Shi Potian travels through Linghu Chong

Chapter 93: Convincing people with virtue
After admitting defeat, Tianmen Taoist resolutely retreated to the sidelines, looked at Zuo Lengchan and said, "Master Zuo, I am not as skilled as you, so I admit defeat. I wonder what your plan is? Are you going to step forward and compete with my nephew Linghu? Or are you going to simply give up the position of the leader of the Five Mountains?"

Everyone's eyes turned to Zuo Lengchan, but compared to the beginning, few people were optimistic about Zuo Lengchan now.

A resounding voice rang out from the crowd: "Mr. Yue is in charge of the Huashan lineage, and it is truly admirable that he can train a disciple like Young Hero Linghu. If the position of the leader of the Five Mountains is not taken by Mr. Yue, there will be no other suitable candidate in the world."

People like Master Dingxian and Mr. Mo Da are proud of their status, but Yu Jizi has no such concerns. He was the first to speak and flatter Yue Buqun and Shi Potian.

As soon as he spoke, Yuqingzi, Yuyinzi and the more than one hundred disciples behind them all echoed loudly: "The position of the leader of the Five Mountains must belong to Mr. Yue of the Huashan Sect."

As a result, even the Huashan and Hengshan sects were a step behind.

Zuo Lengchan looked coldly at Yu Jizi and the other two, his eyes full of hatred.

In order to win over Yu Jizi and the other two, he had used both kindness and force and given them tremendous benefits over the years. However, these three old guys didn't even say a word to help him, and just went to curry favor with Yue Buqun. It was really hateful.

Yu Jizi and the other two were a little nervous, and they preached even harder: "The head of Huashan Sect has always been the leader of our Five Mountains Sword Sect. It is also under the leadership of Huashan Sect that our Five Mountains Sword Sect has grown stronger step by step."

"Twenty-five years ago, Huashan Sect was suddenly attacked by a plague. Senior Brother Ning, regardless of fame and gain, was devoted to the public good and voluntarily gave up the position of the leader of the Five Mountains. Now it is time to return the property to its original owner."

Zuo Lengchan looked at the three people's flattering faces and felt so angry that his teeth itched. However, there were still those disciples of the Five Mountains Sword Sect who did not know the truth and believed them. Even some disciples of Songshan showed signs of hesitation on their faces.

Zuo Lengchan knew that he couldn't let this go on any longer, so he said coldly, "Linghu Chong, we in the Five Mountains Sword Sect are all sword sects, and so is your Huashan Sect. Why do you only like to use fists and feet, and not swords? Could it be that your Huashan Sect's swordsmanship is useless?"

As he spoke, he walked to the center of the field, pressed the scabbard with his left hand, and with a "swish" sound, the sword jumped out of the scabbard. A green light flashed, and the sword soared up. He stretched out his right hand and grasped the hilt.

This move was extremely pleasing to the eyes and beautiful, attracting cheers and applause from all the disciples of Mount Song. It also temporarily suppressed the voices of the disciples from other sects who called for Yue Buqun to be the leader of the Five Mountains.

Shi Potian said: "Uncle Zuo, we are of the same origin in the Five Mountains Sword Sect. When we compete, we will only decide who is better. Swords have no eyes..."

Zuo Lengchan sneered, "What do you mean by 'swords have no eyes'? You didn't use the sword, but Brother Ji still died in your hands. Linghu Chong, stop making so many excuses! If you can use the Huashan sword technique to defeat the long sword in my hand today, all of us in the Songshan Sect will respect Mr. Yue as the leader of the Five Mountains!"

Shi Potian's eyes lit up: "Are you serious?"

Zuo Lengchan said: "Once a man says something, it's hard to chase him back."

Master Dingyi was very anxious when she heard this and shouted, "My dear nephew Linghu, don't pay any attention to him! We agreed from the beginning that the winner would be decided by fighting, but we never mentioned a sword fight!"

Shi Potian said: "Uncle Dingyi, don't worry. Our Huashan Sect is based on Qi, and there is not much difference between fist, palm and sword techniques. It's just that the sword is sharp and can easily hurt people, so I don't like to use sword techniques."

Yue Buqun smiled slightly, nodded with satisfaction, and emphasized again: "Master, Chong'er is my Qi Sect disciple. The key to my Qi Sect's martial arts lies in the word 'Qi'. Once the Qi is mastered, no matter whether you use fists or feet, or swords, you will be successful in everything."

In the past, Yue Buqun himself had doubted whether the Qi Zong's philosophy was correct, and he dared not show off in front of the abbot of Shaolin and the head of Wudang. But now that the Qi Zong's philosophy has been recognized and practiced by Shi Potian, the peerless master, he is full of confidence.

"Chong'er's internal strength has reached a high level now. Even if he uses the most basic swordsmanship, his power is unmatched. Zuo Lengchan has such a small idea, and he is already timid in his heart. He will definitely not be able to defeat Chong'er."

Seeing Yue Buqun so confident, everyone stopped talking and just looked at the two people on the field intently. They wanted to see the level of internal strength of Shi Potian, who Yue Buqun described as "not good at changing his moves, but whose internal strength has already reached great heights".

Shi Potian looked at Zuo Lengchan in front of him, but he was not thinking about winning or losing, but the white board evil star who had just refused to admit defeat and was so angry that he died. He asked: "Uncle Zuo, how can I be considered to have defeated you? What should I do if you still refuse to admit defeat?"

Zuo Lengchan immediately guessed what Shi Potian was thinking and was furious. He felt that Shi Potian looked down on people and said coldly, "Just kill me."

Shi Potian quickly shook his hand and said, "My master said that this competition is only about the winner, not life or death. If I kill you, wouldn't that be against my master's wishes? I have a way to decide the winner without hurting the relationship."

Zuo Lengchan felt that Shi Potian was indeed worthy of being Yue Buqun's disciple. This hypocritical face was really disgusting to look at. However, he was afraid of Shi Potian's capture method, so he still forced himself to say, "What do you have in mind? Tell me about it."

Shi Potian said: "I will use the Huashan sword technique to write sixteen words under Master's feet. If I can do it, I will win, and Master will have to follow these sixteen words in the future. If I can't do it, I will lose, how do you do it?"

Zuo Lengchan was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses and laughed in anger: "Okay, okay! What a great disciple of Huashan! If you can really do it, let alone asking me to follow your sixteen words, even if you cut me into pieces and scatter my bones and ashes, I will have nothing to say!"

Fang Zheng Chongxu and the others looked at each other in astonishment.

The other Five Mountains disciples were in an uproar.

Even a person with low martial arts skills knows that winning a sword fight and writing under the opponent's feet are two completely different things!
The former only needs to defeat the opponent, while the latter not only needs to defeat the opponent, but also cannot let the opponent destroy the handwriting. The difficulty of the two is completely on a different level!

Yue Buqun was also stunned. He never expected Shi Potian to propose such a competition, but he did not stop it.

Ever since he learned the Five Mountains Sword Techniques and the method of breaking the spell in the secret cave of Siguo Cliff, Yue Buqun felt that his martial arts skills were already better than Zuo Lengchan's, even if Shi Potian was too arrogant and lost...

In other words, it would be better if Shi Potian lost!

This can not only test Shi Potian's character, but also allow him to go on stage and show his skills!
Ning Zhongze turned his head abruptly, glared at Yue Lingshan fiercely, and said, "You did a good thing."

She heard the previous conversation between Shi Potian and Yue Lingshan, and understood that Shi Potian's sudden proposal of this competition method was most likely influenced by Yue Lingshan's previous remarks.

Yue Lingshan stuck out her tongue and whispered, "If Senior Brother can defeat Zuo Lengchan and make him turn over a new leaf, it will be a good thing for our Five Mountains Sword Sect."

Upon hearing Zuo Lengchan's agreement, Shi Potian drew the long sword from his waist, bowed and said, "Uncle Zuo, please." He held the sword across his chest and made a sword gesture with his left hand, which was the starting move of Huashan Sword Technique "Meeting Friends with Poetry and Sword" when fighting with fellow practitioners.

As if afraid that others would not recognize that this was the Huashan Sword Technique, Shi Potian did not move quickly, and the tip of the sword was pointing at the ground rather than at Zuo Lengchan in front of him. It was as if he was not fighting with Zuo Lengchan, but concentrating on writing with the sword.

Zuo Lengchan was extremely angry and wished he could tear Shi Potian into pieces, but he knew that the most important thing now was to win. As long as he could defeat Shi Potian, Yue Buqun would be nothing but a clown and nothing to be feared.

Zuo Lengchan didn't know that among the people present, except for the Songshan Sect and the people from the martial arts world he brought with him, only Yue Buqun had the same idea as him.

Zuo Lengchan took a deep breath, suppressed his anger and calmed himself down.

He did not believe what Yue Buqun boasted about Shi Potian being a disciple of Qi Sect and not good at changing his moves. He did not think that Shi Potian's inner strength could be as powerful as his changes in moves, but he also knew that Shi Potian's inner strength was not bad.

Zuo Lengchan did not dare to be careless at all. He poured his true energy into the sword. Immediately, a cold light surged and a buzzing sound appeared. It was obvious that his internal strength had reached the pinnacle.

Even Sanding, who was the most hostile to him, couldn't help but look at him sideways.

Master Fang Zheng couldn't help but exclaimed: "Donor Zuo is indeed a rare genius in the Songshan Sect in hundreds of years. In just a few years, his internal strength has improved." Taoist Chongxu nodded and said: "Just this internal strength, there are few people in the whole martial arts world who can compare with him."

After the sword energy dispute with Huashan Sect ended, the Shaolin and Wudang sects supported Songshan Sect to take up the banner of the Five Mountains Sword Sects to fight against the Demon Sect. It was not a random selection, but because Songshan Sect had Zuo Lengchan.

Zuo Lengchan has been a famous talent in the martial arts world since he was a teenager, and his fame is second only to a few people such as Ren Woxing and Feng Qingyang.

Unlike Ren Woxing who gave up practicing the "Sunflower Manual", the magic cult's magic technique, and focused on practicing the "Star Absorbing Technique", and Feng Qingyang who practiced Dugu Qiubai's "Nine Swords of Dugu".

After Zuo Lengchan took over as the head of the Songshan Sect, he gathered the remaining elders of the Taishan Sect and recorded all the sword moves that everyone remembered, no matter how refined they were, and compiled them into a sword manual.

It took him several more decades to eliminate the dross and retain the essence, and to modify one by one the various moves that were not fierce enough and the postures that were not grand enough in the Songshan sword techniques, making the 17 sword moves of the Songshan School perfect.

He is the only one who truly promoted the martial arts of this sect.

Yue Buqun stared at Zuo Lengchan, wondering how much chance he had of winning against Zuo Lengchan.

Zuo Lengchan didn't care what the outside world thought. All his energy was focused on Shi Potian. After confirming that Shi Potian was only using the Huashan Sect's most common and well-known "Poetry and Sword Meeting", he stretched out his left hand and swept the long sword in his right hand to the right.

There was a sound of sword clanging, and then a flash of sword light appeared. The long sword turned into a white rainbow and stabbed straight towards Shi Potian.

Shi Potian seemed to have seen nothing and was still concentrating on writing on the ground with his sword.

The disciples of Huashan and Hengshan couldn't help but exclaimed, "Ah!" Many of them hurriedly shouted, "Big Brother (Linghu Brother), be careful!"

next moment.

Something happened that stunned everyone.

Zuo Lengchan's sword was as fast as a rainbow, but when it reached one foot in front of Shi Potian, it suddenly stopped.

At first glance, it seemed as if Zuo Lengchan was showing mercy and couldn't bear to stab him, but upon closer inspection, one could see that Zuo Lengchan was leaning forward with a ferocious look on his face. It was not that he didn't want to stab him, but that he was stopped by something and couldn't do so.

"How is this going?"

Zuo Lengchan was horrified and felt as if the sword in his hand had pierced an invisible barrier that was extremely soft and yet extremely hard. No matter how he mobilized his internal strength, he could not break through it at all.

As Shi Potian swung his sword, two lines of words appeared on the ground.

Zuo Lengchan suddenly raised the sword in his right hand and struck out with his left palm, covering the thirty-six vital points on Shi Potian's body.

The surrounding temperature dropped instantly, as if we had suddenly arrived from late autumn to the coldest month of winter.

It was the "Ice Palm", Zuo Lengchan's secret weapon that he had practiced hard over the years!
Gangqi is transformed from true qi, and his icy true qi is extremely cold and may be able to penetrate into Shi Potian's body!
Shi Potian couldn't help but let out a light exclamation, revealing a bit of surprise, but he also knew the priorities of things and ignored it. The long sword in his hand continued to write slowly.

Bang!
The Ice Palm hit the protective Qi, but the ice Qi failed to penetrate at all and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

To outsiders, it looked like Zuo Lengchan's sword stopped in mid-air and his palm slapped the empty space in front of him.

Taoist Tianmen, Master Dingxian and others knew that there must be a reason for this, but they couldn't figure out what was going on. They looked at each other and turned to look at Yue Buqun, only to see that Yue Buqun also had a look of confusion and astonishment on his face, and obviously didn't know what was going on.

Only Master Fangzheng and Taoist Chongxu, as the abbot of Shaolin and the head of Wudang, have a long and unbroken sect tradition. Similar records have been seen in the ancient books of their sect.

Master Fang Zheng could not help but ask loudly: "Donor Linghu, have you mastered the body-protecting qi?"

Shi Potian turned to look at Master Fang Zheng, nodded and said, "Well, it hasn't been long since I finished practicing it."

Although he spent most of his time studying these days, his progress in internal strength did not slow down. The "Arhat Subduing Demon Magic" had already reached the great perfection realm without him noticing.

The original inner circulation has become the outer circulation, and the true qi can form a protective qi around the body.

Master Fangzheng and Taoist Chongxu looked at each other and saw horror and disbelief on each other's faces.

In order to form protective qi, one's internal strength must reach the highest level.

The last person they knew who had mastered the protective qi was the Ming Cult leader Zhang Wuji hundreds of years ago. Going back to before that was the Wudang Sect's Zhang Sanfeng, and then there was the sweeping monk in the Shaolin Temple's Scripture Pavilion during the Northern Song Dynasty.

Compared to these three, Shi Potian's protective Qi that covered a one-foot radius around him was slightly inferior, but in today's martial arts world...

No, it should be said that no matter what time period he is in, he can be regarded as one of the top figures in the world!
Zuo Lengchan had never heard of the concept of "protective qi", but when he heard the name, he probably guessed what it was. Seeing that he had no way to stop Shi Potian, he slashed the sword in his hand downwards, trying to destroy the words written by Shi Potian.

But, I found that I couldn’t press it at all.

Zuo Lengchan was startled again, and pulled hard, trying to get the sword back, but he failed as well. His face turned red, and he tried his luck again.

But it still doesn't help.

His sword was suspended in the air, and he was in a situation where he could neither advance nor retreat.

Zuo Lengchan tried his luck again and this time he finally got the sword back, but he didn't take it back. Instead, Shi Potian let it go on his own initiative.

Shi Potian took a step back, bowed and said, "Uncle Zuo, I'm grateful for your help."

Everyone looked towards the place where Zuo Lengchan had just stood.

There were only four lines and sixteen large characters written on the ground:

"The Five Mountains Sword Sects are of the same spirit. Punish evil and promote good, and win people over with virtue."

(End of this chapter)