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

Chapter 228 The Secrets of the Ancient Tomb
Wang Chongyang's life was full of ups and downs. In his youth, he was the leader of the anti-Jin rebel army, fighting the Jin soldiers to the death, but in the end, he was helplessly defeated by the general trend.

He lay dormant in the ancient tomb for several years before emerging to found the Quanzhen School, taking in the Seven Masters of Quanzhen. He became a grandmaster of Taoism as recorded in later history, and the Chongyang Patriarch is always included in Taoist rituals.

In The Legend of the Condor Heroes, he was always recognized as the number one in the world. Although he never appeared on screen, he was still admired by all.

Such an amazing man, yet he was so messy and indecisive in his personal relationships. From the perspective of later generations, he is full of flaws.

Wu Chengyu walked into Lin Chaoying's training room and looked at the layout and traces inside. They were all designed to be Wang Chongyang's training room. Such meticulousness was admirable.

Wu Chengyu looked up at the marks on the ceiling of the training room. Although they were messy, he could still vaguely see Lin Chaoying's cultivation level and realm. In particular, the traces were all aimed at the marks left by Wang Chongyang on the ceiling of the next room.

Overwhelmed with emotion, he unconsciously used the three-dimensional image in his mind to copy the traces on both sides of the ceiling and merge the two images into one.

The synthesized graphic was more complex and densely packed, but Wu Chengyu had already witnessed the Quanzhen Sword Technique and the Jade Maiden Sword Technique. In addition, he was currently the only one in this world who knew the Jade Maiden Pure Heart Sword Technique after the two swords were combined, so he quickly discovered some clues.

Wu Chengyu is now considered a master of martial arts. Although he certainly hasn't reached the level of Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying, he has read so many martial arts manuals and has the help of bamboo slips. His martial arts cultivation and insight are top-notch.

He first determined that the marks on the ceiling of Wang Chongyang's training room were actually made when he used the Quanzhen Sword Technique. Similarly, the marks in Lin Chaoying's training room were made when she used the Jade Maiden Sword Technique.

Knowing the existence of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Swordplay, Wu Chengyu was shocked to discover that when the traces on both sides were combined, it was actually a half-finished swordplay manual of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Swordplay, lacking the specific moves of the Quanzhen Swordplay and the Jade Maiden Swordplay.

When Yang Guo and Xiaolongnü first used the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Swordplay against a powerful enemy in The Return of the Condor Heroes, it was entirely by accident. He and Xiaolongnü were of one mind and deeply in love, and they immediately grasped the true meaning of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Swordplay.

For the first time, people in the world learned that the Quanzhen Swordplay and the Jade Maiden Swordplay could be combined into a supreme combined swordplay. This was a coincidence, or perhaps a testament from heaven to the tragic love story of Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying.

Perhaps Lin Chaoying knew, after all, the Jade Maiden Swordplay originated from the Quanzhen Swordplay, but she never mentioned it to later generations. Wang Chongyang discovered that the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra restrained the Quanzhen martial arts, and with his cultivation level, he should also be able to discover the clues of the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Swordplay.

But in Wang Chongyang's eyes, so what? The women of the Ancient Tomb Sect were destined to stay in the Ancient Tomb for life, and would soon perish completely. No matter how wonderful this sword technique was, it represented a lack of emotion for Wang Chongyang, and he would never tell anyone about it.

Therefore, Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu were able to use this sword technique later on, which can only be attributed to fate.

Unfortunately, now that there is Wu Chengyu, a transmigrator who knows many secrets, only he can idly use a 3D model to merge the patterns on the two ceilings together. Anyway, it's just a matter of thinking about it, and it doesn't take any effort at all.

So this half-finished sword manual, which was originally cleverly hidden and never discovered, was finally brought to light through his restoration. It was only possible under the right conditions.

With this unfinished sword manual, as long as one learns the Quanzhen Sword Technique and the Jade Maiden Sword Technique, one can immediately recreate the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Sword Technique, and it should be even more powerful than the combined sword technique of Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu.

After all, the two of them had only passively inherited this sword technique; initially, their cultivation was far inferior to that of Wang Chongyang and Lin Chaoying. Wu Chengyu discovered some sword moves derived from the Quanzhen Sword Technique and the Jade Maiden Sword Technique in this unfinished sword manual. The Quanzhen Sword Technique and the Jade Maiden Sword Technique each had forty-nine moves, but the sword manual seemed to have added seven more moves, seven killing moves whose power far exceeded the previous forty-nine moves.

This explains why Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu's Jade Maiden Heart Sutra Swordplay was more than capable of defeating their enemies, but lacked sufficient lethality—it was precisely because it lacked these seven deadly moves.

Wu Chengyu memorized the unfinished sword manual and exclaimed, "What a Wang Chongyang! What a Lin Chaoying! If he hadn't impulsively decided to visit the Ancient Tomb, he might have missed it."

"Hmm? There's still a problem." In the picture synthesized in Wu Chengyu's mind, after all the patterns are merged, it is actually a large picture and a small picture. The large picture is the sword manual of the Jade Maiden Pure Heart Sword Technique, and the small picture is actually separate from the large picture. If the two pictures do not overlap, you will not notice it at all.

When these small images are superimposed, they do not form a sword manual, but rather a somewhat rough drawing depicting a Taoist priest.

After careful observation, Wu Chengyu discovered that the painting was actually made by the same person. The engravings on the half of the painting on the ceiling of Lin Chaoying's training room did not match Lin Chaoying's marks, but were exactly the same as the marks in Wang Chongyang's training room.

In other words, the two parts of this small picture were engraved on the two training rooms respectively, and were entirely made by Wang Chongyang. The patterns on both sides were messy and did not match the sword marks. Only when they were put together could one know that it was a picture.

Could it be that after Lin Chaoying's death, Wang Chongyang did not only leave a portion of the Nine Yin Manual in the secret cave under the coffin, but also did something else?

But what does this Taoist figure represent? It doesn't match the portrait of Wang Chongyang that Wu Chengyu saw, so it's definitely not Wang Chongyang.

Wu Chengyu searched the two training rooms carefully but found no clues. Frustrated, he left the training rooms and prepared to continue exploring the ancient tomb.

After he left the training room, he continued to use the 3D model to observe the passage in the ancient tomb. As he walked, he stopped again.

I didn't notice it when I first came in, but now, looking at it, I see many murals of Taoist sages carved on the stone walls of the ancient tomb passage. At first glance, the murals are not very exquisite, with only a few strokes and simple lines. The facial features of the people depicted are not clear, but they can still convey the Taoist spirit and otherworldly demeanor of the Taoist sages.

After Wang Chongyang's defeat, he hid in an ancient tomb, where he began practicing Taoism. Therefore, it is understandable that murals of Taoist sages were carved in the tomb.

These murals depict Taoist deities such as Taishang Daode Tianzun, Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, and Shangqing Lingbao Daozun.

There were also murals depicting Taoist patriarchs such as Zhang Daoling, Ge Hong, Xu Xun, Tao Hongjing, and Lü Dongbin. There were more than twenty murals in total. Wu Chengyu felt something and observed them one by one. Finally, he stopped and looked at a mural with a complicated expression, falling into silence.

Each mural figure is accompanied by a carved name, introducing who the person in the mural is.

Wu Chengyu finally discovered a mural that matched the image of a Taoist priest that appeared after the traces of the training room appeared, and the name next to it was clearly written: Yang Zhuzi.

(End of this chapter)