Past Jianghu Affairs

Yan Hongde, enduring the intense pain, pleaded, "Young Master He, I'll talk, but please spare them!"

If Yan Hongde had known you were such a formidable person, he wouldn't have dared to offend you just now, no matter what.

"Ah!"

You directly hacked one of the Peach Blossom Village people to death.

"You think this is a vegetable market, haggling with me?"

You originally thought Yan Hongde was an honest man, but it turns out he's also full of cunning.

Seeing how ruthless you are, Yan Hongde could only haltingly reveal the whole story.

Years ago, the Golden Yue Kingdom wanted to open a secret military transport route through the Black Dragon Forest to Great Qian.

But the Black Dragon Forest's environment was harsh and vast, and the Golden Yue Kingdom's people got lost inside.

Later, they accidentally discovered Peach Blossom Village.

Peach Blossom Village had already been established for over a hundred years at that point, and the villagers had perfectly adapted to the natural environment of the Black Dragon Forest.

The Golden Yue Kingdom had the people of Peach Blossom Village help them open the military transport route, and they made Peach Blossom Village an important supply point.

In return, Peach Blossom Village received money, materials, and some cultivation methods and martial skills from the Golden Yue Kingdom.

The two sides cooperated for many years, until recently when the military transport route was exposed, attracting encirclement and suppression from the Great Qian army.

That's what led to today's events.

"Village Elder Yan, I thought you were a loyal and kind elder, but I didn't expect you to have a route here in the Black Dragon Forest. You're like the mafia!"

As for why the Peach Blossom Village martial artists weren't discovered by you, it's because the Golden Yue Kingdom gave Peach Blossom Village a martial skill to conceal their cultivation aura.

You found this martial skill on Yan Hongde, a top-tier skill called Aura Concealment Art.

Aura Concealment Art allows cultivators to only display the realm they want to display, thereby concealing their true cultivation.

"At least some equipment dropped." You muttered to yourself, flipping through the Aura Concealment Art.

Yan Hongde and the last dozen or so people from Peach Blossom Village were also killed by you.

You searched Peach Blossom Village, but unfortunately, it was all third-rate cultivation methods, too rough to even wipe your ass with.

Moreover, there wasn't much money either; the Golden Yue Kingdom didn't actually provide Peach Blossom Village with many resources.

It was more like the Golden Yue Kingdom exploiting Peach Blossom Village.

However, you found over a hundred Inner Divinity Paste pills and several first-rate cultivation methods on Sui Yangzhi, which was the biggest gain.

Inner Divinity Paste is a medicinal paste used to assist cultivation for those at the Marrow Cleansing realm and above.

You, at the Bone Tempering realm, can also use it, and the effect is even better than Qi and Blood Paste.

After searching everything, you decided to leave.

You skillfully burned the corpses, demolished the houses, and methodically destroyed the crime scene.

After covering up all your traces, you headed east.

You're going back to Great Qian.

Peach Blossom Village has been exposed, and it will inevitably attract more troops from Great Qian and the Golden Yue Kingdom.

Staying in the Black Dragon Forest is no longer safe.

You traveled east for two months, occasionally encountering Great Qian troops on the way.

You didn't expose yourself, choosing to detour far away from them all.

As a result, it took you longer to travel than when you entered the Black Dragon Forest.

However, you weren't idle on the road; you cultivated the Aura Concealment Art to the entry level.

You are now able to conceal your cultivation among martial artists of the same rank.

You traveled for another four months.

You noticed that the closer you got to the outer edges of the Black Dragon Forest, the stricter the Great Qian army's checks became.

You knew it was because of the uproar caused by the secret military transport route this time.

You still chose to sneakily bypass the checks.

The Black Dragon Forest is vast, and Great Qian can't seal off all the exits.

You specifically walked through places where there were no roads.

You crossed mountains and ridges, detouring a long way.

Fortunately, you weren't discovered along the way.

By the sixth year, you had been traveling through the Black Dragon Forest for over a year.

It took you less than half a year to enter, but now it's taken you over a year of detours to almost get out of the Black Dragon Forest.

With the assistance of Inner Divinity Paste, you've reached the bottleneck of the mid-stage of Bone Tempering.

You know you'll be able to break through to the late stage of Bone Tempering within a year.

[Your Aura Concealment Art proficiency has reached Novice]

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[You can now conceal your cultivation from martial artists one realm higher than you, allowing you to lie low more comfortably]

[You have completed your fifth True Qi refinement]

[The power of True Qi emission has greatly increased]

[Emitted True Qi can now inflict damage on ordinary people]

[Early Skin Refinement martial artists will be pierced by your emitted True Qi if they do not defend]

[You wave your hand, and a stream of True Qi shoots out]

[A tree as thick as a bowl is cut in half by you]

[You nod and continue forward]

[Three days later, you finally safely exit the Black Dragon Forest]

[You find an inn to rest]

[You quietly eat your wine and dishes alone]

[But your ears keenly capture the conversations of the people in the inn]

[In the nearly twenty years you've been living in seclusion in the Black Dragon Forest, many major events have occurred in the martial world]

[You learn of the death of the Extinction Sect Leader]

[You recall that he was the Divine Dragon Sect Leader who had others collect five keys to grant someone's wish]

["This Divine Dragon Sect Leader isn't so great after all, granting other people's wishes, and he's dead himself."]

[You also learn that the Joyous Zen Sect, one of the three great Demonic Sects, secretly kidnapped a princess of the Li Imperial Family to use as a cauldron for dual cultivation]

[After the matter was exposed, the Li Imperial Family sent eighteen Apex Grandmasters to kill their way to the sect, nearly wiping out the Joyous Zen Sect]

[In the end, Vajra Temple, one of the five major sects, stepped in to protect the Joyous Zen Sect's lineage]

[The Joyous Zen Sect also fell into decline, reduced from one of the three great Demonic Sects to a third-rate sect]

["These dual cultivation practitioners really let their little heads control their big heads, daring to capture a princess to play with, and now they've screwed up."]

[You pick up a dish and continue to eavesdrop while silently eating your melon]

[At this moment, the discussion of a table of people not far away reaches your ears]

["Are you going to watch the Sword Establishment Sect Leader Lin Jingzhi fight the Blood Demon Sect Leader Zhou Qiyun in three days?"]

["Of course, I'm going, this is a life-and-death battle of Apex Grandmasters!"]

["What life-and-death battle, Zhou Qiyun is no match for Sect Leader Lin."]

["Don't call him Sect Leader Lin anymore, Great Hero Lin has already announced that he will no longer serve as the Sword Establishment Sect Leader, this trip to the Blood Demon Sect is in his personal capacity."]

["Alas, it's been three years, and Great Hero Lin still can't let go."]

["No one could let go if they encountered that, Miao Liwu, Young Hero Miao, such a heaven-defying genius disciple, was actually killed by the Blood Demon Sect!"]

[Hearing the news of Miao Liwu, your face darkens, and you walk over]

["You said Miao Liwu is dead?!"]

[The few people look at you strangely: "You don't know? The whole martial world has been talking about it for three years."]

[You calm yourself and sit down directly]

[You throw out five hundred taels of silver: "Tell me in detail!"]

[The person closest to you reaches out and grabs the silver]

[He says with a grin: "No problem, Young Master, my neighbor's third brother was involved with the cleaning lady at the Sword Establishment Sect for a while, I know the most about this!"]

["Enough nonsense, get to the point."]

["Okay, okay, the thing is like this..."]

[It turns out that three years ago, Miao Liwu, at the age of forty-one, advanced to the peak of the Grandmaster realm]

[At this time, as the youngest martial arts Grandmaster in history, he could already fight Apex Grandmasters without being defeated]

[If it is a cross-realm battle below the Apex Grandmaster, it is not too amazing]

[But the gap between Grandmaster and Apex Grandmaster is like a chasm]

[Taking lifespan as an example, Grandmasters still have a lifespan of one hundred years, but Apex Grandmasters can reach a lifespan of two hundred years]

[This breakthrough of the limit of lifespan completely violates people's cognition]

[It can be seen how big the gap between Grandmaster and Apex Grandmaster is]

[It is under such an objective gap that Miao Liwu is able to fight Apex Grandmasters]

[This has never happened in history]

[Miao Liwu's talent and combat power can be called perverted]

[If Miao Liwu achieves Apex Grandmaster, he will undoubtedly become the number one person in martial arts]

[In this year, the Blood Demon Sect realized the great threat of Miao Liwu]

[So they launched an ambush against him]

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