Becoming a Saint by Touching Corpses - Chapter 584 - 561: Mu Yun
Chapter 584: Chapter 561: Mu Yun
“Hmph! Young Hero Wang is really scheming.
Deceiving all of us to come here, isn’t it to join forces against National Master Mu Yun?” Sect Leader Yu of the Haoran Sect sneered continuously at the scene.
Upon hearing this, everyone present couldn’t help but have an epiphany.
Mu Yun has become a Grandmaster, and there is no one under heaven who can challenge him.
But if one were to gather the experts of the Four Great Sects, the renowned figures of the martial world, converging the elites of the Central Plains martial world, there might still be a chance to take him on.
“So many people of us are present, joining forces, there’s no need to fear Mu Yun!” A voice resonated throughout the hall, full of vibrant energy.
The crowd looked over and found the voice coming from a commanding black-clad elderly man, exuding an air of arrogance.
It was none other than the ’Earth-Shaking Fist’ Zhang Laoxi, renowned as the top martial artist in the southeast.
Zhang Laoxi had roamed the martial world for years, dominated the southeast with rare defeats, and was highly esteemed.
He considered himself on par with the leaders of the Four Great Sects; hence, seeing everyone so fearful of Mu Yun made him look down on them a bit.
“Though the Grandmaster is formidable, he is not an Immortal from the heavens, and might not be without flaws.” The speaker was the Sword Enthusiast from Lingnan, also one of the top experts in the martial world.
With comments from these two giants, everyone found their words reasonable.
“Oh? I can only say you’re daydreaming.” Manor Master Leng of the Dominating Sword Manor showed no deference towards Zhang Laoxi and the Lingnan Sword Enthusiast, “After Mu Yun announced his return, I quietly visited the National Master’s residence to uncover the truth.
Guess what?
Hundreds of zhang away, he discovered me and struck me from afar, leaving me severely injured and fleeing, still not fully recovered even now.
If he hadn’t intended to spare my life, I wouldn’t have made it back at all!”
Hearing Manor Master Leng’s counter, Zhang Laoxi and the Lingnan Sword Enthusiast felt a bit embarrassed initially, but as they listened further, a trace of shock appeared on their faces.
Needless to say, everyone present, including the experts from the Four Great Sects, was deeply shaken upon hearing this news.
The Manor Master of the Dominating Sword Manor, whose martial skills need no questioning, surely ranks among the very pinnacle of the Central Plains martial world, yet even he couldn’t withstand a single move from National Master Mu Yun?
“I had previously heard rumors that you once fought Mu Yun, but didn’t expect the truth to be thus?” The old abbot of Cloudsky Temple remarked with a wry smile.
“Heh, what fight, it was merely him casually striking to dismiss me!” Manor Master Leng said, a touch of melancholy on his face, “Only by facing the Grandmaster can you realize the disparity—the insurmountable, untouchable, hopeless gap…”
As the Sect Leader of one of the Four Great Sects, the more Manor Master Leng spoke, the more despondent he became.
Affected by his emotions, everyone else felt a surge of despair.
If they could unite, defeat, or even kill National Master Mu Yun, it wouldn’t be impossible to collaborate with the Divine Sword Scholar to carry out this strategy and lure Mu Yun out.
But the reality is, no matter how many top-notch experts there are, before the Grandmaster, they might end up slaughtered like pigs and dogs!
“Where is your master?”
“Is he really a Grandmaster?”
“Youngling, how could you be so crafty?”
Everyone turned their unfriendly gazes towards Wang Yukai.
Beside him, Li Weizhou, ’One Palm Flattens the River’, was also dumbfounded and couldn’t help but look towards his son-in-law; even he had been kept in the dark all along.
Facing the dagger-like gazes of the crowd, Wang Yukai remained silent, expressionless.
He knew that no matter how much he explained, he couldn’t clear things up.
Because indeed, there was never a master or a Grandmaster, it was all just a charade…
“Young Hero Wang, bringing us here deceitfully, do you intend to make enemies with the entire martial world?” Cang Shan Ke coldly said.
’Bang!’
A loud slap on the table rang out, splashing the tabletop wine everywhere.
“Damn it, I rushed here from miles away to behold the Grandmaster. Are you telling me it’s just a game, seriously?” Another hot-tempered martial arts veteran challenged Wang Yukai.
“Young Hero Wang, do you truly understand the consequences of deceiving the world? Think it through,” Sect Leader Yu of the Haoran Sect shook his head repeatedly at the scene.
In an instant, more than ten people began vocally condemning Wang Yukai, with even some unsheathing their swords, unable to contain themselves.
’Brother Liu may have misled me, but he’s also my lifesaver; I can’t expose him.’
’Ah, so be it, even if it costs me my life, I absolutely mustn’t implicate my wife and father-in-law…’
Wang Yukai was feeling this pessimistic.
As the atmosphere became increasingly tense.
Suddenly.
“Hahahahaha!”
A burst of wild laughter came from outside.
’Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!’
Many wine jars on the site exploded immediately, tables and chairs shook violently, the wooden windows ’bang-bang’ resounded as they swung back and forth, as if a landslide had suddenly occurred.
“Such profound inner strength!” The abbot of Cloudsky Temple exclaimed in shock.
“It’s him, he’s here!” Manor Master Leng of the Dominating Sword Manor showed a look of fear.
Through the open wooden window, everyone saw a figure suddenly appearing in the open space outside the hall.
This was a man looking in his thirties or forties, tall and imposing, wearing a Golden Crown, dressed in a yellow robe, with a string of jade prayer beads on his right hand.
A pair of thick eyebrows nearly connected to the back of his head, his eyes shot forth radiant light, and his long hair cascaded over his shoulders.
The entire person exuded a supremely confident, overbearing, and majestic aura, as if no one in the world could compare to him.
While Manor Master Leng of the Dominating Sword Manor already appeared extraordinary and imposing, in comparison to this man, seemed like a mere soldier encountering a Great General, completely overshadowed.
As soon as the Golden Crown man appeared, he drew everyone’s attention, and in the eyes of the crowd, there was nothing else but him.
“National Master, Mu Yun…” someone called out the Golden Crown man’s name, their voice hoarse.
“Youngling, you indeed have some stratagem, knowing how to leverage the situation.” Mu Yun’s gaze ’swished’ towards Wang Yukai, “But unfortunately, the Grandmaster’s Realm is far beyond your imagination; whether one person or hundreds of thousands, they are all the same in my eyes.”
“Mu Yun, he has indeed become a Grandmaster.”
Upon hearing this, everyone’s mood in the venue plummeted to rock bottom.
Although it had long been speculated that Mu Yun might have stepped into the realm of the Unsurpassed Grandmaster.
But hearing it admitted from his own mouth still left them feeling inexplicably shocked, their last shred of hope extinguished.
“You intend to lure me in two days’ hence, but I don’t have that much time to play with you.” Mu Yun shook his head and said, “Very well, with everyone present today, it’s a perfect time to capture you all in one go.”
Mu Yun’s tone was grand, though he was the only one present, it was as if he had already surrounded the hundred people on site.
But in the Central Plains martial world, there are plenty of courageous people who wouldn’t be easily intimidated by him.
“What of a Grandmaster, we so many, there’s still a chance!”
“Let me go and test his strength first!”
A shadow suddenly leapt out, moving like the wind, arriving in front of Mu Yun, it was ’Earth-Shaking Fist’ Zhang Laoxi.
“Today, I shall indeed learn about the Grandmaster’s superior moves.”
Zhang Laoxi, known for his temper, didn’t speak much, utilizing his family’s inherited cultivation technique, his body radiated with the rich Qi-Blood Red Light, and he struck fiercely towards National Master Mu Yun with a palm.
“Hah!”
The black-red Qi-Blood pillar visibly shot out from his palm center, as thick as an arm, surging forward like thunder!
“Inner strength leaving the body, Zhang Laoxi is indeed a martial arts veteran, with profound power, there’s no more than a few in the world who could withstand this one strike!”
“It’s perfect to let Elder Zhang test Mu Yun’s strength so we can better respond later.”
“However strong the Grandmaster is, he is only one person after all, I… whoa!”
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