Ma Yongtao took out the yin shou yang zhang manual he had and handed it to Huang Zhe very unwillingly. Jinshui and Huang Yu asked him to hand it over, but they only gave a slight explanation. Also, Ma Yongtao did not care enough to understand the weakness of the final part of the manual.
Xie Tianhu looked surprised, Huang Zhe also did not immediately receive the manual from Ma Yongtao's hand. Both of them showed a deep distrust.
"Take it," Ma Yongtao muttered unpatiently. "I know you two have no rights whatsoever to take this manual, but they already convinced my master and asked me to hand it to you, gave me no choice."
"Xie Tianhu, you can take this manual and perfect your yin shou yang zhang here," Jinshui said. "We descendants have arrived at Baiyu Shan, last night also received instructions from jiaozhu furen and trained wuqing xue according to the original manual in Baiyu Shan. We can perfect our martial skills in this place, it's only fair if you also have the opportunity to perfect yours."
"You want to return this manual to me just like that?" Xie Tianhu asked in disbelief.
"No one knows if this manual is real or not," Huang Zhe added, "nor do you know whether you Yumen descendants have changed its contents or what, and given to us in order to harm my master."
"You don't believe it, okay, I won't give this manual to you," Ma Yongtao said fiercely, about to put away the manual.
"This manual was written by Liangtian Jian Shen himself," Jinshui held back Ma Yongtao, took the book from him, and handed it to Huang Zhe. "Real or not, I believe Xie Qianbei couldn't possibly recognize his own master's handwriting."
Xie Tianhu stood up and immediately took the book from Jinshui's hands. He was still on his guard and thought that Jinshui or the others would make a surprise attack, but it turned out that the manual actually moved into his hands so easily.
"Shifu," Huang Zhe reminded him not to blindly believe Jinshui.
"I can recognize the handwriting of my own master," said Xie Tianhu harshly, "no one would be able to forge it to deceive me."
Xie Tianhu flipped through the pages of the book he had just received up to the last chapter with great curiosity. He had hoped that he would be able to obtain the final part of yin shou yang zhang and perfect his practice for the past few years, unexpectedly that the manual had finally arrived in his hands just like that.
"You just handed this book over to me," he was still asking Jinshui. "What is your purpose?"
"Xie Qianbei killed my parents, my hope is of course that you realize your life's purpose has been achieved and are willing to die to make amends," Huang Yu was the first to reply.
"Xie Qianbei now bears the responsibility as the entire martial world's last hope to prevent the revival of our Yumen Jiao," Jinshui spoke calmly, "of course, we gave you this manual so that you can use all your potential to master your ability to its perfection, fight us the descendants and leave everyone here no regrets. By then, if you win, we will admit it. On the other hand, if you lose, we hope that Dayue Mansion will also support us in rebuilding Yumen."
Ye Menghao and Ye Menghan looked at each other for a moment, realizing Jinshui's words were reasonable. There was only one chance to defeat the descendants and prevent the revival of Yumen Sect now, of course, no one could be dissatisfied because Xie Tianhu's yinyang palm techniques were not completed. However, regarding Dayue Mansion's support for Yumen's return, the two envoys could not make a decision right away.
"We are only here to ensure that no one disturbs Baiyu Shan," Ye Menghao said, "as well as to ensure a fair fight."
"As for whether or not Dayue Mansion will support the new Yumen Jiao, we still have to convey to our employers," continued Ye Menghan. "Only we can confirm, if Hua Shaoxia supports the principles of righteousness and doesn't violate the rules of the martial world, then Dayue Mansion also has no reason to oppose you and your friends."
"Alright, Hua-mo really appreciates the words of the two envoys," Jinshui said as well. "Xie Qianbei, how long will it take you to perfect your palm techniques and resume the fight?"
"Three days," Xie Tianhu replied without much thought. "I only need three days to learn this final section and master the yinyang palm techniques perfectly."
"All right," said Jinshui, "three days later, a life-death fight will be held here. Two envoys, sorry to trouble you both, are unable to return to Dayue Mansion for now and have to temporarily reside in these ruins."
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Lao Diaoyan and Lao Guishou were still waiting under the slopes of feicui feng. They came with all the members from Anning Hegu to join the Yumen descendants in Baiyu Shan to help rebuild their sect. Jinshui and Huang Yu went to see the two of them.
There were one hundred and eighteen people brought by Lao Diaoyan and Lao Guishou, and they followed the two leaders to salute according to the Yumen way and call out to jiaozhu when they saw Jinshui coming.
"We have recently given the task to the brothers in Anning Hegu to recruit more members," Lao Diaoyan said, "but we also asked them to be careful, so that this matter would not create problems for those who could not accept Yumen's return yet."
"According to Huang Gongzi's request, we have also spread the news that the descendants have started this movement, especially to Nanyang City," continued Lao Guishou. "As expected, this news frightened Huan Jiaozheng. That day when the ladies of Haitang Jian Pai under Xuehua Zhishou Bao Xinfei came to see him to discuss Yuan Wancui's intention of blocking Yumen's return, he said that he would first discuss it with the elders of Yongjun Hui, then let the guests leave without any promise."
"But then Huan Jiaozheng also went to look for Liangtian Jian Shen's treasures," Lao Diaoyan continued. "He wanted to strengthen himself and his sect, obviously not caring anymore that people would look down on him and think he was greedy."
"The news about this white steel fan and Liangtian Jian Shen's treasure spread faster than news of Yumen's return," continued his brother. "Many then left their homes, trying to get it, some openly confessed that they were just curious, but there were also many who secretly and did not want other people to know."
"You two had made a good bet with Huan Jiaozheng to get rid of him, it was a wise move," Jinshui said.
"How did you know we were making a bet with Huan Jiaozheng?" asked Lao Guishou, still not realizing that when Huan Jiaozheng was about to snatch the white fan from Shen Xiru's hand, Jinshui was also in the same place and watched everything, then also watched as Huan Jiaozheng lost the bet.
"Huan Jiaozheng then sent a marriage proposal to Xianjing Wang, wanting to marry his stupid son to a princess," continued Lao Diaoyan again, "at first we laughed at this ridiculous intention, thinking Xianjing Wang would flatly refuse and would declare that his daughter's marriage is an imperial matter. However, in the past Xianjing Wang also had cooperation with Yongjun Hui, and he stated that he would think about this matter first."
"Xianjing Wang has several daughters, but only Liuxin remains unmarried," Huang Yu said. "Is he going to have his men here to pick up Liuxin to marry that Huan Chaoyu?"
"We also don't know, but Huang Gongzi can talk about this with Liuxin Junzhu for now, prepare the next scenario," said Lao Diaoyan.
They walked towards the Bai Family residence to join the others, through a deserted mountain pass, deliberately avoiding the ruins of the Yumen base in order to prevent unnecessary clashes with the other people of the various sects who were still there.
"It is said that someone deliberately challenged the eight descendants in the last hope to prevent Yumen's revival," Lao Diaoyan said again, "is this really the case? That person is said to be a high-skilled figure. What if he actually won the fight later?"
"Hua Shaoxia can definitely handle it," Lao Guishou said to his brother. "All of us have come all the way here to rebuild the Yumen Jiao, it will not be in vain."
The two brothers argued for a while. Jinshui let them. The sky was clear that day, and Feicui Feng was already in front of them.
"Jiaozhu, Huang Gongzi, to be honest before becoming Wang Ruan Ya's bodyguards we were both robbers, spending dozens of years taking other people's possessions," Lao Guishou told himself without being asked. "Our group used to be very famous because the members weren't allowed to kill, mostly just allowed to scare the victims."
Lao Diaoyan laughed. That man was always cheerful and considered everyone the same as a free spirit without burdens. "The rules in our group, if you kill someone, you have to pay a huge amount of fine," he said, "I cut my leg myself because I accidentally killed an old woman. That old granny was so annoying, but when I scared her a little, she died of a heart attack right away. Forced to cut off a leg to pay the fine."
"I also blinded my own eye here," Lao Guishou added, pointing at his empty eye socket. "At that time I knew our victim was a husband who liked to cheat and beat his wife, I couldn't stand it and beat him to death."
"You accidentally killed, and killed someone who deserved to die, is there a need to punish yourself like that?" asked Huang Yu. "If you killed a wrong person, or killed someone who deserves to die, many times, then won't you become cripples and lose yourselves?"
"This is the rule in our group. If the fine only pays a certain amount of money, we can get it by stealing or robbing," said Lao Diaoyan again, "then since previous generations, this rule has been established. Of course, if you disagree, you can replace it in another way, namely by becoming a slave to the victim's family for a certain time. But most of us don't want to be slaves to people, cutting body parts ourselves is considered more honorable."
"In fact, the rules also state that if one kills or kills someone who deserves to die, they may escape punishment," added Lao Guishou. "But I and Lao Diaoyan are deputy leaders, guilty means guilty. If there are many excuses, how will we enforce the rules?"
Jinshui and Huang Yu nodded their heads. They agreed that a leader must set an example to the followers. These two men used to be the chief robbers, but their actions were truly admirable.
It was at that moment that Yaoyao's voice was calling, at the same time she also appeared there with two of her followers, running closer.
"Jiaozhu, under the mountain there are those who were killed," the girl said to Jinshui. "Lots of corpses."
They immediately followed Yaoyao and the two subordinates. About half a mile away, they found dozens of bodies lying on the ground, similar to those found by Jinshui and the others when they were about to enter the Bai Family's tomb. But it was not the treasure hunters who died because they killed each other, but were killed by someone.
"The people of Wine Valley," Huang Yu recognized the uniforms worn by those people. All of them were Wine Valley people who had left Baiyu Shan yesterday. Their two leaders were also there.
Lao Diaoyan and Lao Guishou examined the bodies and found that most of those people died with cracked, broken, and some even crushed bones. Only the two Jiuya Ersheng died with one stroke each of the swords on their bodies, very thin and deep.
"Him," Huang Yu could immediately recognize this kind of killing method. "The people of Wine Valley mastered highly skilled martial arts. How could he kill them all like this?"
"Xie Tianhu," Jinshui also recognized that distinctive way of killing. "Not true, from his character it's impossible for Xie Tianhu not to perfect his yinyang palm techniques according to the manual he just got and instead kill people here."
"Could it be my brother?" Huang Yu went back to examine the corpse. "No way, as far as I know, he doesn't have this much ability."
"We can't accuse them without clear witnesses or evidence," Jinshui said. "However a murder has occurred in the Baiyu Shan region, it cannot be ignored."
"We will investigate it," Yaoyao said.
"Yaoyao Guniang, these are Lao Diaoyan and Lao Guishou, the two Yumen member leaders of Anning Hegu," Huang Yu introduced Lao Diaoyan and Lao Guishou to Yaoyao, "they will help you guard around Baiyu Shan. This kind of killing should not happen again no matter what."
Jinshui spent the rest of that day taking care of the sect that was about to be restarted, practicing and discussing various matters with the other descendants, as well as treating his legs with Shuqin and so on. It was only towards evening that he met Xu Qiao in the room provided.
The servant told him that Xu Qiao was asleep. He nodded once and went inside the room, only to find Xu Qiao lying on the bed, alone, already asleep, and not awake when he stepped closer. Jinshui found on a nearby table a cloth that was being sewn, he didn't remember that Xu Qiao could sew, nor the reason she made that clothes.
"Qiao-er," he called gently. "Since when did she sleep?" he asked the servant.
"Since yesterday afternoon," the servant answered hesitantly.
"Where are her pills?" Jinshui asked again.
"What pills?"
Jinshui looked for the porcelain bottle containing the pills made by Yanzi and found it not far from the bed. He took out the pills from the bottle and found only eight pills left. He was about to give Xu Qiao a pill and wake her up, but after thinking further, he returned the pills back inside the bottle.
He helped Xu Qiao sit up on the bed, then began to channel his internal energy to her. Xu Qiao had insisted on only swallowing one pill Yanzi gave her every single day, letting herself sleep so she could last longer. Her condition was very weak, and she didn't dare to shadow Jinshui any longer since Huang Yu told her the truth about the leiying hua poison. Since then, she just stayed in her room crying and didn't want anyone else to know about her condition.