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

Huang Rong:......

I know! And I’m not the only one who knows it, even your sister Nianci knows it.

"Then Yang Kang should also have a dagger in his hand, with Guo Jing engraved on it." Chen Liu said.

Mei Chaofeng said in a hateful voice, "Good, very good! I never thought that I was blind and my heart was blind, and I was deceived by my enemy's sworn brother and even taught him the Nine Yin White Bone Claw. Haha..."

Mei Chaofeng laughed a little crazily.

Mu Nianci overheard Chen Liu and Mei Chaofeng's conversation, and she felt conflicted. Should she save Yang Kang? If she did, he was a traitor who had chosen his enemy over his biological father. Besides, she didn't recognize Yang Kang, nor did she have feelings for him. If she didn't, he was her adopted brother. Wouldn't her adoptive father and mother be heartbroken if they knew Yang Kang was dead?

Chapter 86: Treasure Snake (Part )

Chen Liu emerged from Mei Chaofeng's cave, his heart still pounding. He thought to himself, "I can't take such risks anymore. I was blinded by greed. I have all the skills and Qinggong available now. The second half of the Nine Yin Manual isn't worth the risk."

After Chen Liu used his Qing Gong to dodge away, Huang Rong and Mu Nianci emerged from the darkness. Huang Rong turned and walked towards the cave entrance. Mu Nianci quickly grabbed her sleeve and whispered, "Sister Rong'er, where are you going? Brother Chen Liu and Chen Liu went that way."

"I know. I'll go see Mei Ruohua." Huang Rong also whispered.

"What are you going to do with her?"

"Don't you think it's a pity to leave such a great master like this? We should make use of her. Besides, if we don't confirm this matter, Mei Ruohua will become suspicious, which may be detrimental to Brother Chen Liu."

Huang Rong is very smart, but she's also very rebellious. The more you ignore her, the more she'll become rebellious. But this only works if you truly don't want to pay attention to her. If you're pretending, she'll easily see through it, and you'll end up losing more than you gain. Huang Rong could hear Chen Liu's thoughts and knew he disliked her. While he wouldn't harm her, he didn't like her either.

Huang Yaoshi, nicknamed the "Eastern Evil," was known for his eccentric ways, often declaring that all worldly rules and regulations were bullshit. He also loved his daughter dearly, fearing she would melt if held in his mouth and drop if held in his palm. Naturally, he never disciplined her, leaving her incredibly spoiled. Though intelligent, Huang Rong refused to focus on martial arts, insisting on learning everything her father mastered, from yin and yang to the five elements and arithmetic. Furthermore, due to her young age, despite her father's mastery of martial arts, she only managed to glimpse the basics of Peach Blossom Island's martial arts.

Later, because of the Zhou Botong incident, Huang Rong was severely scolded by her father. Huang Rong had never been scolded like this before. She was furious and her temper flared up. She actually escaped from Peach Blossom Island in a small boat. Feeling sorry for herself and no one cared about her, she deliberately disguised herself as a poor boy and wandered around. In her heart, she was actually arguing with her father: "Since you don't love me, I will just be the most pitiful little beggar in the world!"

Later, Huang Rong met Chen Liu in Xiangyang. Because Chen Liu ignored her, a great beauty, and instead took an interest in other women, Huang Rong's competitive spirit was aroused, making her increasingly interested in Chen Liu. Furthermore, Chen Liu's extraordinary background also made her more interested. Now that she had finally caught Chen Liu's handle, how could she let it go? She had to save Mei Chaofeng and not let her be deceived by Chen Liu.

"cocoa……"

"Don't worry, Brother Chen Liu's Qinggong is so good that even I can't catch him. He will be fine. Let's go."

"Pfft! Pfft!"

Two more slight sounds came into Mei Chaofeng's ears. Although the sounds were very close, almost like one sound, Mei Chaofeng still heard them.

"Hey, hey! It's really lively tonight!" Actually, Chen Liu had just left, and after Mei Chaofeng calmed down, her suspicions began to rise again. Although Chen Liu thought his story was very reasonable, he was only making it up based on what he knew from the original novel, so there was no way it could be perfect. And if it wasn't true, it was still false. If Mei Chaofeng had calmed down, she wouldn't have found the doubts. But she had already given away her Nine Yin Manual, and the man was gone. Even if she had doubts, what could she do? She could only believe it.

"Mei Ruohua!"

"Who are you?" Mei Ruohua was Mei Chaofeng's real name before she entered Peach Blossom Island. No one in the martial arts world knew it. These three words had not been called out for a long time. When they were suddenly called out, Mei Chaofeng was extremely shocked.

Huang Rong said in a clear voice: "Peach blossom shadows fall, the divine sword flies, the blue sea rises, and the jade flute plays! My surname is Huang."

Mei Chaofeng was even more surprised and said in a trembling voice: "You...you...you..."

Huang Rong called out, "How are you? Do you still remember the Fingertip Peak, the Clear Sound Cave, the Green Bamboo Forest, and the Sword-Testing Pavilion on Peach Blossom Island in the East China Sea?"

These were the places Mei Chaofeng had visited when she was learning martial arts. It sounded like a different world now. She asked in a trembling voice, "Little Junior Sister Huang... from Peach Blossom Island?"

"You're sensible." Huang Rong said with satisfaction, "You didn't hurt Brother Chen Liu just now, and you even gave him the Nine Yin Manual."

Mei Chaofeng heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this. With Huang Rong's letter, she knew it was correct. Her doubts vanished, and she asked, "Junior Sister, didn't Junior Brother Sanfeng say that Master had captured you and taken you back to Peach Blossom Island?"

"If I'm caught, I won't escape again!"

"Junior Sister, you ran away again? Is it because of Junior Brother Sanfeng?"

"What do you think of me? I need help now. Come and help me. When you see Daddy in the future, I will plead for you. How about that?"

Mei Chaofeng hesitated and said, "Junior Sister, I'm blind. Something went wrong with my leg training. I really want to help you, but, but..."

"As long as you are willing, leave the rest to me. We can't stay here anymore. I will take you away." Huang Rong said.

Mei Chaofeng originally wanted to kill Yang Kang first, but then she realized that this was Prince Zhao's mansion. If she killed Yang Kang, she probably wouldn't survive. She also wanted to gain her master's forgiveness. If her junior sister pleaded for her, her master would definitely forgive her. Compared to revenge, she wanted her master's forgiveness more. Besides, there was no time for revenge. After she received her master's forgiveness in the future, it wouldn't be too late to seek revenge. Mei Chaofeng also came to her senses. Although Chen Sanfeng was her junior sister's lover, he didn't seem to have any good intentions towards her, otherwise he wouldn't have told her that the little prince was Yang Kang.

When Chen Liu found Tianxiang Garden, he explored it carefully and quietly. After all, there was not only Liang Ziweng here, but also Master Lingzhi and Ouyang Ke. He had to be careful, otherwise if he alarmed them, he would be in trouble.

The first small building the Chenliu detectives visited was Ouyang Ke's, so he was extra cautious. Fortunately, Ouyang Ke wasn't there. Only a few women from the Western Regions were inside. These women were concubines Ouyang Ke had brought to the Central Plains of the Song Dynasty. They had blue eyes, high noses, and slender waists, each with a very alluring figure. They were chatting about risqué jokes about Ouyang Ke. One woman said a concubine with large breasts was the most daring and aggressive, while the other woman with large breasts said another had the most alluring moans. The one with the most alluring moans said another had the most voluptuous hip movements. As they talked, they all burst into giggles.

The content of the conversation between these women was extremely bold and unrestrained, and they were not afraid of being overheard at all. It can only be said that these women from the Western Regions have no shame and must be severely criticized. It would be best to use oil massage, candle water, and the Japanese rope art techniques together.

Chen Liu secretly spit in his heart and thought: This Ouyang Ke really knows how to enjoy himself. I will go find the two girls from the Western Regions someday. Xiao Zhao is also half of the blood of the Western Regions, so she cannot be let go.

Chen Liu quietly left Ouyang Ke's small building and, with a slight effort, leaped from the roof to another small building. This building was empty and unremarkable, and it didn't seem to belong to Liang Ziweng. Liang Ziweng's precious snake was nearing the end of its lifespan. Since he had brought it to Jin Dadu, he must have brought along many valuable medicinal herbs to continue feeding it. Therefore, Liang Ziweng's small building must have been filled with valuable medicinal herbs.

When he reached the sixth small building, Chen Liu finally smelled a strong smell of medicine. He was secretly delighted, thinking that this was the right place.

Chapter 87: Treasure Snake (Part )

Liang Ziweng likes quiet places, and his residence is far away from other houses. The houses around here are uninhabited, which makes it more convenient for Chenliu to move around.

Chen Liu quietly lifted a glazed tile from the roof and peered inside. He found only a young boy in green clothes inside. Liang Ziweng was not there. Ouyang Ke, Master Lingzhi, Liang Ziweng, and the others were all gone. Wanyan Honglie must have taken them away, which was a good thing. Otherwise, Chen Liu's attempt to steal the precious snake from Liang Ziweng would have been infinitely more difficult. The child in the room, lighting a candle, was feeding the precious snake, which was kept in a large bamboo basket, various precious herbs from the medicine pots in the house.

Chen Liu didn't move for a moment, carefully observing how he fed the child. After the child finished feeding, he sneaked into the house and attacked the child from behind, pressing his sleep point, making him fall asleep. The child was just Liang Ziweng's snake slave, specializing in feeding snakes. His martial arts skills were not very strong. He didn't know why he was knocked unconscious by Chen Liu's pressure.

Chen Liu had originally wanted to kill the boy, but after some thought, he decided not to. Although Chen Liu had killed people before, they had always been bad guys and bandits. He didn't want to become a cold-blooded killer, so he had a limit to his killings: he would only kill the wicked. Although the boy was Liang Ziweng's snake slave, Chen Liu didn't know if he had any bad deeds. He couldn't kill him just because Liang Ziweng wasn't a good person, so he pressed the boy's acupoints twice to make him sleep more soundly.

Chen Liu slipped into the snake room, found a large piece of cloth, and wrapped up all the bottles and jars the child had used to feed the snakes. He then strapped the tightly covered bamboo basket onto his back and quickly slipped out of Prince Zhao's mansion. As for what would happen to the child when Liang Ziweng returned and discovered the precious snake he had raised for twenty years was gone, it was none of his business.

After returning to the inn, Chen Liu looked at the big snake in the bamboo basket through the hole in the lid. He saw that the snake's body was about the thickness of a small bowl and its body was as red as blood. He felt a little happy in his heart.

The old ginseng monster Liang Ziweng, originally a ginseng visitor in Changbai Mountain, took advantage of a dangerous situation to kill a severely injured senior alien and retrieved a secret martial arts manual and over ten medicinal prescriptions from the alien's clothing bag. Liang Ziweng practiced accordingly, achieving remarkable martial arts prowess and gaining a mastery of pharmacology. One of the prescriptions involved nourishing snakes with medicinal herbs, thereby strengthening the body and muscles. Following the recipe, Liang Ziweng collected medicinal herbs and, after much difficulty, captured a massive, venomous python from the deep mountains and dense forests. He then fed it with a variety of rare animals and medicinal herbs. The snake, originally gray-black, gradually turned red after a long diet of mink, cinnabar, and ginseng antlers, gradually eliminating its venom. After nearly twenty years of feeding, its body had become completely red. Therefore, even though he was recruited from Liaodong by Wanyan Honglie to Dadu, he kept this cumbersome snake with him. Seeing that the merits were complete, as long as there were a few days of merit, he would suck the snake's blood, sit in meditation and practice, and then he would be able to nourish his skin and prolong his life, and greatly increase his strength. Now it was Chen Liu who got the advantage.

Chen Liu thought to himself: When Mu Nianci holds a martial arts competition to win her hand in marriage, I will defeat her and then we will eat the snake blood together. It should increase her martial arts skills by about ten years.

Chen Liu's idea was beautiful, but when he woke up the next morning refreshed and went to the inn lobby for breakfast, he suddenly heard a surprised voice: "Brother Chen Liu, so you are here, we finally found you."

Chen Liu looked up and saw five girls, including Huang Rong, the two sisters Guo Fu and Guo Xiang, Lu Wushuang, Hong Lingbo, and "Qin Nanqin" whom he had met last night, walking in from outside the door. His face suddenly became stiff.

[Holy crap, what's going on? How did these people get together? And even come to Jindadu?]

"You, you..." Chen Liu was a little confused.

"Brother Chen Liu!" Guo Xiang sat down next to Chen Liu affectionately, took his arm and said with a giggle, "Didn't expect us to come to see you?"

"I really didn't expect it." Chen Liu was a little speechless and asked, "Sister Xiang'er, how did you find yourself here?"

"Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, give us some soy milk and fried dough sticks." Huang Rong sat down on the other side of Chen Liu and asked the shopkeeper to serve them breakfast.

Guo Xiang explained, "After Brother Chen Liu left, I returned home and told Sister Rong'er and my sister. The three of us sneaked out to look for Brother Chen Liu. We met Hong Lingbo in Yingchang Prefecture and were deceived by her..."

Hong Lingbo glanced at Chen Liu, feeling a little embarrassed.

Chen Liu:......

"We followed the path pointed out by Hong Lingbo and found Lu Wushuang, who stole Brother Chen Liu's horse."

Lu Wushuang also lowered his head feeling a little guilty.

Guo Xiang continued, "With Lu Wushuang's guidance, we caught up with Hong Lingbo. We then learned that Brother Chen Liu was being hunted by Li Mochou and had fled north. We captured Hong Lingbo and took her north to find Brother Chen Liu. We thought that if Brother Chen Liu was captured by Li Mochou, we could use Hong Lingbo in exchange for her. Unexpectedly, when Sister Rong'er went to Prince Zhao's mansion to gather information last night, she unexpectedly ran into Qin Nanqin..."

Mu Nianci was also a little embarrassed. This was a group attempt to trick Chen Liu.

"Sister Rong'er also met her senior sister Mei Chaofeng, and only then did she know that Brother Chenliu had just left Mei Chaofeng's place. So early this morning, we went to various inns in Jin Dadu to look for Brother Chenliu..."

Now it was Chen Liu's turn to be embarrassed. Since Huang Rong had met Mei Chaofeng, she should have known that he had used her reputation to deceive Mei Chaofeng, right?

"Um, Sister Rong'er, do you know?" Chen Liu turned around and asked Huang Rong with some guilt.

"Hmph!" Huang Rong snorted coldly twice and said, "What do you say? You've ruined my reputation. How are you going to compensate me?"

Chen Liu put his hand into his clothes, took out the human skin containing the second half of the Nine Yin Scriptures and handed it to Huang Rong.

Huang Rong snatched the human skin away and stuffed it into her pocket, saying, "This originally belonged to my family. You think giving my things back to me is compensation? No way."

"I have a precious snake in my house. How about giving it to you guys as compensation?" Chen Liu felt helpless. If he had not been caught in the act by Huang Rong, he would have just waited for Mu Nianci and then ran away. But now that she had caught him in the act, there was nothing he could do.

"Not enough." Huang Rong was actually very satisfied. After all, this was the precious snake that Chen Liu had prepared for Mu Nianci. Now he was forced to take it out and not let Mu Nianci eat it alone. This made her very happy, but she was not willing to let Chen Liu go easily.

"Then what do you want? I have nothing on me now except the precious snake." Chen Liu said.

"I want to learn Lingbo Weibu." Huang Rong said.

"Lingbo Weibu?" Chen Liu was a little surprised and said, "Your Peach Blossom Island martial arts are not weak either."

"I just want to learn Lingbo Weibu." Huang Rong said stubbornly.

"Alright, but Lingbo Weibu involves the Xiaoyao Sect. If you don't mind the trouble, I can teach you."

Chapter 88: Treasure Snake (Part )

"Come on, Brother Chen Liu, I'm a great cook. Let's go to our inn. I'll make you a delicious snake soup and teach you the Lingbo Weibu (Swimming Footsteps)." Since they'd met Chen Liu, Huang Rong and Guo Xiang naturally wanted to take him away. They could spare a room in the small courtyard they were staying in. Huang Rong, in particular, didn't want Chen Liu and Mu Nianci to be alone.

"Just let Sister Xiang'er teach you Lingbo Weibu. I have already taught her." Chen Liu said.

"I want you to teach me." Huang Rong's temper flared up, and she started to make trouble. This was also one of the things Chen Liu disliked about Huang Rong. She had been spoiled by her father, Huang Lao Xie, and had always been spoiled since she was a child. Chen Liu didn't like to serve her.

Huang Rong was angry when she heard Chen Liu's words, but she also knew that if she continued to be unreasonable, Chen Liu would only dislike her even more, so she said coquettishly: "Brother Chen Liu, please teach me, okay!"

Whenever Huang Rong started to act coquettishly, Chen Liu got goosebumps all over his body, and his hair stood on end. He thought to himself, "What's wrong with Huang Rong? Is she in love with me? I won't give up the whole forest for her. Mu Nianci is still better."

Huang Rong:......

Mu Nianci: ...

Mu Nianci thought to herself: How do you know I am willing to let you take a concubine?

Chen Liu was eventually dragged away by Huang Rong and Guo Xiang. While checking out of Chen Liu, Mu Nianci approached Yang Tiexin and told him she'd met two good friends, the daughters of the renowned Xiangyang hero Guo Juxia. She'd been spending two days with them and would be back. Upon hearing they were the daughters of the Xiangyang hero, Yang Tiexin was naturally overjoyed. Few in the Song Dynasty martial arts world didn't know about the Xiangyang hero Guo Juxia. How renowned was Guo Juxia? Probably on par with Qiao Feng of the Beggars' Sect or Murong Fu of the Gusu Murong clan. Befriending the Xiangyang hero's daughter would only benefit Mu Nianci, not harm her.

In the courtyard where Huang Rong, Guo Fu and Guo Xiang lived, Chen Liu also met Mei Chaofeng, which made him even more embarrassed. Fortunately, Huang Rong did not tell her that he had deceived Mei Chaofeng, which made Chen Liu feel relieved.

"That's not right. Huang Rong didn't tell Mei Chaofeng that I lied to her. Doesn't that mean Huang Rong has tacitly accepted that she's my fiancée? No, no, if I marry Huang Rong, she'll definitely not let me take a concubine. And her breasts are too small. I have to leave."

Huang Rong, who was killing a snake with a knife with her back to Chen Liu, almost cut off the snake's head with one stroke. She was so angry that her face turned black. Am I so unpleasant to you?

Hong Lingbo glanced at Huang Rong's chest, puffed it out quietly, and laughed inwardly: So what if you are prettier than me? Aren't you still despised by others?

Mu Nianci and Guo Fu also secretly straightened their chests. It’s good to be a woman!

Only Guo Xiang and the still-grown Lu Wushuang felt a bit humiliated, as they weren't that old either. However, both were younger than Huang Rong, so they still had room for growth.

Huang Rong first found seven bowls and used them to bleed the precious snake. Afterwards, Huang Rong, Guo Fu and Guo Xiang, Mu Nianci, Lu Wushuang, and Hong Lingbo each had a bowl. The remaining bowl was given to Chen Liu, which surprised him as he had thought it was for Mei Chaofeng.