Chapter 464

This was the strangest part of all to her.

Had she followed the original route, she naturally would not have known that Lu Lin was the younger brother she had lost all those years ago.

But she had been taken away by Ximen Wudi and joined the Qinglong Society.

As one of the Four Season Guardians of the Qinglong Society, she had access to every piece of intelligence under heaven.

That Lu Lin's real name was Huang Lin, and that he was her own brother — she had naturally known this long ago.

Only this not-quite-secret, unless one belonged to an organization like the Qinglong Society, whose intelligence spanned the world,

how would anyone else ever come to learn it?

"There's no need to tell you that."

"Huang Xuemei! Hand over the Heavenly Demon Qin, and you and your brother both live — how about it?"

Mr. Six-Finger, who had not spoken until now, finally opened his mouth.

"Are you so-called leaders of the Six Great Mingmenzheng Sects being a little too ridiculous?"

Huang Xuemei reached behind her back with one hand, brought the qin case around to her front,

"Twenty years ago, for the sake of this Heavenly Demon Qin, you slaughtered my parents and drove me off a cliff."

"If not for the Great Dragon Head…"

Mentioning the Great Dragon Head, Huang Xuemei's heart trembled — both joy and sorrow welling up within her.

The Great Dragon Head had left Qinglong Peak to head to the Sword Realm over a month ago now.

No one knew when he would return.

Compared to avenging her grudge, what Huang Xuemei wanted more right now was to see the Great Dragon Head.

"Enough nonsense! Since you won't hand it over, then let me come and take it!"

He Qinghua was in no mood for more talk. With a flick of her wrist, her whip shot forth like a spirit snake, coiling toward Huang Xuemei's qin case.

"Overestimating yourself."

A mere Absolute, and yet she dared to act so brazenly before Huang Xuemei.

She lightly patted the qin case and plucked a single string at random.

A shapeless Qi blade swiftly took shape above the string.

It then met the whip's tip, slicing the supple long whip clean in two.

Racing back along the length of the whip, He Qinghua was terrified and cried out at the top of her voice,

"Save me…"

She only managed to say it once before the shapeless Qi blade split off half of He Qinghua's head.

"The Heavenly Demon Qin truly lives up to its fearsome reputation."

Ghost Saint was not only unalarmed, but a look of delight appeared on his face.

"A divine weapon like this should rightly belong to me, Ghost Saint."

Before his words had even faded, Ghost Saint's figure moved in rapid succession, darting toward Huang Xuemei with ghostly swiftness.

Now he struck with full power, no longer hiding his cultivation.

Yet another supreme Mythical Realm expert!

"Good! Since you want to die, then I'll take my revenge for what happened all those years ago."

Huang Xuemei had not come to the Great Han to seek revenge, but now that the chance had come, how could she let it slip?

Her hands, white as polished jade, flew across the Heavenly Demon Qin in rapid play.

The qin's notes rang out suddenly, and one shapeless Qi blade after another shot forth at great speed.

These shapeless Qi blades looked utterly chaotic.

In truth, they were like an entire sword art — exquisitely controlling every dodge and pivot of Ghost Saint's movements.

"You wretched woman! Everyone, this woman's cultivation is no trifle; paired with the Heavenly Demon Qin, none of us alone can match her."

"If we keep sitting back to watch tigers fight, today we'll only end up picked off one by one."

Ghost Saint dodged on one side while countering with Yin Wind Palm strikes, calling out loudly for aid in between.

Though Blazing Fire Ancestor and Ghost Saint were not on good terms, he knew the man spoke reason,

"Everyone, Old Ghost has a point — let's go together. Kill Huang Xuemei first, then we'll talk about who gets the Heavenly Demon Qin."

Han Xun, however, now began to sing a different tune,

"Everyone, have you all lost your minds?"

"She is Huang Xuemei, one of the Four Season Guardians of the Qinglong Society."

"Kill her? Are you not afraid you'll have the life to take the Heavenly Demon Qin, but no life to use it?"

"What we agreed on before was only to seize Lu Lin and use him to threaten Huang Xuemei into handing over the Heavenly Demon Qin!"

Before he had finished speaking, Mr. Six-Finger struck him from behind with a single palm, killing Han Xun on the spot.

"You useless wretch — to have walked alongside us all this time is a disgrace to us."

After killing Han Xun, he joined Dongfang Bai, and the four great experts fought Huang Xuemei together.

The remaining four were martial artists who could be called the elite of the Great Han Wu Lin.

Ghost Saint was the master of Ghost Palace, his Wu Gong eerie and unfathomable; every attack came unexpectedly, and he had no scruples about striking from behind.

To call him the head of a Mingmenzheng Sect was more fitting for a member of the Xie Sect.

His cultivation had already reached mid-stage of the supreme Mythical Realm.

Blazing Fire Ancestor's Blazing Fire Divine Palm was extraordinarily advanced — he could already draw upon the fire-force of heaven and earth for his own use.

Every palm strike was fierce and domineering, leaving his opponent unable to bear the scorching heat.

His cultivation had likewise reached mid-stage of the supreme Mythical Realm.

GLOSSARY:

- Huang Xuemei

- Lu Lin

- Han Xun

- Ximen Wudi

- Mr. Six-Finger

- He Qinghua

- Ghost Saint

- Blazing Fire Ancestor

- Dongfang Bai

- Great Dragon Head

- Qinglong Society

- Qinglong Peak

- Sword Realm

- Heavenly Demon Qin

- Ghost Palace

- Blazing Fire Divine Palm

- Yin Wind Palm

- Four Season Guardians

- Mythical Realm

- Mingmenzheng Sect

- Xie Sect

- Wu Lin

- Wu Gong

Dongfang Bai and Six-Fingered Mr. were quite peculiar.

The two men's cultivation, though, was both at the mid-stage of the Supreme Mythical Realm.

But the two of them were born of Tianlong Sect.

Tianlong Sect dominated a region with the Dao of music,

The former sect master Huang Zheng, moreover, with a set of Eight Sounds of the Zhao Tianlong, paired with the Heavenly Demon Qin,

Made the Jianghu people flee at the mere mention of it.

Unfortunately, junior brother Dongfang Bai and martial uncle Six-Fingered Mr. coveted it, so they schemed to squeeze Huang Zheng out.

Afterwards they allied with the Qitasi Sect, together surrounding and attacking Huang Zheng, intending to seize the Heavenly Demon Qin.

Only then did it bring about, twenty years ago, a calamity in the Wu Lin.

At this moment, the two men saw the Heavenly Demon Qin right before their eyes, and each unleashed their own ultimate arts.

Dongfang Bai is the current Tianlong Sect master; although he never learned the sect-suppressing ultimate technique — Eight Sounds of the Zhao Tianlong.

But he blazed a different path, merging the Dao of music of Tianlong Sect into palm techniques.

A casual palm strike was an invisible palm force.

Yet this invisible palm force also secretly conformed to the Dao of music.

Now high, now low; now bright, now dark — impossible to guard against.

Therefore his true combat power was still above Ghost Saint and Blazing Fire Old Ancestor.

Six-Fingered Mr., having initially failed in his power struggle with Dongfang Bai, left Tianlong Sect in a rage.

He went to Mount Wuyi and established a separate Mount Wuyi branch.

He too, like Dongfang Bai, merged music into his own Wu Gong, and added his superbly masterful Dao of poison.

The three combined — in terms of viciousness, he was a notch above.

The four great masters each displayed their ultimate techniques, and all were at the early-stage cultivation of the Supreme Mythical Realm.

Theoretically speaking, Huang Xuemei was bound to lose.

After all, she too was only at the early-stage of the Supreme Mythical Realm.

With the same cultivation realm, one against four — how could she possibly win?

But Huang Xuemei was long no longer the helpless little girl of twenty years ago.

Before Huang Zheng died, he passed the Eight Sounds of the Zhao Tianlong and the Heavenly Demon Qin entirely to Huang Xuemei.

On top of this foundation, Huang Xuemei also had the guidance of Ximen Wudi, the number one master of the Nine Provinces' forbidden arts.

Not only was her cultivation terrifying, her music-based attacks had long reached new heights.