Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 316 Frozen Duanmu Xianling

Sun Yanwan asked, "What small matter?"

Wuyinghou took out a silk scroll, handed it to him, and said, "I am very interested in the Suspended Realm Listening to Flowers Subduing Demon Sword of the Mirror Flower Sword Boat. I am willing to exchange it for the Hu family's Hunyuan Sword Scripture?"

Sun Yanwan exclaimed in surprise, "How do I possess the Suspended Realm Listening to Flowers and Subduing Demons Sword?"

Wuyinghou said with a smile, "I don't believe that King Harsha came all the way from Bazhou just to seize this sword technique. He must have come for the Golden Light Cave."

“But I have never seen King Harsha, which means one thing: King Harsha must have another identity.”

"Although I don't know how you mastered the Divine Staff Technique, who else in this world, besides Sun Yanwan, could truly reproduce the Ma Family's Divine Staff Technique?"

"Back then at Tianwang Tower, although we each gained something, in reality, all three techniques originated from you. Lao Ba and I were just refining your ideas."

"I didn't have this idea at the time, but now that I think about it, when you chased us away, you must have already conceived the entire Supernatural Staff Technique and was reproducing it, hence..."

"The Demonic Cult has now gained a new King Harsha."

Sun Yanwan hesitated for a moment, then said, "I have a grudge against the Demonic Sect."

Wuyinghou couldn't help but laugh: "You can deceive others, but how can you deceive me? Miss Yang Diao'er is by your side, she doesn't run away, and she's not imprisoned. She comes and goes every day, just like the mistress of the house. What grudge could the Demonic Sect have against you?"

"Even if it exists, it has probably been resolved."

Sun Yanwan remained silent for a long time before saying, "I don't need the Hunyuan Sword Scripture either."

Wuyinghou sighed and said, "Now that I have mastered the Heavenly Shadowless Sword, why would I need the Suspended Realm Listening to Flowers Subduing Demon Sword? It's just that I have practiced swordsmanship all my life, and whenever I hear of a sword technique, I want to get my hands on it and study it carefully. Now that such a sword technique is right in front of me, how can I not want to take a look?"

"Besides, this sword technique is not your foundation. Giving it to me won't cost me anything. I would never ask for the Songyang Sect's sword technique; that would be humiliating."

After pondering for a long time, Sun Yanwan said, "Very well!"

He took the Hunyuan Sword Scripture, went out, and retrieved a scroll of the Xuanjing Tinghua Subduing Demon Sword Manual. Whenever a sword manual fell into Sun Yanwan's hands, he would make multiple copies, and he directly gave one scroll to Wuyinghou.

Wuyinghou then settled down at Dangmozhuang.

For several days in a row, Sun Yanwan heard that martial arts figures in the vicinity had been killed, which secretly shocked him. He didn't care at first, but after receiving news from Wuying Hou, he couldn't help but go and see the bodies of the murdered people. Although each person died differently, they were all killed by heavy methods, which were very similar to Ba Tianmo's methods.

Sun Yanwan carefully examined the situation and indeed discovered that the martial arts skills of the attackers were slightly different at different times, and that they were getting progressively higher.

Sun Yanwan was horrified. She returned to discuss the matter with Wuyinghou, who suggested taking the initiative to find Ba Tianmo's whereabouts. However, Sun Yanwan remained hesitant. Sun Yanwan was now convinced that Ba Tianmo's martial arts had indeed greatly improved and that he had undoubtedly turned against Wuyinghou. Therefore, Wuyinghou only had two choices: join forces with Sun Yanwan to kill Ba Tianmo, or simply flee Da Lang and return to his Bo Shi Kingdom.

However, Sun Yanwan did not turn against Ba Tianmo. This man's martial arts were extremely high. Although Sun Yanwan was not afraid of him, the Tianma Gang was all over the world. If Ba Tianmo were to kill them indiscriminately, the impact would be too bad.

Sun Yanwan wasn't entirely convinced that Ba Tianmo had completely gone mad. He felt there must be some explanation behind it, so he decided to hold back for now.

Both knew what the other was thinking and knew they couldn't persuade each other, so Wuyinghou chose to back down and patiently wait for an opportunity.

Those martial artists who wish to explore the Golden Light Cave must possess extraordinary martial arts skills. They would only bring their own companions with them. Therefore, most of the martial artists lingering near Yanchi Lake, apart from those who stayed outside, had come after hearing the news but did not know how to enter the Golden Light Cave, or were simply incapable of entering it. A series of murders in the vicinity caused them to hesitate and choose to leave.

Before long, there were hardly any martial arts practitioners left near Yanchi Lake.

This place originally belonged to the Hu family of the Demon Slayers, and some gangs were also controlled by the Hu family. With the departure of outside martial arts practitioners, the area around Yanchi Lake has become much calmer. Except that Yanchi Lake has almost doubled in size, everything seems to have returned to normal.

Sun Yanwan was calculating the days to come and was preparing to hand over Dangmo Manor to the Tianma Gang as a local branch. Just as he was packing his things, someone came to his door again.

The people who came this time surprised Sun Yanwan greatly. They were Duanmu Xianling and Lu Chaoxiu. What shocked Sun Yanwan even more was that Duanmu Xianling was as if she had been frozen by ancient ice. Her whole body was filled with bone-chilling cold, and her face was deathly pale. She looked like a monster. Lu Chaoxiu, on the other hand, had inexplicably advanced to the Innate Realm.

These two famous beauties of the martial arts world were now in a sorry state. Duanmu Xianling even had difficulty speaking. When she saw Sun Yanwan, she only moved her lips and slowly sat down, as if she was worried that her body would explode if she moved even a little more.

Lu Chaoxiu looked sad and was very depressed.

Sun Yanwan had asked Wuying Hou and learned that they had been separated after entering the Golden Light Cave and did not know the whereabouts of the two women. Seeing the two women in such a state, he did not know what to say and only asked, "Do you need me to help heal your injuries?"

Lu Chaoxiu nodded and said, "In the Golden Light Cave, we encountered an indescribable monster. We don't remember anything about what happened. When I have memories, I was on a small island in Yanchi Lake with Sister Duanmu. However, the island had no exit, so we definitely didn't come out from there."

"Back then, Sister Duanmu looked just like this. I had no idea why her skill had improved so much, but it wasn't the Wuxiang Sword Pavilion's technique. It was very strange."

"However, after we came out, there were always people trying to kill us. Fortunately, Sister Duanmu's cold aura and my advancement to the Innate Realm made that thing very wary. We fled for many days, but we had nowhere to go, so we wanted to ask Scholar Sun for protection again."

Sun Yanwan nodded, first grasping Duanmu Xianling's hand, and discovered that the body of this Wutai Sect successor was filled with cold energy, which was even more potent than the cold-type true energy cultivated by him and Yang Diao'er.

Sun Yanwan used her power to extract the cold energy from Duanmu Xianling's body, and then used her internal energy to dispel it. Half a day later, Duanmu Xianling felt a little better and was finally able to "babble" and barely utter a word or two.

Sun Yanwan's body was filled with intense cold energy, and he needed some time to recover. So he asked Duanmu Xianling to rest first, and also examined Lu Chaoxiu. After examining her, he was slightly shocked because Lu Chaoxiu's skill was somewhat similar to the Four Symbols Yuan Gong, but it was not a four-stage mental technique, but a six-stage one.

(End of this chapter)