“You really are… a wild bull!” Ning Zhongze murmured softly, her languid voice revealing her satisfaction.

Nie Yun embraced the beautiful woman, kissed her, and said softly, “My master’s wife is as beautiful as a fairy, and so tight down there. Of course, I have to do my best to serve her. How was it? Did I feel good when I penetrated you just now?”

“You…” Ning Zhongze wanted to punch him, but her weak arms couldn’t lift up, so she could only tap his chest a few times without much pain.

“You little rascal! You’re always saying such vulgar things to annoy me!” Ning Zhongze rolled her eyes at Nie Yun, her delicate eyebrows furrowed, her expression a mix of gentle anger and charm.

Nie Yun smiled and gently played with her round, jade-like breasts with both hands. “Master’s wife, Shan’er knows about us.”

“What?”

Ning Zhongze was terrified. She tried to sit up, but because of the passion just now, her whole body was weak. She could only barely support herself on Nie Yun’s chest and asked anxiously, “You…you’re telling the truth? Shan’er really knows?”

Nie Yun smiled and pulled her into his arms. “Don’t worry, I’ve already had a good talk with Shan’er. I told her…”

He recounted the story he had told Yue Lingshan that day. Ning Zhongze listened in stunned silence, feeling both angry and amused. However, upon hearing that Yue Lingshan had accepted the matter, she was relieved.

Although it might be a little awkward to see her daughter in the future, it’s still better than living in constant fear like this now.

She reached out and pinched Nie Yun’s cheek, laughing and scolding, “You little rascal, you just spout nonsense! ‘Old house on fire,’ I ask you, who’s the old house? Hmm? Which one caught fire and burned quickly? Tell me!”

Nie Yun was speechless. Women’s thought processes are always so peculiar. Shouldn’t your focus be on the issue of mothers and daughters sharing a husband?

After lingering for a while, Nie Yun said, “Master’s wife, I need to go down the mountain tomorrow.”

“Why are we going down the mountain again?” Ning Zhongze asked, puzzled.

Nie Yun chuckled and patted her smooth, plump buttocks. “Although I have now learned the Zixia Divine Skill and the Dugu Nine Swords, and also learned the Five Mountains Sword Technique through the stone cave inscriptions, I am still far from being a top master. I thwarted the Songshan Sect’s two conspiracies, and they hate me to the bone. I must make preparations early. This time, I’m going down the mountain to find another master’s legacy.”

After hearing this, Ning Zhongze, though reluctant, knew the priorities. She touched Nie Yun’s face and said with concern, “Then you must be careful on your journey. I’ll be waiting for you to come back at Mount Hua.”

Seeing her like a wife seeing her husband off, Nie Yun felt a surge of tenderness in his heart. He took Ning Zhongze’s hand and held it to his chest, saying softly, “Don’t worry, I will take good care of myself for you. By the way, how’s your swordsmanship practice in the stone cave going?”

Speaking of this, Ning Zhongze perked up immediately, “Shan’er and I have mastered all the Five Mountains Sword Techniques and their counter moves, and we practice together every day. Moreover, I have found that Shan’er and I are both much more talented than before. We can remember the moves at a glance and they are easy to learn and master when we practice.”

Nie Yun chuckled and said, “That’s because I’ve put in so much effort and dedication in bed that you guys are so amazing.”

“Tch!” Ning Zhongze laughed and punched him lightly. “You’re talking nonsense again!”

“I’m not making this up. As the saying goes, flowers long for rain. I shower you with so much dew every time, nourishing your body and mind, so you will naturally become more and more beautiful and outstanding.”

Ning Zhongze was so embarrassed by his words that she started to wrestle with him.

Looking at the bouncing breasts of the beautiful woman, Nie Yun felt a surge of lust. He pushed Ning Zhongze down and lewdly said, “I’m afraid I won’t be back for more than ten days. Before I leave, I’ll have to satisfy you properly!”

“Ah! You still want more… um… no more… ah… you bad guy… woo… woo… woo…” Ning Zhongze tried to struggle, but Nie Yun’s kiss silenced her.

Soon, another lewd melody filled the room again…

That evening, Nie Yun took Yue Lingshan and Qu Feiyan to the back mountain and told them that he was going down the mountain.

“Shan’er, after I leave, your master’s wife will be teaching all the junior brothers and sisters. You must practice martial arts diligently and not slack off. Feifei, you should also learn swordsmanship from Shan’er. As for internal energy cultivation, you don’t need to rush. When I return, I will teach you a profound internal energy cultivation method.”

Although Qu Feiyan did not become a disciple of the Huashan Sect, since they were all his women, Nie Yun would not show favoritism. Ning Zhongze originally had some concerns, but he persuaded her with his actions.

“Yes, don’t worry, senior brother, I’ll take good care of Fei Yan. Be careful on your journey.”

“Brother Nie, I will definitely listen to Sister Yue and Lady Ning, don’t worry.”

Although neither woman wanted to be separated from their lovers, neither of them made a fuss. Yue Lingshan was no longer the naive and innocent girl who was protected by her parents and knew nothing in the original story. Qu Feiyan had also lost her original innocence after her experience of washing her hands of the martial arts world. They both knew that the martial arts world was all about one thing: the strong prey on the weak.

Nie Yun felt a warmth in his heart, hugged the two of them, and said softly, “Don’t worry, I will take good care of myself, because I want to love you both for the rest of my life.”

“Senior brother/Brother Nie…” The two leaned against Nie Yun’s chest, feeling incredibly sweet inside.

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Early the next morning, Nie Yun bid farewell to everyone and descended the mountain alone. He bought a fast horse and headed straight for Jiayuguan.

Jiayuguan, known as the “First Pass Under Heaven,” is located at the Jiayu Mountain Pass in Gansu Province.

This pass was first built in the fifth year of the Hongwu reign of the Ming Dynasty. The city walls on both sides run across the desert, connecting the Black Mountain Hanging Great Wall to the north and the First Beacon Tower Under Heaven to the south. It is the westernmost pass of the Ming Great Wall and a necessary route to the Western Regions.

Nie Yun sped along and arrived at the foot of this majestic pass on this day.

The Ming Dynasty was in a state of chaos, its military was in disarray, and its border troops had long lost the prestige of the Hongwu and Yongle eras. Nie Yun tossed over a silver ingot and easily left the pass.

Beyond Jiayuguan Pass lies the Western Regions, which were no longer part of the Ming Dynasty’s territory but were under the rule of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.

At this point, there were less than twenty days left until the date he had agreed upon with the other sect leaders, so he had no interest in admiring the desert scenery and headed straight for Kunlun Mountain.

Kunlun Mountain, known as the “Ancestor of Ten Thousand Mountains,” holds an extremely important position in Chinese culture. Standing at the foot of the mountain, Nie Yun looked at the majestic peaks and murmured, “God help me, I hope I guessed right.”

His eyes were closed, he was muttering incantations, and his hands were constantly making calculations.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes and looked at the mountain peak in the northwest. “That’s it!”

As soon as he finished speaking, his body trembled violently, and a trickle of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.

Nie Yun wiped his hand and said with a wry smile, “It works well, but the price is too high.”

He just used a divination technique recorded in the Mysterious Jade Disc, which can predict good and bad fortune, find objects and people, and observe auras and trends. It is incredibly accurate and wondrous.

However, this art of discerning the secrets of heaven should not be used lightly.

Cultivators in the ancient era of immortal cultivation seized the power of heaven and earth, so using it was naturally no problem for them. But ordinary people would have to pay a price for using it.

It’s fine to use it to calculate inanimate objects that have little impact, as it only causes damage to qi and blood. But if it’s used to calculate things or living people that have a significant impact, it can cause serious illness at best, and death or even death at worst.

Nie Yun was also desperate and had no other choice but to give it a try, because what he was looking for was really too important.

Although his blood and qi were churning inside him and his internal organs were slightly aching, Nie Yun felt that it was all worthwhile as he felt the winding red line in his mind.

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In the middle of the cliffs of the northwestern branch of Kunlun lies a snow valley, teeming with life and hidden within, where many creatures live.

Today, an uninvited guest arrived here.

Nie Yun traversed mountains and valleys, finally arriving at this valley. He saw snow-capped peaks piercing the clouds on both sides, lush green grass under his feet, and a large waterfall cascading down a cliff in the distance, leading to a deep pool below.

Nie Yun, disregarding the beautiful scenery, searched incessantly along the mountain walls on both sides. After searching for a long time, he finally saw several large characters hidden by a patch of weeds: “Zhang Wuji’s Buried Sutra Site”.

Nie Yun reached into the hole next to him and dug around for a while, when he suddenly touched something square like a piece of cloth.

His heart was pounding as he gently took the thing out.

The object was tightly wrapped in oilcloth, about the thickness of a hand, and its shape appeared to be a book or something similar.

Nie Yun held his breath and gently unwrapped the oilcloth. Inside was a stack of books, with a few crooked characters written on the cover of the top book.

Nie Yun gently lifted the cover. The book seemed to have been stored for a long time. Although it was wrapped in oilcloth, the paper was very fragile, so Nie Yun’s movements were very delicate.

Opening the cover, one sees that the book is filled with the same curved text as the cover, but between each line are tiny Chinese characters written in fine script.

He focused his attention and examined the text closely, discovering that it contained the mental techniques for cultivating internal energy. Suppressing his overwhelming joy, he silently memorized it. In the blink of an eye, he had finished one book and turned to the next.

As I was reciting it, I suddenly saw a line of text: “Breathe in the nine yangs, embrace the one and contain the primordial essence; this book may be named the ‘Nine Yang True Scripture’.”

Nie Yun’s lips curled up. He took a deep breath to calm himself down and then continued reciting.

In the blink of an eye, he finished memorizing four books. The next two books were not internal martial arts manuals, but a medical book and a book called “Wang Nangu’s Poison Classic”.

Nie Yun knew that although these two books were not martial arts manuals, their contents were extremely valuable, so he quickly focused his mind on memorizing them.

And so, Nie Yun sat there for the entire morning, memorizing all six books and confirming that his memory was correct before standing up.

As soon as he stood up, Nie Yun felt dizzy and saw stars in front of his eyes.

He reached out and held onto the mountain wall, and it took him a while to come to his senses.

He was hungry and tired, but he was also very excited.

“Hehe…hehe…hahahaha…” He first chuckled softly, then his voice grew louder, and finally he burst into laughter like a madman, even laughing until tears streamed down his face.

Despite the arduous journey, the depletion of his own energy and blood, and the crossing of mountains and valleys, all his hard work paid off. He finally obtained the Nine Yang Divine Skill, Hu Qingniu’s Medical Classic, and Wang Nangu’s Poison Classic.

“Zhang Wuji, Zhang Wuji, I really have to thank you!”

Nie Yun muttered to himself, “If I have the chance to go to the world of Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, I will definitely help you get rid of the cold poison and also help you solve your physiological problems.”

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A lone plume of smoke rises straight from the desert, while the setting sun hangs round over the long river.

On the city wall of Jiayuguan, several soldiers stood lazily leaning against their rifles.

“Old Song, you still haven’t won over that young widow in the west of the city? Want me to give you some advice?” A soldier in his thirties said with a smile. He had a gap in his ear and a mouthful of yellow teeth.

“Get lost, get lost! With your skills, you dare to give me advice! You’re just sitting there with your dick in your hand all day, staring blankly!” The dark-faced man next to him laughed and cursed. “I’m just simmering it over a low flame, what do you know!”

“Hahaha… Brother Song, you’ve been simmering this for way too long! It’s been half a month already!”

“Get the hell out of here! I’m still better than you. You’ll all be envious once I get married!”

The two were chatting and laughing when suddenly a soldier pointed into the distance and shouted, “Look, what’s that?”

The group looked in the direction he was pointing and saw a black dot moving towards the pass from the horizon.

It was incredibly fast; in just a few breaths, it transformed from a tiny black dot into a blurry, visible figure.

The yellow-toothed soldier was taken aback. “It’s actually a pedestrian!”

Old Song squinted and said in a deep voice, “Something’s not right. How can one person be that fast? Brothers, get your bows and arrows ready!”

The men quickly took out their hard bows and nocked arrows.

The figure moved swiftly, and soon the soldiers on the city wall could make out his appearance. The man was dressed in fine clothes and had a handsome face; he was indeed a dashing young gentleman.

Old Song shouted, “Stop! What are you doing?”

The man didn’t answer, but just kept walking forward with his head down.

“Damn it! Fire the arrows!”

At a command, several soldiers fired their arrows, and with a whooshing sound, more than a dozen arrows shot towards the man.

The man laughed heartily, reached out and drew his sword. Without any apparent movement, he deflected all the incoming arrows, remaining completely unharmed.

Moreover, while his hands were moving, his feet did not stop at all, and he arrived at the foot of the city wall in a few steps.

He looked up at the city wall, a slight smile playing on his lips. With a sudden leap, he soared high into the air, spinning rapidly through the air, completing four circles, each higher than the last.

When his strength was exhausted, the man kicked off the city wall again, his body rose up once more, and then with a turn, he landed lightly and gracefully on the city gate tower.

The soldiers had never seen anything like it before, and they were so frightened that they retreated repeatedly, their hands holding their spears trembling uncontrollably.

If any of them had a deep understanding of martial arts theory, they would surely be greatly surprised to see this uninvited guest.

The man’s eyes did not reveal any brilliance, but rather a subtle, warm, and crystalline quality, indicating that his internal strength had reached its pinnacle.

The young master tossed out a silver ingot, saying, “Take this and have a drink! Don’t be so reckless next time!” With that, he leaped into the air like a large bird and headed into the city.

The soldiers looked at each other, horrified.

This person was naturally Nie Yun, who had returned from Kunlun Mountain. After obtaining the true scriptures in the Snow Valley that day, he immediately began cultivating there.

With the help of the Mysterious Jade Disc, and with all his meridians open and his body’s meridians completely unobstructed, he didn’t need to hold his breath and squeeze his energy in the Qiankun One Qi Bag like Zhang Wuji did to fully master it.

In just five days, the Nine Yang Divine Skill was successfully completed.

Nie Yun felt as if mercury was flowing through his meridians, making him feel incredibly comfortable.

At this moment, he finally possessed the strength to be unparalleled in the world.

On the way back, Nie Yun felt that riding a horse was too slow, so he used his lightness skill to walk.

The Huashan Sect’s lightness skill is not well-known in the martial arts world, but its origins are extraordinary.

The founder of the Huashan School was Hao Datong of the Quanzhen School. Although he did not achieve the same fame in the martial arts world as Qiu Chuji and Wang Chuyi, he was one of the Seven Masters of Quanzhen. Therefore, the lightness skill of the Huashan School was inherited from the Golden Goose Skill of the Quanzhen School.

Although the Golden Goose Skill is a basic lightness skill, if one masters it to an extremely high level, its power is also boundless.

When Guo Jing was young, he could climb cliffs that were tens of feet high on his own after only a short period of training. By the time of The Return of the Condor Heroes, he could even use his profound internal strength to step up the smooth city walls, leaping more than ten feet in one step, which shows how powerful this lightness skill was.

Moreover, Mount Hua is known as the “most dangerous place under heaven”. The plank road built on the cliff is only eight inches wide and more than ten feet long. It is empty and people’s legs go weak when they go up it. However, the disciples of Mount Hua have to pass through here every day. If they do not train themselves to be as light as a swallow and walk on flat ground, they may not be able to leave the gate.

In addition, after he killed Tian Boguang that day, he found a secret manual on his body, which was the lightness skill “Floating Clouds for Ten Thousand Miles” that Tian Boguang relied on to become famous.

The reason why Tian Boguang was able to run rampant for years and no one could stop him was because of his sharp knife and his light footwork.

Once unleashed, it was as swift as a galloping horse, with speed unmatched by anyone. This is the origin of Tian Boguang’s nickname “Wandering Alone for Ten Thousand Miles”.

The Golden Goose Skill is characterized by its lightness and leaping ability, even allowing one to walk in mid-air. The Floating Clouds Skill emphasizes its incredible speed, making it suitable for traveling and chasing. The combination of these two profound lightness skills has an effect that is not as simple as “1+1=2”. Even if Nie Yun’s lightness skills are not the best in the martial arts world, there are only a handful of people who can surpass him.

At this time, Nie Yun’s Nine Yang Divine Skill had been perfected. His internal energy was generated at an incredibly fast speed and was inexhaustible. When he used his lightness skill, he could run all day without getting tired. Moreover, the more effort he exerted, the more energetic he became.

He rode a horse from Jiayuguan to Kunlun Mountain, which took him four days, but he returned in just two days.

After entering the pass, Nie Yun found an inn, booked a superior room, and took a good time to wash away the dust of his journey.

He lay in bed and began to slowly study the medical and poison techniques left behind by Hu Qingniu and Wang Nangu.