"Doesn't matter if..if I am gonna die..die or not. I've got to..got to drink my fill first," Linghu Chong muttered in between groans.

"Sure, sure! I'll go get some wine," Branch Fairy replied, and soon he brought back a big kettle of wine.

Linghu Chong's spirit immediately shot up when he smelled the wonderful scent of wine. "Feed me," he requested.

Branch Fairy plugged the kettle spout into Linghu Chong's mouth and slowly poured the wine into it. A moment later, Linghu Chong finished the entire kettle of wine to the last drop, and his mind also started to work better.

"My Master..always said that among all..all the great heroes..in the world, the toughest had to be Peach..Peach..Peach..."

"Among all the great heroes in the world, the toughest had to be the Peach what?" Peach Valley's Six Fairies asked in unison, all feeling totally anxious as if someone was tickling their hearts with a feather.

"Had to be..to be Peach..Peach..Peach..."

"Peach Valley's Six Fairies!" the six Fairies said in unison.

"That's right," Linghu Chong confirmed. "My Master also said that he really wished to have the chance of drinking together with Peach Valley's Six Fairies and make friends with them, then he would ask those six..six great..great..."

"Six great heroes!" Peach Valley's Six Fairies said in unison.

"Yeah," Linghu Chong confirmed again. "Then he would ask those six great heroes to give all the apprentices a demonstration and perform..perform their unique and superb Kung Fu skills..."

Peach Valley's Six Fairies all started talking immediately afterwards.

"Then what next?"

"How does your Master know that we have superb Kung Fu skills?"

"The Head Master of the Huashan School is really a very nice guy! We've got to make sure that we don't even break a branch on Mount Huashan."

"That's of course! We won't even let anyone else break a branch on Mount Huashan."

"We'll be very glad to make friends with your Master. Let's go up Mount Huashan right now!"

Linghu Chong quickly picked up the line. "Right! Let's go up Mount Huashan right now!"

Wasting no time, Peach Valley's Six Fairies carried Linghu Chong and immediately headed toward Mount Huashan. After walking for quite a while, Root Fairy suddenly cried out.

"Wait a minute! The little nun wanted us to bring the lad to see her. Why are we taking him to Mount Huashan? If we don't bring the lad to see the little nun, wouldn't we have just..just..ah..won another bet? Two wins in a row! That will be quite embarrassing."

"Big brother said it right this time. Let's first bring him to see the little nun. We will go up Mount Huashan afterwards so we won't be winning it one more time," Trunk Fairy agreed.

The six of them turned around and started heading south.

"Does the little nun want to see a living person or a dead one?" Linghu Chong asked, feeling very worried.

"Of course she wants to see a living lad, not a dead lad," Root Fairy answered.

"If you don't send me up Mount Huashan, I will shut down my arteries immediately and never come back to life again," Linghu Chong threatened.

"That's great! It must be a very advanced technique to be able to shut down your arteries. Please tell us the details," Fruit Fairy said happily.

"As soon as you master this technique, you drop dead instantly. What good does it do to learn that technique?" Trunk Fairy rebuffed.

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"It is still useful. If you were forced..forced by others to do things and your life have become a living hell, and all there left are unbearable worries, then it makes perfect sense to shut down your own arteries," Linghu Chong claimed while panting hard.

Peach Valley's Six Fairies' faces fell at those words. "The little nun just wants to see you. She has no ill intention. We aren't forcing you either."

"I know the six of you have very good intents," Linghu Chong said with a sigh, "but if I can't tell my Master and get his permission first, I won't comply even if that means I'll have to give up my life. Besides, my Master and Master-Wife had long wished to meet the six..six..legendary..great.. great..great..."

"Great heroes!" Peach Valley's Six Fairies said in unison.

Linghu Chong nodded his confirmation.

"Fine! We'll send you back to Mount Huashan then," Root Fairy finally agreed.

Several hours later, the group of seven was back on Mount Huashan once again.

As soon as the apprentices of Huashan School spotted the group of seven, they dashed back and reported it to Yue Buqun. Hearing that the six freaks that kidnapped Linghu Chong had just returned, the Yue couple immediately greeted out with a bunch of apprentices, feeling completely astounded.

Peach Valley's Six Fairies all traveled at great speed, so as soon as the Yue Couple stepped out of the "House of Integrity" they could already see the six freaks walking toward them along the stone slab road. Two of the six freaks carried a stretcher with Linghu Chong lying still on it.

Madam Yue rushed forward hurriedly to check on Linghu Chong. What immediately caught her eyes were his two sunken cheeks and a sallow face. She reached out to check his pulse, but what she found only confirmed the worst. Linghu Chong's pulse was so weak and out of order. He was barely alive.

"Chong, Chong!" Madam Yue cried in shock.

"Master..Master..Master-Wife!" Linghu Chong murmured after he slowly opened his eyes.

"Chong, I'll seek revenge for you!" Tear filled Madam's eyes as she drew her sword, ready to stab Flower Fairy, who was one of the two carrying the stretcher.

"Wait!" Yue Buqun shouted. He cupped his hands and saluted the Peach Valley's Six Fairies. "Please pardon me for having not greeted the six of you with proper manners. Will you bestow me the honor by informing me your names and which school you're from?"

Hearing those words, the Peach Valley's Six Fairies were stunned with a mixed feeling of anger and disappointment. When they heard Linghu Chong's words, they had thought that Yue Buqun had truly admired them, the six brothers. Who would have expected that the first sentence out of Yue Buqun's mouth was actually asking for their names? Obviously Yue knew absolutely nothing about the Peach Valley's Six Fairies.

"We heard that you truly admired us six brothers. Could that be a false statement? But how can you be so ignorant of us? What a shame!" Root Fairy said.

"Didn't you say that among all the great heroes the toughest had to be Peach Valley's Six Fairies? Aha, I got it! The name Peach Valley's Six Fairies must have long resounded in your ears, but you simply have no clue that we are the Peach Valley's Six Fairies. Guess we can't blame you," Trunk Fairies followed.

"Second brother, he said that he really wished to have a drink with Peach Valley's Six Fairies and make friends with them, but once the six of us really showed up on Mount Huashan, he looked neither wildly happy nor willing to get us some wine. So it turned out that he does know the Six Fairies' great fame but doesn't know the Six Fairies' faces. Ha-ha! That is so hilarious," Branch Fairy picked up the line.

Yue Buqun was completely baffled by those words. Not able to make any sense out of them, he simply replied coldly, "You call yourselves the Peach Valley's Six Fairies. I am only an ordinary person. How dare I make friends with six Fairies?"

Peach Valley's Six Fairies instantly felt great joy.

"That would be no problem! We are friends of your apprentice, so we might as well make friends with you," Branch Fairy declared.

"Even though your Kung Fu skills are too ordinary, we won't be looking down upon you. You don't have to worry," Fruit Fairy comforted him.

"If you have any questions in your Kung Fu study, you can feel free to ask us. Of course we'll give you some pointers," Flower Fairy promised.

"Oh, many thanks for that!" Yue Buqun said with a slight smile.

"You don't need to thank us. Now that we, Peach Valley's Six Fairies, consider you a friend, then of course we'll say everything we know with no reserve," Trunk Fairy replied.

"Why don't I demonstrate some cool techniques to everyone of the Huashan School and widen your horizons?" Fruit Fairy suggested.

Madam Yue had no idea that the six brothers were really a bunch of childish and artless guys who lacked common senses. What they said were actually meant for showing their sincere kindness. But these words sounded so offensive and insulting in Madam Yue's ears. She could no longer hold her anger. Raising her arm evenly with her shoulder, she pointed the sword tip right at Fruit Fairy's Solar Plexus.

"Great! Let me get my lesson first and check out your special Kung Fu in weaponry," Madam Yue rebuked.

"The Peach Valley's Six Fairies rarely use weapons when we spar with people. Didn't you say that you truly admired our Kung Fu skills? How come you didn't know that part?" Fruit Fairy said with a grin.

In Madam Yue's ears, Fruit Fairy's words sounded even more insulting. "I didn't know that part!" she yelled as she suddenly made a lunge with her long sword. The thrust was so rapid and sudden, carrying a tremendous force with it.

Fruit Fairy had already thought of Madam Yue as a friend and never expected her to start such a fierce attack all of a sudden. Within a split of a second, the sword tip had already reached his chest. If he had wanted to defend himself, he would still have had enough time to do so with his superb Kung Fu skills, but since he was such a cowardly type, he was simply struck dumb and completely forgot to dodge, only watching in terror as the sword penetrated his body.

Branch Fairy leapt forward hurriedly and struck Madam Yue in the shoulder with his palm. Madam Yue let go of her sword and stumbled a couple of steps back, leaving the long sword stabbed into Fairy's chest, wobbling up and down.

Root Fairy and the rest Fairies all gasped in terror. Branch Fairy picked up Fruit Fairy and leapt back in a hurry while the rest four Fairies rushed forward and lifted Madam Yue by her four limbs in incredible speed. Yue Buqun knew too well what was going to happen next – the four freaks would tear at the same time and rip Madam Yue's body into four pieces. Even though he was pretty good at staying calm, his wrist still trembled as he sent out two thrusts toward Root Fairy and Leaf Fairy separately with his long sword.

Lying on the stretcher, Linghu Chong could still see the dangerous state his Master-Wife was in. In great despair, he struggled up and shouted.

"Don't hurt my Master-Wife! Or I will shut down all my arteries!"

Before his voice even faded, blood had squired out from his mouth. Linghu Chong fell back down unconscious.

"That lad is gonna shut down his arteries. We can't let that happen! Let go of the bitch!" Root Fairy yelled out as he dodged the thrust from Yue Buqun.

The four Fairies dropped Madam Yue on the ground. Greatly worried about Fruit Fairy's fatal injury, they ran after Branch Fairy and Fruit Fairy quickly.

Yue Buqun and Yue Lingshan rushed over to Madam Yue's side at the same time. Before they even had a chance to reach out and prop Madam Yue up, she had already leapt back onto her own feet. Feeling a mixture of extreme terror and rage, she couldn't help but tremble. Her face looked completely pale and sallow.

"Junior apprentice sister, don't be angry. We'll seek our revenge for sure. Those six guys are very tough enemies. Fortunately you have already killed one of them," Yue Buqun whispered.

Madam Yue's heart hammered even more as she remembered the scene several days earlier when Cheng Buyou was ripped apart alive. "I..I..I..," she murmured yet could no longer speak normally because her entire body was still shaking hard.

"Lingshan, why don't you take your mother back in to have a rest," Yue Buqun said to his daughter, knowing that his wife had been completely horrified.

Yue Buqun walked by Linghu Chong to check on him. There was blood all over Linghu Chong's face and chest. His breathing was so weak that it almost seemed there was more air breathed out of him than what was breathed in – he was not going to make it. Yue Buqun placed his palm on top of Linghu Chong's Ling-Tai Point on the back in an attempt to use his own high-level inner energy to keep Linghu Chong alive, but as soon as he tried to fill his inner energy in through the pressure point, several streams of weird inner energy inside Linghu Chong's body immediately countered it with a big shock and almost shook his palm off. Completely astounded, he soon discovered that those lunatic energy streams were clashing against each other nonstop inside Linghu Chong's body as well. He put his palm next to Tan-Zhong Point on Linghu Chong's chest, and sure enough, a strong shock struck his palm so hard that even his own chest started hurting with a dull pain. Yue Buqun was astonished even more this time. He could tell that those energy streams inside Linghu Chong's body flew in odd ways. Apparently they came from some type of advanced yet unorthodox Qi-Gong techniques. Even though each energy stream by itself was slightly weaker than his "Divine Art of Violet Twilight," as soon as two of them attack in the same direction or at the time, he could no longer hold them off on his own. After some more careful detection, he counted a total of six energy streams inside Linghu Chong, and each of them was weird and bizarre. Afraid to continue, Yue Buqun pulled his palm back and pondered.

"There are a total of six energy streams, then of course it had to be those six freaks who filled those into Chong's body. The six freaks are so vicious. They must have tortured Chong so badly by filling their own inner energy into six different channels inside Chong's body, so Chong would suffer constantly, and wouldn't even have the option to end his own misery by committing suicide."

Yue Buqun knitted his brows heavily and shook his head. After telling Gao Gengming and Lu Dayou to carry Linghu Chong inside he went to check on his wife.

Madam Yue was still in shock. While sitting on the bedside holding her daughter's hands, she looked terrified, her face as white as a sheet. As soon as she saw Yue Buqun, she asked,

"How's Chong doing? How serious is his injury?"

Yue Buqun explained how the six energy streams clashed and fought each other inside Linghu Chong's body.

"We've got to dissolve those six heterodox energy streams one by one. Do you think there's still time?" Madam Yue asked.

Yue Buqun raised his head and pondered. After a long while, he finally spoke again.

"Junior apprentice sister, what's your opinion on why the six freaks tortured Chong so badly?

"I guess they wanted Chong to give in and surrender. Or maybe they were trying to force out some kind of secret of our school from him. Chong of course would rather die than submit. That's why the six ugly freaks tortured him," Madam Yue suggested.

"That would be a logical explanation in ordinary situations," Yue Buqun nodded. "But our school doesn't have any secret. Those six freaks don't know us at all and have no grudges against us. Why would they send him back after successfully kidnapping him in the first place?"

"I am afraid..Nah, it couldn't be." Madam Yue thought of an idea but immediately dismissed it because it did not really make a lot of sense.

The couple stared at each other in silence, each pondering hard with knitted brows.

"Although our school doesn't have any secret, Huashan style Kung Fu has a great reputation. Maybe those six freaks kidnapped big apprentice brother so they could force him to tell the key elements of our school's Qi-Gong techniques and sword art techniques." Yue Lingshan couldn't help but cut in.

"I've thought about this," Yue Buqun said, "but Chong's inner energy isn't that advanced. Those six freaks have very advanced inner energy themselves, so they could easily tell. And regarding sword skills, the six freaks' Kung Fu style is far from Huashan style sword art. They don't have anything in common. It makes no sense for them to go through so much trouble just for that. Besides, if they did want to compel Chong into telling them about sword techniques, they should have gone to somewhere far from Mount Huashan so they could torture and force Chong with no rush. Why did they bring him back here?"

From Yue Buqun's tone of voice, Madam Yue could tell that he was getting more and more affirmative. Having been his wife for so many years, she knew that her husband had already solved the mystery. So she asked, "Then what's really the reason behind?"

"Use Chong's internal injury to exhaust my inner energy," Yue Buqun said slowly, his face looking solemn and serious.

Madam Yue jumped onto her feet. "That's right! In order to save Chong's life, you've got to use your own inner energy to dissolve those six energy streams. By the time you are about to succeed, if those six ugly freaks suddenly came, while you would be totally exhausted, they would be at their ease, then they could easily kill all of us."

She paused for a brief moment and then continued. "Fortunately there are only five freaks left. Senior apprentice brother, they had already taken me a prisoner earlier. Why did they let me go after Chong shouted at them?" She felt the terror again as she remembered the horrible incident she had just experienced moments earlier. Her voice trembled again.

"That's exactly the cause for my conclusion." Yue Buqun explained. "You killed one of them. They must have had extraordinary hatred for us. But they immediately set you free only because they were afraid that Chong would shut down his own arteries and commit suicide. Think about it. If they didn't have a big conspiracy, why would they value Chong's life so much?"

"Their wickedness and ruthlessness are to the extreme!" Madam Yue murmured as she thought to herself, "When the four freaks ripped Cheng Buyou into pieces, they showed tremendous cruelty. Such level of cruelty is rarely seen in the entire Martial World. In the last several days, my heart has been hammering every time I thought about it. Their interruption did put a pause on Feng Buping's plan to take over the Head Master post. Feng Buping ended up leaving disappointed with Lu Bai and the bunch. Those six freaks definitely took care of the problem for the Huashan School temporarily. Who would have thought that they would come back to Mount Huashan to cause more trouble? It must have been just like what senior apprentice brother has figured out."

At that thought, Madam Yue said, "You can't work on Chong with your inner energy. My inner energy mastery is far less than yours, but let's hope it's good enough to keep him alive temporarily." She started to head toward the door.

"Junior apprentice sister!" Yue Buqun called out.

Madam Yue paused and turned her head back.

"It's no use. Those six freaks' heterodox energy streams are very powerful." Yue Buqun shook his head.

"So only your 'Divine Art of Violet Twilight' is capable of dissolving them, isn't it? What should we do then?" Madam Yue asked.

"Right now we can only take one step at a time and see where it will lead us. Let's first keep him breathing. That doesn't require much of my inner energy anyway," Yue Buqun suggested.

The three went into the room Linghu Chong was placed in. Madam Yue's tears started rolling again as soon as she saw Linghu Chong lying there motionless, hardly breathing at all. She reached out to check on Linghu Chong's pulse, but Yue Buqun caught her hand with his own. He let her hand go after shaking his head slightly. Pressing both hands onto Linghu Chong's palms, Yue Buqun slowly passed his inner energy over. As soon as his inner energy clashed with the energy streams inside Linghu Chong, Yue Buqun's body shook abruptly and he took a step back, his face turning violet.

Linghu Chong suddenly started talking. "Where..where is apprentice brother Lin?"

"Why do you need Little Lin?" Yue Lingshan asked in surprise.

"Before his father..passed away, he wanted me to take a message..to apprentice brother Lin. I haven't had a chance to tell him... I am not going to make it this time. Find..find him, hurry." Linghu Chong murmured, his eyes still shut tight.

Tear started rolling in Yue Lingshan's eyes. She covered her face and ran out of the room. All the Huashan School apprentices had been waiting outside. Getting the message from Yue Lingshan, Lin Pingzhi went inside right away and walked by Linghu Chong's bed.

"Big apprentice brother, you need to take care!" Lin Pingzhi said.

"Is..is this apprentice brother Lin?" Linghu Chong asked.

"Yes, it's me," Lin Pingzhi answered.

"Right..right before your father..passed away, I was by..by his side. He wanted me to..to tell..you.." Linghu Chong's voice became weaker and weaker as if he had ran out of breath. Everyone held his or her breaths. The room was swept with dead silence.

After quite a while Linghu Chong finally caught his breath. He continued, "He said that you should take good care of the thing in the old Lin House at the Xiang-Yang Alley in Fuzhou. But..but you shall never read..read it, or..or great misfortune will fall upon you..!"

"The old Lin House at the Xiang-Yang Alley? That has been left vacant for a good while. There is nothing of importance there. What is this thing that my father told me to not read?" Lin Pingzhi asked in surprise.

"I don't know. Those are all the words..all the words..your parents wanted me to tell you. They didn't say anything else..before they..passed..passed away..." Linghu Chong's voice went weaker again.

The four of them waited a few more moments, but Linghu Chong remained silent. Yue Buqun heaved a sigh and then said to Lin Pingzhi and Yue Lingshan,

"Wait here by your big apprentice brother's side. If his injury has any change, come and tell me right away."

Lin and Yue both nodded.

The Yue couple went back to their own room, both feeling very depressed. Only moments later, tears slowly streamed down Madam Yue's cheeks once again.

"Don't be upset. We'll definitely avenge Chong," Yue Buqun assured her.

"Since those six freaks plotted this venomous scheme, they will come back again for sure. If we fight them recklessly, we might not necessarily lose, but if anything goes wrong..." Madam Yue said.

"'We might not necessarily lose?' That's far easier said than done. If we fight three of them together, we would end up a draw at most. If we fight four of them together, then most likely we will lose. If the five of them all jump onto us simultaneously..." Yue Buqun shook his head slowly.

Madam Yue knew herself that the two of them would be no match for the five freaks in a fight, but she had hoped that since her husband's Kung Fu had greatly improved in the last several years after he successfully mastered the "Divine Art of Violet Twilight," there might still be a small chance of winning. When she heard Yue Buqun's words, she became greatly worried.

"Then..then what do we do? Are we going to just fold our arms and await destruction?"

"Don't get dispirited. A true man can handle both good times and bad times. Winning or losing doesn't have to be determined right away. It is never too late for revenge, even if we have to wait for ten years," Yue Buqun suggested.

"Are you suggesting that we run away?" Madam Yue asked.

"We are not running away. We are only avoiding them temporarily. Right now the enemies outnumber us. We only have two, how could we beat the five of them all together? Since you have already killed one of the freaks, we have really gotten the upper hand of it already. Avoiding them temporarily will do no harm to our Huashan School's reputation. Besides, as long as we keep this to ourselves, outsiders would never know anything about it," Yue Buqun explained.

Madam Yue said with a sob, "Even though I killed one of the freaks, Chong could die any minute now. We really only..only got even in this conflict. Chong..Chong..." She paused for a second and then said, "Alright, let's use your idea. We'll bring Chong together with us and then try to heal his injury gradually."

Yue Buqun heaved a sigh but didn't answer.

"Do you mean that we can't bring Chong with us?" Madam Yue asked anxiously.

"Chong's injury is very severe. If we bring him with us and travel at double the speed, he won't even last for an hour," Yue Buqun replied.

"Then..then what? Isn't there anything we can do to save him?" Madam Yue asked in despair.

"Alas, I was determined to teach him the 'Divine Art of Violet Twilight' the other day. Who would have expected that he went off into wild flights of imagination and tumbled into the evil route of the Sword-Branch? If he had begun studying the secret formula, even just a page or two of it, he would have been able to manage his own inner energy for self-healing and not worry about the six heterodox energy streams." Yue Buqun heaved a sigh.

"This matter brooks no delay. Why don't you go teach him the 'Divine Art of Violet Twilight' right away? Maybe he won't be able to understand all of it in his current sick state, but it would still be better than not learning it at all. Or, you can leave the 'Violet Twilight Manuscript' with him so he can study on his own following the book." Madam Yue jumped onto her feet.

Yue Buqun held Madam Yue's hands into his own and said softly, "Junior apprentice sister, my love for Chong is no less than yours. But think about it. He has been so severely injured. How could he pay attention to me when I teach him the formulas and the various techniques? If I leave the 'Violet Twilight Manuscript' with him so he could study from the book by himself when his mind becomes clearer, then when those five freaks come back to Mount Huashan in no time, since Chong would not be capable of defending himself, what's going to happen to this most valued Qi-Gong manuscript of our Huashan School? Those five freaks would get their hands onto it for sure. And if those heterodox people get hold of the supreme orthodox Qi-Gong manuscript of our Huashan School, and was able to use it to help them harm the society a great deal more, I, Yue Buqun, would stand condemned through the ages."

Thinking that her husband's words were quite reasonable, Madam Yue couldn't help but shed more tears.

"Those five freaks don't do things in the ordinary order. No one can predict what they might do next. We don't have any time to waste. Let's get on the road right away," Yue Buqun said.

"Are we just going to leave Chong here and let those five freaks torture him more? I'll stay to guard him," Madam Yue proposed.

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she immediately realized that it was just an act on impulse of an ordinary housewife, not something that would suit her status as the "Heroine of the Huashan School." If she stayed, it would only result in sacrificing one more life for nothing. How could she protect Linghu Chong at all? Besides, if she had decided to stay, then how would her husband and daughter ever agree to leave Mount Huashan without her? Feeling great worries and sorrows, her tears poured down nonstop.

Yue Buqun shook his head and let out a long sigh. He moved aside his pillow and took out a thin iron box. After removing the lid, he took out a brocade-covered booklet. Putting the booklet inside his chest pocket, he pushed the door open and walked out. To his surprise, he found Yue Lingshan standing outside the door.

"Daddy, I am afraid that big apprentice brother..is not going to pull through," Yue Lingshan said.

"What happened?" Yue Buqun asked in shock.

"He keeps raving about things and it seems that he is in a state of delirium," Yue Lingshan replied.

"What did he rave about?" Yue Buqun asked.

"I don't understand what he raved about," Yue Lingshan answered with a blush.

It turned out that under the torment from those six energy streams in his body, and seeing Yue Lingshan standing right in front of him, in his wooziness, Linghu Chong blunted out without thinking,

"Little apprentice sister, I..I really miss you! Have you fallen in love with apprentice brother Lin and decided to ignore me now?"

Even in her wildest imagination, Yue Lingshan had never expected that Linghu Chong would ask such a question right in front of Lin Pingzhi. She blushed big time, feeling ultimately embarrassed. Then she heard Linghu Chong murmuring again.

"Little apprentice sister, we grew up together since we were kids. We played together and practiced sword art together. I..I really don't know how and where I displeased you. If you are mad at me, you can punch me. You can swear at me. Even if..even if you stab me with your sword I won't have any complaints. But please don't be so cold to me and totally ignore me..."

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