Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 250 Peach Blossoms in Full Bloom, A Perfect Home for the Daughter (Sixth Update, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

Several days later, Sun Yanwan was finally able to take her leave. From the head of the Red Lotus Society down to the leader, all the leaders saw her off for ten miles. They also prepared very important gifts, which Sun Yanwan declined several times but could not refuse, so she had no choice but to accept them.

When he left, he did not take Hu Lingwei with him, nor did he make Hu Lingwei leave the Red Lotus Society. He only passed on a set of Crane's Cry in the Azure Sky kung fu and a set of Minor Awakening of Insects finger techniques.

Both of these martial arts techniques originated from Miao Canglang, who collected them from the martial arts world. They were not exclusive to the Miao family. The proper sects that originally inherited these two martial arts techniques have long since disappeared, making them unclaimed skills.

With Sun Yanwan's help, Hu Lingwei's internal injuries were healed. He already had some foundation in internal strength, and his depleted true energy had not yet dissipated. Therefore, in just a few days, he entered the realm of Crane Cry Azure Nether Profound Technique. However, after completing the first level, his progress slowed down.

When Hu Lingwei saw Sun Yanwan off, he was very reluctant to part with her and accompanied her for five or six miles longer than others. Nan Mengwan'er actually followed along the whole way, partly out of gratitude for Sun Yanwan saving her life, but the other half of the reason was rather ambiguous.

Sun Yanwan knew that if this continued, it would never end, so she said to Hu Lingwei, "The martial arts I am passing on to you are no longer with the original clan. Whether you take on disciples, get married, or have children in the future, you can pass them on to them without any restrictions."

"At least one thing must be done: one must not use martial arts skills to commit evil deeds."

"That's enough for today. You two can go back now."

Upon hearing that the skills could be passed on to his wife, Nan Meng Wan'er glanced at Hu Lingwei again. Although her surname was Nan Meng, she, like Hu Lingwei, had not learned the superior martial arts of the Nan Meng family, and her skills were inferior to Hu Lingwei's. She had run away from home to wander the world because her parents were gone, and no one in the Nan Meng family cared for her. She thought that wandering the world might bring her some good fortune.

Hu Lingwei had been through the ups and downs of the martial arts world and knew what this girl was thinking. He was actually old enough and didn't think Nan Mengwan'er was ugly. Suddenly, an idea struck him. He pulled Nan Mengwan'er down to kneel and said, "Since Master Dajiu says so, I will thank you on behalf of Nan Mengwan'er."

“My mother was a mistress kept by the Hu family and has passed away. My father…I heard that he was also killed by enemies not long ago. I am not qualified to go back to the Hu family to acknowledge my ancestors, so I have lost my elders. After this parting, I don’t know if I will have the chance to kowtow to Master Dajiu and ask you to make a decision and give Nan Mengwan’er and me a proper status.”

Sun Yanwan hadn't expected this turn of events and asked, "Miss Nan Meng, would you be willing?"

Nan Mengwan'er hurriedly replied, "I'm the same as him. My parents died a long time ago, and my family didn't want to raise me, a young lady without parents, for nothing. I was supposed to fend for myself, but since I met Ling Wei, it must be fate."

"As our youngest top scholar in the imperial examination once said: May all lovers in the world become a couple; it is a matter predestined in a previous life, so don't miss your marriage."

"I am willing to marry Hu Lingwei. I beg the master to preside over our wedding."

Sun Yanwan felt slightly embarrassed, not expecting to hear the couplet he had plagiarized here. He reached out and placed his hand on the tops of their heads, saying, "It's fate!"

"A contract is made in one hall, a happy marriage is established, a joyous ceremony is completed, and affection is as strong as a pair of lovebirds. On this day, the peach blossoms are in full bloom, a perfect match for the family, may the future bring many children and prosperity to the family."

"Today, I, a humble monk, bear witness, and the blue crane acts as matchmaker. May you two be forever united in marriage, and treat each other with the utmost respect." After saying this, Sun Yanwan turned and walked away without looking back.

When Hu Lingwei and Nan Mengwan looked up, Sun Yanwan was nowhere to be seen.

Sun Yanwan was alone again. After walking for dozens of miles, she suddenly felt a little lighter. However, upon closer examination, she did not feel any progress in her internal energy. She couldn't help but think to herself, "So traveling the world can indeed help me understand the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which can help me break through to the innate realm."

That evening, he retrieved the gifts from the Red Lotus Society. While rummaging through them, he unexpectedly discovered two scrolls of silk. One scroll, titled "Flying Cloud Eightfold," was decent enough, but not a top-tier martial art. He guessed it was the martial art practiced by Yun Zhongyan, which the Red Lotus Society had found on his corpse and, not daring to keep it, had hidden among the gifts. The other scroll was untitled. After reading only a few pages, Sun Yanwan was certain it was the Shadowless Sword Technique created by Wuying Hou.

Wuying Hou can be considered a natural martial arts prodigy. He came from an ordinary sect and learned ordinary martial arts. He traveled the world, stealing, robbing, forcing confessions, cheating, and buying things for a lot of money. His footprints covered Da Lang, Bei Yan, and Nan Xia. He collected more than a hundred martial arts, took the essence of them and removed the impurities, and created Wuying Sword Technique.

And with this self-created sword technique, he was promoted to martial arts grandmaster.

Not to mention Sun Yanwan, even Zhang Yuanqiao had high praise for this person, saying that if he had been able to obtain the best true teachings and had not wasted twenty or thirty years collecting sword techniques and creating his own martial arts, he should have had the hope of becoming a grandmaster.

Sun Yanwan flipped through a few pages, thinking to herself, "This Shadowless Sword Technique also focuses on lightness skills and fast swordsmanship. The excellence of its lightness skills and the speed of its swordsmanship are definitely not inferior to the Lightning-Chasing Sword Style and Shrinking Earth Sword Technique of my Songyang Sect. It's just that the reputation of Shadowless Marquis is ultimately not as resounding as that of my Songyang Sect and Youjian Manor. Otherwise, this sword technique would actually be qualified to be called one of the four fastest swords in the world."

"Moreover, this Shadowless Sword Technique should also incorporate many secret techniques from the Bo Shi Kingdom, and its execution is also mixed with a strange skill that bewitches the mind. When used by the Shadowless Marquis, ordinary people may only see a sky full of sword shadows, unable to distinguish between the real and the fake, and cannot even sense where his longsword is."

Sun Yanwan has reached an extremely profound level in his study of the Xuanhuang Scripture. Although the Shadowless Sword Technique is superb, he has no intention of switching to it.

After studying the Shadowless Sword Technique, he gained a deeper understanding of his own martial arts, and the indescribable and ineffable barrier to his martial arts skills seemed to have loosened slightly.

Seven or eight days after Sun Yanwan left, Wuying Hou suddenly appeared at a gathering of the Red Lotus Society, personally killed the new leader Chen Xuange, and killed three or four other leaders. He then calmly escaped using the Wuying Sword Technique, which became the biggest event in the martial arts world during this period.

Everyone in the martial arts world knows that Wuyinghou suffered a crushing defeat in the battle of Black Dragon City, losing most of his fleet. Everyone thought he should be devastated and never recover. But unexpectedly, because his second-best general was killed, he actually took matters into his own hands and avenged Yun Zhongyan.

When Sun Yanwan learned of this, he was already at the home of Miao Canglang's secret mistress. He visited her several times but did not see the Miao family descendant who should be seven or eight years old. He left letters and visited her in the middle of the night, but this mistress of the Miao family hid Miao Canglang's child very tightly and refused to let him see him.

Sun Yanwan was also helpless. His main purpose in coming here was to check the martial arts talent of this descendant of the Miao family, so as to determine whether to take him to Miao Canglang or just give him some money and leave quietly without ever seeing him again. How could he decide?

(End of this chapter)