ntly the trap that the five mountains sword schools had prepared to capture those ten elders from the Devil Sect. Once they were trapped in that mountain cave, they were locked up and were unable to get out,” Fangzheng deduced.

“Junior also has the same thought. That’s why those people thought that they had been treated unfairly and wrote those swear words on the stone wall and touted that they had defeated all the sword arts of the five mountains sword schools. They wanted to let people know in the future that they hadn’t been defeated in a fight but had been trapped instead. There were also some Huashan School’s sword arts engraved on the stone wall, they were extremely wonderful and it seems that even my master and master-wife don’t know about them. Junior doesn’t know the reason for this but now that I’ve heard Great Master Abbot relating the past story, it’s certain that these high sword arts were lost after most of Huashan School’s seniors lost their lives there. Heng-Shan, Taishan, and the other schools seemed to have lost their

high sword arts as well since then.”

“That’s right,” Chongxu affirmed.

“There were also some long swords that belonged to the five mountains sword schools besides the bones of the Devil Sect’s ten elders,” Linghu Chong added.

Fangzheng let out an unusual expression and said, “I don’t know the reason. Maybe the ten elders snatched them from the hands of the five mountains sword schools people. Have you talked to anyone about what you saw in that cave?”

“After Junior discovered that cave, I’ve been going from one misfortune to the next and haven’t had any time to mention this to master and master-wife. But grand martial uncle Feng knows about it already,” Linghu Chong said.

Fangzheng nodded his head. “My younger martial brother Fangsheng once had the opportunity to meet senior Feng and received his favour. Martial brother Fangsheng told me that your sword technique was taught by senior Feng. We know that during the time when Huashan split into two branches, senior Feng had already decided to leave Huashan to be on his own.”

Chong Xu said, “It was said in Wulin that during the time when Huashan split into two and were fighting amongst themselves, senior Feng was away in Jiangnan getting married. When he heard news of the fighting, he quickly returned to Huashan but the Sword faction had already lost with numerous casualties on their side. Otherwise with his wonderful sword art in the fight, the Qi faction would never have gotten the upper hand. Senior Feng felt immediately that the Jiangnan’s family that his wife was supposed to be from might be a hoax. Actually, that guy Yue Zhang had secretly received instruction from the Huashan’s Qi faction to hire a prostitute and tell her to pretend to be a lady from an esteemed background looking to be married so that they can restrain Senior Feng in Jiangnan. Senior Feng then went back to Jiangnan to look for that Yue’s family he was to marry, but everyone was missing. He realized then that he had been tricked. Rumor has it that Senior Feng was so extremely angry that he cut off his own head.”

Fangzheng’s expression changed as he looked at Chongxu wanting him to stop talking. But Chongxu pretended not to understand and the last thing he said was, “Headmaster Linghu, poor Taoist respects senior Feng completely and would never dare to talk about his private life. So I told you about this matter today so that you understand that heroes get into trouble because of women. When a gentleman makes a mistake, it’s not such a big deal, but they can’t keep falling deeper and deeper into that mistake.”

Linghu Chong knew that he was using the analogy to talk about Yingying. But knowing that Priest Chongxu had said this with good intentions, Linghu Chong just sighed and did not answer. He thought, “Grand martial uncle Feng has been living at the Cliff of Contemplation for all these years. So he really regrets about his past and he’s too ashamed to see people of the orthodox path in Wulin. That’s why he told me not to tell anyone of his whereabouts and he also said that from then on he doesn’t want to see anyone from the Huashan School anymore. A grieve misfortune befell on him and for these past tens of years, he has been living by himself. After I’ve settled this big matter, I’ll go up Cliff of Contemplation to talk to him for a while. Now that I’m no longer a member of the Huashan School, paying him a visit wouldn’t be considered violating his order.”

The three people talked for half a day until the sun was going down the mountain, painting a crimson colour across the horizon. Fangzheng said, “Not long after Huashan School’s Yue Su and Cai Zifeng wrote down the ‘Sunflower Manual’, they were killed by the Devil Sect’s ten elders so they didn’t have time to practise it yet and the Manual was taken by the Devil Sect. That’s why no one in Huashan School had managed to learn any martial art from the Manual. But Yue and Cai had perceived the Manual differently; one said the study of qi was more important while the other gave more importance to the study of sword. They had separately convinced the school’s disciples with their own viewpoints and this later resulted in the division of Huashan School into two branches – Qi and Sword. This division caused the disciples from the two branches to fight amongst themselves within the school. This Manual really is a very inauspicious item.”

Chongxu nodded his head. “The five colours blind people, the five tones deafen people, that’s the theory.”

Fangzheng said, “Even though the Devil Sect managed to get the partially completed Manual written by these two brothers, perhaps it has no benefit at all. The ten elders perished on Huashan because of this. Headmaster Linghu said before that Chief Ren passed the Manual down to Dongfang Bubai. Perhaps the hatred between these two people was also caused by this Manual. In actuality, this incomplete manual is probably not even as good as the one memorised by Lin Yuantu.”

Linghu Chong asked, “Who’s Lin Yuantu?”

“En, Lin Yuantu was your martial brother Lin’s great grandfather, the founder of the Fortune Prestige Escort House, the one who used the seventy-two stances of Evil Resisting Sword Art to shake the world; that was him,” Fangzheng answered.

“This senior Lin, did he also see the ‘Sunflower Manual’ before?” Linghu Chong inquired.

“He was Reverend Duyuan, the disciple of Reverend Hongxie!” Fangzheng explained.

Linghu Chong was shaken when he heard this. “So that’s what happened.”

“Reverend Duyuan originally had the surname Lin, so when he went back to the secular world, he retook his original surname,” Fangzheng said.

“So Senior Lin was Reverend Duyuan, and he was also the same person who shook Jianghu with the seventy-two stances of Evil Resisting Sword Art. This is really unexpected,” Linghu Chong mumbled. Suddenly, sadness swelled over him as he remembered how Lin Zhennan died on that night in the worn-out temple outside Hengshan city.

“Duyuan is ‘Tu Yuan’. After this Senior Reverend went back to the secular world, he reverted back to his original surname but he inverted his Buddhist name and took the name Yuantu. He got married, founded the escort house, and caused a big uproar in Jianghu. This Senior Lin was an upright person. Even though he was running an escort house, his conduct was still heroic and righteous, and he was still eager to help people in distress. He was no longer a Buddhist monk but he was still acting like a Buddhist. One only has to have a good heart to be a Buddhist; not much difference exists between such a person and a Buddhist. Of course, not long after that Reverend Hongxie heard about these events and realised that the head of the Lin escort house was his most loved disciple. But he never paid him a visit.” Fangzheng told him.

“Where did this ‘Evil Resisting Sword Art’ come from after this Senior Lin obtain the essence of the ‘Sunflower Manual’ from the recitation of Huashan School’s seniors Yue and Cai? How come this ‘Evil Resisting Sword Art’ that’s been passed down in the Lin family is not very good?” Linghu Chong asked.

Fangzheng replied, “Evil Resisting Sword Art comes from the incomplete book of ‘Sunflower Manual’. Both items came from the same origin but both had only a small portion of the original Manual.” Fangzheng turned his head around to Chongxu and said, “Brother Taoist, you have more understanding about the art of sword compared to me. Why don’t you talk to young hero Linghu about this matter?”

Chongxu laughed. “If we hadn’t been friends for many years, old Taoist would’ve thought that you were teasing me with that kind of talk. In the art of sword, besides Senior Feng’s excellence at the current time, who else is above young hero Linghu?”

Fangzheng said, “Even though young hero Linghu’s sword art is excellent, no one could even come close to you in comparing the study of sword arts. We’re all friends here so we never have to say any meaningless words; there’s no need to be polite.”

Chongxu let out a sigh before saying, “Actually, Old Taoist knows that the knowledge of the study of sword arts is vast like the sea and that what I know is only like a grain in a big granary. In the future, I don’t know whether I’ll have the chance to meet Senior Feng to consult him about this.” He then turned towards Linghu Chong and said, “Today, the Evil Resisting Sword Art of the Lin family is ordinary and nothing spectacular. But actually it is the same sword art as the one that senior Lin Yuantu used to shake Jianghu back then. In those days, the headmaster of Qingcheng School was Zhang Qingzi (Tranlator’s note: Evergreen in Lanny’s translation.) with the nickname ‘Number One Sword in the West’s Three Gorges’ but he still lost to Senior Lin. Today, Qingcheng School’s sword art is much better compared to the Fortune Prestige Escort House’s Evil Resisting Sword Art; so there must be another reason behind this. What it is, I’ve been thinking about for a long time already. Actually, all the warriors who study the art of sword have all been thinking of the reason behind this.”

Linghu Chong said, “The family of Martial Brother Lin has all perished; both his father and mother died miserably, that was all because of this doubt?”

“That’s right. The reputation of the Evil Resisting Sword Art is very well known, but the martial art of Lin Zhennan was very low. This disparity involuntarily caused other people to think that Lin Zhennan was too dumb and couldn’t learn his own family’s martial art. They then thought a step further; if this sword manual were in my hand, of course I would be able to learn it until my sword art is as splendid as Lin Yuantu back then. Brother, for the last one hundred years, Lin Yuantu wasn’t the only one with a reputable sword art. But Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, Kunlun, Diancang, Qingcheng, and also the five mountains sword schools, all have people to pass their sword arts down to, and other people never thought of actually taking these schools’ sword arts. But Lin Zhennan’s martial art was very poor like that of a three years old baby, and he also had a lot of gold in his hand, so everyone had the intention of robbing him,” Chongxu explained.

Linghu Chong said, “This Senior Lin Yuantu was Reverend Hongxie’s disciple and he had studied martial art in the Putian Shaolin Temple. He had most likely studied some astonishing martial art while he was there, so this Evil Resisting Sword Art might be a sword art from the Shaolin School with a few changes and addition of his own. It’s not necessarily true that it’s a completely different sword art.”

Chongxu replied, “There were also many people who thought the same thing. But Evil Resisting Sword Art and Shaolin School’s martial art were completely different and all the warriors studying the sword art knew it when they saw it. Hey, hey, even though there were many people with the intention of robbing this sword manual, it was finally that shorty from Qingcheng who moved first. Even though that shorty Yu has a really thick face, he’s so stupid. How can he be compared to your master Mr. Yue who just bided his time and reaped the benefit?”

Linghu Chong’s face changed colour as he stammered, “Priest, what… what are you saying?”

Chongxu smiled slightly and said, “That Lin Pingzhi was accepted into your Huashan School. Naturally, that ‘Evil Resisting Sword Art’ would also be carried into the school with him. I heard that Mr. Yue also has a lovely daughter who he wants to give away to your martial brother Lin, is this right? He really is farsighted.”

When Linghu Chong heard Chongxu saying ‘Your master Mr. Yue who just bided his time and reaped the benefit’, he felt angry that Chongxu was insulting his honoured master. But hearing him say that his master was ‘farsighted’, he suddenly thought of the days when Master sent second martial brother Lao Denuo in disguise along with little martial sister to Fuzhou to open up a wine shop. He didn’t understand Master’s intention at that time, but as he thought of it now, it must’ve been in connection with the Fortune Prestige Escort House. Lin Zhennan’s martial art was ordinary and Master had actually planned that move so deliberately, if it weren’t for the ‘Evil Resisting Sword Art’, what else could it be for? But Master’s plan was done skilfully, unlike that of Yu Canghai and Mu Gaofeng. Another thought immediately followed, “Little martial sister is an unmarried young girl, but why would Master told her to go out and open up a wine

shop?” At this thought, a cold shiver ran up his spine and he suddenly understood, “Master wanted little martial sister to accompany martial brother Lin; actually this has been arranged a long time ago.”

From the look of his face, Fangzheng and Chongxu noted that he looked uncertain and distressed. They knew that he respected his master and that this kind of talk hurt him deeply. Fangzheng said, “These were only idle talks between old monk and Priest Chongxu, we were just wildly speculating. Your respected master is very upright and known in Wulin as a gentleman. I’m afraid we’re just thinking like a small person and absurdly blaming the gentleman.” Chongxu smiled slightly on hearing this.

Linghu Chong’s heart was in confusion. He was hoping that what Chongxu said was not true, but deep down he knew that every word said was right. Suddenly he thought, “Originally, Senior Lin Yuantu was a monk; that’s why there was a Buddhist hall in Xiangyang Lane, and that sword manual was also written on a Buddhist robe. My guess would be that he remembered every word and sentence by heart after being consulted about the Manual by seniors Yue Su and Cai Zifeng on Huashan. As he was still a monk then, that same night he immediately wrote everything down on his robe so that he wouldn’t forget anything.”

Chongxu said, “Even now, this ‘Sunflower Manual’ still carries a profound martial art study. Devil Sect has a part of it and your master Mr. Yue has a part of it also. Your martial brother Lin has already joined the Huashan School, so Zuo Lengchan will definitely give Mr. Yue some trouble. He’ll have two intentions: one is to kill Mr. Yue in order to merge the five mountains sword schools, and the second one is to snatch this ‘Evil Resisting Sword Art’.”

Linghu Chong continuously nodded his head and said, “Priest thought correctly. The complete Manual is in Putian Shaolin Temple, does Zuo Lengchan know this? If he does then I’m afraid he’d go and attack the Putian Shaolin Temple.”

Fangzheng smiled. “The ‘Sunflower Manual’ in Putian Shaolin Temple was destroyed a long time ago. So there’s no need to worry about it.”

Linghu Chong was surprised, “Destroyed?”

Fangzheng answered, “Just before Reverend Hongxie passed away, he gathered all the disciples and told them the result of studying the Manual. Then he immediately put it into the fire saying, “The martial art study in this manual is profoundly deep and wonderful, but there are many crucial points in its study. The person who had created it

didn’t necessarily manage to study it completely as there are still many difficulties left in the Manual especially the first step in its study. This first step isn’t only difficult, it simply couldn’t be done. So if it were to be passed on to later generation, it would really be the bad luck of Wulin.” He then left behind a letter for the abbot in Songshan’s temple saying the same thing.”

Linghu Chong sighed. “Reverend Hongxie was really wise. If there were no ‘Sunflower Manual’ in this world, then all these changes in Wulin wouldn’t happen.” His thought immediately followed, “No ‘Sunflower Manual’ means that there’s no ‘Evil Resisting Sword Art’, then master wouldn’t have arranged little martial sister to accompany martial brother Lin, and martial brother Lin wouldn’t have joined the Huashan School, and he wouldn’t have met little martial sister.” But he turned around and thought, “But I’m just a wanderer who makes friends with people from the unorthodox path, so what’s that has to do with ‘Sunflower Manual’? A gentleman follows his own instincts and reaps what he sows; there’s no need to blame anyone else.”

Chongxu said, “On the fifteenth of next month, Zuo Lengchan will be gathering the five mountains sword schools on Songshan to elect a head master. What’s Young Hero Linghu’s esteemed opinion on this?”

Linghu Chong laughed. “Is there even a need for an election? This headmaster position naturally belongs to Zuo Lengchan.”

“Young Hero Linghu doesn’t want to oppose it?” Chongxu asked.

“Songshan, Taishan, Hengshan, and Huashan Schools are already secured by him, while my Heng-Shan School is the only one left. Even if we oppose the merger, it’ll still be in vain,” Linghu Chong answered.

Chongxu shook his head and replied, “That’s not so! Taishan, Hengshan, and Huashan Schools are intimidated by the power of Songshan School so they don’t dare to openly object to this. Even if they’ve said that they agree to the merger, they might not necessarily agree to this in their hearts.”

Fangzheng said, “In old monk’s opinion, Young Hero must oppose the merger of the five schools. As a principled person, Zuo Lengchan would not necessarily say that everyone

has submitted to his idea. But if the merger were to happen after the talks, then the position of headmaster would definitely be decided by a martial art competition. If Young Hero were to use all of your power, then you’ll be able to win the headmaster position from Zuo Lengchan with your superior sword art.”

Linghu Chong was greatly surprised. “I… I… How can I do that? I cannot!”

Chongxu said, “Great Master Abbot and Old Taoist already talked about this for a long time and we both feel that Brother is a frank person who does as he pleases; you can even make friends with people from the Devil Sect. If you become the headmaster of the Five Mountains School, to be honest, the rules of the Five Mountains School would

relax and the conduct of the disciples might go down. This isn’t necessarily the good fortune of Wulin… ”

Linghu Chong laughed loudly and said, “What priest said is right, how can junior be capable of taking care of a bunch of other people? If the top were crooked then the bottom would be crooked too. I am only a loafer who likes to drink wine.”

Chongxu said, “Neither a loafer nor a wine-lover will harm people, but a person of wild ambition can harm a lot of people. If Brother becomes the headmaster of the Five Mountains School, then firstly, the seniors and disciples of the five mountains sword schools wouldn’t be bullied around; secondly, you wouldn’t go and attack the Devil Sect

nor would you come to annex our two schools – Shaolin and Wudang; thirdly, Brother also wouldn’t annex other schools like Emei, Kunlun and the others.”

Fangzheng smiled. “Priest Chongxu and Old Monk have agreed to this plan. Even though we’re saying that we’re doing this to benefit Jianghu, half of what we’re doing is actually for our own benefit.”

Chongxu added, “We’re speaking frankly here. The old monk and old priest came to Heng-Shan to give our support to Brother and to plead for the lives of people from both the orthodox and demonical path.”

Fangzheng joined his palms together and prayed, “Amituofo, if Zuo Lengchan were to become the headmaster of the Five Mountains School then who would know when the killings would end.”

Linghu Chong took a deep breath and said, “Linghu Chong wouldn’t dare decline the order given by seniors. But Junior is a useless person, and it’s already very absurd that I became the headmaster of Heng-Shan, but I was forced into it so there’s nothing I can do. However, the heroes of the realm will laugh till their teeth fall off if I aspire to become the headmaster of the Five Mountains School. Junior clearly understands the three things mentioned and yet Junior doesn’t dare to become the headmaster of the Five Mountains School. On the fifteenth of the third month, Junior will surely go to Songshan to make a big disturbance and say that Zuo Lengchan can’t become the Five Mountains School’s headmaster. Perhaps it would be enough for Linghu Chong to just make a big disturbance there.”

Chongxu said, “That’s absurd. When the time comes and you’re forced to do it then you must become the headmaster of the Five Mountains School.” Linghu Chong just shook his head. Chongxu went on, “If you didn’t go against Zuo Lengchan, then he would definitely become the headmaster. Once the five schools become one, the first thing Headmaster Zuo would do is naturally to kill you first.”

Linghu Chong was silent and let out a long sigh. He then said, “That can’t be helped then.”

Chongxu said, “But if you were able to escape and he was unable to capture you, then Zuo Lengchan will just help himself to killing the disciples of your Heng-Shan School. Dingxian Shi Tai put so many disciples under your hand, are you just going to leave them to be butchered by Zuo Lengchan?”

Linghu Chong slapped the railing on the bridge and said loudly, “I cannot!”

Fangzheng also added, “By then, Zuo Lengchan would also not let your master, master-wife, martial brothers, and martial sisters off. In the years after that, big misfortunes will definitely fall on their heads. Are you still going to ignore all of this?”

Linghu Chong shivered in fear and the hair at the back of his neck stood up. He stepped back a couple of steps and saluted Fangzheng and Chongxu deeply. “Thank you for seniors’ advice, otherwise Linghu Chong wouldn’t have worked hard and would’ve harmed many people.”

Fangzheng and Chongxu returned his propriety. Fangzheng said, “On the fifteenth of the third month, Old Monk and Priest Chongxu will lead our disciples to go to Songshan to help Young Hero Linghu.”

Chongxu said, “If Zuo Lengchan’s Songshan School does something against the rules then our Shaolin and Wudang Schools will put a stop to it.”

Linghu Chong was happy to hear this and said, “If the two seniors were there to preside over the proceedings then Zuo Lengchan wouldn’t dare to commit his evil acts.”

The three of them finally finished their discussion. Even though there were many difficult things ahead of them, they felt easier after deciding what to do. Chongxu laughed, “We should return. The new headmaster has been accompanying an old monk and an old Taoist for a long time, they must be wondering where you are. I’m afraid they must be worried by now.” The three of them turned around and had just walked seven or eight steps when suddenly they all halted at the same time.

Linghu Chong shouted, “Who’s there?” He was aware of the sounds of breathing coming from one end of the sky bridge. It was apparent that there were people hiding inside the left Spirit Turtle Pavilion of the Hanging Temple.

As soon as he called out, with the sounds of ‘peng, peng, peng’, many windows of the Spirit Turtle Pavilion were slammed open at the same time. Many arrows were seen pointing out from the windows aimed at the three of them. At the same time, the windows of the Divine Snake Pavillion behind them also slammed open and more arrows were aimed at the three of them.

Fangzheng, Chongxu, and Linghu Chong were the present world’s top masters. Under ordinary circumstances, even though the bows and arrows were not ordinary weapons and the people using them were not ordinary either, how could any group actually fight the three of them? But the three of them were on the sky bridge spanning between the two pavilions and below them was a bottomless abyss which prevented them from jumping down. Further more, the bridge was only a few feet wide and limited their manoeuvrability, and added to that, they didn’t have any weapons with them. Thus, the trio couldn’t help feeling frightened of this ambush.

As a host, Linghu Chong quickly stepped in front of the other two people and shouted, “Daring rats, you don’t dare to show yourselves?”

But they only heard someone shouted, “Shoot!”

Seventeen to eighteen black water arrows were immediately shot out from the windows. Unlike ordinary feathered arrows, these water arrows carried water and the water was released from the point of the arrows when shot out. As these water arrows were shot towards the sky, they looked jet black. But as they tipped over in the evening sky, the arrows turned into a strange colour and the air around Linghu Chong and company was filled with rotten corpse or dead fish smell which made them want to vomit. The tipped over water arrows started to rain down onto the bridge. Some of the water hit the wooden railings of the sky bridge and burned small holes through them. Even though Fangzheng and Chongxu were very experienced, they had never seen this kind of fierce poison water before. If the arrows were just ordinary feathered ones, the three of them could have blocked them by transferring their qi into their sleeves. But as the poison water moistened the top of their bodies, they became afraid that it might bore through to their bones. The two elders looked at each other and saw their expressions changed and their eyes filled with fear. Such fear in the eyes of these two headmasters were really rarely seen.

After this wave of poison water was shot out, that person behind the window shouted out in a clear voice, “This poison water was shot towards the sky. If it was aimed at your bodies, what do you think would have happened?” As he said this, seventeen to eighteen arrows were slowly lowered and aimed at the three of them. The sky bridge ran ten feet long with its left side connected to the Spirit Turtle Pavilion while its right side was connected to the Divine Snake Pavilion. Both pavilions were filled with people pointing poisonous arrows at them. Even though the three of them had high martial arts, it was still very difficult for them to escape. When Linghu Chong heard the bright and clear voice of this person, he recalled whose voice it was. “Chief Dongfang’s people with the gift; what a good gift!”

The person speaking from inside the Spirit Turtle Pavilion was really Jia Bu, who was the person sent by Dongfang Bubai with those gifts. Jia Bu laughed loudly and shouted, “Master Linghu is very bright to be able to recognise me from my voice. Since I already used a contemptible deceit to gain the upper hand, and a bright person wouldn’t want to fight a losing battle, does master Linghu admit defeat?”

Jia Bu himself already admitted to using a contemptible deceit so Linghu Chong couldn’t find any fault with what he said. He moved his qi into his Dantian region and laughed long and loud, shaking the whole valley. “I’m here conversing with seniors from Shaolin and Wudang, and all the people who came up the mountain today are my good friends, so I didn’t arrange for any protection. So now I have fallen into Brother Jia’s trap and I cannot not admit my defeat.” Linghu Chong answered.

Jia Bu replied, “That’s very good. Chief Dongfang respects the seniors of Wulin and regards the importance of young heroes highly. Furthermore, Young Lady Ren has grown up under Chief Dongfang from a very young age. So in respect towards Young Lady Ren, we don’t dare to be rude towards Master Linghu.” Linghu Chong just uttered an ‘hng’ without answering back.

While Linghu Chong was talking to Jia Bu, Fangzheng and Chongxu were observing the situation and were looking for a crack in their line to rush at. But looking at the numerous water arrows at their front and back, even though they would be able to wipe out more than ten arrows at the same time, it would be impossible to take them all out. Even if their enemies managed to just shoot one water arrow through, it would be very difficult for the three of them to protect their lives. After the two of them had a look around, both of their eyes seemed to be saying, “We can’t act rashly.”

They heard Jia Bu went on, “Since Master Linghu already admitted defeat, both parties can avoid injuries. This is really what I wished for. Chief Dongfang actually ordered us to invite Master Linghu, Shaolin Temple’s Abbot, and Wudang School’s Headmaster Priest to attend a banquet at my humble sect’s gathering altar on Dark Wood Cliff for several days. It’s really our good fortune that the three of you are here together. How about if we go now?”

Linghu Chong uttered another ‘hng’, thinking how could there be such an easy thing in this world because once the three of them left the sky bridge, subduing Jia Bu and Shangguan Yun would be as easy as turning over his palm. As expected, Jia Bu followed by saying, “But the martial arts of the three of you are too high; if you change your mind midway through the journey and are not willing to go to Dark Wood Cliff, then we’ll have no way of stopping you. That’s why we gathered our nerves to ask the three of you to lend us your three right hands.”

“Lend you our three right hands?” Linghu Chong asked.

“That’s right. Could the three