Chapter 60

Subsequently, Wang Wang Chongyang handed the Nine Yin Manual to his junior brother Zhou Zhou Botong for safekeeping.

Following Wang Wang Chongyang's last wishes, Zhou Zhou Botong decided to hide the Nine Yin Manual.

After hiding the first volume, just as he was about to conceal the second, he encountered Huang Huang Yaoshi and his wife, who had been waiting for some time; after a bout of deception, Feng Heng memorized the second volume of the manual with her photographic memory.

"Photographic memory?"

The women's hearts stirred; this was an extraordinary talent, and if applied to martial arts training, it would yield twice the result with half the effort... no, ten times the result!

"Miss, there is someone else in this world just like you," Ah Zhu and Ah Bi said, looking at Wang Wang Wang Yuyan with eyes full of envy.

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Wang Wang Wang Yuyan, neither arrogant nor impatient, said lightly, "That Miss Huang is her daughter, and since he calls her the 'Zhuge Liang among women,' she likely possesses this ability as well, which is nothing strange."

Nothing strange...

Ah Zhu and Ah Bi looked at each other in silence.

After returning to Taohuadao, Feng Heng transcribed the second volume of the manual from memory.

Confident in his own learning, Huang Huang Yaoshi attempted to deduce the content of the first volume from the second, becoming obsessed with martial arts.

At that very moment, Chen Chen Xuanfeng instigated Mei Mei Chaofeng to elope, and the two fled Taohuadao together.

Although Huang Huang Yaoshi's marriage to Feng Heng had almost explicitly signaled to his disciples that he no longer had thoughts of Mei Mei Chaofeng, Chen Chen Xuanfeng, having a guilty conscience, constantly feared his master's wrath, so he decided to go all the way and chose flight as the best strategy among the thirty-six.

Yet, not only did these two leave, but they also disregarded the bond between master and disciple and stole the second volume of the manual.

Upon discovering this, Huang Huang Yaoshi flew into a rage, acting like a madman by taking out his anger on his other four disciples, severing their hamstring tendons, and expelling them from Taohuadao.

On the surface, his anger stemmed from the betrayal and the loss of the manual, but peeling back the layers, was there not also resentment over his life's love being snatched away by a disciple?

Otherwise, why would he become so hysterical and punish the innocent?

Subsequently, in an attempt to comfort her husband, Feng Heng racked her brains trying to recall the content of the second volume of the manual but failed, eventually dying from exhaustion during childbirth, leaving behind only an incomplete, damaged half-volume.

Seeing this, many women began to curse aloud.

Forcing his pregnant wife to exhaust her mind transcribing the manual for him, this Huang Huang Yaoshi was truly despicable!

Do not claim this was Feng Heng's own idea.

To exhaust Feng Heng to the point of collapse was no feat of a single day or night, and during this period, how could Huang Huang Yaoshi have been unaware?

Yet he did not stop it; at best, he merely tacitly approved.

This was far too heartless!

If Feng Heng were replaced by Mei Mei Chaofeng, would Huang Huang Yaoshi still have allowed her to do so?

In the final analysis, Huang Huang Yaoshi did not cherish and love his wife that much.

This point, which they could realize, Huang Rong naturally realized as well.

At this moment, Huang Rong's face was expressionless, yet her mind constantly recalled every detail of her parents' past interactions, seeking to uncover more clues.

Previously, she had never doubted the affection between her parents, but now doubt had arisen in her heart.

She wanted to compare these details to uncover the true reality.

After Feng Heng's death, Huang Huang Yaoshi's personality became even more reclusive.

Many things are only cherished after they are lost; at this point, Huang Huang Yaoshi must have felt deep regret.

For Feng Heng was not only proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, sharing endless common topics with him as a soulmate with compatible values, but she also possessed excellent culinary skills, being a rare little cook.

Rong'er's cooking talent came from her mother.

It could be said that Feng Heng's presence compensated for too many of Huang Huang Yaoshi's flaws and gave him much warmth.

In their life after marriage, Huang Huang Yaoshi should have been very satisfied with Feng Heng, yet his heart always remained with Mei Mei Chaofeng, causing him to overlook his wife's virtues.

It was not until Feng Heng passed away and was gone forever that Huang Huang Yaoshi suddenly realized: during their year-plus of companionship, she had already opened his heart.

Precisely because of this, Huang Huang Yaoshi displayed such profound, unyielding affection, unable to extricate himself from "two five seven."

Seeing this, all the women understood.

To summarize--

Huang Huang Yaoshi's feelings for Feng Heng were, on one hand, familial love and romantic affection born from living together as husband and wife; on the other hand, they stemmed from deep guilt, for he knew he owed Feng Heng too much.

Thus, it is evident that from beginning to end, the one Huang Huang Yaoshi loved most was Mei Mei Chaofeng.

He was not heartless toward his wife Feng Heng, but ultimately, guilt dominated his feelings.

Just as they were thinking this, Jiang Sishui provided another powerful piece of evidence.

The Return of the Condor Heroes is a sequel to The Legend of the Condor Heroes, though the protagonist shifts from Guo Jing to Yang Guo.

In the book, Yang Guo falls in love with his master, Xiao Longnu, and despite societal opposition and numerous obstacles, resolutely insists on being with his master.

Huang Huang Yaoshi, while wandering the martial arts world, heard of Yang Guo's deeds and immediately regarded him as a kindred spirit.

For a person who openly defied societal norms and, disregarding everyone's opinions, insisted on marrying his master, was simply too much to Huang Huang Yaoshi's liking!

Subsequently, he caught up with Yang Guo in a thatched cottage.

Two figures who had long admired each other spiritually finally met in person; as they talked, they found increasing rapport, quickly forming a friendship across generations, and even chatting for several nights without realizing it.

During their conversation, Huang Huang Yaoshi witnessed Yang Guo's firm determination to marry his master; what was his reaction at that moment?

First, he stared blankly for a while, then, as if a knot in his heart had untied, he burst into loud laughter so powerful that it shook the thatch off the roof.

If he had merely appreciated the other's actions purely, Huang Huang Yaoshi would naturally not have lost his composure to this extent.

In that instant, he must have thought of his past regrets with his beloved disciple Mei Mei Chaofeng, regretting that he did not possess Yang Guo's unwavering, forward-rushing conviction.

Shanzhou, Zhongnan Ancient Tomb.

"Yang Guo? I am his master? He wants to marry me?"

Xiao Longnu was slightly stunned.

Through Granny Sun's investigations over these past days, she already knew that Yang Guo was a newly initiated disciple of the Quanzhen Sect, and moreover, the closing disciple of the sect leader Wang Wang Chongyang!

Nowadays, she is only about eleven or twelve years old.

Would he take someone else's disciple as his own, and yet fall in love with such a little brat?

Xiao Longnu shook her head, not taking it to heart.

After all, in *The Legend of the Condor Heroes*, Wang Wang Chongyang is already dead, yet in reality, he is still very much alive.

This shows that not everything in books should be taken as absolute truth.

[It must be said that Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianism influenced the world profoundly; even someone like Huang Huang Yaoshi dared not transgress the great barrier between master and disciple, leading to a series of tragedies.]

[If it were me, I wouldn't make such a choice; wouldn't it be wonderful to have beauties on both arms?]

[For someone hailed as the world's supreme expert, you still fear public criticism? Anyone who dares to gossip recklessly should just be killed outright; let's see who would dare to babble nonsense after that!]

"Pah! A lecherous rogue full of scheming thoughts, spouting nothing but heresies and fallacies!"

Seeing these words, some women either frowned, silently spat, or looked on with contempt.

However, some demonesses and witchesses unbound by worldly conventions clapped their hands in approval.

"This fellow would fit perfectly into our Yin Gui Sect!" she said, her face beaming with joy.

"But you must first be capable of inviting such a great deity," Lian Nishang remarked bluntly, dumping a basin of cold water on her enthusiasm.

Gigbling with her eyes swirling like waves, she suddenly asked, "Senior Sister, do you think those two slutty nuns from the Cihang Cihang Jingzhai would offer their bodies to feed the demon?"

Lian Nishang glanced at her and said indifferently, "If you are thinking it, just say it outright."

With that, she activated her lightness skill and drifted away gracefully.

"How boring; she's truly a conversation killer."

Rolling her eyes at the retreating figure, she felt that teasing Shi Shi Feixuan was far more entertaining.

[Although Feng Heng being alive surprised me slightly, it is not such an astonishing matter.]

[After all, while the *Nine Yin Manual* is the supreme martial art in the original work, it probably wouldn't even rank in this comprehensive martial world; Huang Huang Yaoshi wouldn't be so obsessed with it.]

[But what is going on with that kid Chu Chu Liuxiang? Why does he seem to have some connection to Taohuadao?]

[Chu Chu Liuxiang and Taohuadao come from different authors; if one must force a connection, it is simply that both know the "Flicking Finger Divine Power".]

[Can they actually be linked like this?]

[Of course, this originally has nothing to do with me, but my Rong'er is on Taohuadao!]

[As one of the three young masters penned by Gu Long, this lad has a handsome appearance, high martial arts, and great intelligence; his inherent qualities are excellent, which is why it is said that the most formidable thing about the "Thief Marshal" is not stealing treasures, but stealing women's hearts.]

[Rong'er is so young, an ignorant maiden; could she have been deceived by him?!]

"Pah! You are the ignorant one! Deceive me? Except for you, who else would rack their brains trying to trick me?"

Huang Rong blushed and spat lightly, then the corners of her mouth curved upward: "So you can get anxious and jealous too..."