jdhmnovel Chapter 24 The Origin of Red Sun Blood Essence
Chapter 24 The Origin of Red Sun Blood Essence
"Hey, hey, hey, Mu Yang, what's up?" Feng Ling'er nudged Li Mu Yang with her elbow and asked.
Li Muyang glanced at her and said leisurely, "What are you pretending for? Li Rong wasn't coming for me in the first place! Don't think I don't know that you stole something from the ship earlier! This is what I'm talking about!"
Feng Ling'er immediately shrank her neck. Although Li Muyang had blocked all the trouble, she realized that she might have gotten herself into trouble this time!
"Give it to me." Li Muyang didn't stand on ceremony and directly held out his hand, saying, "It's not safe for you to keep it."
Feng Ling'er was initially a little unwilling, but Bai Yuxiu coaxed her into handing over the Red Sun Blood Essence that Feng Ling'er had casually taken from the ship earlier.
Li Muyang took the small box containing the Crimson Sun Blood Essence and asked his junior disciple from the Qiongwu Sword Pavilion, "You two came here for this too, right?"
“That’s right.” Sword Maniac Xiao Yi was quite frank: “We did come for the Crimson Sun Blood Essence, but we just didn’t want it to fall into the hands of the Azure Dragon Society and stir up another bloody storm in the martial world. Now that it’s in your hands, I’m at ease!”
"With your strength, young master, it's unlikely that an ordinary person could steal this! And with your talent, young master, you don't need this thing."
"Ha, you're too kind, senior. I'm not that powerful." Li Muyang smiled slightly, bowed, and then continued, "Gentlemen, if you don't mind, come with me to visit Master Cui. I know a lot of things that are unknown to others regarding the Red Sun Blood Essence and the truth about Wuxiang City back then."
Upon hearing this, Sword Madman and Bai Lang's expressions turned serious, and Xiao Yi nodded and said, "Alright! Butler Mo, we must take our leave!"
"...It's alright, Master will welcome you all!" Mo Er glanced at Li Muyang with complicated eyes. He suddenly felt that perhaps the group's meeting was not a coincidence!
Riding in the Cui family's carriage, the group soon returned to the Cui residence and met Master Cui, Cui Xilai.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, everyone took their seats.
Li Muyang looked around at the group and said with a serious expression, "You all probably don't know the origin of the Red Sun Blood Essence, right? Take a look at this."
He produced a fragment of a map, which the others did not recognize. But as soon as Cui Xilai saw it, his pupils shrank, and he immediately stood up, asking in shock, "Young Master Li, where did you obtain this fragment of a map?"
“It seems I guessed right. Master Cui has a fragment of the map of Wuxiang City? At least you’ve seen something similar.” Li Muyang answered irrelevantly, smiling meaningfully as he held up the fragment and explained, “The Crimson Sun Blood Essence comes from this map.”
"As for where this picture came from, hehe, its origin is a bit dirty. I stole it from Tianxia Yi not long ago."
Everyone was shocked. Sword Madman exclaimed in astonishment, "So Young Master Li is the same Bai Zhantang, the Thief Saint who recently infiltrated the World's First Manual and silently stole the World's First Manual, the Innate Heart Sutra!"
"Uh..." Li Muyang scratched his head awkwardly. Hearing someone actually call him Bai Zhantang, the Thief Saint, made him so embarrassed that he could dig out a three-bedroom apartment!
He hurriedly explained, "I just made up the name Bai Zhantang on the spot. My purpose was to annoy Tianxia Yi. Since the surname is Bai, that guy will definitely feel guilty!"
"I see!" everyone exclaimed in sudden realization.
"So, the Azure Dragon Society isn't exactly looking for the wrong person, is it?" Feng Ling'er laughed gleefully, then was tapped by Bai Yuxiu and playfully stuck out her tongue.
Li Muyang smiled wickedly, and said confidently, "They didn't find me! And even if they did, so what?"
"So, the Crimson Sun Blood Essence is related to Tianxia Yi?" Sword Madman said angrily, his eyes wide. "I knew it! Wuxiang City was wronged for no reason back then!"
“It’s a miscarriage of justice, but to say that Wuxiang City has absolutely nothing to do with Hongyang Blood Essence is also incorrect.” Li Muyang shook his head and said, “Let Nanying explain the rest.”
Everyone looked at her, and Nan Ying stood up, nodded, and said, "Everyone, actually, the Red Sun Blood Essence... comes from my teacher, He Sui."
"What?!" Sword Maniac was shocked. "He Sui? Thousand-Finger Master He Sui? Wait! Girl, you said you're He Sui's disciple? Impossible! Absolutely impossible! He Sui only has one disciple, but she's already... hiss..."
As they talked, even the Sword Madman got scared!
He suddenly remembered how Liu Ruyan from Tianya Haige had been frantically searching for them earlier! It was rare to see Liu Ruyan so flustered! However, Xiao Yi hadn't heard their conversation clearly at the time; he only saw Liu Ruyan run over, and then the group left together!
"You're not dead?" Sword Madman asked Nan Ying in astonishment, having filled in the blanks in his mind and thinking he had figured something out.
“I’ve already died once, and it was you, young master, who awakened me.” Nan Ying explained ambiguously, “To get back to the point, my teacher joined an organization called Seven Stars in his early years. They obtained a map from the Longevity Sect back then, which we’ll call the Immortal Map for now.”
"This is the thing that Young Master obtained from Tianxiayi. This thing was divided into three parts. Originally, it was in Tianya Haige, Tianxiayi, and Wuxiang City, with one part each."
"In other words, Wuxiang City is just..." Only Sword Madman Xiao Yi was asking this question, while Cui Xilai and Mo Er looked very uneasy.
Nan Ying nodded with a melancholy expression: "That's right. Wuxiang City was just a scapegoat found by the leader of the Seven Stars at the time. Although Wuxiang Gong can indeed produce Red Yang Blood Essence, it is not the source of Red Yang Blood Essence that is circulating in the martial arts world, because the Red Yang Blood Essence in the martial arts world comes from my teacher He Sui."
"Because of this incident, several members of the Seven Stars also fell out with their leader. According to my teacher, that leader is none other than Chongming, the teacher of Dongfang Yao, the current leader of the martial arts alliance. Other members include... Master Cixin of Jiaye Temple, Senior Yue Le of Yuehua Sect, Bai Yue of Wuxiang City, Elder Ji of Cangsong Mountain, and Mr. Xiao Yi, your senior brother..."
"What?! Senior Brother?! Impossible! How could Senior Brother do such a thing..." The Sword Maniac almost went mad! His senior brother, who had always been fair and selfless and devoted himself to the Qiongwu Sword Pavilion, had actually participated in such a heinous act?!
As He Sui's disciple, Nan Ying is probably the person with the most comprehensive understanding of the Seven Stars!
Most importantly, Xiao Yi himself had doubts about his senior brother!
Because he had seen a token belonging to his senior brother, Liang Xiuzhuo, the head of the Qiongwu Sword Pavilion! It was one of the Seven Stars.
"...I will investigate this matter myself!" Xiao Yi said with a long sigh, still angry.
"Please proceed, senior." Li Muyang said calmly, "However, I would like to remind you that your senior brother has truly gone mad with his cultivation. He not only shows no remorse for what happened in Wuxiang City, but also thinks it was a brilliant idea! Therefore, he reorganized the new Seven Stars, which is now Youming! He himself serves as the Sword Master!"
Xiao Yi...( ＿ _)ノ｜
Sword Maniac was so angry he couldn't speak.
Seeing his uncle trembling with anger, Bai Lang was afraid that Xiao Yi would lose his temper and wanted to comfort him, but he couldn't bring himself to say it.
After all, Liang Xiuzhuo is his master!
“Senior, cherish your life. Now that you know all this, you are an insider. Don’t be so clever as to try to protect your fellow disciples’ feelings and go to confront Headmaster Liang alone. I’m counting on you to help clear the name of Wuxiang City back then.” Li Muyang said leisurely, trying to comfort Xiao Yi in a different way.
This "Sword Madman" isn't really a madman. On the contrary, he might be a qualified chivalrous knight-errant with a firm sense of justice. He usually speaks out against injustice, which is why he earned the title of "Sword Madman," similar to Bai Muzhen's "White-Haired Witch." Now that he has learned that his senior brother is actually the big boss, that's why he's so angry.
"...I understand, thank you for your trust, Young Master Li! I won't go looking for my senior brother alone." Xiao Yi understood what Li Muyang meant; he couldn't beat his senior brother, and going to him would be suicide!
The difference between the intermediate Grandmaster realm and the Supreme Realm is like heaven and earth! In the past, he had always been amazed by his senior brother's rapid progress in cultivation, which inexplicably surpassed him by so much. He thought it was because his senior brother had suddenly become enlightened, but he never expected it was because of his research on the so-called Immortal Diagram and the Red Sun Blood Essence!
Although he still had some consideration for his fellow disciples, the Sword Maniac had his own judgment: his senior brother had indeed gone a bit mad! In order to preserve the Qiongwu Sword Pavilion's status in the righteous path after their master's passing, he had already gone to extremes!
Sword Maniac believed most of what Li Muyang and Nan Ying said! As for the rest, he would investigate himself! Anyway, there was no going back to Qiongwu Sword Pavilion!
Looking at Bai Lang, the righteous young man hurriedly swore, "Uncle-Master, don't worry! If the Sect Leader really did such a heinous thing, I will never support him!"
Xiao Yi understood Bai Lang, otherwise he wouldn't have brought him to investigate the matter of the Red Sun Blood Essence. He nodded and didn't say anything more.
"That's all. The rest is a private matter of Wuxiang City. If you two still want to hear more, that's fine. I just hope you won't spread it around," Li Muyang said, clasping his hands in a fist salute.
Without waiting for their reply, Li Muyang said to Bai Yuxiu, "Miss Bai, how have you been feeling in your cultivation lately? Have you noticed anything amiss?"
Bai Yuxiu was taken aback: "This...it seems not."
"Thank goodness, it's a good thing that nothing happened!" Li Muyang nodded affirmatively, "There's something wrong with your family's Wuxiang Gong. It can create something similar to a demon in one's heart, leading to qi deviation and a drastic change in temperament! After meeting you, I discovered that you were practicing Wuxiang Gong, so I've been trying my best to keep you from taking action."
"I'm just worried that you'll use your skills too much right now, causing the Formless Skill to go out of control! That would be a huge problem! If it goes out of control too early, and happens too often, it will lead to mental derangement! And then there will be no cure!"
"Ah!" Bai Yuxiu and Feng Ling'er were both startled, covering their mouths in a panic. Feng Ling'er hurriedly said, "Brother Muyang, stop keeping us in suspense! You must have a way, right? Hurry up and save Yuxiu!"