The Heavens: From Film and Mythology to Conquering Myriad Realms

Kublai Khan's death dealt a heavy blow to this Mongol army.

Kublai Khan, the commander-in-chief of the army, was openly assassinated. The fact that his nearly 20,000-strong army was unable to subdue the enemy enraged Möngke Khan upon receiving the news.

Karakorum, the capital of Mongolia.

"Damn it! You bunch of useless bastards, you actually let my brother be assassinated in the army!"

In the main hall, Möngke, dressed in a Mongol royal robe and with his hair tied in a traditional Mongolian braid, loudly rebuked the generals who were kneeling before him.

Kublai Khan, as the younger brother of the current Great Khan Möngke, held a prestigious position and was also a brilliant military commander. Kublai Khan's death was difficult for Möngke to accept.

"Your Majesty, according to the intelligence we have received, the one who attacked and killed the Prince was Lu Yao, the leader of the Central Plains Martial Arts Alliance."

"This person's martial arts skills were superb. At that time, the experts in the prince's camp were no match for him, which led to this incident."

A Mongol minister spoke up and shared the intelligence he had gathered with Möngke.

"Where are those people? Are they useless? They couldn't even buy time to gather a large army to surround and kill them?"

Mongke glared and said through gritted teeth.

Mongke also knew the methods to deal with martial arts masters: one was to kill them directly with stronger masters, and the other was to surround and kill them with a large army.

As long as the commander is given enough time, even the most skilled warrior will be surrounded and killed.

"According to eyewitnesses, the experts under his command were no match for the enemy and were killed in just a few moves, failing to buy any time."

The minister shook his head and said helplessly.

"Hmph! You good-for-nothing, you deserve to die."

Möngke snorted coldly. Even if those experts under Kublai Khan's command were not dead, he would make them go to their deaths to accompany his brother.

"Give me the order! Prepare the army. I will personally lead a large army to conquer the Southern Song Dynasty, wipe out the members of the Martial Alliance, and tear Lu Yao to pieces to offer as a sacrifice to Kublai Khan!"

Möngke was furious. With a wave of his hand, he brought forward the plan to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, determined to avenge his defeat.

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After killing Kublai Khan, Lu Yao did not venture further into Mongolia. Möngke Khan was currently in the Mongolian capital, which was far away and would take half a month to reach even by eagle.

Moreover, Kublai Khan is now dead, the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty is gone, and Möngke no longer poses a threat.

Lu Yao planned to go back and settle things here first.

A few days later.

The Valley of Heartbreak, the Martial Arts Alliance.

"Welcome back victorious, Alliance Leader."

Ling Xiaofeng respectfully cupped his hands to Lu Yao.

Before the news of Lu Yao killing Kublai Khan could reach the Martial Alliance, Ling Xiaofeng was referring to the vanguard general outside Xiangyang City.

Although the vanguard general was not Lu Yao's initial target, it was just something that happened by chance.

However, in the eyes of the entire martial arts alliance, this move was undoubtedly a great gain. The commander of a force of ten thousand men was easily killed, a feat that Ling Xiaofeng could only dream of.

"Where is Vice Alliance Leader Guo?"

When Lu Yao returned and did not see Guo Jing, he couldn't help but ask.

"Vice Alliance Leader Guo received a message from Xiangyang City that the Mongol army was making unusual movements, and that another Mongol army had gathered in Xiangyang. He led a group of his disciples to Xiangyang to defend the city."

Ling Xiaofeng quickly revealed Guo Jing's whereabouts.

Lu Yao nodded upon hearing this. As the vice leader of the alliance, and given that Guo Jing was doing this to fight against the Mongols, it was normal for him to take some of his disciples with him.

"Any news from Chief Huang?"

Lu Yao wondered if Huang Rong had returned from her mission to gather information about the Zhao family.

"Chief Huang has not yet returned to the valley."

Huang Rong personally led the Beggars' Sect disciples to gather intelligence immediately after Lu Yao left, and they have not returned yet.

After waving Ling Xiaofeng away, Lu Yao called Yang Guo over.

Yang Guo has been doing quite well lately. He successfully gained Gongsun Lü'e's trust by carrying out Lu Yao's mission and managed the former disciples of the Valley of Heartbreak in an orderly manner.

And her relationship with Gongsun Lü'e also developed in a different way.

This is quite normal. After all, it's hard not for something to happen when a beautiful woman like Gongsun Lü'e and a restless young man like Yang Guo spend a long time together.

Now that Guo Jing is in charge of resisting the Mongols, it's time to put the collection of rare treasures and medicinal herbs from all over the world on the agenda.

"Master, are you looking for me?"

Yang Guo entered the pavilion and asked Lu Yao with a smile.

Lu Yao then assigned the task of collecting rare treasures and precious medicinal herbs to Yang Guo, and instructed him to gather trusted disciples from the alliance to carry it out.

Yang Guo accepted the task without asking why.

With the Mongol crisis still ongoing, it's not appropriate to directly command the Martial Arts Alliance to carry out this looting. Let Yang Guo lead a group of people to start doing it first and accumulate some experience.

The real treasures are actually in the various sects, but now is not the time to touch them.

After Yang Guo left, Lu Yao went to Xiaolongnu's residence.

Now that Xiaolongnu lives in the Valley of Heartbreak, as the wife of the Alliance Leader, no one dares to treat her lightly, but Xiaolongnu doesn't care about such things.

Little Dragon Girl is now completely focused on studying the Nine Yin Manual, trying to comprehend this ultimate martial arts technique.

"Has Long'er already mastered the Nine Yin Manual?"

Lu Yao came to Xiaolongnu's side and smiled gently.

"Thanks to my junior brother for explaining it to me earlier, otherwise it would have taken some more time."

Xiaolongnu smiled faintly and involuntarily leaned into Lu Yao's arms.

After talking for a while, Shi began to discuss the philosophy of the human body, and their exchange was quite in-depth.

The next morning.

Inside the training room where Xiaolongnu lived, Lu Yao sat cross-legged on the cold jade bed and took out the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill.

Lu Yao did not use the world's origin to quickly master the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill, but instead began to contemplate the next step in his martial arts journey.

After consulting numerous martial arts classics, Lu Yao had a general understanding of his own situation.

Martial arts have innate and acquired realms, but Lu Yao had previously used the world's origin to directly max out his martial arts skills and hadn't paid much attention to this.

Below the Acquired Realm, there are several levels of masters. Nowadays, there isn't a single Innate Realm master to be found in the entire martial arts world, so there are very few records of them.

Lu Yao's current martial arts realm is at the peak of the Acquired Realm, just one step away from the Innate Realm, but that one step is like an insurmountable chasm.

This is due to the limitations of martial arts manuals, and also because Lu Yao's current martial arts knowledge is too limited to create further advanced martial arts on his own.

His martial arts talent is very strong, but martial arts aptitude and creating martial arts are two different things.

"It seems we'll have to turn to the Quanzhen Sect again."

Lu Yao carefully recalled the plot of The Return of the Condor Heroes, and the most likely place to have innate martial arts techniques was Chongyang Palace.

Wang Chongyang once single-handedly overpowered the Four Great Masters and was known as the Central Divine, whose status was even above the other four.

He did not practice the Nine Yin Manual after obtaining it, which clearly shows that he looked down on it.

The Innate Skill he cultivated was very likely a martial arts manual leading to the Innate Realm.