Martial Arts Crossover: My Wife is the Top Scholar

Chapter 112 A Strange Encounter in the Heavenly Prison, the Undefeated Mischievous Child Gu Santong

The next morning.

Tianxiang led Feng Suzhen into the palace to see the Empress Dowager.

Feng Suzhen originally wanted to put on Feng Shaomin's disguise, but she was worried that Liu E would make a mess of things, saying that the man and woman were a perfect match and that she and Tianxiang were to be married.

After much thought, I decided to change back to my original outfit.

After Empress Liu began ruling from behind the curtain, she cultivated a large number of outstanding female officials, who might receive some preferential treatment.

The palace was magnificent, needless to say. Feng Suzhen had no interest in appreciating the scenery. Following in Tianxiang's footsteps, she went straight to see Liu E to see what secrets were hidden in the case.

With Tianxiang leading the way, the journey was smooth and unimpeded.

"Empress Dowager, I've come to see you!"

"It's kind of you, little monkey, to remember me. Your friend is quite nice. Come over and let me see him."

Liu E was dozing off when she heard the call. She immediately beckoned Tianxiang to come forward, reached out from behind the gauze curtain, grabbed Tianxiang's ear, and affectionately rubbed it a few times.

"This commoner, Feng Suzhen, pays her respects to the Empress Dowager."

"I thought you were Feng Shaomin!"

Liu E's words exposed Feng Suzhen's true identity.

Feng Suzhen gave an awkward smile.

Empress Liu praised, "You competed in literary talent with Yelü Yancai at the Imperial Academy and won all five rounds, greatly demonstrating the majesty of the Song Dynasty. I haven't even rewarded you yet!"

"This humble woman asks for no reward, only..."

"You want me to release Li Zhaoting?"

"My husband is innocent!"

"Whether Li Zhaoting is innocent or not is not up to you or me. I need to see evidence. I'll give you five days to find out the truth of the case."

"Could I please hire a few helpers?"

"You want to ask Bao Zheng for help?"

“Bao Zheng is busy preparing for the exam and has no time. I cannot delay his future. I would like to ask a friend from the martial arts world for help. His name is Lu Xiaofeng.”

"permit!"

Empress Liu was very generous and rewarded him with two jade pendants.

With this jade pendant, one can freely enter and leave the palace.

"Feng Suzhen, would you be willing to become a female official?"

“I am already married and have no desire to serve as an official.”

"Aren't you afraid of wasting your talent?"

“The commoner and the official traveled to famous mountains and rivers. On the mountaintop, they wrote poems, sang songs, played the zither and flute, and played music in harmony. Their poems and music can certainly be passed down in part.”

Do you want to take the imperial examination?

"what?"

"This spring, I will set up a separate examination room for you in the palace. After the exam, your paper will be mixed with all the other candidates' papers."

I heard that the fortune teller in plain clothes once divined your destiny, saying you have the talent to be a top scholar. I'd like to verify that."

Liu E's words shocked Feng Suzhen.

It wasn't that Feng Suzhen was shocked by Liu E's intelligence system, but rather that in her mind, Liu E was a high-ranking, powerful empress dowager who held absolute authority.

Such a person should be as cold as ice, with every move like a dragon's roar or a lion's bellow, a dragon soaring and a phoenix dancing, making people tremble with fear, dare not look directly at them, and dare not lie.

Considering that Liu E was a disciple of the Yin Gui School, she must have possessed unparalleled beauty.

To everyone's surprise, Liu E's speech was neither elegant nor tactful, and it lacked any charm whatsoever.

It's like close friends teasing each other.

This is completely unlike the style of the "Empress Dowager".

Feng Suzhen had some doubts. Was Liu E actually Tianxiang in disguise? Otherwise, how could she have so many outlandish and absurd ideas? She was completely baffled!

Even Tianxiang found it strange.

The Empress Dowager, a paragon of virtue and gentle grace, how could she suddenly become like this? Has the Empress Dowager been possessed by an evil spirit?

Tianxiang tugged at Liu E's sleeve.

Liu E suppressed Tianxiang with a backhand.

The leader of the Heavenly Gang is unfathomable.

The Yin Gui School is constantly progressing.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Yin Gui School's direct lineage secret technique, the Heavenly Demon Great Art, only had eighteen levels of mental cultivation techniques and incantations. The eighteenth level of the Heavenly Demon Great Art was the highest realm, and one could not break through it before reaching the breakthrough.

This restriction was broken by Wu Zetian.

The Cihang Jingzhai sect, which emphasizes abstinence, does not require its disciples to be virgins. The demonic sects, especially the Yin Gui sect, which advocate unrestrained desires, would not have such a requirement.

Wu Zetian easily broke through the eighteenth level of the Heavenly Demon Realm. Afterwards, with the help of the entire Tang Dynasty, she collected ten volumes of Heavenly Demon Strategies, deduced the incantations for further advancement of the Heavenly Demon Great Art, and created the nineteenth original chapter and the twentieth ultimate chapter.

The Eighteenth Level of the Heavenly Demon is roughly equivalent to a Grandmaster.

The Nineteenth Heavenly Demon is roughly equivalent to the Eight Great Heroes.

The 20th level of the Heavenly Demon is roughly equivalent to a mountain-top immortal.

On the night Zhao Zhen ascended the throne, Liu E successfully broke through the nineteenth level and became the leader of the Heavenly Gang. With the binding power of the Heavenly Demon Art, she could control half of the palace with a thought. Who would dare to act recklessly in the domain?

Tianxiang struggled for a moment, then reluctantly gave in. Like a little kitten, she nestled in Liu E's arms, and casually stuffed Liu E's jade pendant and phoenix hairpin into her own purse.

Feng Suzhen: Is this something I should be watching?
I shouldn't be here, I should be under the bed!
Li Zhaoting didn't have many friends, but they were very loyal. Upon hearing that Li Zhaoting had been unjustly imprisoned, Lu Xiaofeng and Tang Zhuquan rushed to the capital.

In order to cure Xiao Yuanshan's illness, Xiao Feng planned to go to Xingxiu Sea to kill Ding Chunqiu. The Beggar Clan sent a message that Li Zhaoting had died and rushed to the capital as quickly as possible.

Bao Zheng, Gongsun Ce, Li Xunhuan, and others couldn't sit still any longer and all asked to participate in the case.

Bao Zheng patted his chest and declared, "I bet on my reputation as the young Bao Zheng for three days that I will solve the case within three days."

Lu Xiaofeng and Tang Zhuquan investigate the case from the perspective of the martial arts world.

Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce investigated the case from the official perspective.

Li Xunhuan was the liaison between the two parties.

Feng Suzhen was in charge of giving them the green light. Mei Zhu was in charge of stopping Lan Fenghuang.

She feared that Lan Fenghuang would poison the prison guards in the Heavenly Prison.

……

Heaven Prison.

Li Zhaoting, with a blade of grass in his mouth, recalled the battle of the previous night. Last night, Li Zhaoting went to four cells and challenged four different demons.

The teachings passed down by my master were of great help.

Li Zhaoting isolated the space, concealing the energy within the cell. While the fighting inside the cell was deafening, the outside was completely quiet, and no one could hear a sound.

During the day, with nothing to do, I can only meditate and practice qigong.

That evening, Li Zhaoting left his cell, intending to find some notorious bandits to amuse himself, when he suddenly noticed a crack in the cell's stone wall, which appeared to be a hole.

Li Zhaoting held his palm upright like a knife and cut along the gap, slicing off pieces of stone and neatly stacking them into the shape of bricks. Sure enough, there was a large hole behind it.

"Hoo~ho~ho~"

Accompanied by a whistling wind, Li Zhaoting felt a tremendous suction force, far stronger than the Star Absorbing Technique, like an oversized vacuum cleaner.

Li Zhaoting did not use his internal energy to resist, but followed the force to drill deeper. His body was like a snake, coiling back and forth in the tunnel, and soon he reached the deepest part of the prison.

"Clap!"

Li Zhaoting landed on the ground.

The dark cell had a faint glimmer of light.

The cell was above a dry well, and the two beams of moonlight shining through the well added to its charm.

The cell reeked of foul odors, with dozens of skeletons lying haphazardly, along with several weapons. A disheveled, black-clad creature, its hands and feet bound by shackles, was gnawing on a large spider.

Gu Santong, the "Invincible Mischievous Child".

The most famous villain twenty years ago.

He became famous even earlier than Yan Kuangtu.

In the beginning, Gu Santong just liked to mess with people, play pranks, and practice martial arts. He had little interest in killing and was like a monkey.

However, he overlooked one thing.

Scholars can be killed but not humiliated.

"I am inferior in skill. You can cripple me or kill me, but you cannot humiliate me." Gu Santong thought he had stopped short of defeating his opponent, but in reality, he made countless enemies.

As his enemies multiplied, Gu Santong encountered foes wherever he went. Enraged, he challenged 108 experts from the nine major sects to a duel. In the end, including the Six Doors constables who acted as witnesses, a total of more than 130 people were killed by Gu Santong.

Gu Santong was infamous and was hunted down by many.

Zhu Wushi and Gu Santong challenged each other to a duel atop Mount Tianshan. The two fought fiercely for three days and three nights. Gu Santong was outmaneuvered and defeated by Zhu Wushi, who then imprisoned him deep within the Heavenly Prison.

This is just a rumor circulating in the martial arts world.

The actual situation is far more complicated than the rumors suggest.

Gu Santong was unfairly blamed.

Those martial arts masters were killed by Zhu Wushi. Zhu Wushi arrived at the martial arts competition venue in advance, put muscle-weakening powder in their food and tea to knock them unconscious, drained their energy with his energy-absorbing technique, and then framed Gu Santong for it.

Zhu Wushi owes his current status to the profound power bestowed upon him by these people. Zhu Wushi once proudly stated that he had absorbed the power of more than two hundred people.

This number would scare Ren Woxing to death.

Ren Woxing would never dare to inhale like that, not even in his wildest dreams.

Among martial artists in the world today, if we talk about the purity and profundity of internal energy, Ling Duxu and Shuimu Yinji are the best. If we remove the word "pure" and only consider the "quantity" of internal energy, Zhu Wushi became the leader of internal energy by frantically absorbing it.

Zhu Wushi absorbed the power of so many people, so how could Gu Santong possibly fight Zhu Wushi for three days?
Because Gu Santong was proficient in a unique skill that surpassed the Absorption Technique: the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill!

It differs from the Vajra Indestructible Body Divine Skill, one of the Five Great Divine Skills of Shaolin, by only one character, but its core is completely different.

The Vajra Indestructible Body Divine Skill is a protective aura that forms a golden protective aura on the outside of the body.

The Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill directly strengthens the body.

Upon mastering the technique, one can transform into a golden Arhat, gaining immense power, speed, and defense. Before exhausting their power, they become an indestructible, incredibly strong Super Saiyan.

Although transformation requires decades of accumulation and each transformation lasts for a maximum of one hour, the immense power brought by the transformation is enough to cover up these shortcomings.

The full power of the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill surpasses even the Demonic Sect's Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique, and it has no side effects, at most causing a slight imbalance of true qi.

Is this a side effect?
Li Shengnan fainted from crying in the toilet!

In the original storyline, Li Shengnan used the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique to fight Tang Xiaolan head-on, achieving the greatest feat in the history of Liang's martial arts world: "defeating the senior." As a result, she was exhausted and had only one day left to live.

The difference between the two is simply too great.

When he saw someone arrive, Gu Santong's eyes lit up.

"No one's been here for ages. It's rare to find someone to keep me company. Who threw you down here?"

"Zhu ignores it!"

"He still hasn't given up!"

Since being imprisoned at the bottom of the Heavenly Prison, Zhu Wushi would visit Gu Santong every now and then, sometimes bringing him fine wine and roast chicken, and sometimes bringing him a few masters.

Let these masters test Gu Santong's martial arts skills.

In that decisive battle, Zhu Wushi risked injuries that would never heal in his lifetime to fight Gu Santong to the death, striking Gu Santong with one finger and locking Gu Santong's meridians.

Gu Santong was left with internal injuries that could not be healed.

Twenty years have passed, and the veins in the injured area have hardened, making him vulnerable to sudden death at any time.

A dead skinny camel is bigger than a horse.

The experts sent by Zhu Wushi were not only easily killed by Gu Santong, but Gu Santong also learned their martial arts in the process. To this day, Gu Santong basically knows all the secret techniques of the major sects in the martial arts world.

What a terrifying talent is this?

If a divine physician had treated Gu Santong's injuries after the martial arts competition, and given twenty years, he would definitely have been able to break through the limitations of the Heavenly Gang Ranking, at least becoming one of the top eight.

There are no "what ifs" in this world!
Gu Santong would not complain or blame others.

He did indeed lose the duel back then.

(End of this chapter)