While writing a diary at Zongwu, Wang Yuyan falls in love with someone else.

Of course, the process will be difficult.

After bidding farewell to Qiao Feng and Duan Yu, they encountered eight masked assassins, each a Grandmaster at the sixth or seventh level, and all of them were incredibly fast, moving like ghosts.

Later, I followed the clues and uncovered the culprit—Xuanci of Shaolin Temple.

Sure enough, I killed Ye Erniang, and that old bald monk held a grudge against me.

However, I didn't expect his way of retaliating against me would be to send assassins to kill me.

Even more surprisingly, these assassins were practicing the "Sunflower Manual"!

So the question arises: were these assassins hired privately by Xuanci from some organization at a high price, or were they secretly trained by the Shaolin Temple itself?

"The Sunflower Manual? What kind of martial art is that?"

Since Jiang Sishui believes that this martial art is worthy of being treasured by a martial arts holy land like Shaolin Temple, and may even be secretly used to cultivate talents, it must be extraordinary.

But... why cultivate them secretly?

Could this be an evil martial art?

The Sunflower Manual, from The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, has never appeared in its complete form.

[Rumor has it that it was created by a eunuch from a previous dynasty... oh, later readers gave him a name—Sunflower Ancestor]

The "Sunflower Manual," created by the Sunflower Patriarch, was accidentally obtained by Shaolin Temple, as depicted in the story's background.

Because the Sunflower Manual was created by the Sunflower Ancestor based on his own circumstances, to cultivate it, one must take the most difficult first step.

[Castration!]

To master divine skills, draw your sword from the 360 ​​Palaces; refine elixirs and take medicine to harmonize internal and external strength.

[If one does not castrate oneself, one's blood and energy will surge, and one will die from burning lust.]

Because this practice is considered to have a strong yang effect, women are not allowed to cultivate it.

Therefore, only eunuchs who are neither male nor female can cultivate the Sunflower Manual.

"To practice martial arts through self-castration?"

The women were all stunned. They couldn't believe there was such a bizarre martial art.

There are many martial arts techniques in this world that "hurt others before hurting yourself," but I have never heard of any that injure the vital organs!

For a man, castration is an immense disgrace, and women know this all too well.

Would anyone actually practice this kind of evil technique?

The Sunflower Manual is extremely evil; it is not only a martial art that can be mastered quickly, but it also has low requirements for the aptitude of practitioners.

The hardest part is always the first step.

Simply put, even if a man is just a mere acquired martial artist, as long as his aptitude isn't too poor, and he's ruthless enough to cut himself...

[Therefore, he could potentially become a Grandmaster or even a Great Grandmaster within three to five years, or even less!]

Furthermore, because this skill emphasizes movement, his speed is unparalleled. Most martial artists of the same level can't even catch a glimpse of him, let alone catch up with him.

Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that the "Sunflower Manual" can allow a mediocre person to roam freely among the immortals in a short period of time!

198 Dongfang Bubai: I simply did everything, and that's how I became the number one in the world.

"To go from the Acquired Realm to a Grandmaster in three to five years, or even less?!"

The women were stunned.

It goes without saying how difficult it is to become a Grandmaster. Even those with exceptional talent, such as Yaoyue and Huaxianzi, practiced martial arts from a young age and spent more than ten or twenty years to achieve their current level of skill.

However, the "Sunflower Manual" can significantly shorten this time!

Most importantly, this skill does not require high martial arts aptitude!

This is quite different from many divine skills and sacred scriptures, breaking certain common sense, and can be said to be unique.

And all it takes to go from a "salted fish" to a "giant whale" is a single, decisive cut...

Compared to them, what do all those years of hard work and dedication amount to?

Suddenly, the women felt that the "Sunflower Manual" wasn't so unacceptable after all. There are always people who are desperate and hard-hearted, and then turn their lives around to become "superior people".

Of course, there are also techniques like the "Northern Darkness Divine Skill" that allow one to quickly become a master without paying any price.

The fact that it doesn't require self-castration makes it superior to the "Sunflower Manual".

But how much of this martial art is there?

Throughout the Central Plains, such a "selfish and harmful" technique of absorbing power has only appeared a handful of times; it is no exaggeration to say it is extremely rare.

It can be encountered by chance but not sought after!

How many people dare to even dream of such a thing?

In this situation, if you are destitute, have accomplished nothing, or are even on the verge of despair, and the "Sunflower Manual" appears, would you practice it?

At this point, it will be difficult to reach a consensus.

At that time, Abbot Hongye of Shaolin Temple deeply felt that the "Sunflower Manual" posed a profound threat to the world, so he burned it before his death.

"What? Burned it? To prevent it from causing harm to the world?"

The women were taken aback, thought for a moment, and then suddenly realized.

Indeed, if this kind of evil skill were to spread into the martial arts world, or even spread further, the consequences would be extremely serious.

At that time, many men will face a question: to train or not to train?

If you can't bring yourself to be ruthless, what will you do if your enemies do become ruthless, learn the skills, and come back to get you?

What? You have no enemies?

However, when the number of grandmasters in the martial arts world increases dramatically, your status will decline accordingly, and you will also face many dangers and challenges.

You were forced into a corner, so you castrated yourself to practice swordsmanship... only to find that everyone else had castrated themselves, and you still had no advantage!

So, was that knife wound taken for nothing?

Such terrible consequences are enough to turn the entire martial arts world upside down!

No wonder Zen Master Hongye burned the Sunflower Manual.

Perhaps, this evil skill should never have appeared in the world in the first place.

However, before the Sunflower Manual was destroyed, something happened.

Yue Su and Cai Zifeng of the Huashan Sect came to visit. That night, they sneaked into the Sutra Pavilion and stole a copy of the "Sunflower Manual." Afterward, they hurriedly returned to Huashan.

Due to time constraints, the two agreed to each remember half.

However, when they recited the text from memory, they compared their work and found that the content was contradictory and disjointed, leading to an argument.

Thus, the first incomplete copy of the "Sunflower Manual" has been lost to the world!

Afterwards, the fact that the two had secretly read the "Sunflower Manual" was discovered, so Zen Master Hongye assigned his favorite disciple, Monk Duyuan, to go to Mount Hua to inquire about the matter.

Upon arriving at Mount Hua, Yue and Cai apologized to him while also seeking his guidance on the martial arts techniques recorded in the "Sunflower Manual."

[The monk Duyuan had never read the "Sunflower Manual," but after hearing its contents, he secretly memorized them and casually offered an explanation to Yue and Cai to evade the question.]

For the next few days, Monk Duyuan and Yue and Cai feigned politeness until they had memorized most of the contents of the manual before leaving Mount Hua.

Furthermore, he combined the contents of the manual with his own insights to create an unparalleled and bizarre martial art—the Evil-Repelling Sword Technique—which he inscribed on his cassock.

Thus, the second incomplete version of the "Sunflower Manual" was born!

After achieving great merit, the monk Duyuan found it difficult to suppress his worldly desires and decided to return to secular life. He wrote a letter to his master and then reversed his Dharma name to become "Yuantu".

Subsequently, Lin Yuantu, relying on the "Evil-Repelling Sword Technique," became famous throughout the land.

However, this also sowed the seeds of future trouble for his descendants.

The world coveted the "Evil-Repelling Sword Technique." Later, Yu Canghai, the leader of the Qingcheng Sect, massacred the Lin family to seize the manual, but he failed.

However, this also became the catalyst for the story of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer".

Shanzhou, Mount Hua.

Yue Lingshan's face was full of unhappiness as she muttered, "Why is it that people from our Huashan Sect never seem like good people in any of the stories?"

Ning Zhongze: "..."

How should she answer this?

In fact, she had noticed this as well.

In "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber", the Huashan Sect, in order to obtain the Dragon Saber, joined forces with the other five sects to attack Wudang, forcing Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu to their deaths, leaving Zhang Wuji an orphan at a young age.

In "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang", the Huashan Sect had strict rules and no bad people, which was the most glorious period of its history. However, a treacherous and corrupt official named Ku Mei emerged.

In "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer," before the story has even officially begun, two renowned masters of Mount Hua have already become thieves.

This is truly... hard to explain in a few words.

In particular, Ning Zhongze would never forget Jiang Sishui's assessment of him as "a man of unparalleled arrogance and chivalry".

It is clear that after Yue Su and Cai Zifeng, the Huashan Sect was not much better.

Meanwhile, the main antagonist in the book, the Sun Moon Cult, somehow learned that Mount Hua possessed the "Sunflower Manual," and launched a large-scale attack.