The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 226 The True Meaning of the Ancient Tomb Sect's Martial Arts

If the Quanzhen martial arts embody Wang Chongyang's understanding and interpretation of the Taoist realm, then the higher one's Taoist cultivation, the more profound one's martial arts.

So, this Jade Maiden Sword Technique, on the surface, was created in response to the Quanzhen Sword Technique, but at its core, it reflects Lin Chaoying's deep love for Wang Chongyang.

Therefore, the essence of this sword technique is to use emotion to guide the sword, somewhat like the saying "Only by being able to fully express emotion can one be able to fully master the sword." Different worlds may have different upper limits for martial arts, but the essence remains the same.

However, Lang Fanyun's extreme passion was transcendence, while Lin Chaoying's extreme passion was succumbing to depravity. Therefore, the last one gained insight into the Way of Heaven, while the other lost his life.

When this sword technique is executed, it appears light and sharp on the surface, but it also contains subtle changes in reality and illusion, with ingenious moves and graceful style.

But its most distinctive feature is its delicacy. When emotions reach their extreme, they become extremely delicate, like a gentle stream that overcomes strength with softness. It is not afraid of high mountains or dangerous shoals. Wherever the sword strikes, it can be as gentle as a spring breeze and as tender as the love between a man and a woman. It is also like seizing every opportunity to attack the enemy and come to their rescue, much like the ruthless and heartless nature of a woman after love turns to hate.

After Wu Chengyu guided the woman to demonstrate the Jade Maiden Sword Technique twice, she also understood the profound mystery of the Jade Maiden Pure Heart Sword Technique.

The Quanzhen Swordplay is as majestic as a mountain, while the Jade Maiden Swordplay is as fluid as water. The Daoist essence of the Quanzhen Swordplay and the romantic sentiment of the Jade Maiden Swordplay are ingeniously combined.

Just like Wang Chongyang, who seemed to have feelings but was actually heartless, he won Lin Chaoying's heart and made her fall in love, but he betrayed Lin Chaoying for the rest of his life.

Take Lin Chaoying, for example. She seemed heartless but was actually full of love. She hated Wang Chongyang her whole life, but in reality, she loved him her whole life and never let go.

Between affection and indifference, the two swords complement each other perfectly, creating the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Sword Technique. This profound mystery is extremely difficult for ordinary people to comprehend. Therefore, no matter how powerful the Golden Wheel Monk's Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill is, it is like falling into a net when it encounters the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Sword Technique, unable to exert its strength.

Of course, all these conclusions are just conjectures made by Wu Chengyu after his recent understanding of Taoist thought and the integration of the fictional martial arts theories he had seen in so many novels in his previous life, but Wu Chengyu vaguely felt that he had grasped the essence.

However, Wu Chengyu could not learn this kind of kung fu, not only because he did not like practicing swordsmanship, but also because he could not be as single-minded as Lin Chaoying, Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu.

Wu Chengyu no longer wanted to fight. He had no grudge against this woman. Although she was ruthless, she couldn't gain any advantage over him. He couldn't just kill her directly, otherwise continuing to fight would be a waste of time.

However, after the woman used the Jade Maiden Sword Technique twice, it had no effect on Wu Chengyu. Wu Chengyu was always able to dodge all the exquisite sword moves first, as if he had seen the Jade Maiden Sword Technique before and knew it like the back of his hand.

But she knew that this sword technique had never been seen in the world since it was created. Apart from the deceased Wang Chongyang, even the Seven Masters of Quanzhen had never seen the Jade Maiden Sword Technique at this time.

At the same time, she pushed her lightness skill to its limit, becoming faster and faster, but Wu Chengyu was still only slightly faster than her.

This feeling was exactly the same as when she faced her master Lin Chaoying back then, the only difference being that Wu Chengyu's skill was not as profound as Lin Chaoying's.

Thinking of this, she suddenly withdrew, standing more than ten feet away from Wu Chengyu, fully alert, and asked with some doubt.

"Extremely meticulous?"

Wu Chengyu didn't pursue, but suddenly stopped in his tracks. He nodded and said modestly, "I've only just touched the threshold." "In that case, I am no match for you, but if you dare to covet my Tomb of the Living Dead, I dare to perish with you."

Wu Chengyu retorted sarcastically, "Don't be so self-righteous. You have nothing to be schemed against."

Xiao Mochou keeps saying there isn't a single good man in the world, she must have learned it from you. Of all things to learn, she'll definitely be ruined by those words for the rest of her life.

The biggest problem is, have you ever been with a man? You keep saying men are bad, but you've never experienced what it's like to be with a man. No man has ever touched you, right? So you hide in your grave every day cursing men, isn't it because you crave what you can't have? What can you do about life? You're living such a pretentious life.”

Upon hearing this, the woman's face turned pale and then red, but unexpectedly she suddenly coughed up blood.

Aside from the initial evenly matched exchange of punches, Wu Chengyu hadn't actually attacked her earlier. It's impossible that this woman suffered internal injuries; it seems to be a drawback of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra. Little Dragon Girl experienced something similar a few times in the original story.

To put it bluntly, this martial arts technique, like the love story of Lin Chaoying and Wang Chongyang, is just too pretentious.

Since it enters the path through emotion, it also appears ruthless and heartless to the outside world. The inner method itself is conflicted. Although it takes an unorthodox approach and is extremely powerful, it damages the heart meridian early on. Normally, when there is nothing wrong, once emotions are agitated, injury is inevitable.

Seeing that the woman had become extremely weak after vomiting blood, and seemed to have difficulty even standing, Wu Chengyu wanted to go over and help her. After all, she was Xiao Mochou's master, and he had really grown fond of her over the past few days, the kind of fondness an adult has for a cute little girl.

But he had only taken a few steps closer, and before he could even reach out, the woman mustered her strength, held the long sword to her neck, and said, "If you touch me, I will die here."

Wu Chengyu immediately stopped, put his hands behind his back, and smiled bitterly, but couldn't help but think to himself: Auntie, I really don't want to touch you, I'm not interested in you, don't act like you're going to die in front of me, okay? I didn't scum you, this is too melodramatic.

This woman is untouchable. She's probably mentally unstable. After all, she's spent most of her life locked in an ancient tomb and her brain has been completely brainwashed. She's practically insane by now. Wu Chengyu shuddered and immediately turned around to use her lightness skill to leave as fast as she could.

After Wu Chengyu ran away, the woman's face turned extremely pale. She coughed up another mouthful of blood and then, incredibly weak, slowly made her way back to the ancient tomb.

That night, Wu Chengyu claimed he had no interest in the Tomb of the Living Dead, but shamelessly came again. He already knew the true meaning of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra and the Jade Maiden Pure Heart Sword Technique, which had too many flaws and were not compatible with his own, so he had no intention of using them.

However, he still had to go to the secret passage of the ancient tomb to find the fragments of the Nine Yin Manual. Although he already had the second volume of the Nine Yin Manual, there were still things in the fragments that interested him from the first volume. Even if they were useless to him, he wouldn't regret going into a treasure mountain and returning empty-handed.

Over the past two days, he caught sparrows while thoroughly exploring the area around the ancient tomb. There were as many as seventeen pools of water of varying sizes around the tomb. Due to the isolation created by the pools, his 3D model was unable to recreate the state beneath the water. He had no choice but to use a laborious method, trying one pool after another.

He spent most of the night trying twelve pools in one go, but to no avail. Finally, on the thirteenth, he found a passage underwater.

However, Wu Chengyu was also quite helpless, as this pond turned out to be the same one where he had initially washed the sparrows.

After using the Turtle Grandson Technique, he could stay underwater for a long time without any effort, and arrived at the depths of the passage. He emerged from the water and immediately saw a stone cave and the words on the cave walls.

(End of this chapter)