Chapter 3 Hidden Dragon in the Deep
It is impossible for these two people alone to be so brave. The person who injured him was a mysterious man, and these two people must know something.
"Who's behind this? I don't know what you're talking about."
Sima Yin said with a gloomy expression.
"Even if you don't tell me, I have a way to find out. I'll only give you three breaths. If you don't tell me, you'll die."
"one two three!"
Ling Chen was too lazy to waste time talking and started counting directly. When he counted to three, a cold light suddenly appeared in his eyes, and then he prepared to chop down with his sword.
"Wait, I say!"
Seeing that Ling Chen did not hesitate, Sima Yin's expression changed. Just before Ling Chen was about to chop him down, he suddenly called out to Ling Chen.
"After I say this, you can't kill me. And I can only say this to you."
Sima Yin looked slightly struggling before he made a decision.
"If you tell the truth, I will not kill you." Ling Chen nodded. Sima Yin was just a small fry. The person behind him was probably the real conspirator, the manipulator involved in the changes of Shenyi Gate.
Seeing Ling Chen nod, Sima Yin also came forward and whispered: "Listen carefully, the person who ordered me is..."
call out!
At this moment, a blade light suddenly shot out and hit Sima Yin's back hard.
boom!
His eyeballs bulged out, and Sima Yin fell to the ground and died. It was seen that a hidden weapon was inserted into Sima Yin's back, and the wound was already rotten at this time. It was obvious that the hidden weapon was coated with poison.
"who?"
Ling Chen's gaze suddenly shifted to the direction from which the hidden weapon came, and he saw a young man in black, about seventeen or eighteen years old, there, and the hidden weapon was obviously shot by this man.
The young man in black was quite handsome, with a faint smile on his face, as if he was mocking Ling Chen.
"It's you, Yun Tianhe." Ling Chen's pupils shrank slightly. He was no stranger to the guy in front of him. He was one of the four geniuses of Shenyi Sect: Lingchen in the East, Muyu in the West, Tianhe in the South, and Lingfeng in the North.
Yun Tianhe is one of the four great geniuses, and his martial arts skills have also reached the ninth level.
"Why did you kill him? Are you afraid that he would reveal something?" Ling Chen stared at the young man in black in front of him. The latter killed Sima Yin at this time, and his intentions were clearly revealed.
If it had been a little later, he would have been able to get the answer he wanted.
“Anyone has the right to kill a traitor who betrays the sect and colludes with outsiders. You, Ling Chen, can kill him, but why can't I?” Yun Tianhe said with a smile.
"Then I have to thank you."
Ling Chen's face was calm as he sheathed his sword. It didn't matter whether Sima Yin said anything or not, because he had found a new target.
Yun Tianhe, this person is most likely in the same group as Sima Yin and the other two.
"You're welcome."
Yun Tianhe smiled wryly, "I never thought that you could come back alive after being thrown into the Soul Burial Cliff. You are really lucky. But I have to tell you a piece of news. You have been stripped of your status as a true disciple. For the sake of your father, I will keep you in Shenyi Sect as an ordinary outer disciple."
"With the Sect Master not here, who has the power to deprive me of my identity?" Ling Chen frowned.
"Sect Master Ling is dead. This is a joint decision made by Sect Master Shentu and the Council of Elders." Yun Tianhe sneered, and then a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes. He leaned close to Ling Chen's ear and said, "Ling Chen, things are different now. You are no longer the young sect master, nor are you the number one genius in the martial arts world. Now you are just a stray dog."
"If you dare to be arrogant again, I can kill you with just one finger."
"You want to kill me with just one finger? You are so arrogant." Ling Chen also smiled coldly, "I can't beat you now, why don't we make a bet? Three months later, we will have a showdown on the sect's fighting arena. No matter life or death, do you dare to accept it?"
Wow!
When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked. All the disciples looked at Ling Chen in disbelief. No one expected Ling Chen to suddenly say such a thing.
Looking for death!
Right now, even if there were ten Ling Chens added together, they would not be able to defeat one Yun Tianhe. Proposing a duel that was impossible to win was nothing more than courting death.
"Haha, I didn't expect that even though he's disabled, he's still so stubborn. Okay, I'll grant your wish. Three months later, we'll have a fight to the death on the fighting stage."
Yun Tianhe smiled grimly, and a murderous look flashed in his eyes. What can he do in three months? Do you want to turn things around? Dream on!
Glancing at Ling Chen as if he were looking at a dead man, Yun Tianhe sneered, waved at a few of his followers, and then turned and left.
"Ling Chen is useless. If Senior Brother Yun doesn't like him, why don't you use some tricks to kill him?"
A disciple beside Yun Tianhe whispered.
"It would be easy for me to kill him right now." Yun Tianhe's eyes were cold, "But killing him like this would be too easy for him, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be better to let him live and slowly humiliate him?"
"Senior Brother Yun, your opinion is profound. Ling Chen has always been a favored child of heaven, but now he has become a loser who can be bullied by everyone. He must be in agony right now, and life would rather die than live." The disciple said with a flattering look on his face.
"Humph, the fun has just begun. Anyway, he can only live for three months."
The coldness in Yun Tianhe's eyes became more and more intense. He used to be outshined by Ling Chen in everything. As the Young Sect Master and a child of destiny, no matter how hard he performed, Ling Chen would always be in front of him with the halo of being the number one. Now, he has finally turned the tables and can give Ling Chen a hard kick in the face.
At that time, he would kill Ling Chen on the fighting stage in front of all the disciples of Shenyi Sect.
Seeing Yun Tianhe leave, the onlookers also retreated one after another. No one stepped forward to greet Ling Chen, because they knew that if they went to greet Ling Chen now, they would offend Yun Tianhe, and when the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. In their opinion, Ling Chen's situation was now hopeless.
"Yun Tianhe is very cunning. He has revealed his murderous intentions to me just now. I must recover my strength as soon as possible, otherwise I will be killed by him sooner or later."
Ling Chen did not care about the attitudes of those disciples. This was the way the world was and people's hearts were like this. He did not blame these people. What he had to consider now was how to improve his strength and save his life.
With his current martial arts skills, he was definitely no match for Yun Tianhe. That was why he deliberately proposed a three-month deadline for the decisive battle. In this way, Yun Tianhe would not use any means to harm him during these three months, and he would be safe.
…
It was almost evening Ling Chen returned to his former residence in Shen Yi Gate, Wu Chen Courtyard.
Wuchen Courtyard is a place of great natural beauty. In Shenyi Sect, only true disciples are qualified to live in an independent courtyard.
It was a starry night.
Ling Chen looked up into the long night, gazing at the endless starry sky, without saying a word.
In the past, he, as the son of the supreme master of the martial arts world and a genius of his generation, never thought that he would fall into the precarious situation he is in now. He did not expect that his fate would change. However, Ling Chen is now a man of great perseverance. He has long seen through the encounters of life and death, which are nothing more than the various aspects of life.
"Only the weak dwell on the past. Behind the conspiracy, one needs to be strong enough to uncover it."
Ling Chen put away his sigh, then drew the long sword from his waist, circulated his true energy to his knees, and walked forward step by step.
The next moment, the operation diagram of the Dragon-Seeking Sword Technique emerged in Ling Chen's mind. He imagined himself as a ferocious yet graceful dragon, using all his strength in every sword strike while maintaining rhythm.
Ling Chen had already mastered the basic eighteen sword styles. Every time he swung the sword, the true energy in his body would flow along with the moves and merge into his muscles, bones and blood, accelerating the integration with his body.
There are fifteen moves in the Xunlong Sword Technique, which is a king-level sword technique and is extremely rare. Even for the former Shenyi Sect, the king-level martial arts were the sect’s treasures and were extremely precious.
If one could practice the Dragon-Seeking Sword Technique to the fifteenth move, its power would be extraordinary.
The first move of the Dragon -Seeking Sword Technique, "Hidden Dragon in the Abyss", is the starting move. Only after you have mastered it can you be considered an entry-level swordsman.
The second and third moves are "White Dragon Passing Through the Crack" and "Seeking the Dragon Without a Shadow". The power of the first three moves belongs to the category of human-level martial arts, which is not very strong, but the more you practice, the more difficult it becomes, especially from the eighth move on, which is a watershed. From then on, each move will consume a lot of time and energy. If it were not for this reason, this Dragon Seeking Sword Technique would be comparable to Saint-level martial arts.
However, no matter how difficult it was, Ling Chen did not intend to give up this sword technique. Compared with this Dragon-Seeking Sword Technique, the sword technique he had practiced before was simply too poor.
"The first move of the Dragon Seeking Sword Technique is the Hidden Dragon in the Abyss."
Ling Chen took a step forward, his pace gradually increased from slow to fast, and then he suddenly rushed out and slashed with a sword.
The true dragon of destiny lurks in the abyss. If it does not move, it is fine; but when it moves, it is shocking.
Ling Chen quickly mastered the trick of this first move and began to practice it repeatedly until the last bit of his true energy was exhausted. He then wiped off the sweat from his face, sat cross-legged on the ground, and began to practice the Lingtian Sword Sutra to recover the consumed true energy.
The power of heaven and earth, as if being pulled by something, quickly gathered from all directions and poured into Ling Chen's body.
In just half an hour, Ling Chen's true energy was fully restored, and it was even stronger than before.
"As expected of the Ling Tian Sword Scripture, the speed of recovering true energy is also terrifying."
Although his cultivation is still shallow and there is not much true energy in his body, he can fully recover once every half an hour, which is ten times that of an ordinary person. At this speed, Ling Chen's cultivation speed will far exceed that of ordinary people.
In this way, Ling Chen would have enough time to practice the Dragon Seeking Sword Technique and, in combination with the Sky-High Sword Scripture, he would not have to worry about the consumption issue at all. Moreover, while practicing the sword technique, his cultivation level would also improve, killing two birds with one stone.
After spending a whole day, Ling Chen finally succeeded in practicing the first move of the Dragon Seeking Sword Technique, "Hidden Dragon in the Abyss".
"Finally it's done."
Ling Chen's eyes revealed a hint of excitement. This was a king-level sword technique, and its power was incomparable to ordinary martial arts.
Although he had only mastered the first move, Ling Chen couldn't wait to try out its power.
Deep in the yard, there was a row of wooden stakes used for martial arts practice, and Ling Chen came here to test the power of his swordsmanship.
"The dragon lurks in the abyss."
Without saying a word, Ling Chen took a step forward and swung his sword. A stream of true energy quickly flowed from his waist to his arms and exploded at his wrists.
This sword was so sharp that one could even faintly hear the roar of a dragon.
Boom!
The sword was embedded in the wooden stake, wood chips flew up, and a sword mark was left.
Sheathing the sword, Ling Chen looked at the wooden stake, only to see that the sword mark was very smooth, without a single bump or bump.
"penetrating."
Ling Chen raised his eyebrows, the power of this sword did not seem to meet his expectations.
Click, click!
Suddenly, strange noises rang out from the wooden stake, and cracks appeared around the sword marks, spreading out at some point, covering most of the wooden stake, and finally completely breaking apart.
"I see."
Ling Chen finally understood that the real power of this move Hidden Dragon in the Abyss did not lie in the slashing blow, but in its strong aftereffect.
After mastering the first move, Ling Chen was not too complacent. His current cultivation level was less than one-tenth of what it was before, so he did not have much time to indulge in such joy.
However, Ling Chen is now full of confidence. Even if he can only practice one form of the Dragon-Seeking Sword Technique, it is much stronger than ordinary sword techniques.
Now that he has the Lingtian Sword Scripture, with his current progress in cultivation, it is only a matter of time before he returns to his original level of cultivation.
