Chapter 8: Sect Secret Book
Wang Ming's medicinal materials were running low again, so as usual, he was carrying a bamboo basket in the mountains, searching for useful herbs everywhere. This was a skill he had to learn after coming to this world, as practicing martial arts consumed too much energy.

Suddenly, a loud shout was heard coming from the corner ahead.

"Who? Come out."

Wang Ming was startled, but when he listened carefully and realized it was Yue Buqun's voice, he slowly calmed down and walked forward.

“Greetings, Master!”

As soon as Wang Ming came out, he saw Yue Buqun, who was on full alert with his sword half drawn.

"Ming'er! What are you doing in the back mountain?" Yue Buqun gradually put away his defensive posture when he saw that it was Wang Ming.

"Master! I came to the back mountain to collect some medicinal herbs." Wang Ming replied respectfully.

Yue Buqun took a look at the herbs in the basket on Wang Ming's back and believed what Wang Ming said.

"When you were collecting herbs in the back mountain, did you find anything unusual?" Yue Buqun asked.

"Unusual! I wonder if this counts?" Wang Ming took out a piece of cloth from his body.

Yue Buqun took the rag from Wang Ming's hand, then took out a piece of the same cloth from his other hand, and then looked at it silently, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Master! What's going on?"

"Hey! Someone wants to go to the back mountain to look for the successor of the Sword Sect." Yue Buqun said worriedly.

"Didn't all the Sword Sect members die?" Wang Ming asked pretending to be ignorant.

"A centipede is dead but still alive. There will always be some fish that slip through the net. Don't worry about them. Don't come to the back mountain recently. It's not very safe."

Yue Buqun gave some instructions and then walked ahead towards the Huashan Villa.

Along the way, Yue Buqun occasionally asked Wang Ming about his cultivation progress, and Wang Ming answered one by one. Not long after, Wang Ming and his companions arrived at the Huashan Villa. When they were about to separate, Yue Buqun suddenly called Wang Ming.

"Gather all the disciples and wait for me at the Cliff of Repentance."

"Yes! Disciple will go there right away."

Wang Ming returned to his yard, put down his backpack, and went to notify all his disciples to go to the Cliff of Repentance.

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"Among the Nine Skills of Huashan, Zixia is the best."

“In order to better pass on our sect’s highest martial arts skills, we need to first examine Linghu Chong’s progress in martial arts.” Yue Buqun said while standing on a high place.

Wang Ming stood among the disciples, watching Yue Buqun's performance quietly.

Yue Buqun also has good intentions for Linghu Chong.

No one could object to directly teaching Linghu Chong the "Purple Cloud Secret Book".

but…

Doing so may easily cause some disciples to think that Linghu Chong's status is entirely due to Yue Buqun's favoritism, rather than Linghu Chong's ability, which will be detrimental to Linghu Chong's future leadership of the Huashan Sect.

It's been a lot of effort.

So he deliberately arranged Ning Zhongze to be a stepping stone to boost Linghu Chong's reputation.

When Ning Zhongze and Linghu Chong were about to fight,
"Madam, wait a minute. Wang Ming, go and practice with your senior brother." Yue Buqun suddenly interrupted the two of them, not knowing what he was thinking.

Ning Zhongze didn't understand what Yue Buqun meant, but she would never go against Yue Buqun's opinion in public and embarrass him, so she stepped back and used her lightness skills to fly to the stone where Yue Buqun was standing.

Wang Ming also obediently came down to fight Linghu Chong, and walked to the opposite side of Linghu Chong under the watch of many disciples.

"Big Brother! Please give me your guidance." Wang Ming saluted with his sword.

"Junior brother! Please!" Linghu Chong returned the greeting.

Wang Ming was his junior fellow student, so he made the first move.

Wang Ming used the most common Huashan basic swordsmanship, and Linghu Chong used the same basic swordsmanship. Neither of them had any killing intent, and they just stood there on the field, fighting each other with one move after another.

After a while, the fight lasted for thirty rounds. The fellow apprentices cheered continuously, but Lao Yue's face turned black because he could tell at a glance how they were dealing with him.

"You two, be serious!" Yue Buqun shouted

When Wang Ming and the other man heard what Yue Buqun said, they knew they had no chance of getting away with it. They looked at each other and knew they had to get serious.

Linghu Chong's swordsmanship at this time was no longer the rigid and unchanging Huashan swordsmanship. It became very flexible, with all kinds of strange moves used inadvertently, fully demonstrating the strange and dangerous characteristics of Huashan swordsmanship.

Wang Ming was suppressed by Linghu Chong in swordsmanship. There is no need to say much about Linghu Chong's talent in swordsmanship. Just read the original novel and you will know that Linghu Chong is really talented. Before he learned "Nine Swords of Dugu", among the younger generation, only Ren Yingying could defeat him. It is not an exaggeration to call him "the best young master of the righteous path."

Wang Ming felt that it was about time, so he planned to use a random move and pretend to be defeated by Linghu Chong.

Linghu Chong might have gotten too excited during the fight and suddenly used the moves he learned in the cave to break the Huashan sword technique.

Linghu Chong thrust his sword straight at Wang Ming's chest. Wang Ming also knew this sword move from the stone wall, which was specially created by the elders of the Demon Sect to break the Huashan sword technique. At the same time, each move was so ruthless that it was aimed at taking lives.

Linghu Chong used this move unintentionally when he got carried away. With Linghu Chong's level of cultivation, he couldn't stop this move at all and would definitely hurt Wang Ming.

"Ding"

Wang Ming had no choice but to use the Hunyuan Gong to forcibly change the direction of the sword in his hand, causing the sword to defy physical inertia and chop towards Linghu Chong's sword.

"Click"

Suddenly, the place was completely silent. Yue Lingshan opened her mouth wide, with an expression of disbelief on her face. In her impression, her fifth senior brother was ordinary except for his academic ability. He was not very sociable and was just like an ordinary person in Huashan.

I actually defeated the senior brother today, which is quite incredible.

Linghu Chong also stood there in a daze, staring blankly at the half-broken sword in his hand.

On the one hand, he felt a little regretful that he almost hurt Wang Ming. On the other hand, he couldn't believe that he lost, and lost so easily.

Yue Buqun and his wife above were equally surprised, but their expressions were well managed, with basically no changes, except for some confusion in their eyes.

Ning Zhongze was fine, he was just wondering why his five disciples' martial arts skills had improved so much.

Yue Buqun thought about a lot of things in this short period of time.

Seeing Wang Ming cut off Linghu Chong's sword, he knew that Wang Ming was hiding his strength. His first reaction was that Wang Ming was a spy. But he ruled out this possibility after thinking about it. Wang Ming was an orphan he brought back personally, and he knew his background very well. At the same time, this disciple never left the mountain after going up there, so there was no way there could be any problem.

Yue Buqun didn't have time to think about it. Looking at what was happening in front of him, he felt happy and angry at the same time.

What made him happy was that Huashan had another talented disciple, but what made him angry was Linghu Chong's swordsmanship.

Yue Buqun came back to his senses.

He criticized Linghu Chong for a while, and then Yue Buqun began to tell a story.

Wang Ming listened and knew that this was the dispute between the Sword and Qi sects, and it was also the reason why Huashan fell from the position of the leader of the Five Mountains to the last of the Five Mountains.

Afterwards, just like the original plot, Yue Buqun did not pass on the "Purple Cloud Secret Book" and took all his disciples down the mountain.

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It was evening, when Wang Ming was about to fall asleep.

Suddenly, a man in black appeared in Wang Ming's room and slapped Wang Ming with his palm.

Wang Ming was shocked. He had been living in Huashan for many years without any worries, so he had no guard against anything.

The palm power of the man in black was getting stronger and stronger. Wang Ming had now used all of his internal energy from the ninth level of Hun Yuan Gong, but he was still no match for him.

Seeing that the man in black opposite him had no internal strength at all, just when Wang Ming felt that the "Hunyuan Gong" might not be able to hold on and was about to use the internal strength of the "Vajra Indestructible Divine Art" in his middle dantian.

The man in black suddenly stopped and put some distance between them.

After taking off the veil, he looked closely and found that it was Yue Buqun, and then Ning Zhongze also appeared.

Wang Ming immediately understood, thinking to himself, "I guess it was because I broke Linghu Chong's sword that aroused their suspicion. No wonder they didn't ask me anything during the day. It turned out that they were waiting for me."

He is worthy of being the top old bitch in "Swordsman". His tricks are really deep and he almost exposed my underwear.

"Master! Madam! What are you doing?" Wang Ming didn't think for long and asked immediately after he came to his senses.

I want to test what they mean so that I can respond.

"You took more than ten of my palms just now, not bad!" Yue Buqun walked around the room, stroking his beard.

"I think you have cultivated the Hunyuan Gong to the ninth level, right?" Yue Buqun asked.

"Master has a keen eye. My disciple has indeed cultivated to the ninth level." The previous fight had already exposed it, so there was no need for Wang Ming to deny it.

"Well! Very good! Huashan has a successor, haha!!!" Yue Buqun said in a good mood
"Junior sister!" Yue Buqun shouted to Ning Zhongze who was standing beside him.

"Memorize the secret book and return it to your master immediately. Don't leak it out." Ning Zhongze handed a booklet to Wang Ming.

Wang Ming looked down and saw the words "Zixia Secret Book" on the book. This made Wang Ming stunned, and when he realized what was happening, Yue Buqun and his wife had already left the room for a long time.

"Farewell, Master! Master's Wife!" Wang Ming hurriedly said
After returning to the room, he soon understood Lao Yue's thoughts. It was just that his trumpet was useless, so he decided to start practicing the trumpet.

but……

No matter what, the benefits given are real. Looking at the secret book on the table, his thoughts were a little confused.

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the other side

Yue Buqun and his wife were walking on the path of Huashan Villa at night.

“Junior sister! Take out my treasured wine later, and we’ll have a good drink tonight.” Yue Buqun said excitedly.

"Okay, senior brother! How was your test just now?" Ning Zhongze said.

Yue Buqun turned his head to look at Ning Zhongze and said with a smile: "I found out from the palm-to-palm fight with him that Ming'er is a very pure Hun Yuan Gong, without any trace of practicing other martial arts. During the daytime fight with Chong'er, his swordsmanship was a bit ordinary, but it doesn't matter, I think he put all his energy into his internal strength."

If you practice other internal skills, your internal skills will be a little mixed. Yue Buqun can sense it, but what Yue Buqun doesn't know is that Wang Ming's "Vajra Indestructible" exists in the middle dantian, which is not a system. Using "Hunyuan Gong" will not bring out the internal power of "Vajra Indestructible Divine Skill".

"Ming'er! Why do you hide your cultivation?" Ning Zhongze asked curiously.

"Ming'er is not the type of person who likes to fight for anything. I guess he doesn't want to have a conflict with Chong'er!" Yue Buqun said casually.

"It's been difficult for him over the years." Ning Zhongze agreed with this answer.

"Junior sister! Ever since I became the head of the sect, I have been walking on thin ice all the time, fearing that Huashan would be destroyed in my hands. Now that the younger generation has finally grown up, you can relax a little."

"Yes!!!" Ning Zhongze said with emotion in the distance

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(End of this chapter)