Chapter 165

"What you say also makes... What nonsense are you spouting? What do you mean by 'we will have long become Young Master Lin's people'? Lian Xing, you have disappointed me too much. I didn't expect you to actually have feelings for a little thief!"

"But sister, Young Master Lin's wish seems to be to collect all the beauties in the world, so we two are naturally no exception. Besides, the rewards from the diary copy are too tempting; I can't hold back!"

Lian Xing indicated that it wasn't that she had no bottom line, but that the diary copy gave too much.

"There are many people who want to conquer me, Yaoyue, but at the very least, they have to be stronger than me, right?"

"Sister, it seems Young Master Lin is already stronger than you now. I remember he mentioned in his diary before that he could fight a peak Grandmaster without falling behind, and even fight briefly with someone in the Heaven-Human Unity realm. You seem unable to do that!"

Yaoyue glanced at Lian Xing coldly, then went to sleep without saying a word. Seeing through it without saying it—you are still my good sister!

Tonight, Ning Zhongze did not guard the diary copy, because she took Yue Buqun down the mountain to find a physician. After searching for nearly a day, she finally found a physician capable of treating him.

It was truly exhausting for Ning Zhongze, so after feeding Yue Buqun his medicine, she fell asleep on the table in Yue Buqun's room.

"Cough, cough!"

Following two coughs, Yue Buqun woke up.

He opened his eyes and looked blankly at the ceiling. It took a long time for the spirit in his eyes to gradually recover, and the complex memories followed.

Yue Buqun remembered being at Leigu Mountain, playing chess with the Clever-Debating Scholar. That Zhenlong Chess Game could induce inner demons. It was because his inner demons flared up, mistakenly believing that Huashan had been destroyed and his wife and daughter killed, that he went mad.

After clearing his thoughts, Yue Buqun turned his head and found his junior sister asleep on the table. He picked up his long robe, intending to cover Ning Zhongze.

Unexpectedly, he discovered a book in Ning Zhongze's arms. He carefully pulled it out, and the four large characters 'Evil-Warding Sword Manual' were written on it.

Wasn't this exactly the solution he had thought of? Learn the Evil-Warding Sword Manual, improve his strength, defeat Zuo Lengchan, and revitalize the Huashan Sect!

What puzzled Yue Buqun was how Ning Zhongze had the Evil-Warding Sword Manual!

"Regardless, opportunity knocks but once. I must seize this chance!"

Yue Buqun put on his long robe, then left the room silently with the Evil-Warding Sword Manual.

He used his lightness skill to arrive at a bamboo forest outside the city, then used the bright moonlight to examine the Evil-Warding Sword Manual.

He saw that the title page of the sword manual read: 'To practice this art, one must first castrate oneself.'

Yue Buqun's expression was strange, but he didn't take it to heart and continued to flip through it.

But as he continued to flip through it, the internal energy in his body began to run chaotically. Yue Buqun carefully recalled and discovered that it was exactly the internal energy circulation method of the Evil-Warding Sword Manual.

But as this internal energy circulated, Yue Buqun only felt his whole body burning with heat, and desires arising.

He quickly closed his eyes and forcibly emptied his thoughts, and the surging internal energy finally stopped.

No wonder the Evil-Warding Sword Manual wrote at the beginning that one must first castrate oneself. When practicing it, one is plagued by lust. If one doesn't remove this root of trouble, how could one have the heart to practice internal energy? In the end, one would inevitably suffer from qi deviation.

Yue Buqun also discovered that these seventy-two styles of Evil-Warding Sword techniques, when used in conjunction with this mysterious internal energy, were indeed sinister and ruthless. If he could learn it, he wouldn't need to worry about Zuo Lengchan.

But if he castrated himself, he wouldn't be a complete man anymore!

Yue Buqun was entangled in hesitation. Suddenly, he remembered the inner demons induced by the Zhenlong Chess Game before: Huashan destroyed, wife and daughter killed, himself stepped on by Zuo Lengchan. A ruthless look appeared on Yue Buqun's face.

"The safety of Huashan rests entirely on me. If I don't enter hell, who will?"

Yue Buqun gritted his teeth and made a ruthless move, swinging his sword in a horizontal cut. Then, the intense pain made his head break out in cold sweat, and he couldn't even hold the sword in his hand!

He hurriedly took out golden sore medicine from his arms to stop the bleeding.

On the other side, Ning Zhongze suddenly woke up. It turned out that because Yue Buqun was afraid of waking Ning Zhongze when he left, the door wasn't closed tightly, and the cold night wind woke Ning Zhongze up.

She rubbed her eyes and turned to look in Yue Buqun's direction, but was surprised to find that Yue Buqun was gone.

"Strange, it's so late, where did Senior Brother go?" Ning Zhongze muttered.

However, just as she inadvertently looked down, she was stunned, because the Evil-Warding Sword Manual was gone.

She had originally wanted to destroy this secret manual, but thinking that it might also be Huashan's only way out, she kept it for emergencies. Thinking that the manual was gone and Senior Brother was also gone, could it be that Senior Brother discovered the Evil-Warding Sword Manual and went to practice it secretly?

Ning Zhongze's face changed drastically, and she rushed out to search for Yue Buqun, but Yue Buqun had already left the city. How could she find him near the inn? ===== CHAPTER 167 =====