The Condor Heroes: The Quanzhen Sect has produced a vengeful master!

Outside Xiangyang City, Lu Qingdu and the others temporarily parted ways with Wang Jiuling.

The Quanzhen School has gained a new True Person, and this is something that should naturally be announced to all Taoist sects throughout the land.

Although this matter did not require Wang Jiuling to personally run around.

But since he was passing by, even if he couldn't attend to it himself, he should at least send someone to pay his respects.

Just a hundred or two miles from Xiangyang is Wudang Mountain, where there are some Taoist temples.

Lu Qingdu and the others headed towards Wudang Mountain, while Wang Jiuling went to find that valley.

With a map in his hand, Wang Jiuling traveled to a place about twenty or thirty miles outside Xiangyang City.

That's how we found that valley.

The area is lush with trees, and the road leading into the valley is extremely steep.

Wang Jiuling used the Golden Goose Technique and quickly entered the valley.

After searching the valley for several days, they found neither the Divine Eagle nor the Sword Tomb, but instead found the Bodhi Serpent.

However, this snake is not easy to catch.

They often move between rocks, are incredibly fast, and are very good at making use of narrow terrain.

On this day, Wang Jiuling finally figured out the habits of the Bosqu snake and found its favorite food as bait.

He himself was hidden in the tree above the bait.

Until the two Bosphorus snakes approached their prey.

He fell from the tree, channeled his inner energy, and unleashed a powerful and forceful palm strike to the ground.

boom!

Instantly, dirt and stones flew everywhere, and the two Bodhi snakes were slapped until they were covered in blood, their scales flattened.

Wang Jiuling landed smoothly, looked at the snake carcass on the ground, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ha! They're really hard to catch!"

Wang Jiuling took out the two snake gallbladders.

Just then, the sky darkened, and Wang Jiuling looked up to see a magnificent eagle swooping down from above the cliff.

After circling once above Wang Jiuling's head, it landed in the distance.

A pair of yellowish-brown eyes were fixed on the snake gall in Wang Jiuling's hand.

Wang Jiuling's eyes lit up.

Isn't this the Divine Eagle?

Wang Jiuling looked at the snake gall in his hand and smiled at the Divine Eagle.

"You want this?"

The divine eagle paused for a moment, then opened its beak and let out a cry.

Wang Jiuling was not stingy either; he threw one of the snake gall bladders to the Divine Eagle, which caught it with its mouth.

Wang Jiuling also looked up and swallowed the snake gall in one gulp.

A foul and bitter smell immediately made Wang Jiuling frown.

Wang Jiuling didn't care about this. He immediately sat down and circulated his true energy throughout his body, feeling a warm sensation in his lower dantian.

The snake gall began to take effect, nourishing his body.

Wang Jiuling opened his eyes, got up and looked at the Divine Eagle, only to find that the Divine Eagle was using its beak to apply the juice of snake gall to a wound on its wing.

However, the location of the wound made it somewhat difficult for the bird's beak to reach it.

Wang Jiuling looked at the wound oozing dark blood. "You need this snake gall to detoxify?"

Wang Jiuling recalled that in the original story, The Return of the Condor Heroes had a giant serpent enemy. Looking at the shape of the wound, Wang Jiuling understood.

The Divine Eagle let out a strange cry, indicating its agreement.

Looking at the giant eagle, which resembled a person, Wang Jiuling found it somewhat amusing.

"How about this, we'll catch that snake together, and I'll treat your wounds, okay?"

The Divine Eagle took a long time to react before hesitantly letting out a cry.

Wang Jiuling didn't know if the Divine Condor understood, but the two of them really did have some tacit understanding.

Next, Wang Jiuling followed the Divine Eagle for seven or eight days.

Working together, one person and one eagle, to catch snakes significantly improves efficiency.

Seven or eight days later, he estimated that he had eaten about twenty or thirty pills, his true energy had increased by about 20%, and his Nine Yang Divine Skill had successfully broken through another major acupoint.

This truly surprised and delighted Wang Jiuling.

Although Wang Jiuling's internal strength didn't double like Yang Guo's in the original story, it's important to know that Wang Jiuling's foundation in internal strength was on a completely different level from Yang Guo's.

This progress is already a pleasant surprise.

Yesterday, Wang Jiuling even helped the Divine Eagle defeat its nemesis.

That's the giant venomous python.

"Brother Eagle! No wonder you are so strong; you must often eat the rare delicacies of this valley!"

Wang Jiuling couldn't help but sigh. At that moment, the Divine Eagle cried out and gestured for him to follow with its beak.

Wang Jiuling used his lightness skill to follow behind the Divine Eagle, and soon discovered that there was a hidden deep valley in the valley.

Wang Jiuling already had a guess in his mind.

When the Divine Eagle led him into the deep valley, he looked up at the rock wall of the valley and saw a stone platform on the high rock wall.

Wang Jiuling took a closer look.

The words "Sword Tomb" are engraved on it.

It looks like a stone plaque.

Looking down, there was a cave, but it was about fifty or sixty feet above the ground.

The divine eagle circled overhead, crying out. It wanted Wang Jiuling to come up, but didn't come down to pick him up, as if it wanted to test him.

Wang Jiuling chuckled.

"Brother Eagle, a cliff is no challenge for me!"

Having said that, he mustered his strength, activated the Golden Goose Skill, and headed towards the top of the cliff.

The innate Nine Yang True Qi gave Wang Jiuling inexhaustible strength. He kept tapping his toes on the protruding points on the cliff, his body flashing and shifting.

The sheer cliffs, some tens of meters high, posed no obstacle whatsoever.

Before long, he landed on the platform in front of the cave.

"Brother Eagle!"

Wang Jiuling turned around, and the Divine Eagle landed beside him.

As the man and the eagle entered the cave, Wang Jiuling finally saw the legendary Dugu Sword Tomb.

Wang Jiuling examined the three swords in the sword tomb one by one.

A rapier, a heavy sword made of black iron, and a wooden sword.

At the condor's signal, Wang Jiuling picked up the heavy sword.

He certainly didn't exert himself as much as Yang Guo, but according to Wang Jiuling's estimate, the sword weighed at least seventy or eighty pounds.

"A heavy sword has no edge; great skill appears effortless."

Wang Jiuling read these eight words aloud, smiled, and then put the heavy sword down.

"Brother Diao, this heavy sword is indeed good, but Senior Dugu used it to roam the world."

"But I am not Senior Dugu after all; I have my own path to walk."

Although the heavy sword is good, Wang Jiuling will not abandon the Quanzhen Sword Technique for the sake of the heavy sword.

The worst thing you can do when practicing martial arts is to be fickle; otherwise, you'll end up mastering nothing.

The Condor Heroes seemed somewhat dissatisfied and puzzled that Wang Jiuling refused to use the heavy sword.

But soon, this misunderstanding vanished.

Just like in the original story, Wang Jiuling had the Condor Heroes compete with him in martial arts.

This was Wang Jiuling's true purpose.

This divine eagle followed the Sword Demon in the past, and every move it made carried the Sword Demon's sword intent.

Wang Jiuling sparred with the Divine Condor, using the Quanzhen Sword Technique, while the Divine Condor's moves were ever-changing.

Bird claws, beaks, wings, even the strong winds whipped up by the wings.

When Wang Jiuling first sparred with it, he was instead left somewhat bewildered by its haphazard attacks.

But Wang Jiuling was indeed exceptionally talented.

He quickly began to grasp that bit of sword intent from the Divine Eagle's moves.

On the first day, although Wang Jiuling's Quanzhen swordsmanship was varied, it was still somewhat rigid and within the framework.

On the third day, Wang Jiuling was already trying to completely dismantle the Quanzhen Swordplay, no longer adhering to any particular move or style.

On the seventh day, Wang Jiuling's swordsmanship began to change.

One month later.

Wang Jiuling's Quanzhen swordsmanship was no longer as exquisite as it appeared. If one did not look closely, one would think that his sword was crooked and twisted, just like those fourth-generation disciples who were just learning swordsmanship.

However, the Divine Condor was already finding it difficult to cope with Wang Jiuling's swordsmanship.

It could no longer defeat Wang Jiuling with its moves alone, and could only use its divine power and enormous body to assist in the attack.

Wang Jiuling has been constantly trying to grasp the essence of the Divine Condor's moves, and he has now made some initial progress.

What he comprehended was the sword intent of The Return of the Condor Heroes, or rather, the sword intent of Dugu Qiubai: "No moves are better than moves, no sword is better than a sword."

In this way, he can draw inferences from one instance to another, allowing him to take his swordsmanship to the next level and reach unprecedented heights.

The saying goes, "Those who learn from me will live, those who imitate me will die."

If he blindly imitates Dugu Qiubai, no matter how well he imitates him, he will still be Dugu Qiubai, not Wang Jiuling.

On this day, on the stone platform in front of the Sword Tomb.

Wang Jiuling stood with his hands behind his back.

"Brother Eagle, my swordsmanship is now complete, but my worldly ties are not yet severed. I cannot live in seclusion here like you. It is time for me to leave."

"If you're willing, why don't you come with me? If you're not, I'll definitely come back to see you in the future."

The Divine Eagle looked at Wang Jiuling for a long time, then leaned back and half of its body entered the cave.

Wang Jiuling knew it didn't want to leave, so he didn't force it.

"In that case, Brother Eagle, until we meet again!"

The Divine Condor did not see Wang Jiuling off, but watched him until he disappeared from sight without leaving the place.

The enormous bird's eyes stared into the distance, seemingly lost in thought.

On the other side, Wang Jiuling walked out of the valley and felt that his internal energy was exceptionally strong, and he felt light and healthy. He had never felt so good.

He let out a long roar, his true energy surging and echoing through the mountains and forests, startling birds into flight.

"Hehe, I lack nothing now."

...

A few days later, in a teahouse in a small town in Junzhou.

The two wandering swordsmen discussed things while drinking tea.

"Have you heard? Someone saw Li Mochou, the Red-Lian Fairy, in the city!"

"Really? Oh dear! We'd better stay far away! Lest we provoke that she-devil!"

As the two were discussing, a Taoist priest in blue robes at the next table put down his teacup and turned around.

"Brothers! Where did you get your information about Li Mochou?"

"May I speak with you?"

(Was the pace of these two chapters a bit too fast? There might be some things you didn't understand. What do you think?)