The Great Martial Arts World: Hot Topics and Great Heroes

Therefore, Chu Luren himself would certainly not reveal his whereabouts, and at the same time, he did not stop Cheng Lingsu from letting go of her three senior brothers and sisters...

These three men are certainly worth killing, but letting them go will greatly increase our chances of catching Shi Wanzhen!

Chapter 858 Rumors

"These three are treacherous and cunning, and they covet your secret manual. Although you have good intentions and have given them a chance to repent, they certainly won't let it go so easily," Chu Luren reminded him.

Cheng Lingsu turned around, her spotless eyes fixed on Chu Luren, and said, "If you really wanted to kill them, wouldn't it be easy?"

This frankness made the Chu Lu people, who were deliberately fishing for him, somewhat embarrassed.

"I am someone who cannot easily bear to see life killed," Chu Luren said, trying to justify himself.

Cheng Lingsu continued to look at him, and before Chu Luren could get angry, she said clearly, "Hmm, you're really amazing."

Chu Luren was somewhat deflated and didn't know what to say, so he asked instead, "You knew who I was all along?"

“Well, although the suona was packed in her bag, it’s not hard to guess that she was walking with the Red Serpent Fairy,” Cheng Lingsu said honestly.

"Then why did you charm that person twice before?" Chu Luren was naturally referring to the strange woman who had previously approached his door.

"Save them," Cheng Lingsu said succinctly.

"Knowing it's me, you're still worried I'll be in danger?" Chu Luren was somewhat skeptical.

"I'm afraid you'll hurt her," Cheng Lingsu said matter-of-factly.

Chu Luren: ...

"Who is she?" Chu Luren was also puzzled. He didn't recognize the woman who was hostile to him at all.

"I don't know." Cheng Lingsu didn't know either; she was just happy to help.

She wasn't following Chu Luren; rather, she was... searching for the newly emerged "Poison Hand Medicine King"! It just so happened that her purpose overlapped with Chu Luren's.

At this moment, Li Mochou also came downstairs. She had not been drugged by the incense beforehand and had noticed in time and held her breath.

However, when Chu Luren came down, he reminded her not to make any rash moves, lest she alert the enemy.

However, since the noise from Murong Jingyue and the other two fleeing was so loud, Li Mochou came down to investigate...

"Who is she?" Li Mochou looked at the thin and withered Cheng Lingsu, then looked at Chu Luren with a face full of doubt.

Cheng Lingsu is now sixteen or seventeen, but perhaps due to years of exposure to toxins, her body has inevitably been affected. Not only does she look pale and thin, but she also looks like she is thirteen or fourteen.

"She is the disciple of the Poison Hand Medicine King. It was her senior brothers and sisters who came to cause trouble for her before," Chu Luren explained simply, and carefully avoided mentioning the name "Cheng Lingsu".

After all, they didn't introduce themselves at all. If Chu Luren had spoken first, it would have made him seem more suspicious of having ulterior motives and conducting prior investigations!

"The Poisonous Hand Medicine King? Shi Wanzhen?" Li Mochou immediately realized.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Lingsu said somewhat angrily, "The Poison Hand Medicine King was my master, Master Wuchen, who has already passed away!"

Wuchen's constant changing of his Dharma name has led people to only know him as "Poison Hand Medicine King" and not his specific name. In particular, Wuchen lived a very long life, so there are not many people who have seen him now.

"Wu Chen? Who is Shi Wan Chen to you?" Li Mochou frowned and pressed for an answer.

“It should be my martial uncle.” Cheng Lingsu had never met this martial uncle before, but had only heard her master mention him.

Li Mochou suddenly remembered something and asked Cheng Lingsu, "Back in Dengzhou, wasn't it you who used sleeping potion at the door?"

So Cheng Lingsu explained it again...

Then Li Mochou looked at Chu Luren with a strange expression: "A woman who is hostile but not murderous... Young Master Chu, do you have any clues?"

"What clues could I possibly have?" Chu Luren said matter-of-factly.

I'm not Uncle Duan...

Li Mochou rolled her eyes at him, then looked out the broken window before climbing over it, clearly intending to see who the woman was.

Chu Luren: ? ? ?

"Aren't you going to ask about Shi Wanzhen first? Are you still going to save your grandmaster?" Chu Luren shouted at Li Mochou's retreating figure.

However, in Li Mochou's mind, figuring out who the little fox spirit who came to her door was was obviously a much higher priority than rescuing her master's dog of a man!

"Shi Wanzhen, save Grandmaster?" Cheng Lingsu blinked, looked at Chu Luren, and seemed to understand something.

To avoid embarrassment, Chu Luren also climbed out and followed Li Mochou to see the captivated woman.

"Oh! This girl in purple is so beautiful!" Li Mochou exclaimed deliberately.

Chu Luren stepped forward and saw that it was indeed a woman in purple, with long, slender eyebrows. Although she was unconscious, one could still tell that she had large eyes, a small mouth, phoenix eyes, cherry lips, and a beautiful figure...

But I really don't recognize him!

"Huh?" Chu Luren suddenly noticed something.

"You recognize who it is?" Li Mochou glanced at him. Such a beautiful young woman, always coming to your door in the middle of the night, and you don't recognize her?

“I recognize this sword…it’s the standard Emei style.” Chu Luren said, pointing to the sword she was wearing.

"An Emei disciple? Aren't you on good terms with Emei? When you were mourning Extinction, you were flirting with their new sect leader in front of the memorial tablet?" Li Mochou said, recounting a rumor she had heard from who-knows-where.

Chu Luren: ? ? ?

"Who spread these rumors?" Chu Luren was furious. These bastards should be poisoned to death by Murong Jingyue!

"So, do you know each other now? Did you meet when you were mourning the extinction?" Li Mochou began to coax a confession.

"I don't know him! I've never seen him before!" Chu Luren naturally wouldn't admit to being wrongly accused.

Why emphasize that it was during a time of mourning for extinction? Just how despicable are these low-class rumors I'm spreading?

This must be a conspiracy by the Dragon Guard Manor!

"Should I wake him up and ask him?" Cheng Lingsu asked casually.

Chu Luren immediately asked her to wake the person up so that he wouldn't suffer an unjust accusation.

Cheng Lingsu took out a round box, dipped her fingertip in some ointment, and applied it to the purple-clad woman's philtrum. After a short while, the woman's eyes moved and she woke up.

Li Mochou quickly subdued the woman's pressure points, and the woman in purple immediately opened her eyes, revealing a look of panic.

"Speak! Who sent you!" Li Mochou's voice turned cold, a crystal needle between her fingers hovering over the other's eyes, revealing the fierce and imposing nature of the Scarlet Serpent Fairy, a far cry from her previous jovial demeanor.

The woman in purple bit her lip, closed her eyes, and remained silent.

"Heh, so it really is someone from Emei... Could it be a traitor who stole the Heaven-Slaying Sword? Did they think you carried the Dragon-Slaying Saber with you?" Li Mochou said deliberately.

"You're talking nonsense! I..." The woman in purple hurriedly retorted, only realizing she had been tricked after opening her eyes.

However, since he had already spoken, he simply said, "It has nothing to do with Emei! I came here to avenge my father!"

"Father's revenge? Who is your father?" Chu Luren was somewhat puzzled. Logically speaking, he hadn't killed many people, and he hadn't heard of any of them having a daughter. Moreover... he had no intention of killing anyone to avenge his father, which was quite strange.

"I have no father!" The woman in purple said contradictorily, but then continued, "Although Feng Tiannan is a beast, he is still my father. I promised to save him three times, but I couldn't save him in Changsha..."

Feng Tiannan?

Chu Luren thought carefully for a moment, and it was only based on the keyword "Changsha" that he remembered that the Five Tigers Sect leader who was frozen to death by Yaoyue because of his foul mouth was the person in front of him... It should be Yuan Ziyi?

She really couldn't save him; she couldn't even react in time, and it seems she wasn't even there at the time.

"Then you should go find Yaoyue!" Chu Luren was puzzled by her logic.

"Hmph, who in the martial world doesn't know that Palace Master Yaoyue is bewitched by you? Whoever you tell her to kill, she will kill!" the woman in purple said matter-of-factly.

Chu Luren: ? ? ?

This must all be a conspiracy by the Dragon Guard Manor!

Chapter 859 This matter was done by the Crown Prince of Dali!

Chu Luren had no idea where all these ridiculous rumors in the martial arts world came from. Nine times out of ten, they were malicious slanders spread by the people of the Dragon Guard Manor. However…

"Feng Tiannan's Five Tigers Sect is nothing but local bullies and tyrants. Killing them is no big deal. As long as we get out of here, and don't say that Yaoyue will listen to me no matter what... even if I killed him, it wouldn't matter much," Chu Luren emphasized.

Feng Tiannan's matter is minor, but if Yaoyue finds out about this rumor, it will be a big deal.

"I...I know, of course I do. I only saved him three times to repay the debt of giving birth to him. After that, I will kill him with my own hands to avenge my mother!" the woman in purple said indignantly.

"Who taught you that? Was it the old nun who exterminated you?" Chu Luren asked deliberately.

"You are not allowed to insult my master!" The woman in purple was much more agitated than before.

Clearly, extermination is more important than her father...

Her mother was forced into pregnancy by Feng Tiannan. Afterwards, Feng Tiannan ordered the killing of other men who were willing to marry her mother. The mother and daughter were left to wander the martial arts world. Her mother was then humiliated by a certain hero and hanged herself. However, she was coincidentally taken away by a passing Emei disciple.

That disciple was not very old at the time, not old enough to take on disciples. Later, she also became a disciple of Miejue's sect, and was considered Zhou Zhiruo's senior sister. Like Jingxuan, she belonged to the Jing generation and was considered a nun.

"It really is the old nun Miejue?" Chu Luren's eyes lit up upon hearing this, but then he shook his head.

If Extinction were still alive, Chu Luren would have to give her a good talking-to about how the prestigious Emei Sect actually sent a disciple to protect Feng Tiannan.

However, since they are already dead, there's no need to desecrate their corpses.

From the perspective of "loyalty and filial piety," Miejue's instructions, though not necessarily correct, have an inherent logic—saving her three times was to repay her kindness, and then killing her with his own hands was both to avenge his mother and to sever all ties and settle the karmic debt.

But if she really were to save him three times, not to mention how many innocent people would be harmed by Feng Tiannan, there is actually a major problem here—intelligence!

With her limited skills, how could she possibly outmaneuver an old fox like Feng Tiannan?

If Feng Tiannan finds out, he'll only try to squeeze every last drop of value out of her... and even wants to kill her to avenge himself?

"What's your name? How do you want revenge?" Chu Luren asked tentatively, though he had already guessed that she was Yuan Ziyi, but...

"Jing Ziyi! I... haven't decided yet," Jing Ziyi said, somewhat unexpectedly.

景？

Chu Luren quickly realized what was going on—in the original work, Yuan Ziyi's surname wasn't "Yuan." Her mother was kicked out of her family, and Emei didn't know her surname. Moreover, her mother gave birth out of wedlock, which was a disgrace to her family, so it was impossible for her to find her. And it was impossible for her to take her father's surname...

The so-called "Yuan Ziyi" is just a homophone of the first character of her Buddhist name "Yuanxing", plus the homophone of "Ziyi" which is the clothing worn by monks - before she shaved her head, she did wear purple clothes appropriately.

However, in the vast martial arts world, Miejue's disciples were not of the "Yuan" generation, but of the "Jing" generation, so she naturally used the alias Jing Ziyi.

Chu Luren believed that she had indeed approached him twice without any murderous intent. After all, Jing Ziyi had no feelings for Feng Tiannan, but was filled with hatred. She was only restrained by the "gratitude for giving birth" that Miejue had taught her.

The resentment towards Chu Luren was only because "he prevented me from severing my ties with the mortal world," not because of "the hatred for killing my father" or anything like that.

However... Chu Luren couldn't handle this type of situation, and he had many important things to do later, so he couldn't give Jing Ziyi the opportunity to slowly "take revenge" on him.