The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 573 Different ways do not work together

The situation was now clear: Wu Chengyu was determined to kill Bai Xian'er. Given that she dared to attack Huang Rong and there was an old grudge between them, Wu Chengyu had no reason to spare her.

Even if Wu Chengyu had no grudge against Bai Xian'er, the fact that she absorbed people's life essence to practice her skills and treated human life with contempt was already enough to make her utterly wicked. When Wu Chengyu encountered her, it was naturally Bai Xian'er's retribution.

Bai Yuchan, despite bearing the name of a true immortal, aided and abetted evil, allowing his daughter to commit such heinous acts while still protecting Bai Xian'er. Therefore, a peaceful resolution between him and Wu Chengyu was impossible.

Bai Yuchan pondered for a moment, then shook his head and sighed: "Xian'er has indeed been quite outrageous these past few years. I wonder if you have ever heard that there are no disloyal or unfilial immortals in the world? Immortals all value family ties. How can I, as her father, stand by and watch you lay a hand on her?"

Wu Chengyu scoffed: "Senior, you are highly respected and your cultivation is unparalleled in this world. Why bother with such a fallacy? Although I am young, I am not easily fooled."

While immortals also value loyalty and filial piety, it is about upholding one's own morality. Whether it is Wang Chongyang or the Taoist sect today, they all integrate Confucianism into Taoist thought, seeking the word "goodness." The Book of Rites says to stop at the highest good, and Lao Tzu also said that the highest good is like water.

The highest good requires selflessness and the practice of ten virtues, including loyalty, filial piety, compassion, and patience. Therefore, even immortals value loyalty and filial piety in order to achieve moral perfection.

Bai Xian'er's actions have violated the principles of humanity, constituting heinous crimes with countless sins. Yet, in the words of her elders, such sins are merely described as "outrageous." Not only do they never stop her, but they also constantly protect her, allowing Bai Xian'er to become increasingly lawless.

The elder's actions were merely a cover-up of his own selfishness, using his deep paternal love to conceal Bai Xian'er's grave sins, and his display of morality, status, and power to bury them. Such behavior was utterly immoral and depraved.

Your daughter is your daughter, but which of those women she killed weren't born of parents? Now it seems that you no longer see the poor and needy, and don't even consider them human beings.

People call you a living god, but now, in the eyes of the younger generation, there is no respect for you as a senior. Or perhaps, you have already fallen into the demonic path without realizing it.

If you, senior, had simply said that no matter how wrong a daughter is, a father can't bear to abandon her, then I might have thought you were magnanimous. But now, all I want to say is, senior, do you even know what key duplication is? You living god, how many keys can you dub?

No matter how much Wu Chengyu mocked him, Bai Yuchan's expression remained unchanged, demonstrating that he was indeed superior in terms of self-cultivation.

“Young friend, you are quite direct. Well said. Even if my daughter is hated by heaven and man, as her father, I will naturally save her. With me, Bai Yuchan, here, who in this world can harm her?”

It's a pity that although your talent is extraordinary, you haven't reached the Innate Realm yet. Little do you know that if you don't cross this threshold, you and I are worlds apart. I'm afraid you won't be able to get past me.

Very well, I am nearly a hundred years old and do not wish to bully the young or oppress the weak. I will give you three chances to make your move. If you fail after three attempts, it will be as if Heaven has not forsaken Bai Xian'er. I urge you to stop here.

"But if you truly succeed, young friend, then it will be my daughter's fate. Heaven will use you to punish her sins, and I will naturally obey Heaven's will, retiring to the mountains and forests, no longer concerning myself with worldly affairs. What do you think, young friend?"

Wu Chengyu deliberately revealed a wicked and arrogant smile, which, combined with Liang Kun's face, was extremely ironic.

"After I succeed, before you retire to the mountains, will you kill me first to avenge your daughter, so that you can truly be free of all worries?"

Bai Yuchan narrowed his eyes slightly: "Of course, killing my daughter will naturally come at a price."

Wu Chengyu clapped his hands and said, "The conditions you offered are completely unfair. I will make three attempts, and if I fail, I will have to obediently bow my head. If I succeed, you will kill me. I call you senior, but you play such petty tricks. It's really meaningless."

The truth is, since I've made my move, it's a fight to the death. Whether Bai Xian'er dies or I perish, in the end, might makes right. Senior, do you agree?

Bai Yuchan looked appreciative: "Although you are young, you are not simple-minded. What is even more rare is that you live very authentically, without hypocrisy or affectation. I underestimated you. I really don't know which sect of Taoism has cultivated such a successor as you."

Now that the truth was out, Wu Chengyu no longer needed to use that fake face. With Liang Kun's face hidden, he revealed his true appearance and spoke with a Taoist bow.

“Wu Chengyu of the Quanxing Dao Sect greets Master Bai.”

Bai Yuchan nodded repeatedly: "So it is Quanxing. How amazing! How fortunate! I know that Quanxing has been hiding its identity for thousands of years and has long been weak and has not shown any signs of improvement."

While there are still successors of Quanxing in this world, they are all hidden in obscurity. It is truly a blessing for Quanxing that a successor like you has appeared in the world a thousand years later.

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Yuchan also bowed. Given his seniority, reputation, and status in Taoism, he originally did not need to return the bow. This bow was to show respect for Wu Chengyu's status as a member of the Quanxing sect.

"Bai Yuchan, from the Southern School of the Golden Elixir Sect, greets fellow Daoist."

Wu Chengyu slowly withdrew his hand, his inner strength surging. Facing Bai Yuchan, who was at the Innate Realm, he was the strongest person he had encountered since his transmigration. How could he not go all out? "Master Bai is wrong. I, Wu Chengyu, dare to look down on the heroes of the world, belittle kings and nobles, and despise the rich and powerful, but I have never dared to look down on the working masses."

You, Master Bai, are high and mighty, regarding living beings as no different from grass and ants. Our paths are different, and we cannot work together. How can you be worthy of being called a fellow Daoist?

The moment the words "fellow Daoist" left his lips, Wu Chengyu made a sudden move. Since Bai Yuchan had said he would have three chances, even if he was scheming, he would not go back on his word and would really allow Wu Chengyu to make a move three times.

Wu Chengyu's first choice was to attack directly without any preparation, facing this innate master head-on. Only in this way could he know the true extent of the gap between himself and the innate master, and whether it was truly as insurmountable as an insurmountable chasm.

In a moment of clarity, he realized that his chance to break through to the innate level might be right in front of him. Daring to take action was the most important thing. If he retreated, his life would come to a standstill. With the Great Dao ahead, how could he not be courageous and diligent?

His figure suddenly accelerated, covering a distance of only two zhang (approximately 6.6 meters) as if he had teleported, as if he had directly crossed space.

Cat steps, ox and horse stances, eel skills, crane shadows and flowing light, spiral nine shadows, snake-like movements and fox-like flips, and gliding light steps are completely integrated at this moment, reaching the ultimate speed of the human body.

Even Bai Yuchan hadn't expected that anyone in the world could be so fast as to be like lightning. He couldn't help but admire him, but Bai Yuchan stood like a lone pine tree, completely unfazed.

In the blink of an eye, Wu Chengyu was less than two feet away from Bai Yuchan. He knew that speed alone was meaningless to Bai Yuchan, so at this moment, he used his best technique, Shadow Clone Technique.

This movement technique is the key to Wu Chengyu's consistent success. He has long been able to create nine clones at once, but too many clones are redundant for a master of Bai Yuchan's level.

This time, there were only four avatars, maintaining their speed and power to the maximum, attacking from the front, back, left, and right simultaneously.

The attack trajectories of these four clones were also extremely mysterious, and in fact they were a set of formations. Back then, Wu Chengyu obtained the outline of the formation that Wang Chongyang used to create the Big Dipper Formation from Ma Yu.

The idea at the time was to use his clone technique to create seven clones at once, set up the Big Dipper Formation, and besiege the powerful enemy.

This outline of formations actually explains the principles of combined attack techniques. It doesn't necessarily have to be the Seven Stars Formation, the Yin-Yang Formation, or the foundations of the Three Powers, Four Symbols, Five Elements, Six Harmonies, Seven Stars, Eight Trigrams, and Nine Palaces Formations.

Wu Chengyu suspected that Wang Chongyang created the Big Dipper Formation because he happened to have seven disciples.

However, the basic Seven Star Formation of the Big Dipper Formation is not actually suitable for Wu Chengyu, and setting up a formation does not necessarily mean that the more clones one has, the better. Wu Chengyu's clone technique is essentially using super-speed and multiple changes of direction to deceive the opponent's eyes, creating the illusion of multiple figures appearing in front of them at the same time.

Each clone can attack, and after attacking, it quickly moves to the other side to launch another attack. However, Wu Chengyu's speed is so fast that it gives people the illusion that multiple clones are attacking at the same time.

However, if there are too many clones, the transition between each clone will inevitably leave gaps. If a master sees these gaps, they will be weaknesses that can be exploited.

Therefore, when Wu Chengyu is bullying weaker opponents or facing a group attack, he can simultaneously create nine clones and ten figures of his true self to fight the enemy. This not only creates a great spectacle and showcases his dazzling fighting style, but also makes him extremely dangerous.

However, when dealing with true masters, such as top masters at the microscopic level, one can take advantage of the gaps created by having too many clones to launch a counterattack.

Therefore, when Wu Chengyu used the principles of formation to create his own clone attack formation, he ultimately chose the relatively simple Four Symbols Formation, which could unleash the power of clones while minimizing the vulnerabilities of too many clones.

The attacks of the four clones were launched almost simultaneously, and each clone used one of the four major free-form techniques that Wu Chengyu had accumulated over many years of martial arts experience. These were the strongest moves refined from Wu Chengyu's martial arts philosophy.

Bai Yuchan's Wu Chengyu clone was the first to make a move. Without parrying or blocking, he raised his right fist high, and Wu Chengyu's body instantly expanded. From his original relatively thin figure of over 1.8 meters, he instantly grew to nearly 2 meters, and his muscles bulged, becoming as thick as a double-door refrigerator.

This move wasn't the "Heaven and Earth Manifestation" technique. This was, after all, a low-level martial arts world. Wu Chengyu simply used the Bone Shrinking Technique in reverse, expanding his skeleton and causing his tendons to swell instantly, just like his body before he was reborn using the Silkworm Transformation Technique.

This change also pushed Wu Chengyu's physical strength to its limit. The immense power brought by the Ox and Horse Stance and the Rebirth Technique meant that a single strike could weigh a thousand pounds. But if he gathered all his strength and unleashed it in one go, the force would be far more than a thousand pounds.

Now, with his body swelling, all his strength is concentrated in his right fist. Combined with the vast internal energy of the Innate Qiankun Technique, and empowered by the Unblocking Heaven-Turning Seal, he delivers a heavy punch.

The power of the punch was concentrated around the fist without any leakage. In addition, the eel technique offset the air resistance. This punch did not make a sound of tearing through the air, but it could make people feel a heavy pressure on their hearts and a sense of crisis that disaster was about to strike.

Faced with this punch, even Bai Yuchan could only retreat. Taoist masters never deliberately cultivate their own strength; they emphasize harmony between the body and nature. Bai Yuchan's physical body did not possess such strength.

Even with its immense power, the Heaven-Turning Seal was completely ineffective against the White Jade Toad.

The reason it's called the "Unblockable Heaven-Turning Seal" is because it relies on the locking effect of the "Subtle Realm" to take into account the opponent's evasion and reaction, forcing the opponent to take the hit head-on without being able to dodge. Even powerful figures like Qiu Qianren and Ouyang Feng suffered greatly from this move.

However, this locking effect had no effect on Bai Yuchan. Just like the 3D dynamic image couldn't display Bai Yuchan's figure, Bai Yuchan stood there leisurely in Wu Chengyu's eyes, as if he were standing in another space.

Wu Chengyu's profound understanding of subtlety was completely ineffective in front of Bai Yuchan, and he was utterly unable to predict how Bai Yuchan would respond.

Bai Yuchan merely swayed slightly, took a step to the right rear, and turned slightly to the side. Wu Chengyu's Fantian Seal immediately lost its target, and despite its unparalleled power, it struck empty air.

Fortunately, Wu Chengyu knew he couldn't subdue Bai Yuchan in one move. This punch was ultimately just a preemptive strike to force Bai Yuchan to move. As soon as he moved, the subsequent attacks of the Four Symbols Formation would be launched immediately.
The first clone attack failed; it was actually a trap to lure the enemy. The remaining three clones were the real combined attack.

Bai Yuchan's right clone had been waiting for a long time. With one hand pulling and the other guiding, it formed a Tai Chi diagram. At the same time, hundreds of invisible ropes bound Bai Yuchan's body layer by layer. These were the Soul-Guiding Threads that never leave him.

Immediately following was Bai Yuchan's clone behind him, which formed claws with both hands and grabbed Bai Yuchan's shoulders, firmly gripping several major acupoints on his shoulders, and exerting force instantly.

Ignoring everything else, he activated the Dragon-Capturing Claw and immediately seized the White Jade Toad. At the same time, he exerted force with all ten fingers, instantly twisting several joints in the White Jade Toad's shoulder and neck, even dislocating all the tendons.

The clone to Bai Yuchan's left held his hands in a gesture of respect, and a cloud of mist appeared between his palms. Within the mist, countless tiny lightning bolts seemed to flicker. Finally, his palms came together and plunged straight into Bai Yuchan's heart. This was the Yin-Yang Cloud-Touching Hand.

The four clones unleashed the Four Great Scattered Techniques, which were the strongest moves that Wu Chengyu had mastered through years of relentless practice and mastery. Wu Chengyu used all his strength as soon as he made the move, unleashing his full power without reservation.

Since he mastered his martial arts, no one has ever been able to make him unleash his full fighting power. Huang Yaoshi was not qualified, Ouyang Feng was not qualified, and only the Taoist master in front of him, who was at the Innate Realm, was qualified.

Wu Chengyu's Four Symbols Formation is also different from the Big Dipper Formation. The Big Dipper Formation is a sword formation that integrates the Quanzhen Sword Technique. It uses formation changes to compensate for each other's weaknesses and neutralize the opponent's subtle realm. After all, those who can make the Seven Masters of Quanzhen join forces must be top masters.

What's even more special is that the seven people's power can be transferred and superimposed on each other, which is why they are able to withstand powerful attacks like those from Ouyang Feng.

Wu Chengyu's Four Symbols Formation cannot transmit internal energy. Ultimately, it is a formation set up by one person, so it is impossible to accumulate internal energy. The mutual compensation of his Four Symbols Formation in terms of moves and the improvement of the subtle realm are all useless against Bai Yuchan.

The biggest advantage we can leverage now is the synergy between these four free-style techniques.

Seeing that Bai Yuchan was unable to move due to being entangled by the Soul-Guiding Silk, and his shoulders were seized by the Dragon-Capturing Claw, instantly dislocating his tendons and bones, the fatal blow of the Cloud-Piercing Hand was about to pierce Bai Yuchan's chest cavity.

Bai Yuchan, who had been smiling, finally moved. First came the Soul-Guiding Silk, which wrapped around and around the body, using the internal force stored in Wu Chengyu's body and turbocharged. Even a top master like Hong Qigong, who practiced external martial arts, would have to struggle for a while.

But the soul-guiding thread vanished in an instant, disappearing without a trace. Wu Chengyu understood that his internal energy had been forcibly dissolved by an even stronger force in an instant.

As the old Taoist priest Zhenxiang once said, the body of a master at the Innate Realm no longer contains internal force, but true qi. The nature of true qi is far superior to that of internal force. Even if Wu Chengyu's internal force has been turbocharged, it will be instantly dissolved when it encounters true qi.

No matter how strong the Soul-Guiding Silk is, or how varied its control capabilities are, it will immediately lose its effect once the internal energy is neutralized.

Not only that, Bai Yuchan's dislocated tendons and bones were all put back in place in an instant, as if the dislocation had never happened. Instead, it shattered the clone that used the Dragon-Capturing Claw.

Finally, there was the Cloud-Piercing Hand. Bai Yuchan looked at the hand hidden in the clouds and nodded slightly, his face showing admiration, seemingly marveling at the mystery of this move.

Then, with a flick of his sleeve, the cloud of mist that enveloped Wu Chengyu's palms seemed to be blown away instantly as if by a strong wind. Without hesitation, Wu Chengyu's palms accelerated and thrust towards Bai Yuchan, while he used the Gang Hand technique, and his palms shone with a metallic luster.

Bai Yuchan let out a cry of surprise. He dared to use his shoulders to catch Wu Chengyu's Dragon-Capturing Claw, but now he no longer dared to use his chest to resist the Cloud-Piercing Hand, which was enhanced by the Gang Hand.

But he raised an eyebrow and actually stretched out his hands as well. Following the example, clouds of mist appeared between his hands. Wu Chengyu's palms pierced into these clouds of mist, and then, as if struck by lightning, the clone was directly shattered by the lightning in the clouds of Bai Yuchan's palms.

Bai Yuchan had clearly studied the Cloud-Piercing Hand technique once and then directly simulated it, using the Cloud-Piercing Hand technique to defeat it in return.

The four clones used the Four Symbols Formation and their strongest four scattered techniques, but Bai Yuchan easily neutralized them all. He even learned the Cloud-Piercing Hand technique.

Since transmigrating, Wu Chengyu had at least managed to put up a fight against that old eunuch, Guihua, when he first started out. Who would have thought that he would be completely powerless to fight back today?

(End of this chapter)