Chapter 71: Aboveboard?

The Five Mountains Sword Alliance became history as Yue Buqun announced its dissolution.

But the conference did not end there.

However, the content of the conference changed from celebrating Yue Buqun becoming the leader of the Five Mountains and discussing how to deal with the Demon Cult to celebrating Li Anran becoming the new leader of Huashan and celebrating the demise of the Demon Cult.

The banquet lasted for three days before it was finally over.

The news of Li Anran's annihilation of the Demon Cult and Yue Buqun's half-day leadership spread quickly throughout the martial arts world as the attendees left the meeting.

The world was shocked.

Because of this, Li Anran got his nickname "Sword of Slaying Demons", and some people also like to call him "Master Little Li".

Yue Buqun's reputation as the "Gentleman Sword" was truly recognized by the entire martial arts world and became a symbol of not being greedy for power.

Li Anran was shocked by Yue Buqun's announcement of the dissolution of the Five Mountains Alliance and his resignation as the leader of the Huashan Sect.

It was not until after the meeting that Li Anran had the opportunity to present the sword technique he created to Yue Buqun as a birthday gift.

When Yue Buqun saw that the cover of the sword technique was empty, he immediately took out a pen and ink and wrote the four big words "An Ran Sword Technique". Then he opened the book and started flipping through it.

As a result, I couldn't stop watching it and even forgot to attend the celebration party.

The "Anran Sword Technique" created by Li Anran not only combines sword practice and Qi training into one, but also, when the sword technique is refined, the internal strength is also developed accordingly.

More importantly, the overall pattern of this sword technique is exactly the same as "Five Years of Qi Refining, Three Years of Simulation". It does not require high comprehension, but only requires character and diligence.

As long as you practice step by step, even if you are a person with dull talents, you can develop qi, cultivate internal strength, and keep improving!

But the difference is that the internal strength cultivated through "Five Years of Qi Refining, Three Years of Simulation" is just ordinary internal strength, and the internal strength cultivated through "An Ran Sword Technique" is only inferior to the Huashan School's superior internal strength "Hun Yuan Gong"!
You know, even during Huashan’s most prosperous period, only a handful of talented disciples were able to master the “Hun Yuan Gong”!

Feng Qingyang is practicing Hunyuan Gong!
To put it simply, "Five Years of Qi Refining, Three Years of Simulation" breaks the boundary between ordinary people and talents, and "An Ran Sword Technique" breaks the boundary between ordinary people and ordinary geniuses!

This means that as long as the Huashan Sect has enough time and resources, it can mass-produce first- and second-rate masters in the martial arts world!
This is no longer about dominating the world, but about subverting the entire world!

When Yue Buqun realized this, he instantly lost the desire to attend the celebration banquet and carefully kept the "An Ran Sword Technique" close to him.

After the celebration banquet, he immediately took Li Anran back to Huashan.

As for the trivial matter that Li Anran mentioned that Linghu Chong might be in danger, he simply couldn't take care of it and was too lazy to care about it.

Linghu Chong is a bad guy who won't change despite repeated admonitions!

I have been reflecting on my mistakes on the cliff for almost a year, but nothing has changed!
As soon as he came down the mountain, he started hanging out with the evil witch again!
He deserved to die!
If he were alive, he would teach him a lesson!
Yue Buqun didn't know that the "An Ran Sword Technique" was not the only martial arts secret book that could train second-rate or even first-rate masters in large numbers.

Yu Canghai returned to Qingcheng Mountain. Thinking about the grudge between himself, Huashan and Lin Pingzhi, the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became. He couldn't sleep all day and all night. As soon as he closed his eyes, he saw Lin Pingzhi leading Li Anran to kill him.

After hesitating for several days, he went down the mountain and bought more than 30 young men from poor villagers. He brought them to a secret cave in the back mountain of Qingcheng Mountain and trained them carefully.

He held a red cassock covered with small characters and studied day and night, even forgetting about his wives and concubines at home.

On the cassock, the first line reads eight large characters: "If you want to practice this skill, you must castrate yourself first"!
At the same time, Linghu Chong, who had disappeared for nearly two months, finally returned to Huashan.

"Big Brother, where is Master?"

Linghu Chong didn't have any injuries on his body, but his face was untidy and he looked deeply tired. He was holding a wooden box in his hand, which should be a birthday gift prepared for Yue Buqun.

Li Anran said, "Don't be in a hurry to see Master. What have you been doing during this time? Why are people in the martial arts world saying that you became the son-in-law of the former leader of the Demon Cult, Ren Woxing, and that you led the people of the Demon Cult to wipe out the divine fortune teller Chen Yang and the entire family of Lin Tiangong, the Iron-hearted Zhao Sifang?"

Linghu Chong said anxiously, "Big Brother, you must believe me! I only like Junior Sister. Ren Yingying and the others have severed their relationship, and it is even more impossible for me to be Ren Woxing's son-in-law!"

Li Anran said, "If I didn't believe you, I wouldn't ask you these questions! What's going on with Chen Pingyang and Lin Tiangong? Does it have anything to do with you?"

Linghu Chong opened his mouth, hesitating to speak, and finally nodded and said: "It has something to do with me, but... but I really didn't kill them, I didn't expect something like this to happen!"

Li Anran said, "Tell me everything that happened after you left Songshan. If this matter is not handled well, you can't be with Junior Sister anymore, and Master will be lucky enough not to purge us." Linghu Chong said, "Junior Brother Lin came to me that day and said..."

As Linghu Chong told the story, Li Anran finally figured out the whole story.

Because Linghu Chong promised Lin Pingzhi to go to Fuzhou's old house to retrieve his ancestral items for him, he went directly to Fuzhou after leaving Songshan.

The matter itself was not urgent, so Linghu Chong did not rush on his journey. He strolled along the way, occasionally fighting against evil and upholding justice, and dealt with many bandits and robbers.

On the way, when he passed a bamboo forest, he happened to hear someone playing "Swordsman" written by Qu Yang, and he couldn't help but step forward to ask.

Later, he found out that the person was the Holy Lady of the Demon Cult, Ren Yingying.

After Ren Yingying learned from Linghu Chong that "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" not only has a piano score, but also a flute score, and that only the piano and flute ensemble can perfectly interpret "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer", she began to teach Linghu Chong to play the flute.

After learning for a few days, Linghu Chong thought about his other things to do, so he left a copy of the flute score to Ren Yingying and set off for Fuzhou.

On the way, he happened to meet Dongfang Bubai's men who were chasing Ren Yingying, so he rescued Ren Yingying and learned of Ren Yingying's true identity.

Linghu Chong originally wanted to leave, but when he saw that Ren Yingying was seriously injured, and remembered that Ren Yingying had taught him to play the flute, he finally decided to send Ren Yingying to the "famous murderous doctor" Ping Yizhi before leaving.

As a result, Ping Yizhi was killed by the pursuers sent by Dongfang Bubai.

Linghu Chong killed all the pursuers, but he didn't want to abandon the seriously injured Ren Yingying. After much hesitation, he had to take Ren Yingying to Fujian, thinking that he would part ways with her after her injuries recovered.

Along the way, Ren Yingying taught Linghu Chong how to play the flute, and Linghu Chong helped her deal with the pursuers from the Demon Cult.

Afterwards, Linghu Chong found the cassock hidden on the roof of an old house in Xiangyang Lane, Fuzhou.

After that, the "Wine and Sword Banquet" at Baishigang took place.

Linghu Chong won the bet with his sword skills and became famous.

But because of drinking too much, he accidentally lost his robes.

Chen Pingyang and Lin Tiangong were both local tyrants in Fuzhou. After hearing about the Baishigang incident, they suspected that the Lin family's Sword Manual of Exorcism was in Linghu Chong's possession.

On the surface, he pretended to admire Linghu Chong and prepared delicious food and wine to entertain Linghu Chong, but in fact he poisoned the wine and wanted to kill him and steal the treasure.

It was also at this time that Ren Yingying and Linghu Chong made their second bet.

Ren Yingying bets that Chen Pingyang and Lin Tiangong have bad intentions, but Linghu Chong believes that Chen Pingyang and Lin Tiangong are both good friends of his master and that they are the righteous people in the martial arts world and would not do such things.

In the end, Linghu Chong lost the bet, but he escaped danger because he was on guard.

Linghu Chong taught them a lesson but did not kill them.

However, the outlaws in Baishigang learned about this and, in order to vent their anger, they wiped out the entire family of Chen Pingyang and Lin Tiangong.

Afterwards, Ren Yingying asked Linghu Chong to cooperate with Xiang Wentian to go to Meizhuang to rescue one of her elders.

The rescue process went very smoothly, but after Linghu Chong entered the dungeon, he was ambushed by Ren Yingying's elders and locked up in the dungeon.

It was not until half a month later that Linghu Chong was rescued by Ren Yingying, and by that time he had already missed the Five Mountains Alliance Meeting at Mount Song.

Although Linghu Chong was angry, Ren Yingying kept admitting her mistakes and apologizing to him, saying that it was all just a misunderstanding. Seeing that Ren Woxing and Xiang Wentian were so heroic, he did not pursue the matter any further.

Until the next day, Xiang Wentian, due to lack of horses, killed several innocent passers-by.

Linghu Chong was furious and had a fight with Xiang Wentian. In the end, they broke off their friendship, parted ways, and rushed back to Huashan.

Linghu Chong couldn't help but ask the question in his mind: "Big Brother, why is it that most of the people in the Demon Sect that I met are upright, while many people in the righteous path are insidious and cunning with beastly hearts?"

　The master will not give it to Linghu Chong because his personality is a pitfall and being a ranger is already his limit.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)