Chapter Twelve: The Reason

  After Ling Jing left for a long time, Lin Ping suddenly knelt down with a thud, covering his waist, and fell to the ground. He stared in the direction of Ling Jing's departure, his eyes flashing with a cold glow like a poisonous snake, and said venomously: "Ling Jing, one day my martial arts will surpass yours, today's humiliation I will definitely make you pay back a hundred times."

  Ling Jing walked all the way to Yue Lingshan's residence, and at this time, he finally felt relieved. In fact, Lin Pingzhi had always been a useless person in his heart. If it weren't for worrying that Yue Lingshan would accidentally get involved with him at the foot of the mountain, he wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to Lin Pingzhi.

  Fortunately, Lin Ping has already been abandoned by him for half of his life. Even if he can still obtain the ultimate martial arts "Bixie Sword Spectrum" as in the original story, it is destined to be limited in achievement. By then, I will definitely have grown to another level and won't need to put this kind of person in my heart anymore.

  After a while, he arrived at the door of Yue Lingxuan's room. Just as he was about to push open the door, he suddenly heard Yue Lingxuan calling out from inside: "Ling Jing, Ling Jing, don't go..."

  Ling Jing slightly hesitated, thinking that Yue Lingxuan had heard her movements and woke up. She then pushed open the door and walked to Yue Lingxuan's bedside.

  At this time, however, Yue Lingxuan was lying on the bed, her eyes still tightly closed, her small mouth slightly open, and a look of anxiety on her face, with sweat dripping from her forehead.

  Ling Jing furrowed her brow, knowing that she had just been mumbling incoherently earlier. She then grasped Yue Ling Shan's small hand, looked at her pale little face, and slowly sat down.

  Yue Lingshan was still suffering from some pain in her sleep, her delicate eyebrows furrowed, and she murmured: "Ling Jing, I'm so uncomfortable, don't ignore me all the time, okay..."

  Ling Jing couldn't help but smile wryly. Recently, he had clearly been getting closer to Yue Lingxuan, so why did she still say in her sleep that he was ignoring her?

  This woman's mind is truly hard to fathom.

  He stretched out his right hand, intending to help her wipe the sweat from her forehead. At this time, he also heard Yue Lingshan say: "Why don't you care about me? Even if you're angry with me or hate me, just beat me and vent your anger. I only hope that you can talk to me for a while."

  Ling Jing's hands paused slightly, feeling a bit stifled in his heart. He thought to himself, "I was actually ridiculed by a beautiful woman in my sleep, this is truly embarrassing."

  At this time, Yue Lingxuan said: "Do you know? I secretly created a sword technique with the eldest martial brother, just to give you a surprise. Originally, I wanted to practice it well and then teach it to you, so that you wouldn't look down on me again. But why did you misunderstand me?"

  At this point, Yue Lingxuan's voice was already trembling with sobs, and two tears slowly seeped out from the corners of her eyes.

  Ling Jing helped her wipe away the tears from the corner of her eyes, and he was somewhat worried in his heart. Actually, after being in contact with Yue Lingxuan recently, he had already understood Yue Lingxuan's feelings for him, and probably could also sense that there might be some ulterior motives behind the "Chongling Sword Technique" incident. This woman's deep affection for him made it unlikely that she would do anything to wrong him.

  At this time, hearing her murmurs, it was natural to know that a person in a dream would not lie at all. At the moment, she only sighed and heard Yue Lingxuan say: "You have been smarter than others since you were young, learning anything is always faster than us. Although the time spent learning martial arts is the latest, there is no one who can really beat you except for Big Brother Shifu. I found Big Brother Shifu to create a new sword technique just to make you look at me differently. I didn't know that Big Brother Shifu had that kind of intention towards me, and when practicing swords, he was just like you. Ling Jing, don't be angry with me anymore, okay?"

  Yue Lingxuan's voice gradually faded away, but Ling Jing's face suddenly became somewhat uncertain. Yue Lingxuan's words had dispelled many of his doubts, and now that he thought about it, it seemed that he was indeed the one who had been young and impulsive back then. After seeing Linghu Chong and Yue Lingxuan use that sword technique together, he had become enraged and attacked them with all his might, thinking that Yue Lingxuan had betrayed their friendship. He had stormed off for three days, and from then on, he had never spoken a word to those two again, even avoiding them during martial arts practice.

  Now that I think about it carefully, there were indeed many suspicious things about what happened back then. Before the incident, Yuen Ling Shan and I hadn't had any unpleasantness between us, she was still as usual, always clinging to me to play and practice martial arts, without anything out of the ordinary.

  At this time, he smiled coldly and already understood in his heart that there must be something unusual about Linghu Cong's thoughts to separate himself from Yue Lingshan.

  "No wonder he was so impatient that day and wanted to practice that set of sword moves in front of his master and mistress."

  He had some reservations in his heart, and his good impression of Linghu Cong had also dropped to an all-time low.

  Then he stretched out his hand and gently stroked the pale face of Yue Lingshan, knowing that she must have suffered a lot in the past year or so.

  But he also knew that before his own transmigration, "he" had been unhappy too, always thinking that his most respected senior brother had snatched away the woman he loved with a horizontal sword, and who could understand the knot in his heart.

  But in this matter, neither "oneself" nor Yue Ling-shan is to blame. The fault lies with Linghu Cong's evil intentions, which have caused "oneself" and Yue Ling-shan to be estranged for so long.

  That night, Ling Jing quietly guarded Yue Lingshan in front of her bed until nearly five watches, seeing Yue Lingshan's face gradually recovering its color, and her breathing slowly stabilizing, knowing that the chill on her body was dissipating, and she was no longer in danger. Only then did he let out a sigh of relief, taking advantage of the time before dawn to hurry back to Si Gu Ya.

  He set out from the foot of the mountain before the fifth watch and now arrived at Si Guai Cliff, where a faint light was seen in the east.

  But after entering the cave, he didn't hear any movement from Linghu Chong. Not even a sound of breathing could be heard. At this moment, he felt somewhat strange and thought to himself, "Could it be that Linghu Chong also fell off the cliff with me? But why didn't I bump into him?"

  He walked a few more steps forward, and with the faint light of dawn, he looked towards the stone bed where Linghu Chong usually rested.

  It didn't seem like a big deal at first glance, but his heart skipped a beat in an instant, and then he was overjoyed again.

  Only to see that behind Linghu Cong's stone bed, a cave of one person size suddenly appeared. He immediately understood in his heart that this must be the secret cave he had been thinking about day and night. He hastily lit a torch and crawled inside.

  After entering the cave, I only saw a narrow passageway inside. After walking two more steps, a skull appeared on the ground beside me.

  The skull lay face down, its clothes having rotted away to dust, with two large axes placed beside it, shining brightly in the light of the torches.

  Ling Jing furrowed his brow and looked at the hole, borrowing the faint light of the torches to see that the surrounding area was full of axe marks. Looking again at the skull on the ground and the two large axes beside it, he had already roughly guessed in his heart that this hole was probably dug out by this person using the two large axes.

  At this moment, he was shocked in his heart and thought, "This person has opened up such a mountain road, with determination so firm and martial arts so strong, it is indeed rare in the world for thousands of years."

  PS: Second update, starting strange encounter upgrade.....