Shi Potian travels through Linghu Chong

Chapter 120: Colluding with the Demon Cult and Harming Their Fellows

Zhang Jinao was walking in the front, with a very old monk with wrinkles on his left, followed by a few young monks. On the right was an old beggar with several cloth bags hanging around his waist, who must be the elder of the Beggars' Gang.

Behind them were mostly disciples of the Beggars' Sect, as well as other people from the martial arts world.

There were fifty or sixty people holding torches alone, and the rest added up to at least two or three hundred people.

Seeing that they were coming aggressively, Yue Lingshan blocked the door, bowed deeply, and said, "Huashan Sect's junior Yue Lingshan greets Deputy Chief Zhang and all the seniors."

A young Beggar Clan disciple behind Zhang Jinao was overjoyed when he heard Yue Lingshan introduce herself, "Deputy Clan Leader, we were not mistaken, Linghu Chong is indeed here."

Zhang Jinao nodded slightly and raised his hand. The Beggar Gang disciples split into two teams and spread out to the left and right sides, surrounding the yard.

Yue Lingshan was startled, and clenched the sword at her waist with her right hand, and shouted: "Senior, what are you doing?"

Zhang Jinao said, "Miss Yue, please ask Linghu Chong to come out. I have something to ask him."

Yue Lingshan hesitated for a moment, knowing that she could not stop Zhang Jinao and the others in front of her, and finally decided to tell the truth: "My senior brother is healing my mother's injuries and is busy now, so it is not convenient for him to come out."

Zhang Jinao was a little surprised.

Although Ping Yizhi's residence is secret, it is nothing to the Beggars' Sect, whose disciples are spread all over the world.

Shi Potian would appear here either because he was injured or sick, or because he was sending someone here to treat his illness.

But he didn't expect that the injured person would be Yue Buqun's wife.

At this time, the old monk next to him asked, "Mrs. Yue is injured? How is her condition?" Seeing Yue Lingshan looking at him, he said, "My Buddhist name is Fang Ping."

Yue Lingshan had never heard of Fang Ping, but she knew that the monks with the surname Fang were the first generation of Shaolin Temple and that they were fellow disciples of the abbot, Master Fang Zheng. She said respectfully, "Thank you for your inquiry, my mother is no longer in danger and will recover in a few days."

Fang Ping clasped his hands together, chanted Amitabha, and said, "That's good."

The elder of the Beggars' Sect on the other side snorted coldly and said, "This is really strange! I have lived for so long, and I have never heard of a patient coming to the doctor's house and still needing the patient's family to treat the disease and heal the injury!"

The Beggars' Sect disciples and the people from the martial arts world started to clamor.

"I haven't heard of it either. Today I've learned something new!"

"That's right! If he had the ability to heal injuries, he would have healed them himself. Why would he have to come here to ask for help from Dr. Ping?"

"I think this little girl is just talking nonsense. Linghu Chong might be thinking about how to escape right now!"

……

Yue Lingshan could hear the strong hostility towards Shi Potian, and frowned, puzzled: "Deputy Leader Zhang, Master Fang Ping, and this Beggar Clan elder, what did my senior brother do that you are calling him to task?"

The elder of the Beggars' Sect said coldly: "Colluding with the Demon Sect and harming fellow believers."

Yue Lingshan: “???”

Yue Lingshan looked as if she had seen a ghost, and said in disbelief: "My senior brother colluded with the Demon Cult to kill fellow practitioners?! The Demon Cult leader Dongfang Bubai was killed by my senior brother. He also razed the Demon Cult headquarters, Black Wood Cliff, and destroyed the martial arts of more than a thousand elite members of the Demon Cult. You said he colluded with the Demon Cult?!"

The elder of the Beggars' Sect sneered and said sarcastically: "Everyone in the Five Mountains Sword Sect is as confused as you..."

Zhang Jinao said, "Elder Su, the demons of the Demon Cult are always cunning and cunning, making it hard to guard against them. It is understandable that Leader Yue and the others were fooled by them. You just need to tell them the truth."

Zhang Jin'ao had great prestige in the Beggars' Sect. When he spoke, Elder Su immediately stopped talking, replied with a "yes", and asked Yue Lingshan: "Do you know how Linghu Chong killed Dongfang Bubai?"

Yue Lingshan said: "Of course I know. My senior brother used my Huashan School's Qi-controlling sword technique to seriously injure Dongfang Bubai. Dongfang Bubai couldn't accept his defeat and committed suicide."

Elder Su snorted coldly and said, "Controlling the sword with Qi? That must be the Absorbing Stars Art! I have already sent people to find out. Your eldest brother has long gone to the side of the former leader of the Demon Cult, Ren Woxing. Not only was he accepted as his last disciple and taught him the Absorbing Stars Art, he also betrothed his daughter Ren Yingying to him, asking him to inherit the position of leader of the Demon Cult."

Yue Lingshan was even more confused. Noticing the expressions of approval on the faces of Zhang Jinao, Fang Ping and the others, she became anxious and angry: "You...you...you are talking nonsense! Our Huashan Sect and the Demon Sect have a deep hatred and are irreconcilable! Ren Woxing's martial arts were destroyed by my senior brother. How could he be Ren Woxing's apprentice and son-in-law! And inherit his position as the leader of the Demon Sect!"

Elder Su said: "Of course I know that it was he who destroyed Ren Woxing's martial arts."

Yue Lingshan: “???” You knew that you also said that my senior brother is Ren Woxing’s apprentice’s son-in-law?

Elder Su continued, "I also know that he used the Star Absorbing Technique to drain all of Ren Woxing's internal energy."

Yue Lingshan was suddenly startled.

The news that Shi Potian had crippled Ren Woxing's martial arts had already spread throughout the martial arts world through the mouth of Wang Yuanba of the Golden Knife Wang family in Luoyang.

However, only Yue Buqun and his wife, Yue Lingshan, Ren Woxing, Xiang Wentian and Ren Yingying knew how Shi Potian destroyed Ren Woxing's martial arts.

After all, the Star-Absorbing Art is a sinister and evil skill that harms others and benefits oneself.

Yue Buqun didn't want others to know that Shi Potian knew this evil skill.

Unexpectedly, this matter was told by Elder Su of the Beggar Gang.

Yue Lingshan instantly realized that all this was a conspiracy of the Demon Cult, deliberately trying to put the blame on his senior brother.

Her first reaction was to deny that Shi Potian knew the Star Absorbing Technique, but when the words came to her lips, she swallowed her breath. Using lies to prove the facts was undoubtedly the stupidest thing to do.

Once a lie is exposed, the truth becomes a lie.

Yue Lingshan said, "Elder Su, let's not talk about whether my senior brother can use the Star Absorbing Art. Even if he can, would a demon like Ren Woxing willingly let my senior brother use the Star Absorbing Art to drain all his internal energy and sacrifice his lifelong hard work to others? Do you think this is possible?"

Elder Su said, "If it was any other time, it would be impossible, but Dongfang Bubai usurped Ren Woxing's position as the leader of the Demon Sect and locked him up in the West Lake dungeon for twelve years without seeing the sun."

"Ren Woxing hated Dongfang Bubai to the core, and was willing to die with him. But he was no match for Dongfang Bubai." "In order to deal with Dongfang Bubai, Ren Woxing had his daughter Ren Yingying hook up with your senior brother Linghu Chong, and passed on the Star Absorbing Art and his life's work to him, asking him to avenge himself, and he also sent the Demon Sect elder Qu Yang to cooperate secretly."

"They first captured Yang Lianting and forced him to cooperate with them in a sneak attack to kill Dongfang Bubai. Then, under the banner of Dongfang Bubai, they tricked Dongfang Bubai's loyal followers into the Xuande Hall in Heimu Cliff in batches and killed them or disabled their martial arts."

"They were worried that these things would be discovered, so they destroyed the Black Wood Cliff before leaving. That's why there were rumors about killing the Demon Cult leader and destroying the Demon Cult headquarters."

Elder Su looked at Yue Lingshan with pride and said in a firm tone, "I know you will definitely ask, Black Wood Cliff is the Demon Cult's foundation for hundreds of years, why did Ren Woxing and Linghu Chong want to destroy Black Wood Cliff? That's because what they are planning is a hundred times, a thousand times bigger than a mere Demon Cult headquarters!"

"Ren Woxing not only wants Linghu Chong to become the leader of the Demon Sect, he wants Linghu Chong to first inherit the position of the head of Huashan, then become the leader of the Five Mountains and even the head of the Five Mountains, and then let Ren Yingying learn from Naqu Yang to reform herself and join Linghu Chong's army."

"In this way, Linghu Chong can gather the power of the Demon Sect and the Five Mountains Sword Sect, annex Shaolin, Wudang and other righteous sects, unify the martial arts world, and even rebel and claim the throne."

Yue Lingshan was stunned.

If she didn't know...

No, even if she knew the truth, she had to admit that what Elder Su said sounded more like the truth than the truth.

Yue Lingshan became even more anxious: "My fellow seniors, don't be fooled by the Demon Cult! They deliberately framed my senior brother, my senior brother..."

"Miss Yue."

Zhang Jinao interrupted Yue Lingshan and said, "I know that what Elder Su said is a little hard for you to accept, but these things were all found out by my disciples of the Beggars' Sect at the cost of their lives. Some of them were even obtained with the help of the Shaolin Sect."

Fang Ping nodded, sighed deeply, and said with a sad face: "Three disciples of the Jue generation and seventeen lay disciples of my Shaolin Temple died because of this. One of them even had his entire family slaughtered by the demon sect's people."

A monk in his thirties holding a shovel beside him gritted his teeth and said, "My junior brother Xin Guoliang was killed by the demon sect monsters with 32 members of his family just because he said, 'There are many hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the martial arts world. Even if Linghu Chong kills Dongfang Bubai, he may not be the best fighter in the world.'"

As soon as he opened his mouth, the gangsters around him could no longer hold back and started to accuse him.

"Ren Woxing did everything he could to make Linghu Chong the successor of Huashan Sect and the leader of the Five Mountains, causing a bloody storm in the martial arts world!"

"My uncle's family is the same. Just because my uncle drank too much and questioned Linghu Chong, the Demon Cult came to his house and killed all 17 members of his family! My brother just got married!"

"My senior brother was the one who was wronged the most! He didn't even say a word, but because he didn't say anything in rebuttal when someone scolded Linghu Chong, the demon sect monster broke his hands and feet and cut off his lips and tongue."

……

As they were talking, everyone was already extremely angry, their eyes turned red, and many of them even drew their weapons and prepared to rush in.

Seeing the murderous looks on everyone's faces, Yue Lingshan felt very uneasy and tried her best to defend herself, "If the Demon Cult really wanted to help my senior brother become famous and powerful and make him the leader of the Five Mountains, how could they do it so obviously? Isn't this telling others that there is something wrong with my senior brother?"

Elder Su said coldly, "Do you think what the Demon Cult did is obvious? Humph, in order to find out these things, one hundred and thirty-nine disciples of my Beggars' Sect died during this period, including an eight-bag elder and three six-bag disciples! Miss Yue, I explained so much to you because you don't know. If you still insist on not realizing it, don't blame me for being rude!"

The Beggars' Gang disciples all took up sticks and beat the ground, shouting, "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Their voices were loud and uniform, and the momentum was amazing.

The rest of the gang members also came forward.

Yue Lingshan had never experienced such a scene before, and her face turned pale, but she still gritted her teeth and drew out her sword, blocking the door tightly. Her voice was trembling but her tone was extremely firm: "My senior brother is not such a person! You can't come in! My senior brother is healing my mother's injuries and cannot be disturbed!"

As she drew her sword, the atmosphere on the field suddenly became tense.

Seeing that the two sides were about to fight, Ning Zhongze's weak voice came from the yard: "Shan'er, let them in."

Yue Lingshan refused: "Mom, Ping Yizhi said that you and Senior Brother cannot be..."

Ning Zhongze's tone became more serious: "Let them in." After a pause, he said, "Mother knows her own health, it's okay."

Yue Lingshan reluctantly retreated back to the yard, but still stood firmly between Zhang Jinao and others and Shi Potian and Ning Zhongze, ready to take action at any time.

As she stepped back, the crowd outside rushed into the yard and surrounded Shi Potian and the other two in three layers.

Ping Yizhi warned Shi Potian not to leave Ning Zhongze for ten days, and to always follow the practice route he told him and use his true energy to heal Ning Zhongze's wounds, only then could he be out of danger.

In fact, it only takes seven days.

He said ten days just to delay Shi Potian and the other two so that he could hide farther away and more covertly.

The poison that Ning Zhongze was infected with has not yet been eliminated, but his injuries have mostly healed. His face is no longer as pale and almost transparent as it was at the beginning.

In the eyes of Zhang Jinao and others, Yue Lingshan was lying and deliberately delaying time, and they looked at Yue Lingshan with some unfriendly eyes.

This hostility increased when he saw Ning Zhongze and Shi Potian sitting on the ground "rudely", pretending to be recovering from injuries but talking without any concealment.

——They had never seen anyone who could speak freely while practicing internal energy to heal injuries.

Zhang Jinao and the others were afraid of Shi Potian's martial arts, so they suppressed their anger and did not take action immediately. Instead, they bowed to Ning Zhongze and said, "Madam Yue."

Ning Zhongze snorted coldly and ignored them, saying, "Chong'er, tell everyone here how you learned the Star Absorbing Technique, how you disabled Ren Woxing's martial arts, and how you killed Dongfang Bubai."

Shi Potian nodded and said "OK", and immediately recounted everything in detail, from how he was ordered by his master to investigate Ren Woxing's appearance in Luoyang, to how he crippled Ren Woxing's martial arts, and then to how he killed Dongfang Bubai and destroyed the elite martial arts of the Demon Cult.

Even the matter of the "Sunflower Manual" was not concealed.

——Ning Zhongze and Shi Potian did not know the true origin of "Sunflower Manual", and they both thought it was the supreme martial arts passed down by Huashan Sect.

In the past, they didn't dare to let others know about the "Sunflower Manual" because they were afraid of attracting other people's covetousness, but now they don't have to be afraid anymore.

(End of this chapter)