Chapter 5: The Nine Yin True Classic

  Having confirmed the target, Ling Muyun floated out of the water surface and climbed out of the pond. After leaving the pond, Ling Muyun did not rush to enter the water again, but instead rested for a while until his energy was almost recovered. Then he took a deep breath, tied the dozen or so simple oxygen bags he had made by hand to his body, and with a "plop" sound, dove headfirst into the pond.

  After Ling Muyun dove into the water, he swam forward along the underwater passage. Fortunately, Ling Muyun was born in Jiangnan, so his swimming skills were not bad, and he didn't have to use the stupid method of holding his breath like Yang Guo and Little Dragon Girl in the original work. He moved much faster than them. After about half a minute, having consumed several simple oxygen bags, Ling Muyun felt the water current slowing down, and the terrain rising. Before long, he emerged from the water, knowing that land was not far away. So he stopped swimming and walked for another moment before finally leaving the underground waterway and stepping onto dry land.

  Out of the water, Ling Mu Yun took a breath of slightly damp air and carefully looked around. He found himself in a humid underground stone cave with dense cracks on all four walls, where water flowed continuously into the waterway he had just left. On the left side of the cave was a narrow and winding path that led upwards, but it was unknown where it went.

  "This should be under the ancient tomb, in the belly of Zhongnan Mountain. I don't know who excavated this small path in the mountain's belly, but the power of these ancient people is really not to be underestimated!"

  Ling Mu Yun sighed and then didn't continue to investigate who had excavated this path in the belly of the mountain. He collected his emotions and followed the narrow path upwards.

  After walking for about half a time, Ling Mu Yun suddenly felt a bright light in front of him, and a stone room appeared before his eyes. Ling Mu Yun walked into the stone room, looked around, but saw that the four walls were empty, raised his head to look up, and saw that the top of the room was densely filled with written characters and symbols, but the light was too dim to see what was written clearly. Fortunately, Ling Mu Yun had prepared early, took out a candle wrapped in waterproof oil paper and an igniter from his pocket, lit the candle, and carefully observed under the candlelight. Only then did he see that on the far right of those characters were four large words, which were exactly "Nine Yin True Classic".

  "Double Ninth Festival, I finally found you!"

  Ling Muyun's spirit was instantly invigorated, and his heart was extremely excited. Although he also knew that this was only a small part of the Nine Yin Scripture, he couldn't hide his excitement. This was the Nine Yin Scripture after all! Even if all the martial arts in Jin Yong's world were laid out, the Nine Yin Scripture would still be among the top, one of the top-notch divine skills in Jin Yong's world, and not comparable to ordinary martial arts.

  Don't you see that the top masters in the world of martial arts, who are already at the pinnacle of their craft, still engage in fierce battles over the Nine Yin Manual? The Western Venom, Ouyang Feng, later became a madman after practicing the Reverse Nine Yin Manual as described by Huang Rong, which shows just how profound and deep the martial art is. Now, this ultimate divine technique is right in front of Ling Mu Yun, how can he not be excited and bewildered? Even if it's only a part of it, it's enough for him to glimpse the mysteries of martial arts and find a direct path to the pinnacle of the martial way.

  Imagine that with Guo Jing's dullness, even after being taught by the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan and Ma Yu for many years, he was only at a third-rate level. He could barely handle small roles like the Four Ghosts of the Yellow River. However, after learning the Nine Yin Manual, his martial arts skills suddenly improved dramatically, and in a short period of time, he became one of the top masters in Jianghu. Later, he further surpassed himself and became a top master comparable to Huang Yaoshi and Ouyang Feng, ranking among the new Five Absolutes. Ling Yun couldn't say that he was more talented than Guo Jing, but at least he should be stronger than him, right? If he still can't catch up with Guo Jing's achievements even with this divine skill in hand, then it would be better for him to smash his head against a tofu block and die, rather than embarrassing the masses of cross-dressers!

  Ling Muyun calmed down his excited mood and carefully browsed through it. This "Chongyang Yi Ke" recorded this part of the Jiuyin Zhenjing, which has several thousand words, recording a small part of the martial arts essence of the Jiuyin Zhenjing. After careful sorting and collation, there are internal skills, true energy application methods, light body techniques, and some fierce actual combat martial arts.

  There are inner strength exercises, such as the "Easy Tendon and Bone" chapter, the "Internal Power Application" chapter for healing injuries, the "Pointing Hole and Resolving Hole" chapter, the "Closing Qi Secret", the "Collecting Tendon and Shrinking Bone" method, the "No Phase Sound Seal", the "Soul Transference Great Method", etc. There are also light body techniques such as the "Spiral Nine Shadows", "Horizontal Empty Shift", "Snake Walking and Turning Technique", etc. In addition, there are several high-level martial arts that can counter the above-mentioned martial arts, such as the "Great Fumo Fist" and the "Tian Gang Fumo Sword". Unfortunately, in the original work, the most famous Nine Yin Divine Claw (Nine Yin White Bone Claw) and the Crushing Heart Palm were not recorded.

  This made Ling Yunfeng involuntarily resent Wang Chongyang, and Lin Chaoying also resented Wang Chongyang for betraying her deep feelings. He ended up making her spend her old age in an ancient tomb, which is why she created the Jade Maiden Heart Scripture to thoroughly destroy the Quanzhen Sect's martial arts, just to vent some of her resentment. But Wang Chongyang was even worse, not only did he betray a wonderful woman for his whole life, but when he snuck into the ancient tomb to mourn, he saw the woman's posthumous work and still wasn't satisfied, he had to compete with the deceased woman, without any manly dignity at all.

  And you want to compete, then create a martial art that can defeat the Ancient Tomb Sect's martial arts. But you don't have the ability to create it, so you use Huang Zong's Nine Yin Manual to deceive people and bully the Ancient Tomb Sect's disciples who are all young ladies, haven't they heard of the great name of the Nine Yin Manual? And you said you would carve the Nine Yin Manual, then just carve it. Since you've already started carving, why not just carve the whole thing? But in the end, you only carved a small half, can you die from exhaustion if you carve the whole thing?

  This is Ling Yun's misunderstanding of Wang Chongyang. The reason why Wang Chongyang engraved half of the Nine Yin Manual here was mainly to show the breadth and depth of his own martial arts, not because it could be restrained by the Jade Maiden Heart Sutra of the ancient tomb sect. Therefore, when engraving, he also inscribed the Inner Strength Operation Method for Healing Injuries, the Pointing Hole Unlocking Hole Method, the Secret of Closing Qi, the Collecting Tendon and Shrinking Bone Method, the Wú Xiāng Sound Seal, and the Soul Transference Great Method to show off his own learning.

  He will display his profound internal power and exceptional lightness skills by using the Inner Strength Mind Method of Yi Jing, the Spiral Nine Shadows Light Body Technique, the Horizontal Empty Shift, and the Snake Movement Leopard Flip Technique, which cannot be defeated by ordinary techniques.

  The Da Fumo Fist and the Tian Gai Fumo Sword were inscribed to show that even if it was only in terms of martial arts techniques, he had an advantage over the Yu Nu Xin Jing. The Yu Nu Xin Jing was created by Lin Chongying as a woman, and although its martial arts techniques are profound and mysterious, they inevitably have a feminine softness. In contrast, the Da Fumo Fist and Tian Gai Fumo Sword originated from the Taoist idea of subduing demons to protect the Tao, emphasizing masculinity and grandeur, making them perfectly suited to counter the Yu Nu Xin Jing's feminine softness.

  As for the Nine Yin Claw and Crushing Heart Palm, although they are extremely powerful, they follow a sinister and insidious path. They have an overabundance of yin energy but lack yang energy, so while their power is great, using them doesn't quite fit Wang Chongyang's own martial arts style and temperament. After all, how could the founder of the Quanzhen Sect, the greatest martial artist under heaven, stoop to competing with Lin Chaoying in cunning? The very thought would be too humiliating for him.

  As for Ling Yun's resentment towards him for not having fully engraved the Nine Yin Manual, Wang Chongyang, who had already passed away, naturally did not know about it. Of course, even if he knew about this matter after his death, he would certainly not care, since he recorded the Nine Yin Manual's extraordinary skills at this moment solely out of a competitive mentality, to make the people of the Ancient Tomb Sect realize at the end that the martial arts of the founder of the Quanzhen School were not something they could overcome. It was not his intention to reveal the true manual to the world. He must have thought that by the time Lin Chongying's descendants discovered the secrets of the Nine Yin Manual in the stone coffin, they would already be on their last breath and could only take the secret with them underground. Otherwise, why would he have engraved the Nine Yin Manual in such a secretive place?

  Although slightly disappointed, the anticipation still far outweighed the disappointment. Ling Muyun was not one to be greedy for more. After calming down, Ling Muyun began to carefully read the martial arts secrets engraved on the top of the stone chamber. In order to keep it a secret, Ling Muyun had not brought paper and pen this time, but instead chose to memorize it in his heart, lest he accidentally leak it out and bring trouble upon himself. A poor man is innocent, but if he carries jade, he will be guilty - this principle Ling Muyun still understood.

  Perhaps due to the reason of crossing over and possessing the game, Ling Muyun discovered that his memory was much better than before, almost to the point of being unforgettable. The profound and abstruse martial arts manual with thousands of characters, he had actually memorized it in less than a minute. Unwilling to let his guard down, he recited it silently several times again, only to find that there were no mistakes at all. Only then did Ling Muyun put his mind at ease, secretly letting out a sigh of relief.

  At this point, Ling Muyun's predetermined goal for coming here had been fully achieved, and he should have left, but looking at the other end of the stone room, that deep and mysterious tunnel, his heart couldn't help but surge with a few points of curiosity. If he wasn't mistaken, that tunnel should be the one leading to the ancient tomb, as a martial arts fan who had read "The Legend of the Condor Hero" more than once, how could Ling Muyun not be interested in the Ancient Tomb Sect? That was where the goddess Little Dragon Girl grew up!

  "It's not easy to come all the way here, so I should at least go up and take a look, yeah, I'll just sneak a few glances, it won't cause any trouble."

  After a moment of hesitation, the curiosity in his heart and his expectations for Little Dragon Girl took over, and Ling Yun stepped onto the path.