Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 374 Winning or losing has absolutely no bearing on anything
Sun Yanwan wasn't entirely at ease with these people. After taking them in and settling them in, she took the opportunity to use her Seven Illusions of Dream Weaving to interrogate them one by one, finally confirming that they were telling the truth.

He hadn't expected that the newly created Seven Illusions of Dream Weaving would be so useful. Details that these people themselves couldn't remember clearly were all recalled under the Seven Illusions of Dream Weaving, and they recounted how they broke into Ningbi Cliff and how they killed these people.

After these ten or so people corroborated each other's accounts, Sun Yanwan finally learned what had happened at Ningbi Cliff with Zhou Shuyou and the others.

The map provided by Sun Yanwan led the monk and others to decide to bypass Ningbi Cliff. After all, they knew that the chance of entering the Spirit Realm and coming out was extremely low. These people were all highly skilled in martial arts, and they actually managed to cross seven or eight cliffs in succession before they saw the Tantan Plain hidden among the mountains and found the place where the people of Ningbi Cliff lived.

Before slaughtering everyone in Ningbi Cliff, experienced and prudent people like Monk Ku and Fu Zaofei spared a group of survivors and interrogated them.

The people of Ningbi Cliff moved here hundreds of years ago. The earliest people to move here accidentally discovered the spiritual realm of Ningbi Cliff, and risked their lives to come out of it. They learned the great secret of how to pass through Ningbi Cliff and found this "secret realm".

So they brought many families in one after another, forming a village. For the first two or three hundred years, things were fine, but later everyone in the village fell ill with a strange disease. After countless verifications, these people finally discovered that absorbing other people's internal energy to practice martial arts would cause a kind of "fierce poison" to appear in the meridians.

This potent poison has unknown characteristics and cannot be expelled; it is generated by absorbing too much of another person's internal energy.

This potent poison has another peculiar characteristic: it can be inherited from generation to generation. The first two generations may be fine and the effects may not be significant, but after the third or fourth generation, the attacks become frequent. People may appear normal most of the time, but when an attack occurs, it can cause them to go insane and kill indiscriminately.

This explains why the people of Ningbi Cliff gradually withdrew from Luojing and abandoned their cooperation with the Zhang family of Tianwu.

The intense suffering caused by the poison was unbearable for the people of Ningbi Cliff. However, by the time they discovered the poison, it had already been present in the bodies of seven or eight generations of people, making it impossible to alleviate the symptoms.

In fact, there are indeed Grandmasters and experts among the people of Ningbi Cliff. However, they all know that when the poison takes effect, it will kill people indiscriminately. Grandmasters can still control it, but Grandmasters and experts cannot control it at all. Therefore, these experts all went to Ningbi Cliff.

After all, once the potent poison takes effect, the brain will go berserk, and the person will not remember the way out. Even if they want to kill indiscriminately, they will not be able to get out, which is a kind of safety guarantee.

Zhou Shuyou and the others forced them to reveal the truth, and then, using Ningbi Cliff's methods, they silenced all the remaining people.

The monk and his companions naturally discussed how to enter, not only to improve their own martial arts skills, but also to eradicate the last remaining threat to Ningbi Cliff and kill all the remaining masters of Ningbi Cliff.

However, these people had been imprisoned for decades and knew that although there was a way to pass through, entering Ningbi Cliff was still extremely dangerous. Even among the people of Ningbi Cliff, who had passed down their skills for more than ten generations, there were still people who got trapped there every year. They also asked themselves that even if they had the opportunity, they could not break through, so they all chose to give up entering Ningbi Cliff and came to Black Dragon City instead.

After all, Sun Yanwan had accepted a group of thirty-six friends. These people lived quite well in Black Dragon City. They were all imprisoned in Tianwu Prison and had some feelings for each other, so they also wanted to settle down here.

Sun Yanwan was certain that these people's words were absolutely true, and her heart was slightly at ease. She thought to herself, "If I get old in the future, I can go in and explore Ningbi Cliff."

After confirming that Zhou Shuyou was alright, he wrote a letter to Zhang Yuanqiao, informing his master of the matter.

Although these people's martial arts skills were relatively low among the Thirty-Six Friends, almost all of them were at the Innate Realm, and there were even two Grandmasters. Their sudden joining of Black Dragon City raised Sun Yanwan's strength to another level.

At that very moment, something earth-shattering happened.

The Great Master Daku of Shaochan Temple suddenly announced to the world that he would challenge Sun Yanwan.

When Sun Yanwan learned of this, he was greatly surprised, but before he could write to inquire, the monk Kongchan arrived excitedly.

Upon seeing Sun Yanwan, he said, "This matter was not initiated by our Shaochan Temple; it was your master's decision." Sun Yanwan exclaimed in surprise, "What does my master want to do?"

The monk Kongchan made a Zen-like remark, saying, "In this battle, winning or losing has absolutely no bearing on anything."

"Only a handful of people in the world know what the summit is."

"Among them are me, Senior Brother Da Ku, your master, your father-in-law, and yourself..."

"But the masses of people do not know this."

Looking at the smiling Kong Chan, Sun Yanwan suddenly understood what had happened after her decisive battle with Da Ku...

Never mind, there's probably no such duel.

In short, both sides remained silent and refused to discuss the outcome of the battle.

Then people will suspect that Sun Yanwan has already taken that step.

Even if someone has doubts, there's no way to verify them.

The benefits of this matter to the Songyang Sect are self-evident, since the Songyang Sect currently only has three Grandmasters and no peerless masters.

Yes, even if they are only three Grandmasters, their strength on paper is already terrifying.

This matter also benefits Shaochan Temple.

After all, Sun Yanwan was the son-in-law of Shaochan Temple and married Shi Si, a disciple of Kong Chan.

It can be said that if Sun Yanwan and Zen Master Daku were to fight, there would be no result, but there would certainly be one outcome: the Songyang Sect and Shaochan Temple would join forces to dominate the world, and no one would be able to shake the position of the two major sects.

After thinking it over, Sun Yanwan really felt that the only person who could come up with such an idea was her master. Neither Da Ku nor Kong Chan could come up with such an incredible plan.

The news that Zen Master Daku was going to challenge Sun Yanwan spread throughout the land within a month. Both sides tacitly agreed to invite only a few people to watch the battle.

Neither the former master of Jianshan Manor nor Alanto, the master of Longzang Temple, was among them.

After Kong Chan came to deliver the message, he did not leave. Several days later, apart from Zhang Yuanqiao, the Six Friends of Songyang arrived at Black Dragon City with fifty or sixty disciples.

Two or three days later, a group of monks from Shaochan Temple also arrived.

Ten days later, the Demonic Sect Leader Yang Wuji and Xuanming Daoist also graced us with their presence. Xuanming Daoist had come once and thought he wouldn't come again for a while, but who would have thought that he would be brought here again?
Upon seeing his father-in-law, Sun Yanwan was overjoyed, but Yang Wuji had no time to pay attention to him. He held Sun Youxian tightly and refused to let go, showing his disdain. Sun Yanwan, a leading figure in the literary world, had given his son a name that was on par with Tiezhu. Even after reading half of the "Ode to the Humble Abode," he still scoffed at the name.

(End of this chapter)