I'm here in the martial arts world just to find love.

About an hour later.

The heroine Chu and Su E and others finally arrived late.

Unlike Jiang Chao, the three of them were not hindered by the formation of Zixu Temple and arrived at Zixu Temple smoothly from the mountain path.

As for the woman in red... when Jiang Chao approached the Zixu Temple, she seemed to be afraid of something and did not follow, but stopped at the two stone oxen.

"Did you see her when you passed those two stone oxen?"

Jiang Chao watched as the three women, including Chu, were led into the main hall by a young Taoist priest, and asked them a question via telepathy.

The female knight hummed in agreement, but her gaze was immediately drawn to the petite woman beside the young man, who looked even shorter than her, and she kept staring at her.

Jiang Yunyao's gaze swept over Su E, then looked thoughtfully at Lu Jing, before finally settling on the female knight-errant Chu who had been staring at her.

She looked the girl up and down carefully, then her eyes lit up. She strode forward, grabbed the young heroine Chu's hand without a word, and said happily:

"Oh my, this must be Miss Chu Ning, right? My Ah Lang just told me that you are the first female knight he has met since he came down the mountain. Seeing you today, you are indeed extraordinary. You look so heroic and valiant."

"Come, come, Ning'er, tell me about what you and my Ah Lang have seen and heard along the way..."

Chu Ning had never seen such a scene before.

For some reason, the other party's warm attitude made her feel like an ugly daughter-in-law meeting her parents...

Amidst her chaotic thoughts, the girl blushed and instinctively tried to break free from Sister Jiang's cool, delicate fingers.

However, the other party's strength was so amazing that she couldn't break free at all, and could only look at Jiang Chao with pleading eyes.

Jiang Chao pretended not to see it.

It would be perfect if Lady Chu could help distract them.

  

During the hour that Jiang Chao waited for Chu and her companions, he briefly recounted how he had met Chu and the others along the way after descending the mountain.

After that, Sister Yaoyao wouldn't let go of the topic, pulling him aside and chattering on and on, insisting on getting to the bottom of what his relationship was with that female knight-errant Chu and Su E from the Valley of Villains.

What else could it be but a friendship?

But Jiang Yunyao didn't believe it. In her memory, her younger brother wasn't the kind of person who liked to make friends casually. This kid was always arrogant and looked down on everyone unless the other person met his aesthetic standards and caught his eye.

Jiang Chao was thoroughly annoyed and miserable by his sister's relentless questioning.

Fortunately, Lady Chu and her companions finally arrived.

Let the facts speak for themselves.

Truth often speaks louder than words!

Everyone grows up. Jiang Chao is no longer the kind of person who gets lustful at first sight. Don't look at him with the same eyes you had when he was a child!

Seeing that Jiang Qilin was so unreliable, the female knight-errant Chu could only grit her teeth and glare at Jiang Chao before letting Jiang Yunyao lead her to the side with a slightly shy demeanor, where they began to whisper to each other.

Jiang Chao coughed lightly, looked at Su E, and said:

"Mr. Su, who exactly is this mad Taoist you mentioned earlier? Have you ever seen his true face?"

Su E squinted, glanced at the two calm Moon Goddess Palace elders beside Jiang Chao, then looked at the somber-faced Ziyang Daoist in a Daoist robe not far away, before speaking softly:

"I have never seen the mad Taoist in the Valley of Villains in person, but I have only heard about him through hearsay. It is said that when he was not mad in his early years, he was also a highly accomplished Taoist master."

"While traveling the world, he never tolerated the slightest injustice. When he encountered those wicked villains who committed numerous evils, wreaked havoc on the martial world, and harmed the innocent, he would ruthlessly eliminate them. Later, for some unknown reason, his personality suddenly changed, and he willingly fell into depravity. He joined forces with Wuji, who was rampant in the martial world at the time, and slaughtered many fellow martial artists. Later, he fled into the Valley of Villains..."

After listening to her recount the rumors about the Mad Taoist she had heard in the Valley of Villains in her early years, the white-haired, youthful-looking Taoist Ziyang, who had remained silent until now, suddenly spoke with a complex expression:

"Now that you've said that, I should know who that mad Taoist is."

Jiang Chao and Su E exchanged a glance, then looked at Daoist Ziyang.

"That mad Taoist, whose Taoist name is Wuchen, was the former abbot of the Huoyun Temple on Qingming Mountain."

"This person's temperament is unpredictable. It is said that he went astray while practicing an advanced technique of the Fire Cloud Temple, resulting in a qi deviation. Back then, he was not well-known in the martial arts world, and only a very few people knew his name..."

Upon hearing the words "Qingming Mountain Fire Cloud Temple," Jiang Chao frowned slightly, ignoring the old Taoist's subsequent words.

The boy's thoughts drifted.

Within the territory of the Great Liang Dynasty, there are four martial arts grandmasters who are universally recognized in the martial arts world.

Besides Jiang Buwen of Fengxue Temple, there are also Li Dangxin of Baidi City, Zhao Xisheng of Longxiang Mountain, and Huolong Zhenren of Huoyun Temple of Qingming Mountain.

The four martial arts grandmasters are listed in no particular order, regardless of their martial arts level, because there has never been any news of them exchanging blows or fighting each other.

If we only consider age, Jiang Chao's father, Jiang Buwen, is the youngest and became famous the latest.

Whether it's Li Dangxin, Zhao Xisheng, or Huolong Zhenren, these three grandmasters have been famous for decades and are legendary figures in the martial arts world, the generation of Jiang Chao's grandfather, Jiang Wuyou.

But before that, there had never been any martial arts grandmasters in these three places.

On the contrary, in the Fengxue Temple, a martial arts grandmaster will definitely appear every few decades, at most no more than a hundred years. This rule has been almost unchanging for thousands of years.

This is why Fengxue Temple is more famous in the martial arts world than the other three places, and holds a higher status in the hearts of martial arts practitioners.

If that mad Taoist is indeed the former abbot of Huoyun Temple, then what is his relationship with the current Huolong Zhenren?

Master Huolong is a grandmaster.

The title of Grandmaster is not just a simple title in the martial arts world; it is a symbol of a martial arts realm that is recognized by the world.

Although every generation of martial arts grandmasters in the martial arts world cannot move mountains and fill seas, summon wind and rain, or perform the deeds of immortals.

However, he still possesses abilities such as unleashing true qi to split mountains and shatter rocks, or to stop the flow of rivers with a single finger.

Although Jiang Chao didn't know exactly how strong his father, Jiang Buwen, was, based on his martial arts foundation, he estimated that if his father went all out, the majestic snow-capped mountains on the nameless mountain range where their Fengxue Temple was located, which were frozen and covered in snow all year round, would probably be in danger.

When he was young, he had seen his father, Jiang Buwen, make a move. His father simply raised his palm like a knife and lightly cleaved a low hill in two.

The sheer power of the martial arts was so overwhelming that it greatly shocked Jiang Chao, who was still quite young at the time.

But when he begged his father to let him learn this powerful skill that could split mountains, Jiang Buwen shook his head and refused him without hesitation.

He also told Jiang Chao that, in addition to his swordsmanship, as the young master of Fengxue Temple, he could learn any martial arts technique passed down by the temple's past masters.

Jiang Chao was very unhappy at the time. Why couldn't he learn a more powerful technique?

Jiang Buwen, are you still my father, Jiang Chao?

Then Jiang Buwen took it as a provocation and, taking advantage of Yu Wushuang's absence, gave him a severe beating.

Jiang Chao was often beaten when he was young. After all, not everyone has the opportunity to have a grandmaster willingly and personally help him temper his physique.

Jiang Chao understood this principle from a very young age.

Therefore, he always howled the loudest when he was beaten and was beaten the most badly, but he never changed his ways. On the contrary, he always enjoyed it. His thick skin and tough flesh were developed during that time, not entirely due to his innate Qilin bloodline.

Now, let's return to the present.

That mad Taoist was the former abbot of Huoyun Temple, and he must have had a close relationship with Huolong Zhenren, one of the four great masters of the time.

The truth behind the sudden loss of sanity and madness of such a highly accomplished Taoist master must be extraordinary.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chao's heart stirred, and he said:

"The mad Taoist priest you two are talking about doesn't sound like the same person?"

He first looked at Su E, "The mad Taoist priest that Mr. Su mentioned was quite normal at first, but he went through something that caused his personality to change drastically and he went mad."

Then he looked at Daoist Ziyang and said:

"As for the Daoist Wuchen that you mentioned, he went mad from the very beginning."