Chapter 69: Lin Ping's Appearance

  The Qingcheng Sect is one of the most renowned and respected sects in the Jianghu, with a profound foundation and immense influence. It is a sacred place for martial arts that attracts countless wandering cultivators. As the leader of the sect, Yu Canghai is also revered by his peers as a grandmaster of martial arts, earning the admiration and respect of the entire Jianghu community.

  It's just that for some reason, in recent years, the Qingcheng Sect, which was originally admired and worshiped by many people, seems to have exhausted its luck and is no longer prosperous. The current leader, Yu Canghai, has also been plagued by bad luck recently, with misfortune after misfortune befalling him. Not only are his disciples being bullied, but even his own son was killed.

  What hurt him the most was that he was brutally and mercilessly humiliated in public by a junior member of the Huashan Sect right at his own doorstep. The entire Qingfeng Temple was repeatedly trampled upon by a younger generation, while the elite of the Qingcheng Sect didn't even have the ability to resist, making the entire Qingcheng Sect a laughing stock among the Jianghu bigwigs, and the sect's reputation plummeted.

  In the exchanges between equals like Yue Buqun, Mo Da, Liu Zhengfeng and Ding Yitian, Yu Canghai had clearly fallen behind, feeling inferior and having no face to see people.

  To turn the tide, Yu Canghai gritted his teeth and used the sect's foundation to raise his cultivation to the peak of the ultimate realm, already half a foot into the ranks of the world's top masters. Meanwhile, many Qingcheng Sect disciples also made great breakthroughs, surmounting their bottlenecks, making great strides in martial arts, and entering new realms.

  The heaven and earth's original energy has been disappearing year by year, and the heavenly material and earthly treasure are even more difficult to come by. The ancestors' legacy left behind to suppress the sect's foundation is something that can be used a little less each time, and it's not dared to be used unless absolutely necessary. However, the current leader of the Qingcheng Sect, Yu Canghai, is an extremely selfish and self-serving person. After suffering consecutive defeats at the hands of Linghu Chong and the pain of losing his son, he finally made up his mind to exhaust more than half of the sect's foundation to strengthen its power.

  As one of the four outstanding disciples of Qingcheng, Luo Renjie and Guanmen's elite disciple Li Haitang were both exceptionally valued by Yu Canghai, so he paid a huge price to let them break through the bottleneck in a short period of time and become a top-notch master on the rivers and lakes.

  Now, two disciples who had been nurtured with great resources were killed and crippled by someone in just one day. What's more, the perpetrator was his arch-nemesis, whom he dreaded and feared, and hated to the bone. This made him feel suffocated and want to go mad.

  Feeling the astonished and teasing eyes of the Jianghu masters, Yu Canghai's face turned into a purplish-red color, with a mixture of red and purple, and purple turning black. He ordered two men to take Li Tian down to treat his injuries, suppressing his anger and standing up.

  He suddenly moved his ears, his eyes gleaming with sharpness, and swiftly shot out of the hall, grabbing a young man dressed as a servant by the neck and dragging him back into the conference hall. "Liu Zhangmen," he said to Liu Zhengfeng, "this sneaky little brat who was eavesdropping on our conversation outside, is he one of your household servants?"

  Liu Zhengfeng carefully sized up the young man and exclaimed in surprise, "This young brother is a complete stranger to me, but I don't know why he's wearing clothes from the Liu family's servants."

  "This little scoundrel, if he's not Liu Zhangmen's man, must be a wicked demonic sect spy. He can't be left alive!" Yu Canghai made up his mind as soon as Liu Zhengfeng denied it, and decided to use the most ruthless Heart-destroying Palm to kill this sneaky little brat, also to slightly vent the evil air in his heart.

  Yu Canghai was just about to take drastic measures against the man in his hands, but Yue Lingshan suddenly let out a shocked cry: "Xiao Linzi? How is it you? How did you end up here?"

  Yue Buqun's reaction and adaptability were second to none in the entire "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer". He immediately stopped Yu Xiannian and said: "Yu Xiannian, wait a minute. This young brother is a friend of my daughter, he must not be a spy from the Devil Cult."

  At the moment when Yue Lingxuan exclaimed, Yue Buqun quickly judged the man's identity as Lin Pingzhi, the only son of Lin Zhennan and a descendant of Lin Yuan.

  Yesterday night, Linghu Chong and Yue Buqun specifically discussed Lin Pingzhi's situation, and inferred that Lin Pingzhi would definitely rush to Hengshan City to rescue his parents. Yue Lingshan had also previously informed Yue Buqun in detail about the process of rescuing Lin Pingzhi's family. With Yue Buqun's intelligence, it was not difficult to guess what Yue Lingshan's "Little Lin" represented.

  Yue Buqun intervened, and Yu Canghai, though displeased, didn't want to clash with Yue over someone as insignificant as Lin Pingzhi. He released his grip on Lin's neck, allowing him to break free from his control.

  Linghu Chong secretly suspected that Yu Canghai had let Lin Pingzi go so easily because he didn't know his true identity and thought he was just an insignificant nobody, so naturally he wouldn't fall out with Yue Buqun over someone unimportant. If only he knew, the little brat he had let go was actually the son of Lin Shenzan, whom Qingcheng Sect had been trying to capture all along - who knows if he would spit blood in anger.

  "Little Linzi, how did you end up at Mount Heng?" Yue Lingshan quickly walked to Lin Pingzhi's side and helped him up.

  Lin Ping was also shocked and delighted, really didn't expect to see the girl who made his heart skip a beat for the first time in this place. Originally thought it would be hard to meet again in this life, but unexpectedly it was such a coincidence, he asked happily: "Yue Niang, how are you also here?"

  "My dad is here, so I'm naturally here too. Come, let me introduce my dad to you." Yuen Ling Shan pulled Lin Ping Zhi and said to Yuen Bu Quan, "Dad, this is my good friend, Little Lin."

  Yue Buqun nodded and smiled, while Lin Pingzhi's expression was tense, as if he were a son-in-law meeting his father-in-law for the first time. His heart was racing with anxiety, having finally mustered up the courage to pay his respects. Just then, an old man with a hunched back suddenly appeared beside him and pulled him behind his back, saying to Yu Canghai: "You're a renowned master of your generation, yet you stoop to bully my grandson? You think I'm easy to bully? Today, let's exchange blows."

  This hunchbacked old man was none other than Mu Gaofeng, the master from beyond the Great Wall who had been persuaded by Lin Pingzhi to come and rescue them. As soon as Mu Gaofeng appeared, he unleashed his true energy and launched a fierce attack on Yu Canghai.

  Yu Canghai, as one of the top ten strongest martial artists in the Jianghu world today, naturally would not retreat and immediately engaged in a fierce battle with Mu Gaofeng. As a master of the previous generation, Yu Canghai's martial arts skills were already unfathomable, and with the recent mobilization of the Qingcheng Sect's underlying power to break through to the pinnacle of the absolute top boundary, he had already set foot into the realm of the world's top masters.

  Mu Gaofeng originally only had the strength of the late stage of the Absolute Peak, but also had a recent surge in luck, and got a huge opportunity, forcibly breaking through the bottleneck and entering the realm of the Absolute Peak.

  Two top-notch experts exchanged blows at an incredible speed, exchanging over a dozen moves in the blink of an eye. For a short period, neither could gain the upper hand, and after a fierce clash, they both retreated two steps, refraining from making another move.

  Mu Gaofeng was after all a loose cultivator, with weak power and little influence. If he were to provoke the powerful figures of the Five Mountains Sword Sect present, his life would be in danger. With so many sect leaders around, he didn't dare to act rashly either.

  Yu Canghai was the same, although they both belonged to the Jianghu Zhengdao's transmission door, but the competition between them was also extremely fierce. If he and Mu Gaofeng fought each other to mutual defeat, someone else would take advantage of it, which would be a loss for both of them.

  Mu Gaofeng grabbed Lin Pingzhi with one hand, disregarding his resistance, and directly used the Lightness Skill to lift him up and withdraw.

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