Comprehensive Martial Arts: Relying on Pili Martial Arts to Achieve Dimensionality Reduction Attack

Chapter 488 Heading to Tianlong Temple

Being called a 'heroine' by Lu Ping, Cheng Ying did not feel relieved but even more embarrassed. She wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

"Brother, you are joking."

Cheng Ying finally calmed down and looked at Lu Ping and said, "You can defeat Li Mochou, so your martial arts must be much better than mine. How can Cheng Ying dare to call herself strong in front of you?"

"I think even if I hadn't taken action just now, with your ability, you would still be able to repel the group of beasts."

Lu Ping laughed and said, "When I say 'strong', I don't mean in terms of martial arts, but in terms of spiritual strength."

"If a person has a righteous heart and often does good deeds, even if his martial arts skills are low, he must be a strong person; on the contrary, if he has evil intentions and does all kinds of bad things, even if he has great martial arts skills, he is just a weak person."

"Miss Cheng didn't know I knew martial arts, but she was willing to help me out and save me from danger. This chivalrous spirit is beyond many people in the martial arts world!"

Lu Ping paused and added: "Well... at least he has surpassed me."

"After all, before you arrived, I just turned a blind eye to the fact that a group of people were hunting down a certain girl."

“Ah, this…?”

Cheng Ying was confused, but she also knew it was not good to talk too much, so she did not continue to ask.

"Come to think of it, I still don't know what to call you, brother?"

"I'm Lu Ping."

Lu Wushuang, who was standing next to him, heard Lu Ping's name for the first time, and his eyes suddenly lit up. He clapped his hands excitedly and shouted, "Your last name is Lu too? Are we from the same clan?"

"My path is to help those in need when seeing injustice."

"Oh……"

The excitement on the girl's face instantly turned into disappointment, but she quickly adjusted her mentality.

Unlike Lu Wushuang who was ignorant, naive and romantic, after hearing the name, Cheng Ying's heartbeat quickened significantly, her breathing stopped for half a second, and her gaze towards Lu Ping changed a little.

This reaction clearly showed that he had heard of his name before.

In fact, it was not surprising that Cheng Ying knew about Lu Ping's deeds. After all, what happened at the Beggars' Gang Conference had already spread throughout the underworld in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Her master was beaten in public. As Huang Yaoshi's last disciple, she must remember the name of her enemy.

Cheng Ying thought about it, looked at Lu Ping again, and thought to himself: The enemy is too strong, it seems that this revenge can only be left to you, Master, to avenge yourself...

"Speaking of which, why are you two here?"

"The thing is like this..."

It turned out that after Lu Wushuang went south that day, he met Cheng Ying who was following Huang Yaoshi north not long after.

Not long after the two sisters met, Cheng Ying received a message from Huang Yaoshi, in which he explained the "disciple's challenge" and asked her to practice for a while and get ready.

But a few days later, Huang Yaoshi wrote again, saying that things had changed and the competition was postponed. He also encouraged her to go to Dali to pay a visit to Yideng to see if he had any successors.

As for the public aspect, just say that you are visiting an old friend on behalf of the master.

"…But after I found Master Yideng's retreat, I heard that he had gone to Tianlong Temple in the past few days, so we settled here first and planned to visit him in a few days."

Disciple competition? Sounds like a lot of fun!
Lu Ping's heart leaped with joy.

Does Yideng have a successor?

Of course there is. Isn’t it Qiu Qianren, whose Buddhist name is Ci’en and who was once known as ‘Iron Palm Floating on Water’?

But that happened in the original novel, and Qiu Qianren was about the same age as Huang Yaoshi and the others, so it would be a bit of bullying for him to take action. Besides, he didn't even know the One Finger Zen.

As for the young people in the Duan family who are practicing One Yang Finger...

Lu Ping searched his mind carefully and found that there seemed to be only Duan Yu left.

However, given Duan Yu's character of extremely respecting women, I think he would definitely not compete with Cheng Ying. Even if they really came to compete, he would definitely admit defeat immediately.

"What is Yideng doing at Tianlong Temple? Is he going there to debate scriptures?"

Cheng Ying shook her head: "We don't know about that." Lu Ping pondered for a while and said: "If it is a debate, we don't know how long it will take. Instead of waiting here, why don't we go to Tianlong Temple to visit him directly!"

"That's not good…wait! You said 'we'?"

Are you going too?
Lu Ping smiled calmly: "I have admired Tianlong Temple for a long time!"

Tianlong Temple is located in the north of Zhongyue Peak of Diancang Mountain outside Dali City. The official name of the temple is Chongsheng Temple, but the people of Dali are used to calling it Tianlong Temple.

It is backed by Cangshan Mountain and faces Erhai Lake, enjoying a very advantageous location.

A few years ago, when Lu Ping was still in Dongwulin, he had been to Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake there and visited the Duan family who had lived there for generations.

They also have martial arts similar to One Finger Zen and Six Meridians Divine Sword. In addition, there is a martial arts called "Cang'er You". People in the sect also use flying fans as weapons, and their martial arts have become a system.

One world, different martial arts, but with two similar ethnic groups.

Although he understood what was going on, when he really put them together, Lu Ping could only guess that perhaps in this world, before the great changes in the world, both sides came from the same lineage, so later generations retained the same name.

Thanks to the Dali map given by Duan Yu, Lu Ping quickly determined his current location and the direction of Tianlong Temple.

Afterwards, the three of them spent half a day traveling and finally saw Tianlong Temple at dusk.

According to legend, Tianlong Temple has five treasures, the most important of which are three pagodas. The largest of the three pagodas is more than two hundred feet high and has sixteen levels. When Lu Ping and his companions were on the road, they saw this tall building from afar.

Bathed in the afterglow of the setting sun, the tower reflects dazzling golden light, which contrasts beautifully with the three pavilions, seven floors, nine palaces, and hundreds of buildings surrounding the tower.

It is large in scale and exquisitely constructed, and coupled with the sound of evening drums coming from the wind, it seems as if the Buddhist kingdom is right before your eyes, and it looks quite artistic.

When they got closer, the three people discovered that the groups of buildings in the temple were not adjacent to each other, but each one was far apart. Those towers, pavilions, towers, palaces and buildings together occupied at least half of Dali City.

Seeing this, Cheng Ying and Lu Wushuang were amazed at the richness of Dali.

"I never thought a temple could be built so beautifully..."

"Isn't that natural?"

Lu Ping was a man who was used to big scenes, and he was immune to places like Buddhist temples and Taoist temples. "Most monks in Beiwulin are very rich, and the monks living in Tianlong Temple are not ordinary monks, but monks from the royal family of Dali."

"Although Dali is isolated in a corner and its national strength is weaker than that of the two Song dynasties, it is still a country after all."

“As the most prestigious Buddhist temple and royal family temple in the country, it would be strange if Tianlong Temple was simple and shabby.

As they were talking, the three of them had arrived in front of the temple and knocked on the door.

Soon the temple door opened and a young monk walked out.

More than 70% of the practitioners in Tianlong Temple are descendants of the Dali royal family.

The royal family has a precious status, and monks prioritize living in seclusion from the world, so Tianlong Temple usually does not see outsiders and is only open to other royal family members.

Lu Ping and his two companions were not only outsiders, but they were not even from Dali, so normally they would not be allowed in.

Sure enough, when Cheng Ying expressed her request to visit Yideng, she was immediately rejected by the young monk.

"Master Yideng did not become a monk in Tianlong Temple. If female lay Buddhists want to find him, they can visit him at his place of practice."

"There are other important matters in the temple recently. If you three don't want to get into trouble, please leave quickly."

After saying that, the young monk said no more. He just looked at Lu Ping and the other two carefully again, then bowed and walked back to the temple, closing the door behind him.

"This...cousin, they don't want to see guests, so should we leave or stay now?"

Cheng Ying sighed and made a decision helplessly: "Anyway, there is no rush to visit, so I will go back first as the little monk said and come back another day."

"Ah? We spent so much time and walked so far to get here, and we're just leaving like this?"

"What should we do? We can't just force our way in, right?"

As soon as the words fell, the two women felt a strong wind blowing past them.

When I looked up again, I found Lu Ping was already standing on the wall of the temple.

(End of this chapter)