The Great Martial Arts World: Hot Topics and Great Heroes

At the same time, Kumārajīva finally realized that this young man had nothing to do with Shaolin, nor was he waiting for him on purpose, but rather... was his own destiny.

So Kumārajīva passed on the Yi Jin Jing to him and rushed to Shaolin Temple—at this point, his purpose had changed; he wanted to use the Bodhidharma Cave to completely resolve his inner demons!

At this moment, under the guidance of the bastard, he realized his true nature and was able to suppress his inner demons. However, he also knew that it wouldn't be long before he would fall into the demons again.

As a wandering monk, Kumārajīva first defeated Fangzheng in a debate on Zen, and then defeated Fangzheng's three uncles. Naturally, this attracted a lot of attention, but Kumārajīva didn't care. He just wanted to use the Bodhidharma Cave.

On this day, Kumārajīva arrived at the Bodhidharma Cave for meditation as he wished. When he saw the old monk sweeping the floor, he smiled and put his palms together in satisfaction. Kumārajīva did not mind why a sweeper was acting so grandly. He returned the greeting with his palms together. After entering the cave, he greeted Ren Woxing and Ren Yingying, who were also there, with his palms together. Then he sat down cross-legged in a corner.

"Hmph! Yet another monk who dreams of becoming a Buddha!"

"Great monk, you don't look like a Shaolin monk. What are you doing here?"

"You bald thief, dare to speak up? You dare to look down on me? If it were before, I would have killed you with one palm!"

"Father! Don't be so rude. You should feel the Zen atmosphere here..."

"Feel what?! You, you unfilial daughter, you and that dog Xiang Wentian, do you both think I've gone mad? Release my pressure points, and I'll go kill Dongfang Bubai... and that Chu Luren right now!"

Ren Woxing cursed and swore, sometimes killing Dongfang Bubai, sometimes wanting to kill Chu Luren.

Kumārajīva heard a familiar name and looked up at him.

"What are you looking at?" Ren Woxing was now driven mad by his internal energy, a manifestation of his internal energy circulation affecting hormone secretion after he had gone astray.

However... in reality, he also had a sliver of clarity in his mind. At least for now, he was trying to take his anger out on others, which was better than scolding his own daughter.

"Master, I'm so sorry, my father... he's not usually like this," Ren Yingying said somewhat guiltily.

It's not much better usually...

“Amitabha, well said, well said. Your father must have felt your filial piety... I will recite a passage of the Heart Sutra for your father.” Kumārajīva said with a kind and compassionate expression.

"Thank you for your understanding, Master." Ren Yingying was very grateful and felt that this master was extremely kind.

only……

I wonder why such a kind master would come to the Bodhidharma Cave?

"When Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was practicing the profound Prajnaparamita..."

"What are you babbling about? If you've got the guts, release my pressure points and I'll suck you dry!"

"Having seen that the five aggregates are all empty, one transcends all suffering and distress..."

"Read it! Read it again and I'll rip your head off!"

"Shariputra, all dharmas are empty in nature; they are neither produced nor destroyed, neither defiled nor pure, neither increasing nor decreasing..."

Inside the cave, Ren Woxing kept spewing profanities, but Kumārajīva ignored him and only chanted the Heart Sutra.

After a long while, only the Heart Sutra and the sound of snoring could be heard in the cave.

However, their good fortune didn't last long. Just a few days later, when Chu Luren and Gou Zazhong met and became sworn brothers, an uninvited guest arrived at Shaolin Temple!

Guihai Yidao, a secret agent from the Dragon Guard Manor, vowed to avenge his father, and his target was none other than Kongzhi, one of the four great monks of Shaolin.

Everyone knows that Kong Zhi was Gui Hai Yi Dao's father and Gui Hai Bai Lian's good friend. However, Gui Hai Yi Dao heard from somewhere that his father died at the hands of three friends. Now, the other two, Jian Jing Feng and Qi Lin Zi, are dead, but they committed suicide, unwilling to let Gui Hai Yi Dao continue to seek revenge. Therefore, he suspects that this is to protect Kong Zhi, the most respected of the three.

Fang Zheng naturally wouldn't stand by and watch Gui Hai Yi Dao run rampant in Shaolin, so after Gui Hai Yi Dao injured several of his fellow disciples, he personally took action!

Unexpectedly, Guihai Yidao mastered the "Dominating the World" move of the "Overlord Blade" technique, breaking Fangzheng's "Vajra Zen Lion's Roar" and severely injuring him.

However, Guihai Yidao was also affected by the Zen-like sound in the Lion's Roar, his mind was shaken, and he temporarily retreated with Haitang's help...

As a result, he happened to arrive at the Bodhidharma Cave, and outside the cave he heard someone chanting the Heart Sutra. However, the chanting of the sutra by Kumārajīva made Guihai Yidao, whose demonic thoughts had just been shaken by the Zen, even more upset!

So Guihai Yidao stormed into the Bodhidharma Cave in a rage. Ren Yingying, who was at the entrance of the cave, wanted to stop this vicious man with a knife, but Guihai Yidao was about to strike when Haitang stopped him. Meanwhile, Kumārajīva inside the cave also told Ren Yingying not to stop him, thus avoiding unnecessary casualties...

Guihai Yidao entered the Bodhidharma Cave. His already demonic state of mind clashed with his Zen intentions, and his emotions became increasingly unstable. Kumārajīva wanted to persuade him to lay down his sword, and was even prepared to suffer some injury and live through Guihai Yidao's "Domination of the World" act. However, at this moment...

Guihai Yidao's move was incredibly powerful... no, it should be described as incredibly demonic. The demonic blade energy struck the Zen Buddhist figure in the cave, and then the back mountain of Shaolin shook violently!

Ren Yingying sensed something was wrong and was about to go in to check when the figure of the old sweeping monk suddenly appeared, and then blurred past her...

Chapter 735 A Series of Unexpected Changes

After Chu Luren and Gou Zazhong became sworn brothers, the sworn brother had nowhere to go, so he temporarily traveled with Chu Luren to Shaolin Temple to rescue another of Chu Luren's good friends.

“Brother, when we get to Shaolin, those monks might not be reasonable and might even fight. Why don’t you go to the Snow Mountain Sect first and find your master and that Miss Ah Xiu? Didn’t Dingdingdang tell you that if a man and a woman are in love, they should get married? You should go and marry her.”

Chu Luren explained it to him: Granny Shi and Ah Xiu weren't nowhere to be found. They were both from the Snow Mountain Sect, so even if all else failed, they could wait for them to come to them.

“Brother! We agreed to share the good times and the bad. How can I not go if you go to save your friend? If those monks are unreasonable... well, you're still here, brother!” The bastard was honest.

Chu Luren shook his head: "It's hard to say. There's always someone better. Besides, what if hundreds or thousands of Shaolin monks swarm us?"

Wang Yuyan also realized that Chu Luren was teasing the young man. They were going to reason with him. Even if Shaolin refused to release him, unless Chu Luren made the first move, a fight would definitely not break out, let alone "swarming in".

"Huh? Those monks are so unreasonable?" Dog Bastard exclaimed in surprise.

"That's what Kongxing said to Master Zhang back then. But Master Zhang was compassionate and didn't hold it against them." Chu Luren didn't hesitate to reveal Kongxing's dark history.

“Then we…we’ll just run! The more people run, the more routes those monks will have to take to chase us!” the bastard said matter-of-factly.

"Haha, what if they capture you?" Chu Luren retorted.

"Well... monks are compassionate, they can't possibly kill me, can they? Let them beat me up." The bastard was quite easygoing.

“Brother, once you master the palm technique I taught you, no one in this world will be able to beat you up easily,” Chu Luren reminded him.

Chu Luren had previously taught Gou Zazhong the Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill, the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, and the Tathagata Palm.

The reason it is called "Buddha's Palm" instead of "Buddha's Seal" which is a fusion of "Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill" is because Buddha's Palm focuses more on state of mind and is a pure Zen martial art, while the fusion of the seal part of "Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill" focuses too much on technique.

It is more powerful for Chu Luren, but it may not be suitable for Gou Zazhong. Besides, the "Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill" has already been taught to him. If he wants to, he can master it on his own.

Originally, Gou Zazhong didn't want to learn, but Chu Luren told him that it was normal for sworn brothers to exchange martial arts skills, and it didn't mean that he was taking advantage of him. Today, he was teaching him martial arts skills, which was good for his brother. Moreover, he was the eldest brother, so it was practically a gift from his elders that he couldn't refuse.

The bastard felt that his older brother knew a lot, so... he memorized it for the time being, but he didn't seem to intend to practice it.

At this moment, Chu Luren subtly urged him on, and Gou Zazhong shook his head repeatedly, saying, "I don't want to hit others either, so I won't practice this palm technique... The 'Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill' that my elder brother taught me is quite good, so I'll practice that. That way, if others hit me in the future, they won't kill me!"

Chu Luren: ...

The group arrived at Dengfeng County at the foot of Mount Song. The business at the Qunyu Courtyard in Dengfeng was also quite good. Before Chu Luren went, he specifically asked his sworn brother if he wanted to come along, as he was very familiar with this area... but Wang Yuyan pushed him away in annoyance, saying that he was corrupting "children".

The bastard himself said, "We can't go, we can't go! Dingdingdangdang told me that people who go to places like that are shameless!"

"Pfft." Mu Wanqing laughed out loud.

The bastard hadn't realized he'd insulted his sworn brother, while Chu Luren said righteously, "What's shameless about this? Don't you know this is a place to rent horses and gather information?"

However, in the end, Chu Luren still went to Qunyu Academy alone, intending to gather some information before heading up Mount Song...

Thanks to Chu Luren's investigation, it was discovered that something truly serious had happened at Shaolin Temple a couple of days ago! Huang Rong and Xiao Zhao... had also been in trouble!

At 3:45 PM the day before yesterday, there was a slight tremor in Dengfeng, suspected to have originated from Shaoshi Mountain. Afterwards, Shaolin Temple announced that it would refuse to accept pilgrims, and... there are rumors that it was because Guihai killed Kongzhi with a single blow!

Guihai Yidao is now also being held at Shaolin Temple...

Another important piece of news about Shaolin was conveyed by Huang Rong through Qunyu Courtyard to Chu Luren—Xie Xun has gone missing and is suspected to be on his way to Northern Shaolin!

After Xie Xun's whereabouts were exposed by thousands of merchants and spread like wildfire throughout the martial arts world, many people had designs on him. However, with the martial arts of the three envoys Feng, Yun, and Yue, and the wisdom of Huang Rong, he was able to turn danger into safety time and time again.

Unexpectedly, not long ago, he ran into "Yan Nantian". Xie Xun's reputation in the martial arts world was not much better than that of another "Lion" generation, Crazy Lion Tie Zhan. After "Yan Nantian" met him, he wanted to rid the people of this scourge. Moreover, it was not a coincidence that they met; he was tricked by Jiang Biehe!

Huang Rong devised a plan to challenge "Yan Nantian" to a drinking contest. Xie Xun, who was blind at the time, was quite generous. He claimed that he hadn't drunk alcohol for over ten years and was already feeling the urge to drink. He and "Yan Nantian" fought to a draw, and "Yan Nantian" didn't make things difficult for them.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the group was poisoned. "Yan Nantian" suppressed the poison and killed more than a dozen skilled fighters, leading everyone out of the inn. But then they encountered a group of Japanese ninjas, whose methods were bizarre and who used heavy acoustic techniques...

Xie Xun's Lion's Roar technique countered the sonic array, allowing everyone to escape. However, at this moment, the other party told Xie Xun about Yuanzhen and Chengkun, which enraged Xie Xun and caused him to go mad.

This "Yan Nantian" was ultimately a fake, and like the three envoys Feng, Yun, and Yue, he was poisoned and fought a series of fierce battles, but failed to stop Xie Xun from leaving...

Chu Luren was stunned by each and every message he heard.

He was relieved that Huang Rong and Xiao Zhao were alright, and also glad that he had come to investigate beforehand. At the same time, he was worried that something might happen to Ren Yingying at Shaolin Temple on Mount Song.

Although Shaolin Temple declined pilgrims, it could not refuse Chu Luren. After learning of these changes, Chu Luren did not want to wait any longer. Even though it was already dusk, he went directly to Shaoshi Mountain and headed to Shaolin Temple.

Because of the changed circumstances, Chu Luren only took Gou Zazhong, who insisted on coming along, while Wang Yuyan and the others stayed in Dengfeng.

With only Chu Luren and Gou Zazhong, the journey wouldn't be too slow. Just as night fell, the two had already arrived at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain from Dengfeng County, preparing to make a visit that very night!

Down the mountain, they also encountered a monk who refused visitors, but how could Chu Luren be refused?

"Amitabha Buddha, sir/madam, Shaolin Temple is currently closed to the public. If you are a friend of the martial arts world, please leave your name..."

"I am but a passerby today, so please ignore me. It is none of my business. However, if you do not release my friend today, I, as the leader of the Righteous Alliance, will one day raze Shaolin Temple to the ground and rescue the Holy Maiden of the Sun Moon Sect!"

Chu Luren also left room for maneuver first—Shaolin will release the people directly today, and Chu Luren will not care about the others. If they don't release them... not only has Wei Xiaobao made arrangements, but if they want to use force, Chu Luren will definitely not do it himself.

At the same time, Chu Luren was determined that no matter whether Shaolin released him or not, he had to see Ren Yingying today!

Chu Luren had previously thought that Yingying would be safe at least in Shaolin, so he wasn't worried. But now it seems that's not so safe after all.

Upon learning that the visitor was from Chulu, the guest monk was quite perplexed. He wanted to persuade him to turn back but knew it wouldn't work, so he had no choice but to welcome him into the temple that very night...

Chapter 736 Coma

"Amitabha Buddha, I am sorry for not welcoming you properly since you have come so late at night, please forgive me." Fang Zheng greeted Chu Luren with his palms together.

Chu Luren raised an eyebrow—this old monk… his “late-night visit” and “lack of proper welcome” were clearly mocking him for coming without prior notice and for not knowing the time!

but……

Indeed, Chu Luren sensed that Abbot Fangzheng's internal energy was unstable, as if he had suffered a serious internal injury, which made him even more confident.

"Not at all, Abbot Fangzheng, you're too kind. I'm not an imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty, just a commoner in the martial world. There's no need for such a warm welcome, hahaha," Chu Luren said heartily.

Upon hearing this, the expressions of the monks of the Fang and Yuan generations standing beside Fang Zheng changed.

Just as Yuan Yin, who had the most short temper, was about to speak, Fang Zheng stopped her by raising his hand. At the same time, Fang Zheng asked, "Benefactor Chu, have you come here for the matter of the Holy Maiden of the Sun Moon Divine Sect?"

“That’s right! Although Shaolin is a secluded place, since it has a reputation in the martial arts world, it should at least know that there is such a thing as ‘taking advantage of someone’s misfortune’, and this ‘taking advantage of someone’s misfortune’ is not a righteous thing! There’s no need for Shaolin to deal with it anymore. I will take Elder Ren and Yingying with me!” Chu Luren said directly.

After Chu Luren finished speaking, he noticed that even the most hot-tempered monk with thick eyebrows was now speechless, and he couldn't help but feel anxious...

If they argued that Ren Yingying had come for help voluntarily, or that Ren Woxing had already been cured and insisted on keeping the father and daughter, Chu Luren would be more at ease. At least it would prove that the person was alright, and there would always be a way to get Shaolin to release them!

But the fact that the other party looked so guilty made Chu Luren worry that Yingying was really in danger.

"Good! So Yingying brought her father to Shaolin for help, but you've ruined it all!" Chu Luren shouted without considering the situation.