A Different Tianshan Tonglao

Duan Yu couldn't help but let out a cold snort, at the Song Emperor's callousness.

If it were just that Song Emperor didn't trust Qiao Feng, that would be one thing, but to act this way when he clearly trusted him is quite another.

Duan Yanqing remained expressionless, not even blinking. Of course, due to his disability, he was unable to make any expressions.

He continued patiently, "The 'Curse Scripture' mentions that Patronus Charm are all held by loyal and righteous people. It can be said that Song Emperor trusted Gang Leader Qiao the most. But at the same time, he also trusted him the least."

"Gang Leader Qiao himself wouldn't have any rebellious intentions, but his subordinates might."

"Gang Leader Qiao's background is too good. Both the Buddha Kingdom and the Beggar Dynasty are interested in him."

"The Song Emperor must disrupt the harmony between the Buddha Kingdom and the Beggar Dynasty to prevent a recurrence of the incident of being forced to wear the yellow robe."

Duan Yu sighed. Having been carefully taught the art of imperial strategy by Crown Prince Yanqing since childhood, he was well aware of this point. He was just speaking out for Qiao Feng.

As a member of the martial arts world, he admired Qiao Feng's uprightness, generosity, and magnanimity.

As the heir to the Dali Royal Family, he envied and longed to have a loyal and capable minister like Qiao Feng.

Duan Yanqing immediately saw what his son was thinking and comforted him, "In this world, strength is the ultimate power. The combination of martial arts and Curse Technique makes the [Dragon God in the Clouds] the best in the world. He will be fine no matter what."

"Yes, might makes right." Duan Yu sighed. He wondered when this world, in which people like him, who were devoted to Buddhism and had never liked swordsmanship since childhood, would be forced to devote themselves to martial arts.

After a brief silence, he asked, "Am I the only one going to Mount Song, or..."

Whether for public or private reasons, he should go to Shaolin Temple on Mount Song.

The outcome of the struggle between the Buddha Kingdom and the Beggar Dynasty also had a significant impact on the surrounding small countries, especially the Dali people, who were almost indistinguishable from the Song people.

For Yu Yan's sake, he should go find his last missing sister.

However, he did not want to be with his father's group of women.

You should know that besides the sister he found, there were also many concubines inside.

"The Prince of Zhennan will also be going." Duan Yanqing immediately understood his son's concerns. "But we can set off first, find your sister, and then meet up at Shaolin Temple."

Duan Yu's brows relaxed, and then he and Duan Yanqing flashed onto the boat, disappeared into the lotus flowers, and headed towards the shore.

Wang Yuyan had no idea that her brother, whom she no longer intended to have anything to do with, had come to find her with his biological father, whom he also did not know.

She simply cupped her face in her hands, listening to Wu Yazi recount amusing anecdotes about his sect that he had never told before.

Wu Yazi had just seen a woman dressed in the Lingjiu Palace attire, which triggered his past memories.

"Among the four of us, the eldest sister is the most skilled in martial arts. The martial art she practices is the most brutal and powerful in the sect, the Supreme Pure Yang Art. This skill was originally not suitable for women to practice, but the eldest sister was proud and arrogant, so she reversed the Supreme Yang Skill and practiced it as the Supreme Yin Skill, and renamed it the Eight Desolations and Six Harmonies Supreme Skill."

"But even so, this kung fu is too brutal. When you start learning the kung fu, your body is also set in its original shape."

"If it were the age of coming of age, that would be fine, but true profound martial arts must be practiced from a young age, so the eldest sister has always maintained the appearance of a six-year-old child."

"Only when success is achieved can one grow up and become no different from ordinary people."

"What is her fundamental Curse Technique?" Huang Rong asked curiously from the side.

"The eldest sister's fundamental Curse Technique is also the most mysterious and unpredictable among us fellow disciples," Wu Yazi said. "Unlike my Super Memory Charm, which can only teach me some miscellaneous skills, the third sister's beauty spell can only decorate the appearance, and the fourth sister's Human Transfiguration spell can only change the appearance."

"The eldest sister has mastered the Apparition, a Curse Technique that allows for spatial teleportation."

"Third junior sister, are you my maternal grandmother?" Wang Yuyan asked.

Wu Yazi nodded, "In short, Senior Sister has always looked down on the three of us because of this."

"They think we're good at martial arts."

Li Lin was surprised. So, in this world, Wu Xingyun didn't Wu Yazi again.

That's good too; let the scumbags and scumbags stick together and not hinder each other's progress.

Wu Yazi sighed, "After I fell deeply in love with my third junior sister and became obsessed with love, she treated us as nothing and devoted herself to martial arts."

"He achieved success at the age of twenty and regained his normal physique."

Six years ahead of schedule, even more so than in novels!

So, Wu Xingyun's success in not having a relationship early on was due to this, and she even escaped the fate of going astray and becoming a perpetual loli.

Thinking of this, Li Lin couldn't help but ask, "Then how did you become the leader of the Xiaoyao School?"

Wu Yazi stiffened and plucked a wisp of his beard. "Because of my gender."

He sighed, "That's why our senior sister was very dissatisfied and parted ways with us."

"Even when Master gave her the only permanent property of the Xiaoyao School — Lingjiu Palace —she was still not satisfied. She never communicated with us again."

"No one would be satisfied with this," Li Lin complained. "Are you better at martial arts than her?"

Wu Yazi shook his head, "At first I had some resentment about this, so when it came to me, I started to use miscellaneous arts such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting to judge the quality of my disciples."

"That sparked Ding Chunqiu's dissatisfaction," Li Lin said.

"If that were all, I would have no complaints even if he had knocked me off the cliff," Wu Yazi said. "But he also got involved with Qiu Shui, and after I fell off the cliff, he killed Xing He and didn't even spare my eight poor disciples."

Oh dear, Xue Muhua is gone too.

"What is Ding Chunqiu's Curse Technique?" Li Lin asked curiously.

In the novel, after Wu Yazi fell off the cliff, Ding Chunqiu still wanted to kill Su Xinghe.

However, Su Xinghe's miscellaneous skills were not entirely useless. He used the Five Elements, Eight Trigrams, and Qimen Dunjia techniques to set up an array, preventing Ding Chunqiu from breaking in for a while. He also claimed that he was the only one who knew the divine skills and secret manuals that Wu Yazi had not taught them.

Ding Chunqiu, hoping to gradually force Su Xinghe to reveal his secret, made a deal with him: as long as Su Xinghe didn't utter a single word from then on, he would not bother him again.

And now Su Xinghe is dead.

It must be related to Ding Chunqiu's Curse Technique, which deprived Su Xinghe of the time to intercept Ding Chunqiu and figure out a way to deal with him.

"Disillusionment Charm." Wu Yazi sighed again. "A Curse Technique that can conceal one's form. Combined with his specially practiced Turtle Breathing Technique and his superb Lightness Skill, it's practically impossible to defend against."

"He quietly approached me and pushed me off the cliff."

"Who told you to sit on the edge of the cliff and act all high and mighty? "Basil thought to himself.

"Xinghe died in the same way."

"He went to the cliff and looked down, only to be pushed off by the invisible traitor."

"Because I am protected by the Bei Ming True Qi, I am only physically unable to move, but my spirit is high and my internal energy is abundant. Among the thousands of extraordinary skills I have learned from the Super Memory Charm, many can help me draw moisture from the mist, capture prey through sound, and expel impurities by trembling my skin."

"So even though I couldn't move, I survived well at the foot of the cliff."

"If Xinghe hadn't appeared, I probably would have just continued to drift along and live out my remaining years."

"But one morning, I was awakened by the sound of something falling from above. It was Xinghe. He fell beside me, shattered into Diffindo, and blood and debris splattered on me."

"His face, which was fortunate to remain intact, showed great astonishment, clearly indicating that he had also been suddenly pushed off the cliff."

"Then--"

"And so you comprehended the Animagus mantra," Li Lin answered quickly.

Wu Yazi nodded, "And the Cruciatus Curse."

The quick-witted Huang Rong noticed the awkward atmosphere in the room and changed the subject, "Crow Lord, what do you think your senior sister went to Shaolin Temple for?"

"I haven't seen her for decades," Wu Yazi said. "But I've always heard about her Lingjiu Palace. It's said that she took in countless orphaned girls and taught them martial arts, which were divided into the Nine Heavens Nine Divisions."

"Furthermore, he used the Life and Death Talisman to control most of the Jianghu gangs from the Central Plains to the southeast coast, most of whom were villains, including 'Thirty-Six Cave Lords and Seventy-Two Island Lords'."

"But apart from that, no further news has emerged."

"The area within a hundred miles of the Lingjiu Palace is under her command. That region has never experienced the clash of swords and is a peaceful and harmonious place."

"She was regarded as a goddess on Zhongtian Mountain. No one has ever seen her true face, let alone spread the news."

"That sounds like she's a good person," Wang Yuyan said.

At least she's much better than her mother who died young; she doesn't kill indiscriminately.

In fact, she was somewhat surprised because her impression of her maternal grandfather's eldest sister came entirely from the villains of the "Thirty-Six Cave Lords and Seventy-Two Island Lords." In their stories, she was a villain who killed without hesitation and demanded offerings from people everywhere.

She also has a nickname: Tianshan Tonglao.

"Yes," Wu Yazi sighed, "My senior sister has no other flaws except for her overly violent temper. What I'm worried about is why she's gone on a long journey again after seventy years."

"Was there anyone else instigating this?"

"I don't want her to disturb the peace."

Wu Yazi didn't mind killing people; in fact, he even enjoyed it. However, he hoped that his senior sister could live a carefree life undisturbed by these mundane matters.

There are too many Curse Techniques in the martial arts world; what he recorded in his "Curse Scripture" was only one or two tenths.

The Martial Arts Gathering held at Mount Song is Stormfront vortex in the entire martial arts world. Even though the senior sister has high martial arts skills and unpredictable Curse Technique like Apparition, she may not be safe.

"Your senior sister isn't a homebody," Li Lin said. "I'm talking about the kind of person who never leaves the house."

"The awakening of Curse Technique is related to an individual's fundamental character and temperament."

"With Apparition as Curse Technique fundamental Curse Technique, she naturally doesn't like to stay put in one place."

"Judging from what I gleaned from Rong'er about the original course of this world without Curse Technique, your senior sister has a very wide circle of friends."

"He has the leisure to go to Western Xia to ruin his junior sister's face, and the inclination to befriend the Abbot Lingmen in Shaolin Temple."

"She was clearly a street urchin—the kind of person who travels around everywhere. Those orphans were taken in by her while she was traveling all over the country."

Wu Yazi was only shocked for a moment before he was drawn to the other information in Li Lin's words. "The Abbot Lingmen? I remember he is the master of Xuanci, the current abbot of Xuan Ci. Is it possible that my senior sister is here to lend a hand and help Shaolin?"

Mount Taishi is located within the Shaolin Temple on Mount Song.

"Abbot, how did these evil heretics from Lingjiu Palace even appear?" Xuan Ku flipped through the visiting cards, and even with his years of Buddhist cultivation, his hands couldn't help but tremble.

Xuan Ci turned his prayer beads and said in a deep voice, "Junior brother, you must not speak recklessly. Those villains, the 'Thirty-Six Cave Lords and Seventy-Two Island Lords,' are just prisoners who have been made by the Palace Master to pay their debts. Under the Palace Master's command, they have not committed any evil deeds for many years."

"The Palace Master and Master are close friends, and they are equals. We are just juniors."

"Junior?" Xuan Ku snorted coldly.

As Qiao Feng's mentor, Xuan Ku was also someone who couldn't stand any nonsense.

What he detests most is the so-called "lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot," believing that if the Buddha is willing to forgive evil people, he should manually send them to the Western Paradise.

Instead of letting him spend his remaining years in seclusion with only a Buddhist lamp and a temple.

Therefore, he also believed that the villains of the "Thirty-Six Cave Lords and Seventy-Two Island Lords" should all go to the Western Paradise.

If he hadn't been killed by Xiao Yuanshan in his original destiny, and if Ye Erniang's Xuan Ci with Ye Erniang, who had killed countless children, had been exposed, he probably would have been the first to take action.

He turned to the monk in charge of receiving guests with an unpleasant expression and said, "Please invite the Palace Master of the Lingjiu Palace. Remember, only the Palace Master of the Lingjiu Palace and her maids are allowed."

Xuan Ci smiled bitterly.

Ever since his secret of breaking the vow of celibacy was exposed, his junior brother has lost respect for him.

Meanwhile, at the Yuelai Inn in Dengfeng County.

Murong Fu's greatest enemy, Xiao Yuanshan, was in the guest room.

Even though it was broad daylight, the door was tightly shut, not letting in a single ray of light.

"Is everything ready?" (Liaoning dialect)

"Everything is ready, my lord. We will definitely help the young master ascend to the throne (Liao language)."

"You, Yale Dashi, are key to our plan. Remember, only your Fiendfyre Curse can break the Song Emperor's immortality. Remember, try to avoid harming the monks of the Buddha Kingdom and the beggars of the Beggar Dynasty, especially the latter (Liao language)."

"I Dao Master, they are all the young master's future subjects (Liao language)."

"Very well, everything will wait until tomorrow. Murong Fu, I hope your title of Southern Murong is not just empty words, and that you can really hold off my son for a moment (Liao language)." Xiao Yuanshan pushed open the window, and sunlight streamed into the dimly lit room.

Those Liao people had already left quietly.

With half his face exposed to the sunlight, Xiao Yuanshan's eyes held an intense mix of madness and longing.

If Basil, also known as Li Lin, knew this, he would be very surprised.

Of the original two troublemakers, only Xiao Yuanshan remains.

This time, Xiao Yuanshan decided not to betray his son, but instead planned to help him assassinate the Song Emperor.

For this reason, he even seemed willing to put aside his hatred for the Shaolin Temple.

It's important to know that Xiao Yuanshan's revenge list not only included members like Zhao Qiansun who had ambushed and killed his family back then, but also the innocent Qiao's couple who had raised Qiao Feng with great care, and Xuan Ku who had truly treated Qiao Feng as his disciple and imparted all his knowledge to him.

However, none of the Beggar's Gang members instigated Qiao Feng to kill the Liao Dynasty.

He's absolutely insane.

But now this madman seems to be genuinely preparing to be a loving father.

If Murong Fu knew, he would surely weep bitterly, envying and resenting that he didn't have such a good father.

Now, he also has to help his father's killer to stop Qiao Feng, who is now recognized as the number one Dragon God in the Clouds the world.