Chapter 221: Frustrated Linghu Chong

. Linghu Chong's Dugu Nine Swords were still quite formidable.

Linghu Chong was particularly familiar with the Huashan School's numerous sword techniques. Almost every time Yue Lingshan launched her opening stance, Linghu Chong knew which technique she was about to use.

Furthermore, Linghu Chong had previously been hunted by the Songshan School and had experienced numerous battles, both large and small, including numerous life-or-death battles.

Therefore, his swordsmanship was far superior to that of Yue Lingshan, a diary-born novice.

Even though Yue Lingshan's cultivation level was four levels higher than Linghu Chong's, she was still slightly inferior in combat power.

Yue Lingshan felt as if every strike from Linghu Chong was restraining her own, as if every one of his strikes was aimed at her vital points.

Consequently, the battle between Yue Lingshan and Linghu Chong left her feeling extremely frustrated.

She attempted to use her far superior cultivation level to forcibly crush Linghu Chong.

Linghu Chong's sword, however, seemed to possess a soul, light and agile. Yue Lingshan, forgot about hoping to crush Linghu Chong with her cultivation. Even from the beginning of the fight, Yue Lingshan's sword hadn't even touched Linghu Chong's.

"Senior Brother must be too familiar with the Huashan School's swordsmanship," Yue Lingshan thought to herself, suddenly abandoning her sword and turning to her leg skills.

Powered by the Wind God Leg, Yue Lingshan swiftly charged towards Linghu Chong. While

Yue Lingshan's proficiency in the Wind God Leg couldn't match the Huashan School's swordsmanship

, the Wind God Leg was, after all, a Grandmaster-level skill. It combined lightness skills, leg techniques, and even internal energy into one, offering a far higher ceiling than the Huashan School's swordsmanship. Even combined, its value rivaled that of the Dugu Nine Swords.

It could be said that the Wind God Leg was on the same level as the Dugu Nine Swords. Mastering both the Wind God Leg and the Dugu Nine Swords to a high level could lead to Grandmaster status.

Of course, both Linghu Chong and Yue Lingshan were merely minor masters, completely unable to unleash their full potential.

Yue Lingshan suddenly switched to the Wind God Kick, and sure enough, Linghu Chong's Dugu Nine Swords didn't face the Wind God Kick with the ease it had previously experienced against the Huashan School's swordsmanship.

Although Linghu Chong's Dugu Nine Swords emphasized the ability to shatter all martial arts, the Wind

God Kick, while on the same level as the Dugu Nine Swords, still proved challenging.

This was especially true given Yue Lingshan's higher cultivation level, and the Wind God Kick's swiftness, both in terms of lightness and attack, far surpassed ordinary martial arts.

Facing the Wind God Kick's onslaught for the first time, Linghu Chong was inevitably flustered.

His previous life with Lin Xian'er had, after all, affected Linghu Chong's state of mind.

Facing the Wind God Kick's relentless onslaught, Linghu Chong could only repeatedly strike, attempting to hit Yue Lingshan's weak spots, forcing her to periodically change her tactics.

However, despite being unable to defeat Linghu Chong, Linghu Chong's Dugu Nine Swords seemed to pose no threat to Yue Lingshan.

In fact, with her continued battles with Linghu Chong, Yue Lingshan felt she had gained a significant amount of combat experience.

This was because the Dugu Nine Swords were truly suitable for sparring.

They targeted weaknesses and flaws in Yue Lingshan

's martial arts. Whether these were inherent weaknesses in the martial arts or flaws stemming from insufficient cultivation

, these weaknesses and flaws were constantly being attacked, forcing Yue Lingshan to adapt and improve them. After addressing these weaknesses and flaws, Yue Lingshan's Wind God Leg naturally became more proficient, more powerful, and more powerful.

As the primary attacker, and using the Wind God Leg with a relatively modest proficiency, Yue Lingshan's Qi was rapidly depleted, far more rapidly than Linghu Chong's.

Soon, Linghu Chong's muscles and bones were fully stretched, but his Qi was also largely depleted.

So Yue Lingshan stopped. Seeing Yue Lingshan stop, Linghu Chong also retracted his sword.

"Junior Sister, what martial arts did you use later? It's amazing! It's so fast, my sword can't catch up at all." Linghu Chong praised Yue Lingshan generously. This was Linghu Chong's habit, to praise Yue Lingshan out of habit.

"This is the martial arts that Senior Brother Ye taught me, the Wind God Leg. As long as I can practice this Wind God Leg well, it will be enough to make me a Grandmaster." Yue Lingshan said proudly.

"The martial arts that Junior Brother Ye taught you?" Linghu Chong was stunned.

"Yes, in addition to the Wind God Leg, there are also the Thirteen Deadly Swords, the Heavenly Gang Boy's Kung Fu, the Divine Illumination Sutra, and other martial arts. Senior Brother Ye taught them all to Huashan. These martial arts have different strengths, but anyone who reaches a certain level of strength and has sufficient knowledge of the sect can exchange them for these martial arts. That's why I say that our Huashan Sect has undergone tremendous changes now." Yue Lingshan said proudly.

"Junior Brother Ye, have you handed over all these martial arts to the Huashan Sect?" Linghu Chong was stunned. Such powerful martial arts, were they handed over to the Huashan Sect so easily?

This was too unbelievable.

At least, he, Linghu Chong, could never do that.

Although, his Dugu Nine Swords were passed down from Feng Qingyang, and Feng Qingyang did not allow Linghu Chong to leak information about Feng Qingyang.

Linghu Chong used this reason to convince himself not to hand in the Dugu Nine Swords to his master.

After Linghu Chong understood the Huashan Sect's situation, he still did not hand in the Dugu Nine Swords. However, Linghu Chong once again pulled Feng Qingyang out and convinced himself that the Dugu Nine Swords was not his own swordsmanship, but the martial arts of his great-uncle Feng, and he could not pass it on to others.

Linghu Chong, after all, still had a trace of selfishness in his bones.

This was also the reason why Yue Buqun, Ning Zhongze, and even Yue Lingshan were disappointed in Linghu Chong.

Linghu Chong glanced at Ye Xiu, a flicker of hesitation and admiration in his eyes. At least Ye Xiu hadn't surrendered the Dugu Nine Swords to Yue Buqun, while Ye Xiu, whose skills were no less powerful than the Dugu Nine Swords, had also surrendered them to his masters.

Linghu Chong simply couldn't handle such a swell-up attitude.

"Perhaps I should surrender the Dugu Nine Swords too, after all, the Huashan Sect now possesses so many other unique skills," Linghu Chong thought silently.

Linghu Chong's thoughts were of no importance to Ye Xiu.

Even the Dugu Nine Swords, which Linghu Chong possessed, were of little use to Ye Xiu. After all,

Ye Xiu possessed so many martial arts, each of which was comparable in level and power to the Dugu Nine Swords.

Instead of wasting his time worrying about the ground, he should focus on Pang Ban dispatching Jin Bingyun to seize the opportunity.

For now, Pang Ban was the greatest threat to Ye Xiu.

Speaking of which, Ye Xiu had previously acquired the Changsheng Jue martial art, and with the help of the diary, he quickly mastered it.

Furthermore, Ye Xiu's approach to Changsheng Jue was different from that of the Twin Dragons in The Legend of the Twin Dragons. Due to coincidence, the two of them each cultivated a small portion of Changsheng Jue, but Ye Xiu mastered all seven elements directly.

Whether it was the elements of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, or yin and yang, Ye Xiu began to cultivate them.

After mastering the Changsheng Jue, Ye Xiu discovered that its level was truly exceptional.

If any single element of the Changsheng Jue—whether metal, wood, water, fire, earth, or yin and yang—had been cultivated to a high level, one could attain celestial status.

Furthermore, once the Changsheng Jue had been mastered to a high level, integrating all seven elements into one, one would naturally attain celestial status. Furthermore, with continued practice, the Changsheng Jue could push one to the consummation of the celestial realm.

As for whether one could ultimately achieve the status of a terrestrial immortal, that was a difficult matter.

It seemed that even Guangchengzi, the creator of the Changsheng Jue, had failed to achieve this, ultimately passing away in the War God Temple.

In short, the Changsheng Jue was a Taoist martial art comparable to the Dao Heart Demon Cultivation Technique.

Ye Xiu subconsciously glanced in the opposite direction of Wang Jin Bingyun. After mastering the Changsheng Jue, he had faintly sensed a unique aura from Jin Bingyun.

"Could it be a demon seed?" Ye Xiu pondered, his anticipation for the Changsheng Jue growing stronger.

After all, he had only mastered the Changsheng Jue to the introductory level, yet he could already sense a faint sense of danger from Jin Bingyun. Ye Xiu even felt that if his Changsheng Jue were more powerful, perhaps he could counteract Pang Ban's demon seed.

Therefore, Ye Xiu was truly filled with anticipation and hope for the Changsheng Jue.

With Linghu Chong's presence, Ye Xiu and his group's progress was not significantly affected, and they continued their journey towards the Huashan Sect.

Throughout this journey, Linghu Chong noticed that the women around Ye Xiu seemed to maintain a certain level of intimacy with him.

What made Linghu Chong want to vomit blood was that he noticed that Junior Sister Yue Lingshan and Master's Wife Ning Zhongze were being extremely kind, even flirtatious, towards Ye Xiu.

"No, I must stop Junior Sister. I can't just stand by and watch her jump into the fire pit!" Linghu Chong cried out firmly in his heart.

So, Linghu Chong found an opportunity, grabbed Yue Lingshan, and walked towards a secluded place.

"What are you doing, Senior Brother? What's going on?" Yue Lingshan looked at Linghu Chong with a puzzled look on her face, not understanding what Linghu Chong was up to.

"Junior Sister, have you noticed that there are too many women around Ye Xiu? And I have a vague feeling that the relationship between those women and Ye Xiu is probably quite close." Linghu Chong said with a little euphemism.

Yue Lingshan couldn't help but sigh when she heard Linghu Chong's words. Of course, she knew about this situation. She even knew that Dongfang Bubai, Yaoyue, Murong Qiudi, and even her mother Ning Zhongze, all had the closest relationship with Ye Xiu, and this was because Ye Xiu himself was not the type to particularly take the initiative.

If possible, Yue Lingshan even hoped that she could join in, but now she simply couldn't do that.

"I didn't expect Junior Brother Ye to be such a person, to have affairs with so many women. Junior Sister, you should clear your mind now and keep some distance from Junior Brother Ye. After all, people like him are completely disrespectful to women." Linghu Chong tried to get Yue Lingshan to stay away from Ye Xiu, hoping that only then would he have a chance.

"Big Brother, please stop talking. You don't understand many things. Senior Brother Ye is actually—never mind, there's no way I can explain it to you. Anyway, it's best for you to stay out of this kind of thing." Yue Lingshan tried to explain, but found it difficult. After all, this involved the diary, so she gave up, though she still made her attitude known.

"Little Sister, how could you, how could you say that—"

"Alright, Big Brother, I won't talk to you anymore." Yue Lingshan was a little annoyed.

Suddenly, she felt that Big Brother was quite annoying. It was fine when they'd left before, but now that they finally met, he was actually speaking ill of Ye Xiu.

Linghu Chong, bewildered by Yue Lingshan's attitude, couldn't believe that even though Ye Xiu's relationship with another woman was so obvious, his junior sister Yue Lingshan and even his master's wife Ning Zhongze acted as if nothing had happened, completely oblivious.

Linghu Chong couldn't help but wonder if Ye Xiu had used some kind of sorcery to bewitch his junior sister and his master's wife.

For a moment, Linghu Chong even considered using rooster blood or black dog blood, legendary talismans that warded off evil.

"Alas!" Linghu Chong couldn't help but sigh, especially seeing so many people surrounding Ye Xiu, while almost no one seemed to care about him, not even his beloved junior sister.

"Is there any point in going back to Huashan?" Linghu Chong, craving a drink, removed the wine gourd from his waist, only to find it was already empty.

"Junior sister, master's wife, I'll go get some wine," Linghu Chong said to Yue Lingshan and Ning Zhongze.

"Oh, Senior Brother, go soon and come back soon," Yue Lingshan said nonchalantly.

Ning Zhongze, on the other hand, frowned slightly when she heard Linghu Chong was going to buy some wine. But thinking of how unwelcome Linghu Chong was among their group, she felt it was awkward to stop him: "Chong'er, be careful on the road."

"I understand, Master's Wife." Linghu Chong turned around, waved his hand casually, and went to find a place to buy some wine.

But as he left, Linghu Chong felt a tinge of bitterness.

Back when he was at Mount Hua, he'd been a heavy drinker.

Sometimes he'd steal, sometimes he'd buy.

But every time, whether it was his Junior Sister or Master's Wife, they'd stop him, even getting upset when he went to buy wine.

But now, Yue Lingshan and Ning Zhongze not only turned a blind eye to his buying wine, but even when he approached them about it, they didn't care.

Linghu Chong suddenly felt pathetic, as if no one cared about him.

It seemed Linghu Chong hadn't even considered why Yue Lingshan and Ning Zhongze treated him this way.

Indeed, part of the reason was Ye Xiu. But was Linghu Chong completely blameless?

The Huashan Sect was in such a dangerous situation back then, yet Linghu Chong still hid the Dugu Nine Swords and refused to reveal it.

Even Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze had hinted at it more than once, almost making it clear, but Linghu Chong pretended to know nothing and that nothing had happened.

He had done the worst himself, but now he was blaming Ning Zhongze and Yue Lingshan for not being good enough to him.

But that was normal, as people would subconsciously consider things from their own perspective.

Linghu Chong said he was going to buy some wine, and after he left, he didn't come back drunk until it was dark and Ye Xiu and his group had already found an inn to rest.

Seeing Linghu Chong's drunken appearance, most people around Ye Xiu couldn't help but frown.

Ning Zhongze and Yue Lingshan felt a little distressed when they saw Linghu Chong like this. In the end, Ning Zhongze told the waiter to give him some silver and asked him to take good care of Linghu Chong.