Zongwu: Eavesdropping on the inner voices, the female warriors have become strange

The next day, Chen Liu's body had not fully recovered, so he and Huang Rong did not go to see Zhou Botong.

Huang Rong, Mu Nianci, Zhou Zhiruo, and the other women found a place to repeatedly practice the Thirteen Deadly Swords. They were all astonished by the power of Chen Liu's fourteenth strike yesterday. Not only did it sweep away trees dozens of feet ahead, but it even shattered a fine steel sword into smithereens. Although that strike required Grandmaster status to perform, it instilled in them confidence in the power of this set of swordsmanship. Moreover, even without the fourteenth strike, the previous thirteen strikes were still incredibly powerful.

Wang Yuyan began to ponder the fourteenth sword. If she could perform the fourteenth sword, it would become one of her trump cards. Moreover, in order to perform the fifteenth sword, the fourteenth sword must be learned.

With nothing to do, Chen Liu ran to Huang Yaoshi's library and began to look through his collection of books.

Huang Yaoshi was a prodigy, exceedingly intelligent. His knowledge was incredibly diverse, encompassing the arts of music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, divination, astrology, the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, the Qimen Dunjia, as well as agricultural irrigation, animal husbandry, aquatic products, economics, and military strategy. Consequently, his library contained a wide variety of books, even those on postpartum care for sows.

Huang Yaoshi's omniscience and mastery of everything also led him to spend a significant amount of time on other matters. Even so, Zhou Botong, a martial arts fanatic, still couldn't defeat him. If he had devoted all his time and energy to martial arts, Chen Liu believed that with his intelligence and aptitude, he would have definitely reached the Grandmaster level.

Once Chen Liu entered the library, he did not come out for the entire day, even his meals were eaten in the library.

Chen Liu spent two days in the library recording books on the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, Qi Men Dun Jia, medicine, divination, etc. On the third day, he and Huang Rong continued to look for Zhou Botong.

"Why didn't you come the other day?" Zhou Botong was delighted to see Chen Liu and Huang Rong. He had lived in the cave on this island for over a decade, and he had sworn to Huang Yaoshi that unless he could defeat him, he would never leave the cave except to poop, pee, or fight with Huang Yaoshi.

But for all those years, the Old Boy had never been able to defeat Huang Yaoshi. On the island, apart from Huang Yaoshi occasionally coming to fight him and trying to steal the first half of the Nine Yin Manual, which he had hidden in his cave, only Huang Rong had come to him three times, and this was the fourth time. As for the servants who brought Zhou Botong food and drink, they were all deafened and dumb by Huang Yaoshi, and no one could communicate with him at all.

Zhou Botong was very happy because he had been lonely for too long and someone suddenly talked to him.

"A few days ago, Brother Chen Liu demonstrated a set of sword techniques. With one sword, all the true energy in my body was drained. I had some minor problems with my body and it took me two days of rest to recover." Huang Rong said.

Chen Liu knew what Zhou Botong liked. If he wanted to arouse his interest, he had to lead him in the direction of martial arts, which would definitely arouse his interest.

Sure enough, Zhou Botong was stunned when he heard this and asked quickly, "What sword technique?"

"I learned the Thirteen Deadly Swords from a swordsman from the Ming Dynasty," Chen Liu said. "I evolved the fourteenth sword. The power of the fourteenth sword is too great, and it consumes a huge amount of true energy. Just one sword consumed all my true energy. My Dantian is empty, without a single drop of true energy left."

"Thirteen Deadly Swords?"

The Thirteen Deadly Swords were quite famous in the Ming Dynasty. This was naturally because Yan Shisan was a very famous swordsman in the Ming Dynasty. However, Yan Shisan's fame had only risen in the past ten years or so, and Zhou Botong had already been trapped on Peach Blossom Island by then. Naturally, he had never heard of the names of Yan Shisan and the Thirteen Deadly Swords.

However, even though Zhou Botong had never heard of this name, he could tell that Chen Liu was an innate master, and his realm was not low. He was able to drain his true energy with just one sword, which shows how powerful that sword was.

Zhou Botong is a martial arts fanatic. In the original novel, he even wanted to learn the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms and even became Guo Jing's disciple. So, hearing that the Thirteen Deadly Swords were so powerful, he was very tempted.

Zhou Botong didn't even eat the food and wine, and said flatteringly, "Brother, how about you teach me the Thirteen Deadly Swords? I will take you as my disciple."

Huang Rong complained, "Old naughty boy, what's wrong with you? You're so old, and you still want to take Brother Chenliu as your master? Aren't you ashamed?"

"What does that matter?" The old boy said matter-of-factly, "If you can teach me the Thirteen Deadly Swords, I will accept you as my disciple."

Huang Rong laughed sweetly and said, "I don't want that. You and my father are equals. If you take me as your master, wouldn't that make me a generation older than my father?"

"Let's discuss our own affairs." said the old naughty boy.

"No."

"I don't want you to go away, brother. Just teach me. I'm kneeling down for you." The old naughty boy said as he really knelt down towards Chen Liu.

Chen Liu was startled, took a step forward, and disappeared in a flash.

"Huh? What kind of Kung Fu is this?" Zhou Botong shouted, then jumped up and stretched out his hand to grab Chen Liu.

Chen Liu took a step and narrowly avoided the Old Boy's grasp.

"Huh? Interesting!" The Old Boy thought that Chen Liu would definitely not be able to dodge his grab, but he didn't expect that Chen Liu just took a step and dodged his grab as if he was strolling in the garden.

Chapter 250 The Old Naughty Boy (Part )

"Interesting! Interesting!"

The Old Boy loves to play and also loves martial arts. When he saw Chen Liu using light skills to avoid his capture and evaded his capture several times in a row, he started to take it seriously.

"What kind of light skill is this?" Chen Liu used the Spiral Nine Shadows again to avoid the Old Boy's grasp. The Old Boy only caught an afterimage, which made him even more interested.

"Nine Spiral Shadows." Chen Liu said.

"Nine Spiral Shadows? The skills from the Nine Yin Scriptures?" The Old Boy couldn't help but exclaimed.

Before being tricked into giving Huang Yaoshi the second half of the Nine Yin Scriptures, Old Boy had never read it. It was only after Huang Rong's mother Feng Heng read the second half that she tricked him into believing it was a fake and even recited the contents of the second half right in front of Old Boy that he finally took a look at it.

The Old Boy was deceived by Feng Heng and burned the second half of the Nine Yin Manual in anger. It was not until the news spread that Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chaofeng had stolen Huang Yaoshi's Nine Yin Manual that he realized he had been deceived by Feng Heng and Huang Lao Xie, and he came to Peach Blossom Island to settle the score with Huang Lao Xie.

Feng Heng died due to complications during childbirth while reproducing the Nine Yin Manual, and Old Boy was not a normal person. He believed that women would only affect a man's speed in learning martial arts, and when Huang Yaoshi's wife died, he congratulated Huang Yaoshi on her death, saying it was a good death, a wonderful death, and a great death.

Huang Yaoshi was heartbroken at the time, so how could he not be angry when the Old Boy congratulated him like that? He trapped the Old Boy on Peach Blossom Island and tried to steal the first half of his Nine Yin Manual and burn it for Feng Heng.

Therefore, the Old Boy does not know the kung fu in the second half of the Nine Yin Scriptures, but he knows the names of kung fu such as Spiral Nine Shadows and Nine Yin Divine Claws.

When the Old Boy heard Chen Liu say that this was the Spiral Nine Shadows, he was shocked and immediately shouted, "How do you know the skills of the Nine Yin Manual?"

"I tricked it from Mei Chaofeng, isn't that okay?"

"cheat?"

"Yes."

Old Naughty Boy: ...

"Didn't Huang Lao Xie pass it on to you?" Old Boy asked tentatively.

"Old naughty boy, what do you mean? My father has never read the Nine Yin Scriptures, how can he teach Brother Chenliu?" Huang Rong glared at the Old naughty boy.

Although Huang Lao Xie has a sinister nature, he is a very proud man. He said he would not read it, and he has not read the Nine Yin Manual for many years. The reason why Huang Yaoshi wanted to snatch the first half of the Nine Yin Manual from the Old Boy was not because he wanted to practice it himself, but because he wanted to burn the manual for his wife Feng Heng, who died in childbirth after reading the Nine Yin Manual.

Therefore, when Huang Rong saw the Old Boy insulting her father's personality, she immediately became angry.

The old naughty boy laughed awkwardly and asked, "How did you lie to her?"

Chen Liu chuckled and said, "At that time, I lied to her and told her that I was Rong'er's fiancé, but Huang Yaoshi disagreed with our marriage. If I wanted him to agree, I had to bring him the Nine Yin Manual. So she gave it to me."

"She gave it to you so easily?" asked the old naughty boy.

"Yes."

"So you are Huang Lao Xie's son-in-law now?"

"I haven't even met him yet."

"You've been on the island for so long, and you haven't seen Huang Lao Xie?"

"My father is not on the island." Huang Rong interrupted, "He has been away for more than two months."

"Alright!" The Old Boy sighed slightly. Since Chen Liu had already learned the martial arts from the Nine Yin Manual, no matter how he learned it, could he still kill him? The Old Boy was obsessed with martial arts, but not killing. Furthermore, Chen Liu not only didn't provoke him, but also brought him food and drinks, so he couldn't bring himself to kill him.

"Have you learned all the skills in the second half of the volume?" asked the Old Boy.

"Learned."

"Can you show it to me?"

"why?"

"I want to take a look." Zhou Botong did not give a reason.

"Don't you know how to do it yourself?" Chen Liu asked, "Why do you need to watch me practice?"

"I won't."

"You don't know how to do it?" Chen Liu pretended to be surprised and said, "You've had the Nine Yin Manual for so long, and you haven't learned it yourself?"

"My senior brother said the Nine Yin Manual is harmful." The old naughty boy shook his head and said, "In the past, countless people died for it. He once wanted to burn it, but he was afraid of destroying the hard work of his predecessors, so he kept it. And to prevent the stinking Taoist priests of the Quanzhen Sect from learning the skills from it, he gave the Nine Yin Manual to me for safekeeping and warned me not to practice the skills in the manual."

The Old Boy was a man of his word. When Wang Chongyang told him not to practice the Nine Yin Scriptures, he refused. However, Wang Chongyang probably didn't anticipate that the Old Boy would be trapped on Peach Blossom Island by Huang Yaoshi for over a decade. During those years, he certainly didn't practice. But the Old Boy was a martial arts fanatic. The martial arts described in the Nine Yin Scriptures were so fantastical, mysterious, and wondrous that anyone learning even a little bit would be captivated, let alone a martial arts fanatic like the Old Boy.

During the more than ten years he was trapped on Peach Blossom Island, the Old Boy was extremely bored and itchy, so he finally thought of an excuse that would not only keep his promise to his senior brother but also allow him to see the magic. He thought that if he only watched and did not practice, it would not be considered a violation of his senior brother's will.

Therefore, during the more than ten years he spent sitting in the cave, bored, he had already read the first half of the scripture by heart. However, the text in the first half of the scripture contained only the great principles of Taoist internal cultivation and the principles of boxing and swordsmanship, not the actual kung fu for defeating the enemy. If one did not learn the practical methods in the second half of the scripture, knowing only the key points would be useless.

If one wants to learn the skills in the second half of the book, one must first learn the contents of the first half, otherwise, one cannot learn at all. However, Chen Liu is an exception. He has a system, so even without the first half of the Nine Yin Manual, he can still learn it.

Chen Liu showed a look of having to laugh and cry, and said, "Old naughty boy, your senior brother is too narrow-minded."

"What do you know, little brat?" The old naughty boy was a little unhappy.

"Isn't it?" Chen Liu said, "Human desires are endless. As long as you are human, you will have desires. The desire of people in the martial arts world is to learn better and more advanced martial arts, to reach a higher level of cultivation and become a superior person. Officials want to become higher officials. Merchants want to make more money. Even farmers want a larger harvest."

"During this process, some people died or killed others for martial arts secrets. Some people fought for power and profit to become higher officials, framing their colleagues. Some people killed others to make more money. These are all human problems. What do the Nine Yin Manuals, official positions, and money have to do with them?"

"Even if the Nine Yin Manual is gone, won't they stop fighting for other martial arts manuals? Even if you burn all the martial arts manuals in the world and no one can practice martial arts anymore, their desires won't disappear. They'll just shift from martial arts to other things, like making more money, gaining more power, etc."

"It's like someone using a knife to kill someone. Can you say it's the knife's fault? No, right? The fault lies with the person holding the knife. In this process, both the knife and the Nine Yin Scriptures are merely mindless tools. How can you say the Nine Yin Scriptures is harmful? If, according to your senior brother, official positions and wealth are also harmful, then shouldn't the official positions be abolished? And all the wealth destroyed?"

The old naughty boy was a little stunned when he heard this.

He suddenly felt that what Chen Liu said made a lot of sense. Others died in the fight for the "Nine Yin Scriptures" because of their desires, and the "Nine Yin Scriptures" should not be blamed.

Chapter 251 The Old Naughty Boy (Part )

Although Chen Liu wanted Zhou Botong's Nine Yin Scriptures, he wouldn't go looking for him every day; that would make his intentions too obvious. Besides, the Beiming Divine Art and the Xiao Wuxiang Art were no less powerful than the Nine Yin Scriptures, so Chen Liu didn't have a strong desire for them. If he could get it, that would be best; if he couldn't, he didn't care.

Chen Liu spent more time cultivating, striving to break through his current realm as quickly as possible. Every three or two days, after morning classes, Chen Liu would visit Zhou Botong to chat and discuss martial arts with him. Sometimes Huang Rong would go with him, and sometimes he would go alone.

Zhou Botong had lived alone on Peach Blossom Island for a long time and was extremely bored. Suddenly, Chen Liu talked to him to cheer him up and even discussed martial arts with him. He felt very happy and his relationship with Chen Liu became closer.

Zhou Botong was also amazed at Chen Liu's talent and understanding. During the sparring process, Chen Liu learned his 72-move Kongming Fist, Quanzhen swordsmanship, "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones", "Walking on Frost and Breaking Ice Palm", and Seven Styles of the Big Dipper.

Although Chen Liu had taken away his Kung Fu, Zhou Botong was not angry. Besides, Chen Liu had also taught him the Yue Girl Sword, the Thirteen Deadly Swords, and even the Sky-Exceeding Fairy.

"Flying Fairy from the Sky" is Ye Gucheng's unique skill. Mastering it requires exceptional aptitude and understanding. Among the women around Chen Liu, only Wang Yuyan, Huang Rong, and Zhou Zhiruo can learn it. Cheng Ying can also manage it, but the rest lack the aptitude and understanding. Of course, this excludes the sixteen girls besides Lianxing, Shi Feixuan, Qin Mengyao, and Wanwan.

Chen Liu also had selfish motives in teaching Zhou Botong the Thirteen Deadly Swords and the Fairy from the Sky. Even if Yang Guo were sent to Quanzhen by Guo Juxia to learn martial arts after Zhao Zhijing's death, his fate would likely have been different from that in the original novel, and it's unclear whether he would have joined the Ancient Tomb Sect.

Furthermore, in this Zongwu world, Lin Chaoying might not be dead, and Xiaolongnu might not be insulted like in the original novel. However, Chen Liu still wants to increase her strength. Given Xiaolongnu's talent and understanding, it shouldn't be difficult for her to learn the "Flying Fairy" technique. Furthermore, Chen Liu and Li Mochou have a grudge, and since he doesn't have the time to seek revenge on her, he wants to increase Xiaolongnu's combat power and have her help him teach Li Mochou a lesson first.

Chen Liu said to Zhou Botong, "If you ever return to the Quanzhen Sect in the future, please visit the Ancient Tomb Sect and teach these two sword techniques to a girl called Xiaolongnu there."

"Another woman?" Zhou Botong's face showed a look of disgust. Chen Liu was good at everything except beauty.

"That little dragon girl is very interesting." Chen Liu said with a smile.

"How is it interesting?" Zhou Botong disagreed. What was interesting about women? Martial arts were interesting, okay? Women, on the other hand, only brought him trouble.

"She can command bees and wasps to form a formation and attack others." Chen Liu said.

"Really?" Zhou Botong was no longer sleepy when he heard such an interesting thing.

"It's true." Chen Liu said with a smile.