Chapter 17: The Battle of Sword Qi? (Please read~Please collect~)

What Ning Zhongze said was reasonable, but Li Anran always felt it was particularly awkward.

After thinking about it carefully, he soon understood why he felt this way.

Although the master's wife is a woman, she has a strong personality and hates evil. She is a typical woman of the world who will never say a word unless she takes action.

On the contrary, his master had a gentle temperament, more like a scholar than a man of the world, and he seldom fought with others when something happened.

Normally, the master would advise the mistress to stay calm and not be impulsive, but today the opposite happened!

Li Anran realized instantly that his master and his mistress were acting in a double act. They must have known about Laudenuo's matter long ago and had thought of an excuse in advance!

Thinking of the hint Yue Buqun had given him before and the wound on Lao Denuo's body, Li Anran had a flash of inspiration in his mind:
"It was the master who killed Second Junior Brother! Could it be that Second Junior Brother was a member of the Demon Cult... No, he was not a member of the Demon Cult!"

"If he was a spy from the Demon Sect, Master and his wife would have just killed him. There's no need to go through so much trouble! He's from the Songshan Sect!"

Li Anran's mind was full of thoughts, and he echoed Ning Zhongze: "Master, Master's wife is right. The current situation is that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. If we rush down the mountain like this, we will only fall into a passive position."

"It would be better to issue a bounty order to force him out, so that we can kill him and avenge our second junior brother."

Yue Buqun deliberately hesitated for a moment and said, "I will go down the mountain myself and inform the world about the bounty. As for you..."

He glanced around at all the disciples and said, "Until Tian Boguang is executed, no one is allowed to leave Huashan. Do you understand?"

"Disciples understand." All Huashan disciples responded in unison.

Although Lao Denuo has only been a disciple for two years, he came with his skills as a disciple. He had already been in the martial arts world for decades before joining the sect. Not only is he experienced, his strength is second only to Yue Buqun, Ning Zhongze, Li Anran and Linghu Chong in the Huashan Sect.

He died at the hands of Tian Boguang. If other Huashan disciples met Tian Boguang, they would be doomed!
Afterwards, Yue Buqun ordered Gao Genming and others to take Lao Denuo's body to the back mountain for burial, leaving only Ning Zhongze and Li Anran.

After everyone left, Li Anran took the initiative to ask, "Master and Madam, is Lao Denuo from the Songshan Sect?"

Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze looked at each other, both with surprised expressions.

They expected that Li Anran would trust them and cooperate with them, but they did not expect that Li Anran could guess the identity of Lao Denuo's spy from Songshan Sect based on these.

Yue Buqun was becoming more and more satisfied with Li Anran as his successor. He nodded and said, "Zuo Lengchan is very ambitious. He has long been dissatisfied with the position of the leader of the Five Mountains and has always wanted to annex the other four sects. This Lao Denuo is exactly the spy he planted in Huashan."

Li Anran was stunned, his face full of disbelief: "Master, are you saying that Zuo Lengchan's goal is to annex the other four sects? To unite the five sects into one?"

Yue Buqun nodded solemnly.

Seeing Li Anran's strange expression and frown, he seemed very confused and couldn't understand.

Yue Buqun asked: "Ran'er, is there something you don't understand?"

Li Anran: "Master, is Zuo Lengchan's brain okay?"

Yue Buqun: "???"

What do you mean there is nothing wrong with your brain?
Isn’t it right to want the Five Mountains to be united as one?
Although Yue Buqun hated Zuo Lengchan for wanting to annex Huashan, he was very sure of Zuo Lengchan's idea of ​​unifying the Five Mountains.

If Huashan Sect had the opportunity to annex the other four mountains, he would definitely not hesitate at all!

Yue Buqun asked: "Ran'er, why do you feel this way?"

Li Anran said: "Master, let's not talk about the fact that the martial arts styles, internal skills, and sect rules of the Five Mountains sects are completely different. If we force them together, will they start fighting first?"

"Just talking about the geographical location, Huashan is in Shaanxi, Songshan is in Henan, Taishan is in Shandong, Hengshan is in Shanxi, and Hengshan is in Hunan. There are tens of thousands of miles between them. How can they merge them? What will happen if they merge? In the end, won't they still be minding their own business like now?"

This is not the future, where we have phones and WeChat for video and voice calls, and high-speed trains and airplanes that can travel thousands of miles a day!
Even the nearest Huashan and Songshan are hundreds of miles apart. It would take ten days or half a month to deliver a message or a letter!

Even if the Songshan Sect could really merge the Five Mountains, it could only get the title of the head of the Five Mountains and would not be able to control the other four sects at all!
As Li Anran was talking, he suddenly noticed that Yue Buqun's face suddenly became very ugly, and he was a little confused for a moment. However, Ning Zhongze knew that Yue Buqun was thinking about the battle of sword energy!
After all, the Qi Sect and the Sword Sect have the same origin, so they can fight to the point of bloodshed and both sides will suffer losses.

If the five sword sects were to gather together, there would be a bloodbath!
Ning Zhongze said: "Brother, there are some things that should be let Ran'er know."

Yue Buqun hummed, and told the story of the sword energy dispute twenty-five years ago, and then asked: "Ran'er, what do you think?"

Li Anran was very resolute: "Qi is the way, and sword is the technique. Taking Qi as the basis and using sword to protect the way is the right way. Those seniors of the Sword Sect did not distinguish between the important and the unimportant, and they have indeed gone astray."

Yue Buqun nodded with satisfaction: "That's right. Sword skills are not unimportant, but Qigong is the foundation. We need to distinguish between the master and the servant."

Li Anran was somewhat puzzled: "It's not that the Qi Sect doesn't practice swordsmanship, and it's not that the Sword Sect doesn't practice Qi either, they just have different focuses, so why did they end up like this?"

Yue Buqun sneered and said: "This distinction between master and servant is not just about Qigong and swordsmanship, but also about Qi Sect and Sword Sect."

Li Anran suddenly understood.

No matter what the dispute over sword energy or the right or wrong of ideas, it is ultimately a dispute over interests!

No wonder both sides of the sword energy are determined to fight to the death!

The Sword Sect is trying to usurp the throne and seize power, how could the Qi Sect let it go!

Maybe in the eyes of Qi Sect, Sword Sect is more hateful and deserves death even more than Demon Sect!
However, Li Anran still had some doubts: "Master, how do we differentiate between the Qi Sect and the Sword Sect? It's impossible that whoever thinks swordsmanship is important is a Sword Sect, and whoever thinks Qi training is important is a Qi Sect, right?"

"Of course not. This story started seventy years ago."

Yue Buqun said: "Seventy years ago, the ten great elders of the Demon Cult coveted our Huashan Sect's Wu Zang and led their people to besiege our Huashan Sect twice."

"The second time, our Huashan Sect learned the news in advance and notified the four sects including Hengshan and Songshan. We set up traps and not only blocked the massive attack of the Demon Sect, but also killed the ten elders of the Demon Sect."

"But, their counterattack before death still caused our Huashan Sect to suffer heavy losses..."

As Yue Buqun told the story, Li Anran finally understood the origin of the sword energy dispute.

In order to prevent their martial arts from leaking out, most of the sects in the martial arts world have a rule that martial arts must be "passed down orally between master and disciple, and not put into writing."

The Huashan Sect is no exception.

When the Demon Cult besieged Huashan for the second time, although the Huashan Sect set a trap and killed the Ten Elders of the Demon Cult, they also suffered heavy casualties in the Demon Cult's counterattack, and many martial arts were lost.

The surviving young disciples could only recall the teachings of their respective masters and try their best to piece together complete sword techniques and internal power skills.

It was at this time that the Huashan disciples discovered that two of their elders had left behind martial arts secrets!

These two elders, one named Yue Su and the other named Cai Zifeng, were later the ancestors of the Qi Sect and the Sword Sect.

The contents of the secret books left by the two men are completely opposite, one is based on qigong, and the other is based on swordsmanship, but they are both equally mysterious and powerful.

Among these Huashan disciples, some supported Yue Su, while others agreed with Cai Zifeng, and differences arose from then on.

After realizing that no one could convince anyone else, they decided to have a duel to determine who was right and who was wrong, and the strongest would inherit the title of the Huashan Sect.

In the end, a young disciple who inherited Yue Su's ideas and mastered the "Purple Cloud Secret Book" left by Yue Su, that is, Yue Buqun's master, won and became the eleventh generation leader of the Huashan Sect.

But this was just the beginning of the battle for Huashan sword energy!

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