Chapter Fifty-Four: The Trail of the Red Practitioner

  Gradually, Chen Yunfeng had turned to the chapter on artifact refinement in the "Yu Wu Ji" (Imperial Artifact Collection), and as he read, his attention became highly concentrated. During the refinement of this artifact, countless talismans and incantations were added. Once it was needed, one would need to combine hand seals, true energy, and the artifact. If it could fly, it would take off and attack the enemy; if it could emit a specific sound, it would make a noise. Various effects would be produced depending on the artifact used.

  Before that, the peach wood sword of the wine path was a flying attack instrument. Although it can only fly for tens of meters, for Chen Yunfeng, this is an extremely huge shock.

  Slowly closing the "Mao Shan Ding Gui Lu", Chen Yunfeng couldn't help but feel a sense of awe in his heart. This was something completely different from martial arts, yet it made him feel the boundless ingenuity of the people who created it. There was so much knowledge contained within this book, and he had only just begun to forcibly memorize it, but now he was starting to develop some interest in these things.

  Martial arts kill people, Taoist studies behead demons and eliminate evil spirits. There are just too few demons and evil spirits, so the Taoist study has declined. He plans to make these things a hobby of his, studying how to catch ghosts while learning martial arts.

  "It's dawn..." The wine drinker slowly said as he opened his eyes and gazed at the pale white sky.

  Chen Yunfeng respectfully returned the Mao Shan Ding Gui Lu to Jiu Dao Ren, and in his heart he felt boundless respect for this special lineage of Taoists hidden from the ordinary world. He smiled slightly and said:

  "Jiudao Chang seems to be preparing to leave, under the wind of Xia Chenyun, my home is in Xiangyang, only a hundred meters east of Chengguo Mansion, Daochang has leisure time and may come to my house for a visit."

  The Wine Road person smiled and glanced at Chen Yunfeng, then walked towards the gate, still shouting loudly:

  "Chen Yunfeng, striding against the wind and clouds, proudly under the heavens, a young hero with a good name. If you have time, come visit my humble abode, the old Taoist has left..."

  Jiudao Ren stepped out of the broken temple in the morning light, Chen Yunfeng also had high expectations for such a strange person. Some things that happen behind the scenes in the Jianghu world, people like Jiudao Ren would know more about.

  He threw Xiao Jia San Hu's body into the forest, untied Wang Ping and Lu Wushuang's acupoints, and drove the horse cart back to the main road to continue on their journey.

  It wasn't until noon that the two girls woke up from their deep sleep. Lu Wushuang looked around and saw that she was sleeping shoulder to shoulder with Wan Yanping. Thinking of how she had suddenly fainted last night, she lifted the door curtain and asked in a crisp voice:

  "Yunfeng brother, what happened last night? That stinky Taoist priest, why did he seal our acupoints?"

  Chen Yunfeng said without turning his head:

  "Peerless, that Taoist is a transcendent being. Last night, a powerful enemy appeared and he was worried you'd get hurt, so he sealed your acupoints. Be more polite to him in the future."

  "Oh... okay, what's that pass up ahead?" Lu Wushuang asked, pointing with her slender white fingers at a mountain pass that had appeared in front of them.

  Chen Yunfeng took a glance with his eyes and smiled, saying:

  "Where is Wuguan, let's go there and have lunch first."

  Just then, a fast horse ran out of the pass and stopped in front of Chen Yunfeng's carriage. It was Cheng Ying who had arrived ahead of time and rushed out to see them.

  "Chen Shaoye and Li Mochou have entered the Wu Pass, they are currently searching for your whereabouts." Cheng Ying said as she reined in her horse and turned around beside the carriage.

  "So soon? I had previously injured her internally, but she has recovered and dares to come find us so quickly. Has she broken through or something?" Chen Yunfeng hastily pulled the horse carriage over to the side of the road into a grove of trees before exclaiming in shock.

  In the carriage, Wanyan Ping lifted the curtain and smiled slightly at Cheng Ying. Meanwhile, Lu Wushuang, who was still unaware of everything, stuck her head out from Chen Yunfeng's shoulder and looked at Cheng Ying, who was wearing a bamboo hat. Seeing her cousin and Chen Yunfeng being so intimate, Cheng Ying suddenly felt a pang of sadness and loss in her heart. She quickly suppressed this uncomfortable feeling and nodded to Chen Yunfeng, saying:

  "I don't know if she's recovered or not, but judging from her appearance, she should be fine. And the way she's searching so openly, it means she's not afraid of you... That's right, you said earlier that you beat her up and made her escape with internal injuries. Does that mean your martial arts skills were stronger than hers back then? She was a top-notch master after all."

  Lu Wushuang curiously stared at Cheng Ying, feeling a sense of familiarity with the girl who covered her face. However, when she heard that Chen Yunfeng had previously defeated Li Mochou, she was overjoyed and temporarily put aside her curiosity about Cheng Ying to ask:

  "Yunfeng brother, wasn't it the night you were shot by Bing Jue's silver needle that you managed to defeat Li Mochou, that big demon? Then what are we worried about? Find her, Yunfeng brother, and avenge me."

  Chen Yunfeng shook his head and looked at Wu Guan. Li Mochou would never appear in a situation where she had no control, so there were only three possibilities: one was to find a powerful helper with high martial arts skills, which was impossible according to her habits; the second was to learn a powerful martial skill, thinking that she could handle Chen Yunfeng's Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms.

  However, martial arts are not something that can be effective in just a few days. Except for someone like Chen Yunfeng who defies the heavens, it would take a very short time to fully grasp new martial arts. This is also something that Li Mochou cannot accomplish.

  The last possibility is that she broke through to the super-first-class martial arts, and with her strong internal strength, her martial skills also became more powerful. From the perspective of the ancient tomb school's practice of internal strength from the Cold Jade Bed, Li Mochou's internal strength was already astonishing at over 30 years old, even comparable to many 60-70 year old practitioners who had been practicing for decades. Breaking through to the super-first-class is not a very difficult thing.

  Chen Yunfeng wasn't very afraid, he had just killed three top martial artists, and the Xiao family's three brothers' Lie Hu Suo Long formation was no weaker than a early-stage super top-notch martial artist. Chen Yunfeng hadn't used all his trump cards to win against them. As for Li Mochou, although she had seen him use the Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms, after last night's battle, her understanding of this martial art had reached a new level.

  At this time, his power had been cultivated for fifty or sixty years and could be considered to have broken through to the level of a top-notch martial artist. However, he felt that it was still necessary to break through to an even higher level of power in order to have greater potential to impact the Heavenly Bridge and become a pre-heavenly supreme expert. Moreover, he also remembered that he had to transform his energy into a pill and become a terrestrial immortal, roaming freely everywhere.

  In front of Li Mochou at Wuguan, this must-pass road, unless he wants to climb mountains and detour, will always meet that poisonous and beautiful woman. He also brought a wounded person and a useless apprentice who was defeated in one move. Cheng Ying is considered a second-rate top martial artist, but against Li Mochou, it's just a few moves of enemy.

  "Dada Tower..."

  A sudden horseshoe sound came from outside the forest, Chen Yunfeng glanced at it, and unexpectedly, it was Yelü Qi and Yelü Yan, two siblings. These two guys should be thinking of ways to deal with themselves after the Yelü family's incident, but now they appeared here, what were they doing?

  Perhaps they thought that the three big men from yesterday could finish him off, and he came out to see how he died. He looked at Yelü Qizhen's departing back and sneered, but suddenly burst into a foolish smile.