Wang Chong was slightly startled, but then thought to himself, Although there's Longji and now Princess Hongluan too, it should just be a coincidence.
Forget it! I'm sneaking off to Chang'an for a leisurely stroll. It wouldn't do to stir anything up.
What harm is there in letting her go?
Wang Chong returned to Su Luoyan and said helplessly, "Teacher has already paid the toll. By the time I went over to persuade him, it was too late."
Su Luoyan did not say much. After all, Gao Gun knew about Princess Hongluan's affairs, but she did not. This was one of the greatest secrets of the age.
Only, that night, their carriage rocked particularly violently...
The procession wound its way onward for over a month and was now approaching Chang'an. Though Wang Chong had indulged in plenty of wild behavior during that month, he had not forgotten his cultivation. He had perfected the Earthly Fiend Art from the Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend Chapter, raising his lightness skill several notches higher atop its hundred-foot pole. The speed of his attacks had also become extraordinary, and his Candle-Bearing Sword Technique had made the greatest progress.
The Wudang lineage currently had two Supreme Realm masters. Daoist Ku Cha practiced the Thunderfire Demon-Subduing Aura, and his swordsmanship was not the Candle-Bearing Sword Technique either. The Empress had learned the Candle-Bearing Sword Technique, but as a woman, she was incompatible with Pure Yang arts and cultivated the True Warrior Demon-Slaying Divine Skill instead. Though both were Supreme Realm masters whose lightness skills stood unrivaled beneath heaven, neither specialized in lightness skills. It was simply that, once one reached the Supreme Realm, every martial art became formidable.
Wang Chong was the only person in the world today to have cultivated the Pure Yang Lineage's martial