Chinese martial arts! Grandmaster

Not far away, a little girl was seen laughing happily.

At her carefree age, the joy she exudes is easily contagious.

The woman in white with a baby face turned to look at the little girl.

In the corner of the caravan's resting area, a couple was sitting.

They looked to be in their thirties, with an impressive air about them, clearly scions of a prominent family.

The man had a sword hanging at his waist, exuding a fierce aura that made him seem unapproachable.

The woman, on the contrary, appeared gentle, refined, and exceptionally virtuous.

She exuded no imposing aura and wore coarse cloth clothes like a village girl, yet she could not conceal the ruthless aura emanating from her.

On the surface, she appears to be a gentle, harmless woman.

but,

The woman in white with a baby face was startled when she saw the wife.

Master!

Indeed, this wife's martial arts skills are far superior to her husband's.

at this time,

This gentle and virtuous woman gazed lovingly at the little girl in front of her.

Judging from the little girl's appearance, she bears a striking resemblance to this virtuous woman, and is clearly her daughter.

at this time,

This pretty and well-behaved little girl is playing shuttlecock with a man.

Indeed, no one expected that a tall, handsome man who looked like a scholar would be playing shuttlecock with a little girl.

The shuttlecock bounced rhythmically from the two people's feet.

The little girl is very skilled at kicking shuttlecocks, and can even do some difficult moves, which makes the couple next to her laugh happily.

at this time,

The couple felt the gaze of the woman in white with the baby face and couldn't help but turn to look at each other.

The man gripped the hilt of his battle sword with one hand, exuding a sharp and domineering aura.

He merely glanced up, and the woman in white felt a chill run down her spine, a strange sense of fear creeping over her.

Hiss—such a heavy killing intent!
She quickly lowered her head, averting her gaze, unable to look at the other person.

The woman in white was filled with doubt. She was a scion of a prominent family in Xining Prefecture, well-informed and knowledgeable, and a disciple of a renowned sect in the martial arts world.

She sensed a terrifying aura emanating from the middle-aged man wielding a battle sword.

Only those masters in the sect who are at least at the mid-stage of the Marrow Transformation Realm can exude such a terrifying aura.

Next,
She carefully observed the middle-aged couple and the little girl's clothing, aura, and so on, and immediately sensed that they were no ordinary people.

This family of three must be from the Central Plains!

"Hehe—watch out, I'm about to unleash a Flying Fire Meteor!"

Just then, a cheerful male voice rang out.

The white-clad, baby-faced woman's gaze finally turned to the scholar she had been ignoring, who was playing shuttlecock with the little girl.

at this time,

The scholar lightly tapped his foot, kicking the shuttlecock high into the air.

His shuttlecock kicking movements were elegant and gentle, giving a feeling of weakness, but every time he kicked the shuttlecock, it landed right on the little girl's foot.

Judging from the aura emanating from him, this scholar had no internal energy, nor even the imposing presence of a martial artist.

Although he was tall and imposing, he had no martial arts skills and gave people the feeling that he posed no threat at all.

The only thing that was surprising was that he looked very handsome and dashing.

Unrestrained, elegant, dashing, detached, and handsome!
The aura he exudes is difficult to describe with simple words.

Judging from his appearance, he must be in his twenties.

But at this moment, he seemed to have retained his childlike innocence, playing shuttlecock with a little girl and having a great time.

Looking at his handsome appearance and well-read demeanor.

For some reason, the woman in white suddenly felt a sense of disorientation.

The woman in purple standing nearby sighed with admiration upon seeing the scholar playing shuttlecock.

What a pity!
How come such a handsome, tall, and powerful man doesn't practice martial arts?

"Me too! Kick it to me."

Suddenly, as if possessed, the woman in purple cried out.

She caught the shuttlecock with a difficult backflip kick as the elegant scholar kicked it, then passed it to the little girl next to her.

She was already quite pretty, and now, playing shuttlecock, she was showing off her long, beautiful legs.

Next,
The three of them played shuttlecock together, their laughter echoing throughout.

The man holding the sword and his wife kept their eyes on their daughter.

but,

Their attention remained focused on the rest of the caravan, and they dared not relax for a moment.

After resting for a while, the caravan set off again.

at dusk,

Led by the Changfeng Escort Agency, the caravan finally stopped at the foot of a mountain in the Kunlun Mountains.

The group started a campfire and set up temporary tents.

"Is this Mount Kunlun? Is the Kunlun Sect located on the mountain?"

The woman in purple stepped down from the carriage, looked up at the majestic Kunlun Mountains in the distance, and asked in confusion.

In the distance, snow can be seen on the mountain peaks.

The Kunlun Mountains are vast, stretching for thousands of miles, and many people have heard of the Kunlun Sect.

but,

However, few people know the exact location of the Kunlun Sect.

The woman in white shook her head and said:
"This is just the outer edge of the Kunlun Mountains. There is still a long way to go before you can climb the Kunlun Mountains."

"But where exactly is the Kunlun Sect? I don't know either. I've only heard that someone encountered a sword immortal from the Kunlun Sect in the Gelimu Mountain Village."

The woman in purple said with longing, "A sword immortal? I wish I could meet a Kunlun sword immortal on this trip!"

finished,

She suddenly remembered something and turned to look at the distance.

The refined and gentle scholar was holding a book and flipping through it.

Beside him were the mysterious couple and their young daughter.

The little girl seemed quite fond of this harmless, handsome scholar, especially after seeing him reading a book.

She ran over and asked, "Uncle, what book are you reading?"

The scholar smiled and said, "Would you like to read the local logbook of the Kunlun Mountains? Uncle will teach you to read."

The little girl clearly didn't like reading and learning to read. She pouted and said in a spoiled tone, "I don't want to read or learn to read, Uncle. Will you still play shuttlecock with me tomorrow?"

The scholar laughed and said, "No problem, I'll play shuttlecock with you tomorrow!"

this moment,
He felt as if he were seeing his own daughter, and couldn't help but pat the little girl's head.

For some reason, he suddenly felt that he owed his daughter something.

After the decisive battle with Miyamoto Musashi in the East China Sea ends, I must spend more time with my daughter as she grows up.

"Thank you uncle!"

Upon hearing this, the little girl jumped up and down happily.

At this time,

The woman in purple stepped forward to the campfire and said with a smile, "Ya Ya, how about we play shuttlecock together tomorrow?"

The little girl seemed to dislike her, shaking her head and saying:

"I'm not going to play with you. You know I'm not strong, but you always kick the shuttlecock away."

"I only like playing shuttlecock with my uncle."

Upon hearing this, the woman in purple couldn't help but laugh.

Although she is very good at kicking shuttlecock, she always has difficulty controlling the force when kicking against a small child.

Several times, she kicked the shuttlecock into the little girl's face, causing the girl to cry out.

No wonder the little girl doesn't like playing shuttlecock with her.

Seeing the woman in purple's embarrassment, the people around her laughed.

"Fine, don't kick me then. I have some good food later, and I won't give it to you!"

"I'll be honest," the woman in purple joked. "If I didn't want to get to know that scholar, why would I want to play shuttlecock with a little girl?"
at this time,

She watched the scholar sitting quietly reading by the campfire and gestured to the woman in white.

Next,
The two approached the scholar and sat down cross-legged.

"Young master, may I ask your name? Where are you from? And what brings you to Kunlun Mountain?"

The woman in purple greeted the handsome scholar with a smile.

Upon hearing this, the scholar put down his book and looked the other person up and down.

"My name is Chen Jie! I've come to Kunlun to relax."

He originally didn't want to talk to the other person, but one can't hit a smiling face.

The two girls didn't seem to have any ill intentions.

"Chen Jie? You're a scholar who hasn't practiced martial arts. It's very dangerous for you to come to Kunlun Mountain alone for sightseeing!"

"My name is Lan Feng, and this is my junior sister Bai He. We are disciples of the Qinghu Sword Sect."

"If anything happens, you can mention the name of our Qinghu Sword Sect."

At this moment, she realized that the other person was focused on reading and had no interest in her trying to strike up a conversation.

then,

Feeling awkward, she said, "Alright, I won't disturb your reading any longer. See you tomorrow."

finished,

She and the woman in white got up from the ground and turned to leave.

After watching the other person leave, Chen Jie's expression remained unchanged.

but,

His gaze suddenly sharpened, becoming piercingly intense.

In the blink of an eye, a murderous aura emanated from him.

However, the murderous intent quickly subsided after it had been circulating, and outsiders could not sense it.

"Interesting. I didn't expect to run into a master of the Blood Refining Pill Realm in an ordinary caravan."

Chen Jie did not look at the two women, but instead focused his gaze on the couple and the little girl.

His purpose in this trip was to enter the Kunlun Mountains.

Because they were unfamiliar with the specific conditions inside the Kunlun Mountains, they happened to encounter a caravan from the Changfeng Escort Agency on the road.

then,

He traveled to Gelim with the caravan.

To his surprise, there were quite a few experts in this caravan.

As for the two women, Lan Feng and Bai He, although their martial arts had broken through to the Iron Bone Dark Force realm, their combat strength was not bad.

However, they were only barely qualified to roam the martial world, and they still needed to rely on the name of the 'Qinghu Sword Sect'.

The real expert was the couple's wife—a beginner in the Blood Refining Technique!

"It seems that no one knows that I have practiced martial arts. They can't sense my internal energy or the changes in my aura."

A smile appeared on Chen Jie's face.

His spiritual cultivation had broken through to the 'late stage of perfect concentration', and his control over his aura had reached a level of consummate skill.

Even martial artists at the Blood Pill Force level couldn't sense his aura.

Even martial artists at the peak of the Meridian Opening and Qi Cultivation realm could not sense any martial artist's aura from him.

He is now only one step away from the "Sitting in Oblivion" stage and possesses the combat power to kill a Martial Saint.

"I hope this trip to Kunlun goes smoothly and that nothing goes wrong."

With that thought in mind, he looked at the book in his hand—"The Secret Realm of Kunlun"!
Next,
He looked up at the towering Kunlun Mountains in the distance.

-

"Kunlun Mountain truly lives up to its reputation as the number one mountain under heaven. Its peaks are covered in snow all year round. Do you think the Kunlun Sword Immortal might live on its summit?"

Lan Feng entered the caravan's carriage and laid out the quilt.

It got a bit cold after we entered the mountains.

The carriage the two women rode in was specially made and quite spacious; they stayed there that night.

At this moment, Lan Feng arranged the pillows, leaned against them, and had a happy smile on her face.

"Didn't you always complain that it was too deserted here and that you didn't like it? Why has your attitude changed all of a sudden?"

Bai He, with her baby face, couldn't help but tease her.

"The past is the past, people change, right?"

Lan Feng chuckled, still immersed in her blissful state.

The two were from the same school and knew each other very well.

Bai He couldn't help but stick out her tongue and continued teasingly, "You're so happy all of a sudden, is it because you saw that handsome scholar named Chen Jie and your heart has been stirred?"

Lan Feng was quite direct and did not refute.

She said with a smile, "To be honest, that guy named Chen Jie really did make my heart flutter!"

"Tall, handsome, dashing, elegant, and debonair, I really can't find any words to describe him."

"In short, everything about him deeply attracts me. He is exactly the kind of lover I dream of."

"Alas—the only pity is that he doesn't know martial arts and is not one of us."

"Bai He, don't tell me you haven't been moved!"

"Hehe, I know your stoic personality better than anyone else."

Bai He shook her head helplessly and said:
"So what if you're attracted to him? You yourself said that we're not on the same wavelength as him."

"Besides, I'm already betrothed to someone else, so being tempted again would only cause more trouble."

"But haven't you always admired your senior brother? You wouldn't be so fickle as to fall for a handsome scholar like him, would you?"

Upon hearing this, Lan Feng's expression turned dejected.

She shook her head helplessly and said, "My senior brother already has someone he likes. He has never liked me at all, and he has never even paid attention to me."

"Now that I think about it, I don't feel like there's anything to admire about my senior brother."

"He's just a little more talented in martial arts. In terms of looks and temperament, he's far inferior to Chen Jie from before."

The thing people should avoid most is comparison.

After she compared her senior brother with Chen Jie,
suddenly,
She discovered that the senior brother she admired didn't seem so great after all.

Both she and Bai He were inner disciples of the Qinghu Sword Sect, and their martial arts level was at the early stage of Iron Bone Dark Force.

The senior brother Bai He mentioned was named Shen Xiao, and he was the object of Lan Feng's admiration.

Just as Lan Feng had thought, Senior Brother Shen Xiao had a high talent for martial arts and had already broken through to the early stage of the Marrow Transformation Realm.

Although Shen Xiao's appearance was average, he was admired by all the female disciples of the Qinghu Sword Sect.

Lan Feng is beautiful and has a great figure.

She was originally deeply attracted to her senior brother, unable to extricate herself, and even had a one-sided love feeling that she would marry no one but him.

This time, she followed Bai He to Kunlun Mountain to relax, because she also wanted to let go of everything.

Unexpectedly, upon seeing Chen Jie, she was instantly captivated by his charisma.

After she secretly compared Chen Jie with her senior brother, she suddenly woke up with a start.

The senior brother I've always admired is far inferior in temperament to this scholar I just met.

Therefore,
When Bai He teased her, asking if she was falling for him, she didn't refute him at all.

"I've figured it out. I can owe anyone else in this life, but I can't owe myself anything in terms of feelings!"

"If I had to marry someone I didn't love, I'd rather die."

"Even if I have to live out the rest of my life alone, I will never marry that bastard Wang Chuyi."

Bai He suddenly spoke, her tone becoming unusually firm.

Fortunately, Chen Jie didn't notice their psychological changes, otherwise he would have been absolutely stunned.

He had already concealed his aura, making himself appear completely ordinary.

Unexpectedly, the aura he exuded still influenced the two women.

One's aura can be restrained, and one's presence can be concealed.

but,

The aura he exuded could not be concealed.

That damn charm is deadly!

"By the way! Do you think Chen Jie might already be married—?"

Suddenly, the two girls remembered something, as if a knot had been untied in their hearts, and their minds began to wander. (End of Chapter)