Chapter 46: Sister Ning, Ponder This Carefully

Yu Xian of Beyond the Heavens not only killed the Qingcheng Sect Leader upon his debut to protect the Fuwei Escort Agency, but then wiped out the entire Songshan Sect. Rumor has it he even challenged the Tian Gang Bei Dou Formation at the Quanzhen Sect and defeated The Seven Masters of Quanzhen.

Judging by Yu Xian’s previous actions, he wasn’t someone who killed indiscriminately without reason, yet his methods of killing were extremely brutal; he often slaughtered large groups of people with a single sword strike to the throat.

He was truly a figure of both righteousness and evil, impossible to fathom.

Beyond the Heavens, a mysterious and powerful hidden Sect, had its calm disrupted by just one person, Yu Xian, stirring up the Jianghu.

Many people wanted to inquire about the location of this Beyond the Heavens, but no one knew.

Yu Xian himself was elusive; no one knew where his next destination would be.

And the mysterious Yu Xian was currently traveling leisurely with Ning Zhongze and Little Dragon Girl, heading toward Mountain.

Why go to Mountain? Since he had swept through Shaolin Temple, how could Mountain be omitted? The foremost pillar of the Martial Forest could not be visited by only one.

Yu Xian was quite envious of Martial Forest myth Zhang Sanfeng’s Tai Chi Divine Skill, so he decided to make a stop at Mountain, enjoying the scenery along the way to learn more about this world.

“Your legends are everywhere in the Jianghu now,” Ning Zhongze said to Yu Xian with a smile.

They were resting and drinking tea at a roadside stall at the time, and they overheard some Jianghu figures discussing Yu Xian of Beyond the Heavens.

They spoke with great animation, as if they had been standing right beside Yu Xian when he was killing people.

By now, he had heard all sorts of legends about himself. If he weren’t Yu Xian, he would believe that the Yu Xian who could fly and burrow through the earth was real.

Yu Xian managed a helpless smile. “Is Sister Ning teasing me?”

“Not at all, I just never expected my little brother to be so famous now.” Ning Zhongze refilled Yu Xian’s tea.

“This is not what I intended. I just wanted to travel around quietly with Sister Ning and Long’er. Sister Ning, you know me; I detest trouble.”

Now that he was so famous, if his whereabouts were exposed, it would likely attract a lot of trouble.

Moreover, two words came to his mind: engineered downfall.

Now that Yue Buqun had become the alliance leader of the Four Peaks Sword Sect, if this matter was being pushed by him from behind the scenes, then the intent of ‘engineered downfall’ was very strong.

Of course, it could also be someone else, like Shaolin Temple.

In fact, the possibility of Shaolin Temple pushing things behind the scenes was higher than Old Yue’s. Because the Five Peaks Sword Sect was now reduced to four peaks, although Old Yue had become the leader, Old Yue’s enemy, for the time being, was not him, but Invincible East of the Sun Moon Holy Cult.

With the strongest Songshan Sect gone from the Five Peaks Sword Sect, Old Yue had to exhaust all his efforts guarding against the Demonic Cult taking advantage of the situation. So, where would he have time to deal with him? Of course, this wasn’t absolute.

But Shaolin Temple was different. Shaolin had secretly supported Songshan Sect all along. Now that he had destroyed Songshan Sect, he had cut into Shaolin’s profits; it would be strange if Shaolin let him off.

When he went to Shaolin for his sign-in, he had hoped to avoid conflict with Shaolin; he hadn’t thought that far ahead then. Now that his fame was booming, the clues were starting to emerge.

“Could this be deliberately done by someone with ulterior motives?” Ning Zhongze also raised the question.

Upon hearing this, Yu Xian looked approvingly at Ning Zhongze.

Heroine Ning is smart; she figured it out so quickly! As expected of an experienced Jianghu figure, she grasped the key point immediately.

“Someone is behind the Songshan Sect.” Seeing the expression on Yu Xian’s face, Ning Zhongze knew she had guessed correctly, and immediately realized something.

“Kill them,” Little Dragon Girl interjected coldly from the side.

Both Yu Xian and Ning Zhongze looked towards Little Dragon Girl simultaneously.

Had this child gone too far, killing people indiscriminately? Had they corrupted her?

“It’s all your fault!” Ning Zhongze glared at Yu Xian.

The original Little Dragon Girl was so pure, but now she carried a trace of Evil Qi. It was all Yu Xian’s fault for taking her along to kill so many people.

“Long’er, we don’t know who it is yet, so how can we kill them? Don’t be so bloodthirsty,” Ning Zhongze quickly persuaded Little Dragon Girl.

“He knows,” Little Dragon Girl looked at Yu Xian.

“You know?”

“You know?”

Two identical sentences, but one was spoken by Yu Xian to Little Dragon Girl, and the other by Ning Zhongze to Yu Xian.

“He is so calm; he must know about the conspiracy behind this,” Little Dragon Girl explained.

Although she didn’t know who was behind it, she knew Yu Xian definitely did.

Hearing this, Ning Zhongze nodded in agreement with Little Dragon Girl’s assessment, then looked at Yu Xian, signaling him to tell her.

She had guessed someone was behind the Songshan Sect, but she couldn’t figure out who.

“Who was Songshan Sect closest to?” Yu Xian didn’t answer directly but asked Ning Zhongze in return.

Ning Zhongze paused, her eyes showing disbelief, questioning with her gaze if Yu Xian had misspoke. But Yu Xian slightly nodded, confirming Ning Zhongze’s thought.

“This… it can’t be, right? That’s a pillar of the Martial Forest; I never heard of any connection between the two,” Ning Zhongze said doubtfully, finding it unlikely.

Yu Xian smiled. “If people noticed, how could they control things in secret?”

The Songshan Sect was merely a shield pushed out by Shaolin Temple.

Otherwise, why would you think Songshan allowed two Sects to exist, even if they were on different peaks? And Zuo Lengchan had such great ambition; why wouldn’t he monopolize Songshan?

Shaolin Temple held a transcendent position in the Martial Forest, yet they allowed the Songshan Sect to flaunt its power on Mount Song.

Sister Ning, ponder this carefully.”

Ning Zhongze recalled that Zuo Lengchan intended to control the Five Peaks Sword Sect and had secretly gathered quite a few heretical factions, committing many heinous acts against the Five Peaks. Could Shaolin not know about this?

They must have known recently, but as the orthodox power of the Martial Forest, they let it slide. A deep thought revealed the horror!

“This…” Ning Zhongze suddenly didn’t know what to say.

In her impression, Shaolin Temple had always been the entity leading righteousness in the Jianghu, a great School possessing both strength and prestige. Who would have thought they were like this behind the scenes?

“Are they trying to consolidate their status in the Jianghu and command the Martial Forest?” Ning Zhongze asked Yu Xian. She believed Yu Xian must know the reason.

“Sister Ning is indeed smart, understanding immediately. You saw the truth at a glance; it is indeed so. You all know that Shaolin Temple and Mountain are called the two pillars of the Martial Forest, forming a structure of ‘Northern Songshan, Southern Venerable Mountain.'”

“After Immortal Master Zhang’s Demon Suppression Campaign, Mountain’s prestige and status reached its peak, and Shaolin was already faintly unable to compete.

Shaolin naturally feared losing its status and worried that in the future, people in the Martial Forest would only respect Mountain and not revere Shaolin. Therefore, they began plotting in the Jianghu, intending to subdue all forces in the Jianghu, unify the Martial Forest, and become the Supreme ruler of the Martial Forest.”

“Sister Ning, do you know that the Sword Qi Dispute in your Huashan Sect back then also had Shaolin’s hand in it secretly?” After explaining why Shaolin did what it did, Yu Xian asked Ning Zhongze.

“What? The mastermind behind our Huashan Sect’s Sword Qi Dispute was Shaolin?” Ning Zhongze once again looked at Yu Xian in disbelief.