Martial Arts Crossover: My Wife is the Top Scholar

Chapter 227 Thirty years of painstaking effort, only to benefit others!
Inside the city.

Li Zhaoting swung his sword and killed Wuhua.

outside the city.

Li Shengnan stormed the last mountain stronghold.

The leader of the stronghold was the monk Yan Kong. Yan Kong was waiting for Li Zhaoting to come to his door, intending to die together with Li Zhaoting. Unexpectedly, Li Zhaoting did not come; instead, Li Shengnan came.

Li Zhaoting's martial arts skills are superior to Li Shengnan's.

However, Li Shengnan is more difficult to deal with than Li Zhaoting.

The bizarre and varied secret techniques of the demonic sect, the insidious and ruthless skills of the demonic sect, and the unpredictable and strange moves caused Yan Kong a great deal of trouble. Not to mention, Li Shengnan also had a white-clad fairy with superb swordsmanship by her side.

The fairy in white is none other than Wang Yuyan.

She wore a veil to conceal her identity and fought alongside Li Shengnan, using the Five Mountains Sword Technique, based on the Lesser Formless Skill, and freely wielding all martial arts techniques in the world.

Yan Kong has a solid foundation and superb martial arts skills. If he only has the Five Mountains Sword Technique, unless Wang Yuyan is proficient in the Thirteen Styles of Huashan Qingfeng, she cannot hurt Yan Kong. At least in the eyes of Monk Yan Kong, the Five Mountains Sword Technique is not worth mentioning.

Unfortunately, Wang Yuyan had visited the Taishan Sect.

The Taishan School has a powerful move that is so difficult to learn that no one can master it.

How about Mount Tai!
Wang Yuyan pointed her long sword diagonally downwards with her right hand, and counted the five fingers of her left hand from one to five, making a fist, then extending her thumb, then her index finger, spreading all five fingers, then bending her thumb and index finger, and then bending her middle finger.

The essence of Mount Tai lies in "mathematics".

He used his left hand to calculate the enemy's martial arts style, body size, weapon size, and speed.

Once the calculation is accurate, a single sword strike will be fatal.

This places extremely high demands on the practitioner's foundation.

First, one must be proficient in all kinds of martial arts and be able to discern the enemy's fighting style the moment they are seen.

Secondly, one must have a super brain to calculate the formula and arrive at the correct answer in the shortest possible time.

Finally, you need a super tank. Martial arts masters aren't fools, especially in this fast-paced world of crossover martial arts. Who the hell will wait for you to calculate?
Even if you have a super brain that can calculate the answer in two or three seconds, so what? In that time, an enemy could rush over and kill you ten times over!

"Interrupting the buildup of power" is the most common and universal tactic in martial arts combat. Most of those powerful but time-consuming techniques have been eliminated.

Wang Yuyan just happened to meet the requirements for cultivation.

With her extensive knowledge, super brain, and Li Shengnan blocking her way, Wang Yuyan had ample time to calculate Yan Kong's martial arts techniques. After exchanging seven or eight blows, Wang Yuyan suddenly thrust out her sword, piercing Yan Kong's left shoulder.

Yan Kong took several steps back in shock.

One step back, one step back.

Li Shengnan provided support from the side, allowing Wang Yuyan to use her swordsmanship at will. The Five Mountains Sword Sect did not have many first-class sword techniques, but there were countless second- and third-class sword techniques.

These sword techniques, when used individually in a particular sect, can only be used to help disciples establish their foundation. However, if someone can combine the sword techniques of the Five Sacred Mountains, they can unleash the true essence of these sword techniques.

The Five Mountains Sword Sects include Buddhists, Taoists, and nuns, each with different martial arts styles. How can they cooperate?

Because the Five Sacred Mountains Sword Sects "occupy the mountains and rule the land," their sword techniques are passed down from the mountains they are located in. If we consider the land of China as a human being, then mountains and rivers are like meridians and blood vessels. The Five Sacred Mountains are collectively known as the Five Acupoints of the human body.

The sword techniques learned from the Five Sacred Mountains naturally complement each other. If it weren't for the fact that they are located in different parts of the country, thousands of miles apart, the idea of ​​uniting the Five Sacred Mountains would not be nonsense and could indeed bring benefits.

Taking the terrain into account, and sending someone is pure nonsense!

You can't just draw a five-pointed star with the Five Sacred Mountains as five points and include all the territory, can you?
Shaolin and Wudang are both within this area.

Who the hell has the guts to do that?

Yu Luosha's mission for Li Shengnan was to train her and solidify her swordsmanship foundation.

Li Shengnan doesn't need it.

With Li Zhaoting's help, she solidified her foundation.

This opportunity was given to Wang Yuyan.

Wang Yuyan did even better than expected.

The first move was "Bright Moon Without Clouds" from the Taishan School, followed by "Ancient Cypress Forest" from the Huashan School, then "Ingenious Moves" from the Hengshan and Songshan Schools, and finally back to the Taishan School.

Wang Yuyan suddenly thrust out her longsword, her body moving with the sword, turning left and right, her movements becoming increasingly rapid.

A renowned swordsman from the Taishan School observed the winding, meandering path of the Eighteen Bends below the Three Gates of Mount Tai, where the path turns every five steps and returns every ten. He incorporated this terrain into his swordsmanship, creating the Eighteen Bends of Mount Tai, where the sword movements become increasingly swift.

The air was filled with loud cries.

Wang Yuyan's swordsmanship was utterly shoddy and full of flaws in his eyes, but unfortunately, Li Shengnan was there to support him, and every time Yan Kong tried to retaliate, Li Shengnan stopped him.

The empty space has become an experience pack for grinding proficiency.

Wang Yuyan became increasingly proficient in the Five Mountains Sword Technique.

At first, traces of various sword techniques can be seen, but after three or four hundred moves, the sword techniques become seamless and flawless.

The Taishan School's Seven Stars Falling from the Sky technique was used halfway through, then transformed into the Hengshan School's Thirteen Styles of Ever-Changing Clouds and Mist. The ever-changing sword techniques suddenly rose up like strange peaks, and the Taishan School's Verdant Green Floating Green technique was thrust out, followed by a horizontal slash.

Yan Kong's shoulder was injured, weakening his strength, and he had to retreat and dodge. Suddenly, Wang Yuyan's eyes narrowed, a murderous intent flashing in them, and she slashed with her sword like a knife or axe.

Yan Kong instinctively dodged to the side, but Wang Yuyan followed up with a move called "Jade Dragon from Beyond the Heavens," her longsword slashing rapidly from left to right. Yan Kong had nowhere to dodge and could only leap into the air to evade. Wang Yuyan flipped her wrist, her longsword thrusting backward, aiming for Yan Kong's vitals.

"Pfft!"

The sword pierced Yan Kong's back.

Huashan Swordplay: The Deadly Three Immortal Swords!
The essence of this method lies in launching a series of attacks, giving the enemy no chance to react, forcing them to make judgments based on subconscious reactions, and ultimately leading them into a deadly trap.

Although it consists of only a slash, a cut, and a flick, it contains the essence of Huashan swordsmanship and is a rare killing move. Wang Yuyan is learned and talented, and she has also revised this sword technique based on the martial arts manuals of the Five Mountains Sword Sects when she makes the move.

One strike was the Five Great Masters Sword of the Mount Tai Sect;
One of the cuts is the Jade Dragon from Beyond the Heavens of the Songshan School;
With a flick of his wrist, the Huashan Sect's Heavenly Gentleman was suspended upside down;

If Yan Kong can continue to dodge, the next move will be the Five Divine Swords of Hengshan. After dodging again, he will change his move and use the Seventeen Styles of Songshan Swordplay to seize the offensive. Songshan swordplay is solemn and majestic, like a long spear and halberd, and is most suitable for attacking the enemy. It can quickly seize the initiative.

It would be very difficult for Wang Yuyan to create her own sword technique.

It was very simple to get Wang Yuyan to "learn" swordsmanship.

Wang Yuyan is not good at theoretical research, but she is good at analyzing and deducing martial arts techniques based on existing theories.

Yan Kong died, and the mountain stronghold was destroyed.

Li Shengnan looted the warehouse, selecting a few pieces of jewelry, jade, and elixirs before leaving. Liu Dufeng arrived with his men and completely sealed off the mountain stronghold.

……

It's still Daming Lake.

We were still boating on the lake.

There were three people boating on the lake this time.

Li Zhaoting, Chu Liuxiang, and Li Shengnan.

The three were reviewing recent events.

The goal of the series of cases was money.

The Azure Dragon in October desperately needs money.

The general sequence of events is as follows:
In October, Qinglong ordered his two disciples, Wuhua and Lingyufeng, to help him acquire a huge fortune.

In order to make money, Ling Yufeng first wiped out the Bai family, a wealthy family in Suzhou, and then orchestrated the Ziyan murder case, killing a wealthy man who belonged to the April branch of the Qinglong Society.

Wu Hua learned about the feud with Qiu Lingsu from his mother, Shi Guanyin. Using Qiu Lingsu's voice, he wrote a letter to Ximen Qian and others, saying that he was short of money.

Ximen Qian and his group arrived in Jinan with the jewels. Yan Longyuan, the leader of the October army, who had been waiting for them, launched a massacre in their most proficient way. Judging from the wounds, Ximen Qian and his group died from infighting. Even Li Hongxiu was deceived and almost got away with it.

Just then, Shaolin monks Kongxing and Xuanbei arrived to investigate. They were originally there to track down the traitor Yankong, but they accidentally discovered Murong Bo's whereabouts. Xuanbei guessed that Murong Bo had faked his death and escaped, and must have some ulterior motive. He secretly investigated the surrounding mountain strongholds, but was accidentally discovered by Murong Bo.

To confuse the situation, Murong Bo followed the previous method of killing: he used Kongxing's Dragon Claw Hand to kill Zhamuhe, used Xuanbei's Great Vajra Pestle to kill Kongxing, and then used the Heavenly One Divine Water to poison Xuanbei.

Even more coincidentally, Di Qinglin replaced the woman with another one. Before Di Qinglin could make the wax figure, Wu Hua stole the woman's body and threw all the corpses into the sea.

The corpses Chu Liuxiang found at the same time were actually from different cases. The seemingly connected clues were actually disguises or traps.

From the time Ling Yufeng wiped out the Bai family of Gusu, to the time Wu Hua wrote a letter inviting Ximen Qian, Zhamuhe and others, another event occurred: Li Zhaoting destroyed the Jiangling Water Village.

Murong Bo suffered heavy losses from the power he had painstakingly built up over more than twenty years. In order to make up for the losses, Murong Bo decided to embezzle the operating funds of the Azure Dragon Society.

According to the Azure Dragon Society's plan, the mountain stronghold and the escort agency would work together. The silver would be delivered to the stronghold, and Murong Bo would have Ling Yufeng find someone to intervene and steal the silver back. They would then use fake silver ingots to frame the constables who were chasing after the silver, and finally give the real silver ingots to Di Qinglin, thus using this as a pretext to kill him.

After Di Qinglin's death, Ling Yufeng could have used the pretext of investigating the case to withhold the silver, but unexpectedly, Ling Yufeng was exposed too quickly and was stabbed through the heart by Li Nanhong.

Even at this point, Murong Bo still had a backup plan. There was a Murong Bo spy among the constables of Jinan Prefecture.

Murong Bo had the opportunity to take out the money.

Unexpectedly, Li Zhaoting invited Liu Dufeng.

One million eight hundred thousand taels of silver, the annual income of the three largest dens of iniquity in Qingyi Tower, and the operating expenses of several branches of the Qinglong Society, were all sent to the national treasury.

That wasn't all. Li Zhaoting fully utilized Yan Shuangying's style of "startling the enemy by striking the grass" and "shaking the mountain to frighten the tiger," launching a series of attacks on bandit strongholds, one after another.

By the time Murong Bo came to his senses, the power he had painstakingly cultivated had been wiped out by Li Zhaoting.

Ling Yufeng died.

Jiangling Water Village was destroyed.

The bandit stronghold was destroyed.

Food supplies, weapons, armor, medicine, and even carefully trained bandits were all captured. More than twenty years of hard work had all gone to waste for the imperial court.

Murong Bo had been longing to rebel, but he never expected that all the wealth he had painstakingly accumulated would be taken away by the imperial court.

When Zhao Zhen received the memorial, he almost jumped up.

The gains were truly enormous.

All of Di Qinglin's assets.

One million eight hundred thousand taels of silver.

It can provide enough food for an army of 10,000 for five years.

Warships, armor, spears, medicine, cloth, horses—all kinds of supplies were readily available, greatly relieving the pressure on the imperial court and effectively striking at the rebels.

How can you be a rebel if you don't have money?
The rebels' coffers were emptied by Li Zhaoting!
Nowadays, apart from the ancestral home of the Murong family in Gusu and the estates of his four retainers, Murong Bo is penniless, having lost all his life savings.

The fact that he wasn't driven to death by anger shows that Murong Bo remained steadfast in his resolve.

Unbeknownst to Murong Bo, his feigned death and escape had been discovered, and he was about to be hunted down by the martial arts world.

Li Zhaoting decided to help Murong Bo stall for a few days.

At least until Xiao Yuanshan has finished recuperating.

Xue Mu Hua's medical skills were excellent. When Xiao Feng brought Ding Chunqiu's head to Xue Mu Hua for treatment, Xue Mu Hua devoted himself to treating Xiao Yuanshan and didn't dare to mention anything about learning martial arts.

Xue Muhua never dreamed that Ding Chunqiu, the old devil who had oppressed his sect for over thirty years, forced his master to pretend to be deaf and dumb for thirty years, and expelled all his fellow disciples from the sect, would be killed just like that.

Back then, Su Xinghe was coerced by Ding Chunqiu into either pretending to be deaf and mute or dying. Not only Su Xinghe had to pretend to be deaf and mute, but his disciples did the same. Su Xinghe had no choice but to painfully expel his disciples.

Xue Muhua knew Su Xinghe's good intentions. He was eager to master his martial arts, kill Ding Chunqiu, and be allowed to return to the sect by his master. This led to the strange rule that "those who come to the door for medical treatment must leave behind a unique skill." Now that Ding Chunqiu has been eliminated by Xiao Feng, there is no need to continue to bother him.

Su Xinghe has eight disciples, all of whom are highly skilled craftsmen with profound expertise in their respective fields. Their only drawback is their stubbornness.

Li Zhaoting had no say in the affairs of the Xiaoyao Sect, and Xiao Feng had even less to do. As long as Xue Muhua's medical skills were truly genuine, everything else could be overlooked.

……

With the last stronghold breached, the chaotic cases in Jinan Prefecture came to an end, at least for those in the martial arts world, they could now be completely forgotten.

Wang Yuyan went home to visit her mother.

Li Shengnan followed her home out of curiosity.

Li Zhaoting handed a diary to Chu Liuxiang.

"Brother Chu, remember this lesson! The more calm and collected you appear on the surface, the more likely you are to be a hypocrite. Beneath your handsome appearance lies countless sins."

This diary belongs to Wuhua.

It was hidden inside the wooden fish that Wuhua always carried with him.

The above details Wu Hua's great achievements.

Wuhua's skills, which she learned from the Heavenly Mandate School, were not intended for the Divine Water Palace, but rather for ladies from prominent families, especially those from wealthy and prestigious backgrounds.

Wuhua is a monk, a very famous monk, who can enter a woman's boudoir under the guise of preaching Buddhism, and then use the techniques he learned from Tianming to seduce her.

Few ladies from respectable families can resist temptation.

Once Wuhua succeeds in his schemes, the young ladies will fall into endless traps. Wuhua uses this as leverage to force them to submit, making them use their networks to attract more young ladies, allowing Wuhua to enjoy his pleasures.

Using this skill, Wuhua wove a vast network of relationships within the inner quarters of wealthy families.

These are things that cannot be told to outsiders, but these are the things that Wuhua is most proud of in his life, and are Wuhua's greatest achievements. If he cannot tell others about them, it is like scratching an itch through a boot, and he will always feel a little uncomfortable.

Wuhua could only express these thoughts to herself by writing a diary, recording every detail of the process, as well as the list of ladies from prominent families.

Many people are curious why villains would record their bad deeds, aren't they afraid of being discovered?
They felt it was an honor for them.

A glory that cannot be shared with outsiders.

A glory that outsiders cannot comprehend.

Keeping a diary is a dialogue with yourself, telling yourself how great and wise you are, how you've outsmarted countless clever people...

He truly is the son of Shi Guanyin.

In terms of narcissism, she is no less than Shi Guanyin.

Shi Guanyin's favorite person is herself, and she talks to herself in the mirror every day. Wuhua's favorite person is also herself, and she talks to herself in her diary every day. They are truly mother and son.

This is not an isolated case.

Zhu Wushi also had similar hobbies.

The archives of the Dragon Guard Manor contain records of Zhu Wushi's murder of 108 martial arts masters and his framing of Gu Santong. These records were written by Zhu himself, detailing his rise to power and his great achievements.

Then, Su Xin saw it all.

Su Xin's mental state collapsed, and she broke with Zhu Wushi, using her own brain to completely defeat him.

Zhu Wushi is not the best in the world.

Cheng Shifei is not the best in the world either.

Twenty years of unwavering devotion is truly unparalleled.

Li Zhaoting patted Chu Liuxiang on the shoulder: "Wuhua would never have leaked this matter. This is Wuhua's network of connections. He would never have given it away to someone else empty-handed. Now that Wuhua is dead, this matter is completely over."

Why are you saying these things?

"Of course, we should ask the dashing and charming Chu Xiangshuai to tell the victims that Wuhua is dead, no one can threaten them, and they can start a new life."

"Uh...isn't this inappropriate?"

"If you don't go, do you expect me to go?"

Li Zhaoting made a "beheading" gesture.

Chu Liuxiang gave an awkward smile.

You jinx, just stay home and sleep peacefully!

Do not go out!

The world can't withstand your reckless actions.

……

Jinling recently got a new prefect.

The new prefect is named Shen Rong, who is skilled in both literature and martial arts. According to custom, when a new prefect takes office, the local strongmen will naturally go to pay their respects and find out about the new prefect's background.

The new official took office three fires.

Nobody wants to be put on the barbecue grill by Shen Rong.

"Shen Rong? He looks just like Yin Tianzheng!"

Li Zhaoting casually flipped open the invitation.

A very standard invitation.

It wasn't a trap.

(End of this chapter)