The Great Martial Arts World: Hot Topics and Great Heroes

Meanwhile, in a back alley of the capital, Lao Denuo, dressed in simple disguise and with his head shaved, had just found out the whereabouts of the Zhenyuan Escort Agency's goods and was about to head there when he suddenly felt a chill on his neck. A sword blade had been placed against his neck from behind.

"Laudeno, you've made it so hard for your master to find you!" Yue Buqun's voice rang out, though he too had simply changed his appearance.

"Master, Master, I was confused for a moment, that's why..." Laudenuo wanted to make up some more details.

"Hehe, you're not confused. If I hadn't followed you for so long, I really wouldn't have guessed. No wonder the sword manual disappeared after you went there. It wasn't hidden in the escort agency, but in the shipment of the Zhenyuan Escort Agency where we stayed! What, aren't you going to take me there?"

Chapter 452 Large-scale Jianghu-style Death Scene

Everything proceeded according to plan, and Linghu Chong, Ning Zhongze, Xiao Guizi, and Kangxi, a total of twenty-five people, were ambushed in various places in the backyard of the royal treasury...

The items that Zhenyuan Escort Agency brought back from Fuzhou are displayed here!

To avoid suspicion, these eight "Deadly Acupuncture Point Piercing Cones" were still mixed in with a batch of red goods.

Of course, this was actually another layer of deception, and Ao Bai was also "concealed" in this layer.

Sure enough, that afternoon, the Black Hawk team was about to search the royal treasury, but Zhang Zhaozhong and his men firmly stopped them...

Iron Tiger, the leader of the Black Hawk team, actually looked down on Zhang Zhaozhong, this Han Chinese lackey. However, Zhang Zhaozhong's martial arts skills were undeniable, and he was determined not to let anyone in. Iron Tiger had no choice but to angrily send someone to report to the Junior Protector, while he himself continued to lead his men to block the outside, not allowing anyone to enter or leave.

According to the script, Zhang Zhaozhong refused Tie Hu entry on the grounds that royal private items were not to be leaked.

It's likely that Ao Bai will later use the excuse that "the safety of the royal family is his inescapable responsibility" to forcefully demand to see it...

As long as Ao Bai comes, Zhang Zhaozhong will feign reluctance before agreeing to let Ao Bai come in alone with his accompaniment!

As soon as Ao Bai arrived in the backyard, everyone swarmed him and, before the Black Hawk team could realize something was wrong and cause a major disturbance, either killed or captured him.

Fortunately, Ao Bai's kung fu was not based on perception, otherwise it would have been difficult to set up an ambush.

As dusk was just beginning to fall, a whooshing sound suddenly rang out. Everyone immediately perked up, but a sense of unease lingered in their hearts—something seemed amiss. Could Ao Bai really be sneaking in?

This is not in Ao Bai's character. Moreover, given Ao Bai's current immense power, why would he need to do it secretly?

Then everyone realized the identity of the newcomer—it was indeed not Ao Bai, and most of the people present recognized him!

In the next instant, Chu Luren reacted swiftly, using two invisible finger strikes to immediately seal the acupoints of Linghu Chong and Ning Zhongze beside him.

Indeed, the arrival of the person who surprised everyone was Yue Buqun, but Linghu Chong and Ning Zhongze were particularly surprised!

Chu Luren gestured for the two to be quiet. Linghu Chong and Ning Zhongze understood that Chu Luren was worried about alerting the enemy. After all, if something happened now and alerted the Black Hawk Team outside, it would ruin everything.

However... they were filled with confusion as to why Yue Buqun was there.

The others were even more confused as to why Yue Buqun was there, but they all tacitly continued to lie in ambush, hoping he would leave as soon as possible!

At this moment, Yue Buqun was carrying a person with both legs severed under his arm, which he then threw on the ground. Although he hadn't seen who the person was yet, his behavior was completely different from his usual "gentleman swordsman" persona.

The man let out a muffled cry of pain, and many people then realized that the man with the broken leg was none other than Lao Denuo, the second disciple of the Huashan Sect who had been claimed to be missing!

Linghu Chong and Ning Zhongze were even more surprised, with the latter turning pale and appearing somewhat anxious. Unfortunately, she had already been acupunctured and could not make a sound. As for the others, they were more concerned with "important matters" and decided to "quietly observe."

"We've arrived. Now you can tell me, right? Where did you hide the Evil-Repelling Sword Technique?" Yue Buqun asked coldly.

Linghu Chong and Ning Zhongze: !!!

"Wow!" Chu Luren exclaimed. "Wow, that's really amazing!"

At this moment, Chu Luren also remembered what Lin Pingzhi had told him. After he put the sword manual in the room, Lao Denuo took the bait. However... Yue Buqun also took the bait. In the end, Lao Denuo went first and Yue Buqun went last. When the two left the backyard together, neither of them was wearing a cassock.

Lin Pingzhi speculated that Laudenuo had obtained it, since it was the advanced technology he had, and Laudenuo did indeed disappear afterward.

However, it seems that after Laudenuo got the cassock, he didn't have time to leave and was blocked by Yue Buqun. After that... he hid in the shipment that Zhenyuan Escort Agency had taken on.

It turned out to be this very escort mission—Chu Luren remembered that when he left Fuzhou, the escort team that carried the coffin had taken on another mission that was heading back to their base camp!

When Xiao Guizi mentioned it, Chu Luren felt the name was somewhat familiar, and he didn't expect it to be from the same trip...

It now seems that Lao Denuo's disappearance was not because he had obtained the sword manual, but because he was worried that he had been exposed and that Yue Buqun would interrogate him, or perhaps he wanted to retrieve the cassock, so he followed Yue Buqun northward.

Unfortunately, he still couldn't escape Yue Buqun's grasp in the end!

Judging from the fact that his legs were only hastily bandaged, he must have been captured by Yue Buqun not long ago.

Looking at Ning Zhongze, Chu Luren guessed that she had also noticed something unusual about her husband, which was why she followed him to Manjing.

"Hahahaha... Yue Buqun, you really are willing to do anything for your disciple's family sword technique?" Lao Denuo seemed unable to make a loud sound, clearly having had half of his acupoints silenced.

"Don't you want either of your arms?" Yue Buqun ignored him.

"Aren't you...aren't you afraid that Alliance Leader Zuo will cause you trouble?" Laudenuo said resentfully.

"Afraid? Ha, I'm terribly afraid. Otherwise, why would I tolerate you, Zuo Lengchan's disciple, staying by my side for so many years?" Yue Buqun sneered.

"So... you knew all along?" Laudenau was taken aback by his words.

Yue Buqun revealed a confident expression, facing the several hidden "audience members" in front of him, who could clearly see his lifelike "performance".

Suddenly, Laudenuo's expression changed again, and he said, "It was you! You were the one who killed Lu Dayou in Hengshan!"

Upon hearing this, Linghu Chong and Ning Zhongze turned pale, and many of the others gasped in shock. However... Yue Buqun was probably too smug, and fortunately, the wind was strong that night, so they were not discovered.

Upon hearing this, Yue Buqun toned down his smugness and sighed, "Not bad! Alas... it's a pity. By the time I discovered that you had drugged that little beast and Lu Hou'er, it was already too late. Lu Hou'er's mind was unstable, and he had already committed a wrong. How could I bear to damage the reputation of my fellow practitioners in Hengshan? I had no choice but to painfully clean house and secretly inform that little beast about your affair."

Although his tone was full of emotion and even compassion, what he said sent chills down one's spine!

At this moment, Yue Buqun was clearly still full of pride and actually said bluntly, "I've never heard of villains dying from talking too much."

Chu Luren had also figured out what was going on with Hengshan in his mind!

It turns out that the Hengshan disciple who died was not defiled by a villain, but rather had intercourse with Lu Dayou under the influence of aphrodisiac drugs.

The Hengshan Sect was all women, so they probably didn't examine Lu Dayou's body carefully.

According to Laudenuo's plan, Linghu Chong and Yilin will also have some kind of... thing happen between them.

As for the purpose, it goes without saying that it is nothing more than to provoke trouble if possible, and if it fails, it can at least ruin the reputation of Huashan and Hengshan, so that they will no longer have the will to stop the Five Sacred Mountains from uniting!

However, Yue Buqun was also at Hengshan at the time, and...

Without further ado, they killed Lu Dayou and the Hengshan disciple, staged the scene, and pretended to frame Linghu Chong...

This framing of Linghu Chong was just the first layer of the story; in reality, he also told Linghu Chong about Lao Denuo's affairs!

In Yue Buqun's plan, Linghu Chong would be wronged at first, but the three Dingyi of Hengshan were all reasonable people, especially Dingyi, who thought highly of Linghu Chong. It would not be a problem for him to get away with it, and they could also use him to implicate Laodenuo and Songshan.

Unfortunately, Linghu Chong was even more stubborn than he had imagined. For the sake of the Huashan Sect's reputation, he refused to reveal the matter and insisted on being told to him personally from afar...

Yue Buqun really wanted to grab him by the neck and say: "You're so honest, why don't you teach me your swordsmanship!"

Chapter 453 Minors Cannot Accept

Chu Luren originally thought that admitting defeat in public was a death sentence in the martial arts world, but now, after seeing Yue Buqun's performance, he realized that he was too naive!

Of the twenty-three experts present, at least a dozen could be considered "renowned figures in the martial arts world," and there was also the young emperor of the Qing Dynasty. They just watched helplessly as Yue Buqun exposed his conspiracy—it was indeed too exciting for two minors.

At first, everyone was hoping that Yue Buqun would finish his business quickly and leave, no matter what he was there for, because the key was to surround and kill Ao Bai later. But as they watched... the excitement was so great that they almost forgot what they came here for!

The only two people present who prioritized stopping Yue Buqun from continuing his blatant disrespect before attacking Ao Bai, Linghu Chong and Ning Zhongze, had their pressure points swiftly struck by Chu Luren from the start. Now, glaring at Yue Buqun, their anger and shame were almost exhausting them.

"Find the 'Evil-Repelling Sword Technique,' and I'll leave you with a whole corpse!" Yue Buqun threatened Lao Denuo.

"Hehehe... You want the 'Evil-Repelling Sword Technique'? Very well, very well, your disciple will get it for you right away... It's in that box over there. I just hope you won't regret it later and be too afraid to practice it!" Laudenuo chuckled strangely.

Chu Luren could roughly guess the reason—even if Lao Denuo didn't have time to finish reading the sword manual, he should have already seen the eight large characters at the beginning: "To practice this skill, one must first castrate oneself."

At the same time, Chu Luren secretly remembered that Xiao Linzi owed him another sum of money!

If it weren't for my intervention from behind, changing the message to "Success is possible without self-castration," Lin Yuantu's reputation would have been affected, and even Lin Pingzhi would have faced criticism.

At this moment, Yue Buqun, carrying the clothes on the back of Laudenuo's back, led him to one of the boxes.

Then, Laudenau skillfully removed the hinge of the box lid and opened the box from the back—so as not to damage the seal and lock!

Back in the Lin family, Lao Denuo used this skill to keep Yue Buqun and Lin Pingzhi completely baffled.

Then Laudenau pulled out a cassock embroidered with the "Evil-Repelling Sword Technique" from a magnificent robe adorned with gold and jade carvings in the box.

There were more than a dozen boxes, each one full. If it weren't for Laudenau himself, he really wouldn't have been able to find them so quickly!

The crowd that had been watching the spectacle gradually calmed down, remembered their business, and began to hope that Yue Buqun would leave quickly so as not to delay important matters.

"Hahaha..." Yue Buqun saw the cassock, laughed wildly, threw Laudenuo aside, and then eagerly unfolded it to read it.

"Hahaha...hiccup?"

Yue Buqun was laughing for a while when he suddenly froze on the spot, almost choking.

Like a seasoned veteran actor, he never disappoints. Just when everyone's curiosity was piqued, Yue Buqun took two steps back in disbelief, his expression and eyes perfectly conveying the scene, muttering to himself, "To practice this skill, one must first castrate oneself? To practice this skill, one must first castrate oneself... You're lying to me! Lao Denuo, you dare to lie to me? Did you add this? Ridiculous... Ridiculous! Lin Yuantu has sons and grandsons, how could he castrate himself?"

"Hehehe, my esteemed master, can't you tell from what's written on the back that these eight characters are true? Not only do you have to castrate yourself, but after castration, your internal strength and movement techniques will increase dramatically on the spot! You might even be able to defeat my other master directly... Why don't you give it a try?" Knowing that he was doomed, Laudenuo began to mock.

"you……"

Just then, a fierce argument, or rather, shouting and cursing, suddenly broke out outside—Ao Bai was as energetic as ever, and no one dared to argue with him; it was basically Zhang Zhaozhong who was being scolded.

You can faintly hear Ao Bai seemingly accusing Zhang Zhaozhong of colluding with assassins and delaying important matters because... two members of the Black Hawk team, who were surrounding the area, were knocked unconscious while patrolling outside!

Everyone's hearts skipped a beat, and they cursed Yue Buqun inwardly. So, when this guy came in, he had already alerted the Black Hawk Team, and they just knocked him out and that was it?

After knocking him unconscious, didn't they even bother to hide him properly?

In other words, the encirclement is now tighter, and once they make their move, the time to kill Ao Bai is even more pressing!

Yue Buqun's expression also changed—he was worried that escaping would be even more difficult.

“My mentor, Ao Bai has arrived… This is a secret shipment from the Qing imperial family. It seems you may not be able to escape either. Remember this self-castration sword technique, and practice it in your next life!” Laudenuo mocked even more upon hearing this.

Just as Laudenuo was gloating over Yue Buqun's disgraceful behavior, Yue Buqun stepped forward and kicked him hard in the head. For a moment... the scene was very inappropriate for children.

The monks, including Shenshan, instinctively chanted Buddhist mantras in secret—the method of killing alone was hardly worthy of the title "gentleman's sword."

However, giving Lao Denuo a quick death was the closest Yue Buqun had ever done to being a "gentleman swordsman"!

Yue Buqun hadn't expected that there were a third, fourth, fifth, and even twenty-seventh person around, and that Lao Denuo was definitely going to be silenced, so he behaved extremely badly... even despicably.

At the same time, everyone looked at Yue Buqun with concern—not because they were worried about him, but because they were worried that he would ruin today's plan.

"Ao Bai... Ao Bai..." Yue Buqun knew he had been exposed, but he was unaware of the "hidden danger" here today. He only thought that Ao Bai was really here to search the royal goods.

Today, Yue Buqun experienced a rollercoaster of emotions, and having recklessly revealed secrets he would never have dared to tell a second person to the dying man, his mind was now extremely unstable.

In fact, Yue Buqun has been showing signs of going mad recently, especially after killing Lu Dayou.