The Return of the Condor Heroes: Starting with a Suicide Note and Conquering All Realms

"Who exactly are you? How do you know so much about the Ancient Tomb Sect?"

Xiaolongnu's voice echoed in the empty tomb. She suppressed the shock in her heart and stared intently at Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan did not answer immediately. He stepped over the still-smoking crater of molten iron and walked to a clean bluestone slab, where he sat down cross-legged.

"Back then, Senior Lin Chaoying made a bet with Wang Chongyang in Zhongnan Mountain and won the Tomb of the Living Dead by carving words on a stone tablet with her finger, relying on the Fossilizing Pill." Lin Yuan raised his eyelids, his tone calm. "She created the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, which counters Quanzhen martial arts in every move, but it inadvertently retained the foundation of the Quanzhen Sect. Unfortunately, this technique has a fatal flaw."

Grandma Sun's grip on her cane tightened suddenly, and she stopped breathing.

"To cultivate the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, two people must practice together, and both must remove all their clothing and use their internal energy to guide each other's heat dissipation. Otherwise, at best, one will suffer a qi deviation, and at worst, all meridians will be severed." Lin Yuan looked at Xiaolongnu, "Besides Granny Sun, there is no one else in this ancient tomb. You cannot cultivate it."

The tomb was deathly silent.

Granny Sun's eyes widened, her face filled with horror. This ancient tomb was so closely guarded that even the Seven Masters of Quanzhen had no idea about it, yet this young man had casually revealed it, as if he were the true owner of this ancient tomb.

Xiaolongnu lowered her eyes, concealing the turmoil within them. Her aloofness was torn open by Lin Yuan's overwhelming intelligence.

"What do you want?" Little Dragon Girl asked.

"A deal." Lin Yuan held up two fingers. "I'll stay in the ancient tomb to borrow martial arts manuals. In return, I'll use my techniques to fill in the gaps in your 'Jade Maiden Heart Sutra,' allowing you to practice it on your own. At the same time, I'll completely eliminate Li Mochou for you."

Little Dragon Girl glanced at the blackened, cooled metal slag on the ground. The Jade Bee Gloves were ruined. She couldn't defeat the man before her, let alone banish him from the tomb.

"Okay." Little Dragon Girl turned and walked towards the stone coffin. "There are empty beds in the second room; you can stay there."

This is tacit consent.

Yang Guo stood aside, watching Lin Yuan make the high and mighty successor of the Ancient Tomb Sect bow his head with just a few words, and his admiration was almost overflowing.

"Grandma," Lin Yuan turned his head to look at Granny Sun, "Guo'er is extremely talented, but the Quanzhen Sect cannot tolerate him. This Ancient Tomb is quiet and peaceful; I wonder if it would be possible for him to join the Ancient Tomb Sect?"

Granny Sun had long felt pity for Yang Guo, and upon hearing this, she immediately nodded: "Alright! This old woman will accept him on behalf of Miss. Yang Guo, kneel down and kowtow!"

Without hesitation, Yang Guo knelt down and kowtowed three times to Xiaolongnu's retreating figure: "Disciple Yang Guo greets Aunt!"

Little Dragon Girl paused slightly, but without turning around, she walked straight into the inner room.

A rare touch of humanity appeared within the ancient tomb. Granny Sun led Yang to treat his wounds, while Lin Yuan remained in the main tomb chamber, closing his eyes and calmly regulating the internal energy circulation of the three unified methods within his body.

Half an hour later.

"boom!"

A muffled cracking sound came from deep within the passageway. The entire floor of the tomb chamber trembled violently.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes.

Granny Sun rushed out of the second room, her face ashen: "The outer Jade Bee Formation has been breached! Someone is forcibly dismantling the Dragon Stone Gate!"

The faint fragrance of photinia flowers in the air was instantly masked by an extremely strong, pungent, sweet and fishy smell.

poison gas.

"Hahaha! Junior sister, your senior sister is back to see you! Hurry up and come out to greet her!"

A sinister yet arrogant giggle echoed through the passageway into the main burial chamber. The sound was imbued with powerful internal energy, causing the pine torches on the walls to flicker wildly, their flames shining intermittently.

"Bang!"

The second stone door was smashed apart by an extremely domineering palm strike. The rubble, mixed with a foul stench, roared into the main burial chamber.

A woman in an apricot-yellow Taoist robe strode across the ruins into the tomb. She held a whisk in her hand, her face beautiful, yet her eyes held an unyielding fierceness. Behind her followed a girl of about fifteen or sixteen, carrying a long sword, her face filled with arrogance.

Li Mochou, the Red Serpent Fairy.

"Li Mochou! You traitor who betrayed your master and ancestors, how dare you come back!" Granny Sun roared, raising her black wooden cane to block in front of her.

"Old man, this is none of your business to speak." Li Mochou sneered, casually flicking her whisk.

"Snapped!"

A sharp gust of wind struck Granny Sun's cane. Granny Sun felt a sharp pain in her hand, nearly dropped the cane, and staggered back two steps.

Xiaolongnu emerged from the inner room, dressed in white, her expression icy: "Senior Sister, the Ancient Tomb does not welcome you."

"Enough nonsense!" Li Mochou's eyes greedily scanned the tomb chamber. "Hand over the *Jade Maiden Heart Sutra*, and I'll leave immediately. Otherwise, this Tomb of the Living Dead will be your true grave!"

Li Mochou was fearless. She knew Xiaolongnü's martial arts skills well; unless Xiaolongnü had mastered the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra, she was no match for her.

Suddenly, Li Mochou sniffed. She keenly detected a masculine scent in the air.

Her gaze passed over Xiaolongnu and landed on Lin Yuan and Yang Guo in the corner.

Li Mochou was taken aback at first, then let out an extremely grating laugh.

"What do we have here? Junior sister, Master taught us to sever all emotions and desires, and you, guarding this Tomb of the Living Dead, pretend to be aloof, yet secretly you've learned to keep wild men?" Li Mochou laughed heartily, her whisk pointing directly at Lin Yuan, "And two at that!"

Yang Guo was furious and was about to start cursing.

Lin Yuan raised his hand and stopped Yang Guo.

He slowly rose from the bluestone slab. His gray Taoist robe fluttered slightly in the cold wind.

Lin Yuan raised his eyes.

In the dimly lit tomb, the pure golden vertical pupils of those originally cloudy and deep eyes were now faintly lit.

"Who did you just call a 'wild man'?"