Chapter 102: Killing with Tea Leaves in a Cup

"It's a good opportunity to try out my piano skills!"

Chu Yuan's heart moved.

When he played the music, he injected his inner strength into it through his fingers, and then produced bursts of music at a specific frequency.

For a moment, invisible waves spread out in all directions along with the sound of the piano, with Chu Yuan as the center.

The wave, along with the sound of the piano, passed through the walls and doors, enveloping the Flying Dragon Swordsman and Jade Shura outside the house.

"It seems that the sound coming from the room is the sound of a piano."

“Someone is playing the piano!”

"Not good, the internal energy in our bodies has begun to riot and rush out of the Dantian Qi Sea. It is somewhat out of control."

"Me too, the sound of the piano makes it hard for me to control myself and my actions are out of control."

"It's because of the piano sound."

"This piano music is like the devil's music filling my ears. Not only is it unpleasant to the ear, it is also so vicious."

"We break free, rush in and kill this guy."

When Chu Yuan heard the conversation between the two people outside the house, his expression suddenly turned cold and he stopped playing the piano.

He looked at the teacup placed next to the guqin, which contained the thirst-quenching and refreshing tea he had just poured.

However, he had already drunk up the tea, leaving only the silver needle-like tea leaves at the bottom of the cup.

Chu Yuan reached into the teacup and picked out two tea leaves with his fingers.

Chu Yuan snapped his fingers at the two people outside the door.

The two originally extremely soft tea leaves became extremely sharp after Chu Yuan attached his internal force to them and shot out of the door.

Two pieces of tea leaves passed through the door and window, leaving two gaps on the door and window that were invisible to the naked eye.

Then the voices of the man and woman talking outside the door suddenly stopped.

"Noisy!"

Hearing the sound of two bodies falling to the ground outside the door, Chu Yuan said calmly.

With his current internal strength, he has reached the point where even picking a flower or a leaf can hurt someone or take their life.

It was also the first time for him to kill an enemy with two pieces of tea leaves.

"I originally wanted to learn a martial art like 'Eight Sounds of Heavenly Dragon', but I ended up learning 'Devil's Sound Filling the Ears'."

Chu Yuan looked at the guqin in front of him with a sigh.

He wanted to develop attacking skills, but unexpectedly he developed control skills instead.

Before, when he was at Jiangnan Plum Manor, Huang Zhonggong, one of the Four Friends of Jiangnan, had a martial art called "Seven-String Invisible Sword" that could hurt people with the sound of a musical instrument.

The method of his martial art is to infuse superior internal strength into the sound of the piano in order to disturb the enemy's mind. The opponent's internal strength and the sound of the piano will resonate, and the opponent will be controlled by the sound of the piano without knowing it.

Huang Zhonggong's "Seven-String Invisible Sword" cannot hurt people by itself.

The effect is to stimulate the enemy's internal strength and disrupt the enemy's moves. The stronger the opponent's internal strength, the more sensitive he will be to the sound of the piano.

Chu Yuan taught Huang Zhonggong some methods of superimposing internal energy, which allowed him to continuously stimulate his internal energy as the sound of the piano moved when performing the "Seven-String Invisible Sword". The maximum number of waves could reach thirteen, and finally all at once to trap and injure the enemy.

However, the main function of this "Seven-String Invisible Sword" is still to trap the enemy rather than to hurt him.

"It seems that if you want to hurt people with piano music, you need to practice more and spend more time on the music."

Chu Yuan said in his own language.

The sound of the piano is invisible and intangible, and it is impossible to infuse internal strength.

You can only infuse inner strength into your hands when you pluck the strings when there are gaps between the sounds of the piano, so as to influence others.

"This is already the fourth wave... These people really don't fear death!"

Chu Yuan thought again of the two corpses in the yard outside the house. This was the fourth wave of enemies he had killed.

Anyway, if these underworld masters dare to break into the Qingcheng Sect, it would be fine if they hide, but if they dare to break into the Qingcheng Sect, they will almost certainly die.

Because in addition to Chu Yuan, the Qingcheng Sect also has top masters such as Yu Canghai, Cuixia, and Bixu.

……

Late November.

The three major martial arts sects and many martial arts masters have gathered at the foot of the front mountain of Qingcheng Sect.

In Yuanyun Pavilion.

Chu Yuan, Yu Canghai, Taoist Cuixia, Taoist Bixu, Ziyun and others all gathered here, even Ren Woxing and Ren Yingying came over to join in the fun.

"This time, the three major righteous sects, together with the masters who came to attack my Qingcheng Sect, brought a total of 5,000 people at once. Add to that the 2,000 people from the front and back mountains of the underworld, and the total number is 7,000..."

Yu Renyan returned to Qingcheng Sect and stood in Yuanyun Pavilion, reporting the situation at the foot of the mountain to Chu Yuan and his father Yu Canghai.

"Ren Yan, have the righteous and the underworld joined forces?"

Yu Canghai asked while sitting on the headmaster's seat.

"No, the two groups are clearly separated. No one has provoked the other. They are just guarding the foot of the mountain. They have no intention of attacking and no intention of retreating."

Yu Renyan shook his head.

"That's good. I thought these righteous people would be so shameless!"

Yu Canghai sneered.

He never imagined that the righteous sects would one day join forces with the underworld masters to deal with the Qingcheng Sect.

"Have both parties formally launched an attack?"

Chu Yuan asked.

"No, after the righteous troops arrived, they only tentatively attacked the sword formation twice, and then withdrew after leaving behind a few corpses."

Yu Renyan shook his head.

"They are probably trying to figure out how to break the sword formation."

Chu Yuan said.

"With so many people, even with the sword formation, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defend the entrance to the mountain path."

Chu Yuan said to Yu Renyan.

"I'll go down the mountain."

Chu Yuan thought about it and said.

It would be best if we could block the righteous and evil forces at the foot of the mountain, so as to minimize the losses of the Qingcheng Sect.

If there were no underworld, but only righteous sects, we could actually let them into the mountains and attack them separately, or through fighting.

However, there are also gangsters at the foot of the mountain. If they are allowed into the mountain, it will probably cause huge damage to the Qingcheng Sect.

"Do you want me to help? Xiang Wentian and I are both free! And Yingying!"

Let me ask.

"No need for that. This is our Qingcheng Sect's own business."

Chu Yuan refused.

Asking Ren Woxing to help would be ridiculous, and Ren Woxing is not suitable for helping.

"Brother Chu, you don't treat me as your own."

Ren Woxing said dissatisfiedly.

"This is our Qingcheng Sect's own business. How can we ask you to help us?"

Chu Yuan shook his head.

"Are you sure?"

Master Ziyun, Chu Yuan, who had been guarding the Sutra Repository, spoke.

He has already cultivated the sixth meridian of the "Nine Heavens Gangqi". He still has some distance to go before he can completely cultivate the "Nine Heavens Gangqi" and develop it into a protective gangqi. However, he is already one of the few top masters in the Qingcheng Sect.

"Just try."

Chu Yuan thought about it and said.

With so many people around, how can he be sure?

However, these righteous sects are all led by masters. As long as we defeat those leaders with great martial arts skills, everything will be easy without the leaders.

"Leave the front mountain to me, but there is still the back mountain and our Qingcheng Sect that need to be guarded. I will trouble you all this time."

Chu Yuan stood up and bowed to the two Taoists Bixu and Cuixia.

The original temple masters on Mount Qingcheng have now become masters, and have at least cultivated the "Nine Heavens Gangqi" to the fourth meridian.

The Qingcheng Sect now has hundreds of such masters.

This is also the real reason why Chu Yuan and Qingcheng Sect are confident in facing the joint attack from the righteous martial arts world and the evil martial arts world.

"Brother Chu, just fight the enemy without worry. Leave Qingcheng Sect and the back mountain to us."

Hearing Chu Yuan's words, Taoist Bixu and Taoist Cuixia said.

"I'm with you."

Ren Yingying suddenly spoke.

Chu Yuan wanted to refuse, but when he saw Ren Yingying, he saw the stubbornness in her eyes when she looked at him.

"Okay, then let Yingying come with me."

Chu Yuan agreed.

"Oh, right, find someone to bring the bodies of the gangster masters we killed these days and hang them on the wall at the entrance of the front mountain for those gangsters to see."

Then Chu Yuan thought of something and instructed Yu Renyan.

Yu Renyan knew that his master wanted to use these underworld masters to establish his authority, so he bowed and said, "Yes, Uncle Master."

……

The front mountain of Qingcheng Mountain.

The entrance to the mountain trail.

Shaolin, Wudang, Five Mountains Sect, Beggars' Sect, Liuhe Sect, Haisha Gang, Kunlun Sect and many other righteous sects and masters gathered here.

"Everyone, the Qingcheng Sect is colluding with the Demon Sect. This time, I would like to trouble you to work together to help our Wudang, Shaolin, and Five Mountains Sects." Taoist Chongxu bowed to the righteous martial artists standing there.

"Master Chongxu is in a serious situation."

The leader of the Beggars' Sect, Jie Feng, was a beggar with a head full of white hair. He bowed and responded to Taoist Chongxu.

"Yes, Wudang and Shaolin are both leaders of the righteous martial arts world. Although the Five Mountains are a latecomer, their strength and foundation are not inferior to Wudang and Shaolin. The Qingcheng Sword Immortal of the Qingcheng Sect is too casual in his interactions with others and actually has a close relationship with the leader of the Demon Sect. If Wudang, Shaolin, and the Five Mountains Sects want to attack Qingcheng, we should help them."

Another old man in a green shirt, looking quite elegant, the leader of Kunlun Sect, Qiankun, the Sword Shocking Shanzi, also said.

"That's right!"

"Don't worry, the three masters. Now that we are here, we will definitely help you."

"We will definitely take down the Qingcheng Sect this time."

The other masters said one after another.

After pacifying the righteous sect masters who came to help, Yue Buqun walked with Taoist Chongxu and Master Fangzheng. He looked at the Qingcheng Taoists guarding the entrance of the mountain path and asked them:
"Master Chongxu, Master Fangzheng, have you thought of a way to break the Qingcheng Sect's sword formation?"

"I didn't expect that this sword formation is quite mysterious. It contains the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. It is linked together and cannot be broken at all. Once it reaches 64 people, its power will reach its limit. I am afraid it can be comparable to my Shaolin Arhat Formation and Wudang Zhenwu Seven-Section Formation."

Master Fang Zheng looked solemnly at the young Taoists wearing blue Taoist robes and holding long swords who were guarding the entrance of the mountain path.

"Then how do we get up the mountain?"

Yue Buqun frowned.

If there are few people, you can avoid taking the mountain road and go up the mountain directly through the dense forest at the foot of the mountain.

But there were so many of them that they had to take the mountain road.

"If you want to break the formation, you have to force your way in, use human lives to fill the gap, and force the formation to break."

At this time Taoist Chongxu said.

Although before coming to Bashu, they said that the Qingcheng Sect had a sword formation, Shaolin and Wudang also had the Shaolin Arhat Formation and the Zhenwu Seven-Section Formation respectively.

But they were now the ones who were breaking through the mountains, and they were unable to set up a large formation. They could only force their way through to break the formation.

"Look..."

"The Qingcheng Sect has made a new move!"

"Those look like dead bodies!"

"Hanging on the stone wall!"

"Flying Dragon Swordsman, Jade Shura, Flying Zombie Old Man, Eight-armed Ghost, Whiteboard Evil Star, Qinghai Owl..."

"They were all the gangsters who broke into Qingcheng Mountain in the past few days. They are all dead. Not a single one is alive."

"Could this Qingcheng Sect be the underworld of Yama?"

At this moment, a burst of discussion came from the gangsters not far away.

Taoist Chongxu, Master Fangzheng, and Yue Buqun looked over and saw nearly ten corpses tied up with ropes by Qingcheng Sect disciples and hung on the cliff next to them.

"Amitabha, the Qingcheng Sect has such cruel methods!"

Seeing the bodies of these underworld masters hung up and on the cliff, Master Fang Zheng chanted Buddhist mantras, turned Buddhist beads in his hands, and had a look of compassion on his face.

Yue Buqun glanced at Master Fang Zheng beside him, his face expressionless but a hint of sneer flashed through his heart.

You are so kind. When I came up with the plan to use the underworld to test the Qingcheng Sect, you didn't object!
You bunch of bald monks from Shaolin Temple are just pretending to be compassionate!
"But each of these underworld masters has a lot of blood debts in the martial arts world. The underworld masters are fighting against the Qingcheng Sect. The Qingcheng Sect can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people, which can reduce some of their guilt for colluding with the Demon Sect."

Then Master Fang Zheng changed his tone.

Yue Buqun: ...

Otherwise, how could Shaolin Temple and Wudang Sect become the leaders of the righteous martial arts world?

With this kind of thick skin, he felt it would be difficult for him to catch up.

"It would be fine if the Qingcheng Sect killed the man, but they even hung the body on this stone wall!"

“Is this a demonstration to us?”

"That makes no sense."

"Do you really think we mafia guys are easy to mess with?"

"Go into Qingcheng Mountain and avenge those masters who were killed by the Qingcheng Sect."

At this time, the underworld began to become chaotic again, and many people were shouting in the crowd.

"Master Chongxu, Master Fangzheng?"

Yue Buqun looked at the two of them, wanting to hear their opinions.

"Let's not act rashly. Let's see how the situation develops first."

Taoist Chongxu said.

They are righteous people, and this time they are encircling and suppressing the Qingcheng Sect.

Although they used the underworld, they could not allow others to gossip about them, saying that the righteous and the underworld had joined forces to deal with the Qingcheng Sect, as that would ruin their reputation.

"You want to avenge them?"

At this moment, two Taoist priests, a man and a woman, holding swords, walked down from the mountain road of Qingcheng Mountain behind the group of Taoist priests.

The two Taoists looked young. Qian Dao was in his early twenties, handsome, elegant, with soft steps. He was wearing a black gauze Taoist robe, and looked like a banished immortal walking in the human world.

Kun Dao was less than twenty years old, with a graceful figure, a beautiful face, eyebrows like emerald feathers, skin like frozen flesh, a delicate forehead and beautiful eyebrows, and she carried a guqin on her back.

These two people walking together are like a couple of gods.

They are Chu Yuan and Ren Yingying.

Because of Ren Yingying's special identity and her appearance at the Hengshan City Retirement Conference, many righteous martial artists know her.

She didn't want to cause trouble for Chu Yuan, so she took off her original purple dress, put on a Qingcheng Sect Taoist robe, and took off the veil on her head, so now no one could recognize that she was the Saint of the Demon Sect.

"Greetings to Uncle Master, Grand Uncle Master!"

As soon as Chu Yuan appeared, the Qingcheng Taoist priests guarding both sides of the foot of the mountain immediately made way for the two of them and saluted to Chu Yuan.

"Is this person the Qingcheng Sword Immortal?"

"It should be!"

"Haven't you heard these Qingcheng Taoist priests call him Uncle Master or Grand Uncle Master?"

"The only one who can be so young and have such a high seniority is the Qingcheng Sword Immortal."

"Isn't it said that the Qingcheng Sword Immortal is almost thirty years old? How come this person only looks like he's in his early twenties?"

"Taoists have health-preserving techniques. It's not surprising to look younger!"

"Where did that pretty little Taoist nun next to her come from? Is she the disciple of the Qingcheng Sword Immortal?"

"A disciple of the Qingcheng Sword Immortal. She had appeared at the Hengshan City Retirement Ceremony before. She is a thirteen-year-old girl."

"This could be another disciple!"

Voices were heard from both the black and white worlds.

Chu Yuan walked to the front and scanned the black and white figures who came to besiege Qingcheng Sect.

He basically doesn't know anyone in the underworld.

On the Baidao side, he saw many familiar faces.

Dingxian, Dingyi and Dingjing were originally three sacred nuns of the Hengshan School.

Taoist Tianmen, Yujizi, Yuqingzi, Yuyinzi and other former masters of Taishan Sect.

There is also Mr. Mo Da from the Hengshan School, Xiaoxiang Yeyu.

As well as Ding Mian, Le Hou, Tang Ying'e and other former members of the Thirteen Guardians of Mount Song.

In addition, there are Linghu Chong, Yue Lingshan, Lu Dayou and others from Huashan Sect...

Most of these people looked at Chu Yuan with eyes filled with guilt.

Especially the three masters Ding Xian, Ding Yi and Ding Jing. Chu Yuan and his disciples saved their disciple Yi Lin twice, and they were indebted to Hengshan Sect.

Although he had heard about it a long time ago, Chu Yuan still found it hard to believe when he saw it with his own eyes.

"Nuns Ding Xian, Ding Yi and Ding Jing are all upright and righteous. I wonder how Yue Buqun could force these three nuns to compromise and allow Hengshan Sect to merge into the Five Mountains Sect?"

This thought flashed through Chu Yuan's mind.

But none of this matters anymore. These people are standing on the opposite side of the Qingcheng Sect anyway and are now the Qingcheng Sect’s enemies.

"I killed almost all of these people. If you want revenge, just come to me."

Chu Yuan pointed at the corpses of those underworld masters who had just been hung on the mountain wall by the Qingcheng Sect disciples. He glanced at the group of underworld people.

The gangsters and martial artists who had just been clamoring for revenge now all lowered their heads, and no one dared to look directly at Chu Yuan.

When Chu Yuan heard this, a hint of sneer flashed in his eyes.

"It seems you don't have the courage."

Chu Yuan smiled.

From the beginning to the end, he never took these underworld and martial arts people seriously.

Although there are many people in the underworld and martial arts world, and they are ruthless and have murderous intentions, they are either big bandits or pirates or mountain bandits, but their martial arts skills are not high, and there are very few real masters. After all, they are just a group of rabble.

It seemed that Chu Yuan looked down on them and lost their face.

Among the underworld and martial arts world, some masters finally stood up, and there were thirteen of them.

These thirteen men were all riding horses, wearing conical hats on their heads and holding spears in their hands.

"Qingcheng Sword Immortal, we are the Thirteen Great Bandits of Qinling. Do you dare to fight us?"

The leader of the thirteen said.

"It's the Thirteen Bandits of Qinling!"

"These thirteen people are incredible. They practiced the Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Training, and each of them is invulnerable to swords and spears. It is said that they also practiced a set of combined attack methods, the Dragon Snake Spear Formation. Many righteous masters have been killed by their combined attacks."

"They are also the biggest horse bandits in Qinling Mountains, the leaders of the Green-Faced Bandit Army!"

“I didn’t expect that even they would come.”

"That's quite a few magical skills! If you master one, you will be invincible in the world. Who can resist such temptation?"

Among the crowd of underworld and martial arts people, someone recognized the identities of these thirteen people.

(End of this chapter)