First Volume of the First Palm Gate Chapter 95: Looking for Trouble!
It's been half a month again, and Ye Wen is in the front yard guiding his disciples to practice, while also observing their progress and whether there are any outstanding disciples who can be absorbed into the inner door.
Alas, after taking a closer look, although the crowd's level was high and low, it was still somewhat different from what he had hoped for. After watching for a moment, he felt a bit disappointed and thought to himself: "If I could get the Suo Array Method, these ordinary disciples with mediocre martial arts skills would be of some use in battle. At most, they could only hold off ordinary enemy disciples, but when faced with a true expert, they would still be no match."
Not to mention even more powerful ones, at this time, even if an enemy with the same cultivation as Wei Peng came, these disciples would not be of any use, and no matter how many people there were, they would still end up being defeated by Wei Peng.
Unfortunately, Ye Wen's summon this month turned out to be a sword manual. The "Mie Jian" (Extinction Sword) created by Shi Tai is not particularly impressive in the original work, but its power is guaranteed. It just so happens that he currently lacks a powerful killing sword technique, and this Mie Jian is not completely useless. Moreover, his second disciple Zhou Zhiruo practices Emei Sect's martial arts, so this Mie Jian can be passed down to her in the future.
As for Zhou Zhiruo's internal skill, he was not going to let her follow the Emei School's path anymore, even if he could summon the Emei School's internal skill in the future. Because the deeper the internal skill is, the more cautious one must be. Although the internal skills of Shushan School are chaotic and disorganized, those who truly cultivate them are all Taoist heart methods, which can be mutually understood and communicated, and are ultimately the same school of thought.
At present, several of his apprentices are practicing the Quanzhen Heart Method. Although this method is said to be neutral and balanced, most beneficial for laying foundations, if they switch to a completely different school later on, then all their efforts in Quanzhen would have been wasted.
Yue Wen wasn't clear about the specifics, but he remembered that Jin Da's book said that Emei's Nine Suns Skill was a Buddhist martial art, and its foundation, the Nine Suns Divine Skill, was also a Buddhist martial art. Yue Wen didn't know if Zhou Zhiruo would encounter any problems practicing Emei's Nine Suns Skill after mastering the Quanzhen Heart Method, but to be on the safe side, he thought it would be better for her to practice either his own Purple Void Skill or Ning Ruxue's Small Wu Xiang Skill.
As for the Pure Yang Wuji Gong? Although it was derived from the Jiuyang Shen Gong, by the time this internal skill took shape, it had already become a Taoist mental method, and there is no conflict with what they are learning now. It's just that Ye Wen doesn't remember any woman practicing this martial art, nor does he know if there will be any hidden dangers, so he also doesn't dare to let Zhou Zhiruo learn this set of skills.
"If you can come up with the Nine Yin Manual, then there's no need to go through so much trouble. Just let Zhi Ruo practice this and that's it."
But the Nine Yin Manual has never been seen, and I don't know when it will be 'brushed' out. If luck is bad, maybe it can't be obtained in a lifetime.
Just as he was indulging in wild fancies, he suddenly saw a man standing in front of the gate of Mount Shu Sect. The man walked to the door and looked up at the plaque hanging above the gate of Mount Shu Sect, seemingly to confirm something, before striding inside with big steps.
Two disciples who were guarding the gate immediately stepped forward and intercepted him, asking: "I don't know what this hero has come to our Shu Mountain Sect for?"
The man initially didn't say a word, seemingly wanting to force his way in. However, he suddenly seemed to think of something and changed his tone: "Tell the Shu Shan Sect's Ye Wen to come out, Ben Shen Jun has some questions for him."
This man was none other than the Red Sun God, Lord Pei Gonglie. More than half a month ago, he met with the elder of the Tianle Gang, Guo Nu, and learned that Liu Qingfeng, who had been seriously injured, had not died after all, but had been rescued by Ye Wen and even cured his internal injuries. He immediately rushed to Pingzhou, not stopping along the way, and when he arrived at a town, he would buy some dry food to eat and rest for a night, and if he couldn't make it, he would just rough it out in the wilderness.
After arriving at Shu Shan County, Chi Yang didn't directly go up the mountain. Instead, he rested for a night at the foot of the mountain and tidied himself up before changing into a clean set of clothes. It was because of these things that he arrived at Shu Shan Sect at this time.
Hearing the newcomer's words, they knew that this person was likely to have ill intentions. The two disciples immediately shouted in anger: "How dare you be disrespectful to our sect's leader?"
On the left, a disciple raised his hand and threw a punch. On the right, another disciple drew out a long knife and also chopped down towards him. The two of them, one aiming straight for the heart and the other straight for the forehead, had sealed off all three directions - front, left, and right - leaving only retreat as an option, with the intention of warning this person once, without intending to take his life directly.
That's when the Red Sun God, Lord Pei Gonglie, naturally noticed this point. What he found even more curious was that these two gatekeeper disciples' moves actually had internal energy flowing between them. As soon as the long knife and straight fist were unleashed, Pei Gonglie felt a sensation.
"Interesting, two ordinary disciples also understand internal energy cultivation, this Shu Shan Sect is quite powerful"
With his mind racing like this, his hands didn't slow down one bit. Suddenly, Pei Gonglie's two hands shook, and a fierce flame erupted from his body. The two Shu Mountain disciples only felt a flash of red light in front of their eyes, as if they saw a ball of flames suddenly rise up. At the same time, a wave of heat rolled over them, and they felt a shock to their chest. Immediately after, their throat felt sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. At the same time, both of them were knocked flying backward.
What's even more terrifying is that the blood rushing towards Emperor Pei didn't even reach him, but instead evaporated into mist in mid-air and disappeared.
Then Pei Gonglie withdrew his hand and stood up, the vigorous energy in his body suddenly withdrawn into his body, as if the strange phenomenon just now was an illusion, and it had never happened at all.
"You two little ones dare to attack me, Ben Shen Jun? If I wasn't in a good mood, I would have taken your lives."
As he spoke, he glanced around and saw that two Shu Shan disciples were lying on the ground, unable to move. Both of them covered their own chest mouths - between the two chest mouths above, all the clothes were burned into ashes, revealing the inner chest, with a clear palm print still emitting heat.
"It's just that the crime of death is unavoidable and the crime of life is inescapable. This fierce flame will linger between your two hearts for 49 days, erupting once a day at noon, making your heart and lungs feel like they're being burned by raging fire. Consider it a light punishment."
Pei Gonglie finished speaking with a smile, as if he had done something incredibly good, but before the words had even fallen, a young man slowly came to his front and said: "You have a big tone, and when did we Shushan disciples need outsiders to punish us?"
This man was Ye Wen. He had just been standing in front of the main hall, and after Pei Gonglie came in, he saw the whole process of him striking and injuring two disciples. However, because the distance was too far and Pei Gonglie struck too quickly, almost in the blink of an eye, the two disciples were injured. Ye Wen couldn't even react in time if he wanted to intervene.
He walked up to one of the disciples, stretched out his palm and pressed it on the palm print, using his true energy to examine the disciple's injuries. Just for a moment, Ye Wen furrowed his brow.
Pei Gonglie watched all of this without stopping it, instead he had an expression as if watching a show, especially when Ye Wen furrowed his brow, in his heart he was even more pleased, secretly thinking: "How can my mighty Red Sun God's Red Sun Flame be something that a young person like you can handle?"
But before he could gloat for long, Ye Wen's face was filled with a surge of purple energy, and the palm of his hand that was pressed against the young man's chest also turned a deep purple. His clothes fluttered in the wind, and a faint aura emanated from him. In an instant, all the strange phenomena suddenly disappeared, and the young man stood up and said to the other Shu Mountain disciples who had rushed over: "Take him down and take good care of him, he just needs to rest for a while and he will recover."
After finishing, he went to another disciple and repeated everything just now. The young man got up, and the two Shu Mountain disciples still had some scorching wounds on their chests, but the extremely obvious palm prints had disappeared. Chi Yang Shen Jun also saw that the fire energy he left on the bodies of these two Shu Mountain disciples was indeed cleared away.
By now, he had already guessed who the young man was, only it seemed to be somewhat different from his own guess: "Are you Ye Wen, the leader of the Shu Shan Sect?"
"It's you." Ye Wen saw that the other party was not very polite, and had injured his own disciple as soon as he came, so he wasn't in a good mood either. Even though he already knew who the visitor was: "I presume you are the one known on the Jianghu as the Red Sun God Lord, Pei Gonglie."
"Hmph, it's indeed Lord Ben Shen"
Ye Wen initially suspected something when he saw Pei Gonglie's move, but didn't know what Pei Gonglie was doing in the Shu Shan Sect. It wasn't until he examined the two injured disciples that he discovered the intense true energy between their hearts and lungs was indeed the same Chi Yang Fire that had injured Liu Qingfeng earlier, confirming that the person who came was indeed Pei Gonglie, also known as the Red Sun God.
It was also thanks to his initial treatment of Liu Qingfeng's internal injury that he was quite familiar with the Red Sun Fire, and in recent days, his Purple Cloud Skill had made some progress. His ability to manipulate his inner energy was much stronger than before, which allowed him to clear out the fire energy from the two disciples' bodies in the blink of an eye - of course, the fact that the fire energy in their bodies wasn't particularly strong was also a reason.
Although this is the case, Ye Wen also had to use all his strength to clear away the flames in such a short period of time, and that was just a casual two palms from Pei Gonglie, who didn't even intend to take their lives, or else he would have struck with more force.
Thinking of this, recalling the scene I saw earlier, when Pei Gonglie ignited his flames, his body was surrounded by a large red glow, like a raging fire. Ye Wen couldn't help but exclaim: "This Chi Yang Shen Jun is indeed not an empty reputation, the two words 'Shen Jun' are not in vain."
Ye Wen had already basically confirmed that this world, due to the relationship between heaven and earth's primordial energy, would trigger some strange phenomena once one's internal strength reached a certain level according to their internal strength characteristics. The confirmed reason was that after Xu Xian cultivated the Pure Yang Infinite Skill, a faint red glow flashed on the sword blade.
While the pure Yang true energy and the red Yang fire power are both masculine internal skills, the effects that come out of them do have some similarities. However, compared to Xu Xian's faintly visible red aura, when thinking back to Pei Gonglie's explosive burst of energy earlier, the difference is simply enormous.
The two men sized each other up for a moment, and before Ye Wen could ask about the purpose of his visit, he heard Pei Gonglie ask in a cold voice: "Was it you who cured that old Taoist priest from Hu Shan Sect?"
As soon as this was said, Ye Wen was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood that the old Taoist of Hu Shan meant Liu Qingfeng. At the same time, he also wanted to understand why Chi Yang Shen Jun had come to his door. However, the reason he thought of seemed a bit inexplicable. Was Chi Yang Shen Jun just one person?
"Is it right for you to be ignorant of what I am going to say?"
Pei Gonglie smiled: "It's not about being a teacher, but you can know who injured that old Taoist?"
Chi Yang Shen Jun's words came out, and Ye Wen became even more convinced of his own speculation. It seems that today's matter has already developed in the worst direction.
"Isn't it a bit redundant to ask about the Red Sun Fierce Fire Skill, which is a unique martial art of the Gongxia Sect?" Ye Wen was about to scold him further, saying that he had just deliberately shown off his own Red Sun Fire Skill, obviously trying to impress the master of the Shu Mountain Sect who could cure Liu Qingfeng's illness - in other words, Ye Wen himself. Now, asking again is simply being resented by others.
"You know that the old Taoist was injured by me, yet you still dare to treat him? Don't you think this is making a mockery of me, the Divine Lord?" Pei Gonglie thought this remark was only natural and waited to see how Ye Wen would respond.
"Who I save is my business, I don't care who beat him up or what he did. You're overstepping your bounds."
"Hey" Pei Gonglie was taken aback at first, then sneered: "You're just a young man, not even that old, yet you dare to speak to me like this. Do you think I, the God Lord, wouldn't dare kill you?"
Ye Wen had already seen that Pei Gonglie was an extremely arrogant and unreasonable person, and it would be useless to waste any more words. However, since the other party had come to his doorstep and there were several disciples by his side, he couldn't very well swallow his pride. Moreover, Ye Wen wasn't one to back down easily either. Pei Gonglie's overbearing tone had also riled him up: "If you want to teach me a lesson, I'll accompany you to the end."
"Ha ha, what advice? Killing is killing, no matter how good your words sound, I, Ben Jun, will still kill you." After finishing speaking, he looked at Ye Wen again and finally let out a sigh: "What a pity..."
"What a pity!"
"What a pity that such a young talent will die here today." Although the words of Chi Yang Shen Jun contained some praise for Ye Wen, they clearly intended to put Ye Wen to death, and there was no room for retreat in his tone.
They were about to start fighting, and this battle was likely to be the one that would cost Ye Wen his life. After all, in terms of cultivation, he was absolutely no match for Pei Gonglie, a renowned master who had been famous for a long time. This could be seen from the two palms that Pei Gonglie casually threw out, which contained an energy that required Ye Wen to use all his strength to dissipate.
As for experience, Chi Yang Shen Jun has been famous for over a decade and is considered one of the top masters in the Jianghu. It's unknown how many battles he had to go through to achieve such terrifying cultivation skills - and with his personality, it's likely that even if he didn't provoke anyone, he would still get into a lot of trouble.
In comparison, Ye Wen has been practicing his skills on Mount Shu since he crossed over, and his experience in fighting against others is only a few times. The real life-and-death battles can be counted on one hand, and the most recent one was just a few months ago when he fought against Wei Peng. Even if Ye Wen is a genius, it's impossible for him to gain more abundant combat experience than Chi Yang God Lord, who has been through over ten years of battles, with just these few fights.
It can be said that this time, no matter how you look at it, Ye Wen had not the slightest chance of winning. The Red Sun God was clearly looking for trouble with Ye Wen, and there was no way to avoid it.
Moreover, the Ye family's large enterprise and this huge sect are all here. Even if I were to narrowly escape with my life today, what about my junior brothers and sisters and those disciples?
Although Ye Wen was extremely cautious around the people after crossing over, he wasn't someone without a heart or conscience. After being with them for so long, whether it was Ning Ruxue or Xu Xian, they had all treated him sincerely, so how could he possibly remain unmoved? He had already opened up his heart and considered these people as his own family in this world.
What if they ran away? According to this eccentricity of the Red Sun God, it's likely that he would slaughter everyone in the Shu Mountain Sect.
Even if Ye Wen can rely on the magical power of the ring to cultivate a peerless divine art and take revenge on Chi Yang God, he may never forgive himself for this lifetime.
Ye Wen asked himself if he was not a gentleman, but he absolutely did not think of himself as a petty person, even though the society he used to live in advocated the theory of being a true petty person. However, Ye Wen always felt that it was difficult for him to reach that level.
And now, if he were to sacrifice a group of his well-meaning junior brothers and sisters in order to save his own life, then what's the difference between him and those despicable people he looks down on? He would even think that if he really did that, he wouldn't be any better than beasts.
So he will absolutely not escape
"This is also a kind of responsibility as the leader, I suppose?" After muttering to himself for two sentences, he had all his disciples retreat to one side and vacate the entire front courtyard so that it would be more convenient for him to exchange blows with Pei Gonglie. After all, Pei Gonglie's Scarlet Sun Flame was too astonishingly powerful; if they got too close, who knows whether or not they would get dragged into it? To avoid accidental injury, it was better to have the disciples retreat far away.
Actually, Ye Wen was a bit too worried. Chi Yang Shen Jun Pei Gong Lie's cultivation was high, but not to the point of being exaggerated, and it could only affect a small area around him. It was just that Ye Wen had limited experience and didn't understand this world thoroughly, which led to his behavior.
Pei Gonglie didn't interrupt, he just stood there with a cold smile, in his eyes Ye Wen was already a dead man, so let him struggle for a while more, it didn't matter. Moreover, he wasn't afraid of Ye Wen's tricks either, Pei Gonglie had great confidence in his own abilities, that confidence even inflated to the point where even if Ye Wen used some clever moves, he believed he could dissolve them one by one.
When Ye Wen stood in front of him again, Pei Gonglie sneered: "Are you ready to die...?" But the words had just come out halfway when they suddenly stopped. Then Ye Wen discovered that Pei Gonglie was staring at something behind him with a shocked expression.
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