Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 298 Demon-Slaying Manor

Sun Yanwan's convoy was stopped by the Hu family and forcibly led to Dangmo Manor.

Of the eight elders of the Hu family, only five remain: the eldest, Hu Yunshou; the third, Hu Yunshu; the fifth, Hu Yunji; the sixth, Hu Yunzhang; and the seventh, Hu Yunqian. They all came out to greet them.

The five old men were very friendly to Sun Yanwan, as if they were old friends. Sun Yanwan was almost in a daze.

Fortunately, he truly knew that while the others didn't have much of a relationship, he and the Miao brothers were the ones with whom he had a genuine connection.

Originally, three of the eight elders of the Hu family were killed by the Miao brothers. The remaining five elders were all at the Innate Realm. Although the Demon Suppression Manor suffered some losses, it was still extremely powerful.

The Mirror Flower Sword Boat brought together seven or eight ten percent of the sect's strength, including three innate realm experts and more than ten first and second-grade masters. Although they were quite powerful, they were clearly inferior to the Demon Slayer Manor.

Hu Yunshou was most worried that Sun Yanwan would take sides, so he forcibly brought Sun Yanwan to the Demon-Slaying Manor. At the banquet, Sun Yanwan began to complain, saying, "The ancient Demon-Subduing Sword Technique unearthed this time has a great connection with my Hu family's Demon-Slaying Sword. However, the people from the Mirror Flower Sword Boat are domineering and unreasonable. They insist that it is their ancestral sword technique. The Mirror Flower Sword Boat has only been established for two or three hundred years. When the Demon-Subduing Sword Technique was circulated in the world, this school did not yet exist."

Sun Yanwan thought to herself, "What does the Demon-Subduing Sword Technique have to do with your Hu family? Hasn't your Hu family always wanted to change the Demon-Slaying Sword Technique into the Primordial Chaos Sword Technique?"

"If the techniques of subduing demons and vanquishing evil are somewhat similar, we can draw a connection. Our Songyang Sect wouldn't mind exchanging the names of our sword techniques with your Hu family."

However, he wasn't there to distinguish right from wrong, nor was he there to steal the sword manual. Sun Yanwan had no interest in the so-called ancient sword techniques.

Sun Yanwan took on this dispute mediation job with the intention of getting by. He also had a vague feeling that there might be something fishy about the matter, so he tried to get as little involved as possible.

He simply laughed off all the claims made by the Hu family and never commented.

The five elders of the Hu family were also helpless; the Sun Yanwan of today was not the person they had seen back then.

Back then, Sun Yanwan's martial arts skills weren't even first-rate, and her reputation was just average. Her only strength was her status as a disciple of a grandmaster.

Sun Yanwan's identity as Zhang Yuanqiao's disciple is now the least important; even her status as a martial artist at the Innate Realm is no longer significant. The youngest top scholar in the Great Lang Dynasty, a fifth-rank scholar of the Guanglu Pavilion, a martial arts professor at the Imperial Academy, a renowned poet, and a contemporary Confucian scholar annotating the Six Classics…

If any one of them were chosen, the Hu family would not dare to offend them easily. Not to mention the court would be furious, they would also inevitably become the target of public criticism and have their reputation ruined.

Sun Yanwan stayed overnight. In the middle of the night, he faintly heard sobbing. He turned over, reversed his hearing technique, ignored it, and slept even more soundly.

joke!

Someone was crying in the middle of the night at the Hu family's house. Why would an outsider like him have so much curiosity?
The next day, the people from the Mirror Flower Sword Boat arrived. Sun Yanwan did not recognize Lu Chaoxiu and Duanmu Xianling, but their identities surprised him slightly. He thought to himself, "No wonder that caravan followed me all the way. They probably don't know the way."

The five elders of the Hu family were furious. Lu Chaoxiu was one thing; although this woman, considered the most talented in the world, possessed considerable martial arts skills and was a disciple of the master of the Wuxiang Sword Pavilion, her skill was only at the third rank, making her not a significant threat. However, Duanmu Xianling was an unparalleled genius of the Wutai Sect. A few years ago, she was ranked alongside Zhang Qingxi, Shi Si, Ji Yatana, and Tao Xuanzhang in the martial arts world, one of the youngest cultivators to reach the Innate Realm, and seventh on the Prodigy Ranking. Hmm, so this Wutai Sect disciple was eighth on the Prodigy Ranking, below Zhang Qingxi.

Later, Jiyatana, Shi Si, and Zhang Qingxi were promoted to Grandmaster, leaving three positions vacant. However, Yang Diao'er was promoted to first place, and Sun Yanwan was promoted to Innate Realm, so she was ranked second. Duanmu Xianling could only be promoted one place with a sense of grievance, and the eighth position became the seventh.

With the addition of a powerful expert at the Innate Realm, and the appearance of Lu Chaoxiu and Duanmu Xianling, it means that Wuxiang Sword Pavilion and Wutai Sword Sect are both standing behind Jinghua Sword Boat. These three are all among the top ten sword sects, and none of them are easy to provoke.

When Sun Yanwan first met the people from the Mirror Flower Sword Boat, she secretly praised them, saying, "Their looks may not be as good as those of my Songyang Sect, but their average looks are even better! They can be considered quite remarkable."

The Songyang Sect has three generations of disciples, including Wei Yingxiao, Jiang Yan, Zhang Qingxi, and Sun Yanwan. The Mirror Flower Sword Boat is truly no match for them.

However, the disciples accepted by the Mirror Flower Sword Boat were indeed all exceptionally good-looking and had an otherworldly temperament. At first glance, Sun Yanwan almost thought that some dance host from a short video platform was attending an annual party. They were truly a group of beautiful women.

He had no special feelings for the so-called number one talented woman in the world and the seventh on the list of geniuses. On the contrary, he did not think that Lu Chaoxiu and Duanmu Xianling were anything special. He just thought they were no different from the other female disciples of the Mirror Flower Sword Pavilion. Anyway, they were just so-so.

The people of the Mirror Flower Sword Boat were all curious about Sun Yanwan, after all, the phrase "at the height of her fame" was not enough to describe her reputation.

The most widely circulated praise of Sun Yanwan is rumored to have come from Zhang Qingxi.

There are seven or eight versions of this sentence, but the general meaning is: I am Zhang Qingxi, a master who once defeated a grandmaster in the Innate Realm, the shortest-lived champion on the list of prodigies, the youngest grandmaster in the world, and I will definitely be among the top five in the martial arts world in the future! My second junior brother is more than ten times stronger than me.

Of course, compared to this statement, the most popular rumor about Sun Yanwan is that she snatched brides one by one according to the ranking of the martial arts beauties list.

For example, he attended the wedding of Nian Guishou's son and snatched Shi Si. Although Nian Xizhao repeatedly denied the rumors, saying that it was absolutely not true and that he had acted recklessly and had taken the initiative to break off the engagement, some people believed him at first, since there were quite a few people who knew the truth. However, after Sun Yanwan snatched Yang Diao'er, even those who knew the truth began to gossip about how this top scholar of Dalang did indeed have the bad habit of snatching brides according to the list of beauties in the martial arts world.

Well, along with this rumor, and the absurd claims that Shi Si was jealous and forced him to stop writing poetry, which led him to annotate the Six Classics in anger, and that forbidding him from competing for third place on the beauty list would inevitably force him to become a monk, these are all things that nobody believes, but everyone talks about with great interest and is willing to spread widely.

It is said that when Princess Jiyatana of Northern Yan learned of the rumors about her, she once said, "I only regret that he never came to take her away."

The truth of this statement is hard to discern, but the Golden Feather of the Great Sun on the grasslands has never denied it, adding to the ambiguity.

As for literary fame, it's not so intuitive for these martial arts practitioners; they just feel it's impressive, but not as interesting.

Twenty or thirty male and female swordsmen from the Mirror Flower Sword Boat, along with Lu Chaoxiu of the Six Imperial Heart Method, Duanmu Xianling, and members of the Hu family of Demon Slayer, sat facing each other in the martial arts hall of Demon Slayer Manor. The Hu family, however, did not act pettily and arranged low tables and cushions for them.

With so many people on both sides, and no other place could accommodate them, the Hu family's martial arts hall was spacious enough to hold two or three hundred people on a regular day, and even allow seven or eight pairs of Hu family disciples to compete at the same time without feeling cramped.

(End of this chapter)