bit her lip; she discovered that as soon as she saw Yu Liancheng, most of her anger vanished. So she turned around, no longer looking at this guy.

"Ah." With a soft cry, Feng Siniang suddenly felt her body floating, and she didn't know when she had flown up; with a 'plop', she entered the wooden tub once again.

But this time, she was not the only one in the tub.

Yu Liancheng was also inside.

"Yu Liancheng, you bastard... mmph, mmph..."

Feng Siniang was scolding Yu Liancheng, but the scolding soon became strange.

Sometimes, it is not too difficult to dispel a woman's anger.

Wanyou Shanzhuang.

Sharen Ya.

A very straightforward, very dangerous name.

Just hearing this name, one could already imagine a stretch of desolate mountains and evil valleys, with piles of accumulated corpses at the bottom of the valley.

Xiaoyao Hou Geshu Tian used to like killing people here, because there was no need to bury them after killing them here; it was very convenient.

Suddenly, a "woo-woo" whistling sound arose, as if it were the wailing and crying of wronged souls, making one's hair stand on end and one's bone marrow turn cold.

Many people had indeed died under Sharen Ya, and even Geshu Tian himself had been struck down Sharen Ya by a single palm strike from Yu Liancheng.

But, Geshu Tian did not die.

A thin, gaunt figure suddenly darted out from under Sharen Ya.

This figure looked to be only the height of an eight or nine-year-old child, thin and withered, as if a gust of wind could blow it over. His clothes were tattered and covered in dust, no better than a beggar's. Yet, his bearing was very noble, as if he were even more honorable than an Emperor. He was Heaven—Geshu Tian.

"I have finally escaped from this terrifying Sharen Ya." Geshu Tian stood on Sharen Ya, looking down at the cliff with lingering fear. Immediately, a sinister smile appeared at the corners of his mouth: "Yu Liancheng, you didn't expect this, did you? Not only did I not die after falling into Sharen Ya, but I also mastered a peerless divine art."

As he spoke, Geshu Tian's entire body suddenly went limp on the ground as if he had no bones, his skin turned red, and then he twisted and moved like a snake, his speed incomparably fast. And on the ground where he "snaked" past, the grass and trees withered and hissed, as if someone had poured poison on them.

Back then, when Geshu Tian and Yu Liancheng fought on Sharen Ya, under the distraction of Geshu Bing, Geshu Tian was struck in the chest by Yu Liancheng's palm and fell under Sharen Ya. But he was very lucky; when he fell, a strong wind blew, and with the support of trees growing on the cliff wall, although he broke every bone in his body, he unexpectedly did not die.

At the bottom of the cliff, he lived a life worse than death, with all his bones broken, barely able to squirm, drinking mud and eating leaves every day. But it was precisely this chance encounter that allowed him to realize an evil martial art. This art could soften his entire body, use True Qi to propel his body, and move as fast as lightning. Furthermore, it could liquefy his True Qi, turning it into a poisonous liquid.

His ability to escape death this time was largely due to this divine art.

Just as Geshu Tian intended to find food to fill his stomach, a sudden gust of wind rose from the flat ground, lifted him high, and then threw him heavily back under Sharen Ya.

A long, miserable scream erupted from Geshu Tian's mouth, then stopped abruptly.

"What exactly was that strange wind just now?" Geshu Tian did not fall to the bottom of Sharen Ya; one hand clung to a slightly protruding rock, barely supporting his body. He looked up, drenched in cold sweat; although he had not fallen to the bottom of the valley again, that strange wind just now was truly terrifying, and at the same time, completely baffling.

Although Sharen Ya often had wind.

But this kind of strange wind that could lift a person up had never happened before.

And just as Geshu Tian was about to climb out of Sharen Ya, he suddenly felt the space before his eyes darken.

Geshu Tian raised his head and saw a figure that was etched into his memory, looking down at him like an ant.

"Brother Geshu, are you a cockroach? How are you so hard to kill?" The person sighed leisurely.

"Yu! Lian! Cheng!" Geshu Tian spat out these three words through gritted teeth.

Indeed, the person who had come was none other than Yu Liancheng.

A gust of wind blew by, and ripples appeared slightly on Yu Liancheng's body.

Clearly, this was just a projection.

Of course, Geshu Tian did not know all this; he stared fixedly at Yu Liancheng, a strong sense of crisis rising in his heart.

"Die!

" Suddenly, Geshu Tian let out a sharp shout, his entire body's bones seemed to dissolve, his skin rapidly turned red, and he coiled toward Yu Liancheng like a large red python. In this state, his speed and strength increased greatly, and combined with the True Qi that could turn into poison, he had almost a ten-fold certainty of defeating his opponent.

Unfortunately, the one he could defeat was the Yu Liancheng who had dueled him on Sharen Ya back then, not the Yu Liancheng of the present.

Yu Liancheng extended a finger and tapped lightly on Geshu Tian's forehead.

Geshu Tian only felt a cracking sound from within his skull, and his whole body fell toward the bottom of the cliff.

"No, I cannot die..."

"I am Heaven, Young Master Tian, Geshu Tian..."

Geshu Tian fell toward the bottom of the cliff, the sound of the wind whistling in his ears.

He frantically activated that evil divine art, the muscles on his back twisting.

Suddenly, the muscles spread out to both sides like wings, slowing his speed significantly.

With a "bang," Geshu Tian finally fell to the bottom of the valley. He was covered in blood, but his chest rose and fell slightly.

He didn't die.

In the end, he still did not die.

The martial art he created was truly too evil; it controlled his muscles and granted him powerful vitality.

"Yu Liancheng, you wait..."

However, although he had temporarily saved his life, the current Geshu Tian was also severely injured.

He was just about to curse and make some threats when he heard a voice drifting down from Sharen Ya.

"Brother Geshu, you are blessed with great fortune and compare yourself to Heaven; let this cliff be the burial ground for your Heaven."

This sentence was filled with strange power, dispersing into Sharen Ya, and the entire cliff immediately began to vibrate and shake.

The sound of the shaking grew louder and louder, as if the entire cliff were experiencing a magnitude-12 earthquake, with stones constantly rolling down.

Rumble!

In the end, the entire cliff developed countless cracks, collapsed, and kicked up waves of dust, while also completely burying Geshu Tian within it.

Yu Liancheng stayed in the world of Xiao Shiyilang for a while longer.

The current Lianchengbi had his dark side washed away by Yu Liancheng and was a thorough gentleman, upright and righteous. Under his leadership, the Chu-mo Alliance did indeed truly eliminate demons and defend the Dao, punishing the treacherous and evil. However, under the constraints of the two major sects, Shaolin and Wudang, the Chu-mo Alliance was still unable to unify the entire martial arts world.

As for the Heaven Sect, it had completely gone underground.

For an evil force like this, unless one had the absolute capital to sweep through the martial arts world, once placed in the open, it would eventually become the target of everyone.

The Heaven Sect was handed over to Geshu Bing and Young Master Xiao.

Yu Liancheng could not be bothered to care about how these two women wanted to play.

In these last few days, Yu Liancheng and Feng Siniang revisited old haunts and went to the Shen Family Manor once more.

Daming Lake.

On a small, flat boat.

Feng Siniang glared at Yu Liancheng, with a hint of annoyance: "Did you get involved with Shen Bijun? Last time, you smelled like her."

Yu Liancheng said: "No, absolutely not."

Feng Siniang snorted coldly: "Now her husband is the Chu-mo Alliance Leader; with one command, who knows how many martial arts experts will risk their lives for him. If you go and provoke Shen Bijun, that would simply be madness."

Yu Liancheng sighed and said, "I am certainly not crazy, but if you keep asking whether there is any relationship between me and Shen Bijun, I will surely go mad."

Feng Siniang rolled her eyes and said again, "Tell me, am I prettier, or is that number one beauty of the pugilistic world prettier?"

Yu Liancheng said solemnly, "Siniang, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In my eyes, even if all the women in the world were added together, they wouldn't compare to a single strand of your hair."

Feng Siniang bit her lip and said, "It seems your skill in deceiving young girls is even greater than your martial arts."

"Young girl? Where is there a young girl?" Yu Liancheng put on an expression of looking around, and finally his gaze gradually landed on Feng Siniang's pretty face: "Eh, Siniang, the young girl you mentioned wouldn't be yourself, would it? But you are already thir..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Feng Siniang hatefully stomped a foot toward Yu Liancheng, but he easily dodged it and hurriedly said, "You're flustered, you're flustered."

"I'll fluster your head! Yu Liancheng, I think your ability to infuriate people is truly peerless under heaven," Feng Siniang said through gritted teeth.

Yu Liancheng cupped his hands and said, "You flatter me, you flatter me."

Feng Siniang stared intently at Yu Liancheng and gritted her teeth: "I'm hungry, I want to eat pig ears."

Yu Liancheng laughed: "Fine, then let's go ashore. I know a place where the braised pig ears are exceptionally delicious."

"No, I want to eat right here." Then, Feng Siniang lunged at Yu Liancheng and bit his ear.

PS: Due to reasons everyone knows, the "Comprehensive Martial Arts" story I originally prepared for the end of the month has died suddenly. Let's see if I can get a new book ready for next month. Enn... I don't have much confidence in original work, I hope it won't flop.