Chapter 90: Five Mountains United
A faint light leaks through the cloudy sky.

After dawn, Zhang Laita said goodbye and left.

He came silently, and when he left, only Chu Yuan was left to watch Zhang Sala leave.

"My dear Chu, although I am approaching the end of my life and don't have many years left, we will have the opportunity to meet again in the future!"

Zhang Laita jumped off the roof and said to Chu Yuan who was standing on the roof.

"Excuse me, how long will it take for you to reach the end of your life span?"

Chu Yuan asked Zhang Sloppy.

"A few decades, no more than three hundred years old."

Zhang Laita thought for a while and said.

Chu Yuan: ...

It turns out that you are approaching the end of your life, but you still have a few decades to live!
However, thinking about what Zhang Laita said last night, he spent most of his time in a deep sleep, and could only walk in the world for a year or so after waking up.

"We'll see you later, Senior."

Chu Yuan said.

"hope so."

Zhang's sloppy figure disappeared on the deserted street.

……

The Qingcheng Sect set off.

The area of ​​Huguang is adjacent to Bashu.

Half a month later, they returned to Qingcheng Mountain by land.

I just returned to Qingcheng Mountain, and the follow-up news about Hengshan City has also reached the Qingcheng Sect.

"Junior brother, not long after we left Hengshan City, Yue Buqun forcibly inherited the position of the leader of the Five Mountains left by Zuo Lengchan!"

That day, Yu Canghai came to the courtyard where Chu Yuan lived to visit Chu Yuan. After Chu Yuan poured him tea, Yu Canghai told Chu Yuan the news that had just reached Qingcheng Mountain.

"Given Yue Buqun's character, this is indeed something he can do."

Chu Yuan and Yu Canghai were both sitting at the stone table under the ginkgo tree.

"There should be people who oppose him, right? He is too unscrupulous in his actions. There should be many people in the Five Mountains Sword Sect who oppose him becoming the leader of the Five Mountains Sword Sect!"

Chu Yuan said to his senior brother Yu Canghai.

"There are indeed people who oppose him. The Hengshan Sect's leader, Mo Da, who just woke up, and the Hengshan Sect's leader, Master Ding Xian, are against him inheriting the position of the Five Mountains Alliance Leader."

Yu Canghai said to Chu Yuan.

"and then?"

Chu Yuan asked.

"Master Mo Da is injured, and Master Ding Xian has little influence. Yue Buqun has become the leader of the Five Mountains Sword Sect as he wished."

Yu Canghai said: "More importantly, after Yue Buqun succeeded to the position of leader of the Five Mountains, he proposed to merge the Five Mountains Sword Sects."

"What was the result? Did Yue Buqun succeed?"

Chu Yuan asked curiously.

Without Zuo Lengchan as a stumbling block, Yue Buqun, who has practiced the "Bixie Sword Manual", should have no rivals within the Five Mountains Sword Sect.

"Success!"

Yu Canghai nodded.

"After Yue Buqun proposed the merger of the Five Mountains, even the head of the Taishan Sect, Tianmen Taoist Priest, who had originally agreed to Yue Buqun's succession to the position of leader of the Five Mountains, objected. But now the head of the Songshan Sect, Zuo Lengchan, has died, and the Songshan Sect has joined Yue Buqun."

"The leader of Hengshan Sect, Mo Da, was seriously injured, and most of the elites were killed. The only ones who were opposed were Taishan Sect and Hengshan Sect, and they couldn't cause any trouble at all."

"Yue Buqun took action and easily defeated the abbot Ding Xian of the Hengshan Sect and the Taoist priest Tianmen of the Taishan Sect who were against the merger. Now Yue Buqun has successfully merged the Five Mountains Sword Sects and renamed them the Five Mountains Sect."

"Not long ago, when we were on our way back to the mountain, this news spread like a hurricane throughout the martial arts world."

"In today's martial arts world, Shaolin, Wudang, our Qingcheng, and the newly merged Five Mountains Sect are collectively known as the four famous and upright sects in the world."

Yu Canghai said.

He was filled with emotion.

Unexpectedly, Zuo Lengchan, who had fought for his entire life, not only died at the hands of Yue Buqun, but after his death, Yue Buqun took advantage of him and reaped the fruits of victory.

"It's normal!"

Chu Yuan said.

Whether it's forbearance or scheming, Yue Buqun is incomparable to Zuo Lengchan.

Probably the only thing that makes Zuo Lengchan better than Yue Buqun is his talent in martial arts.

"Junior brother, do you think Yue Buqun will attack our Qingcheng Sect in the future after he unites the Five Mountains?"

Yu Canghai asked Chu Yuan with a worried look.

"possible."

Chu Yuan looked at his senior brother Yu Canghai's worried expression and smiled.

It seems that the news that just reached Qingcheng Mountain has made his senior brother a little panicked.

"Yue Buqun and Zuo Lengchan are very similar. They both want to dominate the martial arts world. However, Yue Buqun is more patient than Zuo Lengchan. Now that he has successfully merged the Five Mountains Sword Sects, it is not surprising that he would attack our Qingcheng Sect."

Chu Yuan calmly prepared a cup of tea for his senior brother Yu Canghai. As the tea flowed from the spout of the teapot into the cup, the tea leaves in the cup tumbled in the rising hot steam.

"Then what should our Qingcheng Sect do next?"

Yu Canghai said.

"There is no other way but to continue to develop the strength of our sect and be ready to fight at any time. During this retreat meeting, Wudang and Shaolin were ready to attack our Qingcheng sect, but they were prevented because a senior intervened."

Chu Yuan picked up the teacup and took a sip of the tea in it.

"Now that the Five Mountains Sect has emerged, there are only four of us in the righteous martial arts world. No one knows how things will evolve in the future. For specific developments, we will have to wait and see what the other sects do next."

Chu Yuan held the teacup and savored the bitterness, aftertaste and sweetness of the tea in his mouth.

"Right."

Yu Canghai nodded.

Who knew that the entire martial arts world would change so drastically.

It was just a ceremony to retire from the world, but it made the Five Mountains Sword Sect withdraw from the stage of history and formed a large sect comparable to the Qingcheng Sect:

Five Mountains Sect!
"Brother, why did you bring him here?"

Chu Yuan looked at the undercover Zhao Zhenhai who was standing beside him and had been secretly glancing at him from time to time when he was talking to his senior brother Yu Canghai.

He had asked his nephew Yu Renyan to check it out before.

As expected, the real Zhao Zhenhai disappeared and someone else had replaced him.

Yu Renyan went to great lengths to find a portrait of Zhao Zhenhai in his home and compared it with Zhao Zhenhai's current appearance. As a result, he discovered that Zhao Zhenhai and the Zhao Zhenhai in the Qingcheng Sect were not the same person at all.

However, seeing that this person had become much more well-behaved and did not cause any more trouble, he thought that he might be useful in the future, so he told his nephew Yu Renyan not to alert the enemy and forgot about him for the time being.

"After we came back, Zhenhai told me, Senior Brother, that he was an undercover agent sent by Zuo Lengchan into our Qingcheng Sect. His real identity is Zhao Sihai, the Seventh Protector of the Thirteen Protectors of Songshan."

"Now that Zuo Lengchan is dead and the Songshan Sect has been merged with the Five Mountains Sect, he is willing to join our Qingcheng Sect and work for it."

Yu Canghai said to Chu Yuan.

"So you are the Seventh Guardian Zhao Sihai..."

Chu Yuan looked at Zhao Sihai in front of him.

"What about the real Zhao Zhenhai? Was he dealt with by you?" Chu Yuan looked at Zhao Sihai in front of him with an indifferent expression.

If Zhao Sihai really killed Zhao Zhenhai, then there would be no need for him to live.

Zhao Sihai seemed to have seen the indifference in Chu Yuan's eyes. He was frightened and said with a pale face:
"The real Zhao Zhenhai is dead, but I didn't kill him. It was our leader Zuo Lengchan who sent someone to kill Zhao Zhenhai and asked me to pretend to be Zhao Zhenhai, whose name is similar to mine, and come to Qingcheng Sect as an undercover agent..."

Now thinking back, this Qingcheng Sword Immortal must have already noticed my identity, which is why he was not friendly to me.

Chu Yuan observed Zhao Sihai's breath and heartbeat as he spoke, and seeing that everything was normal, he tacitly accepted the matter.

"Since you didn't kill him, let's forget about it. As for what happens in the future, I'll see what my senior brother says."

Then Chu Yuan said.

"Thank you, Sword Immortal. Thank you, Sword Immortal."

After hearing Chu Yuan's words, Zhao Sihai immediately breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that his life was saved.

"Junior brother, have you known for a long time that Zhao Sihai is an undercover agent?"

Yu Canghai recalled that when Chu Yuan saw Zhao Sihai, his expression was not quite right those times, so he asked Chu Yuan.

"good."

Chu Yuan nodded and said:
"I also asked Yan to secretly go to Zhao Zhenhai's hometown and check Zhao Zhenhai's situation. He found a portrait of the real Zhao Zhenhai and discovered that Zhao Zhenhai's appearance did not match his. So we knew that Zhao Zhenhai was impersonated. However, since he did not do anything out of the ordinary later, we forgot about him when we could use him."

Hearing Chu Yuan's words, Zhao Sihai, who was standing next to him, was immediately frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.

It turned out that the Qingcheng Sword Immortal, the most powerful person in the Qingcheng Sect, had already asked the Sect Leader's son to investigate him.

And it was also found out that he was not the real Zhao Zhenhai.

Fortunately, after receiving the warning from the sect leader, he did not dare to do anything else against the Qingcheng Sect, otherwise he would have died long ago.

"Junior brother is really smart. He knew Zhao Sihai's identity as an undercover agent after only meeting him a few times."

Yu Canghai exclaimed.

In contrast, he had been deceived for so long.

If Zuo Lengchan had not been killed by Yue Buqun's sneak attack at the hand-washing ceremony, the Songshan Sect had not been merged with the Five Mountains Sect, and Zhao Sihai had not chosen to reveal his identity when he saw that his sect was gone, he would still be kept in the dark.

"Brother, I'm curious, why do you think so highly of Zhao Sihai?"

Chu Yuan asked Yu Canghai.

"Zhao Sihai is reliable and capable. If he is here, he can help me share some of the tasks, so that I can have more time to practice martial arts."

Yu Canghai said.

"There should be one more thing. Zhao Sihai speaks well, especially his flattering words. Senior Brother, I find them very useful, right?"

Chu Yuan teased with a smile in his eyes.

"They are all there, they are all there."

Yu Canghai felt a little embarrassed when Chu Yuan ruthlessly exposed his lies, and he smiled awkwardly.

“Zhao Sihai, no matter what the reason is for you to be trusted by Senior Brother, since you are sharing the Qingcheng Sect’s affairs for Senior Brother, you should be fair and selfless. If you report something bad to me, you know the consequences…”

Chu Yuan looked at Zhao Sihai beside him and said.

"Please rest assured that I will not be hasty in handling the affairs of the sect."

Zhao Sihai wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded continuously.

In the Qingcheng Sect, the person he feared the most was the Qingcheng Sword Immortal.

"And brother, if you want to practice martial arts and don't have time to deal with sect affairs, then leave these matters to the young disciples in the sect. Disciples such as Renyan, Pingzhi, Renying, Renxiong, Renhao, and Renjie can handle them."

Chu Yuan continued.

As the Qingcheng Sect now expands in size, it has grown into a large martial arts sect with thousands of members.

This is no longer the Taoist temple with only a few hundred people. As the head of the sect, there are more and more things to manage. Senior brother Yu Canghai wants to practice martial arts and is busy with sect affairs, so it is normal that he is too busy to handle everything.

As the head of a sect, when you are too busy, you need to learn to delegate power to the younger generation of disciples.

"Junior brother, I will keep your words in mind and will seriously consider it."

Chu Yuan's words made Yu Canghai thoughtful, and he said to Chu Yuan.

……

After Yu Canghai and Zhao Sihai said goodbye and left.

Chu Yuan continued to sit under the ginkgo tree and drink tea alone.

It is almost August.

The weather has gradually cooled down, and even at noon it is neither cold nor hot.

A cool breeze blew, making it particularly cool.

The rustling sounds of the ginkgo leaves above your head are like beautiful notes played by nature. Sitting under the tree and listening to them, it is easy to become immersed in the sound and feel drowsy.

Today, Qu Feiyan and Lin Pingzhi went out early in the morning to teach the ordinary disciples of Qingcheng Sect swordsmanship.

As time went by, disciples like Qu Feiyan and Lin Pingzhi were able to stand on their own.

And Chu Yuan also had a rare moment of peace and quiet.

At the beginning, he did nothing but sat quietly under the ginkgo tree drinking tea. No one disturbed him and Chu Yuan felt very comfortable.

But after sitting for a while, I felt a little nervous.

"No, I still have to find something to do. There are still otherworldly masters like Zhang Sloppy in the world. Why should I just lie down?"

Chu Yuan sat up in shock from his dying illness and felt that he should make some progress.

It just so happened that he had not studied the dual cultivation martial arts for a while, so he walked into the house again and took out "Xuannv Jing" and "Yufang Zhiyao" to read.

Ever since I found out on the way to Hengshan City last time that my filial disciple had asked almost everyone in the Qingcheng Sect about his reading of the "Su Nu Sutra", almost all the disciples of the Qingcheng Sect knew that I had read the "Su Nu Sutra".

After coming back, he decided to avoid his disciple Qu Feiyan. As his disciple was not here today, he planned to take it out for research.

Although creating your own dual martial arts is a very serious matter.

But in the eyes of others, I don’t know whether it is serious or not.

Anyway, in the eyes of people with a heart, everything looks dirty.

It's definitely not his fault.

Chu Yuan gradually became fascinated by it.

Chu Yuan also realized that the yin and yang of men and women is the way of heaven and earth.

The way of heaven and earth is nothing but men and women!
The relationship between men and women is nothing but yin and yang!
The way of Yin and Yang is nothing but reverse and follow!

If you follow the rules, you will live; if you go against the rules, you will die!

The origin of Yin and Yang is the art of reversal!

These principles can be fully integrated into martial arts...

Just as Chu Yuan's understanding of the yin and yang of men and women was growing, his thoughts were pouring out like a spring.

"Senior, as a Taoist priest, you are so dishonest. People outside say that the swordsmanship of the Qingcheng Sword Immortal is unparalleled, and I thought you were a person obsessed with swordsmanship. I didn't expect that when no one was in the courtyard, you were secretly practicing the secret technique in the room..."

At this moment, a pleasant voice interrupted Chu Yuan's thoughts and pulled him back to reality from the Taoist scriptures. He found a purple-clothed girl with a veil on her head sitting opposite him in the seat where his senior brother Yu Canghai had just sat, looking at him with a faint smile in her eyes.

"Miss Ren, why did you come to Qingcheng Mountain?"

Chu Yuan looked at Ren Yingying who was sitting in front of him and said with some surprise.

Just now he noticed someone in the yard, so he came back to his senses.

(End of this chapter)