Chapter 211 Blade Duel at Cang Lin 27

Chapter 211 Blade Duel at Cang Lin 27

Inside the Realm of the Bell, the three figures were walking down the plain with the blurry horizon. With Feng Bujue’s ability to think on his feet and persuasion, he swiftly gained the NPC’s trust without the use of swords. Therefore, Lu Qingning joined him and Passing Rain as they explored the area.

During their conversation, Feng Bujue still presented himself as the leader of Broken Sword Chahitsu, similar to the version he had given in Chang Lin. He explained the whole process of meeting Ye Hai and the others from the Six Flowery Blades honestly. He also brought up the fact that he had been called to help Su Tang achieve breakthrough in Ming You Mantra.

Both falsehood and honesty were mixed into his words. Some parts were complete and detailed, and the false part was mostly about his identity and background, parts that were hard to confirm. In any case, with a brainwashing from Brother Jue, even though Lu Qingning did not fully believe the two, she was sure Master Feng and his wife were not there to kill her or sent by Lin Chang. After solving the awkward situation, Lu Qingning also provided some info to Feng Bujue and what she said basically overthrew the entirety of the scenario.

...

The story began several months ago when Xie San received the duel letter from Ye Cheng. That letter was not written by Ye Cheng because, by then, Ye Cheng was not alive anymore. The one who sent the challenge was not Ye Cheng but Lin Chang. Lin Chang, the second most powerful expert of the Ye Family, the leader of the Six Flowery Blades, was known among martial artists to be the third best blade master. Normally, he was hailed as a young hero; he was an honorable man who kept a low profile. He had married in his thirties and had no children. His wife was not a member of the martial world, just a normal common woman.

In terms of kung fu, Lin Chang had quite the talent. When he was forty, he was considered one of the best in the martial world. Among blade masters, he was third, and including experts of other disciplines, he was in the top twenty. He was at the same standard as the leader of Thousand Dawn Spire, Gong Sun Qian, and the leader of Octagonal Spire, Ji Tong. Of course, compared to the main characters of those wuxia novels who were impossibly strong, he was much lacking.

Lin Chang’s achievement could only be described as normal, a result obtained from daily hard work. He joined the Ye family when he was young. Due to his natural talent and hardworking nature, with no obvious distraction from the path, his growth was continuous. After he reached maturity, he traipsed through the martial world to gain experience and increase his reputation. Everything about him seemed normal.

But such a person with ’justice’ written all over him became the epitome of ’evil’ due to an incident.

Thinking back, Lu Qingning reckoned that the change that happened to Lin Chang occurred about one year ago.

After returning from a job, Lin Chang spent two months being very strange. Sometimes, he would not say a word, and he had heavy mood swings. During that period, many disciples of the Ye family were punished or scolded by him for no reason at all. But two months later, Lin Chang returned to normal like everything that had happened before was just a dream. He was still the same respected, kind, and honorable expert. Therefore, this was promptly forgotten. After all, it was not common for people to be in a bad mood once in a while.

...

"Wait a minute, Miss Lu..." Feng Bujue heard the problem. "Based on what you said, you first saw Si Yanran and Wang Ao leaving for their mingle in the night and then came across Lin Chang and Shang Fei’s conspiracy accidentally. Then you were chased down the mountain by Lin Chang. In the end, due to a strange bell ringing... you found yourself here and somehow escaped Lin Chang’s pursue.

"You said it has been two hours since you arrived here..." Feng Bujue stopped to compare the passage of time with the outside world. "But the events that you described should have happened last night before we even reached Chang Lin City. We entered this realm at sundown on August 13th. It has been at least sixteen hours since you entered this place."

Lu Qingning’s expression shifted. "Master Feng, what are you trying to say?"

"If we are unable to leave this place in six hours..."

Feng Bujue began, and Passing Rain finished the sentence.

"We might miss that duel..."

"But... master is already dead, and now even Xie San is dead," Lu Qingning said. "What duel will there be?"

"Yes, I also wish to know what kind of performance Lin Chang plans to show the world on the night of August 15th..." Feng Bujue touched his nose with his finger. He was suddenly reminded of something and laughed. "Haha... But it’s not bad to stay here longer. We can ignore that mass poisoning plan."

"Mass poisoning?" Lu Qingning was confused.

"My husband like to joke. Those of us from Broken Sword Chahitsu likes to say things outsiders won’t understand." Passing Rain looked at her before turning to Feng Bujue. "What about other people?"

Feng Bujue shrugged. "From the update to the side mission, Xiao Tan and Laughing Soul appear to have gone somewhere strange as well. If there’s really a problem, I guess Jin Fugui will have to handle it alone..."