Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 448: Six Heroes Turn the Tide (Part )
The method that Master Yuqiao intends to use can be said to be a road of no return.

Once the plan begins, the best outcome for the six Wudang heroes would probably be "one death and five disabled"; and if they think of the worst case scenario, none of them might survive, and they would end up in disgrace after death.

However, the reason why heroes are heroes is that when faced with such a choice, they can sacrifice their martial arts, reputation, and even their lives without hesitation.

The Six Heroes of Wudang are true heroes, so for the sake of the Central Plains martial arts world, they certainly will not back down.

Under the advice of Master Yuqiao, the other five heroes quickly reached a consensus. The six of them suppressed the doubts of the elders and disciples of Wudang and resolutely stepped into the forbidden area of ​​the sect to practice a martial art that had been hidden by the ancestors of Wudang hundreds of years ago - Tiancan Gong.

The origin of this skill is the "Heavenly Demon Skill", the unique skill of the Demon Cult during the Northern Song Dynasty.

What level of martial arts is this Heavenly Demonic Art? Well, it is at the same level as the current Five Spirits Sect's "Protecting Divine Art (i.e. Azure Dragon Power, White Tiger Palm, Vermillion Bird Feather, Black Tortoise Armor, and Kylin Finger are all practiced together)". Both are top-notch martial arts that cultivate both the inner and outer aspects.

However, if we have to say which one is better, in fact, the Five Spirits Sect's protective magic skill is better, because this protective magic skill can be broken down into five separate skills to be practiced and taught separately. This solves the problem that some people's qualifications or physical fitness are not enough to practice this entire set of superior martial arts, and there is basically no side effect of practicing this protective magic skill.

As for that Heavenly Demonic Art… although it is an integrated whole and does not require very high qualifications, it will have some impact on a person's mind after being practiced. As the skill level improves, the desires of the practitioner will also expand.

Later, during the Southern Song Dynasty, a martial arts genius appeared. By chance, he relied on his extraordinary memory to secretly memorize about two-thirds of the content of the Heavenly Demon Skill.

A few years later, he obtained a fragment of a martial art that could absorb other people's internal energy and use it for his own benefit.

With two incomplete martial arts in hand, he began to wonder if he could combine these two incomplete martial arts to create something completely new...

So a genius is a genius. Once he makes up his mind, he will create something. As he creates, he becomes obsessed with it.

Seeing that he had not created any martial arts and his body was gradually falling apart due to the turbulence in his meridians... In order to save himself, this genius brother simply went all out and incorporated the Miaojiang witchcraft into this set of martial arts.

As a result, this time, he succeeded.

The "Heavenly Silkworm Skill", or "Heavenly Silkworm Demonic Skill", which was derived from three miraculous skills, was born.

Although this skill is extremely evil, it is also extremely powerful. Once it is mastered, there will be almost no martial arts in the world that can compete with it.

Later, many years later, the only secret book in the world that recorded this martial arts was accidentally found by Wudang. The head of Wudang and several elders at that time felt that this martial arts was too evil and not suitable for practice, let alone spread to the world... However, the mystery of this Tiancan Kung Fu is indeed breathtaking, and it is a pity to destroy it like this...

After some struggle, they decided to "improve" this martial art by removing the evil part that absorbs people's internal energy and corrodes other people's meridians, leaving only the part that strengthens themselves and improving it. Eventually, they created the "Heavenly Silkworm Magic Art" which is no less powerful than the magic skills.

Of course, this "not inferior" is only limited to the period after mastering it - although the power of the Heavenly Silkworm Divine Art at the great perfection realm can rival the Heavenly Silkworm Demonic Art of the same level, this does not mean that it is also the case in the previous stages of practice.

Compared to the Heavenly Silkworm Magic Art, which can be practiced whenever one wants and can be quickly mastered by absorbing other people's internal energy, the Heavenly Silkworm Magic Art is much more troublesome to practice... Not only is it limited to people who have no martial arts or whose martial arts have been abolished, but every time the magic art breaks through a major realm, it often requires the practitioner to go through some inhuman pain, experience near-death, or have a transcendental perception... Therefore, it is best for people with a kind heart or those who have a certain study of Taoism to practice, so that they have a better chance of succeeding, otherwise they may die in the process of breaking through.

It is for this reason that even the "improved" version, although once practiced by some people and left behind some legends, was eventually sealed away by Wudang ancestors along with the magic skills.

And now what Master Yuqiao has called upon his five fellow disciples to practice is obviously... the Heavenly Silkworm Magic Skill.

After all, they don't have much time left. Even if they assume that the people of Wanyuan Sect need half a month to rest and another half a month to travel after the previous battle, they only have one month left to prepare.

This amount of time is definitely not enough to practice the Heavenly Silkworm Divine Art and improve the realm and power of the divine art to a level that can defeat the six masters. Furthermore, the practice of divine art has many limitations and uncertainties. Even if the six heroes collectively give up their martial arts and start practicing at the same time, it is normal that no one will succeed in the end and several will die.

But the Heavenly Silkworm Demon Art is different. It only requires one person to practice it, and then let him absorb the power of the other five people one by one, using it as "fuel" for practice. Then this person has a great chance of breaking through to the realm of great success in magic skills in a short period of time.

Once the magic power is fully developed, the combat power after this qualitative change can no longer be simply calculated by the sum of the skills of six masters.

This person will become the number one master in the martial arts world today, the best among the best. Even if he is fighting one against six, the people of Wanyuan Sect will have no chance.

So who will bear this burden?

Naturally, it was Yuqiao Zhenren, the head of Wudang, who proposed this plan.

When he came up with this idea, he had already made full preparations and thought far ahead...

First of all, he knew that defeating Wanyuan Sect in this way was not glorious, so this competition must be held behind closed doors and could not be seen by anyone other than the parties involved.

Secondly, afterward, even when talking to the disciples of the sect, they must speak with one voice and insist that they were practicing the "Heavenly Silkworm Divine Art" rather than the magic skills.

Thirdly, after the duel, only one person from the other side must be left alive - because that person must be able to go out and prove that Wudang won the battle fairly. More importantly, he must return to the Korean martial arts world and tell the story of his defeat to dissuade Wanyuan Sect from planning to attack in the future.

Fourthly, after this battle, when the survivor of Wanyuan Sect leaves Central Plains, Yuqiao Zhenren will transfer the position of the Sect Leader on the grounds of injury, and leave Wudang under the pretext of "traveling", and the other five heroes will also say goodbye with him... In this way, the fact that five of them have lost their power due to practicing magic will not be exposed.

And finally, Master Yuqiao will find a place to commit suicide.

Because it is said that people who practice this magic skill will change their character in the future, and there is a high probability that they will turn into a generation of demons. Yuqiao did not dare to take risks with Wudang's reputation and the safety of the martial arts world, so giving up his life was the safest approach.

The other five heroes will also retire and take this secret to the grave.

The above is the overall plan of Yuqiao Zhenren. If it goes well, then the six Wudang heroes will help the Central Plains martial arts community survive this catastrophe at the cost of one death and five crippled. If it doesn't go well, for example, if the fact that they practice magic skills is exposed, or if something goes wrong during practice and they lose the fight, or if they simply practice to death or go crazy and kill each other... then needless to say, all of them will end in disgrace and disgrace, an unthinkable outcome.

As a result, the first three steps, by and large... were all carried out in accordance with Master Yuqiao's plan.

Although the Wanyuan Sect was a little skeptical about the request for "closed-door competition" in the beginning, fearing that it was a trap, when they heard that Master Yuqiao wanted to fight one against six, they concluded that the other party was giving up on themselves and was afraid of losing too badly, so they agreed.

After the fight, Master Yuqiao considerately crippled the martial arts of the surviving master of the Wanyuan Sect to prevent him from being suspected of being a traitor when he returned. Then that master was also very considerate. In order to avoid being held accountable, he went back and boasted in front of their sect leader... He made the Central Plains martial arts world sound like a meeting of gods, causing the Wanyuan Sect to never step foot into the territory again for decades.

At this point, we have come to the last two steps of Master Yuqiao’s plan.

But at this time, Yuqiao Zhenren's mind had changed because of his magic power. There was a voice in his head that kept saying to him: Why do you want to commit suicide? You have done so much for the martial arts world, not only did you not get any reward, but you are going to die. Is this fair? With your current martial arts, status, and everything you have done for the martial arts world, it is only natural that the whole martial arts world respects you as the leader. Why don't you fight for what you deserve?

Yuqiao fights against this voice, or his own inner demon, every day...but he is gradually losing strength.

He understood that what the voice was saying now was not completely unreasonable, but if he really did it, it would be "the beginning". Once he took this step, the voice would continue to advance and eventually destroy his mind and bottom line, turning him into a puppet controlled purely by desire.

Therefore, Master Yuqiao had to speed up the implementation of the last two steps of the plan and also left a backup plan.

On the second day after he hastily gave up the position of the head of the sect, Yuqiao went down the mountain with the other five heroes. As soon as he walked out of the mountain gate, Yuqiao suddenly took out a copy of the Heavenly Silkworm Divine Art that he had secretly copied in advance, handed it to the five heroes, and told them to go as far away as possible and never tell him where he was going, in case he did not commit suicide or did not die in the end, and came back to cause trouble in the martial arts world... then this copy would be their hope to fight against him.

The five brothers were filled with mixed feelings when they received this request, but they dared not refuse it.

A few days later, Master Yuqiao resisted the erosion of his inner demons. He severed his own meridians on an uninhabited cliff, drew his sword and committed suicide by jumping off the cliff, thus ending his life of great righteousness.

However, Yuqiao died, but the devil did not.

The magic of Tiancan Gong is that it can allow one to be reborn from the brink of death, and after rebirth, one can be reborn and reach a higher level.

Seven days later, a man emerged from the huge cocoon at the bottom of the cliff and was reborn. However, he was no longer the man who had jumped off the cliff seven days ago.

As soon as this "Master Yuqiao" was born, the first thing he did was to rush back to Wudang and regain the position of the head of the sect. On the very day he took the throne, he personally destroyed the two secret manuals of Tiancan Gong in the forbidden area.

Then, he declared that his five fellow disciples were traitors to Wudang, and sent people to track down their whereabouts, vowing to kill all five of them.

During this period, Yuqiao himself was not idle. He began to actively move around, openly having "friendly exchanges" with other sects and demonstrating his strength, while secretly starting to eliminate dissidents and kill people inside and outside Wudang... It seems that he was indeed aiming for the goal of becoming the leader of the martial arts world.

What happened next is the familiar (bloody) story that everyone is familiar with...

In the following years, Yuqiao's power grew and he became more and more unscrupulous in his actions, and the martial arts world fell into darkness.

The people in Wudang had become fed up with Yuqiao and he had been deserted by everyone, but under the pressure of his tyranny, most people had no choice but to submit.

And the five heroes who retired to seclusion, during their escape under different names, met many fellow martial artists whose families were destroyed by Yuqiao, and experienced many twists and turns in their adventures. Finally... a young man appeared.

How did this martial arts genius, an orphan who only had half a jade pendant to prove that he was the long-lost son of Jinqiao, witness the tragic deaths of his friends, lover, seniors and the father he had just met in just a few years? How did he constantly break through and master the Heavenly Silkworm Magical Art after experiencing various adventures and life-and-death moments to help the martial arts world get rid of the demon Yuqiao... We won't go into details, as that would take up about thirty episodes of a martial arts TV series.

In short, after the death of Yuqiao Zhenren, the world of martial arts returned to peace.

After that, another ten years passed.

By that time, the boy had already grown into a hero. Let's call him Hero Yun.

That year, Hero Yun decided to retire from the martial arts world. Before retiring, he hid the Heavenly Silkworm Magic Skill in a secret place, and asked the most powerful craftsmen in the martial arts world at that time to make a special ring for him, namely the Silkworm-seeking Ring.

According to legend, as long as you get the Silkworm-Seeking Ring and decipher the secrets hidden in the four lines of poetry left by Hero Yun, you can find the Heavenly Silkworm Magical Art.

Therefore, in the years after Master Yun retired, the legend of the silkworm-seeking ring became popular in the martial arts world, and the ring passed through the hands of many people during that time.

Until about thirty years ago, the news about the whereabouts of the Silkworm Seeking Ring seemed to suddenly stop. Although there have been some rumors from time to time since then, they were all proved to be groundless in the end.

Of course, everyone who has listened to the book knows that this item eventually fell into the hands of the "Flying Thief" Li Yuan.

Maybe it was fate's plan... The process of Li Yuan obtaining the Silkworm-Seeking Ring was also accidental. He just found the ring during a burglary which was very ordinary and random to him. As a result, the previous person who stole the ring did not even find out the whereabouts of the ring until his death.

Li Yuan was overjoyed when he got the Silkworm-Seeking Ring. He was a connoisseur of good things and he knew what it was as soon as he got it. Therefore, in order to avoid being remembered by his three "good brothers", Li Yuan secretly stored the Silkworm-Seeking Ring in the safe of Baichuan Money House in the capital and did not mention it to anyone.

Later, they, the "Four Thieves of the Central Plains" and a group of enemies who were hunting them all died in Lanruo Temple, killed by evildoers, so that their whereabouts became a mystery.

It was not until more than thirty years later that the Silkworm-Seeking Ring finally reappeared in the world after many twists and turns.

This time, it appeared in the hands of Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai...

(End of this chapter)