Martial Arts Crossover: It All Started with Hijacking Li Canghai

Tang Song knew that he had no chance of breaking into the hands of the Golden Serpent King, who was at the Celestial Realm, but then he thought, wasn't the Golden Serpent King currently raising an army to rebel against the Qing Dynasty?

Their White Lotus sect is also fighting against the Qing Dynasty. In short, we are all rebels on the same side!

Thinking of this, Tang Song steeled his heart and decided to take the plunge. He banged his head on the bricks twice and started wailing with snot and tears streaming down his face.

"Your Highness! Your Highness, please understand! Even if this old servant had the greatest courage in the world, I would never dare to speak such nonsense in front of you!"

"Your lady... she is indeed the Holy Maiden our White Lotus Sect has been searching for for over ten years!"

"Your Highness, we are all fellow heroes who raised the banner of righteousness to resist the Manchu Tartars."

"You're undertaking a major project in Shandong now; it's the perfect time to utilize your skills!"

"If you are willing to show mercy and allow the Holy Maiden to return to our White Lotus Sect, once she regains power, the hundreds of thousands of members of our White Lotus Sect are willing to become brothers and allies with the Golden Serpent Camp and together overthrow the Qing Dynasty!"

Tang Song had a pretty good plan: he wanted to get the people back and also wanted to form an alliance with the Golden Snake Camp, which had become famous in one battle.

Seeing that the old man had bumped his forehead and looked somewhat helpless, Xiaolongnu reached out and gently tugged at Qin Han, explaining in a low voice.

"My husband, I grew up in the ancient tomb. Apart from my master and Granny Sun, I have never seen many outsiders, let alone any members of the White Lotus Sect."

Qin Han patted Xiaolongnu's slightly cool hand to reassure her.

How much truth or falsehood is in what this old man is saying? Just listening to him wailing alone isn't enough. Fortunately, there's someone in the know locked up at home. If we pull them out and compare their words, everything will become clear.

Qin Han turned his head and gave an instruction to the person on duty outside the door.

"Go to the backyard and ask Second Palace Mistress Lianxing to come over."

The guard clasped his hands in acceptance and quickly retreated. For a moment, no one spoke in the room except for Tang Song's heavy breathing as he lay on the ground.

Before a cup of tea had been brewed, light footsteps could be heard outside the corridor.

Lianxing, dressed in a long, embroidered dress adorned with clouds and brocade, followed her personal guards into the side hall.

Since Qin Han used the Nine Yang True Essence and Dragon God Skill to reshape her joints on the carriage two days ago, her left foot, which she had been ashamed of for more than 20 years, has been completely healed. Now she walks with steady and light steps, and there is no trace of her previous limp.

As soon as she entered the room and met Qin Han's eyes in the main seat, Lianxing couldn't help but recall the scene in the carriage where he held her ankle and treated her injury. Her eyes darted away, showing a hint of awkwardness.

Just as she was about to ask a question, her eyes caught sight of Tang Song lying in the middle of the hall, and she especially noticed the blood-stained white lotus flower on the hem of his robe.

Lianxing paused in her steps, her expression changing slightly.

Qin Han kept a close eye on her reaction, taking in all the changes in her expression. Without beating around the bush, he asked the question directly.

"Second Palace Master, you should be familiar with the pattern on this old man's clothes, right?"

Upon hearing this, Lianxing's heart trembled. How did Ye Wudao know that their Yihua Palace had seen this kind of performance before?!

She glanced at the White Lotus Sect deacon on the ground, then at Lin Pingzhi beside her wearing a ghost mask, and could only conclude that the Golden Snake Camp's intelligence network was truly terrifying.

This Golden Serpent King has probably already thoroughly investigated all the old stories in the world.

She sighed inwardly, assuming the other person already knew everything, and there was no point in hiding it. She then organized her thoughts.

"Your Highness, this matter... goes back more than twenty years."

Lianxing's voice was soft and pleasant to the ear.

"About twenty-two years ago, not long after my sister and I established the Yihua Palace, a woman dressed in white entered Xiuyu Valley all by herself."

"That woman claimed to be the current Holy Maiden of the White Lotus Sect. She said that she had traveled the world and heard of the fame of the Mingyu Skill of the Yihua Palace, so she came here to spar with us sisters."

At this point, Lianxing seemed to recall the woman's charm from back then, paused for a moment, and then continued.

"She stayed in Xiuyu Valley for almost half a month at the time, and even tried to recruit us, wanting our Yihua Palace to merge into the White Lotus Sect and do something big to overthrow the world with her. My sister and I have never liked being controlled by others, so we naturally refused directly."

"But that woman... is indeed a once-in-a-century genius. All I know is that her name is 'Alan'. Not only is she extremely beautiful, but her martial arts skills are also unfathomable. Back then, my sister had an even more fiery temper than she does now. She fought her several times, but she still couldn't gain the upper hand against her."

"My sister has never submitted to anyone in her life, but she is extremely wary of that White Lotus Sect Holy Maiden," Lianxing paused here, then shook her head, as if she felt a little regretful.

"But then something happened, and one day that woman suddenly received a letter and hurriedly left Yihua Palace. Since then, we have never heard from her again."

After speaking, Lianxing looked at Xiaolongnu standing next to Qin Han, her eyes filled with a hint of emotion.

"That night on the official road, when I first saw this Miss Long, I almost thought she was the Holy Maiden from back then."

"Miss Long's eyebrows, nose, and the aloof, ethereal aura she exudes are exactly the same as that of the White Lotus Sect's Holy Maiden from over twenty years ago."

Listening to Lianxing's description, Xiaolongnu realized that there really was someone in the world who looked exactly like her. Was that person her own mother?

Qin Han raised an eyebrow and shifted his gaze back to Tang Song on the ground.

"Did you hear that? The Second Palace Master of Yihua Palace is a witness."

"Since the previous Holy Maiden was so powerful, even Yaoyue couldn't defeat her, why would she abandon her own daughter in Zhongnan Mountain? And what is your White Lotus Sect doing, only now coming to find us?"

When Tang Song realized that his secret had been exposed, he knew that if he made up lies, he would be beaten to death. Moreover, judging from Qin Han's attitude, he seemed quite interested in the Holy Maiden's background. He felt that there was a chance to win over the Golden Serpent King, so he simply told the whole truth with a sob in his voice.

"Your Highness, you may not know this, but not long after our Saintess Lan left the Yihua Palace, she encountered someone in Jiangnan, and when she returned to the main altar, she was already pregnant!"

"Our White Lotus Sect has rules: a Holy Maiden must remain chaste. Once she loses her virginity and harbors worldly desires, she will not only be stripped of her title as Holy Maiden but will also be subject to sect discipline!"

"The Holy Maiden Lan was a woman of strong character. She directly turned against several conservative elders in the sect, fought her way out of the main altar alone, and went into hiding from then on."