Wuxia: Become the 100-Victory Sword King at the Beginning

Shi Feiyang and his two companions escaped danger by sheer luck, only to discover at the inn where they stayed that Murong Hui's Heart Gu had already infiltrated the martial arts world.

As the waiter poured tea, a strange red light flashed in his pupils. Shi Feiyang drew his Xuan Shuang Blade with lightning speed, pinning the poisoned silver needles flying into a beam. Amidst the flying wood chips, Nangong Xiaodie's soft sword was already pressed against the waiter's throat: "Speak! How many accomplices are there?"

Lianxing trembled as she took out a silver needle to examine it, and her jade-like color suddenly changed: "It is...it is Murong Hui's improved 'Thousand-Mechanism Heart Gu'. Those who are infected with the Gu become puppets without even realizing it!" Before she finished speaking, dozens of martial arts practitioners suddenly rushed in from outside the window. They held various weapons, and the red light in their eyes formed a blood-red network. They had formed the "Netherworld Soul-Locking Array".

Shi Feiyang activated the Mingyu Gong "Limitless Asura's Human Purgatory," his body condensing into an ice crystal armor of icy energy. The vortex in his palm unleashed a powerful suction force: "Little Butterfly, protect your sister! Watch me dismantle this broken formation!" He unleashed the Hundred Victories Blade Technique "Breaking Heaven and Earth," his palm blade as powerful as a giant axe splitting mountains. Yet, the puppets actually used their flesh and blood to block the attack. Amidst the splattering blood rain, the formation remained completely unmoved.

"Something's not right!" Nangong Xiaodie's soft sword was suddenly entangled by the puppets, who revealed their menacing white teeth: "Shi Feiyang, taste the power of your own martial arts!" She was shocked—the puppets were using the "Dog-Beating Stick Technique" that Shi Feiyang had once used!
Lianxing played her jade flute urgently, the sound waves shattering the eardrums of several people, but then they saw blood dripping onto the ground, which turned into even more Gu worms.

At the critical moment, Shi Feiyang suddenly pulled out a deafening firecracker, lit it, and hurled it into the formation: "Let me show you the 'Exorcising Thunderclap Bomb,' a technique lost to the martial world!"

Amid the explosions, the puppets were thrown into temporary chaos. Taking advantage of the moment, he used his "Thousand Miles Without Leaving a Trace" technique, lightly tapping the roof tiles. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a figure in white flashing past the street corner—the Palace Master of Yaoyue Palace was holding an ice shard, coldly watching everything unfold.

"Chase!" Shi Feiyang led the two women into the alley, only to see strange lotus totems appear on the ground, which were the symbols of the forbidden techniques of the Yihua Palace.

Suddenly, the sound of a mechanism being activated came from beneath my feet, and the entire alleyway turned into an ice cave.

Nangong Xiaodie's soft sword became brittle from the cold, and Lianxing's sound waves bounced back and forth in the ice, making the three of them's eardrums ache.

"Watch this!" Shi Feiyang activated the "Sword Intent Spreads Across the Plains" technique from the Nine Heavens Sword Manual. The Xuan Shuang Blade spewed out raging ghost fire, but emitted a piercing screech when it touched the ice wall.

He suddenly remembered the symbol that Xiao Chong had carved before his death, and turned to Nangong Xiaodie, shouting: "Use your soft sword to stab me in the heart!"

"Are you crazy!" Nangong Xiaodie's eyes reddened.

Taking advantage of the moment, Shi Feiyang grabbed her hand and plunged the soft sword into his old heart wound: "Quick! Use my blood to break the ice formation!" The moment the blood splattered, something strange happened—his blood actually ignited blue flames on the ice surface, which was the "ice and fire from the same source" power of the fusion of Mingyu Gong and the Nine Heavens Sword Manual!
The moment the ice wall collapsed, the figure of the Palace Master of Yaoyue disappeared again.

Shi Feiyang laughed while clutching his wound: "Old woman, don't hide in the shadows like a coward next time!"

He turned to comfort the pale-faced Nangong Xiaodie: "Don't worry, my blood is precious, I won't die." But when no one was watching, he coughed up a mouthful of black blood with ice crystals.

The three followed the clues and found a hidden valley, which was filled with stone tablets engraved with lotus totems.

Just as Shi Feiyang was about to step forward to investigate, Lianxing suddenly exclaimed, "Be careful! This is the lost 'Ten Thousand Gu Devouring Heart Formation' of the Yihua Palace!"

Before the words were even finished, countless Gu worms crawled out from the cracks in the stone tablet, forming a giant human face of the Palace Master of the Inviting Moon Palace on the ground: "Shi Feiyang, hand over the 'Essentials of the Martial Arts Alliance,' and I'll spare your corpses!" Shi Feiyang waved the tattered scroll in his hand, then suddenly pulled out a bag of moldy osmanthus cakes: "Want to trade? First, bring me Murong Hui's dog head!"

He crushed the pastries and tossed them into the air, causing the Gu worms to scramble for them, creating a flaw in the formation. "Now!" He pulled the two women into the center of the formation, only to find a huge ice coffin hidden within, inside which lay a woman who looked exactly like Palace Mistress Yaoyue…

Within the Myriad Gu Devouring Heart Array in the valley, the chill emanating from the ice coffin intertwined with the pungent heat of the Gu worms, forming an eerie white mist.

Shi Feiyang used his Xuanshuang Blade to remove the talisman on the ice coffin and was shocked to find that the woman in the coffin did not have Yaoyue's signature cinnabar mark between her eyebrows—this face, which was exactly the same as Yaoyue's, was now frozen in a look of terror.

"It's fake!" Nangong Xiaodie suddenly pressed her soft sword against Shi Feiyang's back, her voice trembling, "Shi Lang, stop!" Shi Feiyang shuddered and slowly turned around.

At the heart of the formation, the true Palace Mistress of Yaoyue was found with chains piercing her collarbone, her face as pale as paper.

Before her, "Inviting the Moon," dressed in a long, flowing ice-silk dress, clapped her hands and laughed. A crack in her mask revealed the sinister face of the head steward, Su Tun: "As expected of Shi Feiyang, it's just a pity... we discovered it too late!" "Su Tun! How dare you betray Yihua Palace!" Palace Master Lianxing dropped her jade flute, tears streaming down her face. "Back then, the Palace Master saved your life, and yet you..."

"A life-saving grace? I've been in the Yihua Palace for over thirty years, served three palace masters, and been the head steward for nearly twenty years. Don't even mention making me the second palace master, I haven't even had a man! I'm miserable! In the end, I had no choice but to run to Shi Feiyang's bed." Su Yan suddenly tore off her disguise, revealing the hideous Gu worm bite marks all over her body, and poured out her heart like a madwoman.

Nangong Xiaodie reached out and pinched Shi Feiyang's ear, while Lianxing kicked Shi Feiyang in a huff.

Shi Feiyang blushed and hurriedly said, "Su Tun is trying to sow discord between us, don't fall for it!" Nangong Xiaodie and Lianxing thought it made sense, and their hatred for Shi Feiyang and Su Tun's shameful affair dissipated.

“But what about Yaoyue? She only used me as a living corpse to test medicine! Look at this face—” Su Yan frantically tore at her face, revealing three overlapping faces beneath the bloody mess. “This is all thanks to Mingyu Gong!”

Shi Feiyang activated his Bright Jade Skill, his skin glowing with a glassy luster, and the vortex in his palm sucked up the pebbles on the ground: "So it was you who sabotaged Murong Hui's Thousand-Mechanism Heart Gu!"

He caught sight of Nangong Jun hiding behind Su Tun and suddenly sneered, "Old thief Nangong, you were the one who arranged the spy who killed Xiao Chong, weren't you?"

Nangong Jun's expression changed drastically, and he held the Broken Mountain Blade horizontally in front of his chest: "You little beast! Stop spouting nonsense! Give me back my son's life!"

"Slanderous accusations?" Shi Feiyang drew his Xuan Shuang Blade, the Nine Netherworld Flames illuminating the killing intent in his eyes. "The 'moon' character that Xiao Chong carved before his death didn't refer to Yao Yue at all! It was 'Yue'—Nangong Yue, your daughter who has been missing for many years, is now in Su Tan's Gu worm array!"

At this moment, a shrill scream suddenly came from within the formation, and the face formed by countless Gu worms revealed the appearance of Nangong Yue.

Nangong Xiaodie let out a mournful cry, nearly dropping her soft sword: "Sister!" Su Xuan seized the opportunity to unleash "Thousand Machines Guiding," sending countless Gu worms surging like a blood-red tide. Shi Feiyang roared, unleashing the Hundred Victories Blade Technique "Demon-Slaying Cloud," his palm blade blazing like the sun in the sky, turning the Gu worms into pus wherever the blade energy passed.

But even more Gu worms emerged from the ground, forming a giant spider web in the air. Shi Feiyang used "Shifting Flowers and Jade!" The Xuan Shuang Blade drew a strange arc, drawing some of the Gu worms toward Su Tun.

Su Tun grinned maliciously, manipulating the chains around Zhen Yaoyue's chest: "Dare to fight back? I'll crush her heart meridian right now!" Shi Feiyang's pupils constricted, and he abruptly withdrew his attack. But then, Palace Master Lianxing suddenly rushed towards Su Tun, her jade flute pointed directly at his throat: "I'll fight you to the death!"

Su Xuan retaliated with a palm strike, the insidious force piercing through Lian Xing's chest.

"Sister!" Shi Feiyang's eyes widened in fury. He unleashed the full power of his Mingyu Gong "Supreme Forgetfulness: Ice Soul Cold Prison," instantly freezing the entire valley. His skin became as transparent as an ice sculpture, and icy blue true energy surged through his veins, freezing the Gu worms into countless ice beads. He then unleashed the Hundred Victories Blade Technique "Severing Reincarnation," the blade's light carrying the force of thunder, aimed directly at Su Yun's vital point.

Nangong Jun suddenly blocked with his sword, the Broken Mountain Blade clashing with the Frost Blade, unleashing a deafening roar that shook the earth. "Father, you've gone mad!" Nangong Xiaodie cried out, trying to pull Nangong Jun away, only to see a strange red light flash in his eyes—he had somehow also been afflicted by the Thousand-Mechanism Heart Gu!
"You little beast, prepare to die!" Nangong Jun's moves suddenly became ruthless, each strike aimed directly at Shi Feiyang's vitals. Shi Feiyang was forced to use the "Dog-Beating Stick Technique - No Dogs Under Heaven," his Xuan Shuang Blade transforming into three hundred and sixty afterimages. However, in the moment of distraction, he was bitten on the ankle by Su Xuan's Gu worm.

The intense pain made him pause, and Nangong Jun's Broken Mountain Blade was already slashing towards his face.

In the nick of time, Nangong Xiaodie suddenly lunged forward, shielding Shi Feiyang's face with her body. Blood splattered like a fountain onto his face. He looked at his lover, whose body was growing cold in his arms, and all he could hear was her faint, weak voice: "Shi Lang... don't hate your father..."

"Little Butterfly!!!" Shi Feiyang roared to the sky, and the Xuan Shuang Blade burst forth with unprecedented light. The power of Ming Yu Gong and the Nine Heavens Sword Manual had completely merged, his eyes turned bloodshot, and his body was surrounded by an aura of intertwined ice and fire.

"I'll make you all pay with your lives!" Su Xuan finally felt fear and manipulated the Gu worms to form a shield. But Shi Feiyang's "Ice and Fire from the Same Source" power was indestructible, and the Xuan Shuang Blade easily pierced through the Gu shield, heading straight for his throat.

Before her death, Su Wan planted the last Thousand-Mechanism Heart Gu into Nangong Jun's body: "If we're going to die, we'll all die together!"

Nangong Jun laughed maniacally, then slashed his own heart meridian. Shi Feiyang caught the falling body, looking at Nangong Xiaodie's pale face, tears mingling with blood as they streamed down his cheeks. He gently closed his lover's eyes, then turned to look at Zhen Yaoyue, whom he had rescued: "Palace Master, this debt must be settled."

Looking at the mess on the ground, the Palace Mistress of Yaoyue revealed a look of remorse for the first time: "Su Xuan was a loyal servant... It's all my fault for insisting on using him as a test subject back then..." Shi Feiyang picked up Nangong Xiaodie's body, his Xuan Shuang Blade carving deep furrows in the ground: "From now on, if anyone dares to touch someone I care about again—" When he looked up, the madness in his eyes sent chills down everyone's spine, "I will make the entire martial world pay for her death!"

The wind in the valley carried the stench of blood, and Shi Feiyang's figure gradually disappeared into the twilight.

At Nangong Xiaodie's funeral, a light rain fell like tears. Shi Feiyang held the cold urn containing her ashes, letting the rain wash away the blood and tears from his face.

The Palace Mistress Lianxing held a freshly baked osmanthus cake, but when she touched his bloodshot eyes, her fingertips trembled violently, and the cake scattered all over the ground.

"It's all my fault..." Lianxing suddenly knelt down, her jade flute rolling into the mud. "If it weren't for me back then... back then, secretly delivering the antidote to Su Tan..." She choked up, unable to continue, memories flooding back like a tide—twelve years ago, on a cold night, she secretly opened the medicine shed of Yihua Palace and handed the life-extending pill to the dying Su Tan. At that time, the young steward's eyes were still filled with pure gratitude.

Shi Feiyang's Xuan Shuang Blade suddenly pressed against Lianxing's throat, the Netherworld Ghost Fire on the blade reflecting off Lianxing's pale face: "You knew he would defect?" His voice was like ice laced with poison, "Those jade whistles, those intelligence reports, it was all a trap you deliberately set!"

Lianxing closed her eyes, letting tears mingle with the rain as they streamed down her face: "I just wanted to save him... I never expected him to steal forbidden techniques and..." She suddenly grabbed the blade, blood flowing down her palm, "Kill me! That way... you might feel better."

Shi Feiyang abruptly shook her off, turned around, and buried the urn of ashes under the peach tree. When he circulated the Mingyu Gong, his skin was as transparent as ice, but the sword wound left by Nangong Xiaodie on his chest gleamed with a glaring red beneath the ice.

“From this day forward,” he said without looking back, “our relationship is severed.” However, three days later, Lianxing appeared at the dilapidated temple where Shi Feiyang was staying. Her hair was disheveled, and she clutched a brocade box tightly in her arms: “This is Su Wan’s diary…and the *Nine Revolutions Yin-Yang Record* from the forbidden area of ​​the Yihua Palace.” She pushed the box forward, revealing several whip marks on her wrists. “My sister knew I was having an affair and whipped me thirty times…”

Shi Feiyang opened the brocade box, and half a lotus jade pendant fell out from between the yellowed pages—it could be pieced together with Nangong Xiaodie's pendant to form a complete pattern.

He suddenly looked up and saw Lianxing coughing up black blood, with strange blue patterns appearing on her jade-colored face: "I have been poisoned by the Heart-Eating Gu that Su Xuan planted before she died... cough cough... Only you can lead me to the antidote."

A thunderclap boomed outside the dilapidated temple. Shi Feiyang gazed at her blood-stained smile, the Xuan Shuang Blade clenched so tightly in his palm that it left deep crescent-shaped marks. In the distance, the sounds of a search operation by the Yihua Palace drifted in. Lianxing suddenly grabbed his sleeve: "Deep in the southwestern forest… there's an abandoned Medicine King…"

Before she could finish speaking, an icicle shattered through the window, grazed her ear, and embedded itself in a pillar.

"Traitor!" The Palace Mistress of Yaoyue's long, icy silk dress swept over, carrying with it a chilling aura. "Dare to steal forbidden books? You shall suffer the punishment of being chilled to the bone by ten thousand ice fragments!"

With a gentle wave of her hand, countless icicles burst forth from the ground.

Shi Feiyang instinctively embraced Lianxing and spun away, but the moment he touched her body temperature, he remembered Nangong Xiaodie's dying appearance.

Shi Feiyang immediately unleashed his "Transferring Flowers and Jade" divine skill! He roared and deflected the ice spikes back, but Lianxing suddenly broke free from his embrace, holding her jade flute to her chest: "Sister, please let him go! I will bear all the blame!"

The moment the icicle pierced her shoulder, Shi Feiyang's world seemed to collapse once more. He picked up the unconscious Lianxing and rushed into the torrential rain, behind him echoing Yaoyue's icy vow: "Shi Feiyang, if you dare to save her, the Yihua Palace will slaughter your entire clan!"

The person in his arms grew lighter and lighter. Shi Feiyang looked down and saw Lianxing's bloodstained fingers tightly clutching half of a lotus jade pendant. He suddenly remembered what she had once said: "Actually... Xiaodie's jade pendant was a birthday gift I gave her..."

From the depths of the Medicine King Valley came the howls of wolves. As Shi Feiyang leaped off the cliff carrying the person, the sparks from the Xuan Shuang Blade scraping against the rock face illuminated Lian Xing's pale yet stubborn face. (End of Chapter)