In the martial arts world, he threatens Yin Susu from the start.

In a world of martial arts, the opening scene threatens Yin Susu. Author: Li Shou Qiongqi

Summary:

"Yin Susu, you don't want anything to happen to Zhang Cuishan and Zhang Wuji, do you?"

"Huang Rong, you don't want Xiangyang to fall and Guo Jing to die for the city, do you?"

"Dao Baifeng, you don't want Duan Zhengchun to know that Duan Yu isn't his biological son, do you?"

"Ning Zhongze, you don't want people to know that Yue Buqun castrated herself to practice the Evil-Repelling Sword Technique, do you?"

Lu Xiaofeng: "Every time I solve a case, there is a sense of mystery, as if there is an even deeper mastermind behind the mastermind."

Zhu ignored him: "If you let Su Xin go, I'll agree to anything you ask."

Shi Feixuan: "For the sake of the world, I have no choice but to feed the demon with my own body. What? You want my master to do it too?"

Wei Xiaobao: "It wasn't enough that you stole one of my wives, you actually want to take everything with you? You won't even leave me the treasure."

Gu Hanyuan: "Protagonists, supporting characters, even villains are all my leeks. I harvest one crop and another grows back. Opportunities, wealth, beauties, you name it, I have it all, because I am the biggest villain." He changed his hairstyle with hair gel, "From now on, I will stand high above the heavens."

P.S.: This story leans towards evil and involves a mastermind behind the scenes.

Chapter 1: Transmigrating to a Martial Arts World, I Want to Be the Villain

A major event is taking place on Mount Wudang. It turns out that Zhang Cuishan, who has been away from the Central Plains for 16 years (10 years in the original novel), has returned with his wife Yin Susu.

In the main hall, Zhang Sanfeng and Zhang Cuishan were enacting a scene of holding hands and gazing at each other with tearful eyes, while in the corner, a third-generation disciple who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in a disciple's robe, with his hair in a topknot, had a handsome face and a hint of bewilderment on his refined features, was watching everything that was happening in front of him.

If you ignore the bewildered expression on his face, he does deserve to be called a handsome young man.

Gu Hanyuan never expected that he would encounter the legendary time travel event when he woke up, and the scene in front of him looked very familiar.

The elderly man at the head of the group was tall with silver hair and beard, and his face was rosy and smooth, resembling the legendary white-haired, youthful-looking man. He was none other than Zhang Sanfeng, the founder of the Wudang School.

The five people behind Zhang Sanfeng were all full of energy and had extraordinary bearing. They should be the five of the Seven Heroes of Wudang, excluding Zhang Cuishan and Yu Daiyan.

The other protagonist in the scene had a scholarly air about him, a slender figure, and a handsome face; it was Zhang Cuishan. His appearance was completely different from the other five heroes present, which explained why Zhang Sanfeng doted on this fifth disciple the most.

Of course, what attracted Gu Hanyuan's attention the most was the beautiful woman behind Zhang Cuishan. Her face was slightly thin, her eyebrows were straight and arched, and when she smiled, a shallow dimple appeared on her left cheek. Although she was already a woman, she did not show any signs of aging; instead, she possessed a mature charm.

The woman was none other than Zhang Cuishan's wife, Yin Susu. Although she looked slightly nervous, it did not diminish her charm in the slightest. She was even more beautiful than the internet celebrities photographed with various beauty cameras, especially with her natural, unadorned, and pure beauty. No wonder Gu Hanyuan was stunned.

Yin Susu seemed to sense Gu Hanyuan's somewhat impolite gaze, her brows furrowing slightly. Turning her head to look, she saw a handsome young Taoist priest, and her mood improved somewhat. Indeed, no matter where you are, it's a world that judges by appearances.

However, being scrutinized like that for so long, she felt a mix of pride in her undiminished charm despite her age and dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, this wasn't the time to lash out; after years of being a wife and mother, the ruthlessness and willfulness of her youth had been worn away. Just then, Zhang Sanfeng started talking to her, so she had no choice but to pretend not to see Gu Hanyuan's gaze.

Although Gu Hanyuan's gaze was drawn to Yin Susu, he didn't stare at her for too long without restraint. In fact, if you looked closely, you would find that his focus was not on Yin Susu.

It turns out that Gu Hanyuan had just awakened his timely cheat ability—the Great Villain System.

This system doesn't issue various tasks, nor does it have any punishments like elimination. The setup is very simple: you can get a rating by completing villainous actions, and the higher the rating, the more villain points you get.

Villain points can not only be exchanged for various martial arts skills and items, directly improving cultivation levels, but also used for deduction based on requirements to obtain items that meet one's desires. Simply put, with enough villain points, it's no different from making a wish; even cultivating immortality in the martial arts world isn't difficult.

The system even provides helpful tips: villains and protagonists are on opposite sides, and things related to the protagonist are more likely to receive high ratings.

After pondering for a moment, Gu Hanyuan realized the feasibility of it. The protagonist's opportunities and marriages were all his prey, like leeks to be harvested. Given the protagonist's nature, he would inevitably harvest one crop only to have another grow back.

Thinking outside the box, it's not just the main characters; supporting characters can also be exploited. And if planned properly, even the original villains can become victims.

Gu Hanyuan's eyes were deep and unfathomable as he decided to replace all the villains and become the ultimate villain.

Looking at Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu in the arena, his mind raced.

"Since the protagonist Zhang Wuji is not here, I'll use you as my first test subjects. As the protagonist's parents, it's both reasonable and logical for you to be part of the villain's goal."

Zhang Cuishan was overjoyed at reuniting with his master and fellow disciples when he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine. Yin Susu also subconsciously rubbed her arms, leading Zhang Sanfeng and the others to believe that the two had caught a cold from their long journey.

Soon the two were taken to rest, and the group dispersed. However, since Zhang Sanfeng's 100th birthday was approaching, everyone still had their own tasks to complete.

Gu Hanyuan discovered that he had already been brought to this world by the system. However, due to the mystery of his birth, he hadn't been able to awaken his past life memories. Although he was somewhat curious about how he died in his previous life, gathering information was more important now.

Gu Hanyuan subtly probed several of his younger junior brothers and finally understood the situation, but many unexpected things happened as well.

First of all, this world is not the world of "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" that was originally thought to be, but a crossover martial arts world that integrates multiple martial arts worlds. There is Qiao Feng who can subdue dragons with his palm, Guo Jing and Huang Rong who guard Xiangyang, and even the Iron-Blooded Marquis who dominates the martial arts world and Lu Xiaofeng with four eyebrows.

Secondly, this world is much larger than the original world, with numerous countries and a chaotic mix of place names. It includes three Central Plains dynasties—Song, Ming, and Sui—as well as smaller foreign dynasties such as Jin, Qing, Mongol, and Western Xia.

While Gu Hanyuan was deeply troubled by the chaotic situation, the good news was that there were suddenly many more people to exploit.

Besides that, there's the intelligence closely related to himself. Gu Hanyuan was a disciple that Yu Daiyan, one of the Seven Heroes of Wudang, took in by chance after he became crippled. However, because Yu Daiyan was already crippled, he didn't care at all about teaching Gu Hanyuan martial arts. Fortunately, Song Yuanqiao, as the acting sect leader, made an exception and allowed Gu Hanyuan to go to the library to look at the secret manuals, although he couldn't take them out of the library.

Having a master to teach you in the martial arts world is completely different from not having one. It's extremely rare to master martial arts simply by possessing a manual. The most typical example is Mei Chaofeng, who forcibly turned the "Destroying Claw" into the "Nine Yin White Bone Claw." No wonder Gu Hanyuan's original form didn't cultivate internal energy.

Because he had no master to examine him and rarely sparred with his fellow disciples, the entire Wudang Mountain was unaware of Gu Hanyuan's martial arts skills. Although Gu Hanyuan was handsome, he was usually taciturn and wore the standard disciple's robe, making him almost invisible.

Having obtained sufficient intelligence, Gu Hanyuan, upon having some free time, first went to pay a visit to his nominal master, Yu Daiyan. As expected, Yu Daiyan was bedridden and emaciated, showing little interest in Gu Hanyuan's visit.

After offering a few perfunctory words of concern, I noticed Yu Daiyan's gloomy expression, clearly troubled. He'd probably already met with Zhang Cuishan and his wife and recognized Yin Susu, the woman who had attacked me with the poisoned needle years ago. However, given the current calm atmosphere, he was probably keeping the matter quiet out of brotherly loyalty, but like a suppressed volcano, it was bound to erupt sooner or later.

Chapter 2: First Steps in Martial Arts, A Night Meeting with Yin Susu

After bidding farewell to Yu Daiyan, Gu Hanyuan decided to visit the library first. Having finally come to a martial arts world, it was impossible not to be curious about martial arts, yet he had no memory of any martial arts at all.

After revealing his identity to the elder guarding the library, Gu Hanyuan was able to enter the library without any problems.

It's worth mentioning that the elder on duty today is named Shi He, who is Mu Daoren's disciple. Mu Daoren was accepted as a disciple by Zhang Sanfeng on behalf of his master, and according to seniority, Gu Hanyuan should call him Grandmaster Uncle.

Suppressing his unease about the complexities of the martial arts world, Gu Hanyuan began to examine the library. The library had three floors. The first floor mainly contained various Taoist scriptures. The second floor held a variety of martial arts manuals, including internal energy cultivation techniques, external martial arts moves, and lightness skills. The third floor was locked, and Gu Hanyuan was not authorized to enter.

The second floor of the library contains a wide variety of martial arts manuals, filling five rows of bookshelves. Most of them were written by Zhang Sanfeng, while the rest were left by the elders who taught martial arts, and they were of varying quality.

As expected of the Wudang School, founded by Zhang Sanfeng, who was able to establish a school of Taoism, it is already no less than Shaolin in terms of lineage alone.

Gu Hanyuan flipped through the manuals, reading them one by one, and discovered that he had a photographic memory and could learn martial arts moves at a glance.

A glance at his personal status on the system revealed a new row of various moves, all at the beginner level. Above these were realms such as Proficient, Master, Minor Success, Major Success, Perfection, and Transcendent. To improve, besides practicing and comprehending more, one could also increase their villain points. Unfortunately, Gu Hanyuan's villain points were still a pitiful 0 at this moment.

After reading through all the manuals, Gu Hanyuan found that most of them were useless. They were either low-level martial arts developed by Zhang Sanfeng in his early days, or martial arts left behind by elders who had taught their masters.

Some of the more useful skills include the internal skill "Wudang Nine Yang Skill", the light skill "Ladder Cloud Leap", the palm techniques "Cotton Palm" and "Mountain Shaking Palm", the knife technique "Mysterious Void Knife Technique", the sword techniques "Circling Finger Soft Sword" and "Thirteen Swords of the Divine Gate", and the hidden weapon "Hibiscus Golden Needle".

As for the several unique skills, such as "Pure Yang Limitless Skill", "Tiger Claw Hand", "Heavenly Dragon Slaying Skill", "Flowing Cloud Flying Sleeve", as well as Mu Daoren's "Spirit Jade Heart Method" and "Two Elements Divine Sword", they are probably all on the third level and can only be learned by direct disciples.

Although Gu Hanyuan was somewhat disappointed that he couldn't learn the ultimate techniques, he was still content. Moreover, because he learned quickly, he had learned all the secret manuals on the second floor in less than two hours. He thought that maybe in the future, when he learned more martial arts, he would be able to play the game of "using their own methods against them".

External martial arts techniques and lightness skills are difficult to use in the library, but internal martial arts can be tried.

Gu Hanyuan activated the "Wudang Nine Yang Skill" mental technique and quickly felt a wisp of energy flowing through his meridians. After circulating the energy along its path, it strengthened and flowed into his dantian. He easily entered the early stage of the Acquired Realm.

The realms in this world are divided into Acquired, Innate, Grandmaster, Great Grandmaster, Land Immortal, and the legendary Void Shattering. Each realm is further divided into four levels: Early Stage, Middle Stage, Late Stage, and Peak.

After being excited for a moment because he had gained his first bit of internal energy, Gu Hanyuan intended to continue practicing his skills, but the feeling of hunger in his stomach interrupted his thoughts.

Feeling the hunger in his stomach, even experiencing some cramps, Gu Hanyuan guessed that his internal energy wasn't generated out of thin air, but rather transformed from the body's energy. "The poor study literature, the rich study martial arts"—the ancients were right. As for whether this only applies to the acquired realm, or whether it applies to later realms, that remains to be seen.

Gu Hanyuan, enduring his hunger, reluctantly walked out of the library. After thanking Elder Shihe on duty, he went to find food in the canteen.

Shi He looked at Gu Hanyuan's back with slight doubt, feeling that he seemed to have changed a bit from before.

Is it because I've gained more confidence?

Unable to understand, Shi He shook his head and gave up in despair.

After dinner, Gu Hanyuan did not go straight back to his room to rest, but instead wandered around.

As for dinner, there's not much to say. In this era of scarce seasonings, it was hard for him to adapt. If he weren't starving, he probably would have needed to mentally prepare himself before he could eat.

Before long, Gu Hanyuan found the courtyard where Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu lived, which Song Yuanqiao had always reserved for Zhang Cuishan.

Because Zhang Cuishan was only in his early twenties when he went to Icefire Island and had not taken on any apprentices, the courtyard was very quiet and secluded.

Yu Daiyan's courtyard wasn't much better than Zhang Cuishan's. Although he had taken on a few disciples, most of them were there to take care of his daily life. Few were willing to become his disciples if he didn't teach them martial arts. However, thanks to Yu Daiyan, Gu Hanyuan had his own private room. In contrast, courtyards with many disciples like Song Yuanqiao and Yu Lianzhou required several people to squeeze into a single room.

The quietness of the two courtyards pleased Gu Hanyuan greatly. Even with his current low level of martial arts skills, he could easily sneak into Zhang Cuishan's courtyard at night. Furthermore, he had learned on the way that Zhang Cuishan would be having a long talk with his fellow disciples, whom he hadn't seen for many years, and wouldn't be returning to his room to rest.

Gu Hanyuan knew his chance had come.

He returned to his room and waited for night to fall.

Several hours later, it was almost midnight.

Gu Hanyuan quietly left the room. Fortunately, he did not attract anyone's attention on the way and successfully entered Zhang Cuishan's courtyard.

Finding Zhang Cuishan and Yin Susu's room was easy, as only one room in the entire courtyard still had candlelight, reflecting Yin Susu's slender figure. Of course, Yin Susu was alone in the room at this time, presumably because her encounter with Yu Daiyan during the day had left her restless and unable to sleep.

When Gu Hanyuan reached the door of the side room, he could see figures moving inside, clearly indicating that Yin Susu had sensed someone approaching. After all, she was a master of the Innate Realm, so it wasn't surprising that she could detect Gu Hanyuan.

Gu Hanyuan reached out and gently knocked on the door a few times, and a woman's voice came from inside.

"who is it?"

"Fifth Aunt, my name is Gu Hanyuan, and my master is Yu Daiyan. We have important matters to discuss with you."

Yin Susu, who was in the side room, was originally unwilling to open the door for the man late at night, but when she heard Gu Hanyuan mention Yu Daiyan, who made her uneasy, she hesitated for a moment and then opened the door.

"It's you?"

Yin Susu clearly still remembered Gu Hanyuan who had scrutinized her during the day, and exclaimed in surprise. Given what had happened then, she became more wary, and her expression turned cold.

"What do you want from me?"