Volume 1: The Return of the Ancestor Chapter 14 Three Major Events
When Su Yan went out to sea thirty-three years ago, Wuji Dao had two generations of disciples, totaling fifty-seven people.
However, the people Su Yan truly understood and was close to were his seven true disciples.
There were seven people, four boys and three girls. The oldest was only 12 years old when they followed him, and the youngest was the seventh disciple Su Yi, who was only three years old.
It can be said that all his disciples were brought up by him, and therefore, they truly regard him as their father.
Among them, the first three disciples were named Su Jian, Liu Zhi, and Zhao Nan. Their aptitude was just okay, and their comprehension was only slightly higher than that of ordinary people, not particularly outstanding.
Before he went out to sea, among the three, only Su Jian had followed him the longest and practiced most diligently, thus entering the first level of innateness.
The last four disciples were named Zhang Gong, Li Fengqiu, Liao Xu and Su Yi. As he already had quite a reputation in the martial arts world, his standards for accepting disciples had also become higher, so these four disciples were almost all people with excellent aptitude and high comprehension.
Among them, the fifth disciple Li Fengqiu had the best aptitude and the highest comprehension. He was the other one who entered the first level of innateness before he went out to sea.
The Su Yi that Min Xuelou mentioned was his seventh true disciple, whom he accepted just before he founded the Wuji Dao. He was only three years old at that time.
Therefore, when he went out to sea, Su Yi was just a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old.
He never imagined that when he returned from the sea thirty-three years later , only the youngest female disciple was left among the seven disciples...
For a moment, Su Yan's consciousness became completely silent.
Wu Yueyin felt something, but also remained silent.
Min Xuelou, Mu Chunhua, Li Ru, and Xue Xiuyi all lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound.
After a long while, Su Yan sent a message to Min Xuelou: "Tell me, how did they die?"
Su Yan's tone was very calm when he said this, but Min Xuelou could sense the surging anger and murderous intent hidden in it.
Min Xuelou has never forgotten the hatred towards his master and his uncles, and has always regarded it as his responsibility to avenge himself and revive the Wuji Dao.
It's just that this road is too difficult to walk on.
Over the years, these people have tried their best to preserve the inheritance of Wuji Dao.
I don’t know how long I will have to wait to realize my long-cherished wish.
Fortunately, with the blessing of God, the master did not die as rumored. After disappearing for more than 30 years, he finally returned from overseas.
Although the Grand Master seemed to have been seriously injured, she believed that as long as the Grand Master was there, the revenge of Master, all the uncles, and fellow disciples would be avenged, and the Wuji Dao would be revived!
Thinking of this, Min Xuelou took a deep breath, organized his words, and recounted several major events that changed the fortunes of Wuji Dao that year.
Min Xuelou spoke in great detail and slowly, so it took him nearly an hour to finish.
Su Yan finally learned about the decline of Wuji Dao after he left.
The story is roughly the same as what Wang Xiaosan from Wangshui Tower said.
In the second year after he went to sea, the barbarians invaded, but the warriors of the Barbarian Temple sneaked into Daliang first and colluded with the rebel force in Daliang, the Demon Sect, and used conspiracy and trickery to stir up a bloody storm in the martial arts world.
After all, this is a world where martial arts are relatively prosperous. When one side invades another, it is almost normal to first attack the other side's martial arts forces.
If it were just the two armies fighting each other on the border, a martial arts sect like Wujidao would not be involved.
Due to various subjective or objective reasons, the then-heads Su Jian and Li Fengqiu led twenty or thirty disciples to intervene in the martial arts war.
Min Xuelou didn't know the specific situation, he only knew that the two were seriously injured when they came back, and more than half of the disciples they brought out were killed, and the rest were also injured.
Therefore, this battle can be said to have caused great damage to the Wuji Dao.
Fortunately, the situation was eventually calmed down, and Su Yan's fourth disciple Zhang Gong also broke through to the innate realm during this period. If nothing else happens, Wuji Dao can recuperate for five or six years, and its overall strength will be restored to its previous level.
But only a year later, news spread in the martial arts world that Su Yan had died overseas.
Soon, the Jindao Sect, a second-rate sect that had conflicts with the Wuji Dao at the time, attacked Kunwu Mountain.
According to rumors, the Golden Sword Sect only had two Xiantian Realm masters, but on that day, there were as many as four Xiantian Realm masters who attacked Kunwu Mountain, and more than thirty masters above the sixth level of the acquired realm. The Wuji Dao disciples were simply unable to resist.
Later, with the help of the desperate fighting of three innate masters Su Jian, Zhang Gong and Li Fengqiu, as well as acquired Wuji Dao masters Liu Zhi, Zhao Nan, Liao Xu and other Wuji Dao masters, Su Yi was able to escape with seven or eight weaker young Wuji Dao disciples.
After a while, Su Yi and others who escaped heard that the Jindao Sect was destroyed by the Tianle Palace, and the Tianle Palace occupied Kunwu Mountain.
At that time, Tianle Palace spread the word in the martial arts world, saying that it was willing to help the disciples of Wuji Dao rebuild Wuji Dao in Kunwu Mountain.
However, Su Yi, Min Xuelou and others remembered the two extra Xiantian realm masters who appeared when the Golden Sword Sect attacked, and they also felt that Wuji Dao and Tianle Palace had no friendship, so they always felt that Tianle Palace had a conspiracy.
So, under Su Yi's suggestion, the remaining disciples of Wuji Dao did not show up, but found a secret place, and used some supplies that Su Yan had left elsewhere in the past to rebuild Wuji Dao, licking their wounds in secret and slowly accumulating strength.
Later, news of Master Tianle's passing away spread in the martial arts world, and Tianle Palace no longer searched for Wuji Dao disciples, as if it had forgotten about Wuji Dao.
After listening to Min Xuelou's story, Su Yan remained silent for a long time.
Based on his understanding of the two disciples, Su Jian and Li Fengqiu, he vaguely felt that from the damage to Wuji Dao's strength to the attack from Jindao Sect and being targeted by Tianle Palace, the three things were all related and a little strange. However, since he didn't know much information, he couldn't figure out what was strange for a while.
Coming back to his senses, he noticed that Min Xuelou seemed to be about to speak, so he asked in a voice transmission, "Do you have to say?"
Mu Chunhua secretly pulled the corner of Min Xuelou's clothes, but Min Xuelou showed a resolute look and knelt down in front of Su Yan with a plop.
"Xue Lou is guilty, please punish me, Master!"
Su Yan had long felt that Min Xuelou and the others were a little strange, but he could not find the reason for their strangeness from what Min Xuelou said just now.
So he sent a message to Wu Yue again, asking Wu Yue to pass on the message, "Master asks, what is your crime?"
Min Xuelou bowed and said, "Thanks to Uncle Su Yi for his appreciation and the trust of fellow disciples, I will appoint Xuelou as the third head of Wuji Dao.
However, during the period when the disciple was the head of the sect, he accepted people with ulterior motives into the Wuji Sect, which almost led to the destruction of the Wuji Sect.
Although the traitor was eventually eliminated, two junior sisters were killed, many disciples were injured, and the strength of Wuji Dao was damaged.
Although this happened sixteen years ago, Xue Lou dare not hide it from Master, and I beg Master to punish me!"
After saying that, he kowtowed to the ground with a "dong" sound.
At this time, Mu Chunhua also knelt on the ground, and Li Ru and Xue Xiuyi also knelt down when they saw this.
Mu Chunhua explained nervously, "Master, what happened back then was definitely not the fault of Senior Sister Min alone. We really didn't expect Wang Mian to betray our master and become a running dog of Tianle Palace."
Wang Mian?
Su Yan searched his memories from more than 30 years ago and remembered that Wang Mian was Su Jian's fourth disciple and also Min Xuelou's senior brother.
It’s just that Wang Mian’s aptitude is average, and his performance is very ordinary among many second-generation disciples, so Su Yan didn’t think of him immediately.
Then he sent a message to Wu Yue.
Wu Yue looked at Mu Chunhua and said, "Master, what happened sixteen years ago?"
Hearing this question, Min Xuelou almost dug his fingers into the ground.
Mu Chunhua hesitated for a moment, and finally slowly told the story of another event that happened sixteen years ago that had a major impact on Wuji Dao.
It turns out that after Su Yi, Min Xuelou and others rebuilt the Wuji Dao, they had been inquiring about the news of their fellow disciples who had died in the past - even if someone was dead, they would try their best to get the remains or relics and bury them.
In addition, they still hold on to a one in ten thousand hope, that is, there were other fellow disciples who escaped that year.
Because they were afraid of being discovered by Wuji Dao's enemies, they did this very secretly, so the progress was naturally very slow.
After more than a decade of gaining nothing, it was not until sixteen years ago that news of Wang Mian was suddenly received.
The first person to contact them was a young man who claimed to be Wang Mian's disciple, and then it was Wang Mian.
At that time, Wang Mian said that although he had luckily escaped with his life in the attack by the Golden Sword Sect, he was seriously injured and had to hide and recuperate for several years before he recovered. The young disciple was accepted during this period.
Although Min Xuelou and others were quite cautious, Wang Mian was, after all, a former fellow disciple, and his experience was reasonable. In addition, Min Xuelou and Wang Mian had developed feelings for each other in the past, so they believed him.
Not long after Wang Mian and his disciples entered Wuji Dao, the second-generation disciple Lin Ran felt that something was wrong with them and mentioned the matter to Min Xuelou.
However, Min Xuelou and Wang Mian's relationship was heating up rapidly at the time, so they did not take Lin Ran's suspicion seriously.
Not long after, Wang Mian and his disciples broke into Su Yi's retreat and almost injured Su Yi.
Fortunately, Lin Ran and another second-generation disciple Zhao Wen arrived at the critical moment and tried their best to stop them, so they held out until Min Xuelou and others arrived.
It was also at that time that the disciples of Wuji Dao discovered that not only Wang Mian was at the seventh level of the acquired realm, but even his disciples were at the seventh level of the acquired realm.
At that time, besides Su Yi, Min Xuelou was the only one in Wuji Dao who had reached the seventh level of acquired strength. The others like Fu Xuan, Lin Ran, Zhao Wen, Mu Chunhua, etc. only had the fifth or sixth level of acquired strength.
Lin Ran and Zhao Wen were the first to engage in battle with Wang Mian, and both suffered serious injuries in the fierce battle and died.
Fortunately, Wuji Dao also took advantage of its numbers to injure Master Wang Mian and his apprentice.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the two men retreated in panic.
Regardless of his own injuries, Min Xuelou frantically chased the two men in the mountains for a day and a night, and finally brought back the heads of the two men and placed them in front of the graves of Lin Ran and Zhao Wen.
Afterwards, Min Xuelou asked to take the position of the head of the sect and accept the punishment.
Su Yi did not severely punish Min Xuelou, but only made her face the wall for three years, and Fu Xuan became the head of the sect...
After listening to Mu Chunhua's story, Su Yan had new doubts.
Wu Yue then passed on the message for him: "Master asked, why couldn't Su Yi take action at that time?"
