Huang Rong from The Return of the Condor Heroes: Guo'er, calm down.

Zhao Zhijing frowned, his gaze sharp as he swept over the injured disciples.

He walked up to a disciple with a severed hand and reached out to pinch the broken bone.

"Comminuted fracture."

Zhao Zhijing was startled.

This force, fierce and domineering, is definitely not the style of the Quanzhen School. Quanzhen martial arts emphasize balance and tranquility, with subtle strength hidden beneath a gentle touch; they would never employ such brute force purely for destruction.

He then examined the bruises on the chest of another person.

The mark from that punch was clear and deeply embedded in the flesh, indicating that internal force had penetrated the body with a single blow.

"What powerful punches!"

Zhao Zhijing straightened up, his eyes filled with surprise and doubt. "Where did this kid learn such skills?"

He turned to look at Lu Qingdu: "You just said his movements were strange?"

"Yes!" Lu Qingdu nodded repeatedly. "He rolls around on the ground like a snake or a mouse, so slippery you can't touch him. Our swords can't hit him at all!"

Zhao Zhijing squinted and tapped his fingers lightly on the table.

Fierce fist techniques... unpredictable movement techniques...

This was definitely not taught by Yin Zhiping. He knew Yin Zhiping's skills very well; he couldn't possibly have taught a disciple like this.

"Besides these, what else?" Zhao Zhijing asked in a deep voice. "Tell me everything in detail. If you dare to leave out a single word, I'll skin you alive!"

Lu Qingdu shuddered and quickly recounted the events with embellishments.

Of course, he concealed the fact that he had provoked Yang Guo first, and only said that he went to patrol the back mountain, found Yang Guo acting suspiciously, and wanted to question him, but ended up being beaten.

As he finished speaking, Lu Qingdu lowered his voice and his expression became mysterious.

"Master, that's not the most important thing."

"What is that?"

"Yang Guo... he's colluding with the Ancient Tomb Sect!"

Zhao Zhijing's pupils constricted sharply: "What did you say?"

"I saw it with my own eyes!" Lu Qingdu swore to the heavens, "Just when I was about to be beaten to death by that little beast, a woman in white flew out from the boundary marker of the forbidden area behind the mountain! That woman was highly skilled in martial arts; she saved Yang Guo with just a white silk ribbon and even brought him back to the Ancient Tomb!"

"The woman in white..."

Zhao Zhijing muttered to himself, quickly searching his mind for rumors about the Ancient Tomb Sect.

The Quanzhen Sect and the Ancient Tomb Sect lived next to each other. Although they did not interact, they knew some of each other's secrets. It was said that an extremely mysterious woman lived in the ancient tomb, namely the "Little Dragon Girl," whose martial arts skills were unfathomable.

"Did you see clearly?" Zhao Zhijing stared at Lu Qingdu.

"I saw it clearly! She definitely came from the forbidden area!" Lu Qingdu said with certainty. "Moreover, Yang Guo was very intimate with her, and the woman even protected him! Master, think about it, where did Yang Guo get his demonic magic? He must have secretly learned it in the Ancient Tomb!"

"Good! Good! Good!"

Zhao Zhijing suddenly said "good" three times in a row, his face beaming with joy.

He paced back and forth in the main hall, his steps light and quick.

"Yin Zhiping, Yin Zhiping, let's see how you pretend to be high and mighty this time!"

Zhao Zhijing suddenly stopped and turned to look at Lu Qingdu.

"Qingdu, you got a good beating!"

Lu Qingdu was stunned, then covered his face and said aggrievedly, "Master, this... this is what you call worth it?"

"idiot!"

Zhao Zhijing cursed, but the anger in his voice had vanished. "Think about it, what is the first rule of the Quanzhen Sect?"

Lu Qingdu thought for a moment: "Shouldn't we be forbidden from betraying our master and ancestors?"

"That's obvious!" Zhao Zhijing said, exasperated. "About the back mountain!"

"Oh! The forbidden area in the back mountain was designated by Patriarch Chongyang. Quanzhen disciples are not allowed to enter without permission, and they are even more forbidden to associate with people from the Ancient Tomb Sect!" Lu Qingdu recited it fluently.

"That's right."

Zhao Zhijing sneered, "Although Yang Guo has the sect leader's token, allowing him to enter and leave the forbidden area, he has also befriended a vixen, secretly learned outer sect martial arts, and even injured a fellow disciple! Aren't these charges enough to expel him from the sect?"

"Enough! That's enough!" Lu Qingdu exclaimed excitedly. "Not only should he be expelled from the sect, but his martial arts should also be crippled!"

"shallow."

Zhao Zhijing waved his hand, a calculating glint in his eyes. "Yang Guo is just a minor character. What's the point of crippling him? What we're after is the big fish."

"A big fish?" Lu Qingdu asked, puzzled.

"Who was Yang Guo's disciple?"

"Uncle Yin."

"That's it." Zhao Zhijing sat back in his chair, his fingers lightly tracing the rim of his teacup. "If a disciple commits a heinous crime, can the master escape responsibility? A teacher's negligence is a fault. Yin Zhiping, as Yang Guo's master, has raised such a rebellious disciple who colludes with foreign enemies and harms fellow disciples. What face does he have to contend for the position of sect leader?"

Lu Qingdu suddenly understood and gave a thumbs up: "Master is brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! This is called killing two birds with one stone!"

Zhao Zhijing smiled smugly.

This is practically God giving him a handle to use against him.

Yin Zhiping was a very cautious man, meticulous in everything he did. Zhao Zhijing had been looking for faults with him for so many years, but he couldn't find anything substantial wrong with him.

But this time it's different.

The Quanzhen School values ​​reputation and rules above all else.

Having an ambiguous relationship with the Ancient Tomb Sect was a major taboo for Wang Chongyang, the founder of the sect.

"Qingdu, listen carefully."

Zhao Zhijing's smile faded, and he said seriously, "Don't make this public for now. Don't let anyone else know."

"Huh? Aren't you going to tell the Sect Leader?"

"It's not time yet."

Zhao Zhijing shook his head. "If we go to file a complaint now, Yin Zhiping can simply say he was unaware of the situation, at most it's a case of negligence. What we need to do is solidify the charge, preferably by catching him in the act!"