Great Love for All Heavens Begins with Huang Yaoshi

Chapter 175 Only the weak resort to swords, hoping to use their advantage to rise against the odds and defeat the strong with the weak.

“You should recognize my master, Li Changsheng,” Li Hanyi said, emphasizing each word.

The young Taoist priest in the green robe feigned sudden realization:

"So you are Mr. Li's outstanding student."

He paused, glancing at the exquisite and beautiful sword in Li Hanyi's hand:
"The sword in the young lady's hand is clearly a rare and sharp weapon. If she were to strike you with it, you would be kneeling on the ground in just a few breaths."

Li Hanyi's aura surged, and she said coldly:
"Are you saying that I can only use one sword strike before you knock me to my knees?"

"On the contrary, you have to kneel on the ground and keep injecting your inner strength into me, begging me not to die."

The young Taoist priest in the green robe's words instantly dissipated Li Hanyi's icy aura. After a long silence, he finally spoke:
“Master was right after all. He said that you, this stinky Taoist priest, are cunning and strange. We should beat you first, otherwise you will sell us out and we will still be counting the money for you.”

“Mr. Li would never speak of me like that; we are close friends despite our age difference,” the young Taoist in the green robe said solemnly.

“It must be your senior brother, Baili Dongjun, who has been speaking ill of me behind my back.”

Li Hanyi said coldly:

"On the contrary, he felt that the further away he was from you, this evil Taoist priest, the better. He would only meet you after he was absolutely certain that he would not be harmed by you."

"I came to Wangcheng Mountain today to see why their expressions are always so strange whenever they talk about you."

The young Taoist priest in green robes appeared to be deep in thought.

"Perhaps I am good at divination. For example, four years ago, Mr. Li suddenly visited Wangcheng Mountain, wanting me to tell his fortune. Unfortunately, I was not on the mountain. He stayed on the mountain for seven days, but I never returned. He left with a disappointed look on his face."

"After secretly staying at the foot of the mountain for ten days, I couldn't resist running up the mountain, cutting down the peach tree next to me, and then leaving in a huff."

He sighed softly:
"This time, he hid near Wangcheng Mountain for three whole months, which I truly admire."

"Perhaps he grew angrier the longer he waited, but he suddenly appeared atop Wangcheng Mountain and overturned the Qiankun Palace with a wave of his hand."

"Didn't you say you wouldn't come down the mountain for ten years?" Li Hanyi asked doubtfully.

"Who said that?" The young Taoist priest in the green robe raised an eyebrow.

"More than four years ago, when your senior brother Wang Yixing was traveling around the martial arts world, he said the same thing to others."

"So, it was Wang Yihang who said it. What does it have to do with me?"

Li Hanyi was speechless for a moment, a hint of helplessness unconsciously creeping into her tone:
"It seems you not only enjoy framing outsiders, but you even target your own senior brother."

The young Taoist priest in the green robe said earnestly:
"I don't have any senior brothers, but I do have a second junior brother named Wang Yixing. So most of the rumors circulating in the martial arts world are just false information."

“I understand now why my master and Senior Brother Baili always seem to have something on their mind when they talk about you,” Li Hanyi said in a cryptic tone, as if she had a deep understanding of the situation.

The young Taoist priest in the green robe laughed:

"It is said in the martial arts world that if you want to master swordsmanship, there are only three methods: challenge swordsmen, hone your skills in desperate situations, and get tips from masters."

"Not far from my courtyard, there is a master swordsman unlike any other in Wangcheng Mountain. He has mastered swordsmanship to an unparalleled level. Go and ask him for advice on swordsmanship; you will gain a great deal."

"You even like to trick your own younger brother." Li Hanyi seemed amused and annoyed, saying:
"I heard that you are a natural-born master of the Free and Unfettered Realm. Even without practicing martial arts, you have the strength of a half-step Free and Unfettered Realm master. I just happen to be at the late stage of the Free and Unfettered Realm."

As she spoke, she drew her sword, unleashing a powerful and surging aura that drew peach blossoms from the entire courtyard to her body. As she raised her sword to strike, its blade shone with brilliant moonlight.

"Moonset and flowers in the morning!"

The young Taoist priest in the green robe calmly extended two fingers, which caught the sword blade between them, and said indifferently:
"Only the weak resort to swords, hoping to use their advantage to fight against the odds and defeat the strong with the weak."

After saying that, lightning flashed at his fingertips, causing the longsword in Li Hanyi's hand to vibrate and tremble as if it were wailing.

"Listen to the rain!"

The young Taoist priest in the green robe nodded:

"So this sword is called Listening to the Rain. It must have been forged in the Sword Heart Tomb. It is a sword with a sword spirit. No wonder it is quite spiritual and can even feel fear."

He lightly tapped the sword's edge, and the Listening Rain Sword was suddenly flung away, swiftly escaping from Wangcheng Mountain. Li Hanyi was knocked back seven or eight steps, and the mask on her face was shattered.

"Graceful and elegant, serene and aloof, she truly possesses a captivating and pitiful beauty," the young Taoist priest in green robes said with a hint of regret.

"It's just that her martial arts skills don't match her appearance. It's one thing to use a weapon that only serves as a weapon for deserters, but her swordsmanship is also very flashy."

"Do you know that when you use this sword technique, you make yourself look very dull?"

"That's enough. Don't you know no martial arts?"

Li Hanyi said with slight anger:

"What martial art did you use just now?" "Since you know that I have one foot in the Free and Unfettered Heaven Realm, you should understand that I can use the power of heaven and earth. Just now, I was just trying to use the power of the five elements of heaven and earth to dissolve all things in the world."

The young Taoist priest in the green robe said lightly:
"If you must consider it a martial art, you might as well call it the Five Thunder Transformation Technique. It can not only turn so-called divine weapons into ashes, but also has the power to neutralize internal energy."

"What a divine destiny with a naturally born Daoist body! He has hidden it well enough. Since he dares to look down on all the swordsmen and knife-wielders in the world, he must have some extraordinary supernatural abilities."

Li Hanyi said expressionlessly:
"You said my swordsmanship was flashy and weak, but it seems you possess unparalleled swordsmanship."

"Alright, I'll come back to ask you about swordsmanship in three months!"

After saying that, he leaped into the air and disappeared after a few quick jumps.

Winter has passed and spring has arrived; two or three months have gone by in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Li Hanyi arrived as promised. The courtyard, which was originally as warm as spring all year round, was suddenly filled with mist that quickly fell and froze into ice because of her arrival.

"As expected of Mr. Li's disciple, he not only entered the Free and Unfettered Heaven Realm in a short period of time, but also obtained one of the Ten Famous Swords."

The young Taoist priest in the green robe raised his eyelids:
"Iron Horse and Icy River, the coldest sword in the world, sealed on the summit of Kunlun Mountain, was once the weapon of the peerless Kunlun Sword Immortal, and is the third most famous sword in the sword manual."

"I've come again today to challenge your sword skills. You shouldn't disappoint me, will you?" Li Hanyi's expression was stern.

"Do I look like I have a sword?" The young Taoist priest in the green robe spread his hands.

Li Hanyi's lips curled slightly:
"Since you regard swords and knives as objects for weaklings, you must be able to unleash earth-shattering, unparalleled swordsmanship without any weapons."

"If I agree to your swordplay, it will be as if I'm helping you hone your swordsmanship. I never do anything that doesn't benefit me." The young Taoist in the green robe smiled.
"I have a little tune. If you lose the sword duel, you must sing it to me with great emotion."

Li Hanyi's delicate brows furrowed slightly:
"I am not good at music."

"This humble Taoist priest does not know swordsmanship," Zhuang Buran said slowly.

Li Hanyi remained silent, but then the young Taoist priest in the green robe spoke:
"If you lack self-confidence, you won't have to sing a folk song if you win, and it won't matter if you lose, it's just a tune that's completely opposite to your personality."

"Let you temporarily transform your usual aloofness and indifference into a charming and adorable one, as a belated apology for destroying the flowers."

"Have you forgotten that your previous sword strike destroyed all the peach blossoms in my courtyard?"

"After hearing what you said, I'm even less willing to gamble on this." Li Hanyi gritted her teeth.

"Oh, really?" Zhuang Buran smiled and said:
"Then you can draw your sword right now and see if you can force me to make a move,"

"You really are just as Senior Brother Baili said, full of wicked humor," Li Hanyi said coldly.
"If you were to fight me normally this time, and I lost, you would sing your so-called little tune. If I won, shouldn't you also pay some price?"

“We’ve already sparred with you, doesn’t that count?” the young Taoist in green robes retorted.

“If you lose, I’ll make you fight me ten more times.” Li Hanyi’s eyes flashed coldly.

"If I lose, you still want to ask for the sword? You don't just want to vent your anger by beating me, do you?" The young Taoist in the green robe looked suspicious.

"Do you dare to accept?" Li Hanyi remained noncommittal.

"I feel I've been shortchanged; you should be my cook for ten days as well."

Thirty matches!

"I, this humble Taoist, require you to eat with chopsticks held in your feet for the next ten days!"

"Bind your own hands and feet and fight me fifty times!"

"For the next ten days, you must not walk, you can only hop!"

Li Hanyi suddenly drew her sword, and a chilling and domineering sword aura soared into the sky, pressing down on the young Taoist in green robes like an iron horse trampling across a wasteland.

"Zhao Zhenhuan, you really have no humanity!"

In an instant, all the peach blossoms on Wangcheng Mountain were drawn in by Li Hanyi's sword. As thousands of peach blossoms, mixed with the unparalleled sword force, fell towards the young Taoist in green robes, she then drew in boundless frost energy into the sword and unleashed a stunning sword strike.

Instantly, the young Taoist in green robes stood up. As his aura surged, a mysterious sword energy rolled through the courtyard, surging like a tidal wave and filling the courtyard space in an instant.

In an instant, the peach blossoms and frost-covered sword energy were shredded, and Li Hanyi was trapped in place, unable to retaliate or defend herself.

Zhuang Buran flashed and appeared in front of Li Hanyi. He pointed his finger as a sword and touched her forehead. As the mask turned to dust, he flicked her forehead with his finger, and a big bump immediately swelled up.

In an instant, the sword energy space collapsed. Li Hanyi endured the pain and touched the bulging lump. Unexpectedly, after gently touching it, she almost cried from the pain.

"What kind of swordsmanship is this?"

"The Heaven-Destroying and Earth-Severing Sword, Twenty-Three!" Zhuang Buran exclaimed with delight upon noticing the prominent bulge on Li Hanyi's forehead.
"Only those with outstanding talent are worthy of the title of sword immortal."

(End of this chapter)