The Great Martial Arts World: Hot Topics and Great Heroes

However, the difficulty is increasing. At first, Chu Luren thought it was because of the style of swordsmanship. Some of them were straightforward, so he could use less force. But if it was something like the "Hundred Transformations and Thousand Illusions Hengshan Cloud and Mist Thirteen Styles", he would have to put in more effort to win.

After all, in terms of strength, internal energy intensity, and movement speed, these "sword masters" were almost the same as him.

However, Chu Luren gradually discovered that no matter what style of swordsmanship he encountered, he could hardly win within a hundred moves!

It wasn't that the opponent's swordsmanship was more exquisite than the "Sword of Love and Passion," but rather that the Chu Lu people's mastery of swordsmanship was far inferior to that of these "sword masters."

Especially when the twenty-third "swordsman" appeared, his swordsmanship was extremely exquisite. In one move, it seemed to contain the essence of dozens of sword techniques!

After exchanging fifty moves with him, Chu Luren was even starting to lose ground when he suddenly felt... that the sword technique was somewhat familiar.

"The Five Divine Swords of Hengshan!" Chu Luren understood immediately.

It is a legendary sword technique that combines five sword techniques named after the highest peak of Hengshan Swordplay into one—a technique that even Master Mo Da failed to master and has been lost in the Hengshan School.

These five sword techniques had appeared before, and Chu Luren also had their badges, but Chu Luren himself would never be able to use the five sword techniques to this extent.

With a thought, Chu Luren merged the five elements.

At this moment, he was in the midst of enlightenment, and the "fighting" and "fusion" were completely unaffected...

No! Unlike usual, this time, Chu Luren... actually seemed to be somewhat involved in the fusion?

This was indeed the first time Chu Luren had achieved fusion in a state of enlightenment. Usually, when he "fused," it was either after adjusting his state and then going into seclusion for a while, or it was during a battle when he didn't have any fusion fragments to achieve enlightenment, so it was an emergency fusion.

In the former case, Chu Luren did not think about achieving enlightenment and fusion at the same time; in the latter case, he only began to achieve enlightenment after fusion!

This is the only time that they are happening simultaneously.

Chu Luren vaguely felt as if he had personally participated in a "brainstorming" session—and indeed! Fusion is the fusion of martial arts wills, equivalent to the creators of martial arts communicating with the purest martial arts will...

Under the influence of enlightenment, the will of the Chu Lu people can also intervene slightly.

This feeling isn't really a dialogue or discussion, but rather a mysterious and intangible sense of participation!

Thus, during the fusion of the five elements, Chu Luren's own will was also incorporated, which was based on the "sword man" he was fighting. Perhaps there were other possibilities for fusion, but under Chu Luren's guidance, the "Hengshan Five Divine Swords" fused successfully!

However, Chu Luren also vaguely sensed that although he had a subtle sense of participation when he was undergoing the fusion under enlightenment, which allowed him to guide the direction of the fusion to a certain extent, the result of the fusion also left Chu Luren with a sense of ambiguity. It was very likely that the badge fused in this way would be subject to certain limitations in its use later.

However, in order to experience more sword techniques in the illusion, Chu Luren had no reason to hesitate—after all, the materials were all produced here, so he didn't feel bad about wasting them!

Originally, with the "Dream God's" martial arts prodigy talent, he could learn swordsmanship extremely quickly, but he still needed to put in some effort. However, with the badge, he could directly equip it into the Dream God's "Techniques".

After ten moves, Chu Luren turned the tide; after twenty moves, Chu Luren once again annihilated the "Sword Man" with his sword.

This time, a second "Hengshan Five Divine Swords" appeared in Chu Luren's consciousness...

"Huh?" While dealing with the swordsmen who kept appearing, Chu Luren also thought about the two versions of "Hengshan Five Divine Swords" and found that they were indeed slightly different.

Without further ado, Chu Luren fused the two together!

With the "Dream God," Chu Luren can be more unrestrained in his fusion—after all, even if the fusion is destroyed, Chu Luren can still forge the previous "Hengshan Five Divine Swords" on his own using the Dream God without needing a badge.

These two versions are slightly different. The former is the result of Chu Luren's communication and fusion with the original martial arts will, which is equivalent to the brainstorming of the Hengshan patriarch who created five sword techniques. The latter is the result of a highly talented senior of the Hengshan School who combined the sword techniques of five more ancient patriarchs.

It's hard to say which one is better, after all, the "younger generation" who created the Five Divine Swords can also be considered a genius, and he has a different understanding of the five sword techniques.

Fusion!

This is equivalent to letting the Hengshan elder who created the Five Divine Swords have a conversation with the five Hengshan patriarchs...

Chapter 140, Seventy-Two Layers

Hengshan Five Divine Swords +1.

Chu Luren: ...

Although the name of this fusion is a bit disappointing, it is essentially more complete than the previous two Five Divine Swords!

It was also thanks to "Hengshan Five Divine Swords +1" that Chu Luren won again after forty moves! This time, he obtained three Five Sacred Mountains Sword Techniques in one go - the swordsman who appeared had mastered more than one sword technique.

With this experience of fusion, Chu Luren also deepened his understanding of the Five Mountains Sword Technique by fighting against the "Sword Man" in the battle, and was guided to fuse the corresponding sword techniques, and occasionally there was a chance to "+1"!

It wasn't until the thirty-second enemy appeared that Chu Luren was once again in danger—the opponent's swordsmanship had almost completely integrated the Huashan swordsmanship.

Chu Luren even suspected that this must be some kind of mutation, since the Huashan Sect didn't have such a master back then!

At first, Chu Luren was also at a disadvantage, relying entirely on his movement skills to stall for time. However, after observing this "No. 31 Swordsman", Chu Luren finally gritted his teeth and merged all the fusion results of the Huashan system, and used the opponent as a template to guide him.

The complete formula for the Huashan Swordplay has been successfully integrated!

After another fierce battle, Chu Luren narrowly won and obtained from the swordsman the "General Manual of Huashan Swordplay," a technique he had never even heard of before...

This time, Chu Luren did not hesitate and directly merged again—Huashan Sword Technique General Manual +1.

The thirty-third swordsman was no less powerful than the number 32 swordsman, but he used the Hengshan sword technique.

Now that Chu Luren has "Huashan Sword Technique General Manual +1", dealing with it is much easier, and finally... Hengshan Sword Technique General Manual +1!

It wasn't until the thirty-sixth swordsman disappeared that Chu Luren finally collected all five "General Techniques +1".

However, the illusion did not end. This time, it was not the "swordsman" who appeared, but a phantom wielding a spear—among the Sun and Moon Elders who were trapped and died here, one of them used a spear...

Chu Luren estimated that the "heart" from before was likely a remnant of a Five Mountains master who perished here along with Elder Riyue, and there were only two possibilities...

First, after being trapped, the two sides briefly joined forces. If so, it is very likely that the masters of the Five Mountains did not voluntarily sacrifice themselves to perish together with the other side, but were tricked by someone. Therefore, after a brief exchange, the two sides joined forces to try to escape, and depending on the situation... it was led by the Sun Moon Sect.

During this time, both sides left their sword techniques and counter-techniques on the stone wall. Otherwise, how could Elder Riyue have perfectly recreated the Five Mountains Sword Techniques based solely on observation? Many of these techniques have been lost to the Five Mountains Sword Sects!

Secondly, after the explosion and collapse, the masters of the Sun Moon Sect faked their deaths and went into hiding. While the masters of the Five Mountains were digging tunnels to escape, they also carved the sect's profound sword techniques as a precaution. When the masters were exhausted, the masters of the Sun Moon Sect rushed out and swiftly eliminated them all. Afterwards, while continuing to dig tunnels, they left behind their painstakingly devised solutions on the stone walls.

The first possible explanation is that no one came to dig up the place afterward—if one's own expert had perished together with the enemy, surely they would have dug it up and buried their own person, right?

If there was a conspiracy behind what happened back then, then many people in the Five Mountains Sword Sect probably didn't know about it.

However, the second possibility is not entirely nonexistent...

In short, many masters from both sides were trapped and killed here. The remaining part of the "heart" containing the Five Mountains Sword Technique is purely for guidance. The "illusion swordsmen" formed here are all of similar strength to those trapped in the illusion, only their swordsmanship is more refined and their swordsmanship realm is different.

The phantom of the "Five Mountains Sword Technique" not only features a variety of strange weapons, some strong and some weak, but is designed to defeat those trapped in the illusion!

When facing the first thirty-six phantoms, one must use swordsmanship, otherwise one will be awakened from the mental illusion—after all, the dying wish of the Five Mountains Ancestors was to pass on the swordsmanship of their sect.

However, when facing the latter thirty-six ways of breaking the Five Mountains Sword Technique, one must use the sword techniques of the Five Mountains system in order to keep the illusion going. After all, what sustains this latter half is the resentment of the Sun and Moon Elders towards the Five Mountains Sword Sect...

Overall, however, the difficulty drops sharply starting from NO.37, as if a new cycle has begun, though it's still considerably harder than NO.1...

After defeating NO.37, Chu Luren obtained the badge "Break the Phoenix's Arrival" - which is specifically designed to counter the "Phoenix's Arrival" move in the Huashan Sword Technique!

After defeating each Qimen phantom after Chu Luren, one can also obtain one or even several "methods to break the Five Mountains Sword" - these are all moves with very low cost-effectiveness when used alone, and are created entirely to break the Five Mountains Sword Technique!

Similarly, after NO.37, the difficulty gradually increases, and... the hard attributes of the phantom are gradually increasing.

for a long time……

Linghu Chong and Lin Pingzhi had already snapped out of their state of sudden enlightenment. Chu Luren was still in the "pounding the ground" pose, but... his body was overflowing with sword energy!

No, it's not sword energy, it should be said that sword intent is overflowing!

Even though Chu Luren didn't release his true energy, a mysterious upward airflow even formed around him due to the surging sword intent—if Chu Luren were standing, this special effect would probably look rather cool…

Of course, even his pose of pounding the ground still amazed Lin Pingzhi and Linghu Chong.

That's right, just as Chu Luren himself had guessed.

At this moment, the mental state of the trapped masters remaining on the stone wall has been fully awakened; otherwise, Linghu Chong would at most see some phantoms practicing sword techniques or methods to break the dead.

This also reflects Linghu Chong's unrestrained nature and his existing doubts about the righteousness of the Songshan Sect and other righteous sects, which will lead to the emergence of a "solution".

Otherwise, even if ordinary disciples of the Five Mountains have sufficient swordsmanship, talent, and comprehension, they can at most only see the Five Mountains Sword Techniques left by their predecessors, but cannot trigger the Five Mountains Breaking Techniques.

Linghu Chong and Lin Pingzhi also benefited from Chu Luren's influence this time. Although the Stone Wall Mindset will disappear in the future and will no longer be able to bless Mount Hua, Linghu Chong and Lin Pingzhi also unexpectedly obtained a lot of the legacy of the Mindset.

Chu Luren experienced the complete seventy-two illusions, the first thirty-six being the "Five Mountains Sword Technique" and the last thirty-six being the "Method to Break the Five Mountains Sword"!

Originally, Chu Luren had little chance of completely breaking through the remnants of the seventy-two levels of martial arts mental state. However, after Chu Luren discovered that the combination of "sudden enlightenment + fusion" allowed him to have a certain sense of participation in the fusion process, guide the fusion result, and then use the other party as a reference, he became invincible...

Finally, in the seventy-second illusion, Chu Luren faced a combination of experts from the Sun Moon Cult; the weapon in the phantom's hand could change at any moment...

Chu Luren ultimately merged all five sections of the Five Sacred Mountains Sword Techniques into a single "General Outline +1", creating "Five Sacred Mountains Amazing God +1".

Furthermore, he used the various "Sword Techniques for Breaking the Five Mountains" he had previously acquired to guide and integrate them, referring to NO.72, to create "Sword Techniques for Breaking All Five Mountains," which ultimately led to his defeat of the opponent.

Another version of "Breaking Through the Five Sacred Mountains" was also obtained, which was then combined into "Breaking Through the Five Sacred Mountains +1".

In the end, Lin Pingzhi and Linghu Chong saw that although Chu Luren was OTZ (a character in the game), the moment when his sword intent surged to its peak was precisely when Chu Luren fused "Five Mountains Shocking God +1" with "Breaking Through Five Mountains +1"...

Chapter 141 The True Understanding of the Five Sacred Mountains

"Huh? Where's Senior Feng?" Chu Luren woke up and found that Linghu Chong and Lin Pingzhi were watching him. He quickly stood up as if nothing had happened.

"After Uncle Feng reminded me, he went out first... Brother Chu is indeed a genius, actually able to arouse the will of the ancestors here to erupt completely." Linghu Chong said with emotion.

Upon hearing this, Chu Luren forcibly suppressed the urge to sneer—it seemed that in terms of comprehension, he was not as good as Linghu Chong or Lin Pingzhi…

Sure enough, in addition to drunken crab, salted fish is also a must.

"Unfortunately, as a result, all that's left here are some superficial outlines; otherwise, other Huashan disciples might be able to learn from them," Chu Luren said, feigning apology.

However, Linghu Chong shook his head and said, "Brother Chu, there's no need to worry. Even if this place hadn't been destroyed, Master wouldn't have allowed anyone to come and learn from it."

"Huh? How could that be... How did you know?" Chu Luren asked, somewhat surprised.

"Before, I was influenced by the sword techniques here. When I was sparring with my master's wife, I accidentally used the sword techniques here and was severely reprimanded by my master. I think... my master must not want his disciple to walk the evil path of the Sword Sect." Linghu Chong then sighed and said something like, "Actually, I shouldn't have learned it anymore," and "It was just that my Uncle Feng said so, so I couldn't help myself."

Chu Luren could only mourn for Yue Buqun, but ultimately he could only blame himself.

Who is Yue Buqun? He's willing to risk even his most precious possession in order to surpass Zuo Lengchan in martial arts!

His act of resisting the Sword Sect was mainly to legitimize his position as the head of the Qi Sect and the leader of the Huashan Sect, in order to prevent the Sword Sect from making a comeback.

The reason for reprimanding Linghu Chong, besides this, was also because he was worried that Linghu Chong's swordsmanship was learned from the Sword Sect.

If Yue Buqun knew that there was a way to quickly enhance the strength of the Huashan Sect, how could he possibly abandon it just because of the difference in sword energy?

However, his previous reprimand was so sincere that he even warned Linghu Chong that if he were to be found practicing the Sword Sect's methods again, he would be stripped of his martial arts and expelled from the sect at best, and his life at worst. Seeing his master so angry, Linghu Chong was terrified and didn't dare to tell him about the Cliff of Contemplation...

In the original work, Yue Buqun only discovered the secret of the Cliff of Contemplation by chance after he had already cut off the big treasure. I wonder what he thought when he understood the cause and effect.

"Brother Chu! I feel that my swordsmanship is now enough to defeat Yu Canghai, I..." Lin Pingzhi seemed very excited.

Chu Luren suspected that he was seeing Yu Canghai in a hallucination.

"No, Brother Lin, you should calm down. No matter how skillful your swordsmanship is, it's useless without internal energy support... cough cough. Of course, no matter how profound your internal energy is, it's just a punching bag without skillful external techniques."