Chapter 20 Return to Bashu
Lin Yuantu’s 70th birthday.

After it ended, all the sects and schools left Fuzhou City one after another.

The Qingcheng Sect rested in the inn for one night. The next day, after they settled their bill, they redeemed the horses that were stored at the stable and prepared to leave Fuzhou City and return to Qingcheng Mountain.

However, they met a man and a woman holding swords and leading horses waiting on the busy roadside at the west city gate!
This pair of man and woman, the man is handsome and upright, the woman is beautiful and has a gentle temperament!
It was Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze.

"Master Yu!"

"Young Master Chu!"

Ning Zhongze spoke first and called everyone to stop.

"A member of the Huashan sect?"

Yu Canghai rode on a horse and asked the people from the Qingcheng Sect to move to the side of the road so as not to block the passing road. He looked at Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze who were waiting at the city gate and said.

"Brother, they should be waiting for me here."

Chu Yuan, riding on the horse and holding the reins, thought for a while.

"Yes, we are here precisely to wait for Young Master Chu and to express our gratitude to him in person."

Ning Zhongze and the other man were leading their horses, looking like they were also preparing to leave Fuzhou City.

"How did you know that we were going to go through the west gate?"

Chu Yuan kicked the horse's belly, making the horse walk a few steps forward on the green grass by the roadside, and said with some surprise.

"Qingcheng Mountain is in the west. If you, the Qingcheng Sect members and Young Master Chu, want to go back to Qingcheng Mountain and don't want to take a detour, you must go through the west gate."

Ning Zhongze stood by the roadside, leading his horse, smiling slightly.

"My junior sister told me that we should thank Young Master Chu for his help in diverting the attention of Songshan Sect, so that Zuo Lengchan had no time to attack our Huashan Sect. Young Master Chu has done us a great favor."

At this time Yue Buqun also bowed to Chu Yuan.

He didn't want to thank Chu Yuan.

Although after listening to his junior sister Ning Zhongze's words, he knew that it was because of Chu Yuan that the Songshan Sect avoided deliberately targeting the Huashan Sect.

But he felt that the Huashan Sect was lucky and there was no need to reward Chu Yuan.

He couldn't persuade his junior sister, so he could only agree to come and thank Chu Yuan.

"Although Zuo Lengchan's initial target was your Huashan Sect, it is true that he wanted to attack me in the end, so helping you is just the right time. You don't need to take this matter too seriously."

Chu Yuan doesn't care about the Tao.

"That can't be possible. No matter what, Young Master Chu has helped our Huashan Sect once, so we owe Young Master Chu a favor. If Young Master Chu has any problems in the future, you can ask our Huashan Sect for help, and we will definitely not refuse."

Ning Zhongze made a promise.

"However, after this incident, even Fei Bin, the 'Great Songyang Hand' of Songshan Sect, who easily defeated the young master of Fuwei Escort Agency, suffered at the hands of Chu. I'm afraid it won't be long before Chu will become famous all over the world. Even if Chu really needs help, I'm afraid our Huashan Sect may not be able to help him."

A bitter smile flashed across Ning Zhongze's eyes.

"Since you said so, I will take your words seriously. If there is really something I need help with, I will not be polite."

Chu Yuan thought about it and agreed without any hesitation.

Chu Yuan felt that it was worth making friends with someone like Ning Zhongze who was grateful and repaying favors.

"My brother and I are also leaving Fuzhou City to return to Huashan, so I came to say goodbye to Young Master Chu. I hope that if Young Master Chu is free in the future, he will visit Huashan Sect as a guest."

Hearing Chu Yuan's words, Ning Zhongze was happy and invited Chu Yuan.

"If I have the time and opportunity, I will go."

Chu Yuan agreed.

After exchanging pleasantries, Chu Yuan and his companions said goodbye to Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze, and then set off on their journey home.

Looking at the people from Qingcheng Sect, especially Chu Yuan's back, they gradually disappeared into the distance on the official road.

Yue Buqun withdrew his gaze and looked at his junior sister Ning Zhongze beside him: "Junior sister, are you overestimating him? He is just a Taoist priest who is only ten years old!"

Ning Zhongze shook his head slightly:

"Brother, let's not talk about the coincidence that helped our Huashan Sect once. This boy, at the age of ten, caused such a big commotion at the birthday banquet of Hero Lin. Even the Songshan Sect wanted to target him. His future is limitless. Now that our Huashan Sect is weak, it will not harm the Huashan Sect to make friends with him."

Yue Buqun looked at his junior sister Ning Zhongze with a serious look, and could only say helplessly:
"Okay, I'll do as you say, Junior Sister."

Master Ning Qingyu was seriously injured in the battle of sword energy and his health is getting worse day by day. Under the arrangement of Master Ning Qingyu, he and his junior sister Ning Zhongze have already become engaged and will be married next year.

Seeing that his junior sister cared so much about Chu Yuan, he felt a little uncomfortable.

But when he thought that the other party was just a ten-year-old Taoist priest from the Qingcheng Sect... he shook his head, thinking that he was overthinking.

"Come on, Senior Brother, let's return to the mountain as soon as possible to avoid encountering the Songshan Sect and finding a chance to threaten us."

"Junior sister, what you said makes sense. Let's go back to the mountain."

Men and women mounted their horses, rode into the crowd, and gradually disappeared on the official road.

……

"Junior brother, why would Miss Lin and Yue Buqun from the Huashan Sect wait for you at the city gate to thank you?"

On the way back to Qingcheng Mountain, Senior Brother Yu Canghai was confused and asked Chu Yuan why Ning Zhongze and Yue Buqun had specially waited at the city gate to thank Chu Yuan.

Yu Renyan, Hou Renying and other nephews were also very curious about what their master Yu Canghai said. They listened silently while they were on their way.

"Zuo Lengchan led the Songshan Sect to attend Lin Yuantu's birthday party. I'm afraid he came with ill intentions. He wanted to take advantage of the birthday banquet to force the Huashan Sect to hand over the position of the leader of the Five Mountains..."

"However, at the birthday banquet, Fei Bin was arrogant and didn't gain any advantage in the fight with me. Later, when we were sparring on the stage, I defeated Lin Zhennan, the young master of the Fuwei Escort Agency, and the Songshan Sect's attention was diverted to me. By chance, I resolved this crisis for the Huashan Sect."

"Lady Ning may have felt that I helped Huashan Sect resolve the crisis, so she waited at the city gate to thank me."

The horses were galloping on the road, the trees and mountains on both sides of the road kept moving backwards, and Chu Yuan answered on horseback.

"So that's how it is. Junior Brother also fought with Fei Bin. Fei Bin suffered a great loss at your hands. No wonder Fei Bin didn't want to fight with you."

After listening to it, Yu Canghai suddenly understood.

Thinking about how Zuo Lengchan had planned everything and asked his junior brother Fei Bin to deal with Chu Yuan, but Fei Bin was afraid of Chu Yuan and was unwilling to do so, Yu Canghai found it a little funny to see Zuo Lengchan's angry and cold expression.

"Junior brother, this time when you came to Fuzhou City, you not only defeated the young master of Fuwei Escort Agency and restored the reputation of our Qingcheng Sect, but even Fei Bin, the master of Songshan Sect, suffered at your hands. The key is that you are only ten years old. I'm afraid you will become famous this time."

Throwing these thoughts behind his mind, Yu Canghai said to Chu Yuan.

This was also one of the purposes of bringing Chu Yuan to Fuzhou City to attend Lin Yuantu's birthday banquet.

It is just to make his junior brother Chu Yuan famous in the world.

With Chu Yuan as its golden signboard, it won't take long for the Qingcheng Sect to become the most powerful sect in the world.

Just like Lin Yuantu and the Fuwei Escort Agency he founded.

The key is that he knows that his junior brother's talent is far from as simple as it appears.

He even has the talent and ability to create martial arts.

If things continue like this, it will no longer be a dream for the Qingcheng Sect to become the Shaolin or Wudang sect, and becoming the leader of the martial arts world.

As for Lin Yuantu...

He also observed carefully when he attended the birthday party this time.

Just an old man who is about to be buried and doesn't have much time to live.

If he had not realized that his death was approaching, he would not have thought of paving the way for the descendants of the Lin family at the birthday banquet.

Unfortunately, all of this was destroyed by his junior brother Chu Yuan.

This birthday banquet dealt a heavy blow to the prestige of the Fuwei Escort Agency.

“There’s a lot of serendipity involved!”

Chu Yuan smiled on horseback.

He has no aversion to being famous.

I am also not like many people who think that people are afraid of becoming famous like pigs are afraid of getting fat, and deliberately hide their abilities.

He roughly guessed what his senior brother Yu Canghai was planning. As a disciple of the Qingcheng Sect, he would naturally cooperate with the sect.

"Although there are many coincidences, your martial arts skills are the key to our Qingcheng Sect's great victory this time."

Yu Canghai said.

Walk and chat along the way.

They followed the same route they had come from Fuzhou to Nanchang Prefecture.

Then we passed through Xiangyang and took the plank road.

After passing through Shaanxi, we finally returned to Bashu in late August, after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

(End of this chapter)