Martial Arts Crossover: My Wife is the Top Scholar

Chapter 425 Li Shengnan: I'm tired! Let's destroy it! I'm done with this!
Master, are you speaking human language?

Li Shengnan really wanted to give Yu Luosha a good whack.

The so-called "Number One Grappling Technique in the World," a secret art engraved on the Rakshasa Token, a heirloom of the Demonic Cult, was created by a resentful woman confined to her boudoir? Have you lost your mind?

How to capture a discarded wife?

This name is far too petty!
Look at the name of the martial art that Feng Suzhen created to manage her household well: The Mighty Swordplay of the First Wife!

What kind of "Little Abandoned Wife Capture Technique" is this? Facing the mighty swordsmanship of the First Wife, it would be strange if you didn't end up as a concubine!
A dignified Holy Maiden of the Demonic Sect, a disciple meticulously trained by the sect leader for twenty years, just to become someone's concubine? The Demonic Sect might as well rename itself the Yihong Courtyard!

Li Shengnan looked at Yu Luosha with an unfriendly expression.

There are certain things that Li Zhaoting didn't ask about, Yu Luosha didn't bring up, and Lu Xiaofeng was even less likely to speak up about. This doesn't mean that Li Shengnan didn't have any guesses. If it weren't for a few questions that she hadn't figured out yet, the answers would have been obvious long ago!

Li Shengnan disagreed with a certain speculation, believing that the reason for the contradiction in the speculation was that, given Yu Luosha's arrogance and domineering nature, how could her disciple become a concubine?

Logically speaking, Li Shengnan should have been sent to Li Zhaoting's blind date right after he debuted. They would have bickered and fought all the way, and their relationship would have naturally developed. She would definitely have become his first wife!

Yu Luosha said nothing, but looked at Li Shengnan with a contemptuous gaze. Li Shengnan tried to dodge, but how could she escape Yu Luosha's meaningful gaze?

Jade Rakshasa: I will pass on to you the most powerful sword technique of the Demonic Sect, the Nine Forms of Soul-Slaying, and give you the Demonic Sect's most precious treasure, the Great Searching God Hand. I will even teach you five of the seven mental techniques of the Great Compassion Mantra of Yin and Yang, which the sect leader specializes in. I will also train four assistants for you who are good at playing musical instruments. If you can't beat Feng Suzhen, it's because you're weak. Can you blame me for not doing my best?
To be honest, Yu Luosha devoted herself wholeheartedly to Li Shengnan's upbringing. Even her own son didn't receive this kind of treatment. She taught Li Shengnan everything she could!
If you can't beat Feng Suzhen, who can you blame?

Yu Luosha coughed twice and explained, "The founder of the Holy Sect was the 'Demon Saint' Asura Child, and the one who created the Little Abandoned Wife Capture Hand was the first sect leader's wife!"
Ashura Child is exceptionally gifted, possessing unparalleled martial arts talent. He acts recklessly and without restraint, regarding the world as a toy and everything as a chess piece.

This kind of mentality can make one a wandering knight-errant, like Li Zhaoting, but it cannot make one a leader of a demonic sect. No one can do whatever they want without restraint, especially when running a sect, which requires a lot of concessions and compromises.

There are often many temptations in this process.

Demons live on desires; unrestrained desires are external demons, while obsessions are internal demons. Though called a demonic sect, it is in reality a sect dedicated to exorcising demons.

The dazzling lights, sensual pleasures, and decadent lifestyles of the world are all temptations of this mortal realm.

Ashura Child is human, demon, and monster, and inevitably becomes immersed in all kinds of worldly temptations.

The leader's wife was an exceptionally talented and intelligent woman who created a set of grappling techniques. She used these techniques to wager on Ashura Child. The two agreed that if Ashura Child could not break these grappling techniques, he would have to go back to his room to sleep at night, no matter what happened during the day.

Asura Child was incredibly arrogant, confident that he was the supreme grandmaster standing atop the mountain. He believed that he only needed to establish a sect and gather the fortune of all demons to open the gates of heaven and earth, and that he could easily break through mere grappling techniques in just a few moves.

During the duel, Ashura Doji even considered deliberately giving up ten moves to avoid upsetting his wife.

You can probably guess what happened next.

The couple would have a martial arts contest every three years. No matter how many tricks Ashura Child used or how powerful his demonic arts were, he could never escape his wife's delicate fingers.

Under the guidance of the leader's wife, Asura Child calmed his mind from the mundane world, just like a mad Zen master who suddenly realized the infinite demons, from which the infinite gave rise to the Taiji, and from the Taiji came all things. With a single thought, he transcended the mundane world and comprehended the spiritual opportunity to shatter the void.

To express his gratitude for his wife's heartfelt advice, Asura Child selected a piece of ancient cold jade, carved the moves on the front in his wife's likeness, and carved the mental techniques on the back, creating the Rakshasa Token, which became a token of inheritance.

Perhaps it was a playful gesture between husband and wife, or perhaps it was a way to reminisce about the time spent alone in their empty room. This set of grappling techniques is called "Little Abandoned Wife Grappling Techniques," and it is exclusively practiced by the leader's wife.

The leaders of demonic cults are all madmen and demons!
The cult leader's wife is the cult leader's golden rope and jade lock.

I didn't teach you this grappling technique before because you weren't married and couldn't understand the true meaning of claw techniques.

Now you should be able to understand some of it.

Yu Luosha handed the Rakshasa Token to Li Shengnan.

Li Shengnan felt dizzy and disoriented.

I always felt that the Demonic Cult was abnormal.

Now that I think about it, it's really abnormal!

Li Shengnan asked curiously, "Master, Asura Child is an unparalleled grandmaster. With his peerless demonic arts, he could break free from the grappling hands by simply exchanging blows with his internal energy, right?"

Yu Luosha sneered: "Even Supreme Grandmasters have a sense of shame, let alone the fact that the two are husband and wife. With the eyesight, experience, and knowledge of a Supreme Grandmaster, if he cannot break the Little Abandoned Wife Capturing Hand under the same level of skill, Asura Child has already lost three rounds. How can he make trouble like this?"

Li Shengnan said, "It seems that this Asura Child is a devoted lover who can't bear to be violent towards his wife!"

Jade Raksha smacked her on the head: "If Asura Child didn't even have this much magnanimity, he would have long since become an enemy of the world, incurring the wrath of heaven and the resentment of men, and died in a gang fight!"

He's not a truly devoted and infatuated man!
If you've read the cult leader's diary, you'll know he had over a dozen wives, all stunning beauties of their time: a beautiful detective, a Miao saintess, a fairy maiden from the Jingzhai sect, a demonic witch, a princess from another race, a fellow disciple...

You should practice your claw techniques honestly.

They would use this to deal with Li Zhaoting, lest he act too ostentatiously, make enemies everywhere, and be ganged up on.

You must remember this.

Feng Suzhen is Li Zhaoting's golden rope, and you are Li Zhaoting's jade lock. You two are equal!

Practice hard!

I'll deal with those traitors!

Jade Rakshasa disappeared into the mist.

Li Shengnan stared blankly at the Rakshasa Token.

Master, have you forgotten something?

The mantra is written in Sanskrit. Shouldn't you translate it for me? I can't understand the mantra!

In fact, Li Shengnan understands Sanskrit, which is roughly equivalent to a level 6 proficiency. She can understand most Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist secrets. However, the Rakshasa amulet has been passed down for hundreds of years, and its grammar has changed a lot, with many details being completely different.

Only a woman of exceptional talent and vast learning like Feng Suzhen could translate it completely. Once she has seen the mental cultivation method, wouldn't it be like giving away a treasure for nothing?

Li Shengnan suddenly thought of something.

The counterfeit Rakshasa talisman also has moves and techniques, so why aren't they worried about revealing their secrets? Because only a resentful woman in her boudoir can practice the Abandoned Wife Capture Technique. Even if the complete manual were given to Geshu Tian, ​​he still wouldn't be able to grasp its mysteries.

Ge Shutian is an extremely eccentric and ruthless villain.

On one hand, Geshu Tian was a scholar of both heaven and man, proficient in astronomy, geography, medicine, divination and astrology. While his demonic skills might not be considered all-encompassing, he was still a grandmaster of the demonic path.

On the other hand, Ge Shutian was able to perfectly prove the long-standing debate on the compatibility of mental techniques. The Crimson Sand Palm was nothing in his hands, and he didn't even bother to look at it. In Shen Xingnan's hands, it was a supreme skill comparable to the Tathagata Palm.

The "Little Abandoned Wife Capture Technique" is too difficult to learn!
Let alone a ruthless, arrogant, and domineering demon like Ge Shutian, even someone with a cheerful and optimistic love-struck mind like Lan Fenghuang or Wang Shenglan couldn't be trained to be one.

Only virtuous wives like Feng Suzhen and Li Shengnan, who advised Li Zhaoting, were able to grasp the essence of the matter.

Let the mad Zen master calm down, give the mad demon a wake-up call, tear off the golden rope, break free of the jade lock, and find yourself again.

Are there any exceptions?
Really!
That person's name is—Guan Qi!
A superhuman being whose thought process is completely different from ordinary people!

A genius and war god who seems to focus on cultivating qi and swordsmanship, but is actually spiritually transcendent and has an unparalleled spiritual realm, capable of breaking through the river of time with his Yang spirit!
Don't look for common sense in Guan Qi.

Guan Qi is made up of "miracles"!

……

"Husband, you're in for a world of trouble!"

Li Shengnan looked at Li Zhaoting with schadenfreude.

"You went to Jade Rakshasa to complain? Jade Rakshasa wants to back you up and has decided to beat me up in a couple of days?"

"My master taught me a set of unparalleled grappling techniques, the same one you mentioned on the desert island. Unfortunately, the incantations are all in Sanskrit, so Sister Feng has to translate them."

"I don't see what's wrong with me!"

"Sister Feng has finished translating, which is equivalent to having seen the complete manual. If the two of us practice together, I wonder if my husband is confident that he can withstand a hundred moves from the two of us."

"This... Shengnan... I..."

Li Zhaoting's smug expression froze instantly.

Most grappling techniques are about speed and finger strength, which are essentially data-driven. The Dragon Claw Hand is no exception. The Little Abandoned Wife Grappling Hand is a mechanism-driven technique. As long as the martial artist meets the relevant conditions, a single claw strike will be invincible!

Feng Suzhen and Li Shengnan just happen to meet the conditions.

—A virtuous wife who is a philanderer!
Even the powerful founder of the Demonic Sect, Asura Child, with his boundless demonic power, could not withstand the claw technique's mechanics.

Li Zhaoting suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

Li Shengnan revealed a sinister and vicious smile.

As we all know, when you feel cold, you can eat spicy food to warm up. Li Zhaoting hugged Li Shengnan tightly and decided to taste how "spicy" that smile was!
Li Shengnan is a very typical Gong Baiwan, seemingly a fierce white tiger, but in reality, her combat strength is far inferior to that of a little kitten. Apart from being stubborn, she is soft in every other way!

The next morning.

Li Shengnan lay in bed, unwilling to get up. All her thoughts about capturing the abandoned wife, or the sisters teaming up to capture her husband, vanished.

What good would it do to capture Li Zhaoting?
Without Wang Shenglan's help, she's no match for him!
After all the hard work of digging pits and hunting, Wang Shenglan ate all the meat and vegetables, leaving her with only a few sips of soup.

This is even worse than a concubine!

Most importantly, Wang Shenglan will definitely help Li Zhaoting unconditionally. The "Little Abandoned Wife Capture" technique can only target scumbags and has no effect on Wang Shenglan.

Ultimately, it came down to a battle of finger strength against finger strength!
Wang Shenglan possesses superhuman strength and is least afraid of physical contests; she can easily overturn Li Shengnan with a single move.

Li Shengnan felt that her future was bleak.

tired!

Destroy it!
I'm done with this!

Li Zhaoting won again!

After breakfast, Lu Xiaofeng headed to Jinzhou.

He went to investigate the truth behind the Guandong Martial Arts Tournament.

……

Jinzhou, Dalian Bay.

All the major sects of the Manchu Qing Dynasty gathered at the seaside.

The disciples of the Tianlong Gang, Shangwan Tiangong, and the Twelve Orders of the Universe were arrogant and believed that the position of martial arts alliance leader belonged to their respective sect leaders. Each of the three sect leaders had their own trump cards.

First is Su Penghai, the leader of the Tianlong Gang.

Five years ago, Su Penghai's father passed away. Six major Manchu sects launched a joint attack on the Tianlong Gang, while dozens of smaller sects took advantage of the chaos to loot. The elders of the Tianlong Gang were defeated one after another. Su Penghai emerged from seclusion in time and rushed to the most intense battlefield, where he fought alone against the leaders of the six major sects.

After the fierce battle, the six sects returned empty-handed, while the smaller sects suffered heavy losses. Su Penghai gained the trust of all the high-ranking members of the Tianlong Gang and became the leader of the Tianlong Gang.

After this battle, Su Penghai became famous throughout the Qing Dynasty.

After becoming the leader, Su Penghai expanded his underworld influence on a large scale, while also bribing high-ranking officials and providing substantial financial assistance to impoverished scholars so they could focus on preparing for the imperial examinations.

Fang Tangjing, known as the "White Paper Fan" of the Tianlong Gang and the shadow of Su Penghai, is the return on investment!

Fang Tangjing was well-versed in the laws of the Qing Dynasty, eloquent, and could make the dead seem alive and the living seem dead. He could also turn the Tianlong Gang's underworld business into legitimate business and open the door to many things that were inconvenient to do.

Thanks to Fang Tangjing's connections, Su Penghai bribed Cao Xiong, the host of the martial arts tournament, and gained a significant advantage even before the tournament began.

Next is Tie Haitang, the leader of the Twelve Commanders of the Universe.

Tie Haitang was proficient in the Fire Sea Scripture and the Qian Yuan Heart-Questioning Palm, among other unique skills. After spending several years, he defeated his mortal enemy, Guo Baiyun, the leader of the White Horse Sect, and unified the Manchu caravan. He had many experts under his command and controlled twelve bandit strongholds. His wife, Shen Aoshuang, was highly skilled in martial arts and was quick-witted and resourceful.

Tie Haitang and her husband are harmonious and manage their business well. They also have an old monster like the Abbot of Kuzhu Temple as their backer. The Abbot of Kuzhu Temple can only make a move once, but with her martial arts skills, her last move will surely be a fatal blow in her final moments.

The master of the Upper Heaven Palace, Ge Ying, is also a Grandmaster.

This person has a mysterious origin and unique mental techniques. Some say he is skilled in hard skills, with a powerful and unyielding style, and can break seven purple-gold wooden stakes with a single palm strike.

Some say he excels in agile skills, leaping and bounding like a nimble cat, moving swiftly and seamlessly.

Some say he is a master of acupressure, possessing a 90% mastery of acupressure techniques from a distance, surpassing even Duan Yanqing.

Some people say that Ge Ying's master was a Korean, and that his fundamental techniques were the Nine Profound Great Law and the Yi Sword Technique.

More than a decade ago, Ge Ying spent a fortune to build the Shangwan Heavenly Palace, where he enjoyed luxury. He hadn't descended the mountain for over ten years and had few friends in the martial arts world.

Many people speculate that Ge Ying is addicted to wine and women, and that his martial arts skills have long since deteriorated. This is of course wrong. Ge Ying rarely travels in the martial arts world because he is ugly and has strange thoughts, and often makes enemies. This time, in order to seize the position of leader of the alliance, he specially invited his senior brother.

In this way, the situation becomes very clear.

The richest was Su Penghai, whose patron was the host Cao Xiong. He had one foot in the Qing Dynasty capital and would receive rewards regardless of his final performance.

The most powerful was Tie Haitang, who was the target that the Manchu Qing dynasty most wanted to recruit. With the backing of the Abbot of Kuzhu Temple, she had some room to maneuver no matter who the enemy was.

The most mysterious figure is Ge Ying. Although he has no influence in either the legitimate or criminal world, this is precisely his advantage. A powerful figure who has connections in both the legitimate and criminal worlds is someone the imperial court does not trust.

The Manchu Qing dynasty held the Guandong Martial Arts Conference with the aim of scheming against the remnants of the Wanyan clan. The final martial arts leader could not be a powerful, ambitious, and influential warlord, but rather a figurehead.

Su Penghai and Tie Haitang are too ambitious.

Ge Ying had an eccentric personality and was unable to win people's respect, so the empty title of martial arts alliance leader mostly fell on Ge Ying's head.

That being said, if Ge Ying did not possess martial arts skills that surpassed all others, Cao Xiong would definitely eliminate him. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was rich in ginseng, lingzhi and other medicinal herbs, and there were countless masters living in seclusion in the deep mountains and forests. Ge Ying was merely a backup option.

According to intelligence sent by the Red Flower Society, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has invited seven grandmasters this time. They are all masters who have lived in seclusion for many years, are over seventy years old, and have profound skills.

The oldest among them was an old Taoist priest with white hair and beard, over a hundred years old, who was proficient in the purest and most authentic innate qi cultivation techniques and purple palace qi. He was skilled in alchemy, health preservation, and raising spirit birds, and was known as "Master Da Mu".

At the age of Master Damu, wealth, fame, and fortune are nothing but fleeting clouds, not worth mentioning. Even if he were made emperor, how many years could he enjoy it?

Participating in the martial arts tournament is truly unwise.

Master Damu had no successors or relatives; he was all alone, with no family or friends and no attachments.

If we're talking about threats, what could be used to threaten a lonely, centenarian? Aren't you afraid he'll self-destruct?

If he were to unleash his century-old power, he could at least kill half of the experts in the Sticky Rod Bureau and drag several of the most talented young men of the Qing Dynasty down to hell. If he were to launch an assassination attempt without regard for the consequences, who knows how many important officials he could kill.

If we're talking about temptations, even if Da Mu is over a hundred years old and has mastered the art of health preservation, how many more years can he live? He has cultivated Taoism for over ninety years, living on the wind and dew and enjoying the glow of the sunset. The bright lights, wine, money, power, and beautiful women mean nothing to him.

With no family ties and no conflicts of interest, he came out of seclusion to participate in the martial arts tournament at the age of over a hundred. Ninety years of secluded cultivation had gone to waste. What was the point of this great wooden figure?

Honghuahui couldn't understand it.

So they decided not to.

The intelligence was delivered directly to Li Zhaoting.

Calling the leaders of the Red Flower Society a mob is a bit of an exaggeration, but most of them are stubborn and more likely to cause trouble than achieve anything. After the Imperial City Division's arduous training, at least they have gotten rid of their arrogant and self-important attitude!

Li Zhaoting and his group were all handsome men and beautiful women, and their gathering was extremely eye-catching. So they sneaked into Jinzhou in batches and used various means to join several small and insignificant families.

Li Zhaoting and Gongsun Lan, as usual, disguised themselves as the leader and wife of the Diancang Sect, riding two donkeys.

Feng Suzhen and Meizhu were hiding in Qianma Village. The village head, Gao Sanniang, was a widow in her forties who was skilled in throwing knives and had a fiery and decisive personality.

Wang Shenglan and Jiang Yuyan were infiltrating the Huilong Sect, which passed down the "Sleeping Arhat Fist." Everyone in the sect loved to doze off, so almost no one paid any attention to them.

Li Shengnan and Lan Fenghuang went to Jinzhou under the name of Tianyu Palace. Li Shengnan's current identity is Ye Mengse, the Holy Maiden of Tianyu Palace and a direct disciple of Ge Shutian.

Wang Yuyan originally wanted to infiltrate the Lonely Sect, but Li Shengnan strongly stopped her, saying that the Lonely Sect's fate was too strong and would easily kill Li Zhaoting, and even getting close to them would bring bad luck.

Left with no other choice, Wang Yuyan had to go to Jinzhou under the name of Yaoguang Palace. Yaoguang Palace was one of the most famous reclusive sects in the Qing Dynasty, similar to the Ancient Tomb Sect. Its cultivation method emphasized a pure heart and few desires, and its members were all handsome men and beautiful women.

The most important thing for a reclusive sect is to keep a low profile, and the most taboo thing is fame. As the saying goes, if someone is too low-key, the whole world will know that she is low-key!

Yaoguang Palace is far more secluded than the Ancient Tomb Sect, Cihang Jingzhai, Yihua Palace, and Shenshui Palace. They basically never show themselves, so why is it so famous?

Because Yaoguang Palace involves palace secrets.

The founder of Yaoguang Palace was a concubine of Emperor Kangxi. Some say she was a favored concubine, while others say she was not very favored. Her name was Zheng Chunhua. She had feelings for the unfortunate Crown Prince who had been in power for forty years, and Emperor Kangxi caught them in the act.

Because of the palace scandal, it was not convenient to publicize it, so Zheng Chunhua was not sentenced to death, but was instead banished to the cold palace.

The Crown Prince asked his thirteenth brother to take care of Zheng Chunhua. The thirteenth brother was a chivalrous and righteous man. He bribed a eunuch to let Zheng Chunhua go. Fearing that Zheng Chunhua would be helpless, he gave her a secret manual so that she could protect herself.

Unexpectedly, Zheng Chunhua was exceptionally talented. After experiencing the ups and downs and the coldness of human relationships, he gained profound enlightenment and achieved a sudden enlightenment of innate internal energy in just a few days. He ascended to the innate realm in one step and established the Yaoguang Palace.

There are countless secrets of the Qing Dynasty court.

The stories of Emperor Kangxi's incognito pursuit of women, Emperor Yongzheng's order for Consort Hua to remove her armor, and the palace maid Qiao Yindi—these things couldn't be kept secret and gradually spread to teahouses and taverns.

The rumors first started during the reign of Emperor Yongzheng. Yongzheng had a peculiar hobby: he liked to argue with people, and the more he argued, the wider the rumors spread.

When Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, rumors spread throughout the land.

Even Emperor Qianlong was fascinated by the rumor that he was born to a maid (Qiao Yindi) favored by Emperor Yongzheng.

Relying on palace secrets and rumors from the streets, Yaoguang Palace became famous throughout the world without doing anything.

The cultivation method of Yaoguang Palace was quite suitable for Wang Yuyan, and since it was done under the name of Yaoguang Palace, no one could tell the truth.

(End of this chapter)