Chapter 8: The Underworld Sect

Seeing that both sides were evenly matched, Xiongba began to recruit Nie Renwang:

"Nie Renwang, I, Xiongba, respect you as a hero. Why don't we call it a draw? If the two of us join forces, we will surely dominate the world. There will be endless glory, wealth, fine wine, and women for us to enjoy."

Nie Renwang glared at Xiongba and replied, "You old scoundrel, the hatred of stealing my wife and the vengeance of killing her are irreconcilable. Today, either you die or I do."

Having said that, Nie Renwang raised his blade and slashed at Xiongba again. Seeing that his well-intentioned advice was useless, Xiongba realized that since they could not be friends, he could only send him to the Western Heaven.

He said to Nie Renwang, "Since you are seeking your own death, don't blame me for being heartless. Today, I will let you witness the power of my self-created 'Three Points Return to Origin Qi'."

Xiongba opened his palms into a claw-like shape, continuously gathering airflow in his hands. This was a Cultivation Method he had deduced based on the three supreme arts of fist, palm, and leg. This method thoroughly fused the lingering nature of the Wind God Leg, the fierce power of the Cloud-Ranking Palm, and the icy cold internal energy of the Heaven Frost Fist into a single set of origin energy.

This was the first time he had used this move in front of the world, and its appearance immediately turned the sky dark.

The origin energy in Xiongba's hands gathered continuously, with air currents churning within it.

Xiongba struck the origin energy toward Nie Renwang. Seeing this, Nie Renwang dared not take it lightly and held his blade with both hands to resist.

Yet despite this, he still underestimated the power of this move.

The Three Points Return to Origin Qi struck directly against his chest, and a mouthful of fresh blood gushed from his mouth; he was defeated.

But he did not admit defeat and continued to charge at Xiongba with his blade. Xiongba continued to blast the Three Points Return to Origin Qi in his hands toward him.

After dozens of moves, Nie Renwang was exhausted and unable to resist. Under one of Xiongba's offensives, he was knocked off the Fotou.

The Fire Qilin, which should have been sleeping in Lingyun Cave, had long been awakened by the sounds of the two fighting. Trapped by a restriction, it could not leave Lingyun Cave to teach the two a lesson.

Nie Renwang, falling from the Fotou, landed precisely at the entrance of Lingyun Cave.

The Fire Qilin felt its dignity had been challenged; it was determined to punish this person who dared to disturb its sleep.

At this moment, Duan Fengyun felt that the most imposing scene of the Fire Qilin from the original work had appeared.

The Fire Qilin, its body covered in raging flames, grabbed Nie Renwang with one hand and dragged him into Lingyun Cave.

And the duo of Nie Feng and Duan Lang who chased the Fire Qilin in the original work had now become a trio of Duan Fengyun, Duan Lang, and Nie Feng.

Dragged into Lingyun Cave, Nie Renwang still shouted loudly to little Nie Feng, "Feng'er, do not avenge me."

Poor little Nie thought his father was talking about the Fire Qilin when he spoke of revenge.

Seeing this scene, Duan Fengyun knew that Xiongba would arrive soon.

According to the original work, he had to follow little Nie Feng to get on the boat of the Underworld Sect. Not wanting to meddle in other people's business, he could only reluctantly follow in Nie Feng's footsteps to chase the Fire Qilin.

At this moment, a wave of heat rushed toward them in Lingyun Cave. The immense impact and scorching sensation caused several children to lose their Consciousness instantly.

After the children lost consciousness, Xiongba rushed down from the Fotou.

Originally intending to cut the weeds and eliminate the roots, he saw that the children had good natural talent and decided to take them back to his Underworld Sect to serve as pawns for his domination of the martial arts world.

Xiongba clapped his hands, and instantly, dozens of Underworld Sect members dressed in red appeared before him.

The Underworld Sect members knelt down one after another and shouted, "The Sect Leader is wise; his literary achievements and martial virtues will last for thousands of generations, unifying the martial arts world."

Xiongba waved his hand and gave the order: "Take these brats back to the sect and have someone treat them."

Having finished his orders, Xiongba left in a hurry; it seemed this battle had also consumed a great deal of his energy.

Amidst a scorching, burning pain, Duan Fengyun slowly opened his eyes.

He looked around, and on the wall of the room were three striking large characters: Underworld Sect.

Looking at little Nie Feng and little Duan Lang, who were still unconscious beside him, he felt a secret joy in his heart; the three of them had indeed successfully arrived at the Underworld Sect.

Hearing sounds coming from outside the door, he hurriedly continued to pretend to be unconscious.

At this moment, the door opened, and two boys and one girl entered.

He felt the hands of Nie Feng and Duan Lang moving and knew they were about to wake up, so he also pretended to be on the verge of waking.

Amidst painful groans, the three of them woke up. Duan Fengyun pretended to be ignorant and asked, "Where is this? And who are you?"

The older of the three children replied, "This is the Underworld Sect. Our Sect Leader saved you from Lingyun Cave. My name is Qin Shuang, he is Bu Jingyun, and she is Kong Ci."

Duan Fengyun looked at the people in front of him; he had not expected to meet the two "cheat-code" protagonists of the Fengyun World so soon.

At this time, little Nie Feng looked around, found no familiar faces, and began to cry loudly, asking while sobbing, "Where is my father? Have you seen my father?"

Little Bu Jingyun, who had been cold as ice since childhood, was expressionless, but the disdain on his face was fully revealed.

Little Kong Ci hurriedly stepped forward to hold little Nie Feng's hand and said, "The Sect Leader only brought back the three of you; we don't know the whereabouts of your father. We three are also children with no home to return to. From now on, we are all each other's family, and the Underworld Sect is our home together."

Duan Fengyun also comforted Nie Feng, "Feng, your father is gone. You must learn to be independent and become a man."

Little Nie Feng looked at the people around him, then thought of his father's previous teachings, stopped crying, and nodded slightly to everyone.

Then, the six children introduced themselves. Qin Shuang was the oldest of the six, Bu Jingyun was second, Nie Feng was third, the Duan brothers were fourth and fifth respectively, and Kong Ci was naturally the little sister of the group.

From then on, these six brats began their life of relying on each other in the Underworld Sect.

In the blink of an eye, the three of them had been at the Underworld Sect for several days.

Like others who had just joined the Underworld Sect, they did chores every day with Qin Shuang and the others.

As children of the martial arts world, they were naturally free-spirited and soon became well-acquainted.

Duan Fengyun knew well the "cheat-code" abilities of the two protagonists and tried every possible way to maintain a good relationship with them.

He looked at his "cheap" younger brother, Duan Lang; before the incident of Xiongba taking disciples, Duan Lang was still a silly and cute little boy.

But thinking of Duan Lang's future actions, although Duan Fengyun was no saint, Duan Lang's future deeds were indeed too vicious.

Although Duan Lang would later make a great name for himself in the martial arts world, he would also die a miserable death.

Even though he was his "cheap" brother, they now shared the same blood, and blood is thicker than water; he ultimately could not bear to let Duan Lang repeat the same mistakes.

So he decided to have a talk with little Duan Lang, to guide him while he was still young, change his Destiny, and let him live an ordinary life.

At night, after the others had fallen asleep, Duan Fengyun quietly woke up the sleeping little Duan Lang.

Little Duan Lang looked at his brother in front of him with sleepy eyes, looking blank.

Ever since Lingyun Cave, he felt his brother had become a different person.

Duan Fengyun did not notice little Duan Lang's thoughts and whispered to him, "Little brother, do you remember where the Secret Manual of the sword technique left by Father is? I forgot where I put it."

Little Duan Lang thought for a moment and answered truthfully, "Brother, Father was afraid that after he left, we wouldn't be able to keep the Eclipse Sun Sword Technique and that it would attract unwanted attention, so he kept practicing it for us, making us memorize it in our minds."

Upon hearing this, Duan Fengyun realized why he had searched Duan Lang's belongings so quietly for so long without finding the Eclipse Sun Sword Technique, and had even mistakenly thought that Duan Shuai had hidden it away.

He had originally intended to take Duan Lang's Eclipse Sun Sword Technique manual to make him lose his chance at competition early on, and to make him give up on this ambition.

Seeing that this move would not work, he could only give up for the time being and think of another way later.

He was not interested in the Eclipse Sun Sword Technique; without the enhancement of the Fire Scale Sword, this set of sword techniques could not even be ranked in the Fengyun World.

Seeing that it was already late, he, who was already exhausted, fell into a peaceful sleep.