Chapter 956

749 Shangguan Haitang?

Emei Sect exists in multiple imperial dynasties of Jiuzhou, with the Great Ming Emei Sect being the most renowned.

The founding ancestor, Guo Xiang, mastered numerous supreme arts from the Mi Sect, Jin Gang Sect, Taohuadao, Gai Gang, and others.

Eventually, at Yunzhou Shaolin, she received a portion of the Nine Yang Art from Master Jueyuan.

Based on her own experiences, she created Emei Nine Yang Art.

Later, she fully integrated all she had learned in her youth.

Then, atop the Golden Peak of Mount Emei, observing the clouds, mist, and rosy glow, she was inspired and finally established Emei Sect.

She then widely accepted disciples, and by the second-generation disciple Miejue, Emei Sect became one of the Great Ming Wu Lin's six Zhengdaomen Sects.

Zhou Zhiruo, by chance, became a disciple of the real Miejue.

Due to her unknown talent, Zhou Zhiruo not only integrated the Nine Yin and Nine Yang, but mastered all of Emei Sect's Wu Gong thoroughly.

Even the Long Xiang Bodhi Art, inherited from Jin Gang Sect, was also fully deduced under her terrifying talent.

Merely through a hint, she completely deduced the entire technique.

Had the Long Xiang Bodhi Art not required such an impossibly high threshold, she would have already reached its peak realm.

Even so, she had already surpassed the founding ancestor within the Great Ming Emei Sect.

The founding ancestor Guo Xiang greatly admired Zhou Zhiruo's such talent.

She longed to impart everything she knew without reservation.

Unexpectedly, the Great Ming court issued an order: all masters of Gezong Sect at or above the Earthly Immortal Realm must gather at the Jixian Court for an important mission!

The Great Ming court's strength was already far superior to that of all sects.

Moreover, with Qinglong Society behind it, imperial edicts flowed unimpeded throughout Great Ming territory.

All Gedazong Sects, even Wu Dangpai, were bound to obey.

After the order was issued, Guo Xiang could only take Zhou Zhiruo, Miejue, Seeing Gu Hongzi, and others to the Jixian Court.

Zhou Zhiruo's terrifying ability to deduce Wu Gong and her rapid progress in learning martial arts were finally put on hold.

Upon entering the Jixian Court, after the young Emperor announced the mission.

Guo Xiang waited a while, then took Zhou Zhiruo and entered the otherworld together.

Upon entering, Zhou Zhiruo discovered that Guo Xiang, Miejue, and others had vanished.

She found herself in a desolate mountain range.

Around her, empty and silent.

Zhou Zhiruo felt puzzled and was about to investigate where she was when.

She heard a thunderous shout from a distant high mountain.

"Today, I seek only revenge, nothing else! Big monk, die!"

Immediately after, winds and clouds churned, and vast amounts of heavenly energy surged toward that direction.

A master!

Only those at the Earthly Immortal Realm could manipulate heavenly energy.

Yet now, such a massive influx of heavenly energy.

This person's cultivation was no lower than Zhou Zhiruo's.

She wondered who was fighting there.

Since she didn't know where she was, nor where Guo Xiang, Miejue, or others had gone.

She immediately leapt upward and flew toward the high mountain.

As she drew nearer, she saw a young man wielding a sword technique, relentlessly attacking an old monk in a kasaya.

The old monk appeared frail, yet moved with extreme agility.

Each time the man's blade struck, he merely swayed slightly, evading the man's vicious strikes with exquisite finesse.

Thus, the man's sword techniques grew even more ruthless and merciless.

Subtly, there was also a domineering aura of unorthodox power, continuously emanating from the man's body.

Just outside the area where the two were fighting, a woman stood watching the battle with an anxious expression.

Though dressed as a man, Zhou Zhiruo recognized her at a glance.

"Madam, which sect do you belong to?"

When Zhou Zhiruo noticed her, the woman also noticed Zhou Zhiruo.

After asking, she loudly declared her identity.

"I am the lord of the Number One Manor, Shangguan Haitang."

Shangguan Haitang?

Zhou Zhiruo froze in surprise.

She remembered, in Jiuzhou, there had once been another Shangguan Haitang who had appeared on the Heavenly Dao Hundred Flowers List.

She, too, belonged to Great Ming, just like Zhou Zhiruo.

Unfortunately, that Shangguan Haitang had rebelled alongside Zhu Tie Dan, the Zhuge Shenhou.

Thus, she perished in the chaos of the capital battle.

Who would have thought that this otherworld also had a Shangguan Haitang?

Zhou Zhiruo briefly sensed her cultivation — at least the peak of the Earthly Immortal Realm.

Compared to the Shangguan Haitang of Jiuzhou, this one was stronger, not weaker!

Where exactly is this place?

"I am Zhou Zhiruo, a disciple of Emei Sect."

Zhou Zhiruo held the long sword in her arms and offered Shangguan Haitang a bow from afar.

"So it's a senior disciple of the Emei Sect."

The moment Shangguan Haitang heard Zhou Zhiruo was from the Emei Sect, a flicker of worry crossed her face and vanished at once.

It turned out the one locked in fierce battle in the distance was her companion, Benefactor Guihai Yidao.

The one fighting Benefactor Guihai Yidao was none other than Yunzhou Shaolin's Master Liaokong.

The reason was that the murderer who had killed Benefactor Guihai Yidao's father, Benefactor Guihai Bailian, was precisely Master Liaokong.

Benefactor Guihai Yidao had bitterly trained his blade art and come here to seek vengeance against Master Liaokong.

Yunzhou Shaolin, Wu Dang, and Mount Emei were, after all, the leading orthodox Men Sect.

If Benefactor Guihai Yidao killed Master Liaokong in front of an Emei Sect disciple to settle his grudge,

once word spread, Benefactor Guihai Yidao himself would likely not survive either.

But the Miss before her was not only exceedingly beautiful, but could also walk through the air.

Clearly her cultivation and strength far surpassed Shangguan Haitang's own.

Even if Shangguan Haitang wished to send her away, she probably could not manage it.

"The one over there is my good friend Benefactor Guihai Yidao, currently exchanging martial arts with Yunzhou Shaolin's Master Liaokong.

Miss Zhou, may I ask whether you have come on the orders of the Emei Sect's Master Yeyu?"

After thinking for a long while, Shangguan Haitang decided to first ask Zhou Zhiruo clearly about the purpose of her visit.

Zhou Zhiruo was startled to learn there was an Emei Sect here as well.

And from what Shangguan Haitang had said, the head of this Emei Sect was actually some Master Yeyu?

She wondered how the Wu Gong of this Emei Sect differed from that of the Great Ming Emei Sect she belonged to.

Naturally she would not say she was not from this Emei Sect, and only replied in an ambiguous way,

"There is no specific order; my master merely felt I had completed my training and sent me down the mountain to gain experience."

Strictly speaking, it was indeed the case that Zhou Zhiruo had studied for a period, then gone down the mountain with Guo Xiang and Mie Jue to gain experience.

So it could not really be counted as Zhou Zhiruo lying.

So it was just a training expedition.

Hearing this, Shangguan Haitang could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Just as she was about to continue the conversation, she saw Zhou Zhiruo suddenly knit her brows tightly, gazing into the distance.

At the same time, Benefactor Guihai Yidao let out a string of furious roars.

"Die, die, die…"

With every utterance of the word "die," the evil aura on Benefactor Guihai Yidao's body surged another degree.

After the third cry, the evil aura over there was almost thickly visible.