The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, becoming a disciple of Yue Buqun

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With different thoughts in mind, the group hurried to a place not far from the foot of Mount Hua. When they passed the village where corpses were scattered everywhere, Master Dingyi and the others couldn't help but be shocked, but they did not stop for long and continued to climb the mountain. However, as they passed by, a bloody smell and the stench of corpses still wafted out from there.

Jiang Ning had no choice. With war approaching, the Huashan Sect was short-handed, as everyone was busy setting up ambushes and traps on the mountain. There was no time or manpower to clean up these corpses, and he certainly couldn't do it. If he were to collect these people's corpses, then no one would be left to collect the corpses for the Huashan Sect.

When Jiang Ning and his group arrived at the foot of Mount Hua, they found dozens of Taoist priests climbing the mountain not far ahead.

“Master, they are my fellow disciples from the Mount Tai Sect.”

Yi Qing, with her sharp eyes, recognized these as people from the Mount Tai Sect.

The Taoist priests also noticed Jiang Ning and his group, and one of them immediately came towards them.

"Nephew Tang Ping greets his two uncles."

The Taoist priest bowed to Dingjing and Dingyi.

Master Dingyi seemed to recognize the man and asked, "Has your master, Daoist Tianmen, arrived?"

Tang Ping nodded: "They're here, right ahead."

However, for some reason, Tang Ping's face looked rather unpleasant, as if he wasn't very happy.

Master Dingyi looked at him with a puzzled expression, but said nothing. She then said to Dingjing, "Senior Sister, you follow behind. I'm going to see Daoist Tianmen first."

"it is good."

Ding Jing nodded calmly.

"Let's go."

Master Dingyi turned to Tang Ping and said, "Let's go, take this humble nun to see your master."

Tang Ping nodded and led the way, with Master Dingyi following behind.

Jiang Ning said to Abbess Dingjing and the Twin Swords of Diancang, "Senior Uncle, please excuse me for a moment."

As a disciple of the Huashan Sect, he had to go and see Tianmen Daoist, who was his elder.

Jiang Ning stepped out from the crowd and quickly followed. As he got closer, a red-faced Taoist priest was already waiting in front of him.

It was the Taoist Tianmen whom Jiang Ning had met in Hengshan City last year.

However, the Heavenly Gate Taoist's expression seemed extremely unpleasant, his red face contorted with anger, and it was unclear what had happened.

Chapter 186: An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth (Part 2)

"Brother Tao."

Master Dingyi greeted Taoist Tianmen.

Tianmen Daoist's face was grim, but he still managed a smile in return when he saw Master Dingyi.

"Master Tai."

"Nephew greets Master Tianmen."

Jiang Ning also bowed in response.

Tianmen Daoist looked at Jiang Ning's face but couldn't remember him for a moment. After a while, he remembered who it was and asked in confusion, "Why did you come with the Hengshan Sect?"

Jiang Ning explained that he went to pick up the Hengshan Sect after hearing what Yi Xin said. Tianmen Daoist nodded, and his expression finally softened.

Seeing his expression, Abbess Dingyi couldn't help but ask, "Brother Dao, what happened?"

"nothing."

Tianmen Daoist shook his head and changed the subject.

"Since you're all here, let's go up the mountain together."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk about it, Abbess Dingyi didn't ask any further questions and nodded.

Tianmen Daoist then looked at Jiang Ning: "I heard you killed Tian Boguang?"

"Yes."

Jiang Ning nodded.

Tianmen Daoist nodded to Jiang Ning: "I thank you on behalf of Baicheng."

Chi Baicheng was his disciple. He was killed by Tian Boguang at Huiyan Tower in Hengyang last year. He wanted to avenge his disciple, but he couldn't find any trace of Tian Boguang. When he heard that Jiang Ning had killed Tian Boguang in Hanzhong Prefecture, he wanted to find an opportunity to thank him, but he was busy with trivial matters within the sect and didn't have the time.

Seeing the faint sorrow on Tianmen Daoist's face, Jiang Ning comforted him, "It is the duty of the righteous path to eliminate demons and protect the righteous path. Tian Boguang raped innocent women and harmed the people. Everyone has the right to kill him. Senior Brother Chi died to uphold the righteous path. Now that Tian Boguang has been executed, Senior Brother Chi can rest in peace in heaven. Please accept my condolences, Uncle Tianmen."

Hearing Jiang Ning say this,

Upon hearing this, Tianmen Daoist smiled and changed the subject, saying, "I've heard about what you've done. You've done well, and I support you."

"Your title of King Ning may sound a bit murderous, but that's how you have to deal with those evil spirits and heretics."

"As for those who speak ill of you behind your back..."

After saying that, Tianmen Daoist paused and snorted coldly: "Just pretend they're talking nonsense."

As soon as he said it, Tianmen Daoist felt that it was especially inappropriate to use foul language in front of Master Dingyi, but since the words had already been spoken, he could not take them back and could only remain silent.

Master Dingyi also felt somewhat helpless.

Tianmen Daoren is a good person, but his manners are not very good.

Jiang Ning's expression shifted.

Why did someone speak ill of him? Tianmen Daoist seemed even more agitated than he was.

Judging from the Heavenly Gate Taoist's expression, which didn't seem fake, and his anger, it seemed he was referring to someone, and he was probably cursing someone he knew.

Jiang Ning remembered that the Taishan Sect was not harmonious internally, and there were several senior uncles above Tianmen Daoist.

Jiang Ning looked at the Taishan Sect disciples and found that most of these Taoists were very young. Apart from some middle-aged Taoists, only Tianmen Taoist was the oldest. He did not see any of the Taishan Sect Taoists of the Yu generation.

"Brother Dao, didn't Martial Uncle Yu Jizi and Martial Uncle Yu Yinzi come?"

Master Dingyi also noticed this and asked with a frown.

For such a big event, only Tianmen Daoist and his disciples from the Taishan Sect came. None of the Yu generation came, not even a single disciple was seen. This is outrageous.

Tianmen Daoist's face was already unpleasant, but it turned even uglier after hearing what Master Dingyi said.

"They are at the Songshan Sect, saying they are waiting for the Left Alliance Leader's instructions to come together."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ning understood.

No wonder the Taoist of Tianmen was so angry.

Master Dingyi frowned upon hearing this.

She knew about Zuo Lengchan's plot to annex the Five Mountains Sword Sects. She knew that these people had been bought off by the Songshan Sect when Ding Mian, Lu Bai and others brought Lu Lianrong of the Hengshan Sect and Yu Panzi of the Taishan Sect last time. However, she did not expect that the Songshan Sect had infiltrated the Taishan Sect to such an extent. According to what Tianmen Daoren said, it seemed that his several senior uncles had sided with the Songshan Sect.

Thinking of this, Abbess Dingyi's expression also turned grim, and she asked, "Has the Songshan Sect not arrived yet?"

All the sects that live far from Mount Hua have arrived, but the Songshan sect, which lives closest to the mountain, hasn't come yet.

Taoist Tianmen shook his head: "No."

He didn't know exactly when the Songshan Sect would set off. When Yu Panzi and his group said they wanted to come with the Songshan Sect and contradict him as the sect leader, he angrily led his disciples to come first. Originally, he had brought more than two hundred people this time, but now only more than fifty have come, all of whom are disciples from his own sect. The rest are still at Songshan.

"This……"

Master Dingyi didn't know what to say, so she shook her head and stopped talking. The disciples of Hengshan Sect also arrived. After Tianmen Daoist, Master Dingjing, and the Diancang Twin Swords exchanged greetings and a few words, the two groups went up the mountain together.

"Junior Brother Jiang Ning."

The senior Taoists, including Tianmen Daoren, walked in front, while Jiang Ning walked behind them, together with the young Taoists from the Taishan Sect. At this moment, several young Taoists approached them.

"We heard that you killed Tian Boguang in Hanzhong Prefecture. This man's lightness skill is extremely powerful. Countless righteous masters have tried to kill him, but he has always managed to escape. How did you deal with him back then? Can you tell us? We are all very curious."

A young Taoist priest asked curiously, and some other Taoist priests also moved closer, pricking up their ears to listen.

Seeing their curiosity, Jiang Ning explained what had happened.

"lime powder?"

A young Taoist priest was taken aback.

"Ah."

Jiang Ning nodded and said, "At that time, I used lime powder to interfere with his eyes, which greatly reduced his lightness skill, and that's how I killed him."

The young Taoist priests of the Taishan School looked at each other, speechless.

They had originally imagined how epic and spectacular the events of that time would be, but they never expected it to turn out this way.

"Isn't this a bit..."

A young Taoist priest looked somewhat conflicted.

Tianmen Daoist was somewhat pedantic, and the disciples he taught were all rigid and inflexible, lacking both adaptability and skill. He was hesitant about this unorthodox approach.

Jiang Ning noticed their hesitation and smiled, "Fellow disciples, dealing with this kind of person requires some extraordinary measures. People like Tian Boguang, who have committed all sorts of evil deeds, use every means at their disposal. If we are bound by the methods, how can we bring them to justice?"

“Methods are neither good nor evil; the difference lies in how people use them. For example, if a knife is used by a person to kill innocent people, it is evil. But if it is used to deal with evil people, it is good. The same applies to methods.”

"When our martial arts skills are insufficient to help us eliminate evil, some necessary means can be used to avoid our deaths."

"To deal with them, we must stop at nothing and use every means to kill them."

"Don't worry that doing this will be contrary to the right path. When those people commit all kinds of evil, they are no longer human, but beasts."

“We shouldn’t treat these beasts as human beings. We should treat them the same way they treat innocent people, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”

The young Taoist priests were stunned by Jiang Ning's words.

What the other person said seemed to make a lot of sense.

Although what they said was different from what the Taoist of Tianmen taught them, the phrase "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" made their blood boil.

Some Hengshan Sect disciples also heard Jiang Ning's words and showed strange expressions.

"So Junior Brother Jiang Ning is so righteous and hates evil."

Zheng E leaned closer to Yi Qing and whispered.

No wonder they saw Jiang Ning being so cruel to those people before.

At this moment, Daoist Tianmen was talking with Abbess Dingyi ahead, completely unaware of what was happening behind him.

Master Dingjing, who was walking at the back, heard Jiang Ning's words and her expression turned strange.

This disciple taught by Master Yue is quite special.

The group walked along the mountain path. The combined number of people from the Hengshan and Taishan sects was over two hundred. They marched in a grand procession up the mountain. When they reached a grove of trees, a male voice came from above.

"Have the senior and junior sisters of the Hengshan Sect arrived?"

As they were talking, a disciple of Mount Hua emerged from the woods.

The person who arrived was Linghu Chong.

"Big brother."

Upon seeing that it was Linghu Chong coming down, Jiang Ning stepped out from the crowd to greet him.

"Little junior brother!"

Linghu Chong was very happy to see Jiang Ning.

"I went up the mountain with my Uncle Dingyi and Uncle Tianmen from the Taishan Sect."

Jiang Ning said succinctly.

"Master Tianmen and the others have arrived too?"

Linghu Chong looked delighted.

It was quite obvious that the more than two hundred female disciples of the Hengshan Sect had not noticed that the Taishan Sect had also arrived.

“Great! The senior disciples of the Hengshan Sect arrived at Huashan yesterday, and now the Hengshan Sect and the Taishan Sect have also arrived.”

Jiang Ning asked in surprise, "Master Mo has arrived too?"

Linghu Chong shook his head: "No, it was a senior uncle from the Hengshan Sect who led the Hengshan disciples here. They said that Senior Uncle Mo was not with them, but took his newly recruited disciples and went their separate ways."

This time, Hengshan sent more than seventy people, led by Master Mo Da's junior brother, who was second-rate in martial arts. Lu Lianrong, who went to Mount Hua with Ding Mian and Lu Bai last time, did not come.

Linghu Chong was in high spirits. Now, all three of the Five Mountains Sword Sects except for the Songshan Sect had arrived. The support of hundreds of people, along with several top-notch masters, gave him even more confidence.