[Half a day later, you finally left the Songshan Sect.]
[In this half-day, you beat up all thirteen Taibao of the Songshan Sect, as well as the Sect Leader Zuo Lengchan.]
[It's just a bit of a pity that only seven of the Songshan Sect's thirteen Taibao were within the sect at this time.
They were Vice Sect Leader Tang Ying'e, Dayin Yang Hand Le Hou, Nine-Bend Sword Zhong Zhen, Divine Whip Deng Bagong, Brocade Lion Gao Kexin, as well as Ding Mian and Lu Bai, whose hand tendons you had previously severed.
At this time, Ding Mian and Lu Bai's hand tendons had actually been reattached.
However, the two's newly reattached hand tendons were severed by you again this time.
Not only them, but the other thirteen Taibao who remained in the sect suffered the same fate.]
[The most miserable one was Zuo Lengchan, the Sect Leader.
He had somehow broken through to the Innate Realm, although only at the initial stage, but coupled with his self-created Cold Ice True Qi and Cold Ice Divine Palm, he could even fight against someone in the mid-Xiantian stage.
In the original story, he relied on Cold Ice True Qi to fight Ren Woxing, who was in the mid-Xiantian stage, to a mutually destructive end.
Unfortunately, you aren't Ren Woxing, and you, protected by the Purple Haze Divine Skill, aren't afraid of Cold Ice True Qi at all.
[Therefore, unsurprisingly, when Zuo Lengchan tried to kill you, his ending was already doomed.
In the end, you not only severed Zuo Lengchan's hand and foot tendons, but also used the Star Absorbing Great Method, which you had mastered to a small degree, to devour and refine all of his Internal Force.
This caused the Ren Du Meridian Channels and Twelve Meridian Channels that had already been opened in his body to wither and break, completely turning him into a cripple.
The reason why you didn't kill him was intentional.
One was to obtain his self-created Xiantian-level cultivation method and martial art, Cold Ice True Qi and Cold Ice Divine Palm.
The second was to use him to expose that you possessed the Star Absorbing Great Method, packaging you as a successor of Ren Woxing, thereby attracting more people to jump out and compete with you.
At the same time, you are also promoting yourself, laying the groundwork for you to ascend Black Wood Cliff and challenge Dongfang Bubai.]
It's worth mentioning that your Purple Haze Divine Skill and Star Absorption Great Art complement each other. The Star Absorption Great Art can devour other people's Internal Force and True Qi for its own use, making your strength improve extremely fast. However, it can't solve the problem of conflicting True Qi from different attributes.
On the contrary, the Purple Haze Divine Skill is not only extremely slow to improve, but also excels at refining different kinds of True Qi.
The two can be said to be a match made in heaven.
That's right, Innate True Qi, including Internal Force, has attributes.
Like your Purple Dawn Divine Skill, because it is cultivated with the help of the first ray of morning sun's purple energy, the True Qi cultivated is of the Yang attribute.
Like Zuo Lengchan's Cold Ice True Qi, that is of the Ice attribute.
As for the Star Absorbing Great Method, it is an exception. It does not have any attributes of its own. Whatever attribute it absorbs, that is what attribute it is, like a hodgepodge.]
[After several months of exploration, you have initially integrated the Purple Dawn Divine Skill, the Star Absorbing Great Method, and the Evil Warding Sword Manual True Qi Chapter, and have achieved some success in cultivation.]
This has not only greatly increased the total amount of your True Qi, but also greatly improved its quality. Furthermore, you can use the small-success level Star Absorbing Great Method without having to abandon your martial arts.
It's just a pity that you don't know how to open the last Yin-Yang Two-Dimensional Meridians in your Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
This makes it so that even if you refine all of the Cold Ice True Qi in Zuo Lengchan's body, your realm is still hovering at the peak of the late Innate Realm.]
[This battle between you and the Songshan Sect not only had people from the Songshan Sect present, but also many Jianghu people who had been paying attention to your movements.
Therefore, not long after you left the Songshan Sect, news about you spread rapidly throughout the entire Jianghu from various channels as if it had grown wings.
And the core of the news is two things: First, the high-level members of the Songshan Sect were almost completely wiped out, their strength was greatly damaged, and they were no longer able to be the leader of the Five Great Sword Sects; Second, you, the Mysterious Sky Swordsman, actually know the Star Absorbing Great Method, and are suspected to be the successor of Ren Woxing, the former leader of the Demonic Cult.]
[You naturally heard about these news, but you, who were in closed-door cultivation to digest your insights, had no intention of clarifying anything, nor did you intend to clarify anything.
At the same time, you also learned that many people are frantically looking for you everywhere.
Just those you know of include the Sun Moon Holy Cult, Xiang Wentian, Ren Yingying, and those heretical people under her command.
You also know why these people are looking for you, and that is to know the news of Ren Woxing.]
[Half a month later, you successfully digested the gains from your trip to the Songshan Sect, and your Dugu Nine Swords became even more exquisite and profound.
You also looked through Zuo Lengchan's Cold Ice True Qi, but unfortunately, it was only a low-grade Xiantian-level cultivation method, and it didn't have much reference value for you.]
[As soon as you emerged from seclusion and showed yourself, all kinds of monsters and demons immediately came to you.
Sun Moon Holy Cult elders, Five Poisons Sect, Six Immortals of Peach Valley...
Facing these people, if they spoke politely, then you didn't make things difficult for them, and let them go back to where they came from, such as Lan Fenghuang of the Five Poisons Sect and her subordinates...
If they were unreasonable and ignorant of death, then you naturally wouldn't mind giving them a sword, such as the elders of the Sun Moon Holy Cult, and the not-so-bright Six Immortals of Peach Valley...
And these people are all top-notch experts in the Jianghu. Although none of them have reached the Innate Realm, several of them are half-step Xiantian, and the rest have all reached the late Houtian stage or above.
Most importantly, these people's martial arts all have their own characteristics, which are of great help to you in improving your Dugu Nine Swords.]
[In this way, you went your own way, challenging or being challenged by various parties along the way.
Mount Hengshan, Mount Tai, Mount Heng, Wudang...
In order not to attract attention, you even ascended Mount Hua and challenged your master Yue Buqun and several senior and junior brothers.
Of course, you went when your eldest brother Linghu Chong, this prodigal son, was not around, otherwise you would have been exposed.]
[It is worth mentioning that because of your intervention, your eldest brother Linghu Chong was not punished by your master because of the Five Great Sword Sects in the Siguo Cliff cave.
He also has nothing to do with the Evil Warding Sword Manual, and he has not been able to learn the Star Absorbing Great Method. Even those left-wing people under Ren Yingying have no time to befriend Linghu Chong.
Without these messy things, your master Yue Buqun has taught the complete Purple Haze Divine Skill to his eldest disciple Linghu Chong, helping him to refine the multiple different kinds of True Qi in his body, greatly improving his strength, and leaping to the peak of the Houtian Realm.
Your seventh junior brother, Lu Dayou, was not killed by Lao Denuo, and he framed your eldest brother, Linghu Chong, because of the Zixia Divine Skill manual.
The only thing that is the same is that your junior sister Yue Lingshan and junior brother Lin Pingzhi are getting closer and closer, while your eldest brother Linghu Chong and Ren Yingying are getting closer and closer.
As for where things will eventually go, even you, who know the original plot, don't know where it will lead.]