Chapter 195

No way, are these book authors sick in the head?

Every single one of them just keeps dragging the Huashan Sect through the mud — can't they pick a different target?

Yue Yue Lingshan felt depressed, wondering when the Huashan Sect could finally produce a protagonist and wipe away this old shame.

【Later, under Grandson Xie Wangsun's arrangement, Xie Xiaofeng went on challenging senior masters and renowned veterans one after another, not even sparing those who had long since retired from the Jianghu, and in the end used the bones of his enemies to forge the mighty reputation of "Number One Sword of the Central Plains."】

【After that, by thwarting the Western Regions Mo Sect's plan to march east and preserving the face of the Central Plains Wu Lin, Xie Xiaofeng was utterly deified and hailed as the "Sword God."】

【At that moment, his status, his voice, his glory — none could compare.】

【However, his life was not all smooth sailing either; it had its rises and its falls.】

But in his later years, he still reached the supreme realm of "No Sword surpasses having a Sword."

【According to the book, by then Xie Xiaofeng had already transcended the self and entered a kind of "immortal-buddha" realm.】

"The immortal-buddha realm? What does that even look like?" The women all said they couldn't understand.

Even Ah Qing couldn't understand.

But unlike the others, she never got hung up on problems she couldn't figure out.

After getting the diary copy for over a month, she had reached a conclusion—

Anyone who wasn't as strong as her but spouted things she couldn't understand was to be dismissed outright as a bullshitter!

So could Xie Xiaofeng possibly be stronger than her?

That wasn't even a question worth asking.

When she was rampaging across the Central Domain, the other party's grandfather hadn't even been born yet.

【Yan Nan, on the other hand, is the "Number One Divine Sword Under Heaven" from《Jue Dai Shuang Jiao》.】

【Just how strong? Let me sum it up with an original line from the book—】

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【There is absolutely no hero under heaven who can withstand Yan Nan's casual single sword strike.】

【Of course, this line is obviously just hot air.】

After all, the style of old-school novels has always been like this—the more outrageous, the harder they brag.

【Still, despite the exaggeration, one can see just how fearsome Yan Nan is.】

【The duel between these two was truly a grand occasion.】

【But when they arrived at the spot, they learned that the one who had come to keep the appointment and fight was not Yan Nan himself at all.】

【It was Yan Nan's disciple — Jiang Wuque, along with a bit-part extra named Jiang Xiaoyu.】

"Jiang Wuque? Yan Nan's disciple? Fighting in his master's place?"

The women searched their memories and confirmed they had never heard of this person.

Clearly, compared to Xie Xiaofeng, whose fame filled the Wu Zhou, this Jiang Wuque's reputation was far inferior.

……

"It really is the two brothers!"

Qingqing's ten fingers loosened and tightened again, her heart surging with unrest.

There was the relief of a mystery solved, and also the tension of an unknown outcome.

"They… why on earth would they? Daddy and Mommy's grudge — it should have been for me to avenge."

Qingqing's heart was a tangle of mixed feelings.

She was the daughter of Ren Tianxing and Princess Tianmei.

Two years ago, because Ren Tianxing had become obsessed with Martial arts and neglected Princess Tianmei, the princess spent her days and nights alone in an empty boudoir.

It so happened that Xie Xiaofeng came to visit, and the two met by chance.

Xie Xiaofeng, seeing how beautiful Princess Tianmei was, went over to flirt with her.

And Princess Tianmei, who had long admired Xie Xiaofeng's fame, added to that her unbearable loneliness, lost control for a moment, and began an illicit affair with him.

And this single lapse led directly to Ren Tianxing's murder.

Princess Tianmei wanted to kill herself, but Xie Xiaofeng stopped her, coaxing her with sweet lies, and finally prevented her suicide.

It was not until a month later, when Xie Xiaofeng left her without a backward glance, that Princess Tianmei realized she had been deceived.

She had not only been tricked out of her virtue, but had also caused her husband's death.

Princess Tianmei was overcome with regret and unbearable shame, and immediately took her daughter Qingqing, who was only twelve at the time, crossed the sea to Forget-Worry Island, and threw herself on her younger sister's mercy.

Forget-Worry Island was precisely the place where Yan Nan, who had vanished from the Jianghu for many years, had gone into seclusion.

And Princess Tianmei's younger sister was none other than the lawful wife of Jiang Feng — Yan Nan's sworn brother.

216 Lolita Qingqing — has a man actually entered the Yihua Palace?

After Princess Tianmei arrived at Forget-Worry Island, she could no longer care about face, and poured out the whole story from beginning to end, begging Yan Nan to come out of seclusion and help her kill Xie Xiaofeng.

If she could make Xie Xiaofeng utterly disgraced, so much the better; for that, she was willing to bear the eternal contempt of the world.

After finishing her account, she entrusted her young daughter Qingqing to the care of her younger sister, Lady Jiang, and then, laden with shame and remorse, took her own life.

And regarding her tale, the people on the island were both shocked and furious.

Yan Nan's chivalrous heart naturally despised Princess Tianmei's wanton behavior, but Xie Xiaofeng's villainy in killing his friend and stealing his wife filled him with a boiling murderous intent just the same.

Thus, he granted Princess Tianmei's dying plea.

However, when Yan Nan was about to leave the island to kill Xie Xiaofeng, Jiang Feng did his utmost to stop him.

It turned out that the martial art Yan Nan cultivated was the "Jia Yi Shengong," created a hundred years ago by the eccentric lakeside masters Yun and Tie.

This Martial arts was so overwhelmingly fierce that upon reaching sixty or seventy percent completion, one had to destroy all the cultivated power and then start over from the beginning.

After this setback, the edge of the newly cultivated true Qi had been ground down, but its power was in no way diminished.

Moreover, the practitioner had effectively trained in this art twice, and was naturally far more familiar with the properties of this true Qi — not only could he bring forth its maximum power, but he could also send it out and recall it at will, wielding it as he pleased.

As the saying goes: to use its edge, first blunt its point.

That's exactly the principle.

And the meaning of "Jia Yi" is to teach people to understand what to take and what to give up.

Unfortunately, with the passage of time, the original meaning of this Wu Gong has long been forgotten by people.

In fact, because after This art is mastered, the practitioner must transfer all his power to another person, or else he must endure its torment day and night.

So the world misinterpreted the two characters "Jia Yi" as: sewing a wedding dress for another.

From then on, "Jia Yi Divine Art" became a useless Wu Gong that must never be practiced.

Back then, Yan Nan was young and hot-blooded, refusing to believe in such heresy, insisting on practicing this Wu Gong, and finally ran into an impasse.

Whenever he circulated his power, wherever the stream of true Qi passed, his meridians felt as though pierced by sharp needles — agony beyond endurance.

Tell me, how could one fight an enemy under such circumstances?

Precisely for this reason, Yan Nan vanished from the Jianghu, retiring to this Worry-Free Island, racking his brains for a way to resolve it.

When Princess Tianmei came to Worry-Free Island, Yan Nan's own problem was still unsolved — how could Jiang Feng bear to let him leave?

And Yan Nan knew his own situation best; after calming down, he also knew that if he went over just like that, he would only be delivering his head for nothing.

With no choice, he could only temporarily restrain himself.

This matter was also overheard by Jiang Wuque and Jiang Xiaoyu at the time.

The two of them were very fond of this newly arrived little loli sister Qingqing; seeing that she had become an orphan with no parents at such a young age, they hated Xie Xiaofeng, the originator of it all, even more intensely.

Although Jiang Xiaoyu was not as old as Jiang Wuque, he was sharp-witted and full of clever ideas.

Seeing that Yan Nan was temporarily unable to go kill Xie Xiaofeng, he slipped off the island alone by himself.

Both to find a way out for Yan Nan, and to learn more about Xie Xiaofeng so as to deal with him in the future.

When the others discovered Jiang Xiaoyu was missing, they all roughly guessed his purpose, and were instantly frantic with worry.

It was precisely at that moment that Yan Nan Made a decision.

He transferred all his Jia Yi true Qi to Jiang Wuque!

Jiang Wuque thus ascended to the heavens in a single step, plunging straight into the Great Grandmaster's Ninth Layer!

Afterwards, Jiang Wuque was ordered to leave the island, to go search for his younger brother Jiang Xiaoyu.

And that departure lasted over a year.

Now, seeing the contents of the diary, Qingqing knew that the two brothers had met, and had begun plotting against Xie Xiaofeng.

And the reason they borrowed Yan Nan's name was probably to stir up a big commotion, to attract more people to come watch the fight, so as to publicly expose the ugly side of Xie Xiaofeng unknown to others.

"With Little Fish brother's intelligence and talent, plus Wu Que brother's Wu Gong cultivation, they should be fine, right?"

Qingqing kept trying to convince herself in her heart, while also continuously praying for the two of them.