Chapter 91: Beset By Trouble

Whether the current Lin Yunheng had something wrong with his brain, no one knew.

But there was one thing there was no mistaking.

During his chuunibyou period, Lin Yunheng really had been seriously ill!

Even someone as experienced and knowledgeable as Lin Yuchu, before coming to the Kunlun Sword Sect, had been stunned when Lin Fengqing, with a cold laugh, filled him in on all the bizarre things Lin Yunheng had done during that chuunibyou phase of his back then, all that dark history. Even Lin Yuchu, who had long since mentally prepared himself for Lin Yunheng’s flashy nonsense, was shocked speechless.

Back then, Lin Yunheng had run away from home.

The first stop he went to was none other than the number one sword sect in the world, the Kunlun Sword Sect.

At the time, he was a talisman cultivator whose cultivation goal was talismans. Who knew what was going on in his head, but he actually ran off to the Kunlun Sword Sect to become a disciple!

A Sword Path sect…

And he even boasted especially shamelessly that since he was going to become someone’s disciple, he naturally had to choose the best. So he set his sights on the Kunlun Sword Sect’s strongest sword peak, Lonely Sword Peak.

And at the time…

Lin Yunheng really did have some skills. How should one put it?

If he did not have some ability, he would not have been able to stir up that many incidents, right?

Generally speaking, the people who can cause trouble are all capable.

Back then, Lin Yunheng properly passed the Kunlun Sword Sect’s disciple recruitment trial. He followed the formal procedure to enter the Kunlun Sword Sect, then honestly stayed in the Kunlun Sword Sect’s outer sect for more than half a year and studied the Dao for most of that time.

As for how well he studied, let us set that aside for now.

The reason he truly became famous throughout the Kunlun Sword Sect, the reason countless Kunlun Sword Sect peak masters and disciples could never forget his name, was the Lonely Sword Peak disciple selection trial half a year later.

Lonely Sword Peak was the Kunlun Sword Sect’s strongest sword peak, so its method of recruiting disciples was different from the other peaks.

Aside from people like Lin Yuchu, where the top three in the Sword Path Grand Competition held once every ten years could be exceptionally selected into Lonely Sword Peak, there was only one way left to enter Lonely Sword Peak.

That was the Lonely Sword Peak disciple recruitment trial held once every half year.

As long as one passed Lonely Sword Peak’s disciple trial, one could enter Lonely Sword Peak.

That year, Lin Yunheng went to participate in Lonely Sword Peak’s disciple trial in high spirits.

And he passed the trial!

That was right. He, a talisman Dao cultivator, had mixed into a great Sword Path sect and cultivated there for half a year.

Not only had he not been discovered, he had even successfully passed the trial of the strongest sword peak and entered the Kunlun Sword Sect’s strongest sword peak, Lonely Sword Peak.

It was practically as if he had turned on cheats!

At the time, when Lin Yuchu listened to Lin Fengqing say all this with that cold expression on his face, Lin Yuchu practically wanted to kneel to Lin Yunheng.

He felt that he could not compare to Lin Yunheng.

When it came to stirring up trouble, as expected, Lin Yunheng was still stronger.

Old ginger was still spicier.

If everything had gone smoothly, perhaps Lin Yunheng really would have become the first, and also the only, strongest talisman cultivator in the entire history of the Kunlun Sword Sect’s strongest sword peak, Lonely Sword Peak!

But in the end, Lin Yunheng’s cheat-enabled road was still sealed by the game master.

Whether one should say Lin Yunheng’s luck had been too poor, or too good, was hard to tell.

Back then, only two people in total had passed the Lonely Sword Peak trial.

And as it happened, that year, the peak master of Lonely Sword Peak was preparing to take disciples and pass down his mantle and Dao lineage.

So the two disciples who had passed the Lonely Sword Peak trial at the time were accepted as disciples by Lonely Sword Peak’s peak master.

“…” Lin Yunheng, who had suddenly been accepted as a disciple.

He felt a little panicked inside.

Then, since one was taking disciples, naturally one had to know what sort of people one’s disciples were, right?

So the Lonely Sword Peak peak master at the time raised his eyes and looked at the two youngsters standing below him, the future disciples he was about to accept.

And once he looked, things became terrible!

That brat…

That brat standing there named Lin Yunheng had not the slightest bit of sword qi on him!

“…” Lin Yunheng.

Oh no. He had been exposed.

Everyone knew what happened afterward.

Lin Yunheng, who had hidden in the Kunlun Sword Sect for as long as half a year, finally revealed himself and was discovered to not be a sword cultivator at all!

Then the entire Kunlun Sword Sect was alarmed.

Logically speaking, it was not as if the Kunlun Sword Sect had no cultivators of other Daos. Although ninety percent of the Kunlun Sword Sect’s cultivators were sword cultivators, the remaining ten percent included all kinds of other cultivators.

But Lin Yunheng was clearly not a sword cultivator, yet he had used the identity of a sword cultivator to mix into the Kunlun Sword Sect among a group of sword cultivators for as long as half a year.

He had even nearly slipped into the strongest sword peak, Lonely Sword Peak. That was very much a problem!

At the time, Lin Yunheng caused a sensation throughout the entire Kunlun Sword Sect. Such a feat was unprecedented.

Later, after Lin Fengqing heard the news, he cursed Lin Yunheng as a prodigal bastard while shamelessly writing to a friend at Taixuan Palace. He persuaded the head of Taixuan Palace to come forward and take Lin Yunheng away to Taixuan Palace.

Otherwise, at the time, Lin Yunheng might really have been chopped down by the Kunlun Sword Sect in shame and anger.

And the current peak master of Lonely Sword Peak was none other than the second of the only two disciples who had passed that year’s Lonely Sword Peak disciple trial alongside Lin Yunheng.

Of course, after Lin Yunheng’s identity as a counterfeit shoddy product was exposed…

He became the only one.

Later, after Lonely Sword Peak’s previous peak master stepped down, he succeeded him and became the new peak master.

He was the current peak master of Lonely Sword Peak, Ye Qingming.

…

Walking along Lonely Sword Peak’s mountain path…

Lin Yuchu listened as Su Hui, in another tone and another way of phrasing things, recounted what Lin Yunheng had done back then. His mood became even more complicated.

Especially when he heard Su Hui say with a smile, “After Peak Master received Martial Granduncle Lin’s handwritten letter, he was silent for a very long time.”

“He said he had not expected there would actually come such a day again, and even specially sent a message to Ancestor,” Su Hui said.

The Ancestor he spoke of was the former peak master of Lonely Sword Peak.

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Is it still in time for me to go home now?

When Lin Yuchu heard this, he simply did not dare imagine it.

It was as if someone had hammered him three times in the heart. He wanted to cough up blood!

He clearly had not done anything yet, and yet…

Had he already been put on the peak master and Ancestor’s blacklist ahead of time?

Had he become a key observation target?

Lin Yuchu was so angry he nearly vomited blood. Other people’s fathers were all scammed by their children, but his father specialized in scamming his child!

Was there anyone who scammed his son like this?

As if he were telling a joke, the more Su Hui spoke, the lighter his tone became, and even his steps seemed much brisker. “When Ancestor received Peak Master’s message, he was also silent for a long time.”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, he was also silent for a long time.

Only then did he say with difficulty, “And then?”

“What did Ancestor say?” Lin Yuchu asked.

Hearing this, Su Hui turned his head and gave him a teasing look.

The expression on his face became even more playful as he said with a smile, “Ancestor said that this time, we must investigate properly. We absolutely must not let another cultivator of some other path slip in again.”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Heh.

Hearing this, he expressionlessly tugged at the stiff corners of his mouth and said in an equally stiff tone, “Ancestor was joking.”

Seeing his expression, the smile on Su Hui’s face deepened.

“That is right!”

He looked at Lin Yuchu before him and said with a smile as well, “Peak Master said the same.”

“Master, you are joking.”

The peak master of Lonely Sword Peak, Ye Qingming, with a handsome, frost-like, merciless face, spoke to the Lonely Sword Peak Ancestor before him in a tone with no fluctuation at all. “Lin Yuchu is the champion among the youth division sword cultivators in this Sword Path Grand Competition.”

“His Sword Path talent is extraordinary and rare, a once-in-ten-thousand-years genius,” Ye Qingming said.

Hearing this, Ancestor fell silent.

A long time later…

He raised his head and looked at Ye Qingming before him, saying, “As long as you know what you are doing.”

…

“We are here.”

Su Hui brought Lin Yuchu to the residence Lonely Sword Peak had specially built for its disciples, a disciple pavilion that occupied an extremely vast area. He led him into one of the rooms and said to him, “This will be your residence from now on.”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu raised his head and glanced at the residence before him.

He saw that a very large courtyard had been built there. The courtyard was filled with all kinds of brilliantly colored flowers and plants. There was also a pavilion, and beside the pavilion was a pool. This was an independent courtyard.

And every courtyard had four rooms.

It could be counted as an exquisite and luxurious dormitory!

There was nothing to nitpick.

Lin Yuchu did not have high requirements for where he lived. It could even be said that Lonely Sword Peak’s residence exceeded his expectations.

His expression showed satisfaction. He turned his head and said to Su Hui, “Many thanks, Eldest Senior Brother.”

Seeing the expression on his face, Su Hui knew he was satisfied, and the look in his eyes became even more pleased. “At present, Lonely Sword Peak only has the three of you new disciples, so this courtyard will temporarily be occupied by you three.”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu immediately realized that the three he mentioned should refer to the top three of the Sword Path Grand Competition.

At the mention of this, Lin Yuchu immediately asked curiously, “What about the others? I mean Gu Chun and Song Jifei.”

Hearing this, Su Hui glanced at him and thought, Junior Brother Lin seems to have a good relationship with Junior Brother Gu and Junior Brother Song.

Never mind Song Jifei. The first thing Gu Chun had done after arriving at Lonely Sword Peak was also to ask about Lin Yuchu’s whereabouts.

“The two of them have matters to attend to right now and are not on the peak,” Su Hui said to him. “They arrived two days earlier than you.”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu made a sound of acknowledgement and did not ask any more.

He planned to wait until he saw Gu Chun in person before asking carefully what was going on. As for this Eldest Senior Brother before him, who seemed gentle and good-tempered on the surface but was actually unfathomable, Lin Yuchu’s intuition told him that before he knew the other party’s background, it was better to say less.

He always had the feeling that he would fall into the other party’s pit and be sold off.

Seeing his silence, Su Hui immediately revealed a smile and opened his mouth, about to say something.

But suddenly, they heard a cry. “Eldest Senior Brother!”

At the sound, Su Hui and Lin Yuchu turned their heads at the same time.

They saw a young disciple wearing the sword robes of Lonely Sword Peak hurriedly running in from outside the courtyard.

His expression looked anxious, his brows furrowed.

When he saw Su Hui, the disciple’s face immediately showed an expression as if he had been saved, and he quickly said, “Eldest Senior Brother, bad news!”

“At the Washing Sword Pool, Daoist Master Liu and Senior Uncle Li are fighting again!” the disciple said. The anxiety on his face did not seem fake, and his tone was pained as he said, “They are about to tear down the Washing Sword Pool!”

“…” Su Hui.

Lin Yuchu, who had suddenly heard two new names, was instantly stunned. He thought to himself, Who are these people?

Who was Daoist Master Liu?

And who was Senior Uncle Li?

But Su Hui, who stood beside him, had his expression immediately turn solemn the very first moment he heard this, his brows sinking.

He also looked as if he were facing a great enemy.

“This is bad. Daoist Master Liu actually ran into Senior Uncle Li again,” Su Hui murmured. “Didn’t we say those two had to be kept separated?”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu, who stood beside him, immediately glanced sideways at him.

He thought, You just said something very frightening!

As expected, this person was black-hearted once cut open.

“Little Junior Brother!”

Just as Lin Yuchu was inwardly criticizing Su Hui, Su Hui suddenly turned his head and looked at him with an utterly serious expression.

“…” Lin Yuchu.

All along the way, he had seen Su Hui looking composed and at ease, perfectly capable of handling everything. Suddenly seeing him with such a grave and cold expression instead made Lin Yuchu feel strange inside.

But he still said, “Eldest Senior Brother, go ahead.”

Hearing this, Su Hui’s expression became gratified, but his tone was heavy as he said, “I have something I must go handle first. Little Junior Brother, wait for me here for now.”

After hearing this, Lin Yuchu quickly said, “Eldest Senior Brother, since you have something to handle, go take care of it first.”

“I am not in a hurry,” he said.

Then Su Hui said to him, “Good child,” and hurriedly followed the disciple who had come to report the news, turning and leaving.

Only Lin Yuchu was left standing alone in the courtyard.

After Su Hui left…

There was not a single person around. It was quiet and still, which instead let Lin Yuchu breathe a sigh of relief.

He could not help reaching up to rub his forehead, feeling that all of this was just too much…

The things that had happened today alone were more numerous, dangerous, and exciting than everything from the past month combined.

Was this the bearing of a great sect?

Finally, he was the only one left and could catch his breath.

However, before Lin Yuchu could even breathe out, a sentence suddenly barged in loudly.

“Su Hui!”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Before that breath had even settled, he suddenly heard this shout. It instantly rose again and lodged in his chest.

Lin Yuchu, who had almost choked himself to death on that breath, “…”

What the hell, this is just my damn luck!

What is going on with all of this!

Lin Yuchu forcibly made the expression on his face calm and composed, refusing to reveal a ferocious, twisted expression that looked like he wanted to kill someone.

He tightened his face, turned expressionlessly, and looked toward the entrance ahead.

He saw a handsome young man wearing the sword robes of Lonely Sword Peak walking in hurriedly from outside.

When the man saw Lin Yuchu, his expression went blank.

Then he asked, “Who are you?”

“Where is Su Hui?”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Lin Yuchu looked at him and said calmly, “I am a new disciple who arrived today. Eldest Senior Brother had something to do just now and went out.”

“What matter?” Hearing this, the man immediately furrowed his brows and said in an unfriendly tone, “Has Su Hui forgotten what day it is today? What could possibly be more important than Little Martial Uncle’s matter?”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, a surge of explosive feeling immediately welled up in his heart.

He wanted to kill someone.

Are all you people from Lonely Sword Peak like this?

Why are there so many things going on?

And who is Little Martial Uncle now?

…

Lin Yuchu looked at the newcomer before him, whose brows were furrowed and whose expression was unfriendly, and said in a calm tone, “I do not know what you need Eldest Senior Brother for, nor do I know who Little Martial Uncle is.”

“Eldest Senior Brother was called to the Washing Sword Pool. I heard that Daoist Master Liu and Senior Uncle Li started fighting,” Lin Yuchu said in a flat, deadpan tone.

“…” The newcomer.

Hearing this, the handsome young man who had still looked irritable just now instantly calmed down, and he said calmly, “Since that is the case, then let us not disturb Eldest Senior Brother.”

After saying this, he fell suspiciously silent for a moment.

Only after a long while did he say in a heavy tone, “Eldest Senior Brother… he really does not have it easy either!”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu did not speak.

He only raised his eyes and glanced at him, thinking, I know that now.

After this journey, Lin Yuchu felt that the position of a peak’s eldest disciple truly was not one that a person could sit in.

Even if one did not worry oneself to death, one would die from overwork!

It was only because cultivators had strong bodies and had turned on cheats. Otherwise, they would die in minutes.

“Ahem…” The man coughed a few times, drawing Lin Yuchu’s attention back.

He looked at Lin Yuchu and said, “You are a new disciple who arrived today, right? No wonder I have not seen you before.”

After saying this, he gave Lin Yuchu a bright, straightforward smile and said, “You can just call me Senior Brother Jin.”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu glanced at him.

“Jin as in metal, wood, water, fire, earth,” Senior Brother Jin said.

Then Lin Yuchu obediently called, “Senior Brother Jin.”

“This disciple is Lin Yuchu. Lin as in double-wood forest,” he said.

“So it is Junior Brother Lin! Hahahaha.” Senior Brother Jin laughed heartily.

Lin Yuchu looked at the expression on his face and thought, He definitely does not know who I am.

As expected—

Senior Brother Jin’s laughter suddenly stopped abruptly. Then, as if he had realized something, he suddenly raised his eyes, widened them, and stared at him. “Wait… you said you are a new disciple who arrived today?”

“In other words…” Senior Brother Jin suddenly said, “You are the winner of this year’s Sword Path Grand Competition! Right?”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Seeing the expression on his face suddenly become excited and stirred up, Lin Yuchu immediately had a bad premonition.

He looked at him warily and said after considering his words, “That is not wrong, but…”

“It is you. Then there is no mistake!”

Senior Brother Jin was even more excited than him. He strode forward and reached out to grab his hand.

Without waiting for him to react, and leaving no room for refusal, he grabbed Lin Yuchu’s hand and swiftly ran outside.

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Lin Yuchu, who was being dragged outside by him, wore an utterly baffled expression.

What the hell is going on now?

Senior Brother Jin, who was holding his hand and running with him through the wind, had an excited and stirred-up expression on his face. Running beneath the sunset was our lost youth!

“We are saved!”

Senior Brother Jin said with an expression as if he had been rescued, “Eldest Senior Brother is not here, but fortunately, we have you!”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

When you say that, I only feel even more uneasy!

After a long while…

Lin Yuchu finally said, “So what exactly is going on?”

“Senior Brother Jin, where… are you taking me?” Lin Yuchu said, the corners of his mouth twitching. “Eldest Senior Brother told me to wait where I was for him to come back.”

Hearing this, Senior Brother Jin immediately said, “Are you a child?”

“He tells you to wait, and you really wait?”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

Compared to being dragged off by you, I would much rather wait for him to come back!

“Do not worry. I will not do anything to you.”

As he said this, Senior Brother Jin gave Lin Yuchu an expression like the big bad wolf pretending to be Grandmother. Then, with a heavy expression, he said to him, “I only need you to do one thing for me!”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

All right. The bad premonition had come true.

Seeing that Lin Yuchu’s expression did not look good, Senior Brother Jin quickly said, “Do not worry. It is not anything bad. I will not make you kill people or set fires!”

“…So what exactly is it?”

Lin Yuchu said with a cautious expression, “If it goes against my principles, I will not yield.”

Hearing this, Senior Brother Jin paused, then said, “First tell me, what are your principles?”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

How would I know that!

Lin Yuchu, who had never thought about this question before, was rendered suddenly silent by him.

And Senior Brother Jin seemed to sense something from his silence, namely refusal, and immediately coughed a few times, changing the subject as he said, “Actually, it is not anything difficult. It is just…”

“…” Lin Yuchu.

After hearing his words, Lin Yuchu immediately wanted to jump up and beat him to death!

Fuck, if you have the guts, touch your conscience and say that again!

It is not anything difficult. Difficult, difficult…

You must have some misunderstanding about the word difficult!

…

The thing Senior Brother Jin wanted Lin Yuchu to do had no other problem besides being difficult.

Lonely Sword Peak was the Kunlun Sword Sect’s strongest sword peak. Naturally, the strongest sword cultivators in the entire Kunlun Sword Sect gathered here.

And the strongest sword cultivator of Lonely Sword Peak was, without a doubt, each generation’s Little Martial Uncle.

Generally speaking, experts all had a few problems.

The greater the expert, the more severe the problems.

This generation’s Little Martial Uncle of Lonely Sword Peak had no other problems. He was simply obsessed with the Sword Path.

This problem was not really a problem, but…

Lonely Sword Peak’s Little Martial Uncle was so obsessed with the Sword Path that he could not extricate himself. He wanted to create an entirely new and unprecedented Sword Path!

And for this, he studied madly, forgetting food and sleep.

As the saying went, practice was the only way to prove truth. So in order to verify whether the new Sword Path he had created was feasible, there had to be someone who could test it in real combat.

So in the beginning, from top to bottom, almost every disciple of Lonely Sword Peak came forward to contribute to Little Martial Uncle’s creation of a new Sword Path, personally testing and cultivating it.

Unfortunately, the Sword Path Little Martial Uncle created was too profound. It was not something ordinary people could understand. Let alone cultivate it, they could not even understand it by looking.

In the end…

The only person who could understand Little Martial Uncle’s Sword Path was Su Hui.

So Su Hui became the only person who tested swords for Little Martial Uncle.

Regarding this, the many tortured disciples of Lonely Sword Peak were delighted to see it, practically celebrating with wild joy.

Sacrifice one Eldest Senior Brother, and save thousands of households!

Today, it just so happened that Little Martial Uncle had a new flash of inspiration and realization, and had created a new set of sword techniques. He had specially sent Senior Brother Jin to call Su Hui over to test swords for him, but Su Hui was not there.

And so…

Senior Brother Jin dragged Lin Yuchu into the water.

“You are the champion of this Sword Path Grand Competition, so you must be able to understand Little Martial Uncle’s Sword Path, right?”

Senior Brother Jin looked at Lin Yuchu before him with an expectant gaze as he said this.

“…” Lin Yuchu.

No!!!

I am still only a beginner baby!

This mission is way too difficult. Get someone else!

Lin Yuchu expressed that he did not want to be dragged into this mess. He had a premonition that this matter would be a huge problem. If there was a first time, there would be a second time, a third time, a fourth time…

If he did not want to be beset by trouble, he should decisively refuse right here!

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