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

Chapter 336 A Fog

While everyone thought Wu Chengyu had gone back to his room to recuperate, and indeed Wu Chengyu was pretending to heal, Princess Yuzhu's Yangge Tianjun could only repel Wu Chengyu, who wasn't using his full strength, and couldn't hurt him at all.

But now Wu Chengyu is very distressed. He has discovered that his established goals have deviated, or rather, his understanding is flawed.

The original plan was to first cause trouble in Western Xia, try to obtain Li Qiushui's martial arts inheritance, and then leisurely go to Tianshan to find Lingjiu Palace and obtain Wu Xingyun's techniques along the way.

Among the martial arts of the Free and Unfettered Sect, his favorites are Li Qiushui's Lesser Formless Skill, White Rainbow Palm Force, and Lingbo Steps, as well as Tianshan Child Granny's Free and Unfettered Plum Blossom Hand. These martial arts can make up for the deficiencies in Wu Chengyu's current martial arts skills.

Next up is the Tianshan Six Yang Palms. The Life and Death Talisman is a good thing and will be of great help to Wu Chengyu's future plans, but he values ​​the yin and yang changes in this palm technique even more. When it reaches a state of perfection, it is definitely no less than the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms.

Wu Chengyu's current top-tier martial arts techniques are the Nine Yin Divine Claw and the Great Subduing Demon Fist. The Bone-Dissolving Capturing Hand and the Raging Tide Palm Technique are a step below, but they are still inferior to the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms. Wu Chengyu urgently needs a palm technique of the same level and with great power.

Apart from that, the other martial arts of the Free and Unfettered Sect were not very attractive to him. The Northern Darkness Divine Art and the Eight Desolations and Six Harmonies Supreme Art both had flaws. It would be better to have them, but they were not essential.

However, he never imagined that he would be able to see the martial arts techniques of both Wu Xingyun and Li Qiushui in Xixia this time.

In particular, the Free and Easy Plum Blossom Hand and the Six Yang Palms of Tianshan, the signature skills of Lingjiu Palace, actually appeared on Wu Qianyu and Princess Yuzhu respectively, which makes no sense at all.

Many fan fiction works have speculated about Lingjiu Palace more than a hundred years later, and the general conclusion is that Lingjiu Palace had already disappeared by the time of The Legend of the Condor Heroes.

Xu Zhu might still be alive. Those who practice Taoist techniques are generally very long-lived. Given his personality, he might have gone into hiding and returned to Shaolin Temple to live out his days after Lingjiu Palace disappeared.

Many people even say that he was the later Drunken Monk, which is why he was able to suppress Wang Chongyang and later hide in Shaolin Temple to create the Nine Yang Divine Skill.

However, regarding how Lingjiu Palace perished, everyone speculated that it was due to the rebellion of the Thirty-Six Islands and Seventy-Two Caves.

Xu Zhu's personality is somewhat pedantic and naive; he is easily trusting and is fundamentally unsuitable to be the leader of a faction.

His act of removing the life-and-death talismans from the island lords and cave masters was indeed a sign of a monk's compassion, but it was more like removing the reins from a pack of wild beasts. He would inevitably gain their support in the short term, and they would all say that they would follow Xu Zhu's lead and would not hesitate to die for him.

But people's hearts change. After the initial gratitude, how much loyalty will remain in these people as time goes by?

Especially since for so many years, these people had been treated like slaves by Tianshan Tonglao, forced to pay tribute every year, and would be killed for the slightest dissatisfaction, with their deaths being gruesome. Their resentment towards Lingjiu Palace would only accumulate and would not easily dissipate.

Most importantly, these island lords and cave masters are not good people. They practice evil techniques and kill innocent people without any psychological burden. Do you really expect these people to be loyal without any means of controlling them?
Therefore, most people speculate that Xu Zhu's Lingjiu Palace will eventually be devoured by these guys, and even if Xu Zhu doesn't die, he will be disheartened and disappear into the martial world.

Then, the protagonists of those fan fiction stories would one day arrive at Lingjiu Palace and find it to be nothing but ruins, with the remains of those traitors who had stormed Lingjiu Palace and perished together with the Nine Heavens and Nine Departments still faintly visible.

Then, they are arranged to accidentally discover a mechanism, find the stone cave where Wu Xingyun hid his various martial arts techniques, and naturally obtain Wu Xingyun's martial arts inheritance.

Wu Chengyu thought so too; he felt that he would encounter the same pattern as his predecessors.

But he never expected that Wu Xingyun's martial arts legacy would appear so openly in Xixia. Why? How did Xixia obtain it? Or was the Lingjiu Palace wiped out by Xixia in the world he transmigrated to?
Wu Chengyu felt as if he were in a fog, completely confused and unable to understand what changes had occurred in the past century.
Judging from his fierce exchange with Princess Yuzhu just now, there should be another martial art from the Xiaoyao Sect that we saw today.

It is said that the ultimate skill of the Free and Unfettered Sect is Free and Unfettered Wind Control, while others say it is the Everlasting Spring Skill of Heaven and Earth.

It was Xiaoyaozi who divided this divine skill into three parts: Beiming Divine Skill, Xiaowuxiang Skill, and Supreme Pure Yang Skill.

Leaving aside the Northern Darkness Divine Art and the Lesser Formless Art for the time being, it is said that the Supreme Pure Yang Art is extremely masculine and yang, but it is not suitable for women to cultivate. However, Wu Xingyun is a genius. She reversed the Supreme Pure Yang Art and created the Eight Desolations and Six Harmonies Supreme Art, which is also extremely masculine and yang.

However, this technique has flaws. In addition, Wu Xingyun was ambushed by Li Qiushui, so his body will never grow up, and he will have to revert to a child form every thirty years, losing all his power.

But one thing is certain: the Eight Desolations and Six Directions Supreme Technique has been modified to be suitable for women to cultivate, which is why Wu Xingyun is called the Child Granny, and she has always been in the form of a petite girl.

According to Wu Chengyu's speculation, after Wu Xingyun's death, the Eight Desolations and Six Harmonies Supreme Skill was actually lost. Among the various martial arts of the Free and Unfettered School carved in the stone cave of Lingjiu Palace, there was no Eight Desolations and Six Harmonies, but the original Supreme Pure Yang Skill that had not been modified.

So, could it be that Princess Yuzhu's appearance, which is no different from a man except for the absence of an Adam's apple, and is even more masculine and powerful, is the result of obtaining the martial arts in the Lingjiu Palace stone cave and forcibly practicing the Supreme Pure Yang Skill, thus turning her female hormones into male hormones?

This was just speculation, but Wu Chengyu felt he was close to the truth, because a woman, especially a princess, no matter how tomboyish, couldn't possibly be like Mr. Muscle. Sister Niu was the most gentle tomboy Wu Chengyu had ever met, but no matter how bold she was, you wouldn't mistake her for a man at first glance.

Princess Yuzhu, apart from lacking one or two things, really didn't have the slightest bit of womanly feeling, which was abnormal.

Wu Chengyu shook his head, putting the speculation aside. He had never had any interest in the Supreme Pure Yang Skill, as the skill itself was problematic.

Pure Yang is a state of being in Taoism. Pure Yang and Pure Yin represent the Yin and Yang energies that construct the origin and synthesize all things. They are the purest, cleanest, and most authentic things, completely unpolluted, and represent light and warmth.

A perfectly good Pure Yang Gong (a martial art) is inexplicably labeled with the word "Supreme," implying a superior position and an attempt to suppress all things. This makes Pure Yang no longer pure, just like Princess Yuzhu's internal energy, which is too fierce and too restless, and has long lost the original meaning of Pure Yang.

Of all the internal martial arts with the Yang attribute, only Zhang Sanfeng's Pure Yang Limitless Skill from later generations came close to the concept of Pure Yang. The other skills, whether it be the Nine Yang Divine Skill or the Supreme Pure Yang Skill, are extremely powerful, but they are more like the meaning of the blazing sun, lacking the word "pure".

The problem facing Wu Chengyu now is how the Western Xia obtained the martial arts inheritance of Lingjiu Palace. This is the real issue he needs to solve.

Moreover, Princess Yuzhu and Wu Qianyu address each other as senior and junior brothers, so who is their master? He must be a person who has cultivated the lineages of Wu Xingyun and Li Qiushui of the Xiaoyao Sect and has lived for countless years. This completely unknown person is what Wu Chengyu should be most wary of.

Wu Chengyu knew that this trip to Xixia was far more complicated and unpredictable than he had imagined. He no longer had the advantage of being a prophet. The only advantage was that he seemed to no longer need to make a trip to Tianshan. He could find the martial arts of Lingjiu Palace in Xixia.

Two days later, Wu Chengyu announced that he had recovered from his injuries. He had just stepped out of his room, wanting to relax and take a bath, when Chen He came to his door.

Now Chen He stopped pretending and was no longer dressed as an ordinary clerk. He directly told Wu Chengyu that he was the head of the Zhaoxianlou Pavilion of Yangwu Guild Hall, mainly responsible for serving all the first-class and second-class worshippers accepted by the guild hall. However, Wu Chengyu believed that his main purpose was to monitor them.

"Greetings, Venerable Nie. Judging from your complexion, your injuries must have healed considerably. Congratulations!"

"It's all thanks to Princess Yuzhu for showing mercy. To be honest, Brother Chen, I've never seen a master who could injure me in one move when I was in the rebel army. This time, I realized that there are always people more skilled than me. It's truly an eye-opener. I admire Princess Yuzhu to the point of prostration."

Furthermore, I must thank the princess for the healing medicine; otherwise, I wouldn't have recovered so quickly.

"Haha, Princess Yuzhu has always been like this. She always treats those she takes a liking to with great courtesy. It is Brother Nie who is truly capable that has earned the princess's attention."

"Brother Chen, is it because Princess Yuzhu has some instructions for you to carry out?"

"Brother Nie is overthinking it. As the saying goes, 'It takes a thousand days to raise an army for one day to use it.' Now that you've just arrived, I must let you know the benefits of my Yangwu Martial Arts Association."

To be honest, Brother Nie, the princess felt somewhat ashamed for injuring you and specially ordered me to treat you well. Ever since you arrived in Xingqing Prefecture, you have been in the guild hall and haven't left since. Xingqing Prefecture is the capital of my Xia Kingdom, and it has a unique charm.

"Today, let me treat you to a meal and show you the splendor of Xingqing Prefecture. Please don't skimp on the money, Brother Nie, as it's all from the princess."

"Haha, Brother Chen is indeed a remarkable person. In that case, I, Nie, will respectfully accept your offer."

Soon, Wu Chengyu was taken out of the guild hall by Chen He. Whether it was intentional or not, the information he had obtained clearly stated that Wu Chengyu practiced a technique that could not break the vow of celibacy, yet he still took him to a brothel.

Looking at the bustling three-story building in front of him, Wu Chengyu felt a pang of emotion. Ancient times were better; entertaining guests at brothels was truly a romantic affair. However, since his transmigration, Wu Chengyu had never done anything a man should do at a brothel.

In addition, the name of this brothel is inevitably cliché: Red Apricot Pavilion.

Whether it was a woman from inside the house who had strayed from the wall, or a woman from someone else's family who had wandered here, in Wu Chengyu's heart, she was still not as lively as Hongxiuzhao. She still missed Hongxiuzhao in Suzhou.

Especially the "I love a piece of firewood" that was thrown at Hong Qigong; now that I think about it, it was Wu Chengyu's life achievement.

"Brother Nie, please come in. The most beautiful courtesan at Hongxing Pavilion is the best in Xingqing Prefecture. I have already reserved a private room, so you can enjoy a feast for the eyes today."

Wu Chengyu felt that Chen He was mocking him, and that he was really just having a good look at the scene.

(End of this chapter)